The Business Times, 9 August 2013

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    19 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES www. usinesstimes.com.sg FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2013 S$1.00 MCI (P) 085/08/2013 S|Jl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon An examination of the queue
    2038 1  -  A LONG LINE OF S’POREANS By Joyce Hooi joyceh@sph.com.sg Singapore HOW did we get here? Not here, as a nation, but here, in this infernal queue. Perhaps both questions are the same, so ingrained has the practice of queueing become in the national psyche. There
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    Lock icon Growth of 2.5-3.5% seen for 2013: PM Lee
    635 1  -  Economy grew 2% in first half; revised forecast higher than analysts expected By Teh Shi Ning tshining@sph.com.sg Singapore THE Singapore economy is “holding steady” amid global uncertainties and is now expected to grow 2.5 to 3.5 per cent this year, Prime Minister
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      62 1 Gen Y reflects 4 8 _l N ’1° ,£§/.;§»;z‘T WELCOME TO MY WORLD ft"*#.**** I I rm NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AIR RACES REHO MV •> Vj I y TEL. +65 6732 6347 B R E IT l_ I N G. C O Nl BREITLING INSTRUMENTS FOR PROFESSIONALS 71 a mim trS
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      21 1 EMERGING ENTERPRISE E-Tag's success story 12 NO PLACE LIKE HOME 12 well known Singaporeans reflect on their favourite places 4, 31-36
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Tight Singapore car insurance market nudges AIG into niche areas
      706 2  -  Besides construction, marine and logistics, it’ll expand into trade credit, political risk and aviation insurance By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg Singapore AMID intense competition in the motor insurance market, the Singapore arm of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) is diversifying
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    • MARKETS
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        59 2 GSTI(Wednesday’s close) 3,229.91 (+5.02) GSTI FUTURES 3,208.00 (+4.00) GSIMSCI 368.70 (+0.71) GSIMSCI FUTURES 366.20 (+0.90) STOCKS Thursday Change KL COMP Closed NIKKEI 225 13,605.56 -219.38 HANG SENG 21,655.88 +67.04 SET 1,447.16 +17.17 JAKARTA Closed MANILA 6,404.23 -16.56 KOSPI 1,883.97 +5.64 SHENZHEN B 798.30 +2.53 MUMBAI IND 18,789.34 +124.46 12
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        Lock icon PRIME RATES
        29 2 SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 6.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 13.416 TAIWAN 5.036 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 3.00 SWITZERLAND 0.50 INDIA 14.45 Source: Bloomberg
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        48 2 US$ S$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.269 (US$/S$ per 1.531 1.942 EURO(US$/S$/€ 1.328 1.685 Foreign currency per US$ S$ YEN 96.90 76.40 RM 3.255 2.566 HK$ 7.756 6.114 BAHT 31.43 24.77 RUPIAH 10,285 8,108 RENMINBI 6.120 4.824 INDIAN RUPEE 61.40 48.40 A$ 1.118 0.881 NZ$ 1.267 0.998
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      Lock icon What hits the spot with Singaporeans
      642 4  -  Well-known local personalities share their favourite places in the country By Tay Suan Chiang taysc@sph.com.sg Singapore WHERE is your favourite spot in Singapore? Is it at the newly opened River Safari, Sentosa’s Tanjong Beach, or perhaps one of the many shopping malls across the
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      Lock icon Name, Class, Subject
      879 8  -  Gen Y reflects| By Annabeth Leow leowhma@sph.com.sg ~The writer is a BT intern and an SPH scholar reading comparative studies in race and ethnicity at Stanford University I LIKE to talk about diversity. I’ve called myself a feminist since I was 12. I’m majoring in race and
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      Lock icon Just a pot calling the kettle black
      948 10  -  Gen Y reflects| By Ng Zhuo Yang ngzy@sph.com.sg ~The writer is a BT intern who will read law at The University of Warwick from next month I USED to liken citizenships to country club memberships. You could think of them as fair transactions.
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      33 2 CONTENTS NEWS Top Stories 2-10 Companies 11 Singapore 12 World 14-23 Aviation/Shipping News 24 Shipping Times 25-27 Perspective 28-29 EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE Cover Story 31-36 Cinema 37 Arts/ Music 38-39 Crosswords 39 Markets 30
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      81 3 Opening doors from Singapore to the world I 'Ss'Ss Yj4 v T Z'l mu m /n /y 7/n 's. /ccr > 0 li Uhl Make Yourself at Home (\*&*<) 'i*' ASCOTT THE RESIDENCE Citadines APARTHOTEL SOMERSET SERVICED RESIDENCE Enjoy Ascott’s Best Rate Guarantee www.the-ascott.com +65 6272 7272 With three award-winning
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      129 5 Many Stories... One Singapore Sharing In The Singapore Story Of Success V < K7 ife --l f\ s. Our personal stories are definitive of who we are as individuals. Our national story speaks of one united people where every individual shares the hope and aspiration of One Singapore. HAPPY 48TH
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      312 9 THE STRAITS TIMES WHEREVER YOU ARE w m in 'j'Jnisfz nn e im I JU s t 1 S Ss '-T r STAY INFORMED ON WHAT MATTERS MOST GRAB THESE FABULOUS GIFTS when you Subscribe to The Straits Times. Select a Plan and pick your gift! SPPeac Plan 3-Yeor Plan
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      402 10 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF ESTA SHIPPING PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS’ VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) (REGISTRATION NO. *****9636E) NOTICE OF MEMBERS’ VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION The following resolutions were unanimously resolved at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of the above Company on 05 August
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  • COMPANIES
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      Lock icon Singapore firms make presence felt overseas
      892 11  -  They include ST Electronics, CAI, Banyan Tree By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg Singapore HOME may be where the heart is but some local firms are flying the Singapore banner high as they continue to make their presence felt overseas. Among them is ST Electronics –which
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      Lock icon China Sunsine profit for Q2 surges 83% to 20.5m yuan
      548 11  -  By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg Singapore SPECIALTY chemical producer China Sunsine reported a net profit of 20.5 million yuan (S$4.2 million) for its second quarter ended June 30, up 83 per cent from 11.2 million yuan for the same period a
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Out of adversity, a success story
      1057 12  -  After an entrepreneurial foray was derailed by the financial crisis, E-Tag emerged stronger. By Ng Zhuo Yang Much like Singapore’s own success story, the emergence and profitability of E-Tag RFID Pte Ltd were largely driven by circumstance and vulnerability. An electronics company founded by
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      310 13 Tfl .jam •Hi'SjSisaSJ|y iw«i| |mfi •pwtuwir* v aki 5 k* *ii STPROPERTY SEMINAR Opportunities Outlook of the Property Market in 04 2013 STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGING PROPERTY LANDSCAPE ~'i iff i' i 1 ■‘va-' Hurr i gau Under the new Total Debt Servicing Ratio (TDSR) framework by MAS, the
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Hong Kong ex-Cabinet member sentenced
      280 14 Bloomberg Hong Kong HONG KONG’s former development secretary Mak Chai-kwong has been given a suspended sentence for his role in defrauding the government of more than HK$700,000 (S$114,000) of housing allowances during the 1980s. District Court Judge Johnny Chan gave Mak and former assistant director
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      Lock icon Japan promises huge budget cuts over two years
      518 14 Pledge to cut 8t yen from 2014 to 2016 follows IMF warning on debt that’s twice as big as the economy AFP Tokyo JAPAN yesterday pledged to cut a whopping US$83 billion out of its budget over two years as it works
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      Lock icon PBOC says it commits to transparency
      505 14 But traders say that China’s central bank is tightening grip in operational terms Reuters Shanghai CHINA’S central bank has publicly committed to becoming a better communicator after a cash crunch that it engineered spooked global financial markets in June, but traders say that its
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      Lock icon July China trade above estimates
      510 16 Exports rise 5.1 imports up 1 0.9% a further sign that the China economy is stabilising Bloomberg Hong Kong CHINA’S exports and imports rebounded more than estimated in July, adding to signs that the world’s second-largest economy is stabilising following a twoquarter slowdown. Shipments abroad
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      Lock icon China analysts fall back on exotic indicators
      578 16 Reuters Beijing FORGET electricity production and iron ore imports. China watchers today pore over box office receipts or furniture sales to judge where the country is heading as Beijing plots a course toward consumption-led growth. Incidentally, both gauges are holding up reasonably well,
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      Lock icon China probe widens as report says Sanofi paid bribes
      359 16 Reuters Copenhagen CHINESE authorities have visited a site operated by Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, the world’s biggest maker of insulin, the latest evidence of a widening investigation into Western drugmakers. A Chinese newspaper also reported an allegation from an unnamed person
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      Lock icon How will Bezos change The Washington Post?
      704 17 It is expected that famed innovator will ‘Amazon-ify’ the news business Reuters Seattle TECHNOLOGY and media circles are abuzz at how e-commerce wunderkind Jeff Bezos plans to modernise The Washington Post, a money-losing bastion of the old economy. Among the top predictions: the
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      Lock icon Australian firms shed jobs in July contrary to expectations
      677 18 Poor employment data seen as a setback for Prime Minister Rudd’s election prospects Bloomberg Sydney AUSTRALIAN employers unexpectedly cut payrolls in July and unemployment held at an almost four-year high, denting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s bid for a come-from-behind election win.
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      Lock icon China ‘hard landing’ could trigger Aussie slump
      498 18 AFP Sydney A CHINESE “hard landing” translating into 5 per cent growth would tip Australia into recession and send unemployment skyrocketing to 10 per cent, a Standard Poor’s report warned yesterday. Such a rapid deceleration in Australia’s major trading partner, rated as an
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      Lock icon China takes a shine to S Korean cosmetics
      601 19 Reuters Seoul COSMETICS brand Laneige has a French name and luxurious blue-and-white packaging but its legions of fans in China, the world’s third-largest beauty products market, love it because it is South Korean and affordable. Laneige, or “the snow”, is one of
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      Lock icon Hilton said to plan US$13b debt refinancing
      631 20 It has hired four banks for the refinancing later this year in anticipation of an IPO in early 2014 Bloomberg Seattle HILTON Worldwide, the hotel operator owned by Blackstone Group, has hired four banks for a US$13 billion debt refinancing later this year
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      Lock icon JPMorgan faces probe over mortgage-backed bond sales
      548 20 US Justice Dept has already concluded such practices have broken civil laws Bloomberg New York JPMORGAN, the biggest US bank, said it’s under federal criminal investigation for practices tied to sales of mortgage-backed bonds that the Justice Department has already concluded broke civil
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      Lock icon S Korea to tax popular plastic surgery procedures
      374 21 Additional 2.48t won reaped will fund social welfare costs AFP Seoul THE South Korean government plans to exploit the country’s obsession with plastic surgery by extending taxes to popular procedures such as lip jobs to help fund spiralling social welfare costs. The
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      Lock icon India unveils new steps to drain cash to support rupee
      360 21 Reuters Mumbai INDIA’S central bank announced new measures yesterday to drain cash from the financial system in a bid to address volatility in currency markets, after a slew of steps announced last month failed to prop up the battered rupee.
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      Lock icon Web ad start-ups wipe out after hitting market
      662 22 IPOs flop amid booming online ad industry as Google crushes competition Bloomberg Portland THE online advertising industry is booming. That means little to the hundreds of ad-technology startups that are being shunned by the public markets. Even as online ad sales are
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      Lock icon Scientists plan controversial lab-made bird flu for research
      606 22 AP Washington SCIENTISTS who sparked an outcry by creating easier-to-spread versions of the bird flu for research purposes want to try such experiments again using a worrisome new strain. This time around, the US government is promising extra scrutiny of such high-stakes
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      Lock icon BOJ governor urges govt to tighten fiscal discipline
      699 23  -  Kuroda tries to deter PM Abe from delaying planned hike in sales tax By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo BANK of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda yesterday stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to tighten fiscal discipline in order to
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      Lock icon Investors undeterred by Middle East and North Africa crises
      551 23 Reuters London LOOKING beyond the problems of a region beset by regime change in Egypt, a security crisis in Yemen and civil war in Syria, international investors are seeking out well-run businesses in Middle Eastern and even some North African stock
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      Lock icon OECD confirms diverging growth patterns
      296 23 Reuters Paris THE economic outlook is improving for most developed countries while data points to slowing momentum in large emerging economies, the OECD said yesterday, confirming a diverging trend in its monthly flagship indicator. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said its monthly
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  • AVIATION
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      Lock icon Airlines’ fight for China’s interior hots up
      872 24 Carriers like Air China, China Eastern zero in Bloomberg Beijing THE battle for China’s domestic air passengers is shifting into the country’s vast interior as carriers blaze trails to new destinations and start subsidiaries in secondtier towns, all with the backing of generous
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      Lock icon Etihad, partners tie up fleet plans in Boeing, Airbus talks
      514 24 Bloomberg Sydney ETIHAD Airways PJSC is coordinating fleet strategy with partners including Air Berlin plc and Jet Airways (India) Ltd amid the “final stages” of talks with Boeing Co and Airbus SAS on potential orders in coming decades. Business-class layout
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    2448 25 Vessel Voy Sin Pusan Majuro Tarawa Noumea Lautoka Suva Pago Pago Apia Papeete Nukualofa Santo Rabaul Lae P. Moresby Townsville Northern Precision *****E 14 Aug 6 Sep 24 Sep 26 Sep 3 Oct 6 Oct 7 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 14 Oct 21 Oct Northern Precision *****E
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      42 27 Experienced sh/p maintenance services wanted. Can they find your services here in the Shipping Times? TO ADVERTISE, CALL JOE WONG AT 9620 1327. THE BUSINESS TIMES Shipping Times Shipping lines seeking reliable Can they find your services here in the Shipping Times?
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  • PERSPECTIVE
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      Lock icon Divisive new US healthcare law
      911 28 / 29  -  The success of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in January 2014 is very much in question. By J Bradford Delong By J Bradford DeLong The writer, a former deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury, is Professor of Economics at the University of
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      Lock icon Work out optimum tax rates, benefits for a new business
      838 28 / 29  -  By Clement Tan Kai Guan, Khoo Teng Aun The writers are associate professors of accounting at NTU and SMU respectively. AMONG the initial considerations that an entrepreneur has to decide when starting a new business is the form of his
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  • MARKETS
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      Lock icon LIFFE
      94 30 Aug 7 COCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev High Low Sep 13 1644 1610 1653 1609 Dec 13 1631 1596 1635 1596 Mar 14 1610 1583 1616 1581 May 14 1609 1582 1611 1579 COFFEE(US$/tonne) Close Prev High Low Sep 13 1902 1881 1907 1864 Nov 13 1895 1874 1898 1859
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      Lock icon METALS
      65 30 Aug 8 GOLD(US$/oz) Aug 07 Aug 08 Hong Kong 1286.00 1300.00 Aug 06 Aug 07 London 1286.23 1284.97 1287.12 1285.90 Source: Thomson Reuters SILVER Selling Buying Passbook 1 oz 24.89 24.11 Source: UOB PLATINUM Lon (US$/oz) Aug 07 Close Previous PM Fix 1425.00 1430.00 AM Fix 1421.00 1443.00 Source:
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      Lock icon FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES
      118 30 Aug 07 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Sell Buy Aust dollar 1.164 1.109 Can dollar 1.243 1.196 Euro 1.725 1.643 Sterling pound 1.980 1.904 NZ dollar 1.025 0.986 US dollar 1.293 1.232 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency: Currencies Sell
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    • STOCK MARKETS
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        Lock icon Straits Times Index
        20 30 YTD change:+1.98% 52-week high: 3,464.79 on May 22,2013 52-week low: 2,931.60 on Nov 16, 2012 Source: Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Hang Seng Index
        20 30 YTD change: -1.91% 52-week high: 23,944.74 on Feb 4,2013 52-week low: 19,076.79 on Sept 6,2012 Source: Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite
        21 30 YTD change: -7.41% 52-week high: 2,444.80 on Feb 18,2013 52-week low: 1,849.65 on June 25,2013 Source: Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Nikkei 225
        19 30 YTD change: +32.12% 52-week high: 15,942.60 on May 23,2013 52-week low: 8,488.14 on Oct 15,2012 Source: Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Dow Jones Industrial Average
        25 30 YTD change:+19.85% 52-week high: 15,658.43 on Aug 2,2013 52-week low: 12,471.49 on Nov 16,2012 (Chart shows Wedesday’s index closing) Source: Bloomberg
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    • Article
      Lock icon PALM OIL
      57 30 Aug 7 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Aug 13 2280.0 2278.0 2280.0 2280.0 240 724 Sep 13 2261.0 2236.0 2261.0 2233.0 2955 ***** Oct 13 2231.0 2207.0 2232.0 2201.0 ***** ***** Nov 13 2222.0 2201.0
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      Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
      88 30 Aug 7 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue Maturity Yesterday's Day's code Bid High Low 3-Month BQ*****W 19-Sep-13 0.26 6-Month BS*****V 07-Feb-14 0.28 1-Year BY*****H 02-May-14 0.28 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0S 0.25 01-Feb-15 100.04 5-Year N*****0T 0.5 01-Apr-18 98.39
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      Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
      155 30 Aug 7 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.1340 1.1349 0.8940 0.8946 Canadian dollar 1.2181 1.2183 0.9603 0.9602 Euro 1.6843 1.6850 1.3278 1.3282 NZ dollar 1.0012 1.0019 0.7893 0.7898 Sterling pound 1.9414 1.9422 1.5305 1.5310
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      Lock icon CHICAGO BOT
      105 30 Aug 7 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; USc/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Aug 13 1327.75 1324.25 1335.00 1313.75 Sep 13 1199.00 1193.50 1208.50 1192.25 Nov 13 1165.75 1167.25 1175.50 1162.50 Jan 14 1172.25 1174.00 1181.75 1169.00 SOYBEAN OIL(60,000 lbs; USc/lb) Close Previous High/Low Aug 13 41.64 42.11 42.09
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      Lock icon OIL
      68 30 Aug 07 CRUDE US$/barrel (FOB origin) Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) 106.51 -0.47 WTI (Near Mth) 104.28 -1.14 Dubai (1-Mth F) 103.11 -1.24 Tapis blend 114.64 -1.38 Minas 107.34 -1.38 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha 98.00 -0.61 Jet Kerosene 122.26 -0.45 US$/barrel OpecOil Basket Price 105.56
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      Lock icon LONDON METALS
      72 30 Aug 07 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 1750.25 1741.80 3 months 1797.00 1788.50 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 6983.75 6987.25 3 months 7006.00 7005.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2092.25 2098.50 3 months 2105.00 2110.50 Nickel (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash *****.50 *****.00 3 months *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne)
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      Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INT'L INDICES
      373 30 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Aug 7 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1086.0 -0.9 15.8 -0.7 17.6 -0.7 13.4 EAFE Preliminary 883.8 -1.3 14.1 -0.8 13.3 -0.8 9.2 Europe Preliminary 1263.2 -0.5 10.1
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      77 31 Executive LifestyleBTTHE BUSINESS TIMES AUGUST 9 2013 NO PLACE LIKE HOME CINEMA A lifeless dud Page 37 As the nation celebrates its 48th birthday, 12 well-known Singaporeans reflect on their favourite places here. Pages 31-36 ARTS Singapore clicks Page 38 MUSIC Good music, mesmerising visuals Page 38 PHOTOS YEN MENG
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  • BT Executive Lifestyle
    • COVER STORY
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        3140 32 / 33 What do the Singapore Botanic Gardens, Marina Bay and Tiong Bahru Market have in common? They are some of the favourite spots of 12 well-known Singaporeans as shared with BT. This National Day, let’s celebrate the special corners that we hold dear FASCINATING SYMMETRY This photo
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    • CINEMA
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        Lock icon A lifeless dud
        546 37  -  R.I.P.D. is a lazy attempt at formula filmmaking and it shows, to the detriment of all involved. By Geoffrey Eu btnews@sph.com.sg DEATH may be fatal but the afterlife is even more of a drag if the ill-conceived and poorly-executed R.I.P.D. is any indication. This new film, about
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        Lock icon Out of the closet and moving on
        482 37  -  By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg BORN in New York City but raised in Jerusalem, it’s little wonder that Eytan Fox is used to being an outsider. “Being a migrant gives you a different point of view my family didn’t speak Hebrew and our world
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    • ARTS/MUSIC
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        801 38 / 39  -  The ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu prize honours the very best in local photography and raises the art form’s profile. By Cheah Ui-Hoon By Cheah Ui-Hoon uihoon@sph.com.sg IT’S still early days for the recognition of photography as an art form in Singapore, but prizes like the ICON de
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