The Business Times, 27 November 2003

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES fs Internet: http://business-times.asial corn.sg S INGAPORE THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 2003 es#
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    Lock icon Dairy Farm, HSBC tie up for in-store banking
    943 1  -  Bank's customers can get cash and credit facilities, pay card bills By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] HSBC is aggressively expanding its banking presence in Singapore. Yesterday it announced two major new services, one of which even leapfrogs a similar service offered by
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  • Article
    Lock icon Global recovery will continue next year and beyond: OECD
    703 1  -  Growth in advanced nations will boost Asian exports From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) yesterday presented an upbeat view of global economic prospects. It suggested that the recovery enjoyed this year should continue to
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    71 1 1,—.11 (+21.48) □ST MDKX RJTUNBS I,ool*o (+32.00) ■1 1—II Him— U 209.70 (+3.50) Wednesday Change KLSE COUP dosed NIKKEI 225 _10,***** *184.63 HANG SENG —12,***** +78.60 SET INDEX 6S0.82 +25.79 JAKARTA COMP -dosed MANILA COMP —dosed TAIPEI WPI 5,860.61 -057 SEOUL COMP 782.65 +1454 SHENZHEN B ***** -L27 AUST
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    77 1 FOREX RATES IIS$ S$ IIS$ (S$ per CSS) 1.722 £(TS$/S$ per 1.701 1930 EIiRO(US$/S$/E) 1.184 2.038 YEN 109.4 63.50 KM .1800 2206 HK$ 7.767 4.510 BAHT 3990 23.16 Rl'PlAH 8*18 4,94) RENMINBI s 299 1818 INDIAN RUPEE 45.91 26.65 AS 1590 0.807 NZ$ 1.566 0.909 PMME RATES SINGAPORE* 5J»
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    Lock icon S'pore body moves to curb spam with opt-out list
    853 1  -  BT exclusive Direct Marketing Association setting op online facility By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] In a fresh bid to curb spam or the unwanted, unsolicited nuisance e-mail and SMS messages that clog computers and mobile phones the Direct Marketing Association of Singapore
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    • Article
      Lock icon Moody's upgrades Thailand by two notches
      602 2  -  Citing political uncertainties, it puts Philippines on review for a possible credit downgrade By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Thailand has received a rave report from Moody's Investors Service, which upgraded it two notches because of its continued good macro-economic outlook and dramatic reduction in
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      Lock icon Biomedicals the star performer in October industrial output
      496 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Broad-based recovery in manufacturing sector still elusive otherwise By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Manufacturing output hit a high as Singapore made more drugs in October compared with the same month last year. But few people would have felt the
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      Lock icon EFG private bank has aggressive growth plans
      535 2  -  It'll double staff to 60 in two years and will pay top dollar By Siow Li Sen {SINGAPORE] EFG Private Bank is looking to double its private banking staff to 60 over the next two years and is willing to pay $150,000$250,000 a
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      Lock icon Japan threatens to hit back at US steel tariffs
      607 2 TRADE ROW It may slap retaliatory duties on US imports AFP, Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan yesterday threatened to impose US$B5 million in retaliatory duties on American imports unless the US backs away from steel tariffs ruled unfair by the World Trade Organization
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      Lock icon Correction
      34 2 IN Tuesday's Eye on the Economy column, we erred in saying October's Consumer Price Index rose month-on-month. The index actually fell, by 0.1 per cent, over September. We are sorry for the error.
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      11 2 PB iluthia on China TVs to aid foreign makers, Pg 3
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  • TRADE ROWS
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      Lock icon US duties on China TVs boost foreign makers
      491 3 US consumers on losing end as decision likely to raise TV prices Reuters [NEW YORK] A US decision to slap stiff duties on televisions from China is likely to benefit other foreign manufacturers rather than American ones, as there is now very
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      Lock icon China's TV-makers deny charges of dumping goods in US
      267 3 Chinese trade ministry slams US tariffs as unjust AFP [SHANGHAI] Chinese TVmakers yesterday denied any wrongdoing after the United States rapped them with a set of heavy antidumping duties that have reignited fears the two countries are headed towards a trade
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      Lock icon Govt to help M'sian firms under US probe
      90 3 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MTTI) will help any Malaysian manufacturer under investigation for allegedly dumping their products at below cost, its minister Raf idah Aziz said yesterday. She said while MITI would fully assist the US
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      Lock icon Look, there's fungus in US soybean cargo
      208 3 But this has nothing to do with trade row: China official Reuters [SHANGHAI] China has found fungus in a soybean cargo from the United States, the country's quarantine bureau said yesterday, possibly fanning the flames of a trade row brewing between the two
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • Article
      Lock icon IPOs must clearly say where the money will go
      755 4  -  HOCK lock siew r sivanithy IF SOMEONE you know asks you to lend them money, you'd probably ask them: "What's it for?" This is an entirely natural reaction you're perfectly entitled to ask what your money will be used for. On
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Banyan Tree Appoints IPO advisers
        88 4 Bloomberg BANYAN Tree Hotels Resorts, which runs spas in Indonesia, Thailand and the Maldfrte, has hired DBS Group Holdings to help arrange an initial share sale next year. DBS spokeswoman Eileen Lau confirmed the hiring and said the IPO will be managed with ÜBS. She
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        Lock icon Snnray interim profit Jumps 87% .
        66 4 Snnray interim profit Jumps 87% CHINA medical apparatus maker Sunray Holdings, which was listed recently, yesterday reported a 57 per cent jump in net profit for the six months ended September to 2ZJB million yuan (SslB million). Turnover rose 48 per cent to 55.7 million yuan. Sunray attributed its higher
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        Lock icon BSH to complete plaoement by Dee 31
        75 4 SPORTING goods retailer RSH said yesterday its proposed placement of 30.6 million shares to Malaysian tycoonSyed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary's Bukhary Equity Sdn Bhd is to be completed by Dec 31. It said it has been informed that Bukhary Equity is in the process of
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        Lock icon Hong Leon* Asia imit in OEM deal
        86 4 HONG Leong Asia's home appliances unit Henan Xinfoi Electric Co yesterday entered into an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Hitachi Home A Life Solutions to supply refrigerators to the Japanese market, and subeequently to ma)or markets around the world. As part of
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        65 4 SINGAPORE Telecommunications, together with Vietnam Datacommunications Co, is offering Internet-based network communication services for companies based in Vietnam. The service, known as Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network, will aDow data connections between company operations based in Vietnam and those overseas. Sing Tel said it is the first foreign operator to
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        Lock icon LC Development director retires
        49 4 LIM Jit Poh, a long time veteran with the Lum Chang Group and who was due for rotation, hae not sought re-election at the group's development arm LC Development He retired as a director as well as deputy managing director of LC Development fretn yesterday.
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        93 4 HESHE Holdings said yesterday it has been granted an extension until Dec 31 to hokl its annual general meeting. It said it sought the extension as audit clearance for its Beijing subsidiary was delayed. This was because the unit's accounting records were in the hands of the Chinese tax authorities
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      Lock icon Exec director in bid to take Dovechem private
      764 4  -  $1 per share offer represents a 12.4% premium over the last traded price By Kenneth Lim A PRIVATISATION bid of Dovechem Stolthaven involving a Dovechem director, two shipbrokers and another individual has been given an early boost by key Dovechem shareholders. Great
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      Lock icon Merrill issues 'buy' call on Chartered
      406 4  -  It raises 12-month price target to $2.05 on anticipated recovery By Raju Chellam INVESTMENT bank Merrill Lynch has upgraded its rating on Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing to "buy" from "neutral" on expectations the company will start to turn around in 2004. Smith Barney has had
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      Lock icon SC Global profits triple to $8.1m in Q3
      523 5  -  Results lifted by strong performance of Aussie associate AV Jennings By Serena Ng ENTREPRENEUR Simon Cheong's restructuring efforts at his Singapore-listed companies look to have borne fruit. His majority-owned SC Global Developments yesterday posted a 219 per cent surge in net profit
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      Lock icon Higher orders boost MMI Q1 earnings to $3.6m
      343 5  -  Company expects good demand to continue in H1 By Chen Huifen BOOSTED by higher customer orders for its core and non-core businesses, contract manufacturer MMI Holdings yesterday reported a first quarter net profit of $3.6 million for the three months ended Sept
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      Lock icon Hyflux Q3 earnings surge 133% to $3.3m
      338 5  -  Sales op 44% due to S'pore municipal deals; it expects demand to remain strong By Woog Wei Kong IT'S another sparkling set of results from water treatment group Hyflux. Net profit surged 133 per cent to $3.3 million in the third quarter to
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      Lock icon Dao Heng proves its worth to DBS
      1191 8 CORPORATE ANALYSIS Much-maligned purchase now reaps dividends as strong HK results help to boost group's Q3 earnings Bloomberg SHARES of DBS Group Holdings, Singapore's biggest lender, have surged 46 per cent in six months as the purchase of Dao Heng Bank Group in
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      Lock icon Kim Eng bounces back into the black in Q2
      340 9  -  Booming stock markets in the region leads group it post $25m profit By Wong Wei Kong LISTED Singapore broking group Kim Eng Holdings $as bounced strongly back to profitability on the back of a buoyant stock market. The broker chalked up
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      Lock icon CityDev Q3 profit seen at $30m-$40m
      501 9 Hotel recovery will boost profits way above Q2: analysts Reuters CITY Developments Ltd, South-east Asia's secondbiggest property and hotel group, is likely to report its profits soared between the second and third quarters, boosted by a recovery in its hotel business. Analysts said yesterday
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      Lock icon People's Food shares fall as profits slide
      537 9  -  Earnings drop 55% to 101m yuan in Q3 on lower turnover By Loh Hui Yin PEOPLE'S Food Holdings' share price lost nine cents yesterday after the Chinese meat processor announced a 55 per cent fall in its net profit for the third quarter.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      622 6  -  Compiled by CHEAN eĝ Ql results were slightly above our expectations. Sales rose 9 per cent q-o-q to $195 million, driven by the seasonal upswing. Profit increased 75 per cent to $10.8 million due to changes in revenue mix and operating leverage. China was the only growth driver.
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      Lock icon Fair value for revamped CapitaLand seen at $1.60
      311 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Teh Hooi Ling CAPITALAND has refocused its diverse asset holdings to that of an asset-light, multi-10, cation entity. In the process, it has lowered its exposure to a lacklustre Singapore commercial sector, reduced punitive interest costs and revived
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      Lock icon Brokers turn positive as banks fuel STI rally
      525 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy A LAST-MINUTE sell-down of Singapore Press Holdings cut the gain posted by the Straits Times Index yesterday, leaving it with a modest 21.48-point rise at 1,688.41. Banks were the main index movers, and thanks to the momentum
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      Lock icon US$ retreats from overnight highs
      604 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES South African rand soars, helping to temper pullbacks by Australian, NZ currencies larry wee AHEAD of an extended weekend break for Thanksgiving in the US, the greenback backed down from overnight highs, which in turn were reached after an upward revision in
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    • BROKERS' TAKE
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        Lock icon Ipco chairman adds to hoklng
        86 6 SANDI Gunawan Ho, Ipco International's recently appointed non-executive chairman, yesterday bought 800,000 shares at 13 cents each in the construction and infrastructure group. The open market purchase raised his direct shareholding in the mainboard-listed company to 12 per cent, or 53.1 million shares, from 7.09
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        Lock icon Sinwa major shareholder ups stake
        116 6 THE controlling shareholder of marine logistics group Sinwa KS has raised its stake following purchases of a total 0f380,000 shares on Nov 21 and 24. The shares were bought on the open market at prices between 35.62 cents and 36.5 cents., This raised Evenstar's direct
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        Lock icon CapttaLand director picks up shares
        62 6 ONE of Capita Land's independent directors, Andrew Robert Fowell Buxton, on Nov 24 bought 50,000 shares in the Temasek-linked property group at $1.53 per share from the open market He did not own any shares before this purchase. Capita Land, which hit a 52-week high
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        Lock icon Trades at Thai Prime Find
        111 6  -  Compiled by SERENA NG THINLY traded Thai Prime Fund, which last week announced plans to convert into an open-end fund, saw substantial shareholder Carrousel Fund Ltd buying 200,000 shares on the open market on Nov 21 while Deutsche Bank sold 200,000 shares thesame day. Carrousel
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  • BLUE chips
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      Lock icon Non-Astra units, though small, are key to CCL
      942 7  -  They provide ballast to the risky Indon market, says WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG F shareholders give the nod to- day, Cycle Car- riage Ltd (CCL) will be renamed Jardine Cycle Carriage. The name change, albelt only at the holding group
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      822 7 GP Batteries International Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Announcement of Second Quarter Financial Statement The Board of Directors of GP Batteries International Limited is pleased to announce the unaudited financial statement of the Group for the second quarter ended 30 September 2003 as set out below: The Group
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    7 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS SEltteSttSSSeiL** Hy, »~rnjm ft*'***.,
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon Seychelles native tiptoes on stilts
      596 10  -  GARDENER'S log By Thien UNLIKE a tottering busker on stilts, Nature has made the so-called Stilt Palm as steady as a rock. This is because in its natural habitat, the Verschaffeltia splendida, originally from the Seychelles, grows on steep forested hillsides and at high altitudes,
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      Lock icon Ananda Travel owner sells home at auction
      277 10  -  Dalvey Rd good class bungalow fetches $8.5m or $460 psf of land for Chan Yeuk Pun By Andrea Tan ANANDA Travel boss Chan Yeuk Pun's good class bungalow in Dalvey Road has been sold at an auction. The two-storey house with a swimming
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      Lock icon Sales of pricey homes in California rise 58% in Q3
      229 10 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] A record number of million-dol-lar homes were sold in California in the third-quarter, as property prices soared and well-t(Mlo buyers took advantage of still reasonably low mortgage rates, according to data released on Tuesday. Sales of the
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Citibank launches 2 new services to widen online reach
      251 11 CITIBANK hopes to boost adoption of its online services with a mobile team of advisers to provide help at customers' doorsteps a move aimed at evening the odds for a foreign bank with just four branches. "As a foreign bank we
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      Lock icon Market for Asia-Pac hotels looks brightest since 2000
      490 11  -  Good prospects driving yield expectations to record low: survey By Kalpana Rashiwala HOTEL trading expectations in the short-term in Asia-Pacific are the most positive since Sept 2000, according to the latest survey of the world's 2,000 largest investors and owners of tourism
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Beijing warns Taipei: enough is enough
      736 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION frank ching AFTER months of growing disquiet during which it watched Taiwan's leader Chen Shui-bian and his allies propose a slew of sensitive actions from which will emerge a new country, Beijing has made it clear that it will not
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      53 12 'Don't cut deals behind my back in the middle of the night and call me the next morning and expect not to be criticised.' -Hiat Spiter,the New York State attorney-general. He was referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission's settlement with Putnam Investments over fund-trading abuses arranged
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      Lock icon Reducing conflicts of interest
      618 12 EDITORIAL PROM Dec 1,stockbroking in Singapore will undergo a quiet but significant change. New Singapore Exchange (SGX) rules will come into effect, requiring brokers to minimise conflicts of interest Research sections will have to be clearly separated from the rest of the business, while broking houses
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      Lock icon So, whose bra is China stealing anyway?
      918 12  -  It's certainly not true that, as Washington claims, Chinese exporters are using unjust state subsidies and an undervalued yuan to drive US bra makers out of business By Andy Mukherjee Bloomberg BEFORE China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001, how
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      Lock icon Refuting the cynics
      513 12  -  COMMENTARY Things are getting better in the US, not worse By David Brooks NYT THE Economist magazine recently observed that in the 40 years following World War n, "America and Europe seemed to be growing more like one another in almost every way that matters". Demographically, economically
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      227 12 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD lar means d( ventilat)OM6) 13 Inexperienced driver one given reprimand for causing 16 The limit, for example, of 20 Key agreement for viewers 28 possibly ex--30 Man getting excited about the music (6) be put sideways (7) Actom: 1 Long division, 9 Esto--31 The chump, to break In
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Filipino businessmen draft blueprint for next president
      545 14  -  Panel to flesh out read map tor ailing economy amid security concerns From Al Labita in Manila PHILIPPINE business leaders met yesterday to craft a "road map" for the first 100 days for whoever emerges as the next president In the May national
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      Lock icon Philippine movie star joins race for president
      397 14 MANILA Fernando Poe Jr wants same support shown to Estrada 5 year ago Bloomberg PHILIPPINE movie star Fernando Poe Jr said he would run for president, betting he can mobilise the same support from the poor that carried fellow screen idol and now-jailed
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      Lock icon AirAsia Aviation to name MD as chief exec: source
      361 14 BANGKOK BUDGET airline Air Asia Aviation is expected to appoint director Tassaphol Belaweld as its chief executive shortly. The Nation reported, citing a source doee to the company. The source said Mr Tassaphol, recently appointed as mapaghig director, will also hold
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      Lock icon HK report makes case for a third runway
      439 15 HONG KONG Two existing runways will be saturated by 2020 HONG KONG needs to make significant investments in its transport infrastructure including possibly building a third runway at Chek Lap Kok airport—to deal with a growing economy and regional competition, the South
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      Lock icon China's Cabinet pushes for bank reforms
      485 15 BEIJING Move is meant to prepare banks for competition from foreign lenders Reuters CHINA has set up a cabinet- level group to push reforms A of top state-owned banks, including plans to inject capi»tal to help them float shares, *and prepare them for greater
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon TPI Polene price manipulation probe
        122 15 Bloomberg, AFP {BANGKOK] Thai stock regulators are probing possible price manipulation ofTPI Polene Pel shares, said PrasarnTrairatvorakul, secretary general of the Securities am! Exchange Commission. "We are investigating," he told reporters. "The investigation will be completed very soon." TPI Polene shares rose as high as
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        Lock icon Top Thai beer maker plans IPO
        118 15 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Beverages PCL, the country's top maker of beer and whisky, plans to launch an initial public offering in the first quarter of next year, one of the offer's advisers said yesterday. "The group is in the process of reorganising and we
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        Lock icon HK says no grounds to prosecute case
        114 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong government said yesterday there was no substance to a report that lawyers had advised the Justice Department there were sufficient grounds to prosecute former financial chief Antony Leung. The South China Morning Post, citing unidentified sources, said
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        Lock icon More research disolosure wanted
        73 15 Reuters [HONGKONG] Less than 15 per cent of Hong Kong investors believe analysts and their firms provide sufficient disclosure of potential conflicts of interests between research and investment banking, the markets regulator said on Tuesday. The territory's Securities and Futures Commission, which polled 361 Individual and
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      Lock icon China Resources to set up country's first listed property trust
      232 15 BEIJING It'll group 20b yuan of property in HK, China and Thailand Bloomberg CHINA Resources Holdings, a holding company controlled by China's Commerce Ministry, said it plans to form the mainland's first listed property trust by pooling 20 billion yuan
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      456 16 Entertainer dipping into assets to pay off US$200m debt AFP [WASHINGTON] Besieged by myriad lawsuits and a fabulously expensive lifestyle Michael Jackson's advisers recently recommended he limit to US$l million a month, the Gloved One has been borrowing from his
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      364 16 SEOUL Reuters SOUTH Korea's Hynix Semiconductor is set to sign a preliminary deal to sell non-core assets it has valued at around US$6OO million to a fund at Citigroup within a month's time, a source close to the talks said yesterday.
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      203 16 LONDON Report comes amid renewed talk of merger among German banks FT US BANKS eyeing up potential acquisitions in Germany have been told that the government would not stand in the way of any bid for a domestic player, the Financial Times
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      583 17 WASHINGTON Consumer spending holds steady; incomes grow modestly AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP THE US manufacturers saw orders for big-ticket goods go up in October by the largest amount in more than a year, an encouraging sign that the economic recovery was on
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      311 17 NEW YORK Reuters THE earnings express is losing steam. After hefty dou-ble-digit profit gains each quarter this year, the pace of earnings improvement is set to fall off sharply early next year, according to a study on Tuesday by Reuters Research. Operating
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      298 17 NEW YORK NYT THE mutual fund scandal claimed its first corporate casualty on Tuesday when federal banking regulators ordered the shutdown of the Security Trust Co, a key intermediary in the processing of mutual fund trades by pension plans. New York
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      179 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] State and federal prosecutors are investigating an undisclosed arrangement between Citigroup's mutual funds and a vendor that provided transfer-agent services. Thomas Jones, Citigroup Asset Management chairman and chief executive officer, said in a memo to senior managers that an internal investigation
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        72 17 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] The euro region's currentaocooat surptais widened to a 10-month high in September; boosted by a record trade swytna, the European Central Bank said. Tlie current account sorptts rose to 7.7 bfflkM euros (5515.7 billion), adjusted** seasonal swings, from a revised 2.7 billion euros
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        61 17 Beckers (LONDON] Britain moved yesterday to tigftten accounting standards by giving regulators greater powers to investigate firms and forcing directors feo state that they have not withheld information from auditors. Keen to avoid an Eaton-type scmwMfe Britain, the government also said tax authorities would be
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        100 17 Reuters [SANTA ANA, California] A California jodge on Tuesday delayed for a second day a hearing for anew trial in the wllfeiy watered contract dispalebetween FlpTtmnirs IntpmaHnnal and TWkman Pqrtftyr Tqc as negotiations continued on a possible settlement Orange Country Superior Court Judge Gregory
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        53 17 Reuters [SYDNEY] Ite Australian Competition and Consigner Ctxmnfaskn (ACCC) yesterday opposed Asia-Pacific soft drink bottler Coca-CdaAmatil Lid's plans to buy privately owned juke makerftertUJlj Coca-Cola had been in advanced talks tt)i%derrifi3t up to A*4oo million million). ACCCsiAd#* potential deal was likely to rednm and lead
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      300 18 NYT (LOS ANGELES] Jeffrey Clarke, a leader of the management that put the operations of HewlettPackard (HP) and Compaq Computer together to the wake of their contentious merger, resigned unexpectedly on Tuesday. Mr Clarke, the former chief financial officer of Compaq,
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      735 19  -  BT exclusive The aim is to make Singapore its global logic IC testing hub, Infineon's Asia-Pacific president Loh Kin Wah tells Raju Chellam Raju Chellam European semicon giant Infineon Technologies AG wants to make Singapore its global testbed for logic ICs (integrated circuits) and
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      356 19  -  By Raju Chellam WHICH company will win the billion-dollar race to build the next generation of chips? The current state of the art is semiconductors made on 130nm (nanometre) technology (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre). The next step is
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      193 19 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO} Worldwide sales of computer servers rose 2 per cent in the the third quarter from a year earlier, driven by demand for machines that use standard microprocessors such as those made by Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc,
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      839 21  -  IT comment INFOTECH Sales have been anaemic,but a growing attraction for non-voice apps bodes well for the PDA market kenneth james Gotta admit it, grown men do behave like kids when they're showing off their latest toys. Spotting Zu, a longtime
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      593 21 It may move two places to become the fifth-biggest PC maker next year Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Acer Inc, Taiwan's biggest maker of personal computers sold under a manufacturer's own brand, forecast a 40 per cent gain in sales next year, helped by a return
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      279 23 Quarantine agents process 3.800 passengers and crew of Star Princess AFP [SYDNEY] Australia's draconian quarantine regime faced one of its biggest challenges ever yesterday with the arrival in Sydney of the megaliner Star Princess and its 3,800 passengers and crew. The Australian Quarantine
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      442 23 City, federal officials keeping public in the dark, they claim NYT I NEW YORK] Frustration that the cause of last month's fatal Staten Island ferry crash remains unexplained boiled over at a City Council hearing on Tuesday, as some council members complained city
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      179 23 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The US Coast Guard said a tanker carrying Russian fuel is undergoing repairs after being denied entry to New York harbour for a second time. The vessel, the Liberianflagged Kapitan Koziar, was prevented from entering last Friday after failing
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      355 23  -  Recent spate of regional attacks heightens fears if maritime disaster By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Seven armed pirates boarded and robbed a tanker just outside Singapore's eastern port limits last week in one of the closest incidents on recent record. Wielding long
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      208 23 [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has sold a US office building in Jersey City for a higher-than-expected US$24 million in the latest divestment of its non-shipping and logistics assets. The sale will add US$5.3 million to NOL's FY2003 bottom line, made up of
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      762 24  -  NEWBUILDS By David Hughes IF you ask those in the classification societies who know about such things as whether there is an absolutely solid case for making double hulls mandatory for bulk carriers the answer is usually, "No". Ask the same people whether there is any
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        821 29 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rtne OU Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        470 30 Domestic carrier to compete with Virgin Blue, which has 30% of market Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Qantas Airways, Australia's biggest airline, said its new domestic discount carrier would be based in Melbourne and would offer cheaper fares (han rival Virgin Blue Holdings. iv The name
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        326 30 Most are current employees, accused of smuggling cocaine and marijuana LAT-WP (NEW YORK] A massive narcotics smuggling operation that exploited airport security measures was broken up on Tuesday with the arrest of 25 people, mostly current or former employees at John F
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        208 30 Bloomberg [TEL AVIV] Deutsche Lufthansa, Europe's third-big-gest airline, and three other foreign carriers are being asked by Israel's Civil Aviation Administration to reduce the number of flights serving the country. Lufthansa, based in Cologne, Germany, is carrying more passengers than the
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        396 30 That's credit for 22 more years than he actually worked with the company NYT [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines chief executive Leo Mullin worked at the company six years and eight months, but that's not the way it will look when he
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        215 30 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Belgium's regional Walloon region, which controls Ryanair's Charleroi hub that is the subject of a EU (European Union) state aid probe, has asked Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt to plead its case with the Commission. The European Commission is completing a state
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        386 30 C$650m plan offers greater chance of success than Cerberus offer: CFO Bloomberg [CALGARY] Air Canada, the country's biggest airline, said it has applied for approval of an investment plan in the insolvent carrier by Victor Li, a son of Hong Kong billionaire
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        241 30 Reuters [ZURICH] Indebted flag carrier Swiss International Air Lines is still in negotiations with creditors over a key financing package, its chief executive said, adding he was confident a deal would be reached. Chief executive Andre Dose told Swiss television DRS on
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        144 30 AP [PORT WORTH, Texas] The parent of American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, has told federal securities regulators it could issue up to US$3 billion in additional stock and debt. AMR Corp, which narrowly avoided bankruptcy this year, filed a shelf registration with the
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          68 30 AFP [BEIJING] China Eastern Airlines will launch regular flights between Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province to Siem Reap in Cambodia and to Osaka In Japan from December this year, state media said yesterday. Flights to Cambodia will be bi-weekly on Tuesday and
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          74 30 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways said it would start flying to Algeria in January, joining a growing number of airlines flying to the oil azid gas rich North African country as rebel violence falls. BA said it would launch its new service to the
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