The Business Times, 31 March 2016

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    22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.20 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg @BusinessTimes CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 039/08/2015 Thursday, March 31, 2016
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    261 1 Growth in Asia’s developing economies will slow a bit this year and next compared with last year, but India and South-east Asia should still perform relatively strongly, even as China’s growth continues to slow, the ADB says. TOP STORIES 2 The Monetary Authority of Singapore is looking at
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    Lock icon Building-security costs a new reality in age of terrorism
    1179 1  -  So far, efforts by Singapore building owners seem basic, barely going beyond hiring guards and CCTV monitoring By leemx@sph.com.sg Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore RISING security risks amid mounting global terror threats have made enhancing security at buildings and installations a
    Source: Guidelines for Enhancing Building Security in Singapore by MHA; BT Graphics  -  1,179 words
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    Lock icon DBS takes ‘sensible’ approach to adding AUM
    1176 1  -  CEO: China should continue liberalising its market; Beijing is mentally prepared for big job losses this year By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore DBS’S integration with Societe Generale’s private banking business in Asia may have breezed past the bank’s targets, but the bank’s
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    26 1 Wednesday Change STI 2,872.78 +53.70 KL COMP 1,717.82 +2.78 NIKKEI 225 16,878.96 -224.57 HANG SENG 20,803.39 +437.09 SHENZHEN B 1,142.22 +12.74 DOW(11.45am EDT) 17,720.12 +87.01
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      53 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES CASE AGAINST CONCORD PACIFIC Oei Hong Leong ceases Singapore action against Concord real estate 12 SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING Total system approach needed SPECIAL FOCUS 16 JB 1735 II BlancpaiN MANUFACTURE DE HAUTE HORLOGERIE BLANCPAIN BOUTIQUE MARINA BAY SANDS SHOPPES 2 BAYFRONT AVENUE #B2M-237 (CASINO LEVEL) SINGAPORE *****2 TEL
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      12 1 PROPERTY AUCTION No buyers for bankrupt spice trader’s bungalow TOP STORIES 4
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      12 1 Smaller bonus takes UOB chief out of S$10m pay club, Page 6
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Developing Asia’s short-term prospects still good, but hazier in longer run: ADB
      767 2  -  It says spillover from China slowdown and some Asian economies’ greying populations could slow their future growth By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo GROWTH in Asia’s developing economies will slow somewhat this year and the next compared with last
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      Lock icon MAS to explore better ways to use data
      340 2  -  By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is looking at ways to improve the use and dissemination of its data, in hopes of making it available through the use of application programming interfaces (APIs). Without specifying a
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      Lock icon Singapore 2015 customer satisfaction level dips on lower Q4 scores
      699 2  -  Lower national score largely pulled down by poorer performances in finance insurance and healthcare sectors in Q4 By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore THE national customer satisfaction level here was lower in 2015, weighed down by poorer performances in the
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      Lock icon AXA Life joins as sixth IP insurer from May
      450 4  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore FRENCH insurer AXA Life will officially join the Integrated Shield Plan (IP) and rider market here as the sixth and newest provider from May 1, after it gained the Health Ministry’s approval to do so.
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      Lock icon No buyers for bankrupt trader’s bungalow
      677 4  -  Bid-ask price gap cited as hurdle despite strong interest; auctioneer expects post-auction negotiations By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore ONE man’s misfortune might be another man’s opportunity. But no one succeeded in seizing the chance to buy the freehold bungalow at 85 Branksome Road,
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      Lock icon Yellen spurs global stock rally as oil rebounds, dollar tumbles
      715 4 BLOOMBERG Sydney STOCKS jumped around the world on Wednesday after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen reasserted on Tuesday the US central bank’s gradual approach to raising interest rates. Commodities climbed as the dollar extended its worst month in more than
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      Lock icon Foreign investor interest in Singapore firms still strong: credit bureau
      403 4  -  By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore FOREIGN investment interest in Singapore companies remains strong despite global uncertainties and tough economic conditions, the latest report by the Singapore Commercial Credit Bureau (SCCB) reveals. Credit searches made by foreign companies on local
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      Lock icon Panel discussion by BT at Deloitte’s budget seminar
      322 4  -  By Grace So graceso@sph.com.sg Singapore DELOITTE’S Singapore Budget Seminar 2016 will feature a panel discussion organised by The Business Times and moderated by its associate editor Vikram Khanna. The seminar is targeted at directors, executives, accountants, consultants and tax professionals. During the
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      Lock icon REC to invest S$250m to scale up its solar capacity
      901 5  -  It will expand its Tuas South plant and work with an NUS research body to build a next-generation solar panel By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore SINGAPORE’S largest cleantech player, REC, has unveiled S$250 million in investments in the
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      Lock icon Companies are best placed to encourage volunteerism: Heng
      600 5  -  By Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg @LeeUwenBT Singapore COMPANIES may feel that they cannot donate as much as before, given the weakened economy, but they still do their part by rallying their employees into contributing time and effort to meaningful causes. Finance Minister Heng
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      193 5 The Impact of One Belt One Road on ASEAN Region. MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL Date: Sunday, 3rd April 2016 Time: 2pm RAFFLES CITY CONVENTION CENTRE ENTERPRISE ROOM, LEVEL 4 Limited Seats RSVP NOW! EDMOND LIM (R *****1 I) *****108 FREE Property Seminar r Special Speaker Mr. Chay Yiowmin, a partner Head of
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      143 5 TALK TO JETRO FARST. INVEST 1APAN About Business in Japan. Japan welcomes global companies with open arms! This is an ideal country for innovation, with business and living environments unparalleled in the world. JETRO is Japan' s core governmental organization for promoting inward foreign direct investment and has supported over
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Baffling C-suite resignations are never a good thing
      670 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW BY ANITA GABRIEL anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT HIRING and firing the chief executive of a company is the prerogative of the board although one is always trickier than the other. It is also the most important task before a governing board
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      Lock icon UOB offers card to woo millennials as StanChart courts affluent travellers
      427 6  -  By Renald Yeo yrenald@sph.com.sg Singapore TWO banks in Singapore have launched credit cards targeted at different niche markets, with United Overseas Bank (UOB) out to woo the millennials and Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) taking aim at affluent travellers. UOB
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      Lock icon Singapore retail and office Reits expected to be resilient: Fitch
      587 6  -  By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore WHILE a challenging year lies ahead for Singapore retail and office real estate investment trusts (Reits) with rising supply and weak demand, both sectors’ credit profiles are expected to be largely unaffected, said credit
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      Lock icon HTL opens new flagship store at Mohamed Sultan
      352 6  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore SINGAPORE-based leather tanner and sofa maker HTL International has opened HomesToLife, its latest flagship store, at 65 Mohamed Sultan. The new retail concept is marketed as a one-stop shop with access to its portfolio of over
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      Lock icon Smaller bonus takes UOB chief out of S$10m pay club
      602 6  -  By leejamie@sph.com.sg Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore CHIEF executive of UOB Wee Ee Cheong has dropped out of the S$10-million pay club, with a fall in bonus in 2015 from a year ago. His peers both had their bonuses bumped
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      Lock icon Banyan Tree eyes projects in Malaysian secondary cities
      531 6  -  By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA’S George Town, Ipoh and Melaka are secondary cities that Banyan Tree Hotels Resorts is keen to put down roots should the right opportunity come along. Borneo’s Sabah with its renowned rainforests is another place that
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      Lock icon New NFC-enabled SIM cards may not take off for now: DBS Research
      498 6  -  By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore IT may be a while before the newly introduced NFC (Near-Field Communication)-enabled SIM cards become widely used in Singapore, but this is unlikely to impact the three telcos, DBS Group Research said
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      Lock icon Local bonds surge as interest rates fall sharply
      611 7  -  Markets now pricing in no rate hikes by Fed until towards the end of the year ASIA BONDS By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore LOCAL bond prices are hitting new highs as interest rates fall sharply. In particular, the three-month swap
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      Lock icon Noble’s 2018 notes leading gainers in S-EA junk bond rally
      534 7 BLOOMBERG Singapore ASIA’S beaten-down commodity bonds are now delivering the best returns as raw material prices rebound from 25-year lows. Noble Group Ltd’s 2018 notes returned 37 per cent this month through March 29, leading gainers in junk bonds from
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Tiger Airways
        55 7 TIGER Airways is selling two Airbus A320 aircraft to Stellar Aircraft Holding 1 at a loss to rightsize its fleet. As at March 31, 2015, the carrying value of the two planes had been written down to S$71 million. Upon completion of the sale, Tiger will record an
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        Lock icon Yuuzoo Corporation
        47 7 SOCIAL networking firm YuuZoo Corporation said it has signed an agreement with the Alibaba Sports Group (ASG) to organise and run an e-sports tournament and manage e-sports club competition centres. Under the agreement, YuuZoo’s China joint venture YuuGames will receive a “multimillion US dollar fee”.
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        Lock icon Second Chance Properties
        67 7 SECOND Chance Properties' net profit for the second quarter tumbled 64 per cent to S$1.1 million on lower revenue and gains from the fair valuation of properties. Its revenue for the three months ended Feb 29, 2016, fell 16 per cent to S$8.4 million, as its apparel
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        Lock icon Sembcorp Industries
        55 7 SEMBCORP Industries has secured a long-term power purchase deal for its new power plant in Myingyan, Mandalay. The plant, slated for commercial operations in 2018, will supply 225 megawatts of power to Myanmar via Myanma Electric Power Enterprise for 22 years. Sembcorp hopes to help meet the growing
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      63 8 STI Catalist Straits Times Index March 30,2016 2,872.78 +53.70 (+1.90%) Current streak 1 day Day high 2,874.26 Day low 2,836.93 52-week high 3,539.95 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 2,532.70 (Jan 21, 2016) FTSE ST Catalist Index March 30,2016 460.54 +6.42 (+1.41%) Current streak 1 day Day high 461.68 Day low
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      Lock icon STI on brink of regaining positive territory
      652 8  -  Index just 10 points in the red for 2016; Wednesday rebound prompted probably by Yellen comments and window-dressing STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT ON Wednesday, the penultimate day of the first quarter, the Straits Times Index rebounded 53.7 points, or 1.9 per
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      316 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 241 -1 245/240 271 209 6.1 6330.4 CapitaCom Trust 150 +1.5 150/148.5 179 122.5 5.7 4433 CapitaLand 311 cd +4 312/307 379 267 12.4 2.9 *****.9 CapitaMall Trust 212 unch 216/211 228
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      34 8 VOLUME Spackman 105,863,400 Noble 62,224,100 Rowsley 55,976,000 OKH Global 53,487,800 Ezra 49,570,400 Market volume 1,824,410,000 VALUE DBS Grp 93,292,521 Singtel 79,752,941 OCBC Bank 68,543,848 UOB 59,434,321 Global Logistic 48,124,418 Market value 1,200,899,000
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      Lock icon SGX ETFS Most Active
      108 8 Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap IS MS INDIA US$ US664 +6 399 664/663 819/575 664/665 83 DBXT MSRussia US$ US185 +4 121 185/183 235/129 186/187 STI ETF 288 +5 89 288/285 355/254 287/288 DBXT MSINDO us$ US1284 +34 86 1284/1263 1492/911
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      77 8 Mar 30 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 95.00 +216.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +152.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +10.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 692.55 +7.64 FTSE ST Small Cap 400.57 +3.60 FTSE ST All Share 700.27 +9.90 FTSE ST China Top 165.90 +1.80 FTSE ST China 196.06 +2.46 FTSE
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share ftse ST All-Share index March 30,2016 700.27 +9.90 (+1.43%) Current streak 1 day Day high 700.27 Day low 692.36 52-week high 847.98 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 625.37 (Jan 21, 2016)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      33 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE index March 29,2016 1,629.63 -1.87 (-0.11%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,644.15 Day low 1,623.35 52-week high 1,949.49 (May 15, 2015) 52-week low 1,492.43 (Feb 12, 2016)
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 8 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 8 4 1 1 0 0 9 4 1 Manufacturing 52 35 23 10 5 12 62 40 35 Commerce 27 15 10 8 1 6 35 16 16 Tpt/Stor/Comms 20 4 9
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      122 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 28,340 1,677 30,017 81,712 384 82,096 Manufacturing 189,662 37,617 227,279 116,046 3,157 119,202 Commerce 138,873 59,403 198,276 118,444 1,665 120,109 Tpt/Stor/Comms 121,685 1,612 123,297 162,787 135 162,922 Finance 22,772 2 22,774 246,662 246,662 Construction 13,924
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      80 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE TA 24.6 0.300 +0.085 +39.54 Xyec 1,532.4 0.285 +0.085 +42.50 Santak 32.0 0.250 -0.030 -10.71 China Intl 27.4 0.225 +0.039 +20.97 Sitra 7,861.0 0.011 +0.002 +22.22 Lion Asiapac 20.0 0.220 -0.060 -21.43 Infinio 500.1 0.002 +0.001 +100.00 Abundance Intl 90.0 0.063 +0.014 +28.57 Next-Gen Sat
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      74 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low GLD US$ ***** 287.3 1.8 *****/***** Jardine C&C 4090 138.0 3.5 4258/2636 DBXT China50 US$ 2794 106.6 2.9 4258/2355 SPDR DJIA US$ ***** 91.7 0.4 *****/***** Lyxor ChinaH US$ 1250 68.8 4.3 2055/999 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Infinio 0.2 100.0 0.1
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      76 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT Vietnam US$ 2189 -28.3 -1.0 2786/2017 IS ASIA HYG S$D 1409 -19.0 -1.3 1499/1409 Lyxor Indonesia US$ 8112 -18.9 -0.2 9084/6250 IS ASIA BND S$D 1436 -13.0 -0.9 1483/1398 IS ASIA HYG US$ 1032 -10.8 -0.8 1130/977 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        Lock icon Keppel Corp Sell
        149 8 Target price: S$4.42 March 30 close: S$5.97 Maybank Kim Eng Research, March 30 WE urge investors to sell into Keppel’s recent surge from its S$4.71 low, which we think was driven purely by oil price sentiments. This is unsustainable as rig-building fundamentals have not improved and earnings
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        Lock icon Sembcorp industries Buy
        108 8 Target price: S$4.00 March 30 close: S$3.08 HB Research, March 30 SEMBCORP Industries announced it has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Myanma Electric Power Enterprise for the supply of 225 megawatts of power for 22 years from its upcoming power project in Myingyan, Mandalay.
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        Lock icon Swissco Holdings Add
        230 8  -  Compiled by Kenneth Lim Target price: S$0.26 March 30 close: S$0.193 CIMB Research, March 29 SWISSCO’S current share price implies that six of the nine rigs that it operates will be scrapped, with further impairment of about US$170 million. We believe this is too bearish. FY16 is
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      8 8 DATA IMarch 31 US initial jobless claims
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      Lock icon US$ heading for worst quarter in five years
      408 9 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE dollar fell broadly on Wednesday and with just one more day left in March, headed for its worst quarter in five years against a basket of currencies as investors wound back their expectations for US interest rate rises
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 9 Mar 30 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 1.001 4.978 0.679 5.962 51.020 102.001 0.862 8.840 3.030 1.107 80.536 35.401 1.038 11.498 0.741 24.764 27.075 0.533 0.769 Canada 0.999 4.974
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 Mar 30 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0371 1.0382 0.7688 0.7691 Canadian dollar 1.0363 1.0373 0.7684 0.7682 Euro 1.5275 1.5289 1.1323 1.1326 NZ dollar 0.9369 0.9379 0.6945 0.6948 Sterling pound 1.9470 1.9490 1.4433 1.4438
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 9 Mar 30 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3490 1.3501 2-months 1.3492 1.3504 3-months 1.3495 1.3508 6-months 1.3506 1.3520 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        211 9 Most active Mar 30 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left DBS MB eCW*****1 13.2 1.5 ***** 0.1 1480 4 Rowsley Ltd W*****3 1 unch 9562 1 18 7 KepCorp MB eCW*****2 11.7 1.1 7079 0.2 680 9
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        377 9 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Mar 29 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1236.1 -0.1 -3.3 -0.3 -5.8 -0.1 -2.2 EAFE Preliminary 939.9 0.0 -7.2 -0.3 -8.5 -0.1 -5.1 Europe Preliminary 1326.7 0.3 -6.1
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        396 9 Mar 30 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Mar16 9420.00 9627.50 9397.50 9625.00 *****1 *****5 Apr16 9385.00 9745.00 9365.00 9727.50 *****0 *****8 NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Jun16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****6 Sep16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 134 702 MSCI TAIWAN
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    • BANK RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK RATES
        154 9 Mar 30 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 Par 1-month 0.7500 0.6250 2-months 1.0000 0.8750 3-months 1.0625 0.9375 Overnight mode: 0.15 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.45 0.35 1 month 0.48 0.38 2 months 0.65 0.45 3 months 0.75 0.55 6 months 1.05 0.85 9 months 1.25 1.05 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        70 9 Mar 30 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0T 0.5 01-Apr-18 99.31 99.35 99.15 5-Year NX*****X 2.250 01-Jun-21 103.76 103.80 103.80 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 104.43 104.73 103.98 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 107.89 108.18 107.50 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 114.85
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        249 9 Mar-29 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Mar-29 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 916.00 7.00 0.77% 13/05/2016 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 34.05 0.42 1.25% 13/05/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 476.75 5.75 1.22% 13/05/2016 Mar-29 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2186.00 -16.00 -0.73% 13/05/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1463.00 5.00 0.34%
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1878 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Last Vol Day Div GrYld 153 127 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 134 -1 110 135 134 1 8.3 851.4 MCap 175.5 101 ARA Asset Mgmt 118cd unch 547 119 116.5 1.7
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      344 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Company Last Sale vol ('000) 1 0.2 t Advanced Systems 0.3 unch 1821 0.3 0.2 7.9 Day Low 16.8 4.5 t Alliance Mineral 7.2 unch 4470 7.5 7.2 28.4 C'vr 19.9
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      Lock icon SGX ETF
      114 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last Sale vol 4258 2355 DBXT China50 US$ US2794 +79 17 2795 2716 7.7 399 190 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US293 +3 59 293 290 1750 995 DBXT MSCHINA US$ US1175
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon Tycoon ceases S’pore action against Concord
      493 12  -  Oei decides not to “waste time” arguing on jurisdiction; he will take on the Canadian developer on its home turf By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore SINGAPORE tycoon Oei Hong Leong has discontinued his Singapore legal action against Canadian developer Concord Pacific Acquisitions over
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      Lock icon Turkey’s indebted tourism industry hit hard by terror attacks
      434 12 BLOOMBERG Istanbul TOURIST arrivals to Turkey fell by 10 per cent last month compared with February 2015, a blow to an industry that owes US$17 billion to the country’s banks. The drop in arrivals, the biggest in a decade, marked a
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      Lock icon Bukit Batok West mixed-use site expected to draw some interest
      565 13  -  Market watchers expect top bids of between S$520 to S$620 psf ppr, and up to 10 participants for tender exercise By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore THE 99-year commercial and residential site at Bukit Batok West Avenue 6 should receive
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      Lock icon Evergrande shares fall as developer piles on debt to expand
      256 13 BLOOMBERG Shanghai EVERGRANDE Real Estate Group Ltd shares dropped as the Chinese developer said its debt mounted last year to fund acquisitions, raising concerns over whether it will be able to maintain sustainable growth. The stock fell as much as
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      714 14 As Americans see home values appreciating, they may be inclined to spend more as well, providing a boost to economic growth BLOOMBERG Washington HOME values in 20 US cities kept climbing in January, a sign the limited supply of
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      411 14 BLOOMBERG London THE intensifying bid battle for Starwood Hotels may raise the chances that a deal for a European hotelier will mark a new stage of consolidation in the industry. Connecticut-based Starwood is weighing a US$14 billion non-binding all-cash bid proposal
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      1181 17 SPECIAL FEATURE r. vr Building The Future Greening buildings start with the use of sustainable materials for construction Samwoh embraces sustainability because we understand we’re not just building infrastructure, but also building the future. W Mr Eric Soh, CEO, Samwoh Corporation By Christina Ching When Samwoh’s Eco-Green Building was built
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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      1020 19 Lack of clarity on how government will convert to equity up to 1.27 trillion yuan of bad debt owed to banks mostly by SOEs and on level of support that state will provide BLOOMBERG Shanghai CHINA’S proposal to deal with a
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      536 19 BLOOMBERG London EMPLOYEES at the biggest European firms will get a bigger piece of their 2015 bonuses in upfront cash. Some will have to wait even longer than before to get the whole amount. Lenders including Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS
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      628 19 BLOOMBERG Mumbai INVESTING in Asia’s worst-perform-ing currency is all about the interest rate. While the rupee fell 0.3 per cent versus the US dollar this year, flows from stock investors turned positive in March amid slower inflation, an improved current account and
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    677 20 Most steel companies have been hit by plunging prices due to overcapacity in China REUTERS Mumbai INDIA’S Tata Steel, Britain’s largest steelmaker, put its entire UK business up for sale to stem heavy losses, a move that would draw a line under
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      3294 20 SWIBER HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration No. *****4721N) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of Swiber Holdings Limited (the “Company”) will be held at 12 International Business Park, #03-02 Swiber@IBP, Singapore *****0, on Friday 15 April
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    921 21  -  No cheer in sight for oilfield services firms By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore OIL companies may have claimed they have trimmed their per-bar-rel-costs to US$30s, but they are still going for deeper cuts despite signs of an oil price rebound
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    322 21 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong CHINA Petroleum Chemical Corp (Sinopec) led gains among the country’s state-run energy giants after earnings beat estimates as profit from oil refining helped offset the plunge in crude prices. Asia’s biggest refiner reported a 30 per cent
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      3388 21 YEO HIAP SENG LIMITED (Registration No: *****0138Z) (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixtieth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at The Auditorium, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, 3 Senoko Way Singapore *****7 on Friday, 22 April 2016, at 4.00
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      3551 23 NOTICES TOLL FREE 18 0 0-289-8822 I Email notices@sph.com.sg I www.sphclass.com.sg/notices COSCO CORPORATION (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Company Registration No.: *****0159G NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Suntec Singapore International Convention
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  • CONSUMER
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      726 24 Creator of the Swedish furniture empire famous for its thrift, style and convenience, Ingvar Kamprad is also known for alleged tax avoidance AFP Stockholm IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, who built a global business empire with revolutionary flat-pack furniture and dallied with Nazism in his youth,
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      Lock icon Owner of 7-Eleven Japan to discuss succession amid Loeb call-out: sources
      454 24 BLOOMBERG Tokyo SEVEN i Holdings Co was set to meet this week to discuss leadership succession, days after billionaire activist investor Dan Loeb warned Japan’s largest retailer against creating a family dynasty, according to people with knowledge of the
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      Lock icon US, HK bust huge operation smuggling China-made clothes
      305 24 AFP Los Angeles UNITED States and Hong Kong authorities have smashed a massive operation smuggling Chinese-made clothing, believed to be the largest such find ever uncovered on the US West Coast. The elaborate scheme involved more than US$600 million worth of Chinese-made
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      1244 25 NOTICES TOLL FREE 18 0 0-289-8822 I Email notices@sph.com.sg I www.sphclass.com.sg/notices HPHT HUTCHISON PORT HOLDINGS TRUST (A business trust constituted on 25 February 201 1 under the laws of the Republic of Singapore) (Registration No.: 201 1001) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General
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      2412 25 PLASTOFORM HOLDINGS LIMITED (Company Registration Number: *****) (Incorporated in Bermuda) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of PLASTOFORM HOLDINGS LIMITED (“the Company”) will be held at Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel, 50 East Coast Road, Roxy Square, Amber Room, Level 3, Singapore *****9
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
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      497 26  -  Some manufacturers see some lift in March and April, but Trade ministry is non-committal on outlook By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo JAPAN’S industrial output fell at its fastest rate in five years in February, lending support to the likelihood that
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      726 26 AFP Naypyidaw MYANMAR entered a new era on Wednesday as Aung San Suu Kyi’s democracy movement took power after 50 years of military domination, with a close aide of the Nobel Laureate sworn in as president. Htin Kyaw,
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      524 26 REUTERS AFP New Delhi EMBATTLED Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya has proposed to repay 40 billion rupees (S$815 million), less than half of what his defunct Kingfisher Airlines owes to creditor banks who have approached the nation’s highest court to
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      Lock icon China to tighten control over Internet websites
      626 26 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong CHINA is moving to tighten its grip over the Internet through draft rules that effectively ban Web addresses not approved by local authorities, including possibly the most widely used .com and .org addresses. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
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      Lock icon China warns Taiwan over proposed law governing cross-strait ties
      286 28 REUTERS Beijing THE Chinese government warned Taiwan on Wednesday that the passage of a proposed new law governing relations between the two could seriously damage the basis for talks, and that Beijing opposed any obstacles to developing ties. China has looked
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      663 28 But ECB has said it’s confident it has an “adequate” universe of assets to buy BLOOMBERG London AS European Central Bank governor Mario Draghi prepares to increase and broaden his bond-buying programme, the shrunken market might be in for a
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      Lock icon Euro-area economic confidence falls to lowest in 13 months
      349 28 BLOOMBERG Warsaw EURO-AREA economic confidence fell to the lowest level in more than a year just as the European Central Bank deployed fresh stimulus to spur growth and quash the threat of deflation. An index of executive and consumer confidence slumped
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      337 28 BLOOMBERG New York THE Malaysian state investment company at the centre of multiple financial probes said it will repay RM6 billion (S$2.1 billion) in coming weeks as asset sales give it room to pare down debt. 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) won’t have
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      Lock icon World economy in a rut despite flood of stimulus
      935 29 Central bankers already pressing against the limits of their powers; threat of recession still around BLOOMBERG Washington CENTRAL bankers have managed to steer the world economy clear of a recession while leaving it stuck in the same rut that led to
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      186 26 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF AQUARIUS 2011 PTE. LTD. Company Regn No *****1892R (In Members’ Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50, that a Final General Meeting of the members of the
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      815 27 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF QINGJIAN CONSTRUCTION (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (In Member’s Voluntary Liquidation) Company Reg. No. *****3162M At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company deemed to have been duly convened and held pursuant to Section 179(6) of the
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      196 28 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF MENG GARDEN HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. (Company No: *****1946C) (In Members’ Voluntary Winding Up) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 the Final Meeting
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      160 28 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 and IN THE MATTER OF FMS MANAGEMENT SERVICES PTE. LTD. Company Regn No *****7291N (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Creditors of the abovenamed Company, which is being wound up voluntarily, are required on or before 03rd May
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  • TRANSPORT
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      Lock icon Boeing to cut 4,000 jobs from commercial airplane division
      428 30 Move part of broader effort to lower costs amid fierce competition from Airbus BLOOMBERG Chicago BOEING Co plans to slash about 4,000 jobs from its commercial airplane unit by mid-year as part of a broader effort to reduce costs amid fierce
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      Lock icon Virgin Australia’s largest shareholder Air New Zealand considering exit
      463 30 BLOOMBERG Sydney VIRGIN Australia Holdings’ largest shareholder said it’s considering exiting the airline, days after the Australian carrier tapped its biggest investors for fresh funds. Air New Zealand, which owns a 25.89-per cent stake in Virgin Australia worth about A$343 million
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      441 30  -  This facility, to be completed in 2017, will enable it to triple its capacity for repairs and maintenance activities By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore AIRPORT-services provider dnata Singapore has broken ground on the site of its S$ 17 million maintenance base
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      760 30 AFP Brussels BRUSSELS airport did not reopen on Wednesday despite drills to test resuming partial services after the suicide bombings that struck its departure hall and a metro train, as Belgium lowered the death toll to 32. Zaventem airport has been closed since
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      44 30 What next after SG50? Will Singapore see 2065? Will politics here become more primal or pragmatic? Leading thinkers Peter Schwartz, Saskia Sassen and Bilahari Kausikan ponder these questions in a new book. GET A COPY NOW! Now available at all major bookstores and www.stpressbooks.com.sg
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      17 30 m r Buying y Opportunities Property Outlook 2016 Download at |SRX srx.com.sg/property-magazine comsg Right Home. Right Price.
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      928 31 the Business times Shipping times Vessel Voy Sin Pusan Tarawa Honiara Santo Port Vila Noumea Lautoka Suva Nukualofa Apia Pago Pago Papeete Lae P. Moresby Townsville APL Columbus V010E 23 May 06 Jun 22 Jun 26 Jun 29 Jun 01 Jul 03 Jul 06 Jul 08 Jul 10 Jul 10
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  • OPINION
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      535 32 EDITORIAL THERE is one important reason why the deadly attacks by terrorists affiliated with ISIS on the airport and the metro system in Brussels on March 22 are so troubling: The authorities in Belgium had anticipated that radical Islamists groups would seek to
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      806 32  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Frank Ching T The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator. Follow him on Twitter: @FrankChing1 THE impact of the latest healthcare scandal in China, this time involving the sale of illegal vaccines, is spreading as officials
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      1031 32  -  New technologies have forced business models and revenue streams to evolve and the ability to keep up with changes will determine Singapore’s survival. BY ANG THIAM GUAN SINGAPORE BUDGET 2016 survival.BY ANG THIAM GUAN The writer is managing director of Cisco Singapore and Brunei. Technological
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      977 33  -  COMMENTARY By Frank-Jurgen Richter TThe writer is founder of Horasis, a global visions community. Its inaugural Horasis Global Meeting will be held in Liverpool on June 13-14 as part of Britain’s International Festival for Business. GEORGE Osborne, Chancellor of
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      511 33  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Ang Hao Yao ACCORDING to media reports, there are plans to review the quarterly reporting regime for listed companies. I have been an active retail investor in the local stock market for over 20 years. Since the introduction
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      1043 33  -  Obama may want to ensure strongest possible set of outcomes at the Nuclear Security Summit. BY ANDREW HAMMOND Summit.BY ANDREW HAMMOND T The writer is an associate at LSE IDEAS (the Centre for International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy) at the London School of
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      659 33  -  COMMENTARY By Denis MacShane TThe writer is a former minister of Europe and a senior adviser at Avisa Partners. He is a member of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum advisory board. This is part of an OMFIF series on the UK EU
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
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      Lock icon Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dies at 69
      636 34 She had won an Academy Award at age 16 for her portrayal of activist Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker AFP Los Angeles ACTRESS and singer Patty Duke, who won an Oscar at age 16 for her portrayal of deaf-blind political activist Helen
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      Lock icon Same-sex marriage strategy for climate change advocates
      831 34 NYT Washington TWO months ahead of a federal court hearing on US President Barack Obama’s signature climate change rule, a coordinated public relations offensive has begun modelled after the same-sex marriage campaign to influence the outcome of the case. A national coalition of
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      1012 34 NYT Paris THE pithiviers de canard at Clown Bar, a historic restaurant in Paris with circus-themed glazed tiles from the 1920s, is an exquisite rendering of a classic dish. Duck breast surrounded by minced duck meat, topped with duck foie gras and baked inside a
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      325 34 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Mark from a wound allowed to become red (7) 5 Feel doubt (7) 9 A king has challenger coming (7) 10 Warning: pulse regularly dropped after test (7) 11 Illumination that could be low level initially in time of darkness (9) 12 Smallest let out, we
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