The Business Times, 21 November 2003

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    14 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 86C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Iriicnet: .com.sg FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2003
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    Lock icon Istanbul blasts trigger investor flight to safety
    767 1  -  Analysts' outlook, European equity markets dive From Weil Behrmann in London THE latest Istanbul bomb blasts have precipitated a flight to safety in global financial markets as the spectre of more terrorist attacks looms ever larger. European equity markets, up early morning, plunged
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    Lock icon Muted response expected from local bourse
    265 1  -  By Ven Sreenivasan, Kenneth Lim [SINGAPORE) European markets may have been shaken by yesterday's Istanbul bombings, but some analysts say the local bourse's reaction may be muted. "I think the market could come off slightly but the impact will be short-lived," said Netßesearch-Asia's Kevin
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    Lock icon Investors wary after drastic SGX correction
    625 1  -  Market volume now half of Oct's high, and STI is down 5.6% this month By Kenneth Lim AFTER months of fevered bullish trading, the local stock market has finally woken up to a hangover. Daily volume this month is down to almost half the
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    Lock icon FBI sting shows up forex problems
    768 1 24-hr market with no central exchange poses challenges to regulators NYT [NEW YORK] What began with an undercover FBI agent "posing as a bad guy with money" led to the discovery of rigged currencytrading schemes by traders at some of Wall Street's biggest banks,
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    Lock icon MARKETS
    75 1 Dsn 1,662.43 (-14.92) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,665.00 (-5.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 202.60 (-1.60) Thursday Change KLSECOMP 777.21 -lli6 NIKKEI 225 9,865.70 -***** HANG SENG __*****.41 -27.58 SET INDEX 614.23 -480 JAKARTA COMP _605.80 +3.87 MANILA COMP JJMM *14 (13 TAIPEI WPI .5.834.24 31.27 SEOCL COMP 769.4* -245 SHENZHEN B 269.93
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    80 1 FOREX RATES us$ t$ L'SS |SS per USS) 1-719 £(IS&S$ per 1.7U0 1921 ElROflSS/SS/E) 1.193 1049 YEN 108.9 63.40 KM 3X00 1211 HKS 7.760 4.516 BAHT 39 92 2313 Rl'PlAH 8.508 4551 RENMINBI 8198 4 829 INDIAN Rl'PEE 4571 26 60 AS 1.384 0.805 NZS 1.564 0910 PRIME RATES
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      Lock icon Asean-China FTA must get priority, says PM Goh
      628 2  -  Nothing should hinder larger interests of the region and China From Loh Hui Yin in Beijing PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has said Singapore and China place priority on the Asean-China free trade agreement (FTA), and only when it has been concluded
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      Lock icon Farewell, my chairman
      116 2 [SINGAPORE] PricewaterhouseCoopers yesterday bid farewell to executive chairman Michael Lim (centre) at a dinner attended by over 700 guests. Mr Lim, 57, is retiring at the end of this year after more than 30 years with the accounting firm, including 11 years in his current post. Indian-born
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      Lock icon US semicon equipment firms see good orders
      414 2  -  Best book-to-bill ratio in a year to boost S'pore firms Reports by Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] As the strongest testimony yet of a semiconductor rebound, semicon equipment manufacturers reported the best book-to-bill ratio in more than a year. North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment
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      Lock icon HP rakes in Asia-Pac sales of over US$8b
      379 2 US infotech giant Hewiettf Packard said the Asia-Pacif-ic region outside of Japan reported the highest growth rate —16 per cent for the company in its fourth quarter ended Oct 31. Singapore is HP's Asia-Pac HQ and one of its biggest manufacturing sites
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  • Innovation Singapore
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      Lock icon This time, it's personal
      1523 3  -  The Meritus Mandarin is aiming for more repeat guests and is pulling out all stops to give guests that personal touch, finds Andrea Tan Andrea Tan WATTY Piper's Little Blue Engine train that goes "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can"
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      Lock icon 10 years on, he's still stuck on the hotel
      418 3 AS an 18-year-old, he was enamoured by the Mandarin name. Now almost 10 years on, Henry Chiok is grateful for an employer like Meritus Mandarin. "For you and all Singaporeans, once you say the name Mandarin, everyone knows it is one
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      580 3 2003 Exceßent Service Award (EXSA) 2003 Spring Singapore EXSA SuperStar Award Hidayat Taufik Bin Alidad Khan Spring Singapore 25 Hotels in Asia Travd+Leisure &h Annual Worlds Best Awards Survey People Developer Standard Spring Singapore Readers' Choice World's Best Places to Stay GoW List Conde Nast Traveler Best 75 Elite
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SIA needs to keep staff morale flying high
      696 4  -  HOCK lock siew Ven Sreenivasan ANGER and frustration stemming from a sense of betrayal. That was one Singapore Airlines (SIA) pilot's explanation for his union's decision to boot out its entire leadership this week. He may be over-dramatis-ing the case. Still, the
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      Lock icon OCBC shuts India branch as DBS looks to expand
      457 4  -  DBS is rated as one of the more efficient foreign banks by Indian central bank By Siow Li Sen, Yogi Aggarwal in Bombay OCBC Bank has decided to get out of India even as rival DBS Bank is looking to expand
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      Lock icon Most S'pore firms poor in investor relations
      421 6  -  Shareholder pressure has little influence and only 27% has dedicated IR officers: survey By Wong Wei Kong INVESTOR relations (IR) are a low priority for most listed companies in Singapore, and shareholder pressure has little influence on whether firms decide to communicate with
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      Lock icon SGX seeks ideas for its $300m cash hoard
      323 6  -  BT exclusive Local fund managers said to be competiting keenly By Siow Li Sen THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has invited fund managers to come up with ideas on how to manage its $300 million cash hoard, sources said. The $300 million is
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      Lock icon Eu Yan Sang Q1 profit jumps 26%
      288 6  -  By Kenneth Lim DESPITE Eu Yan Sang's 26-per-cent net profit growth in the first fiscal quarter, chief executive Richard Eu is not about to start uncorking the champagne. Mr Eu is more cautious these days, after having to swallow a bitter pill in
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      Lock icon Hong Leong Finance's Q3 profit down 2%
      222 6  -  By Wong Wei Kong HONG Leong Finance (HLF) has reported slightly lower earnings for the third quarter, as interest income slipped and provisions rose. For the three months to September, net profit fell 2.1 per cent to $20.6 million from a year ago.
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon HTL's Q3 profit up 14.6%
        79 6 SOFA-maker HTL International Holdings said net profit for the third quarter ended September rose 14.6 per cent to $6.2 million from $5.4 million in the previous Q3. Turnover rose 24.5 per cent to $107.8 million. Nine-month turnover was $310.2 million, up 29.9 per cent. This
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        Lock icon Investors eye SPH's M1 stake
        82 6 Reuters SINGAPORE Press Holdings said yesterday it had received queries from investors interested in its remaining 14.16 per cent stake in MobileOne Ltd. Ml is Singapore's second-largest mobile phone operator. "I can say that there have been inquiries from interested parties but we are unable
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        Lock icon Jaya's Q1 earnings soar 95%
        91 6 JAYA Holdings Limited has reported a jump of 96 per cent in net profit to $14.2 million from $7.3 million for the first quarter ended Sept 30,2003, buoyed by the continued shortage of offshore marine vessels caused by Increased offshore oil and gas activity. Making
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      Lock icon Phillip Assets makes offer for Int'l Factors
      425 10  -  Offer at 39.7 cents a share as purchase from NOL raises stake to 39.81% By Serena Ng PHILLIP Assets Pte Ltd, a company majority-owned by the Phillip group's founder and chairman Lim Hua Min, has launched a mandatory conditional general offer for International
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      Lock icon Fortune Rett looking at 2 more HK malls
      465 10  -  By Andrea Tan LI KA-SHING'S Singaporelisted Fortune Reit could buy two shopping malls in Hongkong's New Territories as early as March and issue more units in the trust to fund the purchases, said the chairman of its manager ARA Asset Management Justin
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      Lock icon A-Reit boosts portfolio with $50m deal
      500 10  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala ASCENDAS-REIT (A-Reit) yesterday announced its fifth buy-and-lease-back deal this year, this time paying $50 million for IDS Logistics Corporate HQ in Jurong. The new deal brings the trust's total acquisitions for the year to $167.5 million, or a 27 per cent
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      443 8  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN CoiporaHon Llri nw aoctahv 77 omis RECOVERING from a poor first half affected by Sars and restructuring efforts, ComfortDelGro delivered a much better performance in the third quarter. Revenue in Q3 FYO3 grew to $4622 million, while net profit declined by 25.3 per cent
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      Lock icon Upside potential seen for Chuan Hup in long term
      282 8  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan CHUAN Hup this week announced a 67 per cent year-on-year leap in first-quarter earnings to $27.2 million. This included a $9.9 million one-off item arising from an issue of 117 million new shares of its
      Source: Bloomberg  -  282 words
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      Lock icon Confidence in stocks continues to ebb
      505 8  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy LIKE trust, confidence is a difficult thing to replace when lost. Traders are finding this out now, as stock prices continued to melt yesterday despite the absence of any obvious reasons for it. "Lack of visibility going forward" was
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      Lock icon Housing starts, BOJ give US$ a respite
      619 8  -  BT comment CURRENCIES But NZ$ soars to multi-year highs against US$, Sing dollar larry wee RECORD US housing numbers for the month of Oo&gat bought WaD Stre^Jgd perhaps bymlk of heavy purchasesordered by the Ban#of Japan. The euro retreated from a te* of
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        102 8 j r nn j -1- m unrcctj rooa siw unoiocr ups iioiqdk FUND manager Value Partners Limited bought five million shares in China-based meat producer United Food Holdings between Nov 10 and Nov 18 at prices averaging between 54 and 57 cents per share. These open market purchases raised its
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        Lock icon US fund has 7.5% stake in Courts
        115 8 FURNITURE group Courts (Singapore) yesterday named US mutual fund company OppenheimerFunds as one of its substantial shareholders with a 7.54 per cent stake. This stake was acquired between Aug 13, 2002, and May 8, 2003, at prices ranging from 25 cents to 34
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        Lock icon Shareholder transfers at Sin Soon Huat
        79 8 TAN Bee Eng. vice-chairman and a substantial shareholder of Sin Soon Huat. transferred on Nov 17 and Nov 20 a total of eight million shares or a 1.76 per cent stake in the industrial materials and equipment group to her grandsons as gift. These
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        Lock icon Oakwell shareholder reduces stake
        106 8  -  Compiled by SERENA NG ONE of Oakwell Engineering's substantial shareholders. M I Electric Industries Inc. sold 9.51 million shares in the group between Oct 2 and Oct 31, at 8.5 to 10 cents per share. According to Oak well's Tilings yesterday, the date of notice to
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      367 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 20 VALUE CLOSE TOMB -832.00 +24.00 BTCADt -*****.00 -148.00 BTlMyW -*****.00 -83.00 JMUCEqaMw 449.24 -4.04 SGE**ta,Ekct 168.09 -0.81 SCE^alH—Flu 1399.31 -16.11 SG Equities Prop 417.17 -1.15 MSdSinoport 203.21 -1.97 SMSCIFatarM 202.60 -1.60 BeautyCNna HK10 56.110.CW0 LAM lc 45.612.000 Chart SemiCond 26c 23.264.000 AmecfTec#i5c 15.400.000 Jac*speed6c 14.328.000
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  • PERSONAL finance
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      Lock icon Dealing with unregulated products
      822 9  -  These types of investment products can be included in your portfolio provided you understand the risks involved, says BEN FOK BEN FOK FINANCIAL advisers usually steer their clients into traditional investment assets such as equities or unit trusts because these are highly regulated in Singapore. Those
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      2968 10 Notices IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 50,1994 Ed) AND IN THE MATTER Of AUTOMATION LEASING CONSULTANCY PRIVATE LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE Of RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting ot the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 77 Science Park Drive. #02-15
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      554 10 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF REDTONE INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at Suite 22-26. 5» Floor 101 Business Park, ***** Puchong, Selangor. Malaysia
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      359 11 A Well Known Name Gets a Brand New Look. TID Pte. Ltd., formerly known as Trade and Industrial Development Pte Ltd, The new logo itself is a fitting reflection of the value and potential was formed in 1972 when Hong Leong Group, one of Singapore's premier of this exciting partnership.The
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Property-linked set-up costs not high
      583 12  -  Survey shows S'pore 3rd least expensive for such costs in setting up a branch office By Kalpana Rashiwala FPDSavills yesterday released the results of a survey that shows that proper-ty-related costs of setting up a branch office in Singapore are not as forbidding as in
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      Lock icon S'pore aims at stronger oil trading sector
      220 12 SINGAPORE aims to grow the number of oil trading companies here 10 per cent through its Global Trader Programme, according to IE Singapore. Hopefully, this will create a stronger oil trading community, which is one of the factors needed to better position Singapore
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      Lock icon Firms project 3% salary rise in 2004
      253 12  -  EYE on the economy salaries By Taila Krishnakumar THE news is getting better for workers. They can look forward to higher salaries next year, according to human resource and financial management consulting firm Watson Wyatt. Companies are anticipating an average salary increase of
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      Lock icon AMD picks Dresden for new plant
      419 12  -  Singapore was its earlier choice for a US$4b fab it planned with UMC By Raju Chellam US SEMICON giant Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) has chosen Dresden in Germany to build a state-of-the-art wafer fabrication plant that will cost US$2.4 billion, employ 1,000 people
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Bush gets the better of the business cycle
      728 14  -  THE bottom line OPINION robert samuelson THE US economy seems to have just voted for George W Bush. Almost all recent indicators favour the president's re-election: economic growth, rising at a 72 per cent annual rate in the third quarter; jobs, increasing
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      66 14 'When the FBI placed an undercover in the foreign exchange world, posing as a bad buy with money looking for bad things to do, he had more criminal schemes thrown at him than he could imagine.' James Cemey a US attorney, on an undercover operation that led
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      Lock icon The US dollar's worsening woes
      639 14 EDITORIAL DESPITE no shortage of good news on the US economic front the US dollar continues to slide down a slippery slope. And the scary thing is that it may have a lot further to fall. That, in turn, cannot be good news for countries
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      Lock icon The idiocy of investing in mutual funds
      1158 14  -  'Lower-class' investors have been ripped off by mutual fond managers who were not just dishonest, but incompetent too. Hedge funds are benefiting now By Michael Lewis Bloomberg THE upper class in the money culture changes as much as it needs to change to
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      Lock icon What should top US'Asia agenda
      822 14  -  COMMENTARY No, it's neither terrorism nor WMD -it's China-US ties From Leon Hadar in Washington AMERICAN officials and journalists returning from trips to Asia these days are surprised by the growing trans-Pacific split over global priorities. Americans, and especially the team that manages President George
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon KLSE may soon have 900 listed companies
      576 15  -  It has seen impressive growth from 413 firms in 1993 but market cap target of RM1t remains elusive From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA will soon have more than 900 listed companies as the buoyant stock market continues to woo new entrants
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      Lock icon HKMA fails to hold down HK$
      563 15  -  Currency boosted by bearish US$, heavy funds inflow From Jeff Wagner inHongKong DESPITE several rounds of market intervention by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), upward pressure on the Hong Kong dollar has intensified this week, boosted by the US dollar's renewed bearish tone
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      Lock icon HK yuan trade won't hit currency stability: China
      343 15 BEIJING Reuters CHINA'S decision to let Hong Kong banks conduct yuan-denominated business will not affect the currency's stability, the China Securities Journal said yesterday, quoting central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan. "The step will have a relatively small impact on China with its
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        Lock icon Taiwan firms' China investment up
        77 15 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwanese companies' investment in China rose 17 per cent in the first 10 months of this year as the island's manufacturers built more plants across the Taiwan Strait to take advantage of cheaper labour and tap rising demand. Taiwan companies' approved investment in
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        Lock icon M'sia to sign Airbus deal by yr-end
        88 15 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia said yesterday it expects to sign a deal for six Airbus A3BO aircraft by the end 0f2003, making it the 10th buyer in the world of the superjumbo jets. "We believe it can be firmed up, and sign the
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        Lock icon US craeks down on Myanmar
        103 15 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US Treasury Department said on Wednesday it was taking action to cut Myanmar off from the US financial system by designating it as a centre for money laundering. The action marks the third time the Treasury has used what it calls one
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        Lock icon Taiwan develops rapid test for Sars
        69 15 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan researchers have developed a test that can diagnose Sars infections as early as the first two to three days after the onset of the deadly virus, it was reported here yesterday. The test, developed by the National Taiwan University, works by
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        Lock icon KL nod for projects worth RM21.3b
        51 15 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has approved manufacturing projects worth RM21.3 billion (559.5 billion) in the first 10 months 0f2003, International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz said yesterday. She said foreign direct investments totalled RM10.2 billion or 48 per cent of total manufacturing investments.
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  • REGION world
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      Lock icon 'Hard' cut-off may hurt mutual fund trades
      429 16 WASHINGTON Rule is meant to halt illegal late trading after dosing at the pre-close price Reuters THE daily trading window for millions of US mutual fund investors could shrink by hours if regulators were to impose a "hard" cut-off time for fund orders,industry
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      Lock icon Bertelsmann chairman resigns alter dispute with CEO
      465 16 NYT, Bloomberg [DRESDEN, Germany] A rancorous dispute in the boardroom of the German media giant Bertelsmann prompted the resignation on Wednesday of its chairman, Gerd Schulte-Hillen. He stepped down after losing the support of the group's major shareholders in a power struggle with
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      Lock icon Indian market rally cuts UTI bailout cost
      355 16 MUMBAI Bloomberg INDIA'S bailout of the nation's largest investor, the US$4.B billion UTI-1 mutual fund, may cost less than a third of what the government budgeted before the stock market rallied this year. A 45 per cent rise this year in the benchmark
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      Lock icon China plans to improve reliability of growth numbers
      207 16 BEIJING It will offer revised GDP data for first time from next year Reuters CHINA said yesterday it will improve the reliability of its eyebrow-raising economic growth numbers by offering revised gross domestic product (GDP) figures for the first time. The move,
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      534 17 LONDON Fears of US$ dive if Bering also damps US Treasuries Bloomberg Reuters, AFP THE United States is reviewing trade with China as a result of market disruptions caused by Chinese textiles but has not yet decided to revoke its own
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      342 17 BRUSSELS Bloomberg EUROPEAN Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy rejected any compromise on US tariffs that protect steelmakers like Nucor Corp, saying the EU will retaliate with sanctions on US$2.2 billion of US imports next month. The EU plans duties on US products including
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      229 17 WASHINGTON Bloomberg Reuters, FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday said it was "imperative" that emerging protectionism be vanquished before it hurts globalisation, which is key to the US coping with a record trade gap. "Should globalisation be allowed to proceed and thereby create an ever more flexible
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      294 17 WASHINGTON Proxy statements must give details of board nominations Reuters [WASHINGTON] Corporations will have to disclose more about how they choose their boards of directors under rules adopted on Wednesday by US market regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to require companies
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        67 17 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Filings for initial US jobless claims fell more steeply than expected last week, a government report showed yesterday, while a closely watched barometer of job conditions hit its healthiest level since before the 2001 recession began. First-time applications for jobless aid fell 15,000
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        87 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The International Monetary Fund expects global growth this year to rise faster than the 3.25 pa- cent pace forecast in September, helped by an accelerating US economy, the fund's No 2 official said. First deputy managing director Anne Krueger said in a
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        51 17 Reuters [SEOUL] Smith Korea plans to trim corporate tax by two percentage points, effective 2005, in a move to help stimulate sluggish business spending, the Jinetf Business Newspaper said. Vice-Finance Minister Kim Gwang-lim held closed-door meeting with lawmakers yesterday on tax
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      209 19 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD true version (9) 26 Share that is due to a smart airi (5) 27 Having sound adjusted Is 7 !f 8 al#wu 9 h re s If™ YESTEROAY S SOLUTION not easily annoyed (4-8) tor one more round (8,4) Across: 7 Well-spent, 8 Steak, 10 Big in the
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      494 20  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon WHAT if you hadn't seen your mother in 15 years? What if the reason was that she was in jail? And the reason for her imprisonment being that she killed your father? That is the human dilemma at the heart of Iron,
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      450 20  -  The US$l million 'Prism' fell prey to a weak and done-to-death central theme, says APARNA V RODDAM APARNA V RODDAM IX countries, m eight reflections, H H one Asian soul in crisis" purports Goh Boon Teck's much-hyped new directorial venture, Prism. After seeing it though, one
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      679 21  -  OFF the cuff Want to flirt without losing your skirt? Check oat the do's and don'ts of modern-day party schmoozing jaime ee LADIES and gentlemen, would-be lovers or just plain let's-go-up-to-my-place Casanovas, here's the sober truth the rules of flirting have changed. The cookie jar may
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      1356 22  -  That is what retailers hope to listen to this Christmas season as they go all out to ensure their cash registers keep sounding. CHEAH UI-HOON reports CHEAH UI-HOON CHRISTMAS always comes early in Singapore, in the form of decorations, that is. The Yuletide look is up at
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      267 23 Reuters *>?•. I TOE Baltic Dry Index rose 3 points to ***** the Baltic Capesize Index fell 7 points to 5860, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 32 points to 3843 and the Baltic Handymax Index fell 135 points to *****. 'flMJtt-CHARTfSL v Huang Shan Pan Ocean relet (built
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      278 23 S6X 000 a w- vet CH Offshore 0J4 -001 1478 Oman Hup 047 -0.02 2S83 Coko Investment ...0.S6 -0.01 3098 CWT Distribution 0 58 002 93 braHkte 094 -006 551 FreitM links 0.09 inh 427 SB Holdings.— 067 -002 12 iMHotdingi. 077 -0.04 2610 HI Venture .023 unch
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      279 23 Move to match lower demand will lead to 525 job losses Reuters [LONDON] Britain's Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation (P&O), feeling the heat from Europe's low cost airlines, is to cut capacity on its Dover-Calais ferry route that will result in 525
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      459 23  -  Steel recovered from oil tanker wreck meets class rule requirements Reports by Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) says the first piece of steel recovered from the wreck of the Prestige "strongly refutes" Spanish aUegations that the vessel was in poor
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      217 23 [SINGAPORE] In an apparent about-face, Russian officials have said they will support moves by the European Union to ban all singlehulled tankers by the end of the decade. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told his Finish counterpart last week that Russia
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      116 23 Bloomberg [AUCKLAND] Ports of Auckland Ltd, New Zealand's largest port, said it handled 13 per cent more containers in October than the year-earlier month. The company, which handles about half the containers shipped to and from New Zealand, moved the equivalent of 61,682 20-foot containers in
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      943 24  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK Charterparties that include commission agreement wide enough to cover claim: English Court By Selva Kumar A BROKER that acted for a shipowner was entitled to sue the owner directly for its commission although it was not a party to the charterparties
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      63 24 Reuters [BANGKOK] Activists from environmental group Greenpeace protesting against the import of genetically engineered (GE) soy from the US and Argentina in a demonstration at Sriracha, 100 kilometres south of Bangkok. The protesters painted a large cross on the side of a cargo ship unloading GE
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        129 31 Not 29 Singapore: Hari Raya Puasa. Malaysia: Hari Raya Puasa. Deo 5 Thailand: King's Birthday. Dee 10 Thailand: Constitution Day. Dec 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. Dee 28 Singapore: Christmas Day. Philippines:Christmas Day. Malaysia: Christmas Day. Korea: Christmas Day. Hongkong: Christmas Day. Australia: Christmas Day. Brazil: Christmas Day. Brunei:
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        819 31 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 indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        344 32 Regulator said it would harm competition, consumers AP [WELLINGTON] Air New Zealand said yesterday that it would join Australian counterpart Qantas in lodging an appeal against the New Zealand competition regulator's decision to block the two airlines from forming an
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        212 32 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Lufthansa's cargo unit, the world's biggest freight airline by tonnage carried, plans to lower rates to regain market share in Germany as competition increases. Lufthansa Cargo will "introduce competitive prices" amid "clear pressure on yields," or average price of freight carried, during
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        351 32 AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport will be ready for privatisation in 18-24 months, depending on market conditions, the city's Airport Authority (AA) said yesterday. Speaking at a seminar on airport privatisation, the AA's head of strategic planning and
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        477 32 Carrier aims to triple passenger numbers by 2015 Bloomberg [DUBAI] Emirates, the largest Arab airline, is interested in a larger version of the 7E7 "Dreamliner" airliner that Boeing Co is developing as the carrier aims to triple the number of passengers it flies by
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        235 32 AFP [DUBAI] Dubai's Emirates announced yesterday six new destinations in 2004 including New York the only direct link between the Middle East and the United States Shanghai, Vienna, Glasgow and Lagos as the government-owned airline bids to be a global player.
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        212 32 AP [CANBERRA] A Qantas airline attendant who foiled a hijack attempt by a man wielding sharpened wooden stakes was awarded a new international aviation security prize for his bravery, the Australian flag carrier said yesterday. Greg Khan, 39, was stabbed several times in the
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          94 32 AFP [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines (SIA) said yesterday it will offer two new channels on its in-flight entertainment system, one dedicated to tech-sawy travellers and the other for leisure passengers. The technology and travel channels will add more variety to the wide range of
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          71 32 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co carried 5.3 per cent fewer passengers on domestic flights in October, the biggest drop in six months as the company cut back on discounts, reducing travel demand. Domestic traffic for the Tokyo-based airline dropped from a year earlier
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          65 32 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airlines is expected to sign an agreement to buy six A3BO aircraft from Airbus by the end of the year. Second Finance Minister Jamaludin Jarjis said "We can confirm that the government has agreed" to the purchase, he told
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