AsiaPulse News back issues from March 2000:
MALAYSIA'S ANCOM BUYS SOFTWARE CO MALAY SINO TECHNOLOGIES.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Ancom Bhd is to buy 50.1 percent stake for close to RM10 million ($US 2.63 milion) in Malay Sino Technologies Sdn Bhd, a information technology solutions provider which will spearhead the KLSE Main Board company's foray into IT and e-commerce activities ...
MAJOR CHINESE PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER COS GET POLICY SUPPORT.
Mar 01, 2000 ... BEIJING, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - China's central government will take the following measures to support the development of major phosphate fertilizer manufacturers: 1. To allow deeply indebted enterprises to swap their debt for equity; 2. To provide discount to support ...
MALAYSIA'S BOND MARKET TO LAUNCH REVISED CODE OF CONDUCT.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - A revised code of conduct and market practices for the bond market would be launched in the near furture to promote best and standard trading practices, Bank Negara Malaysia governor Ali Abul Hassan Sulaiman, said today. He also said that a ...
GENERAL MOTORS OPERATING WELL IN SHANGHAI.
Mar 01, 2000 ... SHANGHAI, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd., the biggest Sino-US joint venture in China, realized 600 million yuan (US$72.55 million) in profits for 1999, the first year of its operations. The achievement is described as remarkable for the General Motors' ...
HIGHLIGHTS OF INDIAN FEDERAL BUDGET 2000/2001.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of Part-A of the Budget 2000-01: * Central Sector Plan Outlay increased from Rs 1035.21 billion to Rs 1173.34 billion * Gross Budget support for plan increased from Rs 770 billion to Rs 881 billion * Allocation ...
STOCKS - DSE OPENS WEAKER - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - While index-related economy- linked stocks suffered another setback, Information Technology (IT) sector stocks bounced back at a rapid pace to open higher on the stock market today on revival of buying by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIS) amid some ...
VIETNAM MOTORBIKE INDUSTRY URGED TO REDUCE PRICES.
Mar 01, 2000 ... HANOI, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - Industry analysts are calling for a shake-up in the Vietnam motorbike industry to protect the buyer from what they say is increasingly becoming a monopoly. They say the State should monitor domestic assembling processes, and import and trading ...
STOCKS - BSE OPENS HIGHER - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... MUMBAI, March 1 Asia Pulse - Bank and software shares were in the limelight and select pharma and FMCG counters showed a weak trend in a see-saw trading at the opening session on the stock market here today on alternate bouts of buying and selling, triggered by yesterday's Union Budget ...
STATISTICS - OUTPUT OF CHINA PETROLEUM OILFIELDS FOR JAN 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... BEIJING, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The oil output of major oilfields under the China Petroleum Group in January 2000. <Pre> --------------------------------------------------------------- OilfieldsOutput in Jan (ton) Change over State's ...
INDIAN BUDGET PROJECTS 7-8 PCT GDP GROWTH.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - The Indian Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday said the federal Budget for 2000-01 would put India on a "sustained, equitable and job creating" annual growth of seven to eight per cent to eradicate poverty within a decade. Presenting the ...
STATISTICS - CHINA'S MAJOR COS NITRIC ACID OUTPUT FOR 1999.
Mar 01, 2000 ... BEIJING, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The output of concentrated nitric acid of China's major enterprises in 1999 and their percentage changes over 1998. <Pre> (Unit: ton) -------------------------------------------------------- Name Output % change ...
INDIAN GOVT INCREASES BUDGETARY SUPPORT FOR PLAN.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - The Indian Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday announced an increase of Rs 110 billion budgetary support to the Plan, raising it to Rs 881 billion in 2000-2001 compared to Rs 770 billion last year. The central sector plan outlay has ...
INDIAN GOVT TO REDUCE ITS EQUITY IN STATE-OWNED BANKS.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - THe Indian Government on Tuesday proposed reducing its equity in the state-owned banks to 33 per cent by issuing shares to the general public. Presenting the federal budget for 2000-2001, Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said with the government ...
HP COMPLETES BILLING SYSTEM FOR TELEKOM MALAYSIA.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Hewlett-Packard (HP) Sales (M) Sdn Bhd today announced the completion of a RM23.4 million ($US6.15 million) cost-based inter-carrier billing system for Telekom Malaysia Bhd and its mobile subsidiaries, TMTouch and Mobikom. The Cost-Based and ...
INDIAN AGRI DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES TO BE INTEGRATED.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - India's Planning Commission and Agriculture Ministry have worked out modalities to integrate 28 ongoing separate centrally-sponsored schemes of agricultural development into one comprehensive programme, Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said on Tuesday. ...
INDIA LAUNCHES NEW GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - A new scheme of group insurance - 'Janashree Bima Yojana' - is being introduced to extend social security cover to poorer sections of society. Presenting the federal budget for 2000-2001 in the Lower House of Indian Parliament on Tuesday, the ...
INDONESIA TO RAISE CIGARETTE PRICES BY 30%-40% SOON.
Mar 01, 2000 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Cigarette prices at the retail level in Indonesia are expected to go up by between 30 per cent and 40 per cent from the current prices, following the government's plan to raise excise tax revenues, according to a senior official at the Tax Office, Ibrahim ...
NEW RS 50 BLN SCHEME TO FULFIL BASIC RURAL NEEDS IN INDIA.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - A new Rs 50 billion scheme -- Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana -- is being launched to undertake time-bound programmes to fulfil basic rural needs of primary education, health care, drinking water, housing and rural roads. Presenting the federal ...
INDIAN GOVT TO LIMIT FOREIGN STAKE IN LOCAL COs TO 40 PCT.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - The Federal Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday proposed to increase the ceiling of Foreign Institutional Investment (FII) in Indian companies from current 30 per cent to 40 per cent. Presenting the federal Budget for 2000-01, he ...
IMF WANTS INDONESIA TO KEEP ECONIOMIC RECOVERY IN SIGHT.
Mar 01, 2000 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - The International Monetary Fund says it is not against a plan by the government to raise salaries of civil servants, but hopes the process of economic recovery will be taken into account in its implementation. An increase in salaries is natural and ...
INDIAN GOVT PROPOSES TAX LIBERALISATION FOR VENTURE FUNDS.
Mar 01, 2000 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - The federal Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday proposed a major tax liberalisation for venture capital funds to encourage knowledge-based industries and increased the ceiling under the automatic route for Indian corporates from existing US$15 million ...
MALAYSIAN OIL TOWN PREPARES FOR ECONOMIC BOOM.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUCHING, Malaysia March 1 Asia Pulse - The Bintulu Development Authority (BDA) will spend some RM100 million ($US 26.3 million) to implement various projects in its preparation for the second economic boom, expected to occur between now and 2005. Its general manager, Su'ud ...
BRIEFING - ASIA AUTOMOTIVE - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... An executive briefing on the automotive industry for March 1, 2000, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. GENERAL MOTORS OPERATING WELL IN SHANGHAI ...
BRIEFING - ASIA ENERGY - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... An executive briefing on energy for March 1, 2000, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. MALAYSIAN OIL TOWN PREPARES FOR ECONOMIC BOOM KUCHING - The ...
BRIEFING - ASIA INSURANCE - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... An executive briefing on insurance for March 1, 2000, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. INDIA LAUNCHES NEW GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME NEW DELHI - A new ...
FOREX - DOLLAR CLOSES LOWER VS YEN - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... TOKYO, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The U.S. dollar traded at ...
PHILIPPINES' PLDT 1999 NET INCOME $68.54 MLN, UP 151% VS 1998.
Mar 01, 2000 ... MANILA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Telecommunications giant Philippines Long Distance Telephone Co says its last year's consolidated net income totalled 2.8 billion pesos (US$68.54 million), or an increase of 151 percent, thus outpacing its 1998 consolidated figure of 1.1 billion pesos. ...
TELXON TO LAUNCH NEW PRODUCTS AT SCAN-TECH ASIA 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... (Full text of statement. Contact details below.) CINCINNATI, Feb 29 PRNewswire-AsiaNet - Telxon Corporation (Nasdaq: TLXN), a world leader in delivering quality, innovative solutions for mobile information and wireless communications systems, announced today that it will be ...
PHILIPPINE NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... MANILA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers: INQUIRER - Yasay confirms meeting with Tan PR. Amid criticism on his lack of propriety Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Perfecto Yasay yesterday admitted to the Inquirer that he met with Bubby ...
USAID ALLOTS US$12 MLN FOR BOT PROJECTS IN PHILIPPINES.
Mar 01, 2000 ... TARLAC CITY, March 1 Asia Pulse - Some $12 million has been allotted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the Projects Development Fund (PDF) for build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme projects of local government units and government implementing agencies, the ...
PHILIPPINES' AYALA CORP TO PAY 20 PCT DIVIDEND.
Mar 01, 2000 ... MANILA, March 1 Asia Pulse - The board of directors of the Ayala Corporation (AC) today approved the declaration of a 20 percent stock dividend, although the amount is yet to be fixed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in accordance with Sec. 5(d) of the SEC Amended Rules ...
CANADA INITIATES STRATEGY TO HELP PHILIPPINES ENTREPRENEURS.
Mar 01, 2000 ... MANILA, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA) Private Enterprise Accelerated Resources Linkages (PEARL) today signed with the Philippine Small and Medium Business Development Foundation (PHILSMED) a Memorandum of Agreement for the production of SMEs' ...
STOCKS - JAKARTA SHARES END PTS 11.064 DOWN - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Share prices closed 1.92 percent lower today in the absence of fresh buying incentives, dealers said. Jakarta stock exchange composite index was down 11.069 points (-1.92%) to close at ...
CORRECTION STOCKS - JAKARTA SHARES END DOWN - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... (Repeating to correct figure in second para) JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Share prices closed 1.92 percent lower today in the absence of fresh buying incentives, dealers said. Jakarta stock exchange composite index was down 11.064 (corrects ...
INDONESIA'S ROBUSTA COFFEE PRICES DROP 37% ON THE WORLD MARKET.
Mar 01, 2000 ... MEDAN, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The price of Indonesia's robusta coffee dropped 37% to $US730/ton followed weak demand as a result of large supply from Vietnam. Suryo Pranoto, the president of PT Sarimakmur Tunggal Mandiri said yesterday that in the last two weeks, the price of ...
KFC MALAYSIA APPOINTS TWO KEY ADVISORS.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd today announced that former Attorney-General Abu Talib Othman and former chief minister of north-western Kedah state, Osman Aroff, have been appointed business and corporate advisors to KFCH and its group of ...
INDONESIA ALCOHOL MAKERS FACE DIFFICULTY MEETING DEMAND.
Mar 01, 2000 ... BATAM, Indonesia March 1 Asia Pulse - Indonesian alcohol producers are facing difficulties in meeting rising global demand, which grows by up to five per cent a year, according to a company executive. Demand for alcohol this year was estimated in excess of 800,000 tonnes, ...
VIETNAM'S MEKONG DELTA AIMS TO EARN US$600M FROM SEAFOOD.
Mar 01, 2000 ... HANOI, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The Mekong River Delta's fishery sector aims to export one million tonnes of seafood worth US$600 million this year. The delta is one of the country's most important fishing areas and during the last few years production and export value have continued ...
INDONESIA'S SHOE MAKER PLANS RIGHTS ISSUE.
Mar 01, 2000 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Publicly listed shoes and sandal producer PT Kasogi International (JSX:GDWU) plans its second rights issue as part of its restructuring programme through a debt to equity swap. Earlier, Kasogi changed its corporate status to Foreign Investor ...
SECURE INDONESIA TO LAUNCH E-COMMERCE PAYMENT SYSTEM.
Mar 01, 2000 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - PT Secure Indonesia is set to launch in April a payment system to support e-commerce transactions in Indonesia, according to the company. It said in a statement that its system, known as esecure, would use Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) ...
ABN AMRO MALAYSIA PRE TAX PROFIT RISES 67% TO US$8.8MLN.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - ABN AMRO Bank Bhd's pre-tax profit for the year ended December 31, 1999, increased by 67 percent to RM33.4 million ($US8.78 million) from RM20 million in the previous year. The higher profit was attributed to the bank's aggressive asset growth ...
FORMER MALAYSIA AIRLINES CHIEF TO BUY 35% IN TELECOMS FIRM.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Former managing director of Malaysia Airlines, Wan Malek, is to buy a 35 percent stake in Perwimas Telecommunications and has been appointed its executive chairman. Perwimas, which is the only company licensed by the government to operate a ...
CHINA FIXES FIRST 16 BASES FOR PROGRAM 863.
Mar 01, 2000 ... BEIJING, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - China's Ministry of Science and Technology has approved the first group of 16 bases for the application of the country's "Program 863" achievements. The bases are selected from among high-tech industry enterprises that hold good prospects and have ...
MALAYSIA'S MULTI PURPOSE BANK UNIT TO LAUNCH UNIT FUND.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Multi-Purpose Unit Trust Management Bhd (MPUT), a subsidiary of Multi-Purpose Bank, hopes to sell the entire 200 million units of its newly launched Vision Fund this year. Its chief executive officer Kenny Tan said the fund, the second fund ...
STOCKS - KL SHARES CLOSE LOWER - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Share prices closed lower today on heavy selling pressure on blue chip issues, in particular Telekom shares. A dealer said though there was retail buying in select conglomerate stocks with good corporate results, as announced during the first ...
FOREX - CURRENCIES CLOSE LOWER VS RINGGIT - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Most major currencies closed lower against the ringgit today as the US dollar strengthened against European currencies, a dealer said. The ringgit stays pegged at RM3.80 to a dollar. The Euro remained under pressure ahead of the ...
MALAYSIA'S MULTI PURPOSE TO SIGN DEALS WITH PARTNERS.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Multi-Purpose Bank, one of the 10 anchor banks, is expected to sign sales and purchase agreements with its merger partners by end of April. Chairman of Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd Abu Talib Othman said the bank was currently undertaking due ...
VIETNAM FARMERS NEED 50 NEW RESERVOIRS, DAMS TO FIGHT FLOOD.
Mar 01, 2000 ... HANOI, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - Irrigation planning experts are proposing 50 new reservoir and dam projects to prevent a repeat of the devastating floods which hit the central provinces last year, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) reports. For over 40 years, ...
SINGAPORE TO BRIDGE DIGITAL DIVIDE.
Mar 01, 2000 ... SINGAPORE, March 1 Asia Pulse - Singapore will spent $SG25 million (US$14.43 million) over the next three years to extend the dot.com revolution to the wider community. "We want all Singaporeans to reap the full benefits of infocomm in their daily lives," Yeo Cheow Ton, Minister ...
STATISTICS - AUSTRALIAN MEAT/LIVESTOCK JAN 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... CANBERRA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Livestock and meat in Australia for January 2000, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics: <Pre> ------------------------------------------------------------ LIVESTOCK AND MEAT, AUSTRALIA, JANUARY 2000 ...
PHILIPPINES SUBIC BAY PORT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT APPROVED.
Mar 01, 2000 ... TARLAC CITY, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The approval of the $215-million Subic Bay Port Development Project by the Philippines C-level Investment Coordinating Council (ICC) and the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) would provide a synergy to enhance the economic development of both ...
PNB MALAYSIA SET TO FACE LIBERALISATION OF UNIT TRUST SECTOR.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), the largest investment body in Malaysia, is confident that it can compete with other unit trust institutions following steps to liberalise the local unit trust industry. Its Chief Executive Hamad Kama Piah Che ...
MALAYSIAN FIRM GETS $179 MLN ISLAMIC FINANCE FOR WATER PROJECT.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - SAJ Holdings Sdn Bhd, which has been granted exclusive rights to supply water to consumers in Johor for 30 years, has signed an agreement for a RM680 million ($US179 million) Al-Bai' Bithaman Ajil Islamic Debt Securities Issuance facility to finance the ...
DCPC ISSUES 2.5 MLN COMMON STOCK FOR US$9.1 MLN.
Mar 01, 2000 ... (Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) HONG KONG, Mar 1 PRNI HK-AsiaNet - Hong Kong-based Dransfield China Paper Corporation ("DCPC") (NASDAQ: DCPCF) announced that it has issued approximately a total of 2.5 million common stock, at a total consideration of US$9.1 ...
HEWITT EYES MALAYSIAN ANCHOR BANKS AS MAJOR CLIENTS.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - International management consultant firm, Hewitt Associates, is eyeing local banks involved in the current merger exercise as its major prospective clients in Malaysia. Country manager and director for Malaysia, Daniel Wong, said Hewitt had ...
ASIA MARKETS - SHARES CLOSE BROADLY LOWER - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... A round-up of Asian stock markets for March 1, 2000, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - Asian markets closed broadly lower today ...
MALAYSIAN FARM FIRM SHARES OVERSUBSCRIBED.
Mar 01, 2000 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Agriculture-based QL Resources Bhd, to be listed on the second board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) at the end of this month, got off to a good start during its balloting of shares here today, held in conjunction with the flotation of the ...
PHILIPPINES REP OROLA TO HOST ASEAN FORUM.
Mar 01, 2000 ... BACOLOD CITY, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - In a bid to link the Philippines Bacolod City with neighboring countries and eventually with the rest of the world, Rep Juan N. Orola, of Bacolod City will host the ASEAN Forum on March 3 at the Group K Resort in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod City in ...
INDONESIA'S SINAR MAS TO OPEN OIL PALM PLANTATIONS.
Mar 01, 2000 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - The Sinar Mas Group, a widely diversified conglomerate plans to open four units of oil palm plantations, totalling 12,000 hectares in Sangatta, East Kalimantan, a district official says. Sangatta Regent Awang Farouk said the projects of PT Sinar Mas ...
INDONESIAN RICE INDUSTRY CANNOT SURVIVE IMPORTS:HKTI.
Mar 01, 2000 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Chairman of the Indonesian Farmers Association (HKTI) Siswono Yudohusodo alleged Tuesday that there was a foreign political conspiracy to destroy Indonesia's rice production capability. "Indonesia is one of the world's biggest rice consumers and ...
INDONESIAN NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 1, 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers : THE JAKARTA POST - The government will increase the income tax brackets for individual taxpayers from three to four but will retain a three-bracket tax structure for institutional (corporate taxpayers) ....
JAPAN'S MITSUBISHI HEAVY SEES $123.42 MLN LOSS.
Mar 01, 2000 ... TOKYO, March 1 Asia Pulse - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (TSE:7011) says it expects a net loss of 136 billion yen (US$123.42 million) in the year to March 31. The company cited sluggish sales at its main operations and growing losses on overseas plant construction. ...
AUSTRALIA'S ANSETT TO OFFER DIRECT BALI - BROOM FLIGHT.
Mar 01, 2000 ... DENPASAR, Bali, March 1 Asia Pulse - Australia's Ansett Airlines will open a direct flight between Denpasar (Bali) and Broom (Australia) in a bid to increase flight frequency between Indonesia and its neighboring country. "The new direct flight is the result of a cooperation ...
SINGAPORE'S EXHIBITION INDUSTRY COULD GROW 10% IN 2000.
Mar 01, 2000 ... SINGAPORE, March 1 Asia Pulse - Singapore's exhibition industry will grow by up to 10 per cent in 2000, Communications and Information Technology Minister John Chen said today. "Despite the economic crisis, the exhibition industry as a whole saw good progress with an annual ...
SINGAPORE NEEDS CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE WORKERS: DPM.
Mar 01, 2000 ... SINGAPORE, March 1 Asia Pulse - Singapore needs creative knowledge workers to compete in today's global marketplace, deputy prime minister Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam said today. "There is greater urgency to view knowledge as a competitive factor today as the contents of services and ...