The Business Times, 8 July 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 Friday, July 8, 2016
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    218 1 Kicking off on Sunday are the integrated events of Singapore International water week, world Cities Summit and CleanEnviro Summit Singapore. TOP STORIES 4 Temasek Holdings expects slower growth and increased volatility in the year ahead, and continues to be cautiously confident about growth in the United States and
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    Lock icon MARKETS
    25 1 Thursday Change STI 2,862.17 -2.50 KL COMP CLOSED NIKKEI 225 15,276.24 -102.75 HANG SENG 20,706.92 +211.63 SHENZHEN B 1,114.69 +1.10 DOW(11.45AM EDT) 17,906.09 -12.53
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    Lock icon Temasek returns -9% in FY2016 – its worst showing since 2009
    921 1  - Temasek returns -9% in FY2016 its worst showing since 2009 Singapore investment firm shifts portfolio towards tech as its China and financial services holdings weaken By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore TEMASEK continues to increase investments in technology-leveraged companies, as weakness in its listed investments, particularly its more traditional holdings
    Source: Temasek Review 2016  -  921 words
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    Lock icon S&P cuts Australia’s outlook on expected fiscal gridlock
    866 1 BLOOMBERG Sydney S&P Global Ratings has cut the outlook on Australia’s AAA credit rating to negative from stable as it warned that the prospect of fiscal-policy gridlock could thwart government attempts to rein in a budget deficit. The agency acted following Saturday’s
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon StanChart Holland Village branch robbed of S$30,000
      212 2  -  A bank spokeswoman says all bank employees and customers are safe By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore STANDARD Chartered’s Holland Village branch was robbed late Thursday morning. “All bank employees and customers are safe. The bank immediately filed a police report and is
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      Lock icon Fed minutes suggest uncertain outlook over Brexit
      606 2 REUTERS Washington FEDERAL Reserve policymakers decided in June that interest rate hikes should stay on hold until they have a handle on the consequences of Britain’s vote on EU membership, according to the minutes of the Fed’s June policy meeting released on Wednesday.
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      Lock icon OECD employment levels recovering, but ‘job quality is low’
      710 2  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo THE good news is that levels of employment in the 35 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will finally return next year to where they were 10 years earlier, before the
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      Lock icon Arbitration Centre praised for innovative changes made to rules
      817 2  -  By Michelle Quah michquah@sph.com.sg @MichelleQuahBT Singapore SINGAPORE’S aspiration to be the seat of choice for international arbitration has received a firm boost, with recent revisions to its international arbitration rules. The changes, unveiled by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and
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      Lock icon Mega urbanisation forum kicks into gear
      1171 4  -  Suggestions continue to flow on how to make the 3-in-1 event even better; 20,000 participants expected WORLD CITIES SUMMIT SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL WATER WEEK By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT and By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore AS preparations for a massive event integrating urban planning,
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      Lock icon NTU scientists invent water filter that cuts energy use by 80%
      480 4  -  By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore SCIENTISTS at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have invented a new type of nano-filter that could reduce the energy needed to treat waste water by up to 80 per cent. This is done using
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      Lock icon COE premiums slip across the board
      358 4  -  By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore CERTIFICATE of entitlement (COE) premiums softened across the board on Thursday as bookings for new vehicles dried up, some dealers said. Category A, for cars below 1,600cc, slumped S$2,899 to S$52,301; Cat B, for cars above 1,600cc, slipped S$921
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      Lock icon Temasek sees slower growth and bumpier path ahead
      636 5  -  US recovery to continue, albeit at a modest pace; it’s upbeat about ongoing reforms in Singapore By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore TEMASEK Holdings expects slower growth and increased volatility in the year ahead, and continues to be cautiously confident about growth
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Property circuit excited over 2 big deals for good reason
      1052 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW BY KALPANA RASHIWALA kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT THE recent large Singapore office sales Asia Square Tower 1 for S$3.38 billion and Straits Trading Building for S$560 million have sparked much-needed buzz in the property investment sales circuit. More than
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      Lock icon Food Empire can’t use ‘Mc’ or ‘Mac’ in EU, court rules
      409 6  -  By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore SINGAPORE-LISTED Food Empire has lost to global fast-food chain McDonald’s in the use of “Mc” or “Mac” in trademark names for its foodstuff and beverages in the European Union. The firm said on
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      Lock icon Local telcos’ H1 total returns average 7.3%
      340 6  -  Singtel, StarHub and M1 maintain an average dividend yield of 5% By Gladys Yeo gladyeo@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE’S three largest listed telcos Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel), StarHub and M1 averaged a total return of 7.3 per cent for the first half of the year, bringing
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      Lock icon Share Investor launches upgraded mobile app
      299 6  -  It includes new features for investors to take charge of their portfolio By Tan Effie taneffie@sph.com.sg Singapore SHAREINVESTOR (SI) has launched an upgraded version of ShareInvestor Mobile, its mobile application aimed at helping retail investors to make timely investment decisions. The application also help
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      Lock icon SPH Reit’s Q3 DPU higher at 1.36 cents
      493 7  -  Its malls continue to show resilience with 100% occupancy, positive rental reversion By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore SPH Reit, which owns Paragon and The Clementi Mall, reported a 0.7 per cent rise in distribution per unit for the third quarter ended
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      Lock icon Deals worth S$120m for Keppel Shipyard
      329 7  -  By tanmindy@sph.com.sg Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore Singapore KEPPEL Offshore Marine’s (Keppel O&M) wholly owned subsidiary Keppel Shipyard has secured four contracts worth S$120 million from repeat customers, said Keppel Corporation on Thursday. The first contract is from BW Catcher Ltd, a wholly owned
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      63 8 STI Catalist Straits Times index July 7,2016 2,862.17 -2.50 (-0.09%) Current streak 2 days Day high 2,867.23 Day low 2,854.21 52-week high 3,373.48 (July 20, 2015) 52-week low 2,532.70 (Jan 21, 2016) FTSE ST Catalist index July 7,2016 461.90 +8.34 (+1.84%) Current streak 6 days Day high 461.90 Day low
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      Lock icon Stocks drift lower on Brexit worries
      673 8  -  Local market’s resilience this week, despite turmoil in European stocks and currencies, is attributed to its “defensive” quality STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT “OTHER than Noble’s rights and shares, the rest of the market is still on holiday,” said a dealer. This is
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      306 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 249 +2 250/247 253 209 6.2 6566.9 CapitaCom Trust 154 +1.5 155/152.5 155 122.5 5.6 4552.8 CapitaLand 299 unch 301/297 350 267 12 3 ***** CapitaMall Trust 217 unch 220/215 225 184.5
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      36 8 VOLUME Noble R 613,589,700 Noble 159,949,900 Anchor Resources 69,528,100 CNMC Goldmine 47,634,800 Singtel 35,942,000 Market volume 2,070,482,000 VALUE Singtel 150,328,186 DBS Grp 93,134,730 UOB 77,889,370 HongkongLand USD 50,498,148 Noble R 49,474,614 Market value 1,216,132,000
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      Lock icon SGX ETFs Most Active
      102 8 Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 290 480 291/289 343/254 290/291 IS MS INDIA US$ US697 110 700/691 780/575 697/700 87.1 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US323 -5 41 323/322 355/190 322/324 DBXT MSRussia US$ US196 40 196/196 206/129 197/198 GLD US$
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      77 8 Jul 7 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 79.00 +16.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -12.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +7.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 684.95 +0.51 FTSE ST Small Cap 390.79 +0.52 FTSE ST All Share 698.08 -0.77 FTSE ST China Top 159.86 -0.72 FTSE ST China 188.66 -1.33 FTSE
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share Index July 7,2016 698.08 -0.77 (-0.11%) Current streak 2 days Day high 699.56 Day low 696.76 52-week high 806.37 (July 20, 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 July 6,2016 1,573.30 -25.87 (-1.62%) Current streak 3 days Day high 1,592.29 Day low 1,566.09 52-week high 1,894.42 (July 21, 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 4 10 3 0 1 0 4 11 3 Manufacturing 42 37 16 11 8 13 53 45 29 Commerce 14 18 16 5 3 1 19 21 17 Tpt/Stor/Comms 12 10 12
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      123 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 13,236 313 13,549 41,681 62 41,743 Manufacturing 82,546 34,396 116,942 111,550 899 112,449 Commerce 792,268 27,573 819,841 125,176 968 126,144 Tpt/Stor/Comms 119,351 7,065 126,416 250,397 663 251,060 Finance 38,173 134 38,307 229,966 17 229,983 Construction
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      83 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE SHI ADR US$ 0.11 47.050 +12.210 +35.05 Logistics 5.0 0.225 -0.065 -22.41 Pan Hong 141.0 0.167 -0.017 -9.24 CPH 600.4 0.007 -0.002 -22.22 CNMC Goldmine 47,634.8 0.610 +0.085 +16.19 Anchor Resources 69,528.1 0.140 +0.020 +16.67 China Taisan 153.0 0.085 +0.005 +6.25 King Wan 885.2 0.180
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      77 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low GLD US$ ***** 268.2 1.6 *****/***** DBXT ASX200 US$ 3362 156.3 3.6 3559/2900 DBS Bk 4.7% NCPS ***** 20.0 0.2 *****/***** Hyflux 6% CPS ***** 20.0 0.2 *****/***** DBXT Vietnam US$ 2442 12.1 0.4 2786/2017 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Ntegrator W*****3
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      Lock icon LOSERS
      74 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT E50 US$ 4130 -175.2 -3.1 5242/3918 DBXT MSEurope US$ 5046 -99.7 -1.4 6064/4770 Prudential USD 1690 -80.9 -3.4 2500/1680 Lyxor ChinaH US$ 1233 -49.9 -2.9 1691/999 JSH USD 2933 -44.5 -1.1 3300/2524 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low Cacola 0.5 -37.5 -0.3
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        Lock icon City Developments | Outperform
        201 8 City Developments Outperform July 7 close: S$8.04 Target price: S$11.70 Credit Suisse, July 7 CITY Developments Ltd (CDL) has acquired Wing Tai’s shareholding interest in Summervale Properties, the owner and developer of Nouvel 18, a prime residential development in Singapore, for S$411 million, bringing its stake in the project to
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        Lock icon Viva Industrial Trust | Buy
        147 8 Viva Industrial Trust Buy July 7 close: S$0.72 Target price: S$0.75 OCBC Investment Research, July 7 Viva industrial Trust (VIT) is a Singapore-focused Reit (real estate investment trust) which primarily invests in business parks and industrial real estate assets. The combined market valuation of VIT’s portfolio is S$1.2 billion, including
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        Lock icon Singapore Post | Hold
        188 8  - Singapore Post Hold Compiled by Claire Huang July 7 close: S$1.545 Target price: S$1.49 CIMB Research, July 6 SINGAPORE Post is in the process of searching for a new chief executive. We think impairment of goodwill for TradeGlobal (TG) could be on the cards, given aggressive growth assumptions, although Jagged
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      8 8 DATA I July 8 US Unemployment Rate
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      Lock icon Sterling back above US$1.30 as sellers take breather
      459 9 CURRENCIES REUTERS London STERLING clawed its way back above US$ 1.30 on Thursday as investors, buoyed by a modest revival in risk appetite, booked profits on bets made against it, though the outlook for the currency remained grim after Britain’s shock vote
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        470 9 Jul7 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.973 5.025 0.679 5.832 50.685 98.686 0.760 8.680 3.026 1.042 78.731 35.362 1.013 10.999 0.735 24.273 26.454 0.579 0.752 Canada 1.028 5.165 0.698
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 Jul 7 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0131 1.0137 0.7517 0.7518 Canadian dollar 1.0413 1.0420 0.7727 0.7727 Euro 1.4915 1.4927 1.1067 1.1070 NZ dollar 0.9718 0.9729 0.7211 0.7215 Sterling pound 1.7486 1.7501 1.2975 1.2979
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        21 9 Jul7 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3478 1.3488 2-months 1.3480 1.3490 3-months 1.3484 1.3493 6-months 1.3490 1.3502 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES Most active
        212 9 Jul 7 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left DBS MB eCW*****1 8 -0.5 4730 0.1 1620 3 OCBC Bk MBeCW*****4 7.6 0.1 3189 0.1 820 3 UOB MB eCW*****1 7.5 -0.8 2415 0.1 1850 3
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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 Jul 6 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1241.8 -0.5 -2.8 -0.5 -6.3 -0.6 -1.7 EAFE Preliminary 906.0 -1.4 -10.6 -1.4 -12.6 -1.6 -8.3 Europe Preliminary 1299.8 -1.4 -8.0
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        390 9 Jul 7 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Jul16 9365.00 9402.50 9322.50 9367.50 ***** *****3 Aug16 9330.00 9372.50 9300.00 9362.50 1780 5073 NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Sep16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****4 Dec16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 304 5948 MSCI TAIWAN
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    • BANK RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK RATES
        154 9 Jul 7 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 0.01 1-month 0.6875 0.5625 2-months 0.8750 0.7500 3-months 0.9375 0.8125 Overnight mode: 0.11 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.52 0.42 1 month 0.55 0.45 2 months 0.65 0.45 3 months 0.75 0.55 6 months 1.05 0.85 9 months 1.25 0.95 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        67 9 Jul 7 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0T 0.500 01-Apr-18 99.26 99.40 99.28 5-Year NX*****X 2.250 01-Jun-21 104.23 104.40 104.25 10-Year NX*****F 2.125 01-Jun-26 103.64 104.00 103.70 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 110.7 111.15 110.95 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 118.67
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        250 9 Jul-6 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Jul-6 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 1106.25 -10.75 -0.96% 14/07/2016 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 30.25 -0.57 -1.85% 14/07/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 415.75 -3.75 -0.89% 14/07/2016 Jul-6 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2525.00 40.00 1.61% 14/07/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1748.00 -10.00 -0.57%
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      Lock icon Swiber expected to call S$75m four-year bonds
      497 10  -  Firm requested trading halt on July 4, two days before its second bond deadline in 2016 By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore SWIBER Holdings was expected to call before Thursday this week the S$75 million of 7 per cent, four-year bonds that
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      Lock icon Lum Chang MD and sons launch takeover offer for Ellipsiz
      269 10  -  Offer at S$0.38 per share is triggered after they bought 7.93m shares on Thursday By Choo Yun Ting yuntingc@sph.com.sg Singapore MEMBERS of the family that controls construction company Lum Chang Holdings have launched a takeover offer for Ellipsiz, a semiconductor
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      Lock icon Catalist ‘golden’ trio rides on gold rally
      511 10  -  HOT STOCKS By Anita Gabriel anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT Singapore THE “golden” trio on Singapore’s Catalist CNMC Goldmine Holdings, Anchor Resources and Wilton Resources Corp have been given a fresh impetus of late thanks to a gold rally as investors zoom in on safe-haven assets
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      Lock icon Noble Group’s shares and nil-paid rights hotly traded
      268 10  -  By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore COMMODITY trader Noble Group’s nil-paid rights and its shares continued to be in active play on Thursday, with the rights experiencing wild price swings. Noble’s shares slumped 10 per cent, or 2.1 cents, to close at
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1809 11 Transaction date: Jul 7 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Last Sale vol 837 464 Keppel Corp 558 +3 2353 558 549 2.5 6.1 6.6 *****.5 118 95.5 Keppel DC Reit 116.5 +1 2993 116.5 115
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      302 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High LOW 19.9 8.3 t Anchor Resources 14 +2 ***** 14.2 12.2 39.2 Sale (000) High Low C'vr P/E 8.8 61 16.7 t CNMC
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      Lock icon SGX ETF
      113 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last Sale 941 700 CIMBASEAN40 US$ US855 +6 27 855 855 134.1 3500 2355 DBXT China50 US$ US2807 -26 2 2807 2806 7.7 High 355 190 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US323
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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      651 12 IN THE MATTER OF SECTION 290 OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF ASIA ENERGY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS PTE. LTD. (“In Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation”) (Co. Reg. No: *****8509E) (“Company”) Extract of the Minutes at the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the members of the Company, duly convened
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      502 12 IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE Companies Winding Up Originating Summon No. 235 of 2015 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND CHINA SINOSTEEL (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (In Liquidation) (the"Company") (Company Registration No: *****7710D) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon Oil industry is losing the burn of Asian demand
      816 13 Market participants say it is not just cyclical phenomenon but also a product of more permanent structural changes REUTERS Tokyo AFTER half a year of strong oil price rises, Asian crude demand is slowing and by some measures falling, and many
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      Lock icon As sugar finds its sweet spot, investors ask for how long?
      418 13 REUTERS New York AFTER a four-year bear market, sugar has found its sweet spot. Its steepest bull run in years has seen prices of US raw sugar, the global price benchmark, more than double in less than a year,
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      Lock icon China’s Silk Road Fund in joint bid for Glencore mine
      275 13 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong CHINA’S Silk Road Fund, a US$40 billion pool set up to invest along the nation’s ancient trade routes with Central Asia, is discussing a joint bid for Glencore plc’s gold mine in Kazakhstan, people with knowledge of
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Samsung profit tops estimates on Galaxy S7 demand
      665 14 The smartphone model capitalises on a lull in new iPhones, boosts the firm’s profit margins and stokes demand for its components BLOOMBERG Seoul SAMSUNG Electronics Co posted bet-ter-than-anticipated profit as continued demand for its Galaxy S7 smartphones helps turn its mobile devices
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      434 14 WP Washington EVER wish you could hang on to some of your snaps a little bit longer? Well, now Snapchat is introducing a new feature, Memories, that will let you do just that. Snapchat was originally touted as
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      915 14 Solution to capacity issue will need the support of country’s mining collectives BLOOMBERG Hong Kong WU Jihan still remembers the exhilaration he felt after learning about bitcoin in 2011. A self-described computer geek fresh out of China’s top university, Mr Wu soaked up
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      482 16  -  Move is supported by a new loyalty card, ending an earlier card partnership between CapitaLand and DBS CREDIT CARDS By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore AMERICAN Express (Amex) has wrestled a credit-card partnership with CapitaLand Mall Asia that would allow Amex to broaden
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      382 16  -  By Chin Yong Chang ycchin@sph.com.sg Singapore DBS Bank is launching the world’s first metal Visa payWave card as an update to its DBS Insignia Visa Infinite Card. It is the only metal card to have a Visa payWave function, said
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      301 16 BLOOMBERG Bengaluru IN the next few weeks, the world’s cheapest smartphone will meet the world’s fastest-growing smartphone market. In theory, at least. A little-known Indian company called Ringing Bells Pvt is set to start shipping the Freedom 251. The prototype touts
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      271 18 / 19 (in S$ billion) 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Temasek steps up investments in Asia Global Financial Crisis Dotcom Peak Asian Financial Crisis SARS Epidemic Listing of Singtel 01 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 95 943 96
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      499 20  -  Analysts say discrepancy could be because SRX’s figures do not take in transactions done without property agents’ help that are captured by HDB By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore HDB resale prices fell 0.6 per cent in June 2016, compared with in
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      534 20  -  Consultants attribute lower subscription for Northwave to weaker transport links By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore HAO Yuan Investment’s executive condominium (EC) project in Woodlands, Northwave, received 240 e-applica-tions for the 358 available units by the close of
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      467 20 NYT London THREE more asset managers suspended redemptions in their British property funds on Wednesday as concerns mounted about the potential impact that Britain’s decision to leave the European Union would have on the real estate market, particularly on the booming
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      Lock icon Nine shop units in Holland Road Shopping Centre up for sale
      424 21 They’re being sold with a Henderson industrial unit either collectively or piecemeal Singapore NINE units of Holland Road Shopping Centre and one unit of 211 Henderson, an industrial building, are up for sale, either collectively at a guide price
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      436 21 REUTERS Shacheng, China THE Chinese government’s call to the nation to build an innovation-driven economy from the top down has sparked a rush by local governments to construct new buildings in the name of supporting creativity. Innovation centres have been popping
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      332 20 FOR SALE: RETAIL UNITS AT HOLLAND ROAD SHOPPING CENTRE INDUSTRIAL UNIT AT 211 HENDERSON Contact: Investment Properties 6 Battery Road #32-01 Singapore *****9 Sammi Lim (CEA Reg No.: R*****9J) Tel: 9368 9803 9 Prime Retail Units At Holland Road Shopping Centre 2nd Floor Freehold. Sizes from approx. 237 sq ft
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      123 20 FREEHOLD FULL COMMERCIAL HEART OF CHINATOWN CBRE INVESTMENT PROPERTIES Yap Hui Yee (CEA Reg No.: R*****5Z) 9852 3687 Sammi Lim (CEA Reg No.: R*****9J) 9368 9803 FOR SALE: 21 TEMPLE STREET •I Agency License No.: L*****63I Site area: Approx. 114.6 sq m 1,234 sq ft Current Lettable Area: Approx. 3,400
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  • TRANSPORT
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      Lock icon Scoot could be budget carrier with the world’s longest route
      468 22  -  Airline is preparing to launch services to Europe in the second quarter of 2017 By Aqil Luqman Nurhakim nluqman@sph.com.sg Singapore SCOOT will potentially be the low-cost carrier (LCC) with the world’s longest LCC route as it prepares to launch services
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      405 22 BLOOMBERG New York US airline stocks moved closer to their biggest annual decline in five years after Credit Suisse Group AG said a critical financial gauge won’t turn positive until the end of next year and trimmed earnings estimates
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      Lock icon Alibaba challenges Apple, Google with China-made Web car
      508 22 E-commerce firm in talks with carmakers to use its YunOS operating system Beijing BILLIONAIRE Jack Ma is taking the challenge to Apple Inc and Google by pushing Alibaba Group Holding Ltd into the car business, joining the global battle to control the
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      Lock icon TSA fixes delays at US airports – for now
      546 22 TSA fixes delays at US airports for now BLOOMBERG New York THE 2016 US Airport Summer From Hell tour has been postponed, though the band may reschedule for later this summer. After weeks in which airlines and airports issued dire warnings that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was likely to
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      2710 23 BAN LEONG TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Registration No: *****3898C) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Ban Leong Technologies Limited (the “Company”) will be held at 150 Ubi Avenue 4, #04-01 Singapore *****5 on Monday, 25 July 2016
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
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      1000 24 A much needed bailout may be illegal under relatively new European rules that aim to protect taxpayers NYT Rome EVEN as Europe grapples with repercussions of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, a dispute over tens of billions of
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      Lock icon ECB mulls legal steps as Slovenia raids its central bank in bailout case
      419 26 BLOOMBERG Warsaw EUROPEAN Central Bank president Mario Draghi warned of potential legal steps after Slovenian police raided the country’s central bank in connection with a probe into a 2013 bank bailout. Wednesday’s search of the bank’s premises
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      1089 26 Risks from Clinton’s practice of keeping communications on private server may be bigger issue compared to the small amount of classified info found on her system NYT New York WHEN FBI director James Comey said on Tuesday that his investigators had no
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      Lock icon Learn from Monopoly, bond manager tells Yellen
      483 26 BLOOMBERG Los Angeles BILLIONAIRE bond investor Bill Gross has a message for Janet Yellen: Take a lesson from Monopoly. Mr Gross, in his latest outlook for Janus Capital Group Inc, likened the economy to the board game where players collect US$200 every time
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      3442 25 SINGAPORE MYANMAR INVESTCO LIMITED (formerly known as Singapore Windsor Holdings Limited) (Company Registration No. *****5764Z) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of SINGAPORE MYANMAR INVESTCO LIMITED (the “Company”) will be held at Sky Garden Meeting Room,
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      2261 27 M KSH HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Registration No. *****3337G NOTICE OF 10TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the 10th Annual General Meeting of KSH HOLDINGS LIMITED will be held at 60 Eu Tong Sen Street, Furama City Centre, Ballroom 1, Level 5, Singapore
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  • OPINION
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      Lock icon A dangerous geo-strategic and geo-economic vacuum
      556 28 EDITORIAL ON the face of it, there isn’t a direct line tying the recent terrorist attacks around the world and the British vote to exit the European Union (EU), or Brexit. The terrorist acts in Tel-Aviv, Orlando, Istanbul, Dhaka and Baghdad were either coordinated
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      708 28  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By David Marsh T The writer is managing director of the Official Monetary and Financial institutions Forum OMFIF MARK Carney, governor of the Bank of England, notoriously remarked in January that the UK was unduly reliant on “the kindness of
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      1306 28  -  ISIS reverses course: Jihadists are leaving Syria, putting countries like Bangladesh under siege and driving wedges among politicians in the countryBY SAROJ KUMAR RATH countryBY SAROJ KUMAR RATH T The writer is assistant professor at the university of Delhi and an expert on
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      Lock icon With the Chilcot report, the fate of wasted lives should preoccupy us
      959 29  -  COMMENTARY By Carne Ross T The writer is the executive director of Independent Diplomat, a non-profit diplomatic advisory group, and was the Iraq expert in Britain’s delegation to the United Nations from 1997 to 2002. NYT London WEDNESDAY
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      Lock icon Sunday’s election in Japan just might be as impactful as Brexit
      916 29  -  By Anthony Rowley THE world seemed almost to hold its breath before the “Brexit” vote in the United Kingdom in June and later to gasp at the outcome. But, by contrast, the global reaction to the Japanese Parliament’s upper
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      1287 29 T Mr Tai, a Singaporean architect and urban planner, is the immediate past president of Singapore Green Building Council THREE-and-a-half billion people half the world’s population reside in cities. Asia, home to almost twothirds of the world’s population on onethird
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      1919 30 THE BUSINESS TIMES Shipping times MONTREAL 10 120 29/7 30/7 4/8 MONTREAL 10 120 29/7 30/7 4/8 EASTERN CAR LINER, LTD SPECIALIZE IN RORO HEAVY LIFT INTRA-ASIA SERVICE VOY Ramp(KT) Lifting(KT) CIW PGU SIN PKL JKT SUR GENIUS STAR I 001 60 21/7 24/7 26/7 CALMY CORAL 103 60 26/7
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      244 30 ENG LEE SHIPPING CO PTE LTD Tel: *****222 (10 Lines) Fax: *****174/*****960 Website: www.englee.com.sg/Email: marketing@englee.com.sg CR No: **********0C REGULAR FEEDER SERVICES TO INDONESIAN (DE1) VESSEL VOY SIN ETA SIN ETD DESTINATION FREQUENCY Marco Polo 188 PRW203 07/07/2016 08/07/2016 Perawang/Perawang DAILY Marco Polo 128 BST019 07/07/2016 08/07/2016 Buatan/Buatan DAILY Marco Polo
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  • BT Lifestyle
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      Lock icon Crowdfunding catches on
      679 31  -  More independent entrepreneurs in Singapore are turning to this avenue to get their businesses off the ground. BT Lifestyle profiles four local projects By Sherwin Loh sherwinl@sph.com.sg @SherwinLohBT IT started with a love for drawing, and the desire to create a sketchbook for artists like himself. But
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      Lock icon Shooting for the stars
      505 31  -  By Tan Teck Heng thtan@sph.com.sg AT the tender age of 14, classmates Grey Tan and Chia Lih Wei were already budding inventors who presented an odourless dustbin in front of their entire school. “I always came up with stupid ideas and Lih Wei would indulge me,”
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      Lock icon Telling stories through games
      552 31  -  By Tan Teck Heng thtan@sph.com.sg ON a backpacking trip to Venice 10 years ago, Ian Gregory Tan and his friends sparred with wooden swords in a drunken haze along the waterways of the floating city. “I used that as a premise in my Dungeons Dragons campaign!”
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      495 31  -  By Sue-Ann Tan suetan@sph.com.sg JUGGLING between cameras and phones on holiday has always been a hassle. Either you’re forced to lug a hefty DSLR to get a good shot of the Grand Canyon, or settle for a half-baked result with your phone’s camera function. Oowa’s
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  • ARTS/COVER STORY
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      1161 32  -  George Town Festival’s Singapore collaborators and participants find their connection with Malaysia at large. BY CHEAH UI-HOON INTO its seventh year, the George Town Festival (GTF) continues to see substantial Singapore participation and support with artists who see it as a chance to expand their
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      Lock icon Pick of the crop
      974 32  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon uihoon@sph.com.sg Talks THIS year’s festival will launch the Arts for Humanity Project and the two headline speakers will be Larry Harvey, co-founder of the iconic Burning Man Festival in the US, and prolific Cambodian director Rithy Panh. Every year, thousands of people make
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      Lock icon Intraix hits 30% of target to fund energy efficiency ideas
      510 32  -  By Sue-Ann Tan suetan@sph.com.sg WHEN Darrell Zhang wakes up each day, his air-con-ditioning turns itself off, the lights in the living room come on and his coffee machine starts preparing his morning beverage. All this happens without him needing to
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      718 33  -  Ahead of his upcoming show, Engelbert Humperdinck reminisces about living next to The Beatles, discovering The Carpenters and Elvis Presley stealing his trademark sideburns. BY SUE-ANN TAN BY SUE-ANN TAN LIKE listening to his middle-of-the-road ballads, speaking to Engelbert Humperdinck is akin to
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      Lock icon A five-star Hotel experience
      614 33  -  By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT MAKING time for Hotel, the epic five-hour W!ld Rice production which premiered at the Singapore Arts Festival last year and has returned for a headlining encore season at this year's Singapore Theatre Festival, requires quite a bit of effort. On weekdays,
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      Lock icon Our Kind of Traitor passes muster as decent entertainment
      571 33  -  By Geoffrey Eu JOHN Le Carré, master storyteller and former MI6 spy, authors real-world thrillers about international espionage, political intrigue and murder investigations far removed from the fantasy realms inhabited by super-se-cret agents like James Bond, Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne.
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  • WINE/CINEMA
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      Lock icon Pairing wines with Asian cuisine
      989 34  -  Good fruit ripeness, minimum or very ripe tannins, and good acidity are the three essential basics guiding the selection. BY NK YONG SELECTING wine for dinner to go with local food is always a challenge but it can also be an interesting and instructive experience.
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      540 34  -  By Geoffrey Eu HIGH drama, cruel deception, deviant behaviour and a denouement where everyone gets their just deserts awaits viewers of The Handmaiden, Korean director Park Chan-wook's newest and quite deliciously wicked film about how falling in love with the
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      Lock icon Star-studded thriller needs more firepower
      602 34  -  By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT HIGH on star power but still firing blanks, Hong Kong directors-writers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk return with more of the same in Cold War 2, the sequel to their surprise 2012 hit which smashed box office records that year
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      339 34 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Hard up masochist may have been this (8,3,4) 9 Covering letter containing a bit of a shock (7) 10 Financial adviser on course lists theory, dismissing regulars (7) 11 Moderate at A level revising to get in institute initially (9) 12 Enthusiastic about one not excited
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  • CITY LIFE
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      Lock icon Eleven nights of open air movie magic
      792 35  -  Films at the Fort presented by Casillero del Diablo is back this August with award-winning movies that have been carefully curated. BY AVANTI NIM avantin@sph.com.sg IF you hate watching movies in dark cold cinemas and would rather enjoy a balmy Singapore evening with
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        145 35  -  ART By Cheah Ui-Hoon ART Apart Fair puts art and furniture together in contemporary, vintage and industrial themes for its 8th edition. The fair takes up 6,000 sq ft of space at Isetan Wisma Atria Level 2. Fair director Rosalind Lim has curated art works
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        217 35  -  DINING By Tay Suan Chiang YOU never know what you’re going to eat when you sit down at Chef’s Table by Chef Stephan. There is no menu. Instead, you get a list of 28 ingredients which represent the season’s best produce. Let chef Stephan Zoisl
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        179 35  -  By Dylan Tan THEATRE Shaolin FORGET the Ip Man films, here's the real deal: Shaolin is a stage spectacular where 20 real-life monks perform jaw-dropping super-human feats before your eyes. All of them hail from the fabled temple in the foothills of the Song
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        156 35  -  DINING By Tay Suan Chiang TRUFFLE lovers are in for a treat this July at Stellar at 1-Altitude. Chef Christopher Millar is presenting an eight-course menu featuring truffles from the famed Manjimup truffle farm in Western Australia. “This is now the peak of the winter truffle season in
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        199 35  - Bedrock Bar Grill guest chef series DINING By Rachel Loi HAVE a taste of Texas this weekend with A Texas Meat Feast at the Bedrock Bar Grill, where the first round of its new guest chef series features chef Jay McCarthy, from the Cascabel Restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. His
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