The Business Times, 27 March 2008

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    22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg mm A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION COREGNNOI9B4O2B6BE MICA (P) 122/12/2007 Thursday, March 27,2008
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    Lock icon Rising tide of foreigners snapping up S'pore property
    840 1  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA S'poreans buying more private homes but their share is still falling as foreigners outpace them [SINGAPORE] Take a walk down some of the poshest parts of Singapore and your eyes will confirm precisely what the numbers say. With its immigra-tion-friendly
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    Lock icon Maybank buys Temasek stake in Indonesian bank
    650 1  -  PAULINE NG USsl.sb price tag for control of 811 means tidy profit for Singapore firm in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S largest financial services group, Maybank, has emerged as the controlling shareholder of Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII). It beat back some stiff competition to acquire
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
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      43 1 ICOMP 1,245.42 +15.47 IIKKEI225 12,706.63 -38.59 IANG SENG 22,617.01 +152.49 ;et INDEX 817.57 -2.74 JAKARTA COM P 2,440.64 +21.02 IANILACOMP 2,918.37 +26.17 ;eoulcomp 1,679.67 +4.74 ;henzhen B 554.86 +0.30 IUMBAI IND 16,086.83 -130.66 12NOONEDT Change 12,424.98 -107.62 )OW IAS DAI 2,315.12 -25.93
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      Lock icon PRIME RATES
      29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 5.25 INDONESIA 15.475 TAIWAN 6.316 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.25 US 5.25 CANADA 5.25 SWITZERLAND 4.14 INDIA 12.25 Source:
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      39 1 IS$ (S$ )er US$) 1.381 (US$/S$ per 2.004 2.76! ;iJRO(US$/S$/E) 1.560 2.155 'EN 100.1 72.5I 3.192 2.31 IK$ 7.783 5.635 !AHT 31.45 22.7I lUPIAH 9,200 6,66! 1ENMINBI 7.027 5.087 INDIAN RUPEE 40.12 29.0. 1.093 0.791 IZ$ 1.247 0.903
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Debt reprieve for Allco Reit but at a much higher cost
      560 2  -  MICHELLE QUAH Market cheers news the firm has secured extension of loans [SINGAPORE] Allco Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust (Allco Reit) earned a reprieve in its debt repayment obligations last week but at a much higher cost. Allco (Singapore)
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      Lock icon Sub-prime to cost Wall St US$460b in losses: Goldman
      349 2 ■AFP [NEW YORK] Wall Street banks, brokerages and hedge funds may report US$46O billion in credit losses from the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market, or almost four times the amount already disclosed, according to Goldman Sachs Group. Profits will continue
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      Lock icon Tuas Power may build $2b coal-fired plant
      648 2  -  RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] Tuas Power is looking at building a $2 billion coal-fired plant the first here its president and CEO Lim Kong Puay told The Business Times. For this, it will tap on new owner China Huaneng Group's experience with the fuel.
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      Lock icon State Bank of India secures full service nod
      427 2  -  CHOW PENN NEE It will offer products from mortgages to deposit accounts [SINGAPORE] Confirming previous reports, the State Bank of India (SBI) said yesterday that it has won approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to offer a full range of banking
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Pramerica makes $800m top bid for Serangoon site
        81 2 ENTITIES linked to fund manager Pramerica Real Estate Investors (Asia) placed the top bid of $800.9 million or $850 per square foot of potential gross floor area for a plum "white" site above Serangoon MRT Station. Pramerica Asia CEO Victoria Sharpe told
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        Lock icon Olam shares dive after Merrill's 'sell' call
        73 2 SHARES of commodities supplier Olam International yesterday dived as much as 36 cents or almost 16 per cent to $1.91, following a "sell" recommendation by US investment house Merrill Lynch. They ended trading at $1.95, still down 32 cents or 14.1 per cent.
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        Lock icon Lippo-Mapletree trust makes maiden acquisition
        60 2 LIPPO-MAPLETREE Indonesia Retail Trust yesterday announced its maiden acquisition since its listing in November last year. The trust is buying Sun Plaza, a mall in Medan, North Sumatra, for $147.4 million. The purchase will increase the trust's asset portfolio by 15 per cent to $1.15
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        Lock icon SingTel's mio TV available only to homes
        89 2 WHEN banker Leonard Tan first heard he would have to subscribe to SingTel's mio TV to watch the Uefa Champions League football tournament from August next year, his first thought was to save money by catching the games free at a coffee shop.
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        Lock icon Ist Software to consolidate shares after reverse takeover
        75 2 IST Software will undertake a share consolidation upon the completion of the proposed acquisition of Teambuild Corporation in anticipation of Singapore Exchange setting a minimum share price for reverse takeover transactions. Ist Software's chairman and chief executive Attlee Hue told BT on
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        Lock icon Private banking in Asia to grow 9% a year: study
        68 2 PRIVATE banking in Asia will continue to grow at a steady 9 per cent annually over the next five years despite turbulence in the financial markets, according to a study by consulting firm Oliver Wyman. That's because there is much
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        Lock icon M'sian central bank lowers 2008 growth forecast
        65 2 MALAYSIA'S central bank cut its 2008 economic growth forecast yesterday, citing a deteriorating global outlook, but said it stood ready to roll out measures to bolster growth if need be. Bank Negara lowered its growth target to 5-6 per cent from 6-6.5 per
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        Lock icon China seen avoiding post-Olympics slump
        75 2 CHINA'S economy will avoid a post-Olympics recession, thanks to its vast size, rising consumer spending and big appetite for investment, one of the country's top economic advisers said in a state newspaper. Justin Lin Yifu, the Peking University professor recently appointed as the World Bank's
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        Lock icon S'pore luxury home prices to fall 32% by 2010: Nomura
        79 2 TAKING a bearish stance on Singapore's residential sector, Nomura Research expects luxury home prices to slide a staggering 32.3 per cent from their 2007 peak between now and 2010. Average prices in the luxury segment will fall 16.9 per cent
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      Lock icon Pramerica makes $800m top bid for Serangoon site
      827 3  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Breakeven cost for full retail development under $2,000 psf: CEO [SINGAPORE] Entities linked to fund manager Pramerica Real Estate Investors (Asia) placed the top bid of $800.9 million or $850 per square foot of potential gross floor area for a
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      Lock icon Report all car accidents fast or lose insurance cover
      525 3  -  SIOW LI SEN Hit by motor insurance losses, industry seeks tighter rules By [SINGAPORE] Motorists will have to report all accidents no matter how trivial from May as insurers seek tighter rules after reeling from a disastrous year of losses as
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Olam shares dive after Merrill's 'sell' call
      348 4  -  EMILYN YAP The company says it's still comfortable in terms of its working capital THE shares of Singaporebased commodities supplier Olam International yesterday crashed as much as 36 cents or almost 16 per cent to $1.91, following a "sell" recommendation by US investment
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      Lock icon LMIR Trust makes maiden buy
      365 4  -  UMA SHANKARI LIPPO-Mapletree Indonesia Retail Trust (LMIR Trust) yesterday announced its maiden acquisition since its listing in November last year. The trust is buying Sun Plaza, a mall in Medan, North Sumatra, for $147.4 million. The purchase will increase LMIR Trust's asset portfolio by 15
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      Lock icon Robinson shareholders advised to accept Al-Futtaim offer
      529 4  -  MICHELLE QUAH ANZ Bank points to offer's premium to recent share price SHAREHOLDERS of retail icon Robinson Co have been advised to accept the latest offer of $7 a share by Dubai's Al-Futtaim Group with just a week to go before the offer
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      Lock icon SingTel's mio TV only available to homes
      617 6  -  LEE U-WEN Businesses such as pubs, restaurants and hotels can't sign up for now WHEN banker Leonard Tan first heard he would have to subscribe to SingTel's mio TV to watch the Uefa Champions League football tournament from August next year, his first
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      Lock icon SP Ausnet upgrades earnings forecasts
      174 6 Reuters [SYDNEY] Australian infrastructure firm SP Ausnet upgraded its earnings forecasts for the 2008/09 year yesterday, buoyed by higher revenues and a debt refinancing. SP Ausnet, which owns and operates power transmission networks in Victoria state, said it expected net profit to be about 15
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      Lock icon A content-sharing deal is a worthwhile goal
      762 6  -  LEE U-WEN FOR Sing Tel, beating ESPN Star Sports (ESS) to clinch a three-year exclusive deal to screen UEFA Champions League matches in Singapore must have been akin to scoring the winning strike in the World Cup final. In reality, however, it could
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      Lock icon E3 ends subscription deal with PCIM
      303 6  -  CHEW XIANG E3 HOLDINGS, formerly known as ei-Nets, yesterday terminated "with immediate effect" a subscription agreement with Pacific Capital Investment Management (PCIM), a Londonbased fund manager, citing shareholder concerns about share dilution. "The company will not exercise the call option to call upon and
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      Lock icon DMX Tech targeting 50% rise in orders
      218 6 -Reuters SINGAPORE computer data network builder DMX Technologies Group Ltd said yesterday that it is targeting a 50 per cent rise in orders this year to US$45 million and aims to shift its business to digital media. DMX Technologies CEO Jismyl Teo told
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      Lock icon KS Energy sells non-core asset for US$43m
      298 6 KS ENERGY Services has divested a non-core asset for US$43 million. The company said yesterday that it has struck an irrevocable sales and purchase agreement for the sale of a rig, the KS Venture, an "as-is, where-is" basis. "This divestment corresponds to the
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      Lock icon 1st Software to consolidate shares after RTO
      670 9  -  LYNETTE KHOO AGM WATCH This is in anticipation of SGX setting a minimum share price IST Software will undertake a share consolidation upon the completion of the proposed acquisition of Teambuild Corporation in anticipation of Singapore Exchange (SGX) setting a minimum share price
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      Lock icon APB boosts capacity of its Viet plant by over 50%
      455 9  -  CONRAD RAJ Group says Vietnam is a key contributor to its performance in Indochina region SINGAPORE'S Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) is helping to quench the growing thirst for beer in Vietnam by expanding its brewing capacity there. The company announced
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Full-year profit up 4% for Low Keng Huat
        99 9 LOW Keng Huat yesterday announced a 4 per cent rise in net profit to $13.69 million, or 4.17 cents per share, for the financial year ended Jan 31. The increase was due to higher development profit from associated companies and hotel operations,
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        Lock icon Tee International wins contracts worth $109m
        95 9 TEE International said yesterday it was awarded the contracts for North and South Podium electrical installation for Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort Development by Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd for a total sum of $109.01 million. The completion time is 516 and 522 days
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        Lock icon Abterra buying 49.9% of Shanxi Loudong
        80 9 MINING and logistics company Abterra Ltd said it has agreed to buy 49.9 per cent of Shanxi Loudong General Nice Coking Gas Co Ltd a producer of coal and other by-products from General Nice Resources (Hong Kong) Limited. Abterra will pay up to $180.92
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      Lock icon AusGroup wins A$12m Aussie offshore contract
      369 9  -  LAN POH 2nd deal in 2 weeks takes group's order book above Asl9om ENERGY and resources specialist AusGroup has secured a new contract worth Asl2 million (5515.2 million) from an unnamed international offshore construction services client. AusGroup will supply supervision and labour to the
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Focus on Olam as momentum slows
      574 8  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS ST Index drops 4.9 points, in line with regional market performance and Europe opening AFTER rising almost 180 points in a smart, two-day rally that had its roots in a Wall Street rebound, the Straits Times Index yesterday fell 4.97 points
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      102 8 MAIN Up Down Unch SDQ Up Down Unch TOTAL Up Down Unch lulti Ind 8 4 6 0 0 0 8 4 6 lanufacturing 61 80 48 14 11 66 94 59 Commerce 17 28 21 21 32 25 "pt/Stor/Comms 11 19 11 20 11 :inance 15
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      120 8 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 24.651 24.651 86.443 86.443 Manufacturing 387.668 17.643 405.311 274.754 2.256 277.010 Commerce 87.096 2.025 89.121 146.485 273 146.759 Tpt/Stor/Comms 93.141 359 93.500 259.488 83 259.571 Finance 45.019 140 45.159 379.814 24 379.838 Construction 125.703 7.729 133.432 32.255 660 32.914
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS
      114 8 Stock name Close Cham CapitaLand 6.260 -0.040 CapitaMall 3.400 -0.010 CityDev 10.980 +0.080 Cosco Corp 3.360 -0.080 DBS Grp 18.380 -0.060 F&N 4.840 +0.030 Gent Intl 0.595 +0.005 HK Land 4.080 +0.050 JSH 16.680 -0.020 Jardine C&C 18.960 +0.580 Keppel Corp 9.800 -0.220 Keppel Land 5.530
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      948 8  -  MATTHEW PHAN Asian Plantations BNP Paribas, March 25 INDIA slashes CPO import tariffs CPO tariffs cut but not soy oil's: Effective March 20, import duties for vegetable oils, with the exception of soy oil, have been cut. The import tariff for crude palm oil (CPO) has been slashed
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      Lock icon Dollar falters on US consumer data
      536 8  -  LARRY WEE CURRENCIES ASIAN currencies continued to impress yesterday after overnight news that US consumer confidence had taken a hard knock. While Wall Street got away relatively unscathed, traders reported that the greenback suffered a relapse in US trading, following news that US consumer
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX
      4 8 DAILY
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      Lock icon OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES
      53 8 CLOSE -366.00-102.00 BT OB/OS BT CADI -*****.00 -68.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -37.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 749.96 +3.13 FTSE ST Small Cap 622.70 -2.57 FTSE ST All Share 760.62 -0.62 FTSE ST China 431.58 -7.58 UOB Catalist 146.38 -2.70 SIMSCI 374.86 -0.25 SIMSCI Futures 375.10 -1.10
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      56 8 VOLUME UniFiber 74,830,000 CoscoCorpMßl_eCWoBo7o3 50,831,000 ChinaEnerqy 37,983,000 Synear 34,381,000 Golden Agri 34,374,000 Yanqzijianq 33,630,000 China Honqxinq 30,399,000 Sing Tel 26,757,000 Zhonqhui 23,491,000 Lian Benq 23,367,000 VALUE(S) SGX 125,192,600 Sing Tel 106,483,555 DBS Grp 95,839,730 UOB 78,959,570 OCBC Bk 60,125,840 Keppel Corp 58,078,650 Cosco Corp 56,514,670 Capita Land
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      Lock icon RISES
      109 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP GLD 10US$ 9248 63.5 0.5 Jardine C&C 1896 58.0 3.2 Korea 10US$ 465 40.0 6.7 China H 10US$ 1527 29.0 1.4 Haw Par Cor| 659 24.0 3.8 MOIL 187 23.5 10.0 S I A 1526 22.0 1.5 IS MSCI India 100 748 19.3 1.9 Parkwa
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      Lock icon FALLS
      117 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 3102-295.5 -6.5 JMH OUE 1400-150.0 -9.7 Olam 195 -32.0 -14.1 STI 3350 DBePW*****2 80.5 -27.5 -25.5 Kei MBLJCW*****0 243 -22.0 -8.3 Kei Con 980 -22.0 -2.2 STI 3450 DBePW*****2 95 -18.0 -15.9 Hotel Proi 271 -15.0 -5.2 SGX 740 -15.0 -2.0 Caj lanMBI_ePW***** 46.5 -14.0
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      Lock icon CURRENCIES
      87 8 Wh lere! S$ stands Mar 26 CHNG CLOSE FR Mar 25 YR 2008/07 S$ LOW S$ HIGH uss 1.3825 0.02 1.5479 1.3757 Euro 2.1657 -0.73 2.2064 1.9913 Pounds 2.7755 -0.78 3.1194 2.7339 AS 1.2654 -0.24 1.3555 1.1741 Yen* 1.3811 -0.38 1.4484 1.2285 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.03 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.3945
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon This mall offers a platform for artists
      450 10  -  CHEAH UI-HOON IN these days when malls tend to focus on offering the biggest and best international brands, here's one that has decided to focus on arts and entertainment and provide a platform for local artists. Iluma, in the "arts and heritage" district
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      Lock icon Be selective in choice of clinical research
      428 10  -  CHEN HUIFEN Funding is tight and cost control is priority: Khaw A STRONG clinical research foundation will raise the standard of health care and help manage medical inflation in Singapore, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said last night. But research must be pursued
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      Lock icon MOH honours top doctor-researchers
      592 10  -  CHEN HUIFEN JOANNE CHIEW DOCTORS looking to pursue a career in research today would probably find the going much easier than their pioneers did. As some of this year's winners of the inaugural National Medical Excellence Award lamented, many of them were clueless when they started
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      Lock icon Private banking in Asia to grow 9% a year: study
      501 10  -  SIOW LI SEN Oliver Wyman's 5-year forecast stems from market's untapped potential PRIVATE banking in Asia will continue to grow at a steady 9 per cent annually over the next five years despite turbulence in the financial markets, according to
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      Lock icon 10% Feb output growth lifts hopes for Q1 GDP
      326 10 INDUSTRIAL output grew more strongly than expected, boosting hopes of a firm GDP number for the first quarter. Manufacturing output expanded 10 per cent last month albeit from a low 2007 base with all industry clusters recording growth. Following January's revised
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      Lock icon Search for Mas Selamat continues: Kan Seng
      190 10 DURING his visit to the Police Gurkha Contingent at Mount Vernon Camp yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng provided updates on the ongoing search for escaped Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader Mas Selamat. He said: "The Police and the
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      Lock icon Society of Aesthetic Medicine to meet MOH, other groups
      262 10 THE Society of Aesthetic Medicine said yesterday that it would hold a closeddoor dialogue with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and other medical groups here and seek to restore the public's confidence, following a recent uproar over the questionable practice of
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      Lock icon PerkinElmer opens R&D centre in S'pore
      424 10  -  CHEN HUIFEN Move will buttress its research work in the region HIGH-TECH instrument maker PerkinElmer yesterday opened a research and development (R&D) centre of excellence for life and analytical science (LAS) devices in Singapore a move that will buttress its research operations in the
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    Lock icon MAKING STAFF FEEL AT HOME
    1878 11 A BT SPECIAL FEATURE Live It! Harmonise your work-life with your personal and family life KPMG and Fuji Xerox find that work-life integration makes for a happier workplace and a low attrition rate WORK-LIFE integration is a personal priority for both Danny Teoh, KPMG Singapore's
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  • SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL
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      Lock icon Companies can ride on the 'S'pore brand' in Abu Dhabi
      1395 12 Abu Dhabi's Masterplan 2030 is full of opportunities for daring, diligent and patient Spore companies, reports CHUANG PECK MING MANY foreign investors are likely to baulk at the requirement you need a local sponsor who will hold 51 per cent
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      Lock icon Playing matchmaker to S'pore and Abu Dhabi companies
      335 12 INTERNATIONAL Enterprise Singapore's Abu Dhabi Centre was officially opened this month at the Abu Dhabi-Singapore Joint Forum. But the centre has been active since July last year, hooking up Singapore companies with local partners. The Abu Dhabi-Singapore Joint Forum was set up
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      Lock icon Building a win-win partnership
      588 13 Business links between Singapore and Abu Dhabi have grown from strength to strength, reports CHUANG PECK MING MUCH can be accomplished in a year. It was in January last year that Senior Minister Goh Chok To ng and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince
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      Lock icon Good local partner a must-have
      591 13 SURBANA International Consultants made its move into Abu Dhabi in 2004, just when the construction boom there was taking off. Today, four years later and with many projects in its bag, the former consultancy group of the Housing and Development Board is "very optimistic of
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      Lock icon Business values, good rapport behind CBM's success in Abu Dhabi
      571 13 AFTER 35 years in Singapore and having built a successful track record in the home market, the logical next step for CBM, a provider of facility management services, is to step out. And it's a big step that the company
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      716 14 A reinsurance brokerage helps them to spread their risks, says CHOW PENN NEE MOST people are not actually aware that insurance companies also need to purchase insurance to protect themselves against large unforeseen events. That's where Ben Liang's job comes in. As a manager at
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Not quite the Great Depression yet, say analysts
      740 16 Some signs point to a coming turn in the crisis, despite 'hysterical' debate [LONDON] Maybe, just maybe, the financial world is not about to implode. Such is the level of disaster mongering surrounding the latest phase of the eight-month-old credit crisis that
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      547 16 [TOKYO] Japan's exports rose a little more than expected in February from a year earlier as solid shipments of Japanese goods to Asia and Europe made up for a fall in exports to the United States. Japanese exports have maintained relatively
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      647 16 Reuters Target cut to 5-6% from 6-6.5% amid political uncertainty, weak global outlook [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's central bank cut its 2008 economic growth forecast yesterday, citing a deteriorating global outlook, but said it stood ready to roll out measures to bolster growth if
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      377 17 CEO's Message "The ISO Certification marks a significant milestone in the growth of Citimex International (S) Pte Ltd. I have been asked why we decided to strive for ISO 9001:2000 certification when none in a similar business have found it necessary. The reason is simple. As our business of watch-winders,
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  • MALAYSIA
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      489 18  -  S JAYASANKARAN Abdullah may drop his current chief minister nominee for compromise solution in Kuala Lumpur PRIME Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi may defer to Malaysia's King over the appointment of a chief minister for Terengganu but could get some sort of compromise
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      755 18  -  PAULINE NG Malaysiakini quadruples subscriber income after latest general election in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN opposition parties were not the only ones to have made stunning in-roads in the recent general election. The alternative media has also carved out a bigger following. Consider this:
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      7664 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!** 0.887/ Star Europe Bond 1.216/ Star Europe Bal 1.147/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.358/ Star Asia Bond 1.193/ Star Asia Balanced 0.965/ Star Global Technology Fund!" 0.19/ Multi St Fd 0.864/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.86/ Gib Multi St USD
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      2966 19 Cap/taLand CAPITALAND LIMITED Regn. No.: *****0036N 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 the STI Auditorium, (i) new shares arising from the conversion or exercise of any convertible securities or
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Wharf profit up 22% on property sales, investments
      202 20 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Wharf (Holdings) Ltd, the bestperforming property stock this year in Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index, said 2007 profit rose 22 per cent on investment gains and property sales in China. Net income rose to HK$l3.l billion (552.32 billion), or
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      367 20 Reuters It has vast economy and large investment appetite, says economist [BEIJING] China's economy will avoid a post-Olympics recession, thanks to its vast size, rising consumer spending and big appetite for investment, one of the country's top economic advisers said in a state newspaper. Justin
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      Lock icon Bank of China shares up after profit beats forecast
      502 20 It climbs 1.9% a day after reporting 31% rise in annual profit [SHANGHAI] Bank of China Ltd, the country's thirdbiggest lender, rose to a one-month high in Hong Kong after it posted profit that beat analysts' estimates and reduced holdings of
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      Lock icon China Life net profit for 2007 nearly doubles
      177 20 -AFP [SHANGHAI] China Life Insurance Co, the country's largest life insurer, said its 2007 net profit nearly doubled from the previous year on strong premium growth and investment income. The company said its net profit last year rose 94.8 per cent to
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Tata buys Jaguar, Land Rover
      721 20 Reuters -AFP British union leader confirms sale, due to be announced late yesterday [NEW DELHI] India's Tata Motors has reportedly clinched a deal to buy British luxury icons Jaguar and Land Rover from US carmaker Ford, with an official announcement expected late yesterday. The multi-billion
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      304 20 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] ICICI Bank Ltd, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd and Indiabulls Financial Services Ltd's ratings were cut by Goldman Sachs Group Inc on expectation the Indian financial institutions will post lower revenue growth. The price target for ICICI Bank was cut to 900 rupees from
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      160 20 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India's Noida township, outside the capital New Delhi, has invited bids to set up nine hotels near the expressway being built to the Taj Mahal in Agra. The Noida authority plans to set up three 5-star hotels, two 4-star hotels and
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  • MIDDLE EAST
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      509 21 Bloomberg, Reuters PM orders militants to lay down arms, surrender in 3 days or face penalties [NEW YORK] Crude oil rose further in Asia yesterday on concern that fighting in southern Iraq may disrupt supplies. Clashes between Iraqi forces and fighters loyal to
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      311 21 ■LAT Intelligence services, inspectors have not found any evidence [BEIRUT] US Vice-Presi-dent Dick Cheney says that Iran is trying to develop weapons-grade uranium, although international inspectors and US intelligence services have not found any such evidence. "Obviously, they're also heavily involved in trying to develop
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon US durable goods orders slump, raising growth fear
      426 22 Reuters, Bloomberg LATEST US DATA It falls 1.7% in Feb while key gauge of firms' investment appetite shrinks [WASHINGTON] New orders for long-lasting US-made manufactured goods unexpectedly fell 1.7 per cent during February and a key gauge of companies' appetite for investment
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      337 22 Bloomberg, Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's Finance Ministry raised its estimate for economic growth this year to as much as 6 per cent, citing increased government spending and a recovery in consumer and investor confidence. "Growth will be boosted by government spending and domestic consumption," Pannee
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      341 22 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Bank warned yesterday that credit market aftershocks could hit its profits this year, sending its shares down. In the annual report, Germany's biggest bank highlighted the hurdles it faces this year from disruptions in the markets for leveraged finance and structured credit.
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      1606 22 Almaveric MAVERIC LTD (Company Registration No: *****1583G) (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 Waterfront Ballroom 3, Level 2, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, 392 Havelock Road, Singapore *****3 on Friday,
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon McCain warns govt against mortgage bailout
      540 23 -NYT Clinton, Obama urge federal intervention to help homeowners [SANTA ANA, California] Drawing a sharp distinction between himself and the two Democratic presidential candidates, Senator John McCain of Arizona warned on Tuesday against vigorous government action to solve the deepening mortgage crisis and the
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      700 23 ■AP Best performers offered cash, stock bonuses of 100% of annual output [NEW YORK] JPMorgan Chase is offering bonuses to the top brokers at Bear Steams to get them to stay with the company after it is acquired, JPMorgan said on
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      Lock icon Poor job of supervising Northern Rock: regulator
      426 23 AP FSA setting up new group of specialists to review oversight [LONDON] Britain's financial services regulator admitted yesterday that it had done a poor job of supervising Northern Rock, the mortgage lender which became Britain's most prominent victim of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
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      Lock icon Hit by loss, MGIC sells stock, debt to raise US$745m
      428 23 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] MGIC Investment, the largest US mortgage insurer, raised US$745 million, more than it had projected, with the sale of stock and convertible debt after a record fourth-quarter loss. The insurer dropped 7.9 per cent in New York
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  • AVIATION
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      Lock icon Air France-KLM to submit new proposal
      553 24 -AFP [ROME] Air France-KLM will submit a fresh proposal to improve its offer for struggling carrier Alitalia tomorrow, meeting some key demands from labour, union officials said after a meeting with its chairman. The head of Air France-KLM, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, told Tuesday's meeting that
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      Lock icon Abu Dhabi's Etihad plans to order 50-100 planes
      443 24 Reuters Acquisition plan could set up big battle between Airbus and Boeing [PARIS] Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways plans to order between 50 and 100 jetliners this summer, an executive said yesterday, setting up what could be one of the year's big battles
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      158 24 -Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Statecontrolled Malaysian Airline System Bhd could hit its 2008 net profit forecast ofuptoßMl billion (***** million), its chief financial officer said yesterday. "We have a stretched target of RM7SI million to RMI billion," Tengku Azmil Zahruddin told Reuters in an
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      Lock icon Abu Dhabi airport's T3 to take off at end-April
      195 24 Xinhua [ABU DHABI] A new terminal at the airport of Abu Dhabi, capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be partly opened by the end of April, local newspaper Gulf News reported yesterday. Terminal 3 at Abu Dhabi International
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      Lock icon US-EU pact clouded by economic turmoil
      439 24 -AFP [WASHINGTON] An open skies pact set to take effect between the United States and the European Union this weekend may offer few immediate benefits for travel in view of the turmoil in the US economy and airline industry, analysts say. The agreement that
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      2416 24 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), Al: Air India (AC), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: AliU Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl: R .1 Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO Bouraq Airlines (BOU),
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  • SHIPPING
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      Lock icon The European liner association takes a look into the future
      1107 25  -  DAVID HUGHES STRAIT TALK The ELAA on what will happen when conferences are abolished this October FROM October this year, liner conferences will no longer be legal under European Union competition law. The move follows a long campaign by shippers'
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      Lock icon Asia Pacific Maritime show is 42% bigger
      389 25  -  VINCENT WEE Exhibition features 841 companies; China puts up strong showing THE biennial Asia Pacific Maritime show kicked off yesterday with its best ever showing. The show has grown 42 per cent over the previous one, two years, organiser Reed Exhibitions said. The
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      Lock icon Thuraya extends mobile satellite coverage to Asia-Pac
      299 25  -  VINCENT WEE By THE United Arab Emirate's (UAE) Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, the world's largest provider of hand-held mobile satellite services, announced yesterday on the opening day of the Asia Pacific Maritime 2008 show that it is extending its coverage to the Asia-Pacific region.
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      Lock icon PSA Gwadar port starts commercial operations
      162 25  -  VINCENT WEE THE inaugural call of the 76,000 dwt Pos Glory at PSA's Gwadar International Terminal in Pakistan marks the beginning of a new phase in the development of port infrastructure there. The 12.5 metre draft bulk carrier offloaded 64,000 tonnes of wheat over
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      121 25  -  ALEC ALMAZAN OPERATIONS at the Polish container terminal of Ma-nila-listed port operator, International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI), continue to be stalled as a workers strike entered its seventh day on Wednesday. In a filing with the Philippine Stock Exchange, ICTSI said that the labour union
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    • TRANSPORT STOCKS
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        40 25 '000 lar 26 M$ Vol Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings NeplineBhd PDZ Holdings 0.75 8.25 8.45 4.10 3.12 unch unch 0.05 unch 0.30 0.06 unch unch unch 1334 3 1257 461 298 0 0
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        44 25 '000 lar 26 Yen Vol Kawasaki Hvy Ind ..235.00 -5.00 8852 Kawasaki Kisen 949.00 -4.00 7076 Mitsubishi Hvy 434.00 -14.00 ***** Mitsui Eng&Sbldg...271.00 -3.00 ***** Mitsui Osk Lines ...1199.00 -6.00 9196 Nippon Express 578.00 1.00 2298 Nippon Yusen 904.00 4.00 5767 Source: Reuters
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  • BizIT
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      Lock icon BT Frontline eyes second SOE project
      649 26 It wants to tap BT's network services expertise for Singapore's upcoming SOE for Schools project, writes ONG BOON KIAT SINGAPORE-GROWN information technology services firm BT Frontline, which this week formally became a subsidiary of British telecom giant BT, is planning to land a slice
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      Lock icon Singapore IT market to cross US$2b mark by end '08
      819 26  -  AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY Infrastructure forms biggest chunk of the market: research THE Singapore IT services market is expected to cross the US$2 billion mark by the end of this year, up 8 per cent from US$l.9 billion last year, according
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      Lock icon LG's new mobile slider a 'mind reader'
      368 26  -  WINSTON CHAI LG Electronics has introduced a new handset that claims to be able to make phone calls as well as "read" a user's mind. However, far from being able to divine thoughts and feelings, the LG KF6oo's mind-reading prowess stems from its
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      16 26 The focal point for multinational IT investments. **SS6" I'^ mmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm\%\mm W\ ——-—^__________w^4i<i#iWwpW ______F T _______WWM»!!!!WiiMSil.Ml_ai»'WM,a____
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      493 27 WESTERN pressure is mounting on Beijing to use kid gloves to quell the protests in Tibet. The protests against Beijing's rule over Tibet the broadest and most sustained in almost two decades began in Lhasa on March 10, ostensibly to mark the anniversary of a failed
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      Lock icon Wall Street bosses don't know everything
      1106 27  -  MICHAEL LEWIS Smart employees are finding extremely complicated ways to make huge sums of money ON MARCH 14, a Friday, the market believed that Bear Steams Cos was worth US$3O a share. Say what you will about Bear Steams on that day, but you
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      Lock icon 'False floors' just make credit fallout more painful
      837 27 THE BOTTOM LINE PICTURE a rubber ball falling from a high rooftop. It rebounds quite sharply upon first impact with the ground and then bounces several times more before finally coming to rest. Should the ball strike some "false floor" on the
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      1035 28  -  CINDY SUI Taiwan's biggest challenge is to overcome its reliance on manufacturing for other marques and building its own brands MIKE Liang earns the equivalent of U5537,500 a year, owns a four-bedroom apartment and can afford to send his two daughters to English tutorial
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      864 28 REGARDING the US economy, it's hard not to notice this stark contrast: the "real economy" of spending, production and jobs though weakening is hardly in a state of collapse; but much of today's semi-hysterical commentary suggests that it is. Financial markets for
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      114 27 THE BUSINESS TIMES Singapore Press Holdings News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 3, *****4 PHONE: 6319-6319 FAX: 6319-8277 INTERNET: http://business-times.asial.com.sg EMAIL: Press releases: btnews@sph.com.sg Letters to the Editor: btletter@sph.com.sg OPS DESK: 6319-5360 CUSTOMER SERVICE 6388-3838 Chief Executive Officer Editor-in-Chief Singapore Press Holdings (English Malay Newspapers) ALAN CHAN PATRICK
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
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      6414 29 Transaction date: Mar 26 52-wks Tel |h Low Code Last Sale Vol ('000) Hil Day Last Quote |h Low Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net C'vr P/E M Cap $mil Hii Com[ 5716 1st Software 22 6.5 3148 STelecom gill S fc s F °s n& 71] IS i£u
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      1994 29 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol C000) Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap |h Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E $mil Comi >an< Hii 30 11.5 1181 s AAGrp 415 18 5000 s ABR Hldgs 31 185 8538 s APStrategic 165 25 1501 s Advanced System
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      209 29 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non-Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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      309 35 Bloomberg Demand surges as falling interest rates push borrowing costs to below inflation rate [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's new mortgages more than doubled in February as falling interest rates and accelerating inflation fuelled demand for loans. Banks in Hong Kong approved HK523.5
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      284 35 Reuters Vietnamese business will turn a profit by next year: CEO [KUALA LUMPUR] SP Setia, a Malaysian property developer, expects to double 2007 earnings within four years and predicts that its Vietnamese business will turn a profit by 2009, its
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      298 35 Marketing agent CBRE pegs guide price at $40m THE Presbyterian Church in Singapore has put up for sale a large 9,445 square metre (101,662 square foot) site in the Telok Kurau area. The church said in a statement yesterday that the
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      630 36  -  UMA SHANKARI It says sector has risen too fast relative to rental expectations TAKING a bearish stance on Singapore's residential sector, Nomura Research expects luxury home prices to slide a staggering 32.3 per cent from their 2007 peak between now and
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      324 36  -  SARA LIM COME early 2009, the vacant space above Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station may just be the hippest spot in town, playing host to flea markets, soccer matches, buskers and community performances. Unveiling a plan to transform the area, the Urban Redevelopment Authority
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      596 37  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Rising rents, influx of foreign talent set to spur demand for homes, say analysts THE attraction to foreigners of buying a non-landed home in Singapore isn't expected to wane in the midto longer-term, say property experts. Jones Lang LaSalle's head of
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      986 37  -  JEREMY N LAKE IT was an eventful 2007 for the Singapore property investment sales market, which hit a record $55.29 billion in volume of transactions. This was 81 per cent higher than the previous record of $30.59 billion in
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      114 35 5 minutes to Central Business District Area: 10,095 sq ft (entire floor) High floor with panoramic city sea view Good rental yield UK land prices 'rocket' Free Land Investment Guide www.strategiclanduk.com Tel:+6s 6295 6207 Strategic Land Investments 8a Stanley Street, Singapore *****7 IP^ ________H_E_k_^_>B P? P Up /~>^?-/ .>*gH W
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      798 37 Sizes from 800 sq.ft to 12,000 sq.ft (individual unit or entire floor) New Age, Sophisticated Office Building with a prestigious address Equipped with full height window With facilities and amenities Directly located above Clarke Quay MRT Station High rental yield Suitable for investors or owner-occupiers Rare and excellent investment opportunity
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      93 38 JSt^ THE KEY il Seven tips for buying a Office and industrial: J^L ilk second home: page 6 pages 23 &24 r Prices and rentals of landed Shophouses star at A homes set to rise: page 9 auctions: page 23 m Don't overpay for your Foreign properties: home loan: page
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    169 39 o 67 High Street High Street 78,000 2008 e o o o o o o (ft A&A of BEA Building Redevelopment of Straits Trading Building A&A of Dapenso Building 71 Robinson Road 78 Shenton Way South Tower 2 Havelock Road Mapletree Anson Anson Road Development 50 Collyer
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    55 39 o o o o o o Merrill Lynch HarbourFront Newton 200 VisionCrest Commercial Wilkie Edge Tampines Grande Tampines Concourse Alexandra Business Park Maritime Square Newton Road Penang Road Selegie Road Tampines Grande Tampines Avenue Alexandra Road/Pasir Panjang Road 208,000 30,000 145,000 103,000 300,000 105,000 400,000 2008 2008
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      217 39 ___^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^___l ___^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^___l Commercial I Asia Capital Markets I R i \WBM\n n rhnnomo wnrlH I Transacted 4.5 million sq ft in 2007 Exclusive advisor of over SGD 3 billion of direct office deals including: IVvCll §1 IMMMZA* 111 d wllClll^ 111 <__! W VJI Ivl SGX Centre 79 Anson m^m
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    961 40 No panic mood this time round and developers are financially stronger unlike during the Asian crisis, but a lot depends on Singapore's growth, construction bottlenecks and costs, and investors' pricing power, writes kalpama rashiwala AFTER two years of exuberant growth, Singapore's private housing market
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    1077 41 New rules can't prevent fights led by greed but tussles should be less explosive, writes karamjit siimgh THE year 2007 will go down as the most spectacular in the 13-year history of Singapore's en bloc market. It was a story of massive fortunes made
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      563 41 ADVERTISING FEATURE EAST COAST HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THE It's the lifestyle Megan Petersen loves. "I wouldn't live COSTA DEL SOL prime reasons PeoPle love livin S in Singapore. There anywhere else," she says. The Petersens and their two m^ is the park and the breeze. It's between the
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      384 42 Others try to predict the future We focus on creating it attr^ __V rm r^ f~> m. m wr I A ___k PBB V* A I___ ___r Over the last three years, the property scene has experienced unprecedented growth across all sectors. But where are each of these sectors in
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    1065 45 Even if the US sub-prime problem drags on, mid and mass market homes would still see price increases this year, says ham huaim mci RESIDENTIAL property prices in Singapore saw phenomenal growth in 2006-7. Robust economic growth of about 7-8 per cent in the past
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      284 45 Closing on 8 April 2008 (Tue), 2.30pm p^p^jjplljli^ jj|jl M* I ljj|l^^l Redevelopment Sites at Robin Drive ,'.lljt;l l?] 4__rS JB 'W T i-HSIJS^ SL I SUbjed^/)?\^~-^. A n -?n t iii^ m -*l" ll*^^^g^ Sales office® Propertg^s^\>^^\ Option B 3 Sites 64,878 sf p^S______*_ i n________________a paya uw mistrial
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    889 46 Land scarcity in Singapore should ensure sustainable capital growth in landed housing in the medium to long term, write steveim ming and AVira scow LANDED homes saw their strongest price rise last year >ince 1994 but they have yet to catch
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      299 46 ■iSraUmtltf NT f|^S_______i___H_____H 'V .r __v _iffii _t "j--- r^z^Jl M—___§_______ fft*^''''^ [Ilia 'hi Artist's Impression J^^^^ KRANJI EXPRESSWAY (KJE) __H___N'p4______i I [*IVwiVI ___H»r^l__H F'lHutfl-l [_________^^___l ____k^^^_T* I J_^ ____i __l J^w I w Jfw J^V V Jr^P JH J^g I V Jrw J^H rfl I E-___i Icl l^^V^ H
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    1267 47 With over a hundred home loan packages available in Singapore, deimimis rig discusses how to pick the right one WHAT interest rate are you paying on your housing loan? If you are paying 3.5 per cent or more, you might be overpaying. With the
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      55 47 STILE BY BUILDERS SHOP c= I I m 73 CO O j m ___MX 3 m Bi^M »1 _f^___*__ _i_^^£v_^ii__!SiSiS3"3 m ■flir_-l_€»li la _r»:l I______uo_--^_i 5 *> _-M_ffW__l_PV_rtP^l_iM_--tfi_ik_-_K_-^_pi ■__■<__■ i i__rfi i_f(_ki_ii __!^R_E^^__P__^__3w__^^2_v^_____7__2^ —HH__h___ Hk&2AAMM_______k____£_i____2_r______U__l_U m i _________________________________________________________Q__S^__K___~___^__P^_K___?!Vj___^_r^__r_i MARBLE GRANITE LIMESTONE TRAVERTINE ONYX EXQUISITE ITALIAN TILES GALLERY OPENS DAILY MON-FRI
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    895 48 En bloc sales and population increase caused by influx of foreigners will continue to fuel demand, writes Leonard tay RESIDENTIAL rents bottomed out in 2004, recovering until 2007 when they staged an extraordinary rise, surging by more than 40 per cent within the year. This
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      156 48 FlexiMortgage from UOB The only home loan with two personalities FlexiMortgage is a competitively-priced home loan for stability. It's also a low-interest overdraft for financial flexibility. It's the private property home loan that can do two things at the same time. With FlexiMortgage from UOB, you'll enjoy low monthly payments,
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      717 49 More than a mere private retreat, the home is a q p CI f *+V» TV 1 place to welcome friends and neighbours;a uGFLS LOIIIOUr 0616 CL WltJl JJlglLSl showcase of treasured possessions memories GOlllfOrt Adl'llSter. BeCaUSC SICCD JS and most of all, an extension of ones personal J w^
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    1138 52 The new aesthetic in interior design dictates that the next time you buy a table, it doesn't have to match your chairs, learns sara lim HOMES these days are displaying an intriguing mixture of influences from different cultures and time periods, instead of sticking
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      1014 53 Vaiiv #*lll#ls\ r 'SSSii STATEOFJOHOR f Your guide* to r jsr' T (M alaysia) 7 major projects ,^.7^-^cf V«. v x *;r^—^^-^ K-^^ J S a'^^-^ New Town Sembawang New Town > «>„„„ CURRENT MAJOR PROJECTS IS Ia II Clvv HI c JJES-^ v—-—^v h- /r^VJ* i L x s
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    1965 54 Non-landed residential market most likely to gain from influx of foreign talent, say chua yaimc liaimg and Jacqueline wong SINGAPORE'S non-landed residential market put in a strong performance last year, sub-prime notwithstanding, driven by the luxury and prime segments whose resale capital values saw stunning year-on-year
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      38 54 ____3____ S-Q^Sfl H Mill HH t^" rVl^ 9 if^J^' |V, l___^ B^__J ~___T—(__ —ft'ii ■->—ff~*;i ■"El 1 <^__ __^^l m T_a__l_!■ I rj rd L_i_ll____j esfe<"_! H* i^__Ti__^Vi_il I J H 1 ____?4V!tvT7T_bfn:_____l _Mr I 1 N___Kr4frW^"m t .^BlS_Z_ft_lA__L_j____i__u__t__ii
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    1241 56 But increasing buyer resistance and and an expected surge in supply may take away some sheen, says eugeime lim HDB resales prices accelerated their climb in the second half of 2007 for a full-year gain of 17.5 per cent, on the back of a
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      165 56 AGENCY SERVICES CLIENT SOLUTIONS VALUATION HOSPITALITY CAPITAL MARKETS ii i i mOF a mmmmm HII II pr jlpl 1 I J^\ I SALE of 57,000 sq ft in a prime building SALE of an office 48,900 sq ft gross in at the heart of financial district Kowloon Bay SALE of
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    1285 58 But Singapore's retail operators finding it tough to sustain their businesses, writes shereme si\ig SHOPPING seems to be in the psyche of every Singaporean but how will the dynamics in the retail sector rising rents in particular reshape our favourite pastime? First, let's look at
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    1040 59 Tenant resistance will ease pace of rental growth, and office take-up may slow over 5 years, writes moray Armstrong IT WAS a year of new records for the Singapore office market in 2007. Rents were driven to new highs in terms of growth rates
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    1107 59  -  GRACE NG IT was a stellar year for the Singapore property market in 2007, and auction activity, a barometer of market confidence, did well in tandem. Auction sales hit a record $407.43 million in 2007, the highest in eight years and a shade below the figure
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    1399 60 The two most active industries looking at BTS schemes are financial institutions and IT companies. A lot of the interest has centred on Changi Business Park as one of the key advantages, besides the availability of greenfield sites, is the direct land allocation process. With
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    1337 62 Investors with capital to deploy should take advantage of the high yields on offer, and get paid by waiting, says mark ebbinghaus OVER the past few years one of the greatest drivers behind the positive performances of the region's market was liquidity. Now, following a
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    930 64 The impact of the US economy would play a big part in deciding the course of the property market here this year, says chuachor hooi\i PROPERTY markets in Asia-Pacific were largely insulated from the US sub-prime fallout last year, basking in strong economic growth and
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    1213 64  -  HENGHUA THONG VIETNAM'S property market, underpinned by strong economic fundamentals, will remain a bright spot among the regional markets. In 2007, its economy continued to attain one of the highest growth rates in South-east Asia, with GDP growth of 8.48 per cent. This was
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    1154 66 Interest in Malaysian real estate assets is high given their relatively attractive pricing, pauliime rig reports WITH Kuala Lumpur office rentals still hovering at 1995 prices, it's little wonder that the Malaysian capital remains one of the cheapest places in Asia to base an
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    1003 66  -  NEIL BEHRMANN in London THE London and UK residential property boom is well and truly over. In the past few months prices have begun to slip in what has become a buyer's market. The slide has been especially evident in north England and
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