The Business Times, 8 July 2005

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES siNGA^R&iaiS' inline at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Friday, July 8,2005
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  • Article
    Lock icon BFC tender draws bullish top bid
    774 1  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] In a major vote of confidence for Singapore, a consortium comprising Hongkong Land, Keppel Land and Li Kashing's Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa yesterday entered a much higher-than-expec-ted top Wd of $381 psf of potential gross floor area for
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    Lock icon Carnage in heart of London
    792 1  -  Coordinated bomb attacks leave at least 33 dead, more than 345 injured; billions wiped off markets By NEIL BEHRMANN in London ALMOST £50 billion (Ssl4B billion) was wiped off the London stock exchange in an immediate reaction to a coordinated series of terrorist bomb attacks
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    136 1 sn 2.***** (-21.79) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,214.00 (-22.00) SIMSCI ***** (-3.13) SIMSCI FUTURES 264.60 (-2.60) MARKETS Thursday Change KLSECOMP 906.96 +4J7 NIKKEI 225 11,590.14 -13.39 HANG SENG 14,030.81 -119.12 SET INDEX ***** -2110 JAKARTA COMP 1,108.40 -9.41 MANILA COMP 1,847.32 +34.28 SEOUL COMP 1,026.82 +7.81 SHENZHEN ***** -0.70
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Abdullah downplays Dr M's complaints over car policy
      543 2  -  M'sian PM says Proton needs to improve quality so it can compete By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday downplayed complaints by his predecessor Mahathir Mohamad that Kuala Lumpur may be hurting national car-maker Proton Holdings.
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      Lock icon Temasek triples Pakistani bank stake to 72%
      779 2  -  By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] Highlighting its regional banking thrust, Temasek Holdings will now own more of a Pakistani bank than it does of DBS Bank in Singapore. The Singapore investment company yesterday confirmed it has almost tripled its stake in Pakistan's NDLC-IFIC
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      Lock icon Aberdeen to buy parts of Deutsche Asset's UK business
      353 2  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA [SINGAPORE] Aberdeen Asset Management will acquire parts of the UK-based business of Deutsche Asset Management's (DeAM) in a deal valued at up to £265 million (Ss7B4 million). The move follows DeAM's efforts to restructure after its poor performance
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      Lock icon CAO's Chen wants to leave S'pore before trial
      842 2  -  By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] China Aviation Oil's suspended CEO Chen Jiulin who faces charges of cheating, forgery and insider-trading over the company's massive losses wants to travel out of Singapore. BT understands that Chen's lawyers indicated in the Subordinate Courts yesterday that
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      629 2 SIA to increase fuel surcharge by up to 50% SINGAPORE Airlines is to increase its fuel surcharge in response to the sharp rise in jet fuel price. The airline's surcharge will rise to US$l2 from US$lO per ticket for flights between Singapore and Asean cities, it was announced
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      Lock icon UK markets stand up to attacks
      847 3 LONDON BLASTS Traders, many of them veterans of past attacks, keep business going Reuters, Bloomberg [LONDON] Britain's financial services yesterday defied the terrorists as banks and exchanges across London kept trading through a series of blasts which shook the world's largest financial centre. All
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      Lock icon PM Lee condemns blasts
      308 3 [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last night condemned the terrorist attacks in London and urged Singaporeans to be vigilant, as security is tightened at Singapore's borders. In a statement, Mr Lee said Singapore's sympathy goes out to the victims of the attacks and their families,
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      Lock icon A timetable of terror
      137 3 London, Thursday morning 0751 GMT: Explosion on underground train about 100 metres from Liverpool Street station. Train was going from Aldgate to Liverpool Street on the dnde line. Seven confirmed fatalities. 0756 GMT. Explosion hits train on the Piccadilly deep underground line between King's Cross station
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      Lock icon New group claims attacks in name of Al-Qaeda
      174 3 Reuters [LONDON] A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility in the name of Al-Qaeda for the series of deadly blasts in London, two news organisations said yesterday. The "Secret Group of Al-Qae-da's Jihad in Europe" claimed responsibility for the attack in a
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon SIA to increase fuel surcharge by up to 50%
      535 4  -  Move to help airline recoup about half of $900m surge in fuel costs this year Reports by VEN SREENIVASAN SINGAPORE Airlines is to increase its fuel surcharge in response to the sharp rise in jet fuel price. The move was widely
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      Lock icon ST Aerospace clinches third China deal, worth US$15m
      352 4 SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace has clinched its third aircraft maintenance contract in China in as many months. The company, which is the aerospace arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering, yesterday announced that its subsidiary, ST Aerospace Supplies, was awarded a contract by privately owned
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      Lock icon SPH says it's not in talks to sell Paragon property
      192 4 SINGAPORE Press Holdings, responding to media queries and reports on the possible sale of its lucrative Paragon property on Orchard Road, said it's not in discussion with any party. SPH stock climbed 1.8 per cent on Wednesday, after an analyst
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      Lock icon Vantage's PacNet deal: best not to count chickens yet
      563 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By VEN SREENIVASAN IT was indeed music to the ears of frustrated shareholders in Vantage Corporation. After fretting over the fortunes and future of the company for the better part of eight months, one could almost hear sighs
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      Lock icon Citiraya court hearing adjourned to Aug 2
      302 4  -  By JOYCE KOH THE pre-trial conference for the four men charged with accepting bribes from Citiraya chief executive Ng Teck Lee has been adjourned to Aug 2. Lawyers for the four former employees of Citiraya's multinational suppliers said the extension was needed for
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      Lock icon Structured warrants trades surge to $4.2b in H1
      373 5  -  CapitaLand, Cosco, NOL warrants account for 30% of entire volume By R SIVANITHY GROWTH in the structured warrants business continues to impress, with a staggering $4.2 billion done in the first half of the year almost triple the $1.5 billion done for
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon ASL Marine bags new contracts worth $60.3 m
        82 5 ASL Marine Holdings seems to be having a good year, securing new contracts worth $60.3 million and boosting its order books to $233.9 million since July 1 last year. The new deals for seven vessels were secured by the group's subsidiary ASL
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        Lock icon ArianeCorp to develop telecom system in China
        74 5 SESDAQ-LISTED ArianeCorp said yesterday its telecommunication unit in China, Guangzhou Ariane Telecom Technology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China Satellite Communications Corporation to develop and operate a digital trunking mobile communication system via a joint venture company. GAT is set to inject
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        Lock icon Keppel Offshore & Marine appoints two to senior positions
        77 5 Keppel Offshore Marine appoints two to senior positions KEPPEL Offshore Marine has appointed two experienced Keppel staff for senior positions. With 30 years of experience, Yick Ping Wong (left) will step in as the executive director of Keppel (Caspian) for Keppel O&M. A Colombo Plan scholar, Hoe Eng Hock (right)
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        Lock icon NeoCorp subsidiary Adventure Training, to be wound up
        69 5 ADVENTURE Training Systems (Asia-Pacific), in which NeoCorp International owns a 85 per cent stake, is to wind up, on a petition from Übin Lagoon Resort. The winding up is said to be unlikely to affect the group's operations. Another subsidiary, NeoCorp Innovations,
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        Lock icon M'sia's Southern Bank in talks to buy S'pore insurer Asia General
        70 5 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's second smallest lender, Southern Bank, said it has obtained central bank approval to start talks to buy Asia General Holdings, Singapore. The proposed acquisition would include Asia General's life and general insurance businesses in Malaysia
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      Lock icon Union Steel eyes overseas expansion
      360 5  -  IPO WATCH By MINDY TAN HOMEGROWN metal recycler Union Steel is eyeing a stock exchange listing to help raise funds for plant expansion in Singapore and maiden forays into Indonesia and China. The company a twotime Enterprise 50 award winner has received inprinciple approval from
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      Lock icon SembCorp sets up fund to honour Wong Kok Siew
      215 5 SEMBCORP Industries announced yesterday that it has launched a fund in memory of former deputy chairman and chief executive Wong Kok Siew. Mr Wong died in February this year after suffering a stroke, at the age of 58. The fund, under
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      Lock icon Tat Hong to delist from Australian exchange
      452 7  -  Move follows counter's upgrade to SGX main board on April 18 By JOYCE KOH CRANE and heavy equipment supplier Tat Hong Holdings yesterday said it plans to delist from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) following its upgrade to the main board of the
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      Lock icon Full steam ahead for Labroy Marine
      846 7  -  2 industry pioneers built up company from scratch By MINDY TAN LABROY Marine may be a dwarf compared with marine heavyweights Keppel Shipyard Limited and Sembawang Corporation, but its two founding members have shown that they can build a shipyard from scratch. Tan Boy
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon STI skids on oil and London blasts
      520 8  -  STOCKS But brokers see strong support as DBS leads index lower R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IT'S actually quite funny if you think about it oil at US$6O per barrel earlier this week isn't a worry and stocks are still a "buy", oil at
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Chartered Asset boosts stake in Meiban
        429 8 CHARTERED Asset Management seems bullish on Meiban Group, boosting its interest in the plastic components manufacturer and service provider in a series of transactions on Wednesday. Charted Asset bought 1.292 million Meiban shares through four registered holders, increasing its deemed interest from 8.61 per
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        Lock icon HSBC Inv (HK) raises stake in Yellow Pages
        80 8  -  Compiled by NANDE KHIN HSBC Investments (Hong Kong), substantial shareholder of Yellow Pages (Singapore), raised its stake in the publisher of telephone directories on Wednesday. HSBC Investments bought 1.286 million shares of Yellow Pages, boosting its deemed interest from 6.37 per cent
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      423 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jul 7 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -108.00 -126.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -112.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -11.00 All-SG Equities 567.90 -5.38 SG Equities Elect 137.25 -1.06 SG Equities Fin 1535.66 -21.84 SG Equities Prop 575.36 -7.06 SIMSCI 263.42 -3.13 SiMSCI Futures 264.60 -2.60 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      749 8  -  Compilde by JOYCE KOH Startfub Ltd v Jufy 7 dose: $1.84 GOLDMAN SACHS, iifly 7 WE believe Star Hub will continue to deliver strong results from its cable TV (CATV) business. There is room for earnings to surprise on the inside as operating leverage kicks in. Star Hub's
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      Lock icon Bomb blasts rock £; US bulls take profit
      514 8  - Bomb blasts rock US bulls take profit CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent BARELY one day after news that London had won the tight to host the 2012 Olympics, the British pound fell sharply towards the Asian close on breaking news of train and bus explosions in central London while the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Union membership doubles in 10 years
      229 9  -  30% of members are below 35 years old By WEE LI-EN SINGAPORE has bucked the global trend of declining union membership with a thumping 97 per cent rise in membership over the past 10 years. Union membership has swelled from about 234,000 in 1994
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      Lock icon GES to see record 32 conferences this year
      427 9  -  More participants from Mid-East, S Korea expected By CHEN HUIFEN THE annual Global Entrepolis Singapore (GES) is set to chalk up a new record this year, with 32 conferences lined up the highest number in the event's history. And organisers are expecting
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      Lock icon Africa is open and ready for business
      350 9 WHENEVER you leave some food in your bowl, you may hear this, "Finish your food! Think of all the starving people in Somalia." Such images, however, do not represent the real Africa. Today, the countries of Africa say they want trade, not aid.
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      Lock icon Health Promotion Board chief exec to retire in Sept
      227 9 HEALTH Promotion Board chief executive officer Dr Lam Sian Lian will retire on Sept 3. She will be succeeded by Lam Pin Woon, former chief executive officer (group health supplements division) of Cerebos Pacific. A joint statement yesterday from the Ministry
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      Lock icon JPMorgan Private Bank gets new S-E Asia head
      182 9 JPMORGAN Private Bank, which has appointed a new South-east Asian head, is planning an onshore private banking business in Japan, the bank announced yesterday. Kwang Kam Shing, the current managing director and head of investments for the private bank in Singapore, succeeds
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      Lock icon London sees property boom, says blasts won't hit plans
      361 9  -  By UMA SHANKARI ANY fears that London might be in danger of losing the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games after a series of explosions rocked the city yesterday were put to rest by the London delegation in Singapore. The
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon London blasts upstage G-8 talks on Africa and climate change
      552 10 G-8 SUMMIT Communique and climate action plan expected to be bland AFP [GLENEAGLES, Scotland] The world's most powerful leaders got down to talks here yesterday on aid to Africa and climate change, but the summit was brutally overshadowed by a
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      Lock icon Time for new strategy on global warming: Bush
      253 10 AFP IGLENEAGLES, Scotland] US President George W Bush said yesterday it was time to lay plans for the era beyond the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol climate pact, which rDns out in 2012. "Now it is time to get beyond the Kyoto period
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      Lock icon US to work with EU to end farm aid
      94 10 Reuters [GLENEAGLES, Scotland] US President George W Bush said yesterday he wanted to work with the European Union to eliminate agricultural subsidies and hoped the Doha round of trade talks would agree to do this by 2010. "We want to work
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      Lock icon China, India may be invited to join G-8: Blair
      304 10 Bloomberg [GLENEAGLES, Scotland] British Prime Minister Tony Blair said China and India may in future be invited to join the Group of Eight that brings together the world's leading industrialised nations for annual summits. "If you go around the table at
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      Lock icon Improving job market despite rise in claims
      394 10 LATEST US DATA AP [WASHINGTON] The number of new Americans signing up for unemployment benefits rose last week, mostly reflecting layoffs related to temporary shutdowns at auto plants as well as school closings. Even with the rise, the latest report on unemployment claims,
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      Lock icon Chinese central bank sees H1 growth of 9.2%
      243 10 AFP [BEIJING] China's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow 9.2 per cent year on year in the first half of this year, the central bank said in a research report yesterday. That compared with 9.7 per cent year on year
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      Lock icon M'sia denies it is working with China on currencies
      260 10 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday denied speculation that his country and China are working together on changes to their currency exchange rates, both of which are pegged to the US dollar. "Reports are reports, we have
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      Lock icon World economic growth looks to be picking up
      552 10 Headwind from oil prices but no sign of recession threat Reuters [WASHINGTON] The global economy seems to be heating up again as the northern summer nears its height. After months of unease among policy-makers and economists over the durability of the world
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Abdullah blasts party official for gambling debt
      337 11 Former Sabah chief minister racks up RM7m of debts at a London casino AFP, AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's prime minister yesterday lambasted a senior ruling party official for chalking up a gambling debt of more than RM7 million (Ss3.l million) at a London
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      Lock icon Telekom Malaysia's Sri Lankan unit launches IPO
      270 11 Reuters [COLOMBO] Telekom Malaysia's Sri Lankan mobile unit launched the island's biggest IPO yesterday, with managers to the issue saying the overbid sale would raise around US$B5 million and would close the same day. Investors 'had oversubscribed the issue of Sri Lanka's top
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Yudhoyono urges calm amid fuel crisis
      217 11 AP [JAKARTA] Indonesians queued for hours at gas stations across the country yesterday as fuel shortages began to bite amid calls by the president not to panic in the face of what he called an "energy crisis". With global oil prices at record highs,
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      Lock icon East Timor to get extra A$8b in Aussie gas deal
      249 11 AP [SYDNEY] A newly reached oil and gas revenue-sharing agreement between Australia and East Timor may be worth up to Asl3 billion (5516.3 billion) for the tiny nation, a newspaper reported yesterday. Australia and its impoverished northern neighbour have been
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon CNOOC may raise bid for Unocal
      659 12 Bush says it's best to let official review to run its course AFP, Reuters [WASHINGTON] Chinese energy firm CNOOC Ltd may consider raising its US$lB.5 billion bid for US oil company Unocal Corp if that is what it takes to win the deal, the
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      Lock icon Chevron, CNOOC still discussing Gorgon
      315 12 Reuters [MELBOURNE] Chevron Corp and China's CNOOC Ltd said that they were still in talks over a As3o billion (5537.7 billion) gas supply deal from Chevron's Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off Australia, denying a report that the deal had collapsed. The US oil
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      Lock icon TSMC, UMC post higher microchip sales in June
      405 12 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's TSMC and UMC, the world's two largest contract microchip makers, posted higher sales in June as they climb out of a global semiconductor slump. Chip sales are picking up as customers digest the last of excess inventory following unexpectedly
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon PCCW in talks to build Hainan resort: paper
        84 12 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong fixed-line phone company PCCW Ltd is in talks with Chinese authorities on building a 20 billion yuan (Ss4.l billion) luxury resort in Sanya, a city on Hainan island, a Hong Kong newspaper reported yesterday. Confirmation of a
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        Lock icon China's Agricultural Bank faces probe
        65 12 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Agricultural Bank of China's financial reports and housing loans will be probed this year for irregularities, the China Youth Daily reported, citing Fan Peng, head of finances at the nation's auditor. The National Audit Office will probe housing loans made through the lender's
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        Lock icon China Southern's parent loses funds
        92 12 Reuters [HONG KONG] The parent of China Southern Airlines lost 1.1 billion yuan (*****.3 million) when a brokerage which held funds on its behalf failed last year, industry sources said yesterday. China Southern, the country's biggest carrier, and its state-owned parent China Southern Air Holding
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        Lock icon Lenovo seen as Asia's 4th-largest chip buyer
        67 12 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Lenovo Group, which bought International Business Machines Corp's personal-computer unit, will quadruple semiconductor purchases to become Asia's fourthlargest chip buyer this year, researcher ISuppli Corp said. Lenovo, whose US$l.25 billion IBM purchase in May made it the world's third-largest PC vendor,
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      Lock icon Heatwave drives up energy demand in China
      498 12 Reuters [BElJlNG] Searing temperatures across booming China have driven up energy demand, exposed an overreliance on coal and are taking a toll on industry, Xinhua news agency said. Power shortages this summer should be "much more serious" than last year when China faced
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Indian equity funds post strong gains in June
      517 13 Shares surged on increased foreign investment economic growth Reuters [MUMBAI] Net asset values of Indian equity funds posted buoyant gains in June as stocks hit life highs on the back of resurgent foreign inflows, sound growth prospects and a family settlement within
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      Lock icon Reliance to buy Adlabs stake
      344 13 [MUMBAI] Indian entertainment's biggest takeover play, a proposed acquisition of Adlabs Films by Anil Ambani's Reliance, may be just the first move in a larger media strategy by the colourful tycoon, The Financial Express writes. Mr Ambani, who has been a fixture along with his
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      Lock icon Videocon to buy Indian appliance unit of Electrolux
      188 13 Bloomberg [STOCKHOLM] Videocon Group, an Indian maker of television and microwave ovens, agreed to buy ElectroluxAß's unprofitable appliance unit in India, part of a plan to expand as South Korean rivals step up competition in the country. The acquisition will include three
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      42 13 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS LEGEND: All prices are indicative; Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused; S 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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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Opec will not meet oil demand in 10-15 years
      713 14 It must boost output to 50 million bpd by 2020; oil prices hit US$60 [LONDON] The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will not be able to meet projected western demand in 10 to 15 years, the Financial Times reported
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      Lock icon Arroyo not quitting, wants cabinet to resign
      616 14 Reuters [MANILA] Embattled Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said yesterday she will not step down but had asked her cabinet to resign to give her the freedom to push economic and political reforms. Ms Arroyo, who has been under mounting pressure to quit
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      Lock icon Court's Enron ruling may disrupt financial markets
      356 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] A bankruptcy court decision allowing Enron Corp to seek to unwind derivatives payments made to Bear Stearns Cos may disrupt financial markets, International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and The Bond Market Association (TBMA) said in a joint statement on
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      Lock icon Japan to sell US$4.6b stake in JR Tokai
      358 14 Share offering would be biggest in over 4 years Reuters [TOKYO] The Japanese government yesterday unveiled plans to sell up to US$4.6 billion of shares in Central Japan Railway Co (JR Tokai) as part of its efforts to trim the country's massive
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      Lock icon Gaming stock Tattersall's soars on debut
      379 14 Reuters, Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Shares in Australia's Tattersall's Holdings Ltd traded as much as 25 per cent above their retail issue price yesterday as investors embraced the chance to buy into the A 52.5 billion (Ss3.l billion) gaming group. Analysts expect gaming stocks to show
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      Lock icon US Army gives US$5b more work to Halliburton
      157 14 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US military has signed on Halliburton to do nearly US$5 billion in new work in Iraq under a giant logistics contract that has so far earned the Texas-based firm US$9.l billion, the Army said on Wednesday. Linda Theis, a
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      632 15  -  But cost of the mega-project seen rising on security concerns following yesterday's blasts By NEIL BEHRMANN in London EUPHORIA over London's Olympic victory has been dampened by the infamous terrorist attacks on the city. But given Britain's fighting history, London will be
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      441 15 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] London's selection to host the 2012 Summer Olympics was widely seen as an upset, but NBC Universal, which holds US media rights to the Games, said the choice was an expected fit for its billion-dollar investment. NBC Universal executives have
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      578 15 Bloomberg [LONDON] Balfour Beatty and Carillion are among UK construction companies that need to limit costs and avoid delays on building sports venues and transportation links in order to profit from London's Olympic victory. Balfour, Carillion and Costain Pic may bid for projects
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      372 15 Reuters [PARIS] French politicians, media and sports officials cried foul yesterday over London's snatching of the 2012 Olympic Games from Paris, suggesting underhand tactics may have played a part. "An injustice has been done to us by the lOC (International Olympic Committee) members.
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      474 15 AP, AFP [PARIS] The International Olympic Committee's vote to stage the 2012 Games in London, instead of favourite Paris, deals a fresh blow to efforts to lift France's flagging economic fortunes. Backers of the Paris bid had argued it would create tens of thousands
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      185 16 AFP [HANOI] Vietnam Airlines on Monday started direct flights to Germany as part of a rapid route expansion strategy into Europe, an aviation official said. "As from now on, the carrier will fly directly to Frankfurt twice a week from Hanoi, on
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      259 16 AFP [FRANKFURT] German airline Lufthansa said on Wednesday it hopes to introduce digital finger-print-ing as early as next year and so-called "smart cards" to help speed up check-in procedures. Boarding passes are to be personalised with the passenger's thumb print "if possible as early
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      441 16 AFP [SEATTLE, Washington] US aviation giant Boeing Co is facing possible US charges for selling commercial aircraft to China and other countries containing a gyroscopic chip with potential military applications, officials said yesterday. "The (State) Department is currently in negotiations with the
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      292 16 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Boeing Co said it will pay its new chief executive James McNerney as much as US$5.B million a year in salary and bonus, and US$47 million in long-term benefits to replace what he gave up by leaving 3M Co. Mr
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      397 16 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), AI: Air India (AK), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), BI: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR:
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      277 16 Int'l expo in Aichi behind surge in travel demand Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co (ANA), Japan's second-largest airline, said it carried 5.3 per cent more passengers on domestic routes last month, as travel demand was spurred by the international expo in Aichi
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  • SHIPPING
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      761 17  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR THE International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) suffered a major blow last month when an English court granted Finland's Viking Line a permanent injunction to prevent the Londonbased ITF from taking industrial action to prevent the re-flagging of a vessel.
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      534 17  -  Association to discuss issue with London underwriters By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] The world's largest oil tanker grouping will be meeting with London underwriters later this month to relay a "sense of reality" after an advisory committee there designated the Malacca Straits as
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      813 18  -  THE BOTTOM LINE MATTHEW LYNN LONDONERS enjoy nothing more than beating the French. That's why, about a week after celebrating the 200 th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, London's victory over Paris in the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics
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      1053 18 HK eyewear maker may have overreached in its rapid expansion to Europe and US IHT AT THE end of March, Cary Ma exuded success. As he sipped a drink in the opulent bar of the China Club in Hong Kong, he
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      1405 19  -  Forecast is impossible when its value depends on ebb and flow of mobile capital By SURABHIJAIN, RAMKISHEN RAJAN THE US current account deficit (CAD) is at the centrepiece of the ongoing macroeconomic imbalances that dog the global economy. The received wisdom is
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      660 19  -  By JOSEPH KAHN NYT FU CHENGYU, the chairman of CNOOC Ltd, says that profits, not politics, are behind China's most ambitious takeover bid, his company's US$lB.5 billion proposal to buy the Unocal Corp. Strategic energy policy and the whims of Beijing leaders do not concern him
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      682 19  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Koh Ching Ching Group corporate communications OCBC Bank WE thank Mr Narayana Narayana for his letter on the OCBC rights issue, "Better method needed for OCBC rights issue" (BT, July 7). Our rights issue, coupled with the bonus dividend, was conceived to
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      532 19  -  Leong Sze Man Singapore I REFER to Lu Kee Hong's letter, "Don't get carried away by household survey results" (BT, June 22) and the article, "Bishan leads HDB towns in monthly household income" by Alexandra Ho (BT, June 21). Although "average incomes
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES SHIPPING TIMES
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  • ARTS
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      613 27  -  MUSICAL The Admiral's Odyssey approaches the epic tale differently, reports AARON LYE AARON LYE THAT the tale of Admiral Zheng He is still being told 600 years after the fact is alone a testament to the timelessness of his voyages, but the fact that even a country
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      499 27  -  CLASSICAL MUSIC By NGIAM YING LAN CLASSICAL sounds take on a spiritual edge with Italian chamber orchestra I Solisti Veneti's one night concert at the Victoria Concert Hall next Wednesday. Presented as part of the Sacred Music Festival held in conjunction with the
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      498 27  -  PIANO FESTIVAL By AL R DIZON IN 1923, Polish-American piano virtuoso and composer Leopold Godowsky found himself in the exotic interiors of Java home to some of the most mystic music in the Orient. He was so mesmerised by what he had
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  • ENTERTAINMENT/EPICURE
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      656 28  -  FILM Fantastic Four can't clobber some of the better cinematic representations of the genre, but it does offer some lightweight entertainment of the juvenile kind, says GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU COMING hot on the heels of Batman Begins—the adultoriented adaptation of a beloved comic book character
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      584 28  -  MUSIC By CHEAH UI-HOON ONE hears all the time how events are taken to new heights. But for once, this cliche rings true when Heineken Music holds its Elevation 280 music concert on a rooftop eight storeys high in the heart of
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      460 28  -  FOOD FESTIVAL By NGIAM YING LAN THE mention of the word "spice" today is unlikely to conjure up much excitement, but for millennia from the days of the Egyptian pharaohs till World War II its versatility in the culinary arena or otherwise and its economic
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      96 28 Pinang Hawkers* Fari It's Back Again! 14 July to 7 August 2005 Back by popular demand, savour a tantalising spread with more items introduced. All prepared try the best Penang hawkers. Available for lunch, tunch (Fri, Sat Sun) dinner. From $28 for adult and $18 for child For reservations, please
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  • PROFILE/PURSUITS
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      1114 29  -  Neil Gaiman is the intellectual's author who gets pop star treatment. PARVATHI NAYAR meets the cult celebrity in S'pore PARVATHI NAYAR HE'S all in dramatic black but ascribes the sepulchral choice of colour to ease "I don't have to wake up in the morning and worry about which
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      389 29  -  EXHIBITION By NGIAM YING LAN BUDDING artists who have been laboriously tweaking their latest project now have another platform to showcase their works. HYPE, a digital art gallery providing "exhibition space for aspiring graphic designers, photographers and filmmakers to display their creations free of
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      169 29 P: CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 8 "Long life!" nutter worked 17 T Msbn channel shows boy YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 20 Most cramped toe skip with Charm, 24 Profits, 27 Rehearsed, 21 Lady's dress topped off with type diamond (4) ,wm\ 22 Outdoor pool, smelly first to blke (s B) J* (10) no
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      1430 30  -  The world's leading sports architects and consultants to London's winning 2012 bid suggest Singapore's success with hosting the IOC has put it on the sports map. PARVATHI NAYAR talks to them about the importance of stadium design and new roles of stadia in energising cities
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      383 30 "STADIA are the most 'viewed' buildings in history the stadium will become the most important building any community can own, and if it is used wisely, it will be the most useful urban planning tool a city can possess." So says Rod Sheard in The
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