The Business Times, 6 September 2003

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  • 12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend MITA(P) 024/03^2003 85c SINGAPORE SEPTEMBER 6 7. 2003
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  • 441 1  -  Possible to have designated spot in airport for low-cost carriers, says minister By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Air Asia and other low-cost carriers might well be allowed to operate out of Changi Airport on special terms, Minister of State for Transport Dr Balaji Sadasivan
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  • 560 1  -  90% not likely to raise headcount anytime soon: survey EXCLUSIVE By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] A survey of 200 employers by Mercer Human Resource Consulting has found that most do not believe the cut in CPF contribution rates will help improve
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  • 1102 1  -  corporate analysis Will the sector lose its pre-eminence? Will Reits fill the void? WONG WD KONG proffers some views WONG WEI KONG Just what should you do with property stocks? Back in the mid-*****, the answer would have been simple. To have a meaningful
    Source: Bloomberg  -  1,102 words
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    • 461 1 WWTS CORPORATE H Brian Chang makes a comeback. PAGE 5 flaw PERSONAL FINANCE Making millions with plain talk. PUCE 6 Lights, camera cash! IJ] illlHHELki i tPi n m 111 |jJ 'I TjkjjlE. L mp^ k f^f'" ,h tnrl,+ ft i 1 v2«*W3>m< v^^Kl ■M* JBB rrr :f ll J
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    • 21 1 COMMENTARY C* ll NYSE chairman Richard Grasso be a regulator and a businessman at the same time? PAGE 12 REPORTS aPg4
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  • news front
    • 618 2 LATEST US DATA Fall biggest since March; heavy cuts in manufacturing again, cushioned slightly by hiring in healthcare, construction; White House says Q2 productivity surge partly to AP AFP Reuters Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US employers cut jobs in August at the fastest pace
      AP; AFP; Reuters; Bloomberg  -  618 words
    • 589 2 Giant port operator Hutchison also approached Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Whampoa, the world's biggest port operator, and PSA Corp, which runs Singapore's port, are among companies that may bid to invest in a US$2 billion facility at Busan in South Korea,
      Bloomberg; AP  -  589 words
    • 62 2 IN yesterday's story, "CH Offshore to raise $35.8 m in placement", we wrote that placement agent BNP Paribas Peregrine had agreed to take up 29 million placement shares. This is wrong. The agent had actually exercised an option for an additional 29 miUion placement shares, bringing the total number
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    • 250 2 Move expected to help aviation sector recover after Sars AP [KUALA LUMPUR) Malaysia will waive parking and landing fees for new international flights introduced over the next five years at four airports, in a bid to help the aviation industry recover
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    • 541 2  -  Saturday soapbox siow li sen WHEN it comes to unrelated singles, what works for HDB property doesn't seem to work for private property, and it's not clear why. Unrelated singles who are at least 35 years old can jointly buy Housing and
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  • the raffles conversation
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      1660 3  -  Switzerland, Singapore and Diethelm Keller have one thing in common: remaking to stay competitive. CEO Renato Fassbind tells WONG WH KONG about the monumental task of changing the culture of his company WONG WEI KONG WHEN AEK Athens overturned a 1-0 first-leg deficit by beating Swiss club Zurich
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    • 552 3  -  By Wong Wei Kong IT may be based in Zurich but the Diethelm Keller Group is an old Asian hand. The two companies that now make up the group, in fact, were founded in Singapore and the Philippines. Three-quarters of its staff, or 15,000, are located
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    • 61 3 Raffles INTERNATIONAL Hotels Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles International Hotels and Resorts. The Traveller's Palm in the Raffles International logo is an apt symbol. Not only has water stored at the base of this palm provided sustenance, the leaves rest in
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  • news companies
    • 666 4  -  Us shares rally to $1.23, last seen a year ago, but some analysts aren't impressed By Serena Ng SHARES of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing yesterday rallied to levels last seen in mid-September 2002 after the wafer foundry narrowed its loss guidance for Q3 ending September and
      Source: Reuters  -  666 words
    • 965 4  -  coiporaAe analysis If s being driven more by consumer electronics than corporate spending. But the DRAM market seems ready to roll, says RAJU CHELLAM RAJU CHELLAM THERE'S a gust of fresh breeze blowing through the semiconductor industry. And most of its key players—who
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    • corporateroundup
      • 89 4 SPH Magazines, a unit of Singapore Press Holdings, has announced new appointments as part of its expansion in Singapore and the region. It named Caroline Ngui as group editor, Lee Kok Chew as chief operating officer and Alice Rappa as regional advertisement sales director with
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      • 102 4 Reuters HUTCHISON Whampoa and DBS Group Holdings Ltd are placing 150 million existing shares in computer services firm Vanda Systems Communications Holdings Inc at HK$l.lO, Citigroup said yesterday. The placement is being made to return Vanda's free float back to 25 per cent, which
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      • 100 4 Reuters SINGAPORE'S government said yesterday it had transferred 16 per cent of its stake in DBS Group Holdings to state-owned agency Temasek Holdings. Singapore said it had transferred the government's direct stake of 2.1 per cent and MND Holding's stake of 13.9 per
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      • 71 4 HOTEL Negara Ltd said it has rejected bids for its namesake hotel in Claymore Road as they were too low. The company, which is part of the United Overseas Bank stable, planned to sell the 21-storey Meritus Negara in July through a public tender. Hotel
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      • 97 4 MAINBOARD-LISTED Acma has sold 2.5 million shares in its Sesdaq-listed associate Enersave Holdings, which has entered into a reverse takeover deal with a Hong Kong group. Acma sold the Enersave shares at 20 cents per share though a private placement, reducing its stake in Enersave to
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      • 80 4 CHINA Yuchai International (CYI), a unit of Kwek Leng Beng s Hong Leong Asia, said its subsidiary Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company (GYMC) has declared an additional dividend of 0.85 yuan per share for shareholders after chalking up continued strong performance. CYI, a major shareholder
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      • 70 4 FINANCIAL magazine Asiamoney in its latest annual poll on corporate governance has ranked Capita Land Limited as the leader in corporate governance practices among Singapore-listed property companies. Capita Land was ranked number 3 in the Asia-Pacific. The poll was based on responses by
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    • 616 4  -  mavket review r sivanithy IF you had to sum up the week's trading in a phrase, perhaps "frantic switching" would be appropriate! This would certainly apply in the case of smaller stocks, which commanded most of the market's attention as themes surfaced and
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    • 70 4 STI 1,617.84 (+7.61) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,611.00 (+8.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 167.60 (+0.90) Friday Change KLSECOMP 756.48 *4*2 NIKKEI 225 10.650.77 +3.82 HANG SENG 11.170.61 *.1139 SET INDEX 557.81 *1258 JAKARTA COMP .***** *711 MANILA OMP 1.***** +6.71 TAIPEI WP1 5.639.18 *1140 SEOI'LCOMP 761.55 160 SHENZHEN B ***** -141 AI
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    • 81 4 FOREX RATES US* S$ I'SS (SS per ISS) 1.761 £(USS/SS per 1.581 2.783 El"RO(l SS/SS E), 1.093 1524 YEN 1 66.40 RM 3.800 1158 HKS 7 799 4 430 BAHT 40.86 2311 RlTtAH &510 4.833 RENMINBI 8199 4.713 INDIAN RITEE 4534 26 09 AS 1.559 0.885 NZS 1.755 0597
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    • 671 5  -  EXCLUSIVE The IPO for his China shipyard, set for next year, will be one of the biggest in Singapore Reports by 1 Loh Hui Yin IT'S coming full circle for Brian Chang, a pioneer of Singapore's rig-building industry. He is bringing his Yantai
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    • corporate roundup
      • 79 5 Bloomberg FRASER Neave said it completed the sale of US$2B5 million of floating rate notes. The sale was made through F&N's real estate arm, Centrepoint Properties, and was arranged by Standard Chartered. The securities, which offer 35 basis points above the threemonth London Interbank Offered
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      • 91 5 THAKRAL Corporation said it had disposed its entire 60 per cent stake in indirect subsidiary Beijing Wenlu Laser Technology Co for 18 million renminbi (Ss3.B million). Thakral said Beijing Wenlu, which made optical discs, reported a loss of $1.02 million for the year ended March
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      • 107 5 SEA View Hotel fell into the red for the year ended June 30, 2003, with a net loss of $1.8 million, from a net profit of $80,000 the year before. Hotel occupancy and rates were badly affected by Sars, the commercial rental market remained
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      • 72 5 THE chief executive of SingTel's debt-stricken submarine cable subsidiary C2C has resigned to "pursue other personal interests and to spend more time with his family" after holding the post since January 2002. C2C said yesterday. Tsunekazu Matsudaira will continue to guide the C2C team as
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      • 72 5 Reuters ST Assembly Test Services (Stats) said yesterday it will pay US$l2 million to increase its stake in Winstek Semiconductor Corp in Taiwan. The move will take Stats' share of Winstek to 55 per cent after it bought a 51 per cent stake in
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    • 759 5 This ex-investment banker takes aim at selected industries IN the high-octane world of investment banking, only the fittest survive. And survival has became that much tougher these days, as more investment bankers are being laid off from bulgebracket firms and setting up their own
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  • money personal finance
    • 808 6  -  Suze Orman was once dismissed as a lightweight But her six best-selling books have touched a chord among middle Americans, says GENEVIEVE CUA GENEVIEVE CUA PERSONAL finance author Suze Orman's works were dismissed by the mainstream US financial press as "new-age hogwash" in late 1999.
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    • 315 6  -  Citibank launches global funds transfer service By Wong Wei Kong SEND money across the world instantaneously with a few clicks of a mouse that's what a new service from Citibank offers. The US bank has launched an online funds transfer service in Singapore that it
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    • 589 6 BEST-SELLING personal finance author Suze Orman used to be a stockbroker, and later ran her own financial advisory firm. But today, her biggest beef is financial advisers who live off commissions from clients. They are unlikely to have your best interests at heart,
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  • money personal investment
    • 704 7  -  B* Genevieve Cua HERE'S a poser Just when do you take a loss on an investment? Virtually every adviser has a sorry tale of clients who have a mishmash of invest* ments in their portfolios technology funds, for instance,
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    • 1327 7  -  show me the money Make money through the STIETFs diversified portfolio, which reduces risk, and capitalises on news reports of small stocks showing Dromisp teh hooi ling AN efficient capital market is one in which security prices adjust rapidly to the arrival of new information and,
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    • 986 7  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE portfolio of stocks with the lowest price-to-eamings ratio surged 6.9 per cent this week a beneficiary of the market's continued search for value. In dollar terms, the appreciation in the five trading sessions to Thursday totalled $15,862. The portfolio outpaced
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  • news at home
    • 403 8  -  Official joint study group proposes early free trade talks and agreement By Chuang Peck Ming AN OFFICIAL joint study group has proposed that Singapore and South Korea kick off free trade talks at "an early date" and seal a deal "within a reasonably
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    • 215 8 AFP THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived here yesterday for bilateral talks and the opening of the new Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) secretariat building, a Thai embassy spokeswoman said. During his three-day official visit, Dr Thaksin will meet Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong
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    • 401 8  -  Despite Indon deal, savings take time to be passed down w Tang Weng Fai SINGAPOREANS will have to wait another four to five years before they enjoy lower gas prices, despite a deal cut with Indonesia to import cheaper natural
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    • 243 8  -  By Kenneth Lim SINGAPOREANS out of work should "seriously consider" taking up domestic housekeeping jobs, Acting Minister for Manpower Ng Eng Hen said yesterday at the launch of two new initiatives for the domestic services industry. Dr Ng said that despite soft labour conditions,
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    • 172 8 AP TWO Singapore labs said yesterday they have jointly developed a simple-to-use 15minute Sars test kit that could help prevent the virus' spread in poor and remote areas. Officials from Genelabs Diagnostics and the government-funded Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology told a
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    • 482 8  -  6b renminbi park will be biggest in China, modelled on Seattle concept By Loh Hui Yin A SINGAPORE consultancy firm is to master plan an aviation park in the ancient city of Xian, and it will be the biggest in
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    • 227 8  -  visitor arrivals Kenneth Lim EARLY estimates from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) show visitor arrivals continuing their climb back to last year's levels, although August still saw 10 per cent fewer tourists than a year ago. STB said 600,000 visitors are estimated to have arrived
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    • 282 8  -  Besides paying over $113,000 in fines, he gets 3-week jail By Andrea Tan YAP Hock Chye found out the hard way that tax evasion doesn't pay. He will go to jail for three weeks and pay a hefty fine for his company
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  • news region
    • 409 9 The RMl.Bb project in Kuala Lumpur is set to open this month Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian gambling tycoon Vincent Tan has his fingers crossed. Weeks away from launching his giant Times Square Kuala Lumpur complex, he is in sight of a jackpot that
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    • 351 9  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE plan to create a new bank as big as Malayan Banking (Maybank) in Malaysia has fallen through. Commerce Asset-Holding Berhad (CAHB) the owner of secondplaced Bumiputra-Commerce Bank and AMMB Holdings called off their two-month merger talks
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    • 235 9 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary has agreed to pay US$254 million for control of the controversial and much-delayed Bakun dam in Borneo's Sarawak state and will manage construction of the US$2.4 billion project. Once completed in 2007, the dam would
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    • 344 9  -  It should offer lower cost alternatives to firais, they say Froml Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) is poised to be a front-runner in the race to provide global outsourcing services, members of the
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    • inbrief
      • 73 9 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Oil major Shell expects to spend RMI.3 billion (Ss6o2 million) on upstream activities in Malaysia, particularly on gas, to raise production over the next year, its country head said yesterday. The investment is part of plans by the Anglo-Dutch
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      • 72 9 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Sime Darby Bhd said it sold its 22 per cent stake in Palmco Holdings Bhd at a profit of RM94 million (5543.5 million), because the investment no longer fits its business plan. Sime sold its 44.4 million shares in the palm
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      • 51 9 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Shanghai police have arrested property tycoon Zhou Zhengyi on charges of manipulating share prices and falsifying company paid-up capital, state television said yesterday. Zhou has been under house arrest since May 26, but had not been formally charged until now, state media reported.
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      • 87 9 Reuters [BEIJING] China's bank watchdog will target property and auto loans as it steps up supervision of commercial banks, the China Daily said yesterday. The China Banking Regulatory Commission would "focus on the examination and monitoring of banks' risk management, as well as asset
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      • 66 9 Reuters [HONG KONG] The SCMP Group, publisher of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper, yesterday posted a 62 per cent drop in interim profit after its advertising and retail businesses were hit by the Sars outbreak. Its earnings for the six months ended June
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    • 698 10 They find a huge global market to be tapped and are ready to invest millions off dollars AFP [BOMBAY] A number of Indian venture capitalists based abroad are increasingly eyeing Bollywood as a new investment option, not just sticking with
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    • 76 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong government yesterday said it had withdrawn a controversial anti-sub-version bill which sparked the territory's biggest political crisis in years. "We will consult the public again and before that, we will not legislate," Chief Executive Tung Cheehwa told reporters. Mr
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    • 327 10 BeQing support for offshore renminbi centre ebbing [BEIJING/HONG KONG] China's government is growing cool on a proposal to promote the use of Beijing's renminbi currency in Hong Kong, in a blow to the territory's hopes of reinvigorating its flagging economy through closer integration with
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  • focus international design
    • 860 11  -  An integrated industrial design process and clear corporate branding are key to keeping the company ahead in the competitive IT race. TANG WENG FAI reports TANG WENG FAI WHAT does industrial design and branding have to do with a company's successful transformation in a few short years into
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    • 245 11 U«ar plan Establish and direct user-engineering team and provide overall input to project plan. raquirNMnti Create initial spreadsheet showing business and value proposition for product and allow user experience to be assessed and prioritised. Define business goals with specific emphasis on user experience. Obtain data including
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  • news world
    • 697 12 SEC chaises the bank and three other persons in a 2001 government bond sale scandal Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Massachusetts Financial Services Co (MFS), and three individuals were charged by federal authorities with trading on inside information in 2001
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    • inbrief
      • 70 12 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Goldman Sachs Group Inc sold a 3.96 per cent stake in South Korea's Kookmin Bank, raising US$465 million at almost double the price it paid for the shares four years ago. Goldman sold 13 million American depositary receipts in Korea's biggest bank
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      • 82 12 Reuters [TOKYO] An indicator of Japanese conditions in the coming months rose, the government said yesterday, pointing to expansion and underscoring optimism on the economy. The diffusion index of leading economic indicators for July stood at a preliminary 77.8 on a scale of 100,
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      • 97 12 AFP [SYDNEY] Australian security services are investigating a high-level security breach in which computers reported to contain highly sensitive intelligence were stolen from Sydney airport by bogus technicians, officials said yesterday. The Sydney Morning Herald said two men of "Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance" were given unfettered
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      • 58 12 Reuters [TOKYO] The president of NEC Electronics Corp said yesterday he aims to boost semiconductor production by 15 to 20 per cent this year to meet strong demand for its "system chips" that power hot-selling DVD recorders. Kaoru Tosaka said he expected the July
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      • 73 12 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Sales of chipmaking equipment will grow more if personal computer makers start producing digital consumer electronics, an area where growth of semiconductor sales is fastest, an executive at an industry group said. "It's not just Japan that focuses on making consumer electronics.
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    • 422 12 Move will reduce the millions due to them in compensation AP [WASHINGTON] Two top executives who resigned from mortgage giant Freddie Mac amid accounting turmoil and federal investigations will be fired for alleged improper conduct, federal regulators said on Thursday. By
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    • 309 12  -  From Anthony Rowley in roKyo THE possibility of Japan entering a free trade agreement with Arab countries, similar to the one now under discussion between the Middle East and the European Union, was raised at an unofficial but high-level dialogue among Japan, Saudi
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    • 564 12  -  It's a regulator but when it comes to exec pay, if s a profit-making company, says FLOYD NORRIS FLOYD NORRIS NYT WHAT is the New York Stock Exchange? Is it a quasi-gov-ernmental regulator, one with authority over every substantial brokerage firm and most of
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  • style sports
    • 885 13  -  frankly speaking By Harvey Araton NYT IT was midafternoon when Andy Roddick rolled through the players' lounge on Thursday, frisky as a puppy at chowtime, bouncing on his toes and all ready to hit through a 45-minute window of clear afternoon
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    • 1155 13 There are a record 18 South Koreans on the tour this year and nine of this year's 23 events have been captured by Asian-born players NYT AS PIONEERS go, Pak Se Ri of South Korea was on the young side, only 20. In 1998,
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  • style motoring
    • 603 14  -  Distributor eyes the lucrative luxury performance segment with three sports models, reports SAMUEL EE SAMUEL EE AUDI'S awesome sports models are finally coming to Singapore. Towards the end of this year, local distributor Premium Automobiles will unveil in stages the steroid-in-duced RS6 and S4 sedan
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    • 299 14 THE S4 is based on the handsomely-sculpted A 4. Although it is smaller than the RS6, Audi has managed to squeeze in a V 8 engine. But unlike the RS6. the S4's power plant is naturally aspirated. The story of how the large
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    • 352 14 THE highlight of this reinvigorated model isn't so much the six-cylinder engine with quattro but the innovative transmission it will have. Called the Direct-Shift Gearbox or DSG, this clever device will make the pretty coupe even more desirable. The high-tech six-speed transmission promises an uninterrupted
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  • style health
    • 757 15  -  Eat right be active and mind your emotions, advises celiatan CELIA TAN A HEALTHY lifestyle comprises what we eat (diet), what we do (activity) and how we feel (state of mind). So how do Singaporean executives fare? In a recent survey of about 70
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    • 286 15  -  By I Cheah Ui-Hoon DESPITE our proximity to the Indian subcontinent, and the general acceptance of alternative therapies today, ayurvedic practitioners still aren't easy to come by in Singapore. St Gregory Therapeutic Spa's three week-long Ayurveda Fiesta is then a welcome event, as it
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • style shopping
    • 972 16  -  CORINNE KERK finds out what the spanking new Paragon extension offers to shoppers CORINNE KERK DO you remember the Promenade building? The small shopping centre with the slightly kooky, sloping floor that winds its way up the levels? Some people used to think that if they weren't
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    • 1015 16  -  By Corinne Kerk YOU know it for its pretty, collectible animals and miniatures. But Swarovski is a lot more than that. And there's no one else better to sell you the Swarovski story than a Swarovski Nadja Swarovski, to be precise. The great, great
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    • in store
      • 61 16 A CLASSIC piece of stained glass art adapted from an original country window. Designed by American artist Louis Tiffany, it is made by silk-screening enamel colours onto a glass panel, which is then fired to render the quintessential look. The 36 cm delicate work of art costs
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      • 46 16 IF you've got a thing for lines, these shoes will catch your fancy. Besides the stylish curves, these wedge-heeled shoes are wrapped with a delightful pin-stripe fabric to add a lift to any plain skirt or pants. Available at Tangs Studio for $69.
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      • 41 16 LOOK business-y but not frumpy with these cool Oakleys that carry you from work to play. Made of light alloy, an Asian bridge version is available too. The Oakley Yardstick ($335) is available at Lens Men, Compass Point.
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