The Business Times, 19 March 2004

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  • 15 1 M JTAJf£fIQ4/Q3/2004 850 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2004
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  • 815 1  -  Late tycoon kept under wraps shares in Goodwood, Hotel M'sia, Central Prop By Stow Li Sen, Vince Chang [SINGAPORE] Khoo Teck Puat died last month but his past actions continue to reverberate for his family. Yesterday, trustees of the late tycoon's estate
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  • 79 1 Dsn 1,835.18 (+1.61) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,840.00 (-2.00) MSIMSCI U 221.78 (+0.03) SIMSCI FUTURES 221.90 (-0.50) Thursday Change KLSE COMP .901.47 +11.33 NIKKEI 225 11.484.28 +47.42 HANG SENG 12X16.19 -159.53 SET INDEX 687.19 +12.78 JAKARTA COMP _733.57 +2.99 MANILA COMP 1.448.06 +16.42 TAIPEI WPI 6,787.03 +209.05 SEOUL OOMP 872X2
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  • 76 1 FOREX RATES US* SS L'SS (SS per I'SS) 1.693 £(i;S$/S$ per St) 1.826 3.090 ElRO(L'SS/SS/E). 1.227 2.077 YEN 107.1 63.30 RM 3.800 2.245 HKS 7.792 4.603 BAHT 39.48 23.32 Rl'PIAH 8,550 5,051 RENMINBI 8.299 4.902 INDIAN R( PEE 45.24 26.72 AS 1.343 0.794 NZS 1.531 0.905 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE
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  • 633 1  -  YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT More jobs expected in services, less in manufacturing By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] The labour market turned the corner in the final quarter of 2003 and things are looking better this year but jobs still won't come so easily
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  • 659 1  -  Findings also debunk several widely-held views about Net banking BT exclusive By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Think that the young and IT savvy are the dominant online banking customers? Or that rich, private banking customers don't use Internet banking? Well, think again. A survey
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    • ON THE grapevine
    • 415 2 LATEST US DATA This is first time in a year that the index has not risen Bloomberg AP [NEW YORK] The index of leading US economic indicators for February was unchanged, the first time it has not risen since March 2003, slowed
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    • 41 2 IN the article "Offices: signs of an uptick?" in yesterday's property supplement, Capital Square was included in the Capita Commercial Trust portfolio. Colliers, which contributed the article, has since pointed out that the trust owns Capital Tower, not Capital Square.
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    • 480 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Falling trend in liquidations is expected to continue this year By Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] The double whammy of Sars and the Iraq war is enough to shake even the strongest of companies, but, surprisingly, the number
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    • 686 2 Losses from phone ops wipe out gains from ports, retailing, property Reuters Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Billionaire Li Ka-shing's love affair with telecoms and 3G technology continues to cost him dearly. Earnings at his Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, the biggest Asian investor in European mobile-phone networks,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 573 3  -  Rowsley's shares surge in heavy trading, prompting SGX query By Serena Ng LOSS-MAKING investment company Rowsley Ltd, which received a $2 million shot in the arm recently from its single-largest shareholder Peter Lim, has become a substantial shareholder of United Pulp and Paper
      Source: Bloomberg  -  573 words
    • 723 3  -  HOCK lock siew wong wei kong ARE stock options going out of fashion? Yesterday, it was reported that DBS Bank chief executive Jackson Tai was granted only 38,000 stock options in 2003, a sharp drop from 100,000 in 2002. The bank explained
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    • 260 4 49% sales growth in 2003 helps it regain global third position Bloomberg CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing regained its position as the world's third-largest provider of made-to-order semiconductors, overtaking International Business Machines Corp (IBM), a market researcher said. Singapore-based Chartered had sales growth in 2003
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    • 463 4  -  Married deals of substantial shareholder spark speculation By Serena Ng ARE rising crude oil prices the only factor driving up the share price of oil and gas company Interra Resources? Living up to the former Van der Horst's "Wonder Horse" reputation,
      Source: Bloomberg  -  463 words
    • 289 4 Bloomberg RAFFLES Holdings Ltd, the Singapore-based owner of the L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills, and Kingdom Holding Co, owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, may open hotels in Eastern Europe to benefit from economic growth in the region. Raffles is
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    • 277 4  -  By Serena Ng LKN-Primefield's auditors yesterday said they have been unable to form an opinion on the investment holding group's financial statements and are unsure if the company can continue as a going concern. LKN incurred net losses of $23.6 million for the year
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    • COMPANYBriefs
    • 465 6  -  It aims for ODM business to be at least 75% of revenue From Joyce Koh in Shanghai GES International took its plans to be a leading original design and manufacturing (ODM) player one step further with the opening of its fourth and largest plant
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    • 418 6  -  By Loh Hui Yin APPAREL manufacturer Ocean Sky International may not have any business in Thailand at present, but a proposed free trade agreement between Bangkok and Washington has set it thinking. After all, the US is the main export market for Singapore's textile and
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    • 327 3 URGENT AUCTION VALUABLE SEIZED MERCHANDISE High Value Bank Collateral Assets impounded under Preventive Dletraint in enforcement of Court Injunction ordered to be sold by Major International Bank in the exercise of a lien against a very substantial unpaid loan to a leading Persian carpet wholesaler together with other outstanding consignments/additions
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    • 378 4 AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE j\ Tenor Approximately 5 years Total Amount Allotted SGD 1,300,000,000 < Amount Allotted to 1 > Non-Competitive Applications SGD 74,445,000 ~~MMB which allotted to MAS IS Total Amount Applied 5C1tf2,147,695,000 Y aitoM j Coupon Rate 4.375% pea> >$«»., %M*< Cut-off Yield Price 2.10% p.a. and mm on
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    1071 6 Transaction date: Mar 18 i i in" ivi ~i mm atTEEBAMI CROSS RATES AS C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind »s Rupiih Yen Won RM H2$ Pit Bs Peso 5$ Band Sfr NTS Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.997 6.177 0.607 5.800 33.672 63.642 0.797 8.633 2.829 1.140 42.778 41.886 1.260
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  • 1590 6 8IC0M FUTURES Maris RUBBER Futures (Closing prim) RSS1 (S cents/kq) CiOU Volume Opt* Mont* Hlgft LOW Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 04 *7 1 226.50 1 May 04 227.75 Jun04 ***** Jul/Sep 04 ***** Oct/Dcc 04 ***** Jan/Mar 05 ***** RSS 3 (US ccntsAq} VoiMM Opto Month High Low Sett
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  • PERSONAL finance
    • 1493 7  -  To find out where your financial adviser's focus is, take a close look at how he is compensated By Christopher Tan EVER walked along the streets and be stopped by someone promising you free air tickets, if you just attend a 1 V 4 -hour talk?
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • Article, Illustration
      548 8  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN Singapore Post 11,,, li Ifl nln.jnm Tfl iiimli marcn lo ctosmg: cents WE are reiterating our BUY call on SingPost. Despite its strong performance recently (up 17 per cent since Jan 2004), the stock is still a compelling buy in view of the prospect
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    • 317 8  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan MEDIA giant Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) is seen by many market players as a major beneficiary of a proposed initial public offering by mobile telephony services and cable TV company Starhub. Star Hub is
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    • 587 8  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy MARKET conditioning is a hard thing to shake, especially when that conditioning involves widespread pain and heightened scepticism brought on by steep recent falls. This was amply demonstrated yesterday, when trading was perhaps not surprisingly less bullish than
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    • 588 8  -  BT comment CURRENCIES A$ caught between A$/yen sales and commodity price explosion larry wee FAST—RECEDING intervention fears found the US dollar aggressively sold down to its lowest levels in a month against the surging Japanese yen in Asian trading yesterday. The greenback was first hammered
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
      • 112 8 CHEW Eu Hock, an executive director of Wee Poh Holdings, on March 17 sold 50 million shares in a married deal at 1.8 cents apiece. The sale of the 2.38 per cent stake reduced his direct shareholding in the construction group to
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      • 67 8 BROKING group Kim Eng Holdings' executive director Ong Seng Gee (right) yesterday acquired 100,000 shares from the open market through Wise Elite Investments at around $1.26 per share. The purchase raised his deemed shareholding in Kim Eng to 0.8 per cent, or 4.83 million shares.
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      • 63 8 THE managing director of CSE Global, Tan Mok Koon, yesterday bought 100,000 shares from the open market at 68.5 cents apiece. The purchase raised his direct shareholding in the systems integrator to 10.88 per cent, or around 34.34 million shares, from 10.85 per cent previously.
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      • 78 8 FUND manager Aberdeen Asset Management Asia on March 17 sold shares in retailers Robinson and Company and Courts Singapore in the open market. It sold 87,000 shares in Robinson, reducing its deemed shareholding to 10.22 per cent from 10.32 per cent, and unloaded 151,000 Courts
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      • 78 8  -  Compiled by SERENA NG AN executive director of Goodpack, Liew Yew Pin, on March 15 converted 1.13 million options into shares, raising his shareholding in the packaging specialist to 0.36 per cent, or 1.43 million shares, from 0.08 per cent. Mr Liew exercised 875,000 options at
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      407 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 18 VALUE CLOSE BTOBZDS -352.00 -179.00 BTCAM -*****.00 -87.00 BTlO-deyMA -*****.00 -36.00 M-SGEqufti«s 495.63 -0.71 SG Equities Beet 174.61 -K).39 SG Equities Fin 1490.52 SG Equities Prop 451.65 -5.48 SiMSa 221.78 +0.03 SiMSCI Futures 221.90 -0.50 Stock* Votan* Interra5c 115,449,000 SNFCorp 5c 42,974,000 Rowsley Ltd 2.5c
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 395 9  -  S'pore able to stay competitive despite challenges from India, China Reports by Uma Shankari THE Economic Development Board's (EDB) managing director Ko Kheng Hwa said that while Singapore's manufacturing sector faces challenges from countries such as China and India, it will not
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    • 501 9  -  No ART for vehicles that meet Euro IV emission standard By Samuel Ee TAX incentives for "green" vehicles have been extended to buses and commercial vehicles, the National Environment Agency (NEA) announced yesterday. From June 1, 2004 until Sept 30, 2006, the following do
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    • 284 9 AKZO Nobel, a world leader in producing healthcare items, coatings and chemicals, opened a new facility on Jurong Island yesterday, but also announced that it will be shutting its coatings factory in Jurong by year-end. The 22 million euro (Ss46 million) plant will be its
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    • 416 9  -  They are investing $8m to set up Grid Innovation Zone By Amit Roy Choudhury THE National University ot "Singapore, IBM and Intel have teamed up to promote the use of grid computing, where computers linked to a network share unused processing power
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 830 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION paul samuelson Tribune Media Services International THE American economic locomotive has been the globe's major source of stimulus. Wednesday's headlines document this: "US Purchases from Abroad Reach Record Gaps Over Export Sales" However, ours has been a recovery extraordinarily
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    • 59 10 'People believe that our leaders lied to them. It has hurt us a great deal.' Madeleine Albright former US secretary of state, on a survey finding that most people in France, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan and Jordan believe President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony
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    • 559 10 EDITORIAL AS UNCERTAINTY continues to cast a shadow over the incipient global economic upturn, the spate of national elections being held worldwide this year add yet another set of troubling unknowns. The next few months will see a flurry of voting activity in Asian
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    • 957 10  -  Yes, say economists with a little help from central bankers in this election year for many countries By Andy Mukherjee Bloomberg DOMESTIC spending is supplanting exports as Asia's growth engine. The region's central banks, which have traditionally put exporters' profits before consumers'
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    • 902 10  -  COMMENTARY To grow, it needs to be a more pure form of market economy, like the US By Matthew Lynn Bloomberg IN 1997, US President Bill Clinton invited Wim Kok, then prime minister of the Netherlands, to attend a gathering of world leaders in
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  • REGIONAL world
    • 753 11  -  Any nominal change in voting trends could threaten BN's fortunes From Eddie Toh in A lor Star, Kedah WILL the winds of change sweep through the Malaysian state of Kedah, which has remained poor despite the infusion of RMI billion
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 71 11 AFP [BRUSSELS] European Union (EU) competition watchdogs failed yesterday to reach an anti-trust deal with Microsoft, and will announce sanctions against the US software giant next week, EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said. "A settlement to the Microsoft case has not been possible,"
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      • 85 11 Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Dutch/Shell Group, whose chairman was ousted two weeks ago because of inflated oil reserves, cut its estimated holdings for a second time amid probes in US and in Europe. Europe's second-largest oil company reduced its proved reserves in 2002 by an amount equal
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      • 59 11 AFP [HONG KONG] Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) fell sharply yesterday on its first day of trading in Hong Kong after a disappointing debut in New York overnight. SMIC's IPO worth US$l.B billion—ended its first day of trade on Hong Kong's main board at HK52.475, down
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      • 72 11 Reuters [HONG KONG] Mid-tier property developer Sino Land Co Ltd on Wednesday posted a stellar 310 per cent jump in first-half earnings on higher development profit margins and gains from its securities portfolio. Sino Land posted a net profit of HK5607.05 million (*****.9 million)
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      • 79 11 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's unemployment rate slipped to its lowest level in just over a year this winter as a budding economic recovery created jobs, but economists say the declines could slow as more people start hunting for work. Hong Kong's jobless rate
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    • 259 11 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama INTERNATIONAL investment bank, Morgan Stanley, said the ruling Barisan Nasional government is likely to consolidate its power in this Sunday's general election and continue to raise Malaysia's international competitiveness. Morgan Stanley said Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's government would continue to overhaul
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    • 196 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S former finance minister doubts Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will be able to carry through his anticorruption campaign, a magazine reported yesterday. "We have always been trying to change the business culture, but we always relax after some time and exceptions
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    • 496 11 LONDON Little relief seen as Opec upholds production cut Bloomberg Reuters US OIL prices yesterday simmered just below a 13year high closing price struck the previous session, as the head of the Opec producer cartel offered little solace for hard-pressed consumers. New York
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    • 244 11 NEW YORK Reuters Bloomberg INVESTMENT bank Morgan Stanley yesterday said its quarterly earnings rose 35 per cent, helped by a rebound in investment banking and equity businesses and a record quarter for its Discover Card unit. The New York-based brokerage reported firstquarter net income
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    • 466 11 MUNICH/LONDON BMW has stopped all long-term hedging of the dollar, calling an end to the US currency's two-year decline, the Financial Times said yesterday. The German luxury carmaker is one of Europe's heaviest users of currency hedging to protect its revenues from volatile
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    • 550 11 Tech spending picks up but will the gadgets work? HANOVER, Germany Reliability is a key issue to address, say tech leaders Reuters GLOBAL tech spending is picking up again as gadgets and services promised for years creep into reality, but they still need to work better before the sector will
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    • 1644 13 h ISETAN (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 33rd Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Changi Rooms, Concorde Hotel Singapore, Level 4, 317 Outram Road, Singapore *****5 on Friday, 16 April 2004
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    • 1062 13 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP.SO [SECTION 290(2)(b)] AND IN THE MATTER OF LINTIEN (PTE) LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at 113 Gallop Park Road Singapore *****4 on 14 March 2004, the following Special and Ordinary
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  • WORLD news
    • 409 14 LONDON Bank of England policymakers keen to curb housing market Reuters BRITISH interest rates could head up again as soon as next month after Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's Budget did little to slow the nation's booming housing market. Mr Brown has
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    • 459 14 LONDON Salary is nearly double his predecessor's OUTGOING Unilever chairman Niall Fitzgerald will be one of the highest-paid non-executive chairmen among constituents of the FTSEIOO index when he takes over at Reuters in October, according to the Financial Times. He will be paid
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  • EPICURE
    • 476 15  -  By Jaime Ee THERE'S something to be said about culinary ingenuity being influenced by the produce found in one's own backyard. With Australia being a bountiful land of home-grown produce, is it any wonder that their chefs have all the ingredients they want to
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    • 384 15  -  By Jaime Ee CONTRARY to popular belief, the life of a food reviewer is not as rosy as it's made out to be. Especially when one has to eat his or her way through a series of eateries under a tight deadline to put together
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 195 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2 Support armed robbery (4,2) 3 To eleven hundred it is poi- sonous(s) 9 Pastoral address, 10 Oboe, 11 4 There's something afoot in the 15 Tum Pff wi J aboul or Cloth J 2 Sofa, 15 Frtchewl 6 Restate/a) 3 namental work (8) posed, 17 Seminar, 19
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  • THE ARTS/CINEMA
    • 649 16  -  I La Galigo would have fallen flat if not for its shinning props and music, says CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON IF the Sulawesi "epic" I La Galigo needs to be pegged on one name, it should be Rahayu Supanggah, the music director. Without him, the "visionary
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    • 375 16  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon UNTOLD Scandal weaves a plot of sex, lies and graphic cartoons as elaborate as the hairstyles that coil around the heads of the female courtiers in this movie set in 18th century Chosun Korea. The Korean movie styled
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    • 134 16 n MERITUS MANDARIN SINGAPORE f~| Shanxi Noodles Festival at Pine Court Chinese Restaurant 1 7 to 23 March 2004 Five renowned guest chefs from Shanxi, China will bring you the best of their provincial cuisine. Reservations: BmO 6831 6262/66 CHINESE RESTAURANT HP MERITUS MANDARIN 333 Orchard Road, Singapore *****7. Tel:
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  • CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA
    • 1226 17  -  GOH HWEE LENG discovers that the Australian state of Victoria has a lot more to offer than just Melbourne GOH HWEE LENG NEXT time you're in Melbourne and find that you've got a couple days to spare but have had enough of the city, do what the locals
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
    • 1599 18  -  More and more Singaporeans are forsaking cushy jobs to volunteer for overseas community projects. CHEAH UI-HOON finds out more CHEAH UI-HOON THERE'S been a push for Singaporeans to go overseas to work, supposedly for better job experience or higher pay, plus more networking opportunities. But the idea
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  • 42 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS LEGEND: All prices are indicative; v Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused; Lower Risk; Low to Medium Risk; Medium to High Risk; Higher Risk; open-ended; Before subdivision of units; After subdivision of units; SP after stock split; N.A- Non Dealing Day
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 475 19  -  Combined throughput of its China terminals rises 53% By Donald Urqnhart [SINGAPORE] The world's largest container port and terminal operator, Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), reported a 15 per cent rise in profit last year on the back of healthy volume growth, once
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    • 302 19 SGX '000 Um l« SS *1- Vol CH Offshore .0.35 0.01 1356 Oman Hup— .0.53 i*Kh 791 Coko lnvefln*nt 0 99 0 02 ***** CWTCwtnbuuon 0 54 O.OI 30 Ezra Hldgs 09 <303 468 EreightUnks 013 001 713 GB Holdings 0.73 unch 21 Jaya Holdings 0 81 0
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    • 221 19  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Bengal Tiger Lines (BTL) will launch a new Middle EastIndia subcontinent service this month in "close cooperation" with Neptune Orient Lines' (NOL) container division APL. The move follows a recent expansion by BTL into India's west
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    • 193 19 [SINGAPORE] Highlighting Singapore's maritime arbitration expertise, the delegates and visitors to next week's Asia Pacific Maritime (APM) 2004 event will be able to watch re-enact-ments of arbitration sessions. Presented by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (Siac), along with local law firms, the arbitration
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    • 327 19  -  By Donald Urqnhart [SINGAPORE] The 14 major transpacific box carriers have said they will share the results of their "extensive" internal review into their various terminal handling charges (THCs), with shippers and government agencies in Asia and the US. The Transpacific
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    • 75 19 [SINGAPORE] Singapore's Pacific International Lines (PIL) has teamed up with Taiwan's Wan Hai Lines on a new Asia-Europe service launching next month. The fixed-day weekly Far East-Europe Service will launch in Shanghai on April 23 and connect Ningbo, Shekou, Hong Kong,
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    • 515 19 Huge demand holds up despite doubling in shipping rates in six months Reuters [SINGAPORE] Record shipping costs fuelled by China's ravenous appetite for commodities have pushed up prices for metals, raw materials and farm products across Asia but done little to dampen
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    • 943 20  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By Selva Kumar A PERSONAL injury dispute between two friends following an outing on a boat in a lake in Ontario went all the way to the Federal Court of Canada on a question of law regarding the meaning
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 526 27 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL CJNIA3-16 03/04 J5 A/SIDE 19/03 1200 CHEN YU NO 7 TOC/72 J4/5 A/SIDE 19/03 2100 KARIANGAU EX 2413E J15 A/SIDE 19/03 0600 MPL 1 TR002 J15/16 A/SIDE 19/03 0630 NENAM V003 J16/17 A/SIDE 19/03 0600 UNIONSTAR 27 03/04J J15
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      • 144 27 Mar 21 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. Apr 4 //KChingM Fest. South Korea: Arbor Day. Taiwan: Ching M Fest. Apr 6 Thailand: Chakri Memorial Day. Apr 8 Norway: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Sweden: Maundy Thursday. Apr 0 Sweden: Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday. Philippines: Day of Valor. Norway:
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      • 811 27 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 indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 86 27 U/F unfilterable This report is based on samples as analysed by ONV Petroleum Services and it an abstract frers their morua detailed fuel quality statistics which Is mailed to participating shipowners. Key bunker ports have been grouped in geographical regions for brevity. Comparison has been made
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 87 28 [SINSHEIM, Germany] An Air France Concorde F-BVFB is raised by two giant cranes in front of a Russian Tupolev 144 to the roof of the Auto and Technik Museum in the German town Sinsheim on Wednesday. The aircraft was offered by Air France after the airline and
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      • 614 28 Move to save billions of dollars on foreign aircraft: report AFP [BEIJING] Aspiring aviation power China hopes to put its own large passenger planes in the air by 2018 to meet voracious demand and save itself billions of dollars on foreign
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      • 224 28 Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European Commission has started an investigation to check that a restructuring of Greek national airline Olympic Airways will not involve any state aid. The Greek government approved plans for a new carrier last September, which it envisaged as a
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      • 199 28 AP [JAKARTA] Garuda, Indonesia's national flag carrier, expects to double its profits in 2004 thanks to a surge in passenger traffic, the company said yesterday. Garuda Indonesia is aiming for nearly US$6O million profit this year, company spokesman Pudjo Broto said. The company
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      • 443 28 Aircraft maker makes net profit of US$96m on delivery of 30 jets Reuters [SAO PAULO, Brazil] Net profit at Brazil's Embraer, the world's fourth-largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft, fell nearly 57 per cent in the fourth quarter due to weaker
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      • 228 28 NYT [UNITED NATIONS] The United Nations said on Wednesday that preliminary tests had turned up no evidence that an airplane "black box" shipped from Africa a decade ago and discovered last week by embarrassed officials in a locked file cabinet was
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      • 209 28 AFP [SYDNEY] Australia's air safety regulator yesterday recommended drug and alcohol testing for pilots and air crews after finding a cocktail of drugs in the blood of pilot whose plane crashed killing six people. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said pilot
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      • 425 28 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), AI: Air India (AK), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), BI: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR:
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 115 27 Issued by Meteorological Service Division,NEA LEGEND: Thunderstorm Wind speed symbols tf Showers O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds R a j n One half fleche represents 5 knots Cloudy Day -One full fleche represents 10 knots ix Hazy A -One solid triangle represents 50
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