The Business Times, 26 May 2007

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    20 1 THE BUISNESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBUCATION MICA (P) 202/*****06 online at http://business-times.asinl.com.sg May 26-27, 2007
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  • Article
    Lock icon Expat schools ride wave of demand
    875 1  -  Waiting lists grow as enrolments and applications swell at international schools in Singapore By Daniel Buenas CHARMIAN KOK [SINGAPORE] With recent moves to welcome more immigrants and attract foreign talent, international schools for expatriate children are finding it hard to cope with swelling numbers.
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    62 1 The grand opening act of this year's Singapore Arts Festival dazzled spectators at the Padang as promised. Amidst a shower of fireworks and scintillating lights, spectators were treated to stunning acrobatics last evening by the acclaimed Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus. This year's month-long event features
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      51 1 SINGAPORE 85 cents JT A SINGAPORE PRES MOTORING Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead: absolutely gorgeous PAGE 17 us f V J ARTS ON THE MOVE Arts will come to you in all manner of shapes and sizes PAGE 16 TALKS, WORKSHOPS Up close and personal with arts legends PAGE 16 8 ll
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      26 1 fIRL raffles B» CONVERSATION Running TNT Express Worldwide page 3 fa <?&&£[ 1:4 J«SU' ■I i Angmohsin the heartland I PAGE 22 i. I"St i Living Art
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Court rules SIA has to pay A380 pilots more
      604 2  -  HEARING ON PILOTS' PAY It says ease of flying A380 does not imply reduced responsibilities By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines (SIA) pilots who fly the giant Airbus 380 will be paid more than pilots now flying the Boeing 747-400 (or
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      Lock icon April output surges on transport, biomed boost
      599 2  -  By CHEN HUIFEN [SINGAPORE] There was good news all around for both the manufacturing and services sectors in economic indicators released yesterday. Singapore's manufacturing output for April is shown to have grown by 18.8 per cent year-on-year, riding on strong growth in biomedical
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      48 2 Dsn 3,486.63 (-43.63) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,487.00 (-43.00) SIMSa 430.62 (-5.47) SIMSa FUTURES ***** (-5.10) v PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5 33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 7.75 INDONESIA 14.114 TAIWAN 5.926 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA- 9.33 BRITAIN 5.50 US 8.25 CANADA 6.00 SWITZERLAND 4.07 (NCMA...„, 12.75 Source: Bloomberg
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      Lock icon Singaporeans warm to 'prosperity with a purpose'
      1145 2  -  Acclaimed charity makes a local connection By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] The pouring rain didn't deter attendance. A standing-room crowd of well over 100 people packed the Pierside Kitchen Bar at One Fullerton on a wet Wednesday evening in April to hear from John
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      464 2 Parkway unveils Reit worth at least $765m PARKWAY Holdings will put all three of its hospitals here into a real estate investment trust worth at least $765 million. The Parkway Life Reit will initially consist of Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Gleneagles Hospital and East Shore Hospital as well as
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  • RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon EXPRESS LADY
      2485 3  -  Marie-Christine Lombard, group managing director of TNT Express Worldwide, feels being a woman business leader is no handicap in a competitive industry, writes AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY THE first thing that strikes you about Marie-Christine Lombard, the group managing director of TNT Express Worldwide, is how
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      Lock icon Juggling career and family
      481 3 IN 2005, Marie-Christine Lombard received one of France's top awards, the Chevalier award, in recognition of her achievement as one of the few women to lead a global group of TNT Express' scale. In 2006, she was also included in the prestigious Financial Times' list of
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      106 3 The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles V"V Hotels Resorts. Ranked second among the I J I i j/\n world's top hotel brands in the 2006 Conde I I I Nast Traveler Business Travel Awards, Raffles Hotels Resorts is a collection of Hotels RCSOftS
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon DBS first from S'pore in China retail banking
      242 4 DBS Group Holdings' locally incorporated unit in China begins business on Monday, becoming the first Singapore bank to gain access to the retail banking market. DBS Bank has ambitious plans to open 30-40 branches in the near future from the present five.
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      Lock icon DMG error lops 400 points off STI
      447 4  -  SGX agrees to cancel transactions on DBS shares Reports by SIOW LI SEN THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has agreed to cancel the erroneous trades in DBS Group Holdings shares yesterday which briefly triggered a 400-point drop in the Straits Times Index in the
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      Lock icon Parkway unveils Reit worth at least $765 m
      474 4  -  Initial assets: Mt Elizabeth, Gleneagles, East Shore hospitals By UMA SHANKARI PARKWAY Holdings, the largest operator of private hospitals in Singapore, yesterday said that it will put all three of its hospitals here into a new real estate investment trust (Reit) worth
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      7252 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIM Amro Asset Mat (S*pora) Star Europe Eqry 1137/ Star Eimpe Bond 1182; Star Europe M 1-271/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1 442/ Star Asia Bond- 1.343/ Star Asia Balanced 1126/ Syr Global Technology Field!" ***** Mutt) St Fd 0 977/ Star Asra BondtUSO) 0878/ Gt) Mufti
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      Lock icon Markets end on jittery note again
      406 6  -  STOCKS CONRAD TAN Reporter THE week ended on a much gloomier note than it started, with stock markets around the region losing their nerve for the second day in a row. By the midday break, the Straits Times Index (STI) was down 1.2 per
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      Lock icon Yellow Pages CEO quits amid ouster bid
      537 6  -  He says in letter his resignation will help firm search for new chief By WEE LI-EN THE quest by a major shareholder of Yellow Pages (YP) to unseat five board members has thrown up yet another surprise with the resignation yesterday of chief
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      179 6 Advance SCT plans warrants rights issue ADVANCESCThas proposed a rights issue of warrants at 8 cents each on the basis of three warrants for 10 shares. Cougar in talks on potential deal COUGAR Logistics said it is in an advanced stage of discussions which may lead to a
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      Lock icon $1 b bond issue by CapitaLand; S'pore's largest with many firsts
      546 7  -  It's to fund investments, refinance borrowings By SIOW LI SEN CAPITALAND yesterday sold $1 billion of convertible bonds the largest amount ever for a Singapore company to help fund new investments and refinance existing borrowings. The bonds, with a
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      Lock icon Hour Glass full-year profit jumps 50% to $18.64 m
      358 7 LUXURY watch retailer The Hour Glass posted a 50 per cent jump in net profit to $18.64 million for the year ended March 31, with revenue rising 14.8 per cent to $407.16 million. Calling its results the best in its history,
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      3787 5 MANDATORY CONDITIONAL CASH OFFER The Offeror has a high regard for the skills and experience of the current management of Amtek and one of the Offeror's key objectives is to retain and augment the current management team after the close of the Offer to continue to build gy upon the
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      1632 6 Commercial REIT Allco Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust (a unit trust constituted on 12 September 2005 under the laws of the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Allco Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust ("Allco REIT) will be held
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      1023 6 BUKIT SEMBAWANG ESTATES LIMITED Financial Statement and Dividend Announcement Unaudited Results for the Fourth quarter and Financial year ended 31 March 2007 The Directors of Bukit Sembawang Estates Limited announce the unaudited results of the Group and of the Company for the Fourth quarter and Financial year ended 31 March
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      1038 7 Cats Notices WpCt I R (Incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany) Financial Accounts for the Year 2006 New Answers in Banking Group Balance Sheet Group Statement Of Income Dec. 31.2006 €m«ions cmifcons millions millions ASSETS Cash and balances with central banks 1,070 1,748 Interest income 5,211 7,223 Loans and
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      984 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI MacarthurCook Industrial Reit May 25 close: 551.22 MERRILL LYNCH, May 25 INITIATING coverage with a "buy" rating: We are initiating coverage on MacarthurCook Industrial Reit (MI-Reit) with a "buy" recommendation and a 12-month price objective (PO) of S$ 1.36 per share, which implies a
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      Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      1059 8 For week beginning May 21 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS Sobsantial luy No of Price SHAREHOLDING Tram Shareholder Sell Shares Per Before After Mod. Dale Sector Com, HO (000) C000) Ace Dynamics 24 May W Ong Nai Pew "Buy 311 na 7277 4 98 7S88 5.20 Chuan Hup
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      Lock icon Listening to the tune of the market
      1366 8  -  SHOW ME THE MONEY TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent HOW things have changed in the past few years. With the the burst of the dotcom bubble, 9/11 and Sars, many fund managers were saying investment returns had moved permanently to a lower plane
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon S'pore eyes commodity index for Asia
      495 9  -  By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE is hoping that its geographic position will give it the edge in developing an Asian commodity index that can reflect regional crop species and harvest times better. "Singapore is a natural place because in the Kyoto (Protocol) system, the carbon
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      Lock icon 'Big business' urges govt to let it outsource power projects
      474 9  -  It also seeks permission to relocate units, set up 'power parks' By RONNIE LIM OUTSOURCING to thirdparty electricity providers and building "power parks" these are among landmark requests which "big business", believed to include oil giants like Shell and ExxonMobil
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      Lock icon SICC inks pacts with UAE, Saudi chambers of commerce
      518 9  -  SM says chamber can play vital role in internationalisation By DANIEL BUENAS THE Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) yesterday signed two pacts with Middle Eastern chambers of commerce, in a step towards building stronger economic ties with the region. At
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      Lock icon Knowledge at The Centrepoint
      149 9 ENGLISH poet Alfred Tennyson once said that knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Exclusively for readers of The Business Times, we show you how to wise-up while saving money too. This week's Bonus Issue gives you a 20 per cent discount off full-priced books and stationery at
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      Lock icon Committee calls for review of Sentosa land sales, EDB ops
      390 9  -  By ANNA TEO SENTOSA Development Corporation (SDC) should further review its land sales rules and procedures, not only to ensure transparency and fair competition but so they will be seen to be transparent and fair, a Parliamentary committee has recommended,
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      Lock icon Skills, experience help mature workers stay employable
      373 9  -  By LYNETTE KHOO SKILLS and work experience are key to keeping mature workers in Singapore employable, a survey by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has shown. Seven in 10 employers polled cited relevant skills and work experience as the most common reason that
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      Lock icon DP Info setting up credit bureau in January 2008
      241 9 BUSINESS information provider DP Info yesterday announced plans to set up a new credit bureau, with plans to start operations in January next year. DP Credit Bureau, a wholly owned unit of DP Info, said it will offer banks and financial
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      Lock icon Smaller retailers urged to improve customer service
      275 9 AFTER a successful pilot phase with major retailers, the Customer Centric Initiative (CCI) hopes to target small retailers, in partnership with neighbourhood centres and shopping malls. NTUC secretary-general Lim Swee Say said he hopes the success stories of small-and-medium retailers such as Prime
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      Lock icon New supply chain programme launched
      234 9 SINGAPORE Customs yesterday launched Singapore's very own national supply chain programme, Secure Trade Partnership Programme (STP). Through the programme, Singapore Customs aims to strengthen and safeguard the security of supply chain operations, helping to prevent disruptions to the smooth flow of goods, whether from conventional
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  • MALAYSIA
    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon M'sia to disable stolen cellphones
        100 10 —AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia hopes to put mobile phone thieves out of business by introducing a security system that can disable stolen handsets and block anyone from using them, an official said yesterday. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission will work with mobile service providers
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        Lock icon Indian inflation slows to 5.2%
        90 10 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's inflation slowed to an eight-month low, adding to optimism the central bank may be close to ending its 2 V 2 -year rim of interest rate rises. The key wholesale price inflation rate fell to 5.27 per cent in the week
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        Lock icon Wal-Mart and Bharti still in talks
        64 10 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Wal-Mart Stores and India's Bharti group are still discussing business plans for their cash-and-carry joint venture and a deal is just a matter of time, Bharti group managing director Akhil Gupta said. "It's not just signing the agreement, there are a
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      Lock icon Cinemas using night goggles to catch pirates
      198 10 -Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian cinemas have found a powerful new weapon in their -fight against movie pirates mili-tary-style night-vision goggles. After showing people to their seats, trained ushers are strapping on the goggles and scanning darkened cinemas to spot anyone trying to make
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      4535 10 Transaction date: May 25 52-Wk Tal Lait Vot Day LartQuote Mv GrYM Met MCap High Low Code Company Salt fOOO) High Low Buyer Satar Cvr HI 165 6 ilH gfi&mnrT* Ifi 2088 16 15.5 16 16.5 4.7 1 21.9 7?6 34 20 5834 24 unch 88 24 23.5
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      Lock icon Disclosure: Bursa leaves it to firms
      467 10 It says decision on importance of information is subjective [KUALA LUMPUR] Bursa Malaysia said it is up to a company to decide whether certain information is considered important enough to be disclosed to investors. The stock exchange operator was responding to queries from Malaysia's
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      Lock icon Abdullah rejects concerns over S'pore influence
      182 10 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's leader has rejected concerns that Singapore might wield too much influence over how Malaysia plans to run a multibilliondollar industrial park bordering the city-state, news reports said yesterday. Both countries announced earlier this month they would set up a joint
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  • INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Telkom posts 23% fall in fourth quarter profit
      340 11 Analysts blame it on early retirement and operating costs Reuters [JAKAßTA] Indonesia's largest telecommunications firm PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia posted a 23 per cent fall in its fourth quarter net profit, despite strong growth in the mobile phone sector. Telkom did not elaborate
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      Lock icon SGX
      6768 11 Transaction Date: May 25 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME VALUE Ban Joo 292.208.000 DBSGrp 218.954.490 OiQltand 228.292.000 OCBCBk 84,903.093 Magnus 97. <17.000 SingTel 60.453.220 MiddleCastO 77.155.000 ChinaEnerqy 60.305.340 Thai Beverage 47.675.000 Keppel Corp 58,434,800 SSHCorp 44.601.000 Yangzijianq 56.659.840 GKE Int 37.771.000 UOB 54.096.400 HjLG 36.962.000 Wilmar 42.045.020 ChinaEnerov 35.708.000 S1A
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      Lock icon Quake-hit Indonesian temples' repair work to take 5 years
      251 11 —AFP [PRAMBANAN, Indonesia] Damage to one of Indonesia's most spectacular temple complexes caused by last year's devastating Java earthquake was so extensive that repairs will take at least five years, Unesco says. Some of the temples at Prambanan are threatening to
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon China's central bank: guessing game on possible successors
      687 12 AP [HONG KONG] Wanted: Central banker who can curb "irrational exuberance" among stock market investors. Statesmen with international credibility preferred. Availability soon. Too bad Alan Greenspan, who does not speak Chinese, can't apply. One of the biggest challenges for Chinese leaders these
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
      2518 12 VOL May 25 MM W- COOP) ASM Realty -2.35 0.09 33 Abric Bhd .029 0.01 26 Advance Synergy 0-30 unch 529 AdventaBhd 1.20 undi 432 Ae Multi Hldgs .0.32 0.01 70 Affin Holdings v -2.34 -001 1223 Ahmad Zaki Resou 2.88 4.04 62 Ak Corp .0.57 unch 0
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      Lock icon HK mulls over 5.5% pay rise for civil servants
      545 12  -  Special committee to decide on proposal on Monday By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong POLICY-MAKERS in Hong Kong are considering a 5.5 per cent pay rise for civil servants, who have complained about being left out as other people's incomes rise.
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      Lock icon China likely to pip Japan as No 2 consumer mart: Wu Yi
      247 12 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] China will probably surpass Japan by 2010 to become the world's second-largest consumer goods market, as economic growth raises the income for the nation's 1.3 billion people, said Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi. The Chinese finance ministry's
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      Lock icon BACK PACKING
      63 12 [HONG KONG] A climber collecting mock buns in a contest during the bun festival on Cheung Chau island on Thursday. In this festival, the Taoist God of the Sea is worshipped and evil spirits are scared away by loud gongs and drums during a procession. The four-day celebration
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      Lock icon Controversial online 'arrest orders' boom in China
      525 12 Virtual policing has far-reaching effects but no legal validity —Xinhua [BEIJING] Your friend borrowed money from you and then craftily disappeared. Many netizens don't panic, don't despair and don't go to the police; instead, they reach for their mouse and issue an "arrest
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Suzlon Energy wins control of REpower
      501 13 Bidding war for German turbine maker ends as Areva drops out AFP [BANGALORE] Indian windpower generator Suzlon Energy said yesterday it had won control of German turbine maker REpower, a company it valued at 1.2 billion euros (552.5 billion), after ending a bidding war
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      Lock icon When it rains, it pours, and all bets are on
      652 13  -  By SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA in New Delhi BADLY bruised by India's early exit from the cricket World Cup, the country's illegal satta (betting) market is gearing up for another annual event that is much much harder to pin down betting on
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      Lock icon National Stock Exchange listings swell by 15%
      455 13 Bourse is No 3 gainer after Polish, Maltese exchanges [NEW DELHI] India's National Stock Exchange has emerged as the world's third fastest-growing bourse in terms of increase in listed companies outpacing global names such as NYSE, Nasdaq and London Stock Exchange, according to
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      2155 13 GLOBAL ARIEL LIMITED (Registration No. *****5625E) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of Global Ariel Limited (the "Company") will be held at Shangri-La Hotel, Pavilion Room, Orange Grove Road, Singapore *****0 on 11 June 2007 at
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Nasdaq to buy Nordic bourse operator OMX for 25b kronor
      705 14 Deal could give Nasdaq leverage to sew up fresh deal with LSE AP. Reuters, Bloomberg [STOCKHOLM] Nasdaq Stock Market, which lost its battle to cross the Atlantic with a failed bid for the London Stock Exchange, yesterday agreed to buy
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      Lock icon April existing home sales slide 2.6%
      395 14 LATEST US DATA Pace of sales at lowest level since June 2003 Reuters, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The pace of existing home sales in the US fell in April to a 5.99 million unit annual rate while inventories swelled, the National Association of Relators said in
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      Lock icon Searching for new ideas as BRIC loses strength
      595 14 China, Brazil do well but India and Russia disappoint Reuters [LONDON] Investing in the much-touted emergingmarket powers Brazil, Russia, India and China has brought wildly different results this year, showing up the limits of BRICs as a single asset class. The disparities
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      Lock icon ÜBS to sell 4.1 b Swiss franc Baer stake
      254 14 —Bloomberg [ZURICH] ÜBS AG plans to sell its 4.1 billion-Swiss franc (SsB.4 billion) stake in private bank Julius Baer Holding and use the proceeds to buy back shares. ÜBS, the world's biggest money manager, got the 20.7 per cent holding when
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      Lock icon Macquarie values Qantas 30% above failed buyout
      443 14 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Analysts at Macquarie Bank expect Qantas Airways shares to be worth A 57.05 in the next year, 30 per cent more than a failed buyout led by its investment banking division. The analysts resumed coverage of Qantas with an "outperform" rating
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      Lock icon US board votes to scale back Sarbanes-Oxley rules
      367 14 US board votes to scale back SarbanesOxley rules Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The US board that regulates accountants scaled back Sarbanes-Oxley Act auditing requirements, responding to criticism that the law has saddled companies with excessive compliance costs. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) approved the rules on Thursday that allow
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      Lock icon Thaksin's bag, cash stolen in Moscow
      163 14 —AFP [BANGKOK] A suitcase belonging to deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra containing thousands of dollars and his passport was stolen from a McDonald's restaurant in Moscow, the Bangkok government said yesterday. The case, which was taken while he was eating in the fast-food diner,
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  • World
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      Lock icon US-made movies losing shine overseas
      707 15 Movies produced in foreign markets are increasingly having the upper hand LAT-WP [CANNES, France] When Fox Searchlight unveils a movie at a film festival, savvy American film-goers have come to expect the production to make a big impression at their local theatres "Little Miss Sunshine",
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      Lock icon GE sees US$250b in green sales
      404 15 Environmental technologies can be commercialised —Bloomberg [NEW YORK] General Electric (GE) is on course to sell US$2O billion of environmentally friendly products a year by 2010 and is increasing its investments in the sector, highlighting worldwide demand for goods that use less energy. "This
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      Lock icon 'Idol' viewership down but still strong for Fox
      183 15 The Washington Post [WASHINGTON] About 31 million people watched as Jordin Sparks was crowned the youngest, and least Southern, American Idol ever on Wednesday. While that's about 5.4 million viewers shy of last year's finale "Idol's" best coronation ratings ever —it's a
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      Lock icon Growing earnings gap between CEO and the rest
      715 15 —NYT [NEW YORK] Like most companies, Office Depot has long made sure that its chief executive was its high-est-paid employee. Ten years ago, the US$2.2 million pay package of its chief was more than double that of his No 2. The fifth-ranked
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      Lock icon COO of Hilton Hotels to take over as chief executive
      332 15 LATWP [LOS ANGELES] Hilton Hotels Corp said on Thursday that its chief operating officer, Matthew J Hart, would take over the company reins when chief executive Stephen Bollenbach retires at the end of the year. Mr Hart, 54, also will
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  • ARTS FEST
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      Lock icon Arts performances take to the streets
      579 16  -  If you won't go to the Arts Festival, it will come to you, reports JANICE HENG JANICE HENG Shoppers on Orchard Road will soon get more than they have bargained for and not just because of the Great Singapore Sale. Prowling the city streets
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      Lock icon Up close and persona with arts legends
      453 16  -  By AMANDA DE GUZMAN WORKSHOPS and talks are a relatively small component of the upcoming Singapore Arts Festival, but an important one nonetheless, designed to enhance our understanding of the arts that take centrestage at the Festival. Audiences will be given the rare
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      Lock icon What's going on, where and when
      156 16 Baa! Moving Arts (Singapore) Orchard Road: May 27, June 3,9,13 and 15,1 pm Raffles Place Park: June 12,1 pm Singapore General Hospital: June 13, 7 pm Gua Ah Ma Eh Tu (My Grandma's Cupboard) Ah Hock and Peng Yu (Singapore) Orchard Road: June 1,6
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      113 16 IrtSKZ B"l4'*V*Ai i IklU Look out for the Singapore Arts Festival 2007 magazine commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Festival. It's priced at $5, but in conjunction with the Festival's opening at the Padang, you can get your COMPLIMENTARY copy, courtesy of Citigold, from spm today and tomorrow at: Tie
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  • MOTORING
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      Lock icon Drop dead gorgeous
      896 17  -  The convertible Phantom is a sight to behold when driven at a leisurely pace, says SAMUEL EE SAMUEL EE IT wafted down the long avenue of alternating pine and cypress trees, its Metropolitan Blue paintwork glistening whenever it caught the afternoon sun. Its destination was an elegant
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      403 17  -  By SAMUEL EE IT MAY be as big as a battleship and almost as complicated to build. But size and engineering issues aside, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe also stands out in the design department. Despite being such a large car, its styling has managed to
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      513 17  -  By SAMUEL EE IT'S rare to find something cheaper and yet better but the new Mini One comes pretty close. For one, the second generation of this entry-level model costs almost $10,000 less than its predecessor. For another, it has even
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  • GOLF
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      792 18 Cafebiz Traders Hotel, Lobby level. Tel: *****374 CAFEBIZ offers exotic Asian and local cuisine as well as tempting selections of global cuisine for buffet and a la carte dining. The show kitchen also presents traditional hand-made "la mian", tandoori dishes and Chinese-style roasted meats. Ivory The Indian
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      1033 18  -  A number of other golfing hotspots are steadily gaining in popularity with the regional golfing fraternity, writes JUSTINE MOSS JUSTINE MOSS WHILE Singapore offers some exceptional golf courses to play on, there's something rather appealing about rustling up a few good buddies and jumping
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  • WELLNESS
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      1005 19  -  It has overtaken cervical cancer as the No 1 gynaecological cancer in S'pore, reports MELISSA HENG MELISSA HENG FACT or fiction: Applying talcum powder to your genital areas after a bath can cause ovarian cancer. It's a little known piece of information, but
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      Lock icon Growing interest in TCM spa therapy
      1094 19  -  While China's spa industry is still very much in its infancy, traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese treatments are being introduced at luxury spas around the region. JUDY CHAPMAN reports JUDY CHAPMAN CUPPING, hot jade rocks, bamboo stick tapping, Chinese emperors' rituals and traditional Chinese
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      341 19 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 4 Asking her out might mean a ACROSS loss of business! (9) 1 Royal couple eat perch caught 5 Regret never having returned by one these perhaps (10) Register (5) 6 Frank writer on love (4) ,f. 10 One makes bundles from the hw LtTw /l\ French in
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  • SHOPPING
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      Lock icon Gems of the family jewels
      1446 20  -  Growing up in a family of jewellers is one thing, making a name for yourself in the industry is another. MELISSA LWEE talks to some second-generation jewellers who have come out of their parents' shadows to make a name for themselves MELISSA LWEE LING TAN,
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      632 20  -  Ceramics stalwart also aims to drive wedge into high-end market. CHRISTOPHER LIM reports CHRISTOPHER LIM THE Wedgwood brand is redolent of English tableware traditional and well-made, certainly, but not exactly hip. Tom Wedgwood, descendant of company founder Josiah Wedgwood, hopes to change that. "We were
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  • Travel
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      1226 21  -  With virtually no sign of modern times, ancient towns of central Vietnam offer a variety of exciting things for tourists, writes GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU FAR from the madding crowd, the traffic chaos and the urban buzz of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh
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  • THE BUISNESS TIMES weekend
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      2322 22  -  The reason? To dish up tasty authentic concoctions to ever-eager local palates. And it seems they have hit on a new, profitable formula. JAIME EE reports JAIME EE YOU know globalisation has truly hit Singapore when you see an American frying hamburgers in a hawker
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