The Business Times, 7 November 2009

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    19 1 weekend THE BUSINESS TIMES www.businesstimes.com.sg NOVEMBER 7-8, 2009 Ssl.oo MICA (P) 124/08/2009 I Sf^l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article
    Lock icon Govt turns up supply tap to cool property fever
    991 1  -  Emilyn Yap 10 new sites signal intent to keep home prices affordable By emiiyny(cuspn.com.sg Singapore THE government yesterday fired a clear signal that it intends to keep private homes affordable by announcing its land sales programme for the first half of
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    Lock icon DBS starts hiring again, eyes 300 RMs
    356 1  -  Siow Li Sen Bank turns back the clock with first hiring drive since last year's retrenchments By lisen@sph.com.sg Singapore DBS will be hiring 300 new relationship managers (RMs) for its priority banking over the next few months the bank's first major hiring drive
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      145 1 f& f THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION A CEOS' HAWKER WEALTH *L ym BERNARD LAMBERT, CEO OF Iggpl GUIDE All about CPFIS MONTE CARLO SBM 8-9 J Cantonese zi char LB-9 funds 30-31 SALARY SPEAKING Capita Land reverses pay cuts MOVE to restore the 3-20 per cent of staff salaries that was
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      11 1 A luxury guide to sleeping in style jBtV/ ABT Supplement Lll-20
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  • TOP STORIES
    • MARKETS
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        47 2 KL COMP 1,260.76 +6.80 NIKKEI 225 9,789.35 +71.91 HANG SENG 21,829.72 +350.64 SET 698.63 +16.72 JAKARTA 2,395.10 +27.89 MANILA 2,931.47 -13.04 KOSPI 1,572.46 +20.22 SHENZHEN B 561.75 +3.17 MUMBAI IND 16,158.28 12 noon EDT +94.38 Chanpe 12 noon EDT DOW 9,996.51 Change -9.45 NASDAQ 2,102.75 -2.57
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        Lock icon PRIME RATES
        29 2 SINGAPORE 538 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 16.631 TAIWAN 4.696 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 933 BRITAIN 050 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.53 INDIA 11.75 Source: Bioot
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        48 2 us$ 'S$ »er US$; 1.393 'US$/ /S$ 1.662 2.314 EURO ;us$/s$/i 1.487 2.072 Forei: ;n current >er US$ S$ YEN 90.50 64.90 RM 3.406 2.445 HK$ 7.750 5.564 BAHT 33.39 23.97 RUPIAH 9,455 6,788 RENMINBI 6.828 4.902 NDIAN RUPEE 46.84 33.63 A$ 1.093 0.785 NZ$ 1.379 0.990
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      Lock icon CapitaLand reverses staff pay cuts
      233 2  -  Chew Xiang Labour leader hails developer's 'timely decision' By xchew@sph.com.sg Singapore PROPERTY giant CapitaLand is reversing cuts of between 3 and 20 per cent made to executive and management salaries in January this year. Tan Seng Chai, senior vice-president of human resource, said: "CapitaLand Group
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      Lock icon Lowering the Common Denominator
      789 2  -  Joyce Hooi SATURDAY SOAPBOX Are today's youths afflicted with the sloppiness of thought? By During a Q&A session in 2007, a certain Miss South Carolina Teen held millions of You Tube users captive with her reasoning that "US Americans" were not able to find their own
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      Lock icon APEC agenda returns to its roots
      411 3  -  Chuang Peck Ming By peckming@sph.com.sg Singapore IT'S back to the core mission for the leaders of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, when they meet next week in Singapore. APEC's agenda has broadened over the years to include counter terrorism, bird flu, natural disasters and human resource
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      Lock icon DBS Q3 profit jumps 49% to $563m
      770 3  -  Conrad Tan Outlook for first six months of 2010 is cautious, but optimistic: chairman By conradt@sph.com.sg Singapore DBS Group's net profit surged 49 per cent to $563 million for the third quarter from a year earlier, handily beating analysts' forecasts and capping an
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      Lock icon S'pore takes nothing for granted: Swee Say
      513 4  -  Lee U-Wen With global shift, there's constant worry that things can go wrong By leeuwen@sph.com.sg Singapore THE Singapore economy may be in recovery mode now, but the government is far from feeling comfortable as it looks ahead to the next 5-10 years. Labour
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      Lock icon Japan's 2 top trust banks set to merge
      569 5  -  Anthony Rowley Sumitomo Trust, Chuo Mitsui merger will create country's fifth largest bank By btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo TWO of Japan's top six trust banks Sumitomo Trust and Banking and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings said yesterday they will merge to create the country's biggest
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      Lock icon Oct jobless rate tops 10% to hit 26-year high
      412 6 AP, Bloomberg LATEST US DATA Oct's 190,000 jobs lost exceeds expectations Washington THE unemployment rate has surpassed 10 per cent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher. The Labor Department yesterday said the economy shed a
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      Lock icon Buoyed by Lehman purchase, Barclays sets sights on Asia
      810 6  -  Vikram Khanna By vikram@sph.com.sg Singapore ITS fortunes buoyed by the acquisition of the American assets of the failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008, Britain's Barclays Bank is setting its sights on expanding aggressively in Asia. In an interview
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      65 2 NEWS LIVING Top Stories 2-6 Shopping L 2-7 Week in Review 7 CEOs' Hawker Guide LB-9 Raffles Conversation 8-9 Gadgets LlO Companies 10-13 Supplement LIT-20 From The Desk Of 14 MP^7ffif/fcfTSBP* Singapore 15-17 SsIFSLif! Letter From Abroad 18 World 19-22 W^^KiM Stocks Stats 23-27 "^Jt^d^f^i Perspective 28-29 Dining L2l-23 Wealth
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      172 3 BEiHiippi Why trade CFDs with City Index? I ;|E :rz^'-~ Trade from 10% deposit on most stocks uqa.m S»») w« -14.5 K9GX9 IQB a—™ D II EP" j 55 |1| I=*^ H Go long or short a j, s>*ss Commissions from 0.20% for equity CFDs I Access to thousands of
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      223 5 m| City 950,000 international L^fJ University alumni including H£W\ 7"P\ TITTn nTf» o f 12 Nobel Laureates Hkl V Cji\ lIS I i I New York Winnor ■fcscHuo: oh managemeh Executive MSc in Finance 1 Year Program (Part-Time) dfiSk Listed as the Top Executive Masters of Science in Finance by
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  • WEEK IN REVIEW/WEEK AHEAD
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      215 7 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ATURDAY with Ludwig among players, end of j WM W 16 Take action in case? (8) >C *^%nllf7ji^ ranse? (4 5) i I h r■■ -i __jMM__M I 18 Artist capturing hearts =::==>s *w i?Af ft fth II? H H HHH H I^l 19 Critical cut linked with
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      95 7 NEXT WEEK Nov 9-13, 2009 US DATA Nov 12 Initial claims Nov 12 Treasury budget Nov 13 Trade balance SINGAPORE DATA Nov 13 Retail sales and catering trade indices EVENTS Nov 9 BERLIN 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berliners to topple a 2km-long chain of giant
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      1319 8  -  m Arthur Sim As the rich and famous shift to new playgrounds, Monaco kingpin Bernard Lambert is rebuilding the Monte Carlo storv. By H... Monaco: where royalty and tax exiles winter in luxury suites and multi-million dollar penthouses; where movie stars sip Cristal from Baccarat flutes
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      587 8 THOSE in the hospitality industry know that being discreet is one of the most important prerequisites of the job. And if the hotel is in Monaco, you can expect many guests to be travelling incognito. "I have met a number of prominent figures from around the world. Some
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      73 8 Hotels Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles Hotels Resorts. Raffles Hotels Resorts epitomizes enchanting experiences, embodying global sophistication and residential charm. Each is exclusive, intimate with a distinctive sense of place, imbued with heartfelt service that is intuitive and unobtrusive "like
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  • COMPANIES
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      Lock icon Good showing by Singapore banks
      609 9  -  Conrad Tan Recovery in financial markets results in lower provisions for bad loans and impairments of investment securities By conradt@sph.com.sg Singapore ALL three Singapore banks exceeded analysts' expectations in the third quarter, boosted by the recovery in financial markets that led to much lower provisions
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      Lock icon Sembcorp Q3 profit nudges up 2.2%
      534 9  -  Vincent Wee By vincewee@sph.com.sg Singapore SEMBCORP Industries ticked along in the third quarter with a 2.2 per cent rise in net profit to $148.1 million from $144.9 million in the previous corresponding quarter while turnover rose 3 per cent to $2.58 billion from $2.5
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      Lock icon Star Hub, SingTel spice up pay-TV offer with free channels
      397 9  -  Winston Chai By winstonc@sph.com.sg Singapore THE scuffle between Singapore's two pay-television rivals has intensified as both turn to free channels as their new weapon of choice. Star Hub will offer its cable television customers two free sports channels from next
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      Lock icon Big recapitalisation exercise at MI-Reit
      645 10  -  Lynette Khoo $217.1 m from AMP Capital, cornerstone investors and a rights issue; $214.9 m from term and bridge loans Reports by lynkhoo@sph.com.sg Singapore MACARTHURCOOK Industrial Reit (MI-Reit) has announced a slew of measures to recapitalise and refinance its debts and contractual obligations. It has
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      Lock icon MI-Reit posts 16% fall in Q2 income distribution
      211 10 MACARTHURCOOK Industrial Reit (MI-Reit) reported a 16 per cent decline in income distribution to $5.17 million for its fiscal second quarter ended Sept 30 due to higher borrowing costs. Distribution per unit (DPU) thus fell 17.5 per cent from a year ago
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      Lock icon Companies need to prepare for upturn: Lim Hwee Hua
      354 10  -  Michelle Quah By michquah@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE companies should develop their human capital, rethink their business processes and strategies and communicate more with their shareholders if they hope to emerge stronger from the downturn, said Lim Hwee Hua, Minister in the Prime
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      Lock icon Not a great trading week; STI up just 7 pts
      549 11  -  R Sivanithy STOCKS sivan@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent PERHAPS the most worrying thing if you're a trader has been the dip in daily volume over the past two to three weeks. Sure, the figures appear decent at first glance. Average turnover of
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      Lock icon TOP 20 ACTIVES
      117 11 VOL CLOSE jentins SP 54,643 108 3.0 2.9 in Joo 53,732 7.5 0.0 0.0 JiutianC 46,919 15.5 -2.0 -11.4 42,194 1.5 -0.5 -25.0 Ehina Hons cini 39,835 16.5 0.0 0.0 ;olden 35,355 43 0.5 1.2 Ins Li 32,118 70.5 -1.0 -1.4 lacCooklREIT 31,681 35 -6.0 -14.6 losco
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      Lock icon TOP GAINERS
      65 11 BY CENTS UP CLOSE DBXT Nil 1OUS$ ***** 428.8 3.0 GLD 10US$ ***** 116.9 0.8 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 3141 111.4 2.6 OCC 3.93% NCPS10 8200 100.0 1.2 ir MS India 10US$ 1381 71.0 3.8 ir China H 10US$ 1685 41.8 1.8 DBS Gri 1338 40.0 3.1 ir Emen
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      Lock icon TOP LOSERS
      53 11 CLOSEDOWN iBXTS&P Short 10US: 5700 -183.8 -2.3 IMH 3050 -69.6 -1.6 ir LatinAmerica 1 799 -45.9 -4.0 iTXPO 100 1302 -28.0 -2.1 IBS Bk6% NCPS 10 ***** -20.0 -0.2 Venture Con 885 -15.0 -1.7 JSH 1730 -11.1 -0.5 Land 549 -9.0 -1.6 .0911 415 -8.0 -1.9 "otal Access
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      104 11 :apitaLand 4.090 +0.050 ]apitaMall 1.660 +0.030 :if 'Dev 10.020 +0.170 1.560 -0.030 :osco Corp 1.030 +0.010 IBS Grp 13.380 +0.400 :&N 3.760 -0.020 ientin: SP 1.080 +0.030 iolden ;ri 0.430 +0.005 IK Land 4.660 -0.040 IMH 30.500 -0.500 ISH 17.300 -0.080 lardine C&C 22.600 +0.140 Corp 8.090 +0.140
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      Lock icon At a glance 9-month and Q3 results ended Sept 2009
      339 11 NET PROFIT (S$IUl) J TURNOVER (s$Nl) COMPANY CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG I NET PROFIT (S$M) I CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG J TURNOVER (s$IUl) CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG 1 DBSGrp 1,548.00 1,634.00 -5.3 5,031.00 4,578.00 9.9 2 JardineC&C 497.87 592.04 -15.9
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      Lock icon Int'l school for Tianjin Eco-City
      127 11 SINO-SINGAPORE Tianjin EcoCity Investment and Development Co Ltd (SSTEC) has embarked on a joint venture with GEMS Education, the world's largest K-12 (kindergarten to Grade 12) education company, to co-develop GEMS' first flagship greenfield international school in China. The GEMS World Academy (GWA) Tianjin will
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      Lock icon China, tech sector, private equity could be IPO drivers: poll
      511 12  -  Lynette Khoo Survey based on responses from over 300 institutional investors By lynkhoo@sph.com.sg Singapore CHINA, technology and private equity are expected to drive global initial public offering (IPO) activities over the next 12 months, the latest survey by Ernst Young
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      1383 12 EZION HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration No. *****4364E) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an extraordinary general meeting (the "EGM") of the shareholders (the "Shareholders") of Ezion Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held on 23 November 2009 at 10.00 a.m.
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  • FROM THE DESK OF
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      Lock icon Connect, Collaborate, Conquer
      1061 13  -  Teng Theng Dar High-level networking platforms like next week's Global Entrepolis Singapore and the APEC SME Summit represent very real business opportunities that SMEs can and must leverage FROM THE DESK OF CEO, Singapore Business Federation OR those who still doubted that globalisation was a business reality
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon S'pores country brand jumps 11 spots to 13th
      360 14  -  Nisha Ramchandani It is ranked best among 102 countries for shopping and easiest to do business in By nishar@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE has moved up the rankings for the world's top country brand, jumping from 24th place to 13th in this year's Country Brand
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      Lock icon Pay increase of 2.6% seen for next year: Hewitt poll
      388 14  -  Chuang Peck Ming By peckming@sph.com.sg THE year is coming to a close with the biggest tumble in pay rises in a decade, with wage increases in Singapore tipped to average just 1.8 per cent for 2009, down from 5.3 per
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      Lock icon S'pore, Viet firms in networking session
      206 15 INVESTORS keen on getting into Vietnam, take note: the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) is organising a networking session this month between Singapore and Vietnam firms to boost ties. At the Nov 17 session "Vietnam: Partnership for progress" Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet will give
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      Lock icon Fall in value of electricity traded in Jan-Sept
      298 15  -  Ronnie Lim Less demand and lower wholesale prices behind slide By ronnie@sph.com.sg (USEP) averaged 4,564 MW and $143/MWh respectively, compared to 4,639 MW and $178/MWh in the same period last year. The USEP, plus regulation and administrative charges and SOFTER demand plus
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      Lock icon Cheung Kong is top bidder for Upper Thomson Rd condo plot
      332 15  -  Kalpana Rashiwala By kalpana@sph.com.sg THE top bidder for the 99-year condo site on Upper Thomson Road on Thursday has been revealed as a unit of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Holdings. This was confirmed yesterday by Raymond
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      Lock icon Quintiles expands, plans to hire 300 more workers
      481 16  -  Chen Huifen EDB, WDA work to train clinical researchers By xuifen@sph.com.sg CONTRACT research organisation (CRO) Quintiles plans to hire another 300 workers in the next five to seven years as it expands its local operations. The positions are likely to be in
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      Lock icon Many opportunities for grads who return home: PM Lee
      413 16  -  Teh Shi Ning New university is a project for 21st century, he says By tshining@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE relies on its young talent from both overseas and local universities to lead its future transformation and progress, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last
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    • Briefing
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        Lock icon Singapore to host neuroscience symposium
        71 16 SINGAPORE will host a German-Singa-pore joint research symposium on neuroscience this Monday. To be held at the Pixel building at One-North, the inaugural symposium will bring together experts from top research institutions in both countries. They will share their findings on the diagnosis and treatment
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        Lock icon 50 nominees vie for Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2010
        59 16 SINGAPORE International Water Week (SIWW) has received a record 50 nominations from more than 20 countries for the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2010. It has also launched Blue Paper and So- lutions a publication to capture key developments in
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        Lock icon NTU launches alumni associations in Hong Kong, Yunnan
        49 16 NANYANG Technological University (NTU) launched an alumni association in Hong Kong yesterday and is set to launch another in Yunnan today. The two new associations will bring the total number of NTU alumni associations to 15 in China, and 20 internationally.
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        Lock icon San Francisco residential tower sale launched here
        38 16 US-based Millennium Partners yesterday launched the sale of a 60-storey San Francisco residential tower here so Asian parties can acquire units in the project. To learn more about it, visit www.miUenniumtowersf.com
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  • LETTER FROM ABROAD WITH ASCOTT
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      Lock icon Far from the maddening crowd
      843 17  -  Daphne Loke LETTER FROM READING Besides enjoying the seasons and nature, what living in Reading, UK has brought me are great nearby options for days out. We invite Singaporeans living overseas or posted abroad to write about life, culture and doing business where you are.
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Fannie Mac asks for more aid, posts loss
      536 18 AP, Neuters It requests for additional USslsb; reports a Q3 net loss of USslB.9b Washington US MORTGAGE lender Fannie Mac is asking for an additional US$l5 billion in government aid after posting another big loss in the third quarter as the taxpayer
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        Lock icon Malaysia pledges action after US bank-freeze threat
        73 18 Bloomberg Kuala Lumpur THE Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority pledged "forceful action" and defended the centre's integrity after the US Treasury Department said that it will freeze the assets of a bank for aiding Iran's nuclear and weapons programmes. First East Export Bank
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        Lock icon RBS posts Q3 loss of £1.8b after loan provisions
        49 18 Bloomberg London ROYAL Bank of Scotland Group had a third-quarter loss after £3.3 billion (557.6 billion) of provisions for bad loans and credit-market writedowns. The net loss was £1.8 billion, compared with a profit of £871 million a year earlier.
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        Lock icon Thais to scrap Cambodia oil deal in Thaksin row
        106 18 AFP Bangkok THAILAND has said that it will tear up an oil and gas exploration deal with Cambodia, stoking a row over Phnom Penh's naming of fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an economics adviser. Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said
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        Lock icon British Airways first-half loss widens as air travel slumps
        91 18 Bloomberg London BRITISH Airways said that its first-half loss widened as cuts in capacity failed to keep pace with a slump in demand prompted by the global economic recession. The net loss in the six months till Sept 30 was £217
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        Lock icon AIG posts second straight quarterly profit
        62 18 Reuters New York AMERICAN International Group, the insurer bailed out by the US government, posted its second straight quarterly profit yesterday, helped by recovery in the value of its investments. Net profit was US$455 million, or 68 US cents a share, compared with a
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        Lock icon GM Europe chief to leave company: report
        54 18 Reuters Frankfurt THE head of General Motors' European business, Carl-Peter Forster, is leaving the company following the surprise decision by GM's board this week to block the sale of Opel, Spiegel Online reported yesterday. He was widely expected to run an independent Opel
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      Lock icon US firms make a killing on govt guarantees
      328 18 NYT Washington ONE of the US government's most opaque methods for bailing out the banking system allowed a handful of giant institutions to save up to US$25 billion on their borrowing costs, a congressional panel estimated yesterday. Seven companies received about 82
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      Lock icon No relief in sight for staff laid off globally
      674 19 AP Joblessness rising in EU, US even as economy recovers Paris DESPITE signs of an economic revival gathering pace around the globe, the millions of people laid off during the worst recession in 70 years are unlikely to see relief any
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      Lock icon If the shoe fits, even in recession, buy it
      509 19 NYT New York FOR months now, consumers have been hunkering down in an economic storm, buying only what they need to survive, like groceries, diapers, medicine and shoes. Shoes? The American public, it would seem, cannot carry on without new shoes.
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      Lock icon John Reed apologises for building Citigroup
      570 20 Bloomberg Lawmakers were wrong to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, he says New York JOHN S Reed, who helped engineer the merger that created Citigroup Inc, apologised for his role in building a company that has taken US$45 billion in direct US aid
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      Lock icon Negotiators scale back UN climate pact aims
      510 20 AP Barcelona WITH the US Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials say they are now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the US and other
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      Lock icon Hundreds apply to be 100 ambassadors
      228 20 Reuters New York WANTED: outgoing and enthusiastic applicants to work as restroom ambassadors in central New York location. Good pay. Amid a struggling US economy, hundreds of jobseekers applied on Thursday at the open auditions for the opportunity to interact with guests at the
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      Lock icon Korean parliament okays India FTA
      431 21 AFP The free trade pact signed in August is likely to take effect on Jan 1, 2010 Seoul SOUTH Korea's parliament yesterday ratified a free trade agreement (FTA) with India, giving the country a lead over its major Asian rivals in a market of 1.1
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      Lock icon Four bankrupt Aussie colleges collapse
      270 21 Reuters Melbourne AUSTRALIA'S image as a top destination for foreign students suffered another setback yesterday after four bankrupt colleges closed, leaving more than 2,000 students stranded. Australia's Asl3 billion (5516.6 billion) international student sector, the country's third-largest export earner behind oil and coal, has come
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      Lock icon French diplomats speak frankly on their allies
      287 21 AFP Paris AFGHANISTAN'S president is corrupt, British conservatives are pathetic, NATO can't get its war plan in order and German troops won't fight France's top diplomats are in undiplomatic mood. French was once known as the language of diplomacy, but Foreign Minister Bernard
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  • SGX
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      53 25 MAIN Up Down Unch 8 4 5 SDQ Up Down Unch 0 0 0 TOTAL Up Down Unch 8 4 5 Multi Ind lanui Fact :unni .ommerce ■inance .onst ;rud ;ion Totel 5ts~ >ervices led >as/ ler ;ricul :ure juarr Active counters with no volume for today
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      180 25 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 sonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum
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        19 26 >: Bloomberg Source: YTD change:+so.9o% 52-week high: 2,739.55 on Oct 15,2009 52-week low: 1,455.47 on March 10,2009
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        19 26 Source: YTD change:+sl.73% 52-week high: 22,620.00 on Oct 23,2009 52-week low: 11,344.50 on March 9,2009 Bloomberg
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        25 26 YTD change:+l4.ol% 52-week high: 10,119.40 on Oct 21,2009 52-week low: 6,469.95 on March 6,2009 (Chart shows Thursday's index closing) Source: ■Bloomberg
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        364 26 Nov 5 %dy %yr %dy %yr dy %yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminai 791.4 0.7 16.8 0.8 18.3 0.8 22.2 EAFE Preliminai 746.3 0.2 15.0 0.4 20.9 0.4 24.9 Euroi Preliminai 1072.7 0.6 17.7 0.9 25.0 0.9 29.1 Pacific 593.7
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        144 26 Moi/s| :urrencies Bid >$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2738 Offer 1.2753 Bid 0.9150 Offer 0.9151 :anadian dollar 1.3087 1.3104 0.9401 0.9403 iuro 2.0702 2.0728 1.4871 1.4874 IZ dollar 1.0094 1.0112 0.7251 0.7256 jterlini 2.3130 2.3159 1.6615 1.6618 IS dollar 1.3921 1.3936 >$/US$ to
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        21 26 YTD change: +73.77% 52-week high: 3,478.01 on Aug 4,2009 52-week low: 1,680.60 on Nov 7,2008 Source: Bloomberg
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        17 26 Source: YTD change:+lo.so% 52-week high: 10,767.00 on Aug31,2009 52-week low: 7,021.28 on March 10,2009 ■Bloomberg
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        72 26 Nov s|| IOCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii Sh/Low )ecO9 2108 2150 2145/2105 2147 2180 2177/2144 day 10 2168 2201 2197/2167 lul 10 2095 2130 2124/2095 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low \lov09 1406 1408 1431/1396 Ian 10 1445 1447 1466/1435 dar 10 1486 1489 1509/1477 SUGAR (US tonne) White Close
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        99 26 Nov s[| iOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; USc/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low \lov09 967.00 995.50 995.75 967.00 Ian 10 972.00 999.00 999.00 971.00 dariO 976.*****2.*****2.00 975.50 day 10 976.00 999.50 998.50 975.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs; usq/lb) Close Previous High/Low 3ec09 37.18 37.55 37.59 37.07 Ian 10 37.62 38.01
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        74 26 Nov s|| ISS/barrel (FOB origin) Close Change Srent blend (1-Mth F) VTI (Near Mth) )ubai (1-Mth F) 'apis blend /linas 78.80 -0.10 79.81 -0.89 78.22 -0.40 81.45 -0.40 80.25 -0.40 •RODUCT ISS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change \l aphtha let Kerosene 73.55 -0.22 85.10 -0.10 JSS/barrel ipec Oil Basket Price
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        59 26 Wo', a[ loz] Jov Jov -long Kong 1086.*****1.50 Nov 04 Nov 05 .ondon 1092.*****9.90 1092.*****0.70 Source: Thomson Reuters SILVER Selling Buying 'assbook 1 oz 24.41 24.18 >LATINUM Lon (US$/oz) Nov 05 Close Previous 'M Fix 1360.*****9.00 iMFix 1359.*****0.00 Source: Thomson Reuters M-ATINUM NYMEX (US$/oz) Nov 05 Last Prev High/Low
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      1091 27  -  Ronald Tan V^ Faced with competition from regional countries also eyeing the benefits of the casino gaming industry, the two IRs cannot afford to be complacent. By AFEW weeks ago, Singaporeans watched in awe the hoisting of a seven hundred tonne beam linking the towers of Marina
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      834 27  -  Ben Simpfendorfer By CHINA'S foreign policy is about to change, and not entirely by choice. The country's engagement with the developing world has accelerated markedly in the wake of the economic crisis. And for all the focus on Beijing's relationship with Washington, it is Beijing's relationship with
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        1172 28  -  Genevieve Cua Nearly 50 unit trusts and 40 investment-linked insurance funds are already closed to new CPF savings due to their inabilitv to comolv with total exoense ratios levels By TIGHTER criteria for funds in the CPF Investment Scheme has sparked a wave of rationalisation among fund
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        780 28  -  Conrad Tan Star Hub Underperform CIMB-GK Research Nov 6 Close: Ssl.BB Star Hub will be releasing its Q309 results on Nov 10. We are expecting a core net profit of Ss7s-78 million, flat or down as much as 3.6 per cent quar-ter-on-quarter on the back of a 0-2
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        1104 29  -  Shane Oliver WEALTH INSIGHTS It would be unusual for a cyclical recovery in shares to end when leading economic indicators are still rising AMP Capital Investors IT seems ironic that just when the US economy is starting to grow and governments are
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        1215 30  -  Teh Hooi Ling SHOW ME THE MONEY Professor Nouriel Roubini, Jeremy Grantham of GMO, and Doctor Doom alias Marc Faber give their take hooiling@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent LAST week we talked about Felicity Foresight, who has perfect foresight and can predict with
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        901 32  -  Kalpana Rashiwala But the jury is out on whether the govt's release of plots will tame land bids, which have soared wildly at state tenders By kalpana@sph.com.sg Singapore THE government is offering developers a platter of residential sites through the confirmed and reserve lists
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        486 32  -  Kalpana Rashiwala By kalpana@sph.com.sg Singapore TWO new hotel sites one of which is Ogilvy Centre, a conservation building opposite Lav Pa Sat have made it to the government's HI 2010 reserve list. But there are no new commercial sites on the
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      59 34 INDEPENDENTS' DAY Indie bookstores where the literature counts L2-3 v... 5525 ***** 5252 2255 "TWt •2 2* EEEEES EEEEES SEE SEE ■■■■■< Wa\w^ r In WW- I m I ilril MRM MWW I I f w 1 Vr Wa I WMJ WMW —~i —ii^iiiAUi *^imnnail tiiiiitffi n vnrmjp™** (PB 1
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        2071 35 Clarissa Tan ambles down the narrower streets of Singapore to visit small indie bookshops where typewriters still clatter and the owners really know their literature THERE'S a rat-a-tat-tat coming from the top floor of an old shophouse at 86, Club Street. A young woman is hammering away at
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        923 36  -  Melissa Lwee Dolce Gabbana is expanding its business here with a new concept store for D&G on its way. By T is often said that good things come to those who wait and that was a mantra that Italian fashion house Dolce Gabbana ascribed to with regard
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        645 36  -  Melissa Lwee Sam Roseman is the man behind Shanghai Tang's Imperial tailoring bespoke designs By HERE are some people who can sell coal to Newcastle, but Sam Roseman is a guy who can sell Chinese clothing to the Chinese. "When I first started, there were definitely clients who
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        854 37  -  Jaime Ec Rolex opens up and reveals a storied past to the bestselling waicnmaKer. uy. ROLEX 101. It's not a class you can just sign up for at your nearest community centre, nor do you automatically qualify to take it just because you recently splurged on a GMT
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        729 38  -  Chuang Peck Ming The niche brand under the Richemont Group has seen double-digit gains in sales. By I" OW'S life for Roger Dubuis under the Richemont Group? The shift from an independent luxury watch brand to one owned by a big luxury goods group is like
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        1482 39  -  Geoffrey Eu BT Weekend's list of Cantonese zi char that never goes out of stvle By PROGRESS always has a price, and Singaporeans of a certain vintage will readily acknowledge that from a local food perspective, that price is the gradual disappearance of old school, family-friendly eating
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        565 39  -  Audrey Phoon William Wong Managing director, Real Star Premier Property Consultant By WILLIAM Wong is just as knowledgeable about where good hawker food is housed as he is about the location of good-class houses. The managing director of Real Star Premier Property Consultant a property firm
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        757 40  -  Christopher Lim One of these three ways to talk wirelessly is bound to meet your needs. By THE sight of wireless Bluetooth communication units sticking out of people's ears is so common these days that it's clear the technology itself isn't a luxury any more. But while
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        696 41  -  CORINNE KERK A LUXURY GUIDE TO SLEEPING IN STYLE A SUPPLEMENT WITH THE BUSINESS TIMES WEEKEND NOVEMBER 7-8, 2009 A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP MAY BE HARD TO COME BY BUT A GOOD BED CERTAINLY HELPS BY o sleep, perchance to dream ay, there's the rub. Shakespeare's Hamlet says
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        1103 42 THE PERFECT MATTRESS. THE ULTIMATE LUXURY. BY CORINNE KERK the way the economy has been in the last 12 months, you don't need to be a banker fretting over bonus cuts to be losing sleep. But if you're a high net-worth person for whom sleep is the ultimate
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        677 44  -  CHEAH UI-HOON YOUR PERFECT SLEEP IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT THE RIGHT LINEN. BY So you splurge on your mattress for the sake of your back and general health. But another component that's also important is your skin. More specifically, how it feels when you lie on the
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        424 47 A RETURN TO THE CLASSICAL FOR BEDROOM DESIGN. BY CHEAH UI-HOON edroom decor is trending towards the classical again, with luxurious accents. There's a swing towards this look, but not in a full-blown gaudy way just think of touches here and there, within I clean lines. W
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        2347 50  -  Audrey Phoon Bakes that benefit a community, sorbet made from scratch, and chocolate like you've never had it before confections just aren't standard at these new stores. By Truffs 179 a Telok Ayer Street 52 9088-2736 www.truffs.com.sg IF life were a box of Truffs chocolates, you'd know
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        667 52  -  Lee U-Wen no holds barred leeuwen@sph.com.sg Correspondent THANKS to yet another round of international matches taking place next Saturday, the English Premier League will take a two-week break after this weekend's matches are over and what better send-off can any football fan ask for in the
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        780 52  -  John Dykes kick off with John dykes IF we required any further convincing that we are witnessing a football season that is out of the ordinary, it came from the Liverpool Women's Hospital this week. As an expectant media waited outside, word came from the maternity
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        1152 53  -  Justine Moss Sponsorships for professional golf events are still going strong. By Shanghai IN the wake of this year's global credit crunch and subsequent market volatility, some prominent sponsors have been hesitant to renew contracts for professional golf events, while others have committed to continuing their financial
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        521 54  -  Who says a four-door car can't look mean and sound angry? Samuel Ee drives two supercharged sedans SPECS Audi S4 Sedan Avant 3.0 TFSI quattro me 2,995 cc V 6 supercharged Transmission 7-speed S tronic double-clutch Max power 333 hp 5,500-7,000 rpm rque 440 Nm 2,900-5,300 rpm lh
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        584 54 SPECS Jaguar XFR me 5,000 cc V 8 supercharged Transmission 6-speed auto Max power 510 hp a 6,000-6,500 rpm rque 625 Nm 2,500-5,500 rpm >0 kmh 4.9 sees op speed 250 kmh (limited) Price $380,000 (w/o COE) Distributor Malayan Motors S3 6473-7755 THEXFR'S POWER AND CONTROL COME WITH
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        879 55  -  KLTay The new 2010 Range Rover Sport is definitely worthy of its label with its impressive road holding and grip levels. By HE Range Rover Sport was launched in 2005 in response to the rapid build-up of luxury sport utility vehicles (SUVs) that were being developed and sold
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