The Business Times, 8 August 2009

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  • 18 1 weekend THE BUSINESS TIMES www.businesstimes.com.sg AUGUST 8-9, 2009 Ssl.oo MICA (P) 198/08/2008 S|Sl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • 705 1  -  Chew Xiang PEG nine times subscribed, closes 80% up By xchew@sph.com.sg Singapore THE first mainboard listing of the year jumped as much as 89 per cent on its debut, stoking fears of speculative fever even as one veteran analyst said local stocks are
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  • 703 1  -  Emilyn Yap Aqueen sets up stall right next to Singapore Casket By emilyny@sph.com.sg Singapore IS it possible to sleep well knowing that your neighbours are also resting not just peacefully but in peace? This is what guests will soon find out when they check in
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 142 1 ■k ILM THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION DINING IT^N* "33 WEALTH i| 1 LAWRENCE HO,SON OF MACAU Back to the LL£.. flj Good deals on A CASINO MAGNATE 10-11 table L 4 -5 Stt', JfeJ home loans 30-31 BANK SIGNS DBS gain for Q2 down 15% Chairman Koh Boon Hwee is cautiously
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  • TOP STORIES
    • MARKETS
      • 47 2 KL COMP 1,184.88 +0.91 NIKKEI 225 10,412.09 +24.00 HANG SENG 20,375.37 -523.87 SET 644.20 -5.01 JAKARTA 2,349.13 -10.84 MANILA 2,782.98 -58.23 KOSPI 1,576.00 +10.96 SHENZHEN B 537.18 -20.69 MUMBAI IND 15,160.24 -353.79 12 noon EDT Chanpe 12 noon EDT cnange DOW 9,390.18 +133.92 NASDAQ 2,005.26 +32.10
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      • 29 2 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5,38 MALAYSIA 5,55 HONG KONG 5,00 INDONESIA 16,029 TAIWAN 4,776 JAPAN 1,475 KOREA 9,33 BRITAIN 050 US 3,25 CANADA 2,25 SWITZERLAND 0,52 INDIA 11,75 Source:
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      • 45 2 US$ s$ US$" 1.437 ;us$/ 1.673 2.405 EURO. vs$! IS$i 1.436 2.063 Foreii curreno ;r US$ S$ rEN 95.40 66.40 RM 3.502 2.437 HK$ 7.750 5.393 BAHT 33.98 23.64 RUPIAH 9,920 6,903 RENMINBI 6.832 4.754 INDIAN RUPEE 47.90 33.33 1.194 0.831 NZ$ 1.490 1.037
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    • 657 2 AP LATEST US DATA Unemployment dips to 9.4%, the first fall in 15 months, hinting strongly that the recession is finally coming to an end Washington US EMPLOYERS throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a
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    • 809 4  -  Conrad Tan But pace of recovery still highly uncertain, bank bosses warn By conradt@sph.com.sg ALL three Singapore-listed banks did better than expected in the second quarter, fuelling hopes that the worst may really be over for the broader economy. The bank bosses also sounded far
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    • 401 6 Reuters, AP, Bloomberg Troubled insurer's Q2 earnings hit USsl.Bb New York AMERICAN International Group Inc (AIG), the insurer that received US$lBO billion of federal bailouts, posted its first profit in seven quarters yesterday, helped by investment gains, sending its shares up 20 per
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    • 669 6  -  Kalpana Rashiwala In terms of operations, both achieve year-on-year increases in profits By kalpana@sph.com.sg Singapore subsidiaries. Operationswise, however, both companies achieved year-on-year increases in net profit for both Q2 and the first haif. Singapore Land Tower at Raffles Place was valued at $1.14
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 58 2 NEWS Househunt 34 Top Stories ~^6 Real Estate Week In Review 8 Raffles Conversation TO Shopping L2-3 From The Desk Of T2 Dining Companies 14-16 Entertaining L6 Singapore T7 Weekend With L9 Letter From Abroad T8 Home Garden LIO-IT World T9-22 Travel LT2-T3 Stocks stats 23-27 Health LT4-T5 Perspective 28-29
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  • WEEK IN REVIEW/WEEK AHEAD
    • THIS WEEK
      • 58 8 SINGAPORE is facing "perils of success" across economic and social fronts which leaders today must address, according to Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. He highlighted 10 challenges key among them are how to maintain high economic growth, continue to raise living standards, and
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      • 44 8 SEMBCORP Marine subsidiary Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (JSPL) has sued Societe Generale to recover U*****.9 million that it paid to the French bank as part of the foreign exchange trading case involving former finance chief Wee Sing Guan.
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      • 51 8 OCBC Bank's net profit rose 10 per cent to $466 million for the second quarter from a year ago, beating analysts' estimates as the group benefited from sharply higher profits at its insurance unit Great Eastern and set aside less than expected for bad
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      • 67 8 IN one of the first bulk sales of apartments since the economic crisis unfolded last year, a property fund is understood to have purchased the remaining 21 units at Sui Generis condo for $65 million. The price works out to about
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      • 49 8 NTUC is collaborating with the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) to reach out to more SMEs and intensify their efforts on re-employment, so that as many companies in Singapore can be well-prepared when the re-em-ployment law kicks in by 2012.
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      • 59 8 AFTER months of pursuit, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has swooped down on some of Royal Bank of Scotland's assets in Singapore and the region for US$55O million. The price works out to just 1.1 times the assets'
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      • 52 8 IN a bid to hasten development in Malaysia's east coast, Prime Minister Najib Razak has announced the establishment of a special economic zone stretching from Terengganu to Pahang. Incentives are said to include 10-year tax exemption, full investment tax allowance, and exemptions from
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      • 103 8 GENEROUS baby bonuses and measures to boost parenthood aside, the government alone cannot tackle the problem of Singapore's dismal fertility rate. And Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong believes the gap between what men want from life and what women expect from it
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      • 64 8 THE drought of new share offerings on the Malaysian stock market could be relieved by a massive US$2 billion IPO that would probably make it the biggest in the region this year. Maxis Communications, Malaysia's largest mobile phone company, has picked Goldman
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      • 54 8 UNITED Overseas Bank's net profit fell 22 per cent to $470 million for the second quarter from a year ago, a better result than analysts had expected, as the group signalled renewed optimism in its outlook. "Maximum fear is behind us," CEO
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      • 56 8 THE worst is over for Asia and there are unique opportunities ahead, says Tony Tan, deputy chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. These include the chance for Asian banks and capital markets to meet the massive capital needed to finance Asian
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      • 60 8 SOME buyers who managed to lay their hands on units at projects sold out recently are trying to get lucky for the second time by selling what they snapped up, for a profit. This brings to mind the government's warning last week that
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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    • 90 8 NEXT WEEK Aug 10-14,2009 US DATA Aug 11 Q2 unit labour costs June wholesale inventories Aug 12 June trade balance July treasury budget Aug 13 July retail sales June business inventories Aug 14 July core CPI July industrial production SINGAPORE DATA Aug 11 Q2 gross domestic product Q2 balance of
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 78 9 WE WISH SINGAPORE A HAPPY 44 th NATIONAL DAY! At Global Orion Properties, we want to reach out and reach up together with Singapore, especially during this current economic climate. As we come together to celebrate Singapore's 44th Birthday, we remember that our Nation has made it through turbulent times,
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
    • 1833 10  -  Arthur Sim Lawrence Ho, son of casino magnate Stanley Ho, comes into his own. By IT's hard to find a more unlikely heir to a gaming empire than Lawrence Ho. Dressed in an impeccably cut suit, stiff collar and black tie, he looks more like a young
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    • 78 10 Raffles Hotels Resorts 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
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  • FROM THE DESK OF
    • 798 11  -  Wong Fong Fui The market in Singapore has not been as conducive as that of Hong Kong and Taiwan in building entrepreneurial spirit FROM THE DESK OF Boustead chief executive and chairman THE entrepreneurial spirit in Singapore is certainly growing, at least compared to when I first started
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  • COMPANIES
    • 760 13  -  Conrad Tan Non-performing loans up, but NPL trend in core markets improving, says chairman By conradt@sph.com.sg Singapore DBS Group's net profit fell 15 per cent to $552 million in the second quarter from a year earlier, outperforming analysts' estimates, as it
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    • 316 13  -  Jamie Lee By leejamie@sph.com.sg Singapore VENTURE Corporation posted a 7.1 per cent fall in second-quarter net profit and said that customer sentiment appears mixed. Singapore's largest electronics maker said net profit for the three months ended June 30 stood at $60.9 million, down from $65.6
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    • 605 14  -  R Sivanithy STOCKS| sivan@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent IT was probably a case of "buy in anticipation, sell on news" that led to the 110-point or 4.1 per cent loss suffered by the Straits Times Index (STI) over the course of the week at 2,549.35, though
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    • 113 14 VOL CLOSE Sun moon 122,491 0.0 0.0 Golden 83,504 425 -0.5 -1.2 PEC 81,376 72 0.0 0.0 fan! 72,644 97.5 -5.5 -5.3 Jade Tech ,107 0.0 0.0 Gentini SP 51,182 81.5 -0.5 -0.6 liutianC 45,439 17 0.0 0.0 Swini 36,222 6.5 1.0 18.2 /ashion 34,351 1.5 0.5
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    • 50 14 :apitaLand 3.700 -0.050 ]apitaMall 1.510 -0.030 :if 'Dev 9.720 -0.400 1.580 -0.060 :osco Corp 1.240 -0.070 IBS Grp 12.840 -0.460 :&N 3.960 -0.110 ientin: SP 0.815 -0.005 iolden ;ri 0.425 -0.005 IK Land 3.850 -0.110 IMH 29.520 -0.640 ISH 16.760 -0.020 lardine C&C 23.620 -0.760 Corp 7.820 -0.130
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    • 58 14 CLOSE UP ir Mala1 10US$ 642 303.1 49.1 ir LatinAmerica 1 688 43.1 4.( iTXPO 100 1440 40.0 2.' iCBCCai ,1%NCPS100 9756 26.0 o.: iemb Con i.ES.0908 339 20.0 6.: iBXTS&P Short 10US$ 6228 17.2 o.: 264 14.0 5.( ICBC Bk 4.5%NCPS 100 9270 10.0 0.1 iCBCCai :.93%Pref10
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    • 112 14 CLOSEDOWN iBXT Nil '10US$ 9500 -610.4 -4.: iBXT FTChina25 10US$ 2948 -183.8 -4.: ir MS India 10US$ 1262 -102.0 -5.: IMH 2952 -91.9 -2.1 lardine C&C 2362 -76.0 -3.1 ir China H 10US$ 1509 -66.1 -3.1 'BS.ES.0908 1274 -66.0 -4.' <or India Nifb 10 1362 -65.0 -4.( Creative
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    • 455 15  -  Nisha Ramchandani Revenue up 12.3%; Asia Pacific Breweries posts 39% increase in earnings to $51.9 m By nishar@sph.com.sg FRASER and Neave (F&N) posted a net profit after fair-value adjustments and exceptional items of $123.2 million for the third quarter ended June 30, 2009,11.7
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    • 489 15  -  Li Dan Wei By danwei@sph.com.sg Singapore BUILDER Wee Hur Holdings, which was listed on Jan 30 last year, recorded a net profit of $8.8 million for its first half year ended June 30, 2009, almost six times the $1.47
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    • 161 15 Bloomberg Hong Kong JARDINE Matheson Holdings Ltd, which owns car distributors, real estate, supermarkets and hotels in Asia, said that first-half profit dropped 76 per cent on a decline in the value of its investment properties. Net income fell to US$249 million,
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    • 192 15 Singapore MACARTHURCOOK Industrial Reit (MI-Reit) has announced a distribution per unit (DPU) of 1.51 cents for its first quarter ended June 30, down 36 per cent from a year ago. Higher borrowing cost was one factor for the fall.
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    • 163 13 Qi^NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF TOWA SINGAPORE MFG. PTE. LTD. REG NO. *****2445 D [In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act, Cap. 50, that the Final General
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 347 14 NATIONAL DAY 2009 Sn^STn^and I have also ensured that the ,r" n A Singaporean will never forget his company that I head, Straits Asia Jm or her roots. We are all justifiably Resources Ltd, takes its responsibilities Mk ife. proud of our country, for its to community and environment as
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 385 16  -  Teh Shi Ning MOM survey shows 40% of firms not using Spur By tshining@sph.com.sg JOBS Credit, Spur and the tripartite guidelines on managing excess manpower are having their desired effect on the ground, a Ministry of Manpower survey has found. Close to
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    • 344 16  - Taking on a mountain for needy kids Jamie Lee By leejamie@sph.com.sg WHEN you wish upon a star, chances are that wish would flicker before fading into oblivion. But some 100 wishes from disadvantaged children are set to come true, thanks to a $335,000 donation raised by some Temasek Holdings employees.
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    • 312 16  -  Jamie Lee By leejamie@sph.com.sg COST-CUTTING measures at PSA International yesterday got the thumbs-up from Tim Hwee Hua, Minister in Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance and Transport. Speaking at PSA's National Day observance ceremony, she said: "PSA has done
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • LETTER FROM ABROAD WITH ASCOTI
    • 1041 17  -  Vijay Verghese LETTER FROM I HONG KONG I Editor SmartTravelAsia.com If you must sneeze, do it somewhere memorable. The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong's M Bar comes to mind. It's a long quarantine. So get a table with a view, sneeze loudly, alert the health authorities, insist on
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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    • 18 17 THE ASCOTT GROUP A Member of Capita Land This series is brought to you by The Ascott Group
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  • WORLD
    • 371 18 AP Li Peiying found guilty in February of accepting USs4m in bribes and embezzling USsl2m in public money Beijing THE former head of Beijing airport's management company was executed yesterday following his conviction on corruption charges, state media reported, making him the latest figure brought
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    • 154 18 Bloomberg Hong Kong MACAU casino billionaire Stanley Ho is doing better, his third wife Chan Un Chan told reporters yesterday outside the Hong Kong hospital where the tycoon has been recovering from surgery. "He's much better," Ms Chan said as she arrived in the morning to
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    • 285 18 AP Seoul SOUTH Korea and India signed an ambitious free-trade agreement yesterday that slashes tariffs, encourages investment and promotes exchange of skills in a bid to double fast-growing commerce between two of Asia's biggest economies over the next decade. South Korean Trade Minister
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    • 478 19 Reuters But overall cap in next 5-year period to be cut to 2,000 tonnes from current 2,500 tonnes Frankfurt EUROPEAN central banks have agreed to extend a cap on gold sales for another five years, but reduced the maximum of total gold that could
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    • 435 19 Bloomberg Tokyo THE Bank of Japan is counting brothels in Hokkaido to help determine demand for services as the country battles its deepest recession in decades. The number of sex parlours in the Susukino red-light district in Sapporo, the island's capital city, more
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    • Briefing
      • 100 19 AFP Beijing China Investment Corp (CIC), the country's US$2OO billion sovereign wealth fund (SWF), reported yesterday that it lost US$6.7 billion in its global investment portfolio last year. However, CIC said in its first annual report that overall investment returns were US$24 billion
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      • 54 19 AP Tokyo Japan Airlines Corp (JAL) posted a 99 billion yen (551.47 billion) loss in the April-June quarter, larger than its loss for all of last year, as ticket sales suffered due to the weak economy and HINI fears. Sales fell 32 per cent
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      • 70 19 AP Berlin Nationalised German lender Hypo Real Estate Holding lost 750 million euros (551.53 billion) in the second quarter as hefty risk provisions weighed down its performance. The net loss for the April-June period compared with a profit of 12 million
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      • 83 19 NYT New York Morgan Stanley said on Thursday it had agreed to pay US$95O million to buy back a warrant it issued to the federal government last autumn as part of the broad financial rescue plan. Morgan Stanley said it
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      • 78 19 AP Washington Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation on Thursday with an additional US$2 billion for "cash for clunkers", the car rebate programme that instantly increased sales for a car industry long mired in recession. The Senate approved the money on
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    • 384 20 AFP Move would strengthen region's economic, political ties: Hatoyama Tokyo JAPANESE opposition leader YuMo Hatoyama, seen as the likely next prime minister, has called for a single Asian currency to strengthen the region's economic and political ties. "We should aim to unify
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    • 660 21 NYT Bailout politics is straining the relationship as Hall demands what's legally due to him New York WILL Citigroup turn loose its US$lOO million man, Andrew Hall? After putting out feelers to sell its Phibro commodities business, including a brief talk with billionaire investor Warren
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    • 370 21 Reuters Paris DESPITE being an expert in the arcane ways of the trading floor, it was the fickle nature of this casino that cost the career of Societe Generale's Jean-Pierre Mustier. The French bank said on Thursday that Mr Mustier had
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    • 340 21 AP, Reuters Charlotte, North Carolina THE Nasdaq and Bats stock exchanges will stop a controversial practice that gives some brokerages a split-second advantage in buying or selling stocks, the operators of the exchanges said. Nasdaq OMX Group is voluntarily ceasing the practice, known
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  • SGX
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  • MARKETS
    • STOCK MARKETS
      • 19 26 Source: YTD change:+44.72% 52-week high: 2,873.44 on Aug 7,2008 52-week low: 1,455.47 on March 10,2009 Bloomberg
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      • 19 26 Source: YTD change:+4l.62% 52-week high: 22,424.50 on Aug 7,2008 52-week low: 10,676.20 on Oct 27,2008 Bloomberg
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      • 25 26 Source: YTD change:+s.47% 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) Bloomberg
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      • 360 26 Aug6 dy yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminai 759.6 0.2 12.1 0.1 15.0 0.0 15.4 EAFE Preliminai 725.7 0.8 11.8 0.5 17.0 0.4 17.4 Euroi Preliminai 1002.3 0.7 10.0 0.4 17.6 0.3 18.0 Pacific 624.4 1.0
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      • 21 26 YTD change:+79.oB% 52-week high: 3,478.01 on Aug 4,2009 52-week low: 1,664.92 on Oct 28,2008 Source: E Bloomberg
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        18 26 Source: YTD change:+l7.s2% 52-week high: 13,468.80 on Aug 11,2008 52-week low: 6,994.90 on Oct 28,2008 Bloomberg
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      • 150 26 ,4ug7| Against S$ :urrencies Bid Offer >$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2026 1.2044 Against US? Bid 0.8373 Offer 0.8377 :anadian dollar 1.3324 1.3342 0.9276 0.9280 Euro 2.0618 2.0645 1.4355 1.4360 NZ dollar 0.9635 0.9651 0.6708 0.6713 jterlini 2.4031 2.4061 1.6731 1.673i US dollar
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      • 72 26 sdf IOCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev Hi, ;h/Low SepO9 1745 1757 1770/1744 Dec 09 1773 1785 1797/1773 MariO 1778 1788 1801/1780 May 10 1769 1781 1790/1772 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low SepO9 1494 1499 1507/1490 Nov09 1516 1523 1530/1512 Jan 10 1529 1534 1542/1525 SUGAR (US tonne) White Close Prey
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      • 91 26 sdfs SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; USc/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Aug 09 1170.*****5.*****6.*****9.75 Sep 09 1079.*****8.*****1.*****3.75 Nov 09 1030.*****5.*****9.*****9.00 Jan 10 1034.*****9.*****3.*****4.25 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs; usq/lb) Close Previous High/Low Aug 09 36.83 37.52 37.29 36.46 Sep 09 36.97 37.66 37.66 36.47 Oct09 37.16 37.85 37.52 36.75 Dec
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      • 382 28  -  Jamie Lee Property: Back with a bang Overweight UOB Kay Hian Research August 7| WE maintain our "overweight" stance on the property sector as we continue to see good value in property stocks. The residential property cycle has turned up and property stocks are still trading at an
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      • 1070 28  -  Genevieve Cua Banks slash spreads on Sibor-pegged loans; 80 and 90% property financing now available By CREDIT conditions have eased markedly in the competitive home loans market, thanks to improved confidence and liquidity in the property sector. Banks have slashed the spreads
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      • 588 32  -  Kalpana Rashiwala URA to put commercial and residential site up for tender later this month. By LOOKING for a new condominium project nestled in the quiet Seletar Hills Estate and in close proximity to roti prata outlets in the Jalan Kayu area,
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      • 1060 36  -  Audrey Phoon As the economy inches its way back to normality, so too the fine-dining scene. But will it return to the way it was, or will the effects of such a deep recession leave a permanent imprint on the industry? By TO GET a handle
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      • 817 37  -  Audrey Phoon guest chef Pontini head chef Frank Kilian shares how to match flavours and textures on a plate, and choose the right oil for your dishes. By IF A winning combination on a plate could work just as well on a 4D form, Frank Kilian would have
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      • 479 38  -  Melissa Lwee Isaac Mizrahi aims to revitalise Liz Claiborne as a fashion must-have By UNDER the invigorating new leadership of award-winning fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, Liz Claiborne New York is taking a stab at reestablishing itself as a must-have, iconic American brand. "Liz Claiborne is
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      • 694 40  -  CHUA GEK NOI Amanda de Guzman A commemorative book on Loang and Noi's 15 years in the business serves to illustrate Chua Gek Noi's two passions: photography and jewellery By WEEKEND WITH JEWELLERY DESIGNER LOANG AND NOI JEWELLERY designer Chua Gek Noi the fairer half of the husband
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      • 1367 43  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon them to do so," stresses Dr Chih. The drug finasteride has been shown to be highly effective in stopping hair loss in men (at a rate of over 80 per cent) but this can't be used for women, even post-menopausal women. For women, Dr Chih in
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    • SPORT
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