The Business Times, 18 May 2007

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    20 1 The Business Times Friday, May 18,200£ online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 StN€^EQBLBS^ts i'li'i --ri—ffim-nrm
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  • Article
    Lock icon Law to make it easy to hire older workers
    736 1  -  Legislation must be complemented by efforts to allow businesses to adjust appropriately: govt By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] The government has accepted a proposal to introduce legislation within five years to make it easy for workers to be taken on again
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    130 1 Dsn 3,525.51 (+2434) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,526.00 (+24.00) siMsa 433.81 (+3.17) SIMSa FUTURES 433.90 (+2.40) MARKETS Thursday Change KLCOMP 1J59.37 +6.96 NIKKEI 225 17.496.60 -30.40 HANG SENG .20,994.61 _.±5735 SET INDEX 724.37 >2.71 JAKARTA COMP Clowd MANILA COMP 3.417.69 +8-49 SEOUL COMP +14.98 SHENZHEN B 767.72 +20.59 MUMBAIIND
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    Lock icon Two former NKF directors selling off assets
    727 1  -  Moves seen by new NKF as bid to avoid paying damages By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] Just a day after former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) directors Richard Yong and Loo Say San were declared bankrupt, it has emerged that the two men have spent
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon No early opening up of S'pore-KL air route
      462 2  -  But SIA request to fly between KL and secondary airports may be considered By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur THE air route between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur is unlikely to be opened up to all comers before next year's agreed date, Malaysian
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      Lock icon The economic gains from F1
      872 2  -  COMMENTARY Government's next task is to take the message to the public By: SAMUEL EE HERE'S the $90 million question: why is the government spending so much to help race promoter Ong Beng Seng stage a Formula One car race? That's what seems to be
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      Lock icon More older Singaporeans hired last year
      400 2  -  53.7% rate matches levels in developed countries By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] More than half 53.7 per cent of older Singaporeans looking for jobs were hired last year, an employment rate that matches the levels in developed countries. A booming economy and tight labour
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      515 2 Singapore exports dip 0.4% in April SINGAPORE'S key non-oil domestic export slipped 0.4 in April from a year ago to $13.31 billion, dragged down by a continued decline in electronics shipments and moderation of growth in non-electronic exports. The market had forecast a 7.5 per cent rise. TOP
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      Lock icon Surprise 0.4% fall in S'pore's key exports in April
      518 4  -  Electronic exports fall year-on-year for third straight month, by 12% By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Just when Singapore's key non-oil domestic exports (NODX) looked like they were on the mend, they unexpectedly dipped again last month. Against market forecast of a
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      Lock icon Fullerton Fund shooting for US$10 billion
      587 4  -  Temasek unit now manages US$2b of third-party funds By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Temasek's Fullerton Fund Management subsidiary aims to grow its third-party funds under management to US$lO billion by 2010, five times the size of the portfolio now. In a rare interview, Fullerton
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      21 2 GOOD GAINS let your investors know by advertising your financial results in our newspapers. Call 1800 289 8822 or email nottees^spfuom.sg.
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      1829 4 Cats Notices BALANCE SHEETS STATEMENTS OF INCOME (BANKING ACCOUNT) (BANKING ACCOUNT) (as of December 31, 2006 and 2005) (for the yean ended December 31, 2006 and 2005) 2006 2005 (In Millions) (in Millions) (In Millions) (In Millions) Korean Won Korean Won Korean Won Korean Won ASSETS Interest income Cash and
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Bukit Sembawang bags Fairways Condo for $244 m
      458 5  -  Gilstead View in Newton area draws top bid of $96m By KALPANA RASHIWALA THE tender for Gilstead View in the Newton area closed yesterday with a top bid of $96 million, which works out to $1,036-1,056 psf per plot ratio inclusive of
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      Lock icon Proving Keppel's critics wrong
      634 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By CONRAD RAJ A WEEK ago, a friend told a few of us how seven years ago, he had bought some Keppel Corporation shares with plenty of misgivings. He had then paid the princely sum of $2.70 a share ($1.35 in today's terms
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      Lock icon MCL cheers immigration drive
      276 7 Reuters SINGAPORE'S drive to boost its population through immigration will boost the earnings of residential property developer MCL Land for years to come, the firm's finance chief said yesterday. The firm, 77 per cent owned by Hongkong Land, expects demand for its mass- to mid-market condominiums
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      Lock icon MediaRing not ruling out new bid for PacNet
      511 8  -  Connect's offer fair, say PacNet independent directors By ROLAND LIM WHILE the independent directors of Pacific Internet (PacNet) have recommended that its shareholders accept Connect Holding's US$lO per share takeover offer, major shareholder Mediaßing said yesterday that it was still undecided on
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      Lock icon Stats' free float shares may have fallen below 10%
      479 8  -  By OH BOON PING A DAY before Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings' extended offer closes, STATS ChipPAC (Stats) said yesterday that the number of its shares in public hands may have fallen below the mandatory free float of 10 per cent.
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      Lock icon Frontline upbeat as second-half earnings jump 43%
      378 8  -  By OH BOON PING FRONTLINE Technologies, which yesterday reported a 40.5 per cent rise in fullyear net profit, said it is confident of maintaining its double-digit earnings growth for the current financial year. Net earnings for its second half-year ended March 31. 2007,
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      Lock icon Beng Kuang Marine buys 51% of firm
      217 8  -  By TETTYANA JASLI BENG Kuang Marine (BKM) has acquired a 51 per cent stake in privately-held environmental firm Water and Environmental Technologies (WET) for about $5.66 million. BKM. a services provider for corrosion prevention, infrastructure engineering and supply and distribution of equipment to
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      Lock icon CDL H-Reit buys Clarke Quay hotel
      551 5  -  Novotel Clarke Quay purchase prices 398-room hotel at $219.8 million By KALPANA RASHIWALA CDL Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust (CDL HReit) has purchased the Novotel Clarke Quay in a deal that prices the 398-room hotel at $219.8 million or about $552,000 per room. The
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      Lock icon SGX DC decision upheld on appeal
      541 7  -  Panel rules lower culpability for trader; no false market created By NANDE KHIN THE new independent nonboard appeals committee of the Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) has upheld a decision made by the exchange's disciplinary committee (DC). The appeal, the first to be heard by
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon STI jumps 24 points to new high
      526 10  -  STOCKS Index boosted by late push on Jardine group, banking and property stocks R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent ANEW record high for Wall Street on Wednesday meant a new record high for the Straits Times Index yesterday, as a late push on the banks,
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      918 10 SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD MAM SDQ TOTAL Ua P—m IMdi UP Down Umh Un Down UiKh MultMnd 7 3 7 0 1 0 7 4 7 Manufacturing 80 61 78 11 15 20 91 76 98 Commerce 30 27 19 4 3 10 34 30 29 Tpt/5tor/Comms 19 17 8 2
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      914 10  -  Complied by UMA SHANKARI WE WERE expecting record earnings of about $19 million in IQO7, and HLA exceeded that with PATMI of $21.8 million, up 49 per cent year-on-year. HLA achieved 24.5 per cent of our full-year forecast, and this was still the low season for Xinfei As
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      Lock icon US$ comeback doesn't faze Asian favourites
      540 10  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar enjoyed a nice bounce in overnight trading, rebounding as much as half a per cent or more against some currencies. but this continued to make precious little impression on a handful of favourite Asian units. Ahead
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Ace Achieve ties up with China Netcom
      302 11  -  Construction of 3G infrastructure, based on TD-SCDMA, in Qingdao By BENITA AW YEONG MAINBOARD-LISTED Ace Achieve Infocom, a leading provider of telecommunications software solutions in China, is collaborating with one of China's major telecommunications operators, China Netcom, for the construction of the 3G
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      430 11 LMA gets nod to sell urology device in US MAINBOARD-LISTED LMA International yesterday announced that it has received the approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to market its urology device LMA StoneBreaker in the US. The device had obtained a CE Mark approval last year for
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      Lock icon Noble leads the charge with $100k Bull Run donation
      343 11  -  By PAMELA CHEW NOBLE Resources has taken the bull by the horns by becoming the first "diamond bull" sponsor contributing $100,000 to The Bull Run 2007. The Bull Run, in its fourth year, is a charity fun run held in the
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      16 11 Place your A6M and EGM notices in our newspapers. Call 1800 289 8822 or email noticesfsph.com.sg.
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      202 11 "i' Credit Agricole Private Bank Imagine a private bank that combines strength and dedicated service Backed by an extensive international network and the significant leverage that comes with being a member of the world's 6th largest banking group*, Credit Agricole Private Bank is a frontrunner in personal wealth management. To
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Tougher to hire managers from region: exec search firm
      351 12  -  By MATTHEW PHAN IT is getting harder to hire managers from other parts of the Asia-Pacific to fill positions in Singapore, as the Republic is "ahead of the curve" in terms of technology and skills, Fiona MacKinnon, regional manager for executive
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      Lock icon Q1 growth may have fallen short of govt estimate: poll
      418 12 Reuters GROWTH in Singapore's economy probably slowed in the first quarter and may have fallen short of the government's advance estimate due to sluggish manufacturing activity, a Reuters poll showed yesterday. But a stronger-than-expected service sector notably financial services such
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      Lock icon Create more Islamic finance products: MAS
      652 15 Official sees more scope for wholesale Islamic banking products as retail market is small Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore's central bank said it prefers that the island's private lenders and wealth-man-agement companies create products that comply with islamic principles, freeing it to build an environment where
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      Lock icon Intercontinental Hotel's Imbardelli honoured
      205 15 INTERCONTINENTAL Hotels Group (IHG) Asia Pacific chief executive A Patrick Imbardelli has been named "Hotelier of the Year 2006" at the 10th Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference, organised and hosted by Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels. Mr Imbardelli, who has more than 24 years' experience in the
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      Lock icon Entrepreneur awards open for nominations
      345 15  -  By LIN ZHAOWEI NOMINATIONS for the Sixth Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) Awards, launched yesterday by Ernst Young, are now open. The awards aim to honour entrepreneurs whose ingenuity and perseverance created and sustained successful, growing business ventures. However, unlike previous years, where finalists are
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      Lock icon Most SMEs here are Internet-savvy: survey
      389 12  -  In South-east Asia, only Thai firms are more connected to the Web By PAMELA CHEW SINGAPORE'S small and medium-sized businesses SMEs are more likely to have an Internet presence than any of their counterparts in the region except for Thailand, a new report shows.
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon China's fixed asset investment rises 25.5% through April
      470 16 Bloomberg. Reuters [BEIJING] China's growth in spending on factories and real estate held above last year's pace in the first four months of this year, underscoring the central bank's failure to slow the economy after three interest rate increases. Fixed asset investment
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      Lock icon OECD invites five countries to discuss membership
      230 16 -Reuters [PARIS] The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) invited five countries on Wednesday to begin membership talks, a move towards the biggest expansion of the group in years. The five countries are Russia, Chile, Estonia, Slovenia and Israel. At the same
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      Lock icon India, US see progress towards global trade deal
      475 16 Delhi encouraged by talks between 4 key WTO members —Reuters [PARIS] As trade powers prepared a new push for a breakthrough in the longdelayed negotiations, India and the United States said on Wednesday that progress is being made towards a global trade
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      Lock icon Democrats envision return to surpluses with US$2.9t budget
      467 16 Blueprint represents broad alternative to Bush's agenda NYT [WASHINGTON] House and Senate Democratic leaders reached an agreement on Wednesday on a US$2.9 trillion budget for 2008 that envisions a return to budget surpluses by 2012 and assumes that some of President George
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon IRDA is sole IDR authority: MB
      350 17 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) is the sole decision-making body on all issues pertaining to both domestic and foreign investments flowing into the Iskandar Development Region (IDR), Johor Menteri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman said yesterday. "Be they local or foreign
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      Lock icon M'sian firm plans monorail from J'burg to Soweto
      338 17 Newcyc says 43-km link will be built with private money -NYT [JOHANNESBURG] A Malaysian investor pledged on Wednesday to link central Johannesburg to its famous suburb, Soweto, via a 43km, US$l.7 billion monorail to be built and operated with private money. The
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      Lock icon Mahathir recovering from heart attack: institute
      274 17 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Outspoken former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad suffered a heart attack before he was hospitalised earlier in the week, doctors said yesterday. The 81-year-old was taken in after having breathing difficulties and the National Heart Institute, where the former premier is
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      Lock icon HK investors have a role in IDR: official
      315 17 Hands-on experience in Pearl River Delta expected to stand it in good stead Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Hong Kong investors can contribute towards the future development of the Iskandar Development Region (IDR) in Johor because of their experience in dealing with hinterland development
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      1782 17 Deutsche Bank EZj (Incorporated in Germany) Group Balance Sheet Group Income Statement in m. (except nominal value) in m., except per share data 2006 2005 Assets 31.12.2006 31.12.2005 Net interest revenues: Cash and due from banks 7.009 6,571 Interest revenues 65,217 41.706 Interest-earning deposits with banks 19.470 11.963 m„ intereet
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon China's high share prices a cause for concern, warns Li Ka-shing
      340 19 Volatility in China market may affect HK bourse, he says -AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing yesterday warned that investors should be cautious in trading on China's stock markets, saying he is "worried" over high share prices
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      Lock icon China may restrict red chip A-share offers: report
      266 19 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China may set restrictions for domestic stock offers by Chinese firms incorporated abroad so-called "red chips" including a requirement of at least one billion yuan (Ss2oo million) in annual net profit, the official Securities Times said yesterday. Red-chip firms incorporated
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      Lock icon HK exchange to revamp GEM market
      574 19  -  Secondary board sees low turnover, attracts no new listings this year By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong HONG Kong's stock exchange is planning a revamp of its poorly performing secondary bourse, which has been dogged by scandal. The Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), which began
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  • India
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      644 20 They are now doing high-value work like market research and patent filing Reuters [CHENNAI] In an office in the southern port city of Chennai, Indian analysts pore over stock market data for a London-based fund company, searching for investment opportunities. Some 1,900 km
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      498 21 Move seen as sign of its growing ties with America's regional foe Reuters, AP [BAGHDAD] Iraq has invited Iranian firms to bid for contracts to build at least four oil refineries across the country, Iraq's oil ministry said on Wednesday in
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      431 21 AFP [WASHINGTON] The United States and the United Arab Emirates backed a new bilateral business coalition on Wednesday as US firms seek openings in the desert country which has become America's biggest trading partner in the Middle East. American government officials and
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      408 21 -Reuters [DUBAI] Volume of gold demand in Saudi Arabia rose 6.9 per cent to 26 tonnes in the first quarter of this year, as consumers became accustomed to higher prices and the stock market euphoria cooled off, a
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      684 24  -  Fall in corporate capital expenditure slows down Q1 GDP growth to 0.6% By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo The Bank of Japan held off raising interest rates yesterday after official data showed that growth in Japan's economy slowed sharply in the first quarter
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      457 24 LATEST US DATA —Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] A measure of the US economy's future course unexpectedly fell in April, the third decline in four months, dragged down by slumping home construction. The Conference Board's index of leading economic indicators decreased 0.5 per cent after a 0.6 per
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      371 24 -Reuters [WASHINGTON] World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz refused on Wednesday to bow to heavy European pressure to resign as he sought to clear his name in negotiations with the bank's board over a possible exit strategy. "Mr Wolfowitz will not resign under
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      300 24 -Reuters, Xinhua [HANOI] Vietnam's finance ministry plans to impose a personal income tax on earnings from share trading following the fast expansion of the stock market, a minister was quoted on Wednesday as saying. Deputy Finance Minister Truong Chi Trung said a draft
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      524 24 -Reuters [LONDON] Sure of becoming prime minister after long years of waiting, Gordon Brown smiles much more now. Mr Brown was assured on Wednesday of becoming Britain's next leader without a vote after his only rival for the party leadership conceded defeat. The
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      607 25 Cities, banks, companies, groups to work with Clinton Foundation NYT [NEW YORK] A coalition of 16 of the world's biggest cities, five banks, one former president, companies and groups that modernise ageing buildings on Wednesday pledged to invest billions of dollars to cut urban
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      390 25 -Reuters [MOUNTAIN VIEW, California] Google is combining its different web search services into one Universal Search service that would present websites, news, video and other results on one page. Speaking to reporters at the company's Googleplex headquarters, Marissa Mayer, vice-president of search and
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      82 25 AFP It's the Claridges Hotel in London, no less, and three canine friends are sitting down to tea. Dexter, a Brindle Staffordshire Terrier. Ross, a Hungarian Vizla. and Princess, a Jack Russell cross, are helping out at the launch of the Blue Cross "Britain's Biggest
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      549 25 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Federal Reserve chairman Ben S Bernanke said regulators must use insider-trading laws to prevent abuses in the expanding market for creditdefault swaps and other derivatives. "US securities laws against insider trading and market manipulation apply broadly to all financial institutions, including hedge
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      150 25 -Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani earned US$l7 million last year from speeches, his law and consulting firms and book royalties, according to his financial disclosure form. Mr Giuliani, 62, a former New York mayor who has led in polls
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      211 25 -Reuters [WASHINGTON] A major US labour group wants market regulators to force changes to an initial stock offering by Blackstone Group, one of the first major US private equity firms to go public. The US$4 billion Blackstone initial public offering has been
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      393 25 -Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Elad Group, the owner of New York's Plaza Hotel, will develop a US$5 billion luxury property on the Las Vegas Strip. The company bought the 34.5-acre site for US$l.2 billion and plans to replace the New Frontier
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      688 26  -  It seeks tie-up with a budget carrier group to quickly expand its network By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Having turned itself around following last year's restructuring and now headed for profitability, Qantas' Singaporebased low-cost unit Jetstar Asia is seeking an alliance with a regional budget
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      330 26  -  But economy class traffic growing faster: IATA By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Global premium traffic growth recovered strongly in March, following February's dip, though it remains below the level of growth in economy class traffic, according to International Air Transport Association (lATA). "The recovery in
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      473 26 Reuters [SYDNEY] A consortium that made a failed Asll billion (5513.9 billion) bid for Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd yesterday said it would not launch a fresh offer, denting the airline's share price. The Airline Partners Australia (APA) consortium, which included Macquarie
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      211 26 -AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia said yesterday that it is prepared to hold talks with India in a bid to resolve an air dispute over flights to Malaysia by Indian carriers. Reports had said that the Indian civil aviation authority has warned of a
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      394 26 Bloomberg [DUBLIN] Ryanair Holdings pic, Europe's largest low-cost airline, said average fares may fall by as much as 10 per cent in June after the carrier offered one million free seats. The shares dropped to a four-month low. "The offer
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      217 26 AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand's top budget carrier Thai Air Asia said yesterday that its passengers numbers will jump 40 per cent this year, with more travellers switching to low-cost airlines as the economy slows. Thai Air Asia expects passenger numbers to reach 4.2
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      629 27 Littoral Combat Ship can be used against terrorist, pirate vessels AFP {SINGAPORE] US firm Lockheed Martin yesterday said some Asian countries had expressed serious interest in the defence contractor's new class of warship, which can be used against terrorist and pirate vessels. The company
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      256 27 -AFP [SHANGHAI] China's Shanghai Port overtook Hong Kong to become the world's second-largest container port in the first quarter as the number of containers handled rose 28.1 per cent year on year during the period, state media said yesterday.
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      208 27 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] The cost of shipping coal, iron ore and other dry-bulk commodities fell from a record after congestion eased at Australia's Newcastle, the world's largest coal export port. The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of commodity-ship-ping costs on different routes
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      746 27  -  STRAIT TALK By SELVA KUMAR AN AUSTRALIAN court last month ruled in favour of a Malaysian shipowner whose vessel was badly damaged when one of the two tug boats helping the vessel to berth collided with it following a steering control failure on the tug.
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      256 27 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Pirates who hijacked two South Korean fishing vessels with 24 crew members aboard have sailed the ships to a village on the coast of Somalia, a maritime watchdog said yesterday. "All the crew members are safe," said Noel Choong, the
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      515 28 EDITORIAL THIS week saw Temasek Holdings come through handsomely on a promise it made in 2003 to "set aside funds for the wider community for every year that it delivers returns above its cost of capital". A host of worthy causes can now look forward to
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      1015 28  -  Private-equity investors are seeking to spend US$33 billion they raised last year to buy companies in developing countries By ALEXANDER RAGIR Bloomberg AS IF emerging-market stocks needed another boost: Buyouts and takeover speculation are pushing up shares from Taiwan to South Africa. Private-equity investors are
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      841 28  - The Wolfowitz Touch —or how to lose US credibility THE BOTTOM LINE LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent ONE of the maxims that you learn in Politics 101 is that exerting leadership doesn't require the use of coercion and force, and that in fact the most successful politicians and statesmen are those
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      875 29  -  Opt for a mixed society and not for a libertarian, laissez-faire, market-only civilisation PAUL SAMUELSON Tribune Media Services IN 1000 AD, Western Europe and China enjoyed about the same per capita standards of living. However, nothing stays the same. For reasons we shall never know, thereafter
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      282 29  -  Malathi Das (Ms) Vice-president The Law Society of Singapore I REFER to your article. "ACL slams Law Society for opposing member" (BT. May 12). The Law Society appeared before the court in the case of Re Shankar Alan s/o
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      724 29  -  ANDY MUKHERJEE Bloomberg THE humble municipal bond may offer India a "huge" window of opportunity to help clean up the ailing infrastructure of the country's vast urban landscape, says Fitch Ratings. Already, some 285 million Indians live in 4,000 towns and
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      482 29  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR James Chan I WOULD like to question the structure of the Singapore Formula One deal. As I understand it, Ong Beng Seng has incorporated a company, Singapore GP Pte Ltd, which will have
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  • executive lifestyle
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      1780 36  -  Those entering the booming F&B scene now have clear business plans and both feet firmly on the ground, reports GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU DESPITE the oft-said truism that at least seven out of 10 new restaurants are destined to fail, there is no shortage of people
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      128 36 Hong Kongers party to a different beat PAGE 40 I I iifll More Amazing Grazing w II Singapore's roost stylish and beautiful Sunday Branch Just keeps getting better. Discover why It's the only place to be J_ U I J B rJTT I for brunch... and discover a) fresco adventures
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  • ARTS
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      611 37  - Cheaper than F1 and lots more fun off the cuff jaime ee AHOY there, mateys! Shiver me timbers, this is Captain Hector Barbossa, former captain of The Black Pearl, formerly seen in Pirates of the Caribbean, and I would, how you say, like to offer you a little proposition. You
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      765 37  -  251, Pain and Off Centre are among Esplanade's interesting seasonal offerings, says PARVATHINAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR THE Esplanade's ongoing April/May Theatre Studio Season promised to be about "the contemporary and the exploratory", words which suggested that the viewer would be taking chances, in the best sense
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      619 37  -  By CHRISTOPHER LIM ART mirrors life. Puppetry, however, mirrors life by mimicking life's forms. Puppets, though a step removed from live human actors, seem, in their universality. to have a unique light to throw on the human drama. Audiences here showed their
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      532 37  -  By CHRISTOPHER LIM FIVE local artists and designers are getting some well-deserved publicity at eclectic lifestyle shop-cum-cafe Clique on the fourth floor of The Cathay. On now till May 31. original works such as drawings, sculptures, lampshades and swimwear are showcased there for sale. One
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  • WOMEN ON TOP
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      1932 38 Sitting on top of the corporate ladder in the property industry, CBRE MD Pauline Goh tells ARTHUR SIM she derives much of her strength from 'a large family' PAULINE Goh is one of the most powerful women in the real estate industry here. Together with
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  • CINEMA/MUSIC
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      533 39  -  'Next' is enjoyable enough as escapist fare but it might offend sci-fi fans, says PARVATHI NAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR THERE are many inexplicable things about Next such as Nicholas Cage's totally weird hairstyle, which works as an excellent homage to Tom Hanks' hairdo in The Da
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      537 39  -  By GEOFFREY EU THE last time we checked in on Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights: The Ballard of Ricky Bobby he was deep in character as a redneck racecar driver whose motor skills didn't have much chance of catching up to his motor mouth. In his new movie
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      707 39 Reviews by BEN MUNROE The Boy With No Name Travis Sony/lndependiente Rating: B- TEN years and five albums since they first hit the scene with 1997's Good Feeling. the Glasgow four-piece who paved the way for the current rulers of Indie rock such as Snow Patrol
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      264 39  -  DVD By PARVATHI NAYAR DEJA Vu is a film that works better the second time around, and that's not only because that statement makes for such a satisfying pun. The point is, many things about Deja Vu are irritating: the hokey physics, the
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  • PURSUITS
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      836 40  -  They dress to impress and spend more on drinks, writes MELISSA LWEE NIGHT OUT MELISSA LWEE WHEN Karen Ng parties, she likes to do it in style and to her. there is no better place to do so than in Hong Kong. The
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      281 40 DragovM Address: UG/F, The Centrium, 50 Wyndham Street Central, HK Tel: 852 3110 122 One of Hong Kong's, most hyped about bars, it is best known for being the place where Real Madrid partied during its summer tour. Drop Address: Basement On Lok Mansion,
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      791 40  -  FOOD By JAIME EE CHEF Sam Leong is one busy man. When he's not fronting the Tung Lok group as director of kitchens he's in charge of not only the Singapore operations but the overseas branches of My Humble House in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and New Delhi
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      1094 40  -  WINE By N K YONG WINE is a beverage no more, no less. There is no mystique about it. Drinking wine or owning wines does not carry with it any special status. It is an object just tike a car. A car is a means
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