The Business Times, 31 May 2011

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  • 23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.00 online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg S|£l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO REGN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 138/08/2010 Tuesday, May 31,2011
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  • 712 1  -  Implementing their internal review may take time for some By LYNETTE KHOO [SINGAPORE] The audit committees of various Sin-gapore-listed Chinese companies or S-chips are scrambling to update the Singapore Exchange (SGX) on their internal reviews before today’s deadline. Though their reports will likely
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  • 818 1  -  With policy changes in the air, latest numbers could represent fork in road for market By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Mass market condo prices have been racing ahead, but a moderation may be around the corner. The NUS Singapore Residential Price Index (SRPI) increased
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  • 143 1 G ST INDEX 3,140.60 (+5.08) G ST INDEX FUTURES 3,141 (+5) G SIMSCI 365.73 (+0.11) H SIMSCI FUTURES 366.20 (-0.20) FOREX US$ S$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.235 (US$/S$ per 1.646 2.033 EURO (US$/S$/E) 1.427 1.762 Foreign currency per US$ S$ YEN 80.80 65.50 RM 3.020 2.446 HK$
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 613 2  -  Business users face 8.35% hike; future electricity tariffs to track gas prices By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA yesterday raised electricity rates by an average 2.23 sen or about 7 per cent to put a lid on the rising subsidy costs,
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    • 291 2  -  By LYNETTE KHOO [SINGAPORE] The High Court rejected an appeal by Han Cheng Fong against the court’s dismissal of his application for summary judgment. Dr Han, former CEO of DBS Land and Fraser Neave, is suing Cleantech Partners (CTP) the
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    • 416 2 Analysts look beyond April’s house price gains MASS market condo prices have been racing ahead, but a moderation may be around the corner. The NUS Singapore Residential Price Index rose 14.1 per cent in April year-on-year for the Non-Central Region, while the index for the Central Region gained
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    • 530 2 It says that Qatar bought rights to stage the 2022 WC Reuters AP [ZURICH] FIFA plunged deeper into crisis yesterday when its general secretary confirmed he had sent a private e-mail to a fellow executive committee member saying that Qatar bought the rights to
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    • 697 6  -  High Court throws out application by MBS club owners to strike out suit By GRACE LEONG [SINGAPORE] Whether swish nightclub Ku De Ta gets to keep its name at Marina Bay Sands will be among key issues to be decided at
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    • 677 6  -  But it says that the allegations are not in contempt of court By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] Singapore’s Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) says it disagrees with allegations made in an article published last week in The Jakarta Globe on the recent proceedings involving
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    • 432 6 No activity detected at Grimsvoetn since 7am on Saturday AFP Bloomberg [REYKJAVIK] The eruption of Iceland’s Grimsvoetn volcano is considered over as there has not been activity there for days, a geologist at Iceland’s Meteorological Office told AFP yesterday. “We can’t see
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 411 7  -  Deals are with Sevan Drilling, not with its troubled Norwegian parent By JAMIE LEE COSCO Corporation says all its four vessel building contracts are with Sevan Drilling and not with its Norwegian parent Sevan Marine. The Singapore-listed company made this distinction in an announcement
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    • 345 7  -  By MICHELLE TAN FAIR value gains of US$5.9 million helped more than double Z-Obee Holdings’ full-year net profit to US$11.4 million from the preceding financial year’s US$5.2 million. The bulk of the US$5.9 million jump stemmed from a US$5.7 million gain in fair value
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    • 167 7 AN eight-week clinical trial of a mobile health monitoring device that can relay 24-hour blood pressure and heartbeat patterns of patients to their healthcare providers was announced yesterday. One hundred patients from Frontier Healthcare Group will wear the monitoring device, BProG2, which will
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    • 299 7  -  By MAXIE AW YEONG CONSTRUCTION and property company Low Keng Huat has clinched a $66.3 million contract awarded by Perennial Real Estate Group to give Chinatown Point a major renovation and face-lift. It will be working on additions and alterations for the
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    • 459 8  -  86% of 73 with March year-end in the black; a few pay special dividends By EMILYN YAP THE last 12 months have been decent for most of the 73 Singapore-listed companies which released results for the financial year ended March 31.
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    • 337 8  -  By MINDY TAN LUM Chang Holdings yesterday announced the early exercise of a put option by Recosia Pte Ltd, an affiliate of GIC Real Estate, which allowed Lum Chang to acquire Reco Sungei Long for a reduced cash consideration of RM106 million (S$43.2 million).
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 83 8 GP Industries’ net profit dived 29.7 per cent to $23.8 million for the year ended March 31, 2011, from $33.85 million for the preceding year. Revenue climbed 25 per cent to $336 million. Gross profit margin fell from 28.1 per cent to 26.8 per cent.
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      • 66 8 NEPTUNE Orient Lines’ (NOL) container shipping volumes increased 9 per cent year on year for the four weeks from April 9 to May 6 to 231,000 forty-foot equivalent units (FEUs). This was due to higher volumes on the intra-Asia and Asia-Europe trade lanes. However, average
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    • 486 8  -  By FELDA CHAY WAREHOUSE owner Global Logistic Properties (GLP) posted a 63 per cent drop in fourth quarter net profit to US$49.2 million from a year ago when it recorded a US$100.2 million fair value gain, as opposed to a fair
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    • 235 8 CAPITALAND yesterday said that it has bought a 65 per cent stake in a company that plans to develop a plot of land in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, into around 800 affordable, or value, homes. CapitaLand, Singapore’s largest property group by market
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    • 190 8 MAINBOARD-listed waste management company En-viro-Hub Holdings said yesterday it is buying the recycling plant of IUT Singapore, which has gone into liquidation. The transaction is being done by Enviro Property, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enviro-Power in which En-viro-Hub Holdings owns a 95 per cent
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    • 200 8 MAINBOARD-LISTED China Environment yesterday announced that its whol-ly-owned subsidiary, Fujian Dongyuan Environmental Protection, secured eight contracts totalling 105.6 million yuan (S$20.1 million). The contracts are from clients in the mining, steel, chemical, and power generation sectors and relate to the design, construction and installation
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    • 392 11  -  This follows US$67m loss last year; revenue soars 162% to US$67m TURNAROUND COMPANIES By MINDY TAN HIGHER revenue helped digital media products maker Contel Corporation return to the black for the year ended March 31, with a net profit of US$1.7 million, after a US$67
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    • 370 11  -  By MICHELLE TAN CHINA Healthcare, formerly known as Econ Healthcare, returned to the black for the full year ended March 31, thanks to the absence this time of impairment losses. Helped by higher revenue, the company registered a net profit of
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    • 272 11 APL, a unit of Neptune Orient Lines, has begun to shut down the engines of docked ships as part of its move to cut some 50,000 pounds of emissions a year in Oakland, California. The process is known as cold-ironing, during which
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    • 340 11  -  By ENYA LIM LAND development, private housing and real-es-tate project business group Yoma Strategic Holdings yesterday reported a net profit of $2.79 million for the year ended March 31, helped by fair value gains of an associated company. The year’s net earnings were more than
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 596 10  -  Stocks were drifting lower in thin volume as the STI rose just 5.08 points to 3,140.6. STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent THE closure of Wall Street yesterday for Memorial Day meant that trading in local stocks, already hit by thin liquidity for many weeks
      Source: Bloomberg  -  596 words
    • 110 10 Stock name Close Change Stock name Close Change CapMallsAsia 1.630 +0.020 CapitaLand 3.090 -0.020 CapitaMall 1.960 +0.020 CityDev 11.100 ComfortDelGro 1.440 DBS Grp 14.780 +0.060 F&N 6.100 +0.060 GLP 1.990 +0.010 Genting SP 1.990 -0.010 Golden Agri 0.695 -0.005 HK Land 7.410 +0.010 JMH 52.240 +1.320
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    • 186 10 MAIN SDQ TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 6 5 6 0 0 0 6 5 6 Manufacturing 30 59 64 3 5 10 33 64 74 Commerce 17 14 27 2 3 2 19 17 29 Tpt/Stor/Comms 10 15 20
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    • 121 10 TURNOVER (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 17,816 17,816 42,994 42,994 Manufacturing 159,384 12,433 171,817 138,640 797 139,437 Commerce 91,507 7,180 98,687 95,066 1,382 96,448 Tpt/Stor/Comms 73,211 2,227 75,438 133,718 245 133,964 Finance 10,176 10,176 106,746 106,746 Construction 27,022 2,503 29,525 11,498
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    • 65 10 May 30 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -380.00-159.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -48.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -38.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 755.93 -0.07 FTSE ST Small Cap 529.86 -1.92 FTSE ST All Share 768.88 +0.78 FTSE ST China Top 261.14 -1.73 FTSE ST China 298.77 -1.89 FTSE ST
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    • 59 10 VOLUME Golden Agri 79,494,000 NexGenSCom 40,945,000 Genting SP 34,369,000 Dyna-Mac 34,195,000 Cosco Corp 28,436,000 Nam Cheong 26,795,000 Artivision 23,364,000 MapletreeCom 21,929,000 IndoAgri 17,980,000 Transcu Grp 17,830,000 VALUE($) IS MSCI India 100 122,374,788 Genting SP 68,815,440 Golden Agri 56,019,580 Cosco Corp 55,834,530 UOB 40,108,890 IndoAgri 29,735,960 Olam 29,598,080
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
      • 497 10 May 30 close CIMB RESEARCH THE three telcos turned in mixed performances as StarHub disappointed while M1 and SingTel fell in line with expectations. The key events in Q1 CY11 were surprise capital management at SingTel and margin compression for the two larger telcos. We remain “underweight” on
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      • 305 10  -  Compiled by LYNN KAN May 30 close: US$0.95 DBS Group Research, May 30 THROUGHPUT volumes on track with our projections. Based on reported numbers from Cosco-Pacific (HPH Trust does not disclose monthly operating statistics), throughput volumes at HPHT’s Cosco-Hong Kong International Terminal (HIT) and Yantian Port
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      • 124 10 Ebit earnings before interest and tax Ebitda earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation EPS earnings per share FY fiscal/financial year H1, H2 first or second half m-o-m month on month P/B price/book value (ratio) PE price/earnings (ratio) Q1, Q2, Q3 first, second, or third quarter q-o-q quarter-on-quarter ROE
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    • 544 10 CURRENCIES Reuters [LONDON] The euro eased yesterday, pulling away from a key chart resistance as uncertainty over how Greece’s debt crisis will be tackled kept investors on edge, while the dollar stabilised following a slide late last week. With volumes low due
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    • 114 10 BY CENTS CLOSE UP JMH 5224 162.9 2.6 GLD 10US$ ***** 96.3 0.5 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 3235 71.6 1.8 Lyxor MS India 10US$ 1598 32.1 1.7 Jardine C&C 4000 32.0 0.8 UOB 5.05%NCPS 100 ***** 30.0 0.3 DBXT MSINDIA 10US$ 1010 24.7 2.0 JSH 2950 24.7 0.7 DBS Bk
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    • 122 10 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN DBXT Nifty 10US$ ***** -51.8 -0.3 DBXT SPASX200 10US$ 3621 -42.0 -0.9 STXPO 100 870 -32.0 -3.5 UOB 1928 -18.0 -0.9 DBXT MSAsExJp 10US$ 3406 -16.0 -0.4 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 4191 -13.6 -0.3 Lyxor Malaysia 10US$ 956 -13.6 -1.1 DBXT MSPacExJp 10US$ 463 -11.1
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 620 12  -  18% of businesses here plan to use it as trade settlement currency by this year By MICHELLE TAN MORE businesses in China are planning to use the yuan in cross-border trades going forward, says a survey by HSBC. Not surprisingly, the heightened interest in
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    • 1610 12  -  By ANNA TEO “IT is hard to describe the feeling when one works towards a day for years, and finally is standing on the banks of the Rubicon. Our people have been tireless, rooted in a sense that our efforts will bring about some
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    • 488 12  -  SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL By CHRISTOPHER LIM WHO would have thought that two composers of grand symphonies would be connected by the humblest of folk songs? Yet, that’s the thread that runs through the programme of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO), which will be
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    • 463 12  -  But half of commissioned double-bill was muddied and confused near the end By EDITH PODESTA The writer is head of acting at LaSalle College of the Arts IN The Middle, a double-bill commissioned by the Singapore Arts Festival featured two emerging choreographers: Foo Yun Ying
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    • 633 13  -  They are the most optimistic in Asia about the job market By MICHELLE QUAH EMPLOYEES are likely to continue calling the shots in the job market in the near future, judging by the proportion of professionals thinking of changing jobs in the
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    • 536 13  -  Bank guarantee may have been forged, director tells CAD By NISHA RAMCHANDANI IN the latest in a litany of woes besieging the Changi Motorsports Hub (CMH) project, a complaint has been lodged with the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) alleging that a bank guarantee
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  • SME Inc
    • 885 14  -  Software company Friar Tuck gives organisations scheduling solutions that optimise their resources, reports IDAYU SUPARTO IDAYU SUPARTO LIKE the character in Robin Hood that software company Friar Tuck is named after, its director Alan Sevugan says it aims to be sought after by others for
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    • 902 15  -  Furniture from Haleywood has brand cachet because the company is managed out of S’pore, reports CLEMENT QUEK CLEMENT QUEK ANY furniture manufacturer who says he has a perfect production record with no furniture defect is either untruthful or very new in the business. Defects
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    • 814 16  -  A strong sense of purpose is needed for successful succession planning at Asian family businesses COMMENTARY By ROGER LOO, JOSEPHINE TAM The writers are director and consultant respectively of strategic advisory services at BDO Consultants Pte Ltd. They are accredited family business advisers with Family Business
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    • 429 16  -  By TEH HOOI LING BEST World, which sank into the red with its firstquarter results, was the biggest drag on our portfolio in the last five trading sessions to yesterday. It slumped by 13.3 per cent, after reporting a loss of $725,000
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    • 439 16 ASK NUS PROFS Q: I run a small business with just three staff. Since working together we have had a cordial relationship. Lately, I’ve been wanting to add another member to the team as business has improved. However, the staff seems rather resistant to
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 771 18  -  Bearish OECD views on aftermath fuel fears over global economic impact By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE forecast last week by the OECD that Japan’s economy will contract by nearly one per cent this year has fuelled fears that the country’s recovery from the
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    • 444 18 Momentum has braked in the US, Europe and Asia Reuters [BERLIN] Add a manufacturing slowdown to the growing risks facing the world economy. High input prices, supply chain disruptions from the tsunami disaster in Japan and slowing demand from China have combined to
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    • 387 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Mexican pension funds are stepping up their purchases of longermaturity bonds at the fastest pace since December as inflation holds near a five-year low. Pensioners, the second- largest fixed-income investors in the country, boosted their holdings of fixed-rate bonds
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    • 444 18 Stronger dollar hit earnings for exporters, while flooding in Queensland hurt miners Reuters [SYDNEY] Australian company profits fell in the first quarter as a stronger local dollar dampened earnings for exporters and massive flooding in Queensland hit coal miners, painting a soggy picture for
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 354 19 Spreading false allegations of graft ‘cowardly’, he says AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday angrily denounced the media and users of social networking websites for spreading false allegations against his embattled party. The ex-general lashed out at those spreading allegations of graft
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    • 433 19 Reuters [NUSA DUA, Indonesia] India will surpass Japan to become the leading buyer of Indonesian coal this year, taking as much as 60 million tonnes to help meet India’s burgeoning power demand, the Indonesian Coal Mining Association said yesterday. India will
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    • 804 19 Budget constraints, bond market could force hard option on Indonesia, M’sia Reuters [SINGAPORE] Indonesia and Malaysia, where subsidies consume a big share of public spending, have a narrow window of opportunity to pare back politically popular fuel subsidies on their own schedule before
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 527 20 It wants to have 10m users in 2 years from 300,000 now and raise US$5m by end June Reuters [SHANGHAI] In a country where being connected is seen as crucial, Ushi, China’s answer to LinkedIn, expects explosive growth over the next few years
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    • 439 20 The monsoon is expected to advance in the two southern provinces in a couple of days Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India’s monsoon, which represents more than 70 per cent of its annual rainfall, landed two days early, potentially boosting production of rice and
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  • WORLD
    • 496 22 No-confidence motion in the works to force him to quit or call snap election Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese voters overwhelmingly want to replace Prime Minister Naoto Kan but about half want him to stay until the worst of the nation’s nuclear crisis
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    • 348 22 AFP [BERLIN] Germany yesterday announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022, the government agreed yesterday. Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen announced the decision, which
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    • 340 22 AFP [SYDNEY] Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday intensified her campaign for a carbon tax as 140 prominent citizens joined calls backing her divisive proposal. Australians are among the world’s worst per capita carbon polluters, but plans for the tax aimed at cutting
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    • 492 23 But call for a probe into her role in a legal case in 2008 casts a shadow Reuters [PARIS] G-8 leaders all back French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde’s bid to run the IMF, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday, as the candidate
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    • 469 23 Reuters [MEXICO CITY] Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim may have to wait for years to enter his domestic television market now that the government has rejected his bid so close to next year’s presidential election. Mr Slim must go back to the drawing board
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    • 231 23 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Samsung Electronics Co sought a court order to force Apple Inc to disclose iPhone and iPad models under development, claiming it needs the information to defend against allegations of copying. Samsung must see the final versions of the iPhone and
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    • 523 24 Causes of the last one haven’t been resolved yet Bloomberg [TOKYO] Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group, said another financial crisis is inevitable because the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved. “There is definitely going to be
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    • 415 24 Reuters [SEOUL] A close aide to South Korean President Lee Myung Bak was arrested yesterday on charges of taking bribes from a now-suspend-ed savings bank, in a case that analysts say signals the start of electoral mudslinging and could stall policymaking. The corruption
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    • 559 24 Opposition demand for tax cuts complicates bid to avert default AP [ATHENS] The European Union is working on a second bailout package for Greece in a race to release vital loans next month and avert the risk of the eurozone country defaulting, EU
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    • 400 25 Some were launched offshore against big resource firms and other businesses Reuters [CANBERRA] Australia’s government urged companies yesterday to tighten vigilance over cyber attacks launched offshore against some of the world’s biggest resource firms and other businesses, warning high-tech threats were intensifying. Lockheed
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    • 290 25 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan’s crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a “dead zone” remains 25 years after the reactor in the former Soviet Union exploded. Soil samples in areas
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    • 408 25 REUTERS Reuters BREAKINGVIEWS [NEW YORK] Microsoft has missed too many opportunities under Steve Ballmer’s stewardship. It’s a fair criticism reignited this week by hedge fund boss David Einhorn’s call for the software giant’s CEO to step down. But that alone doesn’t necessarily mean he
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    • 450 26 Outbreak hits other European countries, mostly due to travel from Germany AFP [BERLIN] Germany called crisis talks yesterday over warnings that an outbreak of E coli bacteria poisoning, which is believed to have already left 10 dead, was still spreading. Some two
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    • 364 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] Adidas AG, the world’s second-largest sporting-goods maker, plans to use the London 2012 Olympics to bridge a gap with Nike Inc in the UK capital that gives its larger competitor overall market leadership in the country. Adidas controls about 15
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    • 2187 26 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME Years Ended December 31, 2010 and 2009 (Expressed in millions of Rupiah, unless otherwise stated) CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS December 31, 2010 and 2009 (Expressed in millions of Rupiah, unless otherwise stated) INCOME AND EXPENSES FROM OPERATIONS 2010 2009 ASSETS 2010 2009 Cash 9,521,713 8,867,881 Current Accounts
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 502 28 EDITORIAL BY all objective assessments, the Indonesian rupiah should be stronger than what it is now 8,525 rupiah to the US dollar. Yet, at a conference held over the weekend in Singapore, the theme that kept recurring was the country’s brilliant fundamentals.
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    • 801 28  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON IT has come to this. A year after rescuing Greece from default, Europe is staring into the abyss. The bailout has proved insufficient. Greece needs more money, and it can’t borrow from private markets where it
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    • 1067 28  -  If only the pundits were right when they say the continent’s time has finally come By ANDRES VELASCO The writer is a former Chilean minister for finance THE Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) declared last July that this would be “Latin America’s Decade”. A couple of months
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    • 1342 29  -  The Act is relevant to Singapore firms that have business in Britain or dealings with firms that have business there By KOBUS BEUKES, SIM GEOK KWONG The writers are director and assistant manager respectively of forensic services at Deloitte Singapore and South-east Asia. They
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    • 751 29  -  WILLIAM PESEK JR The writer is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. TEN weeks after the earthquake and tsunami, it’s tempting to give Japan a new name: Tepco Nation. What else is the world to think? Tokyo Electric Power
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  • AVIATION
    • 437 30 Arrangers say early talk indicates pricing of 350 basis points over midswaps Reuters [DUBAI] Emirates, Dubai’s flagship carrier, is eyeing a benchmark five-year dollar bond with early talk indicating pricing of 350 basis points over midswaps, the lead arrangers said yesterday. Emirates, one of
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    • 3218 30 CITY FLIGHT ETA FLIGHT ETD Abu Dhabi SQ455 1300 KU6458 1415 SQ458 1415 Adelaide LH9771 1745 LH9770 2350 SQ278 1745 SQ279 2350 VS7278 1745 VS7279 2350 9W4081 1820 AF8087 1820 AY5012 1820 BA7381 1820 JL7892 1820 MU8440 1820 QF81 1820 Ahmedabad NH6292 1855 SQ530 1855 Amsterdam
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    • 352 30 Bloomberg [AMMAN] Iraqi Airways will appeal a court order to freeze its bank accounts in Jordan following a lawsuit by Kuwait Airways Corp, Karim al-Nuri, a spokesman for the Iraqi Minister of Transport, said. “We are preparing to appeal the Jordanian court order,”
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    • 625 30 The 48% rise in fuel prices costs airlines US$330 per pax AP [NEW YORK] To fly someone from New York to Los Angeles and back, airlines spend close to US$330 these days just on fuel. That’s a 48 per cent increase from
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 366 30 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 A Parisian wearing shoes shows off (7) 5 Sound wood on a new item for collectors (7) 9 Temporary work pass on the way (7) 10 Talk covering venue for carnival transport (7) 11 Put a coat on and got drunk! (9) 12 Person abroad once
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  • SHIPPING
    • 261 32 Bloomberg [ISTANBUL] Yildirim Holding AS, a Turkish container port operator that owns 20 per cent of France’s CMA CGM SA, has agreed to buy 50 per cent of Malta Freeport Terminals from CMA CGM for 200 million euros (S$352.6 million). Yildirim
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    • 565 32 But it will have a severe effect on roads, especially those built on ice AFP [PARIS] Global warming will have a devastating effect on roads in the Arctic, but open up tantalising routes for shipping, according to a study published on
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    • 286 32 Reuters [HAMBURG] Water levels on the Rhine and Danube rivers in Germany remain low after hot, dry weather and some vessels are still sailing 80 per cent empty, traders said yesterday. An exceptionally dry spring in Germany has kept water levels low
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    • 278 32 SGX '000 May 30 S$ +/-Vol CH Offshore 0.45 unch 56 Chuan Hup Hldg 0.25 unch 259 Cosco Corp 1.93 -0.01 ***** CWT Ltd 1.21 unch 495 Ezra Hldgs 1.57 0.02 1554 First Ship Lea 0.38 0.01 460 Freight Links 0.06 -0.01 675 Grand Banks unch unch 0
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    • 191 32 SOUTH EAST ASIA AND SOUTH ASIA AUSTRAUIA TRADE FACIEITATION AGREEMENT NOTICE TO TRADE BUNKER ADJUSTMENT FACTOR (BAF) In order to reflect the current costs of operations, we have updated the base bunker rate and other parameters for the monthly review of BAF. The current methodology to calculate BAF, however, remained
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 8317 33 Transaction date: May 30 52-wks Last Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net M Cap High Low Company Sale +/-(‘000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 21 14.5 8Telecom 16 15.5 16.5 7.8 3.8 3.4 76.6 12 4.5 A-Sonic 7.5 -1 866 8 7.5 7.5 8
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    • 1594 34 52-wks Last Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net M Cap High Low Company Sale +/-(‘000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 6 4 t AA Grp 4 3.5 4.5 19 3.9 202 145 t APStrategic 161 153 159 95.5 1.5 0.5 t Advanced System 0.5
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    • 9812 34 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS UNIT TRUSTS APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund Cl A!** 1.37/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!** 1.11/ AXA Life Secure Ascent 2020 Fund 0.*****/0.***** AXA Wealth Mgt S'pore Pte Ltd AXA WM -Talents Fund 0.74/ Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Limited American Opp 0.6586/ Asian Credit Fund
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    • 240 34 52-Wk Last Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 56 34 AVJennings A49 49.5 50.5 3.6 7.1 3.9 127.6 55 16 Genting HK US$ US41 -0.5 1969 41.5 40.5 40.5 41 2699.7 21 10.5 Over&Gen A15
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    • 835 34 52-Wk Last Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 124 108 ABF SG Bond ETF 113 113 515.8 1077 761 CIMBAsean40 100US$ US1035 1046 1055 41.4 350 276 DBS STI ETF 100 318 +1 53
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 374 35 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr May 27 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminary 919.5 0.5 2.4 0.2 1.0 0.9 4.6 EAFE Preliminary 788.9 0.5 -1.5 0.6 -0.5 1.4 3.0 Europe Preliminary 1179.1 0.7
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    • 180 35 May 30 Bid $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.01 0 1-month 5/16 1/16 2-months 3/8 1/8 3-months 7/16 3/16 Overnight mode: 0.0625 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.23 0.13 1 month 0.28 0.18 2 months 0.33 0.23 3 months 0.38 0.28 6 months 0.48 0.38 9 months 0.70 0.50
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    • 22 35 May 30 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.2342 1.2352 2-months 1.2342 1.2352 3-months 1.2341 1.2352 6-months 1.2339 1.2350 Source: OCBC
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    • 121 35 May 30 As at 9am Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Sell Buy Aust dollar 1.364 1.287 Can dollar 1.287 1.238 Euro 1.798 1.729 Sterling pound 2.074 1.995 NZ dollar 1.042 0.993 US dollar 1.253 1.205 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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    • 28 35 May 30 Sett Open High Sett STI May 3141 SIMSCI May 366.3 368.5 366.2 Taiwan May 312.0 313.5 312.3 Source: MF Global (S) Pte Ltd
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    • 66 35 May 27 May KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Jun 11 3527 3544 3556 3527 1092 4367 Jul 11 3483 3490 3503 3479 2540 ***** Aug 11 3440 3438 3454 3424 ***** ***** Sep 11 3416
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    • 455 35 May 30 May OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES Jun11 99.7350 0 1789 Sep11 99.6650 0 5755 Dec11 99.6050 0 3123 Mar12 99.5250 0 1677 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES Jun11 99.6700 99.6700 99.6700 99.6700 0 6003 Sep11 99.6700 99.6700 99.6700 99.6675 0 1466 Dec11 99.6700 0
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    • 163 35 May 30 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Close Volume O/I Month High Low Sett (lots) (lots) Jun 11 518.5 514.9 518.5 42 238 Jul 11 517.0 513.0 517.0 11 102 Aug 11 70 Sep 11 507.0 507.0 507.0 8 305 Oct 11 496.0 496.0 496.0
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    • 77 35 May 30 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue Maturity Yesterday's Day's code Bid High Low 3-Month BQ*****X 01.09.2011 0.33 0.33 0.28 1-Year BY*****X 02.05.2012 0.42 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0V 1.625 01.04.2013 102.16 5-Year N*****0W 1.125 01.04.2016 100.14 10-Year NX*****X
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    • 108 35 May 27 May SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Jul 11 1379.75 1384.75 1394.25 1376.00 Aug 11 1375.75 1381.00 1390.00 1372.50 Sep 11 1372.00 1377.00 1383.50 1368.00 Nov 11 1368.50 1372.50 1380.50 1364.75 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs; US cent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Jul 11
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    • 77 35 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS May 27 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) 114.55 -0.30 WTI (Near Mth) 100.63 0.37 Dubai (1-Mth F) 109.21 0.82 Tapis blend 121.27 0.80 Minas 118.67 0.80 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha 106.94 0.16 Jet Kerosene 128.50 0.80 US$/barrel Opec Oil
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    • 2819 35 BONDS, WARRANTS EXTENDED SETTLEMENT Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left Asia-Pacific Strategic W*****6 25 1 150 9 6.44 36 ASJ Hldgs W*****1 1.5 500 1 4 22 3.00 9 AlliedTech W*****2 2 1 4 30 Asia Water Tech Ltd W*****8 3.5
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    • 462 35 May 30 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 1.044 6.936 0.749 8.321 48.208 91.394 0.865 11.552 3.229 1.308 91.768 46.320 1.321 7.382 0.912 30.828 32.449 0.650 1.070 Canada 0.958 6.643
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    • 85 35 May 30 (US$) (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 0.***** 9 mths 0.***** 0.***** 12 mths 0.***** 0.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 9 mths 0.***** 12 mths
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    • 156 35 May 30 Against US$ Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.3196 1.3214 1.0692 1.0698 Canadian dollar 1.2638 1.2654 1.0240 1.0245 Euro 1.7615 1.7631 1.4272 1.4274 NZ dollar 1.0080 1.0113 0.8167 0.8187 Sterling pound 2.0315 2.0338
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    • 138 35 GOLD (US$/oz) May 27 May 30 Hong Kong 1529.30 1538.60 May 26 May 27 London 1517.92 1532.50 1518.81 1533.25 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR May 30 (S$) Selling Buying Kilobar 65,421.94 ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Selling Buying 1gm 147 61 5gm 416 305 10gm 743 610 20gm
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    • 69 35 May 27 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2619.00 2557.00 3 months 2625.00 2562.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 9188.25 9010.00 3 months 9199.00 9020.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2524.00 2511.50 3 months 2505.00 2491.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash *****.00 *****.00 3 months *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash *****.00
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    • 82 35 May 27 COCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev High/Low Jul 11 1813 1849 1860/1805 Sep 11 1836 1873 1884/1828 Dec 11 1864 1900 1911/1855 Mar 12 1891 1926 1936/1881 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Prev High/Low May 11 2575 2581 2593/2578 Jul 11 2594 2600 2607/2576 Sep 11 2632 2636 2642/2613 Nov 11
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  • PROPERTY
    • 967 36  -  Friendly policies, affordable pricing, living standards cited as pull factors By GEORGE JOSEPH WORLD-CLASS city living has come to Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian capital is dotted with new, ameni-ty-filled, chic apartments and the city has never been as cosmopolitan and vibrant as it is now.
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    • 319 37 It is based on the 400-year-old novel Journey to the West, says developer Bloomberg [BEIJING] Property developer Zhonghong Real Estate Co plans to spend 10 billion yuan (S$1.9 billion) building a “monkey kingdom” theme park in Beijing based on the 400-year-old
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    • 392 37 Charter Hall Office, major shareholders at odds over returns Reuters [SYDNEY] New York-based investment firm Orange Capital LLC wants to replace the management of Australian property trust Charter Hall Office Reit and plans to call a shareholder meeting to vote on the
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    • 359 37 Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] New Zealand’s housing market will recover slowly this year as record-low interest rates bolster consumers’ views that prices will keep rising, ASB Bank Ltd said, citing the results of a quarterly survey. The proportion of respondents expecting higher
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    • 437 38 Austral View in Tanjong Rhu goes for $81 m and a Hillview plot, $45m AT least two freehold residential development sites have been transacted recently. Austral View at Tanjong Rhu, on a 30,540 square foot site, was sold for $81 million through a collective
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    • 355 38 Reuters [LONDON] House prices in England and Wales dropped at their fastest annual pace in over 11/2 years in May as demand fell for the first time since January, a survey showed yesterday. Property research company Hometrack said prices were 3.7
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    • 284 39 Deals set to slide 7% on govt cooling measures, they say Xinhua [BEIJING] Analysts said Chinese home prices are likely to fall by more than 10 per cent this year, due to the government’s prudent monetary policy and other
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    • 302 39 DRAGON Mansion, a freehold residential development located on the fringe of the Central Business District, is up for collective sale with an indicative price of $150-156 million, or $1,340-1,392 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr). Sole marketing agent Jones Lang
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    • 471 39  -  Govt hopes to help young couples wanting to live near their parents By EMILYN YAP THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) could be launching more new flats in mature estates next year to help young couples live near their parents, said National Development
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    • 249 36 JONES LANG lasalle for SALE BY PUBLIC TENDER Jones Lang LaSalle Property Consultants Pte Ltd Agency Licence No. L*****26E Prime Freehold Redevelopment Site with CBDI Seaview Site Area: 3,639.5 sq.m 39,176 sq.ft (approx) Zoned residential use, plot ratio 2.8 (up to 36 storeys) Short drive to CBD IRs Walking distance
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  • INFINITE SPACES
    • 1046 40  -  S’pore landlords go regional with tenants they are familiar with to help anchor their presence in new geographies, reports UMA SHANKARI UMA SHANKARI BUSINESS space providers are working overtime to take established tenants with them when they break into new markets. The strategy benefits both
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    • 80 40 Space to be What would you like your space to be? When you step into a business space developed by Ascendas, such.;as*the Singapore Science Park, International Tech Park Bangalore and Dalian Ascendas IT Park, you step into a sanctuary for ideas, creativity and innovation. This is the unparalleled business lifestyle
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