The Business Times, 16 August 2005

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Tuesday, August 16,2005 SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Top SembCorp exec goes global with Shell
    407 1  -  She's the first Singaporean, and Asian woman, to head a Shell international unit By RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] Royal Dutch Shell has made Loh Wai Kiew the first Singaporean, and Asian woman, to head a Shell global business unit. Ms Loh, who was Appointed
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
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    Lock icon Bill to insure bank deposits introduced
    782 1  -  Scheme's cost to banks may be passed to consumers By SIOW LI SEN, CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] The government moved to put in place the legislative planks for a deposit insurance plan when it finally introduced a Bill yesterday to compensate depositors if the
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Agilent to transfer 1,800 staff to buyer
      554 2  -  Move will be part of semicon sale for US$2.7b to KKR and partner By RAJU CHELLAM [SINGAPORE] Agilent Technologies the world's biggest maker of test and measurement equipment will cut 1,300 jobs worldwide and transfer about 70 per cent of its 2,700 employees
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      55 2 OUR Events Listing yesterday gave the incorrect date and time for the PACE 2005 NICC's 3rd Annual Symposium for IT Training and Certification. The event will actually take place on Aug 19 and 20, from 9am to 6pm, at the Suntec Singapore International Convention Exhibition Centre, Level 3. We
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      Lock icon SembUtilities pre-qualified for M-East projects
      566 2  -  Three JV power projects worth US$1b each; one of them is in UAE By RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] SembCorp Utilities has been pre-quali-fied for three mega jointventure power projects worth about US$l billion each in the Middle East, with one at the more advanced bidding stage.
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      586 2 China to sell first majority stake in state-owned bank SINGAPORE'S DBS Group Holdings, Carlyle Group and JPMorgan Partners are among potential bidders as China's government plans to sell a majority stake in Guangdong Development Bank, ceding ownership of a state-owned lender for the first time. TOP STORIES, PG
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      Lock icon China to sell first majority stake in state-owned bank
      492 4 DBS said to be among potential bidders for Guangdong Devt Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China's government plans to sell a majority stake in Guangdong Development Bank to investors, ceding ownership of a state-owned lender for the first time, people familiar with the
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      Lock icon UOB, Hong Leong to raise home loan interest rates
      317 4  -  Rates are expected to rise another 40 basis points by year-end: economist By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank and Hong Leong Finance have finally caved in to the pressure on home loan interest rates both will raise their rates
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      Lock icon June retail sales surge 9.4% year-on-year
      265 4  -  Boost from vehicles, Great Singapore Sale By NANDE KHIN [SINGAPORE] Retail sales climbed a better-than-expected 9.4 per cent in June from a year ago, as more vehicles were sold and the Great Singapore Sale boosted spending. On a month-to-month basis, retail sales rose 7.6
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      Lock icon Syed Mokhtar controls DRB-Hicom
      527 4  -  His representative Mohamad Khamil Jamil to be deputy executive chairman from today By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur TYCOON Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary effectively takes over Malaysian conglomerate DRBHicom today. a His control comes in the form of his representative Mohamad Khamil Jamil, who starts his job
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      620 2 2005 Financial Reporting Standards Who Should Attond There are substantial changes to Financial Reporting Standards applicable from 2005. These seminars are essential for chief Many of these changes result from Singapore's adoption of new/revised International financial officers, financial controllers and Financial Reporting Standards for 2005. KPMG is holding a series
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon SC Global bid for Vantage falls through
      565 5  -  Acceptances fall short; SC to sell its shares to rival offer from Vantage CEO By JOYCE KOH ONLY one party is left standing in the bid for Vantage Corporation. Simon Cheong's SC Global Developments yesterday said its bid to take over Vantage has
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      Lock icon CEO quits after steering Xpress to safety
      527 5  -  By JOYCE KOH XPRESS Holdings' chief executive Lim Chin Tong has resigned after five years, during which period he helped to steer the company out of its disastrous Internet endeavours and force it back to its core print business. The company yesterday said
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      Lock icon NOL faces real test in 2006
      797 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By DONALD URQUHART WITH a half-year of muted, but nonetheless sustained, growth behind it, Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) looks set for relatively smooth sailing for the remainder of the year, with the real test for the world's fifth largest container shipping
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      Lock icon GTC is first SGX-bound Taiwan chip tester
      444 5  -  IPO WATCH By RAJU CHELLAM GLOBAL Testing Corp (GTC) has launched its initial public offering (IPO) for a mainboard listing, becoming the first Taiwan chip-testing company to list on the Singapore Exchange, and the third listed chip test and assembly company here, after
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      Lock icon Sale of hotels gives BIL boost; profit up 39%
      555 6  -  It sees US$87m earnings, says it has applied for UK casino licences By VEN SREENIVASAN BIL International, which is the subject of a general offer by Quek Leng Chan's Guoco Group, raised its fullyear earnings by 39 per cent to US$B6.9
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      Lock icon Metro Hldgs Q1 profit more than doubles
      233 6  -  CORPORATE RESULTS By UMA SHANKARI PROPERTY and retail group Metro Holdings has more than doubled its earnings in the first quarter. Net profit for the three months ended June 30 rose to $11 million. This is up from $4.75 million in the previous
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      Lock icon Media Asia H1 profit up 11% at HK$15.4m
      311 6  -  By CHLOE CHOY SESDAQ-LISTED Media Asia Entertainment Group yesterday registered a 10.9 per cent rise in HI net profit, driven mainly by the roaring success of its blockbuster movie, Initial D. For the six months ended June 30, the Hong Kongbased film
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    • OTHER RESULTS
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        Lock icon Pacific Andes Q1 profit more than doubles
        76 6 PACIFIC Andes said its net profit for the first quarter to June 30 more than doubled to HKS40.71 million (SS8.7 million) from HK$15.49 million a year ago. Revenue went up 69.4 per cent to HKS804.89 million. The sale of frozen fish was the
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        Lock icon Lion Asiapac's posts 33% profit rise
        109 6 AUTOMOBILE manufacturer and electronic components distributor Lion Asiapac registered a 33 per cent increase in net profit for financial year 2005, bringing the figure to 16.4 million, up from $12.3 million last year. The increase was helped by cuts in advertising, manpower and research
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        Lock icon Liang Huat cuts H1 loss, sounds caution
        144 6 LIANG Huat Aluminium has slashed its first-half net loss to $22.8 million from $67.6 million in the year-ago period. But it has sounded a note of caution on its operations. The 66.3 per cent fall in loss was despite a 34.5 per cent
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      Lock icon Belt-tightening helps Informatics shrink Q1 loss
      340 6  -  By CHEN HUIFEN INFORMATICS Holdings has slashed its first-quarter losses, helped by drastic cost-cutting measures and the absence this time of a big exceptional charge that it faced in the year-ago period. For the three months ended June 30, net loss for the learning
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      Lock icon S'pore wants to woo more medtech firms: A*Star chief
      417 7  -  They can help to boost electronics and precision engineering sectors By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE wants to attract more medical technology (medtech) firms to help diversify its electronics and precision engineering sectors, said Agency for Science, Technology and Research chairman Philip Yeo.
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      Lock icon SIA passenger load factor at 18-month high
      299 7  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN SINGAPORE Airlines flew 6.8 per cent more passengers in July, outpacing capacity growth of 5.8 per cent and lifting its passenger load factor to 78.7 per cent the highest level sinc6 January 2004. The figure was 0.7.0f a percentage point
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      Lock icon Stratech inks US govt agency deal
      210 7 STRATECH Systems has signed an agreement with a US government agency yesterday which will allow for the commercialisation of a fully automated vehicle and driver surveillance and access control system. This system will involve technology on several fronts. Stratech's homegrown Intelligent Vehicle Access Control
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      Lock icon APB venture buys China brewery assets
      337 10  -  CHINA DEALS It will upgrade and expand brewery to boost capacity in China market By JEAN CHUA ASIA Pacific Breweries (APB) has, through a 50 per cent-owned subsidiary, bought a plant in Jiangsu province to boost its production capacity in China. Jiangsu DaFuHao Breweries,
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      Lock icon New Wave signs MOU for raising stake in MNPL
      227 10  -  By RACHEL LIN SESDAQ-LISTED New Wave Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with five shareholders of Manufacturing Network (MNPL), raising its stake in the aluminium supplier from 36 per cent to 84 per cent. By turning MNPL into a subsidiary.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Bigger Capita Land public float
        49 10 TEMASEK Holdings' placement of 200 million Capita Land shares has cut its total (direct and deemed) interest in the property giant to 47.22 per cent as at Aug 11. About 52.69 per cent of Capita Land's 2.7 billion shares are now in public hands.
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        Lock icon SembCorp Env CEO-designate
        76 10 MAINBOARD-LISTED SembCorp Marine, which specialises in shiprepair, ship conversion and offshore engineering, yesterday announced that Heng Chiang Gnee, the company's deputy president and alternate director on the SembCorp Marine board, has relinquished his posts from yesterday to become the chief executive officer-designate of SembCorp Environmental Management. Mr
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        Lock icon United Fiber names adviser
        100 10 FORESTRY, pulp production and construction firm United Fiber System yesterday announced that it has appointed Deutsche Bank AG as the financial adviser on the proposed acquisition of a majority stake in Indonesian pulp mill PT Kiani Kertas. The company said that it "will make necessary announcements
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        Lock icon BMTs CEO resigns
        58 10 MAINBOARD-LISTED British and Malayan Trustees, which provides a range of trustee services, yesterday announced that its chief executive Terrence Chee Teng Hsiu had resigned from today. British and Malayan Trustees said that following the resignation of Mr Chee, Linda Ho has been appointed the acting chief executive
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      Lock icon Lantrovision issues profit warning for full-year results
      267 10 CABLING solutions provider Lantrovision, which was probed by the white-collar crime buster last year, has issued a profit warning for its full-year results ended June 30, 2005. "The board of directors, after evaluating the group's operations and results todate, deems it appropriate to
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      42 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS LEGEND: All prices are indicative; Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused; S Lower Risk; Low to Medium Risk: Medium to High Risk; Higher Risk; open-ended; Before subdivision of units; After subdivision of units; SP after stock split; N.A. Non Dealing Day
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      339 6 f ij^rPFA PanHiriatA 16 Aug 05,6.00 pm 7.00 pm, SGX Auditorium, ur« Ufl 2 Shenton Way, Singapore Exchange Centre 1 Briefing Presentation with Q&A session by for December 2005 and Robert Johnson, PhD, CFA, Managing Director June 2006 examinations Peter Mackey, CFA, Director, Curriculum Products CFA* CGIPS Programs Division, CFA
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Obsessed with all the negatives
      494 8  -  STOCKS Profit-taking leads to falling prices which in turn triggers forced-selling TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent ALL of a sudden, the negatives are taking centrestage again in the stock market. And there is no dearth of bad news: the high oil prices, earnings disappointments, weaker
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      Lock icon Aberdeen raises stakes in Bukit Sembawang, CityDev
      532 8  -  TRADES TO WATCH Compiled by DANIEL BUENAS FUND manager Aberdeen Asset Management Asia yesterday announced that it had further nudged up its stakes in listed property developers Bukit Sembawang Estates and City Development Limited (CityDev). Aberdeen, which has been increasing its stakes in
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      432 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 15 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -637.00 -189.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 -208.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -63.00 Ail-SG Equities 582.61 -5.17 SG Equities Elect 130.64 -2.68 SG Equities Fin 1633.27 -15.78 SG Equities Prop 642.40 -2.68 SIMSCI 270.37 -2.73 SiMSCI Futures 269.40 -1.40 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME Biosensors
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      926 8  -  Compiled by JOYCE KOH SembCorp Industries A«g 15 dose: $2.85 PHILLIP SECURITIES RESEARCH, Aug 15 SEMBCORP Industries (SCI) reported 2QO 5 revenue of $1.69 billion (+11.6 per cent y-o-y), and net profit eluding exceptional items of $72W million (+19.6 per cent y-o-y). Stripping out Kuehne Nagel's (KN) 2Q04
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      Lock icon US$ trims losses despite deficit, oil
      531 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar was able to recoup some of last week's losses by the Asian close yesterday, despite news last Friday of a worse-than-ex-pected US June trade deficit as well as the fresh all-time highs recorded by oil prices.
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  • FORWARD-THINKING CEOS
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      Lock icon Passion with a capital 'P'
      488 9  -  Love for his job has enabled Thierry Douin, Shangri-La's area manager, to set high standards and excel, reports UMA SHANKARI UMA SHANKARI THERE'S never a dull moment in the hospitality business, says Thierry Douin. And he should know. Mr Douin, area manager for the Shangri-La
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      Lock icon So exotic, so convenient
      594 9 THINK of Shangri-La and you're reminded of an oasis of peace and tranquility. And it's that very experience of Asian serenity that the Shangri-La group aims to recreate. It succeeds admirably. In Singapore, the award-winning group's flagship Shangri-La Hotel sits close to the heart of the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon More clout for MAS to combat money laundering
      356 11  -  The remittance and money-changing industry to see changes By CHUANG PECK MING PARLIAMENT yesterday gave the Monetary Authority of Singapore more clout to fight money laundering and terrorism financing carried out through the money-changing and remittance industry. "The (Money-Changing and Remittance) Bill
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      Lock icon Tighter controls for construction industry
      340 11  -  By ARTHUR SIM THE Professional 'Engineers Board (PEB) and Board of Architects (BOA) have been given more powers to regulate and uphold professionalism and safety standards in the construction industry. Amendments to the Professional Engineers Act and Architects Act, tabled by Minister of State for
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      Lock icon Public housing will remain affordable: govt
      561 11  -  YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT By NANDE KHIN THE government will ensure that public housing remains affordable even after the implementation of the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS). National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan gave this reassurance in parliament yesterday during the second reading of
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      Lock icon Mobile computing market set to grow further
      672 12  -  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Laptops and tablet PCs accounted for nearly 50% of total sales here: Gartner Reports by AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP) was the top PC vendor in Singapore in the first half of this year with a 29 per cent market share,
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      Lock icon IE S'pore taking 11 firms to Korea
      257 12 ELEVEN Singaporean electronics and precision engineering (EPE) companies will, from today, get a chance to tap into the lucrative mobile communications market in South Korea. These 11 companies form part of an International Enterprise (IE) Singapore delegation to Korea. The delegation will be
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      Lock icon Survey highlights public relations concerns
      279 12  -  By DANIEL BUENAS THE biggest concerns for public relations (PR) professionals are to what extent it is accepted as a vital part of an organisation and a lack of professionalism in the industry, a survey has found. According to the survey by the Institute of
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon Site at 37 Leedon Road up for sale
        189 12 ACTIVITY in the Good Class Bungalow (GCB) market continues to pick up, with 37 Leedon Road now up for sale. Sources expect the site to fetch about $17 million or close to $400 per square foot of land area. The freehold, squarish
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        Lock icon CPF to continue paying 2.5% interest
        74 12 THE Central Provident Fund (CPF) said yesterday it will continue to pay 2.5 per cent interest on the Ordinary Account for the fourth quarter of 2005. The interest rate is reviewed quarterly. Savings in Medisave, Special and Retirement accounts will earn 4 per cent
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        Lock icon NIE signs MOU with Korean university
        80 12 THE National Institute of Education (NIE) signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with Korea's leading Ewha Womans University. Under the three-year pact, the two institutions will collaborate on student and faculty exchanges, research and acadepiic programmes. The MCTU is the latest in a series
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  • SME spotlight
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      Lock icon Swee Chioh takes novel growth path
      824 13  -  We have looked at how franchising can help SMEs grow their business. This week, we highlight two companies doing just that. One is a fish farmer that's more keen on securing new suppliers, and the other, an apparel label that's still expanding at home
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      Lock icon Rooted here, spreading wings
      482 13 HOMEGROWN apparel label bYSI, which has .won over Singapore women with its affordable and trendy clothes, is now looking to grow its external wing via franchising even as it continues to boost' its presence in Singapore. The women's wear label has recently signed a master franchise
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      Lock icon Getting the most value from selling your business
      865 14 You should always plan an exit strategy and keep your business saleable, says NG JIAK SEE YOU are considering divesting your business for a good value. In order to maximise the value of your business, you should always plan an exit strategy
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      Lock icon Building on a solid business model
      638 14  -  By WEE LI-EN BUILDING a local company distributing $2.4 billion worth of personal computer components to the international mafket in five years may sound like a pipe dream for most. However, that is what eSys Group achieved by following "simple business rules" with religious
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      Lock icon No fans despite World Cup deal
      818 15  -  SMALL CAPS What's more, FM has been achieving strong growth in 2002-05, says CHLOE CHOY CHLOE CHOY Although it was listed on the Sesdaq only in May, Chinabased polyresin giftware designer and manufacturer, FM Holdings, has recently gained some attention, having secured orders valued
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      Lock icon Portfolio slips but still 35 points ahead of index
      386 15  -  By TEH HOOI LING THE Singapore market is going through a correction phasefwith the UOB Sesdaq declining 3.5 per cent and the Times Index slipping 2.9 per cent. For the UOB Sesdaq Index, this is the biggest five-day fall since February
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon China property market still overheated
      436 16 No 'soft landing' in sight despite measures to cool market: thinktank Reuters [BEIJING] China has yet to bring the heated property sector under control despite slowing housing inflation, a top government thinktank was quoted yesterday as saying. Some local governments and property developers were resisting
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      Lock icon Indonesia's Q2 growth slows for second straight quarter
      619 16 Bloomberg [JAKAßTA] Indonesia, South-east Asia's largest economy, grew at a slower pace for a second straight quarter as higher fuel prices and interest rates curbed consumer spending. Stocks and the rupiah feU. Q2 gross domestic product rose 5.5 per cent from a
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      Lock icon China eyes new derivatives as pace of reform quickens
      621 16 State agency also proposes widening yuan's trading band Reuters [BEIJING] China yesterday promised further liberalisation of its fledgling financial markets while a leading economic agency proposed building on last month's landmark yuan revaluation by widening the currency's trading band. The developments
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      766 16 Bloomberg [BERLIN] The biggest rally in European stocks since 1998, fueled by surging corporate profits, is failing to boost the region's economy because the gains are coming at the expense of the consumer. Shares of Linde AG, a German maker of industrial
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Telkom sees some Indon rivals merging
      426 17 Company will likely spend US$7-$9b in next five years to build business: CEO Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, the country's biggest phone company, says it expects some of its seven rivals in the nation to merge as rising competition erodes profits. The company, which
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      Lock icon KL to prosecute errant plantation owners
      398 17 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Authorities in central Malaysia plan to take legal action against oil palm plantation owners who burnt agricultural waste in defiance of a ban that was installed to ease a choking haze caused by fires in Indonesia, news reports said yesterday. Meanwhile,
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      Lock icon Malaysia to register pre-paid mobile users: reports
      225 17 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will register millions. of pre-paid mobile phone subscribers to prevent the untraceable handsets being used to send threatening or slanderous SMS text messages, reports said yesterday. Communications Minister Lim Keng Yaik said the Cabinet had agreed to make it
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        Lock icon China plans offshore wind power complex
        59 17 AP [SHANGHAI] China plans to build its first offshore wind power complex next year. It hopes to ease chronic electricity shortages, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. To be built hi the Bohai Sea off Hebei province, it will have a generating capacity
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        Lock icon China's central bank told: No nanny role
        57 17 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China's central bank shouldn't offer financial support to broker&ges and other financial institutions to keep them afloat v the government's top planning body said. By doing so, it is wrongly using monetary policy to resolve fiscal problems, the National Development and
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        Lock icon No Islamic bonds from Indon central bank
        65 17 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's central bank said it has no plans to sell bonds that comply with Islamic law in the next few months, an official said, denying an earlier report by Arab News. Harisman, a director at the central bank's Islamic banking department
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        Lock icon Pertamina chief 'not told' of replacement
        68 17 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Pertamina's president Widya Purnama said he hasn't been told by the government about plans to replace him and directors. The government plans to replace Pertamina's directors, Indonesia's Vice-President Jusuf Kalla told reporters in Jakarta on Aug 12, without giving reasons. State
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      Lock icon M'sia to stop subsidising highway tolls: Samy Vellu
      262 17 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government says that it will no longer subsidise highway toll charges as it seeks to reduce the budget deficit, and has told the public to be ready for a "slight" increase in inflation due to rising fuel
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      291 17 Reuters AP [HELSINKI] The Indonesian government and rebels from Aceh signed a truce yesterday aimed at ending nearly three decades of fighting in the province devastated by last December's tsunami. Successful implementation of the truce in one of Asia's longest-running conflicts could
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      59 18 [NEW DELHI] Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inspecting a guard-of-honour before addressing the nation from the Red Fort during Independence Day celebrations in New Delhi yesterday. Protected by anti-aircraft guns, snipers and bullet-proof glass. Mr Singh marked the anniversary of independence by promising to fight poverty
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      Lock icon India's economy to grow 7% in current fiscal year
      669 18 PM foresees end of poverty in 5-10 years if pace of growth is kept up Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's economy will grow 7 per cent in the current financial year to March 31 and the government will increase spending on public
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      Lock icon China's No 2 and No 5 steel makers merge
      622 18 It may pave way for China's 800 steel mills to follow suit Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's num-ber-two steel maker, Angang, has merged with the fifth-largest, Bengang, to create a leader in the world's top steel market, as Beijing struggles to overhaul a
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      Lock icon Most foreign companies have positive view of India
      242 18 [NEW DELHI] Around 70 per cent of the foreign companies operating in India are reportedly making profits and 84 per cent have a "positive" assessment of India, the Business Standard reported. However, investors have highlighted the need of building brand India so
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      460 18 AFP [HONG KONG] American property tycoon Donald Trump has filed a fresh lawsuit against his Hong Kong partners, demanding access to their financial records of a plot of prime Manhattan land he partly owns, a press report said yesterday.
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      Lock icon China hopes to repeat India's success in outsourcing
      574 18 US demand boosts China's software export revenue [NEW YORK] China's outsourcing companies are aiming to replicate the success of their Indian rivals to attract a larger share of US companies seeking to diversify business beyond India. Chinese software makers have traditionally focused
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Macquarie eyes £1.4b bid for London exchange
      685 19 LSE shares hit high on news that Aussie bank may join others in cash offer Reuters Bloomberg [SYDNEY/LONDON] Australia's top investment bank Macquarie yesterday said it may team up with other investors to make a cash bid for the £1.4 billion (554.2 billion)
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      Lock icon Asean ambition needs more work: Lamy
      268 19  -  By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Leaders across South-east Asia have demonstrated that they desire closer integration, but more needs to be done to build up the institution that is Asean, said Pascal Lamy, director-general (designate) of the World Trade Organization. Mr Lamy, who is the
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      448 19 NYT [WASHINGTON] Cristeta Comerford, a FilipinoAmerican, became the first female White House executive chef on Sunday after a lengthy selection process. Laura Bush, the First Lady, said she was delighted that Ms Comerford, who has been an assistant chef in the White House since
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      Lock icon Icahn pushing for Time Warner buyback
      583 19 Bloomberg Reuters [NEW YORK] Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who has made a career out of agitating for change at corporations, yesterday said he is leading a group of Time Warner investors in a campaign to pressure the company to buy back US$2O billion in
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      Lock icon IT fakes cost US$100b a year in lost revenue: KPMG
      277 19 1 in 10 may be counterfeit; China fingered as source [SAN FRANCISCO] As many as one in 10 IT products sold worldwide may be counterfeit, costing global technology companies as much as US$lOO billion in lost revenue a year, says
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      149 19 AFP [SYDNEY] Workers at call centres based in India are selling personal information which puts tens of thousands of people at risk of computer fraud, Australia's national broadcaster said yesterday. In an investigation for ABC Television's Four Corners programme, reporters were offered
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      Lock icon On the Internet, size matters, or does it?
      665 19 A squabble has broken out between Yahoo and Google over who has the bigger or better search engine NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] HOW big is the World Wide Web? Many Internet engineers consider that query one of those imponderable philosophical questions, like how
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  • AVIATION
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      Lock icon Profit down 41 % at Airports of Thailand
      362 20 Profit down 41 at Airports of Thailand Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Airports of Thailand PC L, which operates five international airfields including Bangkok and Phuket, said thirdquarter profit fell as costs rose and the company lost on foreign exchange. Net income fell 41 per cent to 769.4 million baht (5531.1 million), or
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      Lock icon British Airways resumes almost all of its flights
      479 20 200 passengers still stranded from the walk-out by ground crew last week AP [LONDON] British Airways resumed all scheduled domestic and European flights yesterday and said fewer than 200 passengers remained stranded after last week's ground-crew walk-out disrupted the travel plans of
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      Lock icon Helios voice recorder, bodies recovered
      404 20 Bloomberg [LONDON] Greek authorities found the damaged cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of the Cypriot airliner that crashed on Sunday, killing all 121 passengers and crew aboard in Greece's worst air disaster. They also recovered 118 bodies. The recorder, which details conversations between the
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        74 20 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong International Airport, Asia's third-busiest airfield by passengers, handled a record number of travellers last month, as more people took vacations in the northern hemisphere's summer. Passenger numbers rose 10 per cent from a year earlier to 3.79 million in
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        53 20 AP [HANOVER, Germany] A British Airways flight on Sunday overshot the runway at Hanover airport, ending up in a meadow 150 metres past the landing strip, the airport said. The 45 passengers and four crew members were not injured, and were able to walk off
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        91 20 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Foreign and domestic airlines, including China Airlines and EVA Airways Corp will raise cargo fares from Taiwan to Europe by between 10 per cent and 15 per cent, effective today, to offset the surge in crude oil prices, the Commercial Times
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      397 20 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), AI: Air India (AK), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), BI: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR:
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      Lock icon Fasa lashes out against underwriters
      585 21  -  London-based JWC said to be too far away from Malacca Strait By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] The Federation of Asean Shipowners (Fasa) has added its voice to the growing protest over classifying the Malacca Strait as a war and terrorism risk, suggesting that London-based underwriters may
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      Lock icon PSA in US$755m bid for Turkish port
      302 21 Joint venture to invest US$70-100m more for upgrading [SINGAPORE] PSA International may soon be operating another Mediterranean terminal after submitting a US$755 million bid along with its joint venture partner for a 36-year operating lease at Turkey's Mersin port. PSA teamed up with
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      291 21 SGX '000 Aug 15 St Vol CH Offshore 0.40 -0.01 1334 ChuanHup 0.91 -0.02 3388 Cosco Corporation .2.36 -0.04 8002 CWT Distribution 0.70 unch 107 Ezra Hldgs 1.55 -0.03 1564 Freight Links 0.08 unch 430 Grand Banks Yacht 0.97 unch 137 Java Holdings 1.16 -0.01 5815 K1 Venture
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      Lock icon Middle East tanker rates may be on the rise
      443 21 Bloomberg [LONDON] The cost of shipping oil from the Middle East on very large crude carriers (VLCCs) may rise for the first week in three as Persian Gulf producers begin releasing details of September exports, spurring demand for vessels. Most oil
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        Lock icon Vietnam's Petrolimex buys fuel-oil tanker
        106 21 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Petrolimex, Vietnam's top oil products importer, has purchased a 38,000-tonne tanker to transport fuel oil, adding to its fleet of five vessels, a company official said yesterday. -Petrolimex paid over US$4O million for the two-year-old Nord Afrika. which will head for the southern
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        Lock icon Boat-makers boost Raymarine's profit
        111 21 Bloomberg [LONDON] Raymarine pic, a UK maker of marine navigation and autopilot systems, yesterday said first-half profit rose 39 per cent as boat-makers expand. "People are buying bigger boats and are trying to find more time to spend on them, and are spending more time on
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      Lock icon Tanker shipments fall as crude hits high
      212 21 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] The number of 2-mil-lion-barrel tankers hired to ship crude oil from the Middle East has fallen as oil has risen to records, suggesting the price doesn't reflect a physical shortage of oil worldwide, shipbroker Poten Partners said. The number of so-called
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      Lock icon Normal ops at Port Klang, no delays due to haze
      297 21 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Last week's haze, which reduced visibility in western Malaysia and caused schools to be closed, did not cause any delays at the country's busiest harbour, says the chairman of the operator of Port Klang. "The port is
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      Lock icon China Merchants to build 4.5b yuan Qingdao terminal
      346 21 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China Merchants Holdings International Co, one of the largest managers of the country's ports, said it has approvals to invest in its sixth container terminal, as expanding exports increased demand for shipments. China Merchants will spend 4.5 billion yuan (Ss92l
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      Lock icon Changi can't rest on laurels
      508 22 EDITORIAL TWO months ago, there was an article in an aviation magazine highlighting a survey of global airports by J D Power and Associates. It rated passenger satisfaction at large and medium-sized airports based on eight weighted criteria accessibility, check-in, security, terminal facilities, food and
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      769 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE WILLIAM PESEK JR CHINA is partying like it's 1999. The reference here isn't to pop star Prince or the Y2K bug, but the height of the dotcom stock bubble. In the last year of the *****, hysteria over
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      Lock icon Hell hath no fury like the corporate ex-wife
      1287 22  -  Divorce is often an ugly battle for assets and a line of dirty laundry for head honchos By GERALDINE FABRIKANT NYT WHEN Jeffrey W Greenberg was forced out as €hief executive of Marsh McLennan, the big insurance broker, amid a bid-rigging investigation
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      Lock icon The Web fortune that Jack built
      1636 23  -  Yahoo's new billionaire partner in China, the founder of Alibaba.com, is a master at selling By DAVID BARBOZA NYT Everything you hear about Jack Ma is improbable. But today, he looks like one of China's smartest high-tech entrepreneurs. Yahoo's far-reaching deal with him last
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      211 23  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Mrs Lee Leng Kiong Director (Corporate Communications) IRAS WE refer to the article "Tackling the practical realities of tax treaties" by Ang Siew Lian and William Chua (BT, Aug 10). In the second last paragraph, the writers wrote that since the
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      747 23  -  By JENNY LEONG PERSUASION is often more effectual than force, goes an ancient proverb credited to the Greeks. As all old sayings go, this one too seems to have struck the truth. Persuasion is all about showing what can be achieved or enjoyed
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      Lock icon Estate duty exemptions are generous: MOF
      305 23  -  Han Kok Juan Director (Social Programmes) Ministry of Finance (MOF) I REFER to the letters by Quek Soo Beng, "Review $600,000 limit for exemption from estate duty" (BT, Aug 9) and Sunder R Daswani, "Don't limit estate duty exemption to homes" (BT, Aug 11).
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      Lock icon Do stat boards 'hold hands' of execs?
      187 23  -  Denis Distant, Singapore I REFER to the report "JTC, Hyflux disappointed over hiring Kuan" (BT, Aug 12) and the TV news conference where four current and former JTC executives gave their views on Mr Kuan's job performance. According to the report, they said
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      Lock icon Contrasting comments of chiefs at AGMs
      129 23  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to your report "Oei again thwarts Nat Steel's bid to change its name" (BT, Aug 13) in which NatSteel's chairman was quoted as saying, "I sit on many boards and I don't think we are less transparent than other
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  • PROPERTY
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      263 30  -  Chee Hok Yean made EVP; Corinna Toh, SVP; Heng Sue Lin, VP By KALPANA RASHIWALA JONES Lang LaSalle Hotels, which brokered the $300 million sale of Crown Hotel on Orchard Road in June this year to Hong Kong's Park Hotel Group, yesterday announced three promotions
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      369 30  -  By CHEN HUIFEN OFFICE rents in Hanoi are expected to rise 10-15 per cent over the next six to 18 months because of a shortage of Grade A and B space, says CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) Vietnam. "While there are more buildings coming into
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