The Business Times, 2 May 2007

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  • 22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Wednesday, May 2,2007
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  • 686 1  -  Maximum to minimum salary ratio could be brought down to 1.5 By MATTHEW PHAN [SINGAPORE] People doing similar jobs should expect to be paid similarly, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday at the National Trades Union Congress May Day Rally.
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  • 791 1  -  More foreign firms may add to growth of local companies By ROLAND LIM [SINGAPORE] From being a big consumer of digital media from animated films and computer games to music Singapore is about to turn into a big producer too. A dozen more foreign
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  • 186 1 Reuters Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Dow Jones Co, owner of the Wall Street Journal, said Rupert Murdoch's News Corp made an unsolicited offer to buy the company for about US$5 billion. Dow Jones board and trustees of the Bancroft family, who hold the
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    • 5 1 CORPORATE EARNINGS TheQl scorecard PAGES
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    • 33 1 (Si FOOTBALL CLUB Thaksin makes takeover proposal to Manchester City page 3 *****11 l 8 "*****1 *****4 M«rfc«tf Dlgtft Ptflt 3 Wong Partnership to set up office in Qatar by June page 2
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    • 120 1 EXEC MONEY How to structure a retirement portfolio PAGE 28 BUILDING BOOM rooms in \fegas .1 I Invenit rt Fecit invented and made Hie motto of a contemporary watchmaker building his own history. |yjr« BET] l^Lr^ IriyenHeifecH T ■m JMr IS Bit'- urn *^V H I Urn '<& AyMr W
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 525 2  -  It'll be first S'pore law firm with presence in the Middle East country By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] Wong Partnership will be the first Singapore law firm to have a presence in Qatar it received its licence this week to operate
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    • 416 2 Thaksin makes bid for Manchester City FORMER Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has made a takeover proposal to soccer club Manchester City, which is seeking fresh investment to better compete with rivals in the English premier league. Dr Thaksin's advisers will examine the club's accounts before reporting back
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    • 284 3 Wearing neckties a health risk to patients, they say AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian doctors want to be free of encumbrances around their necks. Not their stethoscopes, but neckties. The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has asked the Health Ministry to
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    • 586 3 Accountants to complete due diligence; offer may be worth £100m Reuters AFP Bloomberg [LONDON] Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has made a takeover proposal to soccer ciub Manchester City, which is seeking fresh investment to better compete with rivals in the English premier
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    • 145 3 BT ONLINE BT print subscribers get free access to the Business Times Online. To activate your account, log on to http://business-times. asial .com.sg. For more information, e-mail btocs@sph.com.sg or call 6388-3838. MARKETS Tuesday Change KLCOMP dosed r NIKKEI 225 17.***** -125.43 HANGSENG SET INDEX Closed r JAKARTACOVP 2,001.18
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 675 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By VEN SREENIVASAN People who look to numerology for their fortunes generally believe that "8" is a lucky number. Many spend thousands of dollars ensuring that they are associated with this numeral, be it for car registration plates, properties
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    • 168 4 MAPLETREE Logistics Trust has signed a conditional deal to buy a Hong Kong commercial property for about HK$7BO million, orSslsl million. The acquisition, which is expected to be completed by June next year, is yield-accretive and has a pro forma effect on MapletreeLog's distribution
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    • 678 4  -  Reit listings here expected to rise in next 12 months By MATTHEW PHAN IF you think Singapore's real estate investment trust (Reit) sector has reached its full potential, think again. Though the'local market can rightly claim to be Asia's most developed, it
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    • 637 4  -  By JANICE HENG AMARA Holdings softlaunched its first resort development, Amara Sanctuary Resort, in Sentosa this week. Although Amara Sanctuary is located next to Genting International's Resorts World, Amara's chief executive officer Albert Teo says that the company does not fear competition from
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    • 1020 5  -  Not all China firms shine; IT firms hit by chip, handphone price slump By SIOW LI SEN PROPERTY companies and real estate investment trusts (Reits), among the early birds to report first quarter 2007 earnings, have done very well amid strong demand. China
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    • 392 6 Eclipse: noun 7. Falling into obscurity or decline, 2. (To be greater or better than) top, best, exceed, excel, outdo, transcend, surpass, outstrip, overshadow, outshine. Innovate or be eclipsed. Step into IBM's world of innovation. For 13 years running, IBM has been the company with the most U.S. patents. Innovation
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 677 7  -  SG Private Banking to boost its global India business By NANDE KHIN THE rise of wealthy Indians means big business for SG Private Banking. The private wealth management arm of the Societe Generale (SG) group expects its global Indian business which is headquartered in
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    • 500 7  -  Matter discussed at think-tank meeting last month, but no decision taken yet By ANNA TEO THE Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), which turns 20 this year, may mark the milestone with a major status change: it could become part of the Lee
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 267 8 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's dominant power firm, Tenaga Nasional Bhd, has agreed to sell its Indonesian coal mine, marking its departure from the coal-min-ing sector in the neighbouring country, the firm said on Monday. Tenaga said in a statement TNB Coal International Bhd's subsidiary,
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    • 340 8 Net profit reaches almost 3 trillion rupiah despite competition Reuters [JAKAßTA] Indonesia's largest mobile phone operator, PT Telekomunikasi Selular Tbk (Telkomsel), reported yesterday an 8 per cent rise in first-quarter net profit, driven by a rise in subscriber numbers. Indonesia's largest telecommunications
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    • 214 8 AFP [JAKARTA] Two South Korean companies signed an agreement with an Indonesian state firm on Monday to build a railway line in Borneo in a deal worth US$1 billion, a report here said. South Korea's Posco and Canatect Ltd signed a memorandum
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    • 337 8 JV with Jakarta on 1,200-ha site will have homes, hotels Reuters Bloomberg [DUBAI] Emaar Properties, the largest Arab real estate developer by market value, said on Monday it plans to develop a leisure and residential project in Indonesia at cost of US$6OO million.
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    • 249 8 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday urged the country's workforce to be more competitive and move towards a knowledge-based economy, in comments marking May Day. Mr Abdullah said Malaysia's ability to compete in the face of increasing regional competition
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  • FOCUS: ACCOUNTING METHODS
    • 1418 9  -  New Century may have used gain on sale to hide losses as the subprime market faltered, say analysts By LYNNLEY BROWNING NYT IN the spring of 1998, the chief financial officer of New Century Financial, a lender to home buyers with blemished
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  • FOCUS: CONSTRUCTION
    • 1755 10  -  With 151,000 rooms and still counting, America's gambling capital is in the midst of another big building boom By GARY RIVLIN NYT STEPHEN Wynn, the hotel and gambling impresario, still remembers the first time he was asked if he and other
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 706 11 Top Chinese artist just wants his work kept, appreciated AFP [BEIJING] The soaring demand and skyrocketing prices for Chinese art on world markets have caught many observers flat-footed, none more so than the man at the centre of the phenomenon. "I
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    • 284 11 Reuters [SINGAPORE] The Shanghai stock exchange is in talks with HSBC and other high-profile foreign firms to list their shares in mainland China, as part of its strategy to revive the recently moribund bourse, The Financial Times reported yesterday. The exchange has
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    • 450 11 Growth in casino sector attracting property investors AFP [MACAU] The Manhattan, a high-rise complex a stone's throw from Macau's glitzy new casino district, is something of a rarity as it prepares to throw open its doors to well-heeled residents this month. For a
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    • 381 11 It could be biggest IPO for a Chinese Net company, valuing it at over US$4b NYT [SHANGHAI] Alibaba.com, China's leading e-commerce company, is planning to go public later this year in what could be the biggest initial public offering ever for a Chinese
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    • 441 11 and benefits BANK OF CHINA < "<>NO kono Based in Hong Kong Bank of China (Hong Kong) is a leading commercial banking group in Hong Kong in terms of assets and customer deposits. With approximately 290 jH branches, more than 400 ATMs and other delivery channels in Hong Kong. BOCHK
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 359 12 AFP [WASHINGTON] China and Russia are among the worst global offenders in failing to crack down on rampant piracy of US patents and copyrights, an annual US government report charged on Monday. The annual scorecard, known as the Special 301 report for the
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    • 605 12  -  Yen 'carry trades' and other activities seen as potentially destabilising By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPAN'S Financial Services Agency (FSA) said yesterday that it will tighten monitoring of hedge funds operating in the country, in response to growing concerns that their activities could destabilise
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    • 518 12 Reuters Bloomberg (CARACAS] Venezuela will withdraw from the Wash-ington-based lending organisations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, in a symbolic move that distances leftist President Hugo Chavez from much of the international economic community. Mr Chavez, who plans to create
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  • INDIA
    • 601 13  -  US$30b investment likely in 5-7 years as foreign giants enter the market: report By By SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA in New Delhi SHOPPING in India is galloping into the 21st century and is likely to generate US$43O billion a year up from
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    • 834 13 Reuters [MUMBAI] Ajay Arora has dreafmed of owning an Ambassador car ever since he backed his father's into the garage wall when he was eight years old. Earlier this month, Mr Arora bought one of his own, white like the
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    • 246 13 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, India's biggest pension fund, posted a 7 per cent increase in assets in the nine months ended Dec 31, 2006, Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said. Assets managed by the pension fund rose to 967.7 billion rupees
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    • 423 13 Great scope for Syariah-compliant investments: study Economic Times [MUMBAI] The Indian stock market may have been likened to a casino and a den of vice by some, but Shariq Nisar begs to differ. According to Mr Nisar, an economist and expert in
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    • 405 13 Government checks preference shares route [NEW DELHI] India's Finance Ministry yesterday clamped down on India Inc's plans for raising foreign money through preference shares, according to a Business Standard report. The Department of Economic Affairs announced that beginning May 1, all foreign investment
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  • MIDDLE EAST
    • 664 14 Asian ministers may also ask Opec to reverse output cuts to help lower prices Reuters [DUBAI] Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers will seek to reassure Asian consumers over supply when they meet today for informal talks just days after Riyadh
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    • 299 14 Bloomberg [Dubai] Dubai International Capital, a buyout company owned by the emirate's ruling sheikh, agreed to buy Mauser from a unit of JPMorgan Chase Co to gain a European packaging maker that plans to expand into Asia. The sale values Mauser at 850
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    • 305 14 LATWP [DUBAI] This Westernfriendly tourism boomtown is building its own version of a Hollywood backlot using a familiar name. Tatweer, a United Arab Emirates developer, announced plans to develop a US$2.2 billion theme park called "Universal City Dubailand" under a licensing agreement with NBC
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    • 400 14 Saudi mining firm Ma'aden will hold 51% stake in JV Reuters [MONTREAL] Canada's Alcan will develop a US$7 billion project to build, with Saudi Arabian mining company Ma'aden, what would be one of the largest integrated aluminium-making operations in the world. Alcan, the
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    • 1360 14 PT BERLIAN LAJU TANKER Tbk ®t, (The "Company") Domiciled in Jakarta, Indonesia Business Line: Seaborne Transportation Services Head Office: Wisma BSG, 10th Floor Jl. Abdul Muis No. 40, Jakarta ***** Indonesia Tel. (021) *****300 Fax. (021) *****390, *****88 homepage: http://www.blt.co.id e-mail: investor@blt.co.id NOTICE TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 263 15 Reuters [BANGKOK] About 1,500 amendments and objections raised by Chinese officials risk bogging down UN talks on fighting climate change, a senior delegate at the meeting here said. Scientists and government officials from more than 100 countries are reviewing a 24-page draft summary for
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    • 725 15 Washington cites Bangkok's move to locally license US patented drugs By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THAILAND'S insistence on licensing locally made versions of various drugs has led to the United Staes putting the country back on its "Priority Watch List" relating to
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    • 522 15 [EDINBURGH] Tony Blair yesterday endorsed long-standing Finance Minister Gordon Brown as Britain's next leader and said he would announce next week when he was stepping aside as prime minister. Ten years after the landslide election win that swept Labour to power, Mr Blair
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    • 435 15 AFP AP [LONDON] John Browne, chief executive of British energy giant BP, unexpectedly resigned yesterday after a newspaper group won a legal battle to publish details of his relationship with another man. Mr Browne (right) had been due to retire
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    • 495 15 March data signals property slump may persist Bloomberg Reuters AP [WASHINGTON! An index of pending sales of existing homes in the US unexpectedly fell to the lowest level in four years in March, signalling the real-estate slump may linger as prospective buyers
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    • 370 15 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Global microchip sales rose one per cent in March, reversing three straight months of declines but coming up short of expectations for the year so far due to falling prices, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on Monday. March sales were
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    • 741 15 CATS NOTICES THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF MKC INVESTMENT PTE LTD CO REG NO: *****0838 C MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP At an Extraordinary General Meeting of MKC Investment Pie ltd convened and held at 4 Nim Drive Singapore *****8 on 25 April 2007, the following
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  • WORLD
    • 76 16 [LONDON] British supermodel Kate Moss (right) wearing a creation from her new clothing range in a window of the Topshop store in Oxford Street on Monday. Her first Kate Moss Topshop fashion collection was officially launched at billionaire Philip Green's 225 UK Topshop stores yesterday.
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    • 696 16 German bourse seals US$2.8b deal with 2nd-largest US options exchange AP [NEW YORK] With stock options trading now one of the world's fastest growing markets, Deutsche Boerse's pact to buy International Securities Exchange Holdings (ISE) for US$2.B billion could lead to
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    • 396 16 Unfriendly bids could create problems for financial stability: official Reuters [FRANKFURT] A hostile takeover of a major German bank would pose potential dangers for financial stability, the Deutsche Bundesbank's top official responsible for banking supervision said. Edgar Meister, who stepped down from the Bundesbank's board
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    • 446 16 TAKEOVER OF ABN AMRO Bloomberg Reuters [AMSTERDAM] ABN Amro Holding has asked a group led by Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) for details on its proposed offer for the largest Dutch bank. Royal Bank, Santander Central Hispano and Fortis said
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    • 306 16 Bloomberg [ROME] Italy's largest oil company Eni has agreed to buy Dominion Resources' exploration and production properties in the Gulf of Mexico for US$4.B billion. The purchase will boost Eni's production in the Gulf to 110,000 barrels of oil equivalent a
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    • 659 16 Bank of America, RBS want LaSalle to grow in US Midwest NYT [NEW YORK] Like deep-dish pizza, the Cubs and a mayor named Daley, LaSalle Bank has long been a Chicago institution. But until a few weeks ago, few would have called
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  • MOTORING
    • 589 17  -  New Sprinter van to be launched tomorrow is exceptionally versatile. SAMUEL EE reports SAMUEL EE SALES of the Merce-des-Benz Sprinter are expected to treble following the launch tomorrow of a new model with a wider range of variants. The new Sprinter
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    • 527 17  -  By SAMUEL EE TWO China car brands is enough for Singapore and the group behind the Chery and Hafei marques here says it will look towards Europe next if the opportunity to expand its business arises. Last July, Vertex Automobile Pte Ltd launched
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
    • 481 18 Airlines can now fly from any EU city to any US city, and vice versa Reuters [WASHINGTON] The United States and the European Union signed a landmark air services agreement on Monday, opening up transatlantic markets to more competition beginning next year.
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    • 251 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Rates to transport crude oil in the Caribbean basin rose on fewer available ships following two days of no change last week. Bruce Kahler, a shipbroker at Lone Star, RS Platou in Houston, said on April 27 that there
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    • 412 18 AFP [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines said on Monday that it has emerged from bankruptcy protection, after a 19month reorganisation to help get past the long crisis in the US airline industry. "This is a great day in Delta's history a day that would not
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    • 447 19 Indonesia's largest coal transporter banks on increase in power plants Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Arpeni Pratama Ocean Line, Indonesia's largest coal transporter, plans to spend as much as US$35O million to buy ships, as construction of power plants boosts demand for the fuel in South-east
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    • 454 19 Reuters [ROME] Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and partners have earmarked 5 billion euros (5510.4 billion) to buy Alitalia, Italian newspaper La Stampa reported on Monday while Russia reiterated support for a rival bid from Aeroflot. The newspaper reported on Monday that TPG and its
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    • 234 19 Reuters [HOUSTON] The container shipping sector is expected to face strong challenges in the next two to three years as ship supply overwhelms demand, the head of the world's second-largest container shipping company said on Monday. "Shipping rates are pressured by the high
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    • 342 19 Reuters [KARACHI] Pakistan on Monday inaugurated a new container security project for exports to the United States, which officials said would reduce the risk of terrorism and increase the flow of trade between the two countries. They said the International
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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    • 270 19 SOUTH EAST ASIA AND SOUTH ASIA AUSTRALIA TRADE FACILITATION AGREEMENT NOTICE TO TRADE BUNKER ADJUSTMENT FACTOR (BAF) Arising from the regular review of bunker prices, the following Lines in the South East Asia and South Asia Australia Trade Facilitation Agreement wish to inform the trade that with effect from 1
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    • 98 19 II Ship Registration International Ship Registries (ISR) provides fast efficient service for registration licensing of wfi ships under various flags. I Ship Classification International Ship Classification (IS Class) is an independent organization providing classification vy services for newbuildings existing vessels as well as statutory surveys certification on behalf of flag
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 525 20 EDITORIAL DIPLOMACY seems to have taken on new importance for Japan under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and it is in this arena, rather than in domestic politics, that he is demonstrating leadership. Mr Abe has made relationship-boosting overtures towards China and South Korea and alliance-boosting efforts in
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    • 931 20  -  Decades-old maritime border disputes in the region stand in the way of energy exploration By NEIL CHATTERJEE HIGH oil prices and dwindling output may not be enough to get Asian governments to resolve decades-old maritime border disputes any time soon.
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    • 807 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE NEIL BEHRMANN London Correspondent FOUR years ago, Warren Buffett warned that the surge in derivatives trade was an investment "time bomb". Despite his warnings, the derivatives market has exploded. Several scares, including the hedge fund Amaranth's losses of almost
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    • 1275 21  -  It has less to do with fertile plantations and rich mineral resources, and more to do with investing in human capital By TONY PUA AS AN economics enthusiast, I've often been asked: "What determines the size of an economy?" Is it dependent on rubber and
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    • 818 21  -  By STEVE JAMES Reuters TWO US mining giants won battles over their reputations recently in the industry's balancing act between profits and sensitivity to the environment and communities in developing countries. Newmont Mining Corp and a senior executive were acquitted of criminal
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