The Business Times, 13 October 2005

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Thursday, October 13,2005 SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005
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  • 672 1  -  By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] Former member of parliament and current president of the Singapore Manufacturers' Federation (SMa) Lew Syn Pau was charged in court yesterday with having breached the Companies Act in his dealings with listed Broadway Industrial Group. If found guilty, Lew,
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  • 139 1 STI 2,320.53 (-34.49) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,323.00 (-35.00) SIMSCI 275.35 (-3.59) SIMSCI FUTURES 275.70 (-3.30) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 928.49 +0.06 NIKKEI 225 13,463.74 92.97 HANG SENG 14,575.02. -323.75 SET INDEX 709.20 +0.07 JAKARTA COMP 1.102.98 -2.649 MANILA COMP 1,958.26 -5.96 SEOUL COMP 1.217.06 -27.21 SHENZHEN B
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  • 927 1  -  It makes $13b in new investments, shifting focus to regional assets By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings made $13 billion of new investments and monetised $5 billion worth of its portfolio in its last financial year as it shifts its focus to
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 403 2  -  Central Russian government has received 40 applications By CHUANG PECK MING in Moscow SINGAPORE will help Russia to get a special economic zone off the ground, which the country will use as a model for other SEZs it plans to set up. "We would
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    • 673 2 CDL rejects Suntec Reit's bid to end deal CITY Developments Ltd has rejected Suntec Reit's move to terminate a deal under which Suntec was to have bought 11 properties from CDL for $788 million. Suntec had called off the deal on Tuesday night on the grounds that it
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    • 560 2  -  CITIRAYA CASE Ng Teck Boon faces 24 charges when he appears in court on Nov 8 By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] Ng Teck Boon, former assistant general manager of Citiraya Industries and younger brother of its missing exchief executive Ng Teck Lee,
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    • 117 2 IN "Advanced sets sights on $lb turnover in 10 years" (BT, Oct 11), we misquoted a DBS Vickers report as saying Advanced Holdings' reporting currencies are usually the US dollar and euro, while its costs are denominated in renminbi and the Sing dollar. The company's reporting currency is actually
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    • 486 3  -  It wants trust to spell out response to regulators' reply on draft circular By LESLIE YEE [SINGAPORE] City Developments Ltd (CPU has rejected Suntec Reit's move to terminate a deal under which Suntec was to have bought 11 properties from CDL for
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    • 505 3  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur IN a rare show of defiance, minority shareholders of E&O Property Development have rejected a proposal to delist the Malaysian company, whose prized asset is the Eastern Oriental Hotel in Penang elder sister of Raffles Hotel
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    • 455 3  -  By ANGELA TAN [SINGAPORE] Linksys, a unit of US Cisco Systems Inc, and Skype, the global Internet communications company, yesterday unveiled a new cordless phone that will allow users to make free Skype Internet phone calls without being tied to a computer. The new
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 738 4  -  Investors have been substituting warrants for small caps: UOB KayHian By TEH HOOI LING THE current upcycle in the local stock market is not yet complete as a full-blown small-cap rally is still absent, says UOB KayHian. "Investors had been substituting warrants
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    • 438 4  -  CORPORATE RESULTS By R SIVANITHY FUELLED by a buoyant securities market, Singapore Exchange's net profit soared 80.3 per cent to a record $45.3 million for its first quarter ended Sept 30. The surge in earnings from the previous corresponding quarter's $25.1 million
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    • 285 4  -  By SAMUEL EE GROWING regional demand and cost rationalisation have helped drive net profit at automotive leather trim manufacturer Jackspeed Corp 23 per cent higher to $1.4 million for its half-year ended Aug 31. Jackspeed, which makes custom-fitted car seats for automotive
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    • 843 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By LESLIE YEE REAL estate investment trusts (Reits) have come a long way in Singapore since the failed initial attempt by Capita Land to launch one in November 2001. Almost four years on from that abortive attempt,
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    • 462 5  -  SIAS sees need to tackle market shocks more effectively By UMA SHANKARI THE president of the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS), David Gerald, yesterday called for the industry to consider combining all aspects of corporate governance into one body. Mr Gerald
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 49 5 MIDAS Holdings' subsidiary, Jilin Midas Aluminium Industries Co Ltd, has been appointed as a preferred supplier of Siemens AG, Berlin and Munich, Transportation Systems Group. Under a master agreement, Siemens will engage Jilin Midas as a long-term supplier of aluminium extrusion products.
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      • 86 5 NETDEVICES Inc, a California-headquartered developer of services gateway products for enterprise branch networks founded in July 2003, has launched its first product the SG-8 Unified Services Gateway (USG) in Singapore. The SG-8 combines functions on devices such as Firewall, VoIP Routing and Switching into one device.
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      • 69 5 DRY bulk shipping company Courage Marine Group's initial public offering of 270 million shares at 22 cents each comprising 245 million new and 25 million vendor units closed with a subscription rate of 1.6 times. The public tranche of 27 million shares was 8.19
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      • 43 5 STAMFORD Tyres Corp Ltd's wholly owned Stamford Tyres Sdn Bhd, has incorporated a wholly owned unit, Stamford Motors Sdn Bhd, with a registered capital of RM500.000 (*****,142). The new unit's primary activity is the distribution of motor vehicles.
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    • 484 7  -  Its unit subscribes for US$27m of bonds issued by Shui On Devt (Holding) By KALPANA RASHIWALA METRO is increasing its investment in Shui On Land (SOL), which owns the Xintiandi entertainment strip in Shanghai and other projects in China. The Singapore-listed retailer and
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    • 123 7 Reuters SINGAPORE microchip testing and packaging firm United Test and Assembly Center Ltd (UTAC) yesterday said that it expects its growth momentum to remain strong into 2006. Chief executive Lee Joon Chung said the average rates at which UTAC's factories were being used were
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    • 267 7  -  By LEE KIM SIANG BOUTIQUE property developer Soilbuild Group Holdings yesterday signed an option to purchase Bright Apartments if its present owners agree. If the deal goes ahead, it will be a further purchase for the developer in the Balestier area, following Mandale
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    • 273 7 ETIKA International Holdings, a Malaysian-based manufacturer of milk products which saw its listing on Sesdaq late last year, has struck a deal to acquire a frozen food company in Malaysia. The purchase, through its wholly owned subsidiary Etika Foods (M) Sdn Bhd, will see Etika
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 561 6  -  STOCKS Market succumbs to pressure from steep slide in Hong Kong and drop in futures market for Wall St indices R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent AFTER gaining almost 50 points in the previous two sessions, the Straits Times Index yesterday succumbed to region-wide
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
      • 390 6 SESDAQ-listed Wearnes International yesterday said that its substantial shareholder WBL Corp has bought 2.51 million shares in the company from the open market in two separate transactions, raising the latter's direct interest to 86.125 per cent, from 84.856 per cent. The announcement
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      • 89 6  -  By CHEN HUIFEN HIGH Glory Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quek Leng Chan's Guoco Group which has made a general offer for BIL International, has raised its direct stake in BIL International to 16.85 per cent Following this, the stake which
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      432 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 12 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -66.00 -87.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 -184.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -6.00 All-SG Equities 596.64 -6.21 SG Equities Elect 124.42 -1.42 SG Equities Fin 1704.22 -21.95 SG Equities Prop 743.79 -11.06 SIMSCI 275.35 -3.59 SiMSCI Futures 275.70 -3.30 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME GlobalVoice
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      920 6  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI CSE Global Oct 12 close: 77 cents BNP PARIBAS, Oct 12 ORDERS obtained in IHOS totalled about $200 million, and the order build-up in 2H05 is expected to be about $180 million, leading to a total of $377 million in accumulated orders for 2005.
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    • 521 6  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar made a nice comeback overnight after it was revealed that senior US Federal Reserve chiefs look determined to raise short-term US interest rates further, but gold emerged the top performer once more. The greenback scored
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 545 8  -  Five in 10 firms looking to hire more this quarter: HR survey By NANDE KHIN BUOYKI) by the strong performance of the economy the last two quarters, permanent employment and salaries across the board look set to be on an upward trend.
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    • 413 8  -  Discrimination, benefits and childcare discussed By MATTHEW PHAN WORKING women are concerned about issues from discrimination to maternity benefits and childcare, a dialogue session between the Minister of Manpower Ng Eng Hen and the People's Association Women Integration Network Council highlighted last night. After a brief
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    • 310 8  -  By UMA SHANKARI SETTING its sights on Singapore becoming the region's leader in design, the Design Singapore Council (DSg) has lined up a creative menu for its coming Singapore Design Festival 2005 as part of its efforts to boost the profile of design.
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    • 5036 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Ci® k' Bond/" I .454/ Citi Asia Infrastructure 0.7726/0.8035 ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S'por*) 1 »i! Star EurooeEatv 1 nits/ CitiBond S pore A/S 1.291/ s£ Ztol "l24i CitiBond S'pore B/S 1.342/ r* Citi Money SGD Class A 1.***** s£ Eqty 064 Cm Money Sing Dollar Class
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    • 354 10  -  By NANDE KHIN SINGAPORE is looking to increase its consular presence in China to service Singapore nationals and businesses there, Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo said in a recent interview with LianheZaobao. Mr Yeo, who was sharing his thoughts on how the rise of China
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    • 193 10  -  By CHEN HUIFEN FOOD-INGREDIENT producer Danisco has set up a regional innovation centre in Singapore and is looking at adding 50 staff by year-end. The centre will produce dairy cultures for the Asia-Pacific region. "One of our objectives is to enhance Danisco's ability to
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    • 3094 9 EU YAH SAN ,9 IMTERNATION ALLTD NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Grand Salon, Level securities that the Directors may allot and issue under this resolution would not exceed fifty per centum (50 /o) 2
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    • 3236 10 Amtek AMTEK ENGINEERING LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration Number: *****3886K) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-Fifth Annual General Meeting of AMTEK ENGINEERING LTD will be held at Albizia Room, Level 2, Jurong Country Club, 9 Science Centre Road, Singapore *****8 on Friday, 28 October 2005,
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 615 11 Financial sector has a potentially larger role in country's economy, he says AFP [SHANGHAI] US Treasury Secretary John Snow stepped up pressure on China yesterday to speed up reforms on bringing greater flexibility to its firmly controlled currencywhile overhauling its fledgling capital
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    • 426 11 Lost production from hurricane damage should be offset by higher prices AP [NEW YORK] Integrated oil producers, oil service and drilling companies will post gains in the third quarter, driven once again by higher crude oil and natural gas
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    • 443 11 AP [GENEVA] Trade ministers from a powerful group of developing countries have given a cautious welcome to a US offer to cut its farm subsidies, but planned to counter with a proposal asking for greater reductions from both the US and
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 419 12 Assets gained in Bumi-Commerce merger boost expansion plans Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's top investment banker says he finally has the firepower to take on his big South-east Asian rivals and fulfil the national ambition of creating a truly international bank. Nazir
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    • 2374 12 VOL General Corp 0.44 0.01 206 OrtU MM (TWO) Genting .2160 0.10 1219 George Kent 0.60 unch 85 ASM Realty 1.65 unch 178 GHL Systems 012 0.01 473 Abric 0.32 unch 7 GlobetronicsTech 0.32 -0.02 3000 ACP Industries 0.64 -0.01 28 Glomac Bhd 1.32 -0.01 150 Advance Synergy
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    • 384 12 [KUALA LUMPUR] Consolidation in Malaysia's banking sector is causing serious human capital challenges, with widespread poaching of staff, says a report in Malaysian Business Times. Citing industry sources, the tabloid said there is rampant poaching of staff among financial institutions. and job-hopping
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    • 251 12 [KUALA LUMPUR] Banks operating in Malaysia will still have the final say over who they want to appoint as senior managers although the central bank will now lend a hand in the selection process, Malaysia's Business Times reported Bank Negara Malaysia as
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 101 12 AFP [DENPASAR] Indonesian police yesterday interrogated a construction worker believed linked to this month's suicide blasts in Bali as the island mourned those killed in devastating explosions three years ago. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, attending the commemoration of the 2002 nightclub
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      • 104 12 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The Aedes mosquito in Malaysia which carries the dengue virus has evolved into an extremely hardy insect, with its eggs surviving for up to six months without water, the Star daily reported yesterday. An entomologist from the Universiti Sains
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      • 81 12 Reuters [SHANGHAI] BNP Paribas. France's top lender, yesterday said it hoped to complete the 704 million yuan (Ssl 47 million) purchase of a 19.2 per cent stake in Nanjing City Commercial Bank by the end of the year. The purchase from
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      • 55 12 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] A foreign bank will buy a Taiwanese lender and take management control by the end of this year, the first investment by an overseas lender. Kong Jaw-sheng, chairman of Taiwan's financial Supervisory Commission, said.' "Several real deals are
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      • 62 12 AFP [BEIJING] China and the US began a sixth round of talks here yesterday aimed at settling a drawn-out dispute on China's soaring textile exports. "We hope there will be a positive outcome," said an official at China's Ministry of Commerce.
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    • 455 13 Increased corporate lending, stable bond yields fuel growth Reuters [MUMBAI] Indian banks, after relying on retail loans and bond trading for profits in recent years, should see a shift in their earnings profile in July-September due to a surge in corporate
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    • 202 13 AP [MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan] Supplies from about 30 countries poured in for Pakistan's quake victims yesterday as the United Nations warned of measles outbreaks among the millions of homeless and hopes dimmed for finding more survivors under the rubble. The death toll was believed to be
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 593 14 7 billionaires in listwealth of top 400 come to US$75b or 7% of China's GDP Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] The wealth of China's 100 richest people grew 48 per cent during the past year, with property and manufacturing the most profitable sectors,
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    • 120 14 AP [CALGARY, Canada] PetroKazakhstan Inc said on Tuesday that it would "vigorously oppose" an attempt by Russia's Lukoil to intervene in the company's C 54.2 billion (Ss6 billion) sale to a Chinese state-owned company. Lukoi has been locked up for months in a dispute with
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    • 519 14 AFP [JIUQUAN, China] China launched its second manned space mission yesterday, sending two astronauts into orbit as it opened a new chapter in its drive to become a global space power. In Singapore, President S R Nathan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong sent
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    • 503 14 Daily limit on amount exchanged will also be raised Bloomberg, Reuters [HONG KONG] China will allow Hong Kong lenders to conduct more yuan business and raise the limit on the amount that may be exchanged each day, said Hong
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    • 38 14 MERITUS MANDARIN SINGAPORE CANTONESE CLASSICS Reservations: 6831 6262/66 K<% CHINESE gj RESTAURANT MERITUS MANDARIN 4 A division of Overseas Union Enterprise Limited (Company Registration N0.*****0050E) 333 Orchard Road, Singapore *****7. Tel: +65 6737 4411. Fax: +65 6732 2361.
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 595 15  -  Fears underpinned by jump in trading of financial, credit derivatives By NEIL BEHRMANN in London THE Bank For International Settlements (BIS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have expressed concern about a surge in borrowing to finance speculation. Their concern
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    • 273 15 AFP [LONDON] The "pornographic" amounts of money available at the top tiers of football risked wrecking the sport, Federation Internationale de Football Association (Fife) president Sepp Blatter said yesterday, launching a scathing attack on hugely wealthy players and club owners. Mr Blatter,
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    • 648 15  -  ASIA INSIGHT With such a strong fresh mandate, Koizumi can do wonders. Why doesn't he start? ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent IT HAS been one month almost to the day since Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rode triumphantly back to power after a landslide victory in
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  • WORLD
    • 478 16 Liberty Corner Capital paid to tell auditors it owed the debts: sources [CHICAGO] Phillip Bennett, the suspended chief executive of Refco, allegedly used a hedge fund to disguise US$43O million of debts owed by him to the futures broker, the Financial Times
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    • 360 16 NYT [OTTAWA] Canadian mining company Inco will acquire a rival, Falconbridge, to create the world's largest nickel producer in a stock and cash deal valued at Csl2 billion (5517.3 billion). The combined company will produce 735 million pounds of nickel this year, the
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    • 300 16 AP, Reuters (SAN JOSE, California] Net income more' than quadrupled at Apple Computer in its fiscal fourth-quarter on torrid sales of iPod players and strong computer shipments for the school market But sales of its iPod digital music player fell short of many analyst estimates, sending
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  • SIAS INVESTORS' CHOICE AWARDS
    • 149 17  -  By Wong Wei Kong THIS year's Most Transparent Company Awards, organised by the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias), is taking place after a spate of corporate scandals that shocked the market in recent months. It has surely driven home the importance of good corporate governance and
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    • 729 17  -  The second largest telco has managed to achieve a balance between ensuring transparency and staying competitive, ANGELA TAN reports ANGELA TAN IN A competitive corporate world, the less you reveal, the better off you may be. Yet, listed companies these days are obliged to ensure the
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    • 773 18  -  OCBC aims not only to satisfy minimum disclosure requirements but also to anticipate its audience's needs. LESLIE YEE reports LESLIE YEE THE banking business is an increasingly complex one and banks are being held to a higher standard of corporate governance than other companies. Local banking
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    • 670 18  -  By WONG WEI KONG CHINA-BASED waste water treatment specialist Bio-Treat Technology is one of this year's hottest stocks. It has also been voted one of the most transparent companies listed on the Singapore Exchange by analysts, investors and media this year. While the link between
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    • 972 19  -  SP Chemcials takes a two-pronged approach to corporate governance and transparency, its CEO tells WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG SP CHEMICALS isn't a sexy stock by any stretch of the imagination. With a business that does not grab public attention readily, it has toiled largely
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    • 1245 20  -  This has a positive as well as a negative side to it, Meghmani MD Ashish Soparkar tells WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG MEGHMANI Organics Ltd is one of the leading pigments and agrochemicals manufacturers in India. Since its operations started in 1986,
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    • 879 22  -  R SIVANITHY explains the difference between the two instruments R SIVANITHY THE hottest instruments to hit the local market in the past 18 months are structured warrants (SW), with several banks now scrambling to gain as much share of a lucrative pie as possible. Yet despite
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    • 1356 24  -  Picking stocks requires painstaking research as well as good timing, says TEH HOOI LING TEH HOOI LING WHAT are your chances of picking a positive yielding stock? About 50-50, it seems, based on the performance of all stocks listed on the Singapore Exchange over
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    • 1171 25  -  How should shareholders and directors behave at meetings? New Code of Conduct points the way. ANG HAO YAO reports ANG HAO YAO FOR our capital market to grow quickly and to compete successfully in the global market, an educated and wellinformed investing community is
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    • 77 17 Coordbwtar Wong Wei Kong EdHar Bairn Koh Syb wBHw: Leong Sau Ming Ufan Lee ArtktcGareft Chung, Ben Cruz,Nooßln/tyob > i- Our Heartiest Congratulations to the Capita Land Group for another great year! SMS MVCSTORS' CHOICE SMS WHORS' CHOICE CHOICE CHOICE AWARDS 2005 MKMtDS 200S *MftDS 2005 2005 MOST TRANSPARENT HOST
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    • 78 18 i > l r bftJiU' We bare all for you f' i No two ways about it. At SP Chemicals, we are committed to transparency S l|^H^ as an integral part of good corporate governance. ,ycf' '> J iilßllffW*^f' yaafcr jjj !Hv Our sincere thanks to the Mb. /> fl£
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    • 95 19 JT~ l EitfUH i ""ii^ At SMRT, we are guided by our mission of offering a safe, reliable and friendly travel experience anchored on operational efficiency and technical excellence. At the same time, we are committed to continually raising the standard of corporate governance and to building a respected, trusted
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    • 233 20 I I Q7 UNISTEEL Unisteel Technology Limited Company Registration No: *****3350 D SlflS 6th INVESTORS' CHOICE AWARDS 2005 Securities Investors Association (Singapore) MOST TRANSPARENT COMPANY AWARD 2005 Technology Electronics Category A big "Thank You" to all who nominated us for this award. We remain committed to KnnnH nnrnnrgte governance and
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    • 171 22 Singapore Petroleum Company Limited is committed to high standards and best practices in corporate governance and has adopted processes and structures by which the business and affairs of the Company are directed and managed. We believe that good corporate governance and transparency will continue to engender in SPC, a corporate
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    • 111 22 1 tz F„i m irAcross the globe in 27 countries, Keppel makes its mark of distinction. From ASEAN to Brazil, from the Caspian to China, Keppel stakes its name with a focus on building win-win relationships in its businesses. Steeped in a keen understanding of each market and armed with
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    • 640 23 I sins SECURITIES INVESTORS ASSOCIATION (SINGAPORE) 1 Mm Securities Investors Association (Singapore) I Congratulates Winners of SIAS 6 th Investors 7 Choice Awards 2005 J H A This Event is Proudly Sponsored By H fl iHfflSSl FINANCIAL OROUP B fl The Most Transparent Company Award 2005 is Endorsed By H
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  • AVIATION
    • 766 27 Issue guaranteed by M'sian govt, rated A- by S&P, A3 by Moody's Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Penerbangan Malaysia Bhd, majority owner of the country's biggest airline, Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS), plans to raise US$l billion this month selling US dol-lar-denominated bonds for
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      • 83 27 [SINGAPORE] Tiger Airways has selected lAE International Aero V 2500 engines for its eight new Airbus A 320 aircraft. The deal is valued at US$l36 million and the engines will be covered by a long-term Maintenance Support Agreement which allows Tiger Airways to
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      • 70 27 Reuters [ATHENS] Greece may relaunch Olympic Airlines as a new company as talks to sell the ailing carrier to investment group Olympic Investors-York capital seem to have stalled, Naftemporiki reported yesterday. "Well-informed sources cite an agreement with a Greek businessman, whose company will
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      • 49 27 AFP [MONTREAL] Bombardier Aerospace announced on Tuesday the sale of 22 regional jets to Sky West Inc for US$79B million for its Delta Connection operation. This replaces a deal between Bombardier and Delta Air Lines for 18 smaller CRJ2OO aircraft on backlog. —AFP
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    • 344 27  -  It may fly three times a week, if approval is secured By CHUANG PECK MING in Moscow SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) plans to start flying to Moscow from next year, subject to regulatory approval, according to Jayaraj Shanmugam, SlA's general manager in Russia. "We're
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    • 177 27 Reuters [BEIRUT] Eight Arab carriers will launch the region's first airline alliance in December to improve services and raise profits in an increasingly competitive industry, the Arab Air Carriers Organisation (AACO) said yesterday. "This is the first alliance of its kind among
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    • 198 27 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD DOWN 11 Union shuts away old guns (10) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 Some writing with power and 12 RaiS€ ®Jf j£*P? ration and Across: 1 Humanist, 5 Assail, 9 maturity (4) was blackballed (10) Runner-up, 10 Patois, 12 Orchestra, 2 Country created through En- Marched or tramped across 13
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  • SHIPPING
    • 579 28  -  These include right to board vessels without flag-state authority By DONALD URQUHART ISINGAPOREI Controversial amendments to the Suppression of Unlawful Acts At Sea convention, including the ability to board and search vessels on the high seas without flag-state permission, are being debated by International
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    • 397 28 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China Shipping Container Lines Co, which operates the country's biggest ocean transportation company, said third-quarter sales gained 25 per cent as expanding trade increased cargo volume and sent freight rates higher. Sales rose to 7.78 billion yuan (Ssl.6
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    • 451 28 Bloomberg [LONDON] The cost of shipping commodities such as iron ore and coal will probably rise this quarter as China increases imports of ore for steelmaking. Revenue for the largest dry-bulk vessels, or Capesizes, may average US$5O,OOO a day during the fourth quarter, based
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    • 277 28  -  Police Coast Guard also doing random vessel checks By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] In the wake of the London and recent Bali terrorist bombings, the Singapore Police Force has stationed members of the elite Gurkha Contingent at passenger ferry terminals across Singapore. The Gurkhas have
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    • 155 28 Bloomberg [OSLO] Top Tankers Inc, an Athens-based shipowner, bought three million-barrel tankers from Norway's First Olsen Ltd for a total of US$l77 million, Londonbased shipbroker Simpson Spence Young said in a note to clients. Top Tankers is taking over the Knock Clune, Knock
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    • PORT SHOTS
      • 98 28 [LONDON] UK shipping minister Steve Ladyman said last week that he would like to see non-EU crew members on ferries trading between EU ports subject to the same immigration controls as other non-EU citizens working within the trading bloc. He also wants to see EU
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      • 96 28 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering said on Tuesday it has won a US$4BO million order to build a pair of oil drilling rigs for Singapore-based Frigstad Offshore. The rigs, which can drill down to a maximum 10km, will be delivered by
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      • 102 28 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Samsung Heavy Industries Co, the world's third-largest shipbuilder, said it has received orders valued at US$l.4 billion from Europe to build rigs and tankers, surpassing its target to clinch US$5 billion in orders this year. The shipyard won orders for two oil-drilling
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  • LOGISTICS
    • 565 29 It's doubling cargo handling capacity there six years ahead of schedule FT, AP ISINCiAPORRI DHI., the German express group, is investing US$llO million to double the capacity of its cargo handling hub in Hong Kong six years ahead of schedule, as
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    • LOGISTICS BRIEFS
      • 76 29 Bloomberg [BASEL] Panalpina Welttransport Holding, a Swiss logistics and transport company, opened a logistics service centre in the United States to handle growing demand from the automotive business. The 15,000-square metre centre, based in Montgomery, Alabama, is 6 km from a Hyundai Motor
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      • 73 29 [MANILA] Philippine carrier Cebu Pacific (CEB) has picked BAX Global for a twin-phase, five-year logistics and material management contract to support the airline's growing Airbus aircraft fleet The first phase of the project covers material management and warehousing, enabling the airline's engineers to receive
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    • 360 29 It can start global distribution after privatisation AP [TOKYOI Japan Post is nearing the final stage of talks on tie-ups with several major couriers such as TNT Post Group of the Netherlands and Japan's Nippon Express Co. a news report said-yesterday. The
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 579 30 EDITORIAL LENGTHY periods of economic prosperity tend to induce a sense of complacency and the longer this is extended the more likely it is that a view will take hold that a "new paradigm" has arrived. So it is now with the belief among
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    • 1024 30  -  In deciding who to partner, companies must consider why they want to outsource By LEO FERNANDEZ Deciding in favour of human resources outsourcing is just the first step in a long journey. Whether the route degenerates into a finger-pointing and second-guessing expedition, or becomes a
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    • 710 30  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group OURS is a wealth-driven era, when huge increases in home values and (before that) stock prices make people feel richer and cause them to buy more. They spend more of their regular incomes,
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    • 1054 31  -  Governments can better achieve liberalisation and structural reforms through individual unilateral moves By RAZEEN SALLY There is no shortage of trade-negotiating activity this year. The WTO's Doha Round tops the bill, but it is deadlocked. Outside Geneva, preferential trade agreement (PTA) initiatives continue to proliferate.
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    • 682 31  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Penelope Phoon Head of ACCA Singapore Singapore WK refer to the article "Company finance departments take on too much work: PwC study" (BT, Oct 6). PwC's partner, Keith Stephenson, points out in the study that "the inability of
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    • 216 31  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore IN his letter, "Declare dividends as 'interim', not 'final" (BT, Oct 11), Denis Distant offers a practical alternative to do away with long waits for "final" dividends, an established practice that benefits neither the individual shareholder, nor the company where
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  • BizIT
    • 423 38 AP [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc Have agreed to make their two instantmessaging programs work together, a partnership that could threaten market leader America Online, people familiar with the situation said. The deal was expected to be announced later yesterday, the
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    • 590 38  -  It starts push into software and has set up team to offer consulting and business solutions, targeting SMEs in the region, writes RAJU CHELLAM RAJU CHELLAM CANON Corp is now offering managed services solutions to customers in Singapore, Malaysia. Hong Kong and India
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    • 371 38  -  Profit surges 73% to US$76m on PC chips demand By RAJU CHELLAM THE world's No 2 chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), has signalled bullish times ahead with all-time record sales of US$l.52 billion for its fiscal Q3 ended Sept 25,
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    • 393 38  -  By MATTHEW PHAN YOUR nifty mobile phone, which probably already does everything from taking pictures to playing music, could now help you keep tabs on your home or office, thanks to Mi's new webcam service. Through an extensive network of webcams and CCTV
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    • 259 38 TAIWAN'S Big Three mobile phone service providers are bracing themselves for intensified competition ahead of today's introduction of rules that will allow customers to keep their numbers when they switch between providers, according to a report in the Financial Times. In other markets, such
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    • 1107 39 1 ——i IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF RENGAYA (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Co Reg No. *****4592E At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 3-8-12 Taiho Atsuta, Nagoya. Japan on
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    • 1292 39 RE FUTURISTIC GROUP LTD. (Company Registration No. *****3164K) H (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) FUTURISTIC NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NO J>CE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at 34 Woodlands Industrial Parte E1 Singapore *****7 on 27 October 2005 at
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  • PROPERTY
    • 443 40  -  It pays $36m for Parry Gardens in its first land purchase in five years By KALPANA RASHIWALA OUB Centre Ltd, which is •linked to United Overseas chairman Wee Cho •Yaw, has made its first land in five years. It
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    • 285 40  -  By ARTHUR SIM REGENCY Suites condominium is to be launched by United Overseas Land (UOL) and Low Keng Huat this weekend at an average price of $730 psf. Prices of units on the lower floors of this freehold development are going for as low as $660 psf
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    • 338 40  -  Ascendas to grow its investments to US$500m in 5 years By ALEXANDRA HO SINGAPOREAN propertyrelated companies are making inroads in South Korea from acquiring assets to managing them. Business space provider Ascendas, for example, plans to grow its investments in Korea to as
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    • 432 41 Increase fuelled by higher share-price estimates due to possible rent hikes Reuters, Bloomberg [TOKYO] Shares of Japanese real estate companies, including NTT Urban Development Corp and Mitsui Fudosan Co, rose for a second day after ÜBS AG raised estimates on their stock prices, citing
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    • 388 41  -  By ALEXANDRA HO PROPERTY consultants say the party may be over for the UK market, but some believe there are still good investment opportunities in the most exclusive parts of London. In a recent interview, the chief executive of London Central Portfolio Naomi Heaton,
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    • 230 41 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Jerambak Holdings Pty, an Australian holding company for the government of Brunei, plans to sell five cattle ranches in Australia, taking advantage of property prices that have gained as much as 50 per cent in the past three years. Elders
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    • 1821 41 PROJECT NAME) PROP CONTRACT TENURE BUILT-IN/LAND PRICE PSF STREET NAME TYPE DATE AREA*(SQ FT) (SfOOO) (S$) District 1 NON LANDED The Sal Al Manna Bay Apt 21/09/2005 99 1184 1144 %6 The Sail Al Marina Bay Apt 20/09/2005 99 689
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  • WORKSPACE
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      430 42  -  By TAN SU YEN SINGAPORE may be painfully short of land but there is certainly no shortage of rooftop spaces here, certainly not among the office towers of the Central Business District. Therein lies a window of opportunity for proponents of a green and ever greener cityscape rooftop
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