The Business Times, 23 October 2007

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  • 25 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO REGN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Tuesday, October 23,2007 SINGAPORE 85 cents
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  • 1067 1  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Taxman's new formula simplifies rules but means big tax hike for major hotels By [SINGAPORE] The property tax bills for many hotels here will go up by at least 33 per cent starting next year as the taxman tweaks his
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  • 461 1  -  LYNETTE KHOO Jurong Shipyard paid USsB3m, faces unrealised loss of another USsl6sm [SINGAPORE] SembCorp Marine (SCM) yesterday said it had discovered that one of its senior employees had entered into various unauthorised foreign ex- change transactions for the account of its
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 46 1 londay 1,350.81 lange -19.36 KLCOMP NIKKEI 225 16,438.47 -375.90 HANG SENG 28,373.63 -1,091.42 SET INDEX 860.09 -15.74 JAKARTA COMP 2,453.21 -110.54 MANILA COMP 3,667.87 -151.88 SEOUL COMP 1,903.81 -66.29 SHENZHEN B 773.00 -14.00 MUMBAI IND 17,613.99 +54.01 12NOONEDT Change 13,476.91 -45.11 DOW NASDAQ 2,735.96 +10.80
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    • 26 1 Bloomberg Singapore 5.33 malaysia 6.74 HONGKONG 7.50 INDONESIA ***** TAWAN 6156 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 Britain 5.75 CANADA 6 25 Switzerland"::::::::^ India 12.75 Source:
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    • 43 1 us$ S$ US$ (S$ )er US$) 1.462 (USS/SS per 2.050 2.997 EURO(US$/S$/E) 1.431 2.093 YEN 114.10 78.00 RM 3.372 2.306 HK$ 7.751 5.301 BAHT 34.17 23.37 RUPIAH 9,118 6,236 RENMINBI 7.511 5.137 INDIAN RUPEE 39.81 27.23 A$ 1.125 0.769 NZ$ 1.342 0.918
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 49 1 W^J SME SPOTLIGHT SUN FESTIVAL SMALL CAPS l||fT PROPERTY rl Crown Systems eyes Wine auction draws How one furniture fSSf' Balmoral Road site J Z IR deals top names and dollar maker stays ahead I M sold for $138 m PAGE 15 PAGE 13 PAGE 14 PAGE 32 fdsfdsfds
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 649 2 Reuters, Bloomberg Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang are seen to be pro-business [BEIJING] China's ruling Communist Party unveiled a new leadership line-up yesterday, including two men positioned to eventually succeed President Hu Jintao and government head, Premier Wen Jiabao. Xi Jinping, who has
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    • 194 2 [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has lauded the scientific approach to development endorsed by the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of China, saying that it has set the foundation for the next phase of the country's development. In a letter sent yesterday to
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    • 571 2  -  R SIVANITHY Bloomberg Sub-prime shadow still lurks but analysts expect Fed to cushion impact [SINGAPORE] Wall Street's resurgent fears over its sub-prime crisis and the likely impact on the US economy and corporate earnings reverberated around Asian stock markets yesterday, bringing the sellers
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 79 2 PAYING premium for golden numbers used to be associated with car plates and cell phones but a new move to allow the registration of numeric Internet addresses could spark a similar bidding frenzy for coveted digits in cyberspace. The Singapore Network Information
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      • 62 2 MOBILEONE has reported a marginal gain of 1.6 per cent to $43.6 million in net profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30, helped by lower taxation. Earnings per share was up 12.6 per cent to 4.9 cents. Total revenue for the
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      • 56 2 FRASERS Centrepoint Trust has entered into a put and call option agreement to acquire the upcoming shopping mall Northpoint 2 for between $139.5 million and $170.5 million, it said yesterday. The mall, which is being developed by Frasers Centrepoint, will be completed by
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      • 61 2 ORNAMENTAL fish breeder and service provider Qian Hu has doubled third-quarter net profit from a year ago to $1.27 million. For the three months ended Sept 30, revenue surged 19.6 per cent to $22.69 million as the group sold more ornamental fish and
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      • 82 2 MALAYSIA is celebrating a big rebound in foreign direct investment into the country, but the real news is that local capital is leaving just as fast. Local businesses, including many oil companies, are investing offshore like never before a trend that showed
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      • 43 2 INDIA'S capital markets regulator has, dropped a proposed ban on registered brokers using offshore derivatives to buy stocks, scaling back new rules that sparked a US$lOO billion sell-off in equities last week. GREATER CHINA/INDIA PAGE 18
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      • 77 2 HIAP Hoe and sister company Superßowl Holdings have jointly bought a freehold site at Balmoral Road for $138 million, the two companies said yesterday. The price paid for The Aspine in a collective sale works out to $1,870 per square foot per
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    • 493 4  -  CONRAD RAJ [SINGAPORE] While others were awed by the sheer size of Changi's new Terminal 3 and Singapore Airlines' new A3BO Airbus, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was more concerned about the big picture and the small details. During a
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    • 471 4  -  WINSTON CHAI Coveted digits could see bidding war as numeric addresses get go-ahead [SINGAPORE] Paying a premium for golden numbers used to be associated with car plates and cell phones but a new move to allow the registration of numeric Internet addresses
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    • 307 4  -  WEE LI-EN HORIZON TOWERS SAGA [SINGAPORE] Buyers of Horizon Towers the subject of a high profile en bloc dispute will not be allowed to participate in the hearing by the Strata Titles Board (STB). The buyers Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL)
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 528 6  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS Traders ride huge swings in index; broad market sees 521 falls against 62 rises GIVEN Wall Street's Friday plunge and the fact that the US futures market was decidedly weak throughout Asian trading hours yesterday, it perhaps came as no surprise that
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    • 94 6 MAIN Up Down Unch SDQ Up Down Unch TOTAL Up Down Unch Multi Ind 2 14 1 0 0 0 2 14 1 Manufacturing 21 171 20 10 23 11 31 194 31 Commerce 60 16 11 76 )t/Stor/Comms 34 36 Finance 32 34 Construction 17 10
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    • 121 6 TURNOVER ('000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN VALUE C000) SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 27,555 27,555 120,002 120,002 Manufacturing 485,382 133,766 619,148 469,199 31,153 500,352 Commerce 169,470 11,885 181,355 105,471 2,975 108,446 Tpt/Stor/Comms 138,706 3,076 141,782 395,433 2,444 397,877 Finance 64,682 196 64,878 715,429 33 715,461 Construction 124,840 26,617
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    • 229 6 Stock name Wt Close Change Allgreen 0.50 1.740 -0.050 Ascendasreit 0.81 2.360 -0.030 CapitaComm 0.48 2.470 -0.090 Capita Land 4.68 7.600 -0.150 CapitaMall 0.92 3.680 +0.020 Chart SemiCond 0.53 1.040 -0.040 CityDev 2.78 15.300 -0.400 ComfortDelGro 1.26 1.900 -0.040 Cosco Corp 2.35 7.500 -0.200 Creative Tech
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    • Article, Illustration
      456 6  -  UMA SHANKARI Capita Mall Trust Oct 22 close: 553.68 Daiwa Research, Oct 22 Source: WE MAINTAIN our "outperform" rating on CapitaMall Trust (CMT) after the announcement of its 3Q07 results on Oct 19. CMT's 3Q07 distribution per unit (DPU) of 3.40 cents exceeded our forecast (of 3.16 cents)
      : Bloomberg  -  456 words
    • 367 6 Kelive Research CHART POINT WE EXPECT regional markets, including Singapore, to brace for more headwinds for the remainder of this week. Following the Dow's 367-point free-fall last Friday in magnitude terms, the drop represented 72 per cent of Dow's single-day plunge of 508
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    • 433 6 BLOOMBERG AFP CURRENCIES -[TOKYO] The US dollar suffered fresh losses against the yen and hit a record low against the euro in Asian trade yesterday as concerns about the US economy sparked another rout on global stock markets, dealers said. The euro shot
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    • 46 6 Oct 22 VALUE CLOSE -1494.00-327.00 BT OB/OS BT CADI -*****.00-454.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00-150.00 All-SG Equities 1009.11 -30.18 SG Equities Elect 110.69 -5.43 SG Equities Fin 2514.73 -75.67 SG Equities Prop 1497.96 -43.93 SIMSCI 446.62 -12.72 SIMSCI Futures 445.00 -14.30 PrimePartnersCI 291.43 -12.54
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    • 56 6 VOLUME Memstar 238,143,000 El-Nets 56,733,000 ChinaOMFld 47,060,000 Anwell 39,143,000 Yonqnam 34,494,000 ChinaAElec 33,239,000 Sinostar 32,902,000 DBS MBL eCWOBO2O6 32,527,000 Gen Intl 32,316,000 Adroit R 28,785,000 VALUE(S) DBS Grp 291,168,430 UOB 181,657,496 SGX 136,883,300 Keppel Corp 95,977,200 Sing Tel 85,562,160 Capita Land 82,757,500 Cosco Corp 79,288,600 STXPOKWIOO 75,217,160
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    • 101 6 CLOSE UP Hiai Moh 51.5 14.5 39.2 OCBC Bk4.5%NCPS 100 ***** 10.0 0.1 STI 3600SGAePW*****0 20 10.0 100.0 DBS BNPePW/*****9 34 8.5 33.3 STI3500SGAePW*****9 35 8.0 29.6 STI 3800SGAePW*****8 55 7.5 15.8 STI 3400SGAePW*****0 38 7.0 22.6 STI 3700SGAePW*****8 54.5 7.0 14.7 Tat Honi 267 7.0 2.7 STI3500BNPePW*****8 28
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    • 107 6 CLOSE DOWN China H 10US$ 2410-204.6 -5.5 GLD 10US$ 7490-131.5 -1.2 JMH 2750-131.5 -3.2 JSH 1570-116.9 -4.8 UOB 2130 -80.0 -3.6 Venture Co 1400 -80.0 -5.. DBS Gr| 2070 -70.0 -3.3 Jardine C&C 1830 -70.0 -3.7 SGX 1420 -70.0 -4.7 Kej :l Cor| 1420 -50.0 -3.4 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE
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    • 84 6 iere! S$ stands Oa 22 CHNG CLOSE FR0O19 YR 2007 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.4629 0.01 1.5479 1.4569 Euro 2.0928 -0.16 2.1254 1.9913 Pounds 2.9965 -0.09 3.1194 2.9323 AS 1.3003 0.63 1.3411 1.1741 Yen* 1.2864 -1.25 1.3821 1.2285 Rupiah* 0.***** 0.51 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.2819 0.03 4.5700 4.1730
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    • 66 7 Quality Service At Mitsubishi Electric, it is not just service but MEQ service. Through consultation to after sales, even before talking to us, you can be assured of our signature quality. Ultimately when we reach out, everyone benefits. A MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC ASIA PTE LTD /Tlt^M^^e f*%v tUo Rattav
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 403 8  -  SIOW LI SEN FILE PHOTO MOBILEONE (Ml) has reported a marginal gain of 1.6 per cent to $43.6 million in net profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30, helped by lower taxation. Earnings per share was up 12.6 per cent to 4.9
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    • 702 8  -  WONG WEI KONG FOR the diehard minority shareholders of CK Tang, things are looking rather discouraging again. After rejecting privatisation offers for the company twice, these shareholders are now staring at the prospects of uncertain earnings once more. CK Tang in expansion mode doesn't
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    • 522 8 PACIFIC SHIPPING TRUST (A business trust constituted on 25 April 2006 under the laws of the Republic of Singapore) Managed by PST Management Pte. Ltd. NOTICE OF BOOKS CLOSURE DISTRIBUTION PAYMENT DATE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Transfer Books and Register of Unitholders of Pacific Shipping Trust ("PST") will
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    • 552 9 General Insurance Association U of Singapore Singapore celebrates General insurance day in conjunction with the inaugural east asian insurance day 23 OCTOBER 2007 Today is Singapore's General Insurance Day. The General Insurance Day is aimed at raising the profile of the General insurance industry and for people working in the
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 518 10  -  UMA SHANKARI It will acquire the upcoming shopping mall from its parent firm in Q4 2008 FRASERS Centrepoint Trust (FCT) has entered into a put and call option agreement to acquire the upcoming shopping mall Northpoint 2 for between $139.5 million
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    • 436 10  -  LYNETTE KHOO By ORNAMENTAL fish breeder and service provider Qian Hu has doubled third-quarter net profit from a year ago to $1.27 million. For the three months ended Sept 30, revenue surged 19.6 per cent to $22.69 million as the group sold
      – Executive chairman Kenny Yap  -  436 words
    • 219 10 33 and 9-month results ended Sept 2007 NET PROFIT (S$m) TURNOVER (S$m) NET PROFIT (S$m) TURNOVER (S$m) :OMPANY CURRENT PREVIOUS CHNG CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG CURRENT PREVIOUS CHNG lapitaMall Trust 53.20 41.23 29.1 114.47 82.07 39.5 148.92 117.07 27.2 315.83 235.29 34.2 vlobileOne 43.60 42.90
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    • 102 10 Dates of release of Q3 and 9-month results ended Sept '07 Keppel Land Oct 23 Keppel T&T Oct 23 Capitaßetail China Tr Oct 23 SPC Oct 24 OSIM Intl Oct 24 Keppel Corp Oct 25 Mapletree Log Oct 25 DBS Grp Oct 26 Capita Land Ltd Oct
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    • 374 11  -  CHOW PENN NEE Trust confident of boosting value of assets to $500m before end-2009 SINGAPORE'S first healthcare real estate investment trust (Reit) said yesterday that its third-quarter distributable income came to $4.61 million 5.4 per cent higher than forecast due
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    • 257 11 Reuters A DECADE-LONG tussle for control of Indonesian coal miner PT Adaro involving Deutsche Bank and two of the country's wealthiest businessmen looks set to drag on further following an appeal by one of the parties. Beckkett, a firm linked to Indonesia's richest man, Sukanto
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 45 11 PACIFIC Healthcare Holdings yesterday opened the doors of its first specialist centre in Shanghai Kanglian Hospital through its 51 per cent-owned subsidiary Singapore Heart, Stroke and Cancer Centre. Pacific Healthcare has an effective 10.5 per cent stake in Shanghai Kanglian Hospital.
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      • 82 11 HYFLUX'S wholly owned unit, Eflux Singapore (EFLUX), has entered into a 70-30 joint venture (JV) agreement with Tao Corporation's subsidiary, Tao Commodity Trader Inc (TCTI), to invest some US$l2 million to build a state-of-the-art used-oil recycling plant near Calaca, Batangas, in the
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      • 54 11 BIOSENSORS International Group announced that it has agreed to acquire the distribution network of Indonesian medical distributor PT Fondaco Mitratama for interventional cardiology and critical care products in Indonesia. This proposed acquisition is a "strategic vertical integration process" that will immediately enable Biosensors to establish a
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      • 59 11 PACIFIC Shipping Trust said its distributable income for the third quarter ended Sept 30 grew 4 per cent from a year ago to U553.67 million. Distribution per unit for the third quarter was 1.09 US cents, one per cent higher than estimated, which
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    • 212 11 THE OLDEST CHINESE RESTAURANT IN SINGAPORE" 78 th ANNIVERSARY SPECIA^ IllllriiM k\. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■fl "I believe excellence is a blend of natural gifts, strong will and rigorous training." Tamara Novichenko, voice instructor at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire, Saint Petersburg. Who would believe that blowing bubbles could help the world's leading singers
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 537 12  -  CHUANG PECK MING YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT S'pore's action on recent crackdown guided by Asean's long-term interest BUSINESS hardly figures in Singapore's stand on Myanmar's recent brutal crackdown on Buddhist monks and other peaceful demonstrators, Foreign Minister George Yeo told Parliament yesterday. Singapore's cumulative
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    • PARLIAMENT BRIEFS
      • 82 12 SMALL and medium enterprises are still lagging behind in carrying out wage reform and putting in place a flexi-wage system, according to Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Manpower) Hawazi Daipi. While 62 per cent of workers in large firms have narrowed or narrowing salary ratio, the
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      • 80 12 PUBLIC transport fares remain affordable despite the recent hike, according to Transport Minister Raymond Lim. Fares have risen by 5.3 per cent over the past five years, which works out to one per cent a year. This lags average pay increases of 3 per cent
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      • 162 12 THE jury is still out but it looks like Nominated Member of Parliament Siew Kum Hong is virtually the lone voice speaking up for the gay cause when he presented a petition to the House yesterday to remove a law making gay sex a
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    • 389 12  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI By SOUTH-EAST Asia must band together to face challenges in the region and Asean is the best hope, Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo said yesterday. "If we are not united, the major powers will all be forced to interfere in
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    • 393 12  -  CHEN HUIFEN By TECHNOLOGY and globalisation have helped many young people to climb the corporate ladder. In line with this phenomenon, Global Entrepolis Singapore 2007 (GES 2007) will feature a forum for business leaders under 40. The Asian Titan Trends 2007 forum
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    • 499 12  -  ARTHUR SIM AS the collective sales push powers on, a new benchmark for the Holland Village area could be set if Willyn Ville achieves its asking price of $120 million. This works out to about $2,153 per square foot per plot ratio (psf
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    • 199 12 THE Singapore International Foundation (SIF) yesterday welcomed three new board members from the private sector. They are: Gautam Banerjee, nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) and executive chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore (PWC); Jennifer Lewis, head of communications at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC); and
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    • 141 12 A THREE-DAY seminar on "Climate Change and Sustainable Tourism", organised by the Germany-Singa-pore Environmental Technology Agency, starts here today. The event is co-organ-ised and co-funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and Singapore's Ministry of the Environment
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 106 12 THE inaugural World Effie Festival has put together a distinguished line-up of speakers, including Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Sebastian Coe, chairman of the 2012 London Olympics. Slated to be held in Singapore from Feb 28 to 29 next year, the
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      • 32 12 CHEVRON Singapore Pte Ltd, which markets the Caltex brand, increased the retail prices of all grades of petrol and diese. by five cents a litre from spm yesterday.
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      • 46 12 THE labour movement mourned the passing of Swithun Lowe yesterday. He was a member of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) central committee and senior consultant to the Singapore Teachers' Union. Mr Lowe, 61, leaves behind his wife and three children.
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      • 59 12 THE Department of Statistics is conducting the ninth Household Expenditure Survey from this month until September 2008. The survey, which aims to collect the latest data on household expenditure, will cover 11,000 households. The survey results are used for updating the weighting pattern and basket of
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    • 36 12 Lianhe Zaobao I I Net profit for I I China's top 4 securities firms I oxpocted to I surpass 15 billion B U D in the first I ii 111 D three quarters I 115(MZ,7GARf|i I
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  • SINGAPORE SUN FESTIVAL
    • 303 13  -  SANGEETHA MADHAVAN WHEN Miami-based Cuban band Tiempo Libre came on to perform at IndoChine Waterfront late on Sunday night, members announced via a "weather forecast" that the temperature was about to go up to 50 degrees. And they weren't joking. The
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    • 599 13 Wine auction draws top names and Some pay up to $20,000 per table at charity dinner for children's cancer centre, writes GEOFFREY EU I ITH so many charity events on Singapore's social calendar, it is usually difficult to tell one gala dinner from another. But the Singapore Wine Auction Gala
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    • 159 13 Singapore Up Writers Fest|val 1 9 December 2007 f\ Singapore Writers Festival 2007 presents CROSSINGS! Celebrating the intersecting of disciplines, cultures, traditions and languages in the literary arts, this year's festival will embrace an exciting lineup of programmes including concerts, film screenings, theatre performances and parties for the first time
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 197 13 TOP PICKS isufitii^i at the Sun Festival today Sideways, the award-winning film about a road trip through the Santa Ynez Valley wine country fc>?sx? starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, opens today at the Screening Room. Pre-show drinks and a Californian-themed dinner by celebrity chef Cat Cora will be
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  • SME spotlight
    • 598 14 The company is flexible and nimble enough to meet its customers' needs, reports WEE LI-EN CONTRACT design and manufacturing company Encus International is eyeing a niche market in making and assembling products for companies in the US and Europe with a small presence in
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    • 631 14 SMALL CAPS To stay ahead of the competition, furniture maker Sitra aims to set the pace for new product rollouts that match consumer tastes, writes OH BOON PING FURNITURE maker Sitra Holdings, which earlier this year reported a first-half profit drop, believes it is
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  • SME SPOTLIGHT
    • 416 15  -  TEH HOOI LING OUR small cap portfolio stayed relatively steady in the face of widespread selling in stock markets across the world. For the two weeks ended yesterday, it slid 1.5 per cent. In comparison, the Straits Times Index shed 4.7 per cent, while the UOB
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    • 802 15  -  The firm will be expanding its product offerings to better service customers, writes OH BOON PING BESIDES property and construction firms, IT solutions providers may also benefit from the two integrated resort (IR) projects. One such company is Crown Systems Pte Ltd. The
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 582 16 Reuters Local businesses, including many oil firms, are investing offshore like never before [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is celebrating a big rebound in foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country, but the real news is that local capital is leaving just as fast.
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    • 327 16 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The combination of record US home foreclosures, rising defaults and simmering inflation is making two-year Treasury notes and their equivalents unbeatable in the bond market. Anxiety over the US$3OO billion owed by structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, is pushing investors
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    • 669 16 -AP Central bankers see need for multilateral talks to strengthen risk management [WASHINGTON] The impact of recent turbulence in financial markets on developing countries has been limited, and global economic growth remains strong, the World Bank said on Sunday. Finance ministers and
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    • 340 16 Bloomberg The currency's gain hasn't satisfied the Group of Seven [WASHINGTON] China's currency is "considerably undervalued" and China would benefit by letting its value be set by market forces, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Sunday. "The fund has been expressing the view
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    • 291 16 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the dollar's depreciation may reflect growing unwillingness among foreigners to buy US debt. "Obviously there is a limit to the extent that obligations to foreigners can reach," Mr Greenspan said in
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 505 17  -  PAULINE NG Additional 2.7m sq ft of shopping space as 3 new malls open in the past month In Kuala Lumpur WITH more than 2 million sq ft of new retail space coming on stream in Malaysia's Klang Valley by 2009, retailers are keeping
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    • 244 17 ■AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's state electricity company is soon to sign contracts with nine independent power producers to build new plants to meet demand outside the main island of Java, a report said on Sunday. The contracts will be signed later this month, Perusahaan
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    • 7724 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mgt (Spore) Star Europe Eqty!** 1.084/ Star Europe Bond 1.203/ Star Europe Bal 1.259/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.773/ Star Asia Bond 1.264/ Star Asia Balanced 1.095/ Star Global Technology Fund!" 0.242/ Multi St Fd 0.963/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.866/ Gib Multi St USD
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 644 18 Reuters CHINA'S NEW LEADERS He and Li Keqiang tipped to succeed President Hu and PM Wen one day [BEIJING] Married to a famous singer and in charge of China's richest and most glamorous city, troubleshooting Shanghai Communist Party boss Xi Jinping has emerged as
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    • 666 18 Reuters [BEIJING] The communist elite of China, the land of Mao Zedong, now has a likely top leader who as a student mixed with democracy advocates and learned the ideas of wigged English judges at a university that fostered dissent. Li Keqiang, a 52-year-old who
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    • 2391 18 VOL C000) let 22 RM \&M Realty 0.94 \bricBhd 0.29 \dvance Synergy 0.37 \dventa Bhd 1.63 \eMulti Hldgs 0.28 Win Holdings 2.71 UimadZaki Resou 5.75 SjcCorp 0.53 ijrasia Bhd 1.89 \kn Messaging Te 0.19 \kn Technology 0.77 \lliance Financi 2.99 \luminium Co 1.27 \malgamated Ind 0.53 \minvestment Grp
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    • 415 18 Bloomberg Investors have bought USsl9b of securities this year [MUMBAI] M Damodaran, India's capital markets regulator, dropped a proposed ban on registered brokers using offshore derivatives to buy stocks, scaling back new rules that sparked a US$lOO billion sell-off in equities last week.
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    • 378 18 Bloomberg Communist resistance threatens to scupper deal [NEW DELHI] India's federal ruling coalition and its Communist allies will meet on Nov 16 after talks yesterday on the civilian nuclear agreement with the US ended inconclusively. The ruling United Progressive Alliance will respond to the
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 346 19 Bloomberg NEW YORK] Bear Stearns and China's ]itic Securities agreed to invest US$l )illion in each other in an alliance to )00l their businesses in Asia. Citic will buy the equivalent of 6 per :ent of New York-based Bear Stearns's
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    • 704 19 Reuters Champions of super fund to rescue mortgage market seen losing case [WASHINGTON/ZURICH] World credit markets "have lived through an earthquake" and the question is now whether the global economy has reached a turning point after five years of strong growth,
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    • 418 19 Reuters TOKYO] Japanese brewer Kirin Holdings Co is making a US$2.6 billion bid for control of drug maker Kyjwa Hakko Kogyo Co, the company said. It said the two companies would aim to double pharmaceutical profits by 2011. Kirin will use
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    • 394 19 -Bloomberg It says it will look at buying them again if market gets better [DUBAI] Dubai World, the state-owned investment group that agreed to invest as much as US$5.l billion in MGM Mirage, stopped buying shares in the world's second-largest casino company because
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    • 298 19 AFP, Reuters [BRUSSELS] Microsoft has agreed to make "substantial changes" to comply with a European Union ruling that it was abusing its dominant market position. The US software giant agreed finally to take steps to comply with the European Commission's landmark 2004
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    • 191 19 Reuters [BOSTON] Only one out of five employees of major global corporations is engaged in his or her work, and top managers may be to blame, according to a study released by a global professional services firm yesterday. A survey of 90,000
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    • 301 19 Clipper Ventures ON Friday evening the ten Clipper 07-08 crews attended a prize giving ceremony at the Terminal Maritimo da Bahia, hosted by the government of Bahia and the regional government's department for sport, Sudesb. The crews of Nova Scotia, Glasgow: Scotland with style Clipper
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  • AVIATION
    • 455 20 AP FAA says all's well about workforce despite warnings of safety risks to public WASHINGTON] Far more /eteran air traffic controlers than the government expected have retired since ;he Bush administration imnosed a contract on their mion in 2006, new data >how.
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    • 529 20 ■AP JS transport officials propose hourly cap of 80 Flights for New York airport NEW YORK] Delay-plagued John F Kennedy International Airport should lot try to handle more than 80 ;ake-offs or landings per hour, substantially fewer than are now scheduled for some peak
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    • 153 20 Reuters [BANGKOK] Qantas Airways Ltd's low-cost subsidiary, Jetstar, has aggressive expansion plans for the next three years, aiming to double its 39-aircraft fleet, a senior executive said yesterday. Jetstar would probably see its fleet growing to 70-80 aircraft by 2010 with most of the new
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    • 213 20 -AP [JAKARTA] The pilot of an Indonesian jetliner that crash-landed in March, killing 21 people, ignored repeated warnings that he was approaching the runway at almost double the landing speed and should circle around again, an investigation found. The Boeing 737-400 skidded off the
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    • 2312 20 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), Al: Air India (AC), Al =innair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl: Royal Brunei Airline;. :dn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR:
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  • SHIPPING
    • 1461 21 Bloomberg They cite record oil prices, depressed freight rates, tanker oversupply [LONDON] The record increase in oil prices and the unprecedented number of new tankers transporting crude is a stock market crash waiting to happen. That, at least, is the growing
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    • TRANSPORT STOCKS
      • 114 21 '000 let 22 Vol CH Offshore 0.92 Chuan Hup Hldgs 0.37 Cosco Corp 7.50 CWTLtd 1.19 Ezra Hldgs 7.05 First Ship Lease 0.89 Freight Links 0.11 Grand Banks 1.12 lava Hold Ltd 1.93 KiVentures 0.32 Keppel Corp 14.20 Labroy Marine 2.51 MTQCorp 0.86 NOL 4.84 Pacific Shipping 0.44 Pan-United
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      • 40 21 '000 let 22 M$ Vol Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings NeplineBhd PDZ Holdings 1.45 9.70 9.65 4.76 2.90 0.24 2.60 -0.06 -0.10 -0.05 -0.14 unch -0.01 -0.04 567 872 520 1581 206 4 57
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      • 16 21 ■oo let 22 Balrt Vol ■recious Ship Jegional Cont 32.50 28.75 -2.00 -1.00 2792 623
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      • 15 21 '000 let 22 HKf Vol Doil iingamas Cont 78.20 3.90 -1.25 -0.14 894 3730
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      • 26 21 '000 let 22 Peso Vol Aboitiz Equity Intl Container Keppel Marine Keppel Prop 7.00 39.50 2.00 unch -0.20 unch unch unch 2486 280 423 0
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      • 27 21 let 22 NTS Vol Evergreen Marine ....30.70 :irst Steamship 91.20 /Van Hai Lines 27.20 r"ang Ming Marine ..26.10 -2.25 3.50 -1.90 -1.80 27 5 15 18
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      • 44 21 '000 let 22 Yen Vol (awasaki Hvy Ind ..414.00 -23.00 ***** (awasaki Kisen ...1583.00 -59.00 8337 Mitsubishi Hvy 672.00 -27.00 ***** Mitsui Eng&Sbldg ..647.00 -29.00 ***** Mitsui Osk Lines ...1930.00 -16.00 ***** Mippon Express 574.00 -18.00 6811 MipponYusen 1185.00 -33.00 5222 source: Reuters
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    • 154 21 ■AP [NAIROBI] Somali pirates have seized a cargo ship off the East African coast, the head of a local seafarer's association said yesterday. Gunmen attacked the vessel last Wednesday, said Andrew Mwangura, the coordinator of the East Africa Seafarers Assistance Program, but due to
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    • 355 21 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Westports Malaysia has added another two super post-Panamax twinlifters to boost productivity and to stay ahead of its rivals. The new twinlifters, already in operation, add up to 26 super post-Pan-amax quay cranes, six of which are twinlifters, it
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    • 212 21 Reuters [ZURICH] Swiss freight company Kuehne+Nagel posted a forecast-beating 30 per cent rise in nine-month profit yesterday, boosted by strong performances in its sea and airfreight divisions. Net profit rose to 408 million Swiss francs (Ssso9 million), beating the average estimate of 400.9 million francs
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    • 237 21 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world's third-largest shipbuilder, said its unit in Romania won a record order to build nine container vessels for US$B55 million. Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries SA will deliver the vessels, which can each carry 5,500
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    • 296 21 Bloomberg [DALLAS] United Parcel Service Inc franchisees may sue the world's largest package shipping firm as a group over claims that it had misled them that converting their Mail Boxes Etc stores into UPS Stores would be more profitable. "This is
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 475 22 WHY the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives chose this particular moment to push a bill that accuses the Ottoman Empire of carrying out "genocide" of about 1.5 million Armenians during World War I will always be a source of
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    • 966 22 Beware uncertain global economy and riskier financial environment, says DAVID BURTON EMERGING Asia's economies have been among the most dynamic in the world in the last decade. Today, the region accounts for almost half of global economic growth. Much of this success stems from
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    • 821 22  -  PAUL KRUGMAN THE BOTTOM LINE [T pains me to say this, but this time former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is right about US housing. Mr Greenspan was wrong in 2004, when he sang the praises of adjustable-rate mortgages. He was
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    • 1831 23 Those seeking a slice of it would be well advised to understand its complexities inside out, says JOHN WILLSDON THE Islamic finance industry may be new, but this established niche market is set for an exponential expansion over the next few years. It's thought
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    • 918 23  - The two faces of Asia one shimmering, the other shivering WILLIAM PESEK JR MASERATIS versus bicycles. It's not the most obvious lens through which to view Asia's boom. Yet to economist Ifzal Ali, few things better illustrate why the region's outlook should be viewed with scepticism. "More people are riding
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 8517 24 Transaction date: Oct 22 52-wks Tel )h Low Code Last Sale Vol ('OOP) Hij Day Last Quote |h Low Buyer Seller Div Gr Yld C'vr Net P/E M Cap $mil Hij Com[ i an; 3.5 2 5716 1st Software 22 7 3148 STelecom 34 17.5 5834 A-Sonic 104
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    • 82 24 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol Cooo] Day Last Quote |h Low Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil Comi lam Hii 119 119 6065 Diamonds 6200 5000 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** ***** 6101 ISS&P5OO *****
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    • 76 24 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP] Day Last Quote Low Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil Comi Hii 141 105 6000 AVJennings 21.5 5 6134 Over&Gen 64 15.9 6017 StarCruises 320 179 6019 TanChonglnt A117 A13 US44.5 HK257.5 -2 -1.5 -10 4
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 374 25 %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Oct19 World Index Preliminan 1172.4 -1.0 6.5 -0.7 5.5 -1.0 10.! t EAFE Preliminan 1162.9 -0.9 5.0 -0.6 6.6 -0.9 11.1 Euroi Prel liminan 1583.5 -0.7 6.0 -0.5 7.9 -0.8 13.1 Pacific
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    • 61 25 Oct 22 Delivery Month Opening Sett Av Range Price Price Hii Low Vol Open Done Position Nov07 2840 2821 2834 2792 511 ***** Dec 07 2775 2760 2776 2735 2440 ***** Jan 08 2709 2714 2734 2699 6519 ***** Feb OS 2685 2688 2707 2680 587 4050 Total
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    • 21 25 oct22 STI SIMSCI Oct 460.1 461.1 445 Taiwan Oct 360.9 365 363.5 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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    • 21 25 Oct 22 S$ Fer 1-month 1.4582 1.4594 2-months 1.4553 1.4565 3-months 1.4522 1.4534 6-months 1.4444 1.4457 Source: OCBC
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    • 154 25 Oct 22 Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$fUS$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2993 1.3009 0.8890 0.8895 Canadian dollar 1.5092 1.5110 1.0326 1.0332 Euro 2.0917 2.0936 1.4312 1.4315 NZ dollar 1.0884 1.0906 0.7447 0.7457 Sterlini ind 2.9958 2.9986 2.0498 2.050: US dollar 1.4615 1.4625
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    • 287 25 Oct22 KUBBtK 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/JunO8 351.00 351.75 352.75 353.25 354.25 358.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month High Low Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest Nov
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    • 131 25 A. s 9am 0*22 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2890 1.3040 Can dollar 1.5050 1.5230 Euro 2.0860 2.1110 NZ dollar 1.0750 1.0990 Sterlini 2.9840 3.0181 US dollar 1.4560 1.4730 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency: Currencies
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    • 160 25 oct22 Overnight 2 5/16 1-month 2 1/2 2-months 2 17/32 3-months 2 9/16 Overnight mode: 2 3/8 US$ Offer 2 3/16 2 3/8 2 13/32 2 7/16 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months SFr 4.85 4.88 4.95 5.09 4.93
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    • 452 25 octn iuro ren (on 'eso lam ■ouni Australia 0.861 6.679 0.621 6.892 35.397 81.077 1.015 8.155 2.999 1.193 53.915 39.216 1.300 6.096 1.035 28.967 30.381 0.434 0.889 Canada 1.162 7.758 0.722 8.006 41.114 94.174 1.178 9.472 3.483 1.386 62.625 45.551 1.510 7.080 1.202 33.647 35.289 0.504 1.033
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    • 171 25 0*22 GOLD (USS/oz) Oct 18 Oct 22 GOLD BULLION COINS (S$) Sellim Hong Kong 757.00 756.70 758.00 757.70 Oct 18 Oct 19 London 763.10 761.50 763.60 762.00 Source: Reuters (S$) Selling Buying 1 oz 1243.34 1114 UBS GOLD LUNAR KINEBAR (S$) Selling Buying 10gm $436.56 357 SILVER Selling
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    • 74 25 Oct22 1 mth 4.***** 2.***** 2 mths 4.***** 2.***** 3 mths 5.***** 2.***** 6 mths 4.***** 2.***** 9 mths 4.***** 2.***** 12 mths 4.***** 2.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 2.***** 2mths 2.***** 3 mths 2.***** 6 mths 2.***** 9 mths 2.***** 12 mths 2.***** SWAP Mid rates
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    • 87 25 0^22 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Day's High Low 3-Month BQ*****W 24.01.08 1-Year BY*****A 29.09.08 2.29 2.16 2.22 2.22 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 NY*****X 3.125
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    • 67 25 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (USS/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2510.20 2503.80 3 months 2557.00 2551.00 Copper, Grade A (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months 7912.50 7870.00 7901.50 7860.00 Lead (USS/tonne) Cash 3769.00 3 months 3705.00 3712.00 3665.00 Nickel (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (USS/tonne) Cash *****.00 *****.00 3
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    • 79 25 octw (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low Dec 07 951 949 956/940 Mar 08 966 unch 973/957 May 08 975 976 982/967 JulO8 987 unch 990/978 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Nov07 2150 2123 2187/2134 Jan 08 1778 1781 1814/1773 Mar 08 1752 1758 1790/1746 May 08 1756 1764 1793/1767
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    • 103 25 Oct 19 (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Nov07 983.25 991.50 988.00 976.50 Jan 08 1001.25 1010.25 1007.00 994.50 Mar 08 1015.75 1023.25 1020.00 1009.00 May 08 1020.00 1026.50 1022.50 1013.50 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Dec 07 40.56 40.99 41.03 40.50 Jan
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    • 76 25 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS act 19 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 84 -0.11 WTI (Near Mth) 88.51 -1.02 Dubai (1-Mth F) 79.2 1.35 Tapis blend 89.65 1.35 Minas 87.4 1.6 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 84.27 100.05 0.95 1.1 US$/barrel Opec Oil
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    • 343 25 Oct 22 EURODOLLAR FUTURES DecO7 MarO8 JunO8 SepO8 95.310 95.635 95.800 95.885 0 0 0 0 ***** ***** 8297 8874 EUROYEN FUTURES DecO7 99.155 99.170 MarO8 99.120 99.150 JunO8 99.130 99.130 SepO8 99.065 99.070B DecO8 99.010 99.015B MarO9 98.955 98.955 JunO9 98.890B SepO9 98.820B 99.155 99.120 99.110
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    • 3139 25 BONDS WARRANTS [el lode Com| Last Sale +orVol Conv Exer COOP) Ratio Price Disc Gear- ing Lefi taw 5779 ASL Marine Hldgs W*****1 116 >036 Advance SCT Ltd W*****9 32.5 >835 Allgreen RBeCW*****6 6 3798 Ascendas REIT SGA ECW*****3 23 1481 Asia Water Tech Ltd W*****0 38 I436 AusGroup MBL
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    • 1085 27 m The Business Times Shipping Times UK CONTINENT SERVICE U.S.A SERVICE Destination Destination STXPOTBN RTM/ANR/TIL MARY G CDN/NFK/SAV/NOL Loads Singapore, E./W. Malaysia, Indonesia Loads E./W. Malaysia, Indonesia MIDDLE-EAST SERVICE F.E./S.E.A SERVICE Destination Destination VOYAGER V JEA/AUH/DOH/BAH/DMM/KWI STXPOTBN ICH/PUS Loads Singapore, E./W. Malaysia, Indonesia Loads E. Malaysia, Indonesia OTHER SERVICES Tramping
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    • 2861 29 I This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The telephone numbers of the advertisers are provided for your convenience. ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Desfn Name
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  • PROPERTY
    • 228 30 [KAMPALA] The demand for office space and quality residential accommodation will continue unabated in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, fuelled by a rising middle class and offshore interest and increased in- vestments, a gioriai property firm has predicted. Britain-based Knight Frank's Africa Report 2007, launched
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    • 705 30 Reuters The population in California will climb to 60 million from 36 million today [TEMECULA, California] California wine country in autumn is picture-perfect as vines turn gold and orange and workers harvest plump grape bunches to crush for cabernets, chardonnays and pinot
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    • 852 31  -  JOHNFWASIK Bloomberg There's a 50 to 60% chance of a recession as consumers curb spending: analyst [CHICAGO] Ivy Zelman's view of the US housing market is gloomy, but it's probably the most realistic. A veteran Wall Street analyst, Zelman, chief executive of the
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    • 267 32  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI THE Mandarin Oriental hotel here has enjoyed a significant increase in the number of international corporate and free and independent travellers (FITs) since it was upgraded and rebranded as a member of the worldwide Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. "After the hotel was relaunched
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    • 465 32  -  UMA SHANKARI ltpayssl3Bmforthe Balmoral site; GuocoLand successfully bids $62.5m for Toho Garden HIAP Hoe and sister company SuperBowl Holdings have jointly bought a freehold site at Balmoral Road for $138 million, the two companies said yesterday. The price paid for The Aspine in
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    • 184 30 4-STOREY LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING Land Area ***** sq ft (approx.) GFA 84,000 sq ft (approx.) Tenure Freehold Sole Marketing Agent BRAND NEW 8 CLUSTER BUNGALOW ENBLOC SALE Land Size 13,900sqft Communial Swimming Pool Individual Basement Car Park Located at Braddell Height Novena CatholicJC o h Hj|| Novena 3 H Church—l-»-»
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    • 90 30 ij'Site 21,892 sq ft Master Plan 2003 "Residential" Total Existing Strata Area: 28,708 sqft (subj. to verification) I Existing Development 1 x 4-stry block 3-mins walk to Novena MRT 3-mins drive or 2-MRT stations to Orchard Rd Easy Access to CTE/CBD/PIE/ Integrated Resort Potential for SOHO.Svc Apt I Call 9068
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    • 206 30 Rare Residential Sites Near Katong H.»a-s.> 11 p^r Subject Site 1 kb™ suited —i i Address: 32 Duku Road jMChi« Ji.i K n a d igUMns R™« I Subject Site Mill Road Harmony Mansion oirfsdiMi _jL Site Area: *****.82 sq. ft. I LJTI I I Plot ratio: 1.4 up to
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