The Business Times, 4 November 2004

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    8 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SING online MC*r)«aiaKM» ThunKtyNowmb«r4 2004
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    Lock icon Wall St gets nigh on Bush victory
    741 1  -  Market takes off even before Kerry concedes defeat in lynchpin state Ohio By ANDREW MARKS, LARRY WEE WHEN Americans headed to the polls on Tuesday, Wall Street hoped for two results a victory for Republican President George Bush and, probably more importantly, a
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    Lock icon Las Vegas casino hosts bash for S'pore high rollers
    512 1  -  BT exclusive MGM-Mirage aims to build closer ties with its regulars By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] Some of Sin gapore's casino "high rollers" individuals with credit lines of USS2SO,OOC or more and guests, totalling around 250 people in all, will attend a
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    132 1 sn 2,017.43 (+22.05) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,996.00 (-1.00) simso 242.15 (+2.40) SIMSa HJIURES 243.40 (+3.10) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 878.45 +4.28 NIKKEI 225 Posed HANGSENG 13,397.67 +88.93 SET INDEX 641.29 +9.30 JAKARTA COMP ***** >8.97 MANILA COMP 1,827.32 +17.78 SEOUL COMP 861.05 >1438 SHENZHENS 226.79 >352 BOMBAY IND
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    43 1 TOP STORIES ...PG 2*3 COMPANIES... PG 4-7 MARKETS PGR MID CAPS PG9 SINGAPORE PG 10-11 ECONOMY PG 13 M'SIA/INDON ..PG 14 CHINA/INDIA ...PG IS WORLD PGI7 AVIATION PGIS SHIPPING PGI9 EDITORIAL PG 20 STOCKS JPG 22-23 BIZIT PG 28-29 PROPERTY.. PG 30-31
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon BT asked Singapore business leaders yesterday for their views on the US presidential poll
      349 2 'My hope was for Kerry because of his pro-business policies, but the numbers seem to point to Bush. We don't expect the election result will have any impact on our US business.' Cygenics Group CEO Steven
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      Lock icon Big petrochem investments coming to S'pore: Vopak
      622 2  -  Terminal operator says petrochem industry showing interest in region By RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] There is a strong likelihood of new multi-billion dollar petrochemical investments coming to Singapore, with the chemical industry showing renewed interest in the region after earlier focusing on China, a
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    • Article
      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      655 2 Great Eastern Q3 earnings edge up 2% to $64.5 m GREAT Eastern Holdings, the insurance arm of OCBC Bank, yesterday said net profit increased 2 per cent for the third quarter as earnings from insurance operations rose while investment profits fell. Net profit for the period ended Sept
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      Lock icon Four more years for Bush as Kerry concedes Ohio
      1012 3  -  Bush wins majority of both electoral vote and popular vote this time, unlike Florida in 2000 By LEON HADAR in Washington FOLLOWING one of the most spirited election campaigns in US history and against the backdrop of the war against terror
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Khoo's estate refutes Stanchart chiefs remarks
      508 4  -  Stanchart says report not full representation of comments By SIOW LI SEN THE estate of Khoo Teck Puat, which holds the single largest block of shares in Standard Chartered Bank, yesterday made clear its unhappiness with comments made by the bank's chairman on its
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      Lock icon UOB's buyback objectives
      738 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By SIOW LI SEN IS UNITED Overseas Bank's first share buyback exercise a prelude for chairman Wee Cho Yaw to reconcile the group's crossholdings with its affiliates? For investors and arbitrageurs of Singapore bank stocks, there is also another interesting scenario being played out:
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      Lock icon Great Eastern Q3 earnings edge up 2% to $64.5m
      547 5  -  Sale of OCBC stake helps to boost 9-month profit by 59% to $299m By WONG WEI KONG GREAT Eastern Holdings (GEH), the insurance arm of OCBC Bank, yesterday said net profit increased 2 per cent in the third quarter as earnings
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      Lock icon Zhongguo PowerPlus Q3 profit doubles
      396 5  -  By JOYCE KOH THE choppy regulatory waters Zhongguo Power Plus had to navigate during its listing have turned into powerful waves carrying the company forward. Listed on the mainboard in September, the Chinabased maker of hand-held agricultural equipment maker yesterday posted a 103 per cent
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      Lock icon Media Asia IPO debuts 2% below offer price
      351 6  -  HK film house hit intraday high of 27c before closing at 24.5c By KENNETH LIM IT was a celebrity event for Media Asia Entertainment Group yesterday as it premiered on Sesdaq. The Hong Kong film house, which produced Chinese-language blockbusters such as
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Nod for Goodwood Park delisting
        86 6 SHAREHOLDERS of Goodwood Park Hotel approved a proposal to take the company private at its EGM yesterday. The proposal for a voluntary delisting was made last month by Dumont Pte Ltd, a company incorporated in February this year with Mavis Khoo and three other children
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        Lock icon ST Electronics in training partnership
        64 6 SINGAPORE Technologies Electronics has —through its subsidiary ST Training Education Pte Ltd formed a strategic partnership to provide training, education, management and consultancy services to Brunei's marine, land and aerospace industries. A memorandum of understanding was signed with Royal Brunei Technical Services, a government-owned company
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        Lock icon M1 testing wireless access systems
        76 6 Bloomberg MOBILEONE Ltd said it is testing three different systems for providing wireless high-speed Internet access for computers. The first trial by the Singapore provider of cellular phone services is underway while the other two will start before the year ends, the company said in
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        Lock icon Elec & Eltek's Q1 net profit doubles
        70 6 Elec Eltek's Q1 net profit doubles ELEC Eltek International's first quarter net profit doubled year-on-year from US$5.6 million to US$ll.2 million on the back of a 46.5 per cent jump in sales to U*****.2 million for the three months ended Sept 30. Strong demand in computer and computer peripherals has
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        Lock icon Advanced Systems achieves turnaround
        82 6 ADVANCED Systems Automation posted a $116,000 group net profit for the first-half year ended Sept 30,2004 against a $3.3 million net loss for the corresponding period last year as revenue rose 40 per cent to $24.5 million due mainly to better demand for its automatic moulding
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        Lock icon Chemical Industries' first-half profit falls
        57 6 CHEMICAL Industries' first-half net profit fell to $2.6 million from $6.5 million in the corresponding period last year. Revenue for the six months ended Sept 30 was down 0.7 per cent to $37.9 million. The profit decline was due partly to lower exchange gain and
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      Lock icon SingTel, Asian telcos in cellphone tie-up
      581 7  -  Group to invest US$40m over 3 years to provide seamless service By ANGELA TAN SEVEN major Asian mobile operators, including SingTel Mobile, will invest up to US$4O million over the next three years in a regional mobile alliance which aims to provide seamless crossborder
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      Lock icon SingTel Q2 profit seen to surge 53%
      509 7 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd (Sing Tel), South-east Asia's largest phone company, may say second-quarter profit rose 53 per cent as an accounting change cut expenses and it signed up more mo-bile-phone users in Australia. Net income probably rose to $724 million in the
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      Lock icon Sale of Crown Prince Hotel suspended
      630 11  -  Farrallon-linked entity settles $180m debt to OCBC and GE Life By KALPANA RASHIWALA THE sale of' Crown Prince Hotel has been suspended, as an entity said to be linked to US-based fund manager Farallon Capital Management has settled $180 million of debt which OCBC
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      Lock icon Consumers doing alright with credit card debts: MasterCard
      380 11  -  By JOYCE KOH CONSUMER credit, much maligned for its pernicious impact on people who allow their debts to spiral out of control, can in fact be managed by consumers who are now better able to service their debts. In MasterCard International's fourth
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      Lock icon China threatens S'pore's oil hub status: Vopak
      461 11  -  By RONNIE LIM SINGAPORE'S position as the region's oil hub is "pretty solid", but the government must continually work on the nation's competitiveness to ensure it stays ahead of emerging rivals, especially China, says top Vopak executive Carel van den Driest. He said
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon STI hits year-high on bet of Bush win
      485 8  -  STOCKS Traders cautious about prospects as the big picture hasn't changed high oil prices and sliding US economy R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent OIL may have risen back above US$5O per barrel but, at least as far as yesterday's session was concerned, it
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      922 8  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM fl China Swt (ASIA) RESEARCH, Nov f CHINA Son is a medium-sized, privately owned corn processor. Continuous industrialisation and .higher living standards in China point to strong growth in demand for com starch of 10 per cent per ssdam to 2010. China Sun benefits f;
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      Lock icon Indian rupee hits 4.5-month high
      357 8 CURRENCIES Reuters [MUMBAI] The Indian rupee firmed 0.26 per cent to post a new 4 Vi month closing high yesterday, amid signs of robust foreign fund investments into the country's buoyant stock market. The rupee closed at 45.3600/3700 per dollar, firmer than Tuesday's 45.4800/4950 and
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon UOL raises its Hotel Plaza stake
        114 8 UNITED Overseas Land shored up its stake in subsidiary Hotel Plaza on Tuesday with an open-market purchase of 172,000 shares at an undisclosed price. UOL, which is chaired by United Overseas Bank chairman Wee Cho Yaw, now has a 75.95 per cent shareholding in
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        Lock icon ei-Nets director's holdings reduced
        57 8 EI-NETS executive deputy chairman Liau Beng Chye saw his deemed shareholding drop to 25.56 per cent from 27.58 per cent after Armorcoat International sold 15 million shares at one cent each on the open market on Tuesday. Shares of the construction e-commerce solutions provider ended at
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        Lock icon Fund purchases Unisteel shares
        64 8 OVERLOOK Partners Fund bought 2.5 million shares of Unisteel Technology on Monday, raising its direct stake to 6.01 per cent from 5.02 per cent. Unisteel, a maker of miniature screws used in hard disk drives and mobile phones, did not say if the purchase was on
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        Lock icon Progen director's stake trimmed
        95 8 PROGEN non-executive director Johnlin Yuwono saw his deemed stake shrink to 6.97 per cent after investment vehicle Yong Kang International sold 600,000 shares at 16.5 cents apiece in a married deal on Monday. Mr Yuwono, who is also executive chairman of Sesdaq-listed Mayfran, had a deemed
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        Lock icon Amtek directors convert their options
        143 8  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM AMTEK Engineering's directors exercised their share options on Monday this week in the precision metal stamper. Managing director Lai Fook Kuen converted 600,000 options at 65 cents apiece, raising his direct and deemed shareholding to 6.06 per cent from 5.79 per
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      426 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 3 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -61.00 +198.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 +80.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -6 00 AH-SG Equities 522.39 +3.78 SG Equities Elect 157.22 +1.14 SG Equities Fin 1621.71 +20.32 SG Equities Prop 481.16 +2.89 SIMSCI 242.15 +2.40 SiMSCI Futures 243.40 +3.10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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  • MID CAPS
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      Lock icon Fu Yu's long-term outlook bright
      938 9  -  Despite dull Q3 results market consensus is still a buy, as it is likely to gain from the outsourcing trend in Asia, writes WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG STILL a buy that's the market consensus on high-flying plastics company Fu Yu Corp following its
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Passenger car COEs plunge $1,000 to year's low
      247 10 COE premiums for passenger cars plunged by more than $1,000 yesterday to new lows for the year as the bi-monthly tenders begin to register a sharper see-saw pattern. As in the past few rounds, Category A for cars below 1,600 cc was
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      Lock icon Barclays Cap sees 20-25% growth
      531 10  -  BT exclusive European investors keen to increase exposure to Asian debt, says CEO By SIOW LI SEN BARCLAYS Capital, a global investment bank, expects continued strong growth of 20 to 25 per cent for the next five years as Asian central banks and corporates increasingly
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      Lock icon Case calls for 3 steps to make hospital bills more transparent
      211 10 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has made three key recommendations on billing, financial counselling and mediation to improve the level of transparency in hospital billing. Its committee on the transparency of hospital billing expects all hospitals to comply
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      Lock icon S'pore firms in China-Asean Expo
      195 10 HONG Leong Asia, Suntec City Development, Singapore Exchange, and Singapore Food Group are some of the Singapore-based companies taking part in the inaugural China-Asean Expo (CAEXPO) 2004 in Nanning city, Guangxu province, China. Opened yesterday, the CAEXPO aims to promote the China-Asean Free Trade Area
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      Lock icon US companies look to greater privatisation
      328 10  -  They are keen to enter S'pore's telecoms, power and gas industries By NANDE KHIN AMERICAN companies are hopeful that there will be more deregulation and privatisation of governmentlinked companies, said USAsean Business Council's senior director (Singapore affairs), John Phipps, yesterday. "The timing is right.
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • SINGAPORE FOCUS: SERVICES
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      Lock icon Logistics plays pivotal role in S'pore economy
      1135 12  -  Republic needs to keep upgrading its logistics infrastructure and labour force to maintain global hub status, reports NANDE KHIN NANDE KHIN SINCE the time of Stamford Raffles, logistics has played an important role in the Singapore economy. And for Singapore to continue playing
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      651 12 «L UNITED TEST AND ASSEMBLY CENTER LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Company Registration Number: *****8070H NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") of United Test and Assembly Center Ltd (the "Company") will be held at 5 Serangoon North Avenue 5,
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Indonesia on track but needs legal reform: IMF
      483 13 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia should sort out its legal system and aim to reduce fuel subsidies to free up spending for other areas, but has been doing well in fiscal policy and financial sector reform, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday.
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      Lock icon IMF cuts German growth forecasts on joblessness
      553 13 It cites low consumer demand and cautious company spending Bloomberg [BERLIN] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its forecasts for German economic growth for this year and next, citing the damping effect of persistent unemployment on consumer spending and companies' reluctance to buy
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      Lock icon US factory orders down for second month
      307 13 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] New orders at US factories dropped in September for a second month, evidence companies are growing wary about the direction of the economy amid high energy prices. Reduced demand for motor vehicles, civilian aircraft, steel and chemicals led the 0.4 per
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      Lock icon S Korea economic growth to top 5% in 2005: minister
      411 13 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's economic growth will top 5 per cent in 2005, supported by major public spending plans the government has been working on. Finance Minister Lee Hun-jai said yesterday. Separately, the state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) said it
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      Lock icon Taiwan GDP seen growing 5% next year
      237 13 Reuters ITAIPEI] Taiwan's economy is expected to grow 5 per cent in 2005, the Cabinet's economic planning agency said on Tuesday, giving a forecast that is more bullish than the official government forecast of 4.5 per cent. But risks such as high oil
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon China offers loans for overseas mining buys
      391 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] China has boosted its search for raw materials by increasing funding for companies buying overseas mining assets. The lending scheme would help Chinese firms in their search for resources such as copper, the State Development and Reform Commission and China's
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      Lock icon China's top 100 firms getting more profitable
      405 15 Soaring prices of crude oil and other commodities boost earnings AP [SHANGHAI] Chinas biggest corporations a*e becoming increasingly profitable and less burdened by debt, according to ratings agency Standard Poor's. Strongest earnings for petroleum and telecommunications companies underpinned that trend About 86 per
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      172 15 Reuters [BEIJING] China is expected to raise crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia by 25 per cent next year as the world's No 2 oil consumer scrambles to secure oil to meet a growing domestic shortage, traders said yesterday. Saudi Arabia,
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      272 15 Reuters [MUMBAI] Indian companies have raised over US$l.5 billion through overseas borrowings in September, up sharply from US$BB6 million in August, according to data from the central bank. Foreign borrowings by local companies have been on the rise and are expected to double
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      367 15 Bloomberg [BANGALORE] Wipio Ltd and Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India's thiid and fourth-biggest software services exporter, said the outcome of the US presidential election will not slow orders from American companies. "The economic rationale of outsourcing is so important," Suresh Senapaty, chief financial officer
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      847 16  -  JAPAN INSIGHT That's what happened to the Far Eastern Economic Review when Dow Jones took over the magazine and that's what doomed it ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent Epitaphs for the Far Eastern Economic Review are flowing thick and fast, even though the publication has
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      210 16 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT), Japan's largest phone company, said it may spend 5 trillion yen (Ss7B billion) to upgrade 30 million homes with fibre-optic lines. Rewiring with fibre-op-tics is part of a business plan NTT is
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      444 16 Takeover activity boosting a number of stocks this year Reuters [PARIS] Global property stocks posted a 2 per cent total return (capital growth plus dividends) in October, boosting the year-to-date return to 21.2 per cent, the benchmark EPRA/NAREIT index showed on Tuesday.
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      276 16 Join for an Programme Highlights: Man vs Horse Fun Run Catch your favourite celebrities as they pit their running skills against a horse! O ver 40 exciting food stalls including restaurants featured in Straits Times LifelEats 'Live' telecast of the 2004 Singapore Gold Cup Post Position Draw at the Racecourse
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      496 17 Bulging inventories may force price cuts and lower sales, profit estimates Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Right on the heels of a bleak forecast for semicon chips by the WSTS (World Semiconductor Trade Statistics), comes another report of bulging inventories of video displays and cellular phones.
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      248 17 NYT [NEW YORK] The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pushing for an independent monitor to scrutinise the books of the American International Group (AIG) as the company seeks to settle a probe into the sale of a product that helped a financial
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        67 17 Bloombera [WASHINGTON] Time Warner Inc, the world's largest media company, said third quarter profit fell 8 per cent to US$499 million. The company said it set aside US$5OO million to pay for pending government investigations into its accounting practices. America Online's accounting
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        43 17 Reuters [CHICAGO] The telecommunications industry had plans to slash more jobs than any other US sector in October, marking its third straight month of increased downsizing, according to research from an outplacement firm released on Tuesday. —Reuters
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        47 17 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Petrochemical Co's two owners, LG Chem Ltd and Honam Petrochemical Corp, are splitting the company and its assets into three so each can get independent control of its naphtha processing plants, according to a statement to the Korea Stock Exchange.
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        63 17 Reuters [JOHANNESBURG] South African miner Gold Fields Ltd urged shareholders not to accept a hostile takeover bid from "financially stretched" rival Harmony Gold. Gold Fields said yesterday in its formal defence against the takeover bid that Harmony's offer destroyed shareholder value and was a coercive
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        76 17 Bloomberg [VANCOUVER] Conrad Black quit as chairman and chief executive officer of Hollinger Inc, the company that controls the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, pre-empting a court decision that may have ousted him as early as Tuesday. In the US, Mr Black still faces a
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        60 17 Bloomberg YAHOO! Inc, owner of the world's second-most-used Internet search engine, hired former ABC television network chairman Lloyd Braun as head of media and entertainment. Mr Braun, 46, will oversee Yahoo's web pages about movies, TV, entertainment, music, games, finance, news, weather, sports, health
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      445 17  -  US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION By CHUANG PECK MING A WIN for George W Bush in the United States presidential race spells bad news for terrorists, Frank Lavin, American ambassador to Singapore, said yesterday. Sharing his thoughts at a public forum on the election, Mr
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      276 17 SINGAPORE LEARNING SYMPOSIUM 2004 TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2004 B:3OAM 6:OOPM SUNTEC CONVENTION CENTRE Come to the Learning Symposium and find out how developing your people can boost your company's performance. If you're an employer, HR professional or the manager of a team, the Learning Symposium will change the way you
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      278 18  -  By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] This is as snug and pampered as you can get in the air, says the South East Asia Australia general manager of Air France, Jean-Claude Moutic, as he demonstrates the airline's latest offering for its premium customers.
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      434 18  -  It's increasing capacity to meet Australia-Europe travel demand By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] Air France is putting on more capacity to meet growing demand for travel between Australia and Europe through Singapore. Deploying the bigger new Boeing 777 300ER aircraft on its daily
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      184 18 Reuters [TAIPEI] The Taiwan government will sell down its stake in China Airlines to under 50 per cent but aims to retain management control in the island's top airline, Transport Minister Lin Lin-san, said. His remarks are a reversal of an earlier plan
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      315 18 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Flagship carrier Malaysia Airlines is planning to purchase 39 new jetliners in an estimated US$l billion plan to replace nearly half of its fleet, a company executive said. The plan indicates that Mas' laysia Airlines hopes to expand
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      286 18 Bloomberg [ZHUHAI, China] China Aviation Industry Corp I, the country's biggest stateowned aircraft maker, said it aims to secure 10 more orders from domestic airlines for its ARJ2I regional jet by the end of the year. "We've got 35 orders
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      390 18 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), AI: Air India (AK), AY Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA),BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), BI: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR EVA
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      516 18 UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION (Incorporated in the Republic of China) ANNOUNCEMENT VOLUNTARY CASH OFFER FOR UMCI LTD. IS UNCONDITIONAL 1. Introduction United Microelectronics Corporation ("UMC") refers to the offer document (the "Offer Document") dated 4 October 2004 containing the terms of the voluntary cash offer (the "Otter") by UMC for UMCi
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      689 19  -  By DAVID HUGHES [HONG KONG] IF China is determined to be a major seafarer supplier, it must quickly deregulate its crew market or shipowners and managers will look elsewhere for their crewing needs, according to a senior Hong Kong-based
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      79 19 AFP [VLADIVOSTOK] Rescuers in the Russian Far East yesterday were searching for 36 sailors after a storm in the Sea of Japan sank three vessels, officials said. Twenty-seven of the missing sailors were aboard the Mongolian-flagged West, which sent a distress signal on Tuesday.
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      255 19 SGX '000 Nov 3 a W- Vol CM Offshore 0.40 unch 843 ChuanHup.- 0.66 0.01 1846 Coxo Corporation 1.06 0.02 6639 CWT Distribution 0.56 unch 293 Ezra Htdgs -1.14 0.01 191 Freight Unks 0.11 unch 453 Grand Banks Yacht .0.86 0.01 11 Java Holdings 1.04 unch ***** K1
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      499 19  -  It will tap $5m IPO proceeds to expand its support vessel fleet by a third By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE! Marine logistics company Swissco International Ltd expects the offshore oil and gas exploration activity to enjoy strong growth for the next five years as the
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      183 19 [SINGAPORE] SembCorp Marine subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has clinched a US$B4 million contract to build two 2,600-TEU container ships for German shipowner Reederei F Laeisz (RFL). The custom-designed ships will have a high-speed of 22.7 knots and come equipped with 400 reefers (refrigerated boxes). Construction
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      175 19 [LONDON] Following feedback from its members, the Baltic Exchange has decided not to axe its daily assessments for its Middle Eastern Gulf-to-Singapore tanker route (TD2). The exchange said in a statement it will not be withdrawing the route in June next year, as
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      287 19 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF REK TECHNOLOGY (S) PTE LTD (In Voluntary liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company duly convened and held at 23 Kaki Bukit Industrial Terrace Singapore *****3 on 2 November 2004, the following resolutions were
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      536 20 EDITORIAL HAS the proliferation of low-cost carriers (LCCs) in South-east Asia peaked? Is the industry headed for a shakeout? These are the questions which come to the fore as a combination of factors threaten the growth of mass market air travel in the region. Today, this
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      1233 20  -  The upcoming amendment to the Indian Patent Act may lead to increased competition from MNCs YOGI AGGARWAL THE Indian pharmaceutical industry finds itself at a cusp. Depending on how the government approaches the necessary amendment to the Indian Patents Act, the fast-growing sector could find itself stalled
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      814 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE WILLIAM PESEK JR Bloomberg ZHOU Xiaochuan probably didn't have Paul Volcker on his mind when he engineered China's first interestrate increase since 1995. Yet if anyone knows what China's central bank governor is going through these days, it's
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      717 21  - Living poor but voting rich The Democrats' focus on 'issues' alienates heartland and blue-collar Americans, while the Republicans connect with them through 'values' By NICHOLAS D KRISTOF NYT IN THE aftermath of this civil war that our nation has just fought, one result is clear: The Democratic Party's first priority
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      970 21  -  By SARITHA RAI NYT WHEN Infosys Technologies began scouting for an alternative to India as a source of unlimited, low-cost human resources, the fast-growing company came up with one answer: its home country's archrival, China. Now, a year after the Infosys Technologies (Shanghai) Co was set
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    3743 22 STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS Stodi HUM Wt Oox Ouny SUdmm W do— Oni|i Allgreen 50c 0.30 1.070 +0.020 NOL 2.14 3.000 +0.050 BIL Intl US20c 0.45 0.955 -0.005 OCBC 10.55 14.000 +0.200 Capita Land 1.26 1.880 -0.010 Parkway H 25c 0 68 1.470 +0.010 Chart SemiCond 26c 0.81
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    2706 23 FINANCE COMMODITIES MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES In local cwr In SS Hi USS dy *yr dy yr dy Syr Nov 2 lndo» Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminary 807.9 0.7 3.8 0.7 2.6 0.7 4.5 EAfE Preiminary 741.6 0.8 5.8 0.8 53 0.7 11 Europe Preliminatv
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      524 28  -  A new fibre-optic cable between Singapore and Chennai will provide more bandwidth and cheaper rates, reports RAJU CHELLAM RAJU CHELLAM AN E W US$lOO million undersea fibre-op-tic link bet we en Singapore and the southern Indian city of Chennai is set to boost the bandwidth
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      Lock icon AMD eyes 30% of server market with Opteron chip
      451 28 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] The next wave of computer servers using Advanced Micro Devices Inc's Opteron microprocessors will hit the market in the first quarter, building momentum for a bid by AMD to take 30 per cent of that market, AMD's worldwide
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      Lock icon Push for broadband in India
      328 28  -  By RAJU CHELLAM INDIA'S Tata Indicom Broadband Services will build a multi-city Metro Ethernet network using equipment from Cisco Systems Inc in a deal worth US$llO million. The new network will provide Tata Indicom's business and residential customers with broadband services at connect speeds ranging
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      123 28 AP [BANGALORE] An Indian software exporter said on Tuesday it was hiring programmers in eastern Europe and has set up a development centre in the Hungarian capital. The centre in Budapest will initially hire 60 engineers, but it may employ hundreds of them later, said Ramalinga
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      Lock icon New multimedia services soon for mobile users
      828 29  -  Nokia and partners driving services like visual radio and video sharing Reports by AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY in Bangxoic MOBILE phone users in Singapore will soon be able to use their mobile phones to share video clips and take part in interactive radio programmes,
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      315 29  -  Its latest anti-virus software also counters adware By ROLAND LIM ANTI-VIRUS specialist Trend Micro has launched PC-cillin Internet Security 2005, which it says is the first anti-virus consumer desktop solution to feature sophisticated security features to counter new threats like spyware. The
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      418 29 [BANGKOK] Nokia on Tuesday unveiled three new mobile devices and a slew of mobility solutions aimed at "enriching lives" in the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific launch was in conjunction with the worldwide launch in Monaco. Revealing Nokia's offerings at a grand event in Bangkok, which
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      278 28 The essentials of imaging KONICA MINOLTA Hpß^'V ■<-M > Uk^HEfcT55SS5p i ~.a a I *P 1 11 The freedom to do business without bounds. Four businesspeople. Four locations. One bizhub. With bizhub, they're all connected while also having the power to freely access the data they need, anytime from anywhere.
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      27 28 NOKIA, PARTNERS TO LAUNCH NEW MULTIMEDIA SERVICES Phone users will be able to listen to FM broadcasts and download interactive content at the same time, pg 29
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      420 29 Ml II Trapped Liberated mmm DB2 DOESN'T LOCK YOU IN. YET ANOTHER REASON WHY DB2 IS THE WORLD'S LEADING DATABASE PLATFORM. DB2 is middleware and it's central for Oracle up to four times higher Fortunately, IBM offers ongoing, to your data management. In fact, than DB2. Solitaire claims that around-the-clock
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  • PROPERTY
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      449 30  -  ANDREA TAN Island ranks high in city management and marketing in Jones Lang LaSalle survey of 33 cities, reports ANDREA TAN SINGAPORE is the world's best-gov-erned city, according to a survey by Jones Lang LaSalle. This puts the city-state ahead of Barcelona, Dubai and New York.
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      394 30  -  By ANDREA TAN FRASER Serviced Residences has strengthened its presence in the United Kingdom with the opening of its latest property in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The 102-unit Fraser Suites Glasgow belongs to the UK-based Pressdale a joint venture between Fairßriar
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      525 31  -  But the HK$20-billion Reit Link, the world's largest such public offering, is more likely to bear yields below 7 per cent, analysts say. VINCE CHONG reports VINCE CHONG Global funds are looking for high 7-8 per cent yields for Hong Kong's first real
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      353 31  -  By DANIEL BUENAS WATCH retailer Jannie Tay's Oyster Cove development in Australia which was initially targeted at Singaporeans as a place to retire will once again be launched for sale here from tomorrow. Ms Tay, who founded listed watch retailer The Hour Glass,
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      141 32 °Wz Salute The Priceless Journeys (jj||) Of Singapore's Best Entrepreneurs The mmws r Business Award Retail Entrepreneur Of The Year u and Ernst Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Singapore 2004 US li (r merging Business Products Entrepreneur Of The Year Entrepreneur Of The Year J i. it i ■"i h
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