The Business Times, 7 April 2006

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MICA (P) 0991rt)3/2006 SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg Friday, April 7,2006
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    Lock icon Talk of Nasdaq takeover propels SGX
    807 1  -  Its shares soar 6% to $4.60 By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Suggestions that New York's Nasdaq stock market has its eyes on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) as a takeover target drove the share price of the local bourse to a record high yesterday. Observers said
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    Lock icon NUS feels Gillman Heights en bloc heat
    637 1  -  Its approval needed as it controls over 50% of share values By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] The National University of Singapore is getting some en bloc heat from some of the other apartment owners at Gillman Heights Condo. The university which holds the key
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      16 1 SHIN CORP, AIS Execs cleared of insider trading PG2 111 s'^szisrsooooA 11 Markets Digest Pg 4
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  • TOP STORIES
    • Article
      Lock icon Shin Corp, AIS execs cleared of insider trading
      633 2 Share sales in line with employee warrant exercises By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THE management and directors of Shin Corp and Advanced Info Services (AIS) have been cleared of any wrongdoing after an investigation by the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) into
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      Lock icon ST Telemedia joins Qatar telco in bid for Egypt mobile licence
      616 2  -  Temasek unit stands to win access to highgrowth market By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings' unit Singapore Technologies Telemedia has teamed up with Qatar Telecom to bid for Egypt's third mobile phone licence, a project which could be
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      602 2 Tax cut could see billions more in assets go into Reits MARKET players are calling for lower tax on distributions by real estate investment trusts as an incentive for local property companies to transfer their properties into trusts. They are looking at the tax rate on Reit distributions
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      Lock icon When in China, do as the Chinese do: E&Y
      969 4  -  Understanding the Chinese will help build good relationships By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] The China market presents a vastly different environment from what most investors are used to, requiring patience and a good understanding of the local culture to succeed. What many
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      131 4 sn 2,542.64 (-2.25) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,543.00 (-3.00) siMsa ***** (+0.17) SIMSa FUTURES 3&1.70 (-0.20) MARKETS Thursday Chang* KLSECOMf 941.06 -061 NIKKEI 225 17.***** +245.35 HANG SENG 16,411.13 +311.04 SETINDEX Oowd JAKARTA COMP 1355.01 +10.41 MANILA COMP 2.***** +22.47 SEOUL COMP 1,397.00 +8.23 SHENZHEN 8 275.71 +3.18 MUMBAIIND
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      Lock icon Tax cut could see billions more in assets go into Reits
      669 4  -  Property firms could halve tax burden by holding their assets in Reits By LESLIE YEE [SINGAPORE] Market players are calling for lower tax on distributions by real esate investment trusts (Reits) as an incentive for local property companies to
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon China school operator in legal dispute
      301 6  -  It may have to pay compensation to GL Capital amounting to 10m shares By R SIVANITHY CHINA-BASED school operator Oriental Century Ltd (OCL), which is seeking a Singapore listing, is currently embroiled in a legal dispute which could result in it having to issue
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      Lock icon Five Nat Steel execs paid over $1 m each in 2005
      405 6  -  By LESLIE YEE NATSTEEL Ltd's annual report 2005 shows that three executive directors and two top executives were paid over a million dollars last year. Executive director Ang Kong Hua was paid between $1.5 million and $1.75 million in
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      Lock icon Keep quarterly reporting, lose the guidance
      612 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By MICHELLE QUAH A RECENT McKinsey study found that quarterly guidance was of little use to companies and their shareholders, with the costs far outweighing the benefits. And already, critics of quarterly reporting here have quickly latched onto those findings, using
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      Lock icon Creative shares dive 9.1 % after shock profit warning
      559 7  - Creative shares dive 9.1 after shock profit warning Biggest one-day fall in nine months brings loss so far this year to 18% By MATTHEW PHAN CREATIVE Technology's shock profit warning sent its shares plunging yesterday, with the stock falling 9.1 per cent or $1.10 to $11 its biggest one-day drop
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      Lock icon Pearl Energy set to raise oil output by 25%
      450 7  -  By RONNIE LIM AFTER a delay caused by the intense competition for offshore rigs and equipment, Pearl Energy is set to boost its oil output by another 3,000 barrels per day (bpd) or almost 25 per cent when its TBA oilfield
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      Lock icon AsiaPharm sees double-digit growth for next 2 years
      576 7  -  By SIOW LI SEN ASIAPHARM Group expects to continue enjoying strong double-digit growth in profits and sales for the next two years, riding on the demand for drugs from China's huge ageing population. In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, executive chairman
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      Lock icon China mall may be in S'pore listed Reit
      364 7  -  DBS Bank in the running as issue manager, adviser By LESLIE YEE A GIANT shopping mall in China could find its way into a real estate investment trust (Reit) to be listed in either Singapore or Hong Kong, and Singapore's DBS Bank
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      289 7 Wine Tasting Session savei«% Jjj^B m Com* down to our wine fair and enjoy a wide selection Sub wines are considered India's finest white wine. Domaine De La of wines at great offers, with a chance to indulge continuing till this day with Sub's reputation as a leading Pique Rouge
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon China' stocks retreat; SGX in play
      524 8  -  STOCKS Market sentiment hit as STI slides despite surge in HK and a firm Europe opening R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IIHMNH AKKOVKR-cum-merger speculation yesterday surrounded the Singapore Exchange's (SGX's) shares, sending them to yet another record high, thus providing the main feature of interest
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      1030 8 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Apr 6 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Buy/ Shares Per Before After Stodc Date Director Sell '000 Shr ('000) ('000) CWT 6-Apr-06 Loi Pok Yen *Buy 5 1.20 3720 2.478 3725 2.482 AEI Corp 5-Apr-06 Treadstone Hldgs
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      943 8  -  Compiled by MATTHEW PHAN Midas Holdings April 6 dose: SSO.7S CLSA ASIA-PACIFIC MARKETS. April S JV announced in China: Midas has announced that it will pay 143.7 million yuan (5528.8 million) for a 32.5 per cent stake in a joint venture with CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Works and
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      Lock icon Dollar steadies against euro
      462 8 CURRENCIES AFP [TOKYO] The dollar steadied in Asian trade yesterday after sinking to a 10week low against the euro, with the market squaring up ahead of a meeting on eurozone interest rates later in the day, dealers said. The dollar rose to 117.47 yen in Tokyo
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Auston reports $2.7 m loss as revenue tumbles
      384 9  -  Ongoing CAD investigations resulted in adverse publicity: Auston By CONRAD TAN AUSTON International yesterday announced a loss of $2.7 million for the year ending Dec 31, 2005. Revenue for the education services group tumbled 62.3 per cent to $2.6 million due to
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      Lock icon Mitsui buys stake in S'pore Reit manager
      187 9 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Mitsui Co, Japan's second-biggest trading company, said it invested in a Singapore-based manager of a real estate investment trust to expand its real estate investment outside Japan. Mitsui spent about 500 million yen (Ss6.B million) for a 20 per cent stake
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      Lock icon Memory Devices targets US$1b sales
      415 9 Reuters CHINA-BASED Memory Devices Ltd, which makes computer memory cards and flash memory sticks, aims to double its revenues to US$l billion in the next five years, in part through mergers and acquisitions. Memory Devices, which listed on the Singapore Exchange last November, makes Dynamic
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      Lock icon Optus did not withhold info, Hsien Yang tells court
      429 9 OPTUS did not withhold important information from the Australian Competition and Consumer Competition (ACCC) when the company lobbied for its 2002 deal to share pay TV programming with Foxtel, the Federal Court in Sydney has heard. According to The Age newspaper,
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon China Dairy mulls milk powder plant
        90 9 CHINA Dairy Group Ltd said yesterday it was considering plans to build an additional milk powder production plant in Xi'an City, China, as part of its business expansion strategy. The company said it had also been in preliminary discussions with one of its major
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        Lock icon Cisco Global Alliance project for Datacraft
        121 9 DATAC RAFT Asia will implement the Cisco Global Alliance in Asia following an agreement between Datacraft's parent, Dimension Data Holdings, and networking giant Cisco Systems to expand the geographical reach of the Cisco Global Services Alliance to include Asia, Australia and Europe. The alliance
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        Lock icon CapitaLand clarifies CEO's pay rise reports
        106 9 REACTING to media reports about the 8.5 per cent pay rise last year for its chief executive Liew Mun Leong, CapitaLand Ltd said in a statement to the Singapore Exchange yesterday that some of the reports could be read to imply that the 2005
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      Lock icon Trial date set for Lew, Wong in Broadway case
      363 9  -  By MICHELLE QUAH FORMER Member of Parliament Lew Syn Pau and Broadway Industrial Group executive chairman Wong Sheung Sze will defend in mid-May allegations that they have broken the law by helping another party to buy Broadway's shares. Lawyers for both
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      Lock icon Citigroup downgrades Jurong Tech
      200 9 Bloomberg JURONG Technologies Industrial Corp, which makes cell-phone parts for Motorola Inc, was downgraded to "sell" by Citigroup Inc because of slowing earnings growth. The company's stock fell 4.7 per cent to $1.64 by the 5:05 pm close in Singapore, its biggest one-day drop since Dec
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Sumitomo doubles MMA investment
      378 10  -  Its third plant here will make it Asia's largest advanced chemicals producer By RONNIE LIM TO meet rapidly growing Asian demand, especially in China, for methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer and polymer, Japan's Sumitomo Chemical is doubling its MMA manufacturing investments in Singapore to US$6OO million. This
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      Lock icon High spirits at BT's second Wine Night
      364 10  -  By CONRAD TAN FUN, laughter and hearty conversation flowed as freely as the drinks at The Business Times' second Wine Night for top business leaders on Wednesday evening. Around 70 members of the paper's CEO e-Club, advertisers and BT journalists turned up for
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      Lock icon Solectron to make instruments for US firm
      414 10  -  By CHEN HUIFEN NEW YORK-listed Waters Corp has tied up with the Singapore operations of contract manufacturer Solectron to produce its "Waters Alliance" line of analytical instruments for the global pharmaceutical market. The move will see both parties jointly investing up to US$9
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      Lock icon Three labs for bioimaging, stem cell research opened
      219 10  -  By CHEN HUIFEN SENIOR Minister of State for Health Balaji Sadasivan yesterday opened three new laboratories involved in bioimaging and stem cell research. The three labs spanning 2,400 sq metres over two floors are housed at the Biopolis. Together they have about
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  • KEPPEL.CLIPPER – ROUND THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Braving the elements
      1329 11  -  High winds, icy waters and a torn sail fail to deter the Uniquely Singapore Clipper, writes Business Times journalist and sailor VINCENT WEE This series is brought to you by Keppel Corporation IF there ever was a race with a wide range of contrasts, this was it.
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      Lock icon Taking setbacks in their stride
      583 11  -  By VINCENT WEE in Qingdao THE Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race was restarted on March 25 with race six from Subic Bay to Qingdao. The global yacht race for amateur crews will resume almost as per the original programme with some changes. The
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon CBRE sees rising rents in prime areas
      469 12  -  Average Grade A rent expected to hit $7.20 psf per month, up 26.3% from 2005 By KALPANA RASHIWALA CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) has painted a picture of tightening prime office space and rental escalation here. The firm, in a report released yesterday, says
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      Lock icon Sands drops 'kampung' for high-tech concept
      440 12  -  By ARTHUR SIM THE Las Vegas Sands' Marina Bay integrated resort was initially planned with the "kampung" in mind but its new architect Moshe Safdie has changed all that, making it decidedly more "high-tech" instead. Revealing details of the Sands proposal now called The
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MM Lee in HKfor 2-day visit
        48 12 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew arrived in Hong Kong yesterday for a 2-day visit to address the University of Cambridge 800th anniversary campaign, according to the Prime Minister's Office yesterday. He will also meet business leaders during the visit, the statement added.
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        Lock icon $2m project to raise hospice awareness
        67 12 THE Singapore Hospice Council has entered into a partnership with the Lien Foundation on a $2 million project to raise public awareness of hospice palliative care, which offers medical care and emotional support to terminally ill patients. Some $1.2 million will go into fellowships
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        Lock icon High tech shopping at Carrefour
        96 12 CARREFOUR has spent $250,000 on the latest technology to improve its customers' shopping experience, according to Shafie Shamsuddin, the managing director of Carrefour Singapore. Mobile teams, equipped with electronic scanners supported by wireless technology, are assigned to scan and pack customers' purchases before they reach
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      Lock icon China's Qinzhou city woos investors
      287 12  -  By /OH BOON PING PROPERTY and infrastructure firms looking to expand their reach regionally may wish to look to Qinzhou in southern Guangxi province, as its township development remains largely untapped. "Qinzhou is a city of 3.5 million people with a history of only 10
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      Lock icon ST Engg taps sports to bridge units
      459 12  -  By MATTHEW PHAN HALFWAY through the interview, Tan Pheng Hock, CEO of defence specialist ST Engineering, abruptly cuts in: "Do you know what food is the least appetising?" The answer is apparently anything blue-coloured, says Mr Tan, who heard the question over the
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Greenback vulnerable to reshuffle of Gulf state coffers
      918 13  -  Some central banks believed to be eyeing switch from dollar to euro By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai SHOULD the Gulf state investment bodies, which hold more than half a trillion US dollars in reserves, decide to channel their funds to higher-yield currencies
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      Lock icon Biggest expansion likely in Japan's economy since WWII
      370 13 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's broadest index of future economic activity showed the economy may achieve its longest expansion since World War II later this year. The leading index, which measures consumer confidence and other indicators, was at 80 per cent in February from
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      Lock icon Korean won at highest against US$ in 8 years
      293 13 Reuters [SEOUL] The South Korean won hit its highest in eight-and-a-half years against the US dollar yesterday, lifted by heavy foreign buying of local equities, prompting a government warning against the currency's recent surge. South Korea was prepared to intervene in
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      Lock icon ADB cuts Indonesia growth forecast to 5.4%
      520 13 Bank says country needs US$150b to fix infrastructure AFP IJAKARTA] Indonesia's economy will likely grow at a slower pace of 5.4 per cent this year, revised down from a previous forecast of 5.8-6.0 per cent, the Asian Development Bank said yesterday. The revised
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Mesdaq boosted by rotational interest
      589 14  -  Remisiers and dealers make the best of well-rotated themes By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur "ROTATING themes" have helped maintain investor interest in the Malaysian market and given the bourse a 4.7 per cent boost since the beginning of the year. The local bourse broke
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      Lock icon Petronas eyeing US$1b plants sale to Vinythai: sources
      258 14 Reuters [SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Petronas is considering selling two of its petrochemical plants, including one in Vietnam, to Vinythai PCL in return for a stake in the Thai-listed firm, two sources familiar with the matter said yesterday. Under the plan, Thailand's second-largest
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      Lock icon Indon islands may be leased out
      150 14 AP [JAKARTA] Indonesia is considering leasing some of its 18,000 islands to foreign companies to build luxury hideaways, a newspaper reported yesterday. The plan could boost Indonesia's tourism revenues, hit by years of religious and ethnic violence, environmental destruction and terrorist bombings in the
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      1632 14 A ARMSTRONG INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION LIMITED Company Registration Number: *****3808K) (Incorporated in Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2006 Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Conference Room, 531 Bukit Batok Street 23, Singapore *****7 on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 at
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon China to sign deals to buy US$15b worth of US goods
      364 15 Boeing aircraft, Microsoft software on shopping list of VP Wu-led mission Reuters [WASHINGTON] Chinese companies could sign contracts this month to buy US$l5 billion worth of Boeing aircraft and other American goods and services, a Chinese government spokeswoman said
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      Lock icon China developers consider listing Reits at year end
      377 15 [HONG KONG] Mainland developers, including China Vanke, Beijing Northstar and China Resources, are considering listing real estate investment trusts (Reits) on mainland stock markets as early as the end of the year, The Standard yesterday reported market sources as saying. But first,
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon CCB profit drops by 3.9%
        54 15 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China Construction Bank Corp, the nation's third-largest lender, said that 2005 profit dropped 3.9 per cent after the government curbed lending to cool the economy and rescinded a tax credit. Net income fell to 47.1 billion yuan (559.4 billion), the Beijing-based bank said
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        Lock icon Carly joins TSMC board
        67 15 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's top contract maker of microchips, said yesterday that Carly Fiorina, the former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard Co, has agreed to serve as an independent director. TSMC has maintained three independent seats out of a nine-member board since 2002
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        Lock icon CNOOC begins work at gas field
        87 15 Reuters [SINGAPORE] China's CNOOC Ltd said yesterday that development work at an East China Sea natural gas field that Japan says may extend into its territory is progressing as planned, but declined to comment on a report that it had already started producing. The
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        Lock icon Australian boycott urged
        62 15 AP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's importers association yesterday urged its members to boycott Australian goods in retaliation for Canberra's decision to grant visas to 42 Papuan asylum seekers. "Australia meddled too much in Indonesia's internal affairs by giving the visas," the association said in a statement. It was unclear
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        Lock icon Jakarta to woo investors
        82 15 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's government expects Parliament to pass a new law within nine months that will attract investors seeking opportunities in the South-east Asian nation, Trade Minister Mari Pangestu said yesterday. "Indonesia, as part of South-east Asia, provides the natural balance between India and China," Mr
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      904 15 VAAN SECURITY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED Company Registration No. *****2490W Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of YAAN SECURITY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED ("the Company") will be held at Hotel Royal, Level 15 Presidential Room, 36 Newton Road, Singapore *****4 on Thursday, 27 April 2006
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      740 16  -  Contracts given to private firms to rebuild Mumbai, Delhi airports By SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA in New Delhi APRIL 4, 2006, will be remembered as a very important day in the calendar of India's economic reforms. Despite stiff opposition from workers and crucial coalition partners,
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      276 16 AFP [NEW DELHI] A strike at India's largest public sector bank for better pensions entered its fourth day yesterday after talks with the government failed, a State Bank of India union official said. "Last night we were with the chairman of
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      509 17 Foreign interest in Japanese stocks appears to remain strong Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Topix index marked its highest close since November 1991 yesterday, rising 1.7 per cent as bstnk shares such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and other top firms gained on earnings
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      221 17 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc said yesterday it will spend US$23O million on a chipmaking unit in China, to support operations at its US$2 billion joint plant with STMicroelectronics. Hynix, the world's No 2 maker of memory chips, is building the
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        126 17 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] HSBC Holdings pic—Europe's largest bank by market value —said it started selling its maiden fund in China, tapping the nation's US$5B billion fund industry. The so-called HSBC Jintrust 2016 Lifecycle Fund will start with up to 65 per cent of assets invested
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        109 17 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Ericsson AB, the world's largest maker of wireless networks, won't bid for Lucent Technologies Inc, according to chief executive Carl-Henric Svanberg. Lucent, the No 1 US maker of telephone equipment, agreed this week to be bought by Alcatel SA in a US$l3.4
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        149 17 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] A US federal judge gave final approval to Exxon Mobil Corp's US$l.OB billion settlement of a lawsuit filed in 1991 by service station owners who didn't receive promised fuel discounts, lawyers for the dealers said. Almost 11,000 station owners will share in the award
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      556 18 It is available immediately for download at Apple's website Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Computer Inc, maker of Macintosh computers and iPod music players, on Wednesday rolled out a first-ever software patch to run Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system on its PCs a move
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      345 18 LATEST US DATA Reuters [NEW YORK] US chain stores posted disappointing March sales yesterday, blaming the shift in Easter for the poor results, but said April sales could get a boost from the holiday. Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's biggest retailer, maintained its
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      294 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it completed the first of three stages in rolling out its so-called hybrid market, the largest overhaul of its trading system in three decades. The milestone comes just two weeks after the Securities
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      213 18 Reuters [NEW YORK] US institutional investors funded part of their growing appetite for international equities, real estate and alternative asset classes by shifting out of domestic bonds in recent months, a new study shows. The next to suffer in that allocation shift
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      707 20 Carrier's labour costs are too high and will have to be cut further, he says Bloomberg [DALLAS] AMR Corp's American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, expects flights to remain crowded during the US summer travel season after the industry reduced capacity to
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      292 20 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Delta Air Lines Inc, the third-largest US airline, raised some fares by US$5O each way and most major US carriers, except AMR Corp's American Airlines, matched the increase. Delta raised top coachand first-class fares on most routes, said
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      327 20 Seven-year, US$15b project is to be completed in 2013 AP [CHICAGO] After decades of debate and scrapped blueprints, crews are moving dirt and pouring concrete at O'Hare International Airport for the largest airport expansion in the history of the United States. The seven-year,
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      218 20 AFP [OSLO] Air traffic in Norway was severely disrupted yesterday after cabin crew with the Norwegian branch of Scandinavian Airlines, SAS Braathens, walked off the job in a protest over wages, their union said. All of SAS Braathens domestic flights were cancelled, along
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      424 20 AP [WASHINGTON] Contract talks between the government and the air traffic controllers' union broke off Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration declared an impasse. The two sides, sometimes openly hostile to each other during nine months of collective bargaining, could not agree on
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      194 20 AFP [NEW DELHI] A Qatar Airways plane with more than 200 people aboard made an emergency landing in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its two engines failed shortly after takeoff, an official said. The Doha-hound Airbus A-330 got into trouble soon after
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      621 21  -  It proposes to exempt certain liner tie-ups from anti-trust rules By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] The newly formed Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) released details of its contentious anti-trust immunity for the liner shipping industry yesterday, kicking off three weeks of public consultation on
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      867 21  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR THE dangers of carrying calcium hypochlorite (a bleaching agent) by sea was highlighted last month. Two judgments were delivered in the space of a week in the United Kingdom and the United States that involved an explosion and
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        89 21 Reuters [OSLO] Norwegian shipping group Sto lt-Nielsen posted yesterday a bigger-than-expected drop in first-quarter net earnings but said the fundamentals of its main business remained positive. Net profit in December-February fell to US$4B million from US$3Bl million in the same quarter a year earlier when profits
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        99 21 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc, a shipping firm with headquarters in Greece, plans to raise US$22O million from a share offering in the US and Singapore. The company, which is seeking a listing in Singapore, said it plans to sell 12 million new
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        62 21 Reuters [OSLO] Norwegian shipping exchange International Maritime Exchange ASA (Imarex) said on Monday it would acquire clearing house NOS in a deal worth US$67.l million and divest NOS' equity-clearing business for U5526.6 million. Shareholders in NOS will receive 80 per cent of the payment in
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      293 21  -  Award given by NOL, in memory of founding MD By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is launching a scholarship for its Masters in Science (Maritime Studies) programme, bequeathed by Neptune Orient Lines in memory of its founding managing director, MJ Sayeed.
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      142 21 AFP [KUPANG, Indonesia] Twenty-nine Indonesians are missing and feared dead after a freight boat laden with cows capsized in heavy seas off Indonesia's West Timor last weekend, a survivor and official said yesterday. Three survivors were plucked from the ocean on Wednesday, three days
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      281 21 SGX '000 Ape 6 SS W- Vol CH Offshore 040 -0.01 446 Oman Hup .0.35 0.01 1106 Cosco Corporation 1.22 -0.01 4587 CWT Distribution 1.21 -0.02 119 Ezra Hldgs .2.77 -0.03 1133 Freight Links 0.06 unch 7029 Grand Banks Yacht 0.88 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 1.33 unch 181
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      526 22 EDITORIAL PUNDITS talk of "disruptive technologies" that change the way people work, play and communicate. Automobiles and railways at the turn of the 19th century: disruptive. The Internet at the turn of the 20th: definitely disruptive. Voice over the Internet today: ah, wouldn't businesses, and individuals,
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      991 22  -  The move is highly significant but Beijing faces challenges in implementing the new rules By PENELOPE PHOON ON FEB 15, the Chinese Ministry of Finance made a very significant announcement —that it would be bringing its accounting and auditing standards into line with international
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      775 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ANDY MUKHERJEE INDIANS, more than anyone else in the world, are crazy about single-stock futures. In January, the National Stock Exchange of India traded six times as many of these derivatives as Euronext.liffe, the world's No 2 market for
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      1073 23  -  Americans are anti-immigration because most new immigrants are from Mexico and the rest of Latin America LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent THE global media have focused in recent years on the political backlash in France, Germany, Holland and other Western European countries against immigration. In fact, these
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      780 23  -  ROBERT SAMUELSON AMERICA'S immigration debate is at an impasse. The House has passed a mean-spirited and delusional bill that focuses heavily on border security and would criminalise some humanitarian acts that aid immigrants. As for the 10-12 million illegal immigrants already here, the supposition
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      966 23 ALLGREEN PROPERTIES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Company Registration Number: *****1009N NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 20th Annual General Meeting of Allgreen Properties Limited will be held at The Gallery, Level 2. Traders Hotel. 1A Cuscaden Road, Singapore *****6 on 28 April
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      2508 24 1 SUPERBOWL HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Registration No. *****3139W NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twelfth Annual General Meeting of Superßowl Holdings Umited will be held at the Merlion Room, Superßowl Golf and Country Club, 6 Manna Green, Singapore *****9, on
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      151 24 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR RELEASE SCHULZ (S.EA.) PTE LTD (IN UQUIDATION) CO REG. NO. *****0189K COMPANIES WINDING UP NO. 21 OF 1997 Take notice that I, the undersigned Liquidator of the abovenamed company, intend to apply to Court for my release, dissolution of the
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      1562 24 Vwm t S-H-OUJ V® SHOWY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Registration No. *****6356W (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2006 Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held at 18 Cross Street Bth Floor Marsh McLennan Centre Singapore *****3 on Tuesday,
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      876 24 SING LUN HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Company Registration No: *****8318K Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE 18 IBJmXQIVEN that the Sixth Annual General Mooting of the Company wi be held at 30 Marsing Lane, Singapore *****9 on Tuesday, 25 Apr! 2006 at 3.00 p.m. to transact
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      4167 25 jHfx :»AT^ MJ NJOTIPFS J I V j 1 i Toll free: 1800-289-8822 Email: notices@sph.com.sg SKY CHINA PETROLEUM SERVICES LTD. (Company Registration No. *****2303R) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) SKY CHINA PETROLEUM SERVICES LTD. Notice Of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of
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      489 25 ALLGREEN PROPERTIES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Company Registration Number: *****1009N NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of Allgreen Properties Limited (the "Company") will be held at Traders Hotel, The Gallery, Level 2. 1A Cuscaden Road, Singapore *****6 on 28
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      2317 26 J/Pi NOTICES Bu^fLTrTnND,t Toll free: 1800-289-8822 Email: notices@sph.com.sg J* Shining Corporation Ltd s H 'N Registration No: *****4729G NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixth Annual General Meeting of SHINING CORPORATION LTD (Registration No. *****4729G) will be held at 11 Changi South Street 3 #04-01,
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      2351 26 LEE METAL GROUP LTD. (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Registration No. *****5439 C NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at No. 7, Tuas Avenue 16, Jurong, Singapore *****4 on Tuesday. 25th day of April 2006
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      1730 26 W## WESTECH ELECTRONICS LIMITED KK (Company Registration No *****0445 D) y tK (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND NOTICE OF ROOKS CLOSURE DATE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Board Room, 4th Floor, 34
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      356 26 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF CEDAR ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS SINGAPORE PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 1255 Alderman Drive, Alpharetta. GA USA, on 30 March 2006 at
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      1715 27 MATS €0 NOTICES bu^elTTf.no,t Toll free: 1800-289-8822 Email: notices@sph.com.sg r.f.A if.4 E DM I EDMI LIMITED (Company Registration No. *****1694K) (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of EDMI Limited ("the Company") will be held at The Conference Room,
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      747 27 ASJ HOLDINGS LIMITED (Company Registration No. *****1740N) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Tenth Annual Genera] Meeting of the Company will be held at 10 Penjuru Lane, Singapore *****0 on 24 April 2006 at 9.00 a.m. for the following purposes: AS ORDINARY BUSINESS 1.
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      2479 27 GLOBAL TESTING CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) (Registration No. *****9582R) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Sheraton Towers Singapore, Topaz Room, 39 Scotts Road Sinqapore *****0 on Tuesday, Apnl 25, 2006 at 9.00 am,
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      825 27 ■iß' HEETON HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Registration No.: *****1387 M) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 60 Sembawang Road #01 02/03 Hong Heng Mansions Singapore *****8, on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 at 9.30 a.m. for the
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      2237 34  -  With the World Gourmet Summit into its 10th year, and other food and wine festivals in town, local gourmands are finding themselves almost awash with top dining opportunities. With so much choice available, how does a food festival retain its audience, much less grow it? JAIME EE reports
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  • PURSUITS
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      Lock icon It pays to lay down champagne
      1026 35  -  In 10 years or more, it becomes a totally different wine, says N K YONG N K YONG AVRRY recent aged bottle of champagne reminded me that we very rarely see, let alone drink, mature champagne. The focus is always on mature wines, ready
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      349 35  -  AUCTION By PARVATHI NAYAR THE upcoming Christie's auctions in Hong Kong will be the largest auction series ever held in Asia. "This is the first time the sale period for any series of sales in Asia takes place for a period of five
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      655 35 >at5 NJOTICFS BUY IT SELL IT Flf Toll free: 1800-289-8822 Email: notices® sph.com.sc IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF AUBADE ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD. (Co. Rag. No *****3281 C) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary Gen«ral Meeting of the members of Aubade
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      1082 35 PS SINOPIPE HOLDINGS LIMITED (Co. Reg. No. *****1382N) (Incorporated in Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE OF SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Second Annual General Meeting of Sinopipe Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at Emerald Room 1, Level 4, The City Bayview Hotel Singapore,
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  • CINEMA
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      591 36  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR THE Broadway debut of The Producers in 2001 was greeted with rave reviews finally, a musical that was the real McCoy and it has since become a runaway hit. However, it was only last year that I was able to see it
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      1070 36  -  Palestinian director Michel Khleifi talks to PARVATHI NAYAR about the movies he has made PARVATHI NAYAR Jf J K OU feel the human expe- rience most strongly V when you touch the huI man paradox, how to be I happy in a bad situation," says acclaimed
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      Lock icon Inside Man intelligent yet entertaining
      554 36  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR THE genre that Spike Lee's Inside Man takes on is the bank heist pulled off by the intellectual thief. What makes the film a delight is not that the genre is subverted, but that it is done with such finesse. Lee also
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      323 36  -  DVD REVIEW By PARVATHI NAYAR HERE'S the deal: the latest film on the boy wizard created by J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the best so far. It is the most filmic of them all, with screenwriter Steven Kloves and
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      556 36  -  By GEOFFREY EU BRINGING the tragic tale of star-crossed lovers Tristan Isolde to the silver screen must have seemed like a can't-miss proposition. A few versions of the story exist. but Richard Wagner's 19th-century opera remains the gold standard for this particular pair from
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      240 36 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Ends message warning of ~flHlmotorway lights' failure (5,3) 5 Repercussion when retired 1 1 engineer gets to house (4) 9 Can't sort out what makes ■■~H| the difference (8) __JHL__ 10 Thrashed for having made "'J j I 11 A people talented yet compli--12 French money made of
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  • ARTS
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      Lock icon Timeless musical hits town
      825 37  -  Michael Brenner talks to PARVATHI NAYAR about West Side Story, his first foray into Asia PARVATHI NAYAR IMHHMHI HE cynically-minded call it a sign that both Hollywood and Broadway have long run out of fresh material; the nostalgicallyminded sigh over Natalie Wood, Liza Minnelli and John
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        125 37 April 22-23, Bpm and 3pm respectively; Suntec Convention Hall 601-603; Tickets $58-$ 188 from Sistic SOME people have a birthday party and their guests have a good time. Others have a party, their guests have a ball of a time, and an international travelling dance revue is
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        Lock icon Grease the musical
        98 37 May 26-30, Bpm and 3pm (May 28); Singapore Indoor Stadium; tickets $70 to $145 RELIVE the swinging 50s when black leather jackets, bobby socks, beehive hairdos and pink cadillacs were in as Grease slides into town. This musical about a gang of American high school students needs
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        97 37 July 22-30; 3pm and Bpm; Esplanade Theatre; tickets $28-$ 128 from Sistic CABARET made famous by the 1972 movie version starring Liza Minelli takes place in 1931 Berlin, a period when the Nazi party was coming to power. The decadent Kit Kat Klub is the setting in which the
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        Lock icon Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress
        106 37 From Sept 8; Bpm, Tue to Sun, 3pm, matinee on Sat and Wed; Esplanade Theatre; tickets $30 to $150 from Sistic; further information, www.srt.com.sg FORBIDDEN City premiered here as part of the Esplanade's opening festival in October 2002. The revival coincides with the IMF
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        117 37 Nov 3 to 20; Singapore Indoor Stadium; details will be released later this year on the Sistic website SINCE it premiered in Paris in 1998, Notre Dame de Paris has attracted over three million viewers in France alone and been staged over 2,500 times in 11
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        Lock icon Aspects of Love
        81 37  -  Compiled by Compiled by Parvathi Nayar and Cheah Ui-Hoon April 28-May 6; Drama Centre; tickets $28 to $128 IN 1989, Andrew Lloyd Webber followed up his mega-hit, Phantom of The Opera, with Aspects of Love. It has the most complex plot of any Webber show, involving various
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  • FRENCH FLAIR
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      879 38  -  That is how Stanislas Henriot describes Champagne Henriot, one of the very last family-owned and run champagne houses. The producer talks to GEOFFREY EU about the strengths of his wines GEOFFREY EU LIKE many fine wine producers, Stanislas Henriot is a firm
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      593 38  -  By GEOFFREY EU SEVERAL brand-name wineries will be featured at a series of special wine-and-food dinners during the second week of the World Gourmet Summit, which starts on April 10. An impressive collection of French wines from the likes of Domaine
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