The Business Times, 2 November 2005

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Wednesday, November 2,2005
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  • 863 1  -  Appeals board says rent-free period should not be factored into annual value By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] In a case that will be closely watched by major office landlords in Singapore, an appeals board has recently ruled that rent-free periods granted by landlords should
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  • 116 1 MARKETS Tuesday Change KLSECOMP dOMd NIKKEI 225 13,867.86 +261.36 HANG SENG 14,572.26 +185.89 SET INDEX 693.27 +10.65 JAKARTA COMP 1,064,95 -1.27 MANILA COMP Closed SEOUL COMP 1,188.95 +30.84 SHENZHEN B 188.95 -0.28 MUMBAIIND Closed At 11 am EST Change DOW 10,443.19 +3.12 NASDAQ 2,114.21 -6.09 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE
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  • 476 1  -  Samples from ship fuel deliveries did not meet regulatory specifications By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] The Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has censured two bunker suppliers for delivering ship's fuel that did not meet regulatory specifications. The authority will also meet all local bunker
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 537 2 Ho Ching ranked among Top 50 women to watch TEMASEK Holdings chief executive Ho Ching has been named one of the world's Top 50 women to watch by The Wall Street Journal. She was ranked seventh among 13 women in the category of "Running the Show" a group
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    • 643 2  -  DLA Piper takes over rival Coudert's offices in Asia, including S'pore By MICHELLE QUAH ISINGAPOBH] Law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has strengthened its presence in Asia by taking over the Singapore and Tokyo practices of rival Coudert Brothers, as
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    • 533 2  -  Nikkei soars 2% to 4-year high despite computer glitch By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo DESPITE a massive computer failure which halted trading for several hours, the Tokyo stock market rose to its highest level in four years yesterday in the wake of Prime Minister Junichiro
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    • 422 2 Reuters [BEIJING] The firm behind a US$45O billion bid for the world's top oil company is run from a US$l5O-a-month apartment in the outskirts of the Chinese capital. No one answered the door at the listed address of King
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    • 662 3  -  Wall Street Journal puts her 7th in the category of women who run the show By CHEN HUIFEN [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings chief executive Ho Ching has been named one of the world's Top 50 women to watch by Wall Street Journal.
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    • 279 3 Round-the-World Yacht Race. Leg 2, Race 3, Day 7 THE Uniquely Singapore is currently sailing neck and neck with the New York for third position as the fleet nears the one-mile-deep waters of the mid-Atlantic ridge and light winds begin to take their toll on the fleet The
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 563 4  -  Group moving to cut recently acquired subsidiary Helm's debts By MATTHEW PHAN MAINBOARD-IJSTED investment company kl Ventures's net profit soared 165 per cent to $56.5 million in 2005 but a larger chunk of this year's bottom line 63 per cent stemmed
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    • 726 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By PAULINE NG WHY are most of the foreign funds underweight on Malaysia? There has been a plethora of gopd hews this year for the Malaysian market further liberalising of trading accounts and the scrapping of the fixed currency
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    • 268 4 NUMBER aOSMG GROSS MATUNTY YEAR RAISED COUPON AMOUNT INTEREST OF DAYS Of PUCES* REDEN/PTION ISM (DDE DATE RATE ($m) RWMENT ACCRUED tXQUDWC. YIELD TWK- i INTEREST ACCPUED INTEREST) (%p.a.) 01.02.2006 N*****0E 2004 1 2700.00 *1/8" 1/2 91 99.65 2.39 SG**********
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    • 366 5  -  400-room luxury hotel part of US$5b project planned by MGM Mirage By CHEN HUIFEN JUST months after it sealed a deal to manage a new hotel in Chicago, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group said yesterday it has signed another to manage a
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    • 289 5  -  By CHEN HUIFEN DESPITE a significant charge and the closure of a plant, Fibrechem Technologies managed a 42 per cent jump in Q3 net profit to HK537.9 million, driven by sales of higher-margin products. "Our strategy of focusing on higher-margin products is bearing
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    • 363 5 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] The Chicago Board of Trade, the secondbiggest US futures market, is banking on growth in Singapore to boost transactions and help offset a slowdown in trading of Treasury futures, the market's most active contracts. Trading at the exchange rose about
      Bloomberg; BLOOMBERG  -  363 words
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 408 6  -  Punters might be encouraged to maximise their fees By OH BOON PING IMPOSING an entry fee for casinos may create unhealthy gambling, according to a professor of behavioural economics. "Those paying the daily fee may try to remain in the casinos as
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    • 567 6  -  By OH BOON PING FOR effective risk management, quality is just as important as quantity, says risk consultant Lim Eng Hong from Atos Origin. "You can adopt a highly quantitative system, but if the qualitative aspects such as mindset and commitment to adhere
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    • 109 6 Bloomberg CARGILL Inc, the largest US agricultural company, has bought five palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea in partnership with Temasek Holdings. Cargill said the plantation interests were acquired from CDC Group pic, an investment company owned by the UK government,
      Bloomberg  -  109 words
    • 402 6 S'pore among fastest ageing economies over next 25 years AFP ASIA'S workforce, dominated by adults planning for retirement, has amassed a savings surplus of more than US$3OO billion invested in the global financial markets, US investment bank Morgan Stanley said. "Asia has a
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    • 1018 6 Q0 NOTICES BUY IT- SELL IT- FIND IT IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP 50) AND DHARMALA CAPITAL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD Company Registration No. *****9227R (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(2) of the Companies Act, Cap.so, thai the Final Meeting of the
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    • 778 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF LOH OPTICAL MACHINERY (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD Reg. No. *****8843R (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at Room 21, 3/F, Sino Industrial Plaza,
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 503 7 Latest benchmark increase is biggest since July; stocks, rupiah decline Bloomberg Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia has boosted its benchmark interest rate by a record 1.25 percentage points after inflation jumped to a six-year high. Bank Indonesia raised the benchmark rate used as a
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    • 218 7 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's inflation rate accelerated in October to its highest since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, increasing pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates again in December. Consumer prices rose 6.2 per cent from a year earlier after
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    • 428 7 He may keep rates steady as growth looks set to slow Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Federal Reserve, by raising interest rates yesterday and at its next two meetings, will ensure that Ben S Bernanke faces the toughest question of his career when he becomes chairman next year:
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    • 479 7 Reuters [BEIJING] Chinese manufacturing expanded at its slowest pace in 19 months in October, a private survey showed, but a top government economist said the country will have another year of sparkling growth in 2006. A survey by Hong Kong brokerage CLSA of managers
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  • FOCUS: GLOBAL CARMAKERS
    • 1370 8  -  MARK LANDLER says tensions are building across the German auto industry as workers and automakers face the reality of job cuts MARK LANDLER NYT [HANOVER, Germany] HARTMUT Meine's office here overlooks an old graveyard. It is a fitting view for a man who is waging
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    • 972 8  -  By DORON LEVIN Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Toyota Motor Corp makes life miserable for Detroit carmakers in more ways than anyone can count. Consider Toyota's Camry family sedan, the top-selling model in the US last year, its* seventh sales crown since 1996. The
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 96 9 Reuters [HONG KONG] Chinas Lenovo Group Ltd reported a better-than-expected 22 per cent rise in quarterly profit yesterday as the world's third-biggest personal computer seller gained domestic market share, but its shares slumped nearly 8 per cent on profit taking. The company earned a profit
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      • 78 9 AFP lISIAMABAD] Breakaway Islamic rebels may have carried out the New Delhi bombings in an attempt to embarrass their nemesis President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, security sources and analysts said yesterday. Leading Kashmiri extremists denied any role. That leaves the main possibility that a
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      • 91 9 AP [WASHINGTON] US Treasury Secretary John Snow visits India next week and will discuss a wide range of economic matters with government finance officials and business representatives. Mr Snow will be in India Monday through Thursday, making stops in Bombay and New
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      • 85 9 Reuters [HONG KONG] Business activity in Hong Kong grew at a slower pace in October as new orders from elsewhere in China eased slightly and additions to inventories fell amid uncertainty about the business outlook, the latest purchasing managers' index shows. The Brunswick Purchasing Managers'
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      • 84 9 AP [SFMARANG, Indonesia] Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of Indonesia's former dictator, had his jail sentence for murdering a judge reduced by 45 days to mark the end of Ramadan, officials said yesterday. Suharto was convicted in 2002 of hiring two hitmen
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      • 73 9 Bloomberg [HONG KONG) Shun Tak Holdings Ltd, a property developer and ferry operator controlled by Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho, said it may sell shares for the first time in its casino unit Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM). SJM "is receiving
        Bloomberg  -  73 words
    • Article, Illustration
      33 9 [KUALA LUMPUR] A woman trying on a traditional tudung in preparation for tomorrow's Aidil-Fitri, while a Hindu (right) prays during the Diwali celebrations at a temple in Kuala Lumpur yesterday AFP
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    • 584 9  -  Investment bankers see projects ahead keeping them busy for 2 years By SHOEB KAGDA in Jakarta INDONESIA'S drive to clean up its judiciary is starting to raise hopes in the world's financial capitals, with some multinational companies again taking advantage of investment opportunities. Investment bankers
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    • 605 9 IKAULA LUMPUR] Scomi Marine Bhd (formerly Habib Corp Bhd) is likely to bag several large contracts for the carriage of coal, from state controlled utility giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), StarßizWeek reported sources as saying. It is believed that Scomi Marine, which
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    • 132 9 AFP IKUALA LUMPUR] Anonymous so-called "poison-pen" letters are helping Malaysia's AntiCorruption Agency (ACA) crackdown on graft, a report said yesterday. Used to tarnish reputations, the letters are a feature of Malaysia's political landscape, allowing anonymous writers to vent allegations against officials and political opponents. But
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    • 226 9 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina will give discounts of one to four per cent on fuel sold to industry users as it expects stiffer competition from private oil companies such as Shell, a Pertamina official said yesterday. Shell RDSb.L has opened its
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  • INDIA
    • 1065 10 Hyundai, Renault and Suzuki plan big investment; others may follow suit Bloomberg (TOKYO] After two years of discounts and overproduction curbed auto earnings from China, carmakers including South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co and Renault SA of France are setting their sights on India.
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  • THE LI EMPIRE
    • 1566 12 Scion of Li Ka-shing has yet to show the deal-making prowess that earned his dad the nickname Superman Bloomberg VICTOR Li, the heir to Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's US$9l billion real-estate and telecommunications empire, has yet to convince investors that he can
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 431 13 It will sell off minority stakes to raise funds for network expansion AP [SHANGHAI] China's staterun railways plan to sell shares to private investors to help pay for massive construction and restructuring, a railway ministry official said yesterday. China's economic blueprint
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    • 647 13 Neither Link Reit nor Prosperity Reit holds top properties Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's first two real estate investment trusts (Reits) offer investors a choice of high yield or the potential for capital gains when they debut at the end of this month.
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    • 392 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] For American investors, China can seem a land of limitless possibility entrepreneurs salivate at the thought of doing business with just a sliver of the population of 1.3 billion. Judging by a recent spate of initial public offerings, Chinese companies have
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    • 173 13 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Private equity investment in China will accelerate after the government announced new rules, effective yesterday, that allow companies to set up offshore financing vehicles, Softbank Investment International (Strategic) Ltd said. Private equity firms have spent less than US$3OO million of
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    • 392 13 Reuters [BEIJING] China's central bank announced new steps yesterday to allow Hong Kong banks to do more yu-an-denominated business, giving them a greater opportunity to tap the mainland's fast economic growth. Hong Kong banks have been providing personal yuan banking services since February
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 581 14 Sourcing IT services generated over 250,000 new jobs in US this year AFP [WASHINGTON] The outsourcing of technology jobs to low-wage countries will provide a US$6B.7-billion benefit to the US economy this year, soaring to US$l47 billion by 2010 a finding that challenges key
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    • 239 14 Bloomberg AP [WASHINGTON] US manufacturing expanded in October at the second-fastest pace this year. The Institute for Supply Management said yesterday that its factory index fell to 59.1 from 59.4 in September, which was the highest in 13 months. Readings greater than
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    • 300 14 AFP [WASHINGTON] A high-level panel appointed by President George W Bush yesterday recommended the first wholesale revision to the US tax code in two decades to encourage savings and economic growth. The panel's report said that without comprehensive reform, the tax system would
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    • 272 14 AP [LONDON] Britain's Competition Commission gave Euronext and Deutsche Boerse the green light yesterday to acquire London's Stock Exchange (LSE), but they must ensure the exchange's clearing provider remains independent. The Competition Commission said a takeover by either Euronext or Deutsche Boerse would "substantially lessen
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    • 460 14 Reuters [BANGKOK] Power producer Egat will raise up to U*****.4 million to finance expansion in the country's largest initial public offering ever. The government will sell a 16 per cent share of the country's largest power producer to the public
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    • 416 14 AP Reuters [BRISBANE] It will cost US$lO2 million in the next two to three years to fight the spread of bird flu in impoverished Southeast Asian nations, a United Nations official said yesterday. "If the disease spreads from eastern
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  • AVIATION
    • 584 15 Without the revamp costs it would have reported a profit of US$68m Bloomberg (CUICAGOI United Airlines parent UAL Corp, the world s second-biggest carrier, said its third-quarter loss widened on US$l.B4 billion of reorganisation costs as it prepared to emerge from three
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    • 269 15 Bloomberg [TOULOUSE] Boeing Co said it won an order from All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan's second largest carrier, for three 767-300 passenger airliners to be converted into freighters as ANA prepares for an air freight joint venture with Japan Post. ANA is also taking
      Bloomberg  -  269 words
    • 269 15 Bloomberg (BEIJING! Hainan Airlines Co, which is partly owned by US billionaire George Soros, had its second quarterly decline as rising fuel cost eroded profitability. Third quarter net income fell 71 per cent to 11.9 million yuan (552.5 million), from 41.6 million yuan
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    • 332 15 Bloomberg INEW DELHI] Jet Airways (India) Ltd, the nation's biggest domestic airline, said second-quarter profit fell 11.4 per cent after it cancelled flights for a week in Mumbai, its biggest hub, and it paid more to buy fuel. Net income in the
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    • 498 15 Bloomberg I HONG KONG] China Eastern Airlines Corp, the nation's third-biggest carrier, had its first profit in three quarters as a higher value of the yuan cut the costs of its US dollar debt and fuel purchases. Net income more than doubled
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 180 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD DOWN 12 Remains in a silent order (3) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 15 Direl V dishonest sybarites (9) Across: Dictatorship, 8 Lever, 9 inwoctaH in 16 A prote ,n unusuall V found ,n Energetic, 11 Inspected, 12 Trots, mrSnf m P° lson (8) 13 Gratitude. 16 Error, 18 Obese,
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  • SHIPPING
    • 633 16 Group remains very optimistic about a lasting China shipping boom Reuters [SHANGHAI] Danish shipping giant AP MoellerMaersk will take a share of the second phase of a US$l2 billion port in Shanghai, a senior executive said yesterday, as it bets on the
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    • 719 16 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co, the country's biggest shipping company, said it will buy twice as many oil tankers and container vessels to carry materials and meet a government goal of doubling economic output by 2010. The company aims to have the capacity
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    • 588 16 Reuters [LONDON/FRANKFURT] German tourism and container shipping group TUI has gained credit ratings from Standard Poor's and Moody's Investors Service that reduced the cost of insuring against a default by the company, traders said. TUI needed to get a credit
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    • 303 16 SGX '000 Oct 31 SS Vol CH Offshore 0.38 0.01 94 ChuanHup .0.80 0.02 421 Cosco Corporation .2.20 0 08 8458 CWT Distribution 0.84 0.01 166 Ezra Hldgs 1.37 0.03 608 Freight Links 0.06 unch 1756 Grand Banks Yacht 0.91 unch 4 Java Holdings 1.34 0.06 1011 K1
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    • 150 16 Bloomberg [LONDON] China, Hong Kong and Taiwan may boost handling of shipping containers by 73 per cent by 2008 compared with 2003 as trade increases, an AP Moeller-Maersk A/S official said. The three nations may handle 133 million containers measuring 20-feet each in
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    • 832 16  -  STRAIT TALK By DAVID HUGHES THE signs of a downturn in the container shipping market have been there for all to see for some time. Throughout these past heady three years of relative plenty, consultants who study these things have been muttering dark warnings
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  • 6675 17 FINANCE COMMODITIES MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES In local cuff la SS «a OSS «bdy \y< S&r Syr Oy %yt Otx 31 lnda» Chang* Changa Chang* Chang* Chang* Chang* Work) index Preliminary 9125 12 7.0 11 10 (19 2j0 IIATE Preliminary 993 J 19 15.6 14 77 17 3.7 furope
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 544 18 EDITORIAL IT doesn't take a guru to say so, but there you have it Singapore companies are ill-equipped to cope with the challenges of a rapidly-ageing population, a human capital consultant said in a recent BT interview. Many employers here like their counterparts in other
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    • 755 18  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING CHINA is going to great lengths to ensure that North Korea does not back out of the agreement-in-principle that it signed on Sept 19, after the fourth round of sixparty talks on the
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    • 1147 18  -  Building a brand takes time and clear goals, so companies need discipline to get there JOE BALADI BRANDING requires momentum, acceleration and critical mass to reach a tipping point where things begin to happen, be visible and make sense. In other words, branding
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    • 1616 19  -  They recruit the world's top brains to fuel quest for academic excellence By HOWARD W FRENCH AP tjtt hen Andrew Chi-chih II Jf Yao, a Princeton mb, 1 m professor who is aft Jf 'H M recognised as one of the ■Jf vft Jf United States'top
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    • 696 19  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Capt M Segar Director (Port), Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore 1 REFER to the report, "Bunker fuel tests spark talk of tampering" (BT, Oct 27). The bunkering industry is an important part of Singapore's maritime industry. Given its importance,
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    • 684 19  -  What happened to 'compassionate conservatism'? ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group G FORGE W Bush entered the White House preaching "compassionate conservatism", but he may leave known for cynical conservatism. By this, I don't mean that his presidency will fail. The judgment
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