The Business Times, 3 April 2004

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    11 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend 851 MITA(P) 023/03/2004 SINGAPORE APRIL 3-4. 2004
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    Lock icon A S'pore twist to studies of global competition
    811 1  -  Local researchers design index to assess Asean's effectiveness in face of a rising China. Plans afoot to include India later. By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] There's no lack of competitiveness studies that rank up to 100 economies around the world. But precisely because
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    Lock icon Just sew me the money
    758 1  -  saturday soapbox Fashion festivals are fine, but Singapore ultimately needs a high-fashion industry that pulls in money vince chong THIS is a piece about the Singapore Fashion Festival but forget about couture. Forget that most of us can't fit into what's paraded up and down
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    Lock icon US job creation explodes to 4-year peak in March
    602 1 LATEST US DATA 308,000 new jobs created across industries; but jobless rate creeps up to 5.7% Reuters AFP [WASHINGTON] The United States smashed its way out of a three-year labour market rut in March, announcing yesterday a four-year record explosion of
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      Lock icon Former APB manager jailed for 42 years
      550 2  -  Finance manager did the crime, will now do the time —for the longest time so far for a white-collar crime By Joyce Koh [SINGAPORE] Chia Teck Leng, the former Asia Pacific Breweries finance manager who orchestrated Singapore's biggest fraud, was jailed yesterday for
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      Lock icon S'pore can be top offshore 'high-end niche player': study
      416 2  -  High data security, IP protection here reassuring for firms By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] Singapore is one of the most attractive locations for offshore services requiring high levels of data security and intellectual property protection, according to a just-released survey by management
      Source: AT Kearney  -  416 words
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      Lock icon Yong to remain chief justice of S'pore
      274 2 [SINGAPORE] Yong Pung How has been re-appointed chief justice of Singapore for a further two years from April 11. Chief Justice Yong, who has held the post for 14 years, has been credited with transforming the judiciary into the internationally respected institution that
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      Lock icon 8 million population for Spore will provide critical mass: NTU economist
      348 2  -  By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Despite resource constraints, Singapore can eventually support a population of 8 million, according to economist Tan Khee Giap. This will provide a large enough critical mass for an economy that has been hampered somewhat by
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      Lock icon Investors watch for growth vote at Indon polls
      480 2 Megawati still trailing Golkar party: opinion surveys Bloomberg AFP [JAKARTA] Investors and international credit-rating agencies are watching closely the Indonesian elections which start on Monday with parliamentary polls, to see if the vote will produce a government that can further bolster growth.
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  • the raffles conversation
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      1617 3  -  It's a dangerous world out there and co-founder of International SOS Pascal Rey-Herme tells CHUANG PECK MING that more companies are waking up to its perils CHUANG PECK MING PASCAL Rey-Herme could have been accused of building up a business on the miseries and misfortunes of others. Global
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      Lock icon First Asia, then the world — from Singapore
      565 3 First Asia, then the world from Singapore PASCAL Rey-Herme, a French doctor, first came to Asia to serve his national service. He ended up co-founding the world's biggest security, medical assistance and rescue business in Singapore. Soon after arriving in Jakarta in 1981 to serve his military draft as a
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      300 3 INTERNATIONAL SOS specialises in getting you out of tight situations like when you are stranded on a remote island and need urgent medical attention, or trapped in a war zone. It operates a global network of 28 alarm centres, 21 clinics and more than 100
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      Lock icon Sime Darby keen to take over Jaya: report
      631 4  -  By Ven Sreenivasan MALAYSIA'S Sime Darby is said to be eyeing a takeover of Singapore-listed shipbuilding company Jaya Holdings. Citing sources, Malaysia's Star newspaper yesterday reported that the Kuala Lum-pur-listed conglomerate had made overtures to Jaya. No details were given on the
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      Lock icon Venture CEO paid $7.75-$8m in 2003
      254 4  -  By Uma Shankari VENTURE Corp paid between $7.75 million and $8 million to its chief executive officer Wong Ngit Liong in 2003, making him again one of the best paid CEOs in town. And the trend looks set to continue this year. In 2002,
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      Lock icon More S'pore companies making profits overseas
      1123 4  -  corporate analysis By 2005/6, local listed companies could be deriving more than half of earnings from abroad, according to research house CLSA. ANGELA TAN reports ANGELA TAN Looking at some of Singapore's listed companies, it is hard to believe that the push to venture
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      Lock icon Strike eyes listing approval this year for Mid-Con
      334 4  -  No hitch at meeting to secure shareholders' nod for acquisition By Kenneth Lim WITH a shareholders' mandate to buy the controlling stake of Mid-Continent Equipment Group firmly in hand, Strike Engineering now wants to secure listing approval within the year for the
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      Lock icon Record 80 IPOs on SGX seen for this year
      402 5 SBI E2-Capital expects half to come from Chinese and other foreign firms Bloomberg SINGAPORE will probably have a record number of initial share sales this year and Chinese and other foreign companies will make up half of 80 new stocks trading
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      Lock icon A fanny week ends positive for the STI
      633 5  -  market review r sivanithy IT has been a funny week, hard to describe. On one hand, the Straits Times Index rose for five consecutive days, gaining 53 points or 3 per cent to end at 1,880.45. This conveys positive signals, gives a
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      76 5 STI 1,880.45 (+9.75) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,877.00 (+15.00) SIMSCI 228.24 (+1.11) SIMSCI FUTURES 227.30 (+0.80) Friday Change KLSKCOMP 887.34 +0.26 NIKKEI 225 11,815.95 +132.53 HANG SENG 12,731.76 +55.51 SET INDEX 693.12 +21i0 JAKARTA COMP —750.65 +12.99 MANILA COMP +17.80 TAIPEI WPI 6,545.54 +22.05 SEOUL COMP 883.69 +054 SHENZHEN B
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      73 5 FOREX RATES US$ S$ USS (S$ per l!S$) 1.672 £(l!S$/S$ per 1.851 3.094 ElJRO(US$/S$/E). 1.233 2.061 YEN 104.2 62.30 RM 3.800 2.273 HKS 7.788 4.659 BAHT 39.14 23.41 RIPIAH 8,586 5,137 RENMINBI 8.299 4.965 INDIAN RUPEE 43.78 26.19 AS 1.308 0.782 NZ$ 1.502 0.899 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25 MALAYSIA
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    • corporateroundup
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        Lock icon Valuair expects to turn profitable in 2nd year
        118 5 Reuters SINGAPORE low-cost carrier Valuair Ltd, which plans to start flying next month, expects to become profitable in its second year of operation, said chairman Lim Chin Beng on Thursday. Mr Lim, who helped set up Singapore Airlines in the *****, said
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        Lock icon KepFels in venture to build, operate US$94m vessel
        97 5 KEPPEL Fels has struck a deal with Smedvig Asia to build an offshore marine rig. The vessel, valued at US$94 million, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of next year. Under the deal, KepFels and Smedvig "will own and
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        Lock icon Cosco may join PSA in investing in Dalian port
        99 5 MAINLAND China-controlled Cosco Pacific may join Singapore's PSA Corp in investing in the expansion of Dalian port in north-east China, as competition for port space in one of the fastestgrowing economies hots up. PSA, which currently has a venture with the
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        Lock icon Full Apex building another PET battle plant in China
        94 5 JUST two months after announcing plans to develop a PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle production plant in Dongguan, China, Full Apex unveiled yesterday a second plant, this time in Tianjin. The plant, which will cost the group about 60 million yuan (Ssl2
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        Lock icon STPL unit borrows $200m by issuing 10-year notes
        106 5 SINGAPORE Technologies Pte Ltd has tapped the capital markets for $200 million. It said yesterday that wholly owned subsidiary ST Treasury Services Ltd has issued $200 million in 10-year notes that bear a fixed coupon of 3.98 per cent per annum. The
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  • money personal finance
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      567 6  -  Compiled by VEN SHEENIVASAN Hi-P International April 2 dosing $135 WE are initiating coverage of Hi-P, an integrated contract manufacturer with production facilities in China, Singapore and Mexico, with a BUY 2 rating. The company provides precision plastic injection moulding, mould design and fabrication, as well as turnkey
      Source: Bloomberg  -  567 words
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        Lock icon Magnecomp options exercised
        103 6 MAGNECOMP International execuTo Wai Hung exercised 125,000 options at 16 and 17 cents apiece on Thursday for a total cost of $20,750. Shares of the hard disk drive component maker closed yesterday at 83.5 cents, making Mr To's shares worth five times their cost on paper. He
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        Lock icon ACCS exec director's stake cut
        88 6 CUSTOMER support specialist Accord Customer Care Solutions' non-execu-tive director, Gay Chee Cheong, saw his deemed stake in the company pared to 5.88 per cent from 6.19 per cent yesterday after investment company 2G Capital sold two million shares on the open market at 91.1 cents
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        Lock icon Chuan Hup ups stake in unit
        82 6 CHUAN Hup Holdings yesterday in- creased its stake in its offshore-support subsidiary CH Offshore with an open market purchase of one million shares at 40 cents apiece. Chuan Hup now controls a 52.69 per cent stake in CH Offshore, from 52.55 per cent previously.
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        Lock icon ASJ director buys more shares
        75 6 ELECTRONICS component distributor ASJ Holdings' non-executive director, Chia Soon Loi, continued his buying spree on Wednesday, buying 389,000 shares of his company on the open market at an average 88.47 cents a share. The latest transaction, done through Kingsward Investment Ltd, raised Mr Chia's deemed
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        Lock icon Midas director buys shares
        64 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM MIDAS Holdings independent director Chew Chin Hua on Thursday bought 200,000 shares of the newly listed company at 60.3 cents a share from the open market. Mr Chew now controls a 0.09 per cent stake in the aluminium and plastic pipe extruder.
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      Lock icon What to look out for in choosing home loans
      1346 6  -  The best deal would be a package tailored to your needs, reports TAILA KRISHNAKUMAR TAILA KRISHNAKUMAR THE home loan market is hotting up, thanks to a benign interest rate environment, increasing property prices and renewed push by banks to capture their
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      Lock icon S'pore banks bet big on mortgages
      685 6 Weak corporate demand forces them to milk housing sector Reuters FLUSH with cash because corporate demand for loans is weak, Singapore's banks are chasing consumers with low mortgage rates as the prospect of rising prices tempts buyers back into the property market. But unlike
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  • money personal investment
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      Lock icon When 'plodders' pay
      1201 7  -  show me the money teh hooi ling High-dividend paying stocks are defensive plays. Or is it? In the first week of July last year, I compiled a list of 25 stocks with higher than average expected dividend yields. At that time, the market was in the midst
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      Lock icon How Adam Cheng hits HK stocks
      634 7  -  CLSA finds the bourse tracks the actor's shows, reports KENNETH LIM KENNETH LIM TO HAVE your finger on the pulse of the Hong Kong stock market, keep an eye on television. This is the advice of two analysts for those who are thinking of
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    609 7 Transaction date: Apr 2 HTERBAMK CURRENCY RATES Against S$ Against US$ Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer SWISS to 100 SS/USS to one unit of foreign currency: units of foreign fZ SIS K2 ZSSm* Canadian dollar UTO U7M 0.K4S 0 650
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      Lock icon Commodities trading: Dubai on S'pore's heels
      756 8  -  Its lower costs and free trade zones are major advantages By Chen Huifen DUBAI may have been in the spotlight recently as a leisure spot for the likes of soccer stars David Beckham and Michael Owen, but it's also fast catching up as a
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      Lock icon Watch TV expand to 500 channels soon
      546 8  -  Personalised viewing the wave of the future: Discovery By Cheah Ui-Hoon TECHNOLOGY will change the nature of TV content and programming as we know it, and it's just around the corner, says Dawn McCall, president of Discovery Networks International. "People want to have
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      Lock icon Change of chairman at Sentosa Cove
      234 8 SENTOSA Cove Pte Ltd, the company behind upcoming homes on the tourism isle of Sentosa and the nearby Southern Islands, has appointed veteran hotelier Jennie Chua as chairman. Confirming an earlier BT story, SCPL said Ms Chua, 58, who is also chief executive of
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      Lock icon Asean finance ministers to meet in S'pore
      191 8 SOME 200 people will come to Singapore next week for the eighth Asean Finance Ministers meeting, as the Republic plays host to the annual gathering to discuss the latest economic developments and the outlook for the region. While the guests will bring a
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    Lock icon Househunt Property transactions lodged for selected districts between March 25 and March 31, 2004.
    1035 8 District 2 NON-LANDED Icon Apt 18/03/04 99 570 428 750 Icon Apt 01/07/03 99 700 461 659 District 3 NON-LANDED Emerald Park Apt 18/03/04 99 926 438 473 Emerald Park Apt 12/03/04 99 1130 460 407
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      Lock icon Sebi slaps 5-yr trading ban on ex-Alliance exec
      390 9 The Indian stock market regulator accuses Samir Arora of insider trading, among others Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's stock market regulator has placed a five-year share-trading ban on Samir Arora, the Singapore-based former head of Asian emerging markets at Alliance Capital Management Holding
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      Lock icon Malaysia's exports chalk up robust growth of 16.7%
      309 9 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's exports grew 16.7 per cent in the year through February, powered by a big jump in shipments to China and the Middle East, official data showed yesterday. The export growth, although slightly below market forecast, put trade-de-pendent Malaysia
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        Lock icon Sime Darby plans takeover of Hyundai-Berjaya
        84 9 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Plantation-to-prop-erty group Sime Darby said yesterday it has proposed to buy 51 per cent of Malaysia's Hyundai-Berjaya Corp at RM4.10 a share. It will also pay RM3.20 per Hyundai-Berjaya warrant. It said it will make a mandatory takeover offer for the
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        Lock icon Surge in HK property sales
        81 9 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong property sales recorded in March surged, official figures showed yesterday, indicating a revival of the long depressed market. The total number of sale and purchase agreements for all types of building units registered at the Land Registry in March was
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        Lock icon Bashir faces new interrogation
        94 9 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian police will interrogate jailed Muslim preacher Abu Bakar Bashir next Wednesday.under the country's anti-terrorism law, just weeks before he is due to be freed, one of his lawyers said yesterday. The comments came as national police chief General Da'i Bachtiar said-bashir could be
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        Lock icon Five days to agree on recount
        80 9 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's High Court yesterday gave the lawyers of President Chen Shui-bian and opposition leader Lien Chan five days to agree on the terms of a recount for the hotly disputed presidential election. After a two-hour hearing for the lawsuit filed by Mr
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        Lock icon Thailand's Egat board quits
        74 9 Reuters [BANGKOK] The board of directors of Thailand's largest power firm, Electric- ity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), resigned yesterday in the face of worker protests against the partial privatisation of the company. Board chairman Cherdpong Sirivich said the resignations, with immediate effect, would enable the
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        Lock icon China fund may invest up to US$2.9b in HK
        104 9 Reuters [HONG KONG] China's social security fund could invest as much as US$2.9 billion into Hong Kong markets within months, the Standard newspaper said yesterday, citing the president of the fund. Beijing officials are putting the final touches to plans to
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        Lock icon Sri Lankans go to the polls
        126 9 Bloomberg [COLOMBO] Sri Lankans started voting yesterday in an election that may determine the direction of talks on a peace settlement with Tamil rebels, seen as crucial to further growth in the island's US$l6 billion economy. Sri Lankans are voting in the country's third
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        Lock icon KL tycoon declared bankrupt
        62 9 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's top court on Thursday declared tycoon Ngan Ching Wen bankrupt after he failed to repay debts of about RMS million (552.2 million) to Moscow Narodny Bank Ltd in Singapore, Bernama news agency reported. Mr Ngan is the chairman and managing director of
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      Lock icon Public Bank head not selling stake
      259 9 Staff circular rules out talks of sale with Hong Leong Bank or any other party [KUALA LUMPUR] Public Bank Bhd chairman Teh Hong Piow has not engaged in any discussions with Hong Leong Bank or any other party for the disposal of his interest
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      Lock icon Hong Kong film industry on cusp of recovery
      659 10 Boost from improving economy, easier distribution in China, and local audiences returning to domestic films AFP [HONG KONG] Jackie Chan, John Woo and Michelle Yeoh are among the many Asian stars who took Hong Kong films to Hollywood. But despite such international
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      Lock icon Allotment delays risk choking off Indian IPOs
      452 10 IPO WOES Glitches with two huge recent issues highlight problems Reuters [BOMBAY] Delays in share allotments could create bottlenecks and risk choking India's burgeoning IPO market, which aims to raise a record US$5 billion in 2004, analysts say. Earlier this week, investors were
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      Lock icon China IPOs lose lustre as Peoples Telephone falls
      267 10 Bloomberg CHINESE initial public offerings, last year's most sought-after shares, are losing their lustre. Three Chinese IPOs in the past month fell almost 10 per cent in their trading debuts. China Resources Peoples Telephone Co, a Hong Kong wireless company controlled by
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      Lock icon China set to leap into the world of super brands
      753 11 Computer maker Lenovo, for example, makes its mark by becoming an Olympics sponsor AP [HONG KONG] What's in a name? When it comes to product recognition: Billions of dollars. Asia's big industrialised economies, Japan and South Korea, have long built
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      Lock icon China using non-tariff means to hinder trade: US
      452 11 AFP [WASHINGTON] Chinese tax rebates to domestic companies, weak copyright protection and idiosyncratic standards governing wireless computer networking pose obstacles to US exports and may violate global agreements, the US said. The Bush administration said China is using these non-tariff barriers to
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      Lock icon Asian economies prominent on US's trade-barrier list
      245 11 China, Japan draw lengthy criticism in annual review AP [WASHINGTON] Asian economies figure prominently on a list of 55 nations that Washington accuses of unfairly using trade barriers against US exporters. Besides China, Japan attracted long and detailed criticism in the annual review,
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      Lock icon Sun Microsystems to cut 3,300 jobs
      614 12 CEO Scott McNealy criticised by analysts, Jonathan Schwartz named president. Microsoft to pay US$1.6b to resolve legal disputes Bloomberg Reuters [LOS ANGELES] Sun Microsystems Inc, whose losses in the past six quarters totalled US$3.B4 billion, says it will cut 3,300 jobs and named Jonathan
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      Lock icon Asia, US seen leading highest global growth in a generation
      333 12 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Asia and the US will lead the world economy to its strongest performance in a generation, with growth of 4.7 per cent this year, according to the Institute for International Economics. "It is clear we are in
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      Lock icon Deutsche CEO gets reprieve from courts
      436 12 Judges say they find no grounds to convict Ackermann NYT [DUESSELDORF] In a legal reprieve for Germany's most prominent banker, a court here declared on Wednesday that it had no grounds to convict Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, or three others on
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      Lock icon Dow Jones index shuffles its blue-chip deck
      436 12 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] The Dow has hung up on Ma Bell. Acknowledging changes in the US economy and the stock market, Dow Jones Co on Thursday said it would replace AT&T Corp and two other long-time members of its blue-chip industrial average with
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      Lock icon The Dallas Fed chief with a penchant for rhyming
      579 12 Reuters [DALLAS] Global investors bet billions of dollars on the carefully crafted statements of the US Federal Reserve. So what exactly is the Dallas Fed Bank president Robert McTeer doing writing limericks about the economy? Mr McTeer is a member of
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      728 13  -  Driven by a powerful V8 engine, the German carmaker's E55 AMG packs a punch with understated elegance. SAMUEL EE enjoys the ride SAMUEL EE SHOEHORNING an oversized engine into a mid-size saloon was a predilection often associated with the Americans. But lately, their counterparts on the Continent have
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      460 13  -  Compiled by SAMUEL EE Joint success 2004 is the year French carmaker Renault and Japanese auto-maker Nissan celebrate the fifth anniversary of their alliance. Signed on March 27, 1999, the partnership is now the world 's fifthbiggest automotive group. The two companies rate it a success because
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    3965 13 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS S B Sel Gib Bus Ldrs Ptfl 03(USO) 1.1632/ Citibond S'pore Class Y 0 993/ AIM Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) S B Sel Eqty Dividend Pf 04 (SGO) 0.9598/ Star Europe Eqty!" 0.7381 S B Set Eqty Dividend Pf 0« (USO) 0.975V Star Europe Bond 1.254/ Commenbanfc
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      568 14  -  Event's monetary benefits will inevitably be compared to World Cup match's revenue loss from Japanese fans, says VINCE CHONG VINCE CHONG Expectations are high for this year's IRB Singapore Rugby Sevens in terms of both action on the pitch and gallery rugby and partying respectively
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      740 14  -  frankly speaking amit roy choudhury IT finally took India just ten minutes on the fifth day of the first Test match against Pakistan to complete a historic win. And Thursday's victory was doubly sweet for India as it came after 20
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    4691 14 i Transaction date: Apr 2 HONGKONG Vol HK Exchanges Clearing 16 85 0.40 3624 HKS *1- '000 HKR Int'l 2.83 0 18 5311 HK and China Gas 13.35 -0.15 8574 Aeon Credit 5.40 unch 152 Hong Kong Electric 34.40 -0.10 3186 Aeon Stores 6.10 -0.10 62 Hongkong Chinese
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      712 15 NYT [WEST PALM BEACH, Florida] "Vegetarian" eggs isn't that something of an oxymoron? Not egg-xactly. Organic eggs, cage-free eggs and nutrient-enhanced eggs are just some of the new varieties in grocers' cases. "It's a changing world out there, and the egg producers are trying to satisfy
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      562 15  -  With health screenings now de rigueur for most executives, CHEAH UI-HOON finds out how often you should go CHEAH UI-HOON THERE are two problems with health screenings. Like school tests, nobody likes to take them. And the other is, those who've gone for health screenings usually those with
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      364 15 The Ministry of Health's Guidelines for screening of common health conditions: 1. High blood cholesterol If you are 40 years old or older; If you are 30 years old and if you have other risk factors for heart disease such as smoking, have high blood pressure
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    2347 15 Transaction date: Apr 2 KUALA LUMPUR enera p IS x l y 0 l General Soil 1.26 unch 0 RM *1- C000) Genting— 16.70 0.10 1511 5 George Kent 0.88 -0.02 57 ASM Realty 1.79 0.11 102 GlobetronicsTech .6.95 unch 174 Abric 0.73 -0 01 97 Glomac Bhd 3.32
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      200 15 M I [S J I I I S 'i 1 ||g| f I *j 11 I 11 1! I m i I t'' P > v f workplace health promotion programmes I IS YOUR BUSINESS I HEALTHY? W- Apply for the Singapore HEALTH. Award 2004 today. Attend the briefing on
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      897 16  -  CAT ONG takes a closer look at the new Asian fashion contest sponsored by Mercedes-Benz CAT ONG THIS year, the prospects have never looked brighter for young fashion designers with hopes of building up their own labels from Asia. It's all thanks to the new Mercedes-Benz
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      764 16 IF there was one designer who wishes the Mercedes Benz Asia Fashion Award (MBAFA) had been around when he was starting out, it would be Jonathan Seow. With his clothes selling in designer boutiques in 10 countries outside Singapore, Seow has since become the name
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      110 16  -  By CORINNE KERK Famous and Fendi-ed CAN Fendi, famous for its baguette bags which took the world by storm and induced long wait lists hook bag lovers with its new creation this season? The fashion house's Compilation Bag features clever folds and discreet Dock- ets sealed by a gold,
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        51 16 IF you feel like dressing up, you won't go wrong by topping it with this lustrous piece of jewellery. Comprising a black Tahitian South Sea peacock tone black pearl and an 18k white gold pendant with diamonds, it costs $2,570 at Unique Fine Pearls at Millenia
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        107 16 Plaza Singapura and IMM: Late night shopping tonight. Shops will remain open till midnight with some offering discounts of up to 90 per cent off. With cut-out coupons from their press ads, redeem goodie bags worth $50, standing fans and coffee makers at Plaza Singapura, and handphones and oven
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        52 16 FOR that opera ambience, check out this table lamp, with inverted acrylic drapes for that flamboyant effect. The Europe-an-inspired design is anchored by a solid marble base and is every inch a classic work of art whether it's lit or not. It costs $155 at Lighting Centre, including
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        68 16  -  Compiled by MIKE CHUA TAKE it to the beach or even the office if you need an extra seat for an informal group briefing. That's the versatility of the Kiss Relax chair, made of light aluminium with a durable nylon cushion. It's available at $59 in
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        51 16 IF you already have a country theme at home, add this wooden message board for effect. The traditional blackboard (for use with chalk) will certainly bring back the good old days before current boring stick-ons. At $18.90, it's available at Exim Art including Tampines Mall and Compass
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      564 17  -  CHEAH UI-HOON talks to dancer Ramli Ibrahim about the ancient erotic dance form, Odissi CHEAH UI-HOON F| ROM temple sculpture to I the dance floor Indian classical dance lovers will be able to appreciate the tantric aesthetics carved in India's erotic temples with A Love Tryst
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      845 17 Going out or staying in this weekend? We round up reviews and recommendations books US foreign policy explained FOR those who are trying to make sense of US foreign policy post 9/11, Noam Chomsky's latest book Hegemony or Survival is a must-read. According to Chomsky, the policies which the
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      920 17 wine&dine withweekendßT Asian Wok Club Promotion" before ordering. General terms and casual yet inviting ambience. Raffles Pterins 45 Boat Quay.Tel 6532 9006 conditions apply. 10 Tuas West Drive. Tel *****288 Savour a sumptuous spread of Asian dishes in a Special douWeJwiled soups and six other dishes from relaxed ambience. 333
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      1369 18  -  CORINNE KERK shakes off some unasked-for advice and is rewarded with encounters with Tibetan homesteaders and lamas in the fiction-turned-fact town of Shangri-La CORINNE KERK WE'RE waiting in line to clear immigration at Kunming International Airport, when a chatty Singapore tour guide with a penchant for
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      726 18  -  GEOFFREY EU eyes the stars coming for the World Gourmet Summit GEOFFREY EU WHEN she was still a high school teenager in the mid1980s, Suzanne Goin interned in the pastry kitchen at the legendary Ma Maison, a celebrity hangout and cult Los Angeles restaurant where Citizen Kane
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      224 18 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 6 Extracts from lecture, say, for 2 C Ull 9 Plant badly built huts behind when crossing river (6) ~~lhJ~ a prison (8) 5 Trainer taking fellows on to HB BB SK 9| 10 gold presented to one 0 f Dartmoor's high 14 Stupid man finally involved nasty
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