The Business Times, 13 August 2009

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  • 23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Ssl.oo online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg S|sl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO regn no *****2868E MICA (P) 197/08/2008 Thursday, August 13,2009
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  • 1018 1  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Sales of Good Class Bungalows gather steam, with some predicting healthy price rise By [SINGAPORE] The Good Class Bungalow (GCB) market has sprung to life with high-net-worth individuals stepping up their purchases. July was an especially action-filled month which
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  • 681 1  -  CHEW XIANG SGX ties up with Chi-X to cross block trades in region for the big boys By [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has joined hands with Chi-X to set up the region's first ex-change-backed dark pool by mid-2010. The 50-50 joint
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 47 1 Inesi lay lange ICOMP 1,180.54 -5.74 IIKKEI 225 10,435.00 -150.46 IANG SENG 20,435.24 -638.97 ;et INDEX Closed JAKARTA COM P 2,347.35 -51.91 IANILACOMP 2,828.52 -32.02 ;eoulcomp 1,565.35 -13.86 IHENZHEN B 525.37 -17.91 IUMBAI IND 15,020.16 -54.43 12 noon EDT Change )OW 9,365.92 +124.47 IASDAQ 2,002.77 +33.04
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    • 29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 16.074 TAIWAN 4.776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.52 INDIA 11.75 Source:
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    • 43 1 IS$ (S$ ier US$) 1.450 (US$/S$ per 1.643 2.382 ;UR0 (US$/S$/E) 1.411 2.046 Foreii in curreno ier US$ S$ 'EN 95.30 65.70 3.534 2.437 IK$ 7.751 5.346 !AHT 34.06 23.49 WPIAH 9,955 6,867 lENMINBI 6.836 4.715 INDIAN RUPEE 48.43 33.40 1.219 0.841
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 50 1 A^ MARINA BAY SANDS PROPERTY ELECTRIC CARS BizlT Banking on gaming, Buying the GM claims record a. Mixed bag for consumer ITSj^^ waiting for Mice ultimate home mileage for Volt '^j% Wt tech sales in HI ml m. PAGE 3 PAGE 28 PAGE 15 W^^^ 1 --jri PX^0 PAGE 25
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 371 2 [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's initial public offering market is bouncing back from the deepest financial crisis since the 1930s as the success of recent share sales brings companies back to the market. BBMG Corp attracted about US$lOO billion in demand, and leapt 56
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    • 498 2  -  EMILYN YAP But most are conservative about the strength of space absorption for the rest of 2009 By [SINGAPORE] Some property consultants reckon the worst is over for falling office rents. And one even expects net take-up of space to turn positive by
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    • 480 2 Reuters He also cites large and small signs that crisis is easing [WASHINGTON] White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Tuesday that the foundations for a return to growth had been laid and there were many signs that economic life was
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 45 2 THE good class bungalow market has sprung to life with high net worth individuals stepping up their purchases. July was an especially action-filled month that saw about 20 transactions worth more than $300 million. FRONT PAGE
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      • 52 2 THE Singapore Exchange has joined hands with Chi-X to set up the region's first exchange-backed dark pool by mid-2010. The 50-50 joint venture will anonymously cross block trades of Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia-listed stocks for big funds and institutional investors.
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      • 50 2 SOME property consultants reckon that the worst of the slide in office rents is over. And one even expects net take-up of space to turn positive by the fourth quarter of this year if the economy does reasonably well. TOP STORIES, PAGE 2
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      • 68 2 REVENUE contribution from gaming operations at Las Vegas Sands' Marina Bay Sands is likely to make up about 75 per cent of Ebitda at least during the "early days". However, Michael Leven, Sands president and chief operating officer, said that, ultimately,
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      • 69 2 THERE is a limit to how much former Airocean director Peter Madhavan could have known about CPIB investigations of former CEO Thomas Tay, a witness from the Singapore Exchange testified. Former independent directors had relied on information from Mr Tay and legal advice to
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      • 69 2 UOL Group has posted a net loss of $20.1 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009, against a $144.96 million net profit a year ago. The reversal was due partly to $76.96 million fair value losses on investment properties, contributed mainly
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      • 75 2 WHEN the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) rolls around next year, more than 30,000 people involved in putting the event together will be decked out in clothes by homegrown Crocodile International. Unveiled as the latest sponsor of the Games, the 62-year-old lifestyle fashion group
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      • 70 2 A Malaysian court yesterday acquitted a former cabinet minister of graft charges in a prominent case that had briefly become the showcase of the government's fight against corruption. Kuala Lumpur High Court Judge Suraya Othman found the prosecution had failed to establish a
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      • 73 2 BUCKING the trend of aviation losses, Air Asia has posted a profit of slightly more than RMI39 million (Sss7 million) for the second quarter to end-June, on the back of an 8 per cent rise in revenue to RM657.4 million. Its profit
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      • 61 2 MELODIES Limited, controlled by the Lee family of Hotel Royal, is selling a 20-storey freehold apartment block in Guillemard Road that it developed 11 years ago. The price is about $70 million, reflecting $783 per square foot based
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    • 315 2  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI But Amex Business Travel says fares may move up soon By [SINGAPORE] Business class air fares in Singapore took a tumble in the second quarter ended June 30, but first class fares were up 7 per cent, a study has revealed.
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    • 356 2 Bloomberg [GENEVA] Chinese limits on the sale of books, films and music from the US violate global commerce rules, the World Trade Organization ruled, handing President Barack Obama's administration its first trade victory against China. WTO judges largely sided with a US complaint that
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    • 615 3  -  ARTHUR SIM Gaming contribution could make up 75% of Ebitda at first, says LVS president By [SINGAPORE] Revenue contribution from gaming operations at Las Vegas Sands' Marina Bay Sands (MBS) is likely to make up about 75 per cent of earnings
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    • 618 3  -  JAMIE LEE AIROCEAN CASE Former IDs relied on Tay's info and on legal advice: Davinder Singh By But around Sept 16, a lawyer from Tan Rajah Cheah had already advised Mr Madhavan that there was no need to make an
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 503 4  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Its subsidiary Pan Pacific Hotels reports 64% year-on-year decline in Q2 earnings to $5.9 m By UOL Group has posted a $20.1 million net loss for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009, against a $144.96 million net profit a year earlier.
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    • 386 4  -  WINSTON CHAI By SINGAPORE'S smallest telco registered the biggest subscriber gain among the three local operators in the second quarter of this year. Mobile One added 50,000 local mobile customers, while Star Hub came in second with a net addition of 34,000 users. The
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    • 440 4 Six months ended June 2009 Three month: is ended June 2009 NET PROFIT TURNOVER NET PROFIT TURNOVER CURRENT I PREVIOUS CHNG CURRENT PREVIOUS CHNG CURRENT I PREVIOUS CHNG (Sim) (Sim) —(Sim) i CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG (Sim) 1 UOL 311.64 187.82 65.9 410.41 371.05 10.6 -20.14 144.96 nm
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    • 291 4  -  JAMIE LEE By FURNITURE maker Latitude Tree International Group has launched an initial public offer (IPO) to raise $6 million. The Vietnam-based exporter of wooden furniture a subsidiary of Malaysialisted Latitude Tree Holdings will place out 36 million shares at 22 cents each. The
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    • 239 4 ALLGREEN Properties saw net profit improve 36 per cent to $23.4 million in the second quarter ended June 2009 from a year earlier. Revenue rose 14 per cent to $84.6 million against Q2 2008, mainly due to higher income from development properties as
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    • 351 4  -  AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY By WHEELOCK Properties (Singapore) recorded a 89 per cent increase in net profit even though turnover slipped 11 per cent in its second quarter ended June 30. Net profit surged to $29 million from $15.3 million a year
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    • 433 5  -  TEH SHI NING H1 figure is up 53% from before, translating to a DPU of 2.56 cents By HYFLUX Water Trust yesterday reported distributable cash of $6.9 million for the first half of this year, up 53 per cent from first-half 2008. This
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    • 360 5  -  RACHEL SIM But revenue slid 2.1%t0533.9m from $34.62 m By ENGRO Corporation said yesterday that its second quarter net profit rose more than three times year-on-year from $4.02 million to $13.58 million, taking first-half earnings to $14.4 million. Revenue slid 2.1
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    • 447 5  -  YEN SREENIVASAN By HIGH-END residential and hotel fit-out specialist Design Studio Furniture Manufacturer has lifted its sec-ond-quarter earnings a huge 191 per cent to $7.1 million, from $2.4 million, thanks to strong orders and cost control. The increase was on a 96.1
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    • 366 7  -  EMILYN YAP By PROPERTY developer Soilbuild Group yesterday posted a net profit of $19.7 million for the second quarter ended June 30 15 per cent down from a year ago. Group revenue rose 10 per cent year on year to $96.9 million, as
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    • 388 7  -  TEH SHI NING Strong home sales boosts turnover for the three months 56% to $615 m By DEMAND for high-end housing in China drove developer Yanlord Land Group's second-quarter revenue 56 per cent higher year-on-year to $615.8 million. Net profit for the
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    • 374 7  -  LI DAN WEI By I YONGNAM Holdings has reported a 22 per cent jump in net profit to $10.6 million for the second quarter ended June 30, even as revenue was little changed from a year ago at $86.4 million. For the half
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    • 220 7 MIDAS Holdings is stepping up its aluminium alloy production capacity. It said yesterday its aluminium alloy division Jilin Midas Aluminium Industries has bought two aluminium alloy extrusion presses with annual production capacity of 20,000 tonnes. Delivery and commissioning of the first press is expected by
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    • 856 5 ALLGREEN PROPERTIES LIMITED Company Registration No.: *****1009N [Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore] The Board of Directors wishes to announce the following unaudited results of the Group for the period ended 30 June 2009. 1 CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 JUNE 2009: 2009 2008 Ss'ooo Ss'ooo Turnover
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 609 6  -  CONRAD TAN STOCKS The post-meeting statement could provide clues on its view of the US economy and how rapid any recovery will be STOCKS here fell yesterday as investors turned cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve board's monetary policy statement at the
      Bloomberg  -  609 words
    • 96 6 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 2 12 3 0 0 0 2 12 3 lanufacturing 34 86 66 19 37 89 85 Commerce 18 34 16 20 37 22 'pt/Stor/Comms 12 22 12 24 :inance 13 13 Construction 10 10 'roperties
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    • 116 6 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL lulti Ind 31,035 31,035 84,366 84,366 lanufacturing 634,173 50,987 685,160 312,684 2,661 315,346 lommerce 103,230 15,606 118,836 72,880 10,066 82,946 'pt/Stor/Comms 123,956 1,154 125,110 213,263 256 213,519 :i nance 38,821 38,821 358,660 358,660 lonstruction 120,973 23,356 144,329 38,507 411 38,918 'roperties
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    • 102 6 lapitaLand 3.640 -0.110 lapitaMall 1.520 +0.010 jtyDev 9.830 -0.150 lomfortDelGrc 1.590 -0.020 losco Corp 1.230 -0.050 IBS Grp 12.620 -0.300 :&N 3.930 -0.050 ienting SP 0.895 +0.030 iolden Agri 0.475 IK Land 3.830 +0.020 IMH 29.680 +0.180 ISH 16.640 +0.040 lardineC&C 23.720 -0.840 Ceppel Corp 7.830
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    • Article, Illustration
      816 6 Midas Holdings Aug 12 close: Sso.BB DBS GROUP RESEARCH, Aug 12 WE paid a visit to Midas' aluminium extrusion plants in Jilin and to 32.5 per cent-owned associate Nanjing SR Puzhen Rail Transport Co's (NPRT) plant in Nanjing. NPRT currently has an order book of over 700 train
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    • 463 6 Reuters CURRENCIES [NEW YORK] The US dollar slipped from a IV2 week high against the euro yesterday and struggled against the yen as investors remained cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy statement due later in the session. The focus on the Fed
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    • 4 6 DAILY
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    • 59 6 Aug 12 VALUE CLOSE IT OB/OS -113.00-333.0C IT CADI -*****.00-156.0i IT 10-day MA -*****.00 -11.0' TSE ST Mid Cap 585.75 -9.4! TSE ST Small Cap 511.08 -3.9. TSE ST All Share 630.49 -6.9i TSE ST China Top 271.43 -6.1 TSE ST China 267.49 -5.61 TSE ST Catalist
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    • 60 6 VOLUME Gentinq SP 200,510,000 Golden Agri 150,411,000 China Honqxinq 101,417,000 AusGroup 69,300,000 Midas 64,217,000 JiutianC 54,813,000 ASAGrp 54,547,000 See Hup Seng 51,354,000 FrasersComm R 43,680,000 MAP Tech 39,309,000 VALUE(S) DBS Grp 202,771,392 Gentinq SP 176,203,205 Sing Tel 81,755,170 Golden Agri 71,417,550 Capita Land 68,374,426 OCBC Bk 60,935,375
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    • 101 6 CLOSE UP iBXT S&P Short 10US$ 6242 156.5 1.8 iBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 5031 37.7 0. IMH 2968 26.1 0.' ICBC Bk5.1%NCPS 100 9980 20.0 0., IQB 5.05%NCPS 100 ***** 20.0 0., 'hai Prime Fd 460 14.5 2., ndoAi iri 178 11.0 6.' 'icom 196 7.0 3. :irstRes 102 6.0
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    • 116 6 CLOSE DOWN 9127-281.1 -2.1 DBXT Ni 10US! lardine C&C 2372 -84.0 -3.4 DBXT FTChina25 10US! 2948 -72.5 -1.7 China H 10US 1506 -69.6 -3.1 MS India 10US! 1210 -66.7 -3.7 LD 10US 9266 -49.3 -0.4 DBS Gri 1262 -30.0 -2.3 Pair 649 -29.0 -3.0 Kei Con i.ES.0908 781 -23.0
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    • 82 6 Aug12 %CHNG CLOSE FRAug11 YR SSLOW R2009 S$ HIGH USS 1.4486 -0.28 1.5579 1.4308 Euro 2.0476 -0.09 2.0732 1.9150 Pounds 2.3841 -0.32 2.4366 2.0356 1.1921 1.38 1.2088 0.9453 ren* 1.5131 -1.35 1.7278 1.4831 Rupiah* 0.***** 0.07 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.2543 -0.20 4.3390 4.1040 Peso* 3.0145 0.44
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 495 8  -  LEE U-WEN Lifestyle fashion group is first SME to become Tier 1 Games sponsor By WHEN the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) rolls around next year, more than 30,000 people involved in putting the event together will be decked out in clothes by home-grown
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    • 360 8  -  JUSTIN CHAN Figures indicate that continued recovery may be in sight: LIA By LIFE insurance sales have risen in the second quarter, with total new business premiums up about 39 per cent at $1.13 billion from a quarter earlier. The Q2 figure is
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    • 252 8  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI By TOUTED as the exclusive party playground for Formula One, Amber Lounge is coming back to town during Sept 26 to 27, making Singapore one of only four venues to host the nightlife event this year. The purpose-built venue at Temasek Avenue
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    • 1028 8 Aik Moh's success lies in its experienced and forward-looking staff that cover the entire spectrum from management to production and sales, report ABIGAIL CHONG VAN-LING, COLIN JEREMY LIM KEYUAN and AMANDA TAN VAN YING STARTING with just five employees and a single paint
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    • 69 8 ENTERPRISE Celebrating Singapore's Enterprising Spirit 2009 Published every Tuesday and Thursday, this series is part of the Enterprise 50 Educational Project between the E5O partners and the NUS Business School. Aik Moh Paints Chemicals was one of the E5O winners in 2008. The annual E5O ranking is co-organised by The
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  • SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL
    • 727 9 Spore companies with proven expertise in planning, building and managing cities have excellent prospects, reports CHUANG PECK MING THE global march towards urbanisation is unstoppable not even the deepest recession in 30 years is slowing it. And that should, at least, bring some sunshine to Singapore companies
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    • 444 9  -  CHUANG PECK MING Reports by WHAT do Singapore companies, coming from a tiny island, have to offer in urban solutions to big towns and cities elsewhere? Plenty, says Jeffrey Ho of Surbana International Consultants, an offshoot of the Housing and
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    • 423 9 Urbanisation must be modified to suit local conditions: Sembcorp IN exporting urban solutions, Singapore companies must not make the mistake of transplanting wholesale the Singapore model. That word of caution comes indirectly from Low Sin Leng, executive chairman of Sembcorp Industrial Parks.
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    • 396 9 THE home market hasn't dried up. There is still a "substantial" number of projects coming up that require the services of those who offer urban solutions, according to the 1,906--member-strong Singapore Contractors Association Ltd (SCAL). So local builders, engineers, urban planners and consultants as well as
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    • 191 9 m Seminar Series: Doing Business In China I As Singapore's second largest trading partner in 2008 with total trade amounting to more than Ss9l billion, China remains a powerhouse of opportunity and growth. Despite the current economic climate, the country has managed to register a growth of 6.1 %in the
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 582 10 Reuters This limits Bank of Japan's scope for ending unorthodox policy measures [TOKYO] Japanese wholesale prices fell a record 8.5 per cent in the year to July, highlighting the growing deflationary pressure in the economy and limiting the Bank of Japan's scope for
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    • 453 10 Bloomberg [LONDON] UK unemployment rose to the highest level in 14 years as companies continue to cut jobs even as the worst recession in at least a generation begins to ease. The number of people seeking work in the three months
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    • 294 10 AP [WASHINGTON] US employers who have cut jobs over the past year are in no hurry to start hiring again just because the recession is tapering off. Small business owners say they need to see several months of rising sales before they start
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    • 705 10 ters -Rev- [SYDNEY] Policymakers daunted by the idea of puncturing asset bubbles in coming years can learn from Australia's central bank, one of the very few to have deflated a housing boom without turning it into a crash. As the world cleans up after
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 429 11 -AP He faced up to 25 years in jail on charges of cheating and corruption [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian court acquitted a former Cabinet minister yesterday of graft charges in a prominent case that had briefly become the showcase of the government's fight
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    • 352 11 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's banking industry was upgraded at BNP Paribas, which said positive government initiatives and an improving economy are helping to curb bad debts and revive lending growth. BNP raised its ratings for Bumiputra-Commerce Holdings Bhd, Malaysia's second-biggest bank, AMMB Holdings Bhd,
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    • 443 11 -AP [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian opposition leader went on trial yesterday on charges of sedition for allegedly insulting a royal figure a case slammed by critics as a government witch hunt aimed at intimidating a resurgent opposition. The charges stem
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    • 416 11 IB MIT II ',11 I.'1 ''it I tLeading Manufacturer of Quality Lifestyle Wooden Home Furniture LATITUDE TREE INTERNATIONAL GROUP LTD. (Company Registration No.: *****8683N) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 8 October 2007) Subsidiary of Latitude Tree Holdings Berhad, listed on Main Board of Bursa Malaysia Placement in respect
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 743 12 Bloomberg Accusations a downgrade from earlier government claims of espionage [MELBOURNE] Rio Tinto Group executive Stern Hu faces charges in China of bribery and stealing commercial secrets from the nation's steel industry, a downgrade from earlier government claims of espionage. Initial investigations found
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    • 607 12 berg Bloom- [LONDON] Tata Motors Ltd said its Jaguar Land Rover luxury cars unit won't need a bailout from the UK government as it completes funding arrangements with commercial lenders and the European Investment Bank (EIB). Talks with some banks have been successfully
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    • 380 12 Reuters [HONG KONG] A stock market rebound helped the world's largest listed exchange operator, Hong Kong Exchanges Clearing (HKEx), end four quarters of shrinking earnings, with trading volume set to continue improving in coming months. Increased capital-rai-sing and surging fund flows into
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    • 1541 12 w A WATS Freight Links Express Holdings Limited Company Registration No. *****0061G (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Freight Links Express Holdings Limited will be held at 51 Penjuru Road #04-00, Freight Links Express Logisticentre, Singapore *****3, on Friday 28
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 550 13  -  VNTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo Party's cash-to-kids policy will cost govt over five trillion yen a year, says official By, JAPAN will be courting "bankruptcy" if the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) seizes control of government in the Aug 30 general election and
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    • 282 13 [WASHINGTON] The United States moved on Tuesday to freeze the assets of a North Korean bank accused of providing financial services to companies involved in Pyongyang's missile programmes. The Treasury Department's action against Korea Kwangson Banking Corp (KKBC) means any bank accounts
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    • 675 13 [LONDON] World oil demand will rise less than previously thought next year and evidence of a "bottoming out" of the recession is patchy at best, the International Energy Agency (lEA) said yesterday. The outlook from the lEA, which advises 28 consumer countries,
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    • 351 13 [MANILA] Qatar Telecommunications Co bought 33 per cent of Liberty Telecommunications Holdings Inc, the chairman of the dormant Philippine firm said yesterday, as Qtel pursues overseas expansion. "Yes," Ramon Ang, chairman of Liberty and president of San Miguel Corp, told Reuters in a mobile
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    • 356 13 Reuters Group planned to bomb refinery, US army camp, facilities [KUWAIT] Kuwait detained members of an Al-Qaeda-linked group which planned to attack Kuwait's Shuaiba oil refinery during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a security official said yesterday. Kuwait, the world's fourth largest oil exporter,
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  • WORLD
    • 710 14 -NYT Corporations spending big to support events want to ensure their money is not being used in a showy way [NEW YORK] Even in these tough times, major corporations are spending to entertain valued clients at golf tournaments and exclusive receptions.
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    • 460 14 Reuters Company increases its year-end cost cuts target by 30% to 13b euros [AMSTERDAM] Dutch financial services company ING Groep returned to profitability in the second quarter of this year after nearly five billion euros (5510.24 billion) of losses in
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    • 398 14 Reuters [NEW YORK] Poor consumer demand amid economic turmoil and choppy credit markets will continue to pressure US companies in consumer-dependent sectors for the remainder of this year, Standard Poor's (S&P) said in a report yesterday. Companies in consumer products, media and entertainment
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    • 270 14 ■AP [NEW YORK] American Express and Discover customers will soon be free of fees for charging over their credit limits. The companies said separately on Tuesday that they would soon end the charges that have generated widespread criticism from consumers. The moves come
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    • 652 15 Reuters, AP It expects excellent fuel economy rating for combined city and highway driving [DETROIT] The Chevrolet Volt, the electric car General Motors is counting on to revitalise its lineup, is on track to achieve an unprecedented fuel economy rating of 98 kilometres
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  • AVIATION
    • 631 16  -  PAULINE NG Yields are affected as average fare falls 19% to RMI6O from RMI9B in Q1 By in Kuala Lumpur BUCKING the trend of aviation losses, Air Asia has posted a profit of slightly more than RMI39 million (Sss7 million) for the
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    • 573 16 o— j.— -AP Airline, operator Express Jet queried on incident [WASHINGTON] The Obama administration has opened an investigation into whether laws were violated last week when 47 passengers were stranded overnight on a US airport's tarmac. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that the Transportation
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    • 425 16 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Boeing Co machinists in the South Carolina plant that the planemaker just bought will vote on Sept 10 whether to keep their union representation, a decision that may help determine the location of a second 787 assembly line. Boeing and the
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    • 347 16 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD rAr s/) s posts 1 Taking part in an oral exami- n F> I[3 I p I [<■ I[7 fa 7th 16 Steam is bothering painter 1 17 I 1 18 I Hl9 I 1 20 I and said that it will /y\ L^^J f^ i* 19 Round
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  • SHIPPING
    • 498 17 Reuters Cargo demand soft; immediate-term outlook looks weak, observers say [LONDON] The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates to ship dry commodities, stayed close to a three-month low on Tuesday with weak appetite for cargoes keeping activity light. The index,
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    • 355 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] A surplus of supertankers competing to deliver two million-barrel cargoes of Middle East crude shrank as demand strengthened. There are 17 per cent more very large crude carriers (VLCCs) for hire over the next 30 days than there are cargoes that
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    • 572 17 -AP No signs of 93 on board still missing and presumed dead [NUKUALOFA, Tonga] Searchers yesterday located the wreck of a ferry that capsized off Tonga a week earlier and found no immediate signs of the 93 people on board who are still
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    • 336 17 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Sinotrans Shipping Ltd, the dry-bulk arm of China's third-largest shipping group, expects a "surge" in iron-ore and coal imports to last through the year. "We expect the trend will continue," general manager Tian Zhongshan told reporters in Hong Kong
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    • 642 17 -NYT [NEW YORK] The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, created in the 1950s to break the mob's grip on the docks, became its own bastion of lawlessness, employing some of the same corrupt, self-serv-ing methods as the gangsters it was supposed to
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    • 50 17 tabla! ©r 8-^ THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY Jg[ 3i BATTLE Influenza... Insufficient rain... m Infiltration... I I These are India's concerns as it W celebrates its 62nd Independence Day w^r ft The miss and 2) the dolphin A* Miss India Universe gtifeS^ gears up for the Ik //stt.stt.H-,—l
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINIOAN
    • 484 18 OIL investors have focused on promising economic indicators, sending prices up almost 60 per cent this year. This is despite the fact that supply is running ahead of demand and inventory has been growing. The latest demand estimates for the year from the Organisation of
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    • 976 18  -  TILL VESTRING and SUVIR VARMA They're banking on international growth and innovation to overcome the financial crisis By' EXECUTIVES in Asia believe they waited too long to respond to the global downturn. And they are betting on international growth and on innovation to
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    • 834 18  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY THE BOTTOM LINE TOKYO has been hit by two earthquakes (so far) this week, both strong enough to remind those of us living here of just how thin and fragile the earth's crust is under the Japanese capital
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    • 1270 19  -  ROBIN PAXTON ters Rev- The precious metal's safe-haven appeal has shielded it from a demand slump By EVERY winter, an ice road is laid across 400 km of tundra to carry supplies to one of the world's most isolated gold mines. There is no
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    • 974 19  -  JASON SUBLER Reuters By PAKISTANI textile makers are holding on for dear life through a perfect storm of shrinking global demand, crippling power shortages and the blow to buyers' interest dealt by terrorist attacks. The source of over half the country's exports and about 40
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    • 779 19  -  Mak Yuen Teen LETTER TO THE EDITOR I REFER to the report "Directors should know when to go" (BT, Aug 11) where it was mentioned that at the roundtable organised by The Business Times and the Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting Centre, the issue of
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 8804 20 Transaction date: Aug 12 Hi! !-wks Tel Low Code Com| Sale Cooo) Hi: Low Bu] ?er Seller C'vr •k P/E Smil >ari] 15.5 3 3148 8Telecom 8 2.5 5834 A-Sonic 24.5 12 5000 ABRHIdgs 12.5 5.5 1938 AEI Corp 8 1 1100 AEM 23 7 2101 APOil 81
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    • 1643 21 52-wks Tel ligh Low Code Company Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net ('000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E M Cap $mil 19 5 1181 s AAGrp 26 12 8538 t APStrategic 4 05 1501 s Advanced System 7.5 2 3480 t Adventus >3.5
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    • 404 21 Hi. Low Code Comi Sale fooo) Hi. Low Big Seller C'vr P/E ,,ml 110 100 6389 ABFSG Bond ETF 108.5 815 427 CIMBAsean40 100US$ US728 -7 273 149 DBS STI ETF 100 260 -2 3903 3534 DBXT DJE5O 10US$ US3897 -6 DBXTDJE50Sh 10US$ US3076 1682 DBXT FTChina25 10US$
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    • 254 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 offer
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    • 9335 21 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIG Global Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Acorns of Asia Balanced Fund!S 1.966/ AIGIF Spore Bond Fund/A 1.3/ APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund!** 1.04/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!** 0.72/ APS Komaba Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Komaba Global Bond SGD 0.5165/ APS Komaba Global
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 369 22 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Au; 11 World Index Preliminary 756.2 -1.0 11.6 -0.7 14.5 -1.0 14.0 EAFE Preliminai 725.8 -0.7 11.8 -0.2 16.4 -0.6 15.9 Eun Prelim inan 996.8
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    • 132 22 As at 9am Aug 12 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.1910 1.2270 Can dollar 1.3090 1.3250 Euro 2.0380 2.0620 NZ dollar 0.9590 0.9800 Sterlini ind 2.3750 2.4031 US dollar 1.4390 1.4560 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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    • 172 22 Aug 12 Offer Overnight 1-month 2-months 3-months Overnight mode: 1/8 ys$ 1/16 7/16 9/16 11/16 Offer par 3?16 5/16 7/16 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months $Au 0.35 0.39 0.50 0.60 0.95 1.50 1.60 Offer 0.25 0.29 0.30 0.40
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    • 29 22 Aug 12 Open High Sett 2567 2567 2554 STI Am SIMSCI Aui 310.5 310.5 306.0 Taiwan Aui 250.8 251.3 248.9 Source: MF Global (S) He. Ltd
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    • 22 22 Aug 12 S! Bid Offer 1-month 1.4493 1.4508 2-months 1.4495 1.4510 3-months 1.4495 1.4510 6-months 1.4496 1.4513 Source: OCBC
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    • 189 22 Aug 12 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (lots) O/l (lots) SepO9 205.0 Oct09 205.0 NOV09 Dec 09 Jan 10 204.0 Feb 10 205.0 205.0 205.0 204.0 205.0 205.0 205.0 205.0 204.0 204.0 205.0 20 20 20 20 515 819
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    • 90 22 Aug 12 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hi< Day's |h Low 3-Month BQO9132F 12.11.09 1-Year BY*****W 03.05.10 0.30 0.35 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Hio Day's cjh Low 2-Year NX*****H 3.625 5-Year NX*****F 3.625 7-Year N*****0S 2.875 10-Year NX*****W 2.500
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    • 101 22 Aug 11 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Aug 09 1216.50 1170.50 1226.00 1168.00 Sep 09 1097.50 1067.50 1099.00 1063.00 Nov 09 1038.50 1010.00 1042.00 1005.00 Jan 10 1042.00 1014.25 1045.00 1009.75 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low AugO9 38.02 36.49 38.05 36.85
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    • 77 22 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Aug 11 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 72.70 -1.59 WTI (Near Mth) 69.38 -1.45 Dubai (1-Mth F) 72.58 0.92 Tapis blend 78.70 0.30 Minas 76.30 0.40 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 71.90 79.75 2.23 -0.75 US$/barrel Opec Oil
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    • 465 22 Aug 12 AS CS Rmb Euro HKS IndRsRu Yen Won RM NZS Pak Rs Peso SS Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound us: Australia 0.907 5.609 0.582 6.361 39.738 81.691 0.782 10.250 2.900 1.238 67.921 39.430 1.190 6.708 0.889 27.036 27.946 0.500 0.821 Canada 1.103 6.185 0.641 7.013
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    • 76 22 Aug 12 1 mth 0.***** 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 0.***** 9 mths 1.***** 0.***** 12 mths 1.***** 0.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 1.***** 9mths 1.***** 12 mths 1.***** SWAP Mid
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    • 157 22 Aug 12 Against SS Currencies Bid Offer Against US$ Bid Offer S$fUS$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.1888 1.1906 0.8204 0.8208 Canadian dollar 1.3110 1.3126 0.9047 0.9049 Euro 2.0445 2.0467 1.4109 1.4110 NZ dollar 0.9594 0.9618 0.6621 0.6631 Sterlini ind 2.3804 2.3829 1.6427 1.642!
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    • 169 22 Aug 12 GOLD (USS/oz) Aui 12 Aui GOLD BULLION COINS (S$) Sellini Hong Kong 942.10 946.00 943.10 947.00 Aug 11 Aug 10 London 942.95 944.80 943.75 945.60 Source: Thomson Reuters (S$) Selling Buying 1 oz 1533.31 1385 UBS GOLD LUNAR KINEBAR (S$) Selling Buying 10gm $537.14 441 SILVER
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    • 70 22 Auq 11 minimum, 99.7 jrity (US$/tonne) Co Close Previous Cash 1896.50 1936.00 3 months 1930.00 1969.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 6030.50 6039.00 6125.25 6135.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 1780.50 1800.00 1856.00 1874.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.50 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash
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    • 73 22 Aug 11 COCOA (Btonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low SepO9 1790 1823 1830/1781 Dec 09 1817 1852 1857/1811 Mar 10 1823 1853 1860/1816 May 10 1819 1848 1850/1810 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low SepO9 1452 1463 1464/1430 Nov09 1476 1485 1483/1454 Jan 10 1486 1495 1495/1466 SUGAR (US tonne) White
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    • 59 22 Aug 12 Delivery Opening Sett Av Month Range Price Price Hi Low Vol Open Done Position SepO9 2492 2475 2493 2428 1499 6293 Oct09 2490 2460 2490 2410 ***** ***** Nov09 2472 2442 2477 2398 4354 ***** Dec 09 2460 2443 2468 2393 1026 4037 Total o/p: *****
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    • 290 22 Aug 12 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES SepO9 DecO9 Mar10 Jun10 99.5400 99.3350 99.0000 98.5750 6783 2258 3255 3085 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES SepO9 99.470 99.470 DecO9 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 99.470 99.470 99.475 99.470 99.450 99.395 99.350 99.265 99.205 639 199 150
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  • BizIT
    • 639 25 Smart phones were a big seller and the number sold in HI spiked nearly 200%, reports WINSTON CHAI THE recession may have crimped spending on consumer electronics, home appliances and cameras but sales of mobile phones and computers managed to buck
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    • 350 25 ters -Rev- [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is to cancel an Internet filter tender that drew comparisons with China's "Green Dam" project and triggered an outcry from opposition politicians as well as criticism from industry bodies, a source told Reuters. No one from the industry
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    • 320 25 -AFP [SAN FRANCISCO] Google has rolled back the curtain on a secret project codenamed "Caffeine" focused on building a new iteration of its winning Internet search engine. "For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a
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    • 219 25 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Twitter Inc, the website that lets people post updates through 140-character messages, said it was attacked again by hackers, following a series of assaults that hobbled the site last week. "We're backup and analysing the traffic data to determine the nature of this
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  • PROPERTY
    • 331 26  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Fragrance Group picks up freehold site at Changi Road for $33.56 m By [SINGAPORE] Melodies Li- mited, controlled by the Lee family of Hotel Royal, is selling a 20-storey freehold apartment block in Guillemard Road which it developed 11
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    • 412 26  -  TEH SHINING By [SINGAPORE] An industrial site along Kaki Bukit Road 2, put up for sale by the government, drew an impressive 18 bids by the close of tender yesterday. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said that the highest bid received for the
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    • 390 27  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI Negative 32.2 ha compares with net allocation of plus 14 ha in Q1 By [SINGAPORE] Net allocation of prepared industrial land went into negative territory in the second quarter for JTC Corporation, as the downturn continued to take atoll. JTC's Q2
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    • 1996 27 Residential Development For Sale cassia view At Guillemard Road, next to Mountbatten Community Club M' J Freehold, 20-storey apartment block with 72 units M 1 Total strata area: 89,361 sq ft (approx) 0 Land area: 35,51 Isq ft (approx), plot ratio 2.8 '^K*^ i Potential for redevelopment or strata sales
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  • LANDED HOMES
    • 998 28 With only about 2,400 units of good class bungalows in the market, almost any GCB would be a rare find, reports ARTHUR SIM THEY are wealthy and successful people who can probably afford to buy any home they want, but many of them are being drawn
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