The Business Times, 24 March 2005

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MICA (P) 089/03/2005 SlNGAPoSteoente online at http://business-timesasial.com.sg Thursday, March 24,2005
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    Lock icon KL scraps bulk of capital controls from April
    718 1  -  Move will help boost outward investment, spur cross-border trade with Singapore bourse By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA yesterday announced the lifting of many of the September 1998 capital controls it imposed on its citizens a move that could encourage greater
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    Lock icon Some bidders kept posted in case casino gets go-anead: sources
    549 1  -  By ALEXANDRA HO, DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] The Singapore government may be unofficially contacting some of the bidders involved with the proposals for the integrated casino resort (IR) to inform them that, should the government decide to allow a casino, they
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    137 1 sn 2,145.10 (-3131) ST INDEX'FUTURES 2.139.00 (-31.00) siMsa 254.88 (-4.32) SIMSa FUTURES 254.10 (-4.10) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 881.25 +2.62 NIKKEI 225 11.739.12 -102.85 HANG SENG 13,603.61 -172.86 SET INDEX 693.26 -fc27 JAKARTA COMP 1,142.148 -10^45 MANILA COMP doatd SEOUL COMP 966.81 -13.60 SHENZHEN B 260.31 -1.56 BOMBAY
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      41 1 executive Wjff EARNINGS It still pays to be the boss PG2I BT ONLINE For the latest financial news, currency movements and a 7-day archive, visit business-times.asial .com.sg This service is available to subscribers from 4am Singapore time (2000 GMT) each day.
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      114 1 NOTEBOOK Bj9f the best PG9 BANK NEGARA REPORT Malaysia forecasts slower growth PGI9 u-.. ~»mm m m 1 K JH of.the world today? Hjfl ft I m H H Reverso Grande GMT New horizons open with Joeger-LeCoultre Colibre 878. The diol. showing the home-time, potented large date and day/night indicator
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Jittery Asian markets go on inflation watch
      688 2  -  FED RATE RISE Wall Street worried about potential for rising volatility and risk aversion By WONG WEI KONG, R SIVANITHY [SINGAPORE] Markets will now be on inflation watch, after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Tuesday and signalled its concerns over
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      744 2 Spend big to market S'pore abroad: Leng Beng LACKLUSTRE home prices here could get a big boost from foreign property buyers if Singapore spends big bucks marketing itself harder overseas, Hong Leong Group executive chairman Kwek Leng Beng said yesterday. "We need to boost sentiment, which is very
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      Lock icon Spend big to market S'pore abroad: Hong Leong chief
      767 3 This will help create positive sentiment for housing market, he says By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Lacklustre home prices here could get a big boost from foreign property buyers if Singapore spends big bucks marketing itself harder overseas, Hong Leong Group executive
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      Lock icon Nokia appoints two companies to fill void left by ACCS
      383 3  -  Sing Post's entry on track as SGX approves listing of new ACCS shares By JOYCE KOH [SINGAPORE] Accord Customer Care Solutions' carefully built-up relations with Nokia may be over. Yesterday, the Finnish company said that it had already found replacement
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      182 2 SINGAPORE <flßr INDIAN CHAMBER <C A C WRf OF COMMERCE INDUSTRY Institute of South Asian Studies THE FIRST SICCI-ISAS GLOBAL BUSINESS LEADERS LECTURE by H.E. MR P. CHIDAMBARAM, FINANCE MINISTER, INDIA The SICCI-ISAS Global Business Leaders Lecture is a new joint initiative of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and
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      150 3 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF NUANSA LEISURE PTE LTD (IN CREDITORS'VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) (Company Registration No. *****2765N) NOTICE OF CREDITORS'VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION Notice is hereby given that at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of the abovenamed company held on 17 March 2005,
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon OUE minorities get KL-based investor's backing
      320 4  -  By ANGELA TAN THE minority shareholders' movement seeking to unlock value in Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) has obtained its first written support yesterday from a foreign institutional investor Kuala Lumpur-based Apollo Investment Management. In an e-mail response to Ong Chin Woo, the remisier leading
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      Lock icon Rights proceeds partly to repay Vincent Tan
      536 4  -  INFORMATICS' WOES Informatics shares dive 9% to 24¢, just below rights issue price of 25¢ By JOYCE KOH JUST who is this director Informatics Holdings is seeking to repay by raising money from shareholders? The education services provider yesterday revealed that he is
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      Lock icon Rights issue not quite right
      717 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By ANGELA TAN MORE than a year has slipped by since education service provider Informatics Holdings sent shock waves through the investment community when news broke that it was hit by an accounting scandal centering on overstated revenues and profits. The fiasco
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      Lock icon Hyflux teams up to bid for Algerian contract
      158 4 Reuters SINGAPORE'S biggest publicly traded water-treat-ment company, Hyflux, is bidding with a US group for an Algerian contract to build two desalination plants, its chief executive said yesterday. Olivia Lum, in an interview with Reuters, added that Hyflux hoped to complete the
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Trading in the vipers' pit
      549 6  -  STOCKS Rising oil prices and inflation take their toll as blue chips drag the STI down to new lows R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent SAID a dealer yesterday: "At the moment, this market is a pit of vipers. You put your hand in and you run
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      435 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 23 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -607.00 -156.00 BTCADI -*****.00 -142.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -60.00 All-SG Equities 555.44 -7.95 SG Equities Elect 136.45 -1.18 SG Equities Fin 1625.63 -23.02 SG Equities Prop 559.37 -8.66 SIMSCI 254.88 -4.32 SiMSCI Futures 254.10 -4.10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME Sina
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      653 6  -  Compiled by JOYCE KOH $2.06 (•Stents) CITIGROUP SMITH BARNEY, March 23 PRICED to perfection: downgrade to sell. We believe SGX's recent price rally has factored in the justannounced special dividend, plus pore market (STI) overall. SGX declared a net special dividend of $0.15/ share plus a regular dividend
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      Lock icon US$ boosted as Fed warns on inflation
      495 6  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent AN unexpected inflation warning from the US central bank's powerful interest rate committee gave the already recovering US dollar yet another sharp boost yesterday, with non-Asian alternatives worst hit While the US central bank's overnight announcement of a
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Temasek's deemed interest in SPC cut
        59 6 TEMASEK Holdings' deemed interest in Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) has eased to 46.9 per cent from 47.2 per cent after the open market sale by DBS Group Holdings and conversion of US$5 million worth of SPC bonds due on April 28,2009 by Keppel Corporation.
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        Lock icon Ho Bee Investment owner ups stake
        51 6 SUBSTANTIAL shareholder Ho Bee Holdings' interest in Ho Bee Investment has been raised from 75.88 per cent to 75.93 per cent or 456.4 million shares as a result of an open market purchase on Monday. Ho Bee Investment shares closed unchanged at 34.5 cents
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        Lock icon Manfaith's interest in 8Telecom pared
        55 6 MANFAITH Investments trimmed its direct stake in BTelecom International Holdings from 74.943 per cent to 74.525 per cent by selling two million shares to Ho Wah Onn on Monday. Ho Wah Onn now have an interest of 0.418 per cent in BTelecom. The counter closed
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        Lock icon Sim Lian shareholder ups stake
        48 6 KUIK Sin Pin's direct interest in Sim Lian Group rose from 0.83 per cent to 0.85 per cent when he bought 50,000 shares in the open market on Tuesday. Sim Lian Group's shares lost half a cent to close at 29 cents yesterday.
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        Lock icon Leo Jee Lin ups stake in Soilbuild
        44 6 LEO Jee Lin increased his direct interest in Soilbuild Group Holdings from 0.65 per cent to 0.72 per cent by buying 92,000 shares in the open market. Shares of Soilßuild Group closed unchanged at 28.5 cents yesterday.
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        Lock icon Ipco CEO acquires 1.8m shares
        38 6 IPCO International chief executive Quah Su-Ling bought 1.8 million shares in the open market on Tuesday to gain a direct stake of 0.22 per cent. Ipco shares closed unchanged at 6.5 cents yesterday.
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        Lock icon JEL major shareholder buys more shares
        48 6 JEL Corporation substantial shareholder Eric Tan Boon Yong saw his direct interests rise from 70.212 per cent to 70.463 per cent when he made a series of open market purchases on Monday. JEL Corp's share price closed unchanged at 28 cents yesterday.
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        Lock icon Elite KSB director increases stake
        54 6  -  Compiled by NANDE KHIN DIRECTOR Peter Tan Boon Huan bought 46,000 shares of Elite KSB Holdings on the open market on Tuesday. This saw his direct interest rise from 0.12 per cent to 0.18 per cent. Elite KSB shares gained one cent to reach 11
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon CPF to name SingPost as ATC platform alternative
      581 8  -  SINGTEL OVERHANG Move will allow broker-free trading of SingTel shares after ATCs close Reports by ANGELA TAN GOOD news for Singapore Telecommunications shareholders: It appears that the Central Provident Fund (CPF) board has found an alternative platform to DBS authorised trading centres
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      Lock icon SingTel sinks 3% after block sales of 95m shares
      282 8 SINGAPORE Telecommunications' (Sing Tel) stock price sank 3 per cent yesterday to end at $2.60 with almost 134 million shares traded, after two blocks totalling 95 million shares were sold at $2.59 apiece. Sing Tel the nation's most widely held share
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      Lock icon Talks with StarHub fail despite best efforts: SingTel
      269 8  -  By NANDE KHIN SINGTEL yesterday said that negotiations with Star Hub to enable 73 commercial buildings to access cable services failed "despite SingTel's best efforts". The statement came a day after it was reported that Star Hub Cable Vision (SCV) was jutting
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Hong Leong unit completes purchase
        35 8 HONG Leong Asia unit China Yuchai International (CYI) yesterday completed its acquisition of 264 million new shares of Thakral Corporation Ltd (TCL). CYI now owns 14.99 per cent of TCL.
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        Lock icon Azeus clinches US$10.2m HK project
        43 8 AZEUS Systems Holdings Ltd yesterday said that it had secured a US$lO.2 million IT project from the Hong Kong government The job involves replacing the Criminal Intelligence Computer System and the Enhanced Police Operational Nominal Index Computer System.
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        Lock icon Yongnam Holdings appoints CFO
        19 8 YONGNAM Holdings has appointed Andrew Yuen King Yu chief financial officer, effective Monday this week.
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        Lock icon Noble a component of FTSE/Hang Seng Index
        35 8 NOBLE Group is now a component of the FTSE/Hang Seng Basic Industries Index. It and four other companies replaced five that were dropped following the March semi-annual review.
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      Lock icon Ezra Hldgs wraps up US$114m of contracts
      133 8 SESDAQ-LISTED Ezra Holdings, offshore support and marine services provider in South-east Asia's offshore oil and gas industry, yesterday announced the conclusion of two contracts worth a total of U*****.2 million. Lewek Shipping, a whol-ly-owned subsidiary of Ezra, awarded contracts to Pan-United Marine for
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      Lock icon DBSAM wins $1.3b Aviva fixed income mandate
      271 8  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA DBS Asset Management (DBSAM) has clinched a $1.3 billion fixed income mandate from Aviva, raising its total assets under management to $12.6 billion. The portfolio is part of Aviva's life fund. Aviva has declined to fcpecSy the total size of
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      Lock icon PwC's report to be released next week
      322 8  -  TROUBLE AT CAO By WONG WEI KONG AN eagerly awaited report on the China Aviation Oil (CAO) scandal is expected to be released early next week. The report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been submitted to the Singapore Exchange (SGX), which has sent it
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      Lock icon Perth-based AusGroup plans to diversify to Asia
      476 8  -  SembLog senior executive invited to chair board By RONNIE LIM SESDAQ aspirant AusGroup, which services the Australian oil/gas and mining industries, plans to diversify to Asia to be near its Australian customers who have operations in the region. Perth-based AusGroup, which specialises in
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  • CEO'S NOTEBOOK
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      1413 9  -  Liak Teng Lit applies that to transform Alexandra Hospital into a top-notch outfit, reports RAJU CHELLAM RAJU CHELLAM HE is not a doctor, but some of Singapore's best doctors work with him. He is not a management guru, but is much sought after in the region
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      Lock icon Alexandra Hospital changing with the times
      385 9  -  By RAJU CHELLAM WAY back in 1938, when the troops of the British Empire needed a tranquil place to recuperate from ill health, they went to what is now Alexandra Hospital for help. It was then called the British Military Hospital and served British
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  • BLUE CHIPS
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      Lock icon Acquisitions drive A-Reit
      894 10  -  Analysts reckon that its aggressive buying strategy will boost growth, reports WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG For Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (AReit), acquisitions appear the way to go. While Singapore's second-biggest Reit also has a strategy of organic growth, analysts reckoned that the bulk of
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  • BizIT FOCUS: DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
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      Lock icon Going paperless all the way
      1103 11  -  ROLAND LIM looks at how NTUC Income converted its warehouses of physical documents into an electronic format ROLAND LIM LEADING insurer NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative, which started with a capital of $1.2 million in 1970, has grown to an organisation with more than 1.2 million
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon S'pore costlier than even New York now: EIU
      517 12  -  Cost-of-living survey ranks Republic 19th, down two notches By ANNA TEO SINGAPORE remains among the world's 20 most expensive cities to live in, though it has dropped two rungs from a year ago to 19th. But that still makes it at least
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      Lock icon First batch of nursing graduates expected in 2010
      267 12 SINGAPORE hospitals are expected to welcome their first batch of healthcare professionals with local nursing degrees by 2010 following the introduction of the first full-time undergraduate nursing degree programme at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Fifty students will be accepted for
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      Lock icon February consumer prices remain stable
      183 12 SINGAPORE'S consumer price index (CPI) in February published yesterday remained unchanged from a year earlier, although it was 0.7 per cent up on the January figure, owing to higher housing costs. While housing costs fell by 0.3 per cent from February last, year, they saw
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      Lock icon Revision and rebasing of CPI complete
      242 12 THE number of items selected for pricing the consumer price index (CPI) basket measuring the cost of living in Singapore has been expanded from 4,940 to 5,170 for the revised CPI, with 2004 as the base year. New items added to the basket include
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      Lock icon GIC to buy UK mall stake for £318 m
      368 13  -  It will set up a joint venture deal with Prudential which owns a 35% stake By JEAN CHUA FOLLOWING a few weeks of speculation, the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore (GIC) yesterday confirmed that it is buying part of Britain's Bluewater
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      Lock icon Building pillars of support
      762 13  -  FAMILY LIFE AMBASSADOR SERIES Loans, breastfeeding rooms and flexi-time are just some of the pro-family facilities in this small sauce-making company, reports CAROLYN QUEK CAROLYN QUEK JOCELYN Chng was only a second-year university undergraduate when her father died of cancer, leaving behind his soya sauce distribution
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      Lock icon Importance of family fuels Heartpower
      519 13  -  By CAROLYN QUEK THE importance of the family was something that Poh See Yong had always believed in. So much so that he left his four-year career as a business analyst with a petrochemical company in 2000 to concentrate on Heartpower Management Training. Heartpower is
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      Lock icon Grade A office rents keep rising
      370 13  -  By ARTHUR SIM PRIME office rents continued to rise in the first quarter of the year, with the average for prime Grade A properties hitting $4.80 per square foot (psf). Soon Su Lin, executive director, global research client services at CB Richard Ellis, said:
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      137 13 Of' THE two companies featured today are part of the 1,100 corporate and individual ambassadors under the Family Life Ambassador Programme, which was launched in Oct 2000. Of the 1,100 ambassadors, close to 800 are companies and businesses in the private and public sectors. Spearheaded by the Ministry of Community
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  • FOCUS: SERVICES
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      Lock icon Making the talk walk
      1100 14  -  COMMUNICATIONS Communications firms here are creating products that travel, JEAN CHUA reports JEAN CHUA THERE are few industries as visible and familiar to the consume r as communications. More than nine out of 10 Singaporeans own a mobile phone 9.2 to be precise which makes it
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Fed unlikely to kick up pace soon: analysts
      508 15 But its reference to signs of inflation pressures surprises traders Reuters [NEW YORK] US bond yields shot up after the Federal Reserve highlighted inflation risks on Tuesday, but economists polled by Reuters said they do not expect the Fed to pick up
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      Lock icon The Fed statement in full
      311 15 Here is the full statement by the Federal Reserve's policy-making committee after its latest meeting: "The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent "The committee believes that, even after
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      Lock icon Biggest rise in US consumer prices in 4 mths
      525 15 LATEST US DATA Reuters AP Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] A big advance in energy costs pushed up US consumer prices by 0.4 per cent in February, the most in four mOnths, but the pace of underlying inflation also quickened, the Labor Department said
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  • GLOBAL SECURITY ASIA
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      Lock icon Safety on the cutting-edge
      621 16  -  Policy makers and specialists will meet next week to talk about how to wield the double-edged sword of technology, NANDE KHIN says NANDE KHIN AS GOVERNMENTS around the world come to terms with and develop strategies against the threat of terrorism, more than 60 international security
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      Lock icon Using technology to build security
      929 17  -  The Ministry of Home Affairs tells NANDE KHIN why the threat of global terrorism to Singapore is so serious and how it is tackling it NANDE KHIN SECURITY measures have been stepped up in Singapore since Sept 11,2001, and that is because the threat of
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      Lock icon Measures already in place
      388 17 Source: Ministry of Home Affairs MEASURES already adopted by Singapore to tighten homeland security since 9-11: Stepping up the protection of key installations, particularly strategic ones, such as checkpoints and oil refineries. This is a task undertaken by the Key Installation Protection Unit. Key installations are
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      Lock icon Security doesn't hurt: tech veteran
      787 18  -  John Forrest sees protecting infrastructure as crucial ana beneficial, says NANDE KHIN NANDE KHIN STEPPING up security measures against terrorist activities need not be a costly affair that will result in inefficiency for businesses and countries. Adding security measures to existing systems and infrastructure could
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      503 19  -  BANK NEGARA ANNUAL REPORT Central bank sees private investments growing 9.6% and driving expansion By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S central bank has forecast inflation-ad-justed economic growth this year at 5-6 per cent down from 7.1 per cent in 2004. In its
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      393 19  -  Bank Negara wants local players to venture abroad By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur BANK Negara does not plan to issue new Islamic banking licences to foreigners, given that it has approved three Middle Eastern Islamic institutions to set up in Malaysia, and
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      373 19 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia said yesterday it would not grant any concessions to Malaysia in a row over potentially oil-rich waters claimed by both nations, and more talks would be needed to resolve the dispute. Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda
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      365 19 It is among several firms looking to invest in market [MUMBAI] Giant US-based real estate developer Hines and Singapore's investment company Temasek could be among those looking at investing in India's real estate sector with the government opening the doors to foreign direct investment,
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        155 19 Reuters AP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's government will ask Beijing to interpret the city's constitution as debate rages over how long its next chief executive should serve, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. Such a move would likely trigger protests
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        119 19 Bloomberg [JAKARTA! PT Bank Negara Indonesia, the nation's third-largest lender, said 2004 profit more than tripled as the lowest interest rates in six years spurred lending. The bank forecast a profit decline this year because of tax payments. Net income rose to
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        97 19 AP [HONG KONG] Tom Group Ltd —the media flagship of Hong Kong's richest tycoon Li Ka-shing—said yesterday its net profit surged in 2004, boosted by a one-off gain from the sale of its Internet online division. The multimedia company's net profit hit HK5859.8
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        104 19 Xinhua [BEIJING] Bank of China (BOC). a leader in the country's aggressive banking reform, announced yesterday it appointed a US financial expert as its chief credit officer. Lonnie Dounn from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) became the first foreigner to
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        135 19 AFP [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong arm of mainland banking giant Bank of China (BOC) reported yesterday a 50.3 per cent rise in 2004 net profit, beating full-year forecasts. BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Ltd said 2004 net profit rose to HK511.96
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      1015 21  -  ASIA INSIGHT Reorienting themselves and focusing on the 'hardware' of development they could play a more central role in helping poor countries ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent PITY Paul Wolfowitz, prospective president of the World Bank, and Haruhiko Kuroda, new president
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      775 21 Average CEO pay of S&P 500 firms rose 178% between 1993-2002: study LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] High-pro-file meltdowns aside, it still pays to be the boss. Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina, recently muscled out of her job over lacklustre performance, walked away with an exit
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      67 21 CEO pay, based on a survey of companies in the S&P 500 1993 average: USS3.7 million 2002 average: USSIO 3 million Hany C Stoneciphec of Boeing: eligible for retirement benefits of about US$6OO,OOO per year of US$114,303 per Carty Florina of HP: exit package worth US$42m CEO
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      419 21 There's no system of checks and balances: Spitzer Bloomberg [DUßLlN] Some US money managers are hesitant to vote against the boards of companies in which they invest because they're concerned about losing pension contracts, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said. "The
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      150 21 AFP [BERLIN] A German company, Aqua Society, announced on Tuesday that it was perfecting a method of extracting drinking water from air humidity and hopes it will help overcome shortages around the world. Aqua Society said that prototypes of its machines, which it
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        128 21 AFP [LONDON] Prime Minister Tony Blair is preparing to call a general election in Britain for May 5 within the next fortnight, the BBC reported on Tuesday. On April 4 or 5, Mr Blair would ask Queen Elizabeth II to dissolve Parliament
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        73 21 AFP [TOKYO] Pioneer Corp, a major Japanese maker of plasma display panels, said yesterday it planned to eliminate 2,ooojobs over an unspecified period. "Through consolidation of our branches and outlets, we plan to achieve a reduction of 2,000j0b5," company president Kaneo Ito said. It
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        74 21 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Dutch merchant bank NIB Capital has received two takeover bids worth two billion euros (554.3 billion) from both Benelux financial group Fortis and GE Capital, Het Financieele Dagblad reported yesterday. NIB Capital a5O-50joint venture between Dutch pension fund giants ABP and
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        118 21 Reuters [NEW YORK] The NASD fined a Goldman Sachs Group Inc unit US$l million for hiding initial public offering allocations after being pressured by clients demanding anonymity. The regulator said Spear, Leeds Kellogg LP, which in January was renamed Goldman Sachs Execution Clearing LP,
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        66 21 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, a billionaire and former chairman of Japan's Seibu Railway Co, has been indicted on charges of committing fraud and insider trading, Asahi news agency said. Tsutsumi, named by Forbes magazine as the world's richest businessman in 1990, has been under detention by
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      599 22 The 310 m euro deal is Europe's biggest airline merger since Air France-KLM's Reuters [FRANKFURT/ZURICH] Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa has agreed to take over Swiss International Air Lines in a deal worth up to 310 million euros (***** million), ending three years
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      358 22 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia is to impose new restrictions on foreign budget airlines flying to key cities such as Jakarta and Bali to protect its own operators in the face of fierce competition, reports said yesterday. Transport Minister Hatta Rajasa said that the new
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      499 22 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Air China Ltd, the country's largest international airline, plans to sell 3 billion yuan (Sss9l million) of bonds to finance aircraft purchases, the first corporate debt sale by a Chinese carrier. Air China is awaiting government approval for
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      214 22 AFP [TOKYO] Three more Japan Airlines (JAL) flights ran Into trouble on Tuesday as it remained under official orders to improve safety measures. A JAL Boeing 767-300, with 133 passengers and crew on a morning domestic flight, scraped its tail on landing at Fukushima
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      283 22 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Sinotrans Ltd, which operates freight forwarding and express delivery for China's biggest air cargo handler, said it plans to spend at least 727 million yuan (Ssl43million) this year to expand its business. "Our capital expenditure this year will be
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      239 22 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korean Air Lines Co and Asiana Airlines Inc, the two carriers of a country that imports all its oil, will add surcharges for the first time starting next month as the price of jet fuel surged to a record. They may
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      492 23  -  It will add 200 ships, mostly for bulk/energy transport By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Japan's largest shipping company, Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) said it will spend 1.38 trillion yen (5521.4 billion) over the next six years on over 200 vessels, as
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      326 23 Reuters [SHANGHAI! China is considering building another container terminal along its wealthy east coast partly with foreign investment, which could help alleviate its nationwide transport bottlenecks that have become an economic drag. Prosperous Zhejiang province is studying a container terminal in Jiaxing as part
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        56 23 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp, Taiwan's second-biggest shipping line by market value, will order five container ships and one bulk carrier as demand for cargo space to the US and Europe from Asia increases. Said Richard Yu, the company's project
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        71 23 AFP [CALAIS, France] Rail and ferry services across the English channel were blocked at the French port of Calais on Tuesday, as merchant sailors protested for a second day against government plans to reform registry rules for shipping. Riot-police intervened with tear-gas at around
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      480 23 Reuters [LONDON] A robust Chinese ecomomy, port congestion in key mineral exporting regions and the start of the South American grain export season should stoke global freight prices in the second quarter, analysts said on Tuesday. The Baltic Exchange's seaborne freight indices a
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      565 23 Bloomberg [PRINCETON] Carnival Gorp's first-quarter profit rose 70 per cent and earnings in the second-quarter will be lower than analysts' expectations due to rising fuel prices. Net income at the world's largest cruise line increased to US$345 million or 42
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      230 23 Bloomberg ILONDON] The shippingderivatives market will grow 53 per cent in the next two years as hedge funds, banks and insurers start trading the contracts, Bos-ton-based consulting company Celent Communications said. The value of contracts known as Forward Freight Agreements, or FFAs,
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      728 24  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group AMERICA is a nation of closet welfare junkies, which helps explain why we can't have an honest Social Security debate. Social Security and Medicare are our biggest welfare programs, but because Americans
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      1051 24  -  With Wolfowitz's rise and Kennan's death, the days of cautious US diplomacy are over LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent RENOWNED American historian and diplomat George F Kennan died last week at the age of 101, a day after US President George W Bush announced that he was nominating Deputy
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      1494 25  -  Major firms are hiring foreigners, and adopting Western-style management and corporate governance By DON LEE LAT-WP THE management training seminar at Ajinomoto Co was nothing out of the ordinary until the participants were directed to a tiny house on the food company's campus. There they
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      700 25  -  By JOHN M BERRY Bloomberg IT WOULD be a mistake to interpret the new language used by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Tuesday in raising its benchmark interest rate another quarter-point as an indication that the Fed is necessarily headed
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      386 32  -  By AM IT ROY CHOUDHURY IN a move to boost its broadband offering, Singapore Telecommunications said its broadband customers can now access more than 25 VoD (video on demand) channels at subscription rates starting from $5.99 a month per channel. Sing Tel said it
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      566 32  -  Usage became more sophisticated, government transactions up By ROLAND LIM NEARLY one in three Internet users aged 15-and-above in Singapore spent an average of $539 each to buy goods or services online last year, according to results from
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      215 32  -  By ROLAND LIM FIVE organisations that used infocomm technologies in novel ways to help Singaporeans live a digital lifestyle won the inaugural e-Society Excellence Awards from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation. The winners: Fujitsu Asia developed a wireless solution
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      437 32 Reuters [HSINCHU, Taiwan] The CEO of Japan's Elpida Memory said he expected tumbling memory chip prices to begin recovering in late April or in May as electronic firms prepare to push out new products. Yukio Sakamoto, head of the world's fifth-largest maker
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      1509 33  -  As the property market here remains lacklustre, developers are looking outwards for growth opportunities, says YU LAI BOON YU LAI BOON THE Singapore economy ex- panded rapidly from the late1980s to mid-*****. During this period, investments in the Singapore property market reached a peak in the
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      724 35 Prices are rising, and construction demand is on the upside nationwide Bloomberg [TOKYO] Average residential land prices rose in Tokyo's five main wards last year for the first time since 1987, indicating Japan's slump in property values may be ending. Commercial real estate prices in those
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      44 33 FOR SALE BY TENDER 2-Storey Villa at Queen Astrid Park Estate Land Area: 27,196 sq.ft. (approx.) Floor Area: 15,280 sq.ft. (approx.) Large terraces and in-ground pool Perched at high point. Unobstructed views. Good entertainment home For info/tender documents, please call: Steven Ming at *****518
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      69 33 FOR SALE BYTENDER 11 COLLYER QUAYTHE ARCADE #10-00 Prime strata office floor at Raffles Place 746 sq m 8,030 sq ft 1N V 99-year leasehold Tender Closing; 6 April 2005 mmm (Wednesday), 3:00 PM > H| For enquiries and tender documents, please contact: BHHHI B Tay Liam Hiap 6531 8616
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      97 33 FOR SALE BYTENDER I laZ 1 9 Scotts Road (Pacific Plaza) m\ 1 2-storey prime freehold retail cum commercial building l> "**s with basement carpark JH Opposite Grand Hyatt Singapore Gross Floor Area; approx. 117,677 sft i I|J J Net Lettable Area: approx. 82,328 sft F Prominent corner of Scotts
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      1228 36  -  The appeal of owning a home in Districts 9,10 and 11 keeps drawing buyers, says ARTHUR SIM ARTHUR SIM WHETHER you care to admit it or not, most of us like to compare addresses. The innocuous "So, where do you live?" is really a way
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      1388 36 Brought to you by HSBC PROJECT NAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE BUW-HAAND PRICE PSf STREET NAME TYPE DATE AREATSQR) (SS'OOO) (SS) District 01 NON-LANDED The Sail At Marina Bay Apt 22AQ***** 99 893 756 846 The Sail At Marina Bay
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      103 36 Got the right home? Now get the right home loaa Buying a house in Singapore is a heavy investment. However, you can still have the freedom to live life the way you want, with HSBC home loans. Enjoy these benefits when you take up an HSBC home loan: Competitive interest
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      31 36 HSBC<X> The world's local bank This is a fortnightly series brought to you by HSBC. For a free property valuation or a quick assessment of your loan requirement, please visit www.hsbc.com.sg
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      392 37  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala HE worst was over for most I segments of the Singapore ||Hl I property market last year. I Private home prices finally I managed a modest 0.9 per cent increase after four straight years of ||ljpPr decline. For offices, the average prime rent rose 10
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      563 38  - Rise of a new residential district in the CBD By PETER OW LIVING in the city centre is gaining cachet and this trend has led to a surge in downtown housing driven mostly by young professionals, singles, DINKs and others looking to have urban amenities at their doorstep. Decades back,
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      558 38  -  Residential sector subject to structural factors, says KALPANA RASHIWALA KALPANA RASHIWALA SINGAPORE private home prices finally made a recovery, albeit a very modest one, last year. The official private home price index inched up 0.9 per cent, marking the first full-year increase
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      Lock icon GCB sales on the uptrend
      888 40  -  Buying interest is picking up, suggesting signs of economic recovery. And buyers are looking for bigger land areas, says HO ENH JOO HO ENG JOO GOOD class bungalows (GCBs), the cream of Singapore's residential properties, were not immune to the soft property market of the
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      756 42  -  SIOW LI SEN tries to find out if interest rate movements really impact Singapore property market or influence buyers SIOW LI SEN IF you've decided to buy a property, it would be unusual if the interest rate for the mortgage or its rising trend is
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      1030 46  -  Owners must accept that land prices have fallen from their peak and should be prepared to compromise for a successful outcome, says JEREMY LAKE JEREMY LAKE IN the past couple of years, the collective sales that went through were mostly recycled projects from 1999/2000
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      891 47  -  Sellers of larger resale flats, however, will face some challenges in what is still a buyer's market, says JACK CHUA JACK CHUA HDB resale prices have been on an uptrend since they bottomed out in the first quarter of 2002. At end-2004, the HDB Resale
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      889 48  -  Govt perks to boost the growth of real estate investment trusts and a shift away from direct investment will auger well for property stocks, says CHRISTOPHER GEE CHRISTOPHER GEE THERE are two key reasons why property stocks including the increasingly popular Reits are outperforming direct
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      1417 50  -  Office space in Singapore will have to adapt to new requirements as well as potential challenges from alternative business premises solutions, says CHRIS ARCHIBOLD CHRIS ARCHIBOLD THE challenges to traditional office space in Singapore come from two fronts regional and local. Regionally, real
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      1615 51  -  Here's a quick guide from JEREMY CHOY to those looking for opportunities in Asia's luxury residential market JEREMY CHOY THE Singapore residential market has been the laggard among recovering economies in Asia, with average luxury residential prices registering only a modest uptick for 2004. Volumes remained
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      250 40 One vision .J A unique lifestyle j MHgggH^K.; I <~W$ |H| H A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to embrace the unique lifestyle of Singapore's only oceanfront residential community. II jrVHB ■ill IMi»t H—l spectacular centrepiece of Singapore's billion-dollar plan to develop one of the world's most exclusive integrated oceanfront marina residential communities.
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      295 42 LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts (400m) Plaza Singapura (5'0m) Sugis Junction (880m) Mount Emily Park m ■m f /^v 1 Somerset MRT (1.18km) Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (550m) •Ofr Singapore Management University (650m) Dhoby Ghaut MRT (550m) National Library (740m) I Suntec City (1.5km) Esplanade Theatres on the Bay
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      654 43 Advertisement How to take charge of your mortgage in a rising interest rate environment As a home owner or r n m m Since early this year, the local interbank rates have MOW IVlOfTg3g©dn© iBQUCQS DIDDertV investor. bee" on the rise and this trend is generally expected mortaaae interest COStS.
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      841 49 Advertisement AlllYlinnilS hnmP The Berth by the Cove IUAUIIV/UIJ Alv/lllv CHOICE UNITS ARE STILL AVAILABLE, EACH ENDOWED WITH AN ENCHANTING VIEW OF THE WATERWAYS. Imagine m residence that H Ml showcases the ///ll\ hfrnl bB^JmSI ambience and //f y|LWm r^W I IfP rY7 J |jE ,i m 16k upmarket tropical
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