The Business Times, 3 October 2005

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  • 16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Monday October 3,2005 SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005
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  • 844 1  -  Growth likely to slow; analysts see market rebound after initial shock By SHOEB KAGDA in Jakarta AS THE death toll climbs from last Saturday's Bali blasts, concerns are growing over the economic and political impact of the latest attacks on the country and the
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  • 213 1 (SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is going ahead with his trip to Bali today despite last Saturday's bomb attacks on the resort island. Mr Lee is scheduled to meet Indonesian President Susflo Bambang Yudhoyono in Bali today for a Leaders'
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  • 510 1  -  By VIKRAM KHANNA [SINGAPORE] Singapore's role as the premier hub for servicing the region's booming financial industry is expanding, and with some government help could grow even more rapidly, says the president of the Bank of New
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    • 44 1 BizlT S'pore spending on PCs to cross USs7B6m PG36 BT ONLINE Access to BT Online is free after 6pm each day. But print subscribers can access our online news anytime. Call 6388-3838 to subscribe and activate your online account 111 8 '*****1 1 *****4
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    • 146 1 VIEWS FROM THE TOP Energy crunch: What should businesses do? PGSI2-13 COMPANIES SGX market cap up 1.4% in Sept PG4 WKt j At Rabobank, we are committed to With presence in nearly 40 countries and over j 1,500 offices, Rabobank offers a range of products support you .nail your corporate
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 665 2  -  Regulators looking at records of 4 metal exchange firms, say dealers By NEIL BEHRMANN in London THE UK Financial Services Authority is investigating several London Metal Exchange firms following complaints that a group of speculators have manipulated the copper market. The
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    • 518 2 S'pore ranks among high R&D capability nations SINGAPORE has joined the ranks of countries with high capabilities to innovate and benefit from the globalisation of research and development, but it has still far to go in catching up with the developed world in R&D spending. Multinational corporations judge
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    • 694 2  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT By ANDREW MARKS in New York A TUMULTUOUS third quarter, featuring two major terrorist attacks, a currency revaluation from one of the world's major economic powers, and two financially devastating hurricanes in the US, have finally been put to
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    • 976 3  -  MNCs see Republic as top R&D location among developing countries after China, India By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Singapore has joined the ranks of countries with high capabilities to innovate and benefit from the globalisation of research and development, but it
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    • 91 2 This announcement appears as a matter of record only Scomi Scomi Marine Bhd. Acquisition of the marine logistics and offshore support businesses of Chuan Hup Holdings Limited US$34O million Financial Advisor to the Acquiror BNP Paribas Peregrine (Singapore) Ltd C BNP PARIBAS v- Equities 30 September 2005 ■S Freshly brewed
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 554 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By VEN SREENIVASAN VANTAGE Corporation has finally signed an agreement with Kingsville Capital to acquire the latter's entire 28.6 per cent stake in Nasdaq-listed Pacific Internet for US$3O.5 million. Upon completion of the proposed acquisition, Vantage will be PacNet's largest shareholder and
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    • 739 4  -  It hits $424b while SGX's billion-dollar club welcomes six new companies By ANGELA TAN SINGAPORE'S market capitalisation grew 1.4 per cent in September to more than $424 billion, boosted in part by the initial public offer by Prime real estate investment trust (Reit), the
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    • 797 6  -  IPO WATCH It seeks listing here to bring operations closer to investors By MATTHEW PHAN TAKING advantage of Singapore's warm and sheltered coastal waters. Chi-na-based aquaculture firm, Oceanus Bio-Tech, will invest over $2 million to build fish and mollusc read, oyster breeding
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    • 237 6 ONE hundred bullish OCBC bankers have signed up to hit the roads of the Central Business District in the name of charity. They will be joined by 2,000 peers from Singapore's financial industry and locally-listed companies in The Bull Run 2005, an
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 678 8  -  STOCKS VEN SREENIVASAN Senior Correspondent SEPTEMBER of 2005 will be remembered for the two deadly hurricanes in the US gulf states, record high oil prices, another Fed interest rate hike and more news of major airline failures in the US. Yet, it is the
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    • 432 8 CURRENCIES AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies traded mixed over the past week amid expectations of higher US interest rates as Washington continues to count the cost to its economy following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The dollar edged up after Asian trade on Friday with
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    • 360 8 COMMODITIES: WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP [LONDON] Oil prices steadied, as US Gulf Coast refinery production remained paralysed by hurricanes Bita and Katrina, but supply fears were countered by concerns over the strength of global demand. Copper continued to smash records and gold held close to an
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    • 1675 8 Source: Reuters Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Fri's Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Frfs recommendation esti- EPS PE target price recommendation est)- EPS Pf target price Company name This wk Lastmth mates (cents) (ratio) price Company name This wk Lastmth mates (cents) (ratio) price Allgreen Prop 2.20 2.36 10 5.98
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    • 1387 9  -  TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent THE awakening of investors to "undervalued" stocks specifically stocks which are trading at significant discount to their net asset value continued unabated. The portfolio made up of stocks with the lowest price-to-book ratio climbed for the third consecutive week, bringing its gains
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    • 73 8 WEEK AHEAD HL Fin's dividend payment, Oct 4 Khong Guan's dividend payment, Oct 7 SGX's dividend payment, Oct 10 Dairy Farm's dividend payment, Oct 12 Hongkong Land's dividend payment, Oct 12 Jardine Matheson's dividend payment, Oct 12 Jardine Strategics dividend payment, Oct 12 Hongkong Land's dividend payment, Oct 12 Lum
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  • MARKETS
    • 1338 10  -  INSIDE MARKETS Number of sales still strong but value drops, reports ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI THE buying by directors and substantial shareholders remained flat for the fourth consecutive week while the selling remained strong based on filings on the Singapore Exchange in the last
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    • 2753 10 Axi S Systems Holdings Limited NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of AXIS SYSTEMS HOLDINGS LIMITED will be held at The Raffles City Convention Centre, Level 4, 2 Stamford Road, Singapore *****2 on Wednesday, 26 October 2005 at 2.00 p.m. for the
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    • 518 10 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PANDUIT ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) Company registration no. *****4068W At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 60 Tuos Avenue 11, Singapore *****6 on the 30th day
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    • 429 10 Invitation to all creditors with respect to e potential scheme of arrangement to be presented by: Citiraya Industries Ltd Citiraya Industries Ltd ("the Company") intends to present a scheme of arrangement to its creditors, with a view to arriving at an amicable and equitable resolution of all claims of creditors
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 781 11  -  But only 40% of security officers have access to CEO By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY THE number of IT securityrelated incidents that companies in Singapore have reported in the last 12 months has fallen, bucking the global trend, according to the world's largest
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    • 378 11  -  Six companies bid in public tender to help project S'pore as a choice tourism destination By ALEXANDRA HO AS Singapore steps up efforts to attract more visitors, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is seeking a public relations consultancy to help it project the country as
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
    • Article, Illustration
      2600 12 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC What should businesses do to address the high cost of energy and the looming threat of an energy crunch? Should government also be involved, and if so, how? RISING oil prices are a reflection of the robust economic performance of the world economy combined with
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    • 71 12 BT CEOs e-Club Members of the BT CEOs e-Club are Singapore's top corporate leaders whom BT editors would like to interact with in an atmosphere of informality and trust This 'dub 1 is a virtual one, with interaction mainly via e-mail. Each week, we will invite comments from these top
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
    • 94 14 Buying insurance can be a confusing process, especially with all the terms, conditions and products that are available in the market Ihis week, we take a look at how to read and understand a benefit illustration for a 15-year regular premium participating endowment policy- Insurance
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    • 639 14  -  CAMPUS LIFE SMU emerges runner-up in Thai business challenge, pipped by only a nose, reports KELVIN SAM KELVIN SAM IT WAS hard not to be impressed by the four undergraduates. The Singapore Management University (SMU) team spoke with polished professionalism and quiet ease even during an
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    • 153 14 ESSAY COMPETITION In memoiy of Its former Associate Editor and connoisseur of good writing, Ray Heath, who died last October, The Business Times is sponsoring an annual essay competition for students. The topic for this year's essay is: "What will be the economic impact of integrated resorts, including casinos, in
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    • 46 14 cffibank The Business Times-Citibank Young Investors' Forum is published every Monday in The Business Times. It aims to raise the financial awareness of university and polytechnic students and cultivate a better understanding of business issues. The series is part of BT and Citibank's tertiary outreach programme.
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  • DINING OUT
    • 1502 15 IT'S the beginning of the harvest in France, and to celebrate, the house of Moet Chandon has tied up with several restaurants to offer special champagne set meals with a glass of bubbly thrown in for the month of October. If you're in a celebratory mood,
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 603 16  -  Central bank seen ending easy money sooner than expected By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan may move faster than expected in ending its super-easy monetary policy, to take advantage of what sources close to BoJ governor Toshihiko Fukui say is
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    • 246 16 AFP {GENEVA] The United States has failed to fall into line with a World Trade Organisation ruling issued more than five years ago which condemned corporate tax break legislation, the global commerce's referee said on Friday. In a report, a panel set
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  • JEWELFEST 2005
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      694 17  -  By CHEAH UI-HOON ASIAN couture jewellery is coming into its own thanks to the growing confidence of Asian jewellers and to women who are keen to show off their individuality through their pieces of jewellery. Joon Courtenay. of Singapore-based brand Joon. points out: "The Increasing affluence of Asians and
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    • 672 18  -  The Jewelfest theme of Rhapsody has inspired Singapore's chain jewellers to create signature works ranging from classical to wearable art, says CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON WHILE one tends to think of Singapore's chain jewellers as producing "safe" and mainstream designs for the general market once a
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    • 1331 20  -  What are diamonds if not sold on emotion? Master cutter Tolkowsky shares with CHEAH UI-HOON his perception about the pricey rocks CHKAH UI-HOON TO HEAR Gabriel S Tolkowsky talk about diamonds is to alter your perception that they're just pricey rocks, because each diamond you look at,
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  • BALI BLASTS
    • 724 22 KL hopes 2 of its citizens suspected to be masterminds will be caught soon AP AFP Xinhua [KUALA LUMPUR] The world yesterday united to condemn the suicide bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, as Malaysia hoped that its two citizens suspected to be
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    • 195 22 Time-line of bomb blasts in Indonesia since 2000 Source: AP Oct 1,2005: Bomb explosions at 3 Bali restaurants kill 26, wound more than 120. Unnamed terrorists blamed. Sept $,200* Suicide car bomb outside Australian Embassy, Jakarta, kills 11, wounds 100. Six alleged members of Jemaah Islamiyah (JO
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    • 555 22  -  By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] Bali is much calmer following Saturday's bomb blasts compared to the total panic, chaos and fear after the October 2003 terrorist attacks, Singapore hotel and travel industry sources said yesterday. "There is no panic this time and no unusual rush
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • 520 23 DMA seen to shorten execution time, bypasses brokers and dealers [KUALA LUMPUR] BursaMalaysia Bhd is considering a plan to introduce direct market access (DMA) that will boost trading volume and shorten execution time, the Star Bizweek said citing industry sources at the weekend.
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    • 357 23 Reuters [BEIJING] China has drafted a contingency plan to cope with a much-feared outbreak of bird flu in the coming winter, state media reported, only two days after it announced a blueprint for fighting a human influenza pandemic. Bird flu, including
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    • 585 23  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT Malaysia has better things to do with its money S JAYASANKARAN KL Correspondent A NATIONWIDE manhunt to find Malaysia's first astronaut to hitch a ride on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station sometime in 2007 is underway. At the end
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    • 362 23 [MUMBAI] Infosys Technologies plans to hire 6,000 software programmers in China to manage what the Indian company says will be large and sustained demand for its technology services, the Financial Times said over the weekend. Many will be based at a
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  • WORLD
    • 597 24 FUND FLOWS Britain, Japan and Canada are the top spots for investment Reuters [WASHINGTON] US investors boosted their holdings of foreign equities and debt by as much as 20 per cent, according to the Treasury Department. The preliminary data released by
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    • 433 24 NYT [NEW YORK] Who will end up paying for Hurricane Katrina? Or for the war in Iraq? Or for any other spending that Congress chooses to authorise? To an extent not seen in previous periods of rising federal deficits, the answer is
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    • 370 24 He points to its huge budget and trade deficits Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said that the US was a economy because of its budget and trade deficits. "They have a budget deficit and they have a trade deficit," Malaysia's former prime
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    • 248 24 [LONDON] UK drugstore chain Boots Group and Alliance Unichem are in advanced talks about a merger to create one of Europe's biggest healthcare retailers, the Financial Times said. The UK companies may announce their plans to combine as equals as early as
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    • 3133 24 Transaction date Sep 30 For full listing of the dosing prices, log on to BTOnline at http://business-times.asiai.coni.sg after 1130pm every trading day HONG KONG Vol eForceHldgs 0.02 unch 400 HKS '000 Egana Jewellery 1.19 0.02 604 EganaGoldpfeil 1.78 -0.02 1578 Aeon Credit 6.15 unch 0 Esprit Holdings 58.00
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  • AVIATION
    • 274 25 AP [CHICAGO] A US$l5 billion expansion of O'Hare Airport designed to ease some of the country's worst flight delays was halted by an appeals court just hours* after it received the go-ahead from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The city was expecting final approval
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    • 322 25 Travel industry is also concerned about global warming [KUALA LUMPUR] Most members of the global travel industry want governments to pay for the increased security costs arising from terrorism threats, according to a survey released on Saturday by an industry organisation. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 25 [SEATTLE] An Alaska Airlines 737 painted to look like a King Salmon sits at Sea-Tac International Airport in Seattle as a Northwest Airlines jet takes off on Saturday. The intricately painted plane, dubbed the Salmon Thirty Salmon, is intended to highlight the airline's history of shipping large quantities
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    • 239 25 AFP [WASHINGTON] American Airlines said on Friday that because of skyrocketing fuel prices it was suspending 15 round-trip flights and scrapping its service between Chicago and the Japanese city of Nagoya. Services out of the biggest US carrier's two main hubs
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    • 276 25 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Evergreen Group, which controls Asia's largest container shipping company, plans to invest 90 million yuan (Ssl9 million) in a cargo venture with Shanghai Airlines Co, tapping China's demand for cargo services. The group will take a 45 per cent
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • SHIPPING
    • 681 26  -  It cites higher service, volumes, costs due to structural changes By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Transpacific box carriers congratulated themselves, their vendors and customers for their "cooperation and creativity" in avoiding a repeat of last year's peak season congestion, but warned that cost
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    • 121 26 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hutchison Port Holdings, part of Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, will form a joint venture with the government of Oman to build a new container terminal at the port of Sohar, South China Morning Post reported!. "Hutchison will take a majority stake
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    • 373 26 AFP [BASTIA, France] The French ports of Marseille and Bastia remained blocked by angry union members yesterday, amid a sometimes-violent privatisation dispute which has disrupted sea trade and left thousands of tourists stranded on Corsica island. A first group of nearly 600
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    • 406 26 Reuters [BUSAN] South Korea's main port of Busan will open three new berths in January, part of a US$9 billion plan to double its container handling capacity by 2011, the head of the port authority said. The investment is part of
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    • 292 26 SGX '000 Sep 30 SI W- Vol CH Offshore j0.40 unch 1110 Chuan Hup 0.92 unch 898 Cosco Corporation .....2.54 -0.03 5929 CWT Distribution 0.75 unch 0 EzraHldgs 1*2 -0.03 2052 Freight Links 0.07 unch 1210 Grind Banks Yacht .0.95 unch 0 Java Holdings 1.34 unch 1485 K1
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