The Business Times, 28 June 2005

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  • 17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Tuesday, June 28,2005 MICA (P) 089/03/2005 online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg SINGAPORE 85 cents
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  • 736 1  -  Gas-supply contract is the second between Singapore and Malaysia By RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] In a major boost for bilateral energy ties, Keppel Corp subsidiary Keppel Energy yesterday announced a $3 billionplus mega deal to import Malaysian natural gas via a new pipeline.
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  • 137 1 ST! 2,206.71 (-17.01) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,207 (-17) siMsa 262.48 (-1.96) SIMSa FUTURES 262.00 (-3.00) MARKETS Monday Change KLSECOMP 891.23 -6.85 NIKKEI 225- 11,414.28 -122.75 HANG SENG 14.176.04 -54.25 SET INDEX 684.18 -6.07 JAKARTA COMP 1,119.898 -15.769 MANILA COMP 1,963.50 +16.29 SEOUL COMP 991.11 -11.32 SHENZHEN B 225.80
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  • 671 1  -  By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] As crude oil prices broke through the psychological US$6O barrier in Asian trading yesterday, it could have been a cue for Singapore shares to slide across the board. But investors aren't pressing the panic button yet. And
    Source: Bloomberg  -  671 words
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    • 97 1 PROPERTY TRUSTS 30% of listed properties could go into Reits pg 4 B The only perpetual EVEN IN THE 2100. THE NEW LOCAL WITH PUSHERS OR DUAL TIMEt THE ARROW HAND HOME OR YEAR CHANGE INSTANTLY pushers OR The exhibition case back self- NTS VvA WINDING PATENTED SINGAPORE INDONESIA TAKASHIMAYA
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    • 46 1 Invitation to build Changi HflraHß airport hotel pg 32 m Spotlight on SMEs Multi-Con Systems Media Asia v| :v v i ,k] company Why the shares of the Sesdaqlisted is t)tiiK,..^;.b vvatpr treatment company are not as hot as its business in Cambodia PGI2 movies PGI3
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    • 26 1 MANUFACTURING S'pore output up 1.7% in May PGIO .rr- >„■ 4 ,'ii VISIONARY BT Deal of r cnC the Week VCU) Exclusive Business Jennie Chua, president and
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    • 10 1 INDIA-SPORE PACT It's a landmark for Indian economy: PM Lee
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 557 2  -  Case seen shedding light on Malaysian penny stock meltdown By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S Securities Commission (SC) yesterday brought charges of market manipulation that are expected to shed light on the meltdown in penny stocks on the Malaysian bourse in
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    • 452 2  -  BT exclusive By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] Four operators of the old Satay Club have failed in their bid to bring a taste of their famous food back to the Esplanade area. Their D'Original Satay Club ceased business under the Esplanade Bridge early this
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    • 245 2 AFP [BElJlNG] Temasek Holdings has signed an agreement to buy 5.1 per cent in China Construction Bank for US$l.4 billion, Chinese state media said yesterday. Temasek signed the agreement with China's Central Huijin Investment, which holds shares in the bank for the
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    • 699 2 Oil price may shave growth and fuel inflation CENTRAL bankers are concerned about the consequences of high oil prices and the US property bubble. But they are not pessimistic about the global economy and inflation. The latest annual report of the Bank for International Settlements says Japan will
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    • 342 2  -  By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Yet another survey is showing that hiring momentum in Singapore is easing. After adding 5,000 staff in the first four months, the biggest 1,500 companies here plan to recruit only 3,000 more by year-end, staffing services provider Kelly Services
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    • 49 2 IN the report "GK Goh to set up JV with Kanetsu Shoji" (BT, June 24), we said that the joint venture FX Kanetsu would be renamed GK Goh Co, Ltd. That's incorrect. FX Kanetsu will be renamed Kanetsu GK Goh Co, Ltd. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 737 3  -  Growth in Asia will fall to 4.8% this year from 6% in 2004, says BIS By NEIL BEHRMANN in London CENTRAL bankers are concerned about the consequences of high oil prices and the US property bubble. But they are not pessimistic about
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    • 526 3  -  By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] The In-dia-Singapore economic pact due to be inked tomorrow which includes a free-trade deal "is agood agreement not just on the substance of it" but also a landmark because it's the first of its kind for India,
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 520 4  -  REITS Optimism based on Reit growth in Asia, and S'pore's role as Reit hub By ALEXANDRA HO MORE than 30 per cent of Singapore's listed real estate could be put into real estate investment trusts (Reits) in the next few years
      Source: Macquarie Research Equities, Macquarie estimates, June '05  -  520 words
    • 299 4 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Creative Technology Ltd, whose MP3 music players compete with Apple Computer Inc's iPod, cut its fourth quarter sales forecast and said it will have an operating loss on sagging demand. The shares fell as much as 12 per cent. Sales for
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    • 445 4  -  It will price its IPO at between 63 and 68 cents a unit By KALPANA RASHIWALA MAPLETREE Logistics Trust will raise up to $243 million from its offer of 357.4 million units to institutional and retail investors in its initial public offer,
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    • 622 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R SIVANITHY THE entire rationale for reading stockbroking research is to obtain information so as to make an informed investment decision, with the reader presuming that reports are objective, independently derived and, therefore, honest. If so, does it make
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    • 302 4  -  By ROLAND LIM IN a bid to increase the penetration rate of its Yellow Pages Buying Guide, main-board-listed Yellow Pages (Singapore) will begin free delivery of the directory to all local households and businesses starting from August. "This entire exercise will cost us
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  • VISIONARY CEOS
    • 948 5  -  Hotelier Jennie Chua takes pride in the high calibre of people who work for her. UMA SHANKARI reports UMA SHANKARI AFTER 30-odd years in the hospitality business, what makes Jennie Chua, president and chief executive of Raffles Holdings, most proud is the calibre of the people
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    • 377 5 CONTROLLING 41 luxury hotels and resorts in locations around the world is not enough for Raffles Holdings. It plans to buy or lease more hotels and to take on management contracts for properties it does not itself own. Ms Chua says Raffles Holdings has come
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 401 6  -  TROUBLED COMPANIES It has until Aug 31 to hold meeting, table accounts By JOYCE KOH SHAREHOLDERS wanting to grill Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) on what went wrong in the company will have to wait a while longer. The troubled company yesterday said its
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    • 345 6  -  By CHEN HUIFEN IN A move hailed by minority shareholders, Greatronic Ltd said yesterday it has withdrawn a petition for judicial management. And eyes are now on what white knight James Hong Gee has up his sleeve for the Sesdaq company, in which trading of shares
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    • 665 6  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN A-SONIC Aerospace stands to make up to $5 million in realisable extraordinary gains if a company in which it invested last year succeeds in listing in London. Under a somewhat complex deal, A-Sonic, through wholly owned subsidiary Janco International,
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 486 8  -  STOCKS Nine index stocks rose while 39 fell, including banks and blue chips, but traders believe the drop is temporary R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent WHEN viewed in the context of an 18 points rise last Thursday and Friday, yesterday's 17.01 points loss for the Straits Times Index at
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    • 483 8  -  TRADES TO WATCH By CHLOE CHOY FOLLOWING the completion of Newbridge Capital's acquisition of a controlling stake in Parkway Holdings Limited, three companies have announced their deemed stakes in the healthcare provider. Newbridge Mauritius Co-Investment Ltd—with registered holder Newbridge Singapore Co-Invest-ment Pte Ltd's 64.6 million shares
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    • Article, Illustration
      426 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jun 27 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -258.00 -163.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 -109.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -26.00 All-SG Equities 565.46 -3.68 SG Equities Elect 137.45 +0.48 SG Equities Fin 1552.50 -9.98 SG Equities Prop 560.50 -8.46 SIMSCI 262.48 -1.96 SiMSCI Futures 262.00 -3.00 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME SingTel
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    • 1072 8  -  Compiled by JOYCE KOH Venture Corporation June 27 dose: $15.70 CITIGROUP SMITH BARNEY, June 27 UPGRADE to BUY from SELL: Raising 12-month target to Ssl9 based on rollover to 19x Jun-06E EPS. Stock likely offers 4.4 per cent gross yield, 14 per cent return on equity, 20 per
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    • 492 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent A COMBINATION of record oil prices and profit-taking pressures called the shots for financial markets yesterday, at the start of an event-filled week which threatens volatile and perhaps even distorted trading conditions Ahead of an extended US break this
      Source: Reuters  -  492 words

  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 594 9  -  It targets China and S-E Asia gaming markets By ROLAND LIM FACED with three consecutive years of losses, main-board-listed NeteLusion formerly known as North 22 Technology Services Group needs a new shot in the arm. And a big dose of online
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 83 9 FREIGHT Links Express Holdings has reported a 103.7 per cent jump in net profit to $9.5 million for its financial year ended April 30. The results were helped by a 31.9 per cent increase in turnover to $86.8 million and a net gain from the
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      • 48 9 LABROY Marine subsidiary Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering has signed a US$70 million contract to build two specialised carriers. The first is scheduled for delivery in mid-2007. The second, on a six-month option, is to be confirmed in December for delivery by end-2007.
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      • 97 9 ASIAPHARM Group said its main subsidiary in China. Shandong Luye Pharmaceutical Co, has signed a cooperative agreement with Switzerland's Sochinaz SA. Under this agreement, Shandong Luye will help in the import drug licence application for MT103-1, manufactured by Sochinaz SA. In return, MT103-1
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      • 88 9 MODIFIED-starch producer China Sun Bio-chem Technology Group Company has placed out 26.8 million new shares at 42 cents each, raising a net proceed of about $10.5 million. This share placement was in response to the overwhelming demand for the 73.2 million shares placed
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      • 87 9 NEPTUNE Orient Lines said it has handled 16 per cent more containers in the four weeks from May 7 to June 3, buoyed by strong demand conditions. The group's container shipping unit APL carried 151,900 40-foot containers during the period, an increase of 20,600 boxes
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      • 35 9 STARTECH Electronics* Seah Siew Heng has resigned as a director with effect from yesterday. Mr Seah will also cease to be the chairman of the board, nominating committee and the remuneration committee.
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      • 32 9 CONSTRUCTION-BASED company PDC Corp Ltd yesterday announced the resignation of Chan Shun Yuen as chief executive officer and executive vice-chairman. He will continue to be a non-executive director.
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      • 86 9 EUROPTRONIC Group has entered into an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Evox Rifa Group Oyj to supply the latter with a certain group of polyester film capacitors. The partnership follows a 600,000 euro (Ssl.3 million) investment by Europtronic which makes and distributes
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    • 324 9 It is expected to acquire stake through share allotment [MUMBAI] Temasek Holdings and leading foreign institutional investors (FIIs) will together invest up to 6 billion rupees (Ss23l million) in Reliance Capital (RCL), the financial services firm of the newly-formed
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 481 10  -  Balance of power arrangement more likely than military tension, DPM says By JEAN CHUA CHINA'S emergence will lead to competition and uneasiness with the US, the world's only superpower, but it is unlikely to take the form of military tension, said Deputy Prime Minister
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    • 192 10 THE Singapore Art Museum (SAM) yesterday took delivery of a self-portrait of artist Lee Man Fong, which was donated by Indonesian collectors Mr and Mrs Putra Masagung. Lee, a prominent South-east Asian painter and former curator of president Sukarno's collection, is best known for
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    • 361 10  -  By UMA SHANKARI SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output in May increased by 1.7 per cent this year compared with a year ago, according to figures released yesterday by the Economic Development Board (EDB). However, manufacturing output fell in May for the fourth time since the beginning
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    • 279 10  -  By JOYCE KOH THE next time you attend a concert with acoustics that blow you off your feet, it could be German company Behringer behind the explosive experience. The designer and manufacturer of professional audio and musical instrument products will be
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    • 336 10  -  By LISA TAN SINGAPORE and Malaysia yesterday announced a School Twinning Programme aimed at helping youths from both countries build bilateral ties that are rigorous enough to withstand "temporary hiccups" in the future. "As long as there is a causeway
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    • 149 10 THE National University of Singapore (NUS) is teaming up with Peking University to train professionals in financial engineering and quantitative finance who are needed as China develops as an economic power. The two universities signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday, sealing their first collaboration
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  • SMEspotlight
    • 700 11  -  The value of a business could be destroyed if a strategy of assessing growth, returns and risk is not adopted. KEOY SOO EARN explains why KEOY SOO EARN COMPANIES big or small face a common challenge to rim a business that is sustainable and elicits
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    • 816 12  -  With greater revenue from its water treatment plants in Cambodia, its CEO is unfazed by its languishing share price. UMA SHANKARI reports UMA SHANKARI Multi-con Systems' CEO Tan Hang Meng is someone who takes a handson approach in getting his company's work done. The specialist engineering
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    • 357 12 SMALL and medium enterprises are now travelling more. Numbering 110,000 and with up to 90 per cent being local establishments, SMEs account for 30 per cent of bookings made at Zuji, an online travel company. According to Zuji, Singapore's market raked in one
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    • 952 12  -  By PETER ROBILLIARD RADIO frequency identification RFID is a next generation data collection technology. There are various data collection methods available, including RF enabled barcode systems, and voice technologies. RF-enabled barcode systems have been available for many years and permeate both business and day-to-day life. Barcodes
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    • 1191 13  -  SMALL CAPS It attributes its lacklustre stocks to the volatile film industry and lack of knowledge about the company, says CHLOE CHOY CHLOE CHOY NEW Hong Kong movie Initial D may have sent many hearts racing, but the latest blockbuster by Ses-daq-listed Media
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    • 429 13  -  By TEH HOOI LING STOCK prices in general were nrmer yesterday, wnen compared with the week before. And most sectors moved more or less in tandem. The primarily blue chips Straits Times Index, which benefited from the numerous positive reports from local as
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    • 127 11 Ninety-two E5O companies have gone on to list on the local bourse. Your company can do it too! 11X &H3 to, mm--4aK itw Nominations for the s 2005 Enterprise 50 Award hi'd'dr 1 are now open Companies can nominate themselves for the 2005 Enterprise awards by completing the official nomination
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    • 1345 13 o UniCredito Italiano s.p.A HEAD OFFICE: MILAN (ITALY) UNICREDITO ITALIANO SPA SINGAPORE BRANCH 80 Raffles Place, #51-01 U. 0.8. Plaza 1, Singapore *****4 Consolidated Balance Sheet Consolidated Profit and Loss Account As at December 31,2004 As at December 31,2004 AMOUNTS AS AT AMOUNTS AS AT (Consolidated amounts in thousands of
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 600 14 Demand-driven speculation, worries over supply in event of output glitch behind latest rally AP [SINGAPORE] Crude oil prices jumped to a new high of U5560.46 in Asian trading yesterday amid concerns that supplies would not meet demand, especially in the United States,
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    • 448 14 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's economy is expected to grow 7 per cent to 8 per cent in the two fiscal years ending March 31, 2007, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, taking average expansion below target for the fiveyear period. "Our
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    • 990 14 Bloomberg [TIANJIN/SINGAPORE] China is seeking to dampen speculation that a revaluation of the yuan is imminent as President Hu Jintao prepares to meet leaders of the world's most advanced industrial economies next month, analysts said. Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday said
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    • 302 14 Reuters [BElJlNG] Japan's top financial diplomat said yesterday that Japan had no current plan to change the currency make-up of its foreign reserves, such as diverting the reserves out of dollars into euros. Hiroshi Watanabe, vicefinance minister for international
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 687 15  -  INDONESIA INSIGHT They want competent and honest candidates who will solve problems SHOEB KAGDA Jakarta Correspondent IN INDONESIA'S version of "Super Tuesday" in American presidential elections, 82 regions and provinces across the vast archipelago yesterday held elections for mayors and governors, including
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    • 541 15  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur THE much-anticipated drama at yesterday's PSC Industries annual general meeting fizzled out into a farce of sorts after govern-ment-linked shareholders holding a commanding 37 per cent share were barred from attending on technical grounds. Representatives from state-owned plantation and
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 384 16 It has US$2.5b capitalisation, assessed at 550m barrels of reserves [NEW YORK] PetroKazakhstan, an oil producer based in Canada but whose assets are in central Asia, is considering a sale, potentially turning itself into the latest battleground in the global competition for energy
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    • 424 16 [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's financial regulator has stepped Up its inspection of some of the territory's biggest hedge funds after heavy derivatives trading losses forced the sudden closure of Singapore-based Aman Capital Global fund, the Financial Times reported. In the past four weeks,
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    • 275 16  -  By JEAN CHUA A TEAM from the Wuxi municipal government in Jiangsu province was in town yesterday to whip up interest among Singapore businessmen about investing in the city's service sectors, where "opportunities are aplenty in the city and areas around it", according to its vice-mayor
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    • 554 16 Reuters [HONG KONG] A bid by Chinese oil firm CNOOC Ltd for US producer Unocal represents a good strategic fit, but analysts say the debt call to meet the US$lB.5 billion offer price will hurt its credit profile and weaken its
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    • Article, Illustration
      27 16 [BEIJING] China announced that the slogan for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games will be 'One World. One Dream' at a ceremony here on Sunday AP
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    • 681 16 PROFILE 'Acquisitions man' said to be very hands on Reuters [HONG KONG] Fu Chengyu is putting his money or China's where his mouth is. When the veteran oilman took the helm at CNOOC 18 months ago, he said acquisitions were
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    • 449 16 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's securities regulator said the government wants to expand a programme allowing overseas investors to buy local shares and is studying the introduction of trading in warrants. "We are working with the relevant departments to further expand the qualified foreign
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  • FOCUS: CHANGING INDIA
    • 473 17 Indian software executives, politicians say Britain exaggerated threat of security breaches in call-centres [NEW DELHI] INDIAN politicians and software executives have accused Britain of waging a low-intensity trade war by exaggerating the threat of security breaches in the country's fast-growing call-centre industry, the Financial Times reported. The
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    • 1193 17 MEDIA Climate of political flux and economic transformation fuel news channels, say analysts IHT [NEW DELHI] Ten minutes before the hour at the CNBC newsroom in Delhi, and the presenters are preparing themselves to go live. News readers with glossy, blow-dried hair trip
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    • 1115 17 ADVERTISING IHT [NEW DELHI] With temperatures sizzling in the Delhi summer, you might think the job of marketing cold air to India's middle-class consumers would be a breeze. But that would be to underestimate the ferocity and sophistication of the air conditioner wars
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 737 18 Reuters [DUBAI] Wealthy Gulf Arab investors have only to snap their fingers and someone in Dubai's burgeoning community of Western-trained architects will design the impossible or the unthinkable. The emirate is fast becoming an architect's playground as more and more outlandish structures take
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    • 507 18 Canberra ready to sign if pact doesn't interfere with existing US ties AFP [SYDNEY] Australia is prepared to sign a South-east Asian non-aggression pact it had previously rejected in order to join an emerging East Asia regional trade grouping, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday.
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    • 558 18 Reuters, AP [MANILA] President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo admitted yesterday that she talked to a Philippine election official, as detailed in recordings that have prompted calls for her to quit, but insisted she did not influence the vote count. In a nationally televised speech, Ms
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    • 388 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Adelphia Communications Corp, which has agreed to sell most of its assets to Time Warner Inc and Comcast Corp, will pay creditors at least US$9.7 billion in cash under a revised plan :o exit bankruptcy. Creditors will also
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    • 270 18 Reuters [TOKYO] Orders for Japanese chip-making equipment fell 40.1 per cent in May from a year earlier, marking the largest drop in 39 months, an industry group said yesterday, as chip makers remain cautious about investment. May orders came to 92.5 billion
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    • 402 18 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PASSIVE ELECTRONICS (SGP) PTE LTD (Registration No.: *****4155 D) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 10 Anton Road, #35-08
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  • WORLD
    • 505 19 Online casino is the UK's biggest float since 2000, with a market value of £5b Reuters [LONDON] Shares in online casino group Party Gaming surged yesterday after it completed the biggest London flotation in five years, taking its market value to about £5
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    • 589 19 PROFILE Reuters [FRANKFURT] Downrtoearth German engineer Gustav Humbert, named chief executive of top planemaker. Airbus over the weekend, brings a diplomatic style likely to help sooth tensions among shareholders at parent company EADS. The first German to head France-based Airbus in its 35-year
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    • 305 19 Reuters [LONDON] The value of global mergers and acquisitions in the first half of this year surged 31 per cent over the same period of 2004, financial data provider Dealogic said, as private equity firms completed ev-er-larger deals and industry consolidation
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    • 324 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] The high bid in an online auction for lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett has reached U*****,100, matching a record set in 2003. The leading bidder is Mohnish Pabrai, managing partner of Pabrai Investment Funds in Lake Forest, California. His bid,
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      • 84 19 Reuters [SEOUL] Hana Bank is in the final stage of talks to sell a stake in an asset management joint venture with Allianz to the German insurer, a senior official at the South Korean lender said yesterday. But Lee Kang Man, an
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      • 71 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said the company's new Xbox 360 video-game console may use the next-generation DVD format developed by Toshiba Corp. Microsoft is a member of the DVD Forum, a group that promotes the HD DVD technology Toshiba helped
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      • 71 19 Reuters [TOKYO] NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's top mobile carrier, is in the initial stages of talks to buy a stake in South Korea's No 2 mobile operator KTF Co Ltd, DoCoMo sources said yesterday. The sources said the two companies were in
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      • 80 19 Reuters [TOKYO] British fund manager Hermes Pensions Management and the investment arm of Nippon Life Insurance will set up a US$l.5 billion corporate governance fund in Japan, where shareholders are gaining more say in shaping corporate policy. Nissay Asset Management Co, owned
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      • 66 19 Reuters [BANGKOK] A Thai court said yesterday it needed more time to decide whether China's Citic Resources Holdings Ltd is eligible to conduct due diligence of debt-ridden Thai Petrochemical Industry. Citic is teaming up with TPI founder Prachai Leophairatana to bid for TPI,
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  • AVIATION
    • 520 20 Transport minister allegedly involved in graft in bomb detector purchase AP [BANGKOK] Thailand's transport minister, the target of a parliamentary noconfidence motion, yesterday brushed off opposition accusations that he was involved in corruption in the purchase of bomb detectors for Bangkok's unfinished new
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    • 286 20 Bloomberg [TOULOUSE, France] Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd, which is controlled by UK billionaire Richard Branson. plans to hire 1,500 employees over the next 18 months as it adds new aircraft. The hirings will include as many as 1,100 cabin crew, 150 flight-deck personnel
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    • 462 20 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Indian Airlines Ltd, the nation's biggest domestic carrier by fleet, may be able to buy its first new aircraft since 1992 in two weeks to compete with a half dozen lowfare rivals in Asia's fourthlargest economy. India's government, which owns
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    • 199 20 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines Ltd, Asia's most profitable carrier, said it will start flights between Bangkok and Tokyo as it seeks to offer customers flexible schedules amid increasing travel demand. The airline will begin the six weekly services from September, enabling customers traveling
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  • SHIPPING
    • 431 21 Fishing groups criticise slow pace of the clean-up efforts AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian authorities have vowed yesterday to track down the ship that was responsible for a huge oil spill off its southern coast which has caused serious damage and
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    • 579 21 COMMENTARY So savvy shipowners now do more than just obey rules Germanischer Lloyd's Nonstop Magazine FROM May 2006, the Baltic Sea will become a "sulphur oxide (SOx) emission control area" and the North Sea is to follow almost a year later. In these
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    • 183 21 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Samsung Heavy Industries Co, the world's third-largest shipbuilder, said it has received an order valued at 468 billion won (***** million) to build the world's most advanced drilling unit from Norway. The order is from Eastern Drilling ASA, Samsung Heavy said
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    • 60 21 AP [PAPENBURG, Germany] The new cruiser Norwegian Jewel built at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, northern Germany, going down the river Ems on Saturday. In the North Sea, it will be tested on its nautical and technical performances. The ship has an overall length of 294.13
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    • 277 21 AP [HONG KONG] Two shipping consultants recently adjusted their estimates on global container shipping demand for this year and 2006, indicating that oversupply may not be as problematic for the industry as widely expected. The growth in global container shipping demand for 2005
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    • PORT SHOTS
      • 72 21 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Heavy Industries Co, the world's largest shipbuilder, said the value of its orders for building ships, engines, production platforms and other engineering products fell 24 per cent in May from a year earlier. Hyundai Heavy won contracts valued at US$593 million
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      • 96 21 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Overseas Shipholding Group Inc, the largest US oil tanker owner, sold nine oil-product tankers for US$ 112 million to a Greek shipping company and will lease back the ships for four years, Athens-based Optima Shipbrokers Ltd said in a market report. The nine
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      • 101 21 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China Shipping Development Co, a Hong Kong publicly traded unit of China's second-largest shipowner, may buy 72 dry-bulk carriers from its parent, Credit Suisse First Boston said in a report. China Shipping Development ships may pay Shanghai-based China Shipping Group
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    • 610 21 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] The cost of shipping crude oil from the Persian Gulf to refineries worldwide may rise, extending last week's 20 per cent increase, after the pool of ships ready for hire fell to the lowest since March,
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 516 22 EDITORIAL SIX month after the devastating tsunami that left about 230,000 people dead or missing in 13 nations on the rim of the Indian Ocean, it is becoming fairly clear that those nations that depended on their own resources to cope are doing better than
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    • 722 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE WALTON MORAIS Associate Editor PARALLEL imports in Singapore have done their job in battling the DVD movie pirates and consumers are benefitting from cheaper prices. Ironically, these imports may mean that Hollywood studios' own licensees in Singapore may be
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    • 1397 22  -  But current downturn may help weed out weak players and propel innovation By TIGER TONG Despite a strong economy, China's stock market is now at a historical low. Compared to the peak in mid-2001, the Shanghai Composite Index, which covers all A-shares and B-shares,
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    • 1683 23 The following are excerpts of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's interview with The Hindu newspaper of India on June 23 Q: You have been saying consistently as a policy that the rise of China and India will have a great impact on Asia.
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    • 1028 23  -  YOGI AGGARWAL WHEN the prime ministers of India and Singapore sign the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) tomorrow in New Delhi, they will put their approval on a document that has taken more than three years to emerge from protracted and sometimes
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    • 231 23  -  LETTERS TO tHE EDITOR Narayana Narayana Singapore DENIS Distant's letter "Take pragmatic view on Vantage" (BT, June 23) is likely to be met with the reply that, in the interests of all investors, (SGX) rules are rules which have to be rigidly.implemented, and cannot
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    • 151 23  -  Yeo Whee Kiak, Singapore IN its IPO prospectus dated Sep 04, Shanghai Asia identified two new areas for it to boost profitability and cement its relationship with its clients: Manufacturing aluminium foil at a cost of $15.5 million, and producing metallised transfer paperboards for $12 million.
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    • 3028 30 iOr~" IDT HOLDINGS (SINGAPORE LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting of IDT Holdings (Singapore) Limited will be held at The Executives' Club, 65 Chulia Street OCBC Centre, #33-01, Singapore *****3 on Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 2:00
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  • PROPERTY
    • 879 31 Speculative flows from Shanghai and HK target casino play [MACAU] THE way Macau property prices are soaring while rows of new apartment blocks stand nearly empty, investors could be forgiven for thinking that the mushrooming casino business is providing the gas for a property bubble.
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    • 384 31 House prices in England and Wales see 3% fall in June from a year ago Reuters [LONDON] The number of British loan approvals for home purchases fell in May by almost a quarter from a year ago, adding to growing evidence
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    • 646 32  -  It will have a 60-year site lease and a gross floor area of 32,200 sq metres By KALPANA RASHIWALA HOTEL investors have been invited to develop a hotel of up to 400 rooms at Changi Airport's Terminal 3. The hotel will be built
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    • 219 32 THE Ascott Group is one of 42 companies worldwide that have been recognised as being "forward-thinking companies (that embrace) the ever-increasing demands for greater transparency". Ascott, the service residence arm of Capita Land, is the only Singapore company to be included in PriceWaterhouseCoopers' book, Trends 2005:
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    • 229 32 RAFFLES City shoppers can look forward to a new shopping experience by July next year, the shopping centre said yesterday. As part of its strategic asset enhancement programme, it is adding a 50,000 sq ft extension to its Basement 1 (Bl)
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    • 176 32 THE Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore has found, from an audit of commercial buildings, that one in 11 lease agreements have not been stamped, and thus stamp duties not paid. Iras did not say which buildings were audited but warned that evasion
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