The Business Times, 25 April 2005

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  • 16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Monday April 25,2005 SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005
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  • 831 1  -  The two sides will aim for conclusion in just one month, says PM Lee Bv SHOEB KAGDA in Bandung DESPITE the presence of one or two outstanding issues, Singapore and India will work towards concluding the Closer Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) within just one
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  • 642 1  -  Move intended to facilitate trade by foreign brokers By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur RELIEF could be on the way for Singapore and foreign brokers who find the current Malaysian settlement system for share trading to be cumbersome. With the stock exchanges
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 551 2 Nobel laureate upbeat on global economy WINNER of the 2002 Nobel Prize for economics Vernon L Smith does not think there's any imbalances in the current world economy that could escalate into a crisis. "There's a lot of reason to be optimistic," he says, noting that from 1970
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    • 753 2  -  Number of people discharged from bankruptcy rose 40% in Q1 By DANIEL BUENAS (SINGAPORE] There is some heartening news on the bankruptcy front. In the first quarter of this year, the number of people in Singapore discharged from bankruptcy rose by 40.3 per cent
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    • 111 2 MARKETS Week Chge STI .2136.91. -13.32 KLSE COMP 877.78 +3.53 NIKKEI 225 *****.95 -324.74 HANG SENG *****.55 +54.80 SET INDEX .677.25. -21.03 JAKARTA COMP ...1047.80 -48.72 MANILA COMP ....1868.13 +4.07 TAIPEI TAIEX 5747.09 -141.28 SEOUL COMP 940.79 -6.43 SHENZHEN B .250.73 -14.86 AUST ALL ORD 4009.60 +16.40 DOW
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    • 1101 3  -  Vernon Smith sees no imbalances that could lead to world economic crisis By TEH HOOI LING [SINGAPORE] Winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for economics Vernon L Smith does not think there's any imbalances in the current world economy that could escalate into a
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    • 300 2 Take the next step with an MBA it V mii' f* {*fe. hi Who should embark on an MBA: m %sj Professionals, managers, executives and businessmen m who want to broaden their understanding of how functional f areas within a business inter-relate in a global t <|p r! A Technical
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    • 30 3 cfftr I French Fine Dining Since 1991 UK 83, Duxton Road, Singapore *****0 Restaurant Tel: 6327 8318 Bar Lounge Tel: 6327 5401 Email: theeagle@laigledor.com.sg The Eagle at Duxton Pte Ltd
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    • 1714 4 WBL Corporation Limited Wearnes International (1994) Limited (Incorporated in Singapore) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration No. *****0028Z) (Company Registration No. *****1132 D) JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT PROPOSED SCHEME OF ARRANGEMENT TO PRIVATISE WEARNES INTERNATIONAL (1994) LIMITED 1. Introduction 1.1 Scheme. The respective directors of WBL Corporation Limited ("WBL") and
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    • 1407 4 7. Rationale for the Scheme The Company has not raised funds through the equity capital market since 1994 and does not anticipate that it will need to do so in the foreseeable future. The costs associated with maintaining the Company's listed status need to be considered in this context. The
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 437 5  -  Biosensors Int'l launches IPO of 185m shares to realise ambition By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE may soon make a name for itself in the medical devices field, if the Biosensors International Group has its way. The homegrown stent specialist is gearing up to
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    • 198 5 EDUCATION provider Auston International has appointed Myca Tan Eng Kee its acting chief financial officer effective April 21, the same day Koh Lian Sum quit as financial controller. Ms Koh had also been Auston's joint company secretary. Replacing her in this capacity is the group's chief
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    • 645 5 COMPANY MEETMG PLACE DATE TIME King's Safetywear A Level 4, Raffles City Convention Centre, 2 Stamford Road 26-Apr 4.00pm CSE Global A 3 Temasek Boulevard #05-001, Suntec City Mall 26-Apr 3.00pm Excelpoint A 25 Marine Parade Road, Parawave, Level 4 26-Apr 3.00pm Sing Lun Hldgs A 30 Marsling
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    • 749 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By WONG WEI KONG CREATIVE Technology has and not for the first time failed to deliver on its own hype. There was much fanfare last November when Creative Technology chief Sim Wong Hoo declared war in the MP3 market
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    • 1378 7  -  INSIDE MARKETS 19 firms record 35 acquisitions worth $27.8 million while six post 12 disposals worth $7.5 million, ROBERT HALILI reports ROBERT HALILI DIRECTOR and substantial shareholder sentiment was positive for the ninth consecutive week with buyers outnumbering sellers in every category. There were 19 firms that
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    • 580 9  -  It will likely take up under 100.000 sqft and possibly two mall levels By KALPANA RASHIWALA AFTER a long hiatus in new department store openings, homegrown retailer CK Tang is considering setting up one at the Vivo City mall in the Harbour Front area,
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    • 1142 9  -  TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent Despite a veiy turbulent week. aD but ooe of our portfolios ended firmer and beat both the Straits Times index (STQ and theUOßSesdaq Index. For the week to Friday, the STlsbd 0.6 per cent white the
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    • 646 6 JBST— Tp; t ft,' jjp Njfl| jk JMS| ft BIOSENSORS 4 INTERNATIONAL Biosensors International Croup, Ltd. (Incorporated with limited liability in Bermuda on 28 May 1998) (Bermuda Company Registration Number: EC*****) Offering in respect of 185,434,000 Offering Shares (subject to the Over-allotment Option, as defined in the Prospectus dated 22
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 639 8  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent AKE no mis- Sill ta^e about it, II Mat this is a danI m M I B erous market jj I to operate in. just on Wall Street but also here and throughout this region. You have a US market
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    • 509 8 CURRENCIES AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies rose against the US dollar over last week, with concern over the United States' economic performance weighing on the US unit. Japanese yen: The yen climbed to its highest level in about a month against
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    • Article, Illustration
      432 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Apr 22 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -465.00 -130.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 +15.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -46.00 All-SG Equities 550.26 -0.41 SG Equities Elect 133.31 +1.59 SG Equities Fin 1619.36 -4.93 SG Equities Prop 560.17 +2.49 SIMSCI 252.33 -0.56 SiMSCI Futures 251.70 -0.60 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME UniFiber
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    • 893 8 COMMODITIES: WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP [LONDON] World oil prices rebounded strongly last week as supply fears resurfaced following a drop in US crude inventories and refinery problems across the United States, amid data revealing sharp economic growth in China, a major consumer of commodities.
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    • 47 8 Investor events to watch out for Armstrong Ind, AGM, Apr 25 Cathay Organisation, AGM, Apr 25 SHC Capital, AGM, Apr 25 Ocean Sky, AGM, Apr 25 Sinomem Tech, AGM, Apr 25 Europtronic Grp, AGM EGM, Apr 26 Teledata, AGM, Apr 26 Asiatravel.com, EGM, Apr 26
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
    • 2345 10 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC How do you, as a CEO and a Singaporean, feel about the proposed integrated resorts? THE integrated resorts intend to offer a variety of entertainment activities and services, of which gambling is but one part. There are relevant social concerns raised with allowing
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    • 70 10 BT CEOs e-Club Members of the BT CEOs e-Club are Singapore's top corporate leaders whom BT editors would like to interact with in an atmosphere of informality and trust. This 'dub* is a virtual one, with interaction mainly via e-mail. Each week, we will invite comments from these top executives
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    • 20 10 HAVEYOUR SM What do you think of the opinions expressed in these pages? Share your views by writing to btletter@sph.com.sg
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 550 11 Top on list is raising of age limit on use of Medisave for medical insurance HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday disclosed a slew of proposed changes for the Medisave and Medishield schemes, most imminent of which was to allow Medisave funds to be
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    • 233 11 DATE/ TIME EVENT VENUE 26-27 Apr ATA Tanker Conference Grand Hyatt Hotel, HiSam 2005 biscus Room, Level 3 27 Apr EAI Seminar on Urbanisa- EAI Conference Room, 3.30pm tion in Guangdong: Status, Blk AS5, Level 4, NUS, Problems and Institutional 7 Arts Link Factors 27-29 Apr Conference on
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    • 459 11  -  ExxonMobil's green light could come as early as this week By RONNIE LIM ALL signs now point to a go-ahead for two new multi-billion dollar petrochemical cracker investments here by ExxonMobil and Shell, with ExxonMobil likely to press the OK button any time
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    • 319 11 Singapore Human Resources Institute 40 th Anniversary Celebration Seminar TKT?S7rL SHIFTING REALITIES: Cfig>\rJj x IG BMSSIVJ KgyffALlag QHSAfIiSAfM For details, please visit www.shrl.org.sg or contact Ms Faliiah at 6438 ***** email: HR-Bus!riess&xchange@sHH.org.&g conducted BY DR. MICHAEL JOHN MAWDESLEY DR. VICKIMYSON THEVENORAN Dinctor, Sottinghui Ctntrt for Infrastnctm, UK Ms Sptms Mmgmtnt
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  • DINING OUT
    • 724 12  -  The makeover has injected a livelier buzz, says CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON TRADERS is the latest hotel to renovate and upgrade its "coffee house" outlet, hot on the heels of hotels like Grand Hyatt and Shangri-la which opened Straits Kitchen and The Line respectively
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    • 1737 13 The choices are mind-boggling. But the bottom line is, dim sum is a lot more than just siew mai and har gau Wan Hao Marriott Singapore, 320 Orchard Road. Tel: 6735-5800 WAN Hao's sleek air of discreet elegance and refined Cantonese cuisine has made
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    • 313 13 Enjoy Sizzling Dining Deals. Only with Singapore's Hottest Dining Partner. 0 :$$*0' United for Growth TERMS A PONniTIOM}^ Terms and conditions of UOB Dining Privileges, as well as those of partner restaurants apply. WINE PROMOTION Minimum spend of $500 on dining (maximum of 3 charge slips for all UOB cards)
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    • 189 13 Bar Biltard, Raffles Hotel. One dines free with 2 paying adults. Applicable for dinner only. Tel: *****156 Doc Cheng's, Raffles Hotel; One dines free with 2 paying adults. Applicable for lunch only. Tel: *****156 Lingzhi Vegetarian Restaurant (Far East Square Liat Towers): One Complimentary UOB Set Menu with minimum 3
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    • 195 13 buffet with minimum 4 a la carte dinner buffet orders. Plus, enjoy a complimentary roast Peking duck worth $46+++. Valid for a la carte dinner buffet, from Mondays to Fridays only. Tel: 6533 0660 Tiffin Room, Raffles Hotel One dines free with 2 paying adults. Applicable for dinner only. Tel:
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    • 175 13 DINING OUT A sponsored series on fine dining experiences brought to you by UOB Credit Card $99.99 at The Line, valid till 31 May 2005. Max. of one The Line Cake per table billing regardless of amount spent above $99.99. Promotion is extended to Shang Rewards members only. Non-members will
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
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    • 636 14  -  CAMPUS LIFE KELVIN SAM chats with the winning team of the Trust-Danone business strategy competition KELVIN SAM TEAM Zenith has returned after taking part in the international leg of the Trust-Danone competition held in Paris on April 6-7 this year. The team's name has
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    • 58 14 Win iPods! |fl[ Efl (jpl WATCH this space next week, when we start a month-long trivia contest where you accumulate points for correct Wr answers and win an iPod! Three iPods, V V three $200 Raffles International vouchers j j ft M and three $100 Borders book vouchers are up
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    • 251 14 Be smart with your finances FANCY becoming the next Warren Buflfett or George Soros? Or even the famous Robert Kiyosaki? Then read on. The Young Investors' Forum, part of the BT-Citibank Tertiary Outreach Programme, isn't another dry page out of your financial textbook. To complement our editorial content, we have
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 682 15  -  BOAO FORUM Political leaders, top execs call for cooperation, intra-regional trade By JEAN CHUA in HAINAN THE people who put together this weekend's Boao Forum for Asia were perhaps prescient when they came up with the theme: Asia searching for Win-Win: New Role
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    • 433 15 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China may accelerate preparations to loosen the tie between its currency and the US dollar in response to intensifying international pressure for the change, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said. "If there is more pressure from outside, it will force
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    • 345 15 Reuters [KOTA BARU, Malaysia] Inflation in Malaysia is expected to double this year to 2.5-3 per cent but there is no need to raise interest rates, Malaysian Economic Planning Minister Mustapa Mohamed said on Saturday. The inflation outlook is higher than
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    • 558 15 Bloomberg, AFP [BEIJING] Hong Kong's Acting Chief Executive Donald Tsang called on Asian governments to let their citizens buy mutual funds and bonds in each others' markets as a first step toward creating a common regional currency. A lack of
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 756 16  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT The spate of car-jackings has left owners of luxury cars debating their rides PAULINE NG KL Correspondent Ip hen well-heeled professionals and I m jf£ businessmen here A m v gather together H these days, talk ofmm 11 If ten turns to a new
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    • 258 16 (SINGAPORE] Malaysia and Singapore have amicably agreed to sign a settlement agreement tomorrow that will bring to an end the dispute over land reclamation by Singapore in and around the Straits of Johor, Bernama news service yesterday quoted a Malaysian Foreign Ministry statement as
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    • 114 16 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed that only one warship from each country should patrol a disputed oilrich maritime area, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday. The withdrawal of all other navy vessels from the area in the Sulawesi Sea off the
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 1622 17  -  CHINA INSIGHT The poor showings of China's football team and the stock markets have a common root cause, says TIGER TONG TIGER TONG Fj OOTBALL and the stock market have become the puzzles of China. After more than 10 years of development, both are at their
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    • 358 17 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India is forecasting a normal monsoon this year, which if it proves accurate, unlike last year would support domestic demand and keep economic growth over 6.5 per cent for a third year, analysts say. In the first official forecast of
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 867 18  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT Doubts over growth and inflation cloud better-than-expected Q1 earnings By ANDREW MARKS in New York ONE day Wall Street sees only wine and roses ahead. The next, it's only clouds of doom. Investors were buffeted in the crosswinds of often-confusing
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    • 63 18 [VATICANI The papal collar being placed on Pope Benedict XVI as he leads his inaugural Mass in St Peter's Square in the Vatican yesterday. Setting the tone for his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday urged humanity to re-discover God if it wanted to transform the world's
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    • 395 18 NYT (PARISJ A "road map" towards allowing European companies to sell securities in the United States without having to revise their financial statements was hailed last week by regulators, but statements by US officials showed concern with efforts in Europe to constrain the
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    • 244 18 Reuters [MELBOURNE] US investors want the new chief of Australia's biggest phone company, Telstra Corp Ltd, to have telecommunications experience, Australian Finance Minister Nick Minchin said in an interview. There has been media talk that Australia's largest telco might turn to a top
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  • WORLD
    • 753 19  -  LIGHT REED Fraudster Martin Frankel's shenanigans show up inadequacies in US policing of white-collar crimes CHRISTOPHER REED jHft N exclusive report in the jfv current Newsweek tells the m wk remarkable story of Sonia vk Radencovich (real name M mL Sonia Howe), and
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    • 298 19 AFP [LONDON] More than 200 firms from places such as South-east Asia, the Middle East, India and Russia have voiced an interest in buying parts of MG Rover, the failed British car maker's administrators said on Saturday. "Interest has been expressed
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    • 391 19 Reuters [PHILADELPHIA] MCI Inc declared a US$9.9 billion takeover bid from Qwest Communications International Inc superior on Saturday to its US$7.B billion merger agreement with Verizon Communications Inc, a significant twist in the three-month-old battle for the No 2 US long-distance company. MCI had
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 199 19 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 30 Well, it shouldn't be high (11) down dustry (11) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 2 When he's around one 13 Personally undertake study Across: 1 Uncover, 5 Terrier, 9 Immoves quickly (4) (4,7) pressionistic, 10 Abbe, 11 Piste, 12 3 Stone jar (4) 15 Make a submission for grant Vega,
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  • AVIATION
    • 632 20 This is their 3rd plea for govt aid since Sept 2001 terror attacks NYT [NEW YORK] America's big airlines are lobbying the US Congress for what is effectively another bailout, their third plea for assistance since the September 2001 attacks.
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 123 20 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines Ltd's regional unit Silk Air is offering 14 charter flights to Haikou in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan until June 19, to meet growing travel demand to Asia's second-largest economy. The once-a-week charter flights, operated with Sino-America
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      • 100 20 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Airbus SAS, the world's biggest maker of commercial aircraft, said it won an order from China's Shenzhen Airlines Co for fwe planes that have a value of US$3OO million, based on catalogue prices. Shenzhen Airlines, a regional carrier that is 25
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      • 70 20 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Continental Airlines Inc, the fifth-largest US airline, said its first-quarter loss widened to US$lB4 million as fuel costs rose and competition drove down some fares. The net loss was U552.77 a share for the three months through March, compared with US$l24 million, or
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    • 602 20 NYT [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines' recent decision to outsource major aircraft overhauls complicates the struggling carrier's efforts to rebuild strained ties to employees as it continues to cut costs, CEO Gerald Grinstein says. In a move that will eliminate hundreds of jobs, Delta
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    • 237 20 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Asia's second-largest airline by market value, said its pilots' union accepted a settlement to end a dispute that began in 2001 when 51 of its members were fired. "We are happy to put the issue behind us,"
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    • 281 20 Bloomberg [MONTREAL] Commercial aircraft maker Bombardier Inc won its second order for regional planes this month after Northwest Airlines Corp agreed to take delivery of short-range jetliners valued at US$3B6 million. Northwest Airlines, the fourth-largest US carrier, exercised options to buy 15 CRJ-200 aircraft,
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    • 189 20 AP [NEW YORK] Irish budget airline Ryanair Holdings PLC will pay U553.57 billion for the 70 Boeing Co airplanes it has ordered, a large discount on the listed price, the carrier said last week. The price for each 737-800 airplane will be about US$5l million,
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  • SHIPPING
    • 449 21 Having own vessels will help ensure oil security in future, say experts Xinhua (BEIJING] As China becomes a large oil importer, experts say building the country's own oil tanker fleet to ensure oil security in the future is an urgent task. The fleet
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    • 293 21 Bloomberg [LONDON| The Greek government plans to change rules to allow both Greek and foreign shipowners to sell their shares on the Athens Stock Exchange. Shipping companies seeking a listing in Athens must have at least 29.4 million euros (5563.3 million)
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    • 386 21 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Westport is poised to handle three million container boxes (20-foot equivalents or TEUs) by the end of this year following its excellent performance in the first quarter of 2005, said its executive chairman, G Gnanalingam. "We expect our
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    • 173 21 Reuters [GDYNIA. Poland] Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa will build a 225-million-zloty (Ssl 15.6 million) container terminal in Poland's Baltic Sea port of Gdynia, the company's local unit said last week. Hutchison said that after four months the facility will have
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    • 325 21 The gang, from the Riau islands, targeted fishing boats, cargo vessels AP [KUAI.A LUMPURI Authorities arrested seven pirates suspected of carrying out a series of attacks on vessels in the Malacca Strait after a high-speed chase off southern Malaysia, news reports said on Saturday. The
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    • 528 21  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN SINGAPORE-LISTED Cosco Corp is expected to unveil strong first-quarter earnings, thanks to higher charter rates and increasingly robust contributions from China shipyards. And providing a leading indicator to this was Cosco Shipping Company's sparkling first-quarter results, which were unveiled
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    • 1182 29  -  <cool stuff> New models from Olympus and Panasonic illustrate how some digital cameras are made to be lifestyle items while others are built to perform, says GEOFFREY PEREIRA GEOFFREY PEREIRA AS IF to illustrate the point that there is a wide variety of digital cameras out there,
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      • 103 29 NOKIA has upgraded its popular Nokia 6230 with a slew of new multimedia features in its latest incarnation. The Nokia 6230 i comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera, walkietalkie-like push-to-talk capability, and Visual Radio an application which allows the user to hear FM
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      • 118 29 MOBILEONE, which launched its Blackberry wireless "push" email service to corporate customers last week, will launch the service for individual customers from today. As a partner network of UK-based Vodafone, Ml will offer its "Blackßerry from Vodafone" service in two flavours a
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      • 73 29 CANON has released a new range of digital video camcorders that are able to record videos in the 16:9 aspect ratio that is commonly used for widescreen displays. The new range of camcorders also includes five Photo DV models including the MVX45i, which are capable of
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      • 70 29 PROJECTOR specialist InFocus has released the InFocus LP860, a high-end projector for use in large spaces such as auditoriums and boardrooms. It is compatible with InFocus LiteShow, an optional wireless digital projection solution that eliminates the cables between the projector and the computer. The LP860 features
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      • 93 29  -  Compiled by ROLAND LIM OLYMPUS has released three new point-and-shoot digicams. The Olympus C-480 ZOOM is a new 4 megapixel entry-level model that is priced at $399, and features a 3x optical zoom lens. The 5 megapixel mju-mini DIGITAL S is priced at $599, comes
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    • 341 29  -  By ROLAND LIM APPLE will unleash its latest operating system, Tiger, in Singapore on Friday. Tiger, version 10.4 of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, is available for both the desktop and the server, with each providing more than 200 new features.
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    • 333 29  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY TREND Micro, a leading maker of anti-virus and Internet content security software and services, has announced a series of new products and services designed to combat spyware in the enterprise, according to the company's director of network alliances, Jay Quinby. Speaking
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    • 1105 31  -  &lt;we say&gt; Differing standards and methodologies can result in significant discrepancies, although some businesses will put up with these shortcomings ROLAND LIM Reporter t across •&gt;*&gt; forecasts by research anResearch houses are often looked to for guidance on such forecasts. The difficulty arises when discrepancies,
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    • 1030 31  -  Market seen hitting US$45 million in 2011, reports AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY U KTWORK security in Singa|Mk I pore, one of the more satu- rated markets in the Asiai Ilk M P ac *f lc region, is still exm pected to grow at
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      • 69 31 NOVELL has appointed Ernest Low as country manager for Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Based in Singapore, Mr Low was most recently Microsoft Singapore's sales director for the public sector group, and has 12 years of experience in sales and business development. He has also
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      • 68 31 INFORMATION lifecycle management solutions provider StorageTek has promoted Andy Srinivasan to regional director for Asia South Pacific. He was previously the managing director Of StorageTek Asia South. Based in Singapore, Mr Srinivasan will be responsible for operations in South Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Korea. He
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      • 43 31 NETWORKING equipment maker Linksys, a subsidiary of networking giant Cisco Systems, has launched a 24/7 technical support hotline for its customers in Singapore. Linksys customers here can now call 800-*****80 for technical assistance any time of the day.
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      • 58 31  -  Compiled by ROLAND LIM BROADBAND entertainment provider M2B World has cut a deal with United Power, a Japanese Internet service provider, to launch eight broadband channels for the Japanese market. It aims to have 250,000 homes accessing these channels by the end of the year.
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    • 402 31 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] More electronics companies have joined talks between Japan's Sony Corp and Toshiba Corp to develop a common format for next-generation DVDs and end a fierce battle, industry sources said on Friday. Other key companies involved in the format war,
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    • 766 32  -  BT exclusive It is also gunning to bring in $620 million in sales across the region this year to beat last fiscal year's figures, reports ROLAND LIM ROLAND LIM DESPITE deriving the bulk of its revenues from increasingly commoditised printers, Epson Singapore has set its
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    • 326 32  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY IN a significant breakthrough for wireless broadband networks, the world's biggest chipmaker Intel Corporation has announced the availability of its first WiMax product. WiMax, short for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a standards-based wireless technology for providing long-reach broadband
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    • 309 32  -  By ROLAND LIM HOMEGROWN technology startup Qool Labs Pte Ltd has launched a multimedia player that it says is the first in the world to feature an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. OLED technology is said to produce better displays than those based on
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