The Business Times, 28 August 2003

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    24 1 MfTA (P) 024/03/2003 85c THE BUSINESS TIMES 8 I N G A P O R E Interna, nttp: /business-times.asial com.sg THURSDAY. AUGUST 28. 2003
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    Lock icon Indon insurance rates soar after bombings
    512 1  -  BT exclusive High premiums, rising labour costs driving foreign firms to relocate From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta AS fears of more terrorist attacks mount in the world's largest Muslim country, foreign companies face significantly higher insurance costs making Indonesia even more unattractive as an
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    Lock icon S'pore and Thailand plan joint business mission to China
    600 1  -  The two countries sign seven pacts to boost trade ties By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Thailand and Singapore are planning a joint business mission to China next year, to explore opportunities with that emerging economic powerhouse. The proposed mission emphasises the
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    72 1 □sn 1,594.52 (-5.50) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,003.00 (-1.00) nSIMSCI FUTURES mm ioojo (-1.30) Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 744.62 +360 NIKKEI 225 10.308.99 23.58 HANG SENG _10,678.55 75.38 SET INDEX 525.82 5.24 JAKARTA COMP .530.86 +2.10 MANILA COMP I.242J1 594 TAIPEI WPI 5,553.43 -4.82 SEOI LCOMP 758.98 «M SHENZHEN B 224.40
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    84 1 FOREX RATES US* SS I'SS (SSperl SS) 1.755 £(I'S$/SS per 1.568 1751 El!RO(l!S$/S$/E). 1086 1.906 YEN 117.7 67.10 RM 3800 2.165 HKS 7.799 4 444 BAHT 41.31 23.54 Rl P1AH 8,456 4,818 RENMINBI 8.299 4.729 INDIAN Kl PEE._. 45.85 26 12 AS 1.564 0891 NZ$ 1.754 0999 PRIME RATES
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    Lock icon US firms' S'pore investments earn record US$10b in '02
    658 1  -  BT exclusive But local firms lost US$75m on US$2.9b invested in US By Chuang Peck Ming (SINGAPORE! American business has continued to reap above-average returns from direct investments in Singapore, despite talk of its high cost structure. US multinational corporations posted
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      Lock icon $60,000-100,000 salary group will be hit hardest
      795 2  -  Lower salary ceiling for CPF to raise tax and hit middle-income earners the most Reports by Gienevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] A lower salary ceiling for CPF contributions is set to raise employees' income tax liability, hitting middle-income earners the hardest. Based on numbers crunched
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Phew! Made it!
        157 2 CONSTRUCTION firm BBR Holdings celebrated its 10th birthday with a sharp spike in interim profits. And CEO Andrew Tan was relieved, to say the least. "I know this sounds like an Oscar speech but I would really like to thank all my supporters, bankers who have held
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      Lock icon Regular premium insurance from CPFIS may suffer
      346 2 Terminations likely as heme leans will take top priority [SINGAPORE] Regular premium insurance plans now sitting in the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS) may be a casualty of the impending cuts in CPF contribution rates. This is because the top priority for members will
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      Lock icon MAS 15-yr bond issue nearly two times subscribed
      321 2  -  Applications total $2.9b; issue worth $1.5b By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore has been vindicated in its decision to push ahead with a controversial 15-year government bond issue despite recent turmoil in global bond markets the issue attracted nearly
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      25 2 Are You Ready For The GST Changes? W f GST Rate Increase Recent Developments Seminar A. 19 September 2003 (Friday) Quality In Everything Wg Do
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    Lock icon THE FACE THAT SOLD A THOUSAND HOMES
    946 3 Singapore's top realtor Ivy Lee explains why she has her hands full despite the economic slowdown SHE may be Singapore's top real estate agent but there's nothing haughty about Ivy Lee. In fact, she's surprisingly down to earth and good-natured. No airs or
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    Lock icon WHAT OTHERS SAY
    206 3 "Having worked with Ivy who is marketing several of our properties, we have found her to be very hardworking, and resourceful. She shows a high level of commitment, professionalism and customer service in the various assignments, and has been effective in delivering sales. We have no doubt
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    Lock icon REFRESHING DIVERSIFICATION
    352 3 IVY LEE is the ultimate poster girl for Ivy the Beauty Clinique. The 39-year-old busy professional is an image of youth and svelteness. As a top-notch real estate agent, she has a constant stream of regular lunch and dinner invitations. While this helped build up rapport with her
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  • CPF REFORM
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      Lock icon From savings scheme to cost-cutting tool
      1799 4  -  CPF's evolution over the past 50 years mirrors social policy priorities By Anna Teo THOSE who joined the workforce only in the 1990s may be surprised that total contributions to the Central Provident Fund amounted to a good half of monthly salaries in the
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      Lock icon Will the properly market rally again this time?
      831 4  -  10-point rate cat in 1999 sent private home prices soaring 34% By Kalpana Rashiwala IF you're looking for a glimmer of hope for the property market from today's CPF rate-cut announcement, you may find some solace in history. The last time the
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      Lock icon CPF cuts alone won't lift stock market: analysts
      615 5  -  US economic recovery, liquidity also play a part By Andrea Tan CPF cuts equal a hike in stock prices? History seems to suggest so. But analysts say all the credit shouldn't go to CPF cuts. Instead, the broader economic outlook was the
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      298 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES At« 27 VALUE CLOSE WOMK -146.00 307.00 ■FCHPI -*****.00 -99.00 -*****.00 -15.00 JMUQEjriMw 431.50 -0.69 UriR-nnnl 164.85 +1.44 mr.nMnBm 1356.43 9.72 WMaMnPUp 393.29 40.56 ■tflflwi 196.49 -0.42 IMfirMilill 196.80 -1.30 Pac Andes 20c 29,997.000 Chart SemiCond 26c 22,785,000 Pac Andes W*****0 19,278,000 NOL 18.607,000 Coscolnv20c 17.670.000 Integra
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      Lock icon HTL a low PE counter with strong growth, good results
      291 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan SOFA-MAKER HTL International is a company which continues to surprise with its strong growth and excellent results. It has just unveiled an 11.9 per cent rise in its HI earnings to $11.9 million. Its
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      Lock icon Stocks slide ahead of CPF changes
      723 6  -  BT comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan STRONG US economic data and a positive overnight close on Wall Street failed to snap the local bourse out of its losing streak yesterday. The weakness came ahead of today's announcement of changes to Central Provident Fund contributions, which
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      Lock icon Aussie unit hammered to three-month lows
      585 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES Intervention talk the main influence on other Asian currencies larry wee THE Australian dollar was hammered to its lowest levels in three months or more in Asian trading yesterday, while central bank intervention talk called the shots elsewhere in the region.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Blast from the past for Ipco director
      513 8  -  Person who helped oust Inno-Pac directors may face similar threat now By Kenneth Lim IT may seem like a blast from the past to know that a group of Ipco International minority shareholders are seeking to replace every member on their company's board
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      Lock icon Ergo snaps up 70% of Metro's bonds
      271 8 Bloomberg METRO Holdings Ltd said Ergo Versicherungsgruppe AG is one of the biggest buyers of the $560 million of bonds it's selling backed by its 27 per cent stake in Singapore's biggest retail and office complex. Ergo, Germany's No. 2 insurer, agreed to
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      Lock icon Venture's vision holds it in good stead for future
      802 8  -  HOCK lock siew serena ng VENTURE Corp's chief executive officer Wong Ngit Liong is a picture of cool confidence. Global slowdown or not, China threat or not, one can find the same optimism and confidence that he has been displaying at
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      Lock icon Chip Eng Seng and BBR post rise in earnings
      364 9  -  The construction companies buck industry trend By Andrea Tan CONSTRUCTION companies BBR Holdings and Chip Eng Seng Corporation have bucked the industry trend of declining profits or widening losses. Both have reported robust profit growth for the six months ended June.
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      Lock icon BHL's troubled unit in share invite
      179 9 BELEAGUERED property group Ban Hin Leong is looking for investors for its Alocassia serviced residences in Bukit Timah through a share invitation from the public to raise $31 million. The company that is raising the funds, Aloecassia Ltd, has obtained an inprinciple letter from
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      Lock icon aspnetcentre rights get Peter Lim's backing
      220 9 FORMER "remisier king" Peter Lim has undertaken to support a non-underwrit-ten rights and warrants issue proposed by mainboardlisted IT solutions firm aspnetcentre, which is seeking to raise up to $4.9 million. aspnetcentre, which was listed on the Singapore Exchange in July last year, yesterday
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Cosco interim surges to $8,1m
        62 9 COSCO Investment reported a strong set of results for the first half and expects profit for the full year to be "significantly higher" than last year. Cosco—part of the China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company— posted half-time earnings of $8.1 million, up from $0.3 million in
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        Lock icon Apex-Pal IPO 47.4x subscribed
        52 9 SAKAE Sushi owner Apex-Pal International said the public tranche 0f836,000 shares in its initial public offering was 916 times subscribed. It offered a total of 16.5 million shares at 26 cents apiece, and based on the total invitation size, the IPO was 47.4 times subscribed. Trading
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        Lock icon Ann Joo not selling stake to NatSteel
        59 9 MALAYSIA'S Ann Joo Resources has denied that it is in talks to sell its 30.04 per cent stake in listed Malayawata Steel to Singapore's Nat Steel. Chinese paper Oriental Daily News had earlier reported that Ann Joo might sell its stake in Malayawata
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        Lock icon Stanchart ups mortgage rates
        75 9 Bloomberg STANDARD Chartered has raised its mortgage rates in Singapore to keep pace with local rivals reacting to higher interest rates. Stanchart, one of six overseas lenders awarded expanded banking licences in Singapore, won't lose market share as a result, Wilson Chia, head of consumer banking
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        Lock icon Allgreen Q2 profit drops 61%
        94 9 Bloomberg ROBERT Kuok's Allgreen Properties said second-quarter profit fell 61 per cent to $13.4 million as it sold fewer homes and had lower sales at its Traders hotel in Singapore. Sales fell 63 per cent to $43.7 million. It said it postponed the sale of
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      Lock icon UOB Kay Hian's Q2 net grows 49% to $8.4m
      425 9  -  Jump in commission, trading income fuels revenue rise By Serena Ng SINGAPORE'S largest broking house, UOB Kay Hian, said yesterday its net earnings for the April-June quarter rose 49 per cent a modest gain compared with those reported by listed peers
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      68 8 To all our speakers at the 'Profile off a Singapore Entrepreneur* talk series. Yob have our appreciation for sharing the secrets of your success. t- To all our participants who made it their business to listen ft learn. You have our gratitude for making the event a sell-out success. And
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      135 8 £—3 I J Total Amount Allotted SGD 1,500,000,000 Non-Competitive Applications SGD 596,675,000 I KwSri' which allotted to MAS SGD 500,000,000 .jl II Total Amount Applied SGD 2,866,112,000 11 fl~* Cut-off Yield Price and J.l 11 Average Yield Price and jfl II 11 I] I^notted APP Approximately 18% 11 H II
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon CapitaLand and GRA facing off over Lot One
      594 10  -  Both have placed 'amended bids' for the mall whose price has now crossed $240m By Kalpana Raahiwala THE two most active investors in Singapore suburban malls, Capita Land Group (which includes Capita Mall Trust), and GRA Singapore, seem to be heading for
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Restructuring won't hit Matsushita motor unit
      324 11  -  No job cats envisaged right now at S'pore ops, which employ about 700 By Amit Roy Choudhury THE Singapore operations of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co's (MEI) motor company will not be affected at present by a restructuring exercise and new growth strategy announced in
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      Lock icon Finance outsourcing the next wave
      356 11  -  Manila, Bangkok best placed to win business from S'pore MNCs: ICPAS VP By Kenneth Lim HOMEGROWN multinational companies are likely to define the next wave of financial and accounting outsourcing if it arrives, an accounting industry spokesman said yesterday. And Manila and Bangkok are best
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      Lock icon Local businesses acquiring a taste for Kazakhstan
      271 11  -  By Kenneth Lim ARMED with proposals by Singapore's SembCorp Engineers and Constructors, Bharat Mekani, director of trading and representation company CIS Agriferts, will meet Kazakh officials this week to explore business opportunities. Meanwhile, Chng Chung Yuen, industrial business unit vice-president of systems integrator
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      Lock icon Business receipts plunge 9.6% in Q2
      261 11  -  EYE on the economy business receipts By Serena Ng SHARPLY lower income from the air transport industry during the Sars outbreak led to a 9.6 per cent year-on-year dive in Singapore's business receipts index for services industries in the second quarter. This was the
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  • EDTORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Why the PBC took away the punchbowl
      858 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION william pesek jr Bloomberg CENTRAL banks, ifs often said, are there to take away the punchbowl just as the party gets going. China's did just that this week, and investors shouldn't miss the significance of the move. China is
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      54 12 'You cannot talk when people have a gun to your head. You should not talk when people have a gun to your head. You have to stop the violence first' Michael Bloomberg the New York Mayor, on a visit to Jerusalem, urging city leaders and residents to
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      Lock icon Jakarta must curb terrorism fast
      533 12 EDITORIAL IF Indonesia is to recover the economic momentum that was steadily gathering pace before a car bomb ripped through the JW Marriott Hotel on Aug 5, then the government will have to deal with the challenge of terrorism in a more proactive manner than
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      Lock icon Performance shares: what's fair, what's not
      1226 12 It depends on the benchmark used to assess performance. It should be stringent enough to convince shareholders that the recipients deserve the reward By SUPPOSE your child sat a test in a class of 40 students and was placed in the top 20 per
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      Lock icon CPF cuts: to benefit whom?
      466 12  -  MAIL bag Chan Khim Soo Singapore I REFER to the article "CPF cuts will come with relief pack: DPM Lee" (BT, Aug 25). It left me wondering who will benefit from some of this relief. The government may give handouts for a certain period, but
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      223 12 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD state caprtal 28 Depart, or move about, as if s mindlessly repeated (8) Er>g k S h flower-beds (8) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN 14 Is it enjoyed by the jet set? Acre 7 Elephants, 8 Half a 1 Wagnerian heroine that is A 4 n 4 .10 Picket, 11
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Arroyo orders crackdown on peso speculators
      508 13 CURRENCY SPECULATION President's statement lifts peso from new 31-month low on Tuesday [MANILA] Philippine President Gloria Arroyo ordered the central bank yesterday to crack down on speculators and "use feasible monetary tools" to stabilise the foreign exchange market after a sharp fall of the
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        Lock icon China to sell US$, euro bonds
        67 13 Reuters [HONG KONG] China will sell US$l billion of dollar-denominated debt and anothersoomillion of euro bonds later this year, its first global issue in more than two years, banking sources said yesterday. Hie move surprised bond investors as China's foreign currency reserves have ballooned
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        Lock icon Maxis Q2 profit rises 19% RM228m
        54 13 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Maxis Communications of Malaysia said profit in the second quarter rose 19 per cent. Hie company reported net income of RM228.7 million (*****.4 million), or 9.3 sen a share, in the second quarter compared with RM192.9 million or 9.5 sena share,
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        Lock icon PAS sees polls in Malaysia in Sept
        62 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's main Islamist opposition yesterday predicted a snap general election in September, although Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has repeatedly ruled one out until after he steps down in October. Bernama reported Parti Islam se-Malaysia vice-president Mustafa Ali as saying the
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        Lock icon Bali opposes new visa rule
        62 13 AP [BALI] More than 1,500 Balinese tourist industry workers took to the streets of the capital Denpasar yesterday to protest against government plans to revoke visa-free travel for foreign visitors. Many say Jakarta's plans will crush efforts to revive the industry after it was devastated
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        Lock icon Verdict on Bashir due on Sept 2
        68 13 Reuters [JAKARTA] A verdict in the treason trial of Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the suspected leader of the Jemaah Islamiah group, will be delivered on Sept 2, chief judge Muhammad Saleh said yesterday. "The panel of judges will come up with
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      Lock icon Soldiers, riot police deployed at Manila pro-democracy shrine
      96 13 AP [MANILA] The military and riot police were deployed at a pro-democracy shrine yesterday to prevent possible anti-gov-ernment protests that could worsen the peso's slide, officials said. The troops, deployed late on Tuesday, closed off traffic in a lane fronting the EDSA
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      Lock icon 4.4% growth in Malaysia's Q2 GDP beats expectations
      378 13  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA chalked up higher-than-expected growth of 4.4 per cent in the second quarter. The Malaysian central bank's latest growth figure is more moderate than the revised first-quarter rate of 4.6 per cent year-on-year. Still, economists had
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      Lock icon Peso slide not seen sparking a regional crisis
      363 13 MANILA Analysts cite strong fundamentals and discerning investors AFP SOUTH-EAST Asia need not fear a 1997-type contagion triggered by the rapid slide of the Philippine peso as the region is protected by strong economic fundamentals and more discerning investors, analysts say. Political
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      Lock icon China to probe banks' forex business
      158 13 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S foreign exchange authorities will launch an investigation into forex clearing and settlement which will include foreignfunded commercial banks, reports said yesterday. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange wUI look into how these banks receive and settle forex accounts for themselves or
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      Lock icon Foreign lenders face US$180m loss after Indon court ruling
      325 13 JAKARTA Illegal documents used in loans to PT Danareksa Jakarta Bloomberg A GROUP of foreign creditors who lent US$lBO million to an Indonesian company for the construction of a Jakarta Stock Exchange building may lose the entire sum, under a decision
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon The bigger the axe, the bigger CEO's paycheck
      416 14 WASHINGTON Report also finds big corporate tax breaks, pension woes at such firms AFP THE typical chief executive of a major US company earned US$3.7 million last year, with the largest paychecks going to those whose companies had the most worker layoffs,
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      Lock icon Grasso gets deferred package of US$140m
      247 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] New York Stock Exchange chairman and chief executive Richard Grasso will be paid at least US$2.4 million a year through 2007, part of a twoyear contract extension at the world's biggest stock exchange. The NYSE also gave him US$l4O million of
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      Lock icon IMF report cuts global growth forecast to 3.1%
      476 17 MILAN But it leaves out look for the US unchanged at 2.2% Reuters THE International Monetary Fund is set to cut its global growth forecast, warning there are still significant risks to a budding recovery, but leave its US outlook unchanged. The
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      Lock icon Ericsson threatens to quit Sweden if Swedes reject euro
      267 17 STOCKHOLM AFP SWEDISH telecommunications giant Ericsson threatened yesterday to move both its production and headquarters out of Sweden if Swedes reject the euro in a September 14 referendum. The veiled threat from Ericsson's chief executive Carl-Henric Svanberg was reported in the
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        769 26  -  By P T BANGSBERG THE private sector, as so often, was well in the lead, but after months of tedious discussion, official Hong Kong appears to be taking seriously the threat posed by its feisty neighbour just to the north Shenzhen and
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        813 29 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 average sued stem Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        416 30 Taiwan carrier may return to profit for fall year: analysts Bloomberg [TAIPEI] China Airlines, Taiwan's largest carrier, suffered a net loss of NT$9O5 million (5546.35 million) for the first half of 2003 as people shunned travel due to the Sars outbreak.
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        413 30 AFP [PARIS] Air France and Dutch airline KLM stand to make substantial operational gains through a partnership in the form of KLM membership in the Sky Team alliance or an equity swap, but an immediate full merger would be too
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          46 30 Reuters [FRANKFURT! Deutsche Lufthansa said it bad signed a memorandum of understanding with Air-India to intensify cooperation between the two carriers. The airlines already have a code-sharing agreement on routes between Frankftat and Bombay as well as between Frankfurt and Delhi. —Ratters
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          66 30 Bloomberg [EVEND ALE, Ohio] General Electric Co, the world's biggest jet-engine maker, said it won a contract from AirTran Holdings valued at USs6oomillion over 15 years to maintain jet engines. AirTran, the holding company for AirTran Airways, in July ordered SO Boeing 737s with CFMS6
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