The Business Times, 26 April 2004

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/03/2004 lnib.7,ct: iittp://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2004 850
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  • 771 1  -  BT exclusive Figure also bolstered by focus on high margin businesses By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Do you get more out of staff if you pay them above market rates? The answer seems to be "yes", in the case of foreign banks. In
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  • 995 1  -  Much of that could go to China, which has language advantage From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A HUGE potential outsourcing market estimated at 6.7 trillion yen (Sslo4 billion) a year in IT system development alone exists in Japan as companies there play catch-up
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  • 67 1 Week Change STI 1867.64 +13.65 KLSK COM P 875.511 +13.69 NIKKEI 225 *****66 *296.10 HANG SENG __*****.94 74 44 SET INDEX 681.88 -30.32 •IAKAKTA COMP .815.44 *38.87 "MANILA COMP ..*****0 +91.29 TAIPEI WPI 6748.10 -70.10 SEOI'LCOMP 936.06 <3718 SHENZHEN B 284.94 1160 AI'ST ALL OKI) ,3461.90 +37.60 DOW JONES
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  • 74 1 FOREX RATES U8$ S$ l'S$(S$ perl'SS) 1696 5l(ISS/SS per VI) 1.772 £1)05 Kl!RO(i:S$/S$/K) 1.190 1018 YEN 109,3 €4.40 KM *800 2240 HKS 7.799 4.598 BAHT 39.59 23.34 KI'PIAH 8.t»2:i 5,083 RENMINBI 8.299 4.892 INDIAN K1TKK 44.14 26.02 AS I 306 0805 NZS 1.592 0.939 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5i5 MALAYSIA
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  • 731 1  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Foreigners and permanent residents made up a smaller proportion of buyers of uncompleted private homes from developers in the first quarter of the year. Foreigners accounted for 12.1 per cent of units sold and permanent residents,
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    • 949 2  -  BT comment ECONOMICS A revalued yuan may have a net negative impact on Asia, but the alternative would be much worse vikram khanna CHINA'S economy is overheating, but this can't continue much longer and it's time to prepare for what will happen when it
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    • 832 2  -  Robust corporate earnings barely shore up stocks From Andrew Marks in New York IN a week when corporate America was overshadowed by fears of interest-rate rise which now looks inevitable a flood of robust firstquarter earnings news saved the day. But the excellent reports
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 733 3  -  Exclusivity agreement signed; 80.77% share has current market value of $920m By Kenneth Lim PUTTING an end to speculation, ABN Amro unveiled yesterday that it has picked Singapore's United Overseas Bank as the winning bidder for its 80.77 per cent stake in
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    • 680 3  -  HOCK lock siew tang weng fai CHARTERED Semiconductor's see-saw battle to return to profitability seems to have won a reprieve. For half a year now, analysts have been talking about the possibility of seeing Chartered turn around the corner. Last week, the company did just
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    • 584 4  -  Move could lead to backdoor listing for China's Chongqing Runtime in nine months By Kenneth Lim TWO months after entering into a memorandum of understanding, debt-laden Wee Poh Holdings has signed a reverse takeover deal that could give China-based Chongqing Runtime Industry Group
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    • 1080 4  -  INSIDE MARKETS However, sentiment remains negative this month, reports ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI TRADING activity by directors and substantial shareholders rose sharply in the week ended April 23, with 51 trades worth $26.8 million, up from the previous week's total of 18 trades worth $14.8
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    • 364 4  -  Profit surged 28% in the nine months ended December By Kenneth Lim LCD electronic product specialist IDT Holdings says it is on track to meet earlier guidance that it will continue to see growth in the fourth quarter ended March 31,2004, driven by new
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    • 1470 5  -  The experience of other airlines is diverse and ultimately it has to do its own sums in making a decision, says Ven Sreenivasan Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Airlines and its subsidiary SATS have been in the news after Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew suggested SIA
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  • 1981 6 Number FORECAST Median Price The stock recommendation is the average of all the recom- COMPANY ThfcwSSStSteSt Estimate! (SMtimS) mendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not Creative Master Bernmda Ltd Buy/Strong Buy 1 0.04 7.53 0.44 every stock
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 817 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy YOU get the impression from the events last week that equities are living on borrowed time, with everyone looking nervously at the past probably 1994 for a guide on what to do when interest rates ratchet upwards. On the one hand,
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    • 69 6 Events investors can watch out for ASJ Hide's Bonus Issus, sx-dats, Apr 27 Modtocs's Bonus Issus, ex-date, Apr 29 TPA's dividend payment, Apr 30 CapltaLand's dividend payment, Apr 30 Action Asia, AGM, Apr 27 Auston, AGM, Apr 27 Nat Steel, AGM, Apr 27 Semb Klmtrans, AGM, Apr 28
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    • 448 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Asian units dipped, with the Australian dollar sinking to its weakest level this year and the yen touching a five-week low, as a US interest rate hike appeared likely. Japanese yen: The yen recovered slightly late Friday
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    • 1096 7  -  BT portfolio STOCKS teh hooi ling GAINS in a handful of blue chips lifted the Straits Times Index, while the broad market languished. This explained why our portfolios suffered declines compared with modest gains in the index. For the week, the STI edged up 0.7
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    • 278 7  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan WHEN volatility and cautious sentiment reign over the market, it is sometimes best to go for defensive stocks with growth potential. Better still if they are trading at a low absolute price. One counter which seems
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 587 8  -  Centre to act as direct link between R&D HQ in France and after-market service bases in region By Ven Sreenivasan FRENCH auto giant Renault has decided to locate its Asia-Pacific technical services hub in Singapore. From May 1, Renault's Regional Training Centre
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    • 613 8 EYE on the economy manufacturing SINGAPORE'S manufacturing probably shrank in March from the previous month as companies such as Seagate Technology shipped fewer computer disk drives to overseas customers, economists said. Manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of the economy, probably shrank 7.5 per cent from
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    • 259 8  -  Event sets record for debut-year participants By Teh Shi Ning ON Wednesday, over 6,500 employees representing more than 250 companies here will run out of their offices and into the Central Business District in a rat race of another kind. As
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    • 150 8 CITING higher crude prices, Shell has raised fuel prices at its pump by three cents a litre. The hike which took effect on Saturday came shortly after similar increases by competitors Caltex and ExxonMobil, which sells fuel at Esso and Mobil service
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 277 9 JAKARTA Business as usual while company appeals against verdict AFP THE Indonesian insurance unit of British financial services giant Prudential has said a court order declaring it bankrupt would not affect operations in Indonesia. The company remains financially strong and was appealing against
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    • NOTE Book
      • 86 9 AP [BANGKOK] Thai police have intensified security for Korean Air and Singapore Airlines after the South Korean carrier received a bomb threat last week, officials said yesterday. The threat was made in a letter received by Korean Air on Friday, said a police official at
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      • 71 9 Reuters [BEIJING] Four new suspected cases of the Sars disease have been reported in the Chinese capital, the health ministry said yesterday, after the first reported death from the virus since a major outbreak last year. No new suspected or confirmed cases of the
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      • 80 9 Reuters [TAIPEI] A US federal judge has dismissed part of contract microchip maker TSMC's suit against Chinese rival SMIC, saying they would be more appropriately handled by a state court. Ruling in favour of a motion by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), the judge
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      • 67 9 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Golkar has widened its lead over President Megawati Soekarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle to 1.6 million votes in the April 5 parliamentary election, with the official results to be announced this week. Golkar had 21 per cent of the 93 million
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    • 436 9 BANGALORE, India AP LEADERS of the Indian states dubbed the "Silicon Valley of the East" face a tough challenge today when voters angered by the growing gap between the rich and the poor cast ballots in the third phase of India's general
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    • 678 9  -  BT comment KL STOCKS Several factors make conditions favourable eddie toh SINGAPORE investment firm Temasek Holdings could not have a better window of opportunity should it decide to acquire a controlling interest in Alliance Bank as part of its maiden entry
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    • 836 10 HONG KONG Taxation and govt pressure needed to augment monetary policy, they say NYT LISTEN to the recent talk from senior Chinese officials and look at a few of their actions, and it may seem at first that Beijing is moving decisively
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    • 415 10 Overheating led to fuel shortages, choked transport BOAO, Hainan Bloomberg CHINESE President Hu Jintao has vowed to implement controls to keep the economy on a steady footing, amid overheating in some industries that has led to shortages of oil, coal and power and
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    • 343 10 GENEVA Bloomberg THE number of buyers from China has more than doubled at Geneva's annual watch fair as an economic boom in the world's most populous country fuels demand for luxury goods. "We've had a rise of 120
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    • 1826 10 Notices IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF ETHAN-ROSE MUSIC SCHOOL (S) PTE LTD (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 ot the Companies Act, Cap 50, the Final Meeting of the Company
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  • REGION world
    • 553 11 NEW DELHI Record rise of currency delights importers, worries exporters AFP INDIANS, accustomed to having a currency that was a weakling on the world stage, now have a rupee that is packing new punch. India's currency leapt 9 per cent against the greenback in
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    • 615 11 G7 SUMMIT Bat they warn that climbing oil prices could pose risk Reuters [WASHINGTON] Finance ministers from the world's rich nations say that the global economic outlook had brightened significantly after several years of slow growth. However they also say oil price increases could
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    • 488 11  -  Tie-up with GM or Chinese car maker is also a possibility, analysts say From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo DAIMLERCHRYSLER'S shock announcement last Friday that it will not offer financial support for Japan's Mitsubishi Motor Corp (MMC), in which it has a 37
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    • 326 11 AFP [WASHINGTON] The Group of Seven industrialised countries has no timetable for letting China join, although it is recognised as an increasingly important player in the global economy. "There is no timetable for that (China joining) at this point," a
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    • 1081 12 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP [LONDON] A strong dollar pushed gold prices to a five-month low last week, and weighed on other commodities, while oil drew support from worries over supply and global security. A strong US currency makes dol-lar-priced raw materials more
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    • 196 11 1& 2 May 2004 (Saturday Sunday) 10am to spm Topics include: Analyzing Sales Profitability Choosing Suitable Investment Diversification Planning Strategic Partnering Merger Acquisition Reducing Staff Turnover Recruiting Quality Staff Improving Staff Motivation A Business Knowledge You Couldn't Afford to Discount I This Science can be Learned and Manipulated! Analyze Feng
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  • 1009 12 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Apr 23 PRIME LENDING RATES 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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  • 1609 12 SICOli FUTURES Apr 23 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS1 (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest May 04 231.50 Jun 04 230.25 Jul 04 232.00 Aug 04 232.50 Sep 04 232.00 Oct/Dec 04 232.50 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes)
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  • WORLD news
    • 779 13 NEW YORK Silicon Valley insiders, Tiger Woods, Kissinger among stakeholders NYT TIGER Woods has his small stake. So do Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger and Arnold Schwarzenegger. All can be counted among that small club of people lucky enough to own a
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    • 269 13 Bloomberg SAMSUNG Electronics, maker of mobile phones, raised its forecast for 2004 industry wide handset sales for the second time this month, citing rising consumer demand for new models. Samsung and its rivals may sell 600 million phones this year, said Lee Ki Tae,
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    • 575 13 NEW YORK NYT, AP IN the avalanche of quarterly earnings reports over the last couple of weeks, one theme seems pretty clear: tech is back. Profits for the technology companies in the Standard Poor's 500-stock index soared 64 per cent in the first
      NYT,; AP  -  575 words
    • 561 13 LINCOLN, Rhode Island Gambling titans all ready to grab the rare opportunity LAT-WP SOME of the world's largest gambling companies are hunting for a once-in-a-life-time chance to bite into one of the US' most lucrative casino markets. Who could blame them? This is
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    • 591 14 Nearly three out of four companies offer golden parachutes to executives AP [DENVER] At a cost of US$l7 million, the departure of Janus Capital Group CEO Mark Whiston last Tuesday won't come cheap. It's the price of making a fresh start,
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • BIZIT
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      • 72 15 ENTERPRISE Web player Plumtree Software has announced the appointment of Stree Naidu as its channels director for Asia reporting to Plumtree's general manager Dean Stockwell. In this newly created role, Mr Naidu, who will be based in Singapore, will manage Plumtree's partners and develop business opportunities
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      • 58 15 INFINEON Technologies has opened its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Demo Centre in Asia Pacific at its regional headquarters in Singapore. This is part of the company's recently announced Infineon RFID Solution Excellence Centre Framework. The company hopes to leverage its RFID and Smartcard Competencies in products,
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      • 75 15 FUJITSU has released its new Tablet PC the Stylistic STSOII. It is powered by a IGHz (ULV) Pentium M processor using Intel Centrino Mobile Technology and an Intel 855GME chipset. The Stylistic STSOII has a 10.4 inch reflective front-lit display which offers enhanced screen clarity
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      • 81 15 SAMSUNG Electronics has introduced the Samsung SGH-X6OOA, a dual-band camera phone. The phone is equipped with a 300,000 pixel camera to support 640 x 480 resolution pictures and comes with a night mode function and a flash-light. The camera lens, which can rotate 180 degrees
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      • 77 15 MOBILEWAY, a global provider of wireless marketing campaigns and content, has appointed Matthew Talbot as head of it Asian operations. In his new role, Mr Talbot will be in charge of spearheading Mobileway's development of its full mobilisation service line of business targeted at media
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      • 97 15 VECTOR Magnetics has introduced the San Disk Cruzer Micro, a USB 2.0 Flash Drive that can be physically combined with its MP3 Companion device to allow the user to also listen to MP3 songs. The product was developed by US-based San Disk Corporation, one of
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      • 90 15 INFOCUS Corporation, has introduced two projectors, the InFocus X 2 and InFocus LP7O+. The InFocus X 2, which costs $2,199, is a multi-use projector with wireless capabilities and is designed for business applications and home entertainment. It comes with 1,500 lumens, 2000:1 contrast ratio and automatic
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      • 88 15 APPLE has announced the availability of its Shake 3.5 software which features new shape-based morphing and warping tools for advanced compositing and new "shape shifting" special effects. The software is designed for major motion picture studios and leading visual effects houses. Shake 3.5
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      • 51 15  -  Complied by Amit Roy Choudhury LEXMARK has appointed Jonathan Yeo as managing director, Asean/South Asia. Mr Yeo replaces Ng Chee Soon who will assume the role of managing director, supplies business, Asia-Pacific. Mr Yeo joined Lexmark in June 2002 as general manager, sales operations for Asean/South
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    • 330 15  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury DATA storage major lomega Corp has launched the REV 35G8/90GB drive, which the company is positioning as an alternative to tape and other back-up and archiving solutions. The drive comes with 35G8 removable REV disks which are the
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    • 253 15 Reuters [BEIJING] China's No 2 PC company, Founder Group, predicted on Friday its computer sales would grow nearly twice as fast as the market, underscoring the rising threat to small firms from bigger players like Lenovo Group formerly Legend and itself. But
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    • 768 15  -  IT comment INFOTECH Despite high Internet penetration, only a small number of Asians have shopped online raju chellam THE great Irish dramatist and poet Oscar Wilde said 100 years ago that there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked
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    • 269 15  -  By Amit Roy Choadhury CANON has named Hideki Ozawa as president and CEO of Canon Singapore, which was recently designated the Japanese office equipment giant's headquarters for the South and South-east Asia region. Mr Ozawa, 53, heads Canon's general management and business operations in
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    • 742 16  -  Now a unit of Cisco, it aims to be a US$1b business within a year, its founder tells Amit Roy Choudhury Amit Roy Choudhury US-BASED Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems and a leading maker of broadband, wireless and networking hardware for home
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    • 240 16  -  By Raju Chellam STARHUB'S mobile, cable TV and online customers can now access its range of services through a single sign-on. The service is called Hub ID and the technology comes from Ufinity, a privately held company funded by Gemplus, EDB Ventures and
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    • 254 16 AP [SANTA CLARA, California] Computer security firm Network Associates Inc will sell its network software division and rename itself McAfee Inc to focus solely on security products and services, the company said. The company said on Thursday it plans to sell its Sniffer product
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    • 304 17 ♦Contributed by Simpson Spence Young DRY CARGO: Overall the activity has rather slowed somewhat. However, considering the extensive Easter holiday break, this was to be expected. Despite this, a number of newbuilding orders have been reported, with both MOSK and K Line each said to have ordered a
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    • 586 17  -  Company veteran Vincent Lim takes over as chief executive of Hesse Noord Natie By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The appointment of PSA veteran Vincent Lim to head PSA International's European subsidiary Hesse Noord Natie (HNN) can be seen as the Singapore
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    • 288 17 SGX '000 *P> 23 SS Vol CH Offshore 0.39 -0.01 2019 Chuan Hup 0.53 unch 2694 Cosco Investment 1.03 0.03 ***** CWT Distribution 0.54 unch 0 Ezra Hldgs 1.07 -0.01 402 Freight links 0.12 -0.01 474 G8 Holdings .0.72 -0.02 6 Jaya Holdings 0.83 -0.01 1952 Kf Venture
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    • 318 17 Container shipping business will continue growing in 2004 and 2005 Reuters [COPENHAGEN] The container shipping business is set to go on growing this and next year, according to the head of Maersk Sealand, the container unit of Denmark's A P MoellerMaersk. "For 2004 and 2005
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    • 250 17  -  It will be headed by Norwegian academic Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Maritime research and development (R&D) is set to get a boost in Singapore with the establishment of a second advisory committee by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA). The 17-member Maritime R&D advisory
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    • 150 17 Reuters [BASRA, Iraq] Suicide bombers launched two boat attacks on Iraq's vital Basra offshore oil terminal on Saturday, Iraqi officials said, but the British military said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. One boat exploded alongside a ship tied up at
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    • 548 17 Liner shakes off 2 storms to make it on time to US port LAT-WP [NEW YORK] The world's biggest ocean liner, The Queen Mary 2, arrived in the United States, and New York was barely big enough to hold her. The
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    • 742 18  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes OVER the last few weeks there have a number of ominous developments for the container shipping industry, which has been going through a relatively good spell. For quite a while increasing container ship charter rates have been putting pressure
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    • 197 18 PAGE Alianca 3 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 Lee
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    • 12823 23 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 12/05 11/06 CMACGM CSAV HONG KONG *****S 65-*****BOO TO ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cott D'lvoire 16/05 12/06 HamburgSud EVER GENIUS 099W 65-*****133 03/05
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      • 375 25 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL FUJ I TOC/77 J7/8 A/SIDE 25/04 0800 LABROY 159 EBLS08 J2 A/SIDE 25/04 1200 ASIAN ROSALI 07 J15/16 25/04 1530 26/04 2300 CARINVENTURE 030A J7/8 25/04 0900 25/04 2130 DAXIN 026E J25 25/04 1800 26/04 0400 J.SPRING 5 J5
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      • 1794 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX DAHUA 075S 075S 1 27/04/2004-07:00 27/04/2004-20:30 T04 ACX HIBISCUS 091N 091N 1 27/04/2004-08:00 27/04/2004-21:00 T03 ACX MARIGOLD 013S 013S 1 25/04/2004-22:00 26/04/2004-08:30 P04 AKSOY TRUVA 0407 0406 1 27/04/2004-08:00
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      • 142 25 Apr 26 Australia: Anzac Day. Apr 29 Japan: Greenery Day. Apr 30 Vietnam: Victoria Day. May 1 Belgium: Labour Day. China: Labour Day. France: Labour Day. Germany: Labour Day. HK: Labour Day. Italy: Labour Day. Norway: Labour Day. Philippines: Labour Day. Singapore: Labour Day. S.Korea: Labour Day. Sweden:
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      • 533 25 Carbon Apr 22 Density Water Residue AshAlumlnium Sediment M/M Eiion KG/M*3 H V/V M/M *> M/M PPM ffwtlwd ISO/Cimac Limits Spec E25 991 1.0 15.0 0.10 80 0.10 Spec G35 991 1.0 18.0 0.15 80 0.10 Northern Europe 180 Ave 979.2 0.1 12.1 0.04 21 0.02
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      • 788 25 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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      • 708 26 There're still areas for negotiations in concession talks, he says Reuters [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines' chief executive said the company can easily avoid bankruptcy because there are still areas of discussion to explore in concession talks with pilots. Pilots at the No 3
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      • 51 26 [BEIJING] A Chinese woman waits near infrared machines monitoring the temperature of travellers at Beijing airport on Saturday. China said on Saturday that it was screening thousands of travellers for fevers at airports and train stations in a massive effort to block a new outbreak of Sars.
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      • 236 26 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Pilots of cargo airlines, including FedEx Corp and United Parcel Service, may start carrying guns as early as May 1, expanding US efforts to prevent a repeat of the 2001 terrorist attacks. The first group of cargo pilots begins
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      • 178 26 [SINGAPORE] Indian Airlines will launch a second daily flight connecting Singapore and Chennai from next month to meet rising demand. The new evening flight will deploy an Airbus 320 aircraft and depart Singapore at 8.55 pm, in addition to the existing daily morning service.
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      • 110 26 Reuters [LONDON] The chief executive of Ryanair, Europe's biggest no-frills airline, expects average fares to fall by between 5 and 20 per cent in 2004/05 owing to a continuing fares war in Europe. "We are still forecasting a yields decline from April (2004) to
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      • 349 26 Drastic rise seen inflicting heavy losses on airlines AFP [TEHRAN] The new Tehran international airport, already a financial pit, has seen its opening delayed again until May, officially because a rise in the price of jet fuel has sparked a row
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      • 177 26 Reuters [BANGKOK] South Korea's Korean Air has received a bomb threat against its aircraft flying between Thailand and South Korea, an official of the airline in the Thai capital said yesterday. The Korean Air official said the threat was made in a letter, posted in
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      • LOGBook
        • 156 26 AFP [LISBON] Portuguese flag carrier TAP-Air Portugal has decided to join Star Alliance, the global airline network led by Lufthansa and United Airlines, the weekly magazine Expresso reported on Saturday. The decision would be formally announced in the third week of May when the alliance
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        • 83 26 AFP [TORONTO] Air Canada is launching the first-ever direct non-stop service from Toronto to Hong Kong, using the ultra-long haul Airbus A 340-500 aircraft. The airline, struggling to work its way out of bankruptcy protection, said the daily fifteen-and-a-half hour flight would debut on Aug 1.
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        • 89 26 Bloomberg BEIJING] China Southern Airlines Co, China's biggest carrier, reported a smaller-than-expected net loss 0f358 million yuan (5572.9 million) for last year, after the Sars epidemic scared off travellers. The airline reported negative per-share earnings of 0.09 yuan compared with a profit 0f576 million yuan,
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      • 2164 26 CITY FLIGHT ETA FLIGHT ETO CITY FLIGHT ETA FLIGHT ETO 0*639 0745 8A7381 1840 1 MM BII18 0555 EK349 0030 0F8) 1840 $0403 0730 EK405 0210 GA975 0855 KL838 2255 EM04 1405 EM31 0325 EK430 2005 S0404 2325 zzrrrr 1 1 Frankfort AC9951 0630 LH9765 1345 TTr LH9762 0630 S0326
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    • 117 25 REGIONAL WEATHER jIMPy i I Issued by Meteorological Service Division,NEA LEGEND: K Thunderstorm Wind speed symbols Showers O Full circle w line ndicates ca m or light and variable winds p a j n One half fleche represents 5 knots Cloudy Day —One full fleche represents 10 knots x Hazy
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