The Business Times, 29 March 2004

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/03/2004 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2004 850
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  • 647 1  -  Sales proceeds, minus the Minimum Sam, go to banks even if CPF has first charge By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] If you're nearing age 55, have financial problems and are still paying off your mortgage, don't think your retirement money is safe
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  • 687 1  -  Notable is choice of de facto finance minister, Economic Planning Unit chief From Eddie Toll in Kuala Lumpur INVESTORS will feel reassured by the expected continuity in economic direction under the new Malaysian cabinet comprised of mostly old guard, analysts
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  • 733 1  -  From Andrew Marks in New York ONE strong day does not a bull market make. That's the wisdom prevailing among even the most bullish Wall Street market strategists at the end of last week after the stock market's powerful bounce-back on
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  • 63 1 Week Change STI 1827.11 -12.01 KLSECOMP 895.12 -933 NIKKEI 22. r *****.65 +:t52.14 HANG SENG -1248:124 3117.34 SET INDEX 665.25 -1602 JAKARTA G0MP.714.13 28.78 MANIUrOMP_.1390.92 -5991 TAIPEI Wl'l .6132.62 ***** SEOIJL COMP 863.95 -19.38 SHENZHEN B ***** -3.02 Al ST ALL OKI) .3424.20 5.60 IK)W JONES *****97 +26.37 NASDAQ
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  • 76 1 FOREX RATES US$ 8$ I'SS (SS per rs$) 1.69*1 £(i;S$/S$ per 1.801 3.044 Kl'ROfl'SS/SS/K). 1.21(9 2,04.1 YEN 105.7 €2.50 RM 3.800 2.248 HKS 7.797 4.813 BAHT 39.56 23.40 RIPIAH 8,023 5.102 RENMINBI 8.299 4910 INDIAN RUPEE _44.a 2042 A$ 1.354 0.801 NZ$ 1.557 0.921 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25 Munu
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    • 47 1 INSIDE CASINO Stanley Ho building new gambling empire in the Philippines Pgio Donald Trump's TV triumph masks debt problem at casino empire Pgi2 BizlT WiU Wi-Fi still fly when 3G moves in? Raju Chellam Pgl7 Increased cyber attacks will fuel growth of Singapore's network security market Pgis
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    • 702 2  -  BT exclusive Bank NISP plans to gun for slot among Indonesia's top 10 banks From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta NOW that it has secured a major shareholder and partner in Singapore's OverseaChinese Banking Corporation, Indonesia's Bank NISP has big plans for the future. The
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    • 763 2 Reuters Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's plan to deter US companies from shifting jobs overseas through corporate tax changes has met with a cool reception from business leaders. Mr Kerry on Friday proposed a five percentage point cut
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    • 280 2 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Robert Rubin, who was Treasury secretary under president Bill Clinton, said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's plan to end tax incentives for companies hiring abroad will create jobs. The proposal, part of Mr Kerry's pledge to create 10
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 777 3  -  It plans to open more outlets there and to set up shop in Kuala Lumpur soon By Serena Ng HOMEGROWN fried chicken franchise Carona is spreading its wings in the region, with a little boost from Bread Talk's George Quek and Osim's founder
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    • 632 3  -  HOCK lock siew vince chong THERE are two strong reasons why Excelpoint Technology the first initial public offering this year in January should continue to attract investors. First, the management's desire to prove that its results in FY2003 were no mere flash in the pan,
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    • 1167 4  -  INSIDE MARKETS Directors and shareholders bought heavily into their companies last week. ROBERT HALILI reports ROBERT HALILI DIRECTORS and substantial shareholders remained active buyers over the past week. Based on filings to the Singapore Exchange from March 22 to 26, 18 shareholders of 17 companies
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    • 210 4 Reuters [HONG KONG] Financial firm Guoco Group said on Saturday that its biggest shareholder, Malaysian tycoon Quek Leng Chan, would buy the 21.6 per cent stake held by the Kuwait government for HK$4.l3 billion (SsB9s million). The deal prices the shares at HK$5B
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    • 366 4  -  MAIL bag Ivan Tan Director, corporate communications, SingTel I REFER to Angela Tan's "It's how Sing Tel uses debt that counts" (BT, March 24) and Tham Kim Fay's letter "SingTel should pare debt to acceptable level" (BT, March 25). Ms Tan mentioned in her
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 798 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy A SEASONED investor with more than 30 years of stockbroking experience recently complained that "they are still supporting the Straits Times Index (STI) by pushing Sing Tel and the banks". To be sure, it isn't difficult to prop up
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    • 93 6 Events investors can watch out for Oslnt Intnl's Bonus luu«, ex-date, Mar 29 MFB Tech's dividend payment, Mar 29 Noel Gifts' dividend payment, Mar 31 Qlan Hu's dividend payment, Apr 2 Chuan Hup's dividend payment, Apr 12 CEI Contract's dividend payment, Apr 15 Oslm Intnl's dividend payment, Apr
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    • 618 6 But pre-election jitters hurt peso, polls aftermath hits New Taiwan dollar AFP [HONG KONG] Pre-election politicking was blamed for pushing the Philippines peso to an all-time low over the week, while the New Taiwan dollar shed 0.6 per cent amid angry protests about the
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    • 1296 6 Payment Ex tooto Pay *m dot# dgte_ AgvaCorpUSI .8c F US0.73TA 07-May 12 May 21-May AllgreenSOc f 3.50 29-Apr 04-May mtay Allied Tech 5c b 049N 28A(X 03-May 17-May AscottGrp20c b 1,20 12 Apr 27Apt 07-May Auric Pac 50c > 500 26Api 29-Apr 11-May Amtraland PG A4c d
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    • 937 7  -  BT portfolio STOCKS teh hooi ling ALL our portfolios declined last week, in line with weak markets the world over. The portfolio made up of stocks wtth the lowest price-earnings ratios held up better than the rest. It slid only 0.6 per
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    • 308 7  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By tVen Sreenivasan THE stock of Singapore Airlines has been under pressure amid concerns over its earnings growth as low-cost carriers (LCCs) sprout in its neighbourhood. The stock has fallen from over $12.00 to hit a low at $10.50
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  • 1957 6 Number FORECAST Median Price The stock recommendation is theaverageof all the recom- c(Mrurl SSS!m Estimate mendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not 4 0.06 11.91 1.09 every stock is followed by all the 29 broken. Their recom-
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  • 878 7 Week ended: Mar 26 Stock mm «H Ota* Qtngt Stoc* mmt Wt dow Change Allgreen50c 0.33 1.070 NOL 1.66 2 ISO *0.010 BIL Intl US20c 0.38 0.745 OCBC 885 11.900 CapitaLand U1 1 650 +0010 Parkway H 25c 0 58 1.140 +0.010 Chart SemKond 26c 129 1.550 +0.010 People's
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    • 1972 8 OSCS V Living TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE COMPUTER SYSTEMS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Twenty-fourth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Auditorium, 7 Bedok South Road, Singapore *****2 on Friday, 23 April 2004 at
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 819 9  -  Failure to ventnre abroad is not the end of the world, some companies discover By Vince Chong RECENT moves by two listed construction firms have shown their counterparts that all is not lost even if you have not been able to jump onto the
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    • 657 9  -  'Even on my labour bed, I was making calls to companies, and that was fine!' By Teh Shi Ning IN the current debate over stock and stork options, one woman is perhaps better qualified than most to speak about both. Tan Su
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    • 85 9 CORPORATE INVESTMENT BANKING ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE WEALTH MANAGEMENT I -9 ZjLfri k 'jla. Si' 1. -j Moving faster. I Here's to the swift stride, the quick mind. ijjt jSBhShHMBBI At Deutsche Bank we share your passion to out think out-smart, out-perform. i w It's what makes us one of the
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 577 10 CASINO PLAYS Casino king quietly building a new gambling empire in the country Reuters [MANILA] Macau casino king Stanley Ho is building a new gambling empire in the Philippines, nearly two decades after being forced to pull out of the country when former
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    • 381 10  -  But it's unclear if ban on alcohol sale will be lifted From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur GAMING operators are not hopeful they will be able to resume their business in Terengganu. This is despite the probusiness Barisan Nasional (BN) having wrestled the east
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    • 680 10  -  BT comment KL STOCKS Abdullah's economic agenda is intact eddie toh CAN the Malaysian stock market regain its composure after last week's watershed elections? While the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) breached 916 points following the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional's thumping victory, the euphoria
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    • 342 10 MANILA AFP WHEN Filipinos go to the polls on May 10 they will not only be electing a new president but a legislature of the rich and powerful who have little or nothing in common with them, according to the findings of a two-year
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    • 382 11 SINGAPORE Noticeable winners so far have been Australian professional services firms, says report AUSTRALIAN expatriates here who expected the Singapore-Aus-tralia Free Trade Agreement, or Safta, to lead to a significant fall in the price of Aussie beer have been disappointed.
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    • 235 11 LONDON AFP STEEL baron Lakshmi Mittal is set to top a list of Britain's wealthiest people of South Asian origin that's coming out this week, the Independent on Sunday reported. Mr Mittal, who runs the LNM Group, has an estimated
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  • WORLD news
    • 647 12 Trump Hotels could face bankruptcy as it grapples with US$1.8b debt NYT [NEW YOPK] It was another stupendous week for that pop culture sensation, Donald J Trump. On Thursday, his hit reality television show, The Apprentice, continued to rack up
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    • 482 13 PARIS OECD members in row over giving workers place in management NYT A SQUABBLE over whether to encourage the involvement of workers in corporate management has at least temporarily derailed, and could even kill, efforts of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 79 13 NYT [NEW YORK] Albertson's, America's second-largest food retailer, said on Friday that it had agreed to buy Shaw's Supermarkets, the American subsidiary of Britain's J Sainsbury PLC, for about US$2.5 billion. Shaw's, the llth-biggest supermarket company in the US, has more than 200 stores and
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      • 116 13 Reuters [LONDON] US consortium BLB is poised to make a possible offer of over 800 pence a share bid for British gaming firm Wembley, trumping rival MGM Mirage's 750 pence agreed cash bid, the Sunday Times said. The newspaper said the boards of
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      • 126 13 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Wall Street firms account for 4.2 per cent of jobs in New York City and 19 per cent of compensation, the Securities Industry Association said. Securities firms employed 158,000 people in the city in January, according to the association.
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      • 109 13 Reuters [LONDON] GlaxoSmithkline, Europe's biggest drugmaker, is preparing to enter China by looking to set up two research and development centres, the Business newspaper said yesterday. It said the company was in talks with Chinese authorities about investing in the Tianjin region, the
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    • 313 13 [REDMOND, Washington] Reuters AP MICROSOFT chairman Bill Gates on Friday said that investors had created a "minibubble" by driving Internet stocks sharply higher. "We are sort of back in a mini-bubble era in terms of people expecting a lot in terms of these valuations,
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    • 357 13 JERUSALEM Reuters AP ISRAEL'S chief prosecutor yesterday recommended indicting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a corruption scandal that could drive him from office. The Justice Ministry said State Attorney Edna Arbel made the recommendation to Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz, who will have the final
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    • 1149 14 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices tumbled from recent 13-year highs last week in response to signs that Opec may delay a production cut as well as an unexpectedly big rise in US crude inventories. But precious metals were back in favour thanks
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    • 526 15 HOUSTON Sentences' severity in corporate fraud cases now tied to investors' losses AP THERE are no more slaps on the wrist for executives who fight corporate fraud charges and lose when heavy investor losses are involved. That's one big and painful lesson behind
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  • 984 14 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Mar 26 PRIME LEMDDf GRATES BANKS Credit Suisse S'pore 5 ABN Amro Bank NV 5.25 Dexia Banque Intl A ABSA Bank Limited 5.5 Luxembourg 6 Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 Deutsche Bank AG 5.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 DBS Bank 4.25 American Express Bank 5 Dresdner
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 192 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD rable occasions 26 Not the star of "Fair Lady"? (8) gear (7) ing, 10 Adverts, 11 Valiant, 12 14 Warned that education Inanimate, 14 Organist, 15 FlagDOWN needs restructuring (9) on, 17 Byronic, 20 Newman, 23 1 Money invested? That's To make summaries is not Martinet, 25 Londinium,
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  • BIZIT
    • 199 16 AP [UNITED NATIONS] The US government-sanctioned organisation that oversees the Internet's all-important "telephone book" defended its work on Friday as diplomats and computer companies considered a greater role for the United Nations. Paul Twomey, the chief executive of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names
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    • 591 16  -  BT exclusive IDA, RosettaNet hold conference on latest B2B developments By Amit Roy Choudhury SINGAPORE registered sales revenues worth $106.5 billion in business-to-busi-ness (B2B) transactions in 2002, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) told BizlT ahead of an e-business conference aimed at keeping
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    • 320 16 AP [WASHINGTON] The FBl's effort to modernise antiquated computer systems, already more than US$l2O million over budget and nearly two years overdue, will be completed this summer, FBI director Robert Mueller says. "I'm as frustrated, as impatient, as anybody to get our information technology to
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    • 379 16 Technology for multimedia computing copied, alleges MicroUnity NYT [NEW YORK] A chip design company that was once one of Silicon Valley's highfliers filed a patent infringement suit last Friday against Intel and Dell, contending the two companies have copied its technology for
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    • 781 17  -  IT comment INFOTECH They could co-exist. But then it is likely Singapore could initially be an island of 3G, surrounded by a sea of Wi-Fi raju chellam THE seed to give birth to third-generation (3G) wireless services was impregnated long ago. As
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    • 417 17  -  JV to impart SAP, end user training to all GCC countries By Amit Roy Choudhury (iKNUVATti solutions me Ltd, a local software solutions company, has formed a joint venture company with Saudi Arabia-based Naizak which will impart SAP training as well as end user
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    • 308 17 AP [BANGALORE] A cheap handheld computer, designed by Indian scientists for use by the poor, went on sale last Friday for 9,950 rupees (*****) after a delay of nearly three years, Simputer's software was developed by volunteers to keep development costs low, said Swami
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    • ITTAKES
      • 53 17 LEE Kwok Cheong, CEO of NCS, has become the new president of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS). He replaces Martin Tsang, who has been the president for the past three years. Twelve council members were also elected into office at the SCS' 37th annual general meeting
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      • 82 17 IOMEGA Corporation has announced the new Iomega CD-RW/DVD-ROM plus 7-in-l card reader, an all-in-one solution to transfer photos, music, and data from flash memory media to the computer and burn them onto a CD. The device makes it possible for home users and digital camera
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      • 92 17 LG Mobile has introduced a new camera phone (right) which it says will appeal to customers looking for a winning design with user-friendly yet sophisticated features. The LG G7120 weighs 99 grams (including battery) and measures 88 x 45x21.5 mm. Its camera viewfinder can swivel
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      • 64 17 STARHUB has introduced a new missed call alerts service for its mobile customers. This service allows Star Hub's mobile postpaid customers to receive SMS alerts when they miss their calls from Singapore while roaming overseas. The service is available free of charge to Star Hub mobile
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      • 61 17 THE Tele Eye Group has launched a simple-to-use four-channel non-PC based standalone digital video recorder, Tele Eye RM-422. The device can record video with resolution up to 720x576 pixels. Standalone real time monitoring and recording rate up to 50/60 fields per second can be achieved. The
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      • 71 17 CANON has introduced three digital video (DV) cameras—MV7ooi, MV73Oi and MV75Oi with a raft of new features for home film-makers. Each camera in the MV7OO Series uses a high resolution 800k pixel CCD and includes Canon's proprietary DiG!C DV technology. The MV7OOi, 730 i and
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      • 101 17  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury AUTODESK has started shipping AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005 software, its latest CAD products. AutoCAD 2005 has added features such as a sheet set manager which allows users to create, manage, and share entire sets of related drawings from a
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    • 657 18  -  BT exclusive Frost Sullivan study shows SMBs in Singapore will continue to spend more on security, writes Amit Roy Choudhury Amit Roy Choudhury INCREASED security threats and the growing phenomenon of coordinated global cyber attacks will fuel the growth of Singapore's network security market, which
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    • 393 18  -  By Raju Chellam GARTNER Inc recently took a peek at the future at a symposium in Barcelona in Spain, as part of Gartner's 25th anniversary celebrations. Here's a glimpse: Global sourcing: One of the most significant shifts caused by IT in the nearterm is the
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    • 266 19 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young DRY CARGO: THERE is no let-up in the activity in the dry bulk market, especially for handy/handymax tonnage, with plenty of sales and on-going transactions to report. The sisterships Western Iris/ Western Island (42,500/94-95) were reported sold at around U5526.75 million each, which
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    • 322 19 AP [LONDON] After nearly a quarter century of loyal service, the Royal Navy's warship Scylla was redeployed to the bottom of the ocean to become what organisers said would be Europe's first artificial reef. Thousands of people watched as the frigate
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    • 756 19  -  Consultant sees capacity shortfall of 14m TEUs in East Asia by 2007 Reports by Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A shortfall in container handling capacity of nearly 14 million TEUs across East Asian ports by 2007 means there is an "immediate need" to invest in
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    • 415 19 [SINGAPORE] The strategy of shipping lines becoming involved in terminal operations will become more prevalent in Singapore, as this trend intensifies across Asia, according to a senior shipping consultant. While the concept of shipping lines taking stakes in terminals is not new
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    • 219 20 PA GE Alianca 5 AAL 5 Avant 6 Bank Line 4 B'tang Mas 5 BSA 4 BSC 6 BTL 6 Cargoways 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 China Shpg 5 Confer 6 Crocodile Line ....4 CWT Globelink ...4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 EP Carriers 6 ECL 3 Eng
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    • 1000 20  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes AT last week's Asia Pacific Maritime 2004 Summit, three speakers made convincing cases on the general theme that the imbalance of container flows between Asia and its main trading partners presents the liner shipping industry with
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    • 11905 25 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 12/04 12/05 CMACGM CSAV RIO AMAZONAS *****S 65-*****600 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvoiro 14/04 08/05 NYK CAP BONAVISTA 402S 65-*****123 05/04
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      • 536 27 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL ANABAS 2499E J14 A/SIDE 29/03 0600 BRIGHT CORAL 52A J23 A/SIDE 29/03 2000 CMAVERNET GA004E J16/17 A/SIDE 29/03 0800 DAXIN 022E J18/19 A/SIDE 29/03 0300 KHAIRPUR 015HW J8/9 A/SIDE 29/03 2300 SHANNON EXP 06/04 J3 A/SIDE 29/03 0600 TAIHUA
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      • 1641 27 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX DAHLIA 074S 074S 1 30/03/2004-07:00 30/03/2004-18:30 T04 ACX HIBISCUS 090N 090N 1 30/03/2004-08:00 30/03/2004-22:00 ACX MARIGOLD 012S 012S 1 29/03/2004-04:00 29/03/2004-12:00 B07 ANDA 4077 4077 1 30/03/2004-15:00 31/03/2004-05:00 APL
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      • 622 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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      • 145 27 Apr 4 HK: Ching M 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: Good Friday. NZ: Good
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      • 764 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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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 358 28 Reuters Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines raised their fuel surcharge by US$5 each way on selected flights as more US airlines try to hedge against rising fuel prices. Last Friday, Northwest said the fare hikes, which would
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      • 315 28 AFP [KUWAIT CITY] Kuwait Airways Corp (KAC) took a major step towards full privatisation, as Parliament's finance and economic panel approved a Bill to transform loss-making airline into a public company. The government-sponsored draft law was approved with several amendments to "safeguard
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      • 560 28 FAA says over 40 of them will reach capacity by 2020 AP [WASHINGTON] More than 40 US airports will be unable to handle their air traffic by 2020 unless they are expanded, the Federal Aviation Administration says. The FAA studied population growth, travel and income
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      • 228 28 Reuters [MONTREAL] Canada's financial regulator pressed Air Canada to quickly come up with a revised plan to rescue its underfunded pension plans, an issue that threatens the airline's restructuring. Air Canada reached an agreement with its unions last month on a repayment schedule
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