The Business Times, 22 February 2003

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    12 1 MITA (P) 010/03/2002 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE FEBRUARY 22 23, 2003
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    Lock icon China market: Getting pricey, but still hot
    916 1  -  China's political stability seen as big advantage over S-EA, reports AUDREY TAN AUDREY TAN IT may still be the land of the $10 cardigan and the $15 leather bag, but China is no longer just a low-cost competitor for South-east Asia. The manufacturers
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    Lock icon S'pore firms in Myanmar mount a crisis watch
    787 1  -  Their operations not hit yet; one trader to close Yangon outlet From Harish Mehta in Bangkok SINGAPORE companies, the largest investors in Myanmar, are gravely concerned about the banking crisis there, and at least one major Singapore trading firm is shutting its
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      Lock icon Big oil blast off New York
      200 1 Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] A fuel barge caught fire near an oil storage terminal off New York's Staten Island yesterday, triggering a major blaze that spread into one of the city's busiest waterways. The immediate cause of the blaze whether it was the
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      Lock icon SGX delivers decent earnings
      96 1 [SINGAPORE] CEO-designate Hsieh Fu Hua is inheriting a decent set of figures at the Singapore Exchange from his predecessor. The Singapore bourse yesterday posted a 43 per cent rise in interim earnings to $31 million, from $21.7 million a year earlier. SGX, which saw the sudden
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      Lock icon DBS' bottom line improves
      174 1 [SINGAPORE] Meanwhile, another new chief is also getting good results. DBS Group chief executive Jackson Tai, who promised less showmanship and to let the financial numbers do all the talking instead, has delivered a rise in net earnings for Singapore's largest banking group. In fact, the
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      Lock icon Layoffs at National Semiconductor
      167 1  -  by DAVID BOEY [SINGAPORE] One of Singapore's oldest semiconductor plants, National Semiconductor Manufacturer, retrenched just over 50 workers yesterday after its US-based parent spelt out "strategic actions to strengthen profitability". The workers who lost their jobs represent about 3 per cent of its Singapore workforce of
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      Lock icon SGX CEO-designate warns against market excesses
      946 2  -  Hsieh Fu Hua argues that it is organisations grounded in strong values that will survive in the new environment By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] IT'S not the strongest, fittest, fastest or smartest that will outlast others and ultimately survive, but those who adapt to change.
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      Lock icon Who's really at fault when kids misbehave?
      937 2  -  Saturday soapbox It's all too easy to blame the maid when things go wrong, but the buck stops with the parent siow li sen MY elder son was almost a year old when I left Bangkok for a three-week holiday in Hong Kong
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      Lock icon YEN MASTER
      1930 3  -  Mis pronouncements on currency matters sent traders scrambling, while his critique of global institutions cut like a knife. Eisuke Sakakibara. former minister and maverick intellectual, tells ANTHONY ROWLEY just what lie thinks about the IMF. Japan, and other monetary matters ANTHONY ROWLEY FOR a man with the intellectual
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      Lock icon Accommodating China
      539 3 EISUKE ("Mr Yen") Sakakibara agrees that his controversial proposal for an Asian Monetary Fund in 1997 was probably an idea before its time. But, he now admits, it might have come to fruition in 1997 had he only consulted more fully with China. "One of the regrets that
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      62 3 Raffles INTERNATIONAL Hotels A: Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles International Hotels and Resorts The Traveller's Palm in the Raffles International logo is an apt symbol. Not only has water stored at the base of this palm provided sustenance, the leaves rest
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      Lock icon SGX interim profit soars 43% to $31m
      571 4  -  Exchange to hand out gross dividend of 3c a share By Ven Sreenivasan INCOMING Singapore Exchange chief executive Hsieh Fu Hua should probably send his predecessor Tom Kloet a nice "thank you" note. For under Mr Kloet's watch, the company managed to boost
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      Lock icon DBS Group back on an even keel
      973 4  -  CEO Jackson Tai exudes confidence about the group's future from here on, CATHERINE ONG reports news analysis CATHERINE ONG JACKSON Tai, the head of Southeast Asia's largest bank, believes in letting the numbers do the talking. But sometimes he wants you to read
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        Lock icon HK$8b writedown for PCCW
        77 4 TROUBLE isn't over for Richard Li's PCCW Ltd. Hong Kong's dominant telecoms company has had to write down the value of its investment in undersea cable venture, Reach Ltd, by HK$8.26 billion (S$1.84 billion). It will be included in PCCW's soon-to-be-released 2002 results. PCCW's venture partner,
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        Lock icon Allgreen's net profit up 24%
        81 4 ROBERT Kuok's Allgreen Properties posted a 24 per cent rise in net profit to $84.1 million for the year ended Dec 31, 2002. Turnover jumped to $605 million from $332.4 million the previous year. There was an exceptional charge of $65.5 million due to the
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        Lock icon Eastgate expects to be in the red
        39 4 EASTGATE Technology said yesterday it expects to make a net loss for the year ended Dec 31,2002 due to an exceptional item, "being the contribution made to a client" as previously announced.
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        Lock icon Isetan posts sharp fall in earnings
        120 4 RETAILER Isetan (Singapore) Ltd has reported a turnover of $195.9 million for the nine months ended Dec 31, 2002 and a net profit of $1.04 million. The group changed its financial year ended March to December. Hence the results are not comparable to those
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        Lock icon CCL seen doubling profits
        68 4 MERCEDES-BENZ distributor Cycle Carriage is expected to have doubled its earnings in 2002, helped by currency gains at its Indonesian car manufacturing unit, PT Astra International. Singapore-listed CCL could post a full-year net profit of $239 million, from $120.5 million in 2001, according to the average
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        Lock icon China ops lift Tat Seng's sales
        69 4 TAT Seng Packaging's China operations helped lift its half-year turnover to $14.93 million, from $14.5 million the previous year. Higher sales were partially offset by a fall in selling price due to stiff competition. But the corrugated paper packaging manufacturer's interim profit after taxation
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        Lock icon Jaya profits buoyed by shipbuilding
        294 4 SHIPBUILDING continues to be big business for marine group Jaya Holdings, which saw a 13 per cent rise in net earnings to $13 million for the six months to Dec 31, 2002, helped by strong shipbuilding sales. The group's turnover rose 48 per cent to
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        Lock icon Europtronic profit jumps 48%
        245 4 says its profitability for the second half will be even better than the first. Eiiroptrontc profit jumps 48% FILM capacitor-maker Europtronic Group has posted a 48.5 per cent jump in its net profit for the year ended Dec 31. 2002, to 96.8 million, thanks to higher
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        Lock icon Seatown's net loss soars to $72m
        247 4 says its profitability for the second half will be even better than the first. Eiiroptrontc profit jumps 48% FILM capacitor-maker Europtronic Group has posted a 48.5 per cent jump in its net profit for the year ended Dec 31. 2002, to 96.8 million, thanks
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        Lock icon Hwa Hong earnings slip 15%
        246 4 says its profitability for the second half will be even better than the first. Eiiroptrontc profit jumps 48% FILM capacitor-maker Europtronic Group has posted a 48.5 per cent jump in its net profit for the year ended Dec 31. 2002, to 96.8 million, thanks to
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      Lock icon Be sceptical in this poker game
      687 4  -  market review r sivanithy THERE'S a fair bit of poker being played in the stock market at the moment. The players seated at the table are the bulls, the bears and the sceptics. Who wins and who loses depends on the future of Iraq,
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      72 4 ST! 1,315.03 (+2.62) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,310.00 (-6.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 161.50 (-0.30) Friday Change KLSKOIMI' (£449 4I.N3 MKKKI225 WttM 4BM HAM! SENG 9J0UM -l»« Ill IHMU 959.53 -4.N9 JAKARTA OWN' 44R*24 .127 MANILA COMI' .1.015.70 7 53 TAII'KI WP1 .4.54*35 2* »OI!LOa» MM -131 SHKNZHKN B _HM14 174 Al'ST
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      81 4 FOREX RATES US* SS 1 SS(SSperl SS| 1.743 Y(ISS/SS p*T V) 1 592 2.775 Kl RO(l SS/SS/E). |.(INI 1.NN4 TBI I IN4 67.90 KM Mi 2.181 H KS 7 799 4476 BAHT 42.N2 24.57 Kl I1AH NJNI9 5.112 ■MM Ni89 4 763 INDIAN HIEE- 47 7:l_ _f?JI PRIME RATES
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      1123 5  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA looks at the market health of luxury condos here KALPANA RASHIWALA THINKING about buying a top-end home but unsure whether the time is right? With the economic slowdown, a hiatus in home-buying as everyone waits for a war in Iraq, and irresistibly low interest
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      222 5 Terms of endearment, Jennie Chua-styte NOW we know why Jennie Chua, Raffles International president and chief operating officer, won Person of the Year Pacific Asia award from a US travel magazine. The consummate hotelier was in her element, as usual, at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between
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      Lock icon Satisfaction not guaranteed
      1241 6  -  Do not depend entirely on financial advisers when investing in funds, says a chastened Slow u SEN Siow Li SEN RECENTLY I received the 2002 year-end statements from DBS Asset Management and UOB Asset Management. To my dismay, my holdings of 10,101 units of DBS' Eight D
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      Lock icon Providing for a comfortable retired life
      1023 6 WRITE in if you have been given the runaround or are frustrated with your insurer, banker, broker, finance company, financial adviser, etc. Or, perhaps, you are looking for advice for your specific situation? The Business Times will help you get an answer. E-mail your
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      Lock icon Make better choices in life: rank your desires
      43 7 the weighty (getting out of debt) to the Itmtrfoos (a Porsche). Get the whole family involved. Among the goals you may want to include f (jjg givs y <al If you ticked allowance tw lcc^
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      Lock icon Taking the regular savings plan path
      1393 7  -  show me the money Valuations are low now, so it's a good time to start an equities RSP which hedges your bets. teh hooi ling YOU'VE heard this often enough from fund managers: "The best way to invest in the stock market or a
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      Lock icon Contrarian strategy paying off
      749 7  -  By Teh Hooi Ling The contrarian strategies continue to yield exceptional returns three weeks after we constructed our portfolios. The one-year top losers portfolio came out tops, up by 7.5 per cent or $3,746 compared with the initial capital of $50,000. The lowest price-to-book portfolio is
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      Lock icon Wishing for another Budget deficit
      449 8  -  Ernst Young hopes government will use that to finance economic stimulation Ihj. Audrey Tan SINGAPORE can consider running another Budget deficit in the coming fiscal year to finance measures aimed at stimulating the economy and creating more jobs, accountants at Ernst Young said yesterday. Presenting
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      Lock icon Life insurance's tied agency is 'here to stay'
      351 8  -  7th APLIC CONGRESS By Serena Ng THOUGH the market share of tied insurance agents those who sell exclusively for one insurer has fallen significantly over the past few years, the tied agency is here to stay, industry veteran Tan Beng Lee said
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      Lock icon EDB to review growth strategies
      297 8  -  Global advisory panel to lake slock of earlier initiatives Byi Angela Tan THE Economic Development Board (EDB) will meet its panel of 14 international advisers later this month to review its growth strategies, identify opportunities in the "knowledge-driven world economy" and preserve the city-state's edge
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      Lock icon Q4 domestic wholesale trade index up 19%
      251 8  -  trade By Stephanie Yap THE domestic wholesale trade index rose 19.3 per cent year on year in the fourth quarter of 2002, leading to an overall rise of 3.1 per cent for the whole year, compared with 2001. The rise in the fourth
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      Lock icon Reservoirs getting NEWater from yesterday
      481 8  -  2m gallons being pumped each day, 10m by 2011 By Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore yesterday took an important step towards greater self-sufficiency with the official launch of NEWater supply to reservoirs, wafer fabrication parks and commercial hubs. Speaking last night at the NEWater Visitor Centre
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    589 8 Transaction date: Feb 21 MTERBAlfK CURRENCY RATES Against S$ Against US$ Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Btd Offtr Bid Offer Currencies BM Offer Bid Offer Si't'SS to one tacit of foreign currency: SS USS to 100 units of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0436 1.0447 0.5990 0.5995 d0 12 Canadian
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      Lock icon Take a number
      896 9  -  DAVID BOEY finds that while a big crowd is expected for Career 2003, there are fewer jobs at this year's job fair DAVID BOEY N a sign of lean economic times, Ithe number of job openings at the upcoming Career 2003 show, Singapore's largest career and education
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      Lock icon Make the most of your job fair visit
      269 9 RECRUITMENT specialist Laletha Nithiyanandan of Business Trends shares some tips with job hunters: 1. Identify job fair participants. You can usually get a directory or list at the door. Zero in on the organisations or careers that interest you most. 2. Don't
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      265 9 CEO I INVESTMENT BANKING (Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) The Opportunity Wc arc an established and progressive organization with an opening for the Chief Executive Officer position in our investment bank, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Reporting directly to the company's Board of Directors, you will be responsible for driving
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      Lock icon San Miguel chief for president?
      516 10  -  Eduardo Cojuangco is being seen as a possible successor to Gloria Arroyo, reports AL LABITA AL LABITA Homegrown food and beverage giant San Miguel Corp (SMC) has boomed with Eduardo Cojuangco at its helm, and some pundits suggest the tycoon can do the same for
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      Lock icon US-China trade gap hits record
      421 10 Bloomberg Reuters, [WASHINGTON] The US trade deficit with China soared to a record US$lO3.l billion in 2002, the US government said on Thursday, raising the volume of manufacturer calls for Beijing to boost the value of the yuan. The trade gap with China was the
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      Lock icon Cosco Pacific, Hutchison eye Shanghai port
      475 10 They are bidding for a stake in the 100b yuan Yangshan project Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cosco Pacific Ltd, a unit of China's largest shipping company, and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd are among companies planning to bid for a stake in a new port near Shanghai,
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        Lock icon Beijing to set up banking regulator
        148 10 AFP [BEIJING] China is to set up an independent banking regulator in a bid to curb haemorrhaging of the debt-ridden sector, the Asian Wall Street Journal said yesterday. Under the plan, an independent China Banking Regulatory Commission would take over the supervisory functions of
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        Lock icon China to grow 7% this year: PBOC
        67 10 AFP [BEIJING] China's economy is expected to grow about 7 per cent this year, one percentage point lower than the 8 per cent growth in 2002, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said yesterday on its website. China's central bank expects consumer prices
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        Lock icon Telekom denies report on merger
        57 10 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia Bhd, Malaysia's biggest phone company, denied a Reuters report that it will withdraw from a merger of its cellular business with Celcom Malaysia Bhd. The merger "is progressing as planned", said Telekom chief executive Khir Abdul Rahman. "We are committed
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        Lock icon Jakarta to sell stakes in six banks
        86 10 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia has pledged to sell stakes in six major local banks, which together control about half the country's total banking assets, according to a draft of fresh economic reforms agreed with the IMF. Under the draft letter obtained by Reuters yesterday,
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        Lock icon Exclusive rights in Forbidden City
        84 10 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Uni-President Enterprises Co, Taiwan's largest foodmaker, said it has exclusive rights to sell instant noodles and drinks in the Forbidden City (above), former home of China's emperors and one of Beijing's biggest tourist draws. The company, the No 2 instant noodle maker in
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        Lock icon Record losses for Taiwan banks
        79 10 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan said yesterday its 52 domestic banks combined had a record NT5104.6 billion (555.2 billion) of pre-tax losses last year, against the NT557.6 billion profit in 2001, due to active write-offs of bad loans. Smaller private banks were the most profitable, while large
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        Lock icon PCCW to write down Reach value
        70 10 Reuters [HONG KONG) Hong Kong telecoms firm PCCW Ltd said yesterday it would slash about HK$B.3 billion (Ssl.B billion) off the value of its infrastructure joint venture, citing difficult and volatile trading conditions. PCCW will book the onetime loss on its investment in Reach,
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      Lock icon Anti-Iraq force ready to attack: Rumsfeld
      533 11 WAR JITTERS Turkey says it now has 'mutual understanding' in talks with US AFP, Reuters, AP [LONDON] Crude oil prices rebounded yesterday after US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said American forces were ready to attack Iraq if needed, rekindling war worries after a brief
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      Lock icon BOJ head likely to be named next week
      597 11  -  From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is expected to end his cat-and-mouse game with financial markets next week and finally nominate a new governor for the Bank of Japan. The name could even be made known this weekend
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      Lock icon Calpers elects labour leader as new president
      259 11 Reuters [SACRAMENTO, Califor nia] US pension fund Calpers on Thursday elected a state labour leader as its new president who is expected to press ahead with the fund's activist investment strategy and agenda for social change. The 13-member board of the California Public
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        Lock icon GE to change way it calculates salaries of top execs
        86 11 Reuters [NEW YORK] General Electric Co has agreed to change the way it determines senior executive pay to exclude the effect of any income generated by the company pension plan, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. GE now calculates top
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        Lock icon DaimlerChrysler hikes CEO's pay
        61 11 Bloomberg [STUTTGART, Germany] DaimlerChrysler AG more than doubled the pay of CEO Juergen Schrempp, Chrysler head Dieter Zetsche and other board members last year as it returned to profit. The carmaker paid the 13-member management board 50.8 million euros (5595.7 million) last year compared with 22
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        Lock icon Merrill settles Enron questions
        65 11 Reuters [NEW YORK] Merrill Lynch Co will pay US$BO million to settle a regulatory investigation into two 1999 transactions with failed energy trader Enron Corp. At issue is a US$7 million deal between Enron and Merrill Lynch related to power-generating barges in Nigeria, and a series
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        Lock icon EU calls for redraft of farm plan
        84 11 Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European Commission won backing from the EU's 15 member states on Thursday in calling for a plan to cut International farm barriers to be redrafted, saying the current version was unfair to the Third World. Earlier this month, the chief
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        Lock icon New Passat late next year
        99 12 VOLKSWAGEN plans to launch the new Passat towards the end 0f2004, later than many analysts were expecting, says German newspaper Handelsblatt. The newspaper cited company sources as saying the car will be launched in autumn next year, but a VW spokesman said no date has
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        Lock icon Ants and.. .rush hour
        156 12 THE army ant, or eciton burchelli, is virtually blind and has little in the way of a brain. But it may show motorists how to avoid rush hour traffic jams, a study by UK biologists suggests. Army ants stage huge swarming raids that involve as many
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        Lock icon Phantom rise
        84 12 BMW's Rolls-Royce plant in Goodwood, England is ramping up production of the Phantom from one car a day to three. The plant produced the first customer car for delivery on Jan 1; and the next batch will be ready in April. A total of 70 dealers worldwide are
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        Lock icon Mountain bike from Honda
        67 12  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan HONDA has unveiled a pedal-power mountain bike developed with technology from motocross motorcycles. Team G Cross Honda, the company's new downhill mountain bike team, is scheduled to take part in its maiden race in May with the newly developed RNOI bike. The
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      Lock icon Topless poser
      594 12  -  The convertible is a 'chick magnet': fact or fiction? CHRISTOPHER TAN discusses in under 400 words, using the Opel Astra cabrio CHRISTOPHER TAN I WOULD like to debunk the myth that all women with a healthy level of oestrogen are drawn mysteriously to open-top carriages. Take the case
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      849 12  -  The Toyota Vios and Mitsubishi Colt are two very different products with identical prices. CHRISTOPHER TAN reviews them CHRISTOPHER TAN TOYOTA VIOS TOYOTA could have cheekily proclaimed that its Vios is equipped with uDrive, with reference to BMWs sophisticated (and sometimes confounding) iDrive system on board its 7-series.
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      Lock icon Dinner for 10? No sweat
      593 13  -  at-sunrice has a new course that promises to make you a party pro, says CORINNE KERK CORINNE KERK THE sky was overcast, and rain was imminent. But as much as we wanted water lots of it to pour into our reservoirs, we hoped the weather
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      Lock icon Epicurean delights from the world's top chefs
      464 13  -  By Stephanie Yap NOW in its seventh year, the hugely popular annual World Gourmet Summit (WGS) has been extended from one week to two. From March 30 to April 12, Singapore will host the world's leading chefs and restaurant operators, with this year's
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      1593 13 Just answer two simple questions correctly to be In the running for 15 pairs of passes to the Cull— j M—twxIiwi at the World Gourmet Summit 2003! The masterclasses will give you a chance to watch international culinary maestros demonstrate their signature creations in an interactive classroom environment and be
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      185 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD middle-age might cross HI 20 Form of government memo--26 Told of miner removing dia--27 and always 6 Exaggerated the way raw Across: 1 Backgammon. 6 make cut (5) beginner engraved (9) Face, 9 Swill, 10 Scrapheap, 12 28 Swav under it? (9) 9 Element found in dub 4
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      Lock icon Who do you think will win, chief?
      602 14  -  Business execs place their bets with ELGIN TOH ELGIN TOH THEY are known for their sharp acumen and ability to pick winners. They have an eye for talent, a vision for success, and can smell potential victors miles away. No, we are not
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      Lock icon Fergie's kicking ways may not hit the mark now
      740 14  -  frankly speaking vince chong GROWN-UPS are called grown-ups for the simple reason that their childhood years are not only behind them, but they also have the sensibilities that come with adulthood. And the last thing the person wants is to be
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