The Business Times, 24 December 2005

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  • Title Section
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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend SINGAPORE 85 cents MICA (P) 069/03/2005 online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg December 24-25, 2005
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  • Article
    Lock icon Ezyhealth in $1.29b reverse takeover deal
    545 1  -  It will buy a palm oil agri-business from Wilmar Holdings and exit the healthcare industry By OH BOON PING [SlNGAPOßE] In one of Singapore's largest reverse takeovers. managed healthcare services provider Ezyhealth Asia will buy a palm oil agri-business from Kuok-linked Wilmar Holdings Pte
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon When the price was prettier than the car
    899 1  -  MOTORING By SAMUEL EE [SINGAPORE] Few new and exciting models were launched in 2005. But most consumers probably don't care. They will remember it as the year car prices dropped to a new level of affordability. A bumper crop of certificates of
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  • Article
    Lock icon FairPrice's China hypermart joint venture bows out
    417 1 Rescue deal offered by FairPrice but parties couldn't agree on terms [SINGAPORE] Nextmall, the China hypermarket venture of NTUC Fair Price, is shutting down after racking up nearly $80 million in debts and more than $40 million in losses over the three years
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  • TOP STORIES
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon The marathon man
      683 2  -  A love for running and a flair for tough trade negotiations live in the body of WTO chief Pascal Lamy. ANNA TEO finds out from his blog ANNA TEO ANYONE who a fortnight ago knew little about World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Pascal Lamy would be able
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      Lock icon Click on a mouse and give a goat
      638 2 Charities go online to promote ethical gift-giving AFP [LONDON] The humble goat is stepping out of the nativity scene into the forefront of ethical Christmas gift-giv-ing in Britain this year, with villagers in the poorest parts of Africa reaping the benefits. Just
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    • Article
      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      134 2 Dsn 2,32*29(44.63) ST INDEX FUTURES 2.328.00 (+5.00) siMsa 275.98 (+0.86) SIMSO FUTURES 277.90 (+1.30) MARKETS Friday Change KLSECOMP 892.13 -3.72 NIKKEI 225 Closed HANG SENG 15,183.58 +1.05 SET INDEX 698.95 +2.54 JAKARTA COMP 1,158.34 -5.68 MANILA COMP 2,111.46 +32.88 SEOUL COMP 1,359.53 +8.66 SHENZHEN B 192.29 +1.26 MUMBAIIND
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    • Article
      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      443 2 Reverse takeovers are back in vogue AS some companies drop initial public offer plans, others are pressing ahead with reverse takeovers. The latest is mainboard-listed Ezyhealth Asia which will acquire a palm oil agri-business from Wilmar Holdings for $1.29 billion. COMPANY NEWS, PG4 KK Fong seizes chance to
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Theglobalistquiz
      379 2 Source: The Globalise Pollution Revisited The Kyoto Treaty is continuing to stir up emotions around the wortd. At the centre of the debate is the United States* which did not ratify the agreement and is thus not bound by its obligations. We wonder How many industrialised countries registered increases
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  • RAFFLES CONVERSATION
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Business beyond profit
      1919 3  -  The motivation of a doctor and a drug company is almost the same —to help patients, Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella tells CHEN HUIFEN CHEN HUIFEN IF THERE is one mantra that Daniel Vasella lives by, it is probably this: that which does not kill you makes you
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      102 3 The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles International Hotels and Resorts. The 1 B j I Traveller's Palm in the Raffles International I I I ■(-■V logo is an apt symbol. Not only has water stored -A- a t the base of this palm
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Reverse takeovers are back in vogue
      777 4  -  NEWS ANALYSIS Weak IPO market may be driving businesses to take that route to listing, reports LESLIE YEE LESLIE YEE AS some companies drop initial public offer plans because of investor indifference, others are pressing ahead with reverse takeovers (RTOs). Yesterday saw the announcement
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon KK Fonq seizes chance to regain tooting in S'pore
      741 4  -  Court scheme allows him time to pay $80m debt, repair reputation By CONRAD RAJ WHEN flamboyant businessman Fong Kah Kuen, better known as KK Fong, disappeared from the Singapore scene four years ago amid a mountain of debt, he promised to
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      Lock icon UOB chiefs rising UOL stake may lead to takeover?
      414 4  -  By SIOW LI SEN BANKER Wee Cho Yaw's stake 3n Land (BOL) has beftffpiling up thNßSrit seas exchangeable bond programme, prompting the question of whether this will lead to a takeover of the property company. In barely 10 trading days, Mr
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    • Article
      Lock icon UOB to offer renminbi services at Xiamen branch
      231 4  -  By CONRAD TAN UNITED Overseas Bank will offer renminbi (RMB) banking services at its Xiamen branch in China from Boxing Day. The branch is UOB's third in China to offer such services to foreign nationals and enterprises, after its Shanghai and Shenzhen
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    • Article
      Lock icon Way paved for HK Land to make MCL offer
      406 5  -  JC&C shareholders okay dividend in specie By ARTHUR SIM THE way has been paved for Hongkong Land's wholly owned subsidiary, HKL (Morpheus) Pte Ltd, to make its formal offer for MCL Land. This follows satisfaction of a pre-condition involving Jardine Cycle
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • Article
        Lock icon Pharmesis Int'l warns of weaker profits
        65 5 PHARMESIS International yesterday warned that its fiscal 2005 profits are likely to be weaker than last year, partly as a result of higher overall expenses. Despite revenue for the second half of FY2005 expected to be higher than in the first half, total revenue
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        Lock icon SSC clinches $31.6m Global Energy deal
        77 5 SINGAPORE Shipping Corporation (SSC) has clinched a $31.6 million deal to sell five bunker vessels to Global Energy. The vessels are expected to be completed no later than March 15 next year. SSC. which has reconsidered its strategy to renew its fleet and shift
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      • Article
        Lock icon Sincere Watch buys Franck Muller shares
        82 5 SINCERE Watch is paying about $8.9 million for 175,000 shares in Luxembourg-based Chrono Star Internationa] Participations Groupe Franck Muller, the parent company of Groupe Franck Muller which owns and operates the high-end Franck Muller Geneve brand of watches. Based on the audited financial statements
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      • Article
        Lock icon Informatics takes $1.5m unsecured loan
        104 5 INFORMATICS, the troubled education provider, has taken a short-term unsecured loan of 1.5 million for working capital purposes from Berjaya Land, the holding company of Beijaya Leisure Capital, which has a controlling 26.6 per cent stake in Informatics (as at Dec 7). The loan carries
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    • Article
      Lock icon Relay towers of SingTel's Globe blasted by rebels in Philippines
      580 5  -  Attacks made to force 'revolutionary tax' payments By AL LABITA in Manila FOR refusing to pay "revolutionary taxes" to communist rebels, SingTel's listed Philippine unit, Globe Telecom, has paid a heavy price. Based on latest police count, 22 relay towers
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      Lock icon Chartered shares raised to 'buy' by UBS
      294 5 Bloomberg SHARES of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, the world's No 3 supplier of computer chips, were raised to "buy" by ÜBS AG, on expectations that earnings will continue to improve. The stock advanced. Chartered shares added 5 per cent to $1.27 at the
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      Lock icon STI springs few surprises in featureless pre-X'mas week
      488 5  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent THEY say a picture is worth a thousand words. So, if you were to try and describe trading this week in a single picture, a large yawn would do quite nicely. Sure, there were some themes to
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      504 5 0/t) 1 rt >1 '1 GREEN WORLD HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration No: *****3944K) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING" NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING ("EfiM") of Green World Holdings Limited (the "CflmoamO will be convened on Thursday, 12 January 2006. at
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      1048 6  -  Compiled by MATTHEW PHAN Chartered Semiconductor Mfg Doc 23 dose $127 ÜBS INVESTMENT RESEARCH. Dm 22 SEASONAL strength tracking ahead: We believe Chartered is benefiting from seasonal strength for Q405, with sales momentum driven mainly by the consumer segment, including its CPU business for Xbox, and in applications such
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      Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      891 6 For week beginning Dec 19 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS Subsantial My Hoof Prtco SHAREHOLDING Trans SharahoMor/ Salt Shara; Nr ijrforo Afttr Stodi Data Director Conv 000 Shr (000) I" 00 EuYanSang 22-Dec 05 Eu Yee Tat Sell 500 0.60 ***** 3.34 ***** 3.20 Semb Music 22-Dec-05 Boo
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      Lock icon Dividend plays on the cheap
      1060 6  -  SHOW ME THE MONEY Man Wah, Hongguo and Portek among stocks that boast decent yields TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent LAST week, we talked about stocks which were trading at very low earnings multiples that had gone on to reward investors handsomely. A reader wrote
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  • BT INVESTMENT ROUNDTABLE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon BETTING ON ASIA EQUITIES
      3292 7 OVERVIEW WHAT do fund experts and advisers see in store for 2006? Thus far, Asian and emerging markets equities have been very rewarding, even with higher oil prices and interest rates. BCA Research, in a Dec 16 global strategy report, says short-term interest rates remain far
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Shenton House to give way to a new building project?
      539 8  -  The building may be sold collectively as it has numerous owners By KALPANA RASHIWALA PLANS to rejuvenate the old Central Business District (CBD) continue to gather momentum. A new 35-sto-rey hotel, or a commercial or residential project could come up
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    • Article
      November CPI falls slightly
      202 8 TRANSPORT and communication costs fell 1.2 per cent last month, due to lower car prices and cheaper petrol, according to the Singapore Department of Statistics. On the whole, the consumer price index (CPI) fell slightly, by 0.1 per cent, from end-October to end-Novem-ber. The price of
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      MOH to firm up regulatory policies
      447 8  -  By UMA SHANKARI THE Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday announced some of the measures it will take to strengthen its regulatory regime for organisations such as the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). First, a full list of the Institutions of a Public Character (IPCs) of
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4776 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS cwgnupAMiMgt Citi Global Bond/ A 1.444/ Citi Asia Infrastructure 0.7726/0.8035 Am Mm ami mgi i> poroj rM Star Europe Eqty!" 0.871 Star Eirope Bond 1 2/ <££ £2 Star Europe Bal 1.14V i nMft Acm Tiner Fatv 113/ Money SGD Class A 1 0336/ toSTta? 1 3331
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 9 Miscellaneous Column 1
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  • MALAYSIA
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      MAS chief rebuts claims against him
      493 10  -  He threatens legal action against those behind the allegations By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur MUNIR Majid, chairman of the state-owned Malaysian Airline System (MAS), yesterday denied recent allegations against him that culminated in a senator calling for him to resign. In a toughly-worded
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    • Article
      Cahya Mata submits bid to build aluminium smelter
      301 10 Bloomberg, Bernama Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd and its partners have submitted a bid to the Malaysian government to build an aluminium smelter in Sarawak that may cost as much as US$3.2 billion, the company said. Cahya's group, which also
      Bloomberg, Bernama; Bernama  -  301 words
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      M'sian growth seen picking up to 5.4% in 2006
      362 10 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's economy has been projected to grow slightly faster in 2006 at 5.4 per cent on the back of better private investment and healthy private consumption. Making the forecast, Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) in its report, "2006
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    • Article
      SGX MAINBOARD
      7533 10 Transaction date: Dec 23 52-Wk W Lut Vol Day LjctQuoU GrOtv Dtv GrYtd MM MCap Wall low Cod* Company Sale C000) HH#> low Hm S*r Cw H W 7.5 2 5716 1st Software 5c 2.5 -0.5 70 2.5 2.5 2.5 3 Jttl 22 6 3148 BTelecom U52c 75
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  • INDONESIA
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      Aceh and Nias on brink of construction boom
      320 11 200,000 more workers required, spending to reach US$2b a year Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's Aceh, devastated by last year's tsunami, is about to experience a construction boom that will require an additional 200,000 workers in mid-2006, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said
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      Top Indon police general held in bank fraud case
      191 11 Reuters. AFP [JAKARTA] A senior Indonesian police general has been detained in connection with a multi-million-dollar graft case at the country's third-largest bank, a police spokesman said yesterday. The authorities are questioning former chief detective General Suyitno Landung as part of
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      SGX
      5491 11 Transaction Date: Dec 23 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME VALUE UniFiber 10c 32.865.000 DBS GfP 47,231,000 UTAC US 15c 25.860.000 SingTel 15c 40,538,150 Chart SemiCond 26c 17.281.000 SIA50c 35,471,225 SingTel 15c 15.374.000 Chart SemiCond 26c 21,697,787 GenlntUSIOc 14.890.000 UTACUS15c 18,566,330 GZIReit DBeCW*****6 12.192.000 Jurong Tech 10c 14,655,050 CharteredDBeCW*****0 11.739.000 SPH
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Beijing okays ICBC's plan to sell 10% stake
      533 12 The bank agreed in August to sell the stake to a Goldman private equity fund [HONG KONG] The State Council has approved in principle a controversial plan by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to sell a 10 per cent
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      BURSA MALAYSIA
      2311 12 VOL General Corp .0.41 0.01 108 D«t23 KM C000) Genting 30.80 0.10 434 George Kent .0.58 0.01 2 A M Realty 1.46 unch 0 GHL Systems 0.10 unch 189 Abric 0.30 unch 0 Globetronics Tech —.0.32 unch 67 ACP Industries 0.64 unch 5 GlomacBhd 1.03 0.03 114 Advance
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      THE CHRISTMAS CHEER
      29 12 [SHANGHAI] A group of kindergarten children posing for pictures in a shopping mall yesterday. They were taken there by their teachers for a Christmas party. REUTERS
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    • Article
      Communist parties oppose stake sales
      250 12 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's communist parties, allies of the ruling federal coalition, are opposed to the government's plan to sell residual stakes in five companies. The left parties oppose plans by the government to divest the remaining stakes in Bharat Aluminium Co, Videsh Sanchar Nigam
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    • Article
      Asia Financial gets 12 Bids for bank unit
      283 12 Offers are preliminary and non-binding Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Asia Financial Holdings Ltd, a Hong Kong company that does insurance and banking business, said it received 12 bids for its banking unit. Malaysian businessman Quek Leng Chan's Hong Leong Bank Bhd, Bank of
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      China growth will ease to 8.8% in 2006: central bank arm
      352 12 Research bureau forecasts higher CPI of 2% for next year Reuters [BEIJING] China's gross domestic product growth will slow in 2006 to 8.8 per cent from 9.4 per cent this year, according to forecasts by the research arm of
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    • Article
      AIG considers stake in Central Insurance
      187 12 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] American International Group Inc (AIG), the world's biggest insurer, is among overseas companies considering buying a stake in Central Insurance Co, the Taiwan company's shareholder Polaris Securities said. "Several foreign companies are considering taking a stake in Central Insurance, and we will
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      US family restaurants losing out
      451 13 Casual restaurants have overtaken them in terms of revenue [NEW YORK] The American family restaurant is starving. Casual restaurants have supplanted family restaurants in terms of revenue for the first time since the US census started measuring this in the *****. The shift means the
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      Wal-Mart to pay US$172m in damages
      336 13 NYT [BERKELEY] A California jury on Thursday ordered Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, to pay US$l72 million in damages for failing to provide meal breaks to nearly 116,000 hourly workers as required under state law. The verdict came after a trial that lasted more
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    • Article
      Google's founders named Men of the Year
      436 13 [SAN FRANCISCO] Google's founders may have conquered the Internet world this year but given their outsized ambitions, this may only be a start, says a report in the Financial Times. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who were yesterday named as Men of the
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    • Article
      S Korea's scientist and success symbol quits
      298 13 Reuters [SEOUL] Scientist Hwang Woo-suk captured the imagination of South Koreans with his rise from rural poverty tending cows to become a researcher of global proportions enjoying rockstar fame in his home country. Yesterday, he resigned in disgrace from his post at Seoul
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      US durable goods orders surge
      408 13 LATEST US DATA 4.4% rise in Nov on jump in aircraft purchases Reuters [WASHINGTON] New orders for US-made durable goods surged in November on a jump in civilian aircraft purchases but nontransportation orders slid as defence outlays tumbled, government data showed yesterday. The 4.4 per
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    • Article
      Phuket suffers 50% fall in tourists in 2005
      345 13 Bernama [BANGKOK] Phuket. Thailand's main tourist destination, suffered a 50 per cent drop in tourist arrivals to 2.5 million this year. As many as 4.9 million visited the island before the Dec 26, 2004 tsunami. Tourism revenue fell by 60 per cent
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Ford pumps £1.2b into Jaguar UK
        56 13 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Ford Motor Co has injected another £1.2 billion (552.9 billion) into Jaguar Cars to cover heavy losses and investment writedowns at its British luxury car subsidiary. The move marks the second time within two years that Ford has had to recapitalise Jaguar,
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      • Article
        US$8b deal in the works for tech firm?
        64 13 NYT [NEW YORK] A consortium of investment firms is in talks to acquire Affiliated Computer Services, a technology outsourcing company with clients that include General Electric and McDonald's, for about US$B billion, people briefed on the negotiations said. The group is led
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      • Article
        Wyeth to pay US$416.5m for drug
        62 13 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Wyeth, the maker of the Prevnar meningitis medicine, will pay as much as U*****.5 million for worldwide rights to a Progenies Pharmaceuticals drug that treats side effects from anaesthesia and pain killers. Progenies will get US$6O million now, and U*****.5 million
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        Russian Duma adopts bill on NGOs
        72 13 AFP [MOSCOW] A controversial bill that restricts the activities of non-governmental organisations in Russia easily passed its third and final reading yesterday in the Lower House of parliament. The draft, attacked by the West as a threat to civil rights but defended by the
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      • Article
        Heinz to sell its NZ subsidiary
        63 13 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] H.J. Heinz Co, the world's largest ketchup maker, will sell its New Zealand subsidiary Tegel Foods to private-equity firm Pacific Equity Partners as part of the company's plan to focus on faster-growing businesses such as sauces. Auckland-based Tegel, which operates processing
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  • SANTA AWARDS
    • Article, Illustration
      NAUGHTY OR NICE?
      2638 14 HE'S making a list checking it twice Gonna find out who's naughty and nice Yes, it's Christmas Eve and Santa Claus will soon be sweeping through the skies, bringing presents to one and all. Wonder what he's got in store for the newsmakers of 2005? Well, stretch
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  • MOTORING
    • Article, Illustration
      Top 5 of '05
      630 16  -  So it may have been a lacklustre year as far as new models were concerned. Apart from the launch of a couple of interesting but relatively niche cars, the volume segment was uneventful in 2005. But 2006 is just around the corner and that promises to
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      Supersize my SUV
      855 16  -  The Japanese SUV has grown bigger and gone upmarket in order to differentiate itself from the Korean competition. SAMUEL EE looks at two key examples of this trend —the new Toyota RAV4 and the Mitsubishi Outlander SAMUEL EE IN A market where sales of sport-utility vehicles have
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  • GOLF
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      Banner year for Asian golf
      1022 17  -  JUSTINE MOSS looks back on a record year in terms of prize money and checks out what lies ahead JUSTINE MOSS THE end of the year is a time for reflecting on achievements, challenges, highs and lows, plus some soul searching and crystal ball-gazing as
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      High price for a low score
      376 17  -  By GEOFFREY EU AS any weekend hacker who's ever blamed a poor score on lousy golfing hardware will readily acknowledge, you're only as good as your equipment—which means that anyone who plays with Honma's new 5-star Beres golf clubs will be reasonably hard-pressed to
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  • WELLNESS
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      The 10-minute home workout
      1604 18  -  You don't need plenty of time or expensive equipment to build up your fitness level. PARVATHI NAYAR finds out how you can make exercise an extension of your household routine PARVATHI NAYAR YOU can exercise at home. Just 10 minutes a day is all you need
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  • SHOPPING
    • Article, Illustration
      JUST BUY
      1079 19  -  Never mind if you have run out of ideas for last-minute shopping. CORINNE KERK offers some tips CORINNE KERK Recipient: She's slightly older. She cares about her looks and is worried about her skin. Give: Clarins Super Restorative Coffret ($205), available at all Clarins outlets in major department
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend
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      Dreamy, delightful
      1045 20  -  GEOFFREY EU looks at the master plans of a restaurateur and a designer who take the annual Christmas Eve party pretty seriously GEOFFREY EU WEE Chen Yen's Christmas season started about six weeks ago that's when she rolled up her sleeves in the kitchen to prepare about a
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