The Business Times, 2 June 2005

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  • 589 1  -  Their share of transactions up in Q1 from a year ago By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Higher-end apartments and condos noW account for a bigger §lice of sales in the primary and secondary markets than they did a year ago. In the first quarter of this
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  • 137 1 sn 2,176.93 (+15.16) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,170.00 (-2.00) SIMSO 257.03 (+1.63) SIMSO FUTURES 256.70 (unch) MARKETS Wednesday Change IPSE COM? 861.96 +1.23 NIKKEI 225 11.329-67 >53.06 HANG SENG 13.873.07 +&00 SET INDEX 667.52 -(MB JAKARTA COMP 1,082.94 -5J2 MANILA COMP 1.96*31 +34.93 SEOUL COMP 969.51 -0.7 SHENZHEN B
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  • 616 1  -  Basic wages seen rising 3.1% against 2.5% last year By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE! Employers plan to give bigger pay increases and bonuses this year, even though business looks like staying flat, says a survey released a day after
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 431 2  -  DETENTION OF ST JOURNALIST It says Beijing in breach of international convention By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] China's detention of Straits Times senior correspondent Ching Cheong for alleged spying has come under fire from the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the World Editors Forum (WEF).
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    • 915 2 Penalty for wiping out bank's reserves on eve of 1997 financial crisis AFP. Bloomberg, Reuters [BANGKOK] A Thai court has fined a former central bank governor Rerngchai Marakanond 186 billion baht (557.6 billion) for a failed attempt to protect the baht
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    • 482 2  -  By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] Singapore's manufacturing sector is back on the growth path after its first contraction in 23 months in April, May's Singapore Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) shows. But overall imports and manufacturing employment continued to shrink in May. And while
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    • 740 2 Andersen conviction over Enron overturned THE US Supreme Court overturned Arthur Andersen's federal conviction for shredding Enron accounting documents. The court held that the trial judge's instructions to the jury failed to require the necessary proof that Andersen knew its actions were wrong. TOP STORIES, PG 3 Wood,
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    • 618 3 ARTHUR ANDERSEN TRIAL Prosecutors faulted for setting too low a bar for guilty verdict NYT [WASHINGTON] The US Supreme Court has overturned Arthur Andersen's federal conviction for shredding Enron accounting documents. On Tuesday, the court held that the trial judge's instructions to the jury failed
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    • 532 3  -  Wilton 10 will be one of UK's largest biomass projects By RONNIE LIM Not unlike •lephant grass being used IJd fuel a new UK biomass power station, a Singapore $ower company will burn wood,-sawmill chips and Recycled timber to produce «lectricity
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 546 4  -  His most urgent task is to get the company back on a solid footing By MICHELLE QUAH TROUBLED Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) has roped in Philip Eng, former group managing director of Jardine Cycle Carriage, as its chairman and a non-executive director to
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    • 584 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW IPO managers and aspiring companies must view them positively to build a healthier market By WONG WEI KONG GIVEN some of the issues that have cropped up in the market over the past year or so, it is not
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    • 300 5  -  But fixed-line penetration slipped marginally to 99.8% from 100% By ANGELA TAN THE number of mobilephone subscribers in Singapore has crossed the four million mark. It hit 4.01 million in April, up from 3.99 million in March and 3.61 million a year ago.
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    • 300 5  -  By CHLOE CHOY THE Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS) has called on Longcheer Holdings to redistribute the $696,000 it had received from underwriter DBS Bank to subscribers of its initial public offering who had suffered losses as a result of its
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    • 538 5 Reuters THE Singapore Exchange is to launch a second futures contract based on an Indian stock index in addition to an options contract likely to be based on the Straits Times Index itself, an SGX official said yesterday. The moves mark a push by SGX to
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    • 303 5  -  By CHLOE CHOY SESDAQ-LISTED food and beverage chain Bread Talk Group Limited yesterday announced that it has signed a 10-year master franchise agreement with India's Crustum Products Private Limited. The agreement will allow Hyderabad-based Crustum which also manages the Viceroy Hotel and Convention centre in
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    • 477 6  -  IPO proceeds of $7.9m will help fund R&D into new products By CAROLYN QUEK HOMEGROWN banking solutions provider System Access yesterday launched its IPO of 49 million new shares at 20 cents each, as it prepares to ride the crest of the
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    • 506 6 Reuters STATS ChipPac Ltd, the world's third-largest microchip testing and packaging firm, may need to raise fresh equity funding this year to boost its weak balance sheet, analysts say. Stats' net gearing has been climbing after its acquisition of ChipPac, completed in August
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    • 265 6 Bloomberg CITY Developments Ltd, oYie of Singapore's biggest downtown office landlords, has said that it is in talks with Suntec Reit and other parties to place some of its properties into a real estate investment trust. City Developments was responding to a
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    • 255 6  -  It signs pact with Liaoning firm By LISA TAN CHINACAST Communication Holdings Limited has made its foray into China's energy sector. The company said yesterday that it has signed an agreement with electricity and energy company Liaoning Xinsheng Digital Technology Co for work
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    • 361 6 Reuters SOUTH Korean shipper STX Pan Ocean Co Ltd, part of STX Corp, plans to raise up to US$4OO million in a Singapore initial public offering, people familiar with the deal said yesterday, as it seeks funds to buy new ships.
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    • 880 4 v I Out of India* Taking Advantage of Investment Opportunities Perhaps no country other than China has attracted so much tor natur s ze an d specific characteristics of the market are very interest in, recent times as India has. Much has been writ- different from other markets and it
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  • BLUE CHIPS
    • 800 7  -  It shifts its focus to logistics, as economic imbalances plague the shipping industry, reports JEAN CHUA JEAN CHUA On May 4, group president and chief executive of container shipper Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), David Lim, made a speech at Erasmus University in the
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 530 8  -  STOCKS ST Index jumps 15 points but there were 240 falls versus 185 rises R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IT'D be fair to say that most local traders are well aware of the market's "split personality", or the divergence between the blue chips and the rest of
      Source: Bloomberg  -  530 words
    • 748 8 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Jun 1 and earlier) Subsantial No of Prtco SHAREHOLDING Shareholder Buy/ Share* Per Before After Stock Trans Date Director SeH '000 ShrS HMO) TOOO) SNPCorp 1-Jun-05 YeoCheeTong OE 100 na 284 0.25 384 0,33 Junma Tyre 1Jun-05 Gay Chee Cheong ST
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    • 229 8  -  Compiled by CHUANG PECK MING THE Capital Group Companies, an American fund manager, has trimmed its deemed holdings in mobile voice and data communication services provider Mobile One to 5.9173 per cent or 58.17 million shares. The reduction, from 6.0377 per cent,
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      926 8  -  Compiled by R SIVANITHY Singapore Exchange June 1 dose: $1.92 OCBC INVESTMENT RESEARCH, June 1 WHILE several big Chinese companies are coming onto the market, Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is not seeing any of the action. With the dearth of market interest and with the local IPO market
      Source: Bloomberg  -  926 words
    • 563 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent ANOTHER expected "No" vote from the Dutch on the European Constitution yesterday following a French rebuff last weekend took a heavy toll on the euro again, catalysing a huge boost for the US dollar across the board The greenback once
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 413 9  -  Govt will also give out $200 payment to help bridge staff wage gap By JEAN CHUA CIVIL servants will get an AVC annual variable component of about 0.4 month and $200 on top of that next month, which the government says will narrow
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    • 323 9  -  By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE'S wholesale trade saw a 17.9 per cent increase in its operating receipts to $519.3 billion in 2003, according to data provided by the Department of Statistics (DOS) yesterday. The wholesale trade data is part of an
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    • 326 9  - Denso grows sales service network, gets IHQ status S$18m to be spent over five years By SAMUEL EE AUTOMOTIVE components maker Denso Singapore will spend SslB million in the next five years expanding its after-market sales and service network in the Asia-Pacific region. Denso Singapore is the regional after-market sales,
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    • 535 9  -  Its fund of hedge funds aims for 12-15% annualised return in 3-5 yr period By SIOW LI SEN WHEN does a hedge fund become mainstream? When it's listed on a stock exchange at a price affordable to the man in the street. Singapore investors are being
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    • 331 9  -  By LIZA LIN SINGAPOREANS may be finally fueling the effects of credit card fatigue as statistics from the Credit Bureau Singapore show. Year-on-year figures for new account activity in the first quarter of this year fell by more than 27 per cent from a year
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    • 128 9 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Power Ltd had its credit rating raised one level to AA from AA- by Standard Poor's after it sold assets in Australia for As2.l billion (552.6 billion). The rating upgrade "reflects the group's improved business position", S&P said in a statement yesterday. This results
      Bloomberg  -  128 words
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  • FOCUS: SERVICES
    • 980 10  -  HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT The evolution of human resources to HCM proves the adage that industry is nought without its people, says CHLOE CHOY CHLOE CHOY training and retaining some of the country's brightest employees. While most people tend to use both terms interchangeably, there exists
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 407 11 Call comes ahead of visits by US officials for talks on flood of Chinese exports AFP [BEIJING] The United States and European Union must adopt a more flexible attitude if progress is to be made in their dispute with China over textile exports, state
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    • 189 11 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese workers' wages rose in April for the first time in a year, the government said yesterday, in the latest sign that the world's second largest economy is recovering after unemployment dropped to a six-year low. The average
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    • 225 11 AP [JEJU, South Korea] Pacific Rim trade officials meeting in South Korea this week are expected to push for progress in the World Trade Organisation's Doha round of trade talks, focusing on the services sector. Officials from members of the
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    • 429 11 But it may widen this year as govt steps up spending Bloomberg, Reuters [MUMBAI] India's budget deficit narrowed to an eight-year low in the year ended March 31 as reduced spending on power, roads and shipping helped cut expenditure, the government
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    • 409 11 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Ratings agency-Standard and Poors said yesterday India's lower-than-expected federal fiscal deficit of 4.1 per cent of GDP in the 2004/05 fiscal year was "encouraging", though it was too early to look at an upgrade. "The data is encouraging
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    • 755 11 Drought leads slew of factors retarding GDP growth Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Australia's economy grew less than expected in the first quarter as business investment shrank .and farm output stalled, reinforcing expectations the central bank has finished raising interest rates this year. Gross domestic product rose 0.7
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 509 12  -  MD gives rare peek into inner workings of M'sian govt investment arm By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur KHAZANAH Nasional, the investment arm of the Malaysian government, partially opened its books to journalists yesterday, providing a rare peek into the
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    • 543 12  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur AN acid response by International Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz to her erstwhile boss, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, has once again spotlighted Malaysia's controversial practice of issuing car-import licences to favoured individuals. Dr Mahathir on Monday called
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    • 475 12  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur A SLEW of limit down trades on the Malaysian bourse resulting from possible market manipulation may be considerably lessened under a new trading platform to be used by Bursa Malaysia soon. The RM7O million (5530.8 million)
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 115 12 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Asia Securities Co, a Shanghai-based brokerage, was yesterday ordered to close because of undisclosed debt, the latest Chinese brokerage to go under in an industry with total indebtedness estimated at US$24 billion. The China Securities Regulatory Commission asked a local law firm to
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      • 113 12 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's shares dived 2 per cent yesterday, finishing at their lowest level in more than eight years after big caps slid on resurgent fears of a flood of shares onto the market. The benchmark Shanghai composite index, which had been mired
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      • 86 12 AFP [NEW DELHI] The Delhi High Court dismissed charges on Tuesday against the three billionaire Hinduja brothers in an 18-year-old arms kickback case involving Swedish-made Bofors guns. The 1986 scandal, which embroiled the European-based brothers, rocked the then Congress party government and led to
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      • 97 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's UEM Builders Bhd said yesterday that its subsidiary, UEM Construction, had been chosen by the government to take over the country's largest rail project, which is running behind schedule and over budget. UEM Construction will take over the remaining
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      • 96 12 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesians on Borneo island voted in landmark elections yesterday, choosing local leaders for the first time in a process that symbolises the final devolution of authority from the once all-powerful central government. Residents in the Kutai Kartanegara regency of Hast Kalimantan province are
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 584 13 Bloomberg [MACAU] MGM Mirage is looking for more projects in the southern Chinese city of Macau as it prepares to build a US$975 million casino hotel in the only place in China where casino gambling is legal, Chairman Terrence Lanni said yesterday.
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    • 399 13 AP [SHANGHAI] Las Vegas is looking East, betting that rising affluence will make China a big market for tourism and trade shows despite a gambling crackdown aimed at officials wagering with stolen public funds. "China is one of Las Vegas's top emerging markets," Cam Usher,
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    • 502 13 5% tax on prices for sales made within two years of purchase [BEIJING] Shanghai has imposed new taxes on real estate transactions, responding to a central government directive aimed at curbing prices that jumped 19 per cent from a year earlier in
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    • 804 13 Reuters [BANGALORE] When Mas-sachusetts-based consulting firm Sapient moved to a new office here last week, there was a telling statistic 1,250 workers, more than half its global staff, are now in India. As English-speaking Indian graduates plug into cheap, high-speed telecoms at
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    • 282 13 [HONG KONG] Shenhua Energy's US$2.B billionUS$3.6 billion listing the biggest in the world so far this year has got off to a strong start, with investors offering to buy all the shares to be sold by China's largest coal group after only three
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    • 264 13 [BEIJING] A Chinese court has refused to hear a landmark lawsuit by hundreds of private investors whose oil wells were seized by the state and police have detained their lawyer, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the case. The
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 680 14 They seek countries with cheap labour and large potential consumer markets Reuters [NEW YORK] Increased competition, the search for new markets and pressure to keep down prices is pushing biotechnology companies to move beyond national boundaries as they seek to overcome obstacles in one
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    • 333 14 LATEST US DATA AP [WASHINGTON] Construction spending in the United States rose a healthy 0.5 per cent to a record level in April, as office construction surged and activity in the red-hot housing market hit an all-time high, the government reported yesterday. The Commerce
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    • 414 14 Reuters [TOKYO] Struggling electronics maker Sony Corp will give chief executive Nobuyuki Idei and three other outgoing executives a retirement package worth a total of about US$7 million. Mr Idei is set to lose his job as chairman and CEO as part
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    • 271 14 Reuters [HONG KONG] Asian merger and acquisition (M&A) volume has shot up by 69 per cent so far this year, a record-setting pace, JP Morgan said yesterday. The activity in the financial services sector was particularly strong. In the
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    • 635 14  -  ASIA INSIGHT Statesmanship of a high order is a pressing current need ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent FRANCE'S No to the proposed new European Union Constitution may provide ammunition to those who argue that if a relatively homogeneous group of countries such as those in the
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    • 305 14 NYT [NEW YORK] More than half of the biggest US companies with pension plans sailed through the boom of the late 1990s and the bear market that followed without putting any cash into their pension funds using loopholes in federal law,
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 99 14 Reuters [SINGAPORE] PTT pic, Thailand's largest oil and gas firm, is close to merging its Rayong Refinery and Star Petroleum Refinery in a deal valued around US$3 billion, a source said yesterday. The combined entity will prepare to launch an IPO by the
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      • 82 14 [NEW YORK] US private equity group Bain Capital on Tuesday agreed to buy School Specialty, the listed seller of educational products based in Wisconsin, for about US$l.5 billion including debt, the Financial Times reported. The deal marks the second transaction within the past two
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      • 59 14 Bloomberg [PARIS] Euronext, Europe's second-biggest stock exchange, said first-quarter profit rose 7.3 per cent after it adopted new accounting rules, cut some costs and paid less tax. Net income increased to 45.3 million euros (5592.9 million) in its first results under International Financial Reporting
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      • 129 14 Reuters [MILAN] Giorgio Armani, who has built his fashion label into a brand that covers anything from flower arrangements to furniture, has signed a deal to open at least 10 hotels and resorts bearing his name. Armani agreed to the joint venture with Dubai's
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      • 67 14 Reuters [SYDNEY] Telstra Corp Ltd, Australia's largest phone company, may appoint an interim chief executive amid signs it is having trouble negotiating terms with its first choice for the top job, the Sydney Morning Herald said. Outgoing boss Ziggy Switkowski steps down from July
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  • WORLD
    • 626 15 ARTHUR ANDERSEN TRIAL Frank Quattrone could similarly argue that he had no intention of breaking the law LAT-WP [NEW YORK] The government's hardball tactics in prosecuting white-collar crime may face a new wave of scrutiny after the Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out former
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    • 330 15 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] A number of former Arthur Andersen partners said they felt exonerated when the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the conviction that effectively destroyed the once mammoth accounting firm. But it was a bittersweet victory. "It's a terrible irony," said Rachelle Bernstein, a former
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    • 247 15 AP [BRUSSELS] Microsoft Cap met its midnight deadlimto submit a compromise onts landmark antitrust case with the European Unici. EU regulators will assess the proposals fo weeks before deciding whether to impose fins, officials said yesterda. "We have submittd the proposals
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    • 381 15 NYT. Reuters [NEW YORK] Citigroup will pay US$2OB million to settle Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) charges that it shortchanged mutual fund investors by denying them certain discounts, instead reaping US$lOO million in profit at the funds' expense over five
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    • 284 15 Reuters [WASHINGTON] George Bush, the president's father, would like to see another Bush in the White House someday, saying on Tuesday that he would want his son Jeb to run for president when the timing is right. Florida Governor
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    • 411 15 May a winning month for stocks in the US Technology sector saw its best surge since October 2003 Cox [ATLANTA] The Nasdaq composite index broke a four-month losing streak in May with its best monthly advance in close to two years, fuelled by stepped-up demand for computer, software and other
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    • 318 15 LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] W Mark Felt, a former No 2 man at the FBI, has revealed that he was the legendary source known as Deep Throat, who helped two Washington Post reporters expose details in the Watergate scandal that forced Richard Nixon to
      LAT-WP; REUTERS  -  318 words

  • AVIATION
    • 588 16  -  Airbus' customers say late delivery could impact their operations By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] European planemaker Airbus faces the unwelcome prospect of doling out potentially huge compensation payments to customers for the delays in the delivery of its giant Airbus A3BO aircraft. Leading customers like
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    • 461 16 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), one of the world's biggest plane lessors by fleet, said the rates for leasing new planes may rise at a slower pace in the next few months because of higher borrowing and fuel costs. The
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    • 481 16 Latest agreements brighten bankrupt airline's outlook AP [CHICAGO] United Airlines has. vanquished the threat of a strike and all but secured the labour savings the carrier says it needs to help it emerge from a 2 1/2 year bankruptcy. A preliminary agreement
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    • 242 16 AFP [WELLINGTON] Air New Zealand yesterday cut back its profit forecast for the year to June due to higher fuel costs. The flag carrier said it expected its pre-tax profit before unusual items to be around NZ$22O million (*****.5 million), down from NZ$24O million forecast
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    • 74 16 [SINGAPORE] Dubai-based Emirates, well-known for its generous sponsorship of sporting events worldwide, is supporting the Singapore Derby for the 10th consecutive year. It is sponsoring $150,000 of the $800.000 prize money for this year's event, to be held at the Singapore Turf Club on July 17. Emirates area
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  • SHIPPING
    • 479 17  -  Virtually all main Asian and European operators would meet rebate criteria By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Singapore's maritime regulator has released details of its rebate incentive plan to attract more vehicle transhipment business here, with eligibility requirements including minimum vehicle numbers and compound annual
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    • 386 17  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] SembCorp Marine subsidiary PPL Shipyard has secured another rig building contract worth US$l3O million for its specialty jack-up design, as' the Singapore marine company prepares to showcase its capabilities in Norway at next week's NorShipping 2005 conference. The contract to
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    • 263 17  -  By AL LABITA in Manila THE Philippines' largest container port handler beat three other foreign bidders last Thursday to clinch a 20-year deal to operate, manage and modernise Madagascar's main port. The International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) offered the highest royalty fee for
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    • 440 17 Sponsor HSBC cites imbalance in supply-demand picture Reuters [HONG KONG] China Cosco Holdings Co Ltd, which plans to raise US$l.7 billion in an upcoming IPO, will see its profits fall 18 per cent to 3.5 billion yuan (Ss7oB million) in 2006 as
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    • 271 17 Reuters 10SL0] Norwegian tanker-shipping group Frontline urged "mega mergers" in the tanker market on Tuesday after reporting a stronger-than-ex-pected 31 per cent rise in net profit. Frontline, the world's biggest independent tanker operator, also forecast strong earnings for the rest of 2005. The
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 465 18 EDITORIAL RECENT moves in Malaysia and Indonesia to tackle the problem of corruption underscore once again what the new administrations in both countries are trying to do in a process that gained urgency because of the Asian financial crisis. In Kuala Lumpur, the government-appointed royal commission
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    • 982 18  -  Accidents, smoking, obesity rise during good times while physical activity falls, says a study By DAVID LEONHARDT NYT GOOD times seem like they should bring good health. More people have jobs and health insurance when an economy is growing. Fewer
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    • 774 18  - Cheap credit: a blessing once —but a curse soon? THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON Washington Post Writers Group CALL it cheap credit's revenge. Americans seem to have arrived at the curious juncture where the low interest rates that rescued the US from the last recession might be the cause of
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    • 860 19  -  Investment product winning popularity in Japan, China and the rest of the region NEIL BEHRMANN London Correspondent IT'S early days yet, but Exchange Traded Funds are likely to make huge inroads in Asia in the next few years. The number and value of
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    • 1206 19  -  LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent THE global media tends to refer to Israel as the "Jewish" state. And indeed many of the symbols that define this Middle Eastern country reflect elements of the Jewish identity and history. The Israeli national anthem celebrates the return of the
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    • 237 19  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Kenneth Pang Cheow Jow Singapore OCBC Bank recently announced a bonus dividend of $1.25 per share. It also announced at the same time a rights issue of new shares, the payment for which could be fully met by the $1-per-share
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    • 103 19  -  Lu Kee Hong Shanghai, via Internet I REFER to the letter "HDB: Vacancy rate irrelevant to rent issue" by Terence Ho of Housing and Development Board (BT, May 31). Mr Ho has broken new ground. He revealed that Singapore's property market is not a
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    • 223 19  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to the explanatory letter "HDB: Vacancy rate irrelevant to rent issue" (BT May 31) from Housing and Development Board's deputy director (rental housing), Mr Terence Ho. It is difficult to correlate "one-room flats" with HDB's policy which "requires singles to pair
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • 6181 21 FINANCE COMMODITIES MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES In local curt in St la USt %r y May 31 lnd«» Change ChanQ* Change Changa Chf»qa Ol«nq« World Index Preliminary 8581 07 -0.7 -47 48 -3.5 I EAK Preliminary 796-1 -04 3.0 -07 2.1 08 38 Europe Preliminary 110$. 5 -OA 47
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    • 3910 26 To advertise call toll-free 1800 289 8822 Email: notices@sph.com.sg FLEXTECH HOLDINGS LIMITED (Company Registration No. *****6761 C) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE OF EARLY REDEMPTION IN FULL OF ALL OUTSTANDING LOAN STOCK To: Holders of Flextech Holdings Limlted's Loan Stock Due 2007 THIS IS AN
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  • SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL
    • 558 27  -  Audience can again look forward to sacred and Baltic pieces, says FRANK DEMEGLIO FRANK DEMEGLIO THE State Choir of Latvia, Latvija, returns to the Singapore stage to make history in the World Premiere of Singapore Dance Theatre's Stravinsky Dances, besides giving an acapella
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    • 489 27  -  By MINDY TAN ASIAN Arts Mart (AAM) was meant to introduce contemporary Asian art to the world, and to dispel myths such as Asian art is all about Peking Opera. The Esplanade pioneered the first mart in 2001, and today, it's an established
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  • BizIT
    • 407 28  -  The Holtsville, New York-based company wants the Asia-Pacific region to grow at more than 50% for the next couple of years, CEO William Nuti tells ROLAND LIM ROLAND LIM SYMBOL Technologies Inc, which provides mobility solutions for companies, is betting big on
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    • 439 28  -  By RAJU CHELLAM LARGE companies and government bodies worldwide will spend more than US$6.l billion on RFID (radio frequency identification) hardware, software and services up threefold over today's level by 2010, according to market analyst Datamonitor Inc. Of that amount, the bulk
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    • 323 28 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Nortel Networks, the largest North American phone-equip-ment maker, had a first quarter loss of US$49 million on rising costs related to a results restatement and the elimination of jobs. The loss was one US cent a share in
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    • 179 28  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY CALIFORNIA-BASED Dittthium Networks, which provides wireless multimedia solutions, said Singapore-based lIPL (Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the IDA flnfocomm Development Authority of Singapore), has taken an equity stake in Dilithium. "lIPL's investment is part of an US$lB
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    • 168 28  -  By ROLAND LIM MOBILE network operators will need to embrace a new standard, called IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) if they seek to deliver comprehensive multimedia services such as video sharing over 3G and future generation mobile networks. So says Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson AB.
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    • 435 28 Bernama [LOS ANGELES] Laptop PCs are convenient, but can also become an ergonomic nightmare by causing neck pain and other injuries, said Xinhua news, quoting a report by the CNET News. Laptops were never designed as a replacement for desktops, the report quoted
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    • 352 28 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Shares of Lenovo Corp, China's biggest PC maker, fell for the first day in four after e-mails sent by a Dell employee suggested that buying Lenovo's PCs was a tacit endorsement of the Chinese government. Lenovo shares fell as much
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    • 276 28  -  By ROLAND LIM ISRAEL-BASED AlVarion Inc. which specialises in wireless broadband infrastructure solutions, is betting that Singapore will roll out its wireless broadband access (WBA) services next year. "We have very great hopes for Singapore in 2006," Patrick Duncan, Asia-Pacific managing director
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  • PROPERTY
    • 319 29  -  By ALEXANDRA HO HOTEL owners in Asia-Pa-cific still have the upper hand when negotiating key commercial terms of hotel management agreements with operators. According to a report by Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, Baker McKenzie and CMS Cameron McKenna, the shift of power
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    • 291 29  -  By ALEXANDRA HO RIDING on the recent increase in activity in the office leasing market driven by the financial services sector, property consultancy CB Richard Ellis has been sewing up deals in the prime Central Business District location. It negotiated the
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    • 830 29 Record NY residential sale comes amid worries of bubble NYT [NEW YORK] A consortium of Hong Kong investors and Donald J. Trump are selling a stretch of riverfront land and three buildings on the Upper West Side for about US$l.B billion in the largest
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  • PROPERTY WATCH
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    • 288 30  -  By ARTHUR SIM THERE are certain considerations when designing for multi-generational households, especially if these include the very young or the very old. A small step down to the bathroom is easy to negotiate if you have all your faculties but for those in
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