The Business Times, 8 February 2016

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  • Title Section
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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES www. usinesstimes.com.sg MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016 S$1.00 MCI (P) 039/08/2015
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon More red ink than red packets
    606 1  -  At least 31 profit warnings posted by S’pore-listed companies since the start of the year By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore THIS is not the red investors are looking for in the lead-up to Chinese New Year, there have been so many profit warnings
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  • Article
    Lock icon MBS, RWS all set for Chinese New Year
    695 1  -  By Grace So graceso@sph.com.sg Singapore WITH the arrival of Chinese New Year (CNY), Marina Bay Sands (MBS) and Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) are ready to usher in one of the busiest periods of the year for the two integrated resorts (IRs). The
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon US jobs report warns of end to bull market
      1012 2  -  Economy faces struggle amid rock-bottom oil prices and sky-high US dollar valuation WALL STREET INSIGHT By Rob Curran btworld@sph.com.sg FRIDAY’S jobs report dragged down stocks for another weekly loss and hinted that the US economic expansion and bull market may be
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      Lock icon US, Hong Kong, UK top relocation spots for S’pore workers in 2015
      485 3  -  UK replaces China in top three; relocations to European countries rise: Cartus survey By Vivien Shiao Shufen vshiao@sph.com.sg @VivienShiaoBT Singapore THE top three countries that Singapore employees were relocated to last year were the United States, Hong Kong
      Source: Cartus  -  485 words
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      Lock icon CNY essentials see drop in prices this year
      792 4  -  This year’s drop in The Business Times Fa Cai Index is driven mostly by a steep fall in abalone prices By Grace So graceso@sph.com.sg Singapore ALTHOUGH they have risen steadily over the past six years, Chinese New Year (CNY) food prices have
      PHOTO: ARTHUR LEE; Source: Compiled by BT from Bloomberg, retailers, Straits Times newspaper ads  -  792 words
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      Lock icon No monkey business, please
      750 5  -  CNY SOAPBOX By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore THEY’VE been popularised as emojis with the advent of smartphones, but where do the three wise monkeys who exhort us to see no evil, speak no evil, and hear no evil come from? In the Year of the
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    • Article
      Lock icon February a good month for DBS staff
      619 5  -  By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore FEBRUARY is turning out to be a pretty good month for DBS Bank staff. They got their salaries credited on Li Chun, an auspicious day this month, and can expect reasonably good bonuses to be paid
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      Lock icon Malaysia must brace itself for a tumultuous Year of the Fire Monkey
      993 6  -  The economy and ringgit’s performance will be instrumental to how PM Najib rides out the year By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur THIS Chinese new year is the Year of the Fire Monkey and if fortune-tellers and soothsayers
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      Lock icon Money has too big a voice in politics of advance economies: OECD report
      732 7  -  As a result, people increasingly feel that democracy is not working in their favour By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo MONEY is having too much influence on politics in many of the world's economically-advanced nations, the Organisation for
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  • FOCUS
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Much to savour in a testing monkey year
      722 8 / 9  -  This Chinese New Year, we see the festivities through the eyes of a novice photojournalist and a veteran. What CNY means to us is portrayed in the kinds of people, decor and scenes we choose to photograph. By Arthur Lee IT’S the
      PHOTOS BY ARTHUR LEE AND LAURA NG  -  722 words
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Looking out for Mr Right as Singapore law firm cruises
      1049 10  -  TSMP eyes high-end litigation and arbitration as S’pore positions itself as dispute resolution hub. TOPLINE By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT WITH a pedigree like TSMP’s, one could be forgiven for wondering why the law firm is left on the shelf
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      Lock icon Singapore stock market relatively undervalued
      809 11  -  Recent tumble raises its long-term prospects, according to CAPE analysis By Neil Behrmann btworld@sph.com.sg London SINGAPORE is relatively undervalued compared with other global stock markets, despite present vicious short term gyrations. Researching global cyclically adjusted price earnings (CAPE) ratios, Norbert Keimling, head of Capital Market
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    • Article
      Lock icon Buying stays low; no selling by directors
      1812 12  -  Buyback activity plunges for second straight week as construction and property plays dominate the trading INSIDE MARKETS By Robert Halili ~The writer is managing director, Asia Insider Limited THE buying was low for the second straight week with 10 companies recording 23 purchases
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    • Article
      Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
      193 13 Feb-5 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Feb-5 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 867.50 -7.00 -0.80% 14/03/2016 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 31.23 -0.01 -0.03% 14/03/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 466.75 -6.00 -1.27% 14/03/2016 Feb-5 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 1990.00 21.00 1.07% 14/03/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1427.00 -8.00 -0.56%
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    • Article
      Lock icon PALM OIL
      57 13 Feb 5 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Feb 16 2490.0 2497.0 2520.0 2478.0 403 3116 Mar 16 2493.0 2523.0 2547.0 2493.0 3017 ***** Apr 16 2540.0 2580.0 2604.0 2534.0 ***** ***** May 16 2528.0 2571.0
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      Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
      67 13 Feb 5 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0F 1.375 01-Oct-17 100.54 100.55 100.55 5-Year NX*****X 2.250 01-Jun-21 102.07 102.18 102.05 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 101.82 101.95 101.88 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 103.82 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 110.77 110.90 110.80
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      Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
      155 13 Feb 5 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0030 1.0038 0.7176 0.7181 Canadian dollar 1.0172 1.0178 0.7281 0.7278 Euro 1.5649 1.5656 1.1196 1.1200 NZ dollar 0.9356 0.9363 0.6694 0.6698 Sterling pound 2.0306 2.0317 1.4528 1.4534
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      Lock icon STOCK MARKETS
      109 13 Straits Times Index Source: Bloomberg YTD change: -9.00% 52-week high: 3,539.95 on April 15,2015 52-week low: 2,532.70 on Jan 21,2016 Source: Bloomberg Hang Seng Index Source: Bloomberg YTD change: -11.98% 52-week high: 28,442.75 on April 28,2015 52-week low: 18,542.15 on Jan 21,2016 Source: Bloomberg Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite
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      Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
      206 13 Most active Feb 5 Prem Expiry Last Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left Secura Group W*****5 2.4 0.1 ***** 1 35 66 9.38 35 DBS MB eCW*****4 15 1 6420 0.1 1360 8 KepCorp MB eCW*****1 7.4 0.3 6331 0.2
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      Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INT’L INDICES
      377 13 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Feb 5 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1167.3 -1.4 -8.6 -0.8 -9.1 -1.5 -8.3 EAFE Preliminary 915.6 -0.8 -9.6 -0.4 -9.6 -1.1 -8.7 Europe Preliminary 1282.5 -0.8 -9.2
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      227 11 Continue to enjoy your news on the 2nd Day ofLunar New Year 9 2016 o o The New Paper, Shin Min Daily News and Lianhe Wanbao are available at selected 7-Eleven, Cheers and petrol stations. Also available at all Buzz convenience stores: BUS INTERCHANGE: Bishan Boon Lay Bukit Batok Bukit
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon What is the answer to the old ‘rent or buy?’
      807 14  -  The only good reason to buy a house is if you really want to own your dwelling By Noah Smith The writer is an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University and a freelance writer for finance and business
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      Lock icon Canadian love affair with Manhattan real estate seen unabated
      493 14 Investment from Canada quadruples to hit record in 2015 Reuters Montreal CANADIAN investment in the Manhattan commercial property market is expected to stay strong this year after quadrupling to hit a record in 2015, real estate specialists said. Canadians accounted for
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      Lock icon Renters are buying again as US financing for homes becomes cheaper
      994 15 FHA loans have become cheaper after insurance premiums were cut last year, giving a lift to US home ownership rate Bloomberg Boston ERIN Maude returned to homeownership in December, three years after losing her condo in the US foreclosure
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
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      Lock icon The rush for gold ETFs
      699 16  -  Beyond the widely traded SPDR Gold Shares, there are a clutch of other gold exchange-traded funds for the paranoid By Eric Balchunas Eric Balchunas is an exchange-traded-fund analyst at Bloomberg YOU can learn a lot about an investor from whether they invest in gold, and
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      Lock icon China: Yuan stable against basket in January
      523 17 Two out of three RMB exchange rate indices were slightly above 100 showing stability against other currencies ON Jan 29, 2016, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) RMB (renminbi) exchange rate index closed at 100.15, depreciating 0.78 per cent from the end
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    • Article
      Lock icon Line up your values with your spending
      574 17  -  By Suzanne Woolley Bloomberg KEEP your spending mindful and your savings mindless. That’s one key bit of financial advice for millennials from Karen Carr, a 27-year-old certified financial planner with Society of Grownups, a personal finance education and planning company based in Brookline,
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      105 16 GET STARTED NOW Be a young investor Do you aspire to be a successful young investor? Are you keen on taking the first step towards achieving that? The BT-Citibank Young Investors’ Forum is no typical page extracted from a financial textbook. This forum will present step-by-step guides on how to
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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      Lock icon Blue skies for Indonesian bonds as investors wager on yields
      708 18 Relatively stable currency and restrained inflation are seen as pluses Reuters Singapore INDONESIA’S bond market is drawing a rush of foreign capital as a rare combination of the country’s high yields, low inflation and a stable currency promises growth-starved global
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      Lock icon Seoul plans to tighten rules as losses on ELS products mount
      738 18 Bloomberg Seoul ASHLEY Park, a 45-year-old South Korean teacher, says a completed questionnaire and a 90-minute interview weren’t enough to get the message across to her bank that she wanted a safe investment. She ended up losing 30 per
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      Lock icon US banks targeted by activist investors
      923 19 They bet that low interest rates, lagging returns and tough rules will propel mergers Reuters New York ACTIVIST investors are putting the US banking sector in their crosshairs, betting that headwinds whipping through the industry will accelerate consolidation among lenders. While these activist hedge
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      Lock icon The rich are already using robo-advisers, and that scares banks
      460 19 Bloomberg New York BANKS are watching wealthy clients flirt with robo-advisers, and that’s one reason the lenders are racing to release their own versions of the automated investing technology this year, according to a consultant. Millennials and small investors aren’t
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon Battle of oil benchmarks upends crude flows
      813 20 Increased volatility in spreads is expected to intensify price war among producers as they compete for market share Bloomberg Singapore THE oil tanker Tofteviken is set to sail from the UK this month carrying the first shipment of North Sea Ekofisk crude to
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      Lock icon China cracks down on illegal GM crops ahead of deal with Syngenta
      527 20 Reuters Beijing CHINESE officials have issued warnings to seed dealers and farmers not to use unapproved genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country’s main crop belt, shortly after Greenpeace said it had found widespread GM contamination in corn.
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon US firms on thin ice over Europe privacy laws
      586 21 Google, Facebook likely to be the first targets in any regulatory crackdown Reuters Frankfurt THE free flow of data across the Atlantic, the lifeblood of modern business dealings, faces an uncertain future, despite a belated, high-level deal between European and US
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      Lock icon Revolutionising the aviation industry in the information age
      967 21  -  IT SAY By Andrew Seow ~The writer is Rockwell Collins’ Regional Director, Global Airports, Asia Pacific, Information Management Services ACCORDING to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), aviation industry revenue has doubled over the past decade, from US$369 billion in 2004 to
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
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      Lock icon Japan in for more foreign direct investment
      880 23  -  Entry of Taiwan group into bidding for control of Sharp points to major changes in Japan’s electronics sector By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo NEGOTIATIONS seen as critical to the future of Japan’s Sharp Corporation and of the country’s ailing electronics industry paused with
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      Lock icon China’s forex reserves decline by US$99.5b in January to US$3.23t
      447 24 Policymakers fighting to hold up weakening yuan have been burning through stockpile Bloomberg Beijing CHINA’S foreign-exchange reserves shrank to the smallest since 2012, indicating that the central bank sold US dollars as the yuan’s drop to a five-year low exacerbated
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      Lock icon China plans to fine-tune monetary policy, keep yuan stable
      373 24 Reuters Bloomberg Beijing CHINA will fine-tune monetary policy and keep the yuan basically stable while guarding against systemic financial risks, the country’s central bank said on Saturday in its fourth-quarter monetary policy report. China will also maintain an appropriate level of
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      Lock icon Risk-takers embrace China white-knuckle ride
      700 25 New cohort of investors is more open to opportunities to make money using futures and options products Reuters Beijing A NEW breed of small investor is riding China’s roller coaster stock markets, looking for a quick buck and thriving on the volatility that has sent
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      Lock icon N Korean rocket puts object into space, angers neighbours, US
      501 25 Reuters Seoul NORTH Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday carrying what it has called a satellite, but its neighbours and Washington denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in defiance of UN sanctions and just weeks after a
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      Lock icon Turnbull is not convinced of GST lift benefit
      457 26 Tax-reform package policies should be those boosting growth, employment: Aussie PM Bloomberg Hong Kong AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he’s yet to be convinced of the benefits of increasing the goods and services tax (GST) unless it boosts economic growth and
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      Lock icon Economy, security woes dent popularity of Canada’s Trudeau
      592 26 AFP Ottawa ONE hundred days after Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government was sworn in, the still-popular Canadian Prime Minister faces mounting criticism, against the backdrop of a floundering economy and terror fears. The 44-year-old Mr Trudeau a former schoolteacher and the son of
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      Lock icon Investors cheer Argentina’s swift offer to holdouts
      569 27 Govt proposes a US$6.5b payment to holders of defaulted bonds to settle the legal battle Reuters Buenos Aires INVESTORS on Saturday praised the speed with which new Argentine President Mauricio Macri made a cash offer to holders of defaulted bonds aimed at ending
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      Lock icon New Twitter police target critics of scandal-hit Najib
      757 27 But detractors say unusual online campaign by official cyber unit is unlikely to work Reuters Kuala Lumpur DIGITALLY savvy Malaysian police have been taking to social media to issue warnings to critics of scandal-hit Prime Minister Najib Razak in an unusual online
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      Lock icon In New Hampshire, wary voters want to go outside the status quo
      1215 28 They’ve swung behind two candidates, attracted by their vague promises to make America great again WP Concord, New Hampshire PETROL is at US$1.76 per gallon in New Hampshire. The nation’s unemployment rate has just hit an eight-year low.
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      Lock icon Top cybercrime ring disrupted as authorities raid Moscow offices: sources
      860 29 The November raid seen as a landmark event by Western cyber-crime watchers Reuters Washington RUSSIAN authorities in November raided offices associated with a Moscow film distribution and production company as part of a crackdown on one of the world’s most
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      Lock icon China’s long and winding new Silk Road
      986 30  -  Analysts say the mega project will be tough to implement and faces many hurdles By Virginie Mangin btworld@sph.com.sg Beijing FOR centuries, the Silk Road which linked Asia to Europe carried Chinese goods and civilisation to the rest of the world. The concept has
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      Lock icon Thailand keeps 2016 outlook but cuts export forecast
      435 30 Reuters Bangkok THAILAND’S economy is set to grow 3-4 per cent this year thanks to fiscal spending, although exports will miss expectations as risks to the global economy increase, the state planning agency chief said on Friday. South-east Asia’s second-larg-est economy has
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      Lock icon US call-centre jobs may be exported under TPP
      1253 31 Pact allows firms to receive same treatment as American businesses when competing for US agency contracts WP Washington AMERICAN call-centre jobs may be one casualty of a pending Pacific trade deal that would allow US federal contract work to be shifted to
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  • TRANSPORT
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      Lock icon Carmakers survive politicians’ backlash
      1048 32 Lobbying ends with narrow margin victory over compromise in European Parliament Reuters Brussels INTENSE lobbying by Europe’s car manufacturers helped to save a compromise that will let them exceed European Union (EU) pollution targets for now, but the narrowness of their victory in the European Parliament
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      Lock icon Portugal, private investors agree to share control of TAP airline
      352 32 Reuters Lisbon THE new Portuguese government and a private consortium that bought a 61 per cent stake in flag carrier TAP last year have agreed in principle to give the state a larger stake and share control of the airline,
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      Lock icon After Piraeus Port, COSCO now eyes Greek trains to build Europe hub
      744 33 Move fits in with China’s “One Belt, One Road” policy of building a modern Silk Road Reuters Shanghai CHINA’S COSCO Group is expected to make an offer for Greece’s rail network after becoming the sole bidder for the
      Reuters; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  744 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Volvo braces for US slowdown as profit lags slightly
      371 33 Reuters Stockholm GLOBAL truck maker Volvo forecast a steeper slowdown in the North American heavy-duty truck market this year and said it would cut production there after posting a slightly smaller than expected rise in fourth quarter earnings. Volvo, a rival
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
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      Lock icon It’s Leicester’s EPL title to lose, surely
      656 36  -  The bookies have installed the ‘Foxes’ as firm favourite to lift the EPL trophy, after they outplay Manchester City By Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg @LeeUwenBT Singapore IT’S hard to believe that, exactly a year ago, Leicester City Football Club was rooted to the bottom
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      Lock icon More Chinese choosing tourism over tradition
      470 36 AFP Beijing WHILE hundreds of millions of his Chinese compatriots pack into planes, trains and automobiles to return to their ancestral homes for the Chinese New Year celebration, Zhang Hao, 30, is getting as far away as he can. “I decided to go abroad
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      317 36 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre (10) 6 Bubbly essential for post-Christmas tipple (4) 9 Doing stunts on high bar, one caught cracking nuts (10) 10 Dishes half smashed? Little reptile! (4) 12 One with equal role upset actors (2-4) 13 Stop meeting professional villain
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