The Business Times, 24 September 2003

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 024/03/2003 in'prnpt: ;/business-times.asial .cc k. SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2003
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    Lock icon S'pore-Australia air accord falls short of hopes
    797 1  -  SIA wins full access on all services except lucrative Australia-US route By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines' ambitions to compete with Qantas Airways on lucrative direct Austra-lia-US routes have been blocked indefinitely by the Australian government's decision to liberalise all air services between
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    67 1 sn 1,588.36 (+1.73) ST INDEX niTURES ymm (+8.00) SUNSCI FUTURES 195.40 (+1.20) Tuesday Change KLSECOMP 737.24 -1.12 NIKKKI225 Closed HANG SEN(i 10.944-36.. +71.119 SET INDEX 566.13 +3.94 JAKARTA CMP ...588.51 +2.84 MANILA COMP JJHM 1099 TAIPEI WPI 5.684.01 .8,26 SEOUL COMP 718.84 +3.95 SHENZHEN B 228.66 +0.95 AIST ALLORD
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    76 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ i:s$ (SS per IS$) 1.731 £(l'S$/S$ per 1.654 2.863 El'RO(lIS$/S$/E). 1150 199(1 YEN I1U 64.30 RM 3.800 2.196 HKS 7.750 4.478 BAHT 39.99 2310 RI'PIAH 8,415 4.862 RENMINBI 8.299 4795 INDIAN RI'PEE 45.75 2643 AS 1.470 0.849 m 1674 0.967 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 MALAYSIA
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    Lock icon Ooi Sin Teck takes step back to take stock
    627 1  -  BT exclusive OCBC veteran says he was not pressured to leave By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] It may have looked like a sudden decision, but outgoing OCBC deputy president Ooi Sin Teck said yesterday he mulled over his decision to leave
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    Lock icon Settling-in period for FAA over now: MAS
    605 1  -  Financial advisers must comply with spirit of law also By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] The period of "settling in" with the regulations under the Financial Advisers Act (FAA) is over, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is set to begin thorough and regular
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      189 1 1 COMMENTARIES Dick Grasso Will Sing Tel now play second fiddle to ST Telemedla? JL ANGELA TAN H COMMENTARY Is there even a deadline for open skies? BETH JINKS, Pg 2 SHIPPING TIMES S'pore air cargo sector lauds relaxed rules SHIPPING TIMES, Pg 10 Asia poised to power world growth
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      Lock icon Tokyo warns it'll act if yen continues climb against US$
      439 2  -  G-7 FINANCE MINISTERS' MEETING BOJ chief: market over-reacting to G-7 statement From Anthony Rowley in Dubai AS the yen surged to around 110 to the US dollar yesterday, Bank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui warned that Japanese authorities are ready
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      Lock icon Asia won't rush to switch currency regimes: S'pore
      553 2  -  Republic signs MOU to host 2006 World Bank, IMF meeting From Matthew Saltmarsh in Dubai EAST Asian countries are comfortable with their foreign exchange structures and will only move to more market-driven regimes over time, according to Singapore's second minister for finance.
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      Lock icon Is there even a deadline for open skies?
      706 2  -  COMMENTARY If it's to be granted only when global aviation has recovered, S'pore's wait may be in vain, says Beth Jinks Beth Jinks EXACTLY why is the air-services agreement between Australia and Singapore signed yesterday so disappointing? Not only did the two
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      283 2 -ma—fl—ll I I■ irnamm ,> u. Corporate Governance Workshop Achieving Business Objectives Although the Singapore Code of Corporate Governance has been in existence for over two years, the effect of the requirement relating to the Code is observable only in annual reports published this year (i.e. for the 2002 financial
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Will SingTel now play second fiddle to ST Telemedia?
      674 4  -  HOCK lock siew angela tan SINGAPORE Technologies Telemedia's (STT) almost completed US$25O million cash purchase of a 62 per cent stake in Global Crossing is seen by most analysts as a steal, considering the bankrupt US cable giant owns one of
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      Lock icon China's biggest bank targets Singapore IPO pie
      508 4  -  BT exclusive IGBC S'pore to tap China links for IPO and other corporate finance work By Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE'S red-hot underwriting business for initial public offers has attracted a new player. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) the mainland's biggest
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      Lock icon Court rules on Goldtron preference dividends
      431 4 GOLDTRON Ltd will not pay out accrued dividends on its non-redeemable convertible cumulative preference shares (NCCPS) which are due to be compulsorily converted into ordinary shares at the end of this year. The company said this yesterday after it obtained a High Court ruling
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      Lock icon Ellipsiz shares soar 145% in just three weeks
      583 6  -  Share price rally comes as firm is about to secure a strategic partner By Serena Ng NICHE semiconductor solutions group Ellipsiz's yearlong search for a strategic partner could soon bear fruit, a factor that could have been responsible for a 145 per
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      Lock icon Second Chance takes second look at apparel business
      488 6  -  By Kenneth Lim AFTER changing course to focus on property in 1999, Second Chance Properties now wants to give its original apparel retail business a second chance, albeit with a difference. The Sesdaq-listed group is not foregoing its property business it wants
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon CHT offer 9.5 times subscribed
        74 6 CHINA-BASED PVC adhesive tape maker CHT Holdings' initial public offering of 60 million new shares at 46 cents apiece has been 9.5 times subscribed, the issue's lead manager GK Goh said yesterday. The public tranche of just over 6 million shares was 85.4 times subscribed.
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        Lock icon Chip Eng Seng buys Shanghai Rd site
        75 6 CHIP Eng Seng Corp has entered into an option agreement for a freehold property at Shanghai Road with a purchase price of $14.8 million. The transaction, which will be financed by internal sources and bank borrowings, is expected to be completed by January
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        Lock icon KK Fong's Xpress shares force-sold
        65 6 FINANCIAL printing group Xpress Holdings yesterday said DBS Vickers Securities has sold around 8 million shares owned by the group's founder and former chief K K Fong "to meet obligations". The sales at 9 and 8 cents per share on Sept 18 and 19 respectively
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        Lock icon Sandi raises Ipoo stake to 6.24%
        85 6 IPCO International's new substantial shareholder Sandi Gunawan Ho has lifted his stake ftirther in the construction and infrastructure group. Filings with the Singapore Exchange show that last Friday he bought 1.97 million Ipco shares at 13 cents each from the open market, raising his
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        Lock icon aspnetoentre rises on nod for issue
        107 6 SHARES of mainboard-listed aspnetcentre yesterday rose 15 per cent or 2 cents to 15 cents, a day after the Singapore Exchange gave an in-principle nod for the firm's one-for-two rights issue at 4 cents per rights share to raise up to $4.9 million. Hie
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        Lock icon M1 to end pager services by year-end
        100 6 Bloomberg MOBILEONE, Singapore's second-largest cell-phone company, said it will discontinue its paging services at the end erf the year amid sliding demand, affecting about 22,000 customers. The company will offer users the option to switch to a range of cell-phone service plans, with
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      Lock icon Stanchart banks on CapitaLand to lure investors
      330 9  -  Structured deposit pays interest as long as CapitaLand financially healthy By Siow Li Sen TIRED of betting on where stock prices are heading? Standard Chartered Bank has come up with a novel structured deposit that bets on Capita Land staying financially healthy in
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      Lock icon General offer for Bonvests at 40¢ apiece
      367 9  -  Firm's chairman to launch offer as stake crosses 30% By Serena Ng WITH the completion of a deal that raised his effective interest in Bonvests Holdings from 29.97 per cent to 43.22 per cent, chairman Henry Ngo announced yesterday that he would be
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      247 6 V"-** 3 A TASTE OF PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY CdltOlt E MOST DIGITAL SLR AT $1999 Ther has been a jyy worlds an affordable price. In fact, it's just the camera for you if you want to take the next step into digital fx A 4l faA With the flexibility of
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      42 8 OTHER SINGAPORE MOKES Sep 23 VALUE CLOSE BTWZPS 580.00 +424.00 iTC*W -*****.00 +110.00 -*****.00 +58.00 mmt*Mrn 436.05 +1.58 MBpMwBwl 176.60 -1.09 1360.22 +6.70 tcr|rfi»rn> 388.99 -0.77 WqtlilBipin 195.41 +0.41 Clob Closing prices are in trading currencies, but absolute difference is in S$.
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      Lock icon Analysts fear the worst is yet to come for greenback
      885 8  -  A longer view CURRENCIES larry wee NEWS that the us dollar had been forced back below the key 115yen marker has considerably raised the fear that the fate of the US dollar has now been sealed in quite spectacular style.
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      Lock icon Time to take calls with a pinch of salt
      805 8  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE state of the local stock market is perhaps best summed up by separate remarks made by two dealers yesterday. The first was: "Stocks that were a 'sell* at 20 cents three months ago are now
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon How to get paid like Dick Grasso
      724 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION michael lewis Bloomberg I AM still trying to figure out how NYSE chairman and CEO Richard Grasso did it No matter how you look at it his was a remarkable achievement An otherwise unexceptional fellow, performing fairly routine functions
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      97 10 'If, after coming this far, we turn our backs and let Iraq lapse into factional chaos, some new tyranny and terrorism, we will have committed a grave error.' Paul Br er the American occupation supremo in Iraq, on the US$20 billion price tag for the reconstruction of
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      Lock icon Deputy sheriff in PNG
      642 10 EDITORIAL AUSTRALIA'S enthusiasm for its role as deputy sheriff of the region seems to be growing by the day. Hard on the heels of his Solomon Islands adventure that has seen that Pacific territory come under the control of an Australian-led intervention force, Prime Minister John
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      Lock icon Jakarta's ambitious post-IMF package
      1120 10  -  If implemented, the new economic policy programme will improve the economy, the credit rating and the lives of millions of Indonesians By Andrew Steer LAST week, the government of Indonesia published its eagerly awaited economic policy package for the next 18 months. This crucial document constitutes
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      Lock icon Entrepreneurs who fail need our encouragement
      190 10  -  MAIL bag Lau Yeow Sin, Singapore I REFER to your report, "Loss and redemption: A bankrupt's story" (BT, Sept 22). Chia Shi Teck's sharing of his experience of bankruptcy confirms why many Singaporeans prefer working as employees and shun venturing into business. The risk
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      Lock icon Chia Shi Teck was invited: SingTel
      245 10  -  I n Tan Director Corporate Communications, SingTel I REFER to the article "A persona non grata overnight" by Anna Teo (BT, Sept 22). Sing Tel hosted an event for corporate customers to watch the musical The Wedding Banquet, and invitations were sent to the
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon HP, Oracle to invest US$12m in 5 devt centres
      371 12  -  Regional effort with partners to support independent software providers By Raju Chellam US-BASED IT giants Hew-lett-Packard and Oracle Corp have teamed up with their business partners to invest US$l2 million over three years to setup five development centres in Singapore, Malaysia,
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      Lock icon Manufacturing sector revamp will keep it viable: minister
      274 12 BKryfco restructuring to keep the sector viable, according to Vivian Batakrlshnsn, Minister of State for Trade A Industry and National Development Speaking at the inauguration of the Wire Singapore and T\ibe Singapore 2003 show at the Singapore Expo yesterday, Dr Balakrlshnan said
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      Lock icon Panel urges S'pore to adopt biosafety laws
      383 12  -  Review committee links likely source of latest Sars infection to local lab By Kenneth Lim SINGAPORE needs to regulate laboratory biosafety measures through legislation, a review committee said yesterday after concluding that a local laboratory was the most likely source of Infection in
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      Lock icon Lower pay for older staff not a draw for employers
      379 12 THE recent CPF rate cuts may have helped to give mature workers a leg up in the job market, but a recent survey found that companies are looking at more than mere age and cost savings when hiring. Just 11.9
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      Lock icon Moneyline Telerate scores with Citigroup deal
      518 13  -  Citigroup's fixed-income Quit will use Telerate as data provider globally By Wong Wei Kong TAKE over Reuters one day? Maybe, maybe not. But a rejuvenated Moneyline Telerate is already snatching business away from the UK giant. One of its latest coups is to win
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      Lock icon HDB imposes mortgage cap on low-income buyers
      467 13 80% or 90% loan limit depending on size of flat from Oct 1 THE Housing Development Board (HDB) will cap the amount of mortgage loans for low-income households at 80 or 90 per cent of the purchase price, depending on the flat size,
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      Lock icon S'pore to host 2006 IMF-World Bank meet
      203 13 Being chosen shows how well-developed financial sector is AFP THE Singapore government confirmed yesterday it would host the 2006 annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. "Hosting this meeting demonstrates Singapore's commitment to the work of the International
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      Lock icon August CPI up for 2nd straight month
      272 13  -  EYE on the economy By Joyce Keh SINGAPORE'S consumer price index (CPI) for August rose 0.5 per cent year-on-year a second consecutive monthly increase after two months of falls. Against July, the CPI rose a more moderate 0.1 per cent, according to data
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  • ideas! 2003
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      Lock icon Embrace the winds of change
      1286 14  -  Companies that are not leveraging the Internet for business risk getting left behind by their savvy competitors. GERARD M C LIM elaborates GERARD M C LIM IT is not about companies under-utilising the Internet to communicate, transact or interact. Nor is it about the fact
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      Lock icon Fresh look at creativity
      612 15 Be inspired at ideas! 2003 where marketing, creative and communications professionals gather to network, exchange ideas and find solutions FRETTING over dwindling consumer confidence and retail market gloom? Need a boost to re-focus your marketing efforts? Professional support is within reach with the inaugural ideas! 2003,
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      Lock icon Getting emotional for good reasons
      647 15  -  By ERIC ROSENKRANZ WHEN Tina Turner sings What's Love Got to Do With It? she is belittling one of the most important of all human emotions. Since showing emotions can be considered a sign of weakness, they tend to be discounted, especially in business. But
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      288 14 BThe Ideas! 2003 Exhibition will save you from around the world. Plus there's the Ideas! 2003 Awards Gallery featuring EFFIE, marketing dollars from the moment you lAS' Hall of Fame, D&AD, The One Show, Creative Circle, Students' Creative, AP enter the exhibition. AdFest and Singapore Outdoor Advertising Awards. First of
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon HK hotel occupancy seen hitting 40-year low this year
      432 16 HONG KONG Reuters OCCUPANCY rates at Hong Kong hotels wUI plunge to their lowest level for over four decades in 2003 because of the outbreak of Sars, but the sector is likely to recover ftally by 2004, an industry body said
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      Lock icon Malayan United to raise RM2.5b via sale of assets
      507 16 KUALA LUMPUR It hopes to pare debt of RM3.54b by exiting unprofitable businesses Bloomberg MALAYAN United Industries Bhd, owner of 80 hotels in the UK, Australia and Malaysia, plans to raise RM2.5 billion (Ssl.l billion) by selling assets to pare debt.
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      Lock icon Some foreign firms set to list in KL following easing
      382 16 KUALA LUMPUR AT least two foreign firms with Malaysian operations look set to list on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) following the latest relaxation of rules by the Securities Commission (SC), according to a report in the Star yesterday.
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Dow Jones told to pay calligrapher
        101 16 Reuters [BI&JING] A Beijing court has ordered Dow Jones Co to pay a Chinese calligrapher U5549,000 In compensation for using his artwork in the company's Chinese logo without permission, a court official said yesterday. In 1994, the company that owns The Wail Street Journal
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        Lock icon China, HK to sign trade deal annexes
        78 16 Reuters [HONG KONG] China and Hong Kong will sign next week six annexes of a free trade agreement that will include the definition of Hong Kong-made goods to be exempted from mainland tarifffe, Tim Standard newspaper reported yesterday. The six supplementary deals would
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        Lock icon Media Prima to list on KLSE
        90 16 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Media Prima Bhd, a Malaysian publishing and broadcast company, said its shares will begin trading on the stock exchange at the end of next month. The company is taking over the listing of Sistem Televisyen Malaysia, the country's first private TV
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        Lock icon Ibra gets three bids for Lippo Bank
        64 16 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency said it received preliminary bids from three foreign companies for control of PT LippO Bank, the country's 11th largest lender by assets. The Philippines' Export Industry Bank and Swiasfirst Bank are among the more than 10
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        Lock icon HK consumer prices drop 3.8% in Aug
        79 16 Reuters [HONG KONGJ There was another sharp drop in consumer prices in Hong Kong last month, extending the deflation cycle to a 58th month but an easing in unemployment and a tourism revival should help prices to start recovering soon. Hie consumer price
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      Lock icon Zhuhai officials block HK$4b probe of assets
      548 17 HONG KONG Liquidators of municipal firm denied access to company records [HONG KONG] City officials in Zhuhai have physically obstructed provisional liquidators of Zhu Kuan Group from probing up to HK|4 billion (*****.7 million) in property assets, forcing them to take their plight
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      Lock icon Sandwich replaces full meal on Cathay's short routes
      231 17 HONG KONG Airline says it serves the double purpose of cost-saving and hygiene CATHAY Pacific has stopped serving ftxll meals on its short-hop flights around Asia, creating a new class of economy flier the sandwich-class passenger, the South China Morning Post reported.
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      Lock icon China motorcycle maker fined for faking results
      307 17 SHANGHAI Chairman, director of Jinan also fined for fraud JINAN Qingqi Motorcycle Co, which reported China's biggest corporate loss last year, said it has been fined 400,000 yuan (5583,200) by the securities regulator after it was found to have falsified its financial results.
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      Lock icon Chip firm backed by Jiang's son on stream
      233 17 SHANGHAI Reuters A SEMICONDUCTOR maker backed by the son of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin began production yesterday, joining a band of companies setting up expensive fabs to supply China's US$2O billion chip market. Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp expects its first microchip
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      1472 17 cup notcontro je aspnetcentre Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 31 December 1999) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company win be held at 11 Tampines Street 92 Singapore *****2 on 16 October 2003 at 10.00 a.m. (or
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon EU reviews opposition to bilateral Asean FTAs
      351 18  -  Cancun collapse and US trade accords force EU rethink From Shada Lalam in Brussels THE European Union will review its opposition to signing new bilateral and regional free trade deals with Asean countries and others following the failure of the World Trade Organization's
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      Lock icon Village Roadshow shares fall on claim
      290 18 SYDNEY Former exec Peter Ziegler is seeking a payout of A$148m Bloomberg VILLAGE Roadshow Ltd shares plunged yesterday after Australia's largest cinema owner said former executive Peter Ziegler was seeking a Asl4B million (*****.8 million) payout. Mr Ziegler sent the Mel-bourne-based company a proposed
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      714 22 THERE are concerns about looming oversupply in China's car market. But BMW isn't too worried at least not about the premium segment. "There is substantial growth in China but there has also been over-capacity for many years," said Luder Paysen, BMW's senior
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      484 22  -  Increased productivity means customers can save an average of 20% By Samuel Ee TOYOTA cars may leave the assembly line, but the assembly line will never leave them at least not in Singapore. Authorised distributor Borneo Motors has implemented a production-line
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      531 25 Result falls short of expectations after Sars hit traffic at Cosco-Hit port Reuters [HONG KONG] China-back-ed Cosco Pacific Ltd reported a 5.4 per cent rise in firsthalf net profit on Monday as the ports operator expanded its container leasing operation, the world's fifthlargest. But
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      331 25  -  Joint venture handled 56,402 TEUs in the three months ending June 30 By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation's key Indian venture at Tuticorin scraped together a 4.3 per cent volume growth in the first quarter of this financial year, after its
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      318 25 Rates hit 5-month high as 22 tankers are booked to ship Persian Golf crude Bloomberg (LONDON] Oil tanker rates in the Persian Gulf may rise for a seventh week as charterers make inquiries for vessels to load crude oil
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      300 25 Possible contracts may last at least a year, says shipping company Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Lanka Maritime Services, a unit of Sri Lanka's national shipping company, said it may start buying fuel from BP pic's Singapore trading unit to supply vessels in Colombo
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        89 25 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering, the world's second-largest shipbuilder, won an order from UK-based Golar LNG to build one liquefied natural gas ship for US$l5l million. The delivery of the 145,700-cubic-metre vessel will be made by the end of the first quarter 0f2006 to
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        527 34  -  Services can be increased between the 2 countries and beyond barring US By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore's air cargo industry has welcomed yesterday's air services agreement with Australia, that effectively eliminates all restrictions on freight flights between and beyond both countries
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        410 34 Swiss to cede 8 slots at Heathrow to UK airline Bloomberg [ZURICH] Swiss International Air Lines, Switzerland's national carrier that emerged from bankrupt Swissair Group, signed an accord with British Airways on joining the UK carrier's Oneworld alliance as it seeks to
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        283 34 Reuters [CHICAGO] Delta Air Lines on Monday cut domestic airfares on many flights from mid-October through January, prompting rivals to match those cuts in what one expert called the year's widest sale aimed mainly at business travel. Delta's fall airfare cuts started
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        194 34 Bloomberg [TOULOUSE] British Airways, Europe's largest airline, is offering round trip tickets between Paris and London for 106 euros (*****.88) as it kicks off an advertising campaign to encourage Parisians to fly to England. The carrier is spending £2 million (555.7 million) on a
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        273 34 Airline secretly gave passenger info to defence contractor privacy group Reuters [WASHINGTON] A privacy-rights group asked US regulators on Monday to prosecute jetßlue Airways Corp for secretly giving the names of more than a million of its passengers to an anti-terrorism screening
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        217 34 Reuters [LONDON] Workers at train operator Heathrow Express, which carries passengers from London to the world's busiest international airport, will hold three 24hour strikes next month, the train company said on Monday. "It is our intention to run as full a service and a
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