The Business Times, 9 August 2010

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    10 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES www.businesstimes.com.sg MONDAY, AUGUST9, 2010 S$1.00 MICA(P) 123/08/2009
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    Lock icon S’pore going strong at 45, pulls in 17.9% growth
    564 1  -  PM Lee takes stock of economic rebound, addresses issues of training and skills from abroad By Teh Shi Ning tshining@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE needs to look beyond the current rebound and focus on growing its economy with sustained effort from all, Prime
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    Lock icon In search of the real Singapore Inc
    1367 1  -  Pinning down what it means to be a Singapore company has never been easy and it is not about to get any easier By Joyce Hooi joyceh@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE Inc as we know it is disappearing. Now that the Chinese have bought Singapore’s
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      123 1 the The DIRECTOR The BizIT Interview CHRIS WHITNEY, DIRECTOR OF HP LABS 30 DINING OUT Tripe, heart and soul 14 UNTICKING THE BOX What's not in directors' fees? 8 wall street insight At a tipping point THE economy’s struggles will take centrestage, and Wall Street could well be staring at
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      24 1 ??Text of Prime Minister’s National Day Address, Page 7 ??Views From The Top: CEOs on what pleases and excites them about Singapore, Pages L2-6
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      157 2 BT ONLINE BT print subscribers get free access to BT Online at www.businesstimes.com.sg. For more information, e-mail btocs@sph.com.sg or call 6388-3838. MARKETS Weekly Change ST Index 2,995.06 +7.36 KL COMP 1,360.45 -0.47 NIKKEI 225 9,642.12 +104.82 HANG SENG 21,678.80 +648.99 SET INDEX 875.07 +19.24 JAKARTA COMP 3,060.59 -8.69
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      Lock icon One transplanted Singaporean’s homecoming
      1219 4  -  Giving up her green card in America is a tough call but she makes her choice By Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Singapore IS THE worst recession in US history since the Great Depression showing any signs of letting up? Just a few weeks ago, I got a
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      Lock icon All eyes on Fed meeting as recovery slows in US
      576 5 Poser over whether the central bank is planning further stimulus spending AFP Washington THEFederalReserve’srate-settingpanelwillmeettomor-row amid pressure to resume crisis-era spending to restart a stalled recovery. The 10-member body is expected to keep interest rates at historic lows, but Fed watchers
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      Lock icon Struggling US stock market stares at a tipping point
      1201 6  -  Equities could either soar to the April highs or dive to the February lows, says a trader wall street insight| By Andrew Marks btworld@sph.com.sg New York AS the stock market enters the second week of August, the economy’s struggles will be
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      Lock icon Keep up efforts to sustain growth
      1133 7 THE following is the text of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s National Day Message 2010. My fellow Singaporeans, Our economy has rebounded stronglyfrom last year’s recession. GDP grew 17.9 per cent year on year in the first half of this year. Many jobs have
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      Lock icon Berkshire Q2 profit falls 40% on derivative losses
      363 7 Reuters New York WARREN Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Friday second-quarter profit fell 40 per cent, as declining stock prices depressed the value of his derivative contracts. Operating profit nevertheless soared 73 per cent, helped by the February takeover of railroad
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      38 2 IPC GROUP Salutes SINGAPORE on its 45th BIRTHDAY INTERNATIONAL PARADISE CONNEXIONS GROUP OF COMPANIES CORPORATE TOURS EDUCATIONAL TOURS EVENTS MANAGEMENT STAFF RETREATS TEAM BUILDING CLINICS r f m fT UJE ARE Fftrn\tv Tff&M www.ipcgroup.com.sg LIVE OUR DREAMS. W5
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      296 3 s i —i I 3 m Sfassi J ppliiBHra——in i —m JU '"II ii 111 M n The Management Staff of YCH Group wishes our beloved nation Happy 45th Birthday this National Day! Happy Bir I Singapore Proudly homegrown since 7 955, YCH and our family of more than 3000
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      42 5 SINGAPORE INDIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INDUSTRY Happy 45 th i Birthday Singapore With Compliments SICCI Board of Directors and Members Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce Industry SICCI Building, 31 Stanley Street, Singapore *****0 Tel: 6222-2855 6222-2505 Fax: 6223-1707 Email: sicci@sicci.com Website: www.sicci.com
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon What’s not in directors’ fees?
      780 8  -  In many cases, these fees put up for shareholders’ approval at the AGM exclude benefits-in-kind such as share options unticking the box By Mak Yuen Teen SECTION 169(1) of the Companies Act states: “Acompanyshallnotatanymeetingorotherwise provide emoluments or improve emoluments for a director of a company
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      Lock icon Duxton fund betting on food and wine
      421 8 Reuters Singapore DUXTON Asset Management, a firm set up by former Deutsche Bank executives, is investing in farmland in a bet food prices will continue to rise and the world face occasional shortages with food stockpiles near record lows. “Asneeze in our weather
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      Lock icon Cerebos picks Telstra to manage network
      506 9  -  Deal covers 11 sites across Asia-Pacific and will save Cerebos US$300,000 a year in IT costs By Raju Chellam btnews@sph.com.sg Singapore MAINBOARD-listed Cerebos Pacific Ltd, which makes the famous Brand’s Essence of Chicken, has outsourced the management of its network infrastructure to Australian giant
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      Lock icon Keppel rigs to make more headway in Gulf of Mexico
      361 9  -  By Joyce Hooi joyceh@sph.com.sg Singapore KEPPEL FELS’ fourth drilling rig that it is building for Texas-based Ensco–theEnsco 8503– isexpected to gain entry into the Gulf of Mexico when it is delivered early next year. The first two rigs in the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Business is brewing very well for Nestle Nespresso
      681 10  -  It is on track to deliver double-digit growth and pass the 3-billion Swiss franc milestone this year By Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg IT’Shard not to notice them almost everywhere you go these days in hotel bars, premium banking lounges, cafes, the chief executive’s
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      Lock icon Bringing spaces to life
      940 11  -  A look at the interplay of business and imagination at F&B group Lo Behold By Nicholas Yeo yeonick@sph.com.sg yeonick@sph.com.sg A conceptualiser is a person who comes up with big ideas the concepts that drive the very soul of a company. Someone like Wee Teng Wen or
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      290 10 INTHEMATTEROF THECOMPANIES 50 AND INTHEMATTEROF SEZSIN APOREPTE (INMEMBERS’ UNTAR LIQUID TION) CO.REG. O.2005 402W NNOOTICEOFRESOLUTIONS AAtt an Extraordinar Gener Meeting tthhee Compan held SerangoonNor AAvveenue #05-03,Singapor 5549 on tthhee 30t day July 20 he following RReesolutions dulypassed: tI t It wwsa s as RESOLVED: ASSPECIALRESOLUTIONS (1)That tthhee Compan be wwound
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  • BT-CITIBANK-YOUNG INVESTORS FORUM
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      Lock icon Better, faster and more accurate
      880 12 Researchers from the NUS School of Computing are developing a new generation of media search innovations THE co-existence of search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Baidu is evidence that media search is big business. Multimedia information, in text, image, video or audio format,
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      Lock icon Volunteer extraordinaire
      806 13  -  SMU undergrad Oliver Loke, elected to YMCA World Exco, stresses the need for greater sense of social responsibility among S’pore youths. By Nicholas Yeo campus life By Nicholas Yeo yeonick@sph.com.sg YOUTHS in Singapore are doing more for society, but Oliver Loke laments it’s still not enough. It’s a
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      260 13 Be smart with your finances FANCY becoming the next Warren Buffett or George Soros? Or even the famous Robert Kiyosaki? Then read on. The Young Investors’ Forum, part of the BT-Citibank Tertiary Outreach Programme, isn't another dry page out of your financial textbook. To complement our editorial content, we have
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  • DINING OUT
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      Lock icon Tripe, heart and soul
      773 14  -  New restaurant Cocotte Ground floor, Wanderlust 2 Dickson Road 6298-1188 www.restaurantcocotte.com By Audrey Phoon aphoon@sph.com.sg WHAT’S the most important ingredient in serving up a successful restaurant? As culinary experts are wont to say, it’s not about the number of Michelin stars its chef has collected; nor
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon No common view for climate change deal
      798 15 Latest talks fail to define common target or method to cut greenhouse gases, shows divide among rich, poor nations analysis AP Bonn THE new climate change treaty under negotiation for the past 21/2 years begins with a brief document called “A Shared Vision”.
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      Lock icon BOA estimates litigation losses could hit US$1.4b
      272 15 Reuters Charlotte, North Carolina BANK of America Corp (BOA) projects that its losses from pending litigation could be as high as US$1.4 billion, the company disclosed in its second-quarter report filed on Friday with securities regulators. The bank said its potential losses could
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      Lock icon Downside to spate of firms taken private
      727 16  -  Reduction in good, large firms makes it harder for Bursa to boost foreign shareholding malaysia insight Pauline Ng KL correspondent btworld@sph.com.sg HAVING pitched hard for local and foreign issuers to list on the bourse, Bursa Malaysia can’t be too happy about the spate
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      Lock icon iPhone hardware man Papermaster leaves Apple
      540 16 NYT New York MARK Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of hardware for the company’s flagship iPhone, has left the company in the wake of widely reported problems with the antenna of the recently introduced iPhone 4. It is not clear if Mr Papermaster
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      Lock icon Apec nations agree to boost growth quality
      443 17 Region seeks ways to shift emphasis on economic development from exports to domestic demand AFP Tokyo ASIAN and Pacific countries yesterday agreed to improve the “quality” of their growth and help put the global economy back on track from its crisis. The accord
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      Lock icon Flood-hit Pakistanis face rising food prices
      749 17 AP Islamabad PAKISTANIS grappled with skyrocketing fruit and vegetable prices yesterday caused by floods that have destroyed more than 405,000 hectares of crops and left at least four million people in need of food assistance in the coming months. The rising prices threaten to
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      Lock icon Greenspan calls for repeal of Bush tax cuts
      840 18 Without drastic action to up federal revenue and reduce growth in healthcare costs, investors could make a run on Treasuries NYT New York IT was not enough, it seems, for Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman and a self-described lifelong Republican
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      Lock icon Fourth female US Supreme Court Justice sworn in
      543 18 AP Washington ELENA Kagan was sworn in on Saturday as the 112th person, and fourth woman, to serve on the US Supreme Court, continuing a generational and demographic transformation of the nation’s highest bench. In keeping with tradition, Justice Kagan first took
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      Lock icon KL rejects Jakarta’s minimum wage proposal for maids
      233 19 AFP Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA said yesterday that it could not accept an Indonesian proposal on a minimum wage for its maids amid delays on a working conditions deal following a series of shocking abuse cases. Malaysian human resources minister S Subramaniam said
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      Lock icon China’s savings rate will drop rapidly in coming years: BIS
      519 19 Its population must spend more in order to sustain growth AFP Geneva CHINA’s high savings rate is expected to fall substantially in coming years as its workforce shrinks, the population ages and social security spending increases, a BIS report shows.
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      Lock icon Boom prompts German unions to push for pay hikes
      484 19 Bosses fear dramatic change of strategy could derail recovery AFP Berlin AFTER years of agreeing to moderate pay hikes to safeguard jobs, Germany’s powerful unions are gearing up for a dramatic change of strategy, bidding for wage gains that bosses say
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      Lock icon Graft cases deal blow to Taiwan democracy
      543 20 Scandals involving former president, judges, prosecutors erode island society’s reputation as viable democracy, analysts warn AFP Taipei A FORMER president jailed for graft, a retired head of military police indicted for embezzlement, three top judges accused of taking bribes the list goes on.
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      Lock icon S Korea’s president picks young reformist as prime minister
      532 20 Lee Myung-bak also replaces half his Cabinet in reshuffle aimed at pushing through pro-business reform agenda Reuters Seoul SOUTH Korean President Lee Myung-bak named a young reformist as prime minister yesterday and replaced half his Cabinet in a mid-term reshuffle aimed
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      Lock icon Business outsourcing changing Filipino society
      662 21 Concerns rising over early burnout, high turnover rate, changes in values, diets, and sexual practices, but few other options seen AFP Manila DAYBREAK is happy hour in a world turned upside down at a trendy bar in the Philippines’ financial district, the clientele young and
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      Lock icon Japan seeks to export green technologies for offset credits
      279 21 AFP Tokyo JAPAN is seeking to export low-carbon technology and equipment to nine mostly Asian countries in exchange for “right-to-pollute” credits, a press report said yesterday. The Japanese government has already reached basic agreements with Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and India
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      Lock icon Japan power firms mostly behind CO2 cut goals: survey
      431 21 But traders say firms have enough UN credits to offset lag Reuters Tokyo MOST Japanese power firms are behind self-imposed goals to cut carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, a Reuters survey showed on Friday, but carbon traders said the companies
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  • AVIATION
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      Lock icon Airbus more than doubles 2010 orders
      412 22 Bumper harvest from Farnborough Airshow marred by US$3b of cancelled orders from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Reuters Paris EUROPE’S Airbus said last Friday that it had more than doubled its tally of 2010 orders due to a bumper Farnborough Airshow, however, the pick-up was marred
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      Lock icon Boeing reports loss of 26 aircraft orders
      318 22 AP Dallas BOEING Co has lost 26 orders for new aeroplanes in the past month, including 15 for its new 787 jet that had been ordered by an aircraft-leasing company in the United Arab Emirates. The aircraft maker has now suffered more cancellations
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      Lock icon Spain tourism body seeks end to strike threat
      195 22 Reuters Madrid SPAIN’Stravelcompaniesassociationurgedairtrafficcontrollers on Saturday to accept a government offer of arbitration to avoid a strike that could wreak economic havoc at the height of the tourist season. Talks between Spain’s airport authority AENA and the USCA union over pay and working
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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      289 22 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Ageing old boy with unique odour (11) 10 New start with former American bond (5) 11 Double eagle producing handicap (9) 12 Flog, beating the opposition (9) 13 A kid’s back sponge (5) 14 Nun from the slums is Teresa (6) 16 Excessive butt on one
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  • SHIPPING/AVIATION
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      Lock icon Baltic index rises as iron ore boosts capesize activity
      480 23 Brokers keep watch on moves by drought-hit Russia following its ban on grain exports Reuters London THE Baltic Exchange’s main seafreight index, which tracks rates to ship dry commodities, rose for a second session on Friday as iron ore enquiry bolstered
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    • Article
      Lock icon Air Berlin urged to focus on Frankfurt to provide better links
      311 23 Bloomberg Frankfurt AIR Berlin plc, the German airline that agreed to join the Oneworld alliance last month, should refocus its operations on Frankfurt to provide better links with the flights of its new partners, the airport’s owner said. Oneworld
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      Lock icon Mexicana’s pain could mean US airlines’ gain
      505 23 analysis Reuters Mexico City POSSIBLE bankruptcy for one of Mexico’s two major airlines could benefit US carriers, but the latest shake-up in a troubled air sector is not seen seriously denting the country’s tourism industry for now. Mexicana de Aviacion, saddled with mounting
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  • Article
    Lock icon THE BUSINESS TIMES SHIPPING TIMES
    5615 24 BALISA SHIPPING TRADING PTE LTD 8 Shenton Way, #40-03A, Singapore *****1 Tel: 6345 5700 Fax: 6345 5227 Email: singapore@balisagp.com CR NO. **********0W UK CONTINENT SERVICE U.S.A. SERVICE Destination STXPO TBN Antwerp/UK *Loads Singapore, E./W. Malaysia, Indonesia MIDDLE-EAST SERVICE Destination STXPO TBN New Orleans/Camden *Loads E./W.
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      30 26 Legal services required by shippers owners IJ Can they find your services here in the Shipping Times? THE BUSINESS TIMES TO ADVERTISE, CALL JOE WONG AT 9620 1327 SHIPPING TIMES
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  • SHIPPING
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      Lock icon Tanker owners may suspend leasing
      508 28 Analysts expect others to follow Frontline’s lead until plunge in rental income is reversed Bloomberg London OWNERS of supertankers delivering the world’s seaborne crude oil may emulate industry leader Frontline Ltd and stop leasing the vessels until a plunge in rental income is reversed, shipping
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    • Article
      Lock icon TRANSPORT STOCKS
      278 28 SGX '000 Aug 6 S$ +/-Vol CH Offshore 0.54 unch 706 Chuan Hup Hldg 0.26 0.01 162 Cosco Corp 1.60 -0.03 ***** CWT Ltd 1.01 unch 3961 Ezra Hldgs 1.94 -0.05 5820 First Ship Lea 0.41 -0.01 987 Freight Links 0.06 unch 7000 Grand Banks 0.49 -0.01 7
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  • BizIT
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      Lock icon Outsourcing of IT security soon to be the norm
      606 29  -  Anti-virus vendor Kaspersky sees model fitting well with cloud computing. By Melissa Tan By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg WORRIED about hiring trustworthy technicians to safeguard your important data, or implementing the latest enterprise security features all by yourself? These concerns may seem
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      Lock icon Apple’s iPad finds niche market among Japan’s elderly
      712 29 Bloomberg Tokyo HIKOSABURO Yasuda says he knows a trend when he sees one and plans to buy Apple’s iPad to keep up with junior members in his computer club. Mr Yasuda is 95. “It’s important to always try new things, otherwise you
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      Lock icon Cloud ensures ‘democratisation’
      1248 30 Cloud computing will help address some key issues facing society, says HP Labs boss here. By Amit Roy Choudhury the bizit interview amit@sph.com.sg EVERYONE will have access to cloud computing, predicts Chris Whitney, the newly appointed director of HP Labs in Singapore. He sees the “democratisation” of
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      Lock icon Microsoft ditches controller as game-changer
      581 31  -  It’s set to launch new Kinect product for Xbox 360 which has cameras to ‘see’ players’ gestures. By Victoria Ho By Victoria Ho vhoip@sph.com.sg MICROSOFT hopes dumping the Xbox controller will elevate its console to the No 1 spot in the video games market here.
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    • What’s up
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        Lock icon Stratech names Lim Soon Hock as deputy chairman
        49 31 STRATECH Systems has appointed Lim Soon Hock as its deputy chairman and executive director. Prior to the appointment, Mr Lim served as a non-executive and independent director of the Singapore Exchange-listed company. Stratech develops technologies for defence science and government bodies.
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        Lock icon Red Hat’s Asia-Pacific HQ gets four new senior executives
        101 31 RED Hat has named four senior executives to manage its Singapore-based AsiaPacific headquarters, as the open source technology provider aims for growth in the region. Arun Kumar is the new senior director of business development, a newly created role to expand
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        Lock icon Storage veteran CK Chan joins Isilon as Asia-Pacific VP of sales
        52 31 ENTERPRISE storage vendor Isilon has appointed CK Chan as its new vice-presi- dent of sales for Asia-Pacific. Mr Chan was previously with Data Domain and NetApp. In the region, Isilon has offices in Singapore, Australia, China, India, Japan and
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        Lock icon Software AG picks Mark Edwards
        79 31 SOFTWARE AG has appointed Mark Edwards to be its new CEO for Asia-Pacific and Japan and the Americas. Mr Edwards will be responsible for about 40 per cent of the German software maker’s total revenue. He joined Software AG in 1999 as managing director of
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        Lock icon RIM eyes greater channel reach in the region
        61 31  -  Compiled by Victoria Ho BRIGHTSTAR will distribute Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry products in Singapore and Malaysia. The supply chain management specialist for the wireless industry has an existing relationship with RIM in Europe, the US and Latin America. The new agreement
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      Lock icon The IT consumerisation threat
      948 32  -  Holistic security policy the only way to tackle proliferation of employee-owned endpoints. By Amit Roy Choudhury By Amit Roy Choudhury amit@sph.com.sg A HOLISTIC security policy is needed as the use of popular social networking tools within the enterprise continues to grow, according to Internet security provider
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      Lock icon Xilinx rides communications sector growth in region
      480 32  -  By Victoria Ho vhoip@sph.com.sg Singapore THE rush of modernising Asian economies building up their wireless infrastructure has been a boontoXilinx’sAsia-Pacifichead-quarters in Singapore, according to its senior vice-president, Vincent Tong. To heed the call for new “cutting edge” wireless equipment, the US semiconductor company
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      492 1 BT THE BUSINESS TIMES AUGUST 9 2010 National Day Special REFLECTIONS s Singapore turns 45 today, there is much reason to celebrate. Not least the fact that the economy has weathered well its most severe recession in history, rebounding out of it at record-high growth rates. And this forty-fifth year
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  • BT National Day Special
    • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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        Lock icon Happy birthday Singapore
        5260 2 this week’s topic: What pleases and excites you most about Singapore at 45? What lies ahead? Terry O’Connor CEO Courts Asia HAVING been a guest in this dynamic nation for 17 years, I’ve had the great pleasure of seeing its progressive evolution, and what pleases me most
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      Lock icon trailblazers | in banking
      548 7 trailblazers in banking Peter Seah Chairman DBS Group Holdings I AM a post-War baby, born in 1946. I had to learn three national anthems God Save the Queen, Negara Ku and Majulah Singapura. TheysignifySingapore’spolitical evolution from British colony, to being in Malaysia, to independence. I entered the work force after
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      560 7 Piyush Gupta CEO DBS Group Holdings AS I travel around Asia, the buzz is palpable. Unlike in the West, where many economies remain in the doldrums, policy makers in this part of the world are grappling with a different set of concerns. These include worries about the
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      Lock icon trailblazers | in markets
      677 8 trailblazers in markets Loh Hoon Sun Managing Director Phillip Securities WHEN one surveys the stockbroking landscape, the name Phillip Securities would naturally crop up as a trailblazer in the sector. Founded by executive chairman Lim Hua Min in 1975, it is one of the few broking houses that have stood
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      752 8 Carol Fong CEO CIMB Securities IT has proven to be a metamorphosis for CIMB’s stockbroking arm when it acquired the securities business from Singaporean old-timer GK Goh Holdings. Once a new kid on the block, the top Malaysian investment bank has join the league of top five
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      Lock icon trailblazers | in property
      1071 9 trailblazers in property Kwek Leng Beng Executive Chairman City Developments Limited THE world has changed considerably in the forty-odd years since I started out in business and the rate of change continues to accelerate. I have always enjoyed my life and am constantly refreshed and energised by the people I
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      698 9 Pua Seck Guan Founder and CEO Perennial Real Estate IT has been seven years since the government first announced its master plan for Downtown at Marina Bay, which aims to strengthen Singapore’s position as a distinctive international business and financial hub for trade, living, working and leisure.
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      Lock icon trailblazers | in enterprise
      1119 10 trailblazers in enterprise Richard Eu Group CEO Eu Yan Sang RICHARD EU is the group CEO of Eu Yan Sang International and a third-generation descendent of the late Eu Tong Sen, who was a well-known businessman and philanthropist in Singapore. Although his family had 10 per cent of the business
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      519 10 Ng Gim Choo Founder and Managing Director EtonHouse International Education Group WHEN I set up EtonHouse International Education Group, I knew I should leverage on the “Made-in-Singa-pore” brand, as Singaporeans have long established a very good reputation for being honest, reliable and trustworthy. Parents, corporate partners and
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      Lock icon trailblazers | in telecoms
      818 11 trailblazers in telecoms Leong Keng Thai Deputy CEO and director-general (Telecoms and Post) Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore MARKET liberalisation is a tricky undertaking. And Leong Keng Thai has the daunting job of doing it time and again. As a former director-general of national regulator the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore,
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