The Business Times, 5 January 2013

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  • TOP STORIES
    • MARKETS
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        59 2 GSTI 3,225.22 (+0.42) ESTI FUTURES 3,225.00 (unch) HSIMSCI 365.03 (-0.37) HSIMSCI FUTURES 365.10 (-1.00) STOCKS Friday Change KL COMP 1,692.58 -0.07 NIKKEI 225 10,688.11 +292.93 HANG SENG 23,331.09 -67.51 SET 1,416.66 +8.25 JAKARTA 4,410.02 +10.76 MANILA 5,971.45 +37.40 KOSPI 2,011.94 -7.47 SHENZHEN B 737.51 +26.28 MUMBAI IND 19,784.08 +19.30
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        29 2 SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 6.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 14.433 TAIWAN 5.036 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 3.00 SWITZERLAND 0.54 INDIA 14.50 PHOTO: Bloomberg
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        Lock icon FOREX
        48 2 US$ S$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.229 (US$/S$ per 1.606 1.974 EURO(US$/S$/€) 1.301 1.599 Foreign currency per US$ S$ YEN 88.10 71.70 RM 3.049 2.480 HK$ 7.751 6.306 BAHT 30.48 24.80 RUPIAH 9,675 7,870 RENMINBI 6.231 5.068 INDIAN RUPEE 55.01 44.75 A$ 0.959 0.780 NZ$ 1.215 0.988
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      Lock icon Sale of major Tiger Australia stake to Virgin in jeopardy
      659 2  -  Aussie regulators regard the Virgin-Tiger merger as a ‘very complex equation’ By Ven Sreenivasan ven@sph.com.sg Singapore AUSTRALIAN competition regulators may scupper Tiger Airway Holdings’ bid to sell its majority control in Tiger Australia to Virgin Australia (VA). The Australian Competition
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      Lock icon Yen at 30-month low against US dollar, big boost for exports
      648 3  -  Developments help to lighten new PM Abe’s job of fighting deflation By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo THE extraordinary upswing in Japan’s financial fortunes continued yesterday as markets reopened in Tokyo to witness the yen plunging to a 2½-year low
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      Lock icon An international commercial court in the making here
      1115 4  -  It’s one of the issues highlighted by the CJ at the opening of the new legal year By Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Singapore PROPOSALS for the establishment of a Singapore International Commercial Court, enhancing the standing of the Subordinate Courts, and getting larger
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      Lock icon All should have easy access to justice
      647 5  -  Senior Counsel emphasises rule of law and fundamental rights and liberties Reports by Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Singapore MAKING sure that access to justice remains available to the common man is even more significant now in the face of Singapore’s rapidly changing legal landscape,
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      Lock icon Foreign-local lawyer closer bonding call
      451 5 LAW Society president Lok Vi Ming yesterday called on more foreign lawyers here to focus on sinking deeper roots and to do more pro bono work. Giving his maiden speech at the opening of the new legal year at the Supreme Court, he noted that
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      Lock icon GIC stalwart Kok Song retiring after 42 years
      513 6  -  He will be an adviser after relinquishing chief investment officer post By Lee Mei Xian leemx@sph.com.sg Singapore THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation’s (GIC) group chief investment officer (GCIO) Ng Kok Song will be retiring after 42 years in the management of
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      Lock icon Concerned over balance sheet, Fed debates ending QE
      658 6 Bloomberg Washington FEDERAL Reserve officials, expressing concern over their swelling balance sheet, began debating an end to their unprecedented bond-buying as early as this year even while preparing to boost stimulus to a new record. “Several” members of the Federal Open Market
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      Lock icon Companies’ wish list for the new Budget year
      656 8  -  KPMG report shows that firms hope Budget 2013 will bring them relief from labour restrictions, rising costs By Ong Chor Hao ongch@sph.com.sg Singapore COMPANIES here are hoping that Budget 2013 will bring them some relief from labour constraints and rising business costs,
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      Lock icon Financially on-the-ball Federer
      501 8  -  By Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg Singapore PROFESSIONAL athletes are often told to just concentrate on their sport and leave everything else, including their finances, to others to manage. But this doesn’t hold water for tennis champion Roger Federer, who insists that athletes should take an active interest in
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      62 2 CONTENTS NEWS Top Stories 2-8 Week in Review 9 Raffles Conversation 10-11 Companies 12-15 From the Desk of 16 Singapore 17-18 World 19-22 Stocks Stats 23-27 Perspective 28-29 Wealth 30-35 Show Me The Money 33 House Hunt 34 LIVING Destination Dining L2-3 Travel L4-5, 9 Living L6-8 CEOs’ Hawker Choices
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  • WEEK IN REVIEW
    • THIS WEEK Dec 31-Jan 4
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        Lock icon Muted hope for deal to avert US fiscal cliff
        55 9 THERE are some signs of hope in Washington that Democratic and Republican lawmakers would be able to avert a full-blown fiscal crisis by reaching a deal before the Jan 1 deadline on extending the current tax cuts for all Americans, with
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        Lock icon US-S’pore manufacturing wage gap narrows
        47 9 US companies such as Apple are shipping at least some of their overseas manufacturing operations back home to America. And it’s no wonder: The gap between what they pay workers in Singapore and what they pay in the US has narrowed considerably.
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        Lock icon Expect slower growth, says PM Lee
        67 9 THE Singapore economy expanded by just 1.2 per cent in 2012, below the government’s most recent forecast that full-year growth would come in at around 1.5 per cent. Revealing the year’s final Gross Domestic Product growth figure in his annual New Year message, Prime
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        Lock icon Buoyant year for SGX as value jumps $170b
        55 9 IT was a bull run in the year of the Dragon. Powered by beer froth, a resilient banking sector, conglomerate powerhouses and resurgent property stocks, the Singapore market rose 24 per cent in 2012 to an all-time high of $887 billion in
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        Lock icon Kirin’s offer for F&N ‘fair but not reasonable’
        51 9 THE Fraser and Neave takeover story squeaks through a final twist before the year-end. F&N’s independent financial adviser JPMorgan (SEA) yesterday found Kirin Holdings’ $2.7 billion offer for F&N’s food-and-beverage business to be “fair but not reasonable, from a financial point of
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        Lock icon Fiscal cliff fix goes up to Republican House
        70 9 A LEGISLATIVE fix to patch up America’s fiscal crisis was to be taken up by lawmakers in the Republi-can-controlled House of Representatives after passing the Senate. The White House and top Republicans struck a deal after dramatic 11th-hour negotiations to avert huge
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        Lock icon More IPOs in Singapore pipeline this year
        52 9 INITIAL public offering activity is set to pick up in 2013: there is a queue of companies waiting to list this year, many of them in the consumer, retail and healthcare sectors, as well as business trusts and real estate investment trusts, say
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        Lock icon Q4 GDP up 1.8%, keeping technical recession at bay
        53 9 THE much-touted technical recession did not materialise after all, even though fears of one continue to linger. Defying expectations, flash estimates show that the economy grew 1.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2012 from the previous quarter, in seasonally
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        Lock icon US pulls back from fiscal cliff, battle over debt ceiling looms
        116 9 THE US House of Representatives passed a bill undoing income tax increases for more than 99 per cent of households, handing a victory to President Barack Obama, even as Republicans vowed to fight him in coming weeks for spending
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        Lock icon Q4 private home prices up the most in 6 quarters
        47 9 DESPITE the curbs on housing loan tenure introduced in Octo- ber, the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s private-home price index flash estimate in Q4 galloped at its fastest clip in six quarters, driven by rising prices of mass-market condos.
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        Lock icon Bank staff put on forced leave
        52 9 AMID an ongoing probe by regulators on how benchmark rates are set, at least two banks have taken action after internal reviews. Sources told BT that in the last few months, OCBC Bank and UBS AG have put a few of their employees on
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        Lock icon CapitaLand to reassess overseas ventures
        44 9 CAPITALAND is reassessing its commercial and residential investments in the United Kingdom, India, and Gulf Cooperation Council nations, as well as its investment in Australand, as it simplifies its corporate structure into four core businesses to streamline its focus.
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      Lock icon NEXT WEEK Jan 7-11,2013
      82 9 US DATA Jan 8 Nov consumer credit Jan 10 Nov wholesale inventories Jan 11 Nov international trade Dec import/export prices SINGAPORE DATA Jan 7 Dec international reserves EVENTS Jan 8 Launch of World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 at Davos Jan 9 OECD Mexico Forum: Public
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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      282 9 Across 1 Leaped above oneself? (6,2) 6 Cut it and keep quiet (6) 9 Two men cut down prey (6) 10 Evocative of European river ebbing fast (8) 11 Knots of painters? (8) 12 She and men get involved and become engaged (6) 13 Speed check (12) 16 Holy orders?
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      11 9 SATURDAY with Ludwig ‘Just love the sharp rise in Q1 2012
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon Woman behind the Seasons
      2554 10 / 11  -  Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts CEO Kathleen Taylor has been instrumental in the hotel operator’s global growth for over 23 years. By Nisha Ramchandani By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg AS corporate counsel for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Kathleen Taylor was instrumental in crafting deals that helped
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon CDLHT buys Banyan Tree’s Maldives resort
      572 12  -  Total cost of US$72.4m for Angsana Velavaru; deal comes with leaseback arrangement By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg Singapore CDL Hospitality Trusts (CDLHT) is acquiring Banyan Tree Holdings’ Angsana Velavaru resort in the Maldives for a total cost of US$72.4 million to capitalise on the strong
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      Lock icon Analysts upbeat on CapitaLand’s move to focus on key markets
      477 12  -  By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg Singapore ANALYSTS are largely sanguine about CapitaLand’s decision to simplify its corporate structure and reassessing various overseas investments. But the property company’s stock, which on Thursday rose 8 cents to $3.84 on news of the group’s
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      Lock icon CNMC shares soar 42%
      289 12  -  By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg Singapore CNMC Goldmine’s shares shot up at the opening bell yesterday on news that the company’s new gold extraction facilities have started production. The stock opened at 41 cents, then surged to 52 cents before closing at 44 cents for a 13-cent,
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      Lock icon Penny stocks, US fiscal cliff still the main themes
      561 13  -  STOCKS R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg Senior Correspondent PENNY stocks and the US fiscal cliff provided the main features of trading towards the end of last year, and both have once again been front and centre of the action in the first days
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    • Business briefing
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        Lock icon STATS ChipPAC projects 16-18% rise in Q4 revenue
        67 13 SEMICONDUCTOR test and advanced packaging service provider STATS ChipPAC expects net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 to be about US$475 million to US$482 million, an increase of 16-18 per cent compared to the prior quarter. This is due to higher
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        Lock icon China Energy queried on 58.8% jump in share price
        88 13 CHINA Energy was queried by Singapore Exchange yesterday over a substantial increase in its share price. The fuel produc- er gained 58.8 per cent or five cents to close at 13.5 cents. In its reply, China Energy said that it has
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        Lock icon Biosensors sets up $800m note programme
        56 13 BIOSENSORS International Group has set up an $800 million multicurrency medi-um-term note (MTN) programme. The medical devices maker said the note issues may be used to “fund new business opportunities, refinance existing borrowings and finance investments (including capital ex- penditure) and working capital requirements
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        Lock icon Casa Hldgs gets qualified audit opinion
        90 13 HOME appliance maker Casa Holdings received a qualified audit opinion from its auditor Nexia TS. Nexia said it could not obtain sufficient evidence to ascertain the carrying amount of the group’s investment in its Malaysia-listed unit Fiamma Holdings as at Sept 30, 2012, and
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      Lock icon TOP 20 ACTIVES
      201 13 VOL CLOSE MDR 1 ,034,491 1 8 0 2 12 5 E l ektromot i ve 518,818 0 4 0 1 33 3 ICP 433,112 0 4 0 1 33 3 MDR W*****5 424,760 1 3 0 3 30 0 TT Intl 366,080 18 6 1 1
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      Lock icon TOP GAINERS
      60 13 BY CENTS CLOSE UP DBXT MSUSA 10US$ 3570 105.7 2.5 DBXT MSCHINA 10US$ 1278 65.1 4.3 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 2300 59.0 2.1 Lyxor AsiaRE 10US$ 1073 38.1 3.0 DairyFarm 1114 32.0 2.4 JMH 6350 24.6 0.3 DBXT MSINDO 10us$ 1533 20.9 1.1 Hyflux 6% CPS 10 ***** 15.0
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      Lock icon TOP LOSERS
      58 13 BY CENTS CLOSEDOWN GLD 10US$ ***** -496.5 -2.5 DBXT MSKorea 10US$ 6235 -109.4 -1.4 CIMBAsean40 100US$ 1108 -49.2 -3.5 DBXT CSI300 10US$ 824 -49.2 -4.6 CIMBASEAN40 100S$D 1368 -29.0 -2.1 Lyxor China H 10US$ 1549 -23.4 -1.2 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 3417 -18.4 -0.4 BMT 505 -15.0 -2.9
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      107 13 Stock name Close Change CapMallsAsia 2.110 +0.050 CapitaLand 3.800 -0.040 CapitaMall 2.120 -0.010 CityDev 12.980 -0.080 ComfortDelGro 1.800 +0.015 DBS Grp 14.920 +0.080 F&N 9.640 -0.020 GLP 2.770 Genting SP 1.465 -0.005 Golden Agri 0.665 +0.010 HK Land 7.110 +0.020 IHH Healthcare 1.380 +0.010 JMH 63.500 +0.200 JSH
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      Lock icon Disclosure statements to be standardised for DI scheme
      335 13  -  By Teo Si Jia teosj@sph.com.sg Singapore FULL banks and finance companies taking in deposits from individuals, charities and companies will now have to standardise disclosure statements on the $50,000 protection limit provided by the Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation (SDIC) under the Deposit
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      Lock icon Global-exposure stocks a better bet: DBS
      676 14  -  The bank’s Singapore research team sees China as a bright spot this year By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg Singapore GIVEN an expected slowdown in Singapore, investors should go for companies and sectors exposed to global growth, with China a bright spot, DBS Group Research said
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      Lock icon Analysts raise target price for OSIM
      358 14  -  By Jasmine Ng jasng@sph.com.sg Singapore ANALYSTS at OCBC and Maybank Kim Eng raised their price targets for OSIM International, Asia’s biggest maker of massage chairs, on expectations of China’s economic recovery and new product launches. OCBC has revised its target price upwards to $2.14
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      Lock icon Analysts reduce casino revenue growth forecast for the year
      1049 15  -  Factors cited include economic outllook, controls and reliance on foreign visitors By Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Singapore SEVERAL analysts have revised downwards their 2013 growth estimates for the Singapore gaming industry, citing a still soft global and regional economic outlook and continued
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      52 14 Hong Kong Science Technology Parks is looking for a Chief Executive Officer Nuance-Watson Singapore is hiring Retail Managers OCBC Bank is recruiting Trainee Equities Dealers HGST has positions open for Engineering Technicians Process The NTUC FairPrice Group has vacancies for Team Leaders Check out more than 400 positions available in
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  • FROM THE DESK OF
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      Lock icon Raising productivity through technology
      862 16  -  Successful adoption can improve decision-making, minimise risks and unearth valuable insight for businesses FROM THE DESK OF Arvind Agarwalla CEO, FACT Software TWENTY five years ago in India, as I sat behind my desk at the loss-making petrol station in Calcutta, I felt completely overwhelmed. Overwhelmed
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Helios buy helps Oiltanking balance its S’pore portfolio
      649 17  -  German player also looking at operating the S$890 million first phase of Jurong Rock Cavern here By Ronnie Lim ronnie@sph.com.sg GERMANY’S Oiltanking, which this week completed its US$285 million acquisition of listed Chemoil Energy’s Helios Terminal, said that the Helios fuel oil
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      Lock icon Singapore to start FTA talks with Turkey
      220 17 SINGAPORE and Turkey will open negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) to further the two countries’ political and economic relations, Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said yesterday. Speaking at the annual Turkish Ambassadors’ Conference in Ankara, Turkey, he said that such an
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      Lock icon Inviragen sells vaccine technology to Vietnam firm
      356 17  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg INVIRAGEN Inc is selling the rights to its Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine technology to Viet-nam-based The Company for Vaccine and Biological Production No 1 (Vabiotech) which will develop a cell-derived vaccine. Under the terms of the licensing agreement, Vabiotech
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      Lock icon Take scientific approach, say Wang Cafe entrepreneurs
      662 18  -  Operations and management aspects of F&B business need to be dealt with in methodical ways, they share By Teo Hoong Chen teohgcn@sph.com.sg FOOD and beverage (F&B) entrepreneurs should adopt a scientific approach to managing their operations, rather than rely on “gut feel” for
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    • Briefing
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        Lock icon S’pore Polytechnic ties up with IBM, SMRT for new engineering diploma
        89 18 SINGAPORE Polytechnic has joined hands with IBM and SMRT to introduce a Diploma in Engineering Systems. Through the programme, students will learn to design engineering processes for the energy, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, telecommunication and transportation industries. The course integrates
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        Lock icon German restaurant Brotzeit ropes in IE’s Jason Tan for franchise development
        75 18 HOME-GROWN German bar and restaurant Brotzeit has named Jason Tan, former senior manager at International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, its new director of franchise development. He will be responsible for liaising with potential franchise investors and creating business opportunities. The
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        Lock icon Temasek Foundation gives $400,000 to English-learning programme in Thailand
        63 18 THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Temasek Foundation have launched a programme to facilitate the learning of English among university students in Thailand for economic and communication purposes. The programme, in collaboration with Thailand's Ministry of Education, has received a
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        Lock icon AirAsia Expedia gets new CEO
        59 18 AirAsia Expedia, the collaboration between AirAsia and online travel company Expedia, has appointed the budget airline’s group head of commercial, Kathleen Tan, as its new CEO. She will be in charge of the businesses of the Expedia brand, AirAsiaGo, and Backick online travel agency in
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon China slaps fines on Samsung, LG screen makers
      679 19 Taiwanese firms also fined for price-fixing, following US, Europe in crackdown AP Beijing CHINA fined South Korean and Taiwanese makers of LCD display screens US$56 million yesterday for price-fixing, joining the United States and Europe in a crackdown on the industry. Suppliers
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      Lock icon Virgin Megastore in France plans to declare itself insolvent
      394 19 Reuters Paris BOOKS-TO-MUSIC retailer Virgin Megastore’s French operation plans to declare itself insolvent next week, the latest victim of an industry-wide slump in CD and DVD sales as consumers download more film and music online. The plan comes as high street
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      Lock icon US year-end online shopping up 14%
      290 19 AFP San Francisco INDUSTRY tracker comScore on Thursday reported that US shoppers spent a total of US$42.3 billion online during the year-end holiday season a 14 per cent jump from the same period in 2011. “The 2012 online holiday season was once again a
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      Lock icon Swiss bank admits aiding US tax dodgers
      527 20 Wegelin confesses to helping rich Americans stash away US$1 .2b in secret accounts over a decade NYT New York SWITZERLAND’S oldest private bank has admitted to helping Americans evade US taxes, the first time a foreign financial institution has pleaded guilty to tax
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      Lock icon Carmakers in China brace for slow growth of 5-10% as market stalls
      591 20 Reuters Beijing AUTOMAKERS in China are bracing for another year of tepid single-digit growth in 2013, weighed down by sluggish demand for Japanese cars amid a diplomatic row between the two regional neighbours and government measures intended to
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    • Briefing
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        Lock icon German retail sales swing up in November
        74 21 Bloomberg Frankfurt German retail sales rose in November as unemployment close to a two-decade low encouraged spending. Sales, adjusted for inflation and seasonal swings, increased 1.2 per cent from October, when they dropped 1.3 per cent, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said
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        Lock icon Gore could net US$70m from sale to Al Jazeera
        107 21 Bloomberg Los AngelesAl Gore, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against global warming, may gross about US$70 million from the sale of his Current TV network to Al Jazeera, the cable channel funded in part by oil-rich
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        Lock icon Steve Jobs biopic to be released in April
        65 21 AFP San Francisco The first film based on the life of legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be released in April, according to a distribution deal for “jOBS” announced on Thursday. The “biopic” starring Ashton Kutcher as Jobs, who died in 2011,
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        Lock icon Wildfires sweep through South Australia
        58 21 Bloomberg Sydney Wildfires are sweeping through parts of rural Australia as the biggest heatwave since 2001 spreads across the nation bringing near-record temperatures. The Country Fire Service in South Australia raised a “catastrophic” danger alert for three districts, the highest rating that indicates homes would
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      Lock icon Google cleared of US antitrust charges over Web search results
      575 21 FTC decision troubles competitors which fear that Google will now be even more aggressive NYT Washington THE Federal Trade Commission on Thursday handed Google a major victory by declaring, after an investigation of nearly two years, that the company had
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      Lock icon Worst of eurozone downturn is over, survey suggests
      386 21 Reuters London TENTATIVE signs emerged in December that the eurozone economy may have passed the worst of its downturn, although a recovery still looks some months away, a business survey showed yesterday. Markit’s Eurozone Composite PMI, which gauges business activity across thousands
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      Lock icon India’s services PMI jumps to 3-month high
      481 22 Sharp rise in new business boosts Dec reading as firms remain optimistic about coming year Reuters Bangalore INDIA’S services sector grew at its strongest pace in three months during December, as company order books filled at the quickest rate since last February, a
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      Lock icon HK luxury sales rebound on confidence in China economy
      552 22 Sales of goods leap 13.7% in November after October drop Bloomberg Hong Kong HONG KONG’s luxury sales rebounded in a sign that confidence is returning to a Chinese economy that probably picked up pace in the final three months of last
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    186 26 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 8 5 4 0 0 0 8 5 4 Manufacturing 91 46 30 19 4 7 110 50 37 Commerce 34 24 17 6 3 2 40 27 19 Tpt/Stor/Comms 23 9 9
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    121 26 TURNOVER (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 73,355 73,355 55,157 55,157 Manufacturing 1,240,652 1,344,076 2,584,728 254,006 10,759 264,765 Commerce 873,673 202,887 1,076,560 163,847 8,402 172,249 Tpt/Stor/Comms 124,812 30,865 155,677 148,048 9,283 157,331 Finance 204,296 139 204,435 132,172 58 132,231 Construction 323,728 101,847
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    795 26 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS For week beginning Dec 31 Substantial Buy No of Price ———SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Sell Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Conv '000 Shr ('000) ('000) Hotung Investment 2-Jan-13 Overseas Asset Mgtm *Sell 4049 0.15 ***** 4.02 ***** 3.63 LantroVision 2-Jan-13 Yeo Jiew
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      79 27 Jan 3 COCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev High/Low Mar 13 1433 1429 1446/1420 May 13 1442 1438 1453/1430 Jul 13 1451 1448 1465/1440 Sep 13 1460 1457 1470/1448 COFFEE(US$/tonne) Close Prev High/Low Jan 13 1995 1988 2017/1989 Mar 13 1945 1942 1969/1935 May 13 1951 1949 1974/1946 Jul 13 1960
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      68 27 Jan 4 GOLD(US$/oz) Jan 04 Jan 03 Hong Kong 1653.70 1697.00 Jan 03 Jan 02 London 1679.20 1689.73 1679.95 1690.57 Source: Thomson Reuters SILVER Selling Buying Passbook 1 oz 36.65 36.01 Source: UOB PLATINUM Lon (US$/oz) Jan 03 Close Previous PM Fix 1572.00 1566.00 AM Fix 1569.00 1559.00 Source:
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      57 27 Jan 4 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Jan 13 2372.0 2364.0 2390.0 2346.0 345 4528 Feb 13 2438.0 2438.0 2461.0 2423.0 4651 ***** Mar 13 2478.0 2474.0 2495.0 2462.0 ***** ***** Apr 13 2517.0 2510.0
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      92 27 Jan 4 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue Maturity Yesterday's Day's code Bid High Low 3-Month BQ*****X 04-Apr-13 0.25 6-Month BS*****W 27-Jun-13 0.26 1-Year BY*****X 01-Nov-13 0.26 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0N 0.25 01-Oct-14 101.87 101.90 101.90 5-Year N*****0Z 2.375
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      154 27 Jan 4 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2817 1.2831 1.0430 1.0434 Canadian dollar 1.2407 1.2420 1.0100 1.0096 Euro 1.5987 1.5998 1.3009 1.3010 NZ dollar 1.0114 1.0127 0.8230 0.8235 Sterling pound 1.9728 1.9747 1.6053 1.6058
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      95 27 As on 3 January 2013 www.smx.com.sg PRODUCT CONTRACT HIGH LOW CLOSE PRECIOUS METAL GOLD FUT FEB2013 1688.20 1675.60 1674.50 INDIA GOLD (E-GOLD) FUT FEB2013 569.80 565.90 565.40 CURRENCY EUR-USD FUT MAR2013 1.3180 1.3092 1.3118 BASE METAL COPPER FUT MAR2013 8276 8252 8194 INDEX IRON ORE (MBIO) IDX
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      103 27 Jan 3 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; USc/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Jan 13 1403.00 1405.50 1408.50 1386.25 Mar 13 1386.50 1392.25 1396.75 1372.50 May 13 1378.25 1384.25 1387.75 1364.25 Jul 13 1376.50 1382.00 1384.75 1362.00 SOYBEAN/OIL(60,000 lbs; USc/lb) Close Previous High/Low Jan 13 50.21 50.52 50.59 50.10
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      68 27 Jan 03 CRUDE US$/barrel (FOB origin) Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) 112.46 -0.05 WTI (Near Mth) 92.73 -0.11 Dubai (1-Mth F) 106.51 0.11 Tapis blend 118.44 0.55 Minas 111.02 0.55 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha 105.56 -0.27 Jet Kerosene 126.51 0.34 US$/barrel OpecOil Basket Price 108.96
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      118 27 Jan 04 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Sell Buy Aust dollar 1.312 1.250 Can dollar 1.270 1.210 Euro 1.636 1.559 Sterling pound 2.010 1.933 NZ dollar 1.048 0.989 US dollar 1.250 1.191 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency: Currencies Sell
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      69 27 Jan 3 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2082.50 2127.25 3 months 2116.00 2161.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 8136.50 8183.00 3 months 8164.00 8209.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2390.00 2421.50 3 months 2400.00 2431.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash *****.00 *****.00 3 months *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash *****.00
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      373 27 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Jan 3 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 959.2 0.2 2.2 0.1 2.2 0.0 2.1 EAFE Preliminary 789.3 0.3 1.9 -0.1 1.6 -0.2 1.5 Europe Preliminary 1176.0 0.4 2.5
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        20 27 YTD change: +1.84% 52-week high: 3,231.39 on Jan 3,2013 52-week low: 2,683.15 on Jan 9,2012 Source: Bloomberg
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        20 27 YTD change: +2.98% 52-week high: 23,400.74 on Jan 3,2013 52-week low: 18,056.40 on June 4,2012 Source: Bloomberg
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        21 27 YTD change: +0.35% 52-week high: 2,478.38 on Feb 27,2012 52-week low: 1,949.46 on Dec 4,2012 Source: Bloomberg
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        19 27 YTD change: +2.82% 52-week high: 10,734.23 on Jan 4,2013 52-week low: 8,238.96 on June 4,2012 Source: Bloomberg
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        26 27 YTD change: +2.19% 52-week high: 13,661.87 on Oct 5,2012 52-week low: 12,035.09 on June 4,2012 (Chart shows Thursday’s index closing) Source: Bloomberg
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      1109 28 / 29  -  Cyber bullies are creative and imaginative and continually look for new avenues to achieve their malicious objectives. By Scott Robertson By Scott Robertson ~The writer is vice-president of WatchGuard Technologies ANZ. AS WE get more and more wired up, our kids’ playgrounds get replaced by
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      790 28 / 29  -  Frank Ching ~The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator. Follow him on Twitter: @FrankChing1 GORDON Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, famously predicted in 2001 that the Communist Party would fall from power in a decade. When 2011 came
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        1745 30 / 31 Equities did well, euro survived and Greek bonds rose the most, contrary to what investors forecast Bloomberg Hong Kong FROM John Paulson’s call for a collapse in Europe to Morgan Stanley’s warning that US stocks would decline, Wall Street got little right in
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          380 30 / 31 DBS Group Research Jan 4 REDUCED risk from the eurozone, ul-tra-loose monetary policies and green shoots of recovery will tilt the balance towards risk and cyclical plays. However, Singapore’s GDP and earnings growth pale in comparison to that of regional counterparts’ as it struggles with restructuring pains. While
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          384 30 / 31  -  Compiled by LYNN KAN Buy Maybank Kim Eng Research Jan 4 Close $1.78 WE expect better consumer sentiment this year, especially in North Asia (mainly China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), which makes up 58 per cent of overall group sales. This is predicated on latest consumer surveys and
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        1206 32  -  Budget deficit concerns boosting demand for wealth protection. By Nicholas Larkin Bloomberg London GOLD traders expect prices to rebound from the longest weekly losing streak in eight years as mounting concern that US lawmakers are doing too little to control
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        1021 33  -  Luck may play a big part, but success is determined more by skill SHOW ME THE MONEY Teh Hooi Ling hooiling@sph.com.sg Senior Correspondent ~The writer is a CFA charterholder IT IS the new year. We are all a year older. There is
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        356 34 0.03% rise in prices in Dec comes amid signs of broader economic recovery Reuters Beijing AVERAGE home prices in China’s 100 major cities edged up 0.03 per cent in December from a year earlier, snapping eight months of decline and reinforcing signs of
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        669 34 PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS FOR SELECTED DISTRICTS WITH CONTRACT DATES BETWEEN DEC 5 AND DEC 11, 2012 PROJECT NAME/ STREET NAME PROP TYPE CONTRACT DATE TENURE BUILT -IN/LAND AREA*(SQ FT) PRICE (S$'000) PSF (S$) District 1 NON-LANDED V On Shenton Apt 07/12/2012 99 452 1184 2619 District 5 NON-LANDED Hundred Trees
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        Lock icon Australia home prices seen rising up to 10%
        1119 35 Economists expect a boost from record-low interest rates and housing shortage due to a long period of underbuilding Bloomberg Sydney AUSTRALIA’S flagging property market is poised to get a boost from record-low interest rates and a housing shortage that could boost prices
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        2272 2 / 3  -  Lima is home to the most creative chefs in Peru, arguably the Next Big Place on the global dining scene. By Geoffrey Eu By Geoffrey Eu IT may be on the other side of the planet and over 30 hours by plane from Singapore, but there are
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        1317 4 / 5  -  Shrouded in mist, myth and mystery is the citadel of Machu Picchu, which will take your breath away even before the altitude does. By Geoffrey Eu By Geoffrey Eu btnews@sph.com.sg ATRIP to the highlands of Peru is framed by the beauty of nature, the legacy of the
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        944 9  -  LETTER FROM LAOS Adam Pervez Chief Happiness Officer, Happinessplunge.com ~The author is a former corporate executive of Schlumberger and Siemens who has embarked on a new career of doing volunteer work around the world THE administrator from the Sunshine School in rural Laos could not
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        2744 6 / 7  -  Save the environment by upcycling the process of converting wastebound materials into unique lifestyle products. By Tay Suan Chiang By Tay Suan Chiang taysc@sph.com.sg NEW Year, new beginnings? It is no wonder that the start of the year often marks a time when people clear out unwanted items
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        3123 10 / 11  -  Whether for breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper, porridge is a popular street food for those who are a little more health conscious when it comes to hawker fare. Served in a variety of ways, it's the perfect comfort food for both the young and old. Here
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        644 13  -  Most brands are saving their biggest gadget announcements for the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week (Jan 8-11), but some have released teasers to avoid getting deluged in the unveilings. By Christopher Lim By Christopher Lim limchris@sph.com.sg LG Touch 10 monitor (Price
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        1150 14 / 15  -  Silit is known for its quality, functionality and design and now makes its most comprehensive range of cookware in a selection of delectable colours. By Corinne Kerk btnews@sph.com.sg IN a world where cheaper alternatives can be found for every piece of cookware, Silit’s glossy product
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        Lock icon Anti-bacterial formula the stuff of spy movies
        510 14 / 15  -  By Corinne Kerk JUST like a good spy movie, the secret formula to the exclusive Silargan material used for making Silit’s pots and pans are known only to a few. While it was rumoured that only two Silit staffers know it –a little
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        927 16  -  no holds barred Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg Correspondent THE sporting gods were more than kind over the last 12 months, showering fans with more memorable moments than we could handle. Like trying to make a sequel to last summer’s blockbuster film, sports in 2013 has
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        826 17 He is now seen as a hero after hanging on to win the tournament despite suffering from a panic attack NYT KAPALUA, Hawaii SCANNING the sumptuous breakfast buffet, the golfer Charlie Beljan looked like any other hotel guest in his shorts, flip-flops and T-shirt with a “hang
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        533 18  -  The new Chrysler 300C boasts a more refined look and remarkably comfortable drive. By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg THE new Chrysler 300C is a headturner. This long, large sedan attracts more than its usual share of curious looks. But whether people stare because they think it’s a
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        471 19  -  The LS460 with its reworked 4.6-litre V8 engine promises to be even quieter and more refined. By Samuel Ee By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg The 2013 LS’s climate concierge makes use of multiple sensors to coordinate the control of independent heating and cooling systems and deliver maximum
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        709 20  -  The X6 M50d, X5 M50d and the M135i are a new range in between the regular BMW and the motorsport-inspired BMW M cars. By CY Chew By CY Chew btnews@sph.com.sg BMW’s M cars need no introduction they are the most powerful, hard-core and more often than not,
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