The Business Times, 7 January 2006

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    20 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend SINGAPORE 85 cents MICA (P) 089/03/2005 January 7-8, 2006 online at http bus»f>ess tame>. cor- sg
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    Lock icon Tourists boost S'pore's push to be retail hub
    753 1  -  Retailers' optimism rides high as Chinese New Year approaches By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Shop, shop and never drop. Hot on the heels of the Christmas surge in retail sales comes Chinese New Year on Jan 29 and 30 causing retailers to rub
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  • Article
    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    136 1 STI 2,420.74 (+16.99) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,425.00 (+17.00) siMsa 286.77 (+1.67) SIMSa FUTURES 286.90 (+0.40) MARKETS Friday Change KISECOMP 911.67 +5.01 NIKKEI 225 16,428.21 +2.84 HANG SENG 15,344.44 +73.31 SET INDEX 747.34 +6.06 JAKARTA COMP 1,222.25 +11.25 MANILA COMP 2,133.79 17.14 SEOUL COMP 1,412.78 +17.27 SHENZHEN B 213.64
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    Lock icon Traders downplay China reserve diversification story
    517 1  -  By LARRY WEE [SINGAPORE] Currency markets all but ignored a report yesterday that China intends to diversify some of its foreign exchange reserves out of US dollars, with most traders and strategists suggesting that they expected to get much more upside gains from other
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  • Article
    Lock icon UOB earmarks $600m to buy back shares
    509 1  -  Analysts welcome move, stock closes 40c up for the day By LESLIE YEE [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank (UOB) said yesterday that it will set aside $600 million an estimated 2.6 per cent of its market capitalisation to buy back its own shares for
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      530 2 Weighing Shanghai Turbo, first IPO of the year SHANGHAI Turbo Enterprises' initial public offer is Singapore's first this year and so is bound to generate some excitement. But while its narrow focus on steel vanes has earned impressive profits, it is also a source of vulnerability, says our
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      Lock icon NTUC Income goes into safe deposit box business
      677 2  -  It's teaming up with Cisco to offer an initial 3,000 boxes to the public By CONRAD TAN [SINGAPOBE] No place to stash that diamond necklace your true love gave you for Christmas? How about in a safe deposit box, under 24-hour surveillance?
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      Lock icon Theglobalistquiz
      392 2 Source: The Globalise Sizing up global trade International trade is one of the most important features of the global economy, ft can dramatically increase a country's wealth, but also frequently leads to trade disputes. As the world struggles to come to terms in the current WTO trade talks, we
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      Lock icon It's time S'pore women face their demons
      968 2  -  SATURDAY SOAPBOX Too many are taking it out on the most vulnerable person in their home the foreign maid SIOW LI SEN Senior Correspondent A WOMAN director at a bank once told me that she felt grateful to her mother and maid for
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      Lock icon Integrated resort: STB returns money for probity checks to PBL and Melco
      522 2  -  Cost of suitability checks may have deterred some contenders By ARTHUR SIM [SINGAPORE] Some $400,000 paid to the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) by Publishing and Broadcasting (PBL) and Melco International Development to cover the cost of probity checks
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  • RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon SOLID AS A ROCK
      1811 3  -  Like the mountain it is named after, Swiss private bank Clariden aims to provide rock solid banking. WONG WEI KONG talks to its chairman Alex Hoffman WONG WEI KONG IF THERE is such a thing as a private bank to emerging markets, Clariden would fit the
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Weighing up Shanghai Turbo
      763 4  -  CORPORATE ANALYSIS Its narrow focus on steel vanes has earned impressive profits but is also a source of vulnerability, writes CONRAD TAN CONRAD TAN SHANGHAI Turbo Enterprises, a China-based precision engineering group specialising in the manufacture of steel vanes for turbines used in power generators, is
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    • Article
      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      7015 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!" 0.893/ Star Europe Bond 1.218/ Europe Bal 1168/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1 173/ Star Asia Bond 1.324/ Star Asia Balanced 1 095/ Stat Global Technology Fundi** 0.216/ Mutti St Fd 1061/ Star Asia BondtUSD) 0 804/ Gib Mufti
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      Lock icon UOB on track to meet deadline on UOL stake
      370 5  -  Holding of UOL shares, which has fallen to 11.7%, will be trimmed further By LESLIE YEE UNITED Overseas Bank said yesterday that the bank and its affiliates, which now own 11.72 per cent of United Overseas Land (UOL), will divest themselves
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      Lock icon Metax Engg seeking Sesdaq listing
      169 5  -  By LEE KIM SIANG METAX Engineering Corporation, an environmental engineering firm, is eyeing a Sesdaq listing. The Singapore-based firm yesterday lodged a preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Westcomb Capital Pte Ltd is the issue manager of the planned initial public offering
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      Lock icon Certification gives Utac entry into automotive sector
      300 5  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY MAINBOARD-listed United Test and Assembly Center (Utac) has received certification which will help it to pursue business in the automotive sector IC (integrated circuit) market which is estimated to be worth more than US$l5 billion. Utac, which provides semiconductor
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    • Article
      Lock icon Keppel unit set to clinch US rig contract
      348 5  -  By UMA SHANKARI KEPPEL Corporation's rig building arm Keppel FELS is set to clinch a contract from US oilfield driller Diamond Offshore. According to a report obtained by BT yesterday, Keppel FELS is expected to win the contract to upgrade a semi-submersible
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      Lock icon Hong Leong Asia unit in $50m asset sales
      193 5  -  By MATTHEW PHAN HONG Leong Asia (HLA) through wholly owned Hong Leong China (HLC) is selling its metal container and closure business divisions and its stakes in two packaging companies for $50.69.mi11i0n. The assets to be sold under a deal signed with
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      Lock icon Four CrimsonLogic execs to be tried in March on graft charges
      248 5  -  By WONG WEI KONG FOUR executives of govern-ment-linked information technology (IT) firm Crimson Logic will be tried in March on corruption charges. The hearing dates set yesterday at a pre-trial conference (PTC) are March--13, 21-24 and 27-31. The next
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Oriental Food warns of weaker profits
        98 5 ORIENTAL Food (Holdings) Ltd yesterday warned that its net profit for the financial year ended Dec 31,2005, will be weaker than the previous year when it generated 11.59 million yuan. This is due to higher administrative costs incurred as an administrative office was set
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        Lock icon UOB unit in India fund joint venture
        119 5 UNITED Overseas Bank Ltd (UOB) said its 70 per cent-owned subsidiary, UOB Global Capital LLC (UOBGC), has formed a 51:49 per cent investment management company with Infrastructure Leasing Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) of Mumbai, India. UOBGC will take the majority stake in UOB
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    • Article
      Lock icon Jakarta may buy Indosat shares from ST Telemedia
      173 5 Bloomberg [JAKARTA! Indonesia's government plans to spend 12 trillion rupiah (552.03 billion) to buy PT Indosat shares from Singapore Technologies Telemedia or the public, aiming to increase its stake in the country's second-largest phone company. The government may sell debt or ask
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      Lock icon Easing US interest rate worries help fuel rally
      509 5  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent TWELVE years ago in January 1994 a bull run in the local stock market was brought to a screeching halt when the US Federal Reserve surprised everyone and raised its shortterm rates. This year has seen the
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      1022 6  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI ST Engineering Jan 6 dose: $2.96 KIM ENG RESEARCH, Jan ST Engineering (STE) will be releasing < its FY2005 numbers on Monday. We 1 are expecting 10 per cent growth in 1 earnings to $402.9 million (EPS 13.8 r cents), on the back of
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      Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      1024 6 For week beginning Jan 3 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS Sahmtiai Ito* M« SMMKMOIOMC Tram JtmkoMrt M Bunt Mr Mar* Sto<fc Date Dkactar Cam *888 Sl» > (HI C888) Electrotech 5-Jan-06 Low Mock Peng 'Sell 20 0-57 417S9 11J05 ***** 13.70 Lale Teth S-J an-06 Ho Wing-On 'Buy
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      Lock icon That stock may be worth a second look
      1074 6  -  SHOW ME THE MONEY The main weakness of investors is the tendency to shun a stock which lost money TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent O you believe in giving people or things a second H chance? Humans I are programmed I U
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  • BT INVESTMENT ROUNDTABLE
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      Lock icon Emerging currency trends '06
      2875 7 OVERVIEW CONTRARY to what most forecasters had expected at this time last year, the US dollar surprised most currency market participants in 2005 with double-digit gains versus currencies such as the euro and the yen, thanks in no small part to what seemed like an unrelenting
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon No point taking China market head-on: don
      448 8  -  NTU don suggests developing niches in resource-based products By CHEN HUIFEN ASEAN should not compete head on with China and India in low-cost production and services, an academic said yesterday. Instead, it should, find a niche in resource development and re-source-based products. Tan
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      Lock icon Singapore leads Asia in CEI industry
      285 8  -  By OH BOON PING SINGAPORE tops the regional destinations for conferences and exhibitions, thanks to its superior facilities, airline, attractions, and tourism board, according to a survey by the CEI Asia Pacific magazine. In the study, Singapore ranked first with 68 per cent of
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      Lock icon TV cop shoots for his next big project – film dramedy
      372 8  - TV cop shoots for his next big project film dramedy By UMA SHANKARI HE'S best known for playing a cocky cop in the Channel 5 series Triple Nine in the late *****, but former MediaCorp actor Robin Leong has a new lease of life as the producer of the world's
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    • Article
      Lock icon Two public education initiatives to tackle gambling problems
      176 8 TTIE newly-formed National Council on Problem Gambling has announced two public education initiatives for 2006 an infoeducational TV series premiering today, and a $150,000 fund to set up voluntary and non-profit groups related to problem gambling. Chairwoman of the NCPG Public Education
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  • SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL
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      Lock icon Riding the India wave
      2233 9  -  Its booming economy is good news for many S'pore-based firms which already have a foothold there, says CHUANG PECK MING CHUANG PECK MING POPULATION used to be viewed through the eyes of the 18th century English economist and clergyman Thomas Malthus, who believed it was a
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      Lock icon DBS expands scale, scope of operations
      852 10  -  Singapore-based firms, involved in fields as diverse as banking, biotechnology and education, are steadily growing their operations in India. CHUANG PECK MING profiles four of them CHUANG PECK MING DBS Bank is the only Singapore bank today with a foothold in India, after OCBC
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      Lock icon CyGenics builds a presence in Kolkata
      464 10 INDIA is widely seen as the next big market after China, but it has hardly crossed anyone's mind that it will be as big as China. One exception is Steven Fang, group chief executive of CyGenics, a stem cell biotechnology company. "India, in terms
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      Lock icon Strong partner key for MMI
      513 10 MODERN Montessori International (MMI), the British education group which has made Singapore its base in the Asia-Pacific region, wants to become a leading player in the business in this part of the world. And having a foothold in India is a natural step in MMl's
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      Lock icon RSP banking on demand in various states
      422 10 SINGAPORE-BASED RSP Architects Planners and Engineers is one of the biggest architectural firms in India, if not the biggest. And it hasn't taken this homegrown practice too long to make its presence felt in what promises to be the world's biggest market after
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      Lock icon Making sense of a paradox
      1478 11  -  LETTER FROM MUMBAI There are still many structural inefficiencies in India but the country's growth potential is undeniable, writes YAP SHIN CHIA YAP SHIN CHIA I REMEMBER the incredulous look on my parents' faces when I told them in April 2002 that I had decided
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      Lock icon Engine of global expansion
      1571 12  -  India's surging economy is seen to have acquired its own momentum but key bottlenecks remain, reports CHUANG PECK MING CHUANG PECK MING WHEN the Indian economy gained 8 per cent in the July-September monsoon quarter from a year earlier, economists rushed back to their drawing boards
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      Lock icon Money-spinners beckon
      883 12  -  By AMITAVA GUHAROY MUCH has been said about the opportunities presented by India's rapidly growing economy with its vast domestic market. As advisers who have significant on-the-ground experience, we highlight the sectors of opportunity and how investors can optimise results in the Indian market. The Indian economy has
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      278 11 Ready for the Enterprise**^ I 1 I I Forum 06 rY global cndil6nQ6? 55^^ Internatipnal Enterprise Forum (IE Forum) is Asia's premier event oninternationalisation that brings together today's most respected thought leaders and entrepreneurs to shed light on the strategy of bringing local businesses to the world. Themed "The*Globalisation of
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon India to let private firms operate container trains
      508 13 New policy will end state-owned Concor's monopoly in this sector [NEW DELHI] The Indian government yesterday took the wraps off a policy that will allow private companies in container transportation by rail, bringing to an end Container Corporation of India's (Concor) longheld
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      Lock icon Tata Teleservices in talks with investors to sell 10% stake
      287 13 [MUMBAI] Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL), the CDMA services provider of the Tata group, is in talks with a clutch of investors to sell nearly 10 per cent stake, according to a report in the Business Standard. Although Tata executives declined
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon China will look at building large planes in 2010
        57 13 AFP [BEIJING] China intends to make the manufacturing of large commercial airplanes a top priority from 2010, the nation's defence industry announced yesterday. The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for Defence said the aerospace industry will focus on the issue
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        Lock icon Everbright Bank scores a first
        91 13 Reuters [BEIJING] China's Everbright Bank has become the country's first lender to offer fixed rate mortgages, the latest innovation as the nation seeks to nurture its financial markets, state media and bank officials said yesterday. "The fixed mortgage rates will be set with reference to
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        Lock icon Last member of China's 'Gang of Four' dead
        61 13 AFP [BEIJING] Yao Wenyuan, the last surviving member of the infamous "Gang of Four" that led China through 10 tortuous years of the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, has died, Xinhua reported yesterday. Yao died on Dec 23 of diabetes. He was 74. No
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        Lock icon Jakarta Composite Index closes at record high
        103 13 Bloomberg Closes di ietui u mtjii [JAKARTA] Indonesia's key index rose to a record, posting its biggest weekly jump in more than three months. Bank Mandiri paced gains on expectation the central bank will reduce the pace of its interest rate rises. Indosat
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        Lock icon India's Ranbaxy gets FDA nod to make Alzheimer drag
        77 13 Reuters [ZURICH! Indian generic drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories has received tentative approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to produce a generic version of Novartis' Alzheimer's drug Exelon, the FDA said. Tentative approval means that Ranbaxy can start making a
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      Lock icon Yuan may not gain much this year: economist
      469 13 Forex rate changes won't ease imbalances, he says Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's yuan is unlikely to appreciate much this year, an influential government economist was reported yesterday as saying, suggesting little change from the steady but extremely slow rise seen since July's revaluation.
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      Lock icon THE BEAUTY OF HENNA
      63 13 [DHAKA] A Bangladeshi child showing off the elaborate design decorating her hand during a henna festival held to mark the Islamic festival of Eid-ul-Adha in Dhaka yesterday. Eid-ul-Adha. which is celebrated by Muslims worldwide as a commemoration of the Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
      2341 13 VOL JwC W- C988) A 4 M Realty 1.46 unth 127 Abric 034 0.02 374 ACP Industries 336 unth 0 Advance Synergy 333 -0.01 85 Adveott 039 0.02 5 AEMutti 038 -0.01 203 AffinHldgi 158 unth 322 Ahmad Zaki Res 1.17 0.01 14 AKCorp 1.14 unth 2 Air
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon M'sian govt unlikely to allow casino in Penang
      664 14  -  Penang lawmakers to discuss casino proposal before mid-2006 By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government is unlikely to allow a casino on the resort island of Penang, officials from Malaysia's dominant political party, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) said
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
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      Lock icon Funds lift Malaysian stocks
      183 14 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian share prices closed 0.55 per cent higher yesterday on continued J>uying by institutional funds, which are accumulating Asian stocks in the hope that the credit tightening cycle in the US is coming to an end, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index
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      Lock icon More covered warrants on Bursa in first half
      330 14 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian stock market will see more covered warrants (CWs) being issued by investment banks beginning in the first half of this year, according to Bursa Malaysia's chief executive officer Yusli Mohamed Yusoff. "You know, there are a few
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  • INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Improve legal standards to draw investors: Soros
      386 15 Assure them of fair play by following rule of law, he says at media meeting Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia needs to ensure that it follows the rule of law and improve legal standards to attract overseas investment into South-east Asia's largest economy, US billionaire
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      Lock icon Probe into alleged graft at Indon missions in M'sia
      147 15 AP [JAKARTA] Corruption by consular staff at Indonesian missions in Malaysia is "rampant" and staff implicated in the alleged crimes have been ordered to return home, Indonesia's foreign minister Hassan Wirajuda said yesterday. He said the corruption at missions in Kuala
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      Lock icon SGX
      5563 15 Transaction Date: Jan 6 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME VALUE UTACUS15C 92.776.000 DBSGrp 1 124.409.624 Food June 8c 37.539.000 UOB 90.568.650 MultiVis HK7c 31.972.000 UTACUS15c 74,597,175 UniFiber 10c 30.525.000 Kepoel Corp 50c 65,814,130 Trek 5c 27.517.000 SingTel 15c 33.753.097 DMXTechUS5c 22.670.000 Food June 8c 25,828,590 Sin Soon H 1c 19.722.000
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon The parallels look bad for Wall St
      704 16 If history repeats itself, this year would be a terrible one for US markets IHT [NEW YORK] Call it the 99year cycle. If it continues, then this year may not be an enjoyable one for inves- tors. William Draves, coauthor of Nine Shift,
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      Lock icon Japan denies joint development of oil and gas with China
      411 16  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo CHINA and Japan have agreed to jointly develop oil and gas resources in disputed areas of the East China Sea, a Chinese Foreign Ministry official claimed yesterday. If true, this would appear to remove a
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      Lock icon Seagate to continue with acquisitions
      307 16 Reuters [LAS VEGAS] Seagate Technology, a leading maker of hard disk drives, will continue to eye acquisitions, company chief executive Bill Watkins said on Thursday. The comment came two weeks after Seagate set plans to buy rival Maxtor Corp for nearly US$l.9 billion. The company,
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      Lock icon US job growth slows in Dec
      375 16 LATEST US DATA Reuters [WASHINGTON] US employers added a smaller-than-expected 108,000 new jobs in December but that followed a much stronger wave of hiring than previously thought in November when rebuilding after hurricanes was getting under way, a government report yesterday shows. In its
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      Lock icon Computer chip implants hold passwords
      257 16 Reuters [NEW YORK] Forgetting computer passwords is an everyday source of f frustration, but a solution may literally be at hand in the form of computer chip implants. With a wave of his hand, Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old entrepreneur based in Vancouver, Canada, opens his
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      Lock icon HOMECOMMING
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      1076 16 I, Lianhe Zaobao Prof Tan Kong Yam I on what Beijing can do for I China to be I 1: Y f j I asa'threat" I *»i3#WFT I wiKtrn I KM I IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF CAMMO REALTY (S) PTE
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  • MOTORING
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      Lock icon Coming to a showroom near you
      1699 17  -  SAMUEL EE previews some of the models that will be launched here in the next 12 months SAMUEL EE IT has only been seven days into the new year and already the signs are that it will be a lot more interesting than 2005
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  • GOLF
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      Lock icon Just for the record
      974 18  -  Some 1,500 golfers here will make a mark tomorrow, proving that it's not just the pros who get recorded for posterity, writes JUSTINE MOSS JUSTINE MOSS A GOLF record of sorts is scheduled to take place in Singapore tomorrow, but Tiger Woods won't be losing any
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  • WELLNESS
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      Lock icon Nip and tuck gets a facelift
      1355 19  -  Among the new plastic surgery methods available to S'poreans are Happy Lift, an improvement over Aptos procedure, and Thermage, reports CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON WITH the ever-improv-ing advances in cosmetic technology, what can image-sawy Singaporeans look forward to in 2006? New ways to rejuvenate
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      Lock icon Here comes idebenone to help fight ageing
      823 19  -  A synthetically produced anti-oxidant, it is the next big thing in anti-ageing, says CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON WE HAVE heard of the antioxidative effects of green tea, vitamins C and E, and co-enzyme QlO (Co Q10). Now, familiarise yourself with idebenone read as
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • SHOPPING
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      Lock icon Have bag will travel
      804 20  -  No vacation is quite complete without good luggage. CORINNE KERK looks at a new range of products that lets you travel in style CORINNE KERK Collected your bonus yet? No doubt one of the key things you can do with your extra money is to travel—especially
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