The Business Times, 18 September 2009

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  • 20 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Ssl.oo online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg SfCi A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION COREGNNOI9B4O2B6BE MICA (P) 123/08/2009 Friday, September 18,2009
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  • 991 1  -  CONRAD TAN $42b rebound in 4 months claws back most losses; investment firm sharpens focus on Spore, Asia By [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings said yesterday that it recovered most of the heavy losses it suffered last year in the four months to July-end
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  • 748 1  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA It plans Holland V-type shophouses, 150-200 apartments By t [SINGAPORE] The tender for a residential and commercial plot at the corner of Yio Chu Kang and Seletar roads yesterday drew 12 bids, with Far East Organization topping the
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 46 1 lursi lay lange 1 COMP 1,218.80 +5.82 IIKKEI225 10,443.80 +173.03 1ANG SENG 21,768.51 +365.59 ;et index 709.23 -1.02 JAKARTA COMP 2,456.99 +17.64 1ANILA COMP 2,771.97 +3.36 ;eoulcomp 1,695.47 +12.14 ;henzhenb 534.25 +10.52 IUMBAI IND 16,711.11 +34.07 11.30am EDT Cham )OW 9,804.55 +12.84 IASDAQ 2,133.79 +0.64
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    • 29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 16.345 TAIWAN 4.776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.52 INDIA 11.75 Source:
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    • 43 1 IS$ (S$ ier US$) 1.412 (US$/S$ per 1.656 2.338 :UR0 (US$/S$/E) 1.475 2.083 Forei' in curreno >er US$ S$ 'EN 90.60 64.20 3.472 2.458 IK$ 7.750 5.487 !AHT 33.70 23.86 lUPIAH 9,690 6,860 lENMINBI 6.826 4.833 INDIAN RUPEE 48.08 34.04 1.142 0.809
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  • 734 1  -  MICHELLE QUAH By [SINGAPORE] This year's Formula One race in Singapore could see more than its fair share of excitement not all of it welcome. There's talk that two former Renault team principals could possibly be extradited to Singapore to be charged
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  • FOP STORIES
    • 556 2  -  CHUANG PECK MING Analysts see return of year-on-year growth in coming months By [SINGAPORE] The decline in Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) continued to ease last month. But analysts predict that export growth would climb back into positive territory in the
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    • 587 2 Reuters [PARIS] World leaders will commit to keep spending to prop up their economies at a G-20 summit next week, Russia said yesterday, while France appeared to tone down its rhetoric on the issue of bank bonus caps. The Kremlin's economic adviser said that
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    • 527 2  -  TEH SHI NING By [SINGAPORE] The Jobs Credit Scheme should not be extended, and foreign labour policy should be tweaked in order to boost labour productivity and competitiveness, say university economists. These recommendations were made during yesterday's economic forecast update by Nanyang
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 72 2 TEMASEK Holdings said yesterday that it recovered most of the heavy losses it suffered last year in the four months to July as financial markets rallied and it rebalanced its investment portfolio. Temasek also said it could keep most of its money
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      • 61 2 THIS year's Formula One race in Singapore could see more than its fair share of excitement not all of it welcome. There's talk that two former Renault team principals could possibly be extradited to Singapore to be charged for their part in
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      • 66 2 THE tender for a residential and commercial plot at the corner of Yio Chu Kang and Seletar roads yesterday drew 12 bids, with Far East Organization topping the list with an offer that outshone its closest competitor by a huge
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      • 58 2 AFTER getting off to a promising start in the third quarter, the decline in Singapore's non-oil domestic exports continued to ease last month. NODX fell 7.1 per cent year on year, after an 8.7 per cent decline in July and an 11.1 per
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      • 60 2 THE Singapore Exchange has rapped China Hongxing Sports for its tardy disclosure of JF Asset Management's substantial sales of shares in the company earlier this year. SGX said yesterday China Hongxing's board has undertaken to review and strengthen internal procedures and will report
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      • 51 2 THE debut $150 million note issue of SMRT Corp's wholly owned subsidiary, SMRT Capital, has attracted strong demand. The orderbook was more than two times oversubscribed and closed within half an hour of the launch of the notes, SMRT said. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE
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      • 81 2 OFFICE rents feU for the fourth consecutive quarter, but the pace of decline has eased on the back of returning business confidence, a new report from CB Richard Ellis showed. Prime office rents averaged $7.50 per square foot per month in the third
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      • 44 2 STOCK market operator Bursa Malaysia yesterday sealed an agreement with US-based CME Group Inc that will ultimately see the Chicago-based derivatives exchange taking up a 25 per cent interest in Bursa's derivatives unit. MALAYSIA/INDONESIA, PAGE 13
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      • 71 2 BILLIONAIRE Warren Buffett turned Dalian Dayang Trands Co into China's best-performing clothing stock after saying he wears the company's suits and praising it as "wonderful". Dayang yesterday surged by the 10 per cent daily limit for a fourth day after it posted
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    • 827 4  - Familiar landscape but risks remain SIOW LI SEN COMMENTARY SINCE last month, after Temasek updated its charter with no reference to Singapore in the 200-word document, questions have been raised about whether this meant a loosening of ties to the nation. Well, that is so far from the truth that
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    • 395 4  -  > SIOW LI SEN Bonuses have also disappeared, says CEO Ho Ching By [SINGAPORE] Temasek's paycut of up to 25 per cent will remain, on top of a second year of lower bonuses, said chief executive Ho Ching yesterday. Since January this year, the
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    • 463 4  -  WINSTON CHAI By [SINGAPORE] The Republic has inched ahead of Taiwan and South Korea to become the second most competitive information technology market in the Asia-Pacific region, a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reveals. The annual report, sponsored by
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 499 6  -  MICHELLE QUAH It took too long to release infomation on JF Asset Mgt's stake changes By THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has rapped China Hongxing Sports for its tardy disclosure of information relating to JF Asset Management's substantial sales of shares in the company. "When JFAM notified
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    • 435 6  -  JAMIE LEE By THE Securities Industry Council (SIC) is keeping silent on whether Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing's disclosure involving talks between Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) and the company or major shareholder Temasek Holdings was appropriate. ATIC made a $2.5 billion offer for Chartered last
      BLOOMBERG  -  435 words
    • 120 6 Reuters VETERAN Singaporean banker Wong Ban Suan will retire at the end of this month from DBS, South-east Asia's largest bank, the bank said yesterday. Mr Wong, who is managing director and head of the group's Central Treasury unit, has been
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    • 546 6  -  VINCENT WEE THE announcement that the massive Gorgon gas project off western Australia has received regulatory approval gives a chance for investors in Singapore to turn their attention to other offshore sector players here besides the two big local rigbuilders. This project is the
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    • 497 8  -  VINCENT WEE Orderbook closed within half hour of launch with 2 times oversubscription By^ The debut $150 million note issue of SMRT Corp's wholly owned subsidiary, SMRT Capital, has attracted strong demand. "Strong interest from bond investors resulted in the orderbook being
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 109 8 NEL Group has filed a multi-million US dollar lawsuit in Santa Clara County (California) Superior Court against San Francisco area-based Atmel Corporation for alleged "breach of contract, intentional interference with NEL's contractual relations and prospective business, libel and violation of California statutes regulating business
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      • 95 8 SUNTEC Reit manager ARA Trust Management (Suntec) said that Sunshine Assets, a special purpose vehicle set up to issue notes under a $500 million note programme, has issued a new series of three-year fixed rate notes bearing a fixed interest rate of 3.55 per
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    • 381 8 It will be used to finance 17 water treatment projects CNA Group said a Chi-na-based joint venture has secured a 400 million yuan (5581.72 million) loan from Bank of China. The facility was secured by Crystal Water Company Ltd (CWL), a
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    • 405 8 GMG Global Ltd, the only Singapore-listed integrated producer of natural rubber, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a rubber processing project in Indonesia. The company entered into the MOU with Sugianto/Then Tjin Khim and Siman Bahar/Bong Kin Phin,
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    • 360 9  -  JOYCE HOOI Move aimed at aligning execs' long-term interests with the group's By YOUCAN Foods International will be issuing 39.65 million new shares to three senior executives to give them a stake of 16.6 per cent in the company. The shares for its
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    • 98 9 Reuters [LONDON] The London Metal Exchange is planning to open an office in Singapore as a significant portion of its business comes from Asia, a spokesman for the exchange said yesterday. "We're talking to members about opening an office," the spokesman
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    • 515 9 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nomura Holdings Inc, which acquired the Asian and European businesses of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, will start trading commodities overseas for the first time using people hired from the failed investment bank. Japan's largest brokerage will offer derivatives on materials ranging from
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    • 421 9 Expansion raises its number of restaurants in Singapore to 28 JAPAN Foods Holding, a Japanese restaurant chain in Singapore, has further expanded its network in Singapore. Since July, it has opened five new restaurants and will soon open another one under various brands. The
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    • 1603 8 PERTAMA HOLDINGS LIMITED 'N the matter of the companies act, chapter so *h D hr f c INTERBREW ASIA HOLDING COMPANY PTE. LTD. (Incorporated in the Republic Of Singapore) [Company Registration No.: *****3840H] Co. Reg. No. *****0483W (the "Company") (the "Company") —^j^^^^- capital reduction exercise NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 603 10  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS Rotational churning of second line leads to new names springing into top volume list; several S-chips also active IT WAS either a case of "buyers' fatigue" or an element of "buy in anticipation, sell on news" that underpinned trading yesterday. "Fatigue"
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    • 100 10 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 4 6 7 0 0 0 4 6 7 lanufacturing 49 77 75 12 57 84 87 Commerce 24 27 19 26 30 23 'pt/Stor/Comms 12 18 12 13 18 13 :inance 14 14 Construction 15
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    • 117 10 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL lulti Ind 88,947 88,947 98,729 98,729 lanufacturing 708,111 21,481 729,592 374,521 1,382 375,902 lommerce 173,292 32,473 205,765 104,852 8,853 113,704 'pt/Stor/Comms 222,971 3,978 226,949 246,223 1,075 247,298 :i nance 49,034 49,034 260,027 260,027 lonstruction 62,902 60,235 123,137 21,221 1,716 22,938 'roperties
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    • 99 10 lapitaLand 3.730 -0.040 lapitaMall 1.800 -0.040 jtyDev 10.380 -0.040 lomfortDelGrc 1.620 losco Corp 1.230 -0.010 IBS Grp 13.480 +0.260 :&N 4.000 -0.020 ienting SP 1.080 -0.020 iolden Agri 0.455 IK Land 4.200 -0.050 IMH 30.140 -1.340 ISH 17.300 -0.020 lardineC&C 24.540 +0.240 Ceppel Corp 8.410 +0.160
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    • Article, Illustration
      807 10  -  JOYCE HOOI Infrastructure Sector OCBC INVESTMENT RESEARCH, Sept 17 GOOD relative performance. Since we recommended Midas Holdings (Midas) and Rotary Engineering (Rotary) as positive themed investments on July 8, 2009, Rotary has returned about 60 per cent while Midas has gained about 11 per cent. On a relative
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    • 519 10 -Reuters CURRENCIES [LONDON] The US dollar fell broadly yesterday, hitting a one-year low against the euro, as equities and commodities advanced on expectations of economic recovery. European stocks rose half a per cent, tracking Asian equities and Wall Street higher after data on
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    • 4 10 DAILY
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    • 59 10 CLOSE IT OB/OS 57.00 -317.C IT CADI -*****.00 -78. IT 10-day MA -*****.00 +6.0' TSE ST Mid Cap 620.39 +1.1 TSE ST Small Cap 554.47 -3.7! TSE ST All Share 658.71 -0.3: TSE ST China Top 282.42 -1.3. TSE ST China 282.90 -1.51 TSE ST Catalist 1413.62
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    • 55 10 VOLUME Gentinq SP 118,951,000 Golden Aqri 112,986,000 Eastqate Tech 71,255,000 Tri-M 63,496,000 Sapphire 58,105,000 BerlianLaju 49,665,000 AusGroup 43,683,000 Hisaka 43,518,000 Gallant 41,564,000 MAP Tech 36,783,000 VALUE($) Gentinq SP 129,728,790 DBS Grp 114,188,970 Wilmar 68,763,220 UOB 62,936,304 SingTel 59,011,530 Keppel Corp 53,606,930 Golden Aqri 51,819,843 Tri-M 51,238,280 CapitaLand
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    • 102 10 CLOSE UP ICC 3.93% NCPS10 8000 100.0 1.3 LD 10US$ ***** 45.2 0. EasternEuro 516 33.9 4. iBS Gr| 1348 26.0 2: lardine C&C 2454 24.0 1.' Cor| i.ES.0909 842 24.0 2. IOB 5.05%NCPS 100 9990 24.0 0., LatinAmerica 1 730 22.6 2., China H 10US$ 1640 21.2 0:
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    • 115 10 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 3014-189.2 -4.3 IMH iBXT S&P Short 10US! 5750-115.8 -1.4 "ri-M 80 -13.5 -14.4 iBS Bk6% NCPS 10 ***** -10.0 -0.1 ICBC Bk4.5%NCPS 100 9440 -10.0 -0.1 lUE 950 -9.0 -0.9 IK Land 420 -7.1 -1.2 itraitsAsia 221 -7.0 -3.1 reat Eastern 1388 -6.0 -0.4 ;C
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    • 87 10 Where S$ stands Sep 17 %CHNG CLOSE FR Sep 16 YR2009 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.4134 -0.10 1.5579 1.4120 Euro 2.0824 -0.32 2.0824* 1.9150 Pounds 2.3346 -0.19 2.4366 2.0356 AS 1.2365 -0.43 1.2365* 0.9453 Yen* 1.5576 0.47 1.7278 1.4831 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.05 0.****** 0.***** Baht* 4.1933 -0.25 4.3390
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 456 11  -  UMA SHANKARI Recovery seen next year, but market remains fragile in short-term By OFFICE rents fell for the fourth consecutive quarter, but the pace of decline has eased on the back of returning business confidence, a new report from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE)
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    • 443 11 THE Housing Development Board is looking for a buyer for a mall in Clementi Town Centre which it is building as part of a larger 40-storey development that will also include two blocks of HDB flats and a bus interchange. Jones Lang LaSalle, which
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    • 521 11  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI by THIS year's Formula One Singapore Grand Prix is unlikely to take place in front of a sell-out crowd despite the reduced capacity. "To be honest, I don't think we will. It's difficult to do," said race promoter Singapore GP's (SGP)
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    • 486 11  -  CHUANG PECK MING By HUMAN resource practitioners here make a bigger impact on the corporate bottom line than their global counterparts even when they have a poorer grasp of the business environment, says a study commissioned for the Singapore
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    • 442 11  -  LEE U-WEN Curriculum time for mother tongue languages not cut By SINCE he rejoined the Education Ministry (MOE) as its chief last year, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen has heard the same thing time and again from teachers: The standard of English
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    • 225 11  -  PHILIP KERPAN KWEE By ONE million doses of HINI flu vaccine have been ordered from pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said yesterday. The move comes on the heels of news this week of new cases of HINI in the
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    • 298 11  -  WINSTON CHAI By LOCAL authorities and computer gaming peripheral maker Razer will jointly invest US$2O million over the next few years to set up a research lab to sharpen Singapore's edge in the burgeoning interactive digital media (IDM) sector. The tie-up one of the largest
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 660 12  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY Comments echo new minister's and could signal new approach to economic policy By in Tokyo BANK of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa surprised financial markets yesterday by suggesting that a "strong yen" could be good for Japan's economy in
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    • 611 12 Reuters ANALYSIS Unwinding in Oct won't disrupt credit markets [NEW YORK] The US government is expected to pass the first test of its ability to exit emergency lifeline facilities for the banking system without disrupting credit markets with flying colours next month. The
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    • 719 12 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who's an economic adviser to US President Barack Obama, said there's a "long way to go" before the economy returns to pre-recession levels. "It will be a long slog a matter
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    • 715 12 AP [WASHINGTON] After a year of costly government bailouts and public distaste for more, the government's response to the next company deemed "too big to fail" could be another bailout. President Barack Obama warned Wall Street this week not to take risks on
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 453 13 AP, Bloomberg Police raid sparks gunfire, explosion; four suspected militants dead [SOLO, Indonesia] Noordin Muhammed Top, a militant mastermind who eluded capture for nine years and terrorised Indonesia with a string of deadly Al-Qaeda funded bombings, was killed during a raid in central
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    • 437 13  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur STOCK market operator Bursa Malaysia yesterday sealed an agreement with US-based CME Group Inc that will ultimately see the Chicago-based derivatives exchange the world's larg-est-taking up a 25 per cent interest in Bursa's derivatives unit. The
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    • 605 13  -  PAULINE NG By in Kuala Lumpur CLAIMING assault by the grandson of the Sultan of Johor which resulted in a fractured nose, a member of Malaysia's royal family yesterday has gone public a year after the incident. "My friends and I were
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 601 14 Reuters, Bloomberg Policy will be maintained till second half of next year: PBOC official [BEIJING] China will maintain its "appropriately loose" monetary policy into next year, domestic media yesterday cited a top central banker as saying, the clearest signal yet on how long Beijing will
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    • 476 14 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Billionaire Warren Buffett turned Dalian Dayang Trands Co into China's best-per-forming clothing stock after saying he wears the company's suits and praising it as "wonderful". Dayang, based in the north-east-ern city of Dalian, yesterday surged by the 10 per cent daily
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    • 313 14 Reuters [HONG KONG] Metallurgical Corp of China (MCC) priced the Hong Kong portion of its initial public offering (IPO) at the lower end of an indicated range, sources said yesterday, as the IPO's size and sector appeared to have dampened demand for the construction
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  • INDIA
    • 522 15 -Reuters Central bank may have to tighten monetary policy sooner than planned [NEW DELHI] A surge in food prices has unexpectedly pushed the annual change in India's wholesale price index into positive territory for the first time since late May, putting pressure on the
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    • 293 15 Reuters [MUMBAI] India's Reliance Industries Ltd raised about US$66O million by selling 15 million shares at a discount to its Wednesday close, knocking shares of India's largest listed firm down 5 per cent in a steady Mumbai market. The move is seen by analysts
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    • 512 15 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India is ready to quantify the amount of planet-warming gas emissions that it could cut with domestic actions to fight climate change, the environment minister said yesterday, but will not accept internationally binding targets. Jairam Ramesh's comment marks a shift
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 303 17 -AFP Held back revenue will be passed on to clients' country [GENEVA] Swiss bankers yesterday proposed a withholding tax system for revenues generated on foreign-er-owned assets, describing it as an "efficient alternative" to data exchange in combating tax evaders. "The model would generate tax revenues
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    • 585 17 -NYT The least costly of 5 competing proposals has yet to win over any Republicans [WASHINGTON] The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee unveiled on Wednesday his long-await-ed plan to remake the nation's healthcare system and insure millions of Americans, but he did not win
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    • 601 17 Bloomberg [GENEVA] Swiss private banks, long the home of numbered accounts for the jet set, are going down market. While traditionally targeting those with at least one million Swiss francs (551.37 million) to invest, firms including Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild and Credit Suisse
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    • 470 17 Bloomberg, AFP [WASHINGTON] President Barack Obama said yesterday that he is scrapping a Bush administration plan to install a missile defence network in Poland and the Czech Republic for a new system that he said would be more flexible to deal with threats to
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    • 286 17 Bloomberg [DUBAI] Dubai World, a state-owned holding company, said it transferred select hotel and real-estate assets, mainly in international markets, to its private equity company Istithmar World PJSC as part of a reorganisation. Hamza Mustafa will join Istithmar World from Nakheel PJSC, a property
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  • WORLD
    • 496 18 Reuters [LONDON] A plan by global regulators to curb bank bonuses amounts to a government policy to increase profits but it will be tricky to implement and hit European banks hard, financial lawyers said on Wednesday. The Financial Stability Board (FSB)
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    • 394 18 Bloomberg Bank is preparing to wean itself off debt guarantees provided by FDIC [NEW YORK] Citigroup Inc chief executive officer Vikram Pandit said that he had "little doubt" that the US bank would return to profitability and repay bailout funds once there
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    • 401 18 -AFP [PARIS] Crazy Horse, the upmarket Paris cabaret that insists that its strip show is art, is revamping its decades-old revue to include a number that presents clothes removal as a solution to economic crisis. The cabaret off the Champs Elysees, which has seen
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    • 533 18 -AFP [PARIS] With his blue-tint-ed shades, his flowing grey hair and a dapper dress sense, Flavio Briatore had the air of an ageing rock star about him. Even by Formula One's glitzy standards the ebullient Italian, who had as many friends as he
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    • 281 18 AP [NEW YORK] Dan Brown does it again, on paper and on the screen. Doubleday announced on Wednesday that The Lost Symbol, Brown's first novel since The Da Vinci Code, has already sold more than a million copies after being on sale for
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    • 242 18 AFP [BRUSSELS] European dairy farmers poured three million litres of milk into a Belgian field on Wednesday in a bid to highlight their desperation over falling prices. The stunt, in southern Wallonia region, came as a campaign group,
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    • 222 18 AFP [GENEVA] Some 750,000 sexual predators are constantly prowling the Internet in a bid to gain contact with children, a United Nations report warned on Wednesday. "The number of sites devoted to child pornography worldwide is growing. The number of predators connected to the Internet
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 477 19 SOCIALLY responsible investments (SRI) are often hailed as a means to finally effect meaningful change on the environmental landscape. The rationale is that ethical screens on an investment universe should nudge corporates towards sustainable policies and actions as capital is channeled towards those that
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    • 956 19  -  CATHERINE WONG ME I LING It can kick-start creation of regional carbon credit registries and formulate yardsticks By CARBON markets are here to stay and are likely to grow post-Kyoto 2012. In the runup to December's United Nations Climate Change Conference in
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    • 826 19  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY THE BOTTOM LINE THE inauguration on Wednesday of Yukio Hatoyama as Japan's new prime minister could mark a turning point in Asian history. As Shakespeare said: "There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the
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    • 971 20  -  BERNARD YEUNG Study shows that accounting disclosure has the most significant impact on pushing firms to make riskier investments By T'S been a year since the colI lapse of Lehman Brothers. Marking this meltdown, some Singapore investors who were burnt by their investment in Minibonds
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    • 953 20  -  AASIM SAJJAD AKHTAR By FGHANISTAN'S presidenAtial election was held on Aug 20. Immediately before and after this date, a substantial amount of attention was dedicated to chronicling the latest phase of this war-torn country's "reconstruction". Implicit in much of the media coverage was that Afghanistan is
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    • 374 20 LETTER TO THE EDITOR WE refer to the report, "Is Khazanah really paring down holdings in GLCs?"(BT, Sept 15). We need to highlight for the benefit of your readers several points that were either factually wrong, misleading or that misrepresent Khazanah's divestment record.
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
    • 313 21  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI Strong infrastructure and biz environment here are attractive, says AAIS president By [SINGAPORE] Sustainability is the name of the game if Singapore wants to grow its aerospace industry and remain ahead of its competitors. "Singapore's competitive advantage can be summed
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    • 899 21 -Reuters ANALYSIS Financial stakes are enormous, with 850 orders on the books [SEATTLE] It's crunch time for Boeing Co. After an embarrassing string of delays, the aerospace giant is racing to meet a self-imposed deadline to fly its vaunted new 787
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    • 345 21 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The United States and other shipping nations have agreed on new guidelines to curb rampant piracy off the Horn of Africa, the State Department said on Wednesday. The State Department said that the United States, Britain, Cyprus, Japan, Singapore and South Korea had recently
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    • 722 21 Reuter [TOKYO] Japan's new Transport Minister said he would review Japan Airlines Corp's turnaround plans, raising uncertainty over what role the incoming Democratic Party government will play in the carrier's restructuring. The comments by Seiji Maehara at his first news conference yesterday came
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    • STOCKS
      • 106 21 '000 CH Offshore Chuan Hup Hldgs Cosco Corp CWTLtd Ezra Hldgs First Ship Lease Freight Links Grand Banks laya Hold Ltd KiVentures Keppel Corp Mercator Lines MTQCorp NOL Pacific Shipping Pan-United Corp Rickmers Mari Samudera Ship Sembcorp Indust Sembcorp Marine Spore Ship 0.68 0.34 1.23 0.67 1.97 0.61 0.05
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      • 35 21 '000 Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings NeplineBhd PDZ Holdings 0.95 9.13 8.95 3.06 3.06 unch 0.09 0.01 -0.06 0.05 -0.03 0.06 unch unch 15' 30' 1241 251 161 62)
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      • 12 21 ■oo 'recious Ship Regional Cont 18.20 11.30 unch -0.10 395! 2641
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      • 21 21 '000 Aboitiz Equity Intl Container Keppel Marine Keppel Prop 7.20 22.25 unch 1.00 -0.10 0.25 unch unch 6: 207: 2(
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      • 19 21 iep^ Evergreen Marine ...20.90 :irst Steamship 38.90 /Van Hai Lines 17.80 t'ang Ming Marine...13.10 0.60 -0.20 -0.05 0.10
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      • 40 21 '000 (awasaki Hvy Ind ..234.00 Cawasaki Kisen 399.00 Mitsubishi Hvy 356.00 Mitsui Eng&Sbldg...259.00 Mitsui Osk Lines 576.00 Mippon Express 368.00 MipponYusen 379.00 iource: Thomson Reuters 5.00 125& 14.00 559; 3.00 1171: 3.00 833! 1.00 6781 unch 745! unch 6781
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 8865 22 Transaction date: Sep 17 Hi! !-wks Tel Low Code Com| Sale Cooo) Hi: Low Bu] ?er Seller C'vr •k P/E Smil >ari] 17 3 3148 8Telecom 9.5 2.5 5834 A-Sonic 31.5 12 5000 ABRHIdgs 14.5 5.5 1938 AEI Corp 8 1 1100 AEM 23 7 2101 APOil 93
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    • 1632 23 ligh Low Code Company Sale C000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E $mil 15.5 5 1181 s AAGrp 26 12 8538 t APStrategic 4 0.5 1501 s Advanced System 7.5 2 3480 t Adventus 20 8.5 3518 s Afor 12.5 2 1524 t Alantac 11 3.5 7814 t
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    • 394 23 52-Wk Tel h Low Code Last Sale Vol COOO) Day III Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld C'vr Net P/E s _Hm Comi _Hm 110 100 6389 ABFSG Bond ETF 109.9cd 776 427 CIMBAsean40 1OOUS$ US771 +5 274 149 DBS STI ETF 100 274cd +3 4195 3534
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    • 247 23 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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    • 9252 23 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIG Global Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Acorns of Asia Balanced FundlS 2.056/ AIGIF S'pore Bond Fund/A 1.349/ APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund!** 1.09/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!** 0.77/ APS Komaba Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Komaba Global Bond SGD 0.5102/ APS Komaba Global
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 373 24 In local curr In S$ In US1 %dy %yr dy yr dy yi Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Se| 16 World Index Preliminary 803.7 1.0 18.6 0.7 21.0 1.3 23.3 EAFE Preliminai 765.5 1.2 17.9 1.1 24.1 1.8 26.! Euroi Prelim inan 1087.5
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    • 131 24 As at 9am Sep 17 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2240 1.2610 .an dollar 1.3160 1.3320 Euro 2.0660 2.0900 NZ dollar 1.0010 1.0220 iterlini ind 2.3150 2.341 US dollar 1.4040 1.4200 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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    • 154 24 Sep 17 Xierniqht -month -months l-months Overnight mode: 1/8 JS$ 1/8 7/16 9/16 11/16 Offer 1/16 3/16 5/16 7/16 BJd 1 days I month I months months d months months I I. (All 0.32 0.35 0.38 0.50 0.75 1.10 1.30 Offer 0.22 0.25 0.28 0.30 0.55 0.80 1.00
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    • 24 24 Sep 17 STI Se 2673 IIMSCI Se 321.5 324.2 321.1 "aiwan Se 272.5 275.4 273.8 Source: MF Global (S) He. Ltd
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    • 18 24 Sep 17 Bid Offer -month 1.4120 1.4133 1.4122 1.4135 {-months 1.4123 1.4137 >-months 1.4126 1.4141
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    • 58 24 Sep 17 lelivery lonth Opening Range Sett Av Price Price Hi Low Vol Open Done Position Oct 09 2206 \Jov09 2191 3ecO9 2180 Ian 10 2177 Total o/p: ***** contracts 2210 2224 2206 172 2190 2201 2176 3628 2182 2193 2165 6661 2182 2192 2165 2498 Turnover: *****
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    • 305 24 Sep 17 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES DecO9 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 99.5300 99.3050 98.9550 98.5700 7655 4477 4761 2350 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES DecO9 99.525 99.525 Mar10 99.545 99.545 Jun10 99.545 99.545 Sep10 99.520 99.520 Dec10 99.465 99.465 Mar11 99.420 99.420 Jun11 Sep11 99.520 99.545
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    • 191 24 Sep17 (UBBtK Futures (Closing prices) !SS 3 (US cents/kg) flonth High Low Close Sett Volume (lots) O/l lots) 3d 09 221.0 Mov09 221.0 Dec 09 219.5 Ian 10 219.5 =eb 10 Vlar 10 221.0 219.5 219.5 219.5 221.0 221.0 219.5 219.5 219.5 219.5 15 40 20 20 407
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    • 88 24 Sep 17 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hi< Day's |h Low 3-Month BQ*****X 17.12.2009 1-Year BY*****W 03.05.2010 0.32 0.39 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 15-Year NY*****H
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    • 98 24 Sep 16 (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Nov09 950.50 960.00 960.75 928.25 Jan 10 955.00 964.00 964.00 933.00 Mar10 956.75 967.50 964.00 935.75 May 10 956.50 967.00 965.50 937.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;llscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low 3d 09 34.38 34.43 34.43 33.80 Dec 09
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    • 79 24 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Sep 16 UDE (FOB origin) US! t /barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 69.82 2.09 WTI (Near Mth) 72.38 1.51 Dubai (1-Mth F) 68.97 1.45 Tapis blend 73.20 1.60 Minas 71.75 1.60 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 67.00 75.55 0.73 1.70 US$/barrel
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    • 448 24 Sep 17 iuro 'en (on 'eso lam 'ouni Australia 0.930 5.977 0.594 6.786 42.092 84.841 0.793 10.549 3.040 1.225 72.644 41.847 1.237 6.420 0.902 28.355 29.506 0.529 0.876 Canada 1.075 6.427 0.638 7.297 45.264 91.234 0.853 11.344 3.269 1.318 78.119 45.000 1.330 6.904 0.970 30.491 31.730 0.569
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    • 149 24 Sep 17 Zurrencies Bid Offer Bid Offer >$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2357 1.2376 0.8753 0.8758 Canadian dollar 1.3289 1.3309 0.9413 0.9418 luro 2.0817 2.0840 1.4745 1.4748 IZ dollar 1.0086 1.0101 0.7144 0.7148 Sterlinc 2.3371 2.3398 1.6554 1.6558 IS dollar 1.4118 1.4131 >$IUS$
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    • 130 24 Sep 17 /oz) ;ep_ ;ep_ Hong Kong 1018.90 1015.00 .ondon Sep 16 Sep IS 1015.95 1001.50 1016.75 1002.50 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR (S$) Sep 17 Buying Sellini Kilobar "49,349.47" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (SS) Selling Buying gm jam Ogm !0gm iOgm OOgm oz ozUBS Kinebar™ 110.21 313.51
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    • 69 24 Sep 16 Co iiuiii, yy.i (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 1893.75 3 months 1927.00 1821.25 1855.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 6399.50 6420.00 6183.50 6205.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2264.50 3 months 2293.00 2137.50 2166.50 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash *****.00
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    • 73 24 Sep 16 (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low Dec 09 1982 1983 2011/1887 Mar 10 1993 1989 2015/1900 May 10 2007 1996 2020/1925 Jul 10 1974 1973 1990/1890 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low SepO9 1498 1488 1509/1497 Nov09 1512 1502 1527/1494 Jan 10 1536 1522 1547/1517 SUGAR (US tonne) White
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    • 2232 24 BONDS, WARRANTS EXTENDED SETTLEMENT Pel lode Company Last Sale Vol Conv Exer +or- ('000) Ratio Price Disc Gear- Mths ing Left Asia-Pacific Strategic W*****6 3.5 >036AdvanceSCTLtdW*****9 0.5 1 15 12 4.71 1 87 1358 12.00 56 11 Ascendas REIT.ES.0909 172 S756#AsiaticGrp(H) LtdW*****2 7.5 H05#Asiatravel W*****7 32 0.5 247 >878 Aztech
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    • 355 28 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 5 Entice one into a club (4) I Holiday firm supplies oysters 6lt takes pluck to remove it (7) 00) 7 Drunk crashed in a single seat--9 We hear top player is to step er (5,5) down (4) 8 Christian virtue fills a need, 10 One may
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    • 574 31 off the cuff jaime cc ORGIVE me for sounding a little cranky, but I have not bought an "it" bag in six months and the strain is starting to show. So don't tell me that it's been one year since the global financial
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    • 1451 31 Museums are no longer stuffy and high-brow but are increasingly playing an important economic role in the heritage sector, thus nourishing the mind while turning a profit, report CHE AH UI-HOON and CLARISSA TAN BOARD and card games, books, a documentary DVD these may look like
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    • ARTS
      • 1006 27 Multi-disciplinary poet-artist Tan Swie Hian is staging his first photography exhibition. WOON TAI HO looks at why an artist of his stature has turned to photography as yet another means of expression AT first glance, it looks just like any well taken photograph of clouds and trees.
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      • 698 27  -  WOON TAI HO By POON Siew Win is a psychologist. She is also the only daughter of Cultural Medallion recipient, Anthony Poon. A walk through the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), which is currently staging the first retrospective of his works since his death in 2006, is
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      • 364 27  -  AMANDA DE GUZMAN By COMBINING low, bawdy humour with a serious-mind-ed exploration of contemporary masculinity is Action Theatre's latest play, Manhood. It's an ambitious exercise, with a cast of four playing several parts in wildly diverse skits, all tackling the hefty topic of Desmond Sim's
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      • 1189 28 The Burgundies of Puligny, Chassagne and Meursault are the peaks of white wines, says N K YONG I SUSPECT though without real basis that most wine drinkers reflexively turn to Chardonnay when pairing white wine with seafood, particularly Asian dishes. Invariably, they are following the
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    • CINEMA
      • 684 29 Director Quentin Tarantino sure knows how to spin a tale and entertain a movie audience, says GEOFFREY EU HE may not be able to spell correctly, and he's not much of a stickler for historical accuracy either, but Quentin Tarantino sure knows how to spin a tale and
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      • 465 29  -  > AMANDA DE GUZMAN By WITH Tokyo Sonata, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa seems to be moving away from the stylised horror genre that has garnered him widespread acclaim. However, this dysfunctional family melodrama is constructed with the same unrelenting tension that makes his horror films, well,
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      • 695 29  -  BETSY SHARKEY LAT-WP By I [TORONTO] Twenty years after getting his start at the Toronto International Film Festival with Roger Me, Michael Moore was back on Sunday night among 1,400 cheering friends for the first public screening of Capitalism: A Love Story, without
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      • 434 29  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM DVD REVIEW By HUMOUR sometimes doesn't translate well between cultures generally nor do intricate plots explained in foreign languages. But Ladron Que Roba A Ladron which means To Rob A Thief- is so well crafted you barely notice it's all in
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      • 616 30  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM CD REVIEW then we saw the stars again amberhaze KittyWu Rating: B+ Circuit Eyes Breakbeat Theory Rating: B- By1 ATTENTION tends to come to local artists who play pop or rock music, but Singapore is home to some excellent musicians who
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      • 512 30  -  LEE KIM SIANG By Being Batman has never been this fun or dare I say it, wickedly cool. In fact, short of getting behind the wheel of the Batmobile, players will get to experience virtually everything else. What would a Batman game be without
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