The Business Times, 30 March 2007

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES tF A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Friday, March 30,2007
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    Lock icon Foreign buying extends to landed homes in prime areas
    594 1  -  105 such homes sold to foreigners last year, the highest since 1995 By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] An increasing number of landed homes in Singapore are going to foreign buyers, especially in the prime districts. Foreigners (including permanent residents) picked up 105
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    Lock icon More Mid-East investors are heading for S'pore
    790 1  -  Between 2000 and 2004, direct investments soared from $472.6 m to $3.6b By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Middle Eastern investors have been pouring money into Singapore and a business group which has just been set up aims to encourage the trend. Between 2000 and
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      65 1 f( Jg|( EXEC UFESTYU Thejoyof sWpwrecl A& ceramics I^. once me lonely job. think that's really do. 9 Michelle Peluso, chief executive and president of Travetocity. In m|V Wm the Raffles Conversation 3^lMal vt Hi* TV^S^K^ZnCI'" tomorrow PHHI'i HHUiiS? PMHI HM v^M Unveiled: Singapore Gold, the first of 3 groups
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      15 1 THAILAND Elections set for December HiaiPM PAGE 2 8 Hi I Markets Digest Pag* 2
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      26 1 GREEN AWARDS SMEs come out tops PAGE 14 museum i■i■■ i ■mi *■——jiPßi I. i M l 1 J 'Ji n l »11 1 1 i
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon S'pore wants to draw more investments in biologies
      764 2  -  Investments total US$940m so far but have not reached critical mass yet By CHEN HUIFEN [SINGAPORE] Singapore is aggressively chasing investments in biologies so the country will play an increasing part in producing these drugs or other treatments made from living material
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      131 2 ST! 3,***** (+27.13) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,229.00 (+27.00) SIMSCI 397.61 (+3.08) SIMSO FUTURES 398.30 (+5.10) MARKETS Thursday Change KLCOMP U35J9 +0.65 NIKKEI 225 17.263.94 +9.21 HANG SENG 19,821.78 +267.91 SET INDEX 671.62 +2.58 JAKARTA COMP 1,817.72 +17.33 MANILA COMP 3,151.72 -11.09 SEOUL COMP 1.450.95 +1U1 SHENZHEN B 523JU
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      Lock icon Thai PM: Elections will be held in December
      528 2 Surayud rejects calls for emergency rule in Bangkok AFP, Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's ar-my-installed premier said yesterday elections to restore democracy will be held in December and rejected calls for emergency rule in Bangkok as he sought to cool soaring tensions. Prime Minister
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      620 2 S'pore has place in precision engineering SINGAPORE will be well positioned to join precision engineering heavyweights Germany, Japan and Switzerland by getting the fundamentals of technological prowess, market knowledge and manpower right, said Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, last night. Already, Singapore has
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      Lock icon Using mid-tier accounting firms can pay off: MSI chief
      559 4  -  By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] While midtier accountancy firms need to do their part in getting the message out that they can provide the same quality, if not the same scale, of service as the Big Four firms, it's equally important that
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      Lock icon Singapore Gold goes for plan with a view
      395 4  -  Bid for new National Stadium Its horseshoe-shaped design presents an open face to the Kallang Basin By VINCENT WEE [SINGAPORE] One of the three groups vying to build Singapore's new National Stadium unveiled a plan yesterday that aims to highlight the site's
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      Lock icon S'pore has place in precision engineering
      350 4  -  Task is to get tech prowess, market knowledge and manpower right: Yi Shyan By CHRISTINE SIM (SINGAPORE] Singapore will be well positioned to enter the same precision engineering (PG) league as Germany. Japan and Switzerland by getting the fundamentals of technological prowess, market knowledge
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      Lock icon Polo club president captain face no-confidence vote
      478 5  -  Member alleges they let a term member play polo in breach of dub rules By VINCENT WEE [SINGAPORE] Members of one of Singapore's oldest clubs the Sin* gapore Polo Chib were meeting last night to vote on a motion of noconfidence against two
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      993 2 ADVANCED SYSTEMS AUTOMATION LIMITED Company Registration No. *****0740 M (Incorporatedin the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-First Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Block 25 Kallang Avenue, *06-01 KaUang Basin Industrial Estate, Singapore *****6 on Tuesday, 24
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      2391 4 STATS ChipPAC Ltd. mTSChlnjvfcr > (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration Number **********) J Notkc of Thirteenth Annual Ganwral Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Thirteenth Annual General Meeting (the "Annual General Meeting*) of STATS CMpMC Ltd. (the "Com party" or "STATS ChipPAC") will be held at
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      298 4 .::^r^3ar V .v»-v- v<t Sale by Tender: Kian Teck, Tampines and Woodlands Dormitories c :>■&. «3Erfa<f JTC is offering the private sector an opportunfty to own and operate Kian Teck, Tampines and/or rV., Woodlands Dormitory: These ready-built dormitories with existing tenancies house foreign workers from the manufacturing industry. y ;frjr
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      193 5 r The Chevrolet Captiva is the all-new SUV that's ideal for the individual, perfect for the family. Its strong, progressive SUV styling, gives the Captiva a commanding presence on the road. Inside, space is used innovatively to create ample room for seven people or more storage space by simply folding
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Betting on upstream set to pay off for SPC
      728 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By RONNIE LIM KEPPEL Corp has been nibbling at Singapore Petroleum Company's shares in the open market over the last six months picking up over five million shares and raising its stake in the associate company from 44.08
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      Lock icon Consolidation may boost market cap of transport sector: report
      442 6  -  By WONG WEI KONG RATIONALISATION of Singapore's transport system if it leads to one company running the bus system and another operating the rail network could boost the transport sector's market value by more than half a billion dollars. This would
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      Lock icon Mapletree Logistics eyes Korea, Vietnam assets
      265 6 Reuters SINGAPORE'S Mapletree Logistics Trust Management expects to add South Korea and Vietnam assets to its portfolio of warehouses and container depots this year I as it continues to diversify 5 out of the city-state, its chief said yesterday. "We don't need to be
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      Lock icon Asti to expand further beyond semicon
      570 7  -  Firm well placed for rise in demand for semicon equipment in China: chairman By JANICE HENG ASTI Holdings will continue to expand beyond semicon-ductor-related markets, but executive chairman Michael Loh says that the semiconductor business is "still a growth industry." In an interview, Mr
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      Lock icon Hyflux in venture to build Algerian desalination plant
      246 7  -  By TETTYANA JASLI SINGAPORE'S Hyflux Ltd yesterday announced that it and Malakoff International of Malaysia have agreed on a joint venture with the Algerian Energy Company (AEC) to build and run a desalination business in the north African country. The project company
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      Lock icon HPL jumps to all-time high on talk of sealing F1 deal
      378 6  -  By TETTYANA JASLI RAMPANT speculation that Ong Beng Seng, a major shareholder in Hotel Properties Limited (HPL), has sealed the deal which will see Singapore host a leg of the popular Formula One series pushed the company's shares up
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      Lock icon Property now makes up 70% of Sim Lian's business
      312 6  -  By ARTHUR SIM SIM Lian Group says property development now accounts for 70 per cent of its business. And it has at least two residential launches lined up. Going on sale today is the 338-unit Carabelle on the former Hin Seng
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      935 8 SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD MAM SDQ TOTAL Up Do— Uth Up Down Undl Up Down Und> Mutti lod 12 4 0 0 0 _4 Manufacturg 106 39 59 17 8 J8 125 47 77 Commerce 41 16 20 4 4 7 45 20 27 Tpt/S tor/Com 16 11 12 3_ 0
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      Lock icon Traders bank on Wall Street recovery
      538 8  -  STOCKS ST Index rebounds from intraday loss of 30 points to close with net gain of 27 points R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent A REVERSAL in the futures market for US benchmarks which suggested that Wall Street would rebound on Thursday helped the Straits Times
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      1012 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Fraser Neave March 29 dose: 555.25 OTKSItOUP RESEARCH, March 28 PROPOSED acquisition appears reasonable at Ss26o psf ppr: F&N announced that it has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with the Far East Group to acquire a land site at Tampines St 11 for
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      Lock icon US$ edges up as risk aversion worry eases
      516 8 CURRENCIES Reuters [TOKYO] The US dollar edged up against the yen yesterday, extending a rebound as a rise in Asian shares soothed worries about risk aversion and prompted buying of higher-yield-ing currencies against the yen. The dollar also gained ground as market
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Emerging Asia will lead to neutral impact on equities
      608 9  -  High liquidity, low interest rates will be affected by its strong ascent By SIOW LI SEN ASIA'S "cheap" effect on global markets is on the wane as it emerges as an economic powerhouse. And the boost to earnings and high liquidity
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      Lock icon Legg Mason sees 15-20% returns in US
      287 9 THE US equity market is a "compelling" proposition on a risk-adjusted basis, says a portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Value Fund led by legendary investor Bill Miller. "We believe the market could produce returns of 15 to 20 per cent in a
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      Lock icon COMPANY BRIEFS
      323 9 Wearnes unit expects Q2 net sales to fall WEARNES' subsidiary, Multi-Fineline Electronix Inc (M-Flex), said it no longer expects sequential growth for its second quarter ending March 31, 2007. M-Flex's chairman and CEO, Phil Harding, said the company has been hit by lower sales to its largest customer.
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      Lock icon China KL Int'l lodges preliminary IPO prospectus
      362 10  -  IPO WATCH By JANICE HENG CHINA KL International, holding company for manufacturer Henan New Kelong Electrical Appliances, has lodged its preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore for a listing on the Singapore Exchange's main board. The initial public offer (IPO) will
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      Lock icon China Print to list 32m new shares on SGX
      366 10  -  Company to use proceeds to grow the business and for acquisitions By ANGELA TAN CHINA Print Power Group yesterday lodged a preliminary prospectus to list 32 million new shares on the Singapore Exchange making it the third Chinabased company to do
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      Lock icon Tiger Airways' IPO in 2008 at the earliest
      306 10 Reuters (HONG KONG] Singapore Airlines' low-fare carrier Tiger Airways can shoot for an IPO in 2008 at the earliest. chief executive Chew Choon Seng said yesterday, dashing hopes the budget airline will list by end--2007. "The end of this year is not
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      2535 11 Financial Results Ended 31 December 2006 SUMMARISED FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2006 The following Financial Statements contain only a summary of the information in the full financial statements and directors' report of DBS Group Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries ("the Group") They do not contain sufficient
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      4357 12 NOTICES MegaChemT MEGACHEM LIMITED (Registration No.: *****3293 M) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 132 Pioneer Road, Singapore *****8 on 16 April 2007 at 10.00 a.m. to transact the
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      807 12 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF CNPC (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (Company Registration No.: *****5564E) (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50, the Final Meeting of the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Borouge JV to expand marketing HQ here
      216 13 THE Borouge joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Europe's Borealis is expanding its global marketing HQ in Singapore to cater to growing business and support its multi-billion dollar ethylene cracker expansion in Abu Dhabi. Borouge said yesterday its marketing
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      Lock icon Sentosa chief bags top Tourism Awards '06 prize
      159 13 SENTOSA Development Corporation chairman Philip Ng took top honours at the Tourism Awards 2006 at the Esplanade Concert Hall last night He received the Outstanding Contribution to Tourism prize for his role in helping redevelop the resort island. Other individuals and organisations
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      Lock icon HSBC aims to lead in managing cash
      407 13  -  By SIOW LI SEN HSBC is aiming to take over much of the payments and cash management work for Singapore's increasingly globalised small business sector as well as the regional treasuries of multinational corporations based here, bank executives said yesterday. "By 2010, we
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      Lock icon Working S'poreans 75% under-insured: LIA
      482 14  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA THE average working Singaporean needs roughly $480,000 of life cover but has just a quarter of that or $118,000, studies commissioned by the Life Insurance Association show. Taken as a whole, the working population in Singapore is under-insured by as much as
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      Lock icon Q1 investment sales of property up 53%
      429 13  -  Residential sector accounts for 60% of $9.23b total, says CBRE By ARTHUR SIM SENTIMENT in the property market has continued to be bullish into the new year with figures for investment sales in the first quarter showing an increase of more than 50
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      Lock icon SMEs come out tops at 'green' awards
      330 14  -  Omega Thermal, Origin Exterminators are best in their class By PAMELA CHEW SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) dominated the "Oscars for the environment" at the inaugural Singapore Green Summit 2007 last night, bagging two of the three top awards. Pest management company Origin
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      239 13 m AVIVA Do you have ,£481,000? If not, you should talk to Aviva. $481,000. Thafs the amount of life insurance protection an average Singaporean requires*. But most of us have a shortfall of $362,000* in protection needs. At just $3.90 A a day, address this with one of the most
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      67 15 With heartiest congratulations to our valued client: QOb LIPPO GROUP Mr Stephen Riady and the Lippo Group on the successful launch of "The Trillium" another premium development project of the Lippo Group. M Bi i *^>#"-v--|-"5• t?»;^s^f?^^^?^'.. :^*s®£?aslss3lfr."Isßjf-* f > fl v 1 |v Jk* li' •i«j*^ii-!^^—• -'tr■'. J .^Si^fe
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Mexico to maintain textile quotas
      139 16 AP [MEXICO CITY] Mexican President Felipe C&lderon pledged on Wednesday to continue to support antidumping measures against Chinese textiles, saying the local clothing industry suffers unfair disadvantages in competition with the Asian giant. Mr Calderon said his administration has sought consultations with the Chinese government
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      Lock icon Bernanke disagrees with Greenspan over risks of recession
      501 16 Reuters [NEW YORK] Ben Bernanke has promised greater transparency and on Wednesday made one thing clear: the chairman of the Federal Reserve doesn't agree with his former boss on the economic outlook. For several weeks now, former Fed chief Alan Greenspan had
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      Lock icon 9% growth by India 'difficult with lower inflation'
      366 16 Central bank adviser says equity, property markets overheating Reuters [MUMBAI] India will have difficulty achieving economic growth of 9 per cent with lower inflation than it has at the moment, a member of an advisory committee to the central bank said on
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      Lock icon US cautioned on tough approach to China policy
      473 16 Drastic actions over yuan will poison ties, economist tells lawmakers Reuters. AP. Bloomberg. AFP [WASHINGTON] As US legislators consider a bill to force China to raise the value of its currency, a China trade expert and former IMF economist warned that being
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon New Indon law gives tax breaks to investors
      479 17 Govt aiming to attract US$22b of investment annually Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's Parliament has passed a law to give tax breaks to investors and ease bureaucratic hurdles, as the country seeks to attract companies such as General Electric Co amid rising competition from
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      Lock icon Asian Finance Bank opens for business in M'sia
      271 17 AFP [KUALA LUMPURI The Middle Eastern-owned Asian Finance Bank on Wednesday launched operations as Malaysia's third foreign-owned Islamic bank and said it would use the country as a hub to expand regionally. "Malaysia will be used as a hub for the bank
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      Lock icon Indonesia ends state monopoly of railways
      186 17 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesian Parliament passed a law on Tuesday allowing private investment in railways, ending stateowned PT Kereta Api's monopoly of the country's railroads. The company has held the monopoly rights for the past 61 years after it took over all the railroads a
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon EPF may sell stake to foreign bank
        106 17 Reuters [LONDON] Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is expected to approach British banks Barclays Pic and Royal Bank of Scotland plus other international lenders to sell a 20 per cent stake in Malaysian bank Rashid Hussain, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The newspaper
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        Lock icon Pertamina's 06 profit lower than forecast
        110 17 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Pertamina, Indonesia's state oil company, said profit last year rose to 19 trillion rupiah (553.2 billion), lower than forecast because of a weaker dollar. Unaudited net income last year rose 15.6 per cent from 16.46 trillion rupiah in 2005, Frederick Siahaan,
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        Lock icon AirAsia signs F1 sponsorship
        80 17 AFP [SEPANG, Malaysia] Malaysia's budget carrier Air Asia has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with racing team Williams beginning with the 2007 Formula One season, a top official said yesterday. "F1 is a sport we would love to be associated with. We would love to be
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        Lock icon Metro to set up Indon wholesale network
        86 17 Reuters [JAKARTA] Europe's largest retail company, Metro AG, is planning to set up a network of 20 wholesale markets in Indonesia with an investment of 500 million euro (SSI.OI billion), a newspaper reported yesterday. Investor Daily quoted Germany's deputy ambassador in Indonesia Wolfgang
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      Lock icon Dr M blasts Abdullah over IDR rules
      636 17  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur AFTER five months of relative quiet, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad returned to the offensive, this time attacking Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's plan to relax laws governing investment in the Iskandar Development Region (IDR) in
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon China's ICBC surpasses Bank of America in market value
      364 18 It is now world's second most valuable bank, behind Citigroup Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Industrial Commercial Bank of China Ltd overtook Bank of America Corp as the world's second-most valuable financial firm, even though the Beijing-based company earns about one-third the profit.
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      Lock icon WEEKEND BOOST FOR HK BARS
      61 18 [HONG KONG] Fiji's captain Semisi Naevo (left) and New Zealand's captain DJ Forbes in Hong Kong yesterday for the three-day Rugby Sevens tournament starting today. The tournament injected HK$213.4 million (5$41.5 million) into the economy last year as many of the 40.000 fans headed to
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      Lock icon Citigroup to expand securities business, network in China
      256 18 AP [BEIJING] Citigroup Inc plans to expand its securities business and branch network in China this year after being included in last week's first group of banks approved to incorporate locally, chief executive Charles Prince said yesterday. Citigroup plans to expand its
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      Lock icon BMW opens India plant, may raise capacity
      294 18 Chennai factory has an annual capacity of 1,700 units Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the world's largest maker of luxury cars, will expand capacity at its new India factory as demand increases in a nation where the number of millionaires has
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      Lock icon Pressure grows to bridge HK wage gap
      542 18  -  More than 110,000 workers earn monthly pay of less than HK$3,OOO By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong HONG Kong policy-makers are coming under renewed pressure to bridge a growing wage gap as figures released this week show that more than 100,000 workers in
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      1545 18 THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTjA Note: Al figures quotad in Canadian (Incorporated in Canada with Limited Liability) dollars (millions) except par shore amount* I CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET CONSOLIDATE STATEMENT Of INCOME I A* at October 31 Fer ihe year «id»d October 31 H ASSETS 2006 2005 MEREST NOOME 2006 2005
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  • MIDDLE-EAST
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      Lock icon New Bahrain bank's capital expected to hit US$100b
      530 19 Large Islamic bank needed to boost sector's liquidity, says official Reuters. Bloomberg [MANAMA] Islamic finance institutions plan to set up a mega Islamic bank in Bahrain within months with a capital set to rise to US$lOO billion within seven years, an institution
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      Lock icon Saudi king criticises US role in Iraq, Middle East
      454 19 NYT [RIYADH. Saudi Arabia] King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told Arab leaders on Wednesday that the US occupation of Iraq was illegal and warned that unless Arab governments settled their differences, foreign powers like the United States would continue to dictate
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      605 19 Reuters, AP [LONDON] Britain sought international help to isolate Iran on Thursday in a stand-off over the capture of 15 military personnel, while Iran threatened to delay the release of the only woman detainee if London created a "fuss". Britain is seeking approval from
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      466 22 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's government will bring back proposals for a wave of new large casinos after local elections on May 3, a government spokesman said yesterday after its plans for a Las Vegas-style supercasino in Manchester were wrecked by lawmakers on
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      371 22 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] HSBC Holdings said yesterday that the US sub-prime mortgage division will be "run down significantly" as the bank tries to recover from loan losses. "Whether or not we completely write it off I'm not sure." chairman Stephen Green said
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      516 22 Reuters [HONG KONG] Foreign investors are fed up with repeated policy fumbles and flip-flops by Thailand's financial authorities to the point that many shun Thai markets and consider selling existing holdings. International money managers said yesterday that the latest confusion about whether Thailand's central
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      381 22 Reuters [LONDON] The global hedge fund industry's assets swelled by more than 30 per cent in the year to January to pass US$2 trillion, according to research from news and data provider Hedge Fund Intelligence. The research, which covers more than 5,000 single
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      636 24  -  Aviation industry is responsible for just 1.6% of global emissions, he says By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Emissions taxes, carbon offset programmes and emissions trading schemes imposed on the aviation industry are misguided, unrealistic, offensive and morally objectionable, Singapore Airline's chief
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      304 24  -  By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the latest to introduce the Boeing *****0ER to its service into Singapore. It has joined partner airline Air France in flying the popular aircraft here. The Boeing 777 is a family of five passenger models
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      426 24  -  Freighter version takes off in 2009; passenger, in 2010 By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] While its European rival was trying to deal with noisy protests from workers threatened with layoffs, Boeing was quietly cruising past a new milestone for its 8747 planes
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      372 24 Reuters [SYDNEY/TOKYO] Bidders for Qantas Airways Ltd remained in talks with their banks and key shareholders yesterday as they sought to salvage a US$B.7 billion takeover offer for the Australian airline. The bid consortium has approached banks financing the deal to negotiate
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      358 24 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Fly Asian Xpress, a Malaysian airline that's starting a long-haul budget carrier, plans to sign an agreement on April 17 to order around 15 aircraft, prompting speculation that Airbus SAS will win the contract. The aircraft, valued at
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        80 24 AP [SHANGHAI] China will likely seek foreign partners in developing a large domestically produced commercial aircraft, an aviation industry executive was quoted yesterday as saying. The Shanghai Daily said China's government plans to set up an entirely new company to take on the
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        53 24 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways pic is contemplating a £1 billion (552.98 billion) bid for smaller rival bmi, according to two newspaper reports on Wednesday, which BA declined to comment on. "We do not comment on rumour or speculation," a BA
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        63 24 AFP [RIO DE JANEIRO] Brazil's low-cost airline GOL said on Wednesday it agreed to buy former national flag carrier Varig for US$32O million, forging a group expected to carry 320 million passengers a year. Controlling shareholder GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes agreed to buy
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      459 25 Strike blocking dozens of ships, tankers; could shut half of refineries by next week Reuters [LONDON] Nearly 6 per cent of European refining capacity is now shut as the French oil port strike adds to output cuts due to planned maintenance
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      454 25 Reuters [HONG KONG] China Cosco Holdings said yesterday it was in talks to buy bulk carriers from its parent shipping company, China Cosco Group, after posting a worse-than-expected 63 per cent fall in second-half earnings. The listed company, the
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      809 25  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR THE grounding of the Singa-pore-flagged woodchip carrier Crimson Mars in Tasmania last year could have been prevented if simple precautions had been taken to ensure that conning orders were carried out correctly by the helmsman. An investigation report released earlier this month
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      392 25 Reuters [PASIR GUDANG. Malaysia] Malaysian shipper MISC Bhd aims to ramp up revenue from its oil-rig engineering business after building its first deepwater oil-production platform, its chief executive said yesterday. MISC, the world's largest carrier of liquefied natural gas, expects to more than triple
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      225 25 AFP [SYDNEY] Three people were killed and a 14-year-old girl was missing after a Sydney Harbour ferry smashed into a boat carrying leading members of Australia's ice-skating community. Two interna-tional-level skating judges were among the dead and a former Olympian had her leg amputated
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      866 27  -  Will the sub-prime mess prove to be a minor blip for the economy or is it the first chapter in a larger horror story? ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group Remember the bank panic of 1907? Probably not. But revisiting it
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      210 27  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Karen Tan Director (Corporate Communications Division) Ministry of Health IN the letter. "Fee hikes for needy should be reviewed" (BT. March 23). Mr Leong Sze Hian stated that government operating expenditure on health as a percentage of total government operating
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      372 27  -  Tony Howard I REFER to the widely covered changes to Singapore Airlines' PPS Club. Frequent travellers would now realise that SIA is expecting travellers to pay more for less. There is essentially no benefit from spending $25,000 a year to join the
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        476 35  -  By MELISSA LWEE NEXT time you order the house pour at your favourite club, give some thought to where that puts you on the Hip scale. Cocktails are the tipple du jour, and the fancier, the better. With a growing
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        1127 36  -  Colbert's works are records of poetic interactions between animals and humans, says PARVATHI NAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR THROUGH his art, he seeks to bring the world of nature to your doorstep: it's an ambitious desire, but one that's been achieved by artist Gregory Colbert, thanks to his travelling
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        508 37  -  'Phantom' has all the elements of a Gothic melodrama, says PARVATHI NAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR THINGS get out of date so quickly in today's world, so it's with a certain amount of scepticism that you go to see a musical that's at least 20 years old,
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        415 37  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR WHETHER a trick of nostalgia, or a genuine human aspiration, many of us vaguely long for a return to times when life was simpler. However, artist Christine Mak says she has actually given tangible shape to this desire for
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        526 37  -  By GEOFFREY EU IN all likelihood, the veteran director Joel Schumacher set out to craft a taut psychological thriller about a man who becomes obsessed to the point of paranoia with a particular numeral. Unfortunately, he ended up instead with The Number 23. an insipid
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        280 37  -  DVD By PARVATHI NAYAR IN AN era of political correctness and safe films, Thank You for Smoking feels like a breath of fresh air. Though Smoking's protagonist, tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), would prefer it was a smoke-laden lungful. Eckhart plays his morally flexible character
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        447 37  -  By SANGEETHA MADHAVAN FOR fans of legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf, it was a surfeit of the good .stuff. No Regrets. A Tribute to Edith Piaf. directed by French expatriate Nathalie Ribette under the banner of newly launched group Sing'theatre, reprised its line-up
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        300 37  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR DYSFUNCTIONAL families as surefire creative material for critical acclaim, the paper-thin skin of movie stars, "pure" indie films just waiting to be corrupted by Oscar buzz: This is the stuff mined in For Your Consideration by Christopher Guest who has carved out
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