Shaping up e-commerce, INVESTOR DIGEST

Investor Digest (Malaysia)

05-16-2000

THE key ingredient for a successful Malaysian internet (net) portal in
the the new economy hinges on providing global content serving the needs
of an international community.

`It has been a Malaysian content. But "dot com" always prefer foreign
content. It is the global content that has a high degree of "stickiness"
(getting people to stay on the site),' advises James Graf, managing director,
corporate finance from Merrill Lynch Singapore Pte Ltd.

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