The Business Times, 12 October 2006

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  • 19 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES HTth 3b SINGAPORE&tAI^ online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 099/03/2006 Thursday/October 12,2006
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  • 708 1  -  Rising construction costs, declining rents put paid to ambitious San Francisco waterfront project By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] An ambitious plan to build a cruise centre heralded as a jewel in Singapore's overseas crown and a long-awaited revitaliser of San Francisco's dilapidated waterfront has come
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  • 611 1  -  New building on Overseas Union House site; Change Alley Aerial Plaza to be conserved By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] The longawaited redevelopment of two ageing landmark properties in Collyer Quay is finally going ahead. Sources say United Overseas
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  • 131 1 STI 2.641.61 (-6.05) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,644.00 (-6.00) SIMSCI 318.03 (-0.04) SIMSCI FUTURES 318.50 (unch) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLCOMP 970.37 >0.66 NIKKEI 225 16,400.57 -76.68 HANG SENG 17,862.79 +39.09 SET INDEX 697.82 -1.34 JAKARTA COMP 1.553.12 -1.80 MANILA COMP 2.527.27 -1.71 SEOUL COMP 1,325.49 -2.88 SHENZHEN B 325.99
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    • 8 1 PROPERTY Mansion to go ahead ll PAGE 36
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    • 106 1 CHINA S RICHEST foper tycoon is first woman to top rich list WM 4m W r 9H' ImtJfa HK: jkmm I Wm BRt JT jT M mil I!. Wj|U ■Bi—- 1 -it, ,i 4 You never actually ~\l^B own a Patek Philippe, n**lJ You merely after it for the Men's
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    • 61 1 BnlT: LIFE AT THE TOP Business Objects' PROPERTY FEVER It's hot and it's back. Don't miss our 18-page property special with today's BT COMMENTARY Why SGX must deter short-selling of warrants PAGE 7 THE BOOKER wm PRIZE 2006 M A Kit** oBS Kip j| India-born Kiran Desai wins Man Booker
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 690 2 Paper tycoon Zhang is world's richest self-made woman Bloomberg [BEIJING] Paper-recycling entrepreneur Zhang Yin became the first woman to top a ranking of China's richest people, amassing a fortune of US$3.4 billion after her company's shares were listed in Hong Kong and almost tripled
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    • 258 2  -  His successor likely to be Raffles Medical's executive chairman: market watchers By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Property tycoon Philip Ng of Far East Organization is expected to step down as chairman of the board of Sentosa Development Corpo(SDC) in the
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    • 529 2 He'll head Goldman Gao Hua as China firms plan big IPOs Bloomberg [TOKYO] Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Wall Street's most profitable firm, promoted Richard Ong to run its business in China, the world's fastest-growing major economy. Mr Ong, the co-presi-dent of Goldman's Singapore
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    • 586 2 Singapore firms eye housing markets beyond China, India MORE Singapore companies are looking beyond China and India to seek out opportunities in the housing and urban development Markets like Vietnam and Middle East are already very hot, while others such as Pakistan, increasingly on the radar screen. TOP
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    • 836 4  -  Housing projects in Vietnam, Russia, ME on radar screen By NANDE KHIN [SINGAPORE] More Singapore companies are looking beyond China and India to seek out opportunities in the housing and urban development sector. Markets like Vietnam and Middle East are already very hot, while
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    • 583 4 She is the youngest female winner of the prize Bloomberg [LONDON] Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, an ebullient novel about globalisation and its impact on a small Himalayan village, has won the £50,000 (*****,290) Man Booker Prize for fiction. The 35-year-old Indiaborn
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 764 6  -  IPO WATCH Firm lands deal to sell bird flu test kits to Indonesia; deal in China on cards By WONG WEI KONG ROCKEBY biomed Ltd, a home-grown bio-tech firm listed in Australia, could be heading home for a Singapore listing after winning a series
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    • 435 6  -  By MICHELLE QUAH MALAYSIAN-BASED cleanroom products specialist Riverstone Holdings is eyeing a listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The Singapore-incorporated company has lodged its preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and is now awaiting MAS's approval for a share listing.
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    • 5551 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ■TTmmTTTSHHHHHHi ABAmer Income AT USO a. 591 AB Amer Income BT USD 8.62/ f 1ULJ .1 AB Amer Income A USO 8.® < S AB Amer Income B USO 8.6/ ?"?S Amer Income A EUR 6 86/ Star Europe Bond 1.18* *8 Amer Income 8 EUR 6.961
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    • 519 7  -  Hsieh Fu Hua received 80% pay jump while FYO6 profit also up 80% By SIOW LI SEN THE 80 per cent pay rise of Singapore Exchange (SGX) chief executive Hsieh Fu Hua which matched the company's 80 per cent net profit increase for
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    • 767 7  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R SIVANITHY TO take the warrants market to its next level of development, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) is putting in place a slew of measures aimed at making Singapore as attractive as possible to warrant issuers. All measures
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    • 254 7 Reuters STREETTRACKS Gold Shares, the world's largest gold exchange-traded fund (ETF), started trading on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday in a move to attract more investors into the bullion market. The fund, Asia's first gold-based ETF, opened at U5557.60, hit a high of
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    • 363 8  -  Wing Tai's $1,369 psf ppr pips record set by Pin Tjoe Court last month By KALPANA RASHIWALA A NEW benchmark has been set for residential land in Singapore. Wing Tai Holdings' $201 million purchase of Ardmore Point in plush Ardmore Park reflects a price
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    • 326 8 Reuters RETAIL and property group Wing Tai Holdings expects its earnings to be underpinned by a sustained upturn in Singapore's property market, but said it will continue to diversify outside the country. Wing Tai deputy chairman Edmund Cheng said yesterday that Singapore would account
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    • 206 8 Reuters [HONG KONG] An institutional shareholder of Hongkong Land Holdings, the biggest landlord in the Central district of Hong Kong, sold 138 million existing shares in the property firm for US$5ll million, a banker close to the deal said yesterday. The sale shares in
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    • 222 8 KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation (KT&T) yesterday said it is negotiating for a stake in iCell Network, one of the three companies picked to provide free wireless Internet access in Singapore. On Tuesday, the government un- veiled a slew of multi-million-dollar initiatives aimed at bringing
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    • 429 8  -  Price of 17 share an 82.4% premium over net asset value By NANDE KHIN SMART card solutions provider I'M Technologies said yesterday that Euronextlisted Oberthur Card Systems SA (OCS) is acquiring it via a proposed scheme of arrangement for $34 million
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    • 235 8 SHIPOWNER and manager Singapore Shipping Corporation (SSC) plans to sell its stakes in two associated companies to the Wallenius GroUp for about U5516.42 million. In an announcement yesterday, mainboardlisted SSC said it had entered into sale and purchase agreements with the Swedish
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 554 10  -  STOCKS Market barometer sheds six points; second-line activity centres on penny shares R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent THE Jardine group's rise to all-time highs has been largely instrumental in driving the Straits Times Index (STI) to its own lofty heights, and so it was
      Source Bloomberg  -  554 words
    • 986 10 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Oct 11 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Buy/ Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Sell '000 Shr TOM) COOP) Dayen 11-Oct-06 Lee Ching Yen Buy ***** 0.45 0 0.00 ***** 16.30 Vita Hldgs 11-0ct-06 Chong Thim
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      952 10  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI OSIM International Oct 11 dose: SSI.BB CITIGROUP RESEARCH, Oct 10 OUR recent meeting with the management suggests that OSIM is on track with its efforts at Brookstone (BRK). Stock-keeping units (SKUs) have fallen below 800 (from over 900 previously), in line with plans to
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    • 520 10  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE Japanese yen fell to fresh 2006 lows versus both the US and Singapore dollars yesterday, hurt by more evidence of US dollar strength and rumours of another North Korean nuclear weapon test. In Asian trading,
      Source: Reuters  -  520 words

  • COMPANIES: CHINA STOCKS
    • 385 11  -  It points out that reported profits, net asset value are unaffected By MATTHEW PHAN 810-TREAT Technology said yesterday that a "classification error" has resulted in material differences between its audited and non-audited financial statements for the full year ended June 2006. The company,
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    • 316 11  -  By JEAN CHUA ASIA Environment Holdings has signed a deal to build, own and operate (BOO) a water project in the Binxi Economic Development Zone in Harbin, in north-east China. It is the first such deal for the Singa-pore-listed China-based company. The 190
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    • 368 11  -  By JEAN CHUA CELESTIAL Nutrifoods said its investment in a bio-die-sel factory in a soybean zone is in line with its core business and that the cash to fund it will come from an issue of convertible bonds. The soybean maker said
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    • CHINA BRIEFS
      • 107 11 FTSE Xinhua said after the hearing of its copyright-infringement case yesterday that it is now awaiting further instructions from the court. The Shanghai district court that heard its case will come back to it with either a verdict or a date to continue hearing the
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      • 71 11 SHOE maker Hongguo International has engaged a consultant to help it define and implement an investment strategy and business development programme, especially in the Greater China market. The plan will explore ways to enhance "growth and shareholder value" which may involve joint ventures, alliances and acquisitions of
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      • 100 11 CHINA Kangda Food said that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) through its subsidiary Qingdao Kangda Foods to supply onion rings products to Best Food Services in the United States, whose customers include Burger King. China Kangda will invest about 14 million
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  • SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL
    • 1052 12  -  A high-level Singapore team heads for Russia next week, giving economic cooperation a further boost. CHUANG PECK MING reports CHUANG PECK MING RUSSIA is once again in Singapore's spotlight as a high-level mission prepares to leave for Moscow and St Petersburg next week to seek
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    • 443 12 SINGAPORE-BASED Younger (S) Pte Ltd produces BBQ pork jerky, pork floss and sausages in China for the Singapore and Japanese markets. It also takes advantage of lower costs' there to make Chinese dimsum and Japanese food to be shipped to Japan,
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    • 492 12 SINGAPORE and Russia inked a Memorandum of Understanding on Economic Cooperation in Special Economic Zones in August, sealing Singapore's advisory role in the development of SEZs in Russia. In the next six months, Singapore will direct its assistance to the SEZs in Tomsk and Elabuga.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 484 13  -  H1 pre-tax profit up3l% y-o-y to US$185m on 25% higher revenue By LESLIE YEE HSBC Singapore made US$lB5 million in pre-tax profit for the first half of this year, up 31 per cent year-on-year, the newly appointed chief executive officer for HSBC Singapore,
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    • 301 13  -  By OH BOON PING ETH Domain, a topEaropean group of research and teaching institutes, is partnering the National Research Foundation (NRF) to set up a research centre here. At a briefing yesterday, ETH board president Alexander Zehnder said the centre would
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    • 294 13  -  PROMISING FRANCHISES O'Briens Irish, Cherie Hearts, Blush! make the cut Reports by UMA SHANKARI THE Franchising Licensing Association of Singapore (FLA) yesterday unveiled its three finalists for the 2006 Franchisor of the Year award, choosing names that most Singaporeans .would be familiar
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    • 409 13 HOME-GROWN lingerie label Blush! is going places, and the company's chief executive Patrick Chai is not shy when it comes to talking about his brainchild. While Blush! might have started out as a lingerie store, Mr Chai now wants to expand into
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    • 297 13  -  More local firms using framework to benchmark their performance By DANIEL BUENAS SPRING Singapore will honour more organisations with the coveted Business Excellence Awards which comprise the Singapore Quality Award (SQA), the People Excellence Award and the Singapore Innovation Award at a gala dinner
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 79 13 NATIONAL water agency PUB yesterday said it is calling a public tender to upgrade the Macßitchie Reservoir Park (right) the oldest reservoir in Singapore without affecting the nature reserve. The improvement works will see more greenery added to the front of the park which currently
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      • 59 13 SENTOSA Cove Pte Ltd awarded the Marina Collection condominium site to Lippo Global Assets Ltd last Friday. The Lippo unit emerged as the highest bidder when the tender for the 99-year leasehold site closed last month with its price of $234.7 million, which works
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 397 14 Reuters AFP [DUBAI] Crude oil rose as Qatari and Nigerian officials said Opec was close to a formal accord to cut output by one million barrels a day to stem a drop in prices. "Voluntary" reductions will be made on "a
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    • 388 14 AP AFP [SHANGHAI] China's economy is likely to grow by 10.5 per cent this year and slow only slightly in 2007, state-run newspapers said yesterday, citing a government thinktank that called for stronger action to cool an investment boom. The authorities
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    • 279 14 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the US housing market's tumble will "dramatically slow" following falls in construction and prices this year. "The rate of decline is going to dramatically slow," he told an audience of insurance
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    • 611 14 He also warns of being fixated on the US housing, auto markets Reuters (LONDON] Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president Richard Fisher said on Tuesday that he is comfortable with US interest rates at current levels but stressed that they could rise
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 540 15  -  Asli official resigns one day after think-tank retracts his paper By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur THE author of a controversial study on ethnic Malay corporate ownership in Malaysia yesterday resigned from his position at the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (Asli) to protest
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    • 2319 15 VOL Gamuda 4.00 0.08 1354 Oct 11 RM C000) General Corp .0.60 -0.01 164 Genting 2625 -025 1744 ASM Realty 1.39 unch 3 George Kent .0.52 unch 295 Abric 031 unch 47 G HL Systems .0.24 0.01 2487 ACP Industries 0.91 -0.01 158 Globetronics Tech .0.30 unch 157
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    • 370 15 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has apologised for the smoke haze from forest fires burning in his country that has choked parts of neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore. "Under the name of the Indonesian government, I should apologise to the neighbouring countries over this
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    • 187 15 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's real estate investment trust (Reit) industry isn't big enough and may struggle to lure investors amid competition from larger markets like Singapore and Hong Kong, fund managers at Henderson Global Investors Ltd said. "The small number of Reits that
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 60 15 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's president, who has been mentioned as a leading candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced tomorrow, is more popular at home now than earlier this year, a poll released yesterday showed. The new survey showed 67 per cent of more than 1,200
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      • 78 15 Reuters [BEIJING] The Shanghai Petroleum Exchange plans to extend spot trading via its electronic tender bidding system in an effort to increase market participation, the China Securities Journal reported yesterday. Qualified dealers currently can trade through electronic tender bidding system from 9:30-11:00 on Wednesday and
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      • 44 15 AFP [BEIJING] China plans to reduce its bulky trade surplus to zero by the end of the decade, via a drastic decline in the growth of its exports to the outside world, the government said. —AFP
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      • 63 15 AP [BEIJING] China's leaders yesterday wrapped up an annual policymaking session focusing on the plight of the country's poor amid upheaval within the ruling Communist Party. The four-day meeting of the Central Committee was officially meant to take up efforts to spread China's new prosperity
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    • 247 15 Reuters [JAKAßTA] ExxonMobil Corp may still be allowed to operate the huge Natuna offshore gas field subject to new terms, despite the termination of the existing contract, an energy ministry official said yesterday. Indonesian Oil Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said two days ago
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 297 16 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Shares of Sai\y Heavy Industry Co Ltd jumped more than 3 per cent yesterday, outpacing a flat market, on news its parent wants to build a US plant, the latest Chinese firm to try and tap markets abroad.
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    • 601 16  -  HK leader says he will focus on improving people's livelihood By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong HONG KONG'S leader yesterday sidestepped thorny political issues and pledged a series of measures to improve the economy and make the regulatory landscape friendlier for overseas companies seeking
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    • 497 16 Company needs capital to bankroll projects in China Reuters [HONG KONG] Eldorado Gold Corp, named after the mythical city of gold, is aiming to float shares in Hong Kong next year to bankroll a quest for projects in China, the firm's top executive said on
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    • 237 16 Reuters [HONG KONGJ A real estate investment trust (Reit) spun off by Hong Kong's Regal Hotels will launch an initial public offering (IPO) worth more than US$5OO million in November, a source close to the deal said yesterday. Reit fever swept Hong Kong
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    • 179 16 AFP [BEIJING] China's economy is likely to grow 10.5 per cent this year and slow only marginally next year, Xinhua news agency said yesterday, citing the main government think tank. The expected growth in the Chinese economy, up from 10.2 per cent recorded last
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    • 267 16 AFP [BEIJING] Complaints from foreign banks that new rules on their local-currency operations in China are too strict are likely to have fallen on deaf ears, a report in the state media yesterday indicated. The final regulations will probably keep a draft
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    • 1313 16 LANTROVISION (S) LTD (Company Registration No. *****3374R) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of LANTROVISION (S) LTD ("the Company") will be held at 102F Pasir Panjang Road, #03-08, Citilink Warehouse Complex, Singapore *****0 on Friday, 27 October 2006, at 10.00 a.m.
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  • INDIA
    • 489 18 He's pushing Sebi to disgorge illegal gains made by them Economic Times [MUMßAl] Finance minister P Chidambaram wants the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to disgorge illegal gains made by a clutch of operators, who have manipulated allotment of shares in scores
      Economic Times  -  489 words
    • 516 18 It rakes in 9.3b rupees, beats market estimates AFP Bloomberg [BANGALORE] India's sec-ond-largest software exporter, Infosys, said yesterday its second quarter net profit shot up 52 per cent from a year ago as it roped in more clients due to an outsourcing
      AFP; Bloomberg; BLOOMBERG  -  516 words
    • 297 18 [MUMBAI/KOLKATA] The Kalyani group has initiated negotiations with Corus to buy some of the AngloDutch steelmaker's units, the online Business Standard reported. The paper cited sources close to the development as saying that the Pune-based Kalyani group had held high-level talks for
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  • MIDDLE-EAST
    • 337 19  -  Facility to be used to finance overseas projects, complete local ones By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai DUBAI-BASED Emaar Properties, which recently acquired Singapore's Raffles Campus Pte Ltd, said work on its US$2O billion Downtown Burj Dubai development which has at its epicentre the
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    • 175 19 Reuters [DUBAI] Dubai's government-owned Istithmar investment agency said it is mulling more ventures in South Africa, adding to its joint 7.01-billion-rand (551.43 billion) purchase last year of Cape Town's V&A Waterfront. Istithmar, which last week spent US$l billion on a stake in Standard
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    • 486 19 Wealthy Arab states, expatriates come to its help AFP [DUßAl] Lebanon is safe from a monetary collapse despite Israel's blistering 34-day offensive against Hezbollah due to sufficient capital inflows and a successful monetary policy, the International Monetary Fund believes. "The IMF
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    • 222 19 AFP Reuters [ANKARA] Turkey's government may cut val-ue-added tax (VAT) on some sectors, including tourism, as long as it does not upset its economic programme or fiscal balances, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullatif Sener said. Tourism Minister Atilla Koc said last week that VAT
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    • 536 21 Company's advisers signal offer needs to be even higher NYT AP [NEW YORK] Two private equity firms Apollo Management Group and Texas Pacific Group have sweetened their bid for Harrah's Entertainment, the world's largest casino operator, to more than US$l5.5 billion, people
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    • 685 21  - Brat to brat —or man to man? ASIA INSIGHT George W Bush and Kim Jong-il need urgent face-to-face talk ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent A "SPOILT and dangerous brat" at the head of a nuclear power? The very idea sounds horrible, but which nation are we talking about? North Korea's "Dear
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    • 475 21 Reuters AP AFP [TOKYO] Japan announced new sanctions against North Korea yesterday over its reported underground nuclear blast even as the reclusive communist state held out the threat of more tests. The North's KCNA news agency said pressure from Washington to rein in
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 58 21 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US budget deficit in fiscal 2006 narrowed to US$24B billion from US$3l9 billion in 2005, as revenues were the highest on record and in spite of record spending, the Treasury Department said yesterday. It was the smallest budget deficit since
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      • 51 21 Reuters [NEW YORK] Warren BufTett, chairman of insurance and investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc, has spoken out for morality in business in a strongly-worded memo to his top managers. He came down hard on "accounting gimmicks" such as stock options backdating in the
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      • 76 21 Reuters [HELSINKI] Profits and sales at Nokia, the world's top cellular phone maker, should get a boost from robust demand in Asia's emerging markets in the third quarter, but analysts say global sales may slow next year. Excluding one-off items, Nokia's earnings per share
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  • MARTECH 2006
    • 585 22  -  Experts will share creative ideas and show their latest technologies to exploit growth in the maritime sector, writes GEORGE JOSEPH GEORGE JOSEPH THE Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA) and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore are jointly organising the 7th MARTECH conference and exhibition, with the theme
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    • 241 22 INDUSTRIAL requirements for training can change rapidly due to market adjustments. That's why today's training institutions need to be vigilant and flexible enough to put together new courses as the demand arises, says Singapore Maritime Academy director Roland Tan. "In the LNG transportation
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    • 1308 23 Tertiary and research institutions collaborate with the MPA and the maritime industry to engage in joint R&D projects THERE is a vibrant maritime R&D and technology scene in Singapore, where tertiary and research institutions have joined hands with the MPA and maritime industry to engage
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    • 860 24  -  Other ship officers can be retrained quickly to stem staff shortage, says KALYAN CHATTERJEA KALYAN CHATTERJEA THE current phase of unprecedented rapid growth in LNG (liquefied natural gas) transportation at sea was not really anticipated. The resulting acute manpower shortage in this niche
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    • 382 24  -  By ROD SHORT THE annual contribution of the world shipping industry to the global economy is of the order of US$B trillion, according to The Economist magazine. But, as The Economist added, it is "largely unrecognised". Ships at work are over the horizon and the
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    • 793 25  -  The chances are, the standard set in the next few years is likely to be substantially the same as that a decade ago, says DAVID HUGHES DAVID HUGHES TODAY, principals and lecturers from maritime education and training (MET) establishments are meeting in Singapore for the
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    • 455 25 congratulations Slnfipora Maritime Acadomy Students 4th Maritime Experiential Learning Camp 15-18 October 2006 Aixlul Kahar Naufal Lim Joo Ting Nurulain Binte Supati Bin Ahmad Akhia Li m g uan j erem y Ong Kah Yong Anandhan S/O Rajagopal Um yj Wen Yvonne Ong Pei Yi Ananthi D/OTamilaga Un Kajren Ong
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  • AVIATION
    • 692 26  -  But it doesn't expect customers of Airbus's A380 to defect By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Boeing, which has been watching the storm swirling around European rival Airbus's inability to keep to its delivery promises for its A3BO, is quietly confident that it will
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    • 322 26 Reuters [NEW YORK] Delta Air Lines Inc on Tuesday said it planned to begin introducing lie-flat seats in business class in 2008 as the bankrupt carrier works to lure high-end international travellers. "We think (the new seats along with
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    • 245 26 [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), the country's biggest airport manager, has submitted a bid to build, operate and manage a new US$2BO million terminal at the Queen Alia International Airport in the Jordanian capital Amman, a report in Malaysia's Business
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    • 461 26 Rescue plan will affect France and Germany: official AFP [FRANKFURT] The European aircraft company Airbus yesterday denied a newspaper report that.it wanted to sell five German factories employing 6,600 people. "That's pure speculation," a spokesman for Airbus Germany said, adding that
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    • 204 26 AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand's largest private airline Bangkok Airways said yesterday that it will raise a 10.5 billion baht (*****.9 million) fund to invest in airline-related projects. The Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission has already approved the Samui Property Fund, a quasi equity, and
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  • SHIPPING
    • PORT SHOTS
      • 59 27 Bloomberg [ATHENS] Goldenport Holdings Inc, the first Greek shipowner to list shares on the LSE, said its fleet is 98 per cent booked this year under charter contracts. Goldenport's 10 container vessels are all booked, while 97 per cent of the available days
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      • 76 27 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Nippon Yusen KK (NYK) has agreed to pay Nippon Oil Corp less for key ship fuel when it settles its September bill than it did a month earlier, a Nippon Yusen spokesman said yesterday. The two firms have
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      • 45 27 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Belgian shipping group Exmar said yesterday it had reached an agreement on the long-term charter of its Excalibur vessel to Excelerate Energy. It said the LNG carrier had already been time-chartered to Excelerate Energy until Q1 2007. Reuters
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    • 569 27 Country needs to take advantage of shipbuilding boom, says official Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India said it will soon call for bids from private local and overseas companies to build two shipyards in the country. The government wants to set up one dockyard
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    • Article, Illustration
      79 27 [SINGAPORE] More than 130 golfers took part in the recent2oo6 BTL Golf Masters Singapore's longest-running shipping industry golf tournament —including (from left) SC Chan (OOCL), Joachim von der Heydt (BTL), Cheng WaiKeung (NOL) and Mario Da-Bove (CSAV). Capt Chan canie in third, behind champion Ronnie See (NYKSingapore) and
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    • 753 27  -  STRAIT TALK By DAVID HUGHES THE past couple of weeks have been busy ones for the shipping community, with first the Maritime Week and now Martech. So it is possible last week's meeting of the International Salvage Union (ISU), meeting in Singapore may
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    • 488 27 Move follows Maersk's plan to call at fewer ports Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] Port of Tauranga Ltd may merge with Ports of Auckland Ltd, New Zealand's largest port, to create a company handling 50 per cent of the nation's trade. Port of Tauranga shares
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    • 282 27 sex SHHHI Oct 11 SS W- Vol CHOfWwre jOJi 239 ChuanHup .021 -0.01 3849 Coco Corporation 1.77 -0.01 4381 CWT Distribution .0.58 -0.01 93 Ezr»Hkte _JJ6 0.08 3590 0.07 -0.01 3459 Grand Banks Yacht 0.87 0.02 3 Java Holdings 1.45 unch 383 K1 Venture .0.41 0.01 9468 KeppelCorp.
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 540 28 EDITORIAL WALL Street's Dow Jones Industrials Average on Tuesday closed at an all-time high, seemingly impervious to the external shock of North Korea's nuclear test as well as the internal shock of an imploding housing market. The outlook for equities, it appears, has never been
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    • 840 28  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group AMERICA is at the endgame for housing. Until recently, the national motto has been "in real estate we trust". Just last week, the Census Bureau reported that median home prices after inflation
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    • 1182 28  -  When considering such investments it is important to distinguish between well structured commodity investments and the get rich quick ones offered by the alchemists By IAN MORLEY Reuters Alchemy can be described as the art, science or perhaps more appropriately perfidious trickery that
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    • 946 29  -  A sudden collapse of the North Korean political system would be an even bigger risk for investors in S Korea ANDY MUKHERJEE Bloomberg BY CLAIMING to have tested a nuclear device, the rogue regime of Kim Jong 11, North Korea's "Dear Leader", has
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    • 834 29  -  By SELIG S HARRISON The Washington Post m M OU have learned to live with other nuclear powers," said Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan, North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator, leaning forward over the dinner table in Pyongyang. "So why not us? We really want
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    • 160 29  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Liew Heng San CEO, CPF Board I REFER to "Three storm clouds over retirement savings" (BT, Oct 10). BT misreported my speech when it claimed that Singapore faced issues "similar to those of other countries grappling with underfunded pensions".
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    • 3674 35 :»at^ NOTICES Toll free: 1800-289-8822 Email: notices@sph.com.sg I BUY IT -SELL (T FIND IT B ADVANCE SCT LIMITED Registration No. *****4283 C (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Second Annual General Meeting of Advance SCT Limited will be held at No. 6 Tuas View Circuit, Singapore *****9
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  • PROPERTY
    • 380 36  -  Tribunal rules in favour of the majority of unit-owners By UMA SHANKARI THE collective sale of Eng Lok Mansion will go ahead, the Strata Titles Board ruled yesterday. The freehold development, on a prime site next to Gleneagles Hospital in Napier
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    • 276 36 UP to 20 new property launches are expected in the next couple of months, and Savills Singapore says they will be mid-size and high-end developments. Savills director of marketing and business development Ku Swee Yong says the take-up rate has been "relatively strong for all
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    • 183 36 HO Bee Group yesterday snapped up a freehold factory building at Genting Lane near the junction with MacPherson Road for $9.7 million. The auction, conducted by Colliers International, also saw three other properties knocked down an office unit at High Street
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    • 710 37  -  Buyers will have to prove ability to pay before completing sale: sources By ARTHUR SIM THE Housing and Development Board's (HDB) pilot residential development with Sim Lian Group called The Premiere, Tampines is almost five times oversubscribed. The huge success of the first Design,
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    • 1766 37 PROJECT NAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE 8UILHNAREA PRICE PSF STREET NAME TYPE DATE (SQ FT) (SS'OOO) (S$) District 1 NON-LANDED Ebony Mans Apt 26/09/2006 FH 1292 585 453 The Sail At Marina Bay Apt 29/09/2006 99 861 965 1121 Th&
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    • 133 36 IflK Prime Freehold Residential site just 8 minutes from the Sentosa Integrated Resort Site Area: 65,000 sqft Plot Ratio: 1.4 An opportunity to land bank a very scarce freehold residential near the up and coming Sentosa IR. CUSHMAN& <$9 WAKEFIELD. Bank's Auction 25/10/2006 Building Joo Chiat Place 1 1 ru
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  • BizIT FOCUS: LIFE AT THE TOP
    • 1534 38  -  Business Objects GM Keith Budge talks to SUZANNE OOI about his competitive streak in sports and business SUZANNE OOI KEITH Budge's passionate pursuits have taken him from the cockpit of the singleengine Tobago TB9 to the mountain biking trails of Bukit Timah. They are also a study
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    • 381 38 Suzanne: How has IT changed your life in the past five years, both at work and outside work? Keith: IT is what I do. It is transformation and most of us don't even realise the extent to which IT has transformed our lives in the past couple
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  • BizIT
    • 1038 39  -  Limited budgets and resources are causes, notes AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY Computer viruses transmitted through e-mail are the primary source of security attacks faced by organisations in Singapore and the number of such attacks went up significantly this year, according to
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    • 727 39  -  By WINSTON CHAI IMAGINE hand phones that run for weeks without recharging or robot-assisted surgeries that won't leave ugly scars on your bodies. Working on breakthroughs like these have landed some of Singapore's brightest minds the nation's top honours in scientific and technology research.
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    • 289 39  -  By ROLAND LIM IDENTITY theft has come out as the top security concern among Singaporeans in a survey on security concerns commissioned by IT service provider Unisys. About 81 per cent of the respondents in the survey were "very" or "extremely concerned" about
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    • 491 39 NYT [NEW YORKJ As Google whips out its fat wallet to buy the video site You Tube, it is making Yahoo look even more out of step with the fast-changing Internet advertising market. Yahoo itself tried to buy You Tube a
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    • 2492 40 TRANSFORMING ORGANISATIONS OVERVIEW COMPANIES are continually looking at various aspects of their business that can be outsourced, so as to focus their resources on their core business. One area which many firms have outsourced, or are looking at outsourcing, is their IT infrastructure. While IT outsourcing
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES Property 2006
    • 434 41  -  By Uma Shankari PRICES in the property market are rising with a seemingly unstoppable momentum. And the trend appears to be holding true for all sectors residential, office, retail and hotel. The office and hotel markets, in particular, seem set to do well. Given the tight supply
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    • 527 42/43 MAP NO BUILDING NAME NET LETTABLE AREA (SQ FT) 1 OCBC Centre 482,000 2 OCBC Centre South 92,000 3 OCBC East 182,000 4 One Philip Street 38,000 5 Commerce Point 86,000 6 Tan Ean (Gam Building 13,000 7 Grand Building 22,000 8 UOB Plaza 1 670,000 9
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      1235 45  -  The recent surge in the luxury residential market has been fuelled by both local and foreign buyers, as NICHOLAS MAK and MICHELL TEE explain as Nicholas mak and Michelle tee explain SINGAPORE'S high-end private residential real estate market has been in the limelight for the past year
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    • 911 48  -  Growing wealth and a strong economic outlook form a favourable backdrop for the Good Class Bungalow segment to extend its recent gains. By STEVEN MING and YENNY BERLIANNA By STEVEN MING, YENNY BERLIANNA WITH the rapid growth of wealth in India and China, Singapore
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    • 1003 49  -  In the residential market, sales of 99-year leasehold property have slumped while other sectors experience a surge in demand. HAN HUAN MEI looks at the dynamics of the mass market HAN HUAN MEI IN the first six months of this year, the private residential
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    • 608 50  -  Luxury condo prices are rising as developers snap up prime sites in a bullish collective sale market, notes JEREMY LAKE JEREMY LAKE THE collective sale market started its third and most intensive wave of activity in 2004 and its pace has accelerated since then. (See chart)
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    • 1564 53 As home loan interest rates rise, analysing the fine print can save you years of financial grief IN the last 12 months, one bank raised its home loan rate five times. Another increased its rate twice within two weeks. Should borrowers be running scared? The prognosis is mixed.
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    • 1216 54  -  LIM SONG HAI and DESMOND SIM trace the evolution of Singapore's investment property market LIM SONG HAI, DESMOND SIM ECHOING Singapore's economic sentiments and growth, the investment market has been reporting bullish results since the last trough in 2002. Tracked by Jones Lang LaSalle, the investment sales market
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    • 766 55  -  Singapore is set to be the industrial Reit hub of the region as funds beef up their acquisitions, says ALASTAIR GILLESPIE ALASTAIR GILLESPIE THERE are currently three industrial real estate investment trusts (Reits) listed on the Singapore Exchange but the number could more than double in
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