The Business Times, 26 May 2005

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg MICA (P) 069/03/2005 Thursday May 26,2005
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    Lock icon Companies upbeat about outlook: poll
    656 1  -  But small firms more pessimistic about prospects By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] The government may have cut its fullyear GDP forecast for 2005, but businesses here remain optimistic about business prospects for the next six months, according to the BT-Global Business Insights business climate survey. The
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    136 1 STI 2,***** (-14.73) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,175.00 (unch) SIMSO ***** (-1.79) SIMSO FUTURES ***** (-2.40) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 870.10 -14.24 NIKKEI 225 11.014.43 -119.22 HANG SENG 13,562.06 -157.26 SET INDEX 660.18 -3.48 JAKARTA COMP 1,049.056 +3.906 MANILA COMP 1.869.50 -11.58 SEOUL COMP 941.30 -10.31 SHENZHEN 8 235.29
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    Lock icon Jakarta won't lift ban on foreign budget airlines
    624 1  -  But it's willing to discuss more traffic rights: Cheow Tong By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Indonesia won't relax its ban on foreign budget airlines but is willing to talk about expanding air-traffic rights, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterday. Speaking on his
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon PM Lee, Abdullah call for Sino, Japan restraint
      761 2  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo AMID rising diplomatic tension between Japan and China, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, yesterday urged both sides to exercise restraint. Speaking at a Tokyo conference on the future of
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      Lock icon Sumitomo Chem to invest 20b yen in S'pore plants
      431 2  -  China will be major market for its products By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPANESE giant Sumitomo Chemical will invest 20 billion yen (*****.7 million) in new plants that will make Singapore the largest production site in Asia for monomer and polymer
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      661 2 Citiraya safe from creditors for 2 months CITIRAYA Industries was yesterday granted two months' reprieve from its creditors so that it can conclude talks with potential investors. The announcement comes after the deadline to repay a $38.6 million debt to DBS Bank ran out on Tuesday, after which
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      Lock icon Citiraya safe from creditors for 2 months
      435 3  -  Court gives troubled firm grace period to secure potential white knights By LIZA LIN [SINGAPORE] Citiraya was yesterday granted two months' reprieve from its creditors so that it can conclude talks with potential investors. The ailing electronic waste recycling company lately saw rescue
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      Lock icon Smaller firms do better abroad: BT-GBI survey
      565 3  -  By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] Small companies are doing better overseas than at home, a survey has found. The Business Times-Global Business Insights survey formerly the BT-NUS business activity survey also shows that while big companies reported better sales, profits and new business in
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      Lock icon Temasek seeks tie-ups in fund management in three countries
      591 3  -  By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings is looking for more joint ventures in Korea, India and China for its fund management arm as one way to overcome the entry barriers to the booming Asian fund management industry. Temasek's asset management
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon SK Corp supports new CAO debt plan
      452 4 Reuters CHINA Aviation Oil (CAO) creditor SK Corp said yesterday that it supported the troubled jet fuel supplier's proposed debt repayment scheme and that it expects the plan to be approved by creditors in a June 8 vote. In a move signalling the
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      Lock icon SGX to go it alone after ASX ends trading links
      510 4  -  S'pore plans to let local investors continue to trade Australian shares By CHLOE CHOY THE Singapore Exchange yesterday said that it would continue to facilitate the trading of Australian shares despite its Sydney counterpart pulling the plug on a reciprocal
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      Lock icon Informatics not out of the woods yet
      636 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By ANGELA TAN INFORMATICS Holdings is on the road to recovery, the education services provider said on Tuesday as it unveiled its full-year financial results. Among the reasons it cited were quarter-on-quarter improvement in performance. For sure, quarterly net losses
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      Lock icon k1 Ventures buys US train lessor for US$472m
      369 6  -  KepCorp associate to leverage on Helm's expertise for overseas push By MICHELLE QUAH IN a move to tap land-trans-port opportunities, Keppel Corp associate kl Ventures is acquiring US-based Helm Holding Corporation for US$472 million. The Singapore-listed venture capital group has formed two
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      Lock icon DBS kicks off consumer banking in China
      384 6  -  Services start with Shenzhen branch, Shanghai and Beijing units expected to be next Reports by SIOW LISEN DBS Bank yesterday launched its consumer banking business in China using its newly relocated Shenzhen branch. DBS said it plans to extend similar services to branches
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      Lock icon Hedge funds really aren't all that bad, you know
      411 6 INVESTOR panic following reports of negative performance of some hedge funds is beginning to recede, a hedge fund player said yesterday. And the biggest challenge that players continue to face is investor misunderstanding of the hedge fund industry. According to Patrick
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      Lock icon S'pore's largest Islamic fund launched
      317 9  -  By CAROLYN QUEK NTUC Income has launched a $300 million Islamic fund the largest in Singapore and its second and there are plans to increase it to $600 million by the end of the year. Called the Amanah Fund, it is also the first to
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      Lock icon Boustead net profit up 55% at $20.6m
      342 9 A $20.9 million gain from divesting leasehold properties helped Boustead Singapore post a 54.8 per cent increase in group net profit to $20.6 million, a record performance. And the group expects to surpass this performance in the current financial year, thanks to its
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      Lock icon Yellow Pages' revenue, net profit fall
      251 9  -  By LISA TAN SUFFERING post-Sars trauma and reduced advertiser budgets, Yellow Pages (Singapore) Ltd saw a fall in both revenue and net profit for its financial year ended March 31, 2005, The company's revenue compared with an 'illustrative' statement for the previous year dipped
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      Lock icon Biosensors closer to selling heart stent
      305 9  -  Its Bio Matrix drug-eluting stent aces 12-month clinical trial By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY FAVOURABLE preliminary results from a clinical trial have paved the way for homegrown Biosensors International Group's early entry into the global market for drugeluting heart stents. Disclosing this yesterday, the newly
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      Lock icon Courts back in the black with $3.6m profit
      394 9  -  It cites higher turnover, improved margin and better cost controls By KALPANA RASHIWALA COURTS Singapore has turned around to a $3.6 million net profit for the year ended March 31, after last year's $1.8 million loss. The furnishings and electronics retailer says
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  • GLOBAL TRADER ROUNDTABLE
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      Lock icon Managing derivatives trading
      2092 8 OVERVIEW DERIVATIVES trading is becoming an essential tool for companies to manage their risks and to turn volatile markets to their advantage. But, if not properly managed, using derivatives can sometimes bring down an entire company. How can businesses reap the most benefits from derivatives trading and
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      115 8 ONLY FOR THOSE INTENT ON y CREATING RIPPLES IN GLOBAL TRADE f siobajl TRADER The Future of International Trading, Today. SUMMIT V 2005 Expand global networks with new partners. Gain insights to future trends. Tap into trade opportunities. The inaugural Global Trader Summit 2005 will bring together the international trading
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      382 9 CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,2004 CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET 31. (Millions) 2004 2003 ASSETS Cash and noninterest-earning deposit! with banks 446 SSI Interest-earning deposits with banks SS7 1,122 Federal funds sold 416 446 Trading assets 794 806 Available-for-sale securities 3342 Loans, less reserves: 2004, $87; 2003, $84 6,757 6,238
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Signs of global slowdown hit shares
      500 10  -  STOCKS Jardine C&C, Jardine Matheson, DBS, UOB and City Development are among the top losers TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent SINGAPORE shares traded weaker yesterday as more signs emerged to confirm the generalised slowdown in the global economy. The Straits Times Index (STI) fell
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      739 10 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on May 25 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Shareholder Buy/ Shares Per Before After Stock Trans Date Director Sell '000 Shr COOP) fOOO) Chip Eng Seng 25-May-05 Lim Tian Moh Sell 2700 na 3339S 5.50 ***** 5.06 UOL 25-May-05 Wee
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      Lock icon Capital Group increases holding in Unisteel to 8.3%
      190 10  -  By ALEXANDRA HO THE Capital Group Companies, which has a substantial deemed stake of 6.2 per cent in Unisteel Technology, has raised the holding in the electronics components manufacturer to 8.3 per cent. The US mutual fund manager bought 5.3 million Unisteel
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      1054 10  -  Compiled by TEH HOOI LING Raffles Education Corp May 2S close: 72 cents GK GOH, May 25 WE believe Raffles Education Corporation (REC) has the right strategy and operational structure to capitalise on Asia's growing education market. Not surprisingly, China and India are the two markets that will
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      Lock icon Weak Europe figures continue to buoy US$
      511 10  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar ended a bit higher in a quieter session all round in Asian currency trading yesterday, as news out of Europe continues to give more cause for concern about currencies like the euro and pound. Locally,
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  • MID CAPS
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      Lock icon Thumbs-up for MMI's sparkling Q3 results
      735 11  -  Company's optimistic outlook is shared by four brokerage houses which issued 'buy' calls, writes WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG RECORD sales and earnings for its latest quarter have earned electronics manufacturer MMI Holdings the thumbs-up from the market. Earlier this month, the company
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      31 11 LEGEND:All prices are indicative;Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused;$ Lower Risk;^ Low to Medium Risk;& Medium to High Risk;** Higher Risk;open-ended;+Before subdivision of units;After subdivision of units;SP after stock split N.A-Non Dealing Day
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Spore to spend 3% of GDP on R&D by 2010: Tony Tan
      628 12  -  Review committee aims to submit its recommendations by July: minister By CHEN HUIFEN in Helsinki SINGAPORE aims to boost its research and development spending to 3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010 as part of
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      Lock icon Business group turns focus on SMEs
      417 12  -  SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES By JEAN CHUA CHANGES in the Singapore economy are forcing small and medium-sized businesses to relook the traditional relationships they have with large multinational corporations, says the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. So this year, the chamber says, it will
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      Lock icon Health services surplus up 15% in '03
      194 12 THE total operating surplus of the health services industry in 2003 rose to $842 million, 15 per cent higher than the previous year, according to a survey released by the Department of Statistics (DOS) yesterday. Correspondingly, operating surplus for each establishment grew by
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      Lock icon Where govt should take a back seat
      361 12  -  By NANDE KHIN WITH the government's help, the momentum for the promotion of entrepreneurship in Singapore is already under way, but eventually, the momentum will have to be sustained solely by the private sector, said Indeijit Singh, chairman of the.FiWM ftdUfwi €rociblei> yesJ-.,
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      Lock icon Mercedes in 1m euro after-sales drive in S-EA
      318 12  -  By SAMUEL EE MERCEDES-BENZ is investing one million euros (Ss2.l million) in an aftersales service campaign for its South-east Asian dealers, the first time the German luxury carmaker is doing something like this region-wide. DaimlerChrysler, which makes Mercedes-Benz, yesterday announced that the
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      Lock icon Survey identifies new trends in Asian travel
      263 12  -  By LIZA LIN THE typical Asian traveller to Singapore visits for about three days and spends about US$l3O mostly on shopping. According to the latest Mastercard Asian lifestyle survey, they are also likely to be women. Both the traveller shopper and female traveller
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon Singex expects 10,000 openings at jobs fair
        67 12 SINGEX Exhibitions yesterday said more than 10,000jobswillbe available at its Career Choice 2005 exhibition. While it is mainly targeted at professionals seeking new opportunities, there will be openings for "fresh entrants to the job market who are not your average 0 or N
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        Lock icon SP Power Grid sets up advisory panel
        59 12 SINGAPORE Power subsidiary SP Power Grid will set up an advisory panel of representatives from key industries to provide a forum for collaboration on power quality issues. It will also roll out a programme under which its customer managers will serve as a
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        Lock icon S'pore ratifies pollutants convention
        35 12 SINGAPORE has ratified the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and acceded to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade.
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      Lock icon Sexual issues in China get an airing
      409 12  -  SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL By NGIAM YING LAN, CHEAH UI-HOON IN one of the scenes in Amber, a woman slinks around coquettishly in a scarlet negligee, teasingly recounting her sexual exploits. Shocking? Perhaps, if you didn't expect a play from China to address sexual
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  • FOCUS: MANUFACTURING
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      Lock icon Corporate demand fuelling growth
      939 14  -  DATA STORAGE S'pore's data storage market is worth about USsloom and accounts for about 5% of the Asia-Pacific storage market, reports RAJU CHELLAM RAJU CHELLAM AFTER almost three years of near-stag-nation, companies and government undertakings are once again spending on data storage, both in Singapore and
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      Lock icon Seagate enjoying good run on HDD demand
      516 14  -  By RAJU CHELLAM THE world's largest hard disk drive (HDD) maker, Seagate Technology, is on a roll as demand for storage soars for servers as well as for small devices like MP3 players. The company is ramping up its manufacturing capacity, adding new
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      768 14 HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA Annual Results for 2004 Ihhhhhh mmmamm (In CHF thousands) (In CHF thousands) December 31 Yew Ended December 31 2004 2003~ 2004 2003 I ASSETS Interest Income Liquid assets 54,013 40,940 Interest and dividend income 517,789 424,307 Receivables arising from Interest and dividend income from money-market
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Malaysia's GDP expands 5.7% in first quarter
      565 15  -  Good showing by services sector and agriculture, robust consumer spending By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian economy grew more strongly than expected in the first quarter, expanding 5.7 per cent on buoyant performances particularly by the services sector and agriculture. Consumer
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      Lock icon Fed seems intent on more rate increases
      518 15 Notes show short-term softness won't stop hikes NYT [WASHINGTON] Policy-makers at the Federal Reserve brushed aside evidence of an economic slowdown earlier this month and made it clear they wanted to keep raising interest rates in the months ahead. Notes from their meeting
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      Lock icon OECD warns China of yuan's inflation risk
      421 15 NYT [PARIS] Differences in economic performance are widening among Europe, Asia and the US, with possible long-term consequences for global growth and the stability of the dollar, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned this week. The US economy is enjoying
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      Lock icon EU to decide on trade action with China
      191 15 AP [BRUSSELS] The European Union (EU) head office was to decide yesterday on whether or not to escalate trade action in its textile dispute with China, launching bilateral consultations with Beijing that could pave the way for restrictive measures. EU officials said
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      1937 15 S BEAMSSM47 /X\ 10 DES VOEUX ROAD, CENTRAL HONGKONG CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2004 CONSOLIDATED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2004 2004 2003 2004 2003 HKS'OOO HKS'OOO HKS'OOO HKS'OOO ASSETS Interest income 5,*****0 3,763,729 Cash and short-term funds 39,877,738 36,033,510 Interest expense
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Limit-downs spook M'sian market
      563 16  -  Negative sentiment drags down index 14 points to 870 points By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur THE general malaise in the Malaysian stock market continued to take its toll yesterday with three counters hitting limit down and spooking the rest of the market. Given yet another
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      Lock icon Brunei sultan appoints son as senior minister
      313 16 AFP. AP [BANDAR SERIBEGAWAN] Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has appointed his son, Crown Prince Al-Muht-adee Billah, as senior minister in a major cabinet revamp. triggering speculation about the succession timetable. The 58-year-old sultan, one of the world's last absolute monarchs, announced the changes
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Donald Tsang quits to contest elections
        74 16 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong interim leader Donald Tsang had resigned in order to run for the city's top political Job in July elections, the government said yesterday. Mr Tsang has the blessings of Chinese^' leaders and will win the tightly controlled contest as
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        Lock icon Bank Mandiri denies merger plan report
        79 16 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Mandiri denied a report that it had proposed a merger with smaller rival PT Bank Negara Indonesia. Mandiri proposes to combine with Bank Negara Indonesia to form "a new, stronger" bank, Dow Jones Newswires reported, citing a statement by Mandiri
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        Lock icon Maxis posts 35% rise in Q1 earnings
        63 16 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Maxis Communications said first-quarter profit rose 35 per cent as it signed up more customers and revenue from data services increased. Net income rose to RM439 million (*****.5 million), or 17.7 sen a share, in the three months ended March
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        Lock icon Hutchison to buy back DoCoMo's telco stake
        57 16 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Whampoa agreed to buy back NTT DoCoMo's entire stake in Hutchison Telecommunications International for HK$ 1.3 billion (***** million) in cash. It will pay HK$6.9l for each of the 188 million shares DoCoMo has decided to sell, according to
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      15 16 IffcTitTl Lianhe Zaobao I Helongjiang's executive I I Hadaqi Industrial I Corridor I I < sImI
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon China carmaker plans M'sian car assembly plant
      342 17 Geely Group seen capitalising on low tariff among SE-Asian markets Bloomberg [BEIJING] Geely Group, China's largest privately owned carmaker, is planning a venture in Malaysia that can assemble up to 20,000 cars a year, taking its first step to make vehicles abroad. Geely
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      Lock icon Tata unit in talks to run Pierre hotel in NY
      189 17 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] The Tata Group's Indian Hotels Co, which runs the Taj chain of luxury hotels, is negotiating with the owners of The Pierre hotel in New York to succeed Four Seasons Hotels Inc as the manager of the
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      Lock icon GUFFAWING ILLS AWAY
      31 17 AP [KOLKATA] Women members of the Laughing Club doing a morning routine here yesterday. Laughter is seen by many as an alternative medicine to boost the immune system.
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      Lock icon China Telecom seeks partners to expand abroad
      317 17 Also testing Netbased TV service in Guangdong Bloomberg [BEIJING] China Telecom Corp. the country's biggest fixed-line phone operator, says it is seeking strategic partners to expand abroad and to improve corporate governance. "We need a strategic partner in the long run to help
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      506 18  -  Accord will cut or remove tariffs on products ranging from cars to fruits By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday endorsed a Ja-pan-Malaysia Economic Partnership Agreement (JMEPA), which is expected to be signed by
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      249 18 Reuters [MELBOURNE] Australian supermarket group Woolworths and wholesaler Metcash agreed yesterday to buy rival Foodland for As3.l billion (553.9 billion). Under the deal that carves up Foodland's wholesaling and supermarket assets, Woolworths will gain its New Zealand stores. Metcash will take on Foodland Associated's Australian
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      469 18  -  But more than one in four have never tested the plans By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY [SINGAPORE] A survey has found that 72 per cent of firms in the Asia Pacific have business continuity plans but more than one in four have never tested
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      456 18 LATEST US DATA AP. Reuters, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Orders to US factories for big-ticket manufactured goods shot up 1.9 per cent in April, the Commerce Department reported yesterday, reflecting strong demand for autos, appliances and aircraft. The department said it was the best
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        80 18 Bloomberg [LONDON] GUS pic will spin off its remaining stake in the Burberry Group luxury-goods business this year and dispose of the Experian credit-checking unit later, breaking up the company to focus on home-improvement and housewares stores. The 66 per cent holding
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        73 18 Reuters [SINGAPORE! RMF Investment Management, part of the world's largest listed hedge fund firm Man Group, yesterday said inflows from investors were slowing due to concerns about the stability and performance of hedge funds. RMF is seeing institutional investors such as pension funds and
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        111 18 Reuters [LONDON] Hedge fund performance last month was the worst since the emerging market crisis came to a head in August 1998, but the industry is still doing better than stock markets, trade publication Euro Hedge said on Tuesday. The Euro Hedge Composite Index
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        65 18 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's Financial Services Authority has fined retail lender Abbey National £800.000 (552.42 million) for mishandling customer complaints and giving the regulator inaccurate information. "By putting its own interests ahead of those of its customers with a mortgage endowment complaint, Abbey has singularly
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        91 18 Reuters [JERUSALEM] News Corp, owner of the Twentieth Century Fox film studio, expects profits in 2005 to be boosted by distribution fees from the latest Star Wars film, its president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin said on Tuesday. Star Wars: Episode 111
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        73 18 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Samsung Electronics denied yesterday it has agreed to spend US$l5 billion to expand its non-memory chip business. The Seoul Economic Daily reported earlier the company may invest about US$l5 billion in Hwaseong, south-west of Seoul, to make non-memory chips. The Ministry of Commerce,
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      529 19 PacifiCorp will be purchased from Scottish Power for US$5.1b in cash Bloomberg. NYT [NEW YORK] Warren Buffett struck a deal on Tuesday to buy power company PacifiCorp from Scottish Power for US$5.l billion in cash, gaining low-cost power generators in the western United States. Mr
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      354 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The US accounting oversight board, formed two years ago after the bankruptcy of Enron Corp, on Tuesday took its first disciplinary action, barring New York's Goldstein Morris from auditing publicly-traded companies. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) said
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      292 19 Bloomberg [DOHA, Qatar] The Federal Reserve Bank of New York plans to support the growth of Islamic financial services in the US. "It is becoming more and more apparent to us that Islamic financial services are a growing presence in the US," said
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      419 20 It will also add routes, flights, increase customers and lower fares Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second-biggest airline, said it expects to grow with acquisitions even in the face of increasing low-cost competition and that it will expand operations at its second hub in
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        70 20 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International, said a cracked windshield in the cockpit of its passenger jet caused an emergency landing in the Indian city of Kolkata on Sunday. Pilots on flight TG924 to Munich noticed the crack in the right window of the
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        42 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Sichuan Airlines has signed a deal with Airbus to buy six A32os and two A3l9s. The planes, powered by lAE's V 2500 engines, will be delivered from late this year to next year.
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        32 20 Reuters [MOSCOW] Russian flag carrier Aeroflot's first-quarter loss doubled year-on-year to 875 million roubles (Sssl million), it said, mainly due to high energy costs. —Reuters
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      454 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] Boeing Co's board of directors, which ousted chief executive officer Harry Stonecipher in March, will consider candidates for the CEO job with no experience in the aerospace industry, chairman Lewis Piatt said. "We're now in the process of screening
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      316 20 Bloomberg, Reuters [KVALA LUMPUR] Air Asia Bhd, South-east Asia's biggest discount airline, said it has hedged 63 per cent of its fuel needs for the next fiscal year, reducing the risk that a surge in prices will erode earnings. "We
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      252 20 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's newest budget airline. SpiceJet, flew its first flight on Tuesday, offering fares as low as US$2 as it joined a dogfight for passengers in Indian skies. Spice Jet, which has such blue-chip investors as Goldman Sachs and Citibank, said between five
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      594 21  -  Better integration with global maritime industry is ultimate goal By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] An attempt is being made to establish a world class maritime exhibition and conference in Singapore so that Asia is better integrated with the global maritime industry.
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      126 21 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] A Jakarta court rejected a state agency's ruling that Frontline Ltd, the world's biggest oil-tanker owner, colluded with officials at Indonesia's state oil firm and Goldman Sachs Group in the sale of two supertankers in June. The Central Jakarta District Court yesterday dismissed
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      321 21 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] PSA International Pte will make its fifth investment in mainland China as it expands operations in the world's fastestgrowing economy. PSA signed a preliminary agreement with Tianjin Port (Group) Co on May 20 to take part in the expansion of
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      528 22 EDITORIAL THE ongoing textile trade spat involving the US and the EU on the one side and China on the other has potential ramifications that go way beyond such things as T-shirts, underwear and knitted garments. If the dispute escalates, it could dent the faith in
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      1041 22  - Long-term bonds: Will you get shortchanged The UK is following the French example by issuing 50-year government bonds. A lot can happen in 50 years MATTHEW LYNN Bloomberg TO WHOM would you want to lend money for 50 years? Your children? Your best friend? The British and French governments think
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      746 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE SHADA ISLAM Brussels Correspondent IT'S shaping up to be a summer of discontent for Europe's leaders. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, French President Jacques Chirac and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi face an array of political and economic woes
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      588 23  -  By SAM CRANE LAT-WP IN MARCH, Bi Yuxi, one of Beijing's top highway administrators, was sentenced to death for taking US$l.2 million in bribes and misspending U*****,000 of public funds. Set aside the question of whether a similar fate shouldn't befall local bureaucrats
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      398 30  -  Showcase promises to be even bigger than last year's, writes RAJU CHELLAM RAJU CHELLAM THE converging streams of infotech and communications, of mobile entertainment and telecoms services, and of business needs and the digital lifestyle will be the underlying theme at this year's mega-event, CommunicAsia,
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      289 30  -  By KENNETH JAMES THE legendary Woz will be the star draw, no doubt. But iX2005, this year's edition of the annual regional infocomm conference organised by the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF), will also offer its participants much more of what
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      287 30  -  By ROLAND LIM IT'S a chicken-and-egg situation. On the one hand, 3G handset sales are not yet taking off as expected. On the other, there is no 3G "killer app" yet on the horizon. That dilemma was one of the topics at a recent
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      495 31  -  Office rentals set to rise due to limited new supply and steady demand By ALEXANDRA HO "ACTIVE", "strong", "well received" these are words that property consultants are using to describe the property market in Bangkok, Thailand's capital city, in the short and medium term.
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      288 31 LUXURY resorts and hotels developer Banyan Tree is growing its footprint not just in Asia but beyond. It inked an agreement last month with Thailand's leading hotel and real estate owner and developer, TCC Land Company, to design, develop and manage
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      461 32  -  Revised masterplan factors in new nearby developments By ARTHUR SIM JTC Corp has received inprinciple approval from the Urban Redevelopment Authority for the revised masterplan of the 67-hectare Changi Business Park (CBP), which now takes into account new developments in the vicinity including
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      352 32  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA is the best real estate investment opportunity in South-east Asia this year, according to an ING real estate report released yesterday. "Malaysia is moving in a positive direction on a number of fronts that will
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