The Business Times, 29 July 2005

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  • 12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES online at .com.sg Friday July 29,2005 MICA (P) 089*03/2005
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  • 584 1  -  They've invested $4.55b in the first half, says JLL By ALEXANDRA HO [SINGAPORE] European and US funds have invested heavily in Singapore's real estate sector, pumping in $4.55 billion in the first half 0f2005, says global property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). And
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  • 134 1 sn 2346.19 (+12.57) ST INDEX FUTURES 234&00 (+13.00) simsq ***** (+1.19) SIMSa FUTURES 279.70 (-0.10) MARKETS Thursday Change KLSECOMP 934.38 +2.41 NIKKEI 225 11,858.31 +23.23 HANG SENG 14,813,32 +11.46 SET INDEX 670.09 +4.37 JAKARTA COMP 1.186.61 +8.50 MANILA COMP 1,999.82 +25.28 SEOULCOMP 1,104.72 +11.69 SHENZHEN B 219.18 +2.87
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  • 815 1  -  Danger lurks when Reits pay inflated prices for assets, lease back at above market rents By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings chief executive Ho Ching yesterday sounded the strongest warning yet on the dangers lurking in the Singapore Real Estate Investment Trust
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 918 2  -  US govt agencies can impose USA Patriot Act on banks abroad By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] A Singapore bank has become entangled in a complicated web of transactions in an area governed by the USA Patriot Act, an international expert on
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    • 610 2 Abdullah to announce further revamp of GLCs MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will brief government officials, ministers and the business community today on further moves to revamp government-linked corporations which could include an announcement on the future of national car company Proton. Rumours that executives of Volkswagen
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    • 442 2  -  By RACHEL LIN [SINGAPORE] The recent merger between Valuair and Jetstar Asia will not affect Tiger Airways' business plan, phief executive officer of thik budget airline Tony Davis paid yesterday. Rather than casting anxious glances at the competition, Tiger Airways plans to continue offering
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    • 473 2  -  Regulators urged to make it conducive for overseas Reits to list By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] There is tremendous scope for Asian real estate investment trusts to grow and Singapore can make its mark as the preferred venue for quality Reit listings,
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    • 543 4  -  Proton's future expected to be mentioned in today's briefing By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will brief government officials, ministers and the business community today on further moves to revamp government-linked corporations which could include an announcement
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    • 873 4  -  Blue chips trade higher, indicating the worst is over By ANDREW MARKS in New York NOW that Wall Street money managers and traders and Washington politicians have what they've been clamouring for, they are worriedly assessing its impact on the US economy
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    • 426 4  -  By RAVI KANTH in Geneva INDIA yesterday unveiled an ambitious market-open-ing offer to investors to move into its banking, insurance and telecom services sectors, in what its trade minister described as a proactive move to galvanise the sluggish Doha trade negotiations. "We want to bring
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    • 822 4 I JI Corporation Keppel Corporation Limited Co Reg No: *****0351N (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE SECOND QUARTER ENDED 30 JUNE 2005 The Directors of Keppel Corporation Limited advise the following unaudited results of the Group for the second quarter ended 30 June 2005: SECOND
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 569 5  -  It will be giving out more in interim dividends; 10 cents a share this time By MICHELLE QUAH KEPPEL Corp's offshore marine (O&M) and oil gas businesses once again powered its strong showing, with the conglomerate's second quarter net profit and
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    • 677 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By SIOW LI SEN THE way banks have been raising mortgage interest rates, it's as if they are bent on undoing the positive sentiment that's been spreading since the government eased the rules on financing property purchase. One theory about
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    • 747 6  -  It closes up 30% at 88.5c, promises not to overpay when making acquisitions By KALPANA RASHIWALA STOCKMARKET newcomer Mapletree Logistics Trust (MLT) yesterday promised to stick to its pricing discipline and not overpay for assets even as it plans to double its portfolio from
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    • 330 6 Bloomberg SHARES of Keppel Land, Singapore's third-largest developer by assets, rose on the company's overseas expansion and its plan to sell office buildings through a trust to help fund its investments. The developer said on Wednesday it plans to set up
      Bloomberg  -  330 words
    • 440 6  -  By JOYCE KOH THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday posted a 17.7 per cent fall in FY2005 earnings to $109.5 million as operating revenue for the full year slipped 13.1 per cent to $274.7 million. The lukewarm performance follows a drop in securities-clearing fees and
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    • 463 6  -  By JEAN CHUA SUSTAINING its improved performance for the eighth quarter in a row, Raffles Holdings yesterday posted a more-than-doubling in net profit for the three months ended June 30. Helped by better business at its hotels, resorts and commercial investments, the Capita
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    • 161 6 Bloomberg SHARES of Singapore Petroleum Co (SPC), the only oil refiner traded on the Singapore Exchange, surged as much as 3.8 per cent after the company said second-quarter net income rose almost fourfold. The stock rose 14 cents, or 2.8 per cent,
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    • 166 6 CITIRAYA Industries said yesterday that the High Court has granted an extension of an earlier court order which provided it protection from its creditors. The earlier order, granted on May 25, restrained creditors from pursuing court proceedings against the company. Citiraya asked for the stay order
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    • 393 6  -  By ROLAND LIM SEMICONDUCTOR test, assembly and packaging company Stats ChipPac has posted a bigger-than-expected net loss of US$l5.l million for its second quarter and saw its shares fall eight cents to 551.21. The results include US$l4.l million in special items and
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    • 364 7  -  The revaluation of the yuan is also expected to have a positive impact By CHLOE CHOY CHINA-BASED Zhonghui Holdings, an integrated sol-id-waste management group that was listed on the Singapore mainboard last October, yesterday posted a more than six-fold jump in first
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    • 224 7  -  By LISA TAN INNOVALUES Precision, a maker of tailor-made precision machine components and parts, saw a 16.4 per cent year-on-year fall in first-half net profit despite a 21.1 per cent rise in revenue. For the six months ended June 30, net earnings dropped to
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    • 139 7 Reuters SINGAPORE Land Ltd (Sing Land), the citystate's top office landlord, is in talks with banks for a $200 million syndicated loan, debt market news service Basis Point said yesterday. Several banks are proposing a deal to finance a recent property acquisition by a
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    • 364 9  -  He now owns 33.27%, triggering a mandatory conditional offer By JOYCE KOH VANTAGE Corp's chief executive officer Kea Kah Kim has upped the ante in the battle to take over the company, raising his all-cash bid for the company by two cents to 24
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    • 199 9  -  By RACHEL LIN THE unpegging of the yuan at some future date will be a boon for mainboard-listed SP Chemicals, its management says. Wira Tjendana, chief financial officer of the Singa-pore-based company, yesterday said that further revaluation of China's currency would help
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 487 8  -  STOCKS Straits Times Index climbs to its highest level in many years at 2,346 R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent A RENEWED play on property and banks yesterday enabled the Straits Times Index to climb for the ninth time out of its past 11 sessions, this time
      Source: Bloomberg  -  487 words
    • TRADES TO WATCH
      • 359 8 FDS Networks Group's substantial shareholder. Yip Man Yiu, has pared his stake in the Hong Kong-based network systems integration company in a series of three transactions involving 532,000 shares in all. This leaves him with 7 million shares, or a 9.499 per cent
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      • 118 8  -  Compiled by JOYCE KOH SINGAPORE Airlines' substantial shareholder, Temasek Holdings, pared its direct and deemed interest in the company from 57.08 per cent to 56.97 per cent on Tuesday. The change in percentage level was a result of transactions including those by Temasek's subsidiaries
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    • Article, Illustration
      431 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jul 28 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -8.00 +71.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +90.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -1.00 All-SG Equities 600.39 +1.96 SG Equities Elect 138.77 +0.45 SG Equities Fin 1665.06 +12.43 SG Equities Prop 648.73 +8.34 SIMSCI 279.41 +1.19 SiMSCI Futures 279.70 -0.10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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      903 8  -  Compiled by JOYCE KOH Keppel immi My ttdMC $3.14 CRBMT SUISSE IWST BOSTON, July 2ft KEPPEL Land has reported IHOS net profit of $67 million (up 11.8 per cent y-o-y), which was within expectations. While development property earnings were marginally better than expected, hotel and re-' sorts registered
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    • 342 8 CURRENCIES AFP [TOKYO] The dollar was steady, holding onto recent gains in Asian trade yesterday after robust US economic indicators overnight as the market prepared for expected strong US growth figures due today, dealers said. The dollar initially strengthened on a surprise increase
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 453 10  -  Backed by NHG, centre aims to fill gap between GPs and hospitals By CHEN HUIFEN WHILE new private healthcare providers are springing up in the central districts with an eye on the foreign patient pie, a team of specialists has formed a $2.5
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    • 396 10 Reuters ANALYSTS have opted not to lift growth forecasts for Singapore this year despite a strong second quarter, as a patchy recovery in electronics casts a pall over the economy, a Reuters poll shows. The median forecast of 12 economists was for gross
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    • 226 10 But number of undischarged bankrupts up 0.5% Reuters THE number of new bankruptcies in Singapore in June fell for a second straight month to reach a four-month low, government figures showed yesterday, as the economy gained steam in the second quarter. Singapore's bankruptcy orders including
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    • 339 10 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has invited tenders for an industrial site bounded by Alexandra Road and Leng Kee Road under its Confirmed List for 2005. But the move has 'puzzled' some property consultants because the same site was offered almost a year ago. When
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    • 229 10 THREE outstanding young Singaporeans received HSBC's Youth Excellence Awards from President S R Nathan yesterday. They were recognised as models for youth excellence in the fields of music, the environment and leadership. At the same ceremony, HSBC presented donations of $200,000 and $100,000
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 396 11  -  Move in retaliation to US subsidies under anti-dumping legislation By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPAN confirmed yesterday that it may slap special duties on industrial goods imported from the US in retaliation to subsidies paid by the US under anti-dump-ing legislation,
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    • 178 11 Reuters [BEIJING] Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan has urged domestic companies to use nonUS dollar currencies, such as euro and Japanese yen, in foreign trade and investment, the Shanghai Securities News said yesterday. "China's foreign trade and investment is becoming
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    • 311 11 Reuters [BEIJING] Foreign interest in setting up factories in China is flagging, a trend that over time could help Beijing wean the economy off its over-reliance on exports and investment and even ease upward pressure on the yuan. China's accession
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    • 554 11 Growth bannered by manufacturing, housing and retail Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US economy expanded in June, supported by gains in manufacturing and housing as inflation eased, the Federal Reserve said yesterday in its survey of regional economies. Most parts of the country reported
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    • 304 11 w w GLASHUTTE ORIGINAL Salutes SINGAPORE'S INDEPENDENCE As Singapore celebrates 40 years of independence, it is only befitting that a limited edition Glashutte Original the -"1965 Singapore"be made to commemorate this special ocassion. "Celebrates Singapore's 40 Years of Independence" exhibition Glashutte Original, in collaboration with Cortina Watch and supported by
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 481 12 It expects to launch new indexes with FTSE by year-end or early 2006 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Bursa Malaysia Bhd, which manages the country's stock exchange, said the removal of the ringgit peg will lure foreign investors, raising revenue and helping the company
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    • 247 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Cagamas Bhd, Malaysia's version of Fannie Mae, the biggesi buyer of US housing loans, sold RM2.OS billion (Ss9lo million) of its first Islamic residential mortgage-backed bonds yester day. The sale consisted of six bonds with ma turities from three
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 113 12 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] CIMB Bhd, Malaysia's biggest investment bank, expects earnings from overseas operations to triple in two years as it expands in Singapore and Indonesia. Overseas net income will account for 30 per cent of total profit, compared with 10 per cent now, chief executive
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      • 111 12 Reuters [MUMBAI] Tractor and utility vehicles maker Mahindra Mahindra Ltd has reported a better-than-expected 65 per cent rise in quarterly profit as rising sales outweighed higher input costs. Mahindra, which has a 27 per cent share of India's tractor market, said net profit rose to
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      • 94 12 Reuters [MUMBAI] Drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, said yesterday its quarterly net profit fell 49 per cent on competition in the key US generic drugs market and higher research development costs. The company said its April-June net profit dropped to 1.01 billion rupees (5538.8 million),
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      • 99 12 Reuters [COLOMBO] Shares in the Sri Lankan unit of Telekom Malaysia soared 25 per cent on their trading debut yesterday, as the island's biggest offering propelled the benchmark stock index to a record high. Dialog, which has the largest market capitalisation here, closed
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 544 13 MUMBAI FLOODS Total shutdown of offices and banks as well; schools used as shelters AFP, Reuters. Bloomberg [MUMBAI] Markets in India's financial capital Mumbai were shut for a second day yesterday after landslides and flooding in the western state of Maharashtra killed at least
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    • 375 13 Group under pressure in US to make concession AP [NEW YORK/WASHINGTON] CNOOC was on Wednesday considering a pledge to sell all of Unocal's US assets, including valuable deep-water drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, to dampen criticism of its proposed acquisition
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    • 303 13 CHINA PIG-BORNE DISEASE Reuters [BEIJING] The number of people infected by what Chinese authorities believe is a pig-borne bacterial disease in the south-west has jumped by 14 to 131, state media said yesterday as officials insisted the outbreak could be controlled. The World
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    • 323 13 AP. Reuters. Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India's crude oil production was cut by 16 per cent after fire wrecked an oil platform off India's west coast, which produced a seventh of the country's oil. Rough seas on Wednesday had pushed a nearby support
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    • 2325 13 VOL General Corp .0.48 -0.02 327 W- fWH Omiting 19 80 0.10 911 George Kent .0.62 0.03 347 A* M Really 147 0.01 18 GHL Systems .0.22 0.01 106 039 001 129 Globetronics Tech 039 -0.01 1800 ACP Industries -0.70 -0.05 5 GkxnacBhd 1.50 -0.02 576 Advance Synergy
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 446 14 It wins vote despite opposition from Democrats and trade unions NYT.AP [WASHINGTON] The House of Representatives narrowly approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta) yesterday, allowing President Bush to put his signature to the nation's biggest reduction of trade barriers in more than
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    • 313 14 AP [SYDNEY] Australian Prime Minister John Howard yesterday applauded a new regional global warming pact saying it is fairer and more effective than the Kyoto Protocol, which his nation has refused to ratify. s Australia joined with the world's top two air polluters
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    • 593 14 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese electronics companies led by global icon Sony plunged into the red in the three months to June as falling prices led to cutthroat competition as demand cooled. Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi, NEC and Pioneer all posted losses in the first quarter.
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    • 315 14 Reuters. Reuters,Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Exxon Mobil Corp, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, posted a 32 per cent rise in quarterly profit yesterday, turning in a slightly better-than-expected performance on the back of the relentless surge in crude oil prices. But Royal Dutch
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 127 14 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's central bank cut its growth forecast for this year to as little as 3.5 per cent citing high oil prices and a widening trade deficit. The Bank of Thailand had forecast growth of at least 4.5 per cent in April.
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      • 93 14 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank by assets, said second-quarter profit rose 44 per cent, exceeding analysts' estimates for the fourth time in a row. Net income rose to 947 million euros (SSI .9 billion) from 656 million euros a year earlier,
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      • 74 14 Reuters [NEW YORK] MGM Mirage, the world's No 2 casino operator, reported a 34 per cent rise in second-quarter profit yesterday, driven by booming business at Las Vegas resorts. The Las Vegas-based company, which in April acquired cross-town rival Mandalay Resort Group, said
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      • 120 14 AFP, Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Australian businessman Steve Vizard was fined A 5390,000 (*****,123) and banned from serving on corporate boards for 10 years yesterday after being convicted of insider trading while he was a director of telecom giant Telstra. The penalty handed down by a
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      • 73 14 AFP [BELFAST] The Irish Republican Army (IRA) yesterday ordered all its militants to end their armed campaign and adopt exclusively peaceful means to end British rule in Northern Ireland, the paramilitary group said in a historic statement. The announcement is an unprecedented step
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    • 414 14 AP [FRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler CEO Juergen Schrempp, architect of the controversial merger between Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corp, will step down and turn the top job over to Chrysler head Dieter Zetsche, the company said yesterday. The changes will take effect at the
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    • 402 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF ZHIHUI INVESTMENTS PTE LTD Reg No. *****4173Z (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 6 Battery Road #14-05 Singapore *****9 on the
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    • 324 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP 50) BOOKINGS ASIA PRIVATE LIMITED (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting duly convened and held on 27th July 2005, the following special resolutions were passed RESOLVED that the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to
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  • WORLD
    • 589 15 Deal for the 60-film library, distribution rights may be worth over US$750m Reuters, NYT [LOS ANGELES] NBC Universal is in talks to buy Dream Works SKG, the movie studio whose hopes of becoming a major Hollywood player never panned out, sources said. Dream Works
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    • 339 15 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] HewlettPackard Co (HP) has cut the amount of severance payable to its top executives in a bid to reduce expenses by linking compensation to company performance. The changes were made last week before HP announced 14,500 job cuts to save
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    • 336 15 Reuters [ROHNERT PARK, California] Calpers, the biggest US pension fund limited to California public employees, may use its well-known name to sell retirement fund products to outsiders for the first time, officials said on Wednesday. The Calpers retirement products would be sold to
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    • 324 15 LAT—WP [NEW YORK] Martha Stewart's company appears to be finally rebounding from her legal problems, albeit tentatively, and with more losses forecast for the second half of this year. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia on Wednesday reported its first year-over-year gain in revenue since
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    • 390 15 NYT [NEW YORK] Sanford I Weill will stay on as chairman of Citigroup until his scheduled retirement next April, ending an internal debate that spilled outside the bank over his plans to leave and start a private equity fund. "It
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  • AVIATION
    • 653 16 Threat of bankruptcy looms over Delta and Northwest NYT [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines' turnaround efforts are not enough to offset high fuel costs and "more must be done and done quickly", chief executive Gerald Grinstein said in a memo that fuelled investor speculation
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    • 290 16 Reuters [NEW YORK] American Airlines Inc, the No 1 US carrier, said on Wednesday it was concerned that a plan to expand US daylight-sav-ing time could disrupt international flight schedules and make it tough to compete with foreign carriers. "We're quite concerned. The issue (for
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    • 147 16 AFP [SEATTLE] Al-Qaeda "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam was on Wednesday sentenced to 22 years in jail for plotting to detonate a suitcase bomb in a crowded Los Angeles airport terminal nearly six years ago. The Algerian was arrested as he crossed the USCanadian border
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    • 131 16 AFP [CHICAGO] British tycoon Richard Branson has formed a new aerospace company to build a fleet of commercial spaceships. The Spaceship Company will be jointly owned by Mr Branson's Virgin Group and Burt Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne won the US$lO million "X Prize" for
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 101 16 AFP [JOHANNESBURG] A crippling pay strike by workers of South Africa's national carrier was declared over by one union on Wednesday as a third-party mediator announced that"an in-principle agreement" had been drafted towards resolving the pay dispute. "Significant progress has been made towards
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      • 97 16 Reuters [BEIJING] China wants to recruit foreign airline pilots to relieve a shortage plaguing the world's fastest-growing aviation sector, official media reported yesterday. China Daily quoted an official of CAAC (General Administration of Civil Aviation of China) as saying: "Overseas pilots will be able to
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    • 422 16 Reuters [LONDON] British engine maker Rolls-Royce Pic beat expectations with a 54 per cent jump in first half profit yesterday as stronger demand from airlines prompted its first rise in payments to shareholders in four years. Underlying pretax profit was £260 million (*****
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    • 304 16 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Sioux Falls, South Dakota, airport won US approval to drop government screeners in favour of private workers, becoming the first to make the switch. Sioux Falls may begin the transition later this year, the Transportation Security Administration said. The
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  • SHIPPING
    • 309 17 New facility at Yangshan ready for ops by late Nov Bloomberg [HONG KONG] The operator of the Shanghai port has started asking shipping lines to move their European services to the city's new facility at Yangshan by December. Shanghai International Port (Group), that runs
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    • 421 17 Bloomberg [PRINCETON] Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, the world's second-biggest cruise operator, said sec-ond-quarter profit climbed 26 per cent, beating analysts' estimates, as travellers spent more on cruises. Net income increased to U*****.5 million, or 71 US cents a share, from U*****.2 million, or 58
      Bloomberg; AP  -  421 words
    • 292 17  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] The head of a new European Commission (EC) maritime policy task force praised Singapore's maritime security strategy, particularly its provision of identification transponders to small vessels. "I was very interested in Singapore's ideas in the maritime security area, the most
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    • 132 17 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Frontline Ltd, the world's largest supertanker operator, has sold a two million barrel oil tanker to a Chinese shipowner for US$5l million, broker Fearnleys AS said. CSC Nanjing Tanker Corp, a state-owned Chinese shipping company, bought the Front Tobago, Oslo-based Fearnleys
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    • 986 17  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR A CLAUSE in a time charterparty that gave the vessel's master the right to refuse to load cargo if he has to make changes to the description of the cargo in the bill of lading did not provide
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 490 18 EDITORIAL EFFORTS by stock exchanges in South-east Asia to build closer links with each other took another step forward last week. The five Asean exchanges the Singapore Exchange (SGX), Bursa Malaysia. Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX), the Philippines Stock Exchange, and the Stock Exchange of Thailand signed
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    • 849 18  -  Cumulative losses hit US$45b; future appears bleak because of high failure rates HARISH MEHTA THE handwriting has been on the wall for the last five years at least, but the biotechnology industry, its publicists, and zealous government officials have refused to see it.
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    • 2736 19 We reproduce below excerpts of executive director and CEO of Temasek Holdings Ho Ching's closing remarks yesterday at the Mapletree Logistics Trust dinner THE debut of MapletreeLog brings the total number of Singapore listed Reits, or S-Reits, to 6. This includes an S-Reit comprising properties solely in
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    • 567 27  -  off the cuff jaime ee HOW do you insult a Chinese tourist? If you're in Genting Highlands, apparently the best way is to draw a pig on the back of their room key holders. Yes, that's what it took for more than
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    • 1790 27  -  It has been more than six months since the tsunami hit Phuket on Boxing Day last year. CORINNE KERK pays a visit and finds the Thai resort... CORINNE KERK THE security guard at Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort looked curiously as our car stopped at
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  • CINEMA
    • 468 28  -  REVIEW By NGIAM YING LAN IF a whoosh of deja vu hits you while watching Stealth, it could be because you just saw The Island a few weeks ago. Both movies have more in common than their action-thriller genre they're set in the near
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    • 540 28  -  FILM FESTIVAL Foreign talent had a part to play even then, says AARON LYE AARON LYE WE'VE all heard something or other about the golden age of film in Singapore during the 50s and 60s how Singapore nearly dominated South-east Asian film through sheer number of productions,
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  • ARTS
    • 657 29  -  THEATRE Three next-generation divas will be in town next month, reports AARON LYE AARON LYE UNLIKE its reel cousin out west in Hollywood, California, where the leading man is a long-stand-ing tradition on the silver screen, New York's Broadway has long been all
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    • 511 29  -  EXHIBITION By SUSIE WONG MARTIN Loh, known for his endearing naive style of painting has poured his talent into Cerita Budak Budak his illustrations for a book of Malaysian Children's Favourite Stories (published by Tuttle Publishing). The illustrations consist of a series of 50-odd paintings in ink
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  • BOOKS
    • 592 30  -  WORDS FROM THE TOP Robin Tomlin, vice-chairman, Asia, UBS, speaks to PARVATHI NAYAR on favourite reads and influential books from his library in Lucca, Italy PARVATHI NAYAR Which book would you say has had the greatest impact in your career as a banker?
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    • 1358 30  -  PARVATHI NAYAR and NGIAM YING LAN check out this month's selection PARVATHI NAYAR, NGIAM YING LAN WITH the National Library Board unveiling its spanking new 58,000 sq m building in Victoria Street just last Friday and the Singapore Writers Festival set to hit town next month
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    • 629 31  -  SPOTLIGHT CHUANG PECK MING discovers a different perspective of Mao Tse-tung CHUANG PECK MING JUNG Chang and Jon Halliday get you hooked from the very first paragraph of their new book, a political biography of Chairman Mao Tsetung. The bombshell is dropped even before you come to the
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    • 518 31  -  By CHEAH UI-HOON MODERN Singapore is built on early sea trade and there are still some 200 shipping lines which link this island to 600 ports in the world, but what do we really know of the days when Chinese junks, British clippers and hybrid tongkangs
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  • DRIVE
    • 992 32  -  The best time to go on a motoring holiday in Sweden is in late spring or early summer as the sun doesn't set until late at night, notes SAMUEL EE SAMUEL EE Gothenburg may not be as hip as Stockholm but Sweden's second largest city is
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