The Business Times, 25 July 2009

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    18 1 weekend THE BUSINESS TIMES www.businesstimes.com.sg JULY2S-26, 2009 Ssl.oo I MICA (P) 198/08/2008 Spi A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Soh to reap millions from ANZ, Merrill
    685 1  -  Chew Xiang Settlement over Opes shares to net former Jade boss a tidy amount By xchew@sph.com.sg Singapore ANTHONY Soh could receive millions of dollars from ANZ Bank and Merrill Lynch after he and 80 other investors voted yesterday in Melbourne to accept a
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      159 1 f the raffles conversation MOTORING stf"ifrmPjg^gg^. PERSPECTIVE DAVID PUTTNAM, The hot hatch J2£^: j%- A Asean's long road THE FILM MAKER 6-7 has arrived LlB *-*Q' to human rights 24-25 SOLID REBOUND Hang Seng tops 20,000 This is the first time it has done so since the collapse of Lehman
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  • TOP STORIES
    • CONTENTS
      • Article
        Lock icon NEWS
        38 2 Top Stories 2-5 Raffles Conversation 6,7 Week In Review 8 From The Desk Of 9 Companies 10-13 Singapore 14,15 Letter From Abroad 16 World 17-18 Stocks stats 19-23 Perspective 24-25 Wealth 26-29 Househunt 30 Real Estate 3J[
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        Lock icon LIVING
        25 2 Travel L 2-3 Dining L 4-6 Shopping L7-1T Home Garden Ll2-13 Weekend With LI4 Health LI 5 Sport LT6 Golf LT7 Motoring LI 8-20
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    • MARKETS
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        47 2 KL COMP 1,155.88 +3.73 NIKKEI 225 9,944.55 +151.61 HANG SENG 19,982.79 +165.09 SET 614.24 +2.05 JAKARTA 2,185.65 +24.94 MANILA 2,676.47 +64.47 KOSPI 1,502.59 +6.10 SHENZHEN B 544.77 -1.98 MUMBAI IND 15,378.96 +147.92 12 noon EDT Chanpe 12 noon EDT Change DOW 9,054.25 -15.04 NASDAQ 1,954.33 -19.27
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        Lock icon PRIME RATES
        29 2 SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 15.962 TAIWAN 4.776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 050 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.52 INDIA 11.75 Source: Bloomberg
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        47 2 US$ 'S$ »er US$; 1.440 ;US$; /S$ lertf 1.652 2.378 EURO. ;us$/s$/i 1.422 2.047 :oreh current US$ S^ YEN 94.90 65.90 RM 3.532 2.453 HK$ 7.750 5.383 BAHT 33.98 23.60 RUPIAH 9,988 6,937 RENMINBI 6.831 4.745 INDIAN RUPEE 48.35 33.58 A$ 1.225 0.851 NZ$ 1.523 1.058
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      Lock icon Home supply pipeline shrinks, prices stiffen
      714 2  -  Kalpana Rashiwala However, URA price index for private homes still shows fall in Q2, confounding analysts By kalpana@sph.com.sg Singapore LATEST government numbers are offering clues as to why some developers are busy looking for land and nudging up home prices. The supply pipeline for
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      Lock icon Property price index
      68 2 CHANGEOVER PREVIOUS QUARTER Qi'09 Q2'O9 1A t A 1 All residential Landed property Detached -14.1 -4.7 -9.2 -4.7 -10,0 -6,0 Semi-detached -7.5 -3.6 Terrace -9.1 -3.9 Non-landed property Core Central Region Rest of Central Region -15.1 -4.7 -16.2 -5,2 -17.0 -4.4 Outside Central Region -7.3 -2.3 All
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      Lock icon Rental index
      62 2 :URA Source: CHANGEOVER PREVIOUS QUARTER Qi'09 Q2'O9 or c All residential Detached -8.5 -5.2 -7.7 -4.3 Semi-detached -8,2 -5.0 Terrace -7.1 -1.8 Non-landed property -8.7 -5.6 Core Central Region Rest of Central Region -10.3 -5.1 -7.2 -6.1 Outside Central Region -6.5 -5.9 Commercial Office -10.7 -7.7 Shop -3.3
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      Lock icon Room to read and change the world
      999 4  -  Anna Teo Ex-Microsoft man's push to spread education to the poor of the world gains momentum By anna(a)sph.com.sg Singapore JUST hours after flying in from San Francisco, John Wood is fielding media queries at a corner in the Swissotel in Singapore, armed with
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      Lock icon Hang Seng breaks through 20,000 on property rebound
      501 4 Bloomberg Hong Kong HONG Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index climbed above 20,000 yesterday for the first time since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, as a rebound in property prices helped push the index up 75 per cent since March. Developers
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Golf club membership rally takes a breather
      509 5  -  Yen Sreenivasan Prices have fallen about 3-5% in July, transaction volume also down By ven@sph.com.sg Singapore AFTER going into overdrive over the last two months, fuelled by the stock-market rally and a pick up in other asset markets, the market for golf club
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      273 5 In Partnership With WHITECARD AN ULTRA-EXCLUSIVE MEMBER'S CLUB FOR FOODIES. A NEW, PREMIUM DINING CARD PROVIDING THE VERY BEST PRIVILEGES AT SOME OF SINGAPORE'S MOST EXCITING RESTAURANTS ALL YEAR ROUND. RESTAURANT PRIVILEGES* 50% OFF FOOD FOR 2 DINERS, 33% OFF FOOD FOR 3 DINERS, 25% OFF FOOD FOR 4 DINERS
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon A life well scriptec.
      2424 6  -  Make your mark, and pay it forward. Those are the words that David Puttnam lives by. The film maker, educationist, and active citizen tells why he so fervently believes in making the world a better place DAVID Puttnam: The Movie is not likely to be playing
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      Lock icon Raffles
      76 6 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 | July 20-24, 2009
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        Lock icon Firms may have to buy out minority investors
        53 7 COMPANIES here may be required to buy out minority investors who disagree with a fundamental change to the business, said Lim Hwee Hua, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office. A minority buy-out rights regime is being studied as part of the ongoing
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        Lock icon Quitting for 'personal reasons' under scrutiny
        53 7 BOILERPLATE disclosures on resigning directors are still prevalent, while early retirements by directors with very short tenures do warrant a closer look. These are some of the issues raised in the latest study by the Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting Centre at the National
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        Lock icon MAS rap will tarnish Fls' name: Hng Kiang
        64 7 THE 10 financial institutions (Fls) that have been banned from selling structured notes for 6-24 months will have to pay a price that goes beyond mere financial implications. Monetary Authority of Singapore deputy chairman Lim Hng Kiang said that the "unprecedented" decision
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        Lock icon SGX ends search for CEO, picks man from Nasdaq
        46 7 MAGNUS Bocker is replacing Hsieh Fu Hua as chief executive officer of the Singapore Exchange. Mr Bocker, 47, is president of Nasdaq OMX, the world's largest exchange company, which operates 22 markets and 10 clearing houses worldwide.
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        Lock icon CPF Life scheme is now all set
        32 7 CHANGES to the Central Provident Fund Act were passed on Monday to help ensure that Singaporeans have sufficient savings to last them their entire lives.
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        Lock icon Underground Science City to take shape
        42 7 THE term "underground economy" has taken on a whole new meaning as Singapore pushes beneath the land surface to house R&D laboratories and data centres: it proposes to set up Underground Science City at Kent Ridge.
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        Lock icon U-turn at Temasek as Chip Goodyear quits
        67 7 BARELY five months after he was introduced as the man who would continue Temasek's evolution into a truly global company and two months before he was to take over as its chief executive Charles (Chip) W Goodyear has quit. Ho Ching, who was
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        Lock icon Housing market shows classic recovery signs
        55 7 THREE classic signs of a recovery have emerged in the Singapore housing market. Subsales and foreign buying have accelerated while the share of HDB upgraders in the private home buying pie has declined. REUTERS Mr Goodyear Has quit two months before he was to
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        Lock icon Europe must find ways to engage Asia: PM Lee
        77 7 EUROPE is missing out business-wise and strategically by not looking beyond its shores and engaging the rest of the world, particularly Asia, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Asean is ready to resume stalled talks for a free trade deal with
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        Lock icon Despite blips, SingTel rides the cycle best
        68 7 SINGAPORE'S top companies in terms of their ability to create wealth for shareholders are unlikely to hold on to their top spots in a time of severe economic and market stress, a study by consulting firm Stern Stewart has found. But investors who
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        Lock icon SGX to give Bocker a cheery X'mas cheque
        64 7 INCOMING Singapore Exchange chief executive Magnus Bocker will get at least $6.8 million when he joins in December. SGX said that the sum comprises $750,000 in annual salary, at least $933,000 in guaranteed bonus for the seven months to June 2010, and
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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      284 7 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD across —c—l —[3—l ls—l [s—l —^^^^h 9 so, to free her, let loose I Call up from inmate's cell, l__ (9) we hear (9) 10 Tries in physical exercise 8 Man in charge at (9) Waterloo? (13) —Jf 14 Gable perhaps for cold II President the man's a
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      100 7 NEXT WEEK July 27-31, 2009 US DATA July 27 New Home Sales June July 28 Consumer Confidence July S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index May July 29 Durable Orders June Crude Inventories Fed's Beige Book July 30 Initial Job Claims July 31 GDP-Adv Q2 Core PCE Q2 Chain Deflator-Adv Q2 Employment Cost
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  • THE CEO COLUMN
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      Lock icon Asia's second homecoming
      875 8  -  Tan Teng 800 As Asia continues to experience a "long boom", a huge number of people are expected to benefit, and as Asian personal consumption grows, so will the global economy FROM THE DESK OF Managing director, Capital Dynamics (S) Pte Ltd THE Occidentals have always seen
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  • COMPANIES
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      Lock icon Gates Electronics in $105m reverse takeover
      451 9  -  Joyce Hooi To be renamed China Environment, it will be traded before end-Aug By joyceh(a)sph.com.sg IN a season where S-chips have got a bad rap, Gates Electronics is hankering to become an S-chip. It is the first firm this year to have obtained shareholder
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      Lock icon Chartered posts US$42m Q2 net loss
      425 9  -  Ong Boon Kiat By boonkiat@sph.com.sg CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing has gained more ground along its recovery trek despite staying in the red for its second quarter. For the three months ended June 30,2009, the Singapore contract chip maker reported a net loss of U5541.98 million,
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      Lock icon Keppel big winner at workplace safety awards
      311 9  -  Vincent Wee By vincewee@sph.com.sg DESPITE a busy 2008 churning out rigs for the global oil and gas industry, Keppel Corp's offshore and marine (O&M) division maintained high safety standards, making it a big winner at the Annual Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Awards
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      Lock icon SingTel move to better protect shareholders
      351 9  -  Winston Chai By winstonc@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Sing Tel) has reduced the amount of shares it can issue without additional shareholders' approval from 10 per cent to 5 per cent. The resolution, which is intended to protect shareholders against dilution from a large share float,
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      Lock icon Recovery theme underpins present rally
      533 10  -  R Sivanithy STOCKS sivan@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent A SUDDEN resurgence of economic recovery hopes this week had driven stocks upwards, starting from Wall Street before spreading to Europe and Asia. As a result, the Straits Times Index (STI) rose 77 points or about 3 per cent
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      Lock icon TOP 20 ACTIVES
      118 10 VOL CLOSE Gentini SP 127,251 83.5 2.0 2.5 Golden 87,676 38 0.5 1.3 Ezion ***** 65 4.0 6.6 Noble Gr 55,006 192 14.0 7.9 JiutianC 54,211 16 1.0 6.7 vusGroui 49,647 57 2.0 3.6 Swiber 47,754 92 3.0 3.4 Sin; Hldi 47,741 26.5 2.0 8.2 Caj *****
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      Lock icon TOP GAINERS
      59 10 CLOSE UP Thai Prime Fd 450 194.3 42.9 LatinAmerica 1 658 120.9 14.6 JSH 1606 112.3 5.1 ;or Nasd; I100 10US 638 100.7 12.3 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 4467 92.1 1.5 Jardine C&C 2146 72.0 3.5 OCBC Bk4.5%NCPS 100 9150 50.0 0.5 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 2932 40.3 1.0 SGX
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      Lock icon TOP LOSERS
      53 10 CLOSEDOWN iBXT S&P Short 10US$ 6419 -145.3 -1.! iLD 10US$ 9336 -31.7 -0. >me: iNav 1340 -20.0 -1.! ;ia 200 1330 -10.0 -0." JOB5.05%NCPS 100 9920 -10.0 -0.1 Ireat Eastern 1248 -6.0 -0.! Isetan 355 -5.0 -1.. :hart SemiCond 223 -4.0 -1.! iGXRBeCW*****8 18 -4.0 -18. iTI 2350BNPePW*****9
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      104 10 litaLand 3.970 +0.080 litaMall 1.580 +0.030 :if 9.860 -0.020 1.450 +0.030 :osco Corp 1.220 +0.020 IBS Grp 12.600 +0.220 :&N 3.950 +0.090 ientin: SP 0.835 +0.020 iolden A; 0.380 +0.005 IK Land 3.900 +0.100 IMH 27.320 +0.220 ISH 16.060 +0.780 lardine C&C 21.460 +0.720 Corp 7.980 +0.150 IOL
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      Lock icon CapitaMall's Q2 distributable income up 15.8% to $67.9m
      365 10  -  Joyce Hooi By joyceh@sph.com.sg AFTER weathering half a year of bleak retail news, Capita Mall Trust's (CMT) distributable income rose 15.8 per cent to $67.9 million for the second quarter of 2009, year-on-year. Gross revenue rose 10.4 per cent to $138.6 million
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      Lock icon Take up PetroChina's SPC offer: IDs
      403 11  -  Oh Boon Ping They agree with advice of financial adviser By huwenbin@sph.com.sg By July 23, PetroChina has received acceptances of close to 70 per cent and the offer has turned unconditional. The IFA says that the offer price premium is in line with one-day
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      Lock icon Fragrance Group buys two more properties
      322 11  -  Brandon Chew By brandonc@sph.com.sg PROPERTY and hotel firm Fragrance Group has bought two more properties, taking the total value of its acquisitions in the past month to close to $100 million. The company yesterday announced the acquisition of a 4,453-square-metre plot of land on
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      Lock icon Etika to buy Viet dairy firm for USSB.Sm
      185 12  -  Brandon Chew By brandonc@sph.com.sg ETIKA International is poised to enter Vietnam's food and beverage market by acquiring a dairy company in Ho Chi Minn City for US$B.45 million. The sale-and-pur-chase agreement for a 100 per cent equity interest in Tan Viet Xuan
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      Lock icon Financial help for former Sesdaq firms
      529 12  -  Conrad Tan Aim is for them to stay listed under sponsor-supervised Catalist regime By conradt@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) is offering financial assistance and more time to former Sesdaq companies to help them stay listed under the sponsor-supervised Catalist regime that replaced Sesdaq in
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      191 11 W^z4 maim Qi^NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF HANG TAT REALTY PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) (Co. Reg. No. *****2285R) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the final meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company will
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon If s back to school for SME execs
      349 13  -  Michelle Yeo By I michyeo@sph.com.sg ANOTHER 188 present and future leaders are on board Spring Singapore's three-tier Business Leaders Initiative (BLI) and will take undergraduate, post-graduate and executive development courses. This year, 127 CEOs and executives of small and medium enterprises have
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      Lock icon S'poreans not keen on online shopping
      412 13  -  Zeinab Yusuf Survey finds only 10% here say it is convenient, versus Asia-Pac average of 25% By zeinabs@sph.com.sg DESPITE high Internet penetration here, online shopping is not something Singaporeans are particularly pre-disposed to, a study by MasterCard Worldwide has found. Singaporeans find online shopping
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        Lock icon Iraqi officials on study visit here
        62 13 SINGAPORE Cooperation Enterprise and the United Nations Development Programme's Iraq office have organised a study visit here for higher judicial council officials from Iraq, from now until Aug 2. The aim is to give participants an insight into the use of Information and Communications
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        Lock icon A*Star awards 145
        55 13 THE Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) awarded scholarships and fellowships to 145 people yesterday. One hundred and twenty-four received a National Science Scholarship or A*Star Graduate Scholarship to pursue bachelor and PhD studies locally or overseas. Twenty-one received A*Star International Fellowships or A*Star Graduate Scholarships
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        Lock icon Flying start for Stanchart run
        37 13 REGISTRATION for this year's Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon has got off to a flying start, with 20,000 people signing up in the first nine days 35 per cent more than last year.
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        Lock icon A*STAR nets Yeshiva College dean
        56 13 A DISTINGUISHED researcher in computational materials science, David Srolovitz, will be scientific adviser to A*Star's Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) from Sept 1. Currently dean of Yeshiva College in the US, Prof Srolovitz will also take up a joint appointment as scientific director of
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      Lock icon June industrial output shrinks 9.3%
      416 14  -  Teh Shi Ning Economists not too negative on manufacturing economy's outlook as other segments keep improving By tshining@sph.com.sg INDUSTRIAL production has slipped back into the red, shrinking 9.3 per cent in June after two months of growth, as pharmaceutical output slowed iyThe year-on-year fall was
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      Lock icon UOL sells 180 units of Meadows condo
      245 14  -  Teh Shi Ning By tshining@sph.com.sg UOL yesterday sold 180 of the 250 units made available at a private preview of its condominium Meadows@Peirce. Units in the 479-unit freehold project in Upper Thomson Road were sold for an average of $880 per sq ft,
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      Lock icon Benson Puah named CEO of National Arts Council
      285 14 Lee Suan Hiang to be ED of new Mica unit THE Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (Mica) yesterday appointed Benson Puah as chief executive officer of the National Arts Council (NAC). Mr Puah assumes his new position from Aug 1,
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  • LETTER FROM ABROAD WITH ASCOTT
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      Lock icon Home's where the heart is
      915 15  -  Ba Shi Shyuan Though the baby has brought us so much joy, bringing up a child in the US is not as straightforward as in Singapore. Ba Shi Shyuan (right), with her husband and baby daughter in San Francisco LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO Teacher in
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Excess workers in Japan firms top 6m
      453 16  -  Anthony Rowley If they were to lose jobs, unemployment rate will surge from 5.5% now to 14%, govt warns By btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo COMPANIES in Japan have more than six million "excess employees" who are at risk of being made redundant as a result
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      Lock icon Qatar wins big in Porsche power struggle
      428 16 Bloomberg Doha QATAR'S ruling emir has come out on top of a power struggle thousands of miles away in Germany, where the Porsche dynasty is losing control of the sports-car maker. Porsche SE on Thursday agreed to combine with Volkswagen AG after a
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        Lock icon US consumer confidence wanes in July: survey
        90 16 Reuters New York US consumer confidence waned in late July to the lowest reading since April on growing pessimism about the long-term economic outlook, a survey showed yesterday. The Reuters-University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its final July consumer sentiment reading fell
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        Lock icon Korea economy expands at fastest pace in six years
        73 16 Bloomberg Seoul South Korea s economy expanded at the fastest pace in almost six years last quarter as exports and household spending jumped. Gross domestic product (GDP) rose 2.3 per cent from the first quarter, when the country skirted a recession
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        Lock icon Record yearly contraction by UK economy in Q2
        78 16 nisi uuee AFP London Britain's recession-battered economy shrank in the second quarter of 2009 at its fastest yearly pace since records began, the Office for National Statistics said yesterday. GDP contracted by 5.6 per cent in the three months to end-June, corn-
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        Lock icon One in three European fears job loss: survey
        56 16 AP Brussels A third of European workers are "very concerned" that they could lose their jobs as the economy experiences the worst recession since World War 11, according to a European Commission survey published yesterday. Some 32 per cent of people with
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        Lock icon German business sentiment improves in July
        63 16 AP Frankfurt A leading indicator of German business sentiment improved in July, suggesting the economy is stabilising, the Ifo Business Climate Index said yesterday. The Ifo, part of the Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, said its reading of the German
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        Lock icon Sony may invest over 100b yen in Sharp LCD unit
        59 16 Reuters Tokyo Sony Corp will likely invest more than 100 billion yen (Ssl.s billion) in a planned liquid crystal display (LCD) TV panel venture with Sharp Corp, the Nikkei business daily reported yesterday. The two companies will finalise plans for
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      Lock icon Buffett to teach kids about finance
      380 17 Bloomberg Billionaire investor among celebrities to star in their own Internet cartoon series New York WARREN Buffett, whose market acumen spurred countless Americans to take their first steps as investors, is taking his insights to the online playground. The billionaire will tutor children about
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      Lock icon Buffett proves investment skill again
      247 17 NYT New York WARREN Buffett showed again why he is known as one of the world's best investors, thanks in part to another prominent investor, Goldman Sachs. Mr Buffett's stake in Goldman is now worth US$9.l billion, or about US$4.l billion more than what he
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      Lock icon Obama's popularity restores world's view of US
      321 17 Bloomberg New York PRESIDENT Barack Obama's popularity around the world has restored opinions of the United States to levels unseen since before George W Bush took office, a new Pew Research Center survey finds. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project released on
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      9028 18 SZ-wks Tel High Low Code Company Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote C000) High Low Buyer Seller Div GrYld C'vr Net P/E M Cap $mil 12 3 3148 8Telecom 8.5 2.5 5834 A-Sonic 23 12 5000 ABR Hldgs 13 5.5 1938 AEI Corp 8 1 1100
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      1604 21 SZ-wks Tel High Low Code Company Last Sale Vol (■000) Day High Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld C'vr Net P/E M Cap Smil 19 5 1181 s AA Grp 26.5 12 8538 t APStrategic 4 0.5 1501 s Advanced System 7.5 2 3480 t Adventus 25
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      39 21 Up Down Unch 13 3 2 Up Down Unch ~0 0 0 Up Down Unch 13 3^ 2 lulti Ind rad :unns ffuci 3 as/ :er Active counters with no volume for today are not included
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      164 21 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non-Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum
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      781 21 For week beginning Jul 20 Trans Date Substantial Shareholder/ Director Buy Sell Conv No of Shares '000 Price Per Shr$ SHAREHOLDING Before After ('000) ('000) Stock Trans Date Substantial Shareholder/ Director Buy Sell Conv No of Shares *000 Price Per Shr$ SHAREHOLDING Before After (*000) (*000)
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        21 22 be YTD change: +43.82% 52-week high: 2,997.82 on July 24,2008 52-week low: 1,455.47 on March 10,2009 Source: Bloomberg
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        19 22 YTD change: +38.89% 52-week high: 23,369.00 on July 24,2008 52-week low: 10,676.20 on Oct 27,2008 Source:Bloomberg
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        25 22 < YTD change:+3.34% 52-week high: 11,867.10 on Aug 11,2008 52-week low: 6,469.95 on March 6,2009 (Chart shows Thursday's index closing) Source: Bloomberg
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INT'L INDICES
        366 22 Jill 24| Jul 23 dy yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminai 735.8 1.8 8.6 1.5 11.2 1.9 11.3 EAFE Preliminai 697.8 1.3 7.5 1.1 11.9 1.4 12.0 Euroi Preliminai 971.9 1.8 6.6 1.9 13.0 2.2 13.1
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        20 22 YTD change:+Bs.23% 52-week high: 3,398.05 on July 24,2009 52-week low: 1,664.92 on Oct 28,2008 Source: Bloomberg
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        18 22 YTD change:+l2.2s% 52-week high: 13,603.30 on July 24,2008 52-week low: 6,994.90 on Oct 28,2008 Source: Bloomberg
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        73 22 Jul 23§ IOCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev Hi, jh/Low SepO9 1819 1748 1832/1753 Dec 09 1835 1768 1852/1773 MariO 1828 1768 1845/1772 May 10 1821 1763 1832/1772 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Jul 09 1483 1468 1485/1462 SepO9 1508 1482 1513/1480 Nov09 1532 1506 1538/1500 SUGAR (US tonne) White Close
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        97 22 Jul 23| iNS (5,000 bu min; USc/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Aug 09 1023.*****8.*****7.*****8.00 SepO9 961.50 945.00 969.25 946.50 Nov09 932.00 908.00 936.00 910.00 Jan 10 939.25 914.75 942.50 918.50 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs; usq/lb) Close Previous High/Low Aug 09 34.67 34.52 35.13 34.26 SepO9 34.83 34.69 35.16
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        76 22 Jul 23| USS/barrel (FOB origin) Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) WTI (Near Mth) Dubai (1-Mth F) Tapis blend Minas 68.78 2.27 66.01 1.93 66.63 1.79 72.10 1.00 68.55 1.00 PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S pore) Close Change lore] Naphtha Jet Kerosene 62.10 74.31 1.05 0.28 USS/barrel Opec Oil Basket
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        63 22 (us; /oz) Jul 23 Jul 2■long Kong 949.80 948.40 950.80 949.40 Jul 22 Jul 23 .ondon 952.10 955.35 952.90 956.15 Source: Thomson Reuters SILVER Selling Buying 'assbook 1 oz 19.95 19.72 >LATINUM/Lon (US$/oz) Jul 23 Close Previous 'M Fix 1178.*****6.00 M Fix 1166.*****5.00 Source: Thomson Reuters M.ATINUM NYMEX (US$/oz)
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        150 22 Jul24f Against S Currencies Bid S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.1744 5$ Offer 1.1760 Against Bid 0.8161 Offer 0.8164 Canadian dollar 1.3236 1.3253 0.9197 0.9200 Euro 2.0454 2.0480 1.4213 1.4217 NZ dollar 0.9440 0.9464 0.6560 0.6570 Sterlini 2.3765 2.3793 1.6514 1.6517 US dollar
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        61 22 Jul 24f KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Month Range Price Price Law Vol Done Open Positioi Hi, AugO9 2133 SepO9 2115 Oct09 2104 Nov09 2100 Total o/p:***** contracts 2159 2169 2113 2126 2143 2073 2122 2134 2063 2116 2129 2064 Turnover: ***** lots Market tone:
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        70 22 Jul 23§ Uumlnlum, 99.7? mrity (US$/tonne' Close Previous :ash months lopper, Grade A 1764.50 1785.00 1716.50 1745.00 ;us$/tonne) lash J months ■ead (US$/tonne; 5525.50 5530.00 5489.50 5500.00 :ash 1 months 1723.50 1745.00 1682.00 1704.00 lid /tonne; lose ■revious Cash 3 months Tin (US$/tonne; *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Cash
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      744 23  -  George Joseph The regional grouping has finally decided to set up a human rights commission with emphasis on promotion, not protection By THAT Asean has made a first concrete step towards the formation of a human rights commission, is in itself a noteworthy expression
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      956 23  -  David Wise LAT-WP Fears of retaliation could be the reason for the cancellation of America's controversial assassination programme By I BACK in 1960, the CIA hatched a plan to kill Patrice Lumumba by infecting his toothbrush with a deadly disease. The Congolese leader would
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  • Wealth
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        775 24  -  Mark Hulbert NYT Inability to resist the temptation to time the market's short-term swings has cost US mutual fund investors more than USs42b over the 12 months through May. By LAST year, investors made a bad situation worse in the bear market by trying to time
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        479 24  -  Genevieve Cua By gen@sph.com.sg BOUYED by rising investor sentiment, UOB Asset Management is rolling out a fund with Asian recovery as its theme, banking on stock picking to deliver returns. The United Asia Recovery Fund will be a static and concentrated portfolio
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        805 24  -  Conrad Tan Sing Tel Underperform CIMB-GK Research July 24 Close: $3.29 SINGTEL'S 30.4 per cent Indian associate, Bharti, reported Ql FY2OIO results (for the three months to end-June) that were below both our expectations and consensus estimates. Core net profit of 22.7 billion rupees (up 3.4 per cent
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        Lock icon Take baby steps to rebuild your portfolio
        1369 25  -  Lim Meng Tat WEALTH INSIGHTS Here is some investment soul searching in the aftermath of the financial storm Director Russel Investments YES, it might seem too painful to consider, but investors must not let the trauma of the last 18 months keep them
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        1281 26  -  Teh Hooi Ling SHOW ME THE MONEY Temasek-linked companies pumped in $5.2b cash and the amount is now worth almost double hooiling@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent NTIL a few months ago, investors were generally too shell-shocked by events in the past 18 months to have M
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        Lock icon HDB resale flat prices surge to record high
        625 28  -  Emilyn Yap Some industry watchers are predicting further upside for the year By emilyny@sph.com.sg THE HDB resale market seems to be chugging along nicely despite the recession. Soaring demand for resale flats sent prices to a record high in the second quarter,
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        533 28  -  Kalpana Rashiwala By kalpana@sph.com.sg THE office market has posted a third consecutive quarter of negative take-up, according to government data for Q2. However, the negative take-up of 247,570 square feet in the second quarter was smaller than the 322,917 sq ft in Ql and the
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      165 29 www.vw.com.sg U, I f/^^» The new Golf GTI. Men drive it. Boys dream about it. This is a car designed for serious enthusiasts. The power of its 210bhp TSI engine is delivered with smooth precision through a 6-speed DSG transmission. Its dynamic chassis control (DCC) and electronic differential lock (XDS)
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        2136 31  -  Melissa Lwee Audrey Phoon IN the world of viticulture, the concept of "terroir" alludes to a wine's relationship to the earth in which its grapes grow. This concept has since extended to the environment, especially in this current age where being green is tres fashionable. In France's Champagne
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        2598 32  -  Audrey Phoon Cheah Ui-Hoon Audrey Phoon Cheah Ui-Hoon Duo Le #08-09 Orchard Central 181 Orchard Road S 6509 8616 Opening soon THREE high-end restaurants in a single province, each occupying a whole building of four or five storeys high. Culinary archives of more than 1,000 original recipes. And
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        524 34  -  Melissa Lwee Elements of lON's building design reflect the cultural history of the shopping district's pasi By GIVEN how busy and cosmopolitan Orchard Road is today, it is hard to imagine that it was once a fruit orchard. In the 1840s, that was precisely
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        442 34 Walking tall HERE'S one for the ladies. Step out in style and steal the limelight in a pair of Giuseppe Zanotti heels. The luxe Italian shoe maker joins forces with New York's edgy label Thakoon for this year's Fall/Winter season, where black the colour of sophistication
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        877 35  -  Christopher Lim Today's netbooks are very different animals from their bare-bones predecessors By NEW gadgets are like young children blink or look away for a bit and all of a sudden they are grown up beyond recognition, for better or worse. This is certainly the case with
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        928 36  -  Audrey Phoon Drada believes growing its presence in Asia will neb the brand consolidate and expanc AT THE Fall/Winter shows in Paris earlier this year, Miv Miv designer Miuccia Prada's second line presented luxe coats with bold, wide collars; smart frocks; flamboyant chinchilla sashes; silken singlets; and
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        1891 37  -  Melissa Lwee M.C.L HIS initials are M.C.L but minimalism is not his first name. Matthew Campbell Laurenza made his mark in the jewellery world with rich, ornate pieces inspired by the rich culture of India and his own semi-bohemian leanings. His signature gemstones hand-set in sterling silver and
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        1103 38  -  Geoffrey Eu personal space A penthouse offers constant breezes, generous amounts of natural light and panoramic views across the city. It is a unique sense of space that is near-impossible to replicate in any other home. FOR anyone who has ever lived the high life literally, that
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        839 39  -  Amanda de Guzman SDT supporter Miranda Bien-Lim Walsh admits she's got pointe envy. enthusiast, referring to the advanced ballet level of en pointe, which sees dancers on their toes. "I never got to that level." However, Ms Walsh did study ballet for a number of years, starting at
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        Lock icon No-tears guide to losing weight
        1169 40  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon Anyone who has gone on a diet knows how difficult it is to stay on the slim and narrow path. But for those who are interested in making serious lifestyle changes, there are tailored programmes to help you through the process. By An
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        Lock icon Time to take sides
        672 41  -  Lee U-Wen BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE Football fever is here again, as fans all over the world lick their lips in anticipation of the new Barclays Premier League (BPL) season, which is kicking off in just three weeks' time. Here in Singapore, the National Stadium will have
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        581 41  -  Lee U-Wen no holds barred leeuwen@sph.com.sg Correnspondent ONE could say that Singapore in passing up a golden opportunity to bring Manchester United here this week to play a friendly match has missed the boat. A boat the size of the
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        Lock icon Getting Asian golfers into the Majors
        1063 42  -  Justine Moss The region's golf tours aim to create opportunities for players here to establish themselves on the world stage. By WHEN it comes to professional golf and the various global golf tours, it's naturally the golfers who are the headliners. High-profile players like
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        Lock icon The hot hatch has arrived
        622 43  -  Samuel Ec While it may not score in the looks department, the new Golf GTI promises to be a fun yet practical car. By HE new Volkswagen Golf GTI is finally here and it is difficult not to get excited about it. After all, here
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        683 44  -  KLTay Just 30km south-west of London lies a must-visit playground for fans of the three-pointed star. <Tl3 OSL is the postal code you need to punch into the GPS navigation unit to drive yourself to Mercedes-Benz World in the United Kingdom. A must-see destination for fans of the
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        Lock icon Hot laps at the Hungaroring
        581 45  -  Samuel Ec fl watch Tomorrow's Hungarian Grand Prix promises some real action on the track for a change. JENSON Button likes it hot. No, not his choice of girlfriends (although his current one does sizzle) but actual track conditions. You see, his Brawn GP car
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