Asia Africa Intelligence Wire articles from November 2002

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire archives from November 2002

Shares: IPO market still languishes.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: Arthur Haddrick Sharemarket floats are currently out of fashion among Australian investors. Average stag premiums are at six per cent, while historically they have been...

Shares: Bright spark is on the boil.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: Trevor Hoey Australian-listed RCR Tomlinson (RCR) is the country's biggest manufacturer of boilers. The company's shares performed poorly in the 1990s, when they had...

Shares: Shed full of optimism.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: Rey Chapman Australian-listed The Warehouse Group is likely to grow significantly in the near future. The company entered the Australian market from New Zealand in 2000....

Shares: Strategy.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: David Rees There has been an evident shift towards investment basics among Australian shareholders. While optimism reigned in the second half of the 1990s, the last two...

Shares: Kiwi company building system.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: Rey Chapman Australian-listed Fletcher Building will benefit from the acquisition of Laminex, a manufacturer of decorative laminex and wood panels. Laminex will add more...

Shares: Trend trader.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: Colin Nicholson The Japanese stock market is still falling. It has just dropped below the support line and is likely to continue its downward move. In the United States,...

Shares: Nothing but the best.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: David Blake Australian-listed Ramsay Health Care's share price has risen from $A1.00 to $A5.00 in two years. The stock benefited from the introduction of a 30 per cent...

Shares: Energy boost for green survivor.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: Trevor Hoey Australian-listed Pacific Hydro is a conservatively managed company operating in a growth industry. This combination allowed it to withstand pressures that...

Shares: Profit season surprises.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: Tim Knapton Australian investors are advised to pay closer attention to five Australian-listed companies that recently reported better-than-expected results. Boral, Lihir...

Shares: Strategic challenges for blue chips.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Energy will be one of the most important issues in the current decade. Australian energy blue chips - Woodside Petroleum, Santos and Oil Search - are all looking for new opportunities...

Shares: Get more energy.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Kennett S Deffeyes claims in his book "Hubbert's Peak" that supply of and demand for oil will reach a balance between 2004 and 2008. Oil companies will react to shrinking oil...

Shares: Bear essentials.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence: Shares) Byline: Ina Noll Experienced investors are not too concerned when the stock market is in a bear phase. They use derivative financial products, such as warrants and options, to...

Spotlight on Japan's Competitiveness.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Motohashi Kazuyuki Significance of the International Competitiveness of Manufacturing Industry In discussing international competitiveness at the industrial level, reference is...

The Doctor's Wife, The River Ki.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Charlotte S. Pfeiffer The Doctor's Wife Ariyoshi Sawako, Translated by Hironaka Wakako and Ann Siller Kostant, Paperback edition published by Kodansha International in 1981,...

Can a Corporate Mission and Philosophy Change Corporate Culture?
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Matsuoka Toshio Corporate Mission Statements Revered for Over 300 Years A corporate mission summarizes a company's basic policies for realizing its goals, and states the...

Company Mission and Philosophy.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Kobayashi Kaoru Corporate Scandals at a Time When Corporate Philosophy is under Intense Scrutiny Like their counterparts in other countries, Japanese companies were keen to...

America Then and Now.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Iokibe Makoto It was 25 years ago. Accompanied by my wife and two children (a three-year-old son and a nine-month-old daughter) I began a two-year research sojourn at Harvard...

On the State of the World.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Wakamatsu Kenji The World Summit on Sustainable Development concluded in Johannesburg on Sept. 4 after the participants adopted a Plan of Implementation, which calls for...

The Question of Caps on Deposit Insurance Refunds.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Tani Sadafumi The Japanese government had planned to cap insured refunds of all deposits at failed banks, starting in April 2003, but it basically abandoned this plan at the...

The Skills of the Best Managers at Superior Companies.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Niihara Hiroaki What on Earth is Superior Business Management? In these past few years, Japanese companies have staked their survival in the extended economic slowdown on the...

Tokyo; A Breath of Fresh Air.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Margaret Price In the morning, before heading for work, I will often put my toddler on the bike and off we go to a park. Our favorite is about 30 minutes away along a riverside...

The Impact of the Kimono on Modern Fashion.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Okabe Masayuki How did Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975, Plate 1), who is regarded as the founder of modernism in fashion design, feel when she first saw a Japanese kimono? (Plate...

Soseki, the Past, and the Deeper Sea.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Paul Anderer We commonly assume that great writers have something to teach us. This is especially true in countries, like Japan, where the legacy of Confucianism or...

Saving Sawara.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Article by Elizabeth Kiritani and illustrations by Kiritani Itsuo Recently many more Japanese citizens are traveling abroad than visitors are coming to Japan. Various...

Look East to Japan.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Nora Marzuki The Look East Policy (LEP) was first introduced in late 1981 by Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the Malaysian Prime Minister. His main aim was for Malaysians to...

Koizumi Meets Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang; Normalization Talks to be Resumed.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Jun-ichiro paid a one-day landmark visit to Pyongyang on Sept. 17 to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, seeking a breakthrough via top-level political...

New Bank Notes to be Issued in 2004 to Counter Forgeries.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Japan will issue new \10,000, \5,000 and \1,000 notes adopting sophisticated technologies in fiscal 2004 to beat counterfeiters. It will be the first Bank of Japan (BOJ) note issue since...

Launch of Registry Network Plagued by Glitches.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Japan launched on Aug. 5 a nationwide resident registry network that encodes people's personal information and gives everyone an 11-digit number. Under the system, known as Juki Net, each...

Promotion of Tourism as a National Strategy.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Kojima Akira Driven by the termination of the Cold War, globalization is rapidly picking up momentum. The explosive expansion of direct investment symbolizes and constitutes...

Short History of Japan's Movement to FTAs.
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Hatakeyama Noboru Japan's Original Position on FTAs By the time this magazine is published, the Japan Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA) will have gone into...

Japanese Civilization (Part 5).
November 1, 2002... (From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI)) Byline: Kawakatsu Heita The Three-Cornered Indian Ocean Trade Network One of the objectives of the Europeans who came to maritime Asia (then known as East India) was to obtain pepper...

Furor over IT immigration.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Internet Australasia) Moves are afoot to tighten restrictions on IT workers migrating to Australia. The Australian Computer Society (ACS), which is responsible for the skills assessment...

Cheaper broadband on the cards.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Internet Australasia) Australian telco Telstra must open its telephone lines to line sharing. This decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) should see prices...

ecorp backs out of eBay.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Internet Australasia) Australian online company ecorp has sold its stake in eBay Australia & New Zealand. The 50% share was sold to the US parent company of eBay for $A120m. This is a...

Net rocks, phone sucks.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Internet Australasia) ISPs rank better than telephone providers, according to a recent Australian survey. ACNielsen's Australian Online User Survey found that 62% of standard telephone...

Glass ceiling holds firm in US.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Internet Australasia) A US study has found that only one in five directors of communications companies is a woman. The study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of...

No ban on spam: NOIE.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Internet Australasia) Legislation to effectively ban e-mail "spam" in Australia is unlikely. The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) has produced a report that outlines some...

Stop turf wars: Faine.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Law Institute Journal) Australian radio broadcaster Jon Faine has said lawyers need a more cohesive approach in public. Speaking at an event on 4 September 2002, Faine - a former lawyer -...

Making the votes count.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Law Institute Journal) Byline: John Cain The role of the Law Council of Australia (LCA) has been to represent a national view of the profession. This has been critical in the debates...

Panel releases negligence report.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Law Institute Journal) Byline: Jason Silverii Possible changes to the law of negligence in Australia will do little to reduce insurance premiums. That is the message from several...

Achieving world's best practice in the writing of appellate judgments.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Law Institute Journal) Byline: Cosmas Moisidis Appellate judgments should be delivered in a form that makes them accessible to the Australian public. Such judgments have as a purpose...

Bright spark is on the boil.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Trevor Hoey Australian-listed RCR Tomlinson (RCR) is the country's biggest manufacturer of boilers. The company's shares performed poorly in the 1990s, when they had...

Women come late to the IT party.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Internet Australasia) The Australian IT industry continues to be dominated by men. That is clear from a survey of educational institutions. At the University of New South Wales, only 22.4%...

IPO market still languishes.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Arthur Haddrick Sharemarket floats are currently out of fashion among Australian investors. Average stag premiums are at six per cent, while historically they have been...

Shed full of optimism.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Rey Chapman Australian-listed The Warehouse Group is likely to grow significantly in the near future. The company entered the Australian market from New Zealand in 2000....

Kiwi company building system.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Rey Chapman Australian-listed Fletcher Building will benefit from the acquisition of Laminex, a manufacturer of decorative laminex and wood panels. Laminex will add more...

Strategy.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: David Rees There has been an evident shift towards investment basics among Australian shareholders. While optimism reigned in the second half of the 1990s, the last two...

Nothing but the best.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: David Blake Australian-listed Ramsay Health Care's share price has risen from $A1.00 to $A5.00 in two years. The stock benefited from the introduction of a 30 per cent...

Trend trader.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Colin Nicholson The Japanese stock market is still falling. It has just dropped below the support line and is likely to continue its downward move. In the United...

Energy boost for green survivor.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Trevor Hoey Australian-listed Pacific Hydro is a conservatively managed company operating in a growth industry. This combination allowed it to withstand pressures that...

Get more energy.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Kennett S Deffeyes claims in his book "Hubbert's Peak" that supply of and demand for oil will reach a balance between 2004 and 2008. Oil companies will react to shrinking oil...

Profit season surprises.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Tim Knapton Australian investors are advised to pay closer attention to five Australian-listed companies that recently reported better-than-expected results. Boral,...

Strategic challenges for blue chips.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Energy will be one of the most important issues in the current decade. Australian energy blue chips - Woodside Petroleum, Santos and Oil Search - are all looking for new...

Winds of change boost sector.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) The alarmingly high level of pollution from electricity generated by coal power plants makes renewable energy an attractive alternative to traditional methods of power generation....

SPP down, but not out.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Peter Gibson Australian-listed oil exploration company, Southern Pacific Petroleum (SPP), will benefit from a trend towards non-conventional sources of oil. The company...

Junior oil explorers that defy the odds.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Peter Gibson Three Australian-listed oil companies may be attractive to investors who are comfortable with risks related to oil exploration. Essential Petroleum, Cooper...

One for the Black Book.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Trevor Hoey Australian property management operator, S8, was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in December 2002. Initially, the stock was very popular with...

Finding value in the figures: Noni B.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Trevor Hoey Australian-listed women's fashion retailer, Noni B, is a solid performer. The company has made profits each year over a 25-year period. It has no debt and...

Finding value in the figures: Sunland.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Trevor Hoey Australian residential property developer, Sunland Group, is more attractive as an investment than other listed developers. The company is active in an...

Invest like an Egyptian.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Louise Bedford Share traders are advised to apply strict rules in their activities. Too often they continue to buy shares in companies where the price has been falling...

Survivor from the tech wreck.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Colin Nicholson Technology stocks listed on the Australian Stock Exchange should be closely monitored. Negative publicity about the technology sector made investors too...

ABC building blocks in place.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Gary Stone The Weekly Fourier Projection shows a rising trend for the All Ordinaries index for October 2002. It is then expected to decline until the end of November...

Figuring the real results.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Clive Gaunt Changes in earnings per share (EPS) are a good indication of the company's profits. They should be closely examined by investors. When insurance group OAMPS...

Know the field before you punt.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Ian Huntley Investing in speculative resources stocks should only be contemplated by investors who are prepared to take risks. Small mining companies often limit their...

One to lay down now.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Australian fund managers have been asked to imagine that they can only buy one stock. John Morgan, Australian Equities, ING Investment Management, said that he would choose...

Banks and gold prominent new arrivals.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Stephen Calder ABN Amro launched a IZG series of 26 instalment warrants in October 2002. The warrants expire in May 2004. They include such companies as ANZ, BHP, CSR,...

DIY super: The next instalment.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Stephen Calder Do-it-yourself (DIY) superannuation fund owners should balance their desire for increased returns with the need to preserve capital. Although DIY funds...

Flee the fracas and risk missing out on the whole game.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Tony Rumble Defensive investment strategy used in uncertain times can be risky in the long term. Many investors reacted to global economic uncertainty and poor returns...

Infrastructure funds: the road to profit.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Tim Knapton Australian investors have lost interest in the transport infrastructure sector. Only one fund, Auckland International Airport, has been a strong performer in...

Have your cake and eat it.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Clive Gaunt Convertible preference shares are a combination of debt and equity. For investors who do not like risk related to owning ordinary shares, convertible...

Hats off to the top-down approach.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Gary Stone Since 24 July 2002, Australia's market indices must comply with the S&P and MSCI Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). There are now 176 GICS...

Position sizing helps you lose small, win big.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Louise Bedford Share traders should be careful when they make decisions about the size of their investments in particular stocks. They must be prepared to accept that...

A jewel in the Dow.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: David James The Dow Jones index is a composite of 30 of the largest public companies in the US. Australian investors can trade in the index by buying exchange traded...

All-weather protection.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Andrew Doig Share portfolios should be protected from the vagaries of stock markets. Although derivatives such as warrants and options can be used for this purpose, the...

Bear essentials.
November 1, 2002... (From ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence - Shares) Byline: Ina Noll Experienced investors are not too concerned when the stock market is in a bear phase. They use derivative financial products, such as warrants and options, to...

LPGA Golfer Kim Mi-hyun May Be Small, But Her Game Is Big.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) When Kim Mi-hyun decided to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour, the general opinion of South Koreans was that she was too small to stay with the sport's big stars. At 155cm, she won't...

Perry Powers Prumi Past Orions in KBL.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) Andre Perry scored 11 of his 29 points in the second quarter as the Korea Tender Prumi upset the defending champion Tongyang Orions 81-72 in Wednesday's Korea Basketball League (KBL) action in Taegu. Perry pulled...

Korean Series or Nothing: Twins, Tigers in Decider.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) Kia Tigers ace Mark Kiefer will pitch against Choi Won-ho of the LG Twins in the deciding Game 5 of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO)'s playoffs series in Kwangju tonight. From tomorrow, one team will have to clean...

Powell to Visit Seoul Nov. 10-12.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) WASHINGTON (Yonhap) _ U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit South Korea Nov. 10-12 to attend a conference of foreign ministers as high tension continues on the peninsula due to the revelation of North Korea's...

ROK-US Base Pact Comes Into Force.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) An agreement on the restructuring of current U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) bases across the country will take effect Thursday with the recent conclusion of parliamentary approval procedures on the Korea-U.S. Land Partnership...

Lee Hoi-chang Solidifies Lead.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) Lee Hoi-chang, presidential candidate of the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), solidified his leading status 50 days ahead of the Dec.19 presidential election, while millionaire candidate Chung Mong-joon saw his...

7 Out of 10 to Vote for Current Favorite.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) About three quarters of the public were found to be determined to cast ballots for the candidates there are now supporting in the Dec. 19 presidential election, a survey showed. When asked about their solidity of...

Former Spy Agency Chief Leads Pack of Underdogs.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) Chang Se-dong, former chief of the national intelligence agency, led the minor league of presidential candidates, overtaking a labor rights activist and a former prime minister, according to an opinion poll conducted by...

Lee Hoi-chang Maintains 10-Point Edge Over Chung.
November 1, 2002... (From Korea Times) With the presidential election only seven weeks away, Rep. Lee Hoi-chang, presidential candidate of the Grand National Party (GNP), has maintained a two-digit lead, widening the gap with Rep. Chung Mong-joon, South...