The Business Times, 15 December 2001

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1 16 The Business Times
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  • Title Section
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    7 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend DECEMBER 15-16, 2001
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  • Article
    Lock icon CapitaLand sells Parkway stake for $119m
    533 1  -  GK Goh said to be buyer; brokerage expected to onsell the shares By I Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Capita Land yesterday ended months of speculation on its Parkway Holdings stake with the sale of the entire 16.7 per cent shareholding in the healthcare group for
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    Lock icon Interest in SRS picking up: bank sources
    620 1  -  EXCLUSIVE But Job security and cash flow worries remain hurdles Byi Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Interest in the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) is picking up, bank sources say, as there are only two weeks to year-end and that much time left to invest and
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    Lock icon Employers look to wage restraint to save jobs
    603 1  -  EXCLUSIVE SNEF chief says ground is receptive to a wage freeze Byi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Employers hope the revised "severe wage restraint" guidelines issued by the National Wages Council a week ago will help them cap next year's overall wage cost
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    Lock icon Pointers for Spore's economic soul-searching
    1389 1  -  SATURDAY SOAPBOX daniel lian The writer is Singapore and South-east Asia Economist with Morgan Stanley WE believe a comprehensive economic restructuring package to help put the Singapore economy back on a sustainable growth path should address the following nine areas: ♦Challenging the high-saving and wealthcreation
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  • in the news
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      Lock icon Reality check weighs down trading
      552 2  -  MARKET REVIEW r sivanithy THE immediate outlook for the Straits Times Index appeared rosy a week ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had recovered beyond 10,000, Nasdaq had surged 42 per cent from its Sept 24 low and, thanks to 10 interest rate cuts, US
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      Lock icon MARKETS
      72 2 Dsn M6MS (-11.28) BT-SRI 637.72 (-8.45) ST INDEX FUTURES 1*862.00 (-15.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 193.30 (-2.30) Friday Change KLSECOMP 664.12 +111 NIKKEI 226 *****.66 +7810 HANG SENG _11,466.11 -6343 SET INDEX 294.00 -0.61 JAKARTA COMP .dosed MANILA COMP -1,126.01 +1818 TAIPEI WPI 6,486.73 *79,19 SEOUL COMP ***** -1119 SHENZHEN B
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      Lock icon FINANCE
      73 2 FOREX RATES US$ S$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.833 £(US$/S$ per 1.445 2.649 El'ROfl S$/S$/E) 0.898 1.647 DM 1177 1.187 YEN 127.4 69 50 RM 3.800 2.073 HK$ 7.800 4154 BAHT 43.76 23.87 Rl'PIAH 10.170 5.547 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 KIALA LUMPl"R 6441 HONGKONG 525 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 6.79
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      Lock icon CK Tang proposes $23m cash call
      590 2  -  Move comes as department store operator sinks deeper into the red By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Department store operator CK Tang's struggle to get back in the black has gotten nowhere the company yesterday reported deeper interim losses and announced another cash call as its
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      Lock icon More executives join ranks of retrenched
      638 2  -  37% off those laid off in Q3 are execs, up from 23% in 1997 Byi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] More professionals, managers and executives are joining the ranks of employees laid off. But low-skilled production, cleaning and related workers are still among those hardest
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      Lock icon Don't give up on tech baby
      750 2  -  VALLEY Vi E W jennifer lien [SILICON VALLEY] HOW things have changed in just one year. A year ago today, even though the dotcoms were starting to fizzle out, companies providing technology to large companies were still riding on a frothy wave. Stock prices
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      Lock icon Wage growth likely to stagnate
      279 2  -  By l Chuang Peck Ming GROWTH in workers' earnings is likely to come to a standstill as the year draws to a close, says the the Ministry of Manpower in its Third Quarter Labour Market Report issued yesterday. The National Wages Council, in its revised
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      Lock icon Disturbing trend of haves' and have-nots'in market
      816 3  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW 60% of stocks under-perform the STI in the recent 'recovery' r sivanithy THE local bourse is fast developing into a two-tier market of "haves" and "have-nots". And between these extremes is a gap of growing proportions, as more and more
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      Lock icon Wearnes bucks trend with higher earnings
      329 3  -  It also projects better pre-tax profit for current financial year By I Siow Li Sen WEARNES International (1994) yesterday broke the recent spate of bad results by reporting a 2 per cent higher net profit of $6.8 million for the 12 months ended Sept
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      Lock icon Trek 2000 wins 2nd ThumbDrive deal with a US firm
      267 3  -  By I Serena Ng JUST two months after it was awarded a major porta-ble-drive deal by computer giant IBM, homegrown engineering solutions provider Trek 2000 said yesterday that it has won a contract for its Thumb Drive mobile storage technology
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      Lock icon MCL Land disputes $82.5m tax assessment
      152 3 DEVELOPER MCL Land said yesterday its subsidiary MCL Land Acreage has filed an objection against an $82.5 million assessment it received recently from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) for Year of Assessment 1995. The company also said it had sought legal opinion
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      Lock icon Tourism's a barometer of recovery
      279 4  -  Byy Vince Chong TOURISM will be the barometer of recovery as it typically picks up before the rest of the economy, Singapore Tourism Board chief executive Yeo Khee Leng said yesterday. Speaking at the presentation ceremony for Best Decorated Building, he also said tourism isn't
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      Lock icon Enron to liquidate 3 Singapore subsidiaries
      165 4 Bloomberg ENRON Corp, the bankrupt energy trader, is liquidating three Singapore-based subsidiaries that owe about Ssloo million to creditors, said PricewaterhouseCoopers. Enron is liquidating its oil and petrochemicals trading company, Enron Capital Trade Resources Singapore, its broadband and communications service provider, Enron Broadband Services
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      Lock icon Yen sinks to lowest level in more than 3 yrs
      512 4  -  CURRENCIES Worse to come if past two years any guide larry wee THE yen was hammered to its lowest level in more than three years, falling to almost 128 per US dollar by yesterday's Asian close and through several other
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      Lock icon Penton IPO fully placed out at 20.5c apiece
      414 4  -  frftrtaq stock expected to start trading on Dec 28 By Serena Ng SINGAPORE-BASED plastic injection moulding firm Penton International yesterday launched an initial public offer of 16 million shares at 20.5 cents each for a listing on Sesdaq but said all of
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon SembCorp unit bags US$150m deal
        60 4 SEMBCORP Industries' engineering and construction unit has clinched a US$l5O million contract from the Land Transport Authority in a Joint venture with Korea's Daewoo Engineering and Construction. The contract involves the building of a tunnel for a new expressway. Work is scheduled to commence in
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        Lock icon New Wave interim profit slumps 97%
        108 4 ELECTRONICS parts distributor New Wave Technologies posted a 97 per cent slump in interim net profit to $50,000. Turnover for the six months ended Sept 30 fell 75 per cent to $5.1 mill inn, due mainly to the severe downturn in the local and
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        Lock icon NTU don honoured for recycling discovery
        91 4 AN associate professor at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University yesterday won the Asian Innovation Award for discovering that discarded waste of oil-palm fruit can be used to produce low-oost pollution filters. Lua Aik Chong, a 48-year-old engineer, won the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine's 4th
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        Lock icon Senior Merrill official quits
        50 4 MERRILL Lynch Co's head of investment banking for South-east Asia, Tommy Tan, has quit the firm, becoming the latest senior banker to leave in recent weeks. Mr Tan left to pursue other interests, Merrill Lynch spokesman R G Rosso said. No replacement has been decided. Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Another Inno-Pac director resigns
        52 4 LOSS-MAKING Inno-Pacific Holdings, which saw almost its entire board replaced a few months ago after minority shareholders managed to oust the okl board, yesterday announced that a third member of the new board has left the company. It said Abdul Khader Mohamed Ismail had resigned with
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      Lock icon Genting chief's daughter joins Macau licence race
      393 5  -  EXCLU SIV E Bid by Lim Siew Kim submitted through M Bliss Casinos Company Limited From! Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN casino king Lim Goh Tong of Genting Bhd will not only have to compete against big timers from all over the
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      Lock icon India blames Pakistan-based group
      429 5 It has technical evidence' against Islamic outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba Reuters, AFP. AP THE Indian government said it had evidence yesterday that a Pakistanbased Islamic militant group was to blame for the suicide attack on Parliament that claimed 12 lives. Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said India had issued
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      Lock icon PM Goh condemns attack
      97 5 AFP [SINGAPORE] Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday condemned the bloody attack on the Indian parliament complex in New Delhi and offered condolences to the families of the victims. "I was shocked to learn of the acts of violence at the Indian Parliament," Mr Goh
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      Lock icon UEM to fight Time creditors' move
      478 5 They call default on USsl62mof overdue bonds Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] United Engineers (M) Bhd said yesterday it will fight any move by creditors of its phone unit Time Engineering Bhd to foreclose on assets pledged as collateral on US$l62 million of overdue bonds. Three-quarters
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      Lock icon Regulator vetoes Naluri rescue of TRI
      440 6  -  Securities Commission says Naluri will not gain from purchase of TRI shares From Eddie Toh m Kuala Lumpur THE Securities Commission has vetoed again the plan by Tajudin Ramli's Naluri Bhd to use part of the proceeds from the sale of its stake in
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      Lock icon Osama tape confession of guilt: experts
      613 6 LAT-WP, Reuters, NYT, AP [WASHINGTON] Legal experts say that in a few words caught on tape, Osama bin Laden pronounced himself guilty of masterminding the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center. "We asked each of them to go to America (for) a martyrdom
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      Lock icon Thai civil court to hear suit against former BOT chief
      288 6 AP [BANGKOK] A civil court yesterday agreed to try a former central bank governor, who has been sued by the government for US$4 billion in damages on charges that his policies depleted Thailand's foreign exchange reserves, leading to the 1997
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      Lock icon Qantas CEO, NZ minister to meet
      196 6 Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] Qantas Airways chief executive officer Geoff Dixon will meet New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen on Wednesday and may discuss the Australian carrier's interest in buying into Air New Zealand Ltd. "We have requested another meeting," said Qantas spokesman Des Sullivan. Mr
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Kirin to buy 15% of San Miguel
        99 6 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Kirin Brewery Co, Japan's largest brewer, will buy 15 per cent of San Miguel Corp for 27 J billion pesos (***** million), creating a partnership with a brewing capacity that ranks it among the top five in the world. San Miguel
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        Lock icon Thai govt,US partner start US$500m fund
        82 6 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Cerberus Partners, a US fund specialising in distressed debt, and the Thai government have agreed to start a US$5OO million fund to invest in Thai businesses as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra began his US trip aimed at wooing investors. The Co-Investment Fund
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        Lock icon Investors buy US$896m of Indon NPLs
        69 6 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Lehman Brothers Inc and four other investors bought US$B96 million worth of non-performing Indonesian loans from the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency at 22 cents in the dollar, the agency said. The returns are down from 51 cents in the dollar for US$BOO
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        Lock icon MAS launches marketing campaign
        61 6 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System yesterday launched a high-profile marketing campaign aimed at helping to return the company to profitability by 2004. The campaign will involve advertisements in local and international electronic and print media, and is targeted at audiences in its key
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        Lock icon Creditors extend terms on Pakistan's debt
        73 6 Bloomberg [PARIS] Pakistan's creditors have agreed to extend payment terms on more than US$l2 billion in debt, rewarding the country for its efforts to revive die economy and back the US in its anti-terrorism war. The US, UK, France and other governments granted the
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      Lock icon Markets' bet on Fed rate hike not far off
      531 7 Fed statements lend credence to view that it may reverse easing policy soon Dow Jones Newswires [NEW YORK] Financial markets have for some time been pricing in the chances of sharp interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve early next year,
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon Oracle's Q2 profit down
        132 7 Reuters [REDWOOD SHORES, California] Oracle Corp, the world's No 2 software vendor, on Thursday posted fiscal second-quarter earnings that were down from a year ago, but said it expects profit growth to resume in its fourth quarter raiding May. The database software giant had Q2 net
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        Lock icon HSBC close to setting Japanese suit
        105 7 Reuters [LONDON] HSBC Holdings pic is close to settling a lawsuit brought by Japanese investors against Republic New York, the bank it bought in 1999 from Edmond Safra, a source close to HSBC said yesterday. The bank does not expect the settlement to cost
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        Lock icon Merrill to merge 2 groups off analysts
        68 7 Bloomberg [LONDON] Merrill Lynch Co, the second-largest underwriter of US corporate debt, plans to merge its investment-grade and high-yield credit research analysts as the firm cuts costs and more high-grade companies are being downgraded to junk. Merrill follows J P Morgan Chase Co,
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      Lock icon US industrial output falls, CPI stays flat in Nov
      318 7 AP [WASHINGTON] In more signs of the far-reaching impact of the country's recession, the government reported yesterday that output at America's factories fell again in November but the spreading economic weakness helped keep consumer inflation in check. Traders worried about the
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      Lock icon What can we expect in 2002?
      906 7  -  WRITER'S JOURNAL Here are ten key themes for you to chew over karim raslan WHILE the events of Sept 11 were impossible to predict, the actual impact on global politics and economics may well be easier to anticipate. I'd like to outline ten key
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      Lock icon Amgen in talks to buy Immunex: sources
      303 7 Reuters [NEW YORK] Amgen Inc, the world's largest biotechnology company, Is in advanced negotiations to buy Immunex Corp, a leading arthritis drug maker, for about US$lB billion, sources familiar with the talks said late Thursday. The deal, the biggest in the healthcare industry
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      Lock icon Japan sees brighter year ahead despite sobering data
      499 8 Economics minister cites stimulus effect of two extra Budgets for the upbeat outlook Reuters [TOKYO] The Japanese government will shortly publish its economic forecast for the next fiscal year and it might be more bullish than that of independent forecasters, Economics Minister
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      Lock icon Profit warnings buffet telecoms sector
      429 8 FT [NEW YORK] The outlook for the battered US telecommunications industry took another turn for the worse on Thursday with a spate of profit warnings. The news raised concerns about the risk of more bankruptcies among emerging fibre-optic carriers. Lucent Technologies' disclosed that its revenues
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      1167 4 Xotices y The Royal Bank 9MC of Scotland pic Head Office: 42 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YE Singapore Branch: 6th Battery Road #27-00 Singapore *****9. Tel: 65 220 4144 Fax: 65 538 3923, TLX RS ***** RBS SIN Consolidated Balance Sheet Consolidated Profit and Loss Account at 31 December
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      1412 5 tm WEARNES INTERNATIONAL (1994) LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) RESULTS The unaudited results of the Group and of the Company for the financial year ended 30 September 2001 are as followsGROUP COMPANY an an ~ss m $000 SON SIN SON Tumovef 396,234 307.152 29 9,700 9,559 Investment (loss)/gain (3.517) 2,279 n.m.
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      1281 6 I A 'otices The Straits Trading Company Limited (Incorporated in Singapore) I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of 1 THE STRAITS TRADING COMPANY LIMITED (the "Company") will be held at 9 Battery Road #21 -00 Straits Trading Building, Singapore *****0 on 9 January 2002 at 11.30
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2807 7 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AM Aaro Aeset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqtyl* 0806/ Star Europe Bd 0 994/ Star Europe Bal 0.88V Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0.75V Star Asia Bond 1.217/ Star Ana Balanced 0 853/ Star Global Technology Find 0331 Star Bhv Finance Japan Fund!** 0X2/ Am Govett (Ma) Ltd.
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    Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
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    Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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  • week in review
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      Lock icon Top stories this week
      917 9 For the full stories, visit http:/ business-times.asial.com.sg MAS: Banks should disclose security breaches swifty Dec 10 BANKS should disclose security breaches promptly, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has said in reply to a BT query following a hacking incident into United Overseas Bank's on-line banking system
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      Lock icon What we said
      302 9 EMTMULoecu No snap recovery this time ECONOMISTS in the US and Singapore are now seeing the prospect of recovery in their respective economies. But that's different from seeing a real jump in business orders. This recession hit suddenly and swiftly. Businesses should make immediate adjustments to stay
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    Lock icon KLSE:
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    Lock icon BONDS & WARRANTS
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  • in the money
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      Lock icon Tech funds set to sparkle in 2002
      657 10  -  FUNDS They outperformed many other unit trusts in the recent rally By\ Vasu Menon The writer is the chief editor and research head at finatiQ AFTER an 18month slump, the tech sector is back in vogue. And those who had the courage and
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      Lock icon Goldilocks and the three bears
      818 10  -  Has the bottom come and gone? Or is the marfcet waiting for Papa Bear? Byl Chew Sutat The writer is an associate director of OCBC Securities. Mr Chew helped develop the first share-borrowing facility for retail investors in Asia outside Japan. These views are rendered
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      Lock icon Upgrades lead again
      333 10  -  By* George Lam The author is a senior consultant with Paris-based JCF Group DURING the week of Dec 4-10, some 28 recommendation changes were recorded, 16 of them upgrades and 12 downgrades. Some analysts seem more bullish now, encouraged by the recent surge in the Straits Times
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      Lock icon Best not to ape others in stock trading
      856 10  -  INVESTOR EDUCATION The weekly column on Investor eduotkxi b contributed by the Securities Investors Association of Shppoit By Joseph Lim The writer is an associate professor of finance, Dept of Finance Accounting, National University of Singapore, and a committee member of Securities
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  • what's in style collections
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      Lock icon Reinventing the old
      1152 11  -  This Christmas season, it's nice to know that some hotels are not just dressing up with tinsel and trees they're also undergoing facelifts and reinventing services to ensure that the old really makes way for the new. Tired of too much shopping, CORINNE KERK and PARVATHINAYAR visit
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • what's in style food
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      Lock icon designer hampers
      762 12 Not the pyramid-style ones with cheese balls, but gourmet ones with style. By JAIME EE So who doesn't like getting food hampers for Christmas? Gone are the days when hampers were shaped like pyramids and contained things like XO, cheese balls, tinned lychees and butter cookies. These days,
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      35 12 TeL*****29 Foraioeal festive twist, check out PhoenfcOirtJen I Feast on a w)oe of 80 of Sichuan and J Tel *****88 Spociai douWeboiied soupa and six other dishes from weekday set lunch menu at onty $22.80.
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      51 12 Pan Pacific Hotel Level 3, 7 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square. Tel:*****88 3SS Contemporary North Indian cuisine doesn't have to PSe rich and loaded with calories. The restaurant features classic Rqjasthani, Kashmiri, Gttfarati and Peking Duck usual $42 now at 72 cents. I u i- l i i t i£_ 'r
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  • what's in style art
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      Lock icon 'Euro Rising' in the East
      283 13  -  Byi Cheah Ui-Hoon THE forms are abstract, the colours bold and rich. American artist Gregory Burns' surrealistic colourscapes of Europe, however, have an "Asian" look about them. For Euro Rising, Burns has captured scenes of ancient towns, castles and monuments, but somehow, that city on
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