The Business Times, 23 August 2004

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/03/2004 Internet: nttp://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2004
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  • 1471 1  -  Urging the building of new strengths, he pledges to engage a new generation with different values and dreams Reports by Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Calling for a fresh and bold approach to take Singapore to a higher level, Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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  • 404 1 Citizens below a certain income threshold may be barred [SINGAPORE] Singaporeans earning less than a certain income may be barred if the government decides to give the greenlight for a casino, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last night. This is one
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  • 60 1 Week Change STI 1894.93 +22.05 KLSECOMP 808.47 -7.15 NIKKEI 225 *****.14 +131.94 HANG SENG 12:176.90 +17.07 SET INDEX 598.55 +9.68 JAKARTA COMP ...750.47 -5.45 MANILA COMP .1582.84 -7.79 TAIPEI TA1EX .....5622.86—+232.93 SEOUL COMP 787.64 +11.62 SHENZHEN B 214.40 -21.38 Al'STALLORD .3507.80 +18.70 DOW JONES *****.14 +284.79 NASDAQ 1838.02.. +80.80
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  • 75 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ i:s$ (SS per I'SS) 1.706 £(IS$/SS per 1.831 3.124 El'RO(L'S$/SS/E). 1.237 till YEN 109.1 63.90 KM 3.800 2.228 HKS 7.799 4.572 BAHT 41.44 24.29 Rl'PlAH 9,230 5.411 RENMINBI 8.277 4.852 INDIAN Rl PEE 46 30 27.14 AS 1.380 0.809 NZS 1.485 0.870 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE
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    • 1000 2  -  Govt to pick up the tab for 4 extra weeks of maternity leave, among other measures By Joyce Koh [SINGAPORE] Babies are a serious matter, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong saved the highly anticipated topic for last in his
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    • 602 2  -  His recent trip was aimed at understanding a tense situation By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore will not back Taiwan if it provokes a conflict with China, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last night. "I will not change our 'One China' policy,"
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    • 407 2  -  Police to exempt licensing of indoor talks if sensitive issues not discussed By Amit Roy Choudhury [SINGAPORE] An open society welcoming diverse views, yet cohesive and with a sense of national purpose is the goal that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong outlined
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    • 372 2 Source says partnership could result in PSA moving some container trade to Johor port Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Speculation is growing stronger that Singapore's PSA Corp will take a stake in the business of its competitor, the Port of Tanjung Pelepas
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 965 3  -  With jet fuel at over US$54 a barrel, its highest in 14 years, most airlines' operating numbers are way below their break-even levels By Ven Sreenivasan GLOBAL aviation industry earnings, which have barely begun to recover from the debilitating impact of the events of
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    • 673 3  -  HOCK lock siew ven sreenivasan WITH oil prices rising some 60 per cent since last year, and over 30 per cent since the middle of last month, there is increasing concern that the global aviation industry could nosedive into another crisis. Already, analysts
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 405 4  -  Orders fulfilled hit US$1.5b; 2004 sales seen jumping 4% By Raju Chellam THE spike in oil prices and consequent fears of inflation haven't deflated the surge in semicon spending, going by the latest results from US-based industry body Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
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    • 669 4 AFP THE Banyan Tree group, the Singa-pore-based leisure chain that has popularised new-age spa resorts in Asia and reportedly has plans for a listing in Singapore soon, is entrenching itself further as a global player. At an event to unveil the group's branching out to
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    • Article, Illustration
      132 4 CASH continues to pour in from the financial industry and listed companies for The Bull Run 2004, the latest being Capita Land Ltd which donated $50,000t0 the charity fun run, pushing the total to $890,688 in pledges collected so far. What is more, Capita Land president and
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    • 123 4 SESDAQ-LISTED Santak Holdings has announced the appointment of its independent director, Lee Keen Whye, as non-executive chairman of the group following the resignation of its chairman and managing director Tan Chee Hawai last Friday. Mr Tan has also resigned from the company's audit
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    • 272 4 CONTACT lens maker Oculus Ltd is back in the market with its rights-cum-war-rants issue, which was recently put on hold over possible tax irregularities faced by a China subsidiary. Oculus announced the temporary suspension of the non-underwritten issue on July 27, just one
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 1366 5  -  BT portfolio STOCKS kenneth lim WITH the winds of cautiousness blowing across the market, our contrarian and most forward-looking portfolios fell by the wayside last week while portfolios with proven winners and consensus favourites surged to the fore. The gap between the two key market
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    • 1181 5  -  INSIDE MARKETS Directors and investors were busy acquiring shares in their companies last week, writes Robert Halili Robert Halili THE buying was high in the third week of this month with 43 shareholders of 37 firms making 75 acquisitions worth $10.2 million. The numbers
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    • 312 5  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE recent panicky selldown on small caps has sent many back to their initial public offering (IPO) levels. This is despite the fact that the fundamentals and the operating environment of many of these companies have
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    • 199 6  -  BT comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan The such Mean ABN Amro warns that although Asian equities look cheap at the moment, they could get even cheaper if global economic growth flounders. And it is advising caution on a sixmonth view. Singapore Press Holdings and SembCorp Logistics
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    • 443 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies ended last week mostly higher against the greenback as fears prevailed that lacklustre economic data and soaring oil prices could have a negative impact on the US economy. Japanese yen: The yen gained ground against
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    • 112 6 Events investors can watch out for Avaptas' dividend payment, Aug 23 nour u lass ai vi oeno paymffn, Aug 23 Mentor Media's dividend payment, Aug 23 Blu Inc, EQM, Aug 24 WlHas-Array's dividend payment, Aug 24 Ipcolnt'l, AQM, Aug 24 AO if iMiililani ■> vir ina s avvioena
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  • 1012 6 Payment Ex looks Pay Payment Ex looks Pay teal Sill dost Idfl tot dost data AEM-Evertech 5c I 0.13 15-Sep 20-Sep 30-Scp OCBC I 19.00 24-Aug 27 Aug 13-S«P AEM-Evertech Sc w 0.375 15-Sep 20-Sep 30-Sep OsimlntISc I 0.70 31-Aug 03-Sep 17-Sep Airocean 5c b 0.30 10-Aug 13-Aug
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  • 1620 6 The stock recommendation is the average of all the recom- Number forecast Median Number forecast Median Number forecast Median mendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There recommendation of EPS pe Target recommendation of EPS pe Target recommendation of EPS pe Target is a total of 29 brokers
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 407 7  -  The Hour Glass celebrates its 25th Anniversary with $2.5 million bash By Larry Wee FROM Aug 25 to 29, watch-lovers here and abroad will be treated to an unprecedented $2.5 million horological extravaganza at Raffles City Convention Centre. Over the coming week, more than 30
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    • 514 7  -  Small companies need structured training to remain competitive, attract talent By Daniel Buenas SINGAPORE'S small and medium-sized enterprises cannot afford to neglect training of their workers, or they risk losing their competitiveness and the ability to attract talent, a senior official at the Workforce
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    • 309 7 SUPERMARKET groups and retailers here will get a boost from a new resource centre that helps them maintain high standards in the quality and freshness of imported food. The Singapore Cold Chain Centre, to be formally established next month, will also organise
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    • 1724 7 i BANKMANDIR^. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF As at December 31,2003 and 2002 PROFIT AND LOSS For the years ended December 31,2003 and 2002 (Amounts in millions of Rupiah, except otherwise stated) ASSETS 2003 2002 (Amounts in millions of Rupiah, except otherwise stated) 2003 2002 Cash 2,228,671 2,164,651 (Restated)
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 511 8 JAKARTA Analysts say interest rate and growth assumptions may not materialise Reuters WITH the additional burden of unexpectedly high oil prices, the Indonesian government's 2005 Budget assumptions, especially for interest rates and growth may not materialise, analysts have said. While the government
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    • 735 8 HONG KONG They eye credit cards to off-set slower growth in traditional lending Reuters HONG Kong banks are polishing advertising campaigns in a bet that a tourism boom and higher consumer spending will spur shoppers to pay with plastic. Standard Chartered Pic is
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    • 309 8 KUALA LUMPUR AP THREE Malaysians who became sick after an outbreak of the deadly HSNI bird flu strain hit their northern village do not have the disease, officials said yesterday. A teenage girl, her mother and a veterinary officer who went to the
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    • 448 8 AFP [MANILA] The Philippines will lose out on some 3,000 jobs in Iraq unless it lifts a ban on its nationals working there, a recruitment agency said on Saturday amid protests by Filipinos desperate to work in the troubled
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    • 731 9 SHANGHAI Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo among those taking slice of US$4.8b market AP GOING store-to-store hunting for bargains holds no appeal for Wang Qin, a busy securities industry employee who says he would rather spend his time and energy on work. Like growing numbers of
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    • 228 9 BEIJING AP CHINA has launched a nationwide crackdown on pyramid schemes after exposing 10 cases, including some that made use of the Internet, the government said yesterday. The General Administration for Industry and Commerce disclosed the cases last week and has severely punished the
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    • 278 9 MANILA Govt incentives offered to buyers of soared assets lapse after April 2005 Reuters RIZAL Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC), the Philippines' seventh-larg-est lender, closed a deal to sell about 3.9 billion pesos (Ssl2o million) worth of bad loans to US investment
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    • 727 9 SHANGHAI AFP WHEN late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping more than two decades ago declared that "to get rich is glorious" he wed a then hard-line communist nation to a very unlikely bride free market capitalism. Most would agree that
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    • 294 8 LOST CERTIFICATES The following share certificates have been reported lost, mislaid or destroyed by the registered shareholdersM—a Of Company Cert. Not. No. of Shares In the name of Parameswara Holding# *****20 10,000 Bajaj Kavinder Singh Parameswara Holdings *****50 3,100 Bajaj Kavinder Singh Notice is hereby given that replacement certificates will
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  • FOCUS china
    • 1359 10 Nokia, Motorola and Siemens have substantially increased R&D efforts over past year and Chinese handset vendors are beefing up design capabilities NYT [BEIJING] CHINA, the world's largest cellular phone market with more than 305 million subscribers, is fast emerging as
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    • 1174 10 Illegal land grabs by local officials in the name of development are displacing farmers and eroding China's food security NYT [XIANGQIAO, China] ONE day, Zhu Meixia was planting rice, tea and vegetables on the plot of land that has fed her family for decades. The next
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  • FOCUS emerging india
    • 1578 11 Young workers' aspirations show they are a demographic behemoth, but across the country, they are split over the future of the nation NYT [KNOWLEDGE CITY, India] AN American-style corporate campus outside Bombay, Knowledge City, is replete with an artificial lake, gym, cafeteria and the ambitious young
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    • 456 11 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday his government would make controlling record-high inflation a top priority while trying to push growth in Asia's fourth-largest economy. Inflation has been steadily picking up in recent months because of
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  • WORLD news
    • 825 12 OIL ECONOMICS It depends on whether growth is driven by US or other regions LATWP, AFP [WASHINGTON] The price of oil appears to be levitating towards US$5O a barrel like a moth to a street lamp as economists watch in awe, fear
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    • 448 12 Bosh not doing enough to ease price hikes, they say [WASHINGTON] Democrats are attacking the White House's energy policies, as oil prices surged to nearly US$5O a barrel on Friday. Though prices retreated a bit as the danger appeared to lessen, President
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    • 1116 12 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] World oil prices surged to a series of new record high levels on world markets last week, raising concerns about the global economic outlook and boosting the value of gold. The Commodities Research Bureau's index of 17
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 64 13 Reuters [LONDON] Wal-Mart subsidiary Asda has overtaken Marks Spencer as Britain's biggest clothing retailer, according to confidential market share figures, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Asda lifted its share of Britain's clothing and footwear market to 9.4 per cent in the three months to July 25, compared
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      • 94 13 Reuters [LONDON] Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano would drop an £8 billion (Ss2s billion) offer for British bank Abbey National if rival bids result in a drawn-out competition investigation, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Santander feared a lengthy probe would create uncertainty and damage Abbey's business,
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      • 97 13 AFP [NEW YORK] A large majority of Americans support embryonic stem cell research, the object of an ethical and political debate weighing heavily on the US presidential election campaign, a Harris Interactive poll showed on Friday. It showed that 73 per cent of those
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    • 635 13  -  Economists split on how resilient economy is to external events From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A JAPANESE government minister claimed yesterday that the abrupt slowdown in Japan's economic growth during the second quarter of the year simply marked a pause in
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    • 710 13 Its bankers took a small fee, but can look forward to more deals ahead NEW YORK DID Google take Wall Street, or vice versa? Much has been made of the cut-rate fees Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston accepted to underwrite
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    • 416 14 NEW YORK Many also pay the price of misreading the company culture: Korn/Ferry Reuters FAILURE to prioritise and the inability to read into a company's culture top the list of common mistakes senior executives make in their first 100 days in
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  • 1083 12 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Aug 20 PRIME LEMPDfO KATES BANKS Fortis Bank SA/N.V 6 ABN Amro Bank NV 5.25 tob'b Bank 6.5 ABSA Bank Limited 5.5 HL Bank 6 Agricultural Bank Of China.— 5.5 5-5 ANZ Banking Group 6 H SBC Private Bank American Express Bank 5 SA........... 5.5 Arab
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  • 1679 13 SICOM FUTURES Aug 20 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS1 (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 04 214.75 Oct 04 214.00 Mo* 04 214.00 Dec 04 214.00 Jan/Mar 05 214.00 Apr/Jun 05 216.50 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tomes)
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 170 14 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD aims to gel knick knacks (4,3,4) 9 Somehow grin and bear it YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION (4,4,5) Across: 1 Undertaking, 7 Out--2 Exerted to be on the move 14 Gee! Pride is displayed in live 8 Terrjer 10 Esmee m i inlmakocHncmoniAcohic one s lineage (8) patient, 12 Lodging, 14
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  • BizIT
    • 805 15  -  IT comment INFOTECH The search engine's overwhelming success offers some pointers for S'pore raju chellam YOU can see a big, broad grin on the face of the world's No 1 search engine. Google has suddenly mutated from being the Net's golden boy to Wall Street's teenage toy
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    • 296 15  -  Microsoft teams up with designer Philippe Starck By Nande Khin MICROSOFT Hardware, the less heralded arm of the software giant that produces hardware products, looks set to lay out a design blueprint for the rest to follow with the Optical Mouse by S+ARCK, its
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    • 213 15  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury PEOPLESOFT has announced the availability in Singapore of the People Soft World Express, a suite of business applications targeted at small and mediumsized businesses with annual revenues of between US$2O million and US$lOO million. Angus McDougall, the company's South Asian managing
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    • 456 15  -  Compiled by Nande Khin MoAfee'i qtyware biuter MCAFEE Singapore has launched a new solution against spyware and adware. McAfee AntiSpyware proactively detects and eliminates spyware, adware, key logger and behaviour-tracking programs before they rob identities, steal passwords or destroy files. It will be available at this week's Comex
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    • 840 16  -  BT exclusive Regional recovery brings company closer to target after two disappointing years. Tang Weng Pai reports Tang Weng Fai COMPUTER storage maker EMC Corp's recent performance in the region is putting the possibility of US$l billion in revenue from
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    • 708 16  -  BT exclusive Headcount to rise to 250 by end-2005 from 150 now By Amit Roy Choudhury BEARINGPOINT, one of the world's largest business consulting, systems integration and managed services firms, has set aggressive targets for its Singapore and South-east Asian operations over the
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    • 515 16 AFP [WASHINGTON] Internet security experts have found two "flaws" with Microsoft Corp's long-awaited security update for its Windows XP operating system, but the software behemoth insists that the new SP2 is secure. Microsoft has said its Service Pack 2
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    • 142 16 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Apple Computer Inc has agreed to recall about 28,000 batteries used in its 15-inch Powerßook G4 laptop computers, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday. The batteries, made by LG Chem Ltd of South Korea, could overheat and pose a
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    • 478 16 Reuters [LEIPZIG, Germany] Video games makers searching for the next big thing to pull in players at Europe's biggest computer games fair hope to tempt more gamers to pit their wits against one other online as Web technology improves. Among a flurry of
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 276 17 TANKERS: Having sold earlier in the month the ex-Apollo Oshima to Chinese buyers at US$4B.5 million, the Dynacom group is back buying ships again. Its target this time is the Dundee, which has double sides, is over 300,000 dwt and was built in 1993. The price of US$57
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    • 278 17 SGX '000 Aug 20 SS Vol CH Offshore 037 unch 178 ChuanHup ......0.53 unch 317 Cosco Investment 0.79 -0.03 7120 CWT Distribution 0.49 unch 1 EzraHldgs.. 0.92 -0.01 10 Freight Links 0.10 0.01 284 Grand Banks Yacht 0.80 0.02 4 Java Holdings 0.90 -0.02 787 K1 Venture 030
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    • PORT Shots
      • 134 17 Bernama [PENANG] Security levels at Malaysia's sea ports are at their best now and the facilities are also free from external threats, especially in terms of terrorist activities, Deputy Minister ofTransport Azlan Sultan Abu Bakar said. He said the presence of efficient and trained auxiliary police
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      • 112 17 Bloomberg [SHENZHEN] China International Marine Containers Ltd, the world's largest maker of freight containers, said it received a 1.5 billion yuan (Ss3o9 million) credit line from Bank of Communications. The company did not give other details on the one-year credit line in a statement
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      • 94 17 Reuters [HAMBURG] Rising water levels on the river Rhine in central Germany mean vessels are no longer imposing low water surcharges, a shipping industry official said on Friday. The water level at the key point of Kaub near Koblenz was 1.63 metres, above the 1.50
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    • 483 17 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Hundreds of thousands of truckers stayed off the roads across India yesterday, the second day of a nationwide strike to protest against a new service tax, disrupting movement of everything from food to cement and pushing up prices. The strike was
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    • 686 17  -  Mexico's secret development plan to cash in on congestion and strikes at US ports By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Chronic congestion could soon allow upstart Mexican ports with the help of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) to usurp some of the US$2OO billion in annual
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    • 367 17 Port operator's throughput up 13% in H1 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Shanghai Container Co Ltd, a port operator backed by Shanghai Port Authority, has turned in a 28 per cent jump in second quarter net profit, on a rise in traffic driven by China's export-oriented economy.
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    • 725 18  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes THERE are five main elements that make up the total running costs of a vessel; manning, insurance, repairs and maintenance, stores and lubricants and administrative costs. Those are roughly in descending order of magnitude. Crew costs typically account for about 40
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    • 194 18 PAGE Hamburg-Sud 3 Pancon Shpg 5 Alianca 3 Heung-A 3 PDZ Lines 6 AAL 5 Horizon Shp 5 PNSC 5 Avant 5 HubLine 6 Pan Ocean 5 Bank Line 4 HUAL 6 PT DLIoyd 5 B'tang Mas 3 'ndogulf 5 pj Reksa 5 BSA 4 Indotrans 5
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    • 12497 22 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone 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 sin Dest'n Name Nam*
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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      • 1525 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Vessel Out In Bth Berthing (In- Berth Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr Hmm Vay Voy berthing Hwbr ACX MARGUF"' 1W 034S 1
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      • 141 25 Ang 30 UK: Summer Bank Hoi. Ang 31 Malaysia: Nat Day. Philippines: Nat Heroes Day. Sep 6 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 HK: Mid-Autumn Festl. SKorea:
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      • 801 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rtne 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 indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 397 26 The plane could be ready for production by 2010 AFP [BANGALORE] India successfully flight-tested yesterday a prototype of its 14-seater civilian aircraft whose development had been delayed by United States sanctions, officials said. The inaugural flight of the aircraft, christened "Saras" (Crane), lasted 20 minutes,
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      • 526 26 OIL CRISIS AFP [PARIS] To limit the impact of rising oil prices, most airlines use financial instruments to lock in future purchases of fuel at prices set in advance, though such hedging techniques can turn out to be costly and ineffective when high prices
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      • 474 26 AFP [NEW YORK] High oil prices, bubbling near US$5O a barrel in New York, threaten to take down US airlines, which barely survived the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, analysts say. "We believe high oil prices and price wars on transcontinental routes
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      • 605 26 Creditors not to press alternative strategies during the 30-day period Reuters [CHICAGO] A US bankruptcy court judge has granted United Airlines another 30 days of exclusivity, giving it until the end of September to file its own reorganisation plan without competing plans
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      • 130 26 AFP [CAIRO] US authorities forced Egypt's national carrier to replace two crew members on its regular flight to New York on Friday, causing a delay of 100 minutes, an airport official said. Egypt Air received a message from US authorities shortly before Flight
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