The Business Times, 14 March 2009

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    14 1 weekend THE BUSINESS TIMES MARCH 14-15,2009 Ssl.oo I AN SPH PUBLICATION MICA(P) 198/08/2008 www.businesstimes.com.sg
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Sponsors call time on sports
    1160 1  -  Nisha Ramchandani In a season of belt-tightening, many companies walk away from the game By nishar@sph.com.sg Singapore HUGE cutouts of Manchester United players like Cristiano Ronaldo used to stare at drivers in the Raffles Place area till recently. Insurance giant AIG has taken them down
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    Lock icon No cash call on the horizon, says NOL
    401 1  -  Vincent Wee By vincewee@sph.com.sg Singapore THE rumours were laid to rest, but only after they had exacted their toll. Three days and some $200 million in lost market value later, Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) finally went public yesterday to state that it
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      164 1 J MOTORING MUf^i TRAVEL FROM THE DESK OF GOOD TIMES Pawnbroker business jumps Trend of banks tightening the screws on loans fuel 10 per cent rise in revenue at firms such as Value Max 3 TOUGH SCHOOL Raffles Education defies shock Its share price rallies despite news of an accounting
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  • TOP STORIES
    • MARKETS
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        45 2 KL COMP 843.45 +5.06 NIKKEI 225 7,569.28 +371.03 HANG SENG 12,525.80 +524.27 SET 424.79 +9.75 JAKARTA 1,327.43 +17.02 MANILA 1,856.10 -23.57 KOSPI 1,126.03 -2.36 SHENZHEN B 316.16 -1.93 MUMBAI IND 8,756.61 +412.86 Nnnn EDT Chnngrp Noon EDT Change DOW 7,143.45 -26.61 NASDAQ 1,412.54 -13.56
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        Lock icon PRIME RATES
        29 2 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5,38 MALAYSIA 5,53 HONG KONG 5,00 INDONESIA 16,460 TAIWAN 4,826 JAPAN 1,475 KOREA 9,33 BRITAIN 0,50 US 3.25 CANADA 2,50 SWITZERLAND 0,53 INDIA 12,25 Source:
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        43 2 us$ s$ US$" 1.544 "US$/ 1.391 2.147 EURO(US$/S$/E) 1.292 Foreign currency per US$, S$ 1.995 YEN 98.00 63.50 RM 3.706 2.400 HK! 7.754 5.022 BAHT 35.97 23.30 RUPIAH 11,993 7,767 RENMINBI 6.839 4.429 INDIAN RUPEE 51.70 33.48 1.527 0.989 NZ$ 1.924 1.246
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      Lock icon Pawnbrokers gain as banks tighten lending
      895 3  -  Chen Huifen Trend fuels 10 per cent rise in business for Value Max By xuifen@sph.com.sg Singapore BANKS are scrutinising borrowers more closely, be they businesses or individuals. Gold Kili sales manager Audrey Ho said she was shocked when, in a recent loan application for
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      Lock icon Retail sales plunge 12.2% in January
      417 3  -  Joyce Hooi Drop is the steepest in 8 years; driven by falling vehicle sales By joyceh@sph.com.sg Singapore CONFIRMING suspicions about empty tills and dressing rooms, retail sales figures for the month of January have fallen the most in eight years according to economists, diving
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      Lock icon Raffles Education shares defy shock
      456 4  -  Oh Boon Ping ORIENTAL SCANDAL Stock rises despite accounting scandal in 30 per cent owned Oriental Century By huwenbin@sph.com.sg Singapore tal Century ceases to be a going concern, Raffles Education may need to fully write off its entire investment of $34.6 million or 1.5 cents
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      Lock icon Oriental Century appoints legal adviser, special accountant
      730 4  -  Lynette Khoo But some market watchers are concerned over how far Singapore laws can reach non-residing management By lynkhoo@sph.com.sg Singapore THE little-known, hardly chased stock Oriental Century has this week become the latest accounting scandal casualty among Sin-gapore-listed Chinese firms or S-chips. Oriental
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      Lock icon China concerned about safety of its massive assets in US
      498 5  -  Anthony Rowley In quick response, US says it will be a good steward By btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo CHINA'S Premier Wen Jiabao has expressed concern about Beijing's massive holdings of US Treasuries and other debt securities, appealing to Washington to safeguard their
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      Lock icon Switzerland gives in, will cooperate on tax evasion
      366 5 AP, Reuters Bern, Switzerland THE Swiss government said yesterday it would cooperate on cases of international tax evasion, breaking with along-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of dollars in the Alpine nation. The government insisted it would hold
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      Lock icon US trade deficit plunges in Jan to 6-year low
      233 5 AP LATEST US DATA Washington THE US trade deficit plunged in January to the lowest level in six years as a deepening recession cut demand for imported goods. The Commerce Department yesterday said the trade imbalance dropped to US$36 billion in
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      71 2 NEWS LIVING Top stories 2-5 Design L 2-3 Raffles Conversation 6-7 Shopping L 4-6 Week In Review 8 i^^From The Desk Of 9 Companies 10^14 Singapore 15-17 ffvOkUT Letter From Abroad 18 Entertaining L 7 World 19-22 pining LB-9 Stocks stats 23-27 Travel LlO-12 Perspective 28-29 Weekend With Ll3 Wealth
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      2255 6  -  Ronnie Lim MATTI LIEVONEN President and CEO, Neste Oil Age: 50 Education: Degree in Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Kuopio, Finland 1986-Nov 2008: Worked at UPM, the world's third largest pulp and paper company. Positions held included automation manager, technical director (France), mill director (Finland and France), executive
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      Lock icon Raffles Hotels & Resorts
      76 6 Raffles Hotels Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles Hotels Resorts. A collection of luxury hotels, Raffles Hotels and Resorts distinguishes itself through the highest standards of hospitality, service and cuisine. Its hotels in Singapore, Beijing, Cambodia, Beverly Hills, Dubai and the Caribbean
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  • WEEK IN REVIEW/WEEK AHEAD
    • THIS WEEK
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        Lock icon Subsale deals pick up as investors bail out
        45 7 PRIVATE condominium and apartment subsales are on the rise as project completions put pressure on investors with weak holding power to exit the market. This year, 10,448 private homes landed and non-landed are expected to be completed.
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        Lock icon Earnings forecasts cut on poor Q4 results
        47 7 ANALYSTS have slashed their earnings forecasts following the disappointing results season that saw profit crashing in a number of Q4 reports. Total earnings posted by 229 companies for the fourth quarter of 2008 crashed 87.3 per cent to $1.51 billion.
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        Lock icon Temasek backs USs3oom Chartered cash call
        56 7 CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing is raising about US$3OO million through a 27-for-10 rights offer. Temasek Holdings subsidiary Singapore Technologies Semiconductors, Chartered's major shareholder, will take up its entitlement of about 59.4 per cent of the offer and "act as standby purchaser and purchase up to
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        Lock icon In the post – UOB's foray into heartland home loans
        75 7 In the post UOB's foray into heartland home loans UNITED Overseas Bank has tied up exclusively with Sing Post to sell HDB home loans, muscling its way into mass market mortgages that have so far been dominated by rivals DBS Bank and OCBC Bank. UOB, which had previously target- Ed
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        Lock icon Collapsing asset values hit Asia hard
        61 7 THE global financial crisis has so far cost emerging Asian economies a massive US$9.6 trillion in terms of collapsing asset values, according to the Asian Development Bank on Monday. Globally, losses in the value of stocks, bonds and bank assets may amount to an
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        Lock icon Merck, Schering-Plough to merge in US$41b deal
        45 7 MERCK Co is buying Scher-ing-Plough Corp for US$4l.l billion in stock and cash in a deal that gives the companies more firepower to compete in a drug industry facing slumping sales, tough generic competition and intense pricing pressures.
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        Lock icon HSBC shares dive to 13-year low
        67 7 HSBC Holdings pic, the bank that's raising £12.5 billion (5526.7 billion) in a rights offer, plunged the most in at least 23 years in Hong Kong, driven to a 13-year low by last-minute trades and concern about deepening loan losses at its US business.
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        Lock icon RM6Ob package to put M'sia on road to recovery
        90 7 MALAYSIAN Finance Minister Na- jib Razak has unveiled a stimulus package of RM6O billion (Ss2s billion) the country's largest ever, amounting to nearly 9 per cent of GDP over 2009 and 2010 to avert "the prospects of a deep recession". Some
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        Lock icon Las Vegas Sands' president loses dogfight, quits
        61 7 LAS Vegas Sands hotshot William Weidner has left the company developing the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort under an apparent cloud. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, the LVS board metthe-then company president and chief operating
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        Lock icon Better-armed MAS to go after errant Fls
        36 7 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is seeking more muscle to prosecute errant financial institutions (Fls). Investors can then ride on the coat-tails of successful prosecution to get compensation.
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        Lock icon Accounting scandal rocks another S-chip
        61 7 CATALIST-listed Oriental Century which is 29.9 per cent owned by the Raffles Education group disclosed on Thursday that its chairman and CEO, Wang Yuean, had admitted cooking the books for years and diverting money to an interested party. The fresh accounting scandal at the China-based
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      183 7 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 21 Sounds like legal papers 27 128 Across: I Haste, 4 G strings, 8 Unfor top hotel (4) gainly, 9 Sabotage, 11 Express, 13 22 Complimentary strong Test Pilot> ls On the br'ght side> 18 Ar lr ,C(r,r Q n^t- head of Cattle (reduced 2 In the Shops,
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      98 7 NEXT WEEK Mar 16-20, '09 US DATA March T6 Feb capacity utilisation Feb industrial production March T7 Feb building permits Feb core PPI Feb housing starts March T8 Feb core CPI Current account balance Crude inventories March T9 Initial claims Feb leading indicators SINGAPORE DATA March T7 Feb merchandise trade
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  • FROM THE DESK OF
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      Lock icon Recipe for survival
      824 8  -  Andrew Tjioe I FROM THE I J DESK OF I Executive chairman, Tung Lok Restaurants For Singapore to maintain or enhance its reputation as a city with great food, players in the F&B industry must seek out innovative solutions to meet the challenges of the current economic
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  • COMPANIES
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      Lock icon Fair Price sub-underwrites Capita Mall rights issue
      367 9  -  Jamie Lee It will take up to 27m rights units if issue is not fully subscribed By leejamie@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE'S largest supermarket chain NTUC Fair Price has agreed to spend as much as $22.1 million to buy up to 27 million rights units
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      Lock icon More departures at Advance SCT
      516 9  -  Lynette Khoo By lynkhoo@sph.com.sg Singapore TWO more independent directors (IDs) at copper recycling firm Advance SCT have stepped down, citing difficulty in discharging their duties as they don't get timely information and regular updates from management. This is the second round of board changes and
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      Lock icon Capita Land's rights issue over-subscribed
      400 9  -  Uma Shankari By shankari@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE'S largest property company Capita Land yesterday said that its $1.84 billion rights issue has been over-subscribed based on initial tallies done at the close of the rights offer on March 12. "Acceptances and excess applications have been received for
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      Lock icon Creative slashing 300 jobs worldwide
      405 10  -  Ong Boon Kiat It will incur restructuring charges of about US$lO million in Q3; majority of cuts from Europe and US By boonkiat@sph.com.sg Singapore CREATIVE Technology has carried out a retrenchment exercise that will slash about 300 jobs worldwide, with majority of the cuts from
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      Lock icon Beyonics' Q2 profit falls 90.1% to $383,000
      330 10  -  Joyce Hooi By joyceh@sph.com.sg Singapore ELECTRONICS group Beyonics Technology posted a 90.1 per cent drop in net profit to $383,000 for the second quarter ended Jan 31, 2009, from $3.9 million for the previous corresponding period. Revenue for the three months rose 31.1
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    • Business briefing
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        Lock icon MUFJ raises stake in Kim Eng to 19.03%
        47 10 KIM Eng Holdings Limited yesterday said that major shareholder Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co Ltd has raised its stake in the company to 19.03 per cent from 18 per cent. This follows a series of open and off market transactions.
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        Lock icon Ipco slides into red with Q3 net loss of $69.86m
        83 10 IPCO International yesterday reported a net loss of $69.86 million for the third quarter ended Jan 31, 2009, compared to a net profit of $2.12 million the previous year. Total revenue plunged 73.5 per cent to $3.67 million. The group's
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        Lock icon Asiatravel observes growth in room nights booked
        78 10 ASIATRAVEL.COM Holdings said yesterday that it is seeing growth in the number of room nights booked despite the economic downturn, on the back of rising popularity of short-haul and intra-Asia travel. The travel company has been working with hotel partners to offer attractive
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      Lock icon Accounting scandals, rights issues in spotlight
      650 11  -  R Sivanithy STOCKS sivan@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent AT the start of the week, it would have been a safe bet that few in the market would have heard of Oriental Century (OC), a Chinabased education services provider (schools, colleges, kindergartens, etc) whose shares are listed
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      Lock icon TOP 20 ACTIVES
      111 11 :hina Honi 129,874 2.0 33. iolden 66,905 28.5 2.0 7.5 58,259 15 -0.5 -32 3an Joo 44,208 2.5 1.0 66.7 :hart SemiCond 42,966 13 2.5 23.8 fafflesEdu 38, ,,752 36 2.0 5.9 'oni 36,787 8.5 0.5 6. IOL 35,377 101 13.0 148 32,485 212 16.0 82 linoEnv
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      Lock icon TOP GAINERS
      53 11 CLOSE UP iBXT FTChina25 10US$ 1846 253.1 9.! IBXT Nifb 10US: 5300 114.2 1.. iLD 10US$ 9060 98.8 0." lardine C&C 980 95.0 10/ China H 10US$ 956 86.4 6.: JOB 892 65.0 7.' JOB.ES.0903 880 60.0 7.: IBS Gri 739 49.0 7.1 iBS.ES.0903 740 44.0 6.: :it>
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      Lock icon TOP LOSERS
      55 11 CLOSEDOWN iBXTS&P Short 10US$ 8690 -635.8 -4.5 iGX RB ePW*****3 27 -23.0 -46.1 )CBCCai 5.93%Pref1O 6960 -20.0 -o.: JOB RBePW*****3 122 -12.0 -9.1 iTI 1950BNPePW*****9 79.5 -11.5 -12.( JOB BNP ePW*****1 50.5 -11.0 -17.' IBS BNP ePW*****6 42 -10.0 -19.: )ssia Intl 10 -9.5 -48/ ;TI1600BNPePW*****9 28 -9.0
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      100 11 2.120 +0.160 litaMall 1.010 +0.030 :if 'Dev 4.840 +0.360 :osco Con 0.765 +0.075 IBS Grp 7.390 +0.490 :&N 2.260 +0.210 lent Intl 0.440 +0.015 iolden Ai ;ri 0.285 +0.020 IK Land 2.230 +0.230 IMH 17.020 +0.100 ISH 8.950 +0.150 lardine C&C 9.800 +0.950 lei Con 4.390 +0.270 Land
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      Lock icon Popular posts 40% decline in Q3 net profit to $532m
      327 11  -  Emilyn Yap By emilyny@sph.com.sg Singapore POPULAR Holdings, which recently raised $19.7 million from a rights issue, said yesterday that the cash has cushioned its property business from the financial downturn. But the rest of the year will be "challenging", the
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      Lock icon China Flexible suffers 87% profit fall to 5.81m yuan
      367 12  -  Joyce Hooi It blames weakening economy, milk scandal, higher production, raw material costs By joyceh@sph.com.sg Singapore CHINA Flexible Packaging Holdings suffered an 86.76 per cent plunge in net profit to 5.81 million yuan (Ssl.3 million) for the first quarter ended Jan
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      Lock icon Trading suspension triggers FibreChem loan default
      292 12  -  Lynette Khoo By lynkhoo@sph.com.sg Singapore TROUBLED firm FibreChem Technologies has announced a default on a US$35 million ty"The event of default was by reason of the suspension of trading in the company's shares," it said. The US$35 million facility agreement dated Aug 18, 2006,
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      Lock icon IT'S BONUS TIME FOR KEPFELS
      65 12 RIG builder KepFels has collected a near $1 million bonus for delivering a jack-up rig 20 days ahead of schedule, within budget and without incidents to client Mercator Offshore. The rig, Greatdrill Chetna, has been contracted to India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and will
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      Lock icon Sunright posts loss of $3.38m for first six months
      321 12  -  Jamie Lee By leejamie@sph.com.sg Singapore THINGS are not looking so bright for Sunright Ltd after it swung into a $3.38 million loss for the first six months ended Jan 31, 2009, reversing from a $4.96 million net profit posted a year
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      Lock icon Citigroup to expand business in SE-A
      670 13 Reuters It wants to start brokerages in Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia this year, and more branches in Thailand Singapore CITIGROUP plans to start equity brokerage businesses in Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia this year, and is seeking more branches in Thailand in a bid to
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      24 13 SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS FOUNDATION Presents jfl 1 Organised by: Event managed by: Partner: TUC Rl ICIMCCC Tlh/ICC SPH TIMES. THE BUSINESS TIMES MediaßaxOffice RfIZORTV
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Greater push for cross-disciplinary research
      404 14  -  Chen Huifen A*Star makes new appointments, seeking to raise collaboration among research institutes By xuifen@sph.com.sg THE Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) will take a more pro-active approach to encourage cross-disciplinary research, following new appointments approved by its board yesterday. George Radda, formerly chief
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      Lock icon Container throughput down 19.8% in February
      210 14  -  Vincent Wee By vincewee@sph.com.sg CONTAINER transhipment continued to slide in February, with Singapore's overall throughput down 19.8 per cent year-on-year and 6.3 per cent from January. February throughput came to 1.85 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), down from 2.31 million a year earlier and
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      Lock icon Have your day in court – this weekend
      224 14 Have your day in court this weekend THIS weekend, for the first time, you can take a public tour of the Supreme Court. It had moved to its new premises in June 2005. Along the way, you can try on a lawyer's robe and get a photograph taken of yourself
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      Lock icon Debt crisis not unprecedented, says economist
      485 15  -  Teh Shi Ning By tshining@sph.com.sg WORDS such as "unprecedented" have been used to describe the financial crisis confronting today's world. But in truth, the sub-prime debt crisis that was the trigger is hardly new, says Vinod X Aggarwal. Prof Aggarwal, who is the director
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      Lock icon Local universities freeze tuition fees for new intakes
      407 15  -  Lee U-Wen Needy students to receive more financial aid during the economic downturn By leeuwen@sph.com.sg NUS will not raise its hostel rates for the coining academic year. And at SMU, students can tap interest-free loans for up to 90 per cent of
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      Lock icon Rope in private sector in terror fight
      339 15  -  Victor Katheyas By victorpk@sph.com.sg THE engagement of businesses is "crucial" in fighting terrorism, said Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). Prof Gunaratna, who was speaking to journalists
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      Lock icon Mapletree Ind Trust says no to rental rebates
      610 16  -  Arthur Sim But it will pass on the 40% property tax rebate in full to tenants By simska@sph.com.sg HAVING cost $1.71 billion to form, the Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) cannot afford to give its tenants the rental rebates they want. Clearing the
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      Lock icon Sailing school gains from Qipper connection
      412 16 THE new Keppel Bay Sailing Academy (KBSA) is already seeing benefits from its tie-up with Clipper Round the World Yacht Race organiser Clipper Ventures, running its first Clip-per-accredited training courses last week. The academy Singapore's first and only Royal Yachting Association-ac-credited training facility is
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  • LETTER FROM ABROAD WITH ASCOTT
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      782 17  -  Gabrielle Tay SINGAPORE has been dubbed the Switzerland of Asia on many occasions. The obvious similarities that our affluent little island shares with this country include the high concentration of banks, compulsory military conscription for its young men, and its highly efficient transport systems. Switzerland to me,
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon HK investors sue Lehman, HSBC over minibonds
      364 18 AP They are fighting to recoup as much as USsl.6b in losses via US lawsuit Hong Kong A GROUP of Hong Kong investors sued Lehman Brothers and HSBC in the United States in their fight to recoup as much as US$l.6 billion in
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      Lock icon Satyam board vets takeover bids
      241 18 AFP New Delhi THE board of fallen Indian outsourcing giant Satyam met yesterday to discuss potential bidders for the company, a spokeswoman said. Three firms announced on Thursday they were interested in taking a 51 per cent stake Indian engineering giant Larsen Toubro, Indian conglomerate
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      Lock icon Top Umno official charged with graft
      372 18 AP Kuala Lumpur PROSECUTORS charged a top ruling party official with bribery yesterday, sending shock waves through Malaysia's political ranks ahead of party elections that many fear will be marred by corruption. Norza Zakaria, a member of the United Malays National Organisation party's (Umno)
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      Lock icon M'sia aims for air hub status with new terminal
      379 19 AP It will be a boon for Air Asia, says country's airport operator Kuala Lumpur A NEW RM2 billion (*****.7 million) low-cost air terminal to be built by 2011 will make Malaysia a major regional travel hub rivaling Singapore and Thailand,
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      Lock icon Cathay Pacific says fares not sustainable
      368 19 Bloomberg Hong Kong CATHAY Pacific Airways Ltd, Hong Kong's biggest carrier, is selling economy class tickets at "unsustainable" prices to lure travellers as demand plunged the most in more than three years last month. "The market has collapsed," chief executive officer Tony Tyler said
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      Lock icon Seoul wades in to buy bad assets
      203 19 Bloomberg Seoul SOUTH Korea will create a 40 trillion won (Ss4o billion) fund to buy distressed corporate bonds and assets from financial companies as it tries to prevent a recession. "We feel the need to take pre-emptive measures to prevent banks being exposed
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      Lock icon BOA in the black, says CEO
      495 20 Reuters Bank will ride out the recession without new help from US taxpayers, he adds Boston BANK of America Corp (BOA) has been profitable in January and February and should be able to ride out the recession without new help from US taxpayers, chief
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      Lock icon GM doesn't need federal aid this month
      297 20 Bloomberg Washington GENERAL Motors (GM), which earlier told the Barack Obama administration that it would need US$2 billion by March 31 to stay afloat, now says that it doesn't need the money, after all. "This development reflects the acceleration of GM's companywide cost-reduction
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      Lock icon Citi doesn't need more govt capital: chairman
      353 20 Reuters Washington CITIGROUP does not need any more capital injections from the government, chairman Richard Parsons said on Thursday. He also expressed confidence that Citi would remain in private hands. Asked in an interview with Reuters whether Citigroup needed more government capital injections,
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      708 21  -  Anthony Rowley Banking body urges upcoming London meeting to tackle threat to global trading and finance By btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo THE Group of 20 (G-20) developed and emerging nations must take urgent and forceful action at its London summit next month "to counter the potential
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      418 21 Reuters London SWITZERLAND on Thursday broke a taboo among developed nations by trying to weaken its currency to help its economy, a policy that could trigger a wave of competitive devaluations if times get much harder. At a time when governments around the world
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      158 21 Bloomberg New York THE credit crisis is thinning the ranks of AAA companies, after General Electric and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lost top-level debt ratings on concern about losses on financial instruments. Fitch Ratings on Thursday stripped Berkshire of its AAA grade, citing
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      182 25 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
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      817 25 For week beginning Mar 9 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS Trans Date Shareholder/ Director Sell Conv Shares '000 Per ShrS Before ('000) After ('000) itock Jnited Fiber Sys L.C.Dev Ltd L.C.Dev Ltd Equation Corp Ltd Equation Corp Ltd Iconic Hldgs Ltd Japan Land Ltd L.C.Dev
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        364 26 Mar 12 dy yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminai 562.1 0.9 -17.1 1.1 -14.6 0.8 -19.9 EAFE Preliminai 540.2 -0.2 -16.8 -0.1 -17.4 -0.3 -22.5 Euroi Preliminai 761.0 1.0 -16.5 1.1 -17.3 0.8 -22.4 Pacific 446.1
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        145 26 Mar n\ :urrencies Bid >$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0102 Offer Bid Offer 1.0116 0.6546 0.6549 :anadian dollar 1.2052 1.2067 0.7809 0.7813 iuro 1.9936 1.9956 1.2918 1.2920 IZ dollar 0.8017 0.8032 0.5195 0.5200 jterlini 2.1463 2.1484 1.3907 1.3909 IS dollar 1.5433 1.5446 >$/US$
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        101 26 Mar J2|| iNS(! (5,000 bu min; USi /60 Ib bushels; Close i Previous High/Low darO9 899.00 875.00 900.00 875.00 day 09 882.00 862.00 884.00 859.25 lul 09 881.50 860.75 883.75 858.75 \ugO9 871.00 849.50 870.75 850.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs; usq/lb) Close Previous High/Low darO9 30.11 29.64 31.00 29.55
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        74 26 Mar J2|| USS/barrel (FOB origin) Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) WTI (Near Mth) Dubai (1-Mth F) Tapis blend Minas 43.79 -0.94 46.81 3.88 41.00 -2.04 46.40 -2.00 44.75 0.05 PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 41.90 -0.70 47.25 -1.55 USS/barrel Opec Oil Basket Price 42.70
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        69 26 Mar J3\ (us; loz)_ Mar 13 Mar 12 -long Kong 915.60 906.00 916.60 907.00 Mar 12 Mar 11 .ondon 924.20 907.60 926.20 909.60 Source: Thomson Reuters SILVER Selling Buying 'assbook 1 oz 20.05 19.8 Source: UOB >LATINUM/Lon (US$/oz) Mar 12 Close Previous 'M Fix 1048.00 unch iMFix 1048.*****4.00 Source:
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        62 26 Mar 13 J CLCE PALM FUTURES lelivery Opening 4onth Range (RM/MT) Sett Av Price Price Low Voi Done Open Position Hh i/larO9 \prO9 i/layO9 lun 09 2010 2040 2040 2010 1991 2022 2022 1977 1943 1972 1983 1931 1902 1930 1947 1895 Tots] o/p: ***** contracts Turnover: *****
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        72 26 Mar J2| Uumlnlum, 99.7? mrity (US$/tonne' Close Previous :ash months 1306.50 1340.00 1305.01 1339.01 lopper, Grade A ;us$/tonne) lash J months 3548.50 3580.00 3558.51 3589.01 ■ead (US$/tonne; :ash 1 months 1230.00 1237.00 1263.2! 1272.01 Nickel -us: /tonne) Close Previous Cash 3 months Tin (US$/tonne; 9374.00 9455.00 9719.01 9800.01
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      1021 27  -  David M Smick LAT-WP Obama should name a proven, world-class problem-solver like James Baker before it is too late to salvage America from its present financial mess By PITY Barack Obama's economic advisers. The blogs are now demanding their scalps, and Treasury Secretary Tim
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      819 27  -  James Kanter IHT By Brussels AS IF running an organisation of 27 countries wasn't complicated enough, a new position has been added at European Union headquarters: coffee monitor. Following embarrassing revelations that the European Commission had purchased 21 deluxe espresso machines
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        1085 28  -  Genevieve Cua Investment firm says once financial stability is achieved, Reits should do well as their underlying cash flows remain sound. By EAL estate investment trusts are supposed to be stable assets and a core retiree holding, whose regular yield distributions help to cusha
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        213 28 RETAIL unit trust portal Fundsupermart.com has launched an equity index representing all equity unit trusts registered for sale. The index of 228 funds FSM All-Equity Fund Index (FEFI) aims to give unit trust investors a quick barometer of how the broad retail funds market here
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        22 28 PHOTO:! Source: Green Street Advisors, Morgan Stanley and AMP Capital Redding Investors. At January 31,2009. I BLOOMBERG
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        761 28  -  Jamie Lee Raffles Education BUY DBS Vickers Securities March 13 close: $0.36 ORIENTAL blues: Raffles Education's 29.9 per cent-owned associate company, Oriental Century, has sought a voluntary trading halt. It was announced that: B> Auditors had difficulties seeking the reconfirmation of the bank balance of the company; B>
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        1186 29  -  Albert Lam WEALTH INSIGHTS Study shows dollar cost averaging strategy works when markets are at very low levels and volatility prevails Investment director IPP Financial Advisers HE word "unpreceW dented" seems to be a common theme of late. It is unprecedented that financial
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        1503 30  -  Teh Hooi Ling SHOW ME THE MONEY Investors must be willing to experience short-term losses as without near-term pain, there can be no long-term gain hooiling@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent FTER what the market has gone through in the last six months, I'm not sure how many
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        1003 31 Bloomberg Rising Libor shows banks still don't know if they can trust each other New York THE cost of borrowing in dollars is rising as the global recession deepens and central bank efforts to prop up the financial system fail to prevent a
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        523 49  -  Arthur Sim Bids by educational institutions were 20-87% higher than guide rents for four sites put up for public tender By simska@sph.com.sg And a bid from Dimensions International College for the former Seh Chuan High School in Jalan Seh Chuan was 20 per cent
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        224 49 JONES Lang LaSalle has, for the second year running, been included in Fortune's "World's Most Admired Companies" list basically a report card on corporate reputations. The firm has again been recognised as a real estate industry leader based on criteria that include corporate
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      48 33 I_ j^*^ jn X s^' aSw? r V 'it i' 1 I FROM TRASH H TO TREASURE 1 1 Vintage furniture makes a comeback I I 1 in innovative new guises I 1 I L 2"3 I I Burnt Black table by Nathaniel Walters at Little Red Dots
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        1320 34  -  Lim Sio Hui Previously destined for the dustbin, vintage furniture is making a comeback in innovative new guises. By N OLD and worn-out Victorian sofa with cracking leather upholstery and sagging seats hardly sounds like a likely impulse buy for anyone, much less style guru and
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        625 35  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon d-Bodhi's eco-friendly furniture venture which uses reclaimed wood is finally bearing fruit. By FORSAKING flowers for furniture, Dutch national Raymond Davids now dedicates himself to working towards creating new and modern furniture lines with reclaimed teak wood. It was tough-going when he first started
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        553 35 FRESH well, almost from their deal to distribute Philippe Starck's xO furniture in Asia last year, Singapore furniture company Office Planner has now moved up the design ladder to set up a company with leading designer, Karim Rashid. "It's in tune with the democratic design
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        1115 36 GIORGIO Busnelli is on a whirlwind trip through this part of the world, and it's a mixed bag that the chairman of B&B Italia is bringing back with him to Italy after three intense weeks on the road. On the one hand, things are still looking pretty
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        1005 37  -  Audrey Phoon guest chef How do you know if an Italian chef is worth his salt? Check out his risotto. By IN MANY countries, the basic test of a good cook is whether he or she can turn out a crisp-around-the-edges, run-ny-in-the-middle sunny-side-up. But winning over Italian
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        1891 38  -  Audrey Phoon They may not be in the most accessible places, but these restaurants' unique surroundings and good food make up for the trip. By Donna Carmela 242 Pasir Panjang Road Pasir Panjang Village S 8200-5630 THE sun has just set, and the neon-lit bars
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        1223 39  -  Geoffrey Eu PHOTOS (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED): By In this Middle East metropolis, ancient Arab tradition and 21st-century Western-style modernity come together to impressive effect. MODERN monoliths that rise up from the desert floor, shimmering in the sun like some great architectural tease to travellers from distant shores, have
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        620 40  -  Vincent Wee Thai hospitality is as warm as ever, whether you are in Phuket or in Bangkok IF you're in the habit of nipping over to Phuket for a quick getaway, it can get a little predictable to keep going back to the
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        565 40  -  Jaime Ec IMAGINE, if you like, a Bangkok where you are able to breeze through Siam Paragon's immensely popular foodcourt without having to cross elbows with fellow tourists, and be able to find an empty table even at peak dining hours. Yes, the "City of
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        939 41  -  Amanda de Guzman WEEKEND I WITH MICHAEL GRECO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR SALES AND MARKETING IN ASIA-PACIFIC AND JAPAN, LENOVO Michael Greco, commissioner for the Singapore Ice Dragons youth ice hockey league, sees great potential for ice hockey here despite the lack of resources. IT is safe
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        596 42 Detox your face and body with these two newly launched treatments YOU put your right hand into a glove made for your left hand. It has a place for four fingers and a thumb, but it does not fit perfectly because your hands are mirror images
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        475 42 Cheeky Chai Detox Spa Esprit at House, 8D Dempsey Rd S3 6476-0070 FANCY getting a feel of what it's like to be a human candlestick? That's what Spa Esprit at House's latest spa treatment offers, with all that wax and heat that's supposed
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        612 43  -  Melissa Heng In recent years, several new techniques have become available to pain sufferers. By WITH advances in pain management techniques, patients suffering from chronic or intense pain no longer have to grit their teeth and bear it. In recent years, several new techniques have
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        216 43  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon GLOBAL pharmaceutical giant Bayer Schering Pharma (BSP) will launch a free andropause ("male menopause") screening for men aged 40 and above, at over 120 participating GP clinics in Singapore, next Thursday. BSP manufactures erectile dysfunction (ED) drug Levitra and Nebido (the first and only long-acting
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        557 43  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon THE treatment scope for lung cancer has undergone a lot of development in the last five years, with multiple drugs approved for earlier stage disease, says a clinical trial investigator who specialises in lung, head and neck cancers. "Prior to 2000, once chemotherapy failed,
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        Lock icon Facing precarious times
        809 44  -  Lee U-Wen no holds barred leeuwen@sph.com.sg Correspondent THE shocking ambush attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team 11 days ago in Pakistan which killed eight people and injured seven, including six players provided a timely wake-up call that terrorism is a very real threat in sport today.
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          1224 45  -  Justine Moss Women's golf is clearly gaining importance in Asia, but in the current economic climate, there's no telling how the LPGA will be affected in the years to come. By THERE was some great golf on display in Singapore at Tanah Merah Country Club's
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        Lock icon Time to amp up that iPod
        627 46  -  Christopher Lim Speaker systems for Apple's music players are better sounding than ever, provided you don't stint. By WHEN Apple's iPod first became the de facto king of music players, any speaker system that allowed you to plug one in was cool, but rarely
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        643 47  -  Samuel Ec In Sport mode, the Cayman S starts with a raspy growl, progressing to a boom before turning into a wail higher up the rev range. By ONE of the nicest things about the Porsche Cayman S Sport is its "sound system" but we're
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        851 48  -  Samuel Ec driving style Andre Roy of Wearnes shares his lifelong passion for cars and the auto industry. By ANDRE Roy has a plan. The group managing director of Wearnes' automotive division says he already has a car to suit every need. Next, he wants his customers,
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