The Business Times, 9 October 2007

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  • 23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg mm A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Tuesday, October 9,2007
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  • 782 1  -  MICHELLE QUAH Both banks agree to pay costs; one says case no longer in 'commercial interest' Byfl [SINGAPORE] Two of the four banks embroiled in the high-profile Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) case have dropped their claims against the brewer and
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  • 867 1  -  SIOW LI SEN They go on recruiting missions, search outside industry to deal with talent squeeze [SINGAPORE] The most glamorous of jobs is facing the most acute of shortages and banks are trying different strategies to address the crunch. As private banking
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 7.50 INDONESIA 15.427 TAIWAN 6.156 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.75 US 7.75 CANADA 6.25 SWITZERLAND 4.13 INDIA 12.75 Source:
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    • 46 1 Monday Change 1,364.14 -8.25 KLCOMP NIKKEI 225 Closed HANG SENG 27,770.29 -61.23 SET INDEX 863.16 +10.83 JAKARTA COM P 2,523.70 +23.12 MANILA COMP 3,873.50 +97.59 SEOUL COMP 2,012.82 +16.79 SHENZHEN B 780.13 -0.98 MUMBAI IND 17,491.39 -281.97 12NOONEDT Change 14,028.21 -37.80 DOW NASDAQ 2,775.33 -4.99
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    • 42 1 uss SS US$ (S$ per US$) 1.472 (US$/S$ >er£) 2.039 3.000 EURO(US$/S$/E) 1.411 2.076 'EN 117.20 79.60 RM 3.391 2.304 HK$ 7.758 5.272 BAHT 34.20 23.24 RUPIAH 9,060 6,157 RENMINBI 7.506 5.100 INDIAN RUPEE 39.46 26.82 1.109 0.754 NZ! 1.305 0.887
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 39 1 IT~J| SMALL CAPS mj% Jjm SME SPOTLIGHT PROPERTY Furniture maker Lorenzo's V Ex-financial planner Ifti*** '%1m Royalville, Spanish Village expansion strategy blazes adventure trail |j| M 4|ji lup for en bloc sale PAGE 12 PAGE 11 JMilsN^^P^ PAGE 10
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 659 2  -  ARTHUR SIM Some shops expand even as rents rise, others more sensitive to psf sales By [SINGAPORE] Rents for shops on Orchard Road may have increased by anDther 12 per cent in the third quarter to $44.30 per square
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    • 732 2  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Lock in profit if margin is good, some agents advise [SINGAPORE] After a lull of about six weeks, activity seems to be picking up in the subsale market on the back of the stock market rally and more
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 86 2 WHEN it comes to Singapore and its fourth largest trading partner, China, the numbers speak for themselves. In the first eight months of this year, total trade between the two economies grew 11.6 per cent from the same period last year to $60.45
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      • 56 2 KEPPEL Corporation's environmental engineering arm has won a contract to provide its technology and services to a consortium building a As 76 million (Ssloo million) facility in Australia. The new biosolids thermal drying facility is for Barwon Water, one of the largest water corporations
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      • 64 2 SINGAPORE Exchange, operator of the city-state's derivatives and stock markets, climbed to a record in local trading yesterday as analysts expect the company's first-quarter profit to treble. SGX closed trading up $1, or 6.5 per cent, at $16.40. The exchange will announce its
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      • 69 2 ASCENDAS will build and manage a new $98 million development in International Business Park in Singapore, the company said yesterday. When completed by the end of 2009, the development will have close to 42,000 square metres of high-tech space to help meet
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      • 85 2 COLLECTIVE sale sites continue to be launched for tender, with Spanish Village in Farrer Road and Royalville in Bukit Timah Road being among the latest offerings. Both are freehold. Spanish Village, with a land area of 331,457 sq ft, has an
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      • 64 2 MALAYSIA'S industrial production growth unexpectedly slowed in August after electronics exports fell, threatening the government's growth forecast. Overall production at factories, utilities and mines rose 0.9 per cent from a year earlier, compared with a 2.1 per cent gain in July, the Statistics
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      • 54 2 MINSHENG Banking Corp, in which Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings has a stake, will buy 9.9 per cent of San Francisco-based UCBH Holdings for more than US$2OO million in the first strategic investment by a mainland Chinese bank in a US bank.
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    • 890 3  -  LYNETTE KHOO Total Spore-China trade for first eight months grew 11.6% from the same period last year to $60.45b SINGAPORE] When it comes to Singapore and its fourth largest trading partner, China, the numbers speak for themselves. In the first eight months of
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 296 4 Bloomberg TMB looking to raise 35b baht in share sale BANGKOK] ING Groep NY, the largest Dutch finan-cial-services company, agreed to invest in Thailand's TMB Bank Pel, Thai Finance Minister Chalongphob Sussangkarn said. TMB, whose biggest shareholder is the Thai finance ministry, is
      – Bloomberg  -  296 words
    • 302 4  -  WEE LI-EN It'll provide services, technology to group building biosolids thermal drying plant BY KEPPEL Corporation's environmental engineering arm has won a contract to provide its technology and services to a consortium building a As 76 million (Ssloo million) facility in Australia. The new
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 53 4 ST ENGINEERING says the joint venture between its aerospace arm and China Eastern Airlines will expand operations to a second location in China. A new hangar complex at Pudong airport in Shanghai will cost about $56 million and is expected to start
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      • 34 4 BBR HOLDINGS says its subsidiary Singapore Piling Civil Engineering has been awarded a piling and earthwork contract by Nanyang Technological University to build a new hall for $4.4 million.
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      • 28 4 UNITED Fiber System says subsidiary Poh Lian Construction has been awarded a building contract for The Trillium condominium for $155.8 million.
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    • 624 4  -  CONRAD RAJ IT'S not very often that investors in a reverse takeover see a four-fold return on their investment on the relisting of their target company. But that's exactly what the new investors in former media production company Mediastream got when the company was
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    • 456 5 Bloomberg Q1 net gains seen tripling to $133 m, driven by surge in daily trading value SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX), operator of the city-state's derivatives and stock markets, climbed to a record in local trading as analysts expect the company's first-quarter profit to treble.
      Bloomberg  -  456 words
    • 102 5 Reuters SINGAPORE'S DBS Group said yesterday it has launched /van-denominated products and services for Chinese resilents, following approval from the China Banking Regula;ory Commission (CBRC). DBS will launch its China local currency business by ofering savings, call and time deposits, mortgage loans and general insurance products
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    • 451 5  -  UMA SHANKARI 1 By KEPPEL Land wiU redevelop its Ocean Building and Ocean Towers office buildings into the new state-of-the-art Ocean Financial Centre (OFC), it said yesterday. When completed in 2011, the 43-storey OFC wiU offer some 850,000 sq ft of prime Grade A office
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    • 403 5 Bloomberg FITCH Ratings cut ratings on two Asian collateralised debt obligations linked to company debt, indicating an increased risk of default, the company said yesterday. Fitch lowered a US$5O.9 million synthetic CDO that is managed by DBS Group Holdings Ltd by one
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    • 338 8  -  UMA SHANKARI The project when completed will have close to 42,000 sq m of high-tech space By BUSINESS space provider Ascendas will build and manage a new $98 million development in International Business Park (IBP) in Singapore, the company said yesterday. It
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    • Article, Illustration
      235 8  -  ARTHUR LEE By/ HEAVY rain failed to dampen the spirits of enthusiastic investors at China Oilfield Technology Group's mainboard IPO launch yesterday. Doubtless they were there to learn about the company's prospects rather than just to look at these "prospectus queens" dressed in short skirts, with knee-high boots
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    • 224 8  -  WEE LI-EN By SHELL company Carats, which is the subject of a failed reverse takeover attempt, is set to have a new substantial shareholder. Formerly known as Daka Designs, Carats said yesterday that it has been informed that Cross Knight Group has entered
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    • 107 8 Reuters [SEOUL] Swiss bank ÜBS AG said yesterday it has acquired a 5.47 per cent stake in South Korean shipping firm STX Pan Ocean, worth about US$27O million at current market prices. ÜBS said in a filing with South Korea's financial regulator that it
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    • 210 8 Reuters SAIZEN Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit), based entirely on Japanese property assets, has lodged its prospectus to raise as much as *****.4 million in Singapore, confirming a Reuters story last month. A Hong Kong-based private equity group is selling 196.74 million units of
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    • 336 4 In the matter of THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 50] And In the matter of CANNON AVENT {SINGAPORE] PTE LIMITED Company Registration No: *****0069 C At an Extraordinary General Meeting of CANNON AVENT (SINGAPORE) PTE LIMITED held at 86 Marine Parade Central, #03-210, Singapore *****6, on the Bth8 th day of
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 541 6  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS Index soars over 50 points before closing 2.3 points down GIVEN the high dependence of markets these days on high-speed program trading and taking into account how fast prices have risen over the past three weeks, it perhaps shouldn't come as
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    • 101 6 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 7 8 3 0 0 0 lanufacturing 50 119 53 24 20 58 143 73 Commerce 25 32 24 11 36 39 "pt/Stor/Comms 14 19 16 20 :inance 14 10 12 15 11 12 Construction 12
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    • 117 6 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL lulti Ind 329,437 329,437 135,265 135,265 lanufacturing 684,377 185,575 869,952 724,564 42,119 766,683 Commerce 245,406 29,674 275,080 160,187 7,111 167,298 •pt/Stor/Comms 113,115 3,776 116,891 322,856 2,256 325,113 :inance 91,946 25 91,971 661,460 3 661,463 Construction 240,477 39,387 279,864 83,395 9,494 92,889
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    • 211 6 Jlgreen 0.52 1.900 -0.010 \scendasreit 0.83 2.530 -0.060 lapitaComm 0.51 2.790 -0.010 la pita Land 4.85 8.300 -0.100 :apitaMall 0.90 3.800 -0.060 :hart SemiCond 0.50 1.030 +0.010 jtyDev 2.77 16.100 -0.400 lomfortDelGro 1.24 1.970 losco Corp 1.93 6.500 Creative Tech 0.14 6.100 -0.050 IBS Grp 9.05
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    • 418 6 Oil Gas Sector OCBC Investment Research, Oct 8 OUTLOOK still robust: Prospects for Singapore's energy and marine sectors are still robust, buoyed by strong fundamentals, unprecedented orders and healthy order momentum. This growth segment has been identified as one of the key pillars of growth for the Singapore
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    • 546 6  -  LARRY WEE CURRENCIES Senior Correspondent THE embattled US dollar tumbled to fresh multi-year lows against several of its most favoured counterparts before regaining some composure yesterday, failing for the most part to capitalise on a more decent set of September job numbers for
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    • 46 6 Oct8 VALUE CLOSE 624.00-308.00 IT OB/OS IT CADI -*****.00-127.00 IT 10-day MA -*****.00 +63.00 II-SG Equities 1050.82 1.06 >G Equities Elect 122.30 -2.09 G Equities Fin 2689.25 +20.09 >G Equities Prop 1633.87 -12.53 IMSCI 470.08 -0.41 IMSCI Futures 471.40 -0.40 rimeParnersCI 300.44 -0.92
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    • 53 6 VOLUME Memstar 1,337,563,000 ChinaACorp 306,550,000 El-Nets 222,277,000 Chasen 212,650,000 ChinaAElec 84,598,000 Gen Intl 84,497,000 Jasper 60,196,000 Liang Huat 51,959,000 Yanqzijianq 50,177,000 LottVis 41,943,000 VALUE(S) DBS Grp 222,049,589 SGX 211,617,600 Yanqzijianq 131,138,890 CityDev 85,343,980 Capita Land 81,840,680 UOB 74,838,564 Uni-Asia 68,575,590 OCBC Bk 67,744,960 SingTel 65,481,465 S I
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    • 98 6 CLOSE UP 1640 100.0 6.5 ;gx lembMar RBeCW*****2 194 42.0 27.6 IOIL 271 41.2 11.5 .hani .a Asia 2680 37.9 8.1 ;GXMBLeCW*****2 145 35.0 31.8 i PC 775 35.0 4.7 :GXSGAeCW*****7 146 32.0 28.1 ;GXMBLeCW*****4 139 31.0 28.7 I A 1990 30.0 1.5 LD 10US$ 7290 29.4 0.3 BY
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    • 86 6 Oct8 CLOSE CHNG FR Oct 5 YR 2007 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.4723 0.15 1.5479 1.4685® Euro 2.0749 0.31 2.1254 1.9913 Pounds 3.0003 0.08 3.1194 2.9323 AS 1.3242 -0.74 1.3411 1.1741 Yen* 1.2541 0.90 1.3821 1.2285 Rill liah* 0.***** -0.02 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.3062 0.00
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    • 3008 8 It LanTroVision (Company Registration No.: *****3374R) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 27 June 1992) MT»HM*«]^.i:|ii?nrjgenju;yjMj i mm[cM NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of LANTROVISION (S) LTD ("the Company") will be held at 102F Pasir Panjang Road, #03-08, Citilink Warehouse Complex, Singapore *****0 on Wednesday,
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 205 9  -  MISHA RAMCHANDANI SUMITOMO Chemical Singapore (SCS) has just set up a research and development centre here to help its technical services. The subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical Co, which has been in Singapore since 1996, is now also expanding its third-phase methyl methacrylate (MMA) facilities.
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    • 198 9 NGEE Ann Kongsi yesterday presented a cheque of $15.6 million to Ngee Ann Polytechnic, as part of its annual contribution to the education institution's endowment fund. The sum is nearly $2 million more than the $13.7 million the philanthropic foundation donated to the polytechnic
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    • 387 9 Reuters Expected 7.5% jump seen as a return to more normal rates SINGAPORE'S monetary policy will probably be left unchanged this week despite higher inflation, while annualised third-quarter economic growth is likely to be strong, if just half that in the unusually
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    • 439 9  -  RONNIE LIM It's banking on a year-end resolution through EMA under amended Gas Act US-OWNED Island Power whose Ssl billion cogeneration investment on Jurong Island is now in question says it still hopes for a speedy resolution to its Singapore gas
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    • 258 10  -  WEE LI-EN MORE than $300,000 has been raised so far for children's charity concert Child Aid, with the latest donations from Manulife, ÜBS Wealth and Sing Lun Holdings. Money raised through Child Aid will go to The Business Times Budding Artists Fund and The Straits Times
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    • 303 10  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Indicative price for 331,457 sq ft Spanish Village is $878 million COLLECTIVE sale sites continue to be launched for tender, with Spanish Village in Farrer Road and Royalville in Bukit Timah Road being among the latest offerings. Both are
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    • 250 10 ES CELL International (ESI), which recently announced a diversification from its stem cell research, has attracted a US$l million investment from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, one of the largest generic drug companies in the world. The latest investment, to go to ESl's majority-owned subsidiary Cell
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    • 268 10 China Oilfield Technology Services Group Limited is a major one-stop customised solutions provider of integrated tertiary oil recovery equipment and products in the Daqing oilfield region of the PRC. We are principally engaged in the research, development, manufacture and sales of customised integrated equipment and products that are used in
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    • 27 10 I GOOD GAINS II Let your investors know by advertising your financial results II in our newspapers. Call 1800 289 8822 or email X I notices@sph.com.sg. B
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  • SMEspotlight
    • 768 11 BOAC organises adventure tours to exotic destinations as more people get into the concept, writes OH BOON PING TREKKING enthusiast Sim Tim Suan lives on passion and determination, especially in the face of challenging circumstances. So it's no surprise that he keeps his business Blazing
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    • 412 11  -  TEH HOOI LING By OUR small cap portfolio was unchanged in the five trading sessions ended yesterday. The strong performance of a handful of stocks was negated by profit-taking in some China stocks after the sharp run-ups in their price in the last week
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    • 628 12 Survey finds some 73% of the 1,206 respondents not investing in this area, reports OH BOON PING MOST small and medi-um-sized enterprises (SMEs) here do not spend anything on research development, a survey has found. But really successful firms certainly do spend. In the
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    • 610 12 SMALL CAPS Furniture maker plans to grow product range as well as distribution network. OH BOON PING reports LORENZO International aims to propel its business forward through a two-pronged strategy of expanding its products as well as its distribution network. For the six months ended
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    • 1301 12 ER9 BANK OF NEW ZEALAND (J^S^j Annual Report For The Year Ended 30 September 2006 BANK OF NEW ZEALAND AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES All amounts are expressed in New Zealand currency. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL As at 30 September 2006 PERFORMANCE For the year ended 30 September 2006
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    • 75 12 FOR SALE BY TENDER Closing Date: 11 October 2007 Time: 2.00pm Free hold Residential Site at s Kovan (District 19) Kovan Road gg |uyect site Area 27, OOOsf (Approx) To Hougang SLE Kovan MRT p] Q f fafo 1.4 U p to 5 StOTeVS Upper Serangoon Road To"t^TE o c
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 716 13 Reuters Planned pay rise for govt workers, new welfare schemes may inflate deficit [NEW DELHI] Signs that India's ruling coalition is loosening its purse strings to shore up voter support as a political impasse points to early elections could jeopardise a
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    • 432 13 Reuters Fund needs to renew its reason for existence: IMFC chief [ROME] The most pressing job of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is deepening the role of emerging market nations in the global financial institution, the newly elected head of the IMF's
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    • 261 13 -AFP, Reuters LONDON] The global credit squeeze is a "serious crisis" ;hat will have an impact on governments' budgets, said ;he International Monetary Fund's outgoing head. Speaking to the Financial Times from Washington, IMF managing director Rodrigo Rato said: "Policymakers should not
      -AFP, Reuters  -  261 words
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 489 15 -AP, Reuters EPF plans to sell 40% of its stake in bid to make RHB a top regional bank [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's RHB Capital Bhd expects to have at least two foreign partners by early next year to help it achieve its
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    • 452 15 Reuters Fauzi Bowo faces uphill task to make city more liveable [JAKARTA] Fauzi Bowo, who took over as the governor of Jakarta on Sunday, faces the near-impossible task of tackling this chaotic city's traffic jams, floods, poverty and pollution in order to
      – Reuters; REUTERS  -  452 words
    • 312 15 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's industrial production growth unexpectedly slowed in August after electronics exports fell, threatening the government's growth forecast. Overall production at factories, utilities and mines rose 0.9 per cent from a year earlier, compared with a 2.1 per cent gain in July, the
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    • 344 15 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's central bank left its key interest rate steady at 8.25 per cent yesterday as expected, following a pick-up in inflation, but it said that rates could be cut before the end of the year as price pressures eased. Bank Indonesia (BI)
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  • INDIA
    • 489 16 Reuters It will be bank's first onshore wealth business in Asia; it expects to hire 100 private bankers [SINGAPORE] Morgan Stanley plans to launch private wealth management services in India next year, its first onshore wealth business in Asia, and expects to hire around
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    • 102 16 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's largest mobile-phone operator, hasn't yet taken a decision on selling a stake in its telecommunications infrastructure unit, an executive said yesterday in response to a newspaper report. "Ultimately we would like to list the unit over a
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    • 7663 16 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!** 1.108/ Star Europe Bond 1.202/ Star Europe Bal 1.272/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.817/ Star Asia Bond 1.275/ Star Asia Balanced 1.126/ Star Global Technology Fund!" 0.248/ Multi St Fd 0.963/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.861/ Gib Multi St USD
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 447 17 Reuters [HONG KONG] Record sales at Sotheby's Chinese art auction here show that global art markets are strong and will emerge unscathed from US market volatility, the auction house's chief executive said yesterday. Sotheby's sale of contemporary Chinese art on Sunday
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    • 229 17 Reuters BEIJING] China will permit trading in interest rate forwards starting on Nov 1, the latest step towards making its financial markets more market-oriented. The People's Bank of China said yesterday that it would allow forward rate agreements so that investors
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    • 464 17 [HONG KONG] Soho China Ltd shares ended 15 per cent higher in their debut yesterday, disappointing investors who flocked to the Chinese developer's US$l.65 billion IPO in the hopes of landing bigger first day gains. The IPO, arranged by Goldman Sachs, HSBC and
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    • 198 17 Xinhua [GUANGZHOU] South China's Guangdong Province is drafting a regulation to restrict the employment of foreigners and to ban them from certain jobs. Under the proposed regulation, the provincial labour and social security department will divide jobs into three categories "encouraged", "restricted" and "forbidden"
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    • 551 17 Reuters USs2oom deal first strategic investment by a mainland China lender in a US bank [SHANGHAI] Minsheng Banking Corp, in which Singapore investment agency Temasek Holdings has a stake, will buy 9.9 per cent of San Francisco-based UCBH Holdings for more than
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    • 421 17 -AFP The female property developer grabs the Nol spot with USsl6b [BEIJING] A 26-year-old female property developer tops this year's Forbes list of the richest people in China, grabbing the number one spot with a net worth of US$l6 billion, the US magazine said
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    • 2374 17 VOL C000) Oct8 RM ASM Realty 0.94 AbricBhd 0.28 Advance Synergy 0.39 Adventa Bhd 1.68 AeMultiHIdgs 0.31 Affin Holdings 2.56 Ahmad Zaki Resou 5.30 AicCorp 0.57 Airasia Bhd 1.91 Akn Messaging Te 0.21 Akn Technology 0.92 Alliance Financi 3.00 Aluminium Co 1.27 Amalgamated Ind 0.58 Aminvestment Grp 3.62
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    • 754 18 -NYT FOCUS: REITS They are 3.5% down in first nine months of 2007, versus 34.4% up in full-year 2006 [NEW YORK] ALL the sceptics and naysayers may have finally gotten it right: The long-running rally in real estate funds seems to have run
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    • 559 19 -AFP Analysts say German firm's 4.8b euro price for Business Objects is hefty [FRANKFURT] A bold offer by German business software giant SAP for Business Objects of France got a cool reception yesterday from investors, with some analysts finding the 4.8 billion
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    • 440 19 Reuters, Bloomberg [LONDON] Whatever the challenges facing the new chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline Pic, Andrew Witty at least has time on his side. At 43, the British-born insider named yesterday to succeed Frenchman Jean-Pierre Gamier from May 2008 is the youngest
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    • 207 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are expected to disclose losses of about US$3 billion in mortgage securities and leveraged loans when they report earnings this month, the Financial Times reported, citing an analyst. JPMorgan is likely to report
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    • 308 19 Reuters Musharraf's victory on Saturday lifts KSE to 14,368 [KARACHI] Pakistani stocks ended at a life high yesterday after President Pervez Musharraf swept a vote for re-election on Saturday even though it is unsure whether the Supreme Court will let the result stand. The Karachi
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    • 480 19 Clipper Ventures Nova Scotia's dogged determination is starting to pay off. Overnight they clawed back a few miles from the leader, Durban 2010 and Beyond and have kept pace with them during the day. The South African entry had to exercise caution overnight in
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    • 294 19 Reuters [STOCKHOLM] Stem ceU researchers Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies won the 2007 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for their work on gene changes in mice using embryonic cells, Sweden's Karolinska Institute said yesterday. The prestigious 10 million Swedish crown
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    • 445 19 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Conergy AG, Germany's largest solar-power company, plans to spend As 2 billion (552.64 billion) to build Australia's largest wind energy project, taking advantage of proposed legislation supporting renewable energy use. The development will comprise as many as 500 turbines with a combined
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  • AVIATION
    • 298 20 -AFP It sees Asia-Pacific passenger numbers overtaking those in the US SYDNEY] Air travel in Oceania will grow by 5 per cent annually over the next two iecades while passenger numbers in the Asia-Pacific region will overtake those in the
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    • 389 20 -AFP I Sale to come after merger with Indian Airlines is completed [NEW DELHI] State-owned Air India will likely unload 15 per cent of its equity in an initial public offer (IPO) when its merger with domestic counterpart Indian Airlines
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    • 277 20 Reuters [BEIJING] Chinese airlines carried a record number of people on a single day over the just ended week-long National Day holiday more than half a million passengers, the regulator said yesterday. The record of 540,000 was set on Sept 30, the
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    • 208 20 -AFP [MILAN] Air France-KLM is weighing a partial bid for Italian carrier Alitalia and is looking for an Italian partner to join it, the newspaper Corriere della Sera reported yesterday. Alitalia, in which the state has a stake of 49.9 per cent,
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    • 2338 20 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), Al: Air India (AIC), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR:
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  • SHIPPING
    • 264 21  -  Bernama It received about 85,000 such tourists during October-May season, 20,000 more than expected [DUßAl] The Gulf emirate of Dubai, which has established itself as the leading cruise destination between Europe and Asia within the last few years, is targeting 200,000 cruise tourists for
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    • TRANSPORT STOCKS
      • 130 21 '000 CH Offshore Chuan Hup Hldgs Cosco Corp CWT Ltd Ezra Hldgs First Ship Lease Freight Links Grand Banks laya Hold Ltd KlVentures Keppel Corp Labroy Marine MTQ Corp NOL Pacific Shipping Pan-United Corp Rickmers Man Samudera Ship Sembcorp Indust Sembcorp Marine Spore Ship Star Cruises 0.96 0.36 6
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      • 37 21 '000 nt'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings Nepline Bhd PDZ Holdings 1.34 9.95 9.95 4.48 2.94 0.26 2.24 -0.04 unch unch 0.02 unch -0.02 0.04 365 351 45 341 50 3 14
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      • 12 21 '00 ■recious Ship Jegional Cont 37.00 30.00 unch 0.25 168: 87!
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      • 23 21 Evergreen Marine ....33.00 1.00 :irst Steamship 100.00 3.70 /Van Hai Lines 27.75 1.55 fang Ming Marine ..29.40 1.10 4: i 3' 2:
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      • 40 21 '000 Kawasaki Hvy Ind ..458.00 unch ***** Kawasaki Kisen ...1654.00 -33.00 5892 Mitsubishi Hvy 734.00 1.00 ***** Mitsui Eng&Sbldg ..685.00 14.00 9588 MitsuiOsk Lines ...1880.00 -5.00 6973 Nippon Express 641.00 12.00 5499 Nippon Yusen 1167.00 15.00 7328 Source: Reuters
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    • 426 21 Bloomberg It's diversifying into shipbuilding, repairs, converting tankers [HONG KONG] Titan Petrochemicals Group Ltd is building China's biggest ship-repair yard to cut the tanker operator's reliance on shipping oil. The company agreed last month to buy a yard in China for US$l7O
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    • 150 21 -Reuters [DAKAR] Dubai's govern-ment-owned ports operator DP World signed a 25-year concession to develop and operate Dakar port and plans to invest at least 455 million euros (***** million) there, its chairman said yesterday. "We expect at the first stage to
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    • 375 21 Bloomberg [LONDON] The cost of shipping Middle East crude to Asia, the world's busiest market for supertankers, may fall for a seventh day as a surplus of ships compete for cargoes. Refineries still need to arrange shipping for about 11 more cargoes this
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 448 22 AS stakeholders increasingly demand more than financial returns, the time has come for Singapore companies to give greater importance to sustainable development. While climate change is increasingly a major concern all over the world, it appears still that corporates here have been slow to
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    • 1074 22  - IMF 'outdated and too Eurocentric ANTHONY ROWLEY It needs much more radical reform if it is to be saved from extinction: Eisuke Sakakibara FRANCE'S former finance minister Dominique StraussKahn has been appointed as the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), replacing Rodrigo de Rato who resigned in
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    • 836 22  -  WILLIAM PESEK JR THE BOTTOM LINE CHAT up businesspeople and policy makers in Seoul and the conversation inevitably turns to how South Korea's economy is becoming "normal". The reference is to the steady rise in living standards, an impressive rebound from
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    • 940 23  -  LEE KUAN YEW Many of the world's problems cannot be effectively managed without the active participation of the US By I GLOBALISATION'S power was first demonstrated in the stock markets ten years ago, in July 1997, with the onset of the Asian financial crisis.
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    • 1117 23  -  TIGER TONG Market increasingly saturated, with only 7 companies having market share above 1% By POPULATION size is often an important indicator of the potential size of a market. By that reckoning, China's life insurance sector has a potential market of 1.3 billion.
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 357 26 %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Oct5 World Index Preliminary 1193.1 0.7 8.4 0.5 7.6 0.8 12.1 EAFE Prel liminan 1181.0 0.6 6.6 0.4 8.2 0.7 12.1 Euro[ Preliminary 1603.0 0.8 7.3 0.4 9.3 0.8 13. Pacific 1044.5
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    • 116 26 A= 9am octs )i foreign currency: lurrencies Bid Offer ujst dollar 1.3180 1.3340 .an dollar 1.4880 1.5060 luro 2.0660 2.0890 IZ dollar 1.1160 1.1410 jterlin mnd 2.9840 3.0170 JS dollar 1.4610 1.4780 .ocal dollars to 100 units rf foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer :hi renminbi 19.40
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    • 147 26 Oct 8 fer Bii )vernight 2 -month 2 5/16 l-months 2 3/8 1-months 2 13/32 Overnight mode: 2 3/16 JS$ Offer 1 7/8 2 3/16 2 1/4 2 9/32 Bid days month months months i months months 2 months >Fr 5.00 5.13 5.26 5.34 5.25 5.15 5.08 Offer
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    • 25 26 Oct 8 ten Hii Sett STI SIMSCI Oct 471.8 478.7 471.4 Taiwan Oct 377.4 379.1 369.9 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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    • 21 26 Oct 8 Bid Offer 1-month 1.4670 1.4684 2-months 1.4640 1.4654 3-months 1.4606 1.462 i-months 1.4521 1.4535 Source: OCBC
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    • 156 26 Oct 8 Against SS Currencies Bid Offer Against USS Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.3258 1.3272 0.9013 0.9016 Canadian dollar 1.4993 1.5008 1.0193 1.0195 Euro 2.0753 2.0773 1.4108 1.4111 NZ dollar 1.1263 1.1287 0.7657 0.7667 Sterlim ind 2.9986 3.0015 2.0385 2.0389
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    • 292 26 Oct 8 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES DecO7 MarO8 JunO8 SepO8 EUROYEN FUTURES 94.970 95.245 95.410 95.490 0 0 0 0 ***** ***** 6541 7644 DecO7 99.120 99.120 MarO8 JunO8 99.025 99.025 SepO8 98.960 98.960 DecO8 MarO9 JunO9 SepO9 99.115 99.085A 99.025 98.960 98.900A
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    • 287 26 octs RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 1 (S cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest Nov 07 Dec 07 Jan 08 Feb 08 Mar 08 Apr/Jun 08 334.50 335.25 336.25 336.25 337.00 340.25 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month Hig gh Low Sett Volume (tonnes) Open
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    • 105 26 Oct 5 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min: US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Nov 07 940.50 954.25 954.50 937.50 Jan 08 960.00 972.25 972.00 955.50 Mar 08 971.25 984.25 985.00 967.00 May 08 976.00 989.00 989.00 971.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs:Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Oct 07 38.50 38.55 38.59
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    • 78 26 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Oct 5 UDE (FOB origin) US! t/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 78.63 1.32 WTI (Near Mth) 81.19 -0.29 Dubai (1 -Mth F) 74.22 1.9 Tapis blend 84.75 1.95 Minas 82.2 1.95 PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 77.80 90.05 1.55 unch USS/barrel
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    • 449 26 Octg iuro ren (on 'eso lam ■ouni lustralia 0.884 6.766 0.639 6.994 35.571 81.671 1.056 8.245 3.056 1.177 54.763 39.961 1.327 6.157 1.064 29.380 30.825 0.442 0.901 Canada 1.131 7.651 0.722 7.909 40.224 92.355 1.195 9.323 3.456 1.330 61.927 45.189 1.500 6.962 1.204 33.223 34.857 0.500 1.01
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    • 89 26 Oct 8 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hii Day's [hi Low 3-Month BQ*****T 10.01.08 1-Year BY*****A 29.09.08 2.19 2.15 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Day's High Low 2-Year N*****0Z 2.375 5-Year N*****1E 2.500 7-Year NX*****F 3.625 10-Year NY*****F 3.750 15-Year
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    • 127 26 Oct 8 (S» Sellim Bu rim 1 oz 1216.59 1089 UBS GOLD LUNAR KINEBAR (SS) Selling Buying lOgm SILVER $426.93 350 Selling Buying Passbook Acct 1 oz 19.87 19.64 Source: UOB LONDON PLATINUM (US$/oz) Oct OS Close Previous PM Fix AM Fix 1364.00 1357.00 1366.00 1352.00 Source: Reuters
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    • 70 26 Oct 5 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (USS/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2379.50 2369.80 3 months 2430.00 2423.00 Copper, Grade A (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months 8269.00 8210.00 8259.00 8200.00 Lead (USS/tonne) Cash 3801.00 3 months 3690.00 3712.00 3610.00 Nickel (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (USS/tonne) Cash 3
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    • 82 26 Oct 5 (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low Dec 07 949 959 Mar 08 962 970 May 08 970 978 Jul 08 978 986 965/947 973/959 980/967 988/975 COFFEE (USS/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Nov 07 1914 1922 1915/1888 Jan 08 1807 1816 1815/1797 Mar 08 1787 1801 1802/1777 May 08
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  • PROPERTY
    • 372 30 Reuters Concerns raised over outlook for consumer spending [LONDON] House prices in Britain unexpectedly fell for the first time since December last month, according to HBOS pic's Halifax house price survey last Thursday, in a firm sign that the property market is coming off
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    • 1081 31  -  CHENG SIOW YING Its overall value proposition is what counts ultimately, not just rental costs By< ASIA today is different from what it was 10 years ago all the countries have undergone changes politically, economically and socially. Likewise, Singapore has emerged stronger fundamentally
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