The Business Times, 5 April 2005

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sq MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Tuesday, April 5,2005
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  • 449 1  -  Policy to be enshrined in proposed new code By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] All banks in Singapore will soon have a whistle-blowing programme to detect wrongdoing and protect staff who tell on their colleagues. The policy will be incorporated in a proposed new code
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  • 681 1  -  Goldman Sachs warns of US$105 oil, others see panic setting in earlier at US$80 By RONNIE LIM (SINGAPORE] Oil prices could soon hit US$6O this week, after racing to a new closing peak of US$5B a barrel yesterday. "Prices look
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  • 135 1 sn 2,157.80 (+14.05) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,140.00 (+6.00) SIMSO 255.40 (+1.59) SIMSO FUTURES 253.90 (+1.40) MARKETS Monday Change KLSE COMP 867.23 -8.69 NIKKEI 225 11.667.S4 -56.09 HANG SENG 13,513.41 +22.06 SET INDEX 682.52 -13.31 JAKARTA COMP 1,100.20 +5.13 MANILA COMP 1.994.36 +28.07 SEOUL COMP 982.50 +0.60 SHENZHEN B
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 740 2  -  The two giants are set to start FTA talks and will spur each other to excel By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] Singapore and Asean stand to benefit from improving economic ties between economic powerhouses China and India, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said
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    • 512 2 Poor show by electronics hits March PMI AFTER helping to prop up the purchasing managers' index (PMI) in recent months, the electronics industry seems to have succumbed and the spectre of high oil prices may be a factor. The PMI slid for a second straight month in March,
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    • 424 3  -  It's now just above level separating expansion from contraction By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] After helping to prop up the purchasing managers' index (PMI) in recent months, the electronics industry seems to have succumbed and the spectre of high oil prices may be a factor. The PMI
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    • 555 3  -  Singapore, HK have big share of IPOs' institutional money By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Business between Singapore and India is booming on just about every front from trade and investments to tourism and the capital markets. In fact, Singapore has played a
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    • 350 2 Interest Rate Risk Management Dates Interest rate risk management is an unavoidable function given the 5-6 May 2005 monetary basis upon which businesses are run. This workshop 9.00 am to 5.00pm c r initiates the participants in the rudiments of interest rate risk Venue management and provides an integrated approach
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 462 4  -  Citiraya appoints Koh Boon Hwee as one of its 4 new directors By MICHELLE QUAH AS hopes of a Oei Hong l.eong rescue for Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) were dashed yesterday. Citiraya Industries another company that is also under CAD
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    • 557 4  -  By WONG WEI KONG BRKAKIN'G with an earlier ruling by the High Court, the Court of Appeal has determined that Nat Steel and '*8 Holdings director David Han defamed David Gerald, president of the Securities Investors' Association of Singapore (SIAS). in a newspaper article two
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    • 572 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By WONG WEI KONG IT'S easy to see Greatronic as just part of the sorry trend of corporate scandals that have rocked the market in recent months. To be sure, there are similarities with other cases, such as accounting irregularities and investigations
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    • 292 6  -  Bank sees programme as tool for early detection of misconduct By SIOW LI SEN OCBC Bank has begun training its more than 8,000 employees on its whistle-blowing programme, assuring them that none will be be penalised for reporting fraud or misconduct. Training began with its bank employees
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    • 259 6  -  By VANDE KHIN JUST a day after United Overseas Bank unveiled its long-awaited United Overseas Land divestment, Wee Cho Yaw's private vehicle Wee Investments swung into action to build up its UOL stake and over the course of three trading days has bought almost 26
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    • 417 6  -  By ANGELA TAN ABN Amro and Citibank are finally joining the shared automated teller machine (ATM) network of HSBC, Maybank and Standard Chartered Bank, the banks announced yesterday, confirming a BT report late last month. The launch of atms the newly-formed shared ATM network
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 88 6 CAPITARETAIL Japan Fund, a private retail property fund sponsored by Capita Land, has closed with a fund size of 44.13 billion yen (Ss6Bo million), following its second and final fund-raising exercise. This represents a more than four-fold increase from the 10 billion yen it
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      • 62 6 ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust I A-Reit) announced yesterday that it has exercised the call options to purchase four properties Da Vinci Building. MSL Building. AEM-Evertech Building and Hyflux Building for $65.1 million. A-Reit has also signed a separate put and call option agreement yesterday to
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    • 158 6 DBS Group Holdings (DBSH) yesterday announced the impending retirement of four directors, including Fock Siew Wah, at its upcoming annual shareholders' meeting on April 29. The other three are Bernard Chen, Gail Fosler and Thean Lip Ping. Yest£jr4ay\ confirmed an- earlier BT re-, port
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    • 445 9  -  JV with Tee Yih Jia will make dim sum, mooncakes and CNY pastries By CAROLYN QUEK COME July, you'll be able to buy Tung Lok's famous dim sum off your supermarket shelves. Tung Lok Restaurants yesterday said it has tied up with frozen foods
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    • 1166 4 INNOVALUES PRECISION LIMITED Registration No. *****2822E (incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2005 Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held at 18 Cross Street Bth Floor Marsh McLennan Centre Singapore *****3 on Monday, 25 April 2005 at 11 00 a m to
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    • 1085 6 ARMARDA GROUP LIMITED (Incorporated In Bermuda) Company Registration No. ***** NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2005 Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at The Executive Centre, Level 14 Prudential Tower, 30 Cecil Street, Singapore *****2 on 30 April 2005 at 9:00
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 579 8  -  STOCKS UOB, SingTel, KepCorp and Noble lead STI higher; Unifiber continues its mind-boggling march upwards TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent SINGAPORE blue chips advanced despite concerns of high oil prices, inflation and slowing growth in the global economy. The Straits Times Index (STI) rose 14.05
      Source: Bloomberg  -  579 words
    • 759 8 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS SahMMM Noaf Prke SHAREHOLDING T>»n>lli»r Buy/ Share* Per Before After Tr— Oaf MmRr Sot HI ShrS CBOO) (000) Noreko 4 Apr-OS Luong Andy Buy 672 0 46 ***** 25 61 ***** 25.78 Kian Ann Engg 1 Apf OS Low Han Cheong Buy 30 0
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    • 110 8 OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corporation (OCBC) yesterday increased its stake further in Great Eastern Holdings (GEH). OCBC purchased 347,573 GEH shares in cash at $13.50 per share through an ofT-market married trade, to increase its shareholding in GEH from81.01 percentto 81.08 per cent. The
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    • 68 8  -  Compiled by NANDE KHIN TWO substantial shareholders have increased their direct interests in Norelco Centreline Holdings. Arisaig Asean Fund Limited bought 1,430,000 Norelco shares last Thursday, bringing its stake from 4.99 per cent to 5.36 per cent. Norelco CEO Andy Luong increased
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    • 1052 8  -  Compiled by TEH HOOI LING SembCorp Marine Ud Aprfl 4 dMMC $2 ÜBS INVESTMENT RESEARCH April 1 THE global semi-submersible rigs utilisation rate has reached 87 per cent for only the second time since the early 1980s. We expect further orders for new semi-subs and conversions. We factor
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    • 381 8 CURRENCIES AFP ITOKYOJ The US dollar was firmer in Asian trade yesterday as weak business confidence shown in last week's quarterly tankan survey continued to weigh on the yen, dealers said. Trading was cautious ahead of speeches by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 427 10  - More tourists, but lower hotel revenues why? Hoteliers: Feb y-o-y figures give a distorted view, with CNY, leap year By LIZA LIN TOURIST arrivals and receipts have increased, but the hotel industry does not seem to be benefiting, according to figures released by the Singapore Tourism Board. Despite welcoming more
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    • 160 10 THE High Court hearing to appoint a judicial manager for Bintan Lagoon Resort, originally scheduled for yesterday, has been postponed to April 22. Lawyers contacted by BT said it was because one of the counsel for the judicial manager, Alvin Yeo of Wong Partnership, had
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    • 321 10 Reuters THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) says it will issue its next monetary policy statement on April 12, a day after releasing advance estimates of GDP for the first quarter. Most analysts expect no change in the current policy set in April
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    • 436 10  - Self-help sells at up to $450 a seat By PEPPER LEE THE gloomy skies hardly blighted the spirits of the crowd gathered yesterday in the National University of Singapore cultural centre. Financial consultants, company chief executives and sales personnel alike took time off work to attend the Global Motivational Congress,
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    • 42 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS LEGEND: All prices are indicative; Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused; S Lower Risk; Low to Medium Risk: Medium to High Risk; Higher Risk; open-ended; Before subdivision of units; After subdivision of units; SP after stock split; N.A. Non Dealing Day
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    • 606 11  -  Lack of remarkable architecture is main gripe at URA seminar By ARTHUR SIM SOME of the world's greatest architects have designed buildings in Singapore, but none of the buildings are great, Professor Tommy Koh told the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) at its
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    • 219 11 THE Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) yesterday issued market awareness brochures on the proposed $650 million sports hub project at Kallang, and said a pre-qualification tender would be called in July. The brochures will be made available to stadium operators, property
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  • SME spotlight
    • 778 12  -  Other worries are labour and operating costs, and profitability, survey finds. CHEN HUIFEN reports CHEN HUIFEN CASHFLOW and funding issues remain the top business concern for small and medium enterprises in Singapore, according to the UPS Asia Business Monitor Survey. The study, which tracks 1,200
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    • 1152 13  -  CONNECTING BUSINESS WITH HSBC There is renewed confidence in the country and its pro-business govt, says NANDE KHIN NANDE KHIN BUSINFSS interest in Indonesia may have waned sinre the Asian financial crisis, but opportunities still abound for Singapore SMKs thinking of developing an overseas wing, say people
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    • 161 13 iNiMJNhaIANb are generally sincere, triendly and down-to-earth. When working with Indonesians, do try to befriend them and, if possible, get acquainted with their family members too," says IE Singapore's Jakarta Centre director Lim Wei Siong. During negotiations, don't give the impression that you are
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    • 800 13  -  SMALL CAPS Strong 2004 growth seen to continue at China Dairy this year, reports ANGELA TAN ANGELA TAN MILK product supplier China Dairy Croup appears to have the best of the best a strategic base in the world's fastest growing market, a steady raw material supply
      Source: Bloomberg; CHRIS LOH; BLOOMBERG  -  800 words
    • 416 13  -  By TEH HOOI LING ()l K small rap portfolio did well in th»* week to yesterday. outpacing both tin* I OH Sesdaq and Straits Times Indices. It gained 1.5 per rent, compared with all per cent fall in the Sesdaq Index and a 0.6 per
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    • 764 15  -  Quality control is Amanda Food's selling point, reports PEPPER LEE PEPPER LEE HERE'S one heavyweight company who has the Atkins' Diet revolution to thank no, not for down-sizing of any form, but for beefing up their consumer base. For Amanda Foods Pte Ltd, a
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    • 2691 12 1 PEOPLE'S FOOD HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai the Annual General Meeting of People's Food Holdings Limited ("the Company") will be held at Raffles City Convention Centre, Blundell Room, 2 Stamford Road, Singapore *****2 on Thursday, 28
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    • 4214 14 To advertise INTRACO Limited (Registration No. *****0526Z) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirty-Sixth Annual General Meeting of INTRACO Limited will be held at The Chartroom, Raffles Marina, 10 Tuas West Dnve, Singapore *****4 on Thursday, 21 April 2005 at 10.30 a.m. for the following
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    • 2738 15 289 8822 Email: notices@sph.com.sg IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 [Section 290(2){b)] AND IN THE MATTER OF OCBC LAND PRIVATE LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) Co. Reg. No. *****0205H NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at 9 Battery Road, #07-00, Straits
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 604 16 Tougher controls, new customer attitudes reduce inflow of foreign money [LONDON] Is Switzerland losing its appeal as the ultimate private banking haven? Apparently so, says an article in the Financial Times. Marble halls, lifts that transport clients without pressing any buttons, anonymous ante-rooms
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    • 500 16 Reuters (TOKYO] Japan brushed aside yesterday speculation that it might sell US dollars from the world's largest pool of foreign exchange reserves in the name of diversification, saying the last thing it wanted to do was to roil the
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    • 314 16 Expected hike this week could tip economy into recession, they say AFP [SYDNEY] A leading Australian economic think-tank joined the government yesterday in warning the central bank that an expected interest rate hike this week could help tip the once-booming economy into recession.
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 791 17  -  INDONESIA INSIGHT Rising inflation and interest rates put pressure on stocks and rupiah, worsened by surging global oil prices and fears of more cuts in fuel subsidies SHOEB KAGDA Jakarta Correspondent THE jitters have certainly taken hold of Indonesia's financial markets after three years
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    • 452 17  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur IN early January, an informal Kuala Lumpur lunch group of fund managers, securities analysts, senior business executives and financial journalists pooled money to make an informed bet on where the benchmark Composite Index of Malaysia's bourse would be on
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    • 427 17 NOTICE ON INTERNATIONAL TENDER Hmimos berhad Procurement Logistics Department MIMOS BERHAD 2nd Floor, West Block, Technology Park Malaysia ***** Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Tel. No.: 603-*****000 samb.: 6301/6320) 1. MIMOS Berhad hereby invites manufacturers or their accredited agents who are prepared to submit comprehensive proposals on the following tender. MIMOS" Tender
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    • 1401 17 Tsit Wing International Holdings Limited NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Tsit Wing International Holdings Limited ("the Company") will be held at Opal Room, Level Two, Sheraton Towers, 39 Scotts Road, Singapore *****0 on Thursday, 28 April 2005 at 10:00 a.m.
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  • CHINA
    • 550 18 Property prices on accelerating, upward trend Reuters [BEIJING] China is taking further steps to avoid a speculative property bubble that could pose risks to the economy and its fragile banks, officials said yesterday. One new measure a property tax will go on trial this year
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    • 148 18 AP [HONG KONG] China wants to speed up the planning for a super bridge linking Hong Kong, Macau and the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, and construction on the US$3.B billion project could begin by the end of 2005. "The planning of the
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    • 1710 18 SINGAPORE PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED (Co Reg No: *****0291 N > (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting Closure of Books NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held at Inter-Continental Singapore, 80 Middle Road, Singapore *****6
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    • 326 18 CALYON FINANCIAL PRODUCTS (GUERNSEY) LIMITED (Incorporated in Guernsey, Channel Islands with limited liability) NOTICE TO WARRANTHOLDERS TO ALL HOLDERS OF EUROPEAN STYLE CASH SETTLED CALL WARRANTS RELATING TO THE ORDINARY SHARES OF FU YU CORPORATION LIMITED ISSUED BY CALYON FINANCIAL PRODUCTS (GUERNSEY) LIMITED (FU YU CA ECW*****5) UNCONDITIONALLY AND IRREVOCABLY
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  • INDIA
    • 243 19 Reuters (Ml AfHMI I ight Indian firms vigned deals worth a combined I Ssl S billion l<**lrrd«\ to build power plants tn the country s energv starved western state of Maharashtra w here an I nr«»n unit has boen sitting idle for
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    • 477 19 European wines and spirits likely object of Indian retaliation IM W I»l I Mil India is ron sidering retaliatory action against the I uropean Union II I I for imposing a rounten ailing dut> on Indi an pharmareutiral prod nets.
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    • 220 19 Bloomberg IMUMRAII Infosys Technologies I td. India'* second-largest software maker, was awarded a higher debt rating than the government by Standard Mi Poor's (SAP), because the company's export earnings ensure It would be able to pay any overseas debt Infosys received investment grade raUngs for
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    • 1650 19 Mil E—il: —tkw#»pfc.c— f EE UNITED ENGINEERS LIMITED (Company Ragolratlon No 191?*****G) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICi IS HERIBY GIVEN that the Ninety first Annual General Meetinfl of the Company will be hekl at 81A Clemenceau Avenue. sth Storey. Park Avenue Suites. UF Square. Singapore *****8, on Tuesday 26
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 577 20 World's cardinals meet to plan funeral of pontiff who will be interred in St Peter's Basilica AP, Reuters [VATICAN CITY] Pope John Paul ll's funeral will be held on April 8, the Vatican decided, as the Catholic Church's College
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    • 487 20  -  By NEIL BEHRMANN in London THE two-year race into emerging market stocks screeched to a grinding halt in the last weeks of the first quarter. The big question now is whether price tumbles in March are signals that there could be
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    • 436 20  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo ECONOMIC and monetary integration moves in Asia are expected to receive a significant boost from the decision by the Asian Development Bank to set up a new Office of Regional Economic Integration at its Manila headquarters. The move
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    • 2713 20 Jishcm Holdings Limited Company Registration No. *****0591E V y (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the First Annual General Meeting of Jtshan Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at Carlton Hotel Singapore, Esplanade One (Level 4), 76 Bras Basah
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  • WORLD
    • 449 21 ChevronTexaco to pay US$16.4b in biggest oil-firm merger in 3 years NYT, Bloomberg INFW YORK] Unocal, one of the largest independent oil companies, has agreed to be acquired by ChevronTexaco Corp for US$l6.4 billion. The biggest oil-com-pany merger in three years will increase ChevronTexaco's reserves in
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    • 309 21 Reuters (AMSTERDAM] Worldwide semiconductor sales rose to US$lB.l billion in February, 15.8 per cent over the year-ago period, the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) group said yesterday. But the sales were 2 per cent below revised January revenues. The US-based Semiconductor
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    • 355 21 UK firm has already agreed to be bought by Apax -Bloomberg IDALIAS] Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, whose films include "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Monster's Ball", is considering making a bid for Hit Fntertainment pic, a UK children's television company that last month agreed to
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    • 217 21 Bloomberg [NEW YORK) Maurice Greenberg, the ousted chairman of American International Group, has offered to sever his remaining ties to the insurer by ending AlG's relationship with two companies he controls, sources said. The proposal would stop AIG executives from receiving bonuses from
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    • 333 21 [LONDON] American investors have brushed off the threat of foreign companies fleeing the United States to escape the tighter corporate governance imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, pushing trading of non-US stocks in New York to highs not seen since the Internet bubble, reports the
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    • 2173 21 TOP GLOBAL LIMITED Company Registration No: *****3719Z I ?i?r rn« stm»Mit h a 6 m°? s Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held on Thursday, 21 April 2005 at I 18 Cross Street Bth Floor Marsh McLennan Centre Singapore *****3 at 10.00 a.m. to transact
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  • AVIATION
    • 334 22 He says it would complement Virgin Blue's routes, with focus on services to US, China, Japan AFP [SYDNEY] Richard Branson said his Virgin Group is considering launching a second Australian-based airline to focus on travel to the United States, China and Japan. Mr Branson
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    • 290 22 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's Sichuan Airport Group said it is in talks with European investors about raising money to fund expansion at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, the nation's fifth-largest in terms of passenger traffic. Sichuan Airport, which plans to spend about 10 billion yuan
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    • 493 22 AP [SEATTLE! The parent of European plane maker Airbus might accept tax breaks and other government incentives in the United States that are similar to those it criticised rival Boeing Co for receiving. European Aeronautic Defence and Space
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    • 90 22 AFP [FBANKFURT] The maiden flight of Airbus's new A3BO superjet, originally scheduled for the end of March, has been delayed by a few weeks, the business daily Handelsblatt quoted a company spokeswoman as saying in yesterday's edition. The new jets would be handed over to the
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    • 65 22 [SONGKHLA, Thailand] Policemen discussing security measures at Hat Yai airport in Songkhla province, southern Thailand, yesterday after three bomb attacks the night before left two people dead and 75 wounded. Airports in Thailand went on full alert after the bomb blasts at the region 's main
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    • 397 22 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:
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    • 324 22 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Service worsened at nearly three-fourths of US airlines last year as fewer employees handled a growing number of passengers, according to a survey by two academics who follow the industry. US Airways Group Inc, the seventh-biggest US carrier, had
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    • 642 22 Integra Ltd Company Registration Number: *****6459N NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Level 1, Tera 1 Room, 750 C Chai Chee Road. Technopark Chai Chee, Singapore *****3 on Wednesday, 27 April 2005 at 9.00 a m. for the following
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  • SHIPPING
    • 469 23 Presidential decree calls for steps to boost local shipping companies Bloomberg IJAKARTA) Indonesia will ban overseas shipping lines from carrying cargo between the country's seaports in a move to protect local companies, according to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's March 28 decree, released
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      • 98 23 ISINGAPORFI SembCorp Marine subsidiary PPL Shipyard has won a 129 million contract to build a rig for Cyprus-based Seatankers Management Co. The yard will start building the jack-up oil rig, a mobile offshore drilling unit that stands on legs lowered to the seabed, in
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      • 111 23 Bloomberg ISINGAPORKI Neptune Orient I.ines Ltd (NOI.), Asia's second-largest container shipping line by capacity, said containers it moved in the four weeks to March 11 were little changed from a year earlier because of the Chinese New Year holidays. The company's container shipping unit, Al'l., carried
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      • 65 23 AP ISINGAPOKFI The navies and air forces of Singapore and Australia launched a joint maritime exercise yesterday in the Singapore Strait and the South China Sea, Singapore said. Kxercise Singaroo, which ends on Friday, will featun conventional maritime strike, air defence and anti-submarine warfare scenarios,
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    • 845 23  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR SIIII' that collided with an anchored vessel in a river while leaving its berth has been held to be solely to blame for the incident even though officers on the anchored vessel also made several mistakes. Last
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    • 308 23 Reuters I KARACHI! Pakistan has delayed the inauguration of a Chinese-financed deep-sea port as security fears mean Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will be unable to go there this week during a visit to Pakistan, officials said. The US$24B million port at Gawadar, 4XO
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    • 522 24 EDITORIAL "IT'S not going as well as we'd hoped," Qantas chief financial officer Peter (iregg told reporters last month. He was referring to the performance of Qantas' Singaporebased low-cost carrier Jet Star Asia. But he could just as well have been referring to the state
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  • PROPERTY
    • 705 33  -  Yu Neh Huat is only interested in projects with high margins, reports PAULINE NG PAULINE NG HEARD of the supermodel who won't get out of bed for anything less than £10,000 a day? Well, property developer Yu Kuan Chon does not deign to look at
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    • 378 33  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur A NUMBER of parties including Government of Singapore Investment Corporation or GIC, are already knocking on Yu Neh Huat's door to buy its office buildings and this is even before they are built. GIC is said
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    • 462 34  -  Major UK funds already hold sizeable property investments By NEIL BEHRMANN in London COMMERCIAL property has provided the best returns for British pension funds in the past few years, in line with similar experience for other European, North American and
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    • 439 34  -  38 landed home owners seek 145m in en bloc sale By ALEXANDRA HO OWNERS of landed properties at Lengkok Angsa, off Paterson Road, who have been trying since 2000 to put their homes up for collective sale, are once again making an attempt. This time,
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    • 345 34 [SINGAPORE] Office space landlords have reason to smile, according to the research and consultancy arm of real estate company Savills. Following the encouraging take-up levels in premium grade office buildings in the first quarter of this year, Savills now expects a "second wave"
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