The Business Times, 14 November 2006

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    24 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Vth ANNIVERSARY SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asia! .com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION I MICA (P) 099/03/2006 Tuesday, November 14,2006
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  • Article
    Lock icon PM Lee signals GST increase to 7%
    874 1  -  Corporate tax cut likely, capital gains to be included in government's net investment income to help fund social spending By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] Prime Ministor Lee Hsien Loong yesterday served notice of a twopoint hike in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to
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    Lock icon Dubai Aerospace favoured to clinch SIA's leasing associate
    585 1  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Dubai Aerospace Enterprise could emerge as the new owner of Singapore Airlines associate Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) as bidding races past the US$l billion mark. Sources close to the deal which is being handled by New York-based
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    137 1 STI 2.747.24 (+1.93) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,749.00 (+1.00) SIMSCI 333.56 (+0.33) SIMSCI FUTURES 334.10 (+1.40) MARKETS Monday Change KLCOMP 1,019.81 -2.49 NIKKEI 225 16.022.49 89 94 HANG SENG 18,868.54 -22.60 SET INDEX 736.83 -3.59 JAKARTA COMP 1,639.27 -25.57 MANILA COMP 2,821.92 -17.46 SEOUL COMP 1,396.69 +0.96 SHENZHEN B
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    Lock icon Tharman to present 2007 Budget on Feb 15
    73 1 [SINGAPORE] Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam (above) will deliver Singapore's 2007 Budget on Feb 15, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced yesterday. Mr Lee, who is also Finance Minister, presented the last five Budgets from 2002 to 2006. Before that, his Finance
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  • TOP STORIES
    • Article
      Lock icon Hurdles still stand in way of PCCW stake sale
      541 2  -  NEWS ANALYSIS Li Ka-shing to take 12% of HK telecom monopoly in latest twist to deal By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong THE confirmation of tycoon Li Ka-shing as a key player in the controversial PCCW share sale yesterday triggered fresh
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      Lock icon Hengxin CEO faces civil claim in China
      567 2  -  Writ to produce accounts of firm whose assets were injected into Hengxin By JEAN CHUA [SINGAPORE] The chief executive of China-based Hengxin Technology has been taken to court for failing to turn in the accounts of a now-defunct company whose assets were transferred
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      629 2 GST hike expected, but not so soon: tax professionals A HIKE in the Goods Services Tax (GST) rate was expected —just not quite so soon, tax professionals told BT. Still, they believe the increase is needed, if the Singapore government is to make up the shortfall from an
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      Lock icon Limits to stakes in companies prudent, says India
      545 2  -  Rules apply to all to boost competition, avoid oligopolies By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] India's ownership limits on banks and industries such as telcos apply to all and they are there to promote competition and prevent concentration in the hands of a
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      63 2 IN the article "Most SGX firms reporting higher Q3 earnings" (BT, Nov 13), we said the nine-month 2006 earnings of STATS ChipPAC fell 68.5 per cent to $77 million. This is incorrect. Earnings did not fall 68.5 per cent. At US$4B.5 million, earnings were a substantial improvement from the
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      Lock icon Hike expected but not so soon, say tax professionals
      876 3  -  GST INCREASE Increase needed to make up shortfall from expected cut in income tax rates By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] A hike in the Goods Services Tax (GST) rate was expected just not quite so soon, tax professionals told BT. Still, they
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      Lock icon Bodyguard expenses not tax deductible
      384 3  -  Company loses appeal against tax review board By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] A company that hired a bodyguard to protect a director after he was shot during a kidnap attempt has lost a court bid to claim the cost of the professional protector as taxdeductible. The
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      Lock icon Lim Boon Heng to oversee issues of ageing population
      381 3  -  By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] Singapore must take a sustainable and holistic approach towards tackling the problem of an ageing population, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who has appointed Lim Boon Heng, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, to oversee the
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Robinson s Q1 profit up 18.8%
      386 4  -  Revenue up 1.6%; strong performance from Marks Spencer, John Little By ARTHUR SIM ROBINSON and Company reported an 18.8 per cent increase in net profit to $4.2 million for its first quarter ended Sept 30, 2006. The earnings attributable to shareholders compare with $3.53
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      Lock icon UOB Kay Hian's Q3 earnings fall 10.9%
      377 4  -  Broking house hit by lower market volumes By WONG WEI KONG LOWER market volumes have led to a fall in thirdquarter earnings for UOB Kay Hian, the largest local broking house. UOB Kay Hian, part of the United Overseas Bank (UOB) stable, said
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      Lock icon OCBC Trustee gets trust business licence
      300 4 OCBC Trustee has become the first local bank-backed company to secure a trust business licence, with which it hopes to expand in the private wealth market. The firm's director Raymond Chee said the services are ideal for individuals concerned about succession planning as well
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      Lock icon PacNet profits tumble 43% on MediaRing takeover costs
      450 4  -  By ROLAND LIM REGIONAL Internet service provider Pacific Internet (PacNet) yesterday reported that its third-quarter profit fell 43 per cent as it took on more charges for consultancy and professional fees incurred by the failed Mediaßing takeover bid in February this year.
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      Lock icon Hong Leong Asia's Q3 profits rise 37%
      432 4  -  By MATTHEW PHAN MANUFACTURING conglomerate Hong Leong Asia (HLA) recorded a 37 per cent rise in net profits for the third quarter 2006 to $12.63 million, helped chiefly by substantial improvements at its consumer products and building materials segments. Third quarter revenues for
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      Lock icon Aussie firm to launch IPO by end-Dec
      348 4  -  IPO WATCH Property manager MacarthurCook will be offering 80m new units By LAUREL TEO IF ALL goes smoothly, Australian property manager MacarthurCook Fund Management will be offering 80 million new units of its Properties Securities Fund to investors here by the end of
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      956 4 Lifeßrandz LIFEBRANDZ LTD. (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration Number: *****1348E) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Third Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Copthorne Orchid Hotel Singapore, Aerides 1, Level 1, 214 Dunearn Road, Singapore *****6 on 29
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  • COMPANIES: CHINA STOCKS
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      Lock icon Bio-Treat names probe team members
      546 6  -  First-quarter profit slips 8.2% while revenue rises 9.7% By MATTHEW PHAN AIMING to restore investor fconfidence, controversy-hit Bio-Treat Technology yesterday named the members of an independent review task force and an inquiry committee to look at vanbus matters. The water-treatment group yesterday also released its
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      Lock icon Sunshine's Q3 net profit doubles
      383 6  -  Reports by JEAN CHUA SUNSHINE Holdings a developer of mass-market housing in China said net profit for its third quarter more than doubled as it sold more commercial units and homes that give it better margins. At the same time. Sunshine said it has a
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      Lock icon Sino Techfibre Q3 earnings surge 44%
      328 6 SYNTHETIC leather maker Sino Techfibre reported that net profit for its third quarter rose 44 per cent as average selling prices for its fabrics went up. The Shandong-based company said yesterday that for the three months ended Sept 30, net profit came in at
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Genting Int'l net profit rises 17% to $86.9m in 03
      453 8  -  Interest, dividend income from UK concerns boost 9-month revenue By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur GENTING International, which is bidding to build and operate the Sentosa integrated resort, has posted a 17 per cent increase in profit attributable to equity
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      Lock icon Tat Hong's profit up 1 % to $9.3m in Q2
      355 8  - Tat Hong's profit up 1 to $9.3m in Q2 By CONRAD TAN TAT Hong Holdings, AsiaPacific's largest crane company, said its net profit grew just one per cent to $9.3 million for its second quarter ended Sept 30. Revenue for three months fell 3 per cent to $105.1 million. The
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      Lock icon SCS reverses loss, makes marginal Q3 profit of $800,000
      489 8  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY DESPITE a $10.2 million provision for foreseeable project losses, Singapore Computer Systems Limited (SCS) eked out a marginal net profit in its third quarter its fourth consecutive quarter of earnings. For the three months ended Sept 30,
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      Lock icon Interra posts loss on Myanmar writedown
      278 8  -  By RONNIE LIM EXPLORATION and production company Interra Resources the former Van der Horst yesterday reported a Q3 net loss of US$2.4 million due to the writedown of US$B.B million of Myanmar assets as a result of ongoing arrears of payment. However, this was
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      Lock icon Brighter skies for Banyan Tree
      406 8  -  Resort operator swings to $4m Q3 profit plans expansion By UMA SHANKARI BANYAN Tree Holdings yesterday reported that third-quarter earnings hit $4.0 million reversing a loss of $383,000 recorded for the corresponding three months last year as the resort and spa operator continues to recover
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      Lock icon UOB Malaysia opens five new branches
      343 8  -  By WONG WEI KONG UOB Malaysia, part of Singapore's United Overseas Bank (UOB) Group, has gone into overdrive, with the opening of five branches this week. In the Kuala Lumpur area there are new outlets at Kota Damansara and Kepong, plus a relocated branch
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Berlian Laju posts I.oBt rupiah net profit
        47 8 PT BERLIAN Laju Tanker Tbk has posted group net profit of 1.08 trillion rupiah (Ssl 84.52 million) for die nine months ended Sept 30, 2006, up from a net profit of 390 billion rupiah in the same period last year.
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        Lock icon Nod for A-Sonic, Airocean merger
        35 8 SHAREHOLDERS of A-Sonic Aerospace and Airocean Group yesterday gave their respective nods for A-Sonic to buy all outstanding shares in Airocean, putting in place a merger between the two companies.
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        Lock icon Yanlord reports 2% dip in Q3 profit
        35 8 YANLORD Land Group reported a 2 per cent dip in net profit for Q3 ended Sept 2006, to $38.9 million. Revenue slid 44 per cent to $226 million.
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        Lock icon Jaya Hldgs' Q1 profit jumps 44% to $32.1 m
        37 8 JAYA Holdings* first quarter group net profit increased 44 per cent to $32.1 million on the back of a 178 per cent jump in revenue to $113.2 million.
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        Lock icon Pacific Andes Q2 earnings up 24.9%
        49 8 PACIFIC Andes yesterday posted a 24.9 per cent increase in net profit for Q2 ended Sept 30,2006, to HK$5B.2 million, while its subsidiary China Fishery Group reported a 62.1 per cent gain in net earnings for Q3 ended Sept 30,2006, to US$ll.4 million.
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        Lock icon Meghmani posts Q2 profit of 107 m rupees
        77 8 MEGHMANI Organics, an India-based maker of pigments and agrochemicals, has posted flat net profit of 106.6 million rupees (553.7 million) for the second quarter ended Sept 30, 2006. Revenue increased 28.4 per cent to 1.4 million rupees. For the first half of
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        Lock icon HTL Int'l Q3 earnings fallll%tosll.7m
        55 8 HTL International Holdings' net profit for the third quarter ended Sept 2006 slipped 11 per cent to $11.7 million, despite a 9.1 per cent increase in revenue to $165 million. The weaker bottomline was largely due to losses from its home furnishing business and a
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        Lock icon United Engineers' Q3 gain drops to $0.86 m
        31 8 UNITED Engineers' Q3 net profit has fallen from $2.3 million to $858,000. Revenue from continuing operations increased 25 per cent to $140.9 million.
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        Lock icon Asia Food & Prop Q3 earnings hit $9.2m
        45 8 Asia Food Prop Q3 earnings hit $9.2m ASIA Food 8i Properties' Q3 net profit has leapt from $2.9 million to $9.2 million while its subsidiary Golden Agri-Resources has posted a 32.4 per cent increase in net earnings for the same period ended to US$18.4 million.
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        Lock icon ST Engg's JV wins US$9.5m order
        50 8 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering's joint-venture company in Kazakhstan, Kaz-ST Engineering Bastau, has won an additional US$9.5 million order to build another 220 multimedia classrooms for schools in Kazakhstan. Together with earlier contracts won, this brings the total order to US$43.5 million for 1,000 multimedia classrooms.
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        Lock icon BBR unit secures two contracts
        47 8 BBR Holdings' unit Singapore Piling Civil Engineering has clinched a $66.9 million contract from the Ministry of Health and NHG-Alexandra Hospital for Alexandra Hospital in Yishun, and a $32.1 million contract from the Public Utilities Board relating to the Punggol-Serangoon reservoir scheme.
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        Lock icon SGX clarifies its share buyback
        62 8 THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) said the recent buying back of its shares in the market is simply to meet its obligations under SGX's Performance Share Plan (PSP). Under this PSP, SGX will buy back shares from the open market through a broker, keep them as
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        Lock icon Star Cruises achieves quarterly profit
        50 8 STAR Cruises posted its first profit in four quarters, helped by higher travel demand and the sale of a vessel. Net income rose 83 per cent to US$60.4 million in the three months ended Sept 30, while sales rose 19 per cent to US$683.3 million.
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Market enters consolidation phase
      514 10  -  STOCKS Gains capped by feeble regional bourses; ST Index inches up 1.9 points while the broader market weakens TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent SINGAPORE stocks appear to have entered a consolidation phase after its recent record breaking runs, with gains capped by the weak regional bourses.
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      1015 10 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Nov 13 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Buy/ Shares Per Before- After Stock Date Director Sell '000 Shr S ('000) fOOO) Asiatravel.com 10-Nov-06 Avenue Inv PL *Sell 50 na ***** 5.46 ***** 5.49 Aspial Corp 10-Nov-06 Koh
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      471 10  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI OCBC Bank Nov 13 dose $7.10 MACQUARIE RESEARCH, Nov 13 OCBC is expected to release its 3Q06 results on Tuesday (Nov 14). Macquarie Research Equities (MRE) expects a net profit of $323 million. MRE's focus will be on whether the bank can maintain the
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      Lock icon Limited upside seen for CapitaLand
      152 10  -  CHART POINT By YEO KEE YAN chartist at Kelive Research THE post-Sars bull market has lifted Capita Land from a bottom of $0.79 to a high of $5.95 last Friday. While the major uptrend remains intact, charts indicate limited upside from this price point. Capita
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      Lock icon US$ fights back, but yuan tests new highs
      517 10  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar managed to stage a recovery in some spots yesterday, thanks at least in part to some renewed Japanese yen weakness, but it continued to plumb fresh lows versus the Chinese yuan before.recovering some composure.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Govt, private sector cooperate on security
      473 12  -  Both working to improve 'survivability' of firms: Jayakumar By JEAN CHUA THE government and the private sector have been working together to improve "protection, survivability and continuity" of oompanies, said Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar yesterday. 'I "We are also working with them to
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      Lock icon Abu Dhabi oil company to open office here next year
      399 12  -  It will employ about 10 people, trade in the market here By RONNIE LIM ABU Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is set to open an office in'Strrgapore early next year, making it 4 the latest Gulf state to establish a
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      Lock icon More developments to be integrated with MRT in future: LTA
      422 12  -  By SAMUEL EE MORE integrated developments are expected as land around MRT stations is put to optimum use and the rapid transit system is expended, said the Lthd Transport Authority (LTA). This was revealed at a seminar on "Developing with
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon President Nathan to visit Mid-East
        63 12 IN the first state trip by a Singapore president to the Middle East, President SR Nathan will visit Egypt from today to Saturday and Jordan from then to Nov 22. In Egypt, President Nathan will be hosted to an official lunch by Egyptian President Hosni
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        Lock icon Release of Q3 economic results
        45 12 THE Ministry of Trade and Industry will release Singapore's third-quarter economic results on Nov 20 at Bam. The key findings will be put on the MTI Homepage (http://www.mti.gov.sg), the Department of Statistics Homepage (http://www.singstat.gov.sg) and the SPRinter {http-J/www. sprinter.gov. sg/).
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        Lock icon Asean ministers meetingln S'pore
        86 12 THE three-day Asean Senior Officials Meeting is being held until tomorrow in Singapore. This will be followed by the Asean Ministers Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry on Thursday. The ministers will meet their counterparts from China, Japan and South Korea in the AMAF+3 Meeting on Friday.
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        Lock icon NGO opens regional office here
        51 12 THE Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue will officially open a regional office in Singapore on Nov 29. The centre will coordinate its activities in armed conflict mediation, represent the organisation in Asia and provide a regional base from which to conduct debate and facilitate contacts and
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      Lock icon Online portal to match SMEs with foreign firms
      363 12  -  By VINCENT WEE SMALL and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) just got a big boost in their drive to go global. Buy Singapore, slated to become Singapore's most comprehensive online business matching and trading portal, was launched yesterday by Minister of State for Trade
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      Lock icon eSys bags deal to distribute Samsung drives worldwide
      453 12  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY ESYS Technologies, which was recently dropped by Seagate Technology as a worldwide distribution partner for hard disk drives (HDD), has just signed a distribution deal with Samsung to distribute its hard disk drive products. eSys will distribute Samsung's
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      Lock icon End in sight for case against Deutsche Bank over Aaaro
      453 12  -  Parties have until Jan to present closings in writing By WONG WEI KONG THE long-drawn hearing on the case against Deutsche Bank over shares in Indonesia's biggest coal mine, PT Adaro, has finally wrapped up in the High Court here,
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  • DESTINATION DELIGHTS
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      Lock icon A city that never sleeps
      877 13 It could be the hospitality of the people, an unforgettable dining experience or just the scenic wonder of the place. We bring you a six-part series on how some destinations have touched the hearts of travellers, beginning with Tokyo IN A metropolitan city like Tokyo,
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  • ENTERPRISE 50
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      Lock icon E50 party time
      295 14 ■:> i' It was a night of wine, food and celebration as some of Singapore's most successful business people gathered to celebrate the spirit of enterprise. Certainly, perseverance, hard work and sound strategies have paid off for the 55 Singapore companies which were honoured with the Enterprise
      Pbotos by Arthur Lee ami Yap Yew Plang  -  295 words
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  • SMEspotlight
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      Lock icon Biomed cures its funding problem
      1107 15  -  Lynk Biotechnologies satisfies investors with short-term revenue streams and long-term drug discovery plans, says NANDE KHIN NANDE KHIN MANY biomedical start-ups often have difficulty getting equity funding. Investors tend to shy away from such companies whose research products typically take a long time to develop
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      Lock icon Making waves in their industries
      913 16  -  WEE LI-EN talks to three finalists in the Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in manufacturing and business services WEE LI-EN Finding a niche in developing software solutions for companies took this oneman outfit founded in 1983 to being acquired for a cool $120
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      Lock icon Giving it another shot
      1212 17  -  SMALL CAPS Second Chance Properties is ready to take on the clothing retail industry again, says CONRAD TAN CONRAD TAN SECOND Chance Properties is expanding its clothing retail business very quickly and wants investors to know it. The revenue mix of the mainboardlisted firm is unusual:
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      Lock icon Small caps weaken on profit-taking
      308 17  -  By TEH HOOI LING CONSOLIDATION and profit-taking has set in in the "J Singapore market, most evidently in the small-cap sector. In the last five trading sessions to yesterday, most of the stocks in our portfolio weakened, with shipyard operator Labroy Marine being the lone
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon US, China call for trade boost, less protectionism
      452 18 US says fairer access to American exporters and businesses needed AFP [BEIJING] China's huge trade surplus with the US should be addressed through increased US exports to China and not protectionist moves by Washington, commerce chiefs from the two sides agreed here
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      574 18 Top officials discuss possibility of Asia-Pacific FTA AP [HANOI] A gathering of Pacific Rim leaders this weekend to tackle regional and global trade issues is underscoring China's growing clout in world economic and political affairs. Leaders of the 21-mem-ber Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
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      480 19 Malaysian premier calls for party unity as annual congress opens AP Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's governing party opened its annual congress yesterday by affirming support for Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and calling for unity in the face of attacks by former leader Mahathir
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      249 19 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian industrial group MMC Corp has unveiled plans to raise up to RM7.9 billion (553.4 billion) in Islamic debt and RM1.97 billion in equity to fund its takeover of utility Malakoff. MMC, which focuses mainly on construction and engineering, announced
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        Lock icon China's investment may slow to 20%
        78 19 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's fixed-asset investment growth may slow to 20 per cent in 2007 from 26.5 per cent this year as curbs on bank lending and real-estate projects take further effect, a government research agency said. Investment growth in cities and townships may slow
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        99 19 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia vowed yesterday to stick to its target of reducing its fiscal deficit burden to 3.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010, despite growing political pressure for the government to raise spending. "That target is still
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        66 19 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian bank RHB Islamic has broken off talks with Saudi's Dallah al-Baraka group, which had been seeking to take a strategic stake in the Islamic lender. RHB Islamic chairman Vaseehar Hassan Abdul Razack said yesterday. "The time frame has expired
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        36 19 Reuters [MUMBAI] India's largest listed media firm, Zee Telefilms Ltd, said yesterday it had bought 50 per cent in Dubai-based Taj Television's Ten Sports channel for an undisclosed sum.—Reuters
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      252 19 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's vice-president, who also heads the party with the most seats in parliament, sought to play down policy differences with the government yesterday, saying its criticisms should not be exaggerated. Vice-President Jusuf Kalla is chairman of Golkar while popular President Susilo Bambang
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      431 20 Tie-up may help IBM win contracts to upgrade bank's computer systems Bloomberg [HONG KONG] International Business Machines Corp (IBM), the world's largest provider of computer services, plans to join Citigroup Inc's US$3 billion bid for China's Guangdong Development Bank (GDB),
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      504 20 Reuters [SHANGHAI] A Hong Konglisted developer has called off a global auction of one of Shanghai's most expensive apartment buildings, blaming government restrictions on foreign investment in Chinese real estate. Tomson Group Ltd has been struggling with little success for a year to sell
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      461 20 [HONG KONG] New China Life Insurance, the mainland's fourth-largest insurance company, plans to raise up to US$l billion in an initial public offering in Hong Kong next year despite a shareholder revolt that led to the removal of its chairman, the
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  • INDIA
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      72 21 [BANGALORE] When most kids of his age may be in primary school, Kishan Shrikanth of Bangalore in southern India has directed a film at age nine. 'C/o Footpath' is a film about an orphaned boy who wants to go to school. Kishan, now 10,"showing the Guinness
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      484 21 Sebi to submit policy paper on subject to govt Economic Times [NEW DELHI/MUMBAI] Indian pol-icy-makers are looking at creating a more transparent mechanism for hedge funds to invest in the local equities market. In a new policy being prepared by the
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      353 21 Dispute with shareholders has blocked Indian developer's Dec listing plans Bloomberg [SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI] Indian billionaire Kushal Pal Singh's DLF Ltd plans to revive its stalled initial public offering in the first quarter of next year after resolving a
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      201 21 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Britain's BT Group pic has applied for licences to provide domestic and international long-distance telecom services in India to both foreign companies setting up operations and Indian firms expanding offshore. BT said yesterday that it saw revenues from its Indian operations
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  • MIDDLE EAST
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      Lock icon Abu Dhabi to invest US$170b
      567 22  -  Plans for next five years include US$150b in real estate projects By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai ABU DHABI is planning to invest around US$l7O billion in the next fiye years of which nearly US$l5O billion would go into real estate. The rest has been earmarked
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      353 22  -  By HABIB SHAIKH in Jeddah SAUDIA Catering, the catering arm of Saudi Arabian Airlines, is to be privatised through an initial public offering (IPO) within three months, according to Khaled Al-Melhem, the airline's director'general. Mr Al-Melhem said the airline itself will be sold by
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      Lock icon Dana Gas to buy all remaining Centurion shares
      407 22  -  By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai UAE-BASED Dana Gas PJSC has entered into an agreement with Canada's Centurion Energy International Inc to acquire all of Centurion's outstanding common shares for Csl2 each, totalling US$l.O2 billion. At Csl2 for each share, the equity value
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Santa Claus rally under way in Asian marts
      611 23 US year-end sales, hopes of higher fund flows into Asia ex-Japan spark rally Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] The rally that lifted Asia-Pacific stock indexes to records last week may just be getting started, if history is any guide. In 2004 and 2005, shares outside
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      579 23 MEDIA MOVES Groups valuing firm at over US$17b plan to submit bids Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Clear Channel Communications Inc. the largest US radio broadcaster, was likely to receive at least two competing takeover offers later yesterday from leveraged buyout groups that value the company
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      370 23 NYT [NEW YORK] Maurice R Greenberg, the former chairman of the insurance giant American International Group, has become the latest wealthy mogul to express interest in the struggling newspaper industry. Mr Greenberg, 81, known as Hank, is considering a bid for the Tribune
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      315 23 AFP Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's military junta will lift martial law within days, the defence minister said yesterday as the country seeks to boost its international standing ahead of a meeting of Asia-Pacific nations. "We will know in one or two days,"
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      210 23 NYT Bloomberg [PARIS] The chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, the largest telecommunications company in Europe, resigned on Sunday amid an ailing share price and growing pressure from discontented investors. The chief executive, KaiUwe Ricke, appears to have been forced out by major shareholders
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      47 23 [MELBOURNE] Australian cricketer Shane Warne poses next to cut-out faces of himself at the launch ofMessagevision here on Friday. Warne is sponsored by Message on Hold which provides businesses with promotional audio recordings that you hear when your phone call is placed on hold. AFP
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  • AVIATION
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      622 24 Construction schedule ready but location not decided: officials Xinhua [BEIJING] Beijing is keen to start building a new airport before 2010 but experts cannot see eye to eye on where the airport should be located. Many commentators say the new airport should
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      483 24 Reuters AFP [SINGAPORE] Brazilian plane maker Embraer aims to sell at least 200 regional jets in Asia, excluding China, over the next two decades and sees most of the demand for its aircraft from India, Japan and Australia. Embraer, the world's fourth-largest commercial
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      488 24  - No intention to buy EADS shares, says Dubai Int 1 Capital By Clarence Michael in Dubai INVESTMENT company Dubai International Capital (DIC), a subsidiary of Dubai Holding, has denied speculation that it is considering buying shares in European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), the parent company of Airbus. In
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      135 24 BRITISH Airways chief executive Willie Walsh demonstrating a new Business Class flat bed at a media briefing in London yesterday, after he announced a £100 million (*****.6 million) overhaul of the airline's Club World facility. The new flat bed is 25 per cent wider and
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  • SHIPPING/AVIATION
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      Lock icon Agility Logistics to leverage on Singapore for Mice growth
      509 25  -  Group to tap the homegrown expertise of its Trans-Link unit By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Newly rebranded Agility Logistics has announced its intention to use Singapore as a platform to spearhead the growth of its meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition (Mice) logistics
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      528 25  -  By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai DUBAI World has confirmed plans to invest £1.5 billion (554.5 billion) in a major infrastructure develI opment project in the UK. The London Gateway project, to be executed by port operator DP World, will include a world-class port capable
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      Lock icon Slow discharge holds up 7 tankers at Dares Salaam port
      229 25 Oil importers fear retail prices will go up due to port fees Xinhua [DAR ES SALAAM] Seven tankers which were carrying some 210,000 tonnes of petroleum products have been stranded outside the Dares Salaam Port due to its slow discharging
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      158 25 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] PSA International Pte and Jurong Port Pte handled 9.3 per cent more containers in Singapore last month helped by growing trade demand, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said. Singapore, the world's busiest container port, handled 2.18 million
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      Lock icon Persian Gulf tanker rates may be little changed
      404 25 Bloomberg [LONDON] The cost of transporting crude oil from the Middle East to Asia on 2 million-barrel oil tankers may be little changed as a glut of vessels for hire counters the effect of rising demand for December loadings. Hiring for next
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      Lock icon Airbus test jet to touch down at Changi today
      347 25  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN ONE of Airbus's four Airbus A3BO double-decker test jets will touch down at Changi Airport this morning for the first in a series of final stage test flights before certification by US and European authorities. MSN2, which is
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      Lock icon DHL opens new US$22m hub at Bangkok airport
      324 25 AFP [BANGKOK] Global logistics giant DHL yesterday launched its US$22 million hub at Bangkok's new international airport as part of the company's strategy to boost its growth in South-east Asia. "We consider Thailand as the gateway to Indochina," Scott Price, chief executive
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      329 25 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Garuda Indonesia, the nation's biggest airline with US$75O million in debt, expects to break even next year after cutting aircraft insurance payments. The state-owned company's loss mdy narrow to 400 billion rupiah (5568.2 million) this year from
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      498 26 EDITORIAL THERE have been positive reports on the property market in Singapore of late. We read about how a queue started forming at 3am for the launch of a 99-year leasehold property The Metropolitan located next to Redhill MRT station. Then there were
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      1345 26  -  Selling short is an aggressive strategy and can be extremely dangerous. When an investor buys a stock, it can fall no farther than zero, but in a short sale losses can be open-ended By CONRAD DE AENLLE International Herald Tribune HOW do you
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      859 26  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ANDY MUKHERJEE Bloomberg HERE'S an idea for Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who has an avowed preference for lower taxes: Slash the levy on corporate profits to 15 per cent. That's less than half of the current
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      Lock icon A treasure trove on Islamic finance
      1640 27 The authors feel that Islamic finance should develop its own genuinely Islamic financial instruments Book review: An Introduction to Islamic Finance, Theory and Practice by Zamir Iqbal, Abbas Mirakhor Publishers: John Wiley Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd Price: $89.95 (before GST) Reviewed by Said Abdullah
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      Lock icon Boeing riding on the fickle winds of fortune
      734 27  -  Airlines may stick with the A380 if only to keep Airbus, which also wants to develop a rival to Boeing's 787, as a healthy competitor By DAVID PAULY BOEING Co is discovering that it's better to be lucky than good. Airbus SAS,
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      515 31 SCI LINE LAUNCHES HYPER GALEX SERVICE ON NOVEMBER 11 SCI Line announces the launch of its Hyper Galex service along with Emirates Shipping Line and TS Line as consortium partners providing comprehensive port connections linking China, South East Asia, India and the Middle East. Served by six vessels of 3,100
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  • PROPERTY
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      904 33  -  DOMINIC PETERS and LIM SOK PENG say high-tech industrial space is getting hotter nowadays DOMINIC PETERS and LIM SOK PENG OFFICE space has been in the limelight in recent months due to the shortage of Grade A office space and rising rents in the city. Although
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      318 34  -  Novelty Group buys St Thomas Walk site for $810 psf ppr By KALPANA RASHIWALA NOVELTY Group is buying the freehold Eng Tai Mansion at St Thomas Walk for $76.5 million, or about $810 per square foot of potential gross floor area inclusive of an
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      470 34  -  URA awaits applications to take 30-year LH plot off Reserve List By ARTHUR SIM THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will for the first time make available for sale a 30-year leasehold residential site. The chances are that it will be developed into private housing
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      315 34 Bloomberg [EDINBURGH] Rodamco Europe NV, Europe's largest shopping-centre owner, plans to start developing properties itself after a change in the rules for Dutch real estate investment trusts comes into effect. The Dutch parliament will probably approve government plans to overhaul the rules in
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      335 33 FOR SALE BY TENDER hd.hu* Residential Redevelopment vo 6 T ««A h Site at Balestier Road, Toi T l£2™ Hang Tat Garden rn (fin Toa PayohJ Ml 7n n a<„ m Land area 2,341.2 sm (25,200.4 sq ft) Jin Rajah v o> Freehold A Subject Master Plan 2003 -PR 2.8,
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      157 34 INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FOR SALE BY TENDER Address 55 Jotan Pemlmpln Description A 4-storey detached factory Tenure 999 yrs wef 6 July 1885 Land area approx. 33,519 sq.ft. GFA approx. 53,977 sq. ft. Tender Closing 08 Dec 2006, 3pm For tender document. please contact; CB Richard ENr Bernard ®oh 6326-1232 9780-9252
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