The Business Times, 24 July 2012

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1 36 The Business Times
  • 25 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.00 online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg SfSl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO R GN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 120/08/2011 Tuesday, July 24, 2012
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  • 841 1  -  Its debt-laden regions may spark national bailout; Greece exit talk surfaces again By NEIL BEHRMANN in London EUROPEAN stock markets and the euro slumped on a confluence of bad news about Spain and Greece. Such were the worries that Spanish ten-year bond
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 110 1 HST INDEX 2,982.49 (-33.04) HST INDEX FUTURES 2,978 (-32) HSIMSCI 343.85 (-4.95) HSIMSCI FUTURES 343.50 (-6.60) us$ s$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.259 (US$/S$ per 1.556 1.959 EURO (US$/S$/E) 1.210 1.523 Foreign currency per US$ S$ YEN 78.00 62.00 RM 3.173 2.520 HK$ 7.757 6.161 BAHT 31.78 25.24 RUPIAH
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    • 17 1 SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 6.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 14.202 TAIWAN 5.036 JAPAN 1.475 Source: Bloomberg
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  • 954 1  -  By TEH SHI NING [SINGAPORE] Inflation is still not coming down and appears to have hit poorest households hardest in the first half of this year. Policymakers expect inflation to moderate in the second half of the year after June’s rebound to 5.3
    Source: Department of Statistics  -  954 words
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    • 150 1 PROPERTY S’pore ranks 18 in global retail rents PAGE 30 COMPANIES JB Foods makes debut with up to 40% gain PAGE 6 COMMENTARY To help or not to help? PAGE 23 Giving solutions for dressing up buildings SME Inc I PAGE 12 The continuously innovating mindset Productivity Matters I PAGE
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    • 10 1 MALAYSIA NEWS Capital flight hits RM893b, research shows PAGE 15
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 603 2 Spain bears bad news to sink the markets EUROPEAN stock markets and the euro slumped on a confluence of bad news about Spain and Greece. Such were the worries that Spanish 10-year bond yields spiked a quarter of a percentage point to a worrying 7.56 per cent in
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    • 692 2  -  More twists in saga possible with Kirin said to be mulling competing bid By EMILYN YAP [SINGAPORE] Shares in Fraser and Neave (F&N) and its unit, Asia Pacific Breweries (APB), surged yesterday, after Heineken NV offered $7.5 billion to acquire the
      Source: Bloomberg  -  692 words
    • 523 2  -  Accepting rent does not mean landlord agrees on extension By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] In a ruling which has implications in landlord and tenant agreements, including commercial and residential leasing arrangements, the High Court last week ruled that a tenant cannot assume that the landlord has
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    • 604 2  -  By JAMIE LEE [SINGAPORE] A clash between two Asian corporate bigwigs played out in Singapore’s High Court yesterday, as the arbitration process used to settle terms behind a failed pay-TV joint venture between Malaysia’s Ananda Krishnan and Indonesia’s James Riady came under contest. Mr Krishnan,
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    • 475 4  -  S’pore the largest investor to date, with total RM4.56b committed by Dec ’11 By MALMINDERJIT SINGH [SINGAPORE] Iskandar Malaysia continues to attract new investments in 2012 despite the tumultuous global economic climate, with Singapore emerging as the largest foreign investor in the
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    • 648 4 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China’s growth may slide to 7.4 per cent this quarter from a year earlier, an adviser to the nation’s central bank said, underscoring Premier Wen Jiabao’s warning that the economy’s difficulties may “persist for a while”. The possibility of
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    • 490 4  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY By in Tokyo INTERVENTION by Japan in the foreign exchange markets to halt the runaway appreciation of the yen appeared all but inevitable yesterday, after Prime Minister Yoshihiro Noda met Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Masaaki Shirakawa over breakfast and
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 476 5  -  Foreign patient market still growing amid competitive local hospital scene By NISHA RAMCHANDANI RAFFLES Medical Group posted a 6.8 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit to $12.42 million for the second quarter to June 30 as revenue rose 14.9 per cent
      BLOOMBERG  -  476 words
    • 245 5 Bloomberg [LONDON] DBS Group Holdings Ltd’s US$7 billion bid for Bank Danamon Indonesia will probably go through under the country’s new bank ownership rules, according to Fitch Ratings. “They’ve taken a fairly pragmatic approach with respect to regulations on ownership,” Mark
      Bloomberg  -  245 words
    • 562 5  -  We need more time to execute changes safely: OpenNet By VICTORIA HO STARHUB is still prodding the regulator to be harder on OpenNet, with the latter on the defensive. Following the Infocomm Development Authority’s (IDA) decision to raise requirements on OpenNet, StarHub
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    • 457 5 Move comes after bookbuilding for IPO extended twice last week AFP Reuters [MUMBAI] Shares in India’s Reliance Communications slid nearly 4 per cent yesterday after it put off plans for a listing of up to US$1 billion by its undersea cable arm Flag because
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    • 422 5 REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS RELIANCE Communications just can’t seem to catch a break. The Indian telco has suffered another big setback in its attempt to shrink its US$7 billion debt mountain, after failing to drum up sufficient interest for a US$1 billion listing of its
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    • 373 6  -  Counter closes 10% over IPO price; it’s day’s top active with 152m shares traded By KENNETH FOO MALAYSIAN cocoa-ingredi-ent producer JB Foods made a strong debut on the Singaporean market yesterday, with its shares closing 10 per cent or three cents
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    • 312 6  -  By JASMINE NG KEPPEL Shipyard has won three conversion contracts worth a total of $103 million, it said yesterday. The Keppel Corp subsidiary’s first contract was awarded by PTSC Asia Pacific for the conversion of a tanker to a floating production storage and offloading
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    • 423 6  -  By LYNN KAN THE trustee manager for First Ship Lease Trust declared no distributions the first ‘dry’ quarter for unitholders that will last 12 months till June 2013, when its lenders agreed to relax FSL Trust’s loan covenants. But CEO of FSL Trust
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    • 307 6 ShareInvestor A SUBSIDIARY OF Sfh Straits Trading Acquires Rendezvous Grand Hotel Melbourne Straits Trading bolstered its Australian portfolio of hotels to three with its recent acquisition of Rendezvous Grand Hotel Melbourne for A$61 million. The acquisition of the 100-year-old Melbourne property is part of Straits Trading’s hospitality
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    • 426 6  -  By TEH SHI NING CHINA Hongxing Sports’ special auditor found that the company overstated FY2010 cash and bank balances by 1.15 billion yuan, while payments were made without board approval at two key subsidiaries. Trading of shares in the company has been suspended
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    • 382 6  -  By CONRAD TAN THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has made changes to its derivatives clearing rules to protect its derivatives market in the event of multiple defaults of its clearing members at times of financial stress. The new rules clarify each clearing member’s liabilities if another
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    • 781 6 US market for junk bonds hits US$1.01t, up 59% from 2009 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Private-equity (PE) firms from Blackstone Group LP to Carlyle Group LP that fuelled an expansion in the market for junk bonds and loans during the leveraged buyout
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    • 475 9  -  Companies stronger after restructuring, cost reduction and new investments By WANG XIN MIN US equities are still trending upwards despite weak macroeconomic data due to the strength of US corporations, and are expected to continue doing so, according to Christian Preussner, head of international
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 56 9 ORCHARD Parade Holdings has purchased a 33 per cent stake in FEO Asset Management, the proposed manager of Far East Hospitality Reit, for $330,000. It has also acquired a 33 per cent interest in FEO Hospitality Trust Management, the proposed manager of Far
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      • 90 9 TIANJIN Zhong Xin Pharmaceutical Group Corporation said it expects to report a 50-70 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit for the fiscal half year ended June 30. The company expects to record a gain on the disposal of its subsidiary
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      • 73 9 CHINA-BASED heat transfer technology specialist Sunpower Group Limited has signed a contract worth 48.9 million yuan (S$9.67 million) with Hubei Fertiliser Company. Under the contract, its Jiangsu subsidiary will supply two coupling reactors for a glycol production demonstration unit with an annual capacity of 200,000
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      • 110 9 UNITED Envirotech Ltd (UEL) said its subsidiary, United Envirotech Water Co Ltd (Changyi Co), has acquired two industrial wastewater treatment plants in Changyi City, in Shandong province, China. The Phase I capacities of the plants are 40,000 cubic metres per day and 30,000 cubic
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      • 38 9 SWEE Hong Limited has secured a $12.8 million contract from the Land Transport Authority. Under the contract, Swee Hong will widen Upper Paya Lebar Road from Upper Serangoon Road to Bartley Road.
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      • 41 9 MUN Siong Engineering expects to report a net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2012, on the back of lower business activity, rising operating costs, as well as margins driven down by keen competition.
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      • 42 9 LORENZO International warned yesterday that it is expecting a net loss for the six months ended June 30, due to poorer export sales, weak demand for furniture in Malaysia and Taiwan and the stronger Singapore dollar.
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      • 66 9 DIGILAND has appointed listed resources firm Abterra’s chairman, Cai Sui Xin, and chief executive, Lau Yu, as its new executive chairman and vice-chairman respectively. Digiland said that it has “identified the coal and coke business as a feasible new business line to ride on
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    • 300 9  -  By TEO SI JIA THANKS to the recognition of a deferred disposal gain of $58.2 million, Baker Technology found itself comfortably in the black for the second quarter ended June 30. The group yesterday reported a net profit of $61.33 million for the
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 605 8  -  ST Index falls 33 points as Spanish and Italian bond yields spike to 7 per cent STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent After rising 105 points since the start of the month, the Straits Times Index yesterday fell 33.04 points to 2,982.49, in line with
      Source: Bloomberg  -  605 words
    • 66 8 Jul 23 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -149.00 -56.00 BT CADI -*****.00-234.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -15.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 687.63 -9.37 FTSE ST Small Cap 452.53 -6.01 FTSE ST All Share 720.91 -8.37 FTSE ST China Top 200.57 -4.00 FTSE ST China 224.42 -2.46 FTSE ST
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    • 60 8 VOLUME JB Foods 152,350,000 GSH Corp 98,802,000 Golden Agri 67,171,000 MDR W*****5 65,316,000 ElektromotiW*****0 57,425,000 Midas 53,868,000 Noble Grp 53,279,000 Genting SP 45,991,000 HLH Grp 38,749,000 ChinaTaisan 38,539,000 VALUE($) F&N 60,658,640 Genting SP 59,608,385 JB Foods 58,381,940 Noble Grp 56,316,175 DBS Grp 54,918,130 Golden Agri 49,222,325 SingTel
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    • 186 8 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 0 13 3 0 0 0 0 13 3 Manufacturing 19 83 37 3 4 11 22 87 48 Commerce 12 33 15 3 6 2 15 39 17 Tpt/Stor/Comms 5 28 5
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    • 923 8  -  Compiled by CONRAD TAN Raffles Medical Group July 23 close: $2.58 DBS Group Research, July 23 RAFFLES Medical Group’s Q2 2012 results are below expectations. Net profit rose 6.8 per cent y-o-y to $12.4 million, while topline revenue grew a robust 14.9 per cent y-o-y to $76.9 million.
      Source: Bloomberg  -  923 words
    • 123 8 TURNOVER (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 10,938 10,938 51,331 51,331 Manufacturing 458,099 33,281 491,380 289,879 1,139 291,018 Commerce 307,695 5,400 313,095 147,407 364 147,770 Tpt/Stor/Comms 66,595 13,057 79,652 108,596 3,707 112,303 Finance 20,889 3,904 24,793 140,564 1,542 142,106 Construction 82,017 635
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    • 111 8 Stock name Close Change Stock name Close Change CapMallsAsia 1.550 -0.030 CapitaLand 2.880 -0.070 CapitaMall 1.930 CityDev 11.700 -0.190 ComfortDelGro 1.585 -0.055 DBS Grp 14.440 -0.240 F&N 7.920 +0.320 GLP 2.270 Genting SP 1.285 -0.035 Golden Agri 0.730 -0.030 HK Land 5.930 -0.020 JMH 51.690 +0.370
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    • 475 8 CURRENCIES Reuters [NEW YORK] The euro slid to a twoyear low against the US dollar and a near 12-year trough against the yen yesterday, on concerns that Spain will have to seek a full sovereign bailout. Spanish bond yields soared to their highest levels
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    • 112 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP Asia Pac Brew 4849 649.0 15.5 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 3773 80.6 1.7 JMH 5169 46.6 0.7 F&N 792 32.0 4.2 F&N.ES.1207 799 31.0 4.0 Isetan 387 17.0 4.6 OCBC Bk 4.5%NCPS 100 ***** 15.0 0.1 OCBC Bk BPeCW*****3A 64.5 13.0 25.2 OCBC Bk 5.1%NCPS
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    • 128 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN DBXT iBoxxSvEu 5US$ ***** -619.3 -2.2 DBXT Nifty 10US$ 9294 -474.6 -3.9 DBXT MSKorea 10US$ 5100 -201.4 -3.0 GLD 10US$ ***** -136.0 -0.7 Jardine C&C 4563 -124.0 -2.6 DBXT SPASX200 10US$ 3265 -80.6 -1.9 DBXT MSAsExJp 10US$ 2857 -78.1 -2.1 DBXT MSTHAI 10US$ 1753 -70.5
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 663 10  -  Govt sale sites could yield 390 condo units and 560 exec condo units By MINDY TAN TWO residential sites, expected to yield about 950 units, have been launched by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), and the Housing and Development Board (HDB).
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    • 371 10  -  By LEE U-WEN GLOBAL consulting firm McKinsey Company has set up a new centre of expertise in Singapore to help governments around the world come up with effective solutions to their problems. The centre the Asian hub of the McKinsey Centre for Government (MCG) is
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    • 420 10  -  By EMILYN YAP TAIWAN’S E.Sun Bank opened its branch in Singapore yesterday its first in South-east Asia and plans to drive expansion in the region from here. E.Sun needs to be a regional bank first if it wants to be a global player someday,
      YEN MENG JIIN  -  420 words
    • 318 10  -  By LEE U-WEN SINGAPORE is undergoing its latest Trade Policy Review (TPR) at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) headquarters in Geneva this week. A multi-agency delegation from Singapore, led by Permanent Secretary for Trade and Industry Ow Foong Pheng, is currently
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    • 492 10  -  By RONNIE LIM CONSTRUCTION of Singapore’s $1.7 billion liquefied natural gas terminal on Jurong Island is ahead of schedule, with 92 per cent of the overall project already completed as at last month, Singapore LNG said. But it did not give an
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  • SME Inc
    • 1077 12  -  Facade specialist Seiko Architectural Wall Systems turns an architect’s vision into reality, report NATALIE TOPACIO PENA, NG TZE KIAN JOEL AND SHARON CHEW WEI FANG reportNATALIE reportNATALIE TOPACIO PENA, NG TZE KIAN JOEL AND SHARON CHEW WEI FANG The writers are students from NUS
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    • 930 12  -  ACLDT, the first private liver disease treatment centre in Asia, is listed and expanding By VISHWESH IYER The writer is a freelance business writer and communications consultant VERY few professionals manage to transform themselves into corporate entities and it is even
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  • PRODUCTIVITY MATTERS
    • 1462 13  -  Surface finishing firm Cel Coating Industries believes in making bold changes through R&D to stay ahead, reports TEH SHI NING reportsTEH TEH SHI NING EVERY business owner wants to do well. So when times get tough, it is not an option to just “sit, complain and
      YEN MENG JIIN  -  1,462 words
    • 1143 13  -  By TEH SHI NING IT took the global financial crisis of 2009 to wake Hup Fatt Brothers Engineering (Hup Fatt) up to the reality that major change was needed. But once it did, the firm, which fabricates precision structures and sheet metal and does electromechanical
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    • Article, Illustration
      158 13 Schemes for PE productivity: FUNDING WORK PROCESSES IMPROVEMENT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT Under A*STAR’s Growing Enterprises with Technology Upgrade (GET-UP) programme for SMEs are the following schemes: 1. Technology for Enterprise Capability Upgrading (T-UP): R&D talent in research institutes can be seconded to companies, who get partial funding for
      Source: National Productivity & Continuing Education Council (NPCEC)  -  158 words

  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 704 14 Data from eurozone, US and Britain this week unlikely to provide much joy Reuters [LONDON] “Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the motto of the Olympics opening in London on Friday. “Slower, Lower, Weaker” would be a better description of the economic performance of
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    • 502 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] US consumer confidence and equity valuations are diverging the most in 17 years as the economy and profit growth leave stock prices behind. The Standard Poor’s 500 Index has traded at an average price-earnings multiple of 13.9 this year, 0.18 times
      Bloomberg  -  502 words
    • 301 14 AFP [SYDNEY] Australia’s mining boom will slow more sharply than expected and could be over within two years due to easing demand from China and falling prices, a leading economic forecaster warned yesterday. Mining exports to industrialising Asian nations, chiefly China,
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 586 15  -  But estimate by UK body could be on high side as GLCs’ investments counted By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur ABOUT RM893 billion (S$357 billion) left Malaysia between 1970 and 2010, making it one of the top 20 developing countries most affected
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    • 476 15  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA’S Public Bank Group has posted a net profit of RM953 million for the quarter to end June, largely unchanged from the same period last year as well as the preceding three months. For the cumulative six
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    • 218 15 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Indonesia’s central bank will start to invest in Chinese bonds as it seeks to diversify its foreign-exchange reserves. Bank Indonesia will begin purchasing the securities to expand financial cooperation between the two countries, according to a statement posted on the People’s
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    • 471 15 Deutsche Bank db X-trackers ETFs I 1 V Over USD250m assets 1 The largest China A-shares ETF available in Singapore 2 Exposure to a diversified China A-shares index Listed in USD on SGX UCITS compliant 'pevfotm. 1 Source: db X-trackers website, as of 31 May 2012 2 Source: Deutsche Bank
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 518 16  -  Vice-PM Li Keqiang may fail in push for stepped-up monetary easing By THERESA TANG EJ Insight [HONG KONG] President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and other top Chinese leaders are expected to hold a meeting this week to give a diagnosis
      EJ Insight; AP  -  518 words
    • 279 16 AFP [NEW DELHI] Indian investigators believe 12 firms were given “undue favours” by the government when it let them mine coal without making them bid for the rights, a newspaper report said yesterday. An official from the Central Bureau of Investigation
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    • 665 16 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Oreo marked her birthday this year with a pool party in a posh New Delhi neighbourhood. Nothing unusual except that the two-year-old is a dog. The Dalmatian celebrated with a cake of flour, cheese and chicken tikkas, garnished with a ribshaped
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    • 532 16 MNC supermarkets seen displacing shopkeepers, traders Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] The ruling party of India’s most populous state and communist groups advised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against reviving plans to allow overseas companies to open supermarkets, a move already opposed by a key
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    • 615 16 Reuters [MUMBAI] Faced with slowing economic growth and a dangerously high balance of payments deficit, about the last thing India needs is food prices pushing inflation higher, but that is just what the weather gods are brewing. Rains have been patchy since the
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  • WORLD
    • 628 17 Yingluck, Thein Sein voice commitment to US$8.6b port and industrial zone INVESTING IN MYANMAR Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said her government was committed to seeing “concrete progress” in the development of the US$8.6 billion Dawei port and industrial zone in
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    • 563 17 Reuters [TOKYO]Daiwa Securities Group aims to spearhead a US$380 million investment in Myanmar to build an information technology backbone for the government in partnership with major Japanese tech companies. The ambitious plan underscores the drive by Japan to stake out a competitive position in
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    • 457 17 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] As iPhone fans await the release of a new model, they are delaying purchases and may cause Apple, the world’s largest company by market value, to post its slowest sales and profit growth in more than two years. With
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    • 281 17 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Canon, the world’s biggest camera maker, will start selling its first mirrorless model in September as demand shifts away from traditional point-and-shoot cameras. The EOS M digital camera will go on sale in Japan starting from 79,800 yen (S$1,286)
      Bloomberg  -  281 words
    • 710 18 Glenmede and BlackRock among those shunning sovereign debt Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] The world’s biggest fixed-income investors, fed up with yields on benchmark government bonds that pay less than zero per cent, say they’ve found a new haven from turmoil sweeping global markets: corporate
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    • 225 18 Reuters [LONDON] UK companies paid a record £22.6 billion (S$44.5 billion) in dividends in the second quarter as many firms baulked at spending bumper cash piles on deal making or other forms of capital expenditure in the face of the global economic slowdown. The
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    • 421 18 Police removing them from area around stadium in Newham in run-up to Games AFP [LONDON] The London Olympics are not big business for everyone sex workers say they are being cleared from the streets around the stadium to make the area more presentable for the
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    • 557 18 Senator proposes legislation to force their breakup Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The biggest US banks created more than 10,000 subsidiaries in the past 22 years as they expanded, using legal structures to pay lower taxes and escape tighter regulation, according to
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    • 657 19 Sinopec to buy 49% stake in UK unit of Canada’s Talisman Energy for US$1.5b Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cnooc Ltd agreed to pay US$15.1 billion in cash to acquire Canada’s Nexen Inc in the biggest overseas acquisition by a Chinese company, sending Nexen shares
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    • 375 19 Euro trades below its lifetime average against the US$ Bloomberg Reuters [PARIS] Spain and Italy moved to ban short-selling of stocks as prices dropped and the euro traded below its lifetime average against the US dollar on concerns about the European Union debt
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    • 414 19 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Euro-area governments’ debt burden increased in the first quarter to the highest since the single currency began as nations battled the fiscal crisis. Government debt as a percentage of gross domestic product rose to 88.2 per cent
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    • 482 19 Inquiry panel says Tepco not keen on addressing problems AP [TOKYO] The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant is still stumbling in its handling of the disaster 16 months later, by dragging its feet in investigations and trying to understate the true
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    • 656 19 Slowing revenue growth in spotlight after rocky IPO Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Facebook Inc faces immense pressure to beat Wall Street’s financial targets when it delivers its inaugural quarterly earnings report this week, hoping to wash away the bad taste left with investors
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    • 479 20 Bank now expected to look for external candidates to replace ex-chairman, CEO Reuters [LONDON] Michael Rake has ruled himself out of the running for the chairmanship of Barclays a role he had been favourite to assume, raising fresh questions on the
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    • 284 20 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] The Dark Knight Rises recorded strong ticket sales in its opening weekend, but well below forecasts given by many in Hollywood, as some moviegoers appeared to have stayed away after a shooting rampage at a midnight showing of the film on Friday.
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    • 384 20 Key battlegrounds in Nov polls wedded to ‘right to bear arms’ AFP [WASHINGTON] Despite profound soul-searching over the Colorado shooting rampage, there is no political willingness to end the long stalemate over the toxic gun law issue, particularly in a
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    • 855 19 WATS NOTICES IN THE MATTERS OF CLEGHORN, WILTON ASSOCIATES (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (Co. Reg. No. *****3119R) (IN MEMBERS’ VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of the company held at 15 Verde Crescent, Villa Verde, Singapore *****0 on 21st July 2012 the following special resolutions were passed:1. That
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
    • 448 21  -  Airport handled 9.7% more travellers last month than June last year By VEN SREENIVASAN SINGAPORE Changi Airport handled 4.4 million passenger movements last month, a 9.7 per cent increase over the previous year. For the first half of 2012, Changi Airport
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    • 219 21 Bloomberg [LONDON] Rates for ships that carry dry-bulk commodities will recover later than previously estimated as demand for cargoes slows, according to Fearnley Securities. Daily earnings for Capesizes, the largest ships hauling iron ore and coal, will average US$14,000 next year and US$16,000 in
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    • 496 21 It will send firm’s latest contract offer to its members AP [DALLAS] The flight attendants’ union at American Airlines said on Friday that it would send the troubled company’s latest contract offer to its members for a ratification vote. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants
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    • 275 21 AFP [ROME] Findings from the black box of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will be revealed on Oct 15, an Italian judge said on Saturday at a hearing where the data was due to have been presented. Lawyers representing survivors
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    • 553 21 Reuters [LONDON] Latin America’s biggest airline plans to use an efficiency-boosting navigational system for all its routes in coming years, the LATAM Airlines Group said last week. LATAM, formed last month by Chilean carrier LAN’s estimated US$2.7 billion takeover of Brazilian rival
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    • 253 21 SGX '000 Jul 23 S$ +/-Vol CH Offshore 0.40 -0.01 533 Chuan Hup Hldg 0.22 -0.01 150 Cosco Corp 0.97 -0.03 4820 Jul 23 s$ First Ship Lea 0.17 unch 321 Freight Links 0.07 unch 1557 Grand Banks 0.19 unch ***** Jaya Hold Ltd 0.58 0.01 133 K1Ventures
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    • 300 21 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Grannie, a nan possibly old inside? (12) 8 Inception filming location (5) 9 Put up again in bedroom, perhaps (9) 11 Politicians dropping Socialist leader by Tory leader’s account (9) 12 River trade missing Test (5) 13 Rulers incorporating one metre units (9) 16 He makes
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 494 22 EDITORIAL IT is good that Asean is in the process of patching up over the South China Sea dispute between China and some members of the grouping. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa’s efforts to undo the damage to Asean solidarity when it failed to
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    • 766 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE YOGI AGGARWAL The writer is a Mumbai-based journalist who contributes regularly to BT VISITING Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong put it in a nutshell when he described India’s business environment as “complicated”. The word sums up all the upheavals of
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    • 1054 22  -  Negative income tax is better than welfare or workfare for the unemployed By ERIK STERN The writer is president (international), Stern Stewart Co, a business consultancy FAIRNESS in society and among societies has recently become a major topic among the chattering classes. The phrase
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    • 1118 23  -  After the fiasco in Iraq, there is scepticism over the call for an activist US role in achieving regime change in Syria LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent A FEW days ago I was exchanging e-mail messages with a friend about the crisis in Syria and
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    • 895 23  -  PAUL KRUGMAN The writer is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2008 A COUPLE of weeks ago, the American Northeast was in the grip of a severe heat wave. As I write this,
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    • 425 23  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Mak Yuen Teen Associate professor National University of Singapore I REFER to the report “SGX mainboard sets sights on loftier image” and the commentary “New SGX rules many hits but one big miss” (BT, July 20).
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 2619 25 Transaction date: Jul 23 52-wks Tel Last Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net M Cap High Low Code Company Sale +/-(‘000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil Company Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote ('000) High Low Buyer Seller 132 92.5 AIMSAMPIReit 125cd -2 803
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    • 1000 26 52-Wk Last Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 130 113.5 ABF SG Bond ETF 120.8 +0.1 3 120.8 120.8 120.7 122 551.4 122.4 122.2 CIMB APAC Div 100S$D 122.2 124.1 125 103 95.8 CIMB
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 653 27 Jul 23 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES SPOT 8582.28 8606.23 8500.27 Sep12 8695.00 8700.00 8490.00 8505.00 ***** *****9 Dec12 8540.00 8540.00 8445.00 8440.00 2 9662 MSCI TAIWAN INDEX FUTURES SPOT 251.97 251.97 246.90 Jul12 251.90 252.60 245.70 246.40 ***** *****3 Aug12 249.20
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    • 373 27 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Jul 20 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 873.7 -1.0 5.3 -0.9 1.1 -1.1 4.3 EAFE Preliminary 697.0 -1.4 2.2 -1.6 -3.3 -1.8 -0.3 Europe Preliminary 1046.2 -1.5 1.9
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    • 141 27 As on 20 July 2012 www.smx.com.sg PRODUCT CONTRACT HIGH LOW CLOSE VOL (in Lots) PRECIOUS METAL GOLD FUT AUG2012 1586.00 1573.30 1582.90 417 INDIA GOLD (E-GOLD) FUT AUG2012 529.75 526.00 529.25 1444 GOLD FUT OCT2012 1585.50 1576.90 1585.20 23 CURRENCY EUR-USD FUT SEP2012 1.2289 1.2155 1.2165 2395
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    • 107 27 Jul 20 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Aug 12 1757.50 1733.75 1777.75 1729.00 Sep 12 1713.25 1691.25 1730.00 1685.00 Nov 12 1686.25 1652.25 1691.00 1645.00 Jan 13 1663.25 1634.00 1671.00 1627.25 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs; US cent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Aug 12 54.36
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    • 70 27 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Jul 20 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) 106.73 -0.80 WTI (Near Mth) 91.49 -0.97 Dubai (1-Mth F) 103.07 0.47 Tapis blend 109.95 0.44 Minas 110.55 0.44 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha 96.78 0.78 Jet Kerosene 122.56 0.75 US$/barrel OpecOil Basket
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    • 22 27 Jul 23 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.2588 1.2593 2-months 1.2587 1.2592 3-months 1.2584 1.2590 6-months 1.2570 1.2576 Source: OCBC
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    • 66 27 Jul 20 Jul 20 Aluminium, 99.7% purity(US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 1872.75 1925.00 3 months 1892.00 1944.00 Copper, Grade A(US$/tonne) Cash 7543.00 7734.00 3 months 7545.00 7730.00 Lead(US$/tonne) Cash 1894.00 1922.75 3 months 1901.00 1929.50 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash *****.00 *****.00 3 months *****.00 *****.00 Tin(US$/tonne) Cash *****.00 *****.00 3
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    • 80 27 Jul 20 COCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev High/Low Sep 12 1543 1532 1554/1523 Dec 12 1526 1520 1535/1512 Mar 13 1512 1505 1522/1498 May 13 1512 1504 1522/1496 COFFEE(US$/tonne) Close Prev High/Low Jul 12 2165 2168 2167/2165 Sep 12 2187 2192 2207/2170 Nov 12 2168 2171 2183/2154 Jan 13 2124
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    • 1151 27 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 4 1 146 384 7.75 22 (’000) Conv Baker Technology Ltd W*****6 1.2 0.1 350 1 32 7 25.83 4 Exer Best World Intl Ltd W*****5 0.6 1
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    • 470 27 Jul 23 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 1.047 6.580 0.851 7.990 57.523 97.649 0.804 11.810 3.268 1.301 97.257 43.339 1.297 8.650 1.023 30.967 32.735 0.662 1.030 Canada 0.955 6.287
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    • 63 27 Jul 23 (US$) (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 0.***** 9 mths 0.***** 0.***** 12 mths 1.***** 0.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 9 mths 0.***** SWAP Mid rates (S$) 0.***** SWAP Mid rates
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    • 135 27 Jul 23 GOLD(US$/oz) Jul 20 Jul 23 Hong Kong 1593.20 1583.20 Jul 23 Jul 19 Jul 20 London 1587.96 1580.20 1588.73 1581.20 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR Jul 23 (S$) Selling Kilobar ***** ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Selling Buying 1gm 154 64 5gm 436 320 10gm 779
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    • 92 27 Jul 23 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue Maturity Yesterday's Day's code Bid High Low 3-Month BQ*****Z 25-Oct-12 0.23 6-Month BS*****Z 24-Jan-13 0.23 1-Year BY*****T 02-May-13 0.23 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0H 0.25 01-Feb-14 100.12 5-Year N*****0Z 2.375 01-Apr-17 109.25
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    • 57 27 Jul 23 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Aug 12 2980.0 3010.0 2980.0 2950.0 375 4817 Sep 12 3009.0 3025.0 3009.0 2956.0 3664 ***** Oct 12 3000.0 3042.0 3008.0 2969.0 ***** ***** Nov 12 3008.0 3050.0
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    • 153 27 Jul23 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2966 1.2972 1.0300 1.0301 Canadian dollar 1.2385 1.2396 0.9843 0.9839 Euro 1.5229 1.5238 1.2098 1.2100 NZ dollar 0.9966 0.9974 0.7917 0.7920 Sterling pound 1.9587 1.9600 1.5560 1.5564 US
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    • 121 27 As at 9am Jul 23 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Sell Buy Aust dollar 1.332 1.269 Can dollar 1.270 1.210 Euro 1.563 1.489 Sterling pound 2.000 1.924 NZ dollar 1.031 0.982 US dollar 1.278 1.229 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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    • 153 27 Jul23 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.01 par 1-month 3/8 1/4 2-months 3/8 1/4 3-months 3/8 1/4 Overnight mode: 0.01 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.25 0.15 1 month 0.40 0.20 2 months 0.45 0.25 3 months 0.55 0.35 6 months 0.85 0.65 9 months 1.05 0.85 12 months
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  • PROPERTY
    • 537 28 MNCs also cutting back on expatriate packages: Jones Lang LaSalle Reuters [HONG KONG] The chill winds blasting through financial markets have hit rents for luxury properties in Hong Kong as banks lay off high earners and international companies cut back on expatriate packages,
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    • 480 28 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Tom Axon’s mort-gage-collection firm gets about 25 calls a day from delinquent homeowners’ brokers seeking approval to sell their houses for a loss and avoid foreclosure. We’ll help, his staff tells them, as long as we get
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    • 1057 29 Shanghai-listed Gemdale Corp‘s notes priced to yield 9.15% Bloomberg [HONG KONG] At a time when China’s Premier Wen Jiabao is vowing to clamp down on property speculation, the third-biggest Shanghai-listed real estate developer was able to sell Dim Sum bonds by paying
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    • 412 29 Reuters [LONDON] Anglo-French property developer Hammerson Plc spies buying opportunities in a European property market depressed by the debt crisis, as it looks to spend the proceeds of the £518 million (S$1 billion) sale of its London office properties. The company, whose portfolio
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    • 606 30  -  As rents remain competitive, several fashion labels have expanded presence By MICHELLE TAN SINGAPORE retail rents are still competitive, ranking 18th out of the top 20 most expensive retail markets globally in the first quarter of 2012, data compiled by CBRE showed. Said
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    • 595 30 Japanese developer also venturing into continental Europe Bloomberg [TOKYO] Mitsui Fudosan, Japan’s largest property developer by sales, plans to boost its investment in UK developer Stanhope plc as part of its US$6.4 billion global expansion plan. Mitsui Fudosan, which owns 15 per cent
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    • 349 30 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Shimao Property Holdings Ltd, the developer controlled by billionaire Hui Wingmau, says it is seeking opportunities to “offload” hotel assets to speed up development. The company is in discussions to attract investors and the “reaction from the market is pretty good”,
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    • 142 29 We have professional referenced tenants waiting to rent your property today! The directors of Benham and Reeves Lettings, central London's largest rental agency, are visiting Singapore for 3 days on July 27,28 29. Come and speak to us for FREE expert advice on your London apartment. At Benham and Reeves,
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  • Special SME ONE ASIA AWARDS 2012
    • 1001 1  -  66 companies are honoured at this year’s SME One Asia Awards By Hazel Tan THE SME One Asia Awards, set up to recognise the business success and leadership achievements of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in Singapore and Asia, is into its second year. This
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    • 757 5  -  Judges at SME One Asia Awards 2012 talk about the areas that nominees should focus on to be successful By Mike Lee THE SME One Asia Awards 2012 are judged in three stages, the second and third of which are helmed by a panel
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    • 318 7 A three-stage judging process ensures that the winners of the SME One Asia Awards meet the stringent criteria to qualify for an award THE winners of the SME One Asia Awards 2012 have successfully gone through a rigorous, three-stage judging process (see table on the right). Each
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    • 867 8  -  Four Distinguished SME award winners tell Janice Goh their corporate strategies on staying resilient in a challenging business environment Janice Goh THEY may hail from different industries, but the four companies that are among the Top 5 in the Distinguished Awards category at the SME One
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    • 673 9  -  The local clubbing scene is synonymous with a venue that has served generations of party-goers in the past 21 years By Douglas Chew IN THE face of competition from new entrants to the scene, Zouk, the grande dame of the local clubbing scene, has nothing to
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    • 1119 10  -  Crown Systems, Fanco Fan Marketing, Taka Jewellery and Xdel Singapore share the secrets of their success. Teo Kuan Yee reports reports Teo Kuan Yee THEIR businesses differ but their winning recipes are the same: be customer-centric and stay innovative. These two factors have seen Crown Systems, Fanco Fan
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    • 625 11  -  Verztec Consulting, which provides skilled translation services, recognises the importance of expanding overseas By Douglas Chew DESPITE having offices in seven countries, with 10,000 vendor partners on board, Mr Nicholas Goh (right, standing) will tell you that doing business is not easy. The chief executive officer of
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    • 1043 12  -  Pioneering practices propel Dragon Phoenix, Witco Envirotech, McCoy Holdings and Pacific-Tec Scientific to the top of the Notable Awards category By Joyce Lin FOOD, water treatment, consumer products and radiation detection are diverse industries but for four companies, innovations in their fields have landed them
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    • 545 13  -  Rotating Offshore Solutions is shifting to a new larger yard to provide more complex solutions for the oil and gas industry By Douglas Chew SOARING natural gas production in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Middle East has gotten Mr Victor Lim, managing director of rotating offshore
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    • 960 14  -  Find out how these four SMEs, which won in the Emerging Category of the SME One Asia Awards 2012, performed beyond expectations within their first year of operation By Wong Sher Maine A BUSINESS making a million within its first year of operation is an
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    • 589 15  -  Powerpac aims to distribute its machinery in 100 countries By Douglas Chew HAVING made inroads into 50 countries in four years, Powerpac International intends to double its global dealer and distribution network, bringing its roadmaking equipment to 50 more nations. Established in 2008, Powerpac has
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    • 884 16 Hazel Tan speaks to the winners of this year’s Foreign Enterprise Awards to find out the challenges they face when setting up operations here and what makes them successful THE Foreign Enterprise Awards at the SME One Asia Awards recognise registered foreign enterprises and SMEs with
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    • 605 17  -  Dorier Asia plans to expand its operations to serve the growing events industry By Douglas Chew THE influx of international corporate meetings, conferences and events to Asia has set technical production company, Dorier Asia on a growth trajectory. Born out of a merger between Dorier SA
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    • 1023 18 / 19  -  The inaugural Special Awards category recognises companies’ significant contributions to human progress and community development By Cheryl Tay THIS year’s SME One Asia Awards has a new category that highlights specific contributions by companies that are vital to human progress and community development. The Special
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    • 1225 20  -  Four companies are honoured in the inaugural Overseas Enterprise Awards category By Douglas Chew FOR the first time, the SME One Asia Awards 2012, organised by APF Group, will include a category for overseas enterprises, creating a platform for companies to build cross-border relationships to exchange ideas
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    • 881 22  -  De Cheng Xin Xing Trading and Tori-Tama Holdings go beyond the bottom line By Joyce Lin IN TODAY’S business climate, companies need to take a holistic approach that goes beyond focusing on their bottom-line and main stakeholders to include looking at the welfare of employees, customers,
      Photos: De Cheng Xin Xing Trading; Photos: APF Group; Photos: Tori-Tama Holdings  -  881 words
    • 1150 24  -  Four winners of the SME One Asia Awards talk about the hurdles and victories in their entrepreneurial journeys By Teo Kuan Yee THEY are in different industries service, education, engineering and construction but they all have achieved business excellence that resulted in their winnings at the
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    • 990 26  -  Four local businesses recount the benefits of overseas business expansion and the challenges they face when going abroad By Cheryl Tay INCREASING brand proposition, extending customer base and decreasing dependence on the domestic market are just some reasons business owners expand overseas. The winners
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    • 972 28 / 29  -  Two manufacturers which won the SME One Asia Awards talk about the obstacles they must overcome By Wong Sher Maine FINDING the right people to make the perfect dim sum is a problem for Kiom Kee Foodstuffs Manufacturer. “We always face problems when interviewing new workers,” says
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    • Article, Illustration
      1007 30 / 31  -  SMEs in the service industry tackle the twin challenges of rising costs and manpower shortages By Hazel Tan LACK of manpower is a common key challenge small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the service industry have had to grapple with in recent years. Mr Michael Ong Teck Tiong,
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    • 912 32  -  Bullworks and Kim’s Kitchen use hearts and minds to achieve success By Mike Lee SINCE its opening in 2006, the Mint Museum of Toys at Seah Street has been delighting visitors with its collection of more than 50,000 pieces of vintage toys and childhood memorabilia.
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    • 246 34  -  chong jun liang captures the winning moments at the SME One Asia Awards 2012 gala event on July 19, held at the Marina Bay Sands CHONG JUN LIANG The winners of the SME One Asia Awards 2012 with their trophies, which are testament to their successful entrepreneurial
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    • 620 35  -  Amani Services and Venture Platform achieve over $1 million in annual revenue to be named the inaugural SME One Asia Awards Honoree By Ahmad Osman AMANI Services and Venture Platform are among the winners in the Emerging Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) category of this year’s SME
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    • 453 13 VSME ONE ASIA AWARDS 2012 Mr Vicknesh R Pillay Managing Director, Dolphin Capital Asia r jm iP Conqmmatiom to Mr Vicknesh R Pillay, Managing Director of Dolphin Capital Asia for being conferred the Top 5 Foreign Enterprise of the SME One Asia Awards 2012 Singapore. Dolphin Capital Asia is the
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    • 198 27 TM SME ONE ASIA AWARDS 2012 Congratulations Mr Andy Chin CEO of INTERIOR PRODUCER PTE LTD For achieving a new milestone in winning the SME One Asia Awards 2012! No 19 Defu Lane 12 Singapore *****6 Telephone: (+65) 6749 5589 Facsimile: (+65) 6749 0345 Website www.interiorpro.com.sg Email info@interiorpro.com.sg i Y
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