The Business Times, 22 March 2008

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  • Title Section
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    24 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend SINGAPORE 85 cents A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO REGN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 122/12/2007 March 22-23,2008 online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon The lowdown on high style it's big bucks
    621 1  -  UMA SHANKARI Next week's Singapore Fashion Festival to push city as luxury spending haven By [SINGAPORE] The idea is ambitious: When you think of shopping for high-end fashion apparel in Asia, think Singapore. Starting next Friday, the Singapore Fashion Festival (SFF) returns
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    Lock icon US, Singapore thrash out principles to guide SWFs
    627 1  -  CHOW PENN NEE Abu Dhabi also part of move that seeks openness, opposes protectionism By [SINGAPORE] Singapore will continue to contribute proactively on developing best practices for sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and countries receiving investments, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said yesterday
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    • Miscellaneous
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Taiwan could add to competition for gaming $
      692 2  - Taiwan could add to competition for gaming ARTHUR SIM Singapore needs to offer unique proposition, say analysts By [SINGAPORE] Taiwan could join the growing number of Asian countries that are choosing to legalise gambling, with casino operators setting their sights there. Jonathan Galaviz, a partner of Las Vegas-based strategy tourism
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • Article
        Lock icon Bad times throw up good opportunities for CapitaLand
        64 2 A LOT of opportunities will be thrown up in the real estate market in the next two years and Capita Land is well placed to take advantage of them, chief executive Liew Mun Leong says. "There will be distressed properties, distressed companies.
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        Lock icon Templeton challenges AsiaPharm chairman's sale
        69 2 TEMPLETON Strategic Emerging Markets Funds II has challenged AsiaPharm Holdings executive chairman Liv Dianbo's undertaking to sell shares to LuYe Pharmaceutical Investmen. Templeton said that under a shareholders agreement dated May 4, 2006, Mr Liv shall not, without its consent, do anything that "result in
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      • Article
        Lock icon S'pore to test waters with Sukuk bond
        73 2 SINGAPORE may soon get its first Sukuk bond and also see the debut of an Islamic Reit (real estate investment trust) as investors show more interest in Syariah-compliant financial products amid the turmoil in the financial markets. The strong growth of the global
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      • Article
        Lock icon A card to warm Global Indians' hearts
        63 2 THE second edition of Dutch bank ABN Amro's Dil Se platinum credit card features Firelight a work specially created by The Business Times arts correspondent and well-known local artist Parvathi Nayar. A credit card aimed at Indian expatriates, Dil Se first featured art
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      • Article
        Lock icon Projects in Opposition-held states could be speeded up
        53 2 WORRIES that big projects or foreign investment intended for Malaysian states now under Opposition control could be stalled by the authorities may be overblown. In fact, according to officials familiar with the situation, the implementation of such projects could be speeded up.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Ping An paid 'below market price' for Fortis
        71 2 PING An Insurance (Group) Co, which bought half of Fortis' asset management business for US$3.4 billion, said that it is paying "significantly below" market price for the slice of Belgium's biggest financial services company. China's second biggest insurer said that the purchase
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      • Article
        Lock icon Import duties on edible oil lowered
        54 2 INDIA, the world's biggest buyer of vegetable oil after China, cut import duties on edible oil to ensure adequate domestic supplies and curb inflation. The reduction was due to take effect from midnight, the finance ministry said yesterday. India's inflation is at a 10-month
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      • Article
        Lock icon No BOJ governor for now, but no policy vacuum either
        79 2 GOVERNMENT officials sought to shore up confidence yesterday as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) moved into its second day without a formally appointed governor. But the delicacy of the situation was underlined by the collapse of a Tokyo-based property company
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      • Article
        Lock icon Wall St investment firms borrow big money from Fed
        56 2 BIG Wall Street investment companies are taking advantage of the Federal Reserve's unprecedented offer to secure emergency loans, the central bank reported on Thursday. The lending is part of a major effort by the Fed to help a financial system in
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      Lock icon More hedge funds in UK, Europe expected to close
      607 2  -  NEIL BEHRMANN Freeze on investor withdrawals sounds death knell; banks checking credit lines By in London THE Bear Steams crisis, Carlyle Capital Corporation's debt default and the collapse of leading London credit fund Peloton are expected to lead to more hedge
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      Lock icon S-E Asia central bankers meet, will discuss US$
      538 2 Reuters [JAKARTA] South-east Asian central bank governors, plus their counterparts from South Korea and Taiwan, met here yesterday to discuss financial market uncertainty and US dollar weakness, Indonesian central bank officials said. The financial leaders of these exporting nations are scheduled to
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon Lord of the Rings
      2383 3 Chairman of the 2012 London Olympics organising committee Sebastian Coe tells ANNA TEO that he is concerned about the legacy that the Games could leave behind and not just in brick-and-mortar terms FOR someone whose lung-busting laps around the track more than 20 years ago still
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Bad times throw up good opportunities for CapitaLand
      734 4  -  TEH HOOI LING As credit crunch lays rivals low, it's ready to swoop on bargains in next 2 years: CEO By A LOT of opportunities will be thrown up in the real estate market in the next two years and Capita Land
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      Lock icon M&As in S-Reit market imminent: Macquarie
      513 4  -  ARTHUR SIM 3y RECENT developments in the S-Reit market suggest that consolidation has begun and more merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is imminent, says Macquarie Capital Advisers executive director and global head of property group Antony Green. In case there is any doubt, future
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    • Article
      Lock icon Templeton challenges sale by AsiaPharm chairman
      426 4  -  CHOW PENN NEE By TEMPLETON Strategic Emerging Markets Funds II has challenged AsiaPharm Holdings executive chairman Liv Dianbo's undertaking to sell shares to Luye Pharmaceutical Investment, which has made a takeover offer at 72.5 cents a share. In a letter to the listed company,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Maybank buys 15% stake in Vietnam bank
      375 4 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) yesterday signed an agreement with Vietnam's An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBank) to acquire a 15 per cent stake for RM43O million (SslBB million) cash. In a statement, Maybank said it may also take up
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon S'pore to test waters with Sukuk bond
      476 5  -  SIOW LI SEN Debut of Islamic Reit also planned in foray into Syariah finance By SINGAPORE may soon get its first Sukuk bond and also see the debut of an Islamic Reit (real estate investment trust) as investors show more interest in Syari-ah-compliant
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      Lock icon G4S adopts stretch of Changi Beach
      331 5  -  MATTHEW PHAN By IF you're along Changi Beach today, look out for the IT professionals picking up trash. It's community service, but of the voluntary sort security firm G4S Singapore, part of the global UK-based group, is adopting a I.2km stretch of the beach
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon A card to warm Global Indians' hearts
      437 5 THE second edition of Dutch bank ABN Amro's Dil Se platinum credit card features Firelight a work specially created by The Business Times arts correspondent and well-known local artist Parvathi Nayar. A credit card aimed at Indian expatriates, Dil Se meaning "from the
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
    • Article
      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      1125 6  -  CHOW PENN NEE Residential property DBS Group Research Equity, March 20 STRONG bids for West Coast sale site: The tender for a Government Land Sale (GLS) site for a private residential development at West Coast Crescent closed with 12 bids received. The site is next to the Blue
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      Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
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      Lock icon CapitaLand poised to ride on Asian growth
      1906 6  -  TEH HOOI LING A FEW years back, Liew Mun Leong, chief executive of Capita Land, came to Singapore Press Holdings and gave a talk to journalists. His talk left a deep impression on me. The topic was how he saw the property market
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  • FOCUS: URBAN PLANNING
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      Lock icon Realising the Marina Bay vision
      1776 7 CHING TUAN YEE and BENJAMIN NG reflect on the planning of Singapore's most ambitious urban project and highlight the exciting developments in store for Singaporeans and visitors alike THE vision for Marina Bay is that of a high-quality, 24/7 live-work-play environment, one that encapsulates the
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Projects in Opposition-held states could be speeded up, not stalled
      672 8  -  S JAYASANKARAN Foreign investment won't be impeded, says new M'sian trade minister By in Kuala Lumpur WORRIES that big projects or foreign investment intended for Malaysian states now under Opposition control could be stalled by the authorities may be overblown.
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      Lock icon DAP, PAS and PKR to form coalition
      475 8 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] The loose three-party opposition alliance that made enormous gains in Malaysia's recent elections is ready to form a formal coalition to pose a stronger challenge to the government, an official said yesterday. "If we are going to respect the people's
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      Lock icon Government investigating defection claims: reports
      344 8 AFP Umno says it is checking on rumoured defections [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's ruling coalition is investigating claims that the opposition could seize power with the help of lawmakers who are considering defecting, reports said yesterday. The dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno) said it is
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    • Article
      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon HELPING HANDS
      25 8 REUTERS [SEPANG]Ferrari team crew push Kimi Raikkonen's car to the pit during a practice session for the Malaysian Fl Grand Prix here yesterday
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      Lock icon Full benefit from hub-andspoke from 2009: MAS
      392 8 Full benefit from hub-and-spoke from 2009: MAS [GUANGZHOU] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) said its enhanced global hub-and-spoke network is expected to produce RM7O million to RMIOO million (Ss3o-43 million) per year in additional revenue from next year, Malaysia's Business Times reported. "We will see some contributions this year, but the full
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      Lock icon CIMB Bank may launch CLO: source
      260 8 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's second-largest lender, CIMB Bank, may launch a collateralised loan obligation (CLO) backed by existing loans, a source familiar with the deal said yesterday. Plans for the deal are at a very early stage and several factors, such as credit market
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Ping An paid 'below market price' for Fortis
      672 9 Bloomberg Venture will give it access to global asset management customers [HONG KONG] Ping An Insurance (Group) Co, which bought half of Fortis' asset management business for US$3.4 billion, said that it is paying "significantly below" market price for the slice of
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      Lock icon Barbs, blows and kicks – Taiwan democracy at work
      263 9 Barbs, blows and kicks Taiwan democracy at work Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Shoes fly and blows rain down, while a kung fu-style kick sails across a room thick with jeers, jibes and coarse language. It's fight night on Taiwan television as parliament gets in session and crowds of fans are tuning
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      Lock icon Securities regulator will be strict with refinancing
      210 9 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's securities regulator will take a strict stance on approving listed companies' plans to raise new funds in the capital markets but it has taken no new administrative measures to interfere with such plans, official media reported yesterday. When reviewing applications
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      Lock icon Alibaba readies for tough times ahead
      329 9 Reuters USsl.49b from IPO will 'prepare it for winter': founder [LONDON] Chinese Internet firm Alibaba is looking to invest in its group and is not on the hunt for acquisitions as it believes a tough "winter" is coming, its founder Jack Ma told Reuters
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      Lock icon LIGHTING THE PATH
      66 9 REUTERS [BEIJING] Liv Hongliang (left) and singer/actor Wang Lee Horn at a news conference here yesterday, after being selected as torchbearers for the Beijing Olympic Games in August. Liv is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. His father, Liv Changchun, was the first Chinese to
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  • IRAQ: FIVE YEARS ON
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      Lock icon A crude case for Iraq war?
      2075 10  -  STEVEN MUFSON LAT-WP Even if the reason was not 'blood for oil', concern about oil supplies is part of the architecture of US foreign policy By IT'S hard to miss the point of the "Blood for Oil" website. It features one poster of an
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      Lock icon Happy anniversary! They said it wouldn't last
      817 10  -  ROSA BROOKS LAT-WP By HAPPY anniversary, War! I can hardly believe we've been together for five years now that's a fifth of the way to our silver anniversary! Traditionally, a fifth anniversary is marked with gifts of wood, symbolising a "strong and lasting
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Pfizer wins court order to block Ranbaxy's generic cholesterol pill
      244 11 Bloomberg Ranbaxy can appeal ruling to Canada's Supreme Court [SAN FRANCISCO] Pfizer Inc, the world's biggest drugmaker, won a Canadian appeals court ruling blocking regulatory approval of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd's generic version of the cholesterol pill Lipitor. Canada's Federal Court
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      Lock icon Irish firm buys 50% of cement maker
      237 11 -AP [DUBLIN] Irish building materials giant Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH) has expanded into India, buying a 50 per cent stake in a rapidly growing cement manufacturer, My Home Industries. CRH said on Thursday that it had signed a contract to pay 290 million
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      Lock icon India a potential key producer of ethanol biofuel
      434 11 Reuters [GENEVA] India has potential to expand its ethanol biofuel production using its vast sugar cane resources, but many challenges lie ahead, delegates at a conference said earlier this week. India is the world's second largest producer of sugar cane, but remains
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      Lock icon Import duties on edible oil lowered
      490 11 Bloomberg Move ensures adequate domestic supplies and curbs inflation [NEW DELHI] India, the world's biggest buyer of vegetable oil after China, cut import duties on edible oil to ensure adequate domestic supplies and curb inflation. The reduction was due to take effect from midnight,
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  • US CREDIT CRISIS
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      Lock icon Partying like it's 1929
      847 12  -  PAUL KRUGMAN -NYT The financial crisis currently underway is an updated version of the wave of bank runs that swept the US three generations ago IF BEN Bernanke manages to save the financial system from collapse he will rightly be praised for his heroic efforts. But
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      Lock icon Economic squeeze seeps beyond Wall St
      856 12 -NYT [NEW YORK] In Seattle, sales at a long-established hardware store, Pacific Supply, are suddenly dipping. In Oklahoma City, couples planning their weddings are demonstrating uncustomary thrift, forgoing Dungeness crab and special linens. And in many cities, the registers at department stores like Nordstrom
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      Lock icon Economist backs technology investments to salvage US economy
      638 12 Reuters [NEW YORK] Investments in technology that boost worker productivity over the last decade should allow the US economy to maintain its global lead once it emerges from the current slowdown, the Conference Board's newly appointed chief economist said. The US economy
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon No BOJ governor for now, but no policy vacuum either: Tokyo
      649 13  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY Analysts, however, say monetary policy can't easily respond to looming crisis By in Tokyo JAPANESE government officials sought to shore up confidence yesterday as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) moved into its second day without a formally
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      Lock icon Citigroup cuts 2,000 more jobs in securities division
      324 13 Bloomberg ;NEW YORK] Citigroup will 3ut 2,000 more trading and investment-banking obs as the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market puts the biggest US bank on track for its second-straight quarterly loss. The reductions are in addition to about 4,000 disclosed in
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      Lock icon Ecclestone says Australia likely to lose Formula One after 2010
      510 13 Bloomberg [SEPANG] Australia is likely to lose its Grand Prix after 2010 because it won't stage the race at night, Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One's chief executive officer, said yesterday. Victoria state officials have ruled out switching the unprofitable Grand Prix
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      Lock icon Commodity prices slide from recent peaks
      729 13 Reuters But analysts say the sector is just down, not out [CHICAGO] Commodities have not been immune to the nerve-rattling gyrations in world financial markets as investors brace for more meltdowns on Wall Street and wonder if the Federal Reserve can restore confidence. With
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      Lock icon Barnes & Noble may consider buying Borders
      363 13 Barnes Noble may consider buying Borders Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Barnes Noble, the largest US bookstore chain, said it may consider buying Borders Group. Borders, the second-big-gest bookstore chain, said on Thursday that it might sell itself after running short of cash to quell mar-ket-share losses to WalMart Stores and online
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      Lock icon Murdoch sets sights on Newsday
      541 13 LAT Tribune may sell to pare down debt incurred in buyout [NEW YORK] At a time when newspapers' fortunes are tanking, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is stocking up on them. The media giant, which last year bought Dow Jones Co, parent of The Wall Street
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Wall St investment firms borrow big money from Fed
      605 14 ■AP.NYT They averaged USsl3.4b in daily borrowing over the past week [WASHINGTON] Big Wall Street investment companies are taking advantage of the Federal Reserve's unprecedented offer to secure emergency loans, the central bank reported on Thursday. The lending is part of
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      Lock icon Gates Foundation to sell 550,000 Berkshire shares
      239 14 AP [SEATTLE] The BiU Melinda Gates Foundation's trust will sell more than half of its nearly one million shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to comply with federal tax rules, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Thursday. Berkshire Hathaway, owned by
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      Lock icon Confidence crisis, not cash crunch, felled Bear: SEC
      368 14 Bloomberg Investor confidence eroded by rumours of lack of capital [WASHINGTON] Christopher Cox, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, said a "crisis of confidence" triggered Bear Steams' forced sale to JPMorgan Chase Co. "The fate of Bear Steams was the
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      Lock icon PASSION WORTH MILLIONS
      57 14 BLOOMBERG [NEW YORK] A digital copy of 'he Baser' (The Kiss) by Pablo Picasso, 1969, shown in an undated handout image released to the media this month. 'The Kiss' will be auctioned for as much as US$l5 million by Sotheby's New York in May to raise money
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      Lock icon Verizon, AT&T sweep US airwaves auction
      505 14 Reuters They are now better placed to offer new wireless services [WASHINGTON] Verizon Communications and AT&T, the two largest US mobile phone companies, grabbed the lion's share of a U5519.12 billion auction of airwaves being vacated by television broadcasters. Verizon and AT&T won more
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      Lock icon Bain Capital stops bid to acquire 3Com, citing security concerns
      343 14 -AP [WASHINGTON] Bain Capital Partners has ended efforts to buy 3Com. It said on Thursday that national security concerns ultimately stood in the way of its offer, with a Chinese partner, to buy the network-equipment maker. The Boston-based private-equity firm
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  • MOTORING
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      Lock icon The new black
      492 15  -  SAMUEL EE S is the letter which sets the Maserati Quattroporte Automatic Sport GT S apart. finds out more APART from the exterior colour, buying a Maserati Quattroporte usually involves only one major decision whether to choose the automatic transmission or the clutchless manual Duo Select gearbox.
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      Lock icon Beautiful beast
      556 15  -  SAMUEL EE By THE Ferrari of motorcycles is going to have a new beginning in Singapore. Superbike maker MV Agusta will be represented by an Italian sports car distributor here and its latest model may make an appearance at next month's Bike Asia exhibition. TheRR 312 is the
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      Lock icon F people get into the mood
      865 15  -  SAMUEL EE F1 WATCH No longer just guests at the M'sian GP, S'poreans now belong to the F1 club By was stopped at the Causeway on I my way to Kuala Lumpur yesterI day. No, I wasn't limping and I I didn't look like
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  • GOLF
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      Lock icon The swelling Thai contingent
      1330 16 nfluence of veterans and increasing number of courses, events and programmes help grow Thailand's pool of talent, says JUSTINE MOSS PUT it down to talent, facilities, opportunity, a thriving golf development programme, or maybe something in the water? Whatever the reason, there's no disputing the fact
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  • WELLNESS
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      Lock icon Sorting the beauty from the beasts
      838 17 Some cosmetic treatments have a more solid scientific basis than others and are backed by clinical evidence of their effectiveness, reports CHEAH UI-HOON YEN as the crackdown begins on aesthetic treatments that are controversial and unproven, one might wonder which treatments have a scientific
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      Lock icon When happiness hurts one and all
      970 17 Bipolar disorder leads to mood swings that can be extremely disruptive to life, reports MELISSA HENG HAPPINESS is a state that all of us aspire to, but unaccounted bouts of happiness or euphoria isn't normal and may be a warning sign that something's not
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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      332 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 6 Use deception to get univer--1 Best of French achievement sity place (4) (6) 7 An award for record 4 When darkening skies are achievement (6) tinged with gilt anew? (8) 8 Gift vouchers all right in 9 Keen insight shown by a smaller packs of cigarettes?
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  • SHOPPING
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      Lock icon Live in style with these replicas
      915 18 SINGAPOREANS may not have jumped onto the bandwagon of the nontitled nouveau riche who are buying up castles in Europe. But now, they can buy the furniture from such castles or at least, high-priced replicas of it. American company Baker Furniture is the latest
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      Lock icon Boudoir touch adds glamour to lingerie shop
      395 18  -  CHEAH UI-HOON By THE lingerie market got a boost here a few years ago with the introduction of specialty lingerie stores and multibrand stores that carry American and European labels. Now, another player plans to upsize luxury underwear's offerings, with a dedicated concept
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      Lock icon Several 'firsts' at S'pore fashion fest
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