future

Possible future events (see also old news)

W2 of April '00	Release of Japan's important Tanken economic report. (Herald Tribune's Global Economic Review April)
W2 of April '00	Microsoft anti-trust case's outcome. (The Star 2/4/00)
March-May,'00	UMNO's election in May 2000. By end of March 2000, UMNO's 165 divisions, with 2.7 million members, will conclude meetings to decide nominations for a range of party posts. Anyone contesting the party presidency needs the backing of at least 50 divisions and at least 33 for vice-presidency contestant (Asiaweek March 3, 2000). See political stocks.
May 31, 2000	On May 31, 2000 Malaysia KLSE could be reinstated into the Morgan Stanley's indices such as MSCI. See possible MSCI stocks.
April 1, 2000	From April 1, 2000 as part of KLSE requirement, companies (companies having e-venture) would have to porvide details of the business model, stage of development and, if operational, the existing level of operations, description of risks and rewards involved, as well as the technical capability and competence of the Internet or e-commerce venture. (The Star 29/3/00)
June 31, '00	June 31, 2000, new deadline set for unresolved CLOB shares to go under the custody of Ministry of Finance.
July, '00-'01	staggered selling of CLOB shares from July 2000 throughout a period of nine to thirteen months to 33 months depending on whichever offers individual CLOB investors accept. Two weeks before the March 27, 2000 closing date for Effective Capital Sdn Bhd's IRA (irrevocable request and authority offer), already there were 50,000 takers, this figure represent 30% acceptance rate from the total of 172,000 CLOB investors, based on feedback from brokers and facilitation centres set up by PriceWaterhouse-Coopers in the two countries. CEO of Effective Capital maintained his target acceptance rate of 90% or 155,000 investors (The Star 15/3/00).
September, '00	Stock Exchange of Singapore has implemented 3 trading days as maximum settlement period, effective from 14/3/00. KLSE may be implementing similar T+3 settlement period in September 2000.
December, '00	"Gtronic is eyeing a transer to the KLSE main board by December 2000, after having fulfilled the three-year track record requirement. The company has successfully completed the bonus issue to enlarge its paid-up capital to more than RM60mil and are ready for the main board listing," said its CEO.
December, '00	PLUS may be listed in KLSE Main Board by end of 2000. TV3 news 13/3/00. It could be the largest IPO ever in Malaysia (The Star 20/3/00). See UEM.
December 31, '00	All bank merger details including buying price of individual merger partner's shares, could be finalised by end of 2000. Bank Negara has set Dec 31, 2000 as the deadline for the commencement of operations of merged groups.
End-2000	AKNTech dotCom is seeking to be listed in MESDAQ and in Hong Kong (GEM?).
End-2000	Measat Broadcast Network System Sdn Bhd seeking listing in both Nasdaq and MESDAQ. See Tanjong.
?	Conglomerate Perlis Plantations Bhd may be venturing into the area of information technology, media or telecommunications. Besides, it may be increasing its liquidity of its free float shares in future given that the largest 20 substantial shareholders already hold 86% of its share capital. It also aims to dispose of unprofitable business units.
?	Maxis Communications Bhd may be listed in KLSE or Nasdaq or others. See Tanjong.
?	Internet giant Softbank may be deciding on any Malaysia net firms to make "true value added" investment. SoftBank may or may not be buying stakes in more Malaysia net firms which it said should be "content or infracstructure-related". So far it had bought a 3% stakes in infracstructure-related DiGi.Com.
2000-2002	More companies venturing into internet business would be announcing and detailing out their e-plans
2001-2002	If any of TH Group's Asia Ventures' 20 projects are successful, they may be listed in Nasdaq or Sesdaq (Singapore). See TH Group.
?	Time dotCom could be listed in MESDAQ
?	More dotComs companies could be listed in MESDAQ in near future.
?	I-Bhd could be starting its already planned manufacturing and sales of computer pheripherals business.
?	Nikko could be starting to manufacture MP3 walkman (player and downloader of music via internet)
?	Ancom, working with Oracle, could be finishing setting up South-East Asia's first online commercial exchange (business-to-business) for chemicals industry and its related business activities.
2002	AKNTech may be listed into KLSE's main board in year 2002 after three years since its commencement.
April 30, '02	The Securities Commission has clarified that the dealine for existing second board companies to increase their minimum paid-up share capital to RM40mil is April 30, 2002, and not June 30, 2001, as reported recently. The minimum paid-up capital for main board companies is RM60mil (The Star 4/3/00).

W2 of April '00

Release of Japan's important Tanken economic report. (Herald Tribune's Global Economic Review April)

W2 of April '00

Microsoft anti-trust case's outcome. (The Star 2/4/00)

March-May,'00

May 31, 2000

On May 31, 2000 Malaysia KLSE could be reinstated into the Morgan Stanley's indices such as MSCI. See possible MSCI stocks.

April 1, 2000

June 31, '00

June 31, 2000, new deadline set for unresolved CLOB shares to go under the custody of Ministry of Finance.

July, '00-'01

September, '00

Stock Exchange of Singapore has implemented 3 trading days as maximum settlement period, effective from 14/3/00. KLSE may be implementing similar T+3 settlement period in September 2000.

December, '00

"Gtronic is eyeing a transer to the KLSE main board by December 2000, after having fulfilled the three-year track record requirement. The company has successfully completed the bonus issue to enlarge its paid-up capital to more than RM60mil and are ready for the main board listing," said its CEO.

December, '00

PLUS may be listed in KLSE Main Board by end of 2000. TV3 news 13/3/00. It could be the largest IPO ever in Malaysia (The Star 20/3/00). See UEM.

December 31, '00

All bank merger details including buying price of individual merger partner's shares, could be finalised by end of 2000. Bank Negara has set Dec 31, 2000 as the deadline for the commencement of operations of merged groups.

End-2000

AKNTech dotCom is seeking to be listed in MESDAQ and in Hong Kong (GEM?).

End-2000

Measat Broadcast Network System Sdn Bhd seeking listing in both Nasdaq and MESDAQ. See Tanjong.

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Maxis Communications Bhd may be listed in KLSE or Nasdaq or others. See Tanjong.

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2000-2002

More companies venturing into internet business would be announcing and detailing out their e-plans

2001-2002

If any of TH Group's Asia Ventures' 20 projects are successful, they may be listed in Nasdaq or Sesdaq (Singapore). See TH Group.

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Time dotCom could be listed in MESDAQ

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More dotComs companies could be listed in MESDAQ in near future.

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I-Bhd could be starting its already planned manufacturing and sales of computer pheripherals business.

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Nikko could be starting to manufacture MP3 walkman (player and downloader of music via internet)

?

Ancom, working with Oracle, could be finishing setting up South-East Asia's first online commercial exchange (business-to-business) for chemicals industry and its related business activities.

2002

AKNTech may be listed into KLSE's main board in year 2002 after three years since its commencement.

April 30, '02

The Securities Commission has clarified that the dealine for existing second board companies to increase their minimum paid-up share capital to RM40mil is April 30, 2002, and not June 30, 2001, as reported recently. The minimum paid-up capital for main board companies is RM60mil (The Star 4/3/00).