The Business Times, 20 June 2007

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  • 19 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Wednesday, June 20,2007 JH A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBUCATION SlNGAPORtfifrtents online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg MICA(P) 202/12/2006
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  • 824 1  -  Temasek to start process in H2 for deals estimated to be worth over $6b By RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] The Great Singapore Power Sale is on at last. Temasek Holdings said yesterday it will sell the island's three biggest generating companies (gencos) estimated to be
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  • 79 1 THERE'S nothing better to keep conversations flowing and business connections warm than a good drink. Last evening. The Business Times kept up its recent tradition of wine nights for business people and guests by adding something different to the mix a Whisky Night. And on hand to
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  • 481 1  -  Exports comprise 64% of record 2006 figure for S'pore By ROLAND LIM [SINGAPORE] Singapore's infocomm industry recorded a sharp 20 per cent increase in revenue to a record $45.4 billion last year, Information, Communications and Arts Minister Lee Boon Yang said yesterday. Dr Lee said in
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 708 3  -  Arrest warrant will be issued if ex-PM does not appear by June 29, says junta By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THAILAND'S military junta seems to be gaining the upper hand in the tussle for power between itself and ousted prime
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    • 816 3 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Singapore's sizzling economy, set to expand as much as 7 per cent this year, could prove a headache for the government as the city-state risks becoming less competitive than rival business centres such as Hong Kong. The labour market is tight,
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    • 542 2 Thaksin, wife ordered to appear before police THAILAND'S military junta seems to be gaining the upper hand in the tussle for power between itself and ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The Thai authorities yesterday ordered Mr Thaksin and his wife to appear before the police to hear their
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    • 48 2 IN yesterday's Company Briefs column, we said that a consortium including PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance has acquired 70.41 per cent of the shares of Amtek Engineering. PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance is financial adviser to the consortium and not part of the consortium itself. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 602 2  -  IDA and Tourism Board to launch Digital Concierge for visitors By WINSTON CHAI [SINGAPORE] From cheap advice to discounted Web addresses, the authorities are dangling millions of dollars of incentives to jumpstart technology adoption among less IT-sawy SMEs. Under a new programme
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    • 984 2  -  He also says it can show the world that its rise as a world power will be a peaceful one By NANDE KHIN WHAT China needs right now is stability to help it grow, rather than politics like those of Taiwan
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    • 135 3 Dsn 3.629.55 (+5.76) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,630.00 (+5.00) SIMSCI 447.79 (+0.57) SIMSCI FUTURES 448.20 (-0.40) MARKETS Tuesday Change KLCOMP 1,376.79 +4.51 NIKKEI 225 18,163.61 +14.09 HANG SENG closed SET INDEX 763.78 -2.42 JAKARTA COMP 2.142.186 +15.693 MANILA COMP 3.667.14 -13.41 SEOUL COMP J.807.85 +0.97 SHENZHEN B 736.43 +14.70
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 697 5  -  Telcos will provide customers mobile video-sharing service 'MeTV' By SIOW LI SEN STARHUB and its rival, Mobile One, are teaming up for the first time. The two telcos plan to sell a mobile video-sharing service to their combined customer base. The country's largest
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    • 319 5  -  By MATTHEW PHAN ELECTRONICS contract manufacturer Jurong Technologies Industrial Corp (Jurtech) has set up a $500 million multi-currency debt issuance programme, its first fund raising in the debt capital markets. Jurtech, which makes hard disks, sound and graphics cards, last year started a
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    • 665 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By LYNETTE KHOO GETTING rid of peripheral assets is in conventional wisdom a good move for companies seeking to streamline their business and obtain funds for expansion. For Japan Land, this means selling its financial services business to focus on real estate in
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    • 211 6 PAN Asian Water Solutions, a water piping systems provider, said it has acquired a major stake in Teacly (S) Pte Ltd, which has won two contracts worth $18.27 million from the Public Utilities Board (PUB) to rehabilitate or re-line the public sewer system in
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    • 3772 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS A8 Ei*op income AT EUR 7J*i DWS Noor HUlMc FtlMh ok |g*g gggj jffg^y t ffi) u?% SwcO5Tfc?S3? M>' S UsSKSdldsSf "w UOd SISpSmJSjilSdfd ttffiftttSfsdMM* -Sjjyfjs AB Eurt? Income BT EUR "I.. 72*1 DWS No® G*> Eq Sel CI A USfi IOWA. «Wn WtolV USD JJW WVIXO
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    • 509 9  -  Fundamental factors driving market rallies, says fund manager By LYNETTE KHOO THE liquidity boom fuelling recent bull runs of the Asian stock markets is likely to persist for now, as there are enough fundamental factors still driving the rallies, according to a private
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    • 295 9  -  By CHOW PENN NEE MAP Technology Holdings, an integrated data storage service provider, is seeking a listing on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange, to expand its operations, and for potential mergers and acquisitions. A subsidiary of Min Aik Technology Co, which is listed
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    • 418 9  -  By CONRAD RAJ SINGAPORE'S world famous Tiger has become the first foreign beer brand to be brewed in Mongolia. Asia Pacific Breweries (APB), which makes the beer, this week officially opened a US$2O million brewery in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.
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    • 353 9  -  By CHOW PENN NEE SINGAPORE customers of OCBC Bank travelling to Malaysia will be able to access funds via more than 2,800 there, following an inter-bank agreement. The bank said yesterday that OCBC Singapore ATM card holders can withdraw money from
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    • 536 9  -  The buy bridges the gap in row of houses owned By KALPANA RASHIWALA CAPITALAND is understood to have bought No 8 Tong Watt Road off River Valley Road in the Mohamed Sultan area, at an auction last week for $9
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 895 8  -  CURRENCIES Risk appetite returns, hurting the yen, as US bond yield worries recede LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent OUR wish at this time last week for more corrective US dollar upside was granted for just one more day, when the euro revisited threemonth lows,
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      900 8 SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD MAM SDQ TOTAL Up Down Ut> Up Dow Umh Up Dow Umh Multilnd 9 5 4 0 0 0 9 5 4 Manufacturing 88 71 66 19 16 21 197 87 87 Commerce 38 19 25 9 8 8 47 27 33 Tpt/Stor/Comms 21 11 11 0
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    • 832 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Jardine Cycle Carriage June 19 dose: $15.20 GOLDMAN SACHS, June 15 WE are raising our 2007/2008/2009 earnings estimates by 7 per cent, 12 per cent and 12 per cent respectively, and revising our price target from $16.20 to $18.40 following our earnings and price
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    • 493 8  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IF it isn't property or the banks, it's construction. The sector largely populated by penny stocks burst into life yesterday,.led by a Goldman Sachs "buy" on Yongnam Holdings that had significant spillover benefits for others such as
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 376 10  -  It aims to highlight the two countries' currency pact By VINCENT WEE NEW $20 notes for Singapore and Brunei are to be issued next Wednesday. The two 20s are together symbolic of the 40 years of the agreement for the currencies
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    • 542 10  -  It stands to gain half of new policyholders turning 40 from September By CHEN HUIFEN THE Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday announced a few changes to the national Elder Shield insurance programme, aimed at helping policyholders financially should they be severely disabled at 40
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    • 446 10  -  By MATTHEW PHAN GLOBAL water and environmental engineering firm MWH, which helped design part of Singapore's Deep Tunnel Sewerage System as well as four underground stations for the upcoming Circle Line, will base its Asia-Pacific business hub here. The firm could
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    • 697 10 Private banking arm targets markets in China, India and Vietnam Reuters THE private banking arm of French lender Credit Agricole expects Asian assets to expand by 20-30 per cent a year in the next three to five years and wants to invest in China, Vietnam
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 449 11 AP [GENEVA] A meeting this week of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) four most powerful members will determine whether a new global trade pact is still possible, the European Union's (EU) top negotiator said on Monday. Analysts, however, are playing down hopes of a
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    • 558 11 Move, pushed by the US, could add pressure on China to shift yuan position AP. Reuters [WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund has adopted new guidelines for how countries should conduct their foreign currency policies. The Bush administration had sought the change as a
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    • 653 11 Share of wages as percentage of GDP has fallen, pay gap of high, low-earners has widened Reuters [PARIS] LOBALISATION should be a win- igg ner for all, but people are earning less of the wealth generated by economic growth and integration as the
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    • 508 11  -  Japan Parliament asks if 'politics' is cause for reluctance By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo BANK of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui was quizzed in Parliament yesterday on whether "politics" are behind the central bank's reluctance to raise interest rates. Mr Fukui denied the charge.
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    • 283 11 Bloomb erg [TOKYO] Japan will reform financial markets to take better advantage of its US$l3 trillion of individual assets and remain a global financial centre, under a policy framework Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved yesterday. The nation must set up an
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 479 12  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S Amßank group (AMMB Holdings) has proposed to buy out the minorities in its investment banking unit, Amlnvestment Banking Group (AIGB) for nearly RM2.4 billion (551.07 billion) or RM3.70 cash per share. AMMB plans to fund the buy-out
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    • 650 12  -  Shares slide nearly 13%; founder and CEO voluntarily gives up all executive functions By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur DISGRACED airfreight operator Transmile yesterday told the stock exchange that it had made a police report regarding possible fraud within the company uncovered by
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    • 205 12 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's second largest lender, PT Bank Central Asia Tbk, is aiming to enter the Islamic finance business, which may involve buying other lenders, a company spokesman said yesterday. Raymon Yonarto, corporate secretary for Indonesia's largest private bank, said financial services that
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    • 433 12  -  By LAUREL TEO in Jakarta AS Indonesia struggles to battle rampant deforestation, a local pulp and paper firm yesterday received recognition for safeguarding a portion of the country's rapidly vanishing rainforest, as well as for its other corporate measures that promote sustainable development. Asia Pacific
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    • 316 12 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] Spice Communications Ltd plans to raise as much as 5.1 billion rupees (*****.3 million) in an initial share sale in India, tapping a market where its two biggest rivals are the best-performing benchmark stocks. Spice, the Indian unit of
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  • MIDDLE EAST
    • 485 14 Owned by Prince Alwaleed, the firm will sell 3.15b riyal worth of shares Bloomberg [DUBAI] Kingdom Holding, the Saudi Arabian investment company owned by billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, will sell a 3.15 billion riyal (Ssl .29 billion) stake in an
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    • 481 14 NYT [WASHINGTON] The United States on Monday ended a 15-month economic and political embargo of the Palestinian Authority in a bid to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas and the new Fatah-led emergency government he has established in the West Bank as a counterweight to
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    • 443 14 Re uters [KUWAIT] Islamic bank Kuwait Finance House, the country's second largest lender by market value, wants to use cash from a US$l.O6 billion share sale to expand in the Middle East and possibly Asia. The bank is considering applying for licences
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 331 16 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Citic Resources Holdings Ltd, owned by China's fourth-largest oil producer, said it will sell new shares to Singapore investment agency Temasek Holdings Pte for HK$45O million (5588.5 million) to raise funds for expansion. Ellington Investments Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned unit
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    • 693 16 Fastest economic growth in six decades is luring investors to stocks Bloomb erg [MUMBAI] ICICI Bank Ltd, India's most valuable financial services company, sold the local portion of its record US$4.3 billion share sale in 20 minutes, as the fastest economic growth
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    • 686 16 Move will boost competitiveness of the banking industry Reuters [SHANGHAI] China will allow its city commercial banks to float shares for the first time, a move that will boost the competitiveness of its banking industry after the domestic sector opened fully to foreign
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    • 239 16 AFP [SHANGHAI] China's State Investment Company, which will manage part of the nation's US$l.2 trillion of forex reserves, may get an initial US$25O billion for investment, state media said yesterday. China's Ministry of Finance plans to issue special treasury bonds equivalent to
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    • 407 16 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang pledged on Monday to keep the territory's currency pegged to the US dollar during his five-year term, making the latest affirmation of the link amid persistent speculation that it might be
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    • 575 16 Reuters [HONG KONG] Media tycoon Jimmy Lai is a rarity in Hong Kong's business circles a staunch China critic and democracy advocate who has overcome local hostility to succeed with a mix of pragmatism and a Midas touch. Stretching back in his sunlit
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  • WORLD
    • 520 17 US Supreme Court rules that the proper avenue for redress is securities laws Reuters, LATWP [WASHINGTON] The US Supreme Court handed Wall Street underwriters a major victory on Monday by ruling that an anti-trust lawsuit against them over the pricing of initial public stock
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    • 614 17 Firm's co-founder Jerry Yang named to replace him AP [SAN FRANCISCO] Yahoo chairman Terry Semel stepped down as chief executive in a surprise move, ending his increasingly ineffectual pursuit of online search leader Google a losing battle that had demoralised Yahoo's shareholders and employees.
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    • 247 17 NYT [MOUNTAIN VIEW, California] Google and Pacific Gas Electric (PGBIE) have unveiled their vision of a future in which cars and trucks are partly powered by the country's electric grids, and vice versa. The companies on Monday displayed six Toyota Prius and Ford
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    • 721 17 Reu ters [NEW YORK/BOSTON] A potential rival bid to Rupert Murdoch's lofty US$5 billion offer to buy Dow Jones Co Inc will have to surmount major hurdles of its own to succeed, even though investors are warming up to it. Pearson and
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    • 364 17 LATEST US DATA Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Housing starts in the US fell for the first time in four months in May as interest rates rose, suggesting no early end to the recession in residential real estate. Builders broke ground on new houses at
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  • AVIATION
    • 635 18 Qatar confirms order of 80 A 350 jets, but Airbus trails rival's Dreamliner deals AP [LE BOURGET, France] Airbus stole the spotlight from US rival Boeing Co on the opening day of the world's largest air show, announcing deals worth around
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    • 463 18 Reuters [PARIS] Boeing's top commercial airplanes executive yesterday dismissed a US$45 bilUon order blitz unveiled by rival Airbus as the Paris air show awaited a potential US$B billion order for the Boeing 787. European planemaker Airbus hit the ground running at the start of
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    • 189 18 Reuters [LE BOURGET, France] Delta Air Lines Inc is poised to start replacement of its widebody fleet, and will likely decide by the end of the year whether to go with Boeing Co's popular 787 Dreamliner or the Airbus A
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    • 513 18 Reuters [ROME] Alitalia's auction risks fizzling out altogether as it enters the final stretch, leaving the Italian government with the bleak prospect of pumping more cash into the unprofitable airline to keep it flying. Put up for sale by Rome amid much fanfare
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    • 119 18 US$1b order for Pratt Whitney unit Bloomberg [BOSTON] United Technologies Corp's Pratt Whitney unit, the world's second-biggest jet engine maker, won an order valued at as much as US$l billion from Spain's Grupo Marsans for engines and service for Airbus SAS's A 330. Grupo Marsans, the country's biggest tourism and
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 179 18 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 27 They carry injections for a thousand French hens (8) Blf you hear it, you'll wake up 25 Rex takes snake out of grat--28 Island in March is bliss (8) (8) ing (4) 12 Doffs one's cap, then loses it YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN (5,4,3) 2 Slut accepts last
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  • SHIPPING
    • 544 19  -  Marpol exemptions fuel fears that owners would shift vessels banned in EU, US to region By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] A senior Royal Dutch Shell shipping executive has rejected the view that it's okay to treat Asia as a dumping ground for older,
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    • 498 19 Fall seen continuing till charterers book oil cargoes for July Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] The cost of shipping 80,000 tonnes of oil on Asian routes, which fell 1.2 per cent last week, may extend its decline until charterers book their cargoes for July.
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    • 746 19  -  STRAIT TALK By DAVID HUGHES Well-known ship management figure Rajaish Bajpaee caused a stir in shipowning circles recently when he strongly criticised shipowners at the BIMCO meeting in Hong Kong for not paying enough attention to their seafarers. At a seminar
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    • 487 19 Bernama [NEW DELHII Underlining the need to secure sea lanes of the Indian Ocean, India expressed its readiness on Monday to play a role in protecting the Straits of Malacca as it decided to enhance defence cooperation with Indonesia. According to
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    • 228 19 AFP [BEIJING] China's 1.55 million sailors the largest group of maritime workers in the world will get improved rights including regular paid holiday and health insurance, state media reported yesterday. The new regulations, %which will come into force on Sept
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 505 20 EDITORIAL THE latest government land sales programme reflects the balancing act that is required to respond to the booming property market in Singapore. The government announced last week its biggest ever land sales programme, offering a total of 41 Sites in the second half
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    • 1003 20  -  EU diplomats say that part of the problem is that Poland has not yet learned that making deals in the EU involves a complex game of compromise and give and take between EU states SHADA ISLAM Brussels Correspondent EUROPEAN Union leaders meeting
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    • 781 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING AS the US Treasury Department again refused to designate China as a currency manipulator, congressional critics of Beijing rolled out legislation that they hope would force a drastic appreciation of the yuan and cut the American
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    • 1049 21  -  To some, they are agents of evil threatening to usurp other countries' patrimonies by gobbling up strategic industries By MICHAEL R SESIT OVEREIGN wealth funds JF' are fast becoming the new masters of global finanee. Morgan Stanley predicts these govern--If| ment-owned investment entities will grow to U5527.7
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    • 1489 21  -  It should follow the proposals advanced in 1982 under which the West Bank and Jordan would form a confederation LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent REMEMBER that famous line "The Road to Jerusalem leads through Baghdad" promoted by US President George W Bush and his neoconservative
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