The Business Times, 19 August 2004

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    14 1 MITA (P) 023/03/2004 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. 2004 j Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg
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    Lock icon Exchange issues practice note on M&A disclosures
    799 1  -  Guide reinforces primacy of timely disclosure of material info: SGX By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] As the pace of mergers and takeovers quickens here, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday issued a practice note to guide offerors and companies on complying with disclosure obligations
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    Lock icon S'pore no longer among 25 most expensive cities for expats
    667 1  -  Strong euro pushes up rankings of European cities By AnnaTeo [SINGAPORE] For the first time in five years, Singapore has dropped out of the list of 25 most expensive cities for expatriates but mostly because European cities have become rather
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    Lock icon China Aviation Oil buys 21% of SPC for $292m
    756 1  -  By] Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] China Aviation Oil will pay $291.5 million for a 20.6 per cent stake in the Singapore Petroleum Company. This is 39 per cent more than the same number of shares would have cost it six months
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    80 1 Dsn 1,890.68 (+10.16) ST INDEX FUTURES IrBSS.OOl r 8SS.OO (unch) ■■SMSCI LJ 228A2 (+1.59) SIMSCI FUTURES 228.80 (+1.90) Wednesday Change KLSE COMP ***** +1.05 NIKKEI 225 10,***** +4819 HANG SENG 1****** -2758 SET INDEX ***** +255 JAKARTA COMP _***** +250 MANILA COMP —*****7 -10.46 TAIPEI WPI 5,427.75 +85.26 SEOULCOMP
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    Lock icon FINANCE
    77 1 FOREX RATES US$ 8$ IJS$ (S$ per l.'SS) 1.714 £(i:S$/S$ per 1.827 3.130 ErRO(l'S$/S$/E). 1.232 2.112 YEN 109.9 64.10 KM 3.800 2218 H K$ 7.800 4.552 BAHT 41.50 2422 RI'PIAH 9.278 5.414 RENMINBI 8.277 4.830 INDIAN RUPEE 46 40 27.08 A$ 1.401 0.818 NZS 1.509 0.881 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Sales and marketing replace cost-cutting in firms' expansion drive
      489 2  -  By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] From cost cutting in the past three years or so, the focus for businesses today has shifted to sales and marketing, to drive growth and market expansion. And asked to identify the greatest constraints on growth, 40
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      Lock icon EDB confident of meeting $8b fixed asset investment forecast
      648 2  -  Board also likely to exceed its earlier job estimate, says Hng Kiang By Nande Khin [SlNGAPOßE] The Economic Development Board (EDB) is confident of meeting its forecast on fixed asset investment (FAI) commitments this year, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng
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      Lock icon Shanghai's rising costs push investors to Suzhou
      487 2  -  By Jean Chua [SINGAPORE] Rising costs in Shanghai are driving foreign investment into nearby Suzhou in Jiangsu province, which is again the top destination in East China for overseas companies. According to a South China Morning Post report, Suzhou attracted US$4.O5 billion in
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      Lock icon FT vows to fight £240m libel suit
      278 2 It stands by report citing insider trading allegations against brokerage Reuters [LONDON] The Financial Times, facing a £240 million (***** million) libel lawsuit, yesterday vowed to stand by its story that cited allegations against Collins Stewart, even after a UK regulator dropped its
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      Lock icon Less fraud in S'pore companies in past 2 years: survey
      559 2  -  But companies believe more can still be done By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Fewer Singapore corporations suffered from fraud in the last two years and fraud committed by management also declined, but companies can still do more to detect and
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon CAO mill add more spark to SPC
      836 4  -  HOCK lock siew loh hui yin IS China Aviation Oil over-paying for its 20.6 per cent stake in oil refiner Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) when it could have paid a lower price last year when talk was rife in the stock market that
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      Lock icon CAO's shine all due to one man
      507 4  -  MD Chen Jiulin gets it listed after turning it around By Jean Chua WHEN Chen Jiulin was posted to Singapore as managing director of China Aviation Oil in 1997, his job was to revive a four-year-old unit which had been haemorrhaging and had
      TAN SUAN ANN/ST  -  507 words
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      Lock icon SMRT sells entire stake in Today for $3.5m
      296 4  -  By Wong Wei Kong TRANSPORT group SMRT Corp has finally sold out of Today newspaper, after indicating earlier this year that it wanted to exit the loss-making operation. SMRT said yesterday its wholly-owned subsidiary RFP Investments has disposed of its entire 14.56
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      Lock icon NatSteel gives Tata Steel an Asian footprint
      743 4  -  It's Indian group's third major global deal, including US$102m purchase of Daewoo track unit By Taila Krishnakumar TATA Steel's move to purchase Nat Steel shows that Indian companies have Singapore firmly on their radar screens as they scramble to globalise, according to market
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      Lock icon Datacraft earnings, revenue improve in Q3
      364 5  -  But analysts find results below expectations and market is unmoved By Tang Weng Fai COMPUTER network integrator Datacraft Asia saw third-quarter profit rise on higher sales in all markets except South Korea, and is promising to turn around operations in China and South Korea.
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Strait. Trading set. d^hanghSTSTt
        98 5 THE Straits Trading Company Ltd (STC) has incorporated a company in Shanghai to operate and provide management services to hotels in China. Shanghai Rendezvous Hotels Management, with a registered capital of US$7OO,OOO and 80 per cent owned by Straits Trading, will take over the management of
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        Lock icon SembKimtrans in logistics venture
        51 5 SEMBAWANG Kim trans Ltd has formed a joint venture company, Xpress 21 Pte Ltd, with Century Finance Investment Ltd to provide marine logistics services to the Riau Islands and selected parts of Sumatra. Singapore-incorporated Xpress 21 has initial paid-up capital of $300,000,60 per cent from Sembawang
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        59 5 SINGAPORE Computer Systems (SCS) has strengthened its market presence in Indonesia following the formal establishment of a joint venture, PT SCS Astragraphia Technologies, with PT Astra Graphia. The latter is a subsidiary of Indonesian-listed PT Astra International, an IT solutions provider. SCS will pay $7.85 million
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        Lock icon DBS unit nps paid-up capital
        69 5 LION City Run-Off Private Limited (LCR), a wholly owned subsidiary of DBS Group Holdings, has increased its paid-up capital to 6.5 million shares of par value $1 each from two shares of par value $1 each. LCR was incorporated in June this year in connection
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        Lock icon Court dismisses Yongnam's appeal
        60 5 YONGNAM Holdings Ltd said the Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by Yongnam Development Pte Ltd against Somerset Development Pte Ltd. The company said the judgement will not significantly impact its results as it has already written off $12.2 million—being the net book value
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        Lock icon SBI-E2-Capital renamed Westoomb
        47 5 BOUTIQUE investment advisory firm SBI-E2-Capital Holdings said its special resolution to change its name to Westcomb Financial Group Ltd was unanimously approved at its extraordinary general meeting. Its wholly owned subsidiary, SBI E2-Capital Pte Ltd has changed its name to Westcomb Capital Pte Ltd.
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      Lock icon Tech Group Asia net profit up 50%
      525 5  -  By Joyce Koh TECH Group Asia (TGA) certainly has good things to look forward to. On top of a strong FY2004 performance, the integrated precision plastic component supplier is positive about more growth years given the strong backing of its US parent company
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      665 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN OCBC IhvlScMvSiaJO Capital restructuring will unlock significant value. We are reiterating our BUY recommendation on OCBC as we believe the market has yet to fully appreciate its potential for capital restructuring. It's almost a foregone conclusion that OCBC will manage its capital even more
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      Lock icon Total Access seen gaining from Thai telecoms revamp
      233 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of Thai telecommunications player Total Access Communications (TAC) was one of the volume leaders yesterday amid reports that it was best positioned to gain from an impending liberalisation and restructuring of that country's telecoms
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      Lock icon Oil price fears continue to weigh on sentiment
      603 6  -  BT comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan STOCKS traded sidewards again despite a firmer overnight close on Wall Street as sentiment was weighed down by the gloom induced by oil prices hitting new record highs. Blue chips and second liners continued to move in
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      Lock icon US$ gets a breather, but yen still stronger
      615 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES Meanwhile euro, Aussie dollar fail upside attempts at US$1.24 and 72 US cents larry wee A BENIGN US inflation number overnight helped to prop up US Treasury bond prices and therefore Wall Street and the US dollar, but the
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Daka Designs execs buy more shares %
        68 6 Daka Designs execs buy more shares DAKA Designs' executive chairman Pat Mah and chief executive Raymond Chow have each bought 100,000 shares in the company at 12 cents each. The open-market transactions on Tuesday gave Mr Chow and Mr Mah a direct stake each of0.0331 per cent. Both have a
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        Lock icon China EnerSave CEO raises stake
        76 6 CHINA EnerSave chief executive Koo Ah Seang bought 150,000 shares in the company on Tuesday at 13.5 cents a piece. The open-market purchase raised his direct stake in the company to 5.81 per cent from 5.75 per cent. He also has a deemed stake of
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        Lock icon S8I-E2 chief exec buys 20,000 shares
        76 6 CHOO Chee Kong, the chief executive of SBI E2Capital Holdings, bought another 20,000 shares in the company on the open market yesterday at 40 cents apiece after buying 45,000 shares on Monday at 40.6 cents apiece. This raised his direct stake to 1.77 per
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        Lock icon Asiatravel director's stake increased
        72 6 AN independent director of Asiatravel.com Holdings, Ong Nai Pew, on Tuesday saw his deemed stake in the online hotel and travel reservation service provider grow by 150,000 shares at about 35 cents each to about 2.95 million shares or 1.53 per cent from 1.44 per cent.
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        Lock icon HG Metal director boosts holdings
        80 6 A NON-EXECUTIVE director of HG Metal Manufacturing Limited, Sia Ling Sing, on Tuesday bought 289,000 shares from the open market at 35.5 cents a piece. The purchase raised the director's direct stake in the stockist and manufacturer of steel products to 2.81 per cent, or
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        Lock icon Lasseters director ups shareholding
        57 6 KUAN Peng Ching, a non-executive director of Australia-based gaming company Lasseters International Holdings, bought 61,000 shares on the open market on Tuesday at 23.5 cents apiece. His purchase raised his direct stake to 1.1 per cent, or 1.9 million shares, from 1.06 per cent stake. Lasseters
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        Lock icon Econ Healthcare MD stake rises
        61 6  -  Compiled by TAILA KRISHNAKUMAR ONG Chu Poh, managing director of Eicon Healthcare Limited, bought 200,000 shares on the open market at 20 cents apiece yesterday. This raised his direct stake to 10.01 per cent from 9.83 per cent. Mr Ong has a deemed stake of
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      395 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 18 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -703.00 -149.00 IT C/UM -*****.00 -11.00 WIOHUBT—A -*****.00 -71.00 AI-SCEjuMw 492.06 +3.16 SGEqaWwEhct 151.93 +1.01 SCEqiritf—Fl« 1562.68 +7.74 S6 Equttfw Prop 442.37 +4.95 SmSa 228.42 +1.59 SMSCtFNtvrM 228.50 +1.90 Cfflraya 2.5c 38.559,000 NOL 20.193.000 TACBtl0 200 18.250,800 Bio-Treat HK40c 14,977,000 8TetecomUS2c
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  • BLUE chips
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      Lock icon Parkway back in the pink of health after restructuring
      983 7  -  The healthcare group has been undergoing a quiet transformation. ANDREA TAN looks at its future prospects ANDREA TAN PARKWAY Holdings' restructuring efforts over the years appear to have paid off. The healthcare operator has survived the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome days
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Another key Haw Par shareholder boosts stake
      589 8  -  US investment firm Asbai seen as banking on a UOB takeover bid By Joyce Koh MAJOR players in Wee Cho Yaw's Haw Par Corporation are beefing up their stakes in what could be a prelude to a major corporate reshuffle in the Wee
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      Lock icon Star Cruises returns to Q2 profit
      265 8  -  By Tang Weng Fai STAR Cruises saw a dramatic change of fortune in its second quarter, booking net earnings of US$2.3 million and reversing a near US$29 million after-tax loss a year earlier. The cruise line said Ebitda increased to U5565.3 million in Q2
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      Lock icon Sincere to book exceptional gain after HK listing
      390 8  -  Move is part of group's plan to expand in N. Asia By Jean Chua SINCERE Watch will book an exceptional gain for its current financial year after it lists its Hong Kong operations in the territory's stock exchange. "We really can't talk
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      Lock icon Temasek buys stake in ICICI OneSource
      226 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE investment company Temasek Holdings Pte and Westbridge Capital have purchased stakes in ICICI One Source Ltd, a cus-tomer-contact-centre unit of India's second-largest bank. ICICI One Source, a unit of Mumbai-based ICICI Bank Ltd, signed "definitive agreements" with Temasek and Westbridge, a venture
      Bloomberg  -  226 words
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      Lock icon Asia insurance sector's profit expected to slide this year
      280 8  -  By Genevieve Cua ASIA'S insurance industry was buoyed by a "renaissance in profitability" last year, thanks to improved economic fundamentals and better underwriting discipline. But profits are expected to be lower this year, says Standard Poor's managing director (financial services ratings)
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    4170 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS CM US Aggressive Growth fund 0.76/ ■SiOlBLlSfilEBHHHHi S B Set Gf)Jus Ldre PHI 03(SGD) 1.0706/ S B Sel Gfc Bus LdfS PtR 03(USD) 1.0979/ AtN Amro Aftat Mgt (S port) CWwnd S'pore CtasY 0.991/ Star Europe EJyJ 0.709/ SBSelEqtyl>videndPf04(SGD) 0.959V jig Band 1-286/ S B Sal Eq*
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon S'pore and Thailand top picks for Asian tourists
      501 9  -  China comes first for business travel, followed by S'pore and Hong Kong, survey finds By Vince Chong SINGAPORE, along with Thailand, are the countries most visited by Asian leisure travellers in the first half 0f2004, said Mastercard International yesterday. And an "efficient
      Source: Mastercard Int'l  -  501 words
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      Lock icon COE prices slide for all categories
      264 9  -  EYE on the economy By Samuel Ee COE premiums fell across the board yesterday, although the maximum drop was contained at just under $900. Category A for cars under 1,600 cc was the first to see bidding action, as other categories stayed at $1.
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      Lock icon Changi passenger traffic hits 7-mth high
      266 9  -  By Ven Sreenivasan PASSENGER traffic at Changi Airport in July soared to its highest level since December 2003, with some 2.68 million travellers using the hub. This was a 26.3 per cent increase from 2.12 million travellers in July 2003 and an 8.1 per
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      Lock icon One-north offers free innovation test-bed
      358 9  -  JTC, EDB unveil scheme to boost innovation hub goal By Jessica Cheam INNOVATORS have a new test-bed to play with. In a bid to fuel greater innovation in Singapore, JTC Corporation and the Economic Development Board yesterday launched a new programme through which innovators can
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      Lock icon Brunei officials in town to meet S'pore leaders
      259 9  -  Visit is part of annual exchanges to strengthen ties By Nando Khin AN official delegation from Brunei arrives today to meet Singapore leaders. Pehin Dato Haji Isa Ibrahim, Special Adviser to the Sultan of Brunei and Minister of Home Affairs, will lead
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      Lock icon ASM, chip equipment maker, to setup plant here
      262 9  -  By Raju Chellam EUROPEAN chip equipment maker ASM International will spend $50 million over the next two years setting up a wafer processing equipment plant at Yishun its first outside Europe. This means the local chip-making scene is going to get brighter,
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      Lock icon PSB studies further expansion in Vietnam
      522 9  -  $3m investment planned for more educational centres From Chen Huifen in Ho Chi Minh City BARELY a few months after the completion of its new school building in Vietnam, Singapore's PSB Corp is already planning to invest another $3 million to set up more
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon HDB Corp to lift overseas contribution to revenue
      496 10  -  It will continue to eye mass-housing consultancy and development market abroad By Chen Huifen in Hanoi JUST over a year after it was corporatised, HDB Corp has revealed ambitions to boost its overseas earnings to 25 per cent of total revenue within
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      Lock icon GIC arm buys 2 Korean malls
      281 10  -  By Vince Chong GIC Real Estate (GIC RE) has for the first time bought into the tightly-held South Korean retail property market, with a 128 billion won (SslB9 million) sale-and-leaseback deal of two shopping malls in Seoul. This brings GIC RE's total assets in
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      Lock icon More 99-year condo buyers turn to secondary market
      367 10  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala A DEARTH of 99-year leasehold project launches by developers forced a bigger proportion of leasehold condo and apartment buyers to turn to the secondary market in the first two quarters of this year. The secondary market accounted for 58
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon HK bankers to testify in M'sian steel tycoon Eric Chia's trial
      449 11 KUALA LUMPUR Prosecutors pursue money trail in alleged embezzlement HONG Kong bankers will provide evidence to help prosecutors follow the money trail in the trial of the former head of Malaysia's national steel company who allegedly embezzled US$2O million,
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon M'sia factory sales up 22% in June
        116 11 Reuters (KUALA LUMPUR] Strong sales both at home and abroad saw Malaysian manufacturers sell 22.1 per cent more goods in June than they did a year earlier, a rise analysts said reinforced a robust growth outlook for the second half. However they also
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        Lock icon Wiranto plans Hawaii-like resert
        101 11 AFP [JAKARTA] Having failed in his bid to become Indonesia's next leader, former armed forces chtaf Wiranto has now set his sights on buildings Hawaii-like resort at a secluded surf spot, one of hie aides said yesterday. Gen Wiranto is to jointly head up a new
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        Lock icon Hynix to build China chip plants
        104 11 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest computer memory chipmaker, said it signed an agreement with Chinese government officials to build two chip plants in the eastern city of Wuxi for US$2 billion. The agreement involves building a factory capable of making chips out
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        Lock icon Indonesia to scrap exit tax
        95 11 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia is to scrap a hefty exit tax levied on residents who travel overseas, a report said yesterday. Indonesia imposes a one million rupiah (SslBs) tax, known locally as flskal, on every foreign or Indonesian resident who flies out of the country. "Later
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        Lock icon China opens bookstores to investors
        77 11 Reuters [BEIJING] China will open its bookstore and distribution businesses completely to foreigners by the year-end, a senior official said yesterday, in an endorsement of overseas capital in the tightly controlled sector. But foreign investment in publishing and other core content sectors will not be
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        Lock icon EDS to doable Indian staff
        74 11 Reuters [MUMBATJ Electronic Data Systems Corp, the world's second-largest software services firm, plans to more than double its Indian staff to 5,000 by the end 0f2005 to meet demand from new contracts it hopes to land, a top official said on Tuesday. Texas-based EDS, which
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      Lock icon KLCC Property shares fail to scale heights on debut
      299 11  -  They close 6.6% below institutional sale price of RM1.81 From Eddie Toh 4m Kmtfa Lumpur THE Petronas Twin Towers fta the Malaysian capital fltand tall but its parent company's shares failed to soar on their debut yesterday. The share price of
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      287 11 JAKARTA He says firm won't pay US$261m claim, alleging corruption AFP THE new head of Indonesia's state oil firm Pertamina said yesterday he would defy an order to compensate an internationally-backed energy firm, alleging corruption in the power project that caused the dispute.
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      293 11 BEIJING They are accused of siphoning HK$30m for their own use AFP CHINESE police have arrested three top Bank of China (BOC) executives in connection with the misappropriation of millions of dollars of funds, state press reported yesterday. In a widening
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      307 11 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA will dangle the carrot and wave the stick as it revamps an ailing brokerage sector, speeding up approvals for favoured firms while stepping up scrutiny over others, state media yesterday cited a top regulator as saying. Quality houses would
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      460 11 KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN motorists may see a reduction in the excise duties on certain car models should the government accept an industry proposal for a comprehensive overhaul of the duty structure, The Star reported yesterday citing sources. This is among many proposals put
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      788 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION robert samuelson SOMEDAY soon, I may be the last man in America without a cellphone. To those who see cellphones as progress, I say: they aggravate noise pollution and threaten our solitude. The central idea of cellphones is that you should
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      41 12 'Venezuela has changed. The people are not ignorant like the opposition thinks. We are no longer blind. We will not longer be fooled.' -Gnadeth Pena, a poor Venezuelan voter, after President Hugo Chavez handily defeated the recall vote
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      649 12 EDITORIAL AT a time when investor interest in Indonesia is on the rise, the government's 2005 draft Budget this week cannot but be viewed as something of a wet blanket By adopting unrealistic macro-economic targets, President Megawati Sukarnoputri may have passed up a golden opportunity to lift
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      840 12  -  Everything seems to hinge on GDP figures but economists' collective vision often seems to be very murky By Daniel Gross NYT THE gross domestic product the broad measure of output is the ultimate headline number for an economy. Everything from presidential election strategies to marketing plans
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      874 12  -  COMMENTARY By Willim Pesek YOU would think Taipei financial consultant Lin Hsie-ching would have an easy time persuading investors to buy local stocks. Growth is poised to accelerate, exports are booming and Taiwan's dollar is strengthening. Think again. "The environment for stocks is
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      610 13 NEW YORK Still, market remains nervous over supply disruptions in Iraq Reuters, AFP NYMEX crude oil futures eased from early record highs yesterday on profittaking following release of US government supply data showing US crude stocks shrank last week in line
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      311 13 NEW YORK Reuters BANK of America Corp plans to lay off hundreds of tellers and other employees at Fleet bank branches, and ask them to leave immediately, the Boston Globe said yesterday, citing documents it obtained and Fleet branch managers. One Fleet
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      650 13 Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Google Inc, the world's most popular Web search engine, yesterday slashed the price of its share offering, as what had been touted as the hottest dotcom listing in years fell prey to worry about a slump in demand. Google reduced the
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      333 13 MANILA No news on economic team, which has to cut huge Budget deficit Reuters PHILIPPINE President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo shuffled her cabinet for the first time since winning elections in May, choosing a close aide as foreign minister and putting a lawyer in charge of the
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      363 13  -  Staff quality, company reputation come before price in deals done By Jessica Cheam THE importance of the human element in business cannot be underrated. A new survey released yesterday revealed that quality of staff and company reputation are the top reasons businesses are
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      423 13 HONG KONG Cisco, Wal-Mart suffer cuts; 4 new companies added Bloomberg EBAY Inc and Yahoo! Inc will have their representations increased in Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc's indexes of global stocks. On the other hand, Cisco Systems Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc will
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        70 13 AFP [VEVEY] Swiss food group Nestle reported yesterday that first-half net profit rose 2.1 per cent to 2.84 billion Swiss francs (553.9 billion) from a year ago, below market expectations, but predicted improvement in the second half. Analysts had forecast around 2.96 billion
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        77 13 AFP [SYDNEY] Global mining giant BHP Billiton posted the biggest net profit in Australian corporate history yesterday as soaring commodity prices and strong demand from China pushed net profit up 83 per cent to US$3.5l billion. The world's biggest diversified miner said the result for
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        71 13 AP [SEOUL] The number of suicides driven by economic hardship in South Korea rose last year to its highest level since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, a media report said yesterday. There were 731 suicides motivated by poverty or business failure —the highest since
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        94 13 AFP [BRUSSELS] Inflation in the 12-nation eurozone fell slightly In July to 2.3 per cent on a 12-month basis from 2.4 per cent in June, the EU's statistical office Eurostat said yesterday. In the whole 25-member European Union, Inflation also fell to 2.3 per cent
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      4417 14 Transaction date: Aug 18 HONGKONG Vol HK Exchanges* Clearing 15.50 -020 4810 HKS '000 HKRInfl 2.55 unch 635 Hong Kong Electric 33.60 0.10 701 Aeon Credit 4.90 -0.03 0 Hongkong Chinese .0.92 -0.01 200 Aeon Stores .6.85 unch 12 Hopewell Holdings 16.60 -0.20 1858 Alpha General .0.29 -0.02
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      507 15 LONDON Top executives in financial services are courted with fat pay packages AFTER years in the doldrums, top executives can look forward to the return of headhunters prowling the city offering eye-pop-ping salaries and "golden hellos" to anyone prepared to jump
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      209 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 28 Spice Girl Hazel perhaps initially (6) that is stereoscopic (9) 24 In excavation, find nothing 29 Flattery from a grown-up go- 8 Preserve indeed found in of the plant (6) ing round I take on (9) lake in Wales, it's a spicy YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN A Across:
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      Lock icon Mega opportunities in IP convergence opening up
      672 16  -  In Singapore and around Asia, the convergence push is coming from wireless devices, with SMEs driving much of this, says Raju Chellam Raju Chellam AS communications networks converge, business opportunities diverge. The convergence is around IP (Internet Protocol) and the divergence is about
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      1081 16 Transaction date: Aug 18 [MTERBAUK CROSS RATES AS CS gmto Euro HKS Ind Rs fcglah Yen Won Ml H2$ Pafcfa Pew SS Hand Sfr WT$ 8*t Pomd USS Australia 0.932 5.908 0X79 5.568 33.119 66.227 0.785 1265 2.713 1077 41.992 39.804 1223 4.645 0.889 ***** 29.621 0.391 0.7V4 Canada
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      Lock icon Convergent talk
      318 16  -  By Raju Chellam CONVERGENCE, as defined by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), happens when two streams of data one in real-time and the other not merge. Re-al-time data includes voice, video, music, and instant messaging; non-real-time includes e-mail, data files, and still pictures. They converge into a single
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      605 16  -  BT exclusive Gartner says it may encourage pirates' sales of fall version of Windows XP By Amit Roy Choudhury MICROSOFT told BizlT yesterday it was confident that first-time computer users would find its Windows XP Starter Edition (XPSE) easy to use and understand. It was reacting
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      Lock icon Hynix to build China chip plants
      160 16 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hynix Semiconductor Inc, the world's sec-ond-largest computer memory chipmaker, said it signed an agreement with Chinese government officials to build two chip plants in the eastern city of Wuxi for US$2 billion. It involves building a factory to make chips out of
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      239 16 Reuters [TOKYO] IT may someday be a teenager's nightmare but a worried parent's dream. Japan's Seiko Epson yesterday unveiled a tiny flying robot that may one day allow parents to monitor their children's every move while sitting at home. Resembling a small helicopter, Seiko Epson said
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      283 17 Bloomberg OIL tankers sold for scrap at ship breaking yards fell 40 per cent during the first seven months of the year as surging freight rates prompted owners to keep vessels in service, London-based shipbroker Simpson, Spence Young said. About 60 oil tankers totalling 5.5 million deadweight tons
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      287 17 SGX '000 AiigU SS +J- Vol CH Offshore 0J6 0.01 1220 Chuan Hup 0.53 0.01 824 Cosco Investment .0.79 0.01 6591 CWT Distribution 0.49 unch 0 Ezra Hldgs 0.93 unch 0 Freight Links .....0.09 unch 331 Grand Banks Yacht.....0.79 unch 20 Jaya Holdings ......0.91 -0.02 1713 K1 Venture
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      709 17  -  Transpacific liner group expects growth of up to 12% this year By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Forecasting a 10-12 per cent growth on the transpacific container trade this year, the trade's 14 key members are optimistic that cargo demand will continue to outpace
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      286 17 Insurer cites incidence of stowaways, piracy [LONDON] The success or failure of the ISPS Code can be measured by two key indicators the incidence of stowaways and piracy/armed robbery, accord- ing to the US-based marine mutual liability insurer American Club. So far,
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      238 17 AFP [KUWAIT CITY] The stateowned Kuwait Oil Tanker Co (KOTC) has signed a contract with South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co for three more vessels following four tankers ordered last week. The new deal to build three crude tankers is worth US$lB2 million.
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      172 17 Reuters [JERUSALEM] Israel's largest shipping firm Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd said yesterday it posted a sharply higher net profit in the second quarter, boosted by one-time charges related to the sale of two ships. Zim, formerly a govern-ment-controlled company but now 98 per cent owned
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        1460 18 MOL's future lies in expanding businesses with good growth potential and where it has a competitive edge, says chairman Kunio Suzuki MOL Annual Report Q: MOL has stated that MOL STEP is a blueprint for sustainable growth. How has this thinking been translated into specific
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      107 18 PAGE Austral AL 5 Bank Line 4 BSA 4 B'tang Mas 3 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 China Shpg 4 Crocodile Line :...4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 Eukor 2 ECL 3 Foong Sun 4 Gemartrans 4 Hamburg Sud 3 Hangli 4 Heung-A 3 IRISL 5 Jesselton 5 Kyowa
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        139 23 Aug 20 India: Parsi New Day. Ao|3o UK: Summer Bank Hoi. Anf 31 Malaysia: Nat Day. Philippines: Nat Heroes Day. Sep Canada: Labour Day. Sep 12 Brunei: Ascen of the Prophet. Indonesia: Ascen of the Prophet. Sep 27 SKorea: Harvest Day. Sep 28 SKorea: Harvest Day. Sep 29
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        791 23 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma line 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
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        Lock icon BA sweetens pay offer to prevent costly strike
        561 24 It dangles £1,000 bonus in addition to 8-5% pay hike over 3 years Reuters [LONDON] British Airways improved a pay offer for ground staff on Tuesday in a bid to stave off a planned 24hour strike that threatens to disrupt travel at
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        196 24 Reuters [PARIS] A Paris airport terminal which partially collapsed in May killing four people reopened some sections to passengers on Tuesday, airport authority ADP said. Six daily flights to Casablanca and Istanbul will depart from the Charles de Gaulle airport terminal, which had been closed to
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        63 24 Reuters [BASEL] Swiss International Air Lines chief executive officer Christoph Franz listens to a question during a news conference on thefirst-half figures of Swiss in Basel Airline Swiss swung to its first-ever quarterly net profit on Tuesday, boosted by a one-off gain but its
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          153 24 Bloomberg [JOHANNESBURG] South African Airways, South Africa's national carrier, will start flying between Cape Town and Frankfurt on Aug 31 in a shift of European services that will add flights to Paris and Zurich and suspend the Milan route. Service between Cape Town and Frankfurt
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          97 24 [SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil] Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA, the world's fourth-biggest commercial aircraft maker, said Republic Airways Holdings converted four options for its 70-seat aircraft into firm orders to meet demand for regional flights. The conversion boosts Republic's number of firm orders for the
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        235 24 Plane off normal path for short period while landing in bad weather AFP [HONG KONG] Officials at Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific said the company had disciplined a jumbo jet flight crew that made a tight, unorthodox landing described in media reports yesterday
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        240 24 AFP [NEW DELHI] The passenger fleet of international flag carrier Air India may be the world's oldest, the Indian government said on Tuesday as it announced it had issued a tender to lease new planes. "It's a very serious matter that the international
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        289 24 Airline is reducing costs as competition from low-cost carriers intensifies Bloomberg [DUBLIN] Aer Lingus Group pic, Ireland's stateowned airline, may face strikes in a dispute with union workers over 1,300 planned job cuts. Over 90 per cent of members of the
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        315 24 Bat they want other carriers to make schedule cuts too AP [CHICAGO] United Airlines and American Airlines are offering to support temporary flight caps at O'Hare International Airport, but they want other carriers also to make schedule cuts to ease
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