The Business Times, 15 January 2004

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  • 17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAP ORE MiTA (P) 024/03/2003 es.; I Mtn Dusiness-times.asial .com.sg THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2004
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  • 680 1  -  Extra player will put downward pressure on fees: Cheow Tong By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The government is inviting bids for a third ground handling operator at the award-win-ning Changi Airport in a move aimed at enhancing Singapore's competitiveness as an aviation
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  • 605 1  -  BT exclusive It will offer a world-class service at wholesale prices By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Global financial services group Morgan Stanley is looking at providing privately-managed pension plans (PPPs) in Singapore, even as some fund managers here appear cool
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  • 74 1 FOREX RATES uss S$ US$ (SS per USS) 1693 S(1'SS/SS per 1.842 3.118 EUROflS$/S$/E). Ii70 1160 YEN 106.2 6170 RM 3.800 1244 HKS 7.764 4.585 BAHT 3858 23.02 RIPIAH 8.332 4.920 RENMINBI 8.299 4.901 INDIAN Rl'PEE 4540 2681 AS 1188 0761 NZ$ 1.468 0.867 nHMCRATES SINGAPORE 525 MALAYSIA 600
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  • 1081 1  -  BT exclusive Capital Tower, Six Battery Road, Robinson Point among likely trust candidates By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Capita Land is working towards spinning off an office real estate investment trust, or Reit, in the First half of this year, sources say. The
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    • 511 2  -  More flexible exchange rates will boost bond market: US economist By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] The best thing Asian governments can do to develop a regional bond market is to make their exchange rates more flexible, a prominent economist said yesterday. Barry Eichengreen, professor
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    • 66 2 IN yesterday's report, "100,000 new jobs needed to freeze jobless rate", we quoted Associate Professor Hui Weng Tat of the NUS as saying that the resident population of Singapore was 2.7 million at end-June 2003. The Department of Statistics has pointed out that the figure was for the resident
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    • 485 2  -  Next round of negotiations scheduled for February in S'pore From Serena Ng in New Delhi Although India's general election, likely to be held by April, might delay the conclusion of the proposed Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) between the two countries,
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    • 443 2 LATEST US DATA Exports surge 2.9%, helped by a falling dollar and stronger global economic growth Bloomberg Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US trade deficit shrank to US$3B billion in November, the narrowest in 13 months, after exports climbed to a three-year high. Shipments to
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 459 3  -  Aman Mehta is latest retired foreign banker to join a Temasek unit By Taila Krishnakumar ANOTHER retired foreign banker has joined a Tema-sek-linked company. Hotel operator Raffles Holdings announced yesterday that it has roped in Aman Mehta as a non-exec-utive independent director, boosting
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    • 581 3  -  OGBC warrants see strong interest on trading debut By Joyce Koh IT is no surprise that interest in call warrants is red-hot right now. The four warrants issued by DBS Bank which have commenced trading UOB, Sing Tel, STI and OCBC are all above
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    • 664 3  -  HOCK lock siew joyce koh A FAMILIAR face in the initial public offerings market, SBI E2-Capital has crossed over to being the star of its own show, with an IPO launch on Monday. But there's a danger that its bright performance so far
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    • 689 4  -  Sars outbreak, Iraq war took a big chunk out of profits, analysts say By Vince Chong DEVELOPERS' earnings for financial year 2008 are expected to fall back to earth after a good showing the previous year, when buying was fuelled
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    • 554 4 Reuters SINGAPORE Exchange Ltd (SGX), South-east Asia's biggest bourse, is expected to say today that its quarterly net profit more than doubled thanks to healthy stock market trading volumes. SGX's earnings growth in the second half of its fiscal year ending this June
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    • 568 4 Trend will continue in Q1 for Chartered, Stats and Venture Reuters STRONG demand for laptop computers and mobile phones with cameras is set to give Singapore's electronics suppliers a lift when they report fourth-quarter results, analysts said. The trend
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    • 191 4 Bloomberg SHARES of Creative Technology Ltd, the maker of Nomad digital music players, rose above $20 for the first time since May 2002 on optimism about new products showcased at a trade show in the United States. Creative shares closed 80 cents, or 4.1
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 50 5 ACTION Asia Ltd, a manufacturer of mobile audio and video entertainment products, said its public offer tranche of 10 million shares at 31 cents each was 94.2 times subscribed. Its total invitation of 100 million shares—which includes 24 million vendor shares—was 10.4 times subscribed.
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      • 77 5 CENTREPOINT Properties Ltd, the property arm of Fraser Neave, has sold $180 million in three-year notes to part refinance an existing $250 million issue due today, Dow Jones reported yesterday. F&N first announced the new issue on Dec 30,2003, as part of Centrepoint's $1.1 billion medium-term
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      • 45 5 ELECTRONICS retailer Challenger Technologies closed at 30 cents yesterday on its Sesdaq trading debut, a 30.4 per cent or seven cent premium against its 23-cent offer price. It was the second most traded counter yesterday, with 76.7 million shares traded.
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      • 93 5 KUA Phek Long, who owns Euro Asia Realty, ceased to be a substantial shareholder of listed residential property developer SC Global Developments yesterday with the completion of a share sale to SC Global chief executive Simon Cheong. Mr Kua, who previously had a combined
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      • 70 5 INSURANCE giant Great Eastern Holdings said former OCBC veteran Ooi Sin Teik (right) resigned as director on Jan 12 from the company and its wholly-owned insurance subsidiaries, Great Eastern Life Assurance Company and Overseas Assurance Corporation. No reason was given. In September last year,
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      • 79 5 JURONG Engineering said its stake in associate Japan Asia Securities Group was diluted to 10.72 per cent from 17.47 per cent due to the enlarged capital of Japan Asia Securities arising from loans-to-shares conversions. Tycoon Oei Hong Leong had been accumulating Jurong Engineering shares
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      • 23 5 PARKWAY Holdings said its disposal of a 37 per cent stake in Lee Hing Development was completed yesterday.
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      • 91 5 ST TELEMEDIA is merging some of its subsidiaries to create a single more sizeable telecoms solutions provider, said CNA. It has integrated ST Sun Page and ST Mobile Data into Tele Choice International. ST Telemedia says the senior management and employees of all three companies will
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    • 266 5 EXCELPOINT Technology Ltd, which recently made an explosive trading debut on the Singapore bourse, has, through two subsidiaries, secured distribution rights for Fujitsu's semiconductor products. The agreements, for an indefinite period of time, were signed last week by Excelpoint Systems (Pte) Ltd
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    • 356 5  -  Two of its three new units have China or Asia-Pac in their names By Andrea Tan COULD Tung Lok's Andrew Tjioe be looking at expanding into China and the rest of the Asia-Pacific? The Chinese restaurant chain has set up three subsidiaries, two
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    • 309 5  -  Test handlers order will generate US$17m in revenue By Chen Huifen AEM-Evertech Holdings said yesterday that it has received new orders that are expected to generate about US$l7 million in revenue for its FY2004. The orders, for test handlers, have been received through its wholly-owned subsidiary
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      489 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN fhliWliroh^Ud^gel. .'gß are lowering our FYO6 core earnings estimates for Cheung Woh due to jp i discontinuation of production of In (hart disk drive) covers expected tn H2FK Despite the revenue loss wit wißftsult from this, margin* are improve with higher production o&CM (voice
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    • 274 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan WITH the market set to launch into another liquidity-driven rally, the hunt is on once more for situational second-liners and speculative small-caps. But when the initial euphoria dies down and the market's recovery enters a more mature phase,
      Source: Bloomberg  -  274 words
    • 519 6  -  BT exclusive STOCKS r. sivanithy HECTIC trading of IPOs and second-lin-ers, a desperate search for new themes, volatility in all segments including blue chips and a decoupling from Wall Street. These were the hallmarks of the local market during its May-October 2003 heyday.
      Source: Bloomberg  -  519 words
    • 590 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar staged a nice rally against its most favoured counterparts yesterday despite Wall Street's dip overnight with the euro taking a noticeable amount of heat. Players attributed that to more urgent European complaints about the
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
      • 73 6 YONGNAM Holdings non-executive director Tan Tin Nam sold 1.1 million shares of the debt-laden engineering service provider on Tuesday at 3.5 cents apiece, for a total $38,500. The director's direct interest in the company is now 5.14 per cent, down from 5.39 per cent previously.
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      • 83 6 WASTE-WATER treatment company Eco Water's non-executive director Lim Kwee Gee sold seven million shares, or 6.94 per cent of the company's issued share capital, at 35 cents apiece in a married deal yesterday. Shares of Eco Water, which listed last year, have been trading
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      • 85 6 JARDINE Matheson Holdings (JMH) says Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong (Holdings) and Hutchison Whampoa had an interest in 20.6 million JMH shares, or 3.36 per cent, as at Jan 12, about nine million shares fewer than on March 7 last year. Shares
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      • 77 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM ALLGREEN Properties' executive chairman Goh Soo Siah sold 600,000 shares in the open market in the past two trading sessions for a total of $714,000, or between $1.18 and $1.21 per share. The sales reduced his deemed and direct stake in
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    • Article, Illustration
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  • BLUE chips
    • 1109 7 Competition from a slew of startup carriers and fears of another Sars outbreak make investors wary of South-east Asia's biggest airline Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd, the sixth-worst performing stock in Singapore in 2003, may have an even rougher ride this year. Competition
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
    • 165 8 THE owners of four semi-de-tached homes have banded together to put their properties in Mountbatten Road up for collective sale. They are hoping a developer will pay about $10 million for the freehold site of 20,624 sq ft. This would work out
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    • 423 8  -  Developer Marco Polo said to have lowered average asking price to about $1,200 psf, from $1,350 psf previously By Kalpana Rashiwala THE luxury Grange Residences has become 10 per cent cheaper, as developer Marco Polo Developments is understood to have lowered its average asking price
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    • 231 8 AFP [BEIJING] China's real estate sector is on the verge of overheating, with total investment in the first 11 months of 2003 up a record high of 32.5 per cent, state media reported yesterday. Investment topped 828.5 billion yuan (*****.6 billion) and steps
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    • 265 8  -  MAIL bag Dr Yu Lai Boon Managing director, Singapore Jones Lang LaSalle I REFER to the report, "Property consultants glad 2003 is over" (BT Weekend, Jan 10-11). Paragraphs 8 and 9 of the report said that "Jones Lang La Salle
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 499 9  -  EYE on the economy exports Analysts polled peg growth at 14.8% compared to IE S'pore's 2-6% figure By Chuang Peck Ming EXPORTS last year probably grew strongly than the government had hoped. Analysts polled yesterday ahead of the release of official figures
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    • 378 9  -  By Chen Huifen CONSUMER confidence in Singapore is showing a strong recovery, going by the results of the latest Masterlndex of consumer confidence. Singapore's score of 65.3 is almost double the 33.9 last une when consumers here Were buffeted by the Iraq war, Sars
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    • 478 9  -  Affected S'poreans should now look to services sector By Daniel Buenas STRUCTURAL unemployment has risen to 3-3.5 per cent of the labour force because the economy is undergoing a restructuring, and is likely to remain at this level in the future. Economists told BT
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    • 312 9 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore is seeking feedback on whether to shorten the insurance's industry's standard 14-day free-look period for investmentlinked insurance policies (ILPs), in line with unit trusts. The proposal is one of several that MAS is consulting industry players on,
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    • 173 9 Bloomberg THE Singapore dollar may rise on expectations of more currency demand after Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's No 2 computer maker, said it plans to invest US$l billion in the city-state over the next five years. The company said on Tuesday that it
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    • 177 9 TWELVE Singaporeans have been put under restriction orders for terrorism-re-lated activities, the government said in a statement yesterday. Ten are members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and two belong to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The restriction orders under the Internal Security Act requires
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 828 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION anthony rowley AS IF being the number one superpower on this planet were not enough for its ambitions, President George W Bush's America seems intent on becoming lord of the universe with its talk of building colonies on
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    • 46 10 'Germany and France wanted to make a point namely that they can't be pushed around by the (European) commission.' Thomas Mayer economist at Deutsche Bank, on why France and Germany flouted rules that cap deficits at 3 per cent of gross domestic product.
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    • 634 10 EDITORIAL IT IS now quite clear that the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS) has fallen well short of its objective of boosting the retirement savings of Singaporeans. It must be hoped that Singaporeans have another chance to get things right with the proposal for privately managed pension
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    • 845 10  -  The truth is that for most Americans, the main sources of job destruction remain domestic: Wal-Mart battering competitors, the dotcom collapse, the business cycle By Robert J Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group AMERICANS are drifting into a global labour market and don't
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    • 784 10  -  COMMENTARY High likelihood of big social unrest in the next 10 years By Andy Mukherjee Bloomberg MANAGEMENT guru Peter Drucker thinks China, the crown prince of the world economy, might miss its coronation. In a faxed response to questions put to him by Bloomberg News
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 434 11  -  Final details to hire overseas-based M'sian banker in the works sources From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THREE merchant banks in Malaysia have been operating without chief executives since last year, but at least one, Alliance Merchant Bank, is now said to have identified
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    • 535 11  -  Share price slips; analysts are split over impact of move From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur INVESTORS have reacted coolly to Malaysian tycoon Quek Leng Chan's plan to re-enter the Hong Kong banking business after an absence of three years. The share
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    • NOTE Book
      • 86 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Shares in Kumpulan Europlus shot up 7 per cent on news it had won a RMI billion (*****.4 million) contract to build a leisure park in central Malaysia. Controlled by Chan Ah Chye, Europlus will jointly develop the 405-hectare Canal City with
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      • 80 11 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China, the world's top steel importer, has slapped hefty import duties on high-grade metal used by the booming auto and shipbuilding sectors, protecting Chinese players. China implemented the tariffs after it concluded that there was dumping of cold-rolled steel by Russia, South
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      • 121 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's armed forces fund expects to complete the purchase of BP Malaysia within half a year at a cost of RM4OO million to RM7OO million (SII7B-312 million), The Star reported yesterday. The deal is likely to be completed in five
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      • 93 11 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Acer Inc said its fourth quarter shipments of notebook PCs nearly doubled to a record 970,000 units. The gain In shipments was strongest in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where growth more than doubled, the company said. Acer said that in the
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      • 93 11 AFP [JAKARTA) Telecoms companies are expected to invest about 15 trillion rupiah (Ss3 billion) in Indonesia this year, most erf it to build mobile telephone networks, an industry association said yesterday. About 70 to 80 per cent of the estimated investment will be to
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    • 392 11 BEIJING Reuters FOREIGN investment in China roared back in December after a recent steep slide, rising more than 34 per cent from a year earlier as investors piled back into one of the fastest-growing major economies. But for all of
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    • 456 12 BEIJING Top two banks get US$41b to clean up balance sheets and get ready for listing Reuters CHINA'S Finance Ministry has given two big state banks US$4l billion in equity it owned to help them clean up their balance sheets, following
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    • 212 12 HONG KONG AP THE Hutchison Whampoa Ltd conglomerate will launch third-generation mobile phone services in Hong Kong within a week, chairman Li Ka-shing said. Mr Li, who is Hong Kong's richest man and heads a conglomerate with interests ranging from ports to telecommunications,
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • REGION world
    • 482 13 SYDNEY Concern over risk control as up to A$180m losses went unnoticed Reuters National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) will struggle to regain investor confidence after rogue trading losses of up to AslBo million (*****.4 million) highlighted severe risk management problems, analysts said yesterday.
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    • 412 13 SYDNEY AFP AP AUSTRALIA'S major communications carrier Telstra was under fire yesterday over an agreement to send 450 jobs to India in one of the largest examples yet of local firms transferring employment to low-wage countries. The part state-owned company described the
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    • 470 13 HANOI Two more suspected cases in Vietnam bring total to 15 AP Reuters THE bird flu that has raced through chicken farms in Asia and killed at least three people in Vietnam could be a bigger problem for the region than
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    • 326 13 WASHINGTON Comments that inflation is mute suggest low interest rates will stay for a while Reuters TOP Federal Reserve officers said on Tuesday recent weak US jobs data was no cause for alarm and inflation remained in check, backing
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  • WORLD news
    • 434 14 SAN FRANCISCO A merger with Cingular would create largest US mobile phone firm Bloomberg SBC Communications Inc and Bell South Corp may create the biggest US mobile phone company by buying AT&T Wireless Services Inc and merging it with their joint venture,
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 71 14 AFP lunited NATiUNSj Tne united states ana unina are leading the way toward a 3.5 per cent surge in world economic growth expected this year, the United Nations said yesterday. After setbacks caused by the Sars crisis and the war on Iraq, national economies
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      • 62 14 Reuters IWASHiNUTUNJ Tne us supreme uourt on mesaay rejected a consumer lawsuit against regional telephone company Verizon Communications that could have exposed phone companies to triple-damage lawsuits. The unanimous decision reversed a US appeals court ruling that could have let consumers sue regional phone companies
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      • 65 14 Abbey National re shuffles 1,300 jobs Reuters [LONDON] British banking group Abbey National pic said yesterday that it was accelerating its programme to move operations offshore, shifting 400 UK jobs to India as part of a strategic overhaul. Britain's second-biggest mortgage lender also said it would close its Edinburgh life
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    • 389 14 WASHINGTON Brokerages may have steered clients towards certain funds for fees AP FEDERAL regulators are investigating numerous cases in which brokerage firms may have failed to fully disclose that they steered clients toward certain mutual funds in exchange for payments from those fund
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    • 229 14 AFP Reuters [MILAN] Investigators here are probing the role that US banking giant Citigroup may have played in the alleged irregularities at the collapsed Italian food group Parmalat, newspapers reported yesterday. Citing judicial sources, Italian daily Corriere del la Sera said prosecutors here were trying
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    • 318 14 NEW YORK Reuters Bloomberg THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to investigate an overbooking of reserves by Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the Wall Street Journal said yesterday. Last week. Shell, the world's second-largest oil producer, said it erroneously overbooked reserves
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    • 579 15 WASHINGTON Economic conditions have improved, say 88% of CEOs in Q4 survey, compared with 60% in Q3 Bloomberg Reuters US chief executive officers' confidence in the economy held close to the highest in 11 years, with more business leaders saying current economic
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • BizIT
    • 839 16  -  Boosting its Singapore presence, it opens a new showroom and proof-of-concept centre and launches eight new products. Raju Chellam reports Raju Chellam JAPANESE giant Brother International Corp is betting on the broad economic recovery to boost both its mindshare and marketshare across the
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    • 464 16 Countries to share Net bandwidth and software AP [HYDERABAD, India] Technology ministers ended a summit on Tuesday by pledging to pool their resources to beef up computer and Internet usage as a way to end poverty, illiteracy and other social ills in
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    • 759 16  -  IT comment INFOTECH However Microsoft reacts to IBM's Linux desktop challenge, there will be one clear winner kenneth james WATCH out, Windows world. An internal memo from IBM's top brass in November has lighted a slow fuse that could, in less than two
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    • 453 16 AFP [BEIJING] Some US$l.l billion of telecoms equipment bought amid fanfare by a high-profile Chinese purchasing group in Washington will largely be made by China-based factories, officials said yesterday. According to the agreements, Motorola Inc will supply telecoms equipment to
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 657 17  -  Total handling volume including S'pore operations hit 28.5 million TEUs last year By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation's overseas volumes ballooned 35 per cent in 2003 to surpass the 10 million TEU mark, bringing its overall handling result to 28.5 million TEUs
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    • 188 17 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China Merchants Holdings (International) Co, the port and tollroad operating arm of China's communications ministry, signed a contract to invest 1.63 billion yuan (*****.5 million) in a port in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo. China Merchants will
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    • PORT Shots
      • 101 17 [SINGAPORE] The Yemen Ports Authority will extend the free storage period for container cargo at the Ma'alla container terminal at the port of Aden from seven days to 10. The move was made in "accordance with the recommendations brought forward by some customers of
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      • 78 17 [SINGAPORE] Smit Internationale NV will sell its 50 per cent interest in Belgium's leading Westerscheldt River towage and salvage company Unie van Redding-en Sleepdienst (URS), to Fairplay Towage Hamburg. Smit said the sale was due to its "disproportional" exposure to the Dutch and
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    • 342 17 But main HK port handled 1.5% more goods last year Reuters [HONG KONG] Container traffic through Hong Kong's main port facilities in Kwai Chung fell for the seventh straight month in December amid rising competition from the cheaper Shenzhen port in south
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    • 90 17 AP [CAPE TOWN, South Africa] Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Naess Jr fell to his death while climbing in the mountains near Cape Town, police said yesterday. Mr Naess, 66, and former husband of American soul singer Diana Ross, was climbing in the Groot Drak enstein mountains
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    • 308 17  -  They're eyeing joint service between Australia and Asia By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore's two biggest container shipping lines, APL and Pacific International Lines (PIL) are in talks to team up with Zim Israel Navigation in a joint venture service linking Australia and
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    • MAR tech
      • 1132 18  -  The main aim of advances in maritime technology is to help man reap the vast wealth of the seas for generations to come, notes Choo Chian Beng Choo Chiau Beng IN the days when ships were made of wood and by men of steel there
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    • 6656 22 thebusinesstimes EXPORT ETA ETA Advartlsar VniiI Voyaga T*apnooa ETA ETA Advartlsar V*»a«a Talaphona SIN Dast'n Nam* Nam* Numbar Numbar SIN Dast'n Nam. Nam. Numbar Numoar 14/02 01/03 Daimas TOCO STAR 011W 4543J***** Tb ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cat* 0*1 voir* 23/91 01/03 CMACGM CM A COM KALAMATA SXM1W *****578*
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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      • 1542 23 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Nine Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACXULAC 061S 061S 1 1801/2004-1500 1901/2004Q700 ACX MARGUSM 026N Q26N 1 1801/2004-2200 1901/2004-1000 ALFAItAHPI Q77W Q77W 1 1701/2004-1700 1801/*****500 ALMUTAMABBI C269E C269E 1 1701/2004-1900 1801/*****800 ALAMJAYA2 8878N 8878N 1 17/01/*****5:00
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      • 155 23 Jan 19 United States: Martin Luthei Birthday. Jan 22 Brunei: Lunar New Year. China: Lunar New Year. Malaysia: Lunar New Year. South Korea: Lunar Holiday. Taiwan: Lunar New Year. Vietnam: Lunar New Year. Singapore: Lunar New Year. Indonesia: Chinese New Year. Thailand: Chinese New Year. Jan 23 China:
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      • 819 23 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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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 597 24 Critics slam identity checking system as an infringement on personal liberty AFP [WASHINGTON] The US authorities are to classify all passengers boarding a plane at a US airport according to a risk scale, sparking the anger of rights advocates. The latest
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      • 236 24 Bloomberg [PARIS] Airbus, the world's largest planetnaker, will begin test flights of its 555-seat A3BO in March 2005, a year before the plane enters service with Singapore Airlines, said France's transport minister. Gilles de Robien, in a briefing to journalists forecasting developments
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      • 189 24 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China Southern Airlines, the country's largest carrier, said it carried 4.8 per cent fewer passengers last year than in 2002. The airline, based in Guangzhou, southern China, carried 20 million passengers in 2003, down from 21 million in 2002, it said in a
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      • LOG Book
        • 132 24 AFP [BEIJING] China's flagship carrier Air China announced yesterday that it made a profit of 93 million yuan (5518.9 million) in 2003, swinging from a 1.92 billion yuan loss in the first half of the year. The company said that it would target profits
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        • 87 24 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Boeing 737 remained the company's best-selling commercial airplane last year, propelled by strong demand from the world's low-cost airlines, the company said on Tuesday. It said the Next-Generation 737 models accounted for 86 per cent of the 239 Boeing commercial
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        • 81 24 Bloomberg [MONTREAL] Air Canada, a near bankrupt airline which may be taken over by Hong Kong businessman Victor Li, said it has received Cs3oo million (***** million) of credit from GE Capital Canada to help it pay for aircraft leases. The credit from GE, a
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        • 91 24 Reuters [FRANKFURT] German airport operator Fraport AG yesterday said it had met its profit goal for 2003 and said December passengers at its Frankfurt hub reached a new record high. "Fraport also met the forecast for its 2003 annual financial results, despite the many negative
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        • 78 24 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines System Corp and All Nippon Airways Co, the country's two biggest carriers, said they cancelled at least 190 flights to and from Sapporo and other northern Japanese destinations because of heavy snow. Japan Airlines System said its Japan Airlines unit
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      • 140 24 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand and China agreed to allow airlines of both countries to fly unlimited passenger and cargo services between destinations in either country to boost commerce and tourism. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said. "The agreement will benefit both countries," Mr Thaksin told reporters
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      • 277 24 AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific Airways plans to buy nine new wide-body Airbus or Boeing aircraft worth about US$l.O- billion, the airline's chief executive David Turnbull said. "I want the airline to be bigger, a lot bigger and
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      • 382 24 AP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's government hasn't ruled out repeating last year's historic charter flights to China during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, but industry sources said on Tuesday it would be virtually impossible to offer the service this year. The charter
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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