The Business Times, 8 March 2006

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES v SINGAPORE 85 cents- -onKrieat http://business-times.asial.com.sg MICA (P) 099/03/2006 Wednesday, March 8,2006
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  • Article
    Lock icon Trade spinoffs expected from Kyoto Protocol
    666 1  -  S'pore's decision to join international agreement could open up opportunities for business By CHEN HUIFEN, MATTHEW PHAN [SINGAPORE] Singapore will join the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are damaging the world environment. But the move is unlikely to add
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    138 1 STI 2,489.15 (-23.73) ST INDEX FUTURES 2.490.00 (-24.00) SIMSCI 294.63 (-2.76) SIMSCI FUTURES 295.90 (-2.40) MARKETS Tuesday Change KLSECOMP 915.21 +0.29 NIKKEI 225 15,726.02 -175.14 HANG SENG 15,602.36 -209.47 SET INDEX 738.36 -12.45 JAKARTA COMP 1,246.251 -16.439 MANILA COMP 2,121.91 -26.41 SEOUL COMP 1,316.67 -28.09 SHENZHEN B 240.01
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    Lock icon SingTel is the star at corporate awards with 3 golds
    499 1  -  Qian Hu clinches two top awards in its category By GRACE CHONG [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom clinched 1 three gold awards and emerged overall champion at last night's inaugural Singapore Corporate Awards at Raffles City Convention Centre. In the category for
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      9 1 Komoco opens Hyundai service centre in Übi pg 29
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      136 1 EXEC MONEY Investors hit the sweet spot PG42 REAL ESTATE Bright outlook for Asia PGIO > r: Singapore Corporate W Awards W CORPORATE OSCARS From boardroom practices to investor relations —what makes a company outstanding? I cnrononwttr deffl Bitot hope I horological rne^jfl^MMil^^BttlMiiiMMil 0^"'0^ subtleties reprWff^^Mjß^^P^^Epyp^>acft^p;;-" th historical |||ironometfyaM^^Ml»MreHßßMMflMMLa''Ml f.
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Carrefour project man did things on the quiet: counsel
      626 2  -  Crimson ogic court case By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] The man who took on the Carrefour project on behalf of Crimson Logic was someone who did things on the quiet without informing his superiors, it was suggested in court yesterday on
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      Lock icon Correction
      50 2 ON page 2 of yesterday's BT, we printed a photograph of the former CEO of software company Gridnode, Leow Chee Tong, and incorrectly referred to him as Leong Kah Keong, who is Gridnode's former general manager and currently head of Crimson Logic's Malaysian operations. We apologise for the error.
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      Lock icon Let foreign partners own up to 25% of law firms: panel
      414 2  -  DPM Jayakumar says proposal will help local firms reach out to region By CONRAD RAJ [SINGAPORE] Foreign lawyers should be able to own up to 25 per cent of a local law firm or share up to 25 per
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      Lock icon Law Society studies permitting referral fees
      837 2  -  Meanwhile, some lawyers are advertising through SMS messages By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] The practice of one lawyer paying another to pass on business known as referral fees and not yet permitted here is being studied by the Law Society of Singapore. And in
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      466 2 Thai govt workers vow to join rallies against Thaksin THAILAND'S political crisis deepened yesterday as more than 100.000 workers of state enterprises pledged to join street rallies in Bangkok to oust Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The unions of 42 state-owned enterprises have vowed to push for further action
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      Lock icon SingPost's contract to sell SingTel shares extended
      320 4  -  By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Holders of discounted Sing Tel shares will have another year in which to use Singapore Post to sell their holdings, following an extension of the Sing Post contract with the Central Provident Fund. Fees charged and procedures for
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      Lock icon CELEBRATING CORPORATE S'PORE
      77 4 It's Oscar night for Singapore business last evening as the inaugural Singapore Corporate Awards hit the high notes at the Raffles City Convention Centre. In all. 19 companies and two CFOs were honoured at the ceremony. Seen in the photo in the foreground from left are: guest-of
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      Lock icon Thai govt workers to join rallies against Thaksin
      857 4 Protesters gather around S'pore Embassy, seek PM Lee's intervention By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THAILAND'S political crisis deepened yesterday as more than 100,000 employees of state enterprises pledged to join the daily street rallies in Bangkok to oust Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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      Lock icon NKF appoints S'pore firm CLSF as its auditor
      474 4  -  Gerard Ee explains why it is chosen over international firms By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has appointed Chio Lim Stone Forest (CLSF) as its auditor for the year 2005 preferring the Singaporean firm to any of its internationally
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      190 5 State-of-the-art tradition. t m olashCtttk Vsa l JV Jj nr'' rJ^f < El >o> tr Sp *»,V' i V S6 GLASHUTTE VSA "%V The LANGE 1 MOONPHASE unites the know-how accrued in more than 150 years twice and painstakingly finished by hand in processes that take months to complete. of
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon UBS strengthens real estate banking team
      524 6  -  Four bankers quickly relocated from New York and Sydney By LESLIE YEE ÜBS has moved quickly to beef up its Asian real estate investment banking team following the resignation last Friday of its Singaporebased managing director and head of real estate investment banking for
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      Lock icon SembMarine, Keppel Shipyard net big deals
      470 6  -  By CONRAD RAJ SINGAPORE'S offshore marine sector continues to rake in more business with both SembCorp Marine (SembMarine) and Keppel Shipyard yesterday announcing new orders. In what is believed to be the single largest order to date this year, Jurong Shipyard, a subsidiary of
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      Lock icon SembCorp expected to invest in utilities
      575 6 Reuters SEMBCORP Industries, which sold its logistics business to Australia's Toll Holdings on Monday, has amassed about US$l billion for a war chest it can use to buy utilities. SembCorp's sale of its 60 per cent stake in SembCorp Logistics for ***** million would
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      Lock icon Container ship boom fizzling out
      722 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By DONALD URQUHART WELL, it finally looks like the writing is more than just on the wall. Despite industry attempts to talk up freight rates, the much anticipated container downturn appears to be gaining momentum. The three-year boom is coming to an
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      Lock icon Steel supplier Albedo seeks Sesdaq listing
      446 7  -  Video distributor Scorpio launches IPO offer of 28.6 m shares at 21c each By UMA SHANKARI STEEL supplier Albedo Ltd Is seeking a listing on Sesdaq. The company lodged its preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday. Albedo supplies a wide range
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      Lock icon L-Jacoberg director takes over as chairman and CEO
      337 7  -  Top management changes also saw step-down of COO By OH BOON PING ELECTRONIC motor maker Lindeteves-Jacoberg (LJ) has appointed director Heinz Grossmann as chairman and chief executive officer. In its announcement of top management changes yesterday, the company said Lim Say Hui
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      Lock icon Delong places out 225m shares
      125 7 DELONG Holdings Ltd, a maker of hot-rolled steel coils in China, yesterday said its executive chairman and largest shareholder, Ding Liguo, has placed out 225 million shares at 13 cents each to an institutional investor. The placement, valued at $29.25 million, represented a 4.24 per
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      Lock icon Bio-Treat bags 199 m yuan China projects
      155 7 810-TREAT Technology has secured two new turnkey municipal projects in China worth a total of 199 million yuan (Ss4o million). The projects, located at Fu Ning City and Xiang Shui City in the Jiangsu province, are expected to be profitable for Bio-Treat and
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      Lock icon Times Pub gets new chairman
      170 7 FRASER and Neave's group chief executive officer Han Cheng Fong has been appointed chairman of Times Publishing with effect from March 1. Times Publishing is wholly owned by Fraser and Neave and leads the group's printing, publishing and retail and distribution businesses. Dr Han takes
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      Lock icon SPH Magazines CEO to retire
      141 7 SPH Magazines Pte Ltd's chief executive officer David Tay will be retiring on May 31 to pursue his personal interests. Announcing this yesterday, media group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) said: "The board of directors wishes to thank Mr Tay for his 27 distinguished years of
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon HLN bags $3m deal from Brembo
        48 7 HLN Technologies Limited, a maker of engineering precision parts, said it has been awarded a contract of at least $3 million by Brembo SpA to supply technical rubber components for its world-renowned braking systems. The contract will run in 2006 and 2007.
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        Lock icon UOL raises stake in Hotel Plaza
        40 7 UNITED Overseas Land said it bought a total of 425,000 Hotel Plaza Ltd shares from the open market yesterday for $509,499, increasing its interest in the subsidiary to 310,345,000 shares or 77.59 per cent.
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        Lock icon Communication Design's profit falls
        43 7 COMMUNICATION Design International posted a net profit of 1.65 million for its first half year ended Dec 31, 2005, down 22.8 per cent from $2.14 million in the previous corresponding half. Revenue rose 5.7 per cent to $11.65 million.
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Greenback perks up after downside test
      863 8  -  CURRENCIES But can it survive March, April without more heavy losses vs Asian favourites? LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar has made a fairly decent recovery over the past fortnight versus the Canadian dollar and selected Asian units such as the Japanese yen,
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      1018 8 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Mar 7 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Buy I Shares Per Before After Tram Shareholder/ Buy/ Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Sell 000 Shr S COOP) COOP) Stock Date Director
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      294 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI SembCorp Industries March 7 dose: $3.26 UOB KAY HIAN RESEARCH, March 7 SEMBCORP Industries (SCI) is to divest its stake in SembCorp Logistics (SML) to Toll Holdings of Australia, through the latter's whollyowned subsidiary Toll (Asia) Pte Ltd. Toll has made voluntary conditional cash
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      Lock icon Region-wide selloff hits STI
      402 8  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent AFTER gaining 33 points in the previous two sessions, the Straits Times Index (STI) fell 23.73 points to 2,489.15 yesterday, victim of a region-wide selloff triggered by Wall Street's Monday drop which in turn came after a bond market selloff sent
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      Lock icon STI's rising trend looks unsustainable
      269 8  -  CHART POINT By YEO KEE YAN, chartist at Kelive Research GAINS in selected blue-chip stocks such as Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), Singapore Telecommunications (Sing Tel), and United Overseas Bank (UOB) continued to prop up the Straits Times Index (STI), which momentarily pushed it above the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Reits in Asia 'could yield good returns'
      651 10  -  Markets immature but investor demand is great: Henderson By GENEVIEVE CUA ASIA is an emerging market for real estate investment trusts (Reits), and hence is expected to generate "super normal" returns, says Chris Reilly, Henderson Global Investors' director of property (Asia). In Henderson's
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      Lock icon Shell, EDB finalising downstream parties for S'pore cracker project
      519 10  -  By RONNIE LIM SHELL and its project partner, the Economic Development Board (EDB), are finalising investors for the downstream plants at their planned, multibillion-dollar Singapore petrochemicals complex. "Negotiations are at a critical stage, especially with D-day drawing near," one source said
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      Lock icon Hilltops at Cairnhill back on en bloc sale market
      467 10  -  Reports by KALPANA RASHIWALA THE Hilltops Apartments at Cairnhill Circle are back on the collective sale market two years after the owners backed away from 'selling en bloc because the price was not good enough. The choice site is again being
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      Lock icon St Thomas Walk block sold for $54m
      308 10 BUKIT Sembawang Estates has snapped up Chez Bright Apartments at St Thomas Walk in the River Valley area through a collective sale. The price it is paying is $54 million, or $625 per square foot of potential gross floor area inclusive of an
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      Lock icon Swiss testing company SGS opens biomed QC lab
      279 10  -  By CHEN HUIFEN GENEVA-BASED testing and certification company SGS SA has opened a new laboratory in Singapore to tap into the growing biotech and pharmaceutical sectors here. The new laboratory will offer quality control (QC) testing of pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals and medical devices.
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      Lock icon SMU pips NUS in graduate jobs again
      260 10  -  By JURENA CHAN SINGAPORE Management University (SMU) has pipped the National University of Singapore (NUS) in terms of graduate employment for a second straight year, according to figures released by the two institutions. SMU said yesterday that 100 per cent of its 2005
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      Lock icon Push to raise supply of doctors in S'pore
      541 11  -  YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT Health minister also announces moves to improve hospital disclosure By CHEN HUIFEN HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday announced changes aimed at improving the Singapore healthcare system, starting with increasing the potential supply of doctors. He wants the Singapore
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      Lock icon S'pore to meet water needs by 2061
      231 11 Bloomberg SINGAPORE will be able to meet its own water needs by 2061, when a second supply contract with Malaysia expires, Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim said. The city-state is turning a river and bay into a reservoir, building desalination and water-recycling plants
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      Lock icon PUB, Hyflux, SingSpring win global water awards
      272 11 SINGAPOBE has won three awards at the Global Water Awards 2006 ceremony in Dubai, bearing testimony to the international recognition its water industry has been receiving. Into the second year, the awards presented at a ceremony on Monday are organised by Global Water
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      Lock icon MOE plans to introduce AEMs in sec schools
      330 11  -  By DANIEL BUENAS AS part of Singapore's broader efforts to restructure itself to become a knowledge-based, innovation-driven economy, the Ministry of Education (MOE) plans to introduce advanced elective modules (AEMs) and new applied subjects in secondary schools. This was announced in Parliament
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Backlash against takeover deals 'may hinder growth'
      751 12 Over US$475b in takeovers in 2006 is the busiest start for any year since 2000 Bloomberg [PAßlS] A global backlash against foreign corporate investment may end up holding down growth worldwide, economists say. The mounting opposition to multinational mergers comes as more than
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      Lock icon Move to cut oil supplies may boomerang on Opec
      485 12 NYT [VIENNA] Strange as it may seem, some Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) oil ministers are feeling sorry for themselves. For the last three months, a few of Opec's top representatives have argued that their oil-produc-ing cartel needs to
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      6188 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AM Anro M Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!" 1908/ Star Europe Bond 1.174/ Star Europe 8al 1.163/ Star Asian fqer Eqty 1.158 Star Asia Bond 1303/ Star Asia Balanced 1.067/ Star Global Technology FuxJ!" 0-21/ MuM StFd 1.041/ Star Aaa BonKUSO) 0.804/ Gb MuM St USD 1.159/
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Funds pour into Indonesian bond market
      582 13  -  US$3b investments in two months propel rupiah up against US$ By SHOEB KAGDA in Jakarta LURED by better credit ratings and relatively high yields, international fund managers pumped more than US$3 billion into Indonesia's bond markets in the first two months of this year.
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      Lock icon M'sian firms upbeat over H1 prospects
      450 13  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Chinese businesses say they are still cautiously optimistic about the economic outlook for the first half of the year, but more gloomy about the outlook over the next two to three years. In a survey of the
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      Lock icon FTSE drops 10 Bursa firms from indices
      404 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Financial index provider FTSE has dropped 10 Malaysian firms from its global equity index series, rubbing salt into the wounds of the local bourse that was Asia's worst performing over the past six months. FTSE made the changes after reviewing
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon ICICI Bank plans to open more overseas branches
      224 14 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] ICICI Bank Ltd will open branches in Belgium, other European nations, Africa and the Middle East, seeking to win a bigger share of loans to Indian companies expanding overseas and remittances by Indians living abroad. ICICI, India's biggest private lender,
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      Lock icon US$900m Macau licence dealb oosts Wynn Resorts
      457 14 Shares of Packer's PBL, which bought casino licence with Melco, also rise Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Wynn Resorts Ltd, the casino operator headed by Stephen Wynn, sold a licence to run Macau casinos for US$9OO million, sending its share price soaring to a three-year
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      Lock icon China banks pushing for cross-sector investment
      339 14 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's banks, faced with the prospect of increased foreign competition from 2007, are pushing to expand into insurance, stock brokering and other financial services in pursuit of one guiding principle: size'matters. With full-service giants such as Citigroup Inc and HSBC Holdings Pic
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      Lock icon Ambani brothers plan big business expansion
      419 14 They'll spend almost US$7 billion on diversification Bloomberg [MUMBAI] The Ambani brothers, after parting company, are planning to expand their respective groups in a big way. The two brothers will spend nearly US$7 billion to branch out into new businesses. Sources said Reliance Industries
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon AT&T to buy rival Bell outh for US$67 billion
      577 16 But analysts question its strategy of growing through M&As NYT [NEW YORK] Is bigger necessarily better when it comes to running a telecommunications company? Apparently, AT&T thinks so, announcing plans to buy Bell South, the primary phone and broadband provider in
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      Lock icon Q4 productivity revised to 0.5% fall
      280 16 LATEST US DATA Reuters [WASHINGTON] US nonfarm business productivity fell at a 0.5 per cent annual rate in the fourth quarter, a smaller drop than first thought but still the first decline in nearly five years, a report showed yesterday. Wall Street had expected
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon NBC Universal to buy iVillage for US$600m
      242 16 Reuters [NEW YORK] NBC Universal on Monday said it would buy iVillage Inc, an operator of a network of websites for women, for US$6OO million, marking the latest move by a major media company to use its programming foundation to tap further into
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      Lock icon Germany's Linde to buy UK rival for £8.2b
      317 16 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Germany's Linde has agreed to buy UK-based rival BOC Group for £8.2 billion (5523.3 billion), vaulting to top spot in the industrial gases market ahead of France's Air Liquide. BOC's board reversed its previous opposition and approved the deal valuing
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      Lock icon More US women shunning workplace and staying home
      598 16 AFP. Reuters [WASHINGTON] More and more American women are swapping briefcases and suits for jeans and diaper bags as they opt to stay home and raise children, putting the brakes on decades of female advances in the workplace. For the first time
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    • WORLD WATCH
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES Sinqapore Corporate Awards
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      Lock icon CORPORATE OSCARS
      595 17  -  By Leslie Yee EXCELLENT boards, annual reports, chief financial officers and investor relations practices these are what the inaugural Singapore Corporate Awards (SCA) seek to recognise. The event introduces two new awards, for best CFO and investor relations, while incorporating two existing ones the Best Managed Boards Award
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      1026 18  -  Chua Sock Koong's journey at SingTel almost parallels the development of corporate Singapore, SIOW LI SEN explains SIOW LI SEN IF ONE needed to illustrate a particularly Singaporean trait, which is that we are usually the last to recognise the leaders among us, the Chief Financial
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      240 18 SINGTEL'S share price performance has generated some controversy over the years, especially since it is Singapore's most widely held stock. The question centres on how much shareholders gained or lost since its listing. Much depends on which tranche of shares they bought. Sing Tel
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      1065 19  -  MATTHEW PHAN meets award-winning chief financial officer Soh Gim Teik, who quietly keeps the company in financial step MATTHEW PHAN A SPECIALTY retailer of luxury watches, Sincere Watch is better known for its branded timepieces that could adorn your wrist for $20,000. Or, if
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      1295 20  -  When it comes to corporate governance, there are 5 key issues that many boards have yet to address, says MAK YUEN TEEN MAK YUEN TEEN IMPROVING corporate governance has been described as a never-ending journey. While Singapore has come a long way from the 1997 crisis days,
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      1027 21  -  The board of directors has many responsibilities, not least of which is transparency and disclosure, WONG WEI KONG reports WONG WEI KONG IT wasn't too long ago that the boards of companies were regarded as old boys' clubs, with agreeable conversations, rounds of golf and
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      1358 23  -  Good investor relations start with the Triple As accountability, accessibility and availability, says ELAINE LIM ELAINE LIM IN the wake of the downfall of Corporate America, triggered by Enron, Worldcom and Tyco, followed by a stream of other corporations, corporate governance and business integrity have
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      821 24  -  CHRISTINE ONG underlines the importance of corporate governance CHRISTINE ONG HIGH standards of corporate governance can and should provide companies with a source of competitive advantage, and I have no doubt that it is already the new gold standard against which local and multinational businesses will be
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      1367 25  -  WONG WEI KONG catches up with the men who know all about maintaining good investor relations WONG WEI KONG YOU can always count on a call from Singapore Telecommunications (Sing Tel), even if you're an investor half a world away. Singapore's biggest listed company and the region's
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      1291 26  -  Much thought, planning, commitment and effort go into the making of the best annual reports in town, as WONG WEI KONG finds out from three of this year's Gold ARA winners WONG WEI KONG ALL listed companies in Singapore publish &n annual report. But that is
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      798 28  -  How does STE manage to post its results so quickly every year? WONG WEI KONG gets some answers from CEO Tan Pheng Hock WONG WEI KONG WHEN defence conglomerate Singapore Technologies Engineering (STE) announces its results, it usually also marks the start of the
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      146 17 Coordinator Wong Wn Kong Editor Elaine fob Sub-editors: Leong Sau Ming, Lftan Lee Artists: Jennifer Chua, Noonfn Ayob Photographer Arthur Lee Excellence in corporate governance and shareholder communication is highly valued at ÜBS, which is why we are especially proud to support the Singapore Corporate Awards and their work to
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      159 18 OUR HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS TO |P B|A OKP HOLDINGS LIMITED v, Gold Winner Singapore of the best annual report award Corporate ]V forsesdaqcompaniesatthe Awards inaugural Singapore corporate awards 2006 Our Corporate Vision Jr "To be a leading regional transport Infrastructure builder and civil engineering company In Singapore, and to be the
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      190 20 t3*& w < -v.; i'V Celebrating our Achievements SP Chemicals is committed to doing our best in everything. From the way we run our business to how we communicate to our 2006 stakeholders. While we have not set out to win awards, it is gratifying that our efforts are recognised.
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      286 22 f Congratulations! We salute all the winners of the inaugural Singapore Corporate Awards. You have helped to raise Singapore's corporate disclosure and transparency standards. Thank you for serving as exemplary role models in corporate governance best practices. Best Managed Boards Award Best Annual Report Award Companies with > $500 m
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      33 23 Companies can refer to the BT Corporate Transparency Index to assess their standing among their peers for the quantity and quality of financial information provided, and work out ways to improve their standing.
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      504 24 Bronze Award 4 B©St CORFOK^VrK avxakds^ Relations Attaining Ever Higher Levels Of Tyres has as a Bronze well-deserved endorsement our efforts our our valued shareholders, investment professionals M JmM i fIU and investors at large by involving them in 1 CM^^WU"»h t "V .X' W mmmki* jAA HUSTMLU f-^> Stamford
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      160 25 A with Passion^ 1- >k m. Cocoa and chocolate are our passion; it is our privilege that in communicating our enthusiasm we have been recognised with the 'Silver Award' for the Best Annual Report at the Singapore Corporate Awards 2006. V Our two key business divisions Cocoa Ingredients and Branded
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      159 26 r■■■-■ ifei I The Hole Solution Provider V Multi-Chem is honoured to be one of the winners of the first euer Singapore M CORPORATE W 2a Singapore Corporate Awards. Multi-Chem is the leading printed circuit board (PCB) drilling and routing specialist in Singapore and Eastern China. The Company is also
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      111 27 JaS Star Hub thank a person and chances are that he, or she, will just smile, say 'you're welcome' and walk away. But today, all the people we're saying a BIG 'thank you' to have helped us grow and will be with us in the exciting times to come. They're
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      63 28 "1» Ik JJm Mk H >; *31^* HH JSk j^^HF' Inspired to excellence with clear directions for the Group, the quality culture at Qian Hu pervades throughout the organization. Since our listing in 2000, we have been guided by another important mission to create value for our shareholders Vlr r
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      501 29  -  Centre comes with showroom, can service up to 150 cars a day By SAMUEL EE BUDGET brand Hyundai has finally found its ideal service centre in eastern Singapore thanks ironically to luxury marque Mer-cedes-Benz and competitor Kia. Authorised distributor Komoco Motors opens its
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      643 29  -  By SAMUEL EE THE frenzy that greeted the new online vehicle services system of the Land Transport Authority (LTA) a week ago has died down and things are "back to normal", says Maria Choy, group director of LTA's Vehicle and Transit Licensing (VTL)
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      736 30 Air France KLM's passenger traffic is up 8.5%; easyJet's is up 9.4% from a year earlier Reuters [PARIS] Air France KLM c(nd easy Jet reported rises in February passenger figures yesterday despite high fuel costs and sluggish travel markets that have
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      748 30 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Asia-Pacific airlines have raised their jet fuel hedging this year to take advantage of a dip in oil prices, guarding against the potential for a market rebound due to geopolitical supply concerns. Major regional airlines and budget carriers have
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      131 30 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, which flew a record number of passengers in 2005, may report a 24 per cent decline in second-half net income, after failing to cover surging fuel costs with surcharges. Profit may have fallen to HK$2.Ol
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      502 30 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Fraport AG, owner of Frankfurt Airport, said fourth-quarter profit rose 36 per cent and predicted higher earnings this year as the German company cuts labour costs and expands overseas. Net income rose to 26.1 million euros (S$51 million)
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      613 31 Overworked US ports must upgrade to cope with rising trade: US official Bloomberg. Reuters (LONDON] A UK appeals court refused to review the recent approval of DP World's US$6.B billion acquisition of Britain's Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Co. The Court of Appeal on
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      330 31  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] There is an urgent need for regional response plans to deal with the growing risk of pollution as a result of the increasing quantities of petrochemicals being shipped, a conference hosted by the Maritime Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore was
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      262 31 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's cabinet has approved a plan by state-owned Shipping Corp of India Ltd, the nation's biggest freight company, to form a joint venture with three Japanese companies in Panama. Shipping Corp will spend US$2O.BB million for a 33.77 per cent
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      525 32 EDITORIAL WHY is a piece of legislation that ostensibly seeks to curtail pornography raising unprecedented opposition from so many sectors of Indonesian society? For instance, the Bill has so incensed the Balinese that they have threatened to seek independence from Jakarta if it is passed
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      788 32  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING QUESTION: When is a change not a change? Answer: When the government making the change insists that nothing has changed. This is the situation in Taiwan, where President Chen Shui-bian signed documents on Feb 27 to do away
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      867 33  -  Leading companies have one thing in common a single-minded focus on getting, developing and retaining talent By IAN TILL EACH year, in good times and bad, General Electric takes in several thousand new graduates. Every time a resume comes in, Procter Gamble
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      281 33  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to the article "s4oom to help older, lowwage earners" (BT, Feb 18) and media reports that the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme was set up in 1985 because Harry Elias, the former president
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      1308 33  -  By LE-MIN LIM Bloomberg QIU Xiyu no longer counts on the Shiyang River to sustain his family's wheat and cotton crops as his father did. Increasing water use by cities ries upstream reduces the river to a trickle by the time it reaches his
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  • EXECUTIVE MONEY
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      992 41  -  MONEY MATTERS The risk-versus-reward paradigm increasingly points to a market correction. A look at some significant risks facing the global market PHILIP LOH LOW volatility in the stock markets over the past few years has whetted the appetite of retail investors. They are coming
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      367 41  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA EMERGING markets have seen at least three years of robust returns, but Deutsche Bank chief Asian strateGittler continues to faAmong equities he favours Asia ix-Japan while for fixed-income he ikes Latin American bonds. Mr Gittler sees the fundamentals of a number of
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      278 41  -  By Chua Boon Lee, Standard Poor's Associate Fund Services GLOBAL equity markets managed to eke out a modest rise overall in February, with the S&P/Citigroup BMI Developed Wodd Index gaining 0.24 per cent in local currency terms during the month. Europe posted the best regional returns with
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      1105 42  -  Those who invested in equities were amply rewarded while those who put their money in protected funds fared the worst. GENEVIEVE CUA looks at the volatility factor GENEVIEVE CUA IF you brushed aside fear of the market in the last three years and stayed
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