The Business Times, 12 April 2008

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  • 24 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend SINGAPORE 85 cents A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO REGN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 122/12/2007 online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg April 12-13,2008
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  • 586 1 -Reuters, Bloomberg Indicator hits lowest point in 26 years over inflation, jobs [NEW YORK] US consumer confidence fell to its lowest in more than a quarter-cen-tury in early April, diving deeper into recessionary territory on heightened worries over inflation and jobs, a survey showed
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  • 1133 1  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Fine-tuning and improving the rules revised in October is an ongoing process, says Law Ministry By Calling for extraordinary general meetings (EGMs) has also become more troublesome under the new rules. And some agents questioned the need
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 44 1 Bloomberg AST INDEX 3,126.87 (+62.27) AST INDEX FUTURES 3,075 (+62) ASIMSCI 389.38 (+8.41) ASIMSCI FUTURES 388.00 (+12.10) SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONGKONG 5.25 INDONESIA 16.050 TAIWAN 6.316 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.00 US 5.25 CANADA 5.25 SWITZERLAND 3.76 INDIA 12.25 Source:
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    • 41 1 :rn iam 1COMP 1,246.79 -1.40 IIKKEI225 13,323.73 +378.43 1ANG SENG 24,667.79 +480.69 ;et index 827.10 +6.12 JAKARTA COM P 2,303.93 +67.99 IANILACOMP 2,940.98 -14.13 ;eoulcomp 1,779.71 +15.07 ;henzhen b 558.78 +3.48 IUMBAI IND 15,807.64 +112.54 12NOONEDT Change 12,451.62 -130.36 )OW
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    • 39 1 IS$ (S$ per US$) 1.35: (US$/S$ per 1.975 2.683 ;URO(US$/S$/E) 1.582 2.14! 'EN 101.90 75.0I 3.152 2.321 IK$ 7.789 5.73. !AHT 31.62 23.2. 1UPIAH 9,188 6,76. 1ENMINBI 6.999 5.152 INDIAN RUPEE 39.93 29.3! 1.071 0.781 IZ$ 1.250 0.92
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 54 1 J^lr* FOOD FASHION MOTORING RAFFLES CONVERSATION l§^ 1-J \ftWt LLd 'L A tale of Ashley Isham Three interesting Shirley Tilghman: Princeton 3 chefs comes home saloons scientist, president and advocate PAGE 24 PAGE 22 PAGE 19 PAGE 3 fit f 1 ANTHONYSOH I mi-*-- ■i- The man -^3B and his
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 1042 2  -  CHEW XIANG Institutions in Spore feel the paperwork and tax costs could be made lighter [SINGAPORE] It has been almost six months since a slew of laws were passed to promote philanthropy abroad. The idea is not contentious when a rich country
      HABITAT FOR HUMANITY  -  1,042 words
    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 67 2 PWC Corporate Finance has overtaken established investment banks to chalk up the largest number of announced and completed deals in Asia ex-Japan. It announced 87 deals worth a total of US$B.2 billion last year. It was also ranked joint No 1 with
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      • 37 2 THE largest syndicated residential property development loan ever arranged in Singapore a huge $1,996 billion has been issued to the Capita Land-led consortium that clinched Farrer Court. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE 5
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      • 61 2 THE people of China see in the Olympic torch protests wilful intent to humiliate China and its people rather than the Chinese government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. And such displays of contempt for China and things Chinese will have consequences
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      • 53 2 YTL Corporation group managing director Francis Yeoh yesterday confirmed the conglomerate's acquisition of a site near the Kuala Lumpur twin towers for a record sum of RM2.000 (SsB62) psf- and said that he thinks Malaysian land prices are still cheap.
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      • 47 2 CANDIDATES contesting some posts in Malaysia's ruling party will be required to set up blogs, an official said yesterday in a surprising turnaround for governing politicians who until recently derided online political writing as lies and rumours. MALAYSIA/INDONESIA, PAGE 11
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      • 54 2 THE Chinese government announced on Thursday that it had busted an Islamic terror ring that had intended to stage suicide bombings and kidnap athletes, tourists and journalists to sabotage the 2008 summer Olympics. The Public Security Ministry said that 45 people were arrested.
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      • 51 2 INDIA'S top software services companies are set to report modest rises in profits compared with the boom times of recent years as a sluggish US economy crimps outsourcing deals, and the sector's growth is set to slow further. INDIA, PAGE
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      • 44 2 SHARES of Tabcorp Holdings and Tatts Group, Australia's biggest gaming companies, plunged in Sydney trading yesterday after the Victoria government's decision to allow pubs and clubs to bid for their own slot-machine licences. ASIA-PACIFIC, PAGE 16
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      • 53 2 FINANCIAL markets regulators must strengthen oversight, ensuring that banks have enough capital and that accounting rules aren't "destabilising", Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday. "Mark-to-market accounting has sometimes been destabilising", resulting in writedowns and the "fire sale" of assets, he said.
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      • 61 2 WORSE-than-expected results from General Electric turned a tentative stock rally on its head yesterday and added further pressures on the US dollar. GE said that first-quarter profit fell 12 per cent, missing analyst estimates, because it couldn't complete asset sales
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    • 740 2  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY Economic and financial spillovers are still significant IN a report likely to shake the confidence of Asian markets and regional policy makers, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) firmly rejected yesterday the notion that Asian economies have largely decoupled from
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
    • 2338 3 WHEN Shirley Tilghman was named Princeton University's 19th president in May 2001, the news headlines all zoomed in on the fact that she was the first woman at the helm in the Ivy League institution's then 255-year history. But of course. Even though she actually scored a
      ARTHUR LEE  -  2,338 words
    • 99 3 Raffles Hotels Resorts Hotels Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles Hotels Resorts. Ranked second among the world's top hotel brands in the 2006 Conde Nast Traveler Business Travel Awards, Raffles Hotels Resorts is a collection of luxury hotels that distinguishes itself through
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 734 4  -  CHEW XIANG Controversial deals not alien to former medical practitioner EARLIER this week, a man with a foreign accent rang from an overseas number. "I'm calling on behalf of my clients," he said. "What want to know is: have you met
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    • 461 4  -  YEN SREENIVASAN PwC leads with 87 deals in '07 but ÜBS tops in value terms with USs7s.6b deals [SINGAPORE] You don't have to be a big investment bank with a huge team of corporate finance professionals to clinch deals. PwC Corporate Finance
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    • 320 5  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Biggest ever loan syndicated in Spore will be applied towards Farrer Court project rHE largest syndicated residential property development loan ever arranged in Singapore a huge $1,996 oillion has been issued to ;he Capita Land-led consor- Hum that clinched Farrer Court. The
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    • 265 5  -  CHOW PENN NEE UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has signed a deal with China Unionpay (CUP) a Chinese bankcard association for Chinese visitors and tourists to use their CUP credit and debit cards to make purchases at participating merchants. "This is a first for
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    • 618 5  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS EVERY day, traders log on to their computers and begin ill sorts of guessing games. The main one, of course, is guessing what Wall Street might do when it opens later in the day and positioning oneself accordingly. If your is
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 51 5 DAYEN Environmental has entered a 500 million yuan (5596.8 million) joint venture with Fuxin City Council in China to build and operate a water treatment plant, pumping stations and a pipeline delivering water to Fuxin City. Dayen will take an 80 per cent
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      • 45 5 MIYOSHI Precision's net profit for the six months to end-February fell 59.5 per cent to $2.75 million from a year earlier, due to keen competition and foreign currency exchange losses. Revenue fell 9.7 per cent to $73.8 million.
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      • 60 5 JURONG Technologies Industrial Corp's auditors drew attention to its financial statements for 2007, which included trade receivables of $16 million disputed by a customer. As Jurong Tech is still trying to provide the customer with evidence to substantiate the amount, the auditors
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      • 36 5 LI HENG Chemical Fibre Technologies' net profit jumped 89 per cent to 905 million yuan (*****.3 million) last year. Revenue rose 63 per cent to 2.76 billion yuan.
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    • 472 7  -  LYNETTE KHOO Construction to begin within 90 days following signing of turnkey contract UNITED Fiber System (Unifiber) has finally paved the way for the construction of its long held-up US$B93 million pulp mill project in Indonesia. The Singapore-listed forastry, pulp and construction group
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    • 333 7  -  SARA LIM RENOWNED commodities investor Jim Rogers reckons Singapore is poised to become a world or regional centre for commodities trading. Speaking at the listing ceremony of exchange-traded certificates linked to the Rogers International Commodity Enhanced Index (RICI Enhanced) and its Agricultural sub-index
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    • 1401 4 Tk»/*i!RQ\/ Agenda 6 Approval of the payment of director remuneration for the period of April 2008 to March 2009 (Enclosure 5) Hwl^^^^7X Qpj n j on o f f/, e g oar( j o f Directors: The shareholders are recommended to approve the director remuneration for the period of April
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      746 6  -  CONRAD TAN SHAKEN by contract cancelled: Cosco announced that it has secured offshore and tanker building contracts totalling U*****.3 million with one of the contracts fixed in yuan. Cosco also revealed that it will not be proceeding with a US$2O2 million project to build a GMSOOO semi-submersible rig
      : Bloomberg  -  746 words
    • 1605 6  -  TEH HOOI LING SHOW ME THE MONEY CATHERINE Genovese had driven home to the Kew Gardens section of Queens, New York, early on March 13, 1964. Arriving home at about 3.15 am and parking about 30 metres from her apartment, she was attacked
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    • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      • 721 6 Trans Date Shareholder/ Director Sell Conv Shares '000 Price Per Shr Before C000) After ('000) Stock Bee Hup Seng 11-Apr-08Tan Ong Huat ST 2000 na 2500 0.70 500 0.15 Fortune REIT 10-Apr-08 Lim Hwee Chiang «Buy 1425 5.05 ***** 1.56 ***** 1.74 Advance SCT 10-Apr-08 Lim Andy
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      • 337 6 COMPANY MEETING PLACE DATE TIME Rickmers Maritime A 168 Robinson Road, Capital Tower, STI Auditorium (Level 9),Singapore *****2 14-Apr 10.00am Great Eastern A 1 Pickering Street #02-02, Great Eastern Centre,Singapore *****9 15-Apr 4.00pm Cosco Corp A Marina Mandarin Singapore, Level 1, Taurus Leo Room, 6 Raffles Boulevard, Marina
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 1353 7 SI JURONG TECHNOLOGIES I INDUSTRIAL CORPN. LTD JURONG TECHNOLOGIES INDUSTRIAL CORPN. LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of Jurong Technologies Industrial Corpn. Ltd will be held at 18 Tuas West Avenue, Singapore *****4 on the
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    • 2453 7 f Tti tLSJ iJ BU global SC GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration No. *****2459K) NOTICE OF THIRTIETH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTIETH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of SC Global Developments Ltd (the "Company") will be held at 3.00 p.m. on
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 448 8 PM Lee also says no group truly expects public actions to change China policy THE people of China see in the Olympic torch protests wilful intent to humiliate China and its people rather than the Chinese government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 196 8 MEMBERS of the arts community in Singapore will now have another platform to showcase their talent. JTC Corporation yesterday launched the Wessex Village Square one-north a space for art exhibitions, music and dance performances and other events. The square will also house an
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    • 472 8  -  MICHELLE QUAH THE Court of Appeal has substantially slashed damages granted to JTC Corporation after its 2005 victory over Hong Kong contractor Wishing Star. The Appeal Court, on Thursday, reduced JTC's original award of $8.14 million damages to just $339,824 and ordered
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    • 419 9  -  LEE U-WEN He is lauded for his contributions as lead author on panel for climate change THE accolades keep on coming for National University of Singapore (NUS) associate professor Wong Poll Poll, who rose to fame last October when he became the first
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    • 249 9 THE annual World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) will take place in the Middle East for the first time this year, with Kuwait the host city of the four-day meeting. During the April 29-May 1 forum, there will also be parallel sessions
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    • 164 9 THE Health Sciences Authority (HSA) yesterday revealed a new twist in the illegal sexual enhancement product saga. The discovery of three new products this week alone adds to HSA's concern that the problem is becoming more widespread despite repeated warnings, people are
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    • 344 9  -  SAMUEL EE VOLKSWAGEN Group Singapore (VGS) is spending 250,000 euros (*****,915) to start a regional training centre at Singapore's Institute of Technical Education (ITE). The Volkswagen Regional Training Centre will at the Balestier campus of ITE College West, where during
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1271 8 Kingsmen KINGSMEN CREATIVES LTD. (Company Registration No. *****0790Z) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fifth Annual General Meeting of KINGSMEN CREATIVES LTD. will be held at 3 Changi South Lane Singapore *****8 on Monday, 28 April 2008 at 11.00
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    • 3098 9 Acia^ii k- ASIA SILK HOLDINGS LIMITED ftntf^JlLt^-y (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) -/Tf I NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING U HULiJx NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of Asia Silk Holdings Limited will be held at Singapore Exchange Limited Auditorium, 2 Shenton Way, #02-02 Podium SGX
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 442 10  -  PAULINE NG It plans to build luxury apartments on 0.4-ha plot that costs RM2.000 psf YTL Corporation group managing director Francis Yeoh yesterday confirmed the conglomerate's acquisition of a site near the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur for a
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    • 155 10 Bernama [JOHOR BARU] The Iskandar Development Region (IDR), the economic development corridor in southern Peninsular Malaysia, has been renamed Iskandar Malaysia under a rebranding exercise. The decision to change the name was made at the fourth board meeting of the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA)
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    • 2266 10 ipr 11 RM COOO) A&M Realty 0.70 \bric Bhd 0.17 Advance Synergy 0.13 Adventa Bhd 1.21 AeMuIti Hldgs 0.24 Affin Holdings 2.03 Ahmad Zaki Resou 1.08 AicCorp 0.57 \irasia Bhd 1.37 Akn Technology 0.44 Alliance Financi 2.80 Aluminium Co 1.03 Amalgamated Ind 0.47 \mmb HldgsBhd 3.48 Amtel Holdings
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    • 1762 10 SUPER COFFEEMIX MANUFACTURING LTD (Company Registration No. *****1696K) (Incorporated in Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Super Coffeemix Manufacturing Ltd ("the Company") will be held at 2 Senoko South Road, Super Industrial Building, Singapore *****6 on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 at 10.30
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    • 690 10 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 50,1994 Ed] AND IN THE MATTER OF JE INTERNATIONAL MARKETING PTE LTD (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) (Company Registration No. *****1889 C) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At a Meeting of Creditors of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 32 Maxwell Road, #03-16,
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 509 11 Reuters Deputy governor a witness to high profile case of detained Bl chief [JAKARTA] Indonesia's an-ti-graft agency began questioning a central bank deputy governor yesterday, a day after the outgoing governor was detained in a high-profile case that has hit morale at the battered
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    • 268 11 ■AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Candidates contesting some posts in Malaysia's ruling party will be required to set up blogs, an official said yesterday in a surprising turnaround for governing politicians who until recently derided online political writing as lies and rumours. Abdul Rahman Dahlan,
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    • 141 11 Reuters [JAKARTA] The chairman of Indonesia's investment coordinating agency said that ArcelorMittal, the world's top steelmaker, plans to team up with two Indonesian state firms to tap into the mining and steel sector. Muhammad Lutfi told reporters late on Thursday that ArcelorMittal plans to
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 2600 11 acola Cacola Furniture International Limited OAKWEIIL EJE LIMITED (Incorporated in the Cayman Islands) (Co ReQ No-*****3368H) (Registration Number: CT-*****2) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Notice Of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of OAKWELL ENGINEERING LIMITED (the "Company") will be held at The NOTICE
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 324 12 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China said that a resolution by the US House of Representatives calling for an end to a crackdown on protesters in Tibet is a "rude interference" in Chinese internal affairs. "China is strongly indignant and opposed to this resolution," the
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    • 360 12 -LATWP 45 people arrested from 2 terror cells in and around Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital [BEIJING] The Chinese government announced on Thursday that it had busted an Islamic terror ring that had intended to stage suicide bombings and kidnap athletes, tourists and journalists to
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    • 323 12 Reuters The bank books a USs63om sub-prime impairment loss [HONG KONG] China Construction Bank, the country's No 2 lender by assets, met forecasts with a 51 per cent jump in second-half earnings, boosted by higher fee income and margins, despite Beijing's efforts to curb
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    • 8703 12 Transaction date: Apr 11 High »-wks Tel Low Code Last Sale Vol ('000) High Jay Last Quote Div Low Buyer Seller C'vr Net P/E I Cap $mil Company 5716 1st Software 22 6.5 3148 STelecom 28.5 8.5 5834 A-Sonic 110 99.5 6389 ABF SG Bond ETF 30 12
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    • 412 13 -Reuters Court finds him guilty of taking bribes and abuse of power [BEIJING] A Chinese court yesterday sentenced former Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu to 18 years in prison on corruption charges, his lawyer and media said, the most
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    • SGX
      • 57 13 VOLUME UniFiber 110,368,000 Jade Tech 75,012,000 Cosco Corp 52,031,000 ChinaEnerqy 31,616,000 Golden Agri 26,626,000 Synear 24,950,000 CoscoCorpMßLeCWoBo9ol 23,615,000 CoscoCorpMßLeCWoBoBol 19,853,000 CoscoCorpM EReCWOBO9IB 17,943,000 Firstßes 17,793,000 Clob VALUE (S) Cosco Corp 151,263,020 UOB 122,068,951 Keppel Corp 116,762,055 SGX 106,590,030 DBS Grp 94,226,924 OCBC Bk 85,377,685 Capita Land 74,351,450
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      • 96 13 CLOSE UP China H 10US$ 1714 73.3 3.3 IOB 2080 70.0 3.5 1192 42.0 3.7 iBS Gr| 1966 36.0 1.9 il Con 1050 36.0 3.6 lardineC&C 1720 30.0 1.8 )CBCBk4.5%NCPS 100 ***** 30.0 0.3 ;gx 828 30.0 3.8 IOB MBL JCW*****0 755 30.0 4.1 )Cor| MBLJCW*****0 283 29.0 11.4
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      • 117 13 Closing prices are in trading currencies, but absolute difference is in Ss. CLOSE DOWN LD 10US$ 9142 -111.3 -0.9 MH 2940 -73.3 -1.8 ISH 1630 -46.2 -2.0 IGX DB eCW*****9 74.5 -16.5 -18.1 :it' iev NCCPS 182 -12.0 -6.2 .oscoCori iMEReCW***** 8.5 -10.5 -55.3 IA DB eCW*****2 38 -10.0
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    • 78 13 Up Down Unch 7 5 6 Up Down Unch 0 0 0 Up Down Unch 7 5 6 Multi Ind 1anu1 facturim Commerce 28 14 18 31 18 26 Tpt/Stor/Comms 17 11 18 10 11 :inance Construction 13 Pro 27 27 Hotel s/Rsts Services 35 15 22
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    • 120 13 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 38,561 38,561 179,247 179,247 Manufacturing 243,556 96,204 339,760 235,460 6,930 242,390 Commerce 29, ,387 2,591 31,978 66,503 339 66,842 >r/< 105,709 220 105,929 282,255 52 282,308 Finance 44,579 55 44,634 418,057 418,061 Construction 130,587 7,955 138,542 34,526 979 35,504
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    • 59 13 Stock name Close Change Capita Land 6.470 +0.100 lev Cosco Corp 2.930 HK Lam 4.440 JSH 16.300 -0. .340 Jari line" _orp ippel _an< NOL 3.200 Stock name Close Change Olam 2.460 +0.180 SIA Engg 4.120 SPH 4.510 +0.010 :ngg >eml _orp •ieml lar SingTt 3.980
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    • 1712 13 BONDS WARRANTS Pel lode Company Last Sale Vol Conv Exer +or- ("000) Ratio Price Disc Gear- Mths ing Left 1481 #Asia Water Tech W*****0 19 -1 5 1 18 -5 2.05 32 >878 Aztech Systems W*****6 4.5 0.5 2 1 51 136 5.22 27 S762 Capitaland BNP ECW*****0 3.5 -0.5
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    • 2209 13 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non-Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer
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    • 82 13 52-Wk Tel h Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP) Day ih Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil Hii Comi Hii 200 116 6065 Diamonds 6200 6200 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** ***** 6101 ISS&P5OO *****
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    • 78 13 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol cooo] Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap |h Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E Sinil Comi 'an: Hii 139 63 6000 AVJennings 21.5 5.5 6134 Over&Gen 60.5 17.5 6017 StarCruises 320 199 6019 TanChonglnt A70 +4 A10 US20 unch HK240cd
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  • INDIA
    • 636 14 Reuters They expect to report modest rise in profits as sector slows further [BANGALORE] India's top software services companies are set to report modest rises in profits compared with the boom times of recent years as a sluggish US economy crimps
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    • 281 14 Reuters [LONDON] A gold encrusted dagger once owned by the Indian emperor who built the Taj Mahal has sold for more than £1.5 million (554.02 million) at an auction in London three times its expected price. The dagger, once part of Shah Jahan's royal
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    • 399 15  -  SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA Competition for few seats in top institutions of higher learning creating despair THE flip side of high growth, rising incomes and opportunities is taking a toll on Indian students. According to official figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau, almost 6,000
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    • 4625 15 GLOBAL TESTING CORPORATION LIMITED 878 FIRST RESOURCES LIMITED ■ji|^v Company Registration No. *****9582R (Company Registration No. *****5931 M) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Incorporated in Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held
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  • ASIA PACIFIC
    • 429 16 Bloomberg The firms' shares plunge on news they'll lose slot machine duopoly in 2012 [SYDNEY] Shares of Tabcorp Holdings and Tatts Group, Australia's biggest gaming companies, plunged in Sydney trading yesterday after the Victoria government's decision to allow pubs and clubs to
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    • 292 16 Reuwrs [WELLINGTON] New Zealand's government rejected yesterday a NZ$l.B billion (551.96 billion) bid by a Canadian fund for a stake in Auckland International Airport, saying that it would not benefit the country, and sending the airport operator's shares down 11 per cent. The
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    • 3345 16 HOSEN GROUP LTD. yjCfj (C0.Reg.N0:*****3029E) HOSENGROUP ASJ Holdings Limited TRI-M TECHNOLOGIES (S) LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore with limited liability) M «^..i &SSSfl^^^X (Company Registration No. *****1138Z) (Incorporated In The Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of HOSEN GROUP LTD. ("the Company") NOTICE IS HEREBY
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 600 17 Bloomberg, Reuters Change accounting rules carefully to avoid damaging investor confidence [NEW YORK] Financial markets regulators must strengthen oversight, ensuring that banks have enough capital and that accounting rules aren't "destabilising", Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday. "Mark-to-market accounting has sometimes
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    • 312 17 -AFP [TOKYO] Japan's second largest bank Mizuho Financial Group yesterday issued its third profit warning in five months, saying the sub-prime loan crisis had halved its annual net profit. Japanese banks have not escaped a global credit crunch triggered by a wave of
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    • 484 18 -Reuters, Dwumuerg Q1 profit dives 12% to 44 US cents a share; trails estimate of 51 US cents [LONDON] Worse-than-ex-pected results from United States conglomerate General Electric turned a tentative stock rally on its head yesterday and added further pressure
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    • 527 18 Bloomberg LATEST US DATA [WASHINGTON] Prices of goods imported into the US rose more than forecast in March, reflecting a surge in energy costs and a weaker dollar. The 2.8 per cent increase in the import price index followed a 0.2 per
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  • MOTORING
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    • 234 19 YUP, the top-of-the-line Honda Accord V 6 has the distinction of being a front-wheel-driven car with one of the biggest engines available 3.5 litres. But it is also a car that brims with technology. The previous V 6 Accord had a three-litre engine, but Honda engineers decided to
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  • GOLF
    • 1122 20 With three wins already this year, Mexico's Lorena Ochoa is making a big splash in the golfing world, writes JUSTINE MOSS THE best golfer in the world is on an incredible roll, having already won three times this year in seemingly effortless fashion. This week, all eyes will
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    • 684 20 Wilie&dilie with weekendßT Mezeßar over 30 labels. Lunch $42.00++ per person, Dinner: sumptuous Penang and international buffet lunch from Pan Pacific Orchard Sunday to Wednesday: $48.00++ per person and Mondays to Saturdays. $23.80++ adult and $11.90++ A, n w eO ai ccoc 333 Orchard Road, Meritus Mandarin Singapore, T t
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  • WELLNESS
    • 700 21 GlamSmile offers an efficient and affordable procedure that could give you two rows of white, even teeth in less than two hours, writes CHEAH UI-HOON DESIGNER smiles are getting easier to come by these days, the latest being a fast delivery system of veneers that could give
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  • SHOPPING
    • 627 22 Two designer boutiques opening mid-year look set to raise Singapore's profile as a designer shopping hub, reports CHEAH UI-HOON I ROM Australia to Asia that's the leap that designer Jayson Brunsdon wants to make with the opening of his first boutique in
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    • 552 22 LIMITED-EDITION wear designed especially for his store opening, commissioned accessories and specially-cre-ated perfumes will be among the things fashionistas can look forward to when London-based, Singa-pore-born Ashley Isham opens his first boutique here. Plus a visual and shopping experience like no other in Singapore, in a
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    • 566 22  -  CHEAH UI-HOON By TIFFANY Co's total international sales outside the United States grew 21 per cent last year, with Singapore and Asia growing faster than that, says James Quinn, president of the American jewellery company who oversees the company's global expansion strategy. "Singapore performed
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  • TRAVEL
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES Weekend
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