The Business Times, 2 January 2006

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at 1 .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Monday January 2,2006
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    Lock icon S'pore growth better than best forecasts
    671 1  -  Economists believe uncertainties like high oil prices and bird flu may come to the fore in 2006 By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] The economy has again outperformed even the most bullish forecasts and could well cruise along above its trend path in 2006 if the
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    Lock icon US$ could slide to S$1.60 by end-2006: currency strategists
    389 1  -  By LARRY WEE [SINGAPORE] The Singapore dollar is set to make more advances versus a weakening US dollar over the course of 2006, and currency strategists believe the latter may well finish 2006 at levels closer to 551.60, notwithstanding the losses
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    134 1 MARKETS Week Chge STI J347.34 +19.05 KLSE COMP 899.79 +7.66 NIKKEI 225 *****.43 ....+170.06 HANG SENG *****.43 -307.15 SET INDEX 713.73 +14.78 JAKARTA COMP ...1162.64 .....-...+4.30 MANILA COMP ....2096.04..—-15.42 TAIPEI TAIEX 6548.34. +35.71 SEOUL COMP 1379.37 +19.84 SHENZHEN B 195.61 +3.32 AUSTAILORD 4708.80 ......+38.00 DOW JONES .*.....*****.50 -165.77
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      68 1 fT7j)l YOUNG INVESTORS' \M w ft rniii in rwlillm B How to go about investing in PG y What are the ley global trends that CEOs amtooklng out for this year that might affect their &nipSßies? 8 BT ONUNE BT print subscribers get free access to the Business Times Online.
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      48 1 v I■= JAPAN BANKS BOJ to tighten monitoring of banks' property loans K514 BItIT Top hondios of the world's major IT companies look into the crystal baH Teko industry: Three of the most interesting areas to watdi out for r Creative's latest offering makes a lot of Zense
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      38 1 COMPANIES CL Reshaping Wfee Cho "few's 1 > corporate holdings ST INDEX Up against all odds PG 12,13 More reports Higher interest rates loom for M'sia pg 3 New ministers' reform agenda vital for Indon growth PG3 fl fl
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon S$ expected to end 2006 higher against US$
      1866 2 [SINGAPORE] Late last month, Larry Wee invited a panel of dedicated Singapore dollar-watchers to forecast how the Singapore dollar and local interest rates will perform'in 2006. Participants included Dave Carbon, head of economic and currency research, DBS Bank; Joseph Tan, regional economist,
      BLOOMBERG; Source: OBS; Source: Bloomberg  -  1,866 words
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      570 2 tCWWmiC^OSpeCtSW Malaysia, Indonesia' OUR correspondents file on the region's economic prospects in the coming year: Expect Malaysia to progressively increase interest rates this year and its growth to remain flatfish at 5-5.5 per cent. And economics could play a greater role in shaping Malaysian politics, says S Jayasankaran
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      Lock icon Jalan Besar Town gets $517m upgrade
      206 2  -  By ARTHUR SIM [SINGAPORE] Jalan Besar Town is getting a $517 million upgrade. The money, to be spent over the next five years, will go towards projects like the Main Upgrading Programme (MUP), Interim Upgrading Programme (lUP) and Selective En-bloc Redevelopment (SERS). Announcing this
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      Lock icon Higher interest rates loom for Malaysia
      1172 3  -  MALAYSIAN ECONOMY Economic growth expected to hover around 5-5.5% this year By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur EXPECT Malaysia to progressively increase interest rates in the new year and its growth to remain flattish, at 5-5.5 per cent. And economics could play a greater
      AFP  -  1,172 words
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      Lock icon New ministers' reform agenda vital for growth
      950 3  -  INDONESIAN ECONOMY By SHOEB KAGDA in Jakarta INDONESIA, which began 2005 with a bang, however, closed the year on an uncertain note. Despite President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's efforts to revive the economy via an ambitious infrastructure development plan, the country is at another
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Reshaping Wee Cho Yaw s corporate holdings
      692 4  -  NEWS ANALYSIS Investors will keep watching him due to his corporate moves in 2005, says LESLIE YEE LESLIE YEE TEMASEK Holdings may be the Singapore party capturing the headlines when it comes to big investments in Asia and beyond, but domestically, United Overseas
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon NutriAsia takeover of Del Monte formalised
        107 4 THE takeover of Singapore-listed Del Monte Pacific by NutriAsia has been formalised. NutriAsia said on Saturday that a condition of the takeover requiring it to hold more than 50 per cent of Del Monte shares has been met. NutriAsia now controls 50.72 per cent
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        Lock icon ACMA undergoes internal restructuring
        117 4 ACMA Ltd is undertaking an internal restructuring-cum-streamlining exercise which will include transferring 75 per cent of Acma Engineers Pte Ltd to another company in the ACMA Group. Ten per cent of Acma Engineers will be sold to its managing director Say Kin Heng for a cash
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      Lock icon MAE Engineering to enter Malaysia's biofuels sector
      331 4  -  By ARTHUR SIM SESDAQ-LISTED mechanical and electrical engineering company MAE Engineering is branching out into Malaysia's emerging biofuels industry. MAE Engineering announced Saturday it had entered into a preliminary and conditional agreement With Eligro Sdn Bhd to acquire a substantial 38 per cent
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      Lock icon Another round of restructuring for HDD sector?
      790 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY THE Economic Development Board's recent comment that the hard disk drive (HDD) sector here remains robust and that its future continues to be bright, must have brought cheer to some very worried people in the industry.
      AP  -  790 words
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon One-month top winners lead portfolio rises
      1204 5  -  TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent SO 2005 was here and is gone. Here's a recap of how the market has done in the year just passed. The Straits Times Index gained just under 14 per cent while the UOB Sesdaq was flat However, of
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      Lock icon Brisk trading encountered in year 2005
      1065 5  -  INSIDE MARKETS 2,633 trades valued at $1.87 billion were recorded, with purchases outnumbering sales at 2,071 to 562, reports ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI DIRECTORS and substantial shareholders of Singapore listed companies were active last year with 357 firms recording 2,633 trades worth $1.87 billion.
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      Lock icon Investors enter the new year with new hopes
      516 6  -  STOCKS LESLIE YEE Senior Correspondent 2005 was a humbling year for the bears, as equity markets globally overcame wellfounded concerns over rising interest rates, surging oil prices, slowing consumer spending and economic expansion to end near multi-year, highs. Asian markets, in particular,
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      Lock icon Asian units steady against US$ in thin trading
      624 6 CURRENCIES AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies remained steady against the US dollar last week in light trading ahead of the New Year holiday. Japanese yen: The yen moved narrowly against the dollar in the holi-day-shortened week ahead of the New Year break,
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      Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
      1659 6 Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Frfs recommendation esti- EPS PE target price Company name This wfc Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price Allgreen Properties 2.10 2.00 10 5.80 22.41 1.43 1.30 Allied Technologies 3.00 3.00 2 0.35 31.43 0.17 0.11 Ascendas REIT 2.29 2.43 14 11.21 17.31 2.30 1.95
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
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      Lock icon Copper reaches new high, oil bounces back
      434 6 COMMODITIES AFP [LONDON] Copper prices struck a historic record last week, 'despite shortened trading sandwiched between the Christmas and New Year holidays, while oil prices won back ground. Many commodities markets closed early last Friday ahead of the festive weekend. The Commodities Research
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
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      Lock icon It pays to be cautious with property
      629 7  -  How does one go about investing in property? OH BOON PING finds out OH BOON PING YOU'VE probably heard of property speculation and stories of the instant riches it has brought to some people. But what exactly is property speculation? And is it
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      Lock icon Capturing Laos on film
      670 7  -  CAMPUS LIFE The project's budding filmmakers tell UMA SHANKARI about what they learnt on the job UMA SHANKARI IMAGINE spending three weefcs in Laos as part of your school work. That's exactly what four students from Nanyang Technological University's School of Communication and Information did in
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      Lock icon Be smart with your finances
      204 7 FANCY becoming the next Warren BufFett or George Soros? Or even the famous Robert Kiyosaki? Then read on. The Young Investors' Forum, part of the BT-Citibank Tertiary Outreach Programme, isn't another dry page out of your financial textbook. To complement our editorialcontent, we have a
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      46 7 ciTibank The Business Times-Citibank Young Investors' Forum is published every Monday in The Business Times. It aims to raise the financial awareness of university and polytechnic students and cultivate a better understanding of business issues. The series is part of BT and Citibank's tertiary outreach programme.
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      Lock icon CHALLENGE YEAR AHEAD
      4477 8 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC Barring the unexpected, what key global trends will you be looking out for in 2006 that might impact your company positively or negatively? DESPITE the slowing of the US economy and rising oil prices, the outlook in 2006 is not all gloomy, as a
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      66 8 BTCEOse-Club Members of the BT CEOs e-Gub are Singapore's top corporate leaders whom BT editors would like to interact with in an atmosphere of informality and trust. This 'dub'is a virtual one, with interaction mainly via e-mail. Each week, we will invite commentrfrom these top executives on various economic and
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Manufacturing sector to boost M'sian economy
      397 10 MPI to rebound to 6.5% in 2006 from 4.3%, forecasts economist [KUALA LUMPUR] The much-delayed recovery in the manufacturing sector' last year will provide a boost to the strength of the Malaysian economy this year,' Malaysia's Business Times last Friday quoted an economist as
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      Lock icon KL plans measures to boost private sector
      241 10 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will soon announce measures to encourage private sector investment to shore up the country's economy, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said in his New Year message. "God willing, I should be able to announce the measures to be taken to
      AFP  -  241 words
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      Lock icon Easing of Indon bad-loan rules?
      187 10 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Bank Indonesia, the country's central bank, said it may ease rules that sought to tighten badloan classification by commercial lenders. Changes will be announced on Jan 13, Governor Burhanuddin Abdullah told reporters in Jakarta on Friday. Bank Indonesia requires banks to classify as
      Bloomberg  -  187 words
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      Lock icon STOCKS ASIA
      3176 10 Transaction date: Dec 30 For a full listing of the closing prices, log on to BT Online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg after 11.30pm every trading day HONG KONG vi HQ W- HOP Aeon Credit 6.05 unch 10 Aeon Stores .7.90 0.20 10 Angang New Steel H 4.18 unch 6328 Anhui
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      Lock icon Put a stop to half-baked projects
      597 10  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT They do little or nothing for taxpayer welfare and open M'sians to derision S JAYASANKARAN KL Correspondent HERE we go again! A Malaysian plan to send a 35man team to drape Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza with the flags of the world's
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      Lock icon Mobile number portability in M'sia by 2007
      506 10 [KUALA LUMPUR) Mobile phone users may be able to switch telecommunications companies (telcos) without having to change their numbers by. 2t)07, reports Malaysia's Busines&Times. The proposed implementation of mobile number portability (MNP) by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is seen as
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon Optional grading for Indian public companies
      436 11 Biometric identification for investors, easing of disclosure norms Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India will offer companies selling shares the option of having themselves graded to strengthen corporate governance, attract more investors to the stock markets and raise the level of regulation in the country. India also
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      Lock icon India's booming IT sector a new target for terror groups: analysts
      629 11 Reuters [NEW DELHI] A suspected militant raid on one of India's top science universities has confirmed fears that the country's booming information technology sector could be a new target for terror groups, officials and analysts said. A professor was
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      Lock icon Offer of citizenship to Indian diaspora
      256 11 Reuters [PORT LOUIS, Mauritius] India will offer overseas citizenship to millions of people of Indian origin, giving them opportunities to own land and property and invest in financial markets, an Indian diplomat said last Friday. India's constitution does not provide for dual nationality, but
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      Lock icon Bubbling economy leading to water woes for China
      446 11 Industrial waste contaminating drinking water AFP [BEIJING] Industrial pollution, unscientific waste disposal and ovep-exploitation of underground resources have made China's drinking water among the most unsafe in the world, environmental experts say. The country's water woes were thrown into the spotlight last
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      Lock icon China 'will keep opening up and reform in 2006'
      450 11 AP [BEIJING] China's President Hu Jintao vowed that his country would continue to open up and reform in 2006, pursuing a goal of peaceful development as it play* a bigger role on the world stage. In his annual year-end speech, Mr
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      Lock icon Bush rejects request to impose quotas on China steel pipes
      363 11 Bloomberg {NEW YORK] President George W Bush rejected a request by US manufacturers and workers to impose quotas on US$154 million of steel pipes from China, saying new limits on imports would harm the economy by raising prices for consumers.
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  • STI
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      Lock icon UP against all odds
      1599 12/13  -  by reh Hooi Ling IT was a year that defied the odds. At the end of 2004, most analysts had a generally bearish or at best neutral view on the Singapore stock market for 2005. A slowing global economy, rising interest rates, and surging oil prices
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Wall St expects slow start to new year
      789 14  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT Dow ends 2005 with a whimper on fears of economic slowdown and oil price hikes By ANDREW MARKS in New York US stocks ended 2005 with a whimper rather than the hoped for bang in the form of a
      AP  -  789 words
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      Lock icon Tiger Woods buys 10-acre oceanfront estate for US$40m
      435 14 AFP [PALM BEACH] Tiger Woods, who celebrated his 30th birthday last Friday, has agreed to buy a 10-acre oceanfront estate on Jupiter Island, Florida, for US$4O million, the Palm Beach Post reported. Woods, a 10-time major golf champion, led all US athletes
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      Lock icon Generally a good year for stocks
      352 14 NYT [NEW YORK] World stock markets ended a generally up year on a down note on Friday, leaving the Dow Jones industrial average in the US with its first annual decline since 2002. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the last day of 2005
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      Lock icon BOJ to tighten monitoring of banks' property loans
      627 14  -  Move reflects the bank's fears about a new asset bubble By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan (BOJ) will tighten its monitoring of bank loans for property development this year, according to Japanese media reports at the weekend. The move
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      Lock icon High-presure leg for S'pore team before the race ends
      474 14  -  CUPPER YACHT RACE: COMING HOME By VINCE WEE in Fremantle IS THE doctor in? That was the question uppermost on the mind of every crew member as the yachts took off from Fremantle yesterday. This is because the daytime sea breeze
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      Lock icon Bank makes belated debut
      314 14 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ starts business on Wednesday AP [TOKYO] The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ made its belated debut yesterday, completing the merger of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc and UFJ Holdings Inc to create the world's largest financial group by assets. The financial giants merged
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
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      Lock icon US airline rebound to continue into 2006
      668 15 US AVIATION Traditional airlines in comeback, some to return to profitability this year Reuters [NEW YORK] After the beleaguered US airline industry hit a new low last September with two top carriers filing for bankruptcy, the sector has done what few thought it
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      Lock icon Brazilian Embraer confident of Asian prospects
      594 15 AFP [SINGAPORE] Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer sees a wide-open runway for its specialist jets in Asia. The region currently provides less than 2 per cent of Embraer's US$lO.4 billion worth of client orders, but the firm is confident its share will rise as the
      AFP  -  594 words
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      Lock icon Study uncovers hazards in anti-collision system
      718 15  -  By PETER STALBERG THE widespread adoption of new collision avoidance technology has had no discernable effect on the high incidence of collisions at sea. according to a new study. Following the study of major collisions, mutual marine insurer The Swedish Club now warns that
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      Lock icon TRANSPORT STOCKS
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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      217 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD hand is taken ?rom tissue (8^ 2 Four different points thrown 14.0ne investigating pioneer? YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION into TV bulletin (8) (8) Across: 1 Alchemists, 9 Fido, 10 3 Create by slow degrees and 15 Verify total using computer Reconsider, 11 De-iced, 12 Current, do the trick at university
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE STOCKS
    11277 16 STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS Stock name Wt Close Chang* Stock name Wt Oom Change Stockname Wt On* Change Allgreen 50c 0.31 1.300 -0.010 Haw Par Corp 0.41 S.150 SPH20c 435 4300 -0060 Ascendasreit 0.96 1350 +0.020 Hyflu*5c 0.41 2.750 +0.030 STEngglOc 1J7 2360 +Q.050 BIL Intl US20c 0.55
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    Lock icon FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES SHIPPING TIMES
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  • BizIT
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      Lock icon Bring on the competition in 2006
      885 23  -  <we say> Three areas to watch true number portability, interconnected numbers, and lower Internet access prices ROLAND LIM Reporter Following an exciting year in the telco industry, 2006 looks all set to see the effects of the many telco-related policy decisions made last year
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      830 23  -  <cool stuff> Creative's latest offering makes a lot of Zense By LEE KIM SIANG TO CALL Creative's new baby, the Zen Vision: M, an MP3 player would be akin to calling a Ferrari a mere sports car. It simply doesn't do it justice. Sure, it can play
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