The Business Times, 25 May 2007

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    20 1 THE BUISNESS TIMES Friday, May 25,2007 MICA (P) 202/12/2006 online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPORE 85 cents
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    Lock icon OECD warns of China stock market correction
    681 1 AFP, Reuters [SHANGHAI] Investors yesterday received another series of warnings about the perils of China's stock market frenzy, with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) echoing former US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan's comments that a sharp correction could be on the
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    17 1 Dsn 3,530.26 (-28.75) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,530.00 (-29.00) siMsa 436.09 (-4.21) SIMSa FUTURES 435.50 (-3.90)
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    Lock icon Proposed SGX changes seen raising costs
    616 1  -  Some Sesdaq firms say cost of staying listed could become prohibitive By OH BOON PING [SINGAPORE! Cost remains a key concern among most Sesdaq-listed firms following the Singapore Exchange's proposed changes to the listing rules announced on Wednesday. Even though the SGX has yet
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      101 1 OPINION The truth about Sino-US relations PAGE 19 Enjoy! JIHiiV The Singapore Arts Festival on and The Business Times is joining in the celebration. To mark the month-long festival that begins today, BT has come up with an Arts Festival 2007 magazine featuring personalities and trends in Singapore arts. We
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      44 1 GASTRONOMY *~mM 4 What's cooking t(P in Bangkok PAGE 27 OFFICE SPACE S'pore rents up 53%year-on-year PAGE 9 All the right moves PAGE 3 Lawyers keen to sponsor firms PAGE 3 Marie-Christine Lombard, group managing director of TNT In the Raffles Conversation tomorrow A
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon LNG trading to enjoy special tax rates
      522 2  -  Move aims to attract trading clusters to Singapore Reports by CHEN HUIFEN [SINGAPORE] Singapore is offering concessionary tax rates to companies trading in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and carbon emissions, to help attract new trading clusters here. Announcing a series of new initiatives
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      Lock icon GIC Real Estate in US$1.3b venture with Sumitomo
      313 2  -  The venture will invest in Japan's retail properties By ARTHUR SIM [SINGAPORE] GIC Real Estate has formed a joint venture with Sumitomo Corporation to invest up to US$l.3 billion (Ss2 billion) in retail properties in Japan, making it one of that country's
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      41 2 IN the report 'Paramount Hotel site being sold for $200 million' (BT, May 24), we said the site was on the government's safeguard list. This is incorrect. The site is not on the list. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon S'pore was willing to back smaller UNSW: Hng Kiang
      423 2 [SINGAPORE] Singapore was prepared to support a smaller University of New South Wales (UNSW) campus here, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday. The Economic Development Board did not reject UNSW's proposal for a 2,000-student campus and in fact
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      Lock icon All the right moves
      892 3  -  PROPOSED SGX CHANGES HOCK LOCK SIEW By TEH HOOI LING BUILD it, and they will come. That's what the Singapore Exchange (SGX) is banking on with its proposal to transform Sesdaq into a sponsor-supervised board in the mould of London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). And from
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      Lock icon Post-coup Thailand not good at all, says king
      171 3 —AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand's influential king yesterday warned dissolving the two main political parties would damage the country's image, commenting that the post-coup situation was "not good at all". Speaking at Chitralada palace here, King Bhumibol Adulyadej urged Thailand's top judges to act
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      520 2 Lawyers keen to sponsor companies on growth board LAWYERS are keen to sponsor companies on the new growth board, saying they are well suited for the job. Stamford Law Corporation director Yap Wai Ming says sponsorship mainly involves ensuring that companies comply with Singapore Exchange listing requirements. "Most
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      Lock icon Lawyers keen to sponsor firms in new Sesdaq
      451 3  -  By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] Lawyers are keen to sponsor companies on the new growth board, saying they are well suited for the job. Stamford Law Corporation director Yap Wai Ming says sponsorship mainly involves ensuring that companies comply with Singapore Exchange (SGX)
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon London fund says global equity markets boom 'set to continue'
      382 4  -  By CONRAD TAN THE current boom in global equity markets is "perfectly normal" and still has some way to go, said the head of a global asset management group yesterday. Roger Yates, chief executive of London-based Henderson Group, said the
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      Lock icon Relationship between directors cordial: Helen Yeo
      394 4 Boardroom woes not about battle for control, she says THE four independent directors (IDs) and the chief executive of Yellow Pages have a friendly relationship with the two directors seeking to unseat them, independent director Helen Yeo says. "This YP situation is a very
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      Lock icon Sincere Watch to open more outlets across Asia
      449 6  -  By UMA SHANKARI SINCERE Watch plans to capitalise on the rising Asian demand for luxury goods to expand its presence across the region, the company said yesterday. Group managing director Tay Liam Wee told BT that the group plans to open more
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      Lock icon Carats shareholders told to reject Galleria offer
      369 6  -  Independent directors agree with IFA the price is not attractive By SIOW LI SEN INDEPENDENT directors of Carats Ltd, the former Daka Designs, have recommended that shareholders reject a partial offer by Galleria Resources. They agree with the recommendation of the independent financial
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      Lock icon Addvalue turns around with full-year profit of $302,000
      388 7  -  Shift of focus to high-end wireless communication solutions pays off By OH BOON PING A SHIFT in strategy to focus on high-end wireless communication solutions paid off for Addvalue Technologies as it swung from a $22.8 million net loss the previous year
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      Lock icon COMPANY BRIEFS
      345 7 One-time gains boost Cougar's net profit BOOSTED by one-time gains totalling $7.27 million, Cougar Logistics' net profit for its financial year ended March 31 rose nearly three-fold to $10.3 million. Revenue climbed 5.9 per cent to $46.6 million. The one-time gains comprise $6.9 million from the disposal of
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      Lock icon Straits Asia's new CEO to continue foray into oil
      295 7  -  By RONNIE LIM RESOURCES and mining group Straits Asia Resources will continue with its foray into oil and gas exploration and production (E&P). "There is no change in the strategic direction of the company," a spokesman told BT yesterday after it
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      Lock icon Yellow Pages profit falls 13% to $12.6 m
      470 4  -  Revenue up 1.6% but higher investment costs set company back Reports by WEE LI-EN YELLOW Pages (Singapore) yesterday reported a 13.1 per cent fall in net profit to $12.6 million for the financial year ended March 31. Revenue inched up 1.6 per
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      Lock icon Temasek may join bid for China Eastern
      374 4 Joint investment gives SIA benefits: Morgan Stanley Bloomberg TEMASEK Holdings, a Singapore investment company, may join its unit Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA) to bid for a stake in China Eastern Airlines Corp, Morgan Stanley said. A joint investment with Temasek, which owns 56
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Greenspan sends chill across region
      535 8  -  STOCKS ST Index falls 0.8 per cent after the former Fed chief compounds fears of a China stock bubble TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent RETIRED US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan still packs a punch when it comes to having an impact on financial markets
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      967 8 SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD MAIN SOQ TOTAL U» Bow Ut> Up Down Unth Up Pown Urvch Multilnd 3 9 5 0 0 1 3 9 6 Minufntufing 33 128 53 8 23 20 41 151 73 Commerce 11 48 18 2 6 10 13 54 28 Tpt/Stor/Com ms 12 23 7
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      991 8  -  Compiled by CONRAD TAN Telecoms Sector MS GROUP RESEARCH, May 24 THE telecoms sector te a beneficiary of healthy domestic economic outlook, influx of foreign workers and tourists, and returns through capital management With Singapore's drive to boost its population to 6.5 million in the long term from
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      Lock icon Sterling tops gains on hawkish central bank
      522 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent IT WAS the turn of the British pound to lead gains versus the US dollar yesterday, but the Chinese yuan and Malaysian ringgit were also able to post fresh post-depeg highs. As widely expected, this week's two-day Sino-US
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon 800,000 households to get rebates worth $210 m
      316 9  -  By DANIEL BUENAS FOR fiscal year 2007, some 800,000 households will receive $210 million worth of Service Conservancy Charges (S&CC), rental and Utilities-Save (U-Save) rebates as part of the QST Offset Package announced in the Budget Statement 2007. The rebates will be
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      Lock icon Firms urged to speed up wage-restructuring efforts
      674 10  -  NTUC showcases four firms where both employers and staff have gained By PAMELA CHEW THE National Trades Union Congress (NTI'Q yesterday showcased four companies' wage restructuring efforts, leading to a win-win situation for both the companies and their workers ham Hui Fong. NTUC
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      Lock icon Competition for talented internal auditors hots up
      492 10  -  Retaining talent a problem for some firms: E&Y survey By LIN ZHAOWEI THE outlook for Singapore's job market remains highly positive on the back of a robust economy. And according to the results of Ernst Young's (E&Y) inaugural Singapore Internal Audit Survey released
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      Lock icon Eyecare professionals helping smokers
      253 10 CONTACT lens practitioners and optometrists who know the eye-relatfd dangers of smoking are more than twice as likely to ask clients whether they smoke and advise them to cut down or stop, a survey has shown. And in the wake of the survey conducted by the
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      Lock icon Successful branding will result in a successful business: panel
      328 10  -  By PAMELA CHEW MUCH more could be accomplished by the public relations, marketing and advertising industries if they fostered closer ties with one another, a panel heard yesterday. Asked which is more effective marketing. PK or advertising panelist Palani Pillai. group
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      Lock icon Oiltanking to spend $15m on biofuel tanks
      195 10 TO cater to the region's growing biofuel industry. Germany's Oiltanking will spend $15 million on its first biofuel storage tanks in Singapore. Oiltanking. which has invested more than $500 million in an 8.45 million barrel oil storage terminal on Jurong Island, yesterday signed
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      Lock icon Retailers expect 5% rise in GSS takings
      398 10  -  By UMA SHANKARI TAKINGS from this year's Great Singapore Sale (GSS) are expected to outdo last year's $5 billion by about 5 per cent, the Singapore Retailers Association (SRA) said yesterday. Sales this time around are expected to be boosted by better tourism
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      Lock icon MDA injecting up to $40m to spur digital media ideas
      439 10  -  By ROLAND LIM IX) you have a great idea to explore in the digital media space? Well, you might just be able to get up to $50,000 from the Media Development Authority (MDA) to kickstart the project. Its latest $40
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      Lock icon S'pore office rents the 5th fastest growing globally
      556 9  -  Rents here jumped 53.6% year-on-year to US$67.97 psf per annum: CBRE report By KALPANA RASHIWALA THE latest evidence of fast escalating office rentals in Singapore is provided by a CB Richard Ellis report which shows that office rents on the island are
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon S&P, Moody's may face more rivals
      297 11 Bloomberg INHW YOKKI The SHC has approved rules that will make it easier for additional cred-it-rating companies to gain federal recognition and compete with Standard Poor's and Moody's Investors Service. The plan, adopted on Wednesday by the US Securities and Kxchange Commission, was prompted
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      Lock icon US lawmakers increase pressure on China
      630 11 —Reuters, AP [WASHINGTON] US lawmakers stepped up pressure on China over trade on Wednesday, giving mixed reviews to high-level economic talks and urging China's top economic envoy to address complaints about China's currency. The powerful House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee told Vice-Premier
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      Lock icon No quick fix to weak yuan: OECD
      356 11 As long as savings stay high, currency will remain weak Reuters [PAßlS] China's currency would appreciate if Beijing allowed the yuan to trade more freely but the yuan will remain a structurally weak currency as long as people save so much, OECD chief
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      Lock icon IMF urges Japan to allow yen to appreciate
      703 11  -  With projected growth of 2.4%, it can cope with stronger currency By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPAN'S economy is strong enough now to cope with a stronger currency, and the authorities should not resist any upward pressure on the yen, the IMF
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      1135 11 SHINHAN BANK (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBUC OF KOREA) CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME December 31,2006 and 2005 For the years ended December 31,2006 and 2005 2006 2005 2006 2005 Millions of Millions of Millions of Millions of Korean Won Korean Won Korean Won Korean Won Assets Interest income
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Johor bunkering project still not yet settled
      570 12  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur FOUR years after the project was first mooted, the shareholders of a RMI.4 billion (Ss63l million) petroleum and bunkering facility on a 100-acre reclaimed island off the west coast of Johor remain undecided. Bankers familiar with the
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      Lock icon Genting's Q1 profit more than doubles
      254 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Genting Bhd. Asia's largest publicly traded casino operator, said first-quarter profit more than doubled after income from gaming and power climbed as it expanded overseas. Net income rose to RM656.7 million (*****.9 million), or 17.8 sen a share, in the three
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      Lock icon Transmile shares tumble on report on fleet
      495 12 [KUALA LUMPUR] A steady rebound in shares of Transmile Group Bhd was interrupted by a research report that questioned the number of planes it has, a claim the air transport firm said was inaccurate, says a report in Malaysia's Business Times. The stock,
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      Lock icon Indofood unit to acquire Lonsum: source
      224 12 Reuters [JAKARTA] A unit of Indonesia's largest instant noodle maker, PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk, will acquire plantation firm, PT London Sumatra Tbk (Lonsum), a source close to the deal said yesterday. Lonsum, one of the oldest plantation firms in Indonesia and focused on
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon M'sian tycoons' fortunes surge on stock rally
      504 12  -  Top 40 now worth US$46b from US$26b last year, says Forbes Asia By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur A RISING stock market has made Malaysia's richest people a lot richer. The country's top 40 tycoons are now worth US$43 billion. up from US$26
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon 28 held after riots over family planning fines
      388 13 —AP [BEIJING] Authorities have detained 28 people after thousands of farmers rioted to protest against fines levied on those who had more children than allowed under China's family planning policy, state media said. Between 300 and 3,000 people were involved in the
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      Lock icon Faulty Norton update may have hit millions of computers
      177 13 -AFP {BEIJING] Millions of Chinese computers may have been paralysed by a faulty anti-virus update from Symantec, the world's largest security software provider, state media reported yesterday. An automatic update to the Chinese version of the Norton anti-virus software sent out
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      Lock icon Gansu invests billions to upgrade industries
      466 13 —Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's Gansu province, where President Hu Jintao cut his teeth as an official 30 years ago, has spent more than 100 billion yuan (Ss2o billion) upgrading its industries since 2002 and will spend as much in the next five years, its governor
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      Lock icon Glaxo to unveil China R&D plan
      249 13 —Reuters [LONDON] GlaxoSmithKline is set to unveil plans for a major research and development centre in China, joining a growing number of pharmaceutical companies tapping into the country's skillbase in life sciences. Research head Moncef Slaoui told the annual meeting of Europe's biggest drug
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      Lock icon Nanjing Auto seeks to end Fiat venture
      196 13 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Nanjing Automobile Group Corp, the Chinese maker that took over MG brand, said it is discussing with Fiat SpA about terminating a venture that makes passenger vehicles in China. "We are in discussion with Fiat," Nanjing Auto's spokesman Liu Ningsheng said
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      Lock icon China's stock guru bullish about market
      661 13 Lin Yuan intends to keep every penny invested in equities Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's Warren Buffett says he is keeping every penny invested in a share market that has nearly tripled over the past 18 months. "Don't ask me whether the bull run has peaked.
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon RBI under pressure to bridle rupee
      342 14 Rising currency threatens India's economic growth —NYT [NEW DELHI] Concerned that the rising value of the Indian rupee is threatening to limit the country's economic growth, especially in the lucrative outsourcing industry, monetary policy experts here have started putting pressure on the Reserve Bank
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      Lock icon US, India 90% close to N-pact: Washington
      287 14 —AFP [WASHINGTON] The United States and India are "90 per cent" of the way towards sealing a landmark deal on nuclear energy, a top US official said on Wednesday ahead of pivotal talks in New Delhi. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said he
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      Lock icon India PM warns firms not to form cartels
      588 14 Rising prices alienated voters who ousted Congress in polls Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned companies against forming cartels, stressing price stability is necessary to spread the benefits of economic growth in Asia's fourth-biggest economy. "The operation of cartels
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  • MIDDLE EAST
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      Lock icon Oil prices surpass US$71 to hit 9-month high
      552 15 Price surge follows UN report on advances in Iran's nuclear programme Reuters, AP, Bloomberg (LONDON] Oil prices climbed above US$7l to a nine-month high yesterday after a report by the United Nations' nuclear agency opened the way to tougher sanctions against the
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      Lock icon Qatar gas-to-liquids plant on track, says Shell
      296 15 —Reuters [LONDON] A multibillion-dollar project to turn gas into liquid fuel in Qatar was on schedule, Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday after Sasol warned a similar venture had problems. Sasol said its Oryx gas-to-liquids (GTL) joint venture plant in Qatar had technical
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon New home sales surge, prices drop 11 %in April
      579 16/17 LATEST US DATA Climb was highest in 14 years; US economy set for soft landing but sub-prime mortgage market still a risk Reuters. AFP [WASHINGTON] Sales of new US homes rose 16.2 per cent in April, the sharpest climb in fourteen
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      540 16/17  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPAN'S Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last night called on world leaders to embrace a major new initiative to cut global warming emissions by half by the year 2050. He also said Japan will create
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      311 16/17 Reuters [LONDON! The British government has ordered a full competition inquiry into pay TV group BSkyß. over its purchase of a 17.9 per cent stake in the country's biggest commercial broadcaster ITV. The Competition Commission could recommend that BSkyß give up some or
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      42 16/17 -Bloomberg Anne Ryan, of London, reads a book on a temporary grass installation in Trafalgar Square in London. UK yesterday. The grass was laid to promote visiting London's many village greens and will remain until today. —Bloomberg BLOOMBERG
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      578 16/17 AFP [MOSCOW] Who would bid US$3.9 billion at an auction and then disappear? The mystery is gripping Russia's business community after a Moscow-based company called Prana appeared to do Just that. Prana won a dramatic bidding war on May 11 with the biggest Russian oil
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      352 16/17 Reuters (LONDON) A multi-millionaire businessman lost his appeal yesterday against a court order that he should pay a record-breaking £48 million (*****.5 million) divorce settlement to his ex-wife. Insurance underwriter John Charman. 54. had challenged the size of the award to his former wife
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      787 18  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING FOR the last 10 years, Taiwan has attempted each year to be admitted into the World Health Organisation (WHO) and was rejected every time. In previous years, to maximise its chances, it asked to be
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      915 19  -  Congress wants China to revalue their currency while Beijing says it is not to blame for the US' rising trade deficit LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent THE minor agreements that were reached during the two days of negotiations between American and Chinese officials in Washington are not
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      180 19  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chua Soon Hock 1 REFER to media reports on the closure of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) campus in Singapore. Is the Ministry of Education's (MOE) impractical policy a cause of the poor intake for UNSW, resulting
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      105 19  -  Lim Ah Kheng I REFER to MAS's letter "Let market discipline banks" (BT. May 16). The crux of the problem is that fixed deposit interest rates quoted to customers who enquired personally at the counters of local banks are consistently much higher than those
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        79 20 [SINGAPOBE] Changi Airports International (CAI), the international airports business unit of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), yesterday announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province for the development of Phu Bai-Hue International.
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        100 20 —Bloomberg [LONDON] Orders for dry-bulk commodity carriers rose to the highest in more than 16 months as increased freight rates fuelled a construction boom, shipbrokers Fearnleys AS said. Orders for as many as 77 bulk carriers were disclosed in the past week, more
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        113 20 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hanjin Heavy Industries Construction Co has won a US$l.27 billion order to build eight container ships that will be among the world's largest. The vessels, each able to carry 12,800 standard 20-foot containers, will be built in the Philippines for Germany's
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      576 20 It expects capacity, ticket prices to be hit by Tiger Airways' entry Reuters [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd said it might spin off some freight operations and other units or return billons of dollars to shareholders as it rethinks its future following a failed
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      154 20 AFP [SINGAPORE] Singapore budget carrier Tiger Airways yesterday said that it will lease two new Airbus 320 planes from the commercial aviation services arm of US conglomerate General Electric. Under an agreement, GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS) will buy the two aircraft
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      590 20  -  He seems to blame MAS for lobbying against services By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] The Singa-pore-Kuala Lumpur route will be opened up to lowcost airlines possibly as soon as September, the chief executive of Air Asia said yesterday. Tony Fernandes was speaking just
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      851 20  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR A VOYAGE charterer won an appeal in an English court last week against a ruling to pay "deadfreight" for cargo it did not load into a tanker because the vessel could not have departed the loading port
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  • NIGHT OUT/ARTS
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      726 26  -  One way to hold an unforgettable party is to have it on a yacht, writes MELISSA LWEE MELISSA LWEE WHEN you hit the big 3-0 and you want to celebrate it in style, what do you do? You have a party, but
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      575 26  -  By LISA TAN THIS year's International Museum Day (IMD) celebrations got a little mose tasty as food and art lovers came together for a food trail unlike any other. The Eastern Surprise Food Trail last Saturday whisked some 30 participants away to the
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      452 26  -  By LINDSAY VICKERY THREE colourful works from the dawn of the Romantic Era featured at last Sunday's Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) Casual Concert and, judging from the audience's reaction, a relaxing afternoon of classical music really hits the spot. The Casual Concert Series aims
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      49 26 f c ."j c• _1 _x. Citigold, from spra tocfay, tomorrow and Surkwy Wf I Tie Hulkwul Arts Cmwdl booth ovtside Raffles Qty Thereafter, the magazine will be on sale at the various Arts Fest venues. fy v-r- •-TV./:*&Wi^i£iii^^ sw&Ww**. WITH COMPLIMENTS OF PUBLISHED BY citigold The Business Times
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  • EPICURE
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      888 27  -  At Thaifex and Gourmet Asia Bangkok, food fairs coexist with gourmet dinners, says GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU ANTI Santamaria, the three-Michelin-star Spanish chef •V whose Can Eabes restaurant north of Barcelona is a popular destination for gastronomes from around the world, arrived in Bangkok
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      1064 27  -  By N K YONG THERE was this intelligent young couple who were at the same dinner party, clearly very enthusiastic about wine. During our discussion about the wine we were drinking 1 was curious: "Do you drink wine every day?" "We
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      687 28  -  CINEMA The plotlines are seemingly pulled out of thin air, says PARVATHI NAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR FOR many of us viewing Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the movie couldn't have ended fast enough, but here's the really scary detail. When a certain
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      578 28  -  By GEOFFREY EU THERE is a lighthearted moment early on in Infamous when the pint-sized author Truman Capote nattily dressed in a furcollared winter coat breezes into a small Kansas town to begin his research for a story about a terrible multiple
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      350 28  -  DVD By PARVATHI NAYAR YOU'VE got to hand it to the diamond: for an inert stone, it sure causes quite a stir. And Hollywood and diamonds have long enjoyed a relationship dominated by mutual admiration: Elizabeth Taylor's legendary collection, 007
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      524 28  -  MUSIC Reviewed by BEN MUNROE Music City Soul Beverley Knight Parlophone/EMI Rating: B ODDLY perhaps for the work of such a powerful vocalist, the strength and richness of Beverley Knight's Nashville-record-ed fifth album is epitomised by the backing singers. Following the tradition of backing vocals, at
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      83 28 Wide selection of wines available for tasting. —-'J\ Wines on offer Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Ausone, 7 Haut Brion, etc. Great selections of Australian, French, Spanish, Argentinean "SfcX v etc, available. FREE gift of wine cooler r 1/ with purchase of $300 (Limited to 1 per customer, while stock lasts). 71
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      290 28 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Ring the Parisian in boat be- jlE_^ißL—JpH—ing loaded (7) 8 p 10 Bird, variegated sort one's seen on church (7) JIL_ 12 Confused impression given Law LaJ L|m Lbv LJ by book publisher's hype (5) BH BH 13 Good man presented with one German beer mug (s)^ tish
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  • ARTS
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      1019 29  -  PARVATHI NAYAR highlights some of the more interesting and intriguing shows at this year's Singapore Arts Festival PARVATHI NAYAR IT'S THAT time of year again when words and phrases like interdisciplinary, interactive and in-your-face are inevitably tossed around. In other words, it's time to get ready
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      1502 30  -  Cerebos Pacific's executive VP tells NANDE KHIN about the challenges she had to overcome in a male-dominated profession NANDE KHIN BANGING on the table in order to get a point across during meetings may sound alien to female, and even male, executives in Singapore today. But
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  • COVER STORY
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      1376 31  -  PARVATHI NAYAR looks at how this year's all-new version of the Asian Arts Mart aims to grow the performing arts portfolio PARVATHI NAYAR WEALTH management is the current buzz word in Singapore, but growing the performing arts portfolio is rather different from buying and selling
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      386 31 ''i- /V,'• '> yj[_ i>/ D Italian festival y^Xp*\ 2 0 o'/ *|f v -J Featuring: Italian Lifestyle Fair at Calendar of Events 1 X J 23 to 30 May Italian Rim Festival: Screening of a seteotttpertobe of Italian films For more information and booting details, plea&yi&thww. ksingapore. estan. it
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      599 32  -  off the cuff jaime ee THERE are two things going on right now in Singapore that I don't understand. One, people are avidly speaking out against elitism in schools, yet parents will stop at nothing to secure places for their kids at "elite" primary
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