The Business Times, 21 December 2013

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    20 1 weekend THE BUSINESS TIMES www. usinesstimes.com. g DECEMBER 21-22, 2013 S$1.00 MCI (P) 086/08/2013 spi A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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    Lock icon Telstra to sell stake in CSL
    24 1 PROFITABLE DEAL AUSTRALIA’S Telstra is selling its stake in Hong Kong mobile operator CSL for US$2.425 billion. 2
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    Lock icon BOJ reaffirms aggressive easing
    22 1 JAPAN STIMULUS THE Bank of Japan yesterday resolved to stand firmly behind its aggressive monetary easing programme. 3
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    Lock icon Project Jewel to cost $1.47b
    28 1 CHANGI ATTRACTION PROJECT Jewel, aimed at adding some glitz to Changi Airport when it is launched by end-2018, will cost $1.47 billion. 4
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    Lock icon Banks in race to rat on rivals
    27 1 FOREX RIGGING BANKS are racing to betray their competitors to avoid possible EU fines for rigging foreign exchange markets. 19
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    Lock icon BlackBerry ties up with Foxconn
    30 1 IN THE RED BLACKBERRY struck a five-year deal with Foxconn Technology to manufacture its devices, following another quarterly plunge in sales and mounting losses.| 20
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    Lock icon S’poreans unfazed by foreign property curbs
    806 1  -  New taxes and levies unlikely to cut interest dramatically By Ong Chor Hao ongch@sph.com.sg Singapore INGAPORE investor interest in overseas property is unlikely to change drastically because of a recent string of measures introduced by governments abroad on foreign investors, market watchers said. The
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    Lock icon After 2013’s brakes, car players wary of 2014
    979 1  -  YEAR IN REVIEW: CAR INDUSTRY By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore AFTER being hit by soaring Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums and a slew of regulatory changes, buyers and sellers of cars here have to adjust to a new normal. And that includes
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      33 1 the the DEAN MOTORING The handsome Opel Cascada l14 COMPANIES TWG eyes annual sales of $1b 6 the raffles conversation DEAN OF ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL 8-9 LIVING Best worst food trends 2013 L2-5
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Telstra to sell 76.4% stake in CSL for A$2b
      653 2  -  Sale to HKT gives Telstra A$600m profit on CSL’s book value By Joyce Hooi joyceh@sph.com.sg Singapore AUSTRALIA’S Telstra is selling its stake in Hong Kong mobile operator CSL in a deal that will bring in proceeds of about A$2 billion (S$2.26
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      Lock icon Third-quarter GDP growth raised to 4.1%
      439 2 latest us data Reuters Washington THE US economy grew at its fastest pace in almost two years in the third quarter while business spending was stronger than previously estimated, pointing to some underlying strength that should be sustained. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew at
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    • MARKETS
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        59 2 GSTI 3,094.48 (+24.25) GSTI FUTURES 3,095.00 (+25.00) GSIMSCI 356.13 (+3.42) GSIMSCI FUTURES 355.60 (+3.20) STOCKS Friday Change KL COMP 1,838.03 -8.15 NIKKEI 225 15,870.42 +11.20 HANG SENG 22,812.18 -76.57 SET 1,342.72 -3.91 JAKARTA 4,195.56 -36.42 MANILA 5,835.13 -87.99 KOSPI 1,983.35 +7.70 SHENZHEN B 849.47 -10.86 MUMBAI IND 21,079.72 +371.10
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        Lock icon PRIME RATES
        29 2 SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 6.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 14.750 TAIWAN 5.036 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 3.00 SWITZERLAND 0.50 INDIA 14.75 Source: Bloomberg
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        Lock icon FOREX
        50 2 FOREX US$ S$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.267 (US$/S$ per 1.634 2.071 EURO (US$/S$/€ 1.363 1.727 Foreign currency per US$ S$ YEN 104.40 82.40 RM 3.283 2.591 HK$ 7.755 6.121 BAHT 32.64 25.77 RUPIAH 12,238 9,660 RENMINBI 6.072 4.793 INDIAN RUPEE 62.20 49.09 A$ 1.127 0.890 NZ$ 1.220 0.963
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      Lock icon BOJ reaffirms aggressive monetary easing
      671 3  -  Yen looks set to slide further with a quicker flow of funds out of Japan and into the US By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo THE Bank of Japan (BOJ) yesterday resolved to stand firmly behind its aggressive monetary easing programme, virtually guaranteeing a further downward
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      Lock icon Xi Jinping cements hold on power
      885 4  -  He comes across as an authoritarian, a political conservative, an economics reformist YEAR IN REVIEW: CHINA By Virginie Mangin btworld@sph.com.sg Beijing A LITTLE more than a year ago, analysts, political observers and high-ranking officials could do little more than guess who China’s new leader
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      Lock icon TWG sets sights on annual sales of $1b
      1012 6  -  1 0-year plan begins with a focus on Asia and a tea school to educate employees and members of the public By Chuang Peck Ming peckming@sph.com.sg Singapore TWG Tea has grown from a $1 million to a $55 million-a-year business in five
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      Lock icon UK latest to join trend of switching to plastic notes
      1110 7 Britain will issue its first polymer note, a ‘fiver’, in 201 6 with the £1 0 version appearing a year later NYT Ottawa IT took only 900 years, but paper money is fading away. As a new technology, plastic bank
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      49 2 CONTENTS NEWS Top Stories 2-7 Raffles Conversation 8-9 Companies 10-13 S’pore Markets 12 Singapore 14-16 World 17-20 Stocks Stats 21-25 Perspective 26-27 Crosswords 27 Wealth 28-31 LIVING Dining L2-5 Design L6-7 Home Garden L8-9 Christmas L10-11 Travel L12 Beauty/Wellness L13 Motoring L14-15 Golf L16 Househunt 30 Real Estate 31
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      19 3 Brand Your Assets Call 1800 289 8822 or e-mail notices@sph.com.sg to publicise your Financial Statements WATS NOTICES CLA/FEB1 1/g
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      576 7 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF TULLETT LIBERTY (OIL ENERGY) PTE. LTD. (Registration No. *****1799R) (IN MEMBERS’ VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING (Pursuant to Section 308(2)) TAKE NOTICE that a meeting of the shareholders of the abovenamed Company will be
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon A head for business
      2468 8 / 9  -  Jean-Michel Blanquer, dean of French business school ESSEC Asia-Pacific, aims to nurture a new breed of decision-maker for a complex world. By Teh Shi Ning By Teh Shi Ning tshining@sph.com. sg ON any given morning, the dean of ESSEC Business School can be found reading a
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  • COMPANIES
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      Lock icon Hisaka in $127m RTO deal with Regal Int’l
      451 10  -  Move will transform the company into a Malaysian property development firm By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg Singapore HISAKA Holdings has signed a conditional agreement to buy Regal International in a $127.3 million reverse takeover deal that would transform the automation solutions provider into
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      Lock icon Charoen’s revamp plan for F&N winning over bond market investors
      781 10 Bloomberg Singapore THAI billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi is getting support in the bond market for his plan to reorganise Fraser and Neave Ltd (F&N), a maker of beverages, books and luxury condos. The 130-year-old Singapore conglomerate, which Mr Charoen bought this
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      Lock icon RHT enters into rupee forward contracts for ’14
      216 10 Singapore RELIGARE Health Trust (RHT) has entered into forward currency hedging contracts for its estimated incoming Indian rupee cashflow for the year ending Dec 31, 2014. Religare Health Trust Trustee Manager has completed its currency hedging for the estimated incoming Indian rupee
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      Lock icon World’s first screwless sunspecs raises US$19,400 in crowdfunding
      416 11  -  Nuke on track to become one of Singapore’s top five campaigns By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg Singapore IN just 16 days, Singapore-based eyewear start-up Nuke Optics has raised over US$19,400 via global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo for its Nuke Venom the world’s first screwless
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      Lock icon SIA buys 7% of Tiger from Temasek for $49m to raise stake to 40%
      486 11  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has acquired a 7.3 per cent stake in Tiger Airways from Temasek Holdings, taking its stake in the budget carrier to 40 per cent from 32.7 per cent.
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      Lock icon IHC names Marriott to manage KLCC apartments
      257 11  -  By Felda Chay feldac@sph.com.sg Singapore CATALIST-LISTED International Healthway Corporation (IHC) has appointed Marriott International as the manager of the serviced apartments that will form part of its 33-storey integrated mixed-use development located in the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC). Kuala Lumpur’s Marriott Executive
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      Lock icon Spotlight on tapering and penny resurgence
      607 12  -  STOCKS R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg Senior Correspondent THE United States Federal Reserve’s surprise decision to start tapering its QE3 bond-buying programme was the main feature of the week just past as it led to a “relief rally” on Wall Street which pushed the major US
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        Lock icon Swissco wins $15.2m in vessel charter contracts
        66 12 MARINE service provider Swissco Holdings has won three charter contracts worth a total of $15.2 million for its vessels. Its offshore support vessel will be deployed in the Middle East for three years with a sale and purchase option exercisable after the charter
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        Lock icon TriTech Group to list limestone units
        73 12 TRITECH Group has decided to list its subsidiaries in the limestone business Terratech Resources Pte Ltd and CEP Resources Entity Sdn Bhd on Catalist. “The company has appointed certain of the relevant professional parties in respect of the proposed listing, who will be proceeding
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        Lock icon Sino Construction bags RM40m Sabah project
        103 12 A UNIT of Sino Construction SC Building Construction Pte Ltd (SCBC) has received a letter of intent for the award of a building and construction contract for a mixed commercial development and bus terminal project in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The letter of intent was
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      Lock icon TOP 20 ACTIVES
      255 12 VOL CLOSE Char i sma Energy 355 CLOSE 519 7 .0 0 .5 7 .7 HanKore 310 0.5 146 8 .2 0 .8 1 0 .8 S I I C Env 261 10.8 920 17 .8 2 .5 1 6 .3 Otto Mar i ne 1 68
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      110 12 Stock name Close Change CapMallsAsia 1.905 +0.005 CapitaLand 2.960 CapitaMall 1.860 +0.040 CityDev 9.520 +0.020 ComfortDelGro 1.975 DBS Grp 16.76 +0.170 GLP 2.860 -0.010 Genting SP 1.465 +0.015 Golden Agri 0.530 HK Land 5.800 +0.040 HPH Trust US$ 0.645 +0.015 JMH 51.50 -0.230 JSH 31.50 -0.500 Jardine C&C
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      Lock icon TOP GAINERS
      60 12 BY CENTS CLOSE UP Jardine C&C 3460 60.0 1.8 UOB 2068 33.0 1.6 Lyxor Europe 10 US$ 1496 26.6 1.4 Great Eastern 1768 25.0 1.4 DBXT E50 10US$ 5039 24.1 0.4 DBS Bk 4.7% NCPS 100 ***** 19.0 0.2 DBS Grp 1676 17.0 1.0 SIA 1020 17.0 1.7
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      62 12 BY CENTS CLOSEDOWN Lyxor ThaiSET 10US$ ***** -115.3 -0.8 GLD 10US$ ***** -77.3 -0.5 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 2657 -76.0 -2.2 Lyxor China H 10US$ 1416 -68.4 -3.7 JSH 3150 -63.3 -1.6 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 2910 -50.7 -1.4 JMH 5150 -29.1 -0.4 DBXT MSJAP 10US$ 4607 -27.9 -0.5
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      Lock icon Asia-Pac equity issuance down, IPO proceeds up in 2013
      353 12 Reuters Hong Kong EQUITY capital markets in the Asia-Pacific ex-Japan region shrank for a third consecutive year in 2013, hurt by a downturn in India and slower activity in mainland China. The overall decline contrasts with a rebound in IPO issuance
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      Lock icon Changi Airport’s Project Jewel to cost $1.47b
      674 13  -  The development will boost airport’s capacity and cement its position as a leading air hub By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg Singapore PROJECT Jewel, the mixed-use development aimed at adding some glitz to Changi Airport when it is launched by end-2018, will cost $1.47 billion
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      Lock icon No time to go to the bank? The bank will come to you
      235 13  -  By Arthur Lee arthurl@sph.com.sg Singapore CASH flow is the life blood of any business, especially for many SMEs. DBS’ QuickCollect Service allows SME customers to drop off cheques, trade documents and remittance applications at DBS’ mobile van
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon PUB invites proposals to build second NEWater plant
      319 14  -  Also at Changi, it will add 228,000 cu m to S’pore’s daily water supply By Chan Yi Wen yiwenc@sph.com.sg NATIONAL water agency, the Public Utilities Board (PUB), is inviting local and international companies to submit proposals for the construction of the second
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      Lock icon Board changes at STB, CCS, JTC, A*Star on Jan 1
      396 14  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB), Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS), JTC Corporation (JTC) and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) will all see changes to their boards on Jan 1. In a press release
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      Lock icon 4 more workers get their marching orders
      591 15  -  They join the 53 who have been repatriated; 200 others to be issued police advisories tomorrow RIOTING IN LITTLE INDIA By Malminderjit Singh msingh@sph.com.sg A TOTAL of 57 foreign workers have been issued immigration removal orders for their involvement in the Little India
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      Lock icon Mapletree plans industrial facility on Tai Seng plot
      352 15  -  Project will also have office space and a retail centre By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg MAPLETREE Investments plans to develop a modern high-specification industrial facility with office space and a retail centre on the B2-White plot at Tai Seng that it clinched from
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      Lock icon Nine get President’s Challenge awards
      475 16  -  Groups gave jobs to needy, services to wider community By Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg NINE social enterprises were honoured yesterday at the 2013 President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Award for not only providing jobs to the needy and disadvantaged but also services to the wider community including
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      15 15 Call 1800 289 8822 or e-mail notices@sph.com.sg to place your Mergers Acquisitions Notices NOTICES ICLA/FEBII/g
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Target breach could turn out to be costly affair
      666 17 Cost of hundreds of millions of dollars hangs over heads of those found responsible Reuters San Francisco THE theft of credit and debit card data from 40 million Target Corp customers could end up costing hundreds of millions of dollars, but
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      Lock icon Activism, economy weighed on M&A in 2013; issues may linger
      506 17 Reuters New York SHAREHOLDER activism, economic uncertainty and regulatory interventions were a drag on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in 2013, and dealmakers cautioned that these factors could keep growth relatively slow next year. Global M&A volume fell 2 per cent
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      Lock icon ‘Times have changed’, angry India tells US
      409 17 AFP New Delhi INDIA angrily brushed aside fresh efforts by the United States yesterday to defuse a row over the arrest and strip-search of one of its diplomats, warning Washi n g t o n t h a t“ t i mes h
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      Lock icon US firm loses case against phone makers
      582 18 InterDigital plans to appeal findings by an American trade body in patent suit against Nokia, Huawei and ZTE Bloomberg Washington INTERDIGITAL Inc, the mobile phone design company that said its executives were threatened for pursuing pa-tent-infringement claims against one of China’s largest telecommunications
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      Lock icon China firms top US takeover watchlist
      426 18 Reuters Washington CHINESE companies faced the most scrutiny over their US acquisitions last year, eclipsing British firms for the first time, according to a report. Corporations from China filed 23 notices with US regulators in 2012, up from 10 in 2011 and nearly quadruple
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      Lock icon Forex players in race to rat on rivals
      649 19 EU offers to waive penalties for the first to snitch on any cartel and give a discount of up to 50% for the next Bloomberg Brussels BANKS are racing to betray their competitors to avoid possible European Union fines for rigging foreign
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      Lock icon Indonesia’s banks asked to raise capital reserves by ’15
      436 19 Reuters Jakarta INDONESIAN banks must increase their capital reserves by 2015 to be better positioned to deal with risk should there be a financial crisis in South-east Asia’s largest economy, the central bank said. Bank Indonesia announced late Thursday that by
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      Lock icon Blackberry hires Foxconn to make its phones
      454 20 Q3 sales down 56% at US$1 .1 9b; loss per share at 67 US cents Bloomberg Toronto BLACKBERRY, the struggling smartphone maker, has struck a five-year deal with Foxconn Technology to manufacture its devices, following another quarterly plunge in sales and mounting losses.
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    • Briefing
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        Lock icon Thailand’s True Telecom raises 58.1b baht in IPO
        65 20 Bloomberg Bangkok TRUE Telecommunications Growth Infrastructure Fund, backed by billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont’s True Corp, raised 58.1 billion baht (S$2.27 billion) in Thailand’s second-biggest initial public offering. It drew orders from foreign and domestic institutional investors as well as individual investors despite the
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        Lock icon S&P downgrades EU’s long-term credit rating
        52 20 AFP Paris THE Standard and Poor’s ratings agency yesterday downgraded the European Union’s long-term credit rating one notch, from “AAA” to “AA+”, citing weaker cred- it worthiness among the bloc. The downgrade came as EU leaders held a summit, stumbling on agreeing deeper economic
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        Lock icon Probe into London theatre ceiling collapse
        84 20 AFP London INVESTIGATORS were yesterday seeking to establish why the ceiling of a packed London theatre collapsed, injuring 76 people and coating terrified audience members with rubble. A sell-out crowd of around 720 people was in the Apollo Theatre in Soho on Thursday night
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        Lock icon Freed Khodorkovsky leaves for Germany
        100 20 AP Moscow FORMER oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky left Russia for Germany after his release from prison following a presidential pardon. The prison service said he was going to meet his mother who is undergoing medical treatment there. Mr Khodorkovsky spent 10 years in prison on
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      Lock icon Google antitrust remedies not acceptable: EC
      326 20 But official says it’s too early to talk of sanctions AFP Brussels THE latest remedies offered by US giant Google to complaints that it abuses its dominant position in the Internet search market do not go far enough, the European Commission said yesterday. “The
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  • SGX
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      8066 21 Transaction date: Dec 20 52-wks Last Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net M Cap High Low Company Sale +/-(‘000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 15 11.5 8Telecom 11.6 11.5 13.1 10.6 0.9 9.6 55.6 20 3.2 A-Sonic 10.7 +0.1 7094 10.9 10.4 10.7 10.8 1.2
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      1909 24 52-wks Last Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net M Cap High Low Company Sale +/-(‘000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 37 17.3 t 3Cnergy 500 26 3 31 25.6 27.5 17.1 t 800 Super 24.5 19.4 24.5 3.2 4.1 7.6 43.8 6.2 2.8 t AA
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 24 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 6 7 1 0 0 0 6 7 1 Manufacturing 62 32 36 13 8 5 75 40 41 Commerce 25 18 13 5 5 4 30 23 17 Tpt/Stor/Comms 18 9 12
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      Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      777 24 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS For week beginning Dec 16 Substantial Buy No of Price ———SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Sell Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Conv '000 Shr ('000) ('000) Del Monte Pacific 19-Dec-13 Rolando C Gapud Buy 50 0.59 930 0.07 980 0.08 Del Monte Pacific
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 24 TURNOVER (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 16,438 16,438 84,192 84,192 Manufacturing 439,186 120,925 560,111 97,430 3,759 101,188 Commerce 148,096 329,457 477,553 69,171 37,506 106,677 Tpt/Stor/Comms 139,772 3,206 142,978 166,888 385 167,274 Finance 33,313 67 33,380 154,819 21 154,840 Construction 28,560 362,318
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  • MARKETS
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      Lock icon LIFFE
      93 25 Dec 19 COCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev High Low Mar 14 1780 1771 1789 1771 May 14 1766 1761 1774 1761 Jul 14 1756 1747 1761 1747 Sep 14 1752 1739 1757 1739 COFFEE(US$/tonne) Close Prev High Low Jan 14 1690 1705 1713 1678 Mar 14 1684 1699 1706 1668
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      Lock icon METALS
      67 25 Dec 20 GOLD(US$/oz) Dec 20 Dec 19 Hong Kong 1201.00 1215.00 Dec 19 Dec 18 London 1195.30 1231.00 1195.85 1231.65 Source: Thomson Reuters SILVER Selling Buying Passbook 1 oz 24.89 24.11 Source: UOB PLATINUM Lon (US$/oz) Dec 19 Close Previous PM Fix 1321.00 1354.00 AM Fix 1328.00 1355.00 Source:
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      Lock icon PALM OIL
      57 25 Dec 20 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Jan 14 2540.0 2546.0 2552.0 2537.0 73 3379 Feb 14 2565.0 2571.0 2572.0 2550.0 5136 ***** Mar 14 2583.0 2584.0 2590.0 2558.0 ***** ***** Apr 14 2590.0 2591.0
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      Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
      88 25 Dec 20 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue Maturity Yesterday's Day's code Bid High Low 6-Month BS*****F 13-Jun-14 0.28 1-Year BY*****T 31-Oct-14 0.29 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0W 1.13 01-Apr-16 101.52 101.70 101.55 5-Year N*****0T 0.5 01-Apr-18 97.95 98.50 98.00
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      Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
      155 25 Dec 20 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.1234 1.1241 0.8868 0.8873 Canadian dollar 1.1863 1.1870 0.9369 0.9364 Euro 1.7268 1.7272 1.3631 1.3633 NZ dollar 1.0378 1.0386 0.8192 0.8198 Sterling pound 2.0703 2.0709 1.6343 1.6346
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      Lock icon FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES
      118 25 Dec 20 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Sell Buy Aust dollar 1.149 1.095 Can dollar 1.210 1.164 Euro 1.769 1.685 Sterling pound 2.112 2.031 NZ dollar 1.062 1.022 US dollar 1.293 1.232 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency: Currencies Sell
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      104 25 Dec 19 SOYBEANS(5,000 bu min; USc/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Jan 14 1327.00 1324.00 1329.75 1315.75 Mar 14 1319.00 1313.75 1320.00 1306.00 May 14 1305.50 1298.75 1306.75 1292.00 Jul 14 1293.00 1287.00 1294.25 1279.00 SOYBEAN OIL(60,000 lbs; USc/lb) Close Previous High/Low Jan 14 39.33 39.06 39.49 38.94
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      68 25 Dec 19 CRUDE US$/barrel (FOB origin) Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) 110.57 1.10 WTI (Near Mth) 98.46 0.71 Dubai (1-Mth F) 106.30 1.23 Tapis blend 115.36 1.21 Minas 108.86 1.21 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha 107.61 1.05 Jet Kerosene 125.94 1.70 US$/barrel OpecOil Basket Price 107.49
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      72 25 Dec 19 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 1728.25 1752.00 3 months 1773.00 1798.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 7207.00 7277.50 3 months 7200.50 7270.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2148.25 2156.25 3 months 2174.00 2183.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash *****.00 *****.50 3 months *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne)
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      373 25 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Dec 19 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1156.2 0.5 23.2 0.8 25.4 0.2 20.8 EAFE Preliminary 931.7 1.4 20.3 1.4 20.0 0.8 15.7 Europe Preliminary 1321.3 1.6 15.2
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      349 26 / 27 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Nobility and rank may well be a big issue (4,5,4) 10 Discharges account and leaves (7) 11 Impose obedience in French Legion (7) 12 They may be fast, but only without running (4) 13 One who doesn’t take alcohol in any liquid is smart (5) 14
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        753 28 / 29 Bloomberg London THE best hedge fund managers tend to find profits in short-term, contrarian bets. That’s the finding of a study published this year by Russell Jame of the University of Kentucky and set to be presented next month at the American Economic Association’s
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        507 30 Reuters Beijing CHINA’S southern city of Guangzhou has issued data showing falling home prices last month which is at odds with official national figures that put rises in the city at among the highest in the country, prompting criticism in state media.
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        419 30 PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS FOR DISTRICTS 4 TO 27 WITH CONTRACT DATES BETWEEN NOV 13 AND NOV 19, 2013 PROJECT NAME/ STREET NAME PROP TYPE CONTRACT DATE TENURE BUILT -IN/LAND AREA*(SQ FT) PRICE (S$'000) PSF (S$) District 4 NON-LANDED Caribbean At Keppel Bay Apt 14/11/2013 99 1356 2320 1711 Corals At
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        281 30 Prices in London seen rising 11% next year, against 8% nationally Bloomberg homes being built is now on the rise, it still won’t be anywhere near enough to meet demand,” Peter Bolton King, RICS global residential director, said. “We expect the problem of
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        1099 31 City’s relatively low property prices, solid rental market attract new residents NYT Liverpool LIKE many major cities around the world, Liverpool’s legacy from the 2008 global downturn was a glut of unfinished and unsold apartments. But just five years later, the city’s plans include thousands of
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        1356 10 / 11  -  Discerning and idiosyncratic on-trend folk can be tough to please at Christmas. Industry players share their strategies to wow even the most finicky fashion lover. By May Yip By May Yip Stan Lee Owner of menswear boutique, Swagger I ALWAYS plan ahead of time so that I
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        1003 12  -  Bagan Lodge allows you to take a dip in the past while revelling in the present. By Jaime Ee jaime@sph.com.sg BAGAN has everything going for it when you’re smitten with the idea of going back in time and experiencing a life when kings ruled
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        635 14  -  The Opel Cascada is the German car maker’s first premium convertible. By Samuel Ee By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg NAMING an open-top model “Waterfall” may not seem like a particularly good idea but the handsome new Opel Cascada convertible’s good build quality should dispel any concerns immediately. Cascada is
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