The Business Times, 26 July 2007

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  • 32 1 The Business Times SINGAPORE 85 cents MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Thursday, July 26,2007 The Business Times SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Thursday, July 26,2007
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  • 606 1  -  MAS keeping eye on business costs, prices Reports by ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] Amid strong optimism about Singapore's economic outlook including expectations that the official growth forecast will be revised upward yet again next month the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has sounded a
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  • 159 1 THERE is no "single trigger point" that will set off alarm bells, but the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is closely watching developments in the property boom. "We watch these developments carefully, in particular the risk of property prices taking a momentum of their
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  • 137 1 ST INDEX 3,633.54 (-31.59) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,633 (-31) SIMSCI 447.49 (-4.41) SIMSCI FUTURES 446.10 (-5.60) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLCOMP 1,379.73 -12.45 NIKKEI 225 17,858.42 -143.61 HANG SENG 23,362.18 -H0.70 SET INDEX 883.65 +2.70 JAKARTA COMP 2,394.56 -6.58 MANILA COMP 3,645.51 -60.73 SEOUL COMP 2,004.22 +11.96 SHENZHEN B
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  • 501 1  -  All proceeds from ticket sales will go to charities By YEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines will auction seats on the world's first commercial Airbus A3BO flight on eßay, the global online marketplace. The move is in response to an overwhelming
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 848 2  -  2006 total of $30.1 b is also lowest since 2002, says MAS whose net profit trebles to $3.85b By NANDE KHIN [SINGAPORE] Funds raised in the Singapore capital market took a sharp fall last year as less government securities and private sector
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    • 264 2  - Inside the A380 a first glimpse By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Qantas unveiled the interior and seatings to be installed onboard its fleet of Airbus A3BO aircraft in Sydney this week becoming the first airline to give a glimpse of what the inside of this new plane will look like. Apart
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    • 279 2  -  By ROLAND LIM [SINGAPORE] Managers from Wilmar International Ltd will soon be able to fly around the region in two corporate Gulfstream jet aircraft. Wilmar, which is Indonesia's largest palm-oil refiner, and partner companies will be paying US$lO.O5 million each to start two
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    • 504 3  -  Minister Mentor says Indonesian Vice-President's economic assessment is very realistic By LAUREL TEO in Jakarta VICE-PRESIDENT Jusuf Kalla says Indonesia's economy could easily hit annual growth of 7-8 per cent over the next two years, and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Ypw agrees with him.
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    • 659 3  -  Rise reflects a larger recovery in outflow of US investments By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] After a one-off blip in 2005, direct investments from the United States to Singapore returned to the fast growth track last year. Meanwhile, Singapore's investments in the
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    • 562 2 Indonesia's SEZ may lag Malaysia's IDR NEVER mind that it had a headstart of almost eight months over Malaysia's Iskandar Development Region (IDR). Indonesia's Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on the Riau Islands of Batam, Bintan and Karimun could very well end up lagging behind, beset by inherent problems
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 394 4  -  By ARUN JOHN AFTER a first-quarter net loss of $17.3 million, OSIM International was still in the red for the second-quar-ter. But the healthy-lifestyle products group, which has embarked on a journey of turning OSIM into a global brand, managed
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    • 612 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By WONG WEI KONG to a net loss of $9.8 million froha a profit of $10.4 million a year ago, dragged down not just by Brookstone but also by the impact of "copycat products" in China. It was
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    • 177 5 Adroit Innovations H1 profit down 77% ADROIT Innovations yesterday reported a 77 per cent fall in first-half net profit to $400,000 from $1.77 million for the previous corresponding period. Its operating revenue for the six months ended June 30 dropped 21 per cent to $479 million while its
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    • 452 5  -  H1 revenue rises 16.4% to $117.64m, producing 25.2% higher profit of $9.03m By WINSTON CHAI HOMEGROWN technology company Aztech Systems has reported a marginal 2.6 per cent year-on-year rise in second-quarter net profit to $5.22 million. This was despite revenue climbing 12.9 per
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    • 462 4  -  Robust refining margins boost Q2 net profit 32.1% to $179.2 million By RONNIE LIM SINGAPORE Petroleum Company (SPC) is rewarding shareholders with a first-time interim dividend of 20 cents per share next month, after chalking up higher second-quarter and first-half net profits. Following
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    • 391 5  -  At $8.1 m, it is 9.6% more than forecast' net property income lower than expected By UMA SHANKARI CAPITARETAIL China Trust (CRCT) yesterday reported a distributable income of $8.1 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007 9.6 per cent higher than
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    • 455 7  -  S'pore and Vietnam operations, strong revenue from new properties boost income to $12.1 m By UMA SHANKARI ASCOTT Residence Trust (ART) yesterday said that distributable income for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007, rose 58 per cent to $12.1 million, boosted by
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 548 6  -  STOCKS ST Index closes above intraday low of 3,615 as US index futures stage slight rebound R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent TWO observations can be drawn from yesterday's trading session first, investors everywhere appear to have under-esti-mated the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, and second, one
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    • Article, Illustration
      902 6  -  Compiled by MATTHEW PHAN Keppel Land July 25 dose: Ss&6s OCBC Investment Research, July 25 SINGAPORE dominated 2Q earnings: Keppel Land (KepLand) has reported a good set of 2Q07 results. In 2Q07, Singapore has retaken the dominant position as the key contributor to earnings. Singapore projects collectively contributed
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    • 482 6 CURRENCIES -AFP [TOKYO] The US dollar hovered at the key 120-yen level yesterday after slipping below it for the first time in more than two months, shaken by growing worries about the US housing market, dealers said. But they said the dollar
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    • Article, Illustration
      935 6 SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD MAW SDQ TOTAL Up Down Undi l>p Down Undi Up Down Undi Multi Ind 596 000 596 Manufacturing 49 126 52 12 26 15 61 67 Commerce 23 38 21 6 15 3 29 J3 24 T pt/S tor/Com ms 10 22 11 J 2 0 11
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 186 7 Half-year results ended June 2007 COMPANY CURRENT PREVIOUS CHANGE CURRENT PREVIOUS CHANGE CURRENT PREVIOUS CHANGE JULY 25 1 SPC 291.34 203.57 43.1 3899.52 4525.44 -13.8 56.52 39.66 42.5 6.60 2 AscottREIT 20.19 9.70 nm 69.60 34.87 99.6 3.60 2.13 69.0 2.00 3 CapitaRChina Trust 15.25 na
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    • 239 7  -  By OH BOON PING SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) will be admitting banks as clearing members for its derivatives market from Aug 10. The aim is to provide suitable business infrastructure and a robust regulatory framework to cater to the needs of the market participants,
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    • 232 7 Reuters [HONG KONG] Property stocks in Singapore and Japan offer better returns for investors, while the pricey Australian market is less attractive, executives with ABN Amro Asset Management said here yesterday. Earnings growth aftd improved sentiment among Japanese companies should help to lift
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    • 420 10  -  Its stake in the company has climbed to 61.92 per cent By ROLAND LIM SINGAPORE Retail Group (SRG) Limited yesterday extended the closing date of its takeover offer for Courts (Singapore), as its stake in the company inched up to 61.92
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    • 400 10  -  By CHARMIAN KOK SINCERE Watch Ltd announced yesterday that it was appointed the exclusive distributor of Swiss-made watch Ebel in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The five-year partnership will allow Sincere to leverage on Ebel's positioning and capitalise on the growth potential of the mid-luxury
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    • 406 10  -  No signatures required for contactless card By CHOW PENN NEE SHOPPERS can now pay for items just by tapping a credit card, after Singapore's first contactless credit card was launched yesterday by United Overseas Bank (UOB). Just like tapping an ez-link
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    • 475 11  -  Its unit will offer specialist financial print services there By CONRAD RAJ XPRESS Holdings, the main-board-listed company founded by flamboyant businessman K K Fong, says it has become the first foreign company licensed to offer specialist financial print services in Vietnam. It announced yesterday that
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    • 370 11  -  It will help fund the construction of a new plant in Tianjin By NISHA RAMCHANDANI MAINBOARD-LISTED China Wheel Holdings, which deals in the design, manufacture and sale of aluminium alloy wheels, has announced the issuance of US$25 million worth of
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  • SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL
    • 1106 12  -  S'pore electronics and engineering companies can carve a niche providing supporting services, reports CHUANG PECK MING CHUANG PECK MING H ftiS Jf HAT goes more Vwi m int S Ve^iC 6 M m B reater reliWuS ance on sophisW ticated back-up services in making it, play
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    • 571 12 AMTEK Engineering, a pioneer in Singapore's industrialisation, is also among the first manufacturers to set up shop in Europe. That was in 1999, when the precision metal stamping and tooling specialist, which counts multinational corporations among its main customers, wanted to be close to its clients.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 588 13  -  Upcoming summit will also deal with energy security, climate change By NANDE KHIN DOMESTIC structural reform, energy security and climate change will be among the key issues to be discussed at September's Apec summit in Sydney. Colin Heseltine, executive director of the Apec
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    • 290 13  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA MANULIFE's investment management arm has set its sights on expanding in Asia, taking on board an industry veteran in Singapore to help in the process. Jillian Smith, formerly of Western Asset, will join MFC Global Investment Management as vice-presi-dent of investment
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    • 254 13 St James wins URA tender for Anson site THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has awarded the tender for the commercial site at Anson Road/Enggor Street to St James Power Station Pte Ltd, which is part of Mapletree Investments. URA said the company submitted the highest bid of $391.93
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    • 376 14  -  The sum for H1 is one-and-a-half times more than the year-ago period: A*Star chairman Reports by MATTHEW PHAN VENTURE capitalists have raised US$2.7 billion to invest in Asia ex-Japan in the first half of this year alone, one-and-a-half times the
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    • 191 14 THEY'RE not quite Linden Lab with its Second Life virtual world, but D-Simlab Technologies' simulation software could still change the way businesses operate. The company builds simulated, virtual models of client's operations, then tweaks the model and analyses the results so as to optimise the business processes. In the
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    • 143 14 DROP Assay could help pharmaceutical or diagnostic firms slash the time needed to run certain tests by 60 per cent and reduce equipment costs by nearly 90 per cent, via its designs for rinsing bioassays, a widely used instrument. Scientists use rinsing bioassays in, for example, a diagnostic
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    • 193 14 SlMTech LTCC Boutique Foundry is named after its core technology, a material called low temperature co-fired ceramics. A problem with typical semiconductor chips is that they are embedded on substrates that cannot withstand harsh temperatures, says Albert Wu, senior scientist at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SlMTech).
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    • 348 14  -  By RONNIE LIM SINGAPORE has taken on an Australian expert for its liquefied natural gas project. The former Woodside Petroleum official is now heading the Energy Market Authority's LNG team, BT has learned. The appointment of Rod Duke as project director of the
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    • 350 14 A BIG campaign to attract weekend visitors with special offers and budget flights could help fill up the country's hotels all week round, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) believes. The STB's new Uniquely Singapore Weekends campaign is starting out in seven cities
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    • 348 14 For the first time, European firms will be forming a pavilion UNDERSTANDING of the global business mood will be the prime focus of the Global Entrepolis Singapore (GES), which will be held for the fifth time later this year. The business networking
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    • 444 13  -  By RONNIE LIM ISLAND Power, which is building a $1 billion generating station on Jurong Island, maintains that its gas supply agreement with ConocoPhillips for Sumatra gas to fuel the plant "remains in effect". The company was responding to a Bloomberg news report
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 370 15 -AP [SEOUL] South Korea's economy grew sharply in the second quarter, expanding at its fastest rate in more than a year on strength in manufacturing and exports, the Bank of Korea said yesterday. Gross domestic product expanded 4.9 per cent in the three
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    • 565 15 Economic prospects good but inflation will take time to subside, it warns Reuters [BEIJING] China warned yesterday that inflation would take time to subside and took aim at the ener-gy-guzzling industries whose rapid expansion is causing growing concerns over the environment. Comments by
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 441 16  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S automotive sales are headed for a second year of contraction after industry volumes fell by 12 per cent in the first half of the year. The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) has
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    • 472 16  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur WATER projects due to be carried out at a cost of more than RMII billion (554.84 billion) are set to make the improvement of Malaysia's water supplies one of the biggest growth drivers of
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  • INDONESIA
    • 433 17 Environmentalists raise concern over building plant in quake-prone country Reuters [SEOUL] Medco Energi Internasional and Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co Ltd have signed a preliminary pact to build a nuclear power plant in Indonesia, drawing ire from environmentalists worried about earthquakes.
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    • 590 17  -  MM Lee points out problem of political structure, process From LAUREL TEO in Jakarta NEVER mind that it had a headstart of almost eight months over Malaysia's Iskandar Development Region (IDR). Indonesia's Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on the Riau Islands of Batam, Bintan and
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    • 238 17 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Central Asia, Indonesia's second largest financial services company, posted a 5 per cent increase in second quarter profit as it increased lending fo companies and consumers in an accelerating economy. Net income in the three months ended June 30
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 429 18 Report says bid for US$23b energy project fails due to a change in partners Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India disqualified Lanco Infratech Ltd and Globeleq Ltd from building the first power plant in a US$23 billion energy project, hindering the government's efforts to plug
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    • 214 18 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Indian billionaire Azim Premji, who transformed Wipro Ltd from a vegetable-oils maker into India's third-largest computer services provider, has no plans to pass the reins to his son Rishad because the latter lacks experience. Wipro's board has a
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    • 372 18 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China will curb exports of cheap labour-in-tensive products to force manufacturers into making higher quality goods, in a move to narrow the world's largest trade surplus. The Ministry of Commerce will expand its catalogue of processed goods that are subject to
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    • 342 18 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's biggest mo-bile-phone operator, Reliance Communications Ltd and their local rivals added a record 7.34 million mo-bile-phone users in June, beating growth in China. India had 185.13 million wireless subscribers last month, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said
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    • 304 18 AP [BEIJING] The disgraced former Communist Party boss of Shanghai has been kicked out of China's legislature, moving him one step closer to formal legal prosecution, a news report said on Tuesday. Chen Liangyu the highest-level party official to be dismissed in a
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  • ASIA PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 402 19 AP [SEATTLE] Amazon.corn's second-quarter profit more than tripled, boosted by strong sales of books, music and electronics worldwide. The Web retailer's stock soared in after-hours trading. Earnings for the three months ended June 30 climbed to US$7B million from US$22 million
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    • 503 19  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo CONTROVERSY continued to mount yesterday over Japan's nuclear power accident which occurred last week when a powerful earthquake struck in Niigata prefecture, triggering fires and radiation leakages at the world's largest nuclear power station. A senior executive
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    • 422 19 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese department stores Isetan Co Ltd and Mitsukoshi Ltd are in talks on capital ties and may seek a merger, a source familiar with the matter said the latest alliance move in a fast-consoli-dating industry. A potential combination would create Japan's
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    • 379 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] Resolution, the UK's largest buyer of insurance funds, plans to buy Friends Provident for about £4.2 billion (Ssl3 billion) in stock. Resolution will gain 2.5 million new clients and its shareholders will own 50.9 per cent of the combined company, to
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    • 404 19 LATEST US DATA Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Home resales in the US fell for a fourth straight month in June, a sign that housing remained mired in the worst slump in 16 years going into the second half. Purchases last month declined 3.8 per cent
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    • 592 19 Seasonal upturn expected after summer holidays and before Christmas Reuters [FRANKFURT] Chipmakers around the world have reported disastrous secondquarter results as they failed to combat some of the biggest price drops in the sector, but yesterday they said the worst was over for now.
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  • AVIATION
    • 384 20 It's considering an offer to challenge Dubai Aerospace, Canada Pension Plan Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Australia Pacific Airports Corp may bid for Auckland International Airport Ltd., pitting it against Dubai Aerospace Enterprise and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in competing for New Zealand's busiest
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    • 63 20 (KOROSHEGY VALLEY, Hungary) Hungarian aerobatic pilot and European champion Zoltan Veres comparing yesterday the speed of his plane with cars near Koroshegy, about 200 km south west of the capital Budapest, on the longest European viaduct, measuring 1,870 m. The viaduct is part of a
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    • 646 20 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's aviation industry is expanding too quickly, as a fleet that has doubled in a decade causes congestion and threatens safety standards, the country's regulator says. "Our human resources and facilities can't support such fast growth," Yang Yuanyuan, the head
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    • 206 20 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China Aviation Industry Corp I unit, Xi'an Aircraft Industry (Group) Co, has delivered the first pair of wing boxes ordered by Airbus SAS, the European planemaker said yesterday. The boxes, which form the main structure of a plane's
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    • 313 20 Reuters [SYDNEY] Australian airline Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd said yesterday it planned to invest As7o million (5593.3 million) in a new long-haul carrier it hopes will be flying on lucrative United States routes by late 2008. The new airline, called V Australia, still needs US
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • SHIPPING
    • 209 21 [SINGAPORE] Global logistics group DHL Express yesterday announced that it had appointed Dennis Tan as senior vice-president and head of global express controlling, with effect from July 12. Mr Tan was previously chief financial officer of DHL Express in Singapore. In his
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    • 299 21 SGX *000 MB St *1- Vol CH Offshore 0.97 -0.02 6028 Chuan Hup Hldgs 0.44 -0.01 2256 Cosco Corp 5.65 unch 5724 CWT Ltd 1.03 0.02 620 Ezra Hldgs 6.25 -0.20 619 First Ship Lease 0.99 -0.02 797 Freight Links 0.14 unch ***** Grand Banks unch unch 0
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    • 452 21 Speculation grows Japan may import more fuel in wake of N-plant shutdowns Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] The cost of shipping coal, iron ore and other dry-bulk goods may rise from a record on speculation Japanese utilities will buy more fuel for power plants after
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    • 233 21 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Russia will explore the seabed under the North Pole in a submersible vehicle as part of the former communist country's effort to claim extra Arctic territory that may hold oil and natu-ral-gas reserves. "The Arctic is Russian," Artur Chilingarov, head of the
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    • 342 21 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Pacific Basin Shipping Ltd will buy a 45 per cent stake in a terminal in Nanjing, its first in China, because of the country's rising use of steel and other metals. Nanjing Port Group will own the rest of
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    • 201 21 Reuters [MAPUTO, Mozambique] Mozambique said yesterday it had given the green light for South African shipping and logistics company Grindrod to invest US$BO million to expand coal and car handling at the port of Maputo. Transport and Communications Minister Antonio Munguambe
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 512 22 EDITORIAL West's energy watchdog, has forecast a tight supply situation into 2012. The National Petroleum Council study headed by former ExxonMobil boss Lee Raymond is grimmer, forecasting that the gap between demand and production will grow over the next two decades. Given such
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    • 1162 22  -  The union has to cease sending confused and often contradictory messages to Ankara SHADA ISLAM Brussels Correspondent HE European Union has greeted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's triumph in recent polls with calls for renewed efforts to step up political and economic
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    • 909 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent IS this the beginning of the end? With no desire to sound like a prophet of doom or an apostle of Armageddon, I must draw attention to what is happening in global currency markets where
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    • 836 23  -  If their squabble over gas in India's south is not settled soon, the government may step in with its own agenda YOGI AGGARWAL IT'S the clash of the Ambanis. The two squabbling brothers, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, are straining every resource to outwit
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    • 1097 23  -  By PAUL J LIM NYT HANKS to hot markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America as well as the surprisingly i strong global economy the idea of investing abroad is no longer foreign to many investors. In fact, for the typical retirement plan investor,
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  • BizIT THE BUSINESS OF INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGY
    • 986 29  -  Healthy growth from year ago but a dip from previous quarter, writes AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY THE sale of personal computers in Singapore in the second quarter of calendar year 2007 rose a healthy 19 per cent over the year-ago
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    • 240 29  -  By ROLAND LIM THE National University of Singapore (NUS) yesterday officially opened its new $4.7 million, 8,000 sq ft data centre at NUS High School, which will help ensure that key services to support its almost 40,000 population are maintained even in disasters.
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    • 309 29 NYT [NEW YORK] Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called US$lOO laptop is poised to go into mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of
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    • 212 29 -Reuters [NEW YORK] The iPhone and Apple Inc's desktop computers may be vulnerable to hackers due to a flaw in their Web browser, according to a security firm, which said it found a way to hack into the iPhone. Baltimore-based Independent Security
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    • 438 29  -  By WINSTON CHAI HAVING big shoes to fill is somewhat of an understatement for Jeong Kim. As the reigning president of Bell Labs, he hopes to restore the iconic research lab to its former glory and rein in the wandering minds of
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  • PROPERTY
    • 312 30 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Minor International Pel, Thailand's biggest publicly traded resortand fast-food operator, will spend about 4 billion baht (*****.9 million) building a hotel and apartment complex in central Bangkok. Starwood Hotels Re- sorts Worldwide Inc, the third-largest United States lodging company, will manage
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    • 341 30 Group says move in line with its strategy to establish a new income stream -Ber nama [KUALA LUMPUR] Property development company Eastern Oriental Bhd (E&O) is targeting to achieve RMI billion (*****.8 million) worth of prime assets within the next
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    • 229 30 Xinhua [MEXICO CITY] Mexico is to build the tallest skyscraper in Latin America, the capital city's government announced on Monday. The 70-storey and 300-metre-high building, named "La Torre Bicentenario" (Bicentennial Tower), will surpass Reforma Avenue's Torre Mayor, which was inaugurated in 2003 as Latin
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    • 359 31 Manhattan has highest median price of US$790,000 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] New York City apartment prices climbed 16 per cent in the second quarter as the country's most expensive urban market sidestepped declines in the rest of the US. The median price of co-operative
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    • 504 33  -  St Patrick's View sold to TG Development for $79 million By ARTHUR SIM ST PATRICK'S View, off Telok Kurau Road, has been sold en bloc to TG Development Pte Ltd (TGD) for $79 million, 25 per cent higher than the indicated
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    • 1928 33 PROJECT NAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE BUILT-IN AREA PRICE PSF STREET NAME TYPE DATE (SQFT) (SS'OOO) (SS) District 1 NON-LANDED Pearls Cte Apt 03/07/2007 99 753 550 730 People s Park Cplx Apt 02/07/2007 99 1119 600 536
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    • 847 34  -  The development cost for the future 99-year leasehold project could hit $3b By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] A state tender for the former NCO Club/Beach Road camp grounds yesterday drew seven bids with market watchers estimating bids could have topped the $2
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    • 133 30 MARGATE MANSION FOR SALE BY TENDER □1 Tl Prime Sea View residential site mmSSn 8 Approximately 34.804 sq ft IJ Plot Ratio 2.1, up to 24/ storey 3 i» 3 Near East Coast Park amenities Short drive to City future Marina —I 5-S2 Integrated Resort HHB Please contact: Charles Hoon
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    • 170 31 FOR SALE BY UNDER 80% OBTAINED Closing Date: 16 Aug 2007 Time: 2.00pm CONSENT Free hold Residential Site at Kovan (District 19) Kovan Road J? D ita®* Site Area 27, OOOsf (Approx) To HouganglSlE Kovan MRT .\£m) ft 5 StOreVS Upper Serangoon Road 1 J Heartland M.H Walking Distance to
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