The Business Times, 18 August 2005
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Title Section13 2005-08-18 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Thursday, August 18,2005 SIN^AP6AU»tgfm online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg13 words
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Article, Illustration537 2005-08-18 1 CHUANG PECK MING - By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] It looks like the economy is on track for a better second half. Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) got off to a good start in the third quarter, with a seasonally adjusted 12 per cent jump in JulySource: IE S'pore - 537 words
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Article135 2005-08-18 1 STI 2,280.23 (-25.07) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,274.00 (-24.00) siMsa 271.12 (-2.63) SIMSa FUTURES 271.20 (-2.70) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 926.38 -0.11 NIKKEI 225 12.273.12 -42.55 HANG SENG 15.449.58 +5.96 SET INDEX 667.49 >031 JAKARTA COMP dostd MANILA COMP 1.985.10 -8.48 SEOULCOMP 1,113.25 -3.68 SHENZHEN B 236.50 40.15135 words
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Article, Illustration981 2005-08-18 1 SIOW LI SEN - Its venture with Telekom Malaysia paying $260.8 m for 12% of M1, taking stake to 17.7% By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Relations with Malaysia just took a fresh glow yesterday, with state investment vehicle Khazanah Nasional making its first equity investmentARTHUR LEE - 981 words
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Advertisement12 2005-08-18 1 MALACCA STRAIT London insurers stick to higji-risk rating PG 18 si !l12 words
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TOP STORIES
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Article, Illustration577 2005-08-18 2 CHEN HUIFEN - declared President-elect yesterday, he'll be sworn in on Sept 1 By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE] There were "bo surprises yesterday ♦When President SR Nathan was returned to office as •Singapore's head of state 'for a second six-year term. -I "I'm very humbled and forMOHD ISHAK/TNP - 577 words
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Article668 2005-08-18 2 At least four M'sian bosses earned above RMI Om AN annual survey by a business magazine on Malaysia's highest paid directors revealed that more multi-millionaires emerged in 2004 than in 2003. At least four companies paid their top guns more than RMIO million each. TOP STORIES, PG 4668 words
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377 2005-08-18 4 JOYCE KOH - Pre-trial conference for former asst GM Ng Teck Boon adjourned to Sept 5 By JOYCE KOH [SINGAPORE] Four men charged with having accepted bribes from Citiraya Industries' former chief executive Ng Teck Lee will plead guilty on some counts, their lawyers377 words
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Article, Illustration595 2005-08-18 4 S JAYASANKARAN - By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur THERE were more multi-millionaires on Malaysian company boards last year than in 2003, a survey of the country's highest-paid directors has found. According to the annual survey by the magazine Malaysian Business. atSource: Bloomberg - 595 words
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COMPANY NEWS
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Article, Illustration682 2005-08-18 5 KALPANA RASHIWALA - Prime's IPO will issue 66.7% of trust to institutional and retail investors By KALPANA RASHIWALA PRIME Real Estate Investment Trust, which has stakes in Wisma Atria and Ngee Ann City, yesterday lodged a preliminary prospectus that promises a yield more attractive thanFILE PHOTO - 682 words
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736 2005-08-18 5 JOYCE KOH - HOCK LOCK SIEW By JOYCE KOH MAKING a takeover offer is like engaging in a mind game, and it pays the bidder to understand what it is that existing shareholders want. For an example of this, look no further than the Vantage Corp736 words
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Article, Illustration222 2005-08-18 6 RACHEL LIN - By RACHEL LIN FORGET national education. If you want to turn young people on to tradition, there's nothing more effective than a chocolate-cheese snow-skin mooncake. That's what restaurant and food group Tung Lok is banking on to make this year's mid-autumn festival something moreARTHUR LEE - 222 words
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Article, Illustration290 2005-08-18 6 JEAN CHUA - BIOMEDICAL PLAYERS Collaboration with Temasek Life Sciences Lab for new medicines By JEAN CHUA ASIAPHARM Group says it will continue to work with Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory a Temasek Hold-ings-linked research institution to develop new medicines, even though the investment company's 5 per cent stake290 words
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361 2005-08-18 6 CHEN HUIFEN - By CHEN HUIFEN MAINBOARD-LISTED medical device maker LMA International, which sued an affiliate of US' Tyco International for patent infringement, has won its case. LMA filed its suit through wholly owned The Laryngeal Mask Company Limited in June against Tyco Healthcare Nederland BV361 words
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131 2005-08-18 6 CONTRACT chipmaker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has completed a US$3OO million private placement of preference shares and bonds. This follows shareholders' approval of its resolutions at an EGM yesterday. The placement units comprise convertible redeemable preference shares of par value US 1 cent each and amortising bonds131 words
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430 2005-08-18 7 PAULINE NG - Khazanah, with 32% in Telekom, takes active role as shareholder By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur UNDER a recent revamp, Malaysia's state investment agency Khazanah Nasional has transformed itself from a passive to an active shareholder. Yesterday's announcement that it430 words
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229 2005-08-18 7 UMA SHANKARI - By UMA SHANKARI CHIP Eng Leong Enterprise, property arm of listed Chip Eng Seng group, announced yesterday that it has bought a $19.5 million freehold property at 21 Balmoral Road. The property, with a land area of 26,945.3 sq ft, can be229 words
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Article, Illustration422 2005-08-18 7 EDDIE TOH - Oei Hong Leong sells entire stake in BIL Int'l He stands to reap a profit of between $48m and $71 m By EDDIE TOH BUSINESSMAN Oei Hong Leong has sold his entire stake in BIL International which is the subject of a takeover by Malaysian tycoon Quek Leng Chan forFILE PHOTO - 422 words
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Article, Illustration611 2005-08-18 9 US$650m borrowings being sought by US private-equity firm, say bankers Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Colony Capital LLC, a US private-equity firm, plans to borrow US$65O million to buy Raffles Holdings Ltd's hotel business, including the 118-year-old Raffles Hotel in Singapore, said bankers involved inBloomberg; REUTERS - 611 words
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COMPANY BRIEFS
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46 2005-08-18 9 FOLLOWING Temasek Holdings' placement of 200 million Capita Land shares, the free-float factor of Capita Land used for the calculation of the Straits Times Index will be increased from 0.35 to 0.55. This change takes effect on Aug 26.46 words
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150 2005-08-18 9 MAINBOARD-listed Guthrie GTS yesterday said that its subsidiaries Guthrie Overseas Irtvestments (GOI) and PT Guthrie Jaya Indah Island Resort (GJIIR) were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed at the Batam District Courts in October 2004 by PT Jaya Putra Kundar Indah (JPKI)150 words
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93 2005-08-18 9 ACCORD Customer Care Solutions yesterday said that the Singapore Exchange had granted it an extension to Sept 30 to announce its financial statements for its second quarter ended June 30, 2005. "The company will finalise and release the financial statements for the first93 words
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30 2005-08-18 9 SESDAQ-listed Asia Water Technology said it had been awarded a further 3 million yuan in research funding by China's Science Technology Bureau.30 words
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SINGAPORE MARKETS
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Article, Illustration499 2005-08-18 8 TEH HOOI LING - STOCKS Wall Street's overnight fall also contributes to STI shedding 25 points TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent INVESTORS couldn't shrug off fears of the negative impact of high oil prices on corporate earnings and headed for the exit, dragging the Straits Times Index downSource: Bloomberg - 499 words
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499 2005-08-18 8 UMA SHANKARI - TRADES TO WATCH By UMA SHANKARI MAINBOARD-LJSTED Cosco Corporation director Lee Fook Choy yesterday bought 1.237 million shares of the company at $2,325 each on the open market. The purchase gives him a 0.113 per cent stake in the company. He did not own499 words
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Article, Illustration425 2005-08-18 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 17 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -654.00 -119.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 -55.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -65.00 All-SG Equities 584.13 -5.25 SG Equities Elect 130.46 -1.41 SG Equities Fin 1630.45 -23.78 SG Equities Prop 651.27 -3.60 SIMSCI 271.12 -2.63 SiMSCI Futures 271.20 -2.70 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME BILIntl425 words
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Article, Illustration948 2005-08-18 8 JOYCE KOH - By JOYCE KOH Osim International August 17 dos<: $1.27 dMB-OC RESEARCH. August 17 DELISTING of Global Active (GA) is almost a certainty. The move does not surprise us. We mentioned in our Anyil note that Osim is keen to privat|se GA. Under listing requirements, Osim requires majority approvalSource: Bloomberg - 948 words
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Article, Illustration485 2005-08-18 8 CURRENCIES Reuters. AFP ASIAN currencies fell against the US dollar yesterday, forced onto the defensive by weakness in local stock markets and worries about the high cost of oil. The Thai baht faced additional selling pressure after the Bank of Thailand said the economyReuters.; AFP - 485 words
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Article459 2005-08-18 10 NANDE KHIN - Businesses given time to comply, mitigators allowed By NANDE KHIN BUSINESSES will be allowed more time to comply with the new Competition Act, and the penalty for infringements under the Act will take into consideration not only the seriousness of the infringement, but also other mitigating459 words
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Article426 2005-08-18 10 GENEVIEVE CUA - China emerges as key participant in study programme By GENEVIEVE CUA ASIAN enrolment in the CFA study programme widely seen as a "gold standard" in the finance industry has burgeoned, and CFA Institute has appointed its first managing tjrector for Asia-Pacific, Jfen Squires. S For426 words
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271 2005-08-18 10 SAMUEL EE - By SAMUEL EE THE premium for COE Category A —cars below 1,600 c fell to its lowest this year, levels not seen in 13 years. All categories of certificates of entitlement were down except for the big car271 words
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Article, Illustration180 2005-08-18 10 ELECTRONIC payment services provide Nets the Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore said yesterday it has appointed Susag||iwee as chairman. Ms Hwee, executive vice-president for information technology at United Overseas Bank, is not new to Nets she has been a director since 2002. She hasFILE PHOTO - 180 words
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Article, Illustration386 2005-08-18 10 RONNIE LIM - By RONNIE LIM ARE petrol price discount signs more attractive to motorists than signs that display actual pump prices? Right now most drivers don't know what to make of or choose from the many types of discounts offered by oil companies. And the jury386 words
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345 2005-08-18 10 DANIEL BUENAS - By DANIEL BUENAS A COUNTRY'S judiciary should be independent of its executive arm and prepared "fearlessly to uphold" the rule of law, the Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Woolf of Barnes said yesterday. Lord Woolf, who was guest of345 words
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206 2005-08-18 10 SINGAPORE'S immigration policies are among the friendliest in the world, according to a poll by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). The poll placed Singapore on a par with Thailand but ahead of Japan, China and India. When measuring how welcoming a country's immigration policies are, companies take into account206 words
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171 2005-08-18 10 PEOPLE in dire financial straits have a new life buoy. Credit Counselling Singapore (CCS) gained its first contributor yesterday, as Credit Bureau Singapore pledged up to $1,000 a month towards its Fee Sponsorship Programme. The programme seeks to defray -CCS charges for counselling indebted171 words
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Article, Illustration1193 2005-08-18 11 CHUANG PECK MING - FOOD Teasing Japanese taste buds isn't for the weak-willed, but those who persevere will be rewarded, writes CHUANG PECK MING CHUANG PECK MING THREE years ago, Alice Choo, a company director, got out of her cushy office in Singapore to fly to Japan to push herCHRIS LOH - 1,193 words
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Article, Illustration784 2005-08-18 12 Market speculates investors are buying more US debt for returns Bloomberg [TOKYO] The dollar rose to a two-week high against the euro on speculation that international investors are increasing purchases of US debt to boost returns. The US currency may be buoyed asBloomberg; AFP - 784 words
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Article2338 2005-08-18 12 VOL General Corp .0.43 0.03 45 *yg17 KM C000) Genting 19.50 0.10 188 George Kent 0.62 0.03 26 ASM Realty 1.50 unch 0 GHL Systems .0.19 -0.01 799 Abric .0.38 unch 56 GlobetronrcsTech .0.39 unch 503 ACP Industries .0.69 -0.00 67 GlomacBhd 1.50 unch 151 Advance Synergy.... .0.282,338 words
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404 2005-08-18 12 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's economy will expand as much as 6 per cent this year and 6.5 per cent next year, boosted by higher investments and exports, the nation's central bank said. The economy will probably grow 5.5 to 6 per centBloomberg - 404 words
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Article392 2005-08-18 12 Fuel prices, poor consumer confidence hit economy Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's economy, Southeast Asia's second-largest, expanded less than 4 per cent in the second quarter, slowing growth in the first half, said central bank governor Pridiyathorn Devakula. "The economy in the first half hasBloomberg - 392 words
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446 2005-08-18 12 China urged to focus on pension and education Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] China's economic growth will fall to about 8 per cent in 2006 from 9 per cent this year as domestic demand declines, a World Bank quarterly report predicted today. TheBloomberg - 446 words
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250 2005-08-18 12 Foreign direct investment in Russia up 31 in H1 Bloomberg [MOSCOW] Russia attracted 31 per cent more foreign direct investment in the first half than a year ago, as consumer goods producers such as Coca-Cola Co and HJ Heinz Co bought Russian competitors amid a boom in spending. Foreign directBloomberg - 250 words
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Article, Illustration495 2005-08-18 13 It will boost investor confidence, especially among mining, oil firms AP [JAKARTA] An agreement to end three decades of fighting in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province could spark an economic boom in the region, which is rich in oil and other natural resources, analystsAP - 495 words
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179 2005-08-18 13 AP IKUALA LUMPUR] Civil servants at Malaysia's Human Resources Ministry are under orders to limit their tea breaks to 15 minutes inclusive of travel time to the cafeteria a news report said yesterday. The ministry issued the stern directive toAP - 179 words
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333 2005-08-18 13 Reuters {JAKARTA] Indonesia expects to change the head of state-owned oil company Pertamina this month after screening candidates for the job, the country's chief economics minister said yesterday. "As soon as possible. This month," Aburizal Bakrie told reporters when asked when the changeReuters - 333 words
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219 2005-08-18 13 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia has reduced a 30-month sentence handed to militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his role in the Bali bombings by four months and 15 days, a prison official said yesterday. "He received a remission of four months and 15 days,"AFP - 219 words
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Article4376 2005-08-18 13 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Citi Pan-Europe Equrty Fund 1-2* CmSetect Aua rut Balanced 1.42/ CitiSelect Asia Tilt Growth 13* AM AmroAaMtMgt (Spore) OdSetectAsiardtErtiGrti 1.32/ Star Europe Eqty! 0*3* CitiSelect Global Growth 1.1S Star Euope Bond .241 citi Global Healthcare Fund 0.98/ toEuopeBal .14V Citi Gfc Fin Srvcs Fund 1.0* Star Asan4,376 words
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GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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Article, Illustration477 2005-08-18 14 Govt will continue to hold 51% minimum stake in state lenders Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India has scrapped a proposal to reduce the government's holding in state-run lenders to as low as 33 per cent. The government, which introduced the Banking Companies (Acquisition andBloomberg - 477 words
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353 2005-08-18 14 Three other index additions worldwide Bloomberg [TOKYO] Shanghai Electric Group Co, China's largest maker of coal-fired power equipment, gained after Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc said it was among four companies worldwide to be added to its stock indexes this month. Hudson City BancorpBloomberg - 353 words
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424 2005-08-18 14 AP [SAN FRANCISCO] Waste from computers, televisions and other devices used in the United States is polluting the environment and exposing workers to toxic chemicals in regions of China and India where discarded electronics are dismantled, according to a study released yesterday. ResearchersAP - 424 words
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Article, Illustration260 2005-08-18 14 Bloomberg Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong Exchanges Clearing Ltd (HKEx), which manages Asia's second-biggest stock market, plans to abolish requirements for mainboardlisted companies to publish announcements in newspapers by next year. "It's our intention to abolish it totally after a transition periodBloomberg; Reuters; AFP - 260 words
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154 2005-08-18 14 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China's fund management companies will be allowed to invest in warrants of listed companies as part of the compensation for disposing of the government's stockholdings, said the securities regulator. Fund management companies should report to the securities regulator their warrantBloomberg - 154 words
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360 2005-08-18 14 Spectacles maker being probed for alleged fraud Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Liquidators of Moulin Global Eyecare Holdings Ltd, a spectacles maker being probed by Hong Kong police for alleged fraud, said the company sold assets worth HK$BO million (Ssl7 million) to repay debt.Bloomberg - 360 words
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284 2005-08-18 14 Reuters [BEIJING] Budding Chinese entrepreneurs are set to go head-to-head on domestic television in a new reality programme that reads like a watered-down version of the hit US show "The Apprentice", which stars tycoon Donald Trump. Sixteen contestants will pitch their plans forReuters - 284 words
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ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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455 2005-08-18 15 Analysts call it a step towards state domination of energy sector Bloomberg [MOSCOW] Gazprom, the world's biggest natural-gas producer, plans to buy control of Russia's fifth largest oil producer Sibneft. President Vladimir Putin is tightening his grip on Russia's energy industry, creatingBloomberg - 455 words
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Article, Illustration792 2005-08-18 15 ANTHONY ROWLEY - ASIA INSIGHT ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent THE International Monetary Fund and the World Rank annual meetings in Washington are no longer the jolly jamborees they used to be in the days before terrorist threats and tight security, but,this year's events promise to be792 words
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303 2005-08-18 15 Bloomberg AFP [SYDNEY] Australia's government may sell only part of its 51.8 per cent stake in Telstra Corp depending on investor demand for the stock, Finance Minister Nick Minchin said yesterday. The announcement coincided with the government reaching a breakthrough deal withBloomberg; AFP - 303 words
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410 2005-08-18 15 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai corporate profit growth slowed in the second quarter as recordhigh oil prices eroded consumer confidence and increased costs at companies. Combined profit for the 50 biggest publicly traded companies by value, as represented in the SET-50 Index, rose 18Bloomberg - 410 words
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Article, Illustration393 2005-08-18 15 LATEST US DATA AP [WASHINGTON] Inflation at the US wholesale level increased by the largest amount in nine months in July, reflecting the hit consumers are taking at gas pumps. The Labour Department reported that its Producer Price Index (PPI), whichAP; BLOOMBERG - 393 words
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WORLD WATCH
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71 2005-08-18 15 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler's share price surge of 11 per cent on July 28, the day chief executive Juergen Schrempp announced his retirement, has sparked an official probe of possible insider trading. The investigation will last "weeks", a spokeswoman for the regulator BaFin, said. A preliminaryBloomberg - 71 words
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66 2005-08-18 15 Bloomberg [LONDON] A UK accounting regulator plans to investigate Deloitte Touche LLP's handling of the audit of MG Rover Group Ltd, the collapsed carmaker. The Accounting Investigation and Discipline Board will focus on Deloitte Touche's 2003 audit of the carmaker's financial accounts andBloomberg - 66 words
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58 2005-08-18 15 AP [BERLIN] The chief executive of Germany's Commerzbank has denied wrongdoing after prosecutors said they were investigating him as part of a alleged money laundering involving assets from the former Soviet Union. The bank said over the weekend that prosecutors in the city had widened theirAP - 58 words
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54 2005-08-18 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] Morgan Stanley on Tuesday said it has hired James Gorman from Merrill Lynch Co tq head its ailing retail brokerage. Mr Gorman, 47, will be president and chief operating officer of the individual investor group, responsible for leading Morgan Stanley'sReuters - 54 words
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WORLD
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Article, Illustration391 2005-08-18 16 Sotheby's sales dip slightly but overall art market outlook remains buoyant [NEW YORK] Christie's, the art auction house, had record sales in the first half of this year as the art market was buoyed by a convergence of old and new US hedge fundPHOTOS: REUTERS, AFP - 391 words
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Article, Illustration460 2005-08-18 16 Reuters [NEW YORK] How much would you pay to be immortalised as a zombie in a Stephen King novel or a good guy in a John Grisham thriller? f Kin** and Grisham are among 16 alithors selling the right to haveReuters - 460 words
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404 2005-08-18 16 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Deepening the mystery of how a retired Croatian woman got mixed up in insider trading of Reebok International share options, sources close to the case said on Tuesday that US authorities are looking into whether someone set up anReuters - 404 words
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247 2005-08-18 16 AP [NEW YORK] Billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated U*****.3 million of his fortune to 843 organisations last year, his office said on Tuesday. He spread his money to significantly more groups than the previous year, when he gave U*****.6 million to 653AP - 247 words
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480 2005-08-18 16 Morgan Stanley, CSFB, Citigroup, UBS taking up 25% Reuters [NEW YORK] Four major banks are buying a combined 25 per cent equity stake in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange for a total of US$l9 million, the fourth largest US equity options exchange said onReuters - 480 words
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366 2005-08-18 16 Reuters [CHICAGO] CBOT Holdings Inc is shunning offers for a merger or sale but instead will proceed with its plan to sell shares in the No 2 US futures exchange to the public. After reviewing strategic alternatives with its financial andReuters - 366 words
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AVIATION
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Article, Illustration423 2005-08-18 17 VEN SREENIVASAN - Initiative to 'stay ahead' follows SATS' $23m upgrade move By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Changi International Airport Services (CIAS), which is now controlled by Dubai-based Dnata, is spending around $12 million to upgrade its facilities and services at Changi Airport in order to stay ahead423 words
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175 2005-08-18 17 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] China Airlines and EVA Airways Corp, Taiwan's two biggest carriers, said they have applied for rights to fly through Chinese airspace to reach Europe and In-, dia, using shorter routes to cut annual fuel costs and other expenses. China Airlines, the island's largestBloomberg - 175 words
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Article1749 2005-08-18 17 CITY FLIGHT ETA FUGHT ETD IC857 1025 SQ408 1855 DenpasarBali SQ141 1145 SQ142 0935 Adoiaida LH9771 1845 AF8088 2215 qXs40 1725 GA841 1825 SQ230 1845 BA7382 2215 SQ147 2235 SQ148 1900 U I SQ442 2020 imrtfiir 1 c7V3T5 062fT AZ3993 2255 Poh* QR638 1205 QR639 —07451,749 words
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Article, Illustration502 2005-08-18 17 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd, Australia's biggest airline, may report a 6.5 per cent drop in second-half profit, as record earnings from the first six months of the year were eroded by surging fuel prices. Net income may drop to A 5271.6Bloomberg; BLOOMBERG - 502 words
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433 2005-08-18 17 AIR DISASTERS AP [WASHINGTON] The two jetliners that crashed over a three-day period were flying for new, low-cost regional carriers that are springing up around the world as governments follow the US lead and deregulate air travel. The crashes of a WestAP - 433 words
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352 2005-08-18 17 AFP Reuters Bloomberg [CARACAS] Investigators have found one of the black box flight recorders from the Colombian jet that crashed in Venezuela on Tuesday killing all 160 people on board, Venezuela's Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said. All the passengers on the plane wereAFP; Reuters; Bloomberg - 352 words
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194 2005-08-18 17 AFP [PARIS] Failure to correct a known weakness on the supersonic Concorde aircraft is in part to blame for the fatal 2000 crash of one of the planes, an experts' report seen by AFP said on Tuesday. It makes serious criticisms of theAFP - 194 words
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Miscellaneous205 2005-08-18 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 26 Getting granny ready for wedding? (5,3,4) ing (5,7) Across: 1 Yellow fever, 8 Prison 15 Poorly rated commercial sys- break, 11 Lees, 12 Unit, 13 At issue, DOWN 15 Bouncer, 16 Trout, 17 Gods, 18 1 A driver perhaps made it! (7) 17 Completely turning turtle on205 words
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490 2005-08-18 18 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Finnair Oyj, Finland's biggest airline, said second-quarter profit more than doubled as fares increased and demand rose for Asian and low-cost European flights. The shares jumped to the highest in seven years. Net income advanced to 26.4 million euros (5553.8 million),Bloomberg - 490 words
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270 2005-08-18 18 Reuters [STOCKHOLM] Scandinavian airline SAS posted a lower than expected pretax profit in the second quarter yesterday but said it still expected to return to profit over the year despite a cautious outlook. Pretax profit was 590 million Swedish crowns (Ssl29Reuters - 270 words
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91 2005-08-18 18 AFP [LONDON] Negotiations over the dispute that triggered days of chaos for British Airways at Londdh Heathrow Airport have broken down, both sides said on Tuesday. Talks were abandoned after Gate Gourmet, BA's flight caterer at the world's busiest international airport, and the Transport andAFP - 91 words
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74 2005-08-18 18 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Shanghai International Airport Co. which owns two of China's biggest air terminals, reported its seventh quarterly profit growth as demand for air travel and China's expanding trade increased traffic at airfields. Net income rose 1.6 per cent to 334.6 million yuan (5568.5 million)Bloomberg - 74 words
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Article63 2005-08-18 18 AP [MANAGUA, Nicaragua] A jetliner carrying more than 200 Central American students back from a youth festival in Venezuela made a safe emergency landing in El Salvador yesterday, according to Nicaraguan political figures and the Salvadoran news media. Rosario Murillo, the wife of Sandinista partyAP - 63 words
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78 2005-08-18 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, increased a surcharge on international flights by US$2O round trip to help cover rising fuel costs. The increase brings to US$55 each way American's fuel surcharge on trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific flights, spokesman Tim Smith said inBloomberg - 78 words
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Article, Illustration706 2005-08-18 18 DONALD URQUHART - They say littoral states' pledges to tighten security are not enough By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] London's insurance underwriters are sticking to their guns on the highly controversial designation of the Malacca Strait as a terrorism risk, saying promises by the littoral states toREUTERS - 706 words
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448 2005-08-18 18 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas, which competes with neighbouring Singapore for South-east Asia's sea freight, said it's obtained a loan from a government bank as part of its RMI.3 billion (Sss7o million) expansion plan. Tanjung Pelepas borrowed RM74I million overBloomberg - 448 words
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396 2005-08-18 18 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, Japan's thirdlargest shipping company, said it may exceed its profit forecast for the 12 months ending March 2006 because the effects of its cost cuts haven't been fully reflected. The shipping line's profit for theBloomberg - 396 words
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140 2005-08-18 18 [SINGAPORE] Logistics solutions provider Sembawang Kimtrans (SKL) has launched a coal handling terminal, Kimtrans Suralaya, for the Indonesian Suralaya Power Station in West Java. The floating terminal is part of a US$34 million deal SKL secured in August last year to provide coal logistics services140 words
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499 2005-08-18 20 Keeping the doors and minds open EDITORIAL THE usual grouses about Singapore's foreign labour policy which seems to arouse, anew, emotive responses each time it rears its head have of late sounded perhaps louder than before. Part of the reason is that structural unemployment among Singaporeans has become a matter499 words
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Article, Illustration752 2005-08-18 20 ROBERT SAMUELSON - THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group EVERY so often, the US government spits out some factoid that seems crammed with special significance. The Commerce Department did just that recently when it reported that Americans' personal savings rate hadThe Washington Post Writers Group - 752 words
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Article, Illustration928 2005-08-18 20 JOGHEN WIRTZ - The challenge is for Singapore service firms to be world-class in the next three to five years By JOGHEN WIRTZ SERVICES are the future of the global economy. Today, already over 65 per cent of GDP globally is produced in the services sector, and the928 words
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Article, Illustration1643 2005-08-18 21 MATTHEW R MILLER, DOUGLAS WONG, ALLEN T CHENG - Central bank's Zhou advocated change long before yuan became a global issue By MATTHEW R MILLER, DOUGLAS WONG, ALLEN T CHENG Bloomberg G- UANAnping remembers when Zhou Xiaochuan first urged China's leaders to let the yuan float in the world marketplace. He didn't knowBloomberg; BLOOMBERG - 1,643 words
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211 2005-08-18 21 Stephen Davies - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Stephen Davies Certified Financial Planner. CEO, Javelin Wealth Management Singapore YOUR article in Executive Money, "Would you pay for financial advice" (BT, Aug 17), makes some excellent points and notes that it is often difficult to get investors to211 words
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438 2005-08-18 21 Narayana Narayana Singapore - Narayana Narayana Singapore AT an individual level, most readers are likely to sympathise with the bureaucratic hurdles encountered by your LA-based contributor, Mr Christopher Reed, in selling his "little house in the California countryside" which he related in "Selling a house in California can438 words
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Article, Illustration493 2005-08-18 28 RAJU CHELLAM - Traditionally, Q3 is the slowest but the firm registered a solid performance in Asia in the last quarter, Paul Chan, HP's Asia head tells RAJU CHELLAM RAJU CHELLAM STRONG sales from the Asia-Pacific-Ja-pan region helped US giant HewlettPackard Company grow a healthy 10 perFILE PHOTO - 493 words
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Article, Illustration820 2005-08-18 28 AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY - By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY ORACLE, which recently made available the latest version of its information and data base management (IDMS) software, says it has maintained its market leadership in the Asia Pacific, excluding Japan (APEJ), in the IDMS category. Speaking to BizlT, Mark820 words
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572 2005-08-18 28 NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] A handful of digital worms that exploit vulnerabilities in some Microsoft Windows computers spread on Tuesday, hindering Internet access at some major companies. The worms, called Zotob and Rbot, and variants of them, started emerging on Saturday, computer security specialists said,NYT - 572 words
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144 2005-08-18 28 KENNETH JAMES - By KENNETH JAMES THE Zotob worm and its variants only target Windows 2000 and has had a low impact on customers here so far, according to a Microsoft Singapore spokesman. Customers running later versions of Windows such as Windows XP are not affected by this144 words
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Article262 2005-08-18 28 Bloomberg [PRINCETON] EMC Corp. the world's biggest maker of data-storage computers and software, agreed to buy closely held Rainfinity to add programs that support document sharing over computer networks. EMC said in a statement that it will pay less than US$lOO million for San Jose, California-basedBloomberg - 262 words
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460 2005-08-18 28 The tussle concerns the click wheel used in the iPod AP [SAN FRANCISCO] Given the intense rivalry between Apple Computer Inc and Microsoft Corp, this recent revelation had a comedic tinge: Apple took too long to file a patent on part ofAP - 460 words
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Article, Illustration473 2005-08-18 29 RAJU CHELLAM - The market was worth US$636m last year and is growing further By RAJU CHELLAM NETWORK solutions company Avaya Inc wants the Asia-Pacific region to contribute "in the double digits" to gross annual revenues from about 8 per cent currently with muchSource: Frost & Sullivan - 473 words
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261 2005-08-18 29 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Novell Inc, a seller of network software and consulting services, will team up with statecontrolled China Standard Software Co to develop Linux operating system software in the world's most populous nation. The two companies will develop Linux software for serversBloomberg - 261 words
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255 2005-08-18 29 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Dell Inc chief executive Kevin Rollins said the world's largest personal-computer maker must expand sales by at least 15 per cent and add 10,000 new workers a year to meet its revenue goal of US$BO billion within four years. "GrowthBloomberg - 255 words
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Article, Illustration1086 2005-08-18 30 Central bank's aggressive interest rate hikes in 2003-04 to cool economic boom blamed Bloomberg [LONDON] Christian Holland, fund manager at Cavendish Asset Management in London, set the asking price for his three-bedroom house in the south-west of the UK capital at £519,000 (Ssl.6Bloomberg; BLOOMBERG - 1,086 words
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Article, Illustration395 2005-08-18 31 ARTHUR SIM - Demand for office space shows no sign of letting up: JLL research chief By ARTHUR SIM EXPANSION of multinational corporations and the demand for office space is helping to drive the property market in Asia. "The growth in office demand is showing no signREUTERS - 395 words
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318 2005-08-18 31 ARTHUR SIM - By ARTHUR SIM CPG Facilities Management (FM), a subsidiary of CPG Corporation, has secured a contract to manage an 86hectare residential development in Fujian province, China. The development Discovery Hill is owned by the Pan China Group and will include 20,000 sq metres of communal318 words
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Article, Illustration1040 2005-08-18 32 TAN SU YEN - The practice of fengshui is alive and well in offices throughout Singapore. TAN SU YEN tracks the ways in which this ancient Chinese art is interpreted in the CBD and beyond TAN SU YEN VIOLET Lim isn't fanatical about fengshui. far from it. But when she was looking1,040 words
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Article, Illustration340 2005-08-18 32 THERE'S more to fengshui than simply slanting the main entrance to the office or sticking a fish-tank in the lobby. '"Not so simple," intones Evelyn Lip. "Every building has its own set offengshui requirements. Who owns it? Where is the site? What other buildings areFILE PHOTO; CHRIS LOH - 340 words
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