The Business Times, 12 July 2004

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  • 16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (PI 023/03/2004 85C SIN GAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg MONDAY, JULY 12, 2004
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  • 949 1  -  Hike partly due to tourism board's efforts to target regional rich By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] Tourist spending on shopping rose an estimated 77 per cent in June during the Great Singapore Sale (GSS) from a year ago, according to Global Refund Singapore
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  • 63 1 Week Change STI 1862.03 +22.70 KLSECOMP 854.06 +23.38 NIKKEI 225 1142:1.5:1 -297.96 HANG SENG....... *****26 -17.87 SET INDEX 666.59 +19.02 JAKARTA COMP ...761.14 +16.11 MANILA COMP .1592.46 +1.82 TAIPEI TAIEX 5777.72 +31.02 SEOUL COMP 747.46 -7.96 SHENZHEN B. 253.62 -3.53 AUST ALL ORD .3558.90 +27.50 DOW JONES *****.22 -69.61
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  • 75 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ US$ (SSperliSS) 1.704 S(ISS/SS per X) 1.852 3.156 El R()(l SS/SS/K). 1.239 2.111 YEN 108.3 63.50 RM 3.800 2.230 HKS 7.799 4.577 BAHT 40.77 23.92 RI'PIAH 8,932 5.242 RENMINBI 8.277 4.857 INDIAN Rl'PEE 45.70 26.82 AS 1.383 0.812 NZS 1.524 0.894 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5i5
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  • 636 1  -  Outlook swings to potential sell-off from expected rally From Andrew Marks in New York IN a matter of a week, investors seem to have swung from worrying about how good second quarter earnings would be to how disappointing, following a rash of profit
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  • 666 1  -  Weakened Koiznmi faces threats to his leadership: analysts From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo FINANCIAL markets will have to grapple today with the implications of yesterday's parliamentary election which left Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) likely to fall short of its target of
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    • 164 2 [NEW DELHI] Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, seen here talking with senior vice-president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Onkar S Kanwar (left), as FICCI president Yogendra Kumar Modi (right) looks on, has challenged businessmen from both countries
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    • 577 2  -  Reforms have helped banks clean up their act: banker By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] Aided by a booming economy, rising consumerism and competition, India's banks are undergoing a dramatic transformation, a prominent Indian banker said. Anil Khandelwal, chairman and managing director of Dena
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    • 780 2  -  BT comment ECONOMICS vikram khanna ALK left, act W right." That was W H 1 how one of the I participants at the "India Call- ing 2004" conferB ence held here on Saturday a CEO of a prominent Indian finance company described India's
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 612 4  -  Purchase brings landbank acquired in past year to 656,700 sq ft By Kalpana Rashiwala CENTREPOINT is continuing to restock its residential landbank, buying its fifth site over the past one year. Sources told BT it recently inked a $31 million deal to buy
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    • 670 4  -  HOCK lock siew jean chua WITH the first Indian IPO breaking cover on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), the question must surely be whether Indian companies will excite the market the way Chinese IPOs did a year ago. Meghmani Organics, which makes pigments and pesticides,
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    • 1554 7  -  INSIDE MARKETS So far in July sentiment has been positive, with net buying in IT companies in 19 transactions worth $20.3 million, reports Robert Halili Robert Halili THE sentiment was positive last week with buyers outweighing sellers in every trading category based on filings to the Singapore
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    • 1231 8  -  BT portfolio STOCKS kenneth lim ALL our portfolios beat the market last week as analysts started to raise their Singapore targets and Informatics Holdings continued its climb amid several corporate developments. Last week saw research houses like ÜBS Investment Research, JP Morgan
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    • 267 8  - Pacific Andes a laggard play worth looking at HOT STOCK WARRANT By R Sivanithy CHINA plays were popular last week, with the likes of Bio-Treat, Guangzhao Industrial and AsiaPharm leading the way. There were also signs of a laggard play in the small-cap segment, the argument being that these stocks
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    • 287 10  -  New company to make plastic, glass covers for mobile phone screens By Tang Weng Fai FRESH from a vote of confidence from veteran investor Koh Boon Hwee, electronics manufacturing contractor Startech Electronics Ltd said it has formed a joint venture with a Chinese partner
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    • 324 10  -  China strategy pays off with two new contract worth over $2m By Carolyn Quek MAINBOARD-listed e-business consulting group Cyber Village Holdings said it expects to report a good set of second quarter results on the back of two new contracts. The company
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    • 229 10 HONG KONG-based Daka Designs Limited announced that eight institutional investors have snapped up almost half of the 70 million placement shares available for its initial public offer. Daka, a company that designs, develops and markets techno-leisure consumer products in the lifestyle, marine electronics and
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    • 304 10  -  By Jean Chua COMPONENTS manufacturer Memtech International, which will raise $66 million from its initial public offering on the Singapore stock market, will use the funds to upgrade its manufacturing capabilities as it seeks to add more foreign phone maker customers. Memtech,
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    • 526 4 P 9 Seminar Corporate Reporting Update Tuesday, 27 July 2004, 9am to spm, The Swissotel Merchant Court Hotel** Fee: Ss4so (PwC clients)/Sssoo (non-clients)" Early Bird Special: Ss4lo (PwC clients)/Ss46o (non-clients) Did you know... 1. In July 2004, the Council on Corporate Disclosure and Governance (CCDG) Issued 14 revised Financial Reporting
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 519 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy Having pushed Singa- rate cycle and how robust US compa- push on the Straits Times Index (STI) that helped it rise 90 points, or 5 per cent in two weeks, bringing it close to the troublesome 1,900
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    • 601 6 AFP [HONG KONGJ Asian currencies made small gains against the US dollar in the past week as the greenback remained weak against the yen ahead of Japan's Upper House election yesterday. Japanese yen: The yen seesawed against the US dollar in
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  • 1652 6 The stock recommendation is the average of all the recom- Number forecast Median mendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There RECOMMENDATION of EPS PE t£S is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not COMPANY ThtsWeefc/last Weefc Estimates (S) (times) (S) every stock is followed by
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    • 143 8 j This announcement appears as a matter of record only 12 July 2004 lechcomT TECHCOMP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda on 26 January 2004) Invitation in respect of 40,000,000 ordinary shares of US$O.O5 each comprising 35,000,000 New Shares and 5,000,000 Vendor Shares as follows:(a) 3,000,000 Offer Shares at 550.40 each
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 439 11  -  BT exclusive Two-day seminar incorporates visit to stock exchange By Siow Li Sen THEY may be the scions of some of the richest Asian families but they still have mundane concerns like how to score in interviews. So even while they are
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    • 392 11  -  The winners of the promising brand awards say it's important not to let customers down By Uma Shankari DISTINGUISH yourself from your competitors and take risks if you must these are the two qualities needed to create a great brand name. Above all, the
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    • 233 11  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY By Uma Shankari THE volume of newspaper job advertisements continued to register strong growth of 42 per cent year-on-year in June, although the momentum of growth slowed slightly from record growth in May. Job ads grew 65 per cent
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    • 1114 12 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices bolted back above US$4O per barrel in New York last week on worries about the supply outlook and the threat of terrorism. Gold prices reached the highest level for almost three months as the US dollar stumbled,
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  • 977 12 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Jul 9 PRIME LENDING RATES BANKS Dexia Banque Intl A ABN Amro Bank NV 5.25 Luxembourg 6 ABSA Bank Limited 5.5 Deutsche Bank AG 5.5 Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 DBS Bank 4.25 ANZ Banking Group 6 Dresdner Bank AG 5.5 American Express Bank 5 DnB
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 358 13 KUALA LUMPUR MPlant investor ups asking price to RM3 from range of RM2.65-RM2.70 THE entry of Singapore's Temasek Holdings Ltd into Malaysian Plantations Bhd (MPlant), owner of Alliance Bank could be in jeopardy, as sources say talks between Temasek and MPlant's largest
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    • 524 13 INDONESIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Latest count shows he has 34% of votes, versuns Mega's 26% AFP [JAKARTA] Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono maintained an unchallenged lead over President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday with more than 70 per cent of the votes counted in Indonesia's first direct presidential polls.
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    • 275 13 BANGALORE Reuters INDIA'S fledgling biotechnology sector, seeking to emulate the nation's software companies, hopes to generate one million jobs and investments of US$lO billion by 2010, industry officials said yesterday. Executives are betting on lowcost, highly-skilled knowledge workers to tap
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    • 548 13  -  LETTER FROM MANILA From Al Labita in Manila AMID a looming fiscal crisis, the Philippines is moving towards a change in the form of government, hoping it would rev up its sluggish economy and reorient a political culture that is more adversarial than unifying.
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  • WORLD news
    • 396 14 BRUSSELS Commission will have to continue to try and find a common position Reuters EFFORTS to standardise corporate accounting rules worldwide suffered a setback when advisers to the European Union executive failed to agree on a controversial accounting rule on derivatives.
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    • 348 14 It's suing FT for £240m over allegations by ex-employee in article [LONDON] British brokerage Collins Stewart Tullett is to seek an unprecedented £240 million (*****.4 million) in libel damages from the Financial Times over its coverage of allegations made by a former employee of
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    • 307 14 NEW YORK Reuters GROWTH in US consumer spending slowed in May as lower real wages and house prices, combined with fading benefits from tax cuts, squeezed middle-class Americans, a report showed on Friday. Deloitte Research said its Leading Index of Consumer Spending fell
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    • 546 14 NEW YORK Reuters THE appointment of the top US commodities regulator to head the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) could increase speculation in US oil markets by large investment funds following a recent decline, experts said on Friday. James Newsome, the head
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    • 405 14 LONDON CEO due today to outline plans for troubled retailer AFP AP Bloomberg TROUBLED British retail giant Marks Spencer will attempt to ward off an aggressive takeover bid by offering shareholders as much as £2.3 billion (557.3 billion), newspapers said. Stuart
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    • 638 14 NEW YORK He earned US$27m as personal injury lawyer in the four years before he joined Senate in 1999 NYT IN the four years before he joined the Senate in 1999, John Edwards made a total of nearly US$27 million as a personal injury lawyer
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    • 326 15 NEW YORK He will receive sum if he quits or Wachovia ends his contract after acquiring SouthTrust Bloomberg SOUTHTRUST chief executive Wallace Malone will get US$3O.3 million if he or Wachovia Corp ends his five-year employment contract after Wachovia acquires SouthTrust by year-end.
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    • 261 15 NEW YORK AP MCI Inc, the telecommunications company that recently emerged from bankruptcy protection, is suing its former CEO Bernard Ebbers, saying he must repay US$4OB million the company loaned him over two years. The suit, filed on Friday in US Bankruptcy Court for
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  • BizIT
    • 622 16  -  BT exclusive S'pore buyers bought 1.7m cartridges worth some US$40m in Q1 By Raju Chellam THE growing demand for photo printers and digital cameras, as well as a huge uptick in the new all-in-one (AIO) devices is set to boost sales of printer consumables like
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    • 334 16 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's Prince Charles has fired a new broadside at the scientific community, warning them of the dangers of the breakthrough science of nanotechnology. Writing in The Independent yesterday, the heir to the throne welcomes the "triumph of human ingenuity" working with extremely
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    • ITTAKES
      • 69 16 SINGAPORE-based Buzz City said it has closed its third round of funding worth $2.2 million. The funds were raised from existing investor OCBC Wearnes and Walden, and from new investors Providence Investments of the Tai Tak Group of Companies, Malaysia-based Asiawire Consulting and others. The cash
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      • 59 16 FUJI Xerox Printers has introduced a tabloid colour laser printer. The Phaser 7750 is targeted at graphic arts professionals and is priced from $9,999. It comes with colour management and colour calibration software to help maintain colour accuracy, and prints at 1,200 by 1,200
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      • 68 16 CREATIVE Technology has tied up with Analog Devices Inc to provide PC users with a simple upgrade from host audio to Soundßlaster audio quality. Under the deal, Creative will market a Soundßlaster-enhanced audio upgrade to Analog Devices' integrated audio. This will allow end-users to
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      • 68 16 BROTHER International has launched two new 5-in-l flatbed laser Multi-Function Centres (MFCs). The MFC-8440 and MFC-8840D feature a built-in secure print feature under which printing is possible only by entering a PIN number on the printer panel. The devices offer print speeds of up to
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      • 65 16 Green Dot Internet Services (GDIS) said it has acquired the business of iQB Pte Ltd, an online payment service provider. Online payments will add a new dimension to GDIS' existing business of portal development and management, data centre and call centre services. iQB was setup
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      • 78 16 DELL Inc has announced two new corporate desktop computers with innovative designs. The OptiPlex SX and GX 280 systems run on the new Intel Pentium-4 500 family of processors and the 915G Express chipset. The new platforms introduce DDR2 memory, the next generation memory architecture
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      • 74 16 MACROMEDIA Inc said its latest Flash Player profile for mobile phones is now available. The Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1 is targeted at service providers and handset manufacturers. The 1.1 is an upgrade on 1.0, which was first used in the DoCoMo 505 i handsets launched last
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      • 54 16 SMC Networks has announced the latest addition to its Elite Connect family of wireless networking products. The SMC2SB6W-G is a 2.4 GHz 802. llg wireless bridge that links two or more wired LANs to connect difficult-to-wire locations, branch offices, schools or corporate campuses. It costs $510.
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      • 54 16 BMC Software has appointed Nick Lim as country director for Singapore, and Sabrina Koh as director for business partners for South-east Asia. Both will be based in Singapore, BMC's Asia-Pacific HQ. Mr Lim was previously enterprise sales manager for BMC Asia-Pacific. Ms Koh was previously BMC's
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      • 51 16 ARK Group Asia will hold a three-day "E-mail Management Conference" at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, from July 20. It will offer a user's perspective on communicating effectively via e-mail, managing liabilities, cutting storage and retrieval costs, controlling spam, and protecting data. For details, e-mail
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      • 62 16 THE Singapore Computer Society has announced the Splash Awards Wireless Jam 2005, a national competition that aims to drive wireless awareness, transfer technology to the developer community, and develop wireless solutions. The event is supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and the Singapore
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      • 55 16  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury THE Computer Security Institute has set up the Asian chapter and will hold its first two major events in Singapore and Beijing in October. CSI-Asia will offer one more day of training workshops in Singapore in October, the security body
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    • 671 18  -  BT exclusive The company wants to double sales from the Asia-Pacific this year. Tang Weng Fai reports Tang Weng Fai US-BASED IT security appliance maker Fortinet Inc is betting on Asia to make its fortune and wants the region to double sales this
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    • 351 18 AFP [WASHINGTON] About 25 per cent of Internet users in an eight-country survey admit to illegally downloading movies, but the percentage is more that twice as high in South Korea. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said its survey released this
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    • 600 18  -  Gartner figures show outsourcing will also continue to drive growth By Raju Chellam ACCELERATING activity in offshore outsourcing, in which companies shift jobs across national borders, fuelled the market for IT services worldwide last year. The global IT services market crossed US$569
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    • 243 18 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] AT&T Corp won a 37 per cent reduction of a government fine to end a probe into whether it made sales calls to people who had asked not to be contacted by telemarketers. The company agreed to pay U*****,000. AT&T had faced
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    • 136 18 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's No 2 mobile phone carrier KDDI Corp plans to develop handsets powered by a small fuel cell and to commercialise them in 2007. KDDI wants to develop them through separate tie-ups with high-tech firms Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp, the
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 237 19 ♦Contributed by Simpson Spence Young TANKERS: Following last week's reported OMI transactions, it would seem that the two suezmaxes that they purchased, in addition to the Athenian fleet, were the Arcadia Shipmanagementcontrolled Aegean Eagle/ Aegean Lady (165,000/2003) at around US$7O million each. Another bloc of vessels reported sold
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    • 294 19 SGX '000 JuL? SS *1- Vol CH Offshore 0.40 unch 2027 ChuanHup .0.52 unch 411 Cosco Investment 0.83 0.02 6293 CWT Distribution 0.49 -0.01 7 Ezra Hldgs 1.00 0.01 17 Freight Links 0.11 0.01 623 GB Holdings 0.88 0.01 111 Java Holdings 0.90 0.03 7242 K1 Venture 0.27
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    • Article, Illustration
      39 19 [SHANGHAI] It's sea of red as the largest container ship was launched at a ceremony in Shanghai on Friday. The vessel capable of carrying 8,500-TEUcontainers began its maiden voyage from China's financial hub to North America. REUTERS
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    • 601 19  -  Only 16 out of 1,300 ships failed to meet ISPS requirements since July 1: MPA By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] It continues to be smooth sailing at the Singapore port with data from the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) showing just 16 out of 1,300
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    • 223 19 AFP [BREST, France] The wreck of a French trawler which sank off southern England, has raised to the surface, raising hopes that the bodies of three crew members, missing since it was involved in a hit-and-run accident in January, would be recovered. The
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    • 160 19 Xinhua [YICHANG] The giant ship lock of the Three Gorges Water Control Project on the Yangtze River opened officially for navigation on Thursday following a oneyear trial operation. Construction of the twoway five-step lock, the largest in the world, took nine years at a
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    • 388 19 Reuters [SAO PAULO] Brazil's main ports are still not in compliance with new world maritime anti-terror laws due to bureaucratic red-tape, a government official said. The stringent security standards, known as the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code, went into
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    • 607 20  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes JUST a few years ago, when the cruise ship boom was in full swing, extensive conversions of elderly passenger ships were commonplace. It made commercial sense to look at rebuilding old hulls at a time when demand
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    • 186 20 PAGE Alianca 3 AAL 5 Avant 5 Bank Line 4 B'tang Mas 3 BSA 4 BTL 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 China Shpg 4 Confer 5 Crocodile Line ....4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 EP Carriers 5 ECL 3 Eng Lee 5 Eukor 2 Foong Sun 4 Frt
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    • 12904 24 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone S|N Dest'nName Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 22/07 05/08 COSCO EVER ALLY 0I72-09IW 65-*****900 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 01/08 15/08 COSCO SONG YUN HE 0173-098W 65-*****900 19/07 30/06
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 504 27 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI PURPOSE TERMINAL CMA VERNET GA039W J18/19 A/SIDE 12/07 0700 COSMOS VERDE 32 J10/11 A/SIDE 12/07 1600 DAXIN 041W J25 A/SIDE 12/07 0500 E R SYDNEY GA034E J16/17 A/SIDE 12/07 0700 LABROY 159 EBLS12 J2 A/SIDE 12/07 1600 NUEVO LEON 427-89
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      • 1852 27 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX HIBISCUS 1 13/07/2004-07:00 13/07/2004-20:00 Acx MAGNOLIA ~Q79N 079N 1 13/07/2004-08:00 13/07/2004 fejX) ALAMJAYA AJ005 AJ005 1 13/07/2004-05:00 13/07/2004-11:30 ALAMJAYA 2 8904 8904 1 12/07/2004-09:00 12/07/2004-19:00 *14 ANDA 4167 4167
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      • 138 27 Jul 14 France: Nat Day. Jul 15 Brunei: Sultan's Birthd. Jul 15 SKorea: Consti Day. Jul 19 Japan: Marine Day. Malaysia: Agung Birthday. Jul 21 Belgium: Nat Day. Aug 1 Switzerland: Nat Day. Aug 9 Singapore: Nat Day. Aug 12 Thailand: Queen's Birthday. Aug 15 France: Assump Day.
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      • 808 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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      • 610 27 Carbon 180 Max 976.5 0.3 14.3 0.03 24 0.01 j U l g Density Water Residue AshAluminlum Sediment No above E25 0 0 0 0 0 0 HM/M 380 Ave 989.1 0.2 14.6 0.04 20 0.02 Exxon 380 Max 1013.5 0.6 17.9 0.06 48 0.03 kg/m'3
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 597 28 Air France warns of legal action as airport acts to woo budget carriers AFP [GENEVA] After offering prestige terminals, business lounges, and air-condi-tioned gangways, airports are now risking a bruising battle with big airlines to offer cheaper terminals with a flavour of the spartan
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      • 275 28 AFP [BANGKOK] Thai Airways' new nofrills service, Nok Air, will take to the skies on July 20 to join an already crowded market for budget airlines, the company said last Friday. Company bosses have touted the airline as being the world's first
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      • 355 28 AP [SINGAPORE] A recent US jury verdict that blamed a 1997 plane crash in Indonesia on mechanical failure not intentional pilot action as US investigators concluded is "confusing", the head of a relatives' support group said Saturday in Singapore. The comment from Ho Soo
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      • 464 28 SIA, Emirates may not get approval to extend services to Sydney, Melbourne Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Australia's government, facing a general election this year, may favour the nation's secondlargest carrier Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd when it comes to awarding permission for lucrative flights to
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      • 272 28 British reporter was able to take a knife aboard BA flight to London Reuters [KUWAIT] Security officials on Saturday downplayed a newspaper report alleging lax security at Kuwait International Airport after a British reporter took a knife aboard a British Airways (BA) flight.
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      • 172 28 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Belgian police said they had made two arrests at Brussels' main airport on Saturday, with local television saying the suspects were Sudanese members of Osama bin Laden's A 1 Qaeda movement. "There have been two arrests in Zaventem (airport) this morning,"
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      • LOGBook
        • 118 28 Xinhua [JAKARTA] Indonesian state-run airline PT Merpati Nusantara plans to increase flights to Malaysia and Australia in the near future, soon after its new Boeing planes arrive. "For the medium term, we will focus on Malaysia and Australia after the Boeing planes arrive this
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        • 65 28 Reuters [FRANKFURT] EADS, Europe's largest aerospace company, expects its Airbus A3BO superjumbo programme to reach break-even profitability around 2012, a German newspaper reported on Saturday. The A3BO programme will reach profitability when 250 airplanes are sold, which is expected to happen in about
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        • 62 28 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Germany's opposition-controlled upper house of parliament delayed the passage of a government bill that would give the armed forces authority to shoot down commercial airliners hijacked by suspected suicide bombers. The draft law, approved three weeks ago by the lower house, gives Germany's
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        • 111 28 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong air cargo throughput jumped 24 per cent year-on-year in June due to strong summer demand from US and European markets, the Hong Kong Airport Authority said yesterday. Cargo volume totalled 250,000 tonnes in June, an increase of
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