The Business Times, 25 September 2009

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    23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Ssl.oo online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg S|£l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO REGN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 123/08/2009 Friday, September 25,2009
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  • Article
    Lock icon A*Star flips a switch on smart energy
    690 1  -  RONNIE LIM Agency calls prequalifying tender to build test facility for intelligent energy grid By [SINGAPORE] In years to come, you could be looking at the humble electrical socket on your wall in a whole new light. Singapore is setting up an experimental
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    Lock icon COE quotas cut 157%, premiums poised to climb
    667 1  -  SAMUEL EE Sharp cut in small cars' quota and open category By [SINGAPORE] The predicted supply shock for certificates of entitlement (COEs) came yesterday and although it is less than the most pessimistic estimate, most motor distributors agree that premiums have nowhere
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
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      48 1 lursi lay lange 1 COMP 1,218.06 -1.01 IIKKEI 225 10,544.22 +173.68 IANG SENG 21,050.73 -544.79 ;et INDEX 728.54 -1.98 JAKARTA COMP 2,468.90 +11.92 1ANILA COMP 2,837.34 -5.17 ;eoulcomp 1,693.88 -17.59 ;henzhenb 507.92 +1.54 IUMBAI IND 16,781.43 +61.93 12 noon EDT Chant )OW 9,689.76 -58.79 IASDAQ 2,102.60 -28.82
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      Lock icon PRIME RATES
      22 1 Bloomberg HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 15.765 taiwan 4776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 933 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 ™LAND Source:
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      45 1 IS$ (S$ ier US$) 1.414 (US$/S$ ier 1.624 2.295 :uro (USS/SS/E) 1.475 2.084 Foreign currency per US$ S$ 'EN 90.60 64.10 3.470 2.454 IK$ 7.750 5.483 !AHT 33.57 23.74 lUPIAH 9.645 6.823 1ENMINBI 6.827 4.830 INDIAN RUPEE 48.11 34.03 1.146 0.811 IZ$ 1.385 0.980
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      79 1 ASIAN AWARDS <>^ PROPERTY G-20 SUMMIT BOOKS J-\\ BT Weekend r^ Hundred Trees Soaring govt debt Wolf Hall, the wins silver C'^^S condo priced could usher Booker favourite page 2 at $895 psf page 8 in austerity page 13 page 33 _________________l__l>_f__^___H THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION iflB He does business for
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon BT Weekend wins silver at Asian awards
      290 2  -  WINSTON CHAI It won in the newspaper overall design category By [SINGAPORE] The revamped weekend edition of The Business Times added another feather to its cap by clinching a silver at the Bth Asia Media Awards last night. The annual awards, organised by
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      Lock icon Fed, Wall St sing same tune of cautious optimism
      750 2  -  ANDREW MARKS Fed's stance of holding short-term rates at 0-0.25% was anticipated By in New York IF you were very quiet on Wednesday afternoon, you could hear an unfamiliar sound on Wall Street in the wake of the latest meeting ofthe
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      Lock icon Goodyear breaks silence
      113 2 Reuters [HONG KONG] Former BHP Billiton CEO Charles Goodyear confirmed that a divergence in strategy was behind his surprising departure from Temasek Holdings two months ago. "Differences of strategic vision is the best way to put it," he said calmly in response to a question at an
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      Lock icon Low gaming tax may be key to IRs' success
      621 2  -  ARTHUR SIM Casinos can offer higher commissions to junkets to draw YIP customers: E&Y By [SINGAPORE] The success of the integrated resorts (IRs) here will depend largely on whether their casinos can attract enough of the right type of gamblers, namely
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon A*Star flips a switch on smart energy idea
        69 2 IN years to come, you could be looking at the humble electrical socket on your wall in a whole new light. Singapore is setting up an experimental base for a future islandwide "smart" energy grid which will potentially be able to incorporate
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        Lock icon COE quotas cut 15.7%, premiums poised to climb
        62 2 THE predicted supply shock for certificates of entitlement came yesterday and although it is less than the most pessimistic estimate, most motor distributors agree that premiums have nowhere to go but up. The Land Transport Authority's mid-quota-year review will remove an overall
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        Lock icon Low gaming tax may be key to IRs' success
        78 2 THE success of the integrated resorts here will depend largely on whether their casinos can attract enough ofthe right type of gamblers, namely the high rollers. While there have been some doubts cast by gaming analysts and industry watchers that high
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        Lock icon Toyota F1 budget down 35%
        70 2 TOYOTA Motorsport's Formula One budget for the current season is 35 per cent less than last year's because of the global economic crisis but the cut should not be read as indication of an impending withdrawal from the sport. The Japanese giant does not reveal
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        Lock icon Hsieh Fu Hua's pay in FYO9 slumps 44%
        69 2 SINGAPORE Exchange's outgoing chief executive Hsieh Fu Hua took a major pay cut with his annual remuneration package slashed by 44 per cent following a year of market turmoil. According to SGX's annual report released yesterday, Mr Hsieh's pay cheque for the
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        Lock icon Asia Food hiving off China property business
        50 2 ASIA Food Properties, controlled by Indonesia's Widjaja family, is proposing hiving off its China commercial property business and placing that under a new wholly owned subsidiary, Bund Center Investment Ltd, which it proposes to list on the Singapore Exchange. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE 8
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        Lock icon CIC buys US$1.9b of debt from Bumi Resources
        51 2 CHINA Investment Corp has bought US$l.9 billion of debt from PT Bumi Resources, Indonesia's biggest coal producer, Bumi said. On Tuesday, CIC paid US$B5O million for a 15 per cent stake in Noble Group, a Hong Kong-based commodity supplier. GREATER CHINA, PAGE
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        Lock icon Lehman owes US$4.3b in rent, says London landlord
        63 2 BANKRUPT Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc owes its London landlord US$4.3 billion in rent and charges, according to a claim filed by Canary Wharf Group. Under its lease agreement, Lehman must pay US$2.6 billion for future rent and US$l.65 billion in taxes, maintenance,
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      Lock icon F1 drivers try to move beyond Crashgate wreck
      444 4  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI Whistle blower Piquet will have a tough time finding a team that is willing to take him on By and ARTHUR LEE [SINGAPORE] Some of Formula One's top drivers are more than ready to put the Crashgate scandal behind them
      AFP; ARTHUR LEE  -  444 words
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      Lock icon Toyota F1 budget down 35%
      622 4  -  SAMUEL EE But doesn't mean it will quit sport, says top team official By [SINGAPORE] Toyota Motorsport's Formula One budget for the current season is 35 per cent less than last year's because ofthe global economic crisis but the cut should not be read as
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      Lock icon Hedge fund assets rise for fourth month running
      524 4  -  OH BOON PING Upbeat figures show confidence in industry returning By [SINGAPORE] Hedge funds' assets increased by US$2l billion in August, rising for a fourth straight month, according to Eurekahedge Pte. Net inflows into the industry totalled US$l2.6 billion, while gains through
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      Lock icon Chartered issue: SIC sticks by its policy of silence
      397 4  -  JAMIE LEE By [SINGAPORE] The Securities Industry Council (SIC) will not disclose its dealings with companies unless there is a breach of the Takeover Code and as part of a public sanction, it said yesterday. This was in response to a
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Hsieh Fu Hua's FYO9 pay slumps 44%
      453 6  -  WINSTON CHAI Drop comes mainly from smaller bonus and absence of long-term incentive By SINGAPORE Exchange outgoing chief executive Hsieh Fu Hua has taken a major pay cut, with his annual remuneration package slashed by 44 per cent following a year of market
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      Lock icon Should rumours be regulated?
      763 6  -  R SIVANITHY EVERY stock market player would agree that rumours play an important role in daily trading. Yet, most fair-minded players would also agree that rumours which ultimately have a damaging effect on the market or are maliciously and intentionally spread in order to make an
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      Lock icon AFP hiving off China property business
      542 8  -  MICHELLE QUAH Shares soar on news of plan to create a separate unit for listing By ASIA Food Properties (AFP), controlled by Indonesia's Widjaja family, is proposing hiving off its China commercial property business and placing that under a new wholly owned subsidiary, Bund
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      Lock icon Hundred Trees condo priced at $895 psf
      615 8  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA By CITY Developments Ltd (CDL) is said to have begun selling the first phase of the 956-year leasehold Hundred Trees condo in the West Coast area at an average price of $895 per square foot. Buyers can opt for an interest
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      Lock icon Noble shares soar after news of US$850m injection
      509 8  -  OH BOON PING By SHARES of Noble Group rallied yesterday following news of a US$B5O million capital injection by China Investment Corp (CIC) early this week. The counter, which resumed trading yesterday after a trading halt for the signing of a definitive
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      Lock icon Asian pte equity managers hit less badly by writedowns
      690 11  -  OH BOON PING But fund flows into region slowed in H1; and venture capital to cut back over 3 yrs By PRIVATE equity (PE) managers in Asia appear less affected by sharp writedowns seen in the West, even though investment flows
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      Lock icon Sinomem wins Jilin water treatment project
      280 11  -  YEN SREENIVASAN By MAINBOARD-LISTED Sinomem Technology has landed a 30-year build-op-erate-transfer (BOT) tap water treatment concession in the northern Chinese province of Jilin. In an after-market announcement to the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday, the company said it had been awarded the concession by Gongzhuling
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      Lock icon Sunshine in US$93m settlement deals
      362 11  -  JAMIE LEE By SUNSHINE Holdings must fork out U5593.28 million in cash and shares as settlement with its seven lenders and a bondholder, the real estate company said. As a result, the S-Chip is looking to sell as many as 11 properties and land parcels
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon China Animal in 120m share placement
        51 11 CHINA Animal Healthcare's 120 million placement shares (including an upsize option of 20 million shares) at 21.5 cents each has been fully subscribed. DBS Bank acted as the placement agent. It intends to use the net placement proceeds of about $24.9 million for acquisition
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        Lock icon Scintronix bags supply deal with Martinplast
        80 11 SCINTRONIX Corporation said its wholly owned subsidiary, Scintronix Manufacturing, has entered into a supply agreement with Martinplast SPA of Italy. Scintronix Manufacturing will make and deliver various plastic automotive parts to Martinplast for use in its assembly to supply to the Fiat Group and
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        Lock icon Sunright posts $7m loss for FYO9
        66 11 SUNRIGHT Ltd has reported a net loss of $7 million for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2009, compared with a net profit of $2.1 million the year before. Turnover fell 29 per cent to $81.6 million. The company said it was affected by
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        Lock icon Aztech eyes property venture
        91 11 AZTECH will call an EGM to seek the approval of shareholders to venture into the property development, building construction and property management businesses. The group has also proposed a rights issue of up to 104,136,850 rights shares at an issue price of $0,125 per share, with
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Wall St continues to call the shots
      576 10  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS Expectations of possible US rebound trim early losses on local market WALL Street's overnight slide put pressure on the local market yesterday, but expectations of a possible US rebound on Thursday helped minimise losses. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index Index
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      100 10 MAIN Up Down Unch SDQ Up Down Unch TOTAL Up Down Unch Multi Ind 4 112 0 0 0 4 112 Manufacturing 55 75 66 18 64 80 84 Commerce 19 24 25 19 30 31 Tpt/Stor/Comms 25 25 11 Finance 18 18 Construction 11 13 Properties
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      120 10 TURNOVER ('000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN VALUE ('000) SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 57,089 57,089 85,665 85,665 Manufacturing 541,824 58,573 600,397 241,592 4,488 246,080 Commerce 300,523 64,587 365,110 373,532 24,360 397,892 Tpt/Stor/Comms 171,665 15,293 186,958 204,914 4,567 209,480 Finance 41,459 41,459 210,378 210,378 Construction 118,397 36,636 155,033 58,387
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS
      113 10 Stock name Close Cham Capita Land 3.700 4-0.020 CapitaMall 1.740 -0.030 CityDev 10.200 -0.080 ComfortDelGro 1.570 -0.030 Cosco Corp 1.230 -0.020 DBS Grp 12.960 -0.180 F&N 3.920 -0.020 Genting SP 1.160 -0.010 Golden Agri 0.440 HK Land 4.140 4-0.010 JMH 31.320 -0.780 JSH 17.240 -0.220 JardineC&C
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      958 10  -  JOYCE HOOI Noble Group Sept 24 close: 552.48 OCBC INVESTMENT RESEARCH, Sept 24 NOBLE Group has announced a placement of 573 million shares (comprising 438 million new shares and 135 million vendor shares from CEO Richard Elman's trust) at 552.1137 per share to China Investment Corporation (CIC), which
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      Lock icon Yen gains from post-Fed dollar fall
      421 10 Reuters CURRENCIES [LONDON] The US doUar mostly weakened yesterday, a day after the Federal Reserve indicated US interest rates will stay very low for a long time, while comments from the top UK central banker pushed sterling down across the board. One of the
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      Lock icon OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES
      62 10 CLOSE BT OB/OS 52.00 +49.00 BT CADI -*****.00-125.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +5.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 624.26 -5.90 FTSE ST Small Cap 558.95 -3.68 FTSE ST All Share 658.65 -4.81 FTSE ST China Top 284.02 -3.96 FTSE ST China 285.75 -0.66 FTSE ST Catalist 1529.01 +17.68
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      62 10 VOLUME Gentinq SP 142,160,000 Fortune Reit HK$ R 100,785,000 Sinomem Tech 91,495,000 Noble Grp 90,927,000 Benq Kuanq 62,368,000 Golden Agri 61,277,000 Ezion 55,075,000 EcoWise 49,769,000 Memstar 49,358,000 Uni Envtech 48,570,000 VALUE(S) Noble Grp 228,050,210 Gentinq SP 165,244,600 DBS Grp 82,870,544 Sing Tel 66,542,354 Sinomem Tech 63,355,510 UOB
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      Lock icon RISES
      106 10 CLOSE UP DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 5831 84.8 1.0 OCBC Bk4.5%NCPS 100 9530 30.0 0.3 t sia Food&Proi 65 25.0 62.5 Noble Gr| 248 18.0 7.: OCBC Bk5.1%NCPS 100 ***** 14.0 0.1 STI 2250SGAeCW*****9 86 11.0 14.7 NobleGri iMBLeCW*****3 46 9.0 24.3 Select Gri 29 9.0 45.0 FinaOne 47.5
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      Lock icon FALLS
      115 10 CLOSE DOWN 3132-110.2 -2.4 JMH GLD 10US$ 9910 -90.4 -0.6 China H 10US$ 1563 -72.0 -3.2 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 5459 -60.7 -0.8 JSH 1724 -31.1 -1.3 UOB.ES.0909 1660 -24.0 -1.4 Jardine C&C 2396 -22.0 -0.9 Kei Con 833 -22.0 -2.i MS India 10US$ 1373 -21.2 -1.1 India Ni 10
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      87 10 Wh lere! S$ stands Sep 24 CHNG CLOSE FR Sep 23 YR2009 S$ LOW S$ HIGH uss 1.4124 -0.05 1.5579 1.4117 Euro 2.0865 0.07 2.0897 1.9150 Pounds 2.2868 1.41 2.4366 2.0356 AS 1.2350 0.09 1.2365 0.9453 Yen* 1.5599 -0.47 1.7278 1.4831 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.55 0.****** 0.***** Baht* 4.2111 -0.05
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Fresh grads, PMETs benefit from Spring plan
      463 12  -  FELDA CHAY 270 of them placed in SMEs that are expanding, showing high annual growth By WHEN the recession hit and unemployment was set to rise, Spring Singapore sprang into action by pushing out the Professional Skills Programme Traineeships (PSPT) scheme in May
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      Lock icon Acra offers online financial analysis
      300 12 THE Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra) and Australian accounting firm WHK Horwath are teaming up to offer an online financial analysis tool that will draw data from thousands of financial statements in Acra's database. The Open Analytics program will allow anyone to view and
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      Lock icon NTU staff give $10,000 to children's fund
      231 12 SOME faculty members from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have donated over $10,000 towards the community event Children for Children, taking the total amount raised so far to almost $230,000. This is significantly higher than the $205,000 raised last year. The Business Times, CHIJ
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      Lock icon Goh Yew Lin named censorship panel head
      221 12 THE government has appointed Goh Yew Lin, chairman of Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and deputy chairman of Singapore Symphonia Company, chairman ofthe Censorship Review Committee (CRC). The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (Mica) yesterday said that 16 others representing
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      Lock icon Staying ahead through innovation
      833 12 Despite the demand drought that has hit manufacturers especially hard, KETS still posts a gross profit of $5.2m, reports TEH SHI NING INNOVATION is infused in Kenwood Electronic Technologies' (KETS) full range of activities from procurement and manufacturing, to supply chain management and quality assurance, says
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Onslaught on Swiss secrecy may 'criminalise' elites
      671 13 Bloomberg European leaders should impose a withholding tax instead: banker [GENEVA] European leaders should give up the attack on Swiss banking secrecy and accept a withholding tax on foreigners to avoid criminalising wealthy taxpayers, said Konrad Hummler, managing partner of Wegelin Co, Switzerland's
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      Lock icon Support rises for global tax on financial deals
      282 13 [BERLIN] Support for a global tax on financial transactions is growing, Germany's Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck was quoted as saying yesterday. "Support is growing," Mr Steinbrueck said in an interview with German daily Passauer Neve Presse, ahead of a meeting of world
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      Lock icon Yen strength worrying, as exports and imports fall
      401 13  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY BY. in Tokyo JAPAN'S exports fell on a monthly as well as annual basis for a second consecutive month in August, prompting fears that a stronger yen is hurting the nation's international competitiveness. Imports also plunged last month, underlining the
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      Lock icon Soaring govt debt could usher in age of austerity
      596 13 Bloomberg G-20 SUMMIT [PITTSBURGH] Global leaders may be saddled with the weakest recovery since World War II if they are to pay off the US$9 trillion tab they ran up rescuing the world economy from the deepest financial slump in seven
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      Lock icon Pittsburgh steels itself for protests
      414 13 -AFP [PITTSBURGH] Activists promised an angry welcome for leaders of the Group of 20 economies when they arrived in Pittsburgh yesterday, with anarchist factions threatening to march on the summit venue. "The city has bought a thousand canisters of tear gas. That's something people are
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  • MALAYSIA
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      566 14  -  S JAYASANKARAN Umno-linked Media Prima's plan to delist publishing group likely to go ahead By in Kuala Lumpur CRITICISM in Malaysia's cyberspace is mounting against a plan to privatise the country's most established publishing company, the New Straits Times Press (NSTP). The plan which
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      529 14  -  PAULINE NG Devt spending could rise to hit RM5Bb next year: analysts By in Kuala Lumpur ONE of the year's notable stock performers, construction companies are expected to continue to shine in the coming year when the government step-ups its award
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      384 14 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's central bank said the country's interest rates are "appropriate" as government stimulus and improving overseas demand help the economy recover from the global slump. The current interest rate level "is supporting the demand for access to financing", central bank governor
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Stiff terms force China miner to end bid for Lynas
      485 15 Reuters Australia turns down Chinese investment in another venture [CANBERRA] China's efforts to gain a greater stake in Australia's resource sector floundered yesterday when a Chinese miner terminated a US$4OO million deal for a controlling stake in Australian rare-earths miner.
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      612 15 Bloomberg Move comes just one day after it pays USsBsom for stake in Noble Group [BEIJING] China's U*****.5 billion sovereign wealth fund is stepping up investments in raw materi-als-related assets, agreeing to spend U552.75 billion in the last two days. China Investment
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      Lock icon Metallurgical tumbles 11.7% on HK debut
      172 15 -AFP [HONG KONG] Engineering and construction firm Metallurgical Corp of China plunged 11.7 per cent in its Hong Kong debut yesterday on concerns its share sale was overpriced, analysts said. The stock price fell to HK$5.6l at the close of trading, from its initial
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      338 15 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Wynn Macau Ltd, the Stephen Wynn-led casino company planning to raise as much as HK$l2.6 billion (552.3 billion) in a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO), plans to close the institutional order book a day early, said
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      649 15 Reuters Officials impose new trading curbs, fearing excessive speculation [SHANGHAI] The first 10 companies due to list on China's Nas-daq-style second board, ChiNext, plan to sell shares at prices 50 per cent above their mainboard peers, just as speculation worries spurred officials
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Lunar mission finds signs of water on moon
      251 16 Bloomberg Indian space agency Isro and Nasa to release statement on the discovery [BANGALORE] India's first lunar mission found evidence of water on the moon, a spokesman for the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said yesterday. "Our instruments such as the Moon
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      604 16 -NYT Indian, S African govts setting up hurdles of their own ahead of the merger [NEW DELHI] Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile phone company, is on the brink of a deal with the MTN Group of South Africa to create an emergingmarket telecommunications giant. But
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      432 16 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India's wholesale price inflation rate rose in mid-September on higher food costs, adding to the challenge for policymakers who are focused on nurturing growth but face an anticipated sharp uptick in inflation. The widely watched wholesale price index (WPI) rose
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      Lock icon Bidding war for Solvay's drug unit looms
      586 17 Reuters Reported Abbott bid values firm at up to 5 billion euros, topping rival Nycomed's offer; third contender seen [AMSTERDAM] A bidding war around Solvay's drugs unit appeared to be emerging after a reported bid from Abbott valued the unit at up to
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      318 17 Reuters [TOKYO] Nomura Holdings said it would raise up to US$5.6 billion in its second share sale since it bought the European and Asian operations of failed investment bank Lehman Brothers. Japan's largest brokerage said it would use the funds for investments and loans to
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      Lock icon American accounting changes might help tech firms
      188 17 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] US accounting rule makers approved a change in reporting regulations on Wednesday that might benefit technology companies such as Apple Inc, allowing them to recognise more revenue when products are sold. The change, which analysts expect to provide a more
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      587 17 [NEW YORK] Citigroup Inc may sell or shut some of its 1,001 branches in the US and Canada as the bank shrinks following last year's US$45 billion federal bailout, a person familiar with the matter said. Citigroup, ranked third among
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      Lock icon Julius Baer out of race for ING assets: sources
      507 17 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Julius Baer has dropped out ofthe race to buy ING's private banking assets in Asia, leaving HSBC as the favourite, sources with knowledge of the deal told Reuters. Despite holding most bids since Sept 3, Dutch bancassurer ING has
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      1107 17 INTHEMAnEROF In the matter of The Companies Act I THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 And INTHEMATTEROF ._.t_._uN_™„_ In the matter of THE COMPANIES AO (CAP. 50) INTHEMATTEROF SONIC PLUMBING *ND OVERSEAS UNION SECURITIES LTD PMriMPPPiwr ptp iTn IN mE MATTER OF [IN MEMBERS'VOLUNTARY cphjineckiphj rie Liv DAI-ICHI PTE LTD LIQUIDATION)
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      Lock icon Lehman owes US$4.3b in rent, says London landlord
      542 18 Bloomberg Canary Wharf files biggest single claim among more than 16,000 creditors [EDINBURGH] Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, the securities firm that filed the biggest bankruptcy in US history, owes its London landlord US$4.3 billion in rent and charges, according to a claim
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      676 18 -AP Bangkok test with 2-vaccine combo prevents infection [BANGKOK] For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the Aids virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might
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      641 18 -NYT [NEW YORK] Ertugrul Osman, who might have ruled the Ottoman Empire from a palace in Istanbul, but instead spent most of his life in a walk-up apartment in Manhattan, died on Wednesday night in Istanbul. He was 97. The cause was
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
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      489 19 Reuters Shipping industry associations from five countries launch discussion paper [LONDON] A global trading scheme is the most effective means of cutting carbon emissions in the shipping sector, five shipping industry associations said in a study on Wednesday. Shipping and aviation are the only
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      787 19 Reuters ANALYSIS US officials likely to get tougher overall on antitrust matters [WASHINGTON] US airlines want the Obama administration to capitalise on an unexpected opening in talks to liberalise service to Japan, but tougher antitrust scrutiny of alliances in the United States would overshadow
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      2812 19 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), Al: Air India (AIC), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR:
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      Lock icon Ecospec gets $2m to test its pollutant reducer
      281 19  -  VINCENT WEE By [SINGAPORE] Homegrown research and technology company Ecospec Global Technology has just received co-funding of $2 million from the Maritime and Port Authority's Maritime Innovation and Technology (Mint) fund to test-bed and seek type-approval for its CSNOx system, which reduces
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        126 19 '000 CH Offshore Chuan Hup Hldgs Cosco Corp CWT Ltd. Ezra Hldgs First Ship Lease Freight Links Grand Banks Jaya Hold Ltd KlVentures Keppel Corp Mercator Lines MTQ Corp NOL Pacific Shipping Pan-United Corp Rickmers Man Samudera Ship Sembcorp Indust Sembcorp Marine Spore Ship Star Cruises 0.71 0.32 1.23
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        37 19 '000 nt'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings Nepline Bhd PDZ Holdings 0.97 8.97 8.87 3.07 3.00 unch 0.09 -0.01 -0.03 0.02 -0.06 -0.07 unch 0.01 63 542 497 148 3 0 1153
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        12 19 '00 Precious Ship Regional Cont 18.10 12.00 -0.10 -0.10 2657 3830
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        11 19 '000 Ooil Singamas Cont 41.65 1.40 -0.55 557 -0.03 *****
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        26 19 '000 Sep 24 Peso Vol Aboitiz Equity ntl Container Keppel Marine Keppel Prop 7.10 22.00 1.90 unch unch ***** unch 3370 0.10 14 unch 0
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        23 19 sdfsdfasdfasdf Evergreen Marine ....18.80 First Steamship 37.80 Wan Hai Lines 17.00 Yang Ming Marine...12.30 -0.30 -0.80 -0.25 -0.25 7 2 1 8
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        41 19 '000 Kawasaki Hvy Ind ..238.00 7.00 ***** Kawasaki Kisen 390.00 -5.00 4549 Mitsubishi Hvy 358.00 unch ***** Mitsui Eng&Sbldg...256.00 3.00 4408 Mitsui Osk Lines 568.00 -14.00 ***** Nippon Express 375.00 6.00 5883 Nippon Yusen 371.00 -5.00 ***** Source: Thomson Reuters
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      479 20 AMID the debate about the current state of the property market in Singapore, a survey report which came out this week might shed some light on why real estate here has rebounded faster than most pundits expected. The survey was commissioned by Reach, the Singapore government's feedback
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      983 20  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY It contrasts with the IMF's more sobering assessments of the global economic outlook ASIAN Development Bank (ADB) chief economist Jong-Hwa Lee was obviously in high spirits this week when he signed off on an official report suggesting that Asia's emerging
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      790 20  -  FRANK CHING THE BOTTOM LINE BARACK Obama made history last year when he became the first African-American to be elected president of the United States. Next month, he will make history again, of a different sort. He will become the first president not
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      932 21  -  KULWANT SINGH ISHTIAQ PASHA MAHMOOD There are limited and specific conditions under which diversification enhances performance By and SOME years ago, the Singapore government encouraged local businesses to look beyond local markets and expand overseas. The call to go overseas has been taken up by several businesses.
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      890 21  -  NEIL BEHRMANN THE global stock market rebound, rather than government pump-priming, is the best hope for sustainable economic recovery in the coming year. First, a stronger stock market has gradually boosted economic and business confidence, by forcing the doomsters to retreat. Second, it
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      162 21 LETTER TO THE EDITOR WE refer to your commentary, "Why SIC should break its silence on Chartered episode" (BT, Sept 23). Confidentiality plays an important part in SlC's administration of the takeover code. For this reason, SIC does not normally make its dealings with individual
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      8837 22 Transaction date: Sep 24 Low Code Coi Sale ('OOP) Hi I Low Bi Seller C'vr P/E £5. 17 3 3148 STelecom 9.5 2.5 5834 A-Sonic 31.5 12 5000 ABR Hldgs 14.5 5.5 1938 AEI Corp 8 1 1100 AEM 23 7 2101 APOil 93 26.5 5550 ARA 8
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      1679 23 52-wks Tel High Low Code Company Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net M Cap ('000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E Smil 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
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      411 23 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol Cooo) Day lh Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil Comi _Hm 110 100 6389 ABF SG Bond ETF 783 427 CIMBAsean40 100US$ 274 149 DBS STI ETF 100 4195 3534 DBXT DJE50 10US$ DBXTDJE50Sh
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      265 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
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      9314 23 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIG Global Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Acorns of Asia Balanced Fund!S 2.069/ AIGIF Spore Bond Fund/A 1.347/ 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 0.5096/ APS Komaba Global
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      Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
      361 24 In local curr In S$ In USS %dy %yr dy yr dy yi Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Se| 23 World Index Preliminan 808.4 -0.1 19.3 0.0 21.8 -0.1 24.1 EAFE Preliminai 769.9 0.2 18.6 0.2 25.1 0.1 27.. Euro[ Preliminan 1090.7 0.1
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      125 24 As at 9am Sep 24 )f foreign currency: .urrencies Bid Offer vust dollar 1.2220 1.2590 .an dollar 1.3100 1.3260 iuro 2.0740 2.0980 IZ dollar 1.0110 1.0330 iterlini md 2.3030 2.3290 JS dollar 1.4070 1.4230 .ocal dollars to 100 units if foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Ihi
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      156 24 Sep 24 Xterniqht 1/4 -month 7/16 !-months 9/16 l-months 11/16 Overnight mode: 0.35 IS$ Offer 1/8 3/16 5/16 7/16 Bid 1 days I month > months J months d months months 12 months tAu 0.32 0.35 0.38 0.50 0.70 1.10 1.30 Offer 0.22 0.25 0.28 0.30 0.50 0.80
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      26 24 Sep 24 iTI Se 2667 2667 2667 IIMSCI Se 321.2 322.0 319.5 "aiwan Se 269.3 270.8 267.1 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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      21 24 Sep 24 Bid Offer -month 1.4129 1.4149 j-months 1.4131 1.4152 {-months 1.4133 1.4154 i-months 1.4138 1.4159 Source: OCBC
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      60 24 Sep 24 lelivery lonth Opening Range Sett Av Price Price Hi< Vol Open Done Position Low Oct 09 2191 2197 2200 2165 258 2047 \Jov09 2132 2136 2150 2103 2738 ***** }ec09 2125 2115 2136 2089 ***** ***** Ian 10 2123 2130 2130 2086 2231 7921 Total o/p:
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      290 24 Sep 24 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 99.6200 99.4150 99.0800 98.6900 7320 4323 3361 2250 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES Dec09 99.515 99.520 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 DedO Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 99.515 99.520 99.550 99.540 99.525 99.485 99.400 99.340 99.340 250 5678 4146
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      186 24 Sep 24 (UBBER Futures (Closing prices) ISS 3 (US cents/kg) /lonth High Low Close Sett Volume (lots) O/l lots) 3ct09 210.0 MOV09 Dec 09 Ian 10 =eb 10 vlar 10 210.0 214.0 214.0 214.0 214.0 214.0 214.0 4 4 4 4 380 515 851 791 457 570 rSR
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      89 24 Sep 24 'eriod Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hii Day's ill Low l-Month BQ*****W 24.12.2009 -Year BY*****W 03.05.2010 0.33 0.39 0.30 0.30 30VERNMENT BONDS >eriod Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Day's High Low 1-Year NX*****H 3.625 i-Year NX*****F 3.625 '-Year N*****0S 2.875 0-Year NX*****W 2.500 5-Year
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      101 24 Sep 23 (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Nov 09 920.50 922.00 926.00 902.00 Jan 10 925.00 926.25 929.00 906.75 Mar10 926.00 927.75 929.00 909.00 May 10 925.00 927.75 930.00 911.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Oct 09 34.16 34.51 34.49 33.86 Dec
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      71 24 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Sep 23 origin) t/barrel Close Cham irent blend (1-Mth F) 67.92 -2.21 VTI (Near Mth) 68.58 -2.97 3ubai (1-Mth F) 69.59 0.85 "apis blend 74.35 0.90 i/linas 72.20 0.90 >RODUCT JSS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene S6.60 77.50 0.11 1.91 USS/barrel )pec Oil Basket Price
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      448 24 Sep 24 Iuro ren Ion •eso Earn ■ouni lustralia 0.939 5.955 0.592 6.761 41.962 84.133 0.791 10.428 3.026 1.208 72.139 41.255 1.233 6.486 0.894 28.254 29.279 0.537 0.872 Canada 1.065 6.345 0.630 7.203 44.709 89.642 0.842 11.111 3.225 1.287 76.862 43.957 1.314 6.910 0.953 30.104 31.196 0.572
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      149 24 Sep 24 Zurrencies Bid Offer Bid Offer ,$IUS$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2321 1.2341 0.8722 0.8724 "anadian dollar 1.3126 1.3151 0.9292 0.9296 Iuro 2.0829 2.0860 1.4745 1.4746 IZ dollar 1.0196 1.0215 0.7218 0.7221 aterlini 2.2931 2.2970 1.6233 1.6238 IS dollar 1.4126 1.4146 ,$IUS$
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      132 24 Sep 24 /oz) ;ep_ ;ep_ -long Kong 1014.20 1008.20 .ondon Sep 22 Sep 23 1015.75 1007.50 1016.55 1008.50 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR (S$) Sep 24 Buying Sellim Kilobar "49,132.26" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Selling Buying gm jgm Ogm !0gm iOgm OOgm oz ozUBS Kinebar™ 110.21 312.44
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      62 24 luminium, 99.7% uritv (USS/tonne) Close Previous :ash 1839.50 months 1873.00 1855.25 1889.00 Copper, Grade A (USS/tonne) months 6108.25 6128.00 6249.00 6270.00 .ead (USS/tonne) :ash 2212.50 months 2240.00 2262.75 2290.00 lickel (USS/tonne) ]ash I months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 'in (USS/tonne) iash months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 inc. Specia
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      2340 24 BONDS, WARRANTS EXTENDED SETTLEMENT Fel lode Company Last Sale Vol Conv Exer +or- ('000) Ratio Price Disc Gear- Mths ing Left Asia-Pacific Strategic W*****6 3.5 1 15 12 4.71 56 >036 Advance SCT Ltd W*****9 0.5 1 87 1358 12.00 11 AscendasREIT.ES.0909 172 1756 Asiatic Grp (H) Ltd W*****2 6.5
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      1588 27  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM* AMANDA DE GUZMAN With music and art shows, fashion events and parties over the next three days, Fl now has a bigger economic impact beyond hotel room and F&B revenue in S'pore, reports MELISSA LWEE THE Formula One (Fl) may be plagued with politics, cheating scandals
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        583 28 CD REVIEW Acts are promoting their recent albums during Fl, reports CHRISTOPHER LIM Love Alive Jay-J Shifted Records Rating: B+ The E.N.D. Black Eyed Peas Interscope Rating: B Raw Jazz Hanjin Tan BBS Records Rating: A TOURING a new album to Singapore during Grand
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        366 28  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM PHOTOGRAPHY By MOTORSPORTS presents a unique challenge for shutterbugs because ofthe combination of high speeds and dramatic situations. Award-winning photographer Paul-Henri Cahier has been following Formula One for years and has captured classic photos of some of the greatest race drivers
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        623 29 MUSIC Fl Rocks is redefining the concert experience as a luxurious night out, reports CHRISTOPHER LIM YOU might have heard about the Gold YIP packages for the three-day Fl Rocks music festival, which cost $550 on opening night yesterday, and go up to $850 tomorrow. They
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        247 29  -  AMANDA DE GUZMAN By > By CHRIS Healings, who along with Mike Truman forms the pioneering electronic rock group Hybrid, couldn't resist combining business with pleasure. "I am usually in and out for gigs; but for this one, I am here for eight days," says Healings,
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        683 29  -  CLARISSA TAN ARTS ITINERARY By THE car is a relatively young invention. Before that, we had to contend with the bullock cart. Which is why, on the first day ofthe Grand Prix races, it might be appropriate to take a ride back in history and learn
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        591 29  -  MELISSA LWEE NIGHT OUT By THE age-old adage that "what doesn't break you only makes you stronger" certainly applies to British DJ Shailen Majithia. He lost his banking job in the economic crisis but that has turned out to be a blessing
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        673 30 Hanjin Tan calls for reform, govt support, reports CHRISTOPHER LIM #INGAPOREANS look down on Singaporeans," declares Hanjin Tan, who goes on to I point out that singer Stefanie Sun had to reach superstar status overseas before she could be recognised here. That might come
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        586 30  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM MUSIC By TOOLS are central to the success of racing teams, but they are just as important to the DJs who are spinning at the parties this weekend. Take the artists spinning at the new Official Formula One Lounge at Stereolab. The club
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        664 30  -  CLARISSA TAN ARTS ITINERARY By IT'S the second day ofthe races that long middle stretch and you might well need sustenance. What better way than to immerse yourself in paintings, especially those which celebrate every stage and station of the race? American artist Lee
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        609 30  -  WOON TAI HO ARTS By HE outlines all his figures in black marker-like boldness as a child would. The colours are deep and bright. In each of the outlined parts that form his figures, he adds stripes, dots, flowers, hearts, even his own signature
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        891 31 ARTS ITINERARY There are several art exhibitions along Orchard Road that are centred on the Formula One theme, reports CLARISSA TAN IT'S the final day of the Fl, and you need at least one for the road. While not exactly out on the
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          384 31  -  MELISSA LWEE By ON Sunday, local nightspot Attica caps off the Grand Prix weekend by hosting Grammy Award winning band, Dirty Vegas. The band that comprises the incredibly gifted Ben Harris and Paul Harris on percussion and production, along with the distinctive vocal
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          494 31  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM By ALTHOUGH jazz musicians like Alemay Fernandez and Hanjin Tan will be performing trackside here during this Fl season as part of the official Singapore GP music line-up, jazz clubs have decided to be a little more conservative. Perhaps it has
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          428 31  -  AMANDA DE GUZMAN By FORGET the out-of-control party girl image perpetrated by all the gossip rags. The Lindsay Lohan who arrived in Singapore is a far cry from the countless photographs and reports that portray her as being on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
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        667 32 The September Issue is about the making of a Vogue issue, says GEOFFREY EU YOU don't have to be a fashionista to be fascinated by The September Issue a documentary about the making of a monolithic issue of American Vogue (and
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        455 32  -  GEOFFREY EU By A SPUR-OF-THE-MOMENT decision sets off a chain reaction of small incidents which lead to the unexpected death of a triad boss on a busy Hong Kong street. Simple providence, or well coordinated plan? Accident, directed by Soi Cheang and produced by Johnnie
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        908 33 Wolf Hall, the runaway favourite for the Man Booker Prize, is an attempt to capture the taste, textures, smells of Tudor England, its author Hilary Mantel tells CLARISSA TAN IT is the bookies' Booker by far Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, is the clear favourite of
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        502 33  -  CLARISSA TAN By PERHAPS it's our troubling economic times, perhaps it's an inexplicable wave of nostalgia. This year, all six novels on the Man Booker shortlist conjure up the past. There's Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, a ghost story set in 1940s London. There's Adam Foulds'
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        478 33  -  AMANDA DE GUZMAN By WITH Defending the Caveman Broadway's longest running one-man show actor Daniel Jenkins and director Tracie Pang cement their status as a dynamic duo. The two have steadily worked together since 2007, when Pang first directed Jenkins alongside her husband Adrian in The
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        563 33  -  JAIME EE The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown Bantam Press Pages: 528 Price: $48.15 with GST Rating: C By SO you want to be a bestselling novelist? Pick up a copy of The Lost Symbol Dan Brown's latest travel guide to Washington, DC and you will find
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      458 29 iai»p]j.i;jrc4>i I 1 WHERE: Stereolab, ground floor H& J§ of the Pan Pacific Hotel *^?*UW^w WHAT: Jay-J's Love Alive Tour f\ WHY? Because it has got all the ingredients of the perfect Fl music gig a brand-new artist album, dance music that won't be drowned out by screaming Fl engines,
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      371 30 1 WHERE: Fuel Festival Singapore, w§ Kgi JjH tt& National Museum H^«r^ s w* H' WHAT: New Order BECAUSE even though it's only Peter Hook spinning music and not the rest of that legendary group, there should still be a lot of dance-floor magic going on. Bloc Party, Boxhead, Samantha
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      488 31 1 WHERE: Stereolab Is^&^ps WHERE: The Ritz-Carlton Millenia poolside WHAT: The Official VIP After Party WHAT: Race Dinner The Podium Lounge I THE first Official Lounge in the history of the Grand ENJOY a gourmet buffet dinner prepared by the Prix, the inaugural party looks set to establish itself as
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