The Business Times, 21 August 2006

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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Growth expected to outpace 3-5% long-term rate
      861 2  -  NATIONAL DAY RALLY PM points to IRs, new investments, advances in biomed and digital media By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Singapore's economy should expand by more than the long-term growth rate of 3-5 per cent in the next few years, Prime Minister Lee
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      Lock icon Global survey finds S'pore a mid-priced city
      463 2  -  It's 32nd in living costs, 38th in wage levels: UBS study By LESLIE YEE [SINGAPORE] Singapore is ranked thirty-second in living costs and thirty-eighth in wage levels in a recent international survey of 71 cities conducted by Swiss bank, ÜBS. Oslo, London and
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      134 2 MARKETS WMk Chg« ST1 J483.53 +32.90 KLSECOMP 942.00 -0.27 NIKKEI 225 *****.98 ....+540.96 HANG SENG *****.70 +80.75 SET INDEX 708.49.. +0.07 JAKARTA COMP ...1437.77 +35.58 MANILA COMP .2329.90. -11.56 TAIPEI TAIEX £721.08 ....+149.98 SEOUL COMP .......1331.10 ...._+39.00 SHENZHEN B 289.13 +2.95 AUSTALLORD 5015.60 ..-..+97.60 DOW JONES *****.47 ....+293.44
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      416 2 Let's welcome immigrants with a big heart A GROWING population is essential to expanding the economy, and the government plans to address sliding population figures by maintaining strong links with Singaporeans overseas, boosting the birthrate, and promoting immigration, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his National Day
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      Lock icon Let's welcome immigrants with a big heart
      1042 3  -  NATIONAL DAY RALLY Govt to step up efforts to draw all kinds of talent from abroad By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE! With a growing population essential to expanding Singapore's economy, the government has a triple strategy to boost the population by maintaining strong links
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      Lock icon Digital age poses some risks but S'pore must open up
      891 3  -  Govt to adapt by using new media to reach the young By NANDE KHIN [SINGAPORE] Singapore must continue to open up in order to ride the digital wave, despite the potential risks, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last night.
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      287 3 5.1 t v Sjr ■4k. ~Jwm' f >3Hp< K Q: Why do I need wealth management? A: Allow me to start by asking if your wealth legacy is built to last successive generations? If not, you need wealth management to ensure that future generations will inherit your legacy. Q: How
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon When will markets switch to slowdown-watch?
      663 4  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent FOR now, stock markets everywhere are obsessed with the issue of US inflation. This must be a tad annoying to investors in this part of the world the current single-minded focus on whether the prices of raw materials and
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      Lock icon Dollar recovers against Asian currencies
      507 4 CURRENCIES AFP [HONG KONG] The dollar recouped losses against Asian currencies after an upbeat US manufacturing report and a drop in oil prices. Japanese yen: The yen eased in the past week as investors chased the dollar against the Japanese currency, based on interest rate
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      Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
      1818 4 Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Fri*s Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Fffs recommendation esti- EPS PE target price recommendation esti- EPS PE target price Company name Thiswk Lastmth mates (cents) (ratio) price Company name This wk Lastmth mates (cents) (ratio) price Advanced Holdings 2.00 1.00 2 5.85 6.07 1.14 0.42
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      Lock icon Crude slumps, gold at month-low
      184 4 AFP [LONDON] Crude futures plunged last week, in line with many commodity prices, amid evidence of an economic slowdown in the United States and a lowering of tensions in the Middle East, analysts said. On Friday, the Commodities Research Bureau's index of 17 commodities fell
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      802 5  -  Analysts upbeat on prospects in oil and gas, property, Reit sectors By LESLIE YEE LATEST quarterly results reported by major Singapore listed companies have generally met or exceeded analyst expectations. Companies like Singapore Exchange (SGX), DBS Group, SembCorp Marine, Keppel Corporation and Star Hub
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      Lock icon IT distributor ECS worth a second look
      649 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By OH BOON PING Although stocks with low profit margin and operating cash flow are often deemed risky, regional IT distributor and services provider ECS Holdings is one stock that deserves a second look. As a distribution business, generating a
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      Lock icon Bukit Sembawang eyes high-rise condo projects
      451 5 Reuters BUKIT Sembawang Estates, a former rubber plantations business that turned to property development, said on Friday that it plans to focus on high-rise apartments in prime locations to increase its returns. The company, which was set up to run rubber plantations in the
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      Lock icon Interim earnings for period ended June 30
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      Lock icon Advance SCT to take over Green World units
      396 7  -  Deal follows reverse takeover of GW by 2 S Koreancontrolled firms By MATTHEW PHAN SESDAQ-listed Advance SCT (ASCT) is taking over three wholly owned units of its 98.7 per cent subsidiary, Green World, through which all of the latter's business is conducted.
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      Lock icon Top Global to issue 3.8m new shares
      298 7  -  By NANDE KHIN CONSTRUCTION firm Top Global has agreed to allot and issue some 3.8 million new shares at 12 cents each to strategic investors. Top Global said it has entered into two separate subscription agreements on Saturday with two groups of subscribers
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      Lock icon LottVision sets up HK joint venture with iAsia
      290 7  -  By NANDE KHIN LOTTVISION Ltd is setting up a joint venture company in Hong Kong with a wholly owned unit of iAsia Solutions Ltd, a Hong Kongbased online financial trading services company. LottVision and iAsia's subsidiary called Bright Ally Investments Ltd will
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon One-year top losers portfolio outshines
      1433 8  -  TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent W!^ r picture of the US economy, as well as the easing of oil prices following the ceasefire in Lebanon, investors are returning to the *roarket In particu- lar, the second-tier market came back with a vengeance, as evidenced by
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      Lock icon Heavy selling seen as major shareholders cash out
      1437 8  -  INSIDE MARKETS By ROBERT HALILI THE corporate shareholder trading activity was high last week with 75 trades worth $31 million based on filings on the Exchange from Aug 14 to 18. The heavy activity last week was mainly due to a'pick-up in
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  • TRAILBLAZERS
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      Lock icon They set the standards
      2047 9  -  CHEW XIANG profiles some of the leading names in the manufacturing and services sectors CHEW XIANG Manufacturing and services are the key'drivers of the Singapore economy. Forty per cent of working Singaporeans find jobs in the two sectors. In the past, many of the big guns
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      Lock icon Stay alert, be prepared
      2912 10 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC Are governments, including our own, sufficiently prepared for terrorist violence? And what proactive steps should we, as individuals and as business people, be taking? TERRORISM in modern times has become synonymous with the systematic use of violence. It has attained sinister proportions, used
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      78 11 hh 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* is a virtual one, with interaction mainly via email. Each week, we will invite comments from these top
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Firms unprepared for ageing workforce
      813 12  -  Few have plans to transfer core knowledge, says study By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY WITH an increase in life expectancy and lower fertility rates, an ageing workforce has become an industrywide phenomenon in Singapore and very few companies have a plan in place to transfer core
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      Lock icon EVENTS LISTING
      122 12 DATE/ TIME EVENT VENUE 21-22 Aug IP Academy-Global Forum Raffles City 7.30am on Intellectual Property Convention Centre 21-22 Aug The Asia Business Forum Marina Mandarin 8.00am Islamic Banking Finance Hotel Asia Conference 2006 21-22 Aug Pacific Conferences Swissotel Merchant 9.00am Innovative Integrated Court Marketing Communications 23 Aug Higher
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      Lock icon SRC project may run into building bottleneck
      332 12  -  By RONNIE LIM A PLANNED US$lOO-200 million upgrading project to produce clean motor fuel at Singapore Refining Company (SRC) given the green light in January is yet to get off the ground because partners Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) and Caltex have not finalised
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  • DINING OUT
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      1078 13 SPECIAL PROMOTION An Indonesian Culinary Odyssay Th« Greenhouse, Rta-Cartton Milknia Singapore. Tal: 6434-S2M THE good thing about being at the top of the food chain is that you never have to worry about where your next meal is going to come from, whereas the good thing
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      207 13 Internationally Renowned Speaker ■nPV Professor Dan Levin PjjJR (PhD, Wharton Business School) PhD in Business Applied Economics, Professor Levin has been on the faculties of Wharton Business School, Tel Aviv University and The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and on the boards of numerous public listed companies. An expert in
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
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      Lock icon Convenience has its dangers
      740 14  -  The Internet allows users easy access to financial services but they must know how to protect themselves from online fraud, writes RUCHIKA TULSHYAN RUCHIKA TULSHYAN THE convenience of the Internet cannot be denied it is an integral part of the modern lifestyle. The accessibility of the
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      Lock icon Entrepreneurial minds
      906 14  -  CAMPUS LIFE Enterprising youths dabbling in pushcart businesses are on the increase, CRYSTAL NEO finds out more CRYSTAL NEO SHE may call forensic science her passion but her strong interest in business has not stopped her from dabbling in numerous business and design competitions. Serene Yeo, 18, a
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      330 14 I-Cube Corner I-CUBE is a unique collaboration by the investment clubs from the three universities, namely the National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Singapore Management University (SMU). I-Cube is conducting its Financial Treasure Hunt 2006, its keystone event which will kick-start a line-up of investment
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Asean keen on Europeanstyle single market
      692 15 Plans for trading community by 2015 to ensure region stays competitive AP (KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia South-east Asian ministers hope to fast-track plans to create a European-style single market by 2015 in talks in Malaysia this week, as the region struggles to strengthen its economic
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      Lock icon US efforts needed to revive world trade talks: analysts
      434 15 Reuters [WASHINGTON] US Trade Representative Susan Schwab's trip to South-east Asia and China later this month could signal the start of an international effort to get world trade talks back on track, analysts said on Friday. "I think there needs to
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      Lock icon M'sia rates not at risk of being accommodative
      215 15 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's interest rates are not at risk of becoming too accommodative. central bank chief Zeti Akhtar Aziz said on Saturday. Asked whether Malaysian interest rates, among the lowest in Asia, might be too accommodative for the economy, she told
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      Lock icon Bush economic advisers meet after poor ratings
      568 15 AFP [WASHINGTON] US President George W Bush's lieutenants expressed frustration last Friday at their failure to translate healthy economic growth into higher approval ratings for their embattled boss. Mr Bush convened his senior economic policymakers for a summit at the president's Camp David
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon It's best to leave the Parkway-Pantai deal alone
      552 16  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT There's merit in the old Arab saying: the dogs may bark but the caravan moves on S JAYASANKARAN KL Correspondent THE Parkway Group's purchase of a controlling 30 per cent interest in Malaysian healthcare provider Pantai Holdings is in danger
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      Lock icon Umno could lose power over Dr M, Abdullah rift: Najib
      283 16 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The party which has ruled Malaysia since independence in 1957 could lose power over a dispute between the current Prime Minister and his predecessor, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said. Mr Najib, who is also deputy president
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      Lock icon Telekom looks to widen Asean investment
      311 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM), through its international investment holding arm, TM International Sdn Bhd (TMI) is looking into the possibility of expanding its investment in the Asean region next year. Its chairman Mohd Radzi Mansor said the move reaffirms TM's strategy
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon Genting pays RM16Om for 16% of Landmarks
        111 16 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian power and leisure firm Genting Bhd has bought a 16 per cent stake in property company Landmarks Bhd for about RMI6O million (SS69 million), The Edge weekly reported. Genting bought the stake of some 80 million shares from several
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        Lock icon China official blames graft for rise in pollution
        107 16 AP [BEIJING] China's top environmental official has blamed corruption for frustrating environmental protection efforts and sparking a rise in air pollution, state media reported yesterday. "It is clear the conflict growth and environmental protection is coming to a head," Zhou Shengxian, director
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        Lock icon Foreign firms dominate biggest manufacturers in China
        111 16 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Almost two-thirds of China's largest manufacturers are foreign companies, first among them Motorola Inc, the world's second-biggest cellphone maker and No 6 among all industrial companies in the world's fourth-largest economy. Motorola had 74 billion yuan (5514.6 billion) in sales in
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        Lock icon Coca-Cola, PepsiCo turn to Kerala courts to lift state's ban
        109 16 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Coca-Cola Co and PepsiCo Inc, the world's two biggest soft-drink makers, have asked a court in India to lift an 11 -day-old ban on their sodas. The southern state of Kerala banned the sale and production of
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      1015 16 NOTICE TO CLIENTS OF UKFP (ASIA) HK LIMITED (FORMERLY TOWRY LAW (ASIA) HK LIMITED) UKFP (Asia) HK Limited (formerly Towry Law (Asia) HK Limited) is seeking to contact the following clients concerning the matters set out in the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission's (SFC) press release dated 2 May
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      242 16 Discover everything you need to know about China Business policies Tan lay Hong wrote the 2003 book Present state of China's foreign Investment Regime "China Business law: A Guide for lawyers and Entrepreneurs" and has Recent changes to China s land Laws conducted China Business Law Protecting InteHectdbl Property Rights
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon Infosys co-founder Murthy bows out at 60
      759 17 He steps down after 25 years when he hits company's retirement age Reuters. AP [BANGALORE] Infosys Technologies' chairman N R Narayana Murthy stepped down yesterday after 25 years at the helm of the firm he co-founded with six other software engineers and built
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      Lock icon Taiwan opposition party loses NT$43b: report
      287 17 The money was lost over a decade in investments in companies AP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party once one of the world's richest political parties has lost NT$43 billion (Ss2 billion) on investments over the past decade, a newspaper reported yesterday. The party's net
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      Lock icon China rate hike won't slow growth: Goldman Sachs
      377 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] China'&decision to raise interest rates on Friday is unlikely to be successful in slowing economic growth, and the government will need to let the yuan appreciate, said Jim O'Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The People's Bank of
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
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      Lock icon Foreign businessmen in Philippines voice misgivings
      472 18  -  Business group warns Manila that trimming incentives may deter investors By AL LABITA in Manila FOREIGN businessmen are wary over Manila's plan to phase out income tax holidays and other perks. Far from ending these conces- sions, business interests are seeking more economic liberalisation,
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      Lock icon Japan proposes OECD equivalent in East Asia
      438 18  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPAN will this week propose the formation of an OECD-like body in East Asia to accelerate economic integration Within the region, and will offer to provide up to 10 billion yen (Ssl37 million) over 10 years to help
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      Lock icon DIC to buy UK budget hotel chain for US$1.27b
      377 18  -  By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai Dubai International Capital LLC (DIC), the international investment arm of Dubai Holding, has agreed to acquire UK-based Travelodge Hotels Ltd for US$l.27 billion from Permira Funds. Travelodge is the UK's second-largest budget hotel company and operates
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Tame inflation boosts stocks
      772 19  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT The market seems well positioned to advance in September as bullish indications are on the rise By ANDREW MARKS in New York T HAS been a long summer of I doubts, concern and bad news on Wall Street, over everything from when and
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      Lock icon Ford to cut US vehicle production
      459 19 AFP {NEW YORK] Struggling auto giant Ford Motor Co said on Friday it was slashing its US vehicle production as it battles to recapture customers who are deserting its gas-guzzling SUVs in favour of Japanese models. Ford said it would cut its Q4 US
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      Lock icon Suits against Apple over options
      275 19 Officers accused of manipulating options grants Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Officers of Apple Computer Inc, maker of the iPod digitalmusic player, manipulated options grants to sell more than US$l billion in company stock, according to shareholder lawsuits. The cases, filed on Friday in state and federal
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      Lock icon Free energy! Don't believe it? Test it!
      382 19 AFP [DUBLIN] An Irish company threw down the gauntlet on Friday to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields
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      Lock icon STOCKS ASIA
      3124 19 Transaction date: Aug 18 For a full listing of the closing prices, log on to BT Online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg after 11.30pm every trading day HONG KONG Vol DatanglntnlPowerGene...5.28 0 06 ***** HKS '000 Denway Motors 2.56 0.04 ***** Digital China .2.49 -0.07 1280 Aeon Credit 5.80 unch
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      Lock icon BHP Billiton may break US$10b profit barrier
      320 19 AFP [SYDNEY] BHP Billiton, the world's largest miner, is expected to post an annual profit exceeding US$lO billion this week, setting a new Australian corporate record, analysts predict. The Anglo-Australian giant's bottom line has been boosted by ongoing strong demand from Asia, particularly
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  • AVIATION
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      Lock icon Boeing to shut down production of C-17 cargo plane
      645 20 Move may spark job cuts of 7,000 staff and 25,000 workers who make parts AP [LONG BEACH] Boeing Co said it would start shutting down production of its cavernous C-17 military cargo plane, marking the possible end of aircraft manufacturing in
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      Lock icon British plane diverted after bomb scare
      489 20 LAT-WP [LONDON] A British plane carrying 269 passengers and nine crew members made an emergency landing Friday in Italy because of a bomb scare, officials said. The Boeing 767, operated by Excel Airways, took off Friday morning from London's Gatwick Airport en route to
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      Lock icon Taiwan's Far Eastern Air ups overseas routes
      441 20 AP [TAIPEI] Faced with a shrinkig domestic market and the imminent launch of a high-speed train linking Taiwan's main cities, Far Eastern Air Transport Corp is actively expanding its overseas routes, an executive of the Taipei-based airline said. Philip Chen, president of Taiwan's
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • SHIPPING/AVIATION
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      Lock icon Ticket fares going up to offset security costs
      999 21 LAT-WP [VIENNA] For business travellers, security measures that followed the exposure of an alleged plot to destroy air planes over the Atlantic ushered in a painful scenario: flights without readily available bottled water, no duty-free gifts for friends and associates and gruelling
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      333 21 Reuters [PARIS] Governments should meet the costs of extra security imposed at airports since British police said that they had foiled a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, the International Air Transport Association said on Saturday. In an interview published
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      671 28  -  It will build a regional 'superhub' here to boost its services business, reports ROLAND LIM ROLAND LIM RIDING on the outsourcing wave, document management solutions provider Fuji Xerox is pumping $5 million over the next year to create a
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        64 28 DOCUMENT management leader Fuji Xerox Singapore is organising its DocUWorld 2006 event on Aug 23 and 24, where experts from companies such as Microsoft, 1-Magination, Compuware and M&C Saatchi will share case studies and present the latest document management solutions. The event will be
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        55 28 ROYAL Philips Electronics has appointed Karen Chan Escobar as its director of brand management and corporate communications for Singapore and Asean. Organisations that Ms Chan has previously worked for including the Taiwan Foreign Trade Ministry's investment promotion council in the United States, Delphi Corporation, and Singapore
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        71 28 SINGAPORE-BASED broadband television service provider M2B World last week announced that it will offer 13 more Korean drama serials, in addition to the current six drama serials it already features, via its broadband television service. This is made possible through a deal with
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        111 28 LAW firm Alban Tay Mahtani de Silva's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group is organising a free seminar on transforming a company's intellectual property (IP) into business assets. Targeted at in-house legal counsels, intellectual property managers and management who want to
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        79 28  -  Compiled by ROLAND LIM MARKET research house Gartner is organising its 12th Annual Semiconductor Roadshow 2006 on Sept 25 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel from lpm to 5.15pm. The agenda for the seminar includes detailed market forecasts on devices and applications, and Gartner analysts
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      809 29  -  Top official says firm will commit its best talents if it wins bid for SOE By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP) views Singapore government's outsourcing initiative as a high-priority project, and it will bring its best global team to plan and execute it
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      1011 29  -  &lt;cool stuff&gt; The entry will heat up competition in this segment of the digital camera market, says GEOFFREY PEREIRA GEOFFREY PEREIRA SONY has entered the singlelens reflex (SLR) segment of the digital camera market with a model called the Alpha 100. The AlOO is the
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        75 29 PRINTER specialist Brother has launched its fastest networked monochrome laser printer, the HL-5270D. It features print speeds of up to 28 pages per minute, and comes with 32MB of memory, which can be upgraded to 544 MB. It also has duplex functions which enables the printer
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        119 29 STARHUB is dangling more carrots in the form of five free channels to encourage its cable TV subscribers to upgrade from an analogue set-top box to a digital or digital video recorder (DVR) set-top box. From Oct 2, they can view Australia Network (formerly known
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        74 29 SMALL in size but big in performance that's the new Philips DVD Micro Theatre MCD708. The home theatre system will play CDs and DVDs in any format, and features a Class* "D" digital amplifier which consumes less power but yet improves sound quality. It also
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        114 29 LG Electronics Singapore has released a range of seven new LCD monitors which feature its DFC technology that enhances contrast. The models boast contrast ratios of up to 2000:1, which it says is the world's highest contrast ratio. A high contrast ratio offers viewers
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        114 29  -  Compiled by ROLAND LIM MOBILEONE (Ml) has introduced a new mobile phone plan called the Talk Share Plan for enterprises. The new free-incoming plan allows three, five or 10 employees to share free outgoing airtime and SMS entitlements. For $98 a month, the
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      337 29 Reuters [LONDON] Handheld computer and phone maker Palm Inc is to unveil the latest version of its Treo smart phone next month as it attempts to revive sales hit by tough competition and problems with previous models. "The announcement is going to
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      270 29  -  By KAR-MEN CHENG CREATIVE Technology has unveiled a new range of affordable professional-class music production offerings targetted at music enthusiasts as well as serious players. The products are based on its E-Mu technology, used in the music recording industry by artists from Stevie
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