The Business Times, 28 April 2008

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION COREGNNOI9B4O2B6BE MICA (P) 122/12/2007 Monday, April 28,2008
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  • Disciplinary actions in event of breach
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      54 1 SGX A sponsor may face Revocation or suspension of authorisation Fine of up to $250,000 for each breach Restrictions or conditions on activities Reprimand Education programme A registered professional may face Cancellation or suspension of registration Fine of up to $100,000 for each breach Restrictions or conditions on activities
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      Lock icon London AIM
      51 1 ?:AIM A nomad may face Warning notice Fine of up to £50,000 Censure or removal from the register Publication of action by Exchange taken against it Note: unlimited fines for serious breaches A qualified executive (QE) may face Removal of QE status if found in breach, bankruptcy etc
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    Lock icon Catalist sponsors seek cover from shadow of fines
    850 1  -  LYNETTE KHOO As breaches attract penalties, registered professionals turn to insurance By [SINGAPORE] As they guide companies to list and maintain their listing on Singapore's junior board, Catalist sponsors and their registered professionals are becoming acutely aware of the risk that comes
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    Lock icon New chip firm Numonyx to ramp up S'pore production
    545 1  -  ONG BOON KIAT It will consolidate, move operations from 7 worldwide sites to just 2 By [SINGAPORE] Newly-creat-ed semiconductor firm Numonyx has aggressive plans to beef up its Ang Mo Kio factory in the coming months. The company is preparing to
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
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      54 1 ST Index 3,189.20 +64.33 KLCOMP 1,288.08 +20.43 NIKKEI 225 13,863.47 +387.02 HANG SENG 25,516.78 +1319.00 SET INDEX 832.19 -13.21 JAKARTA COMP 2,240.58 -108.69 MANILA COMP 2,777.93 -137.74 SEOUL COMP 1,824.68 +52.78 SHENZHENB 569.82 +63.69 MUMBAI IND 17,125.98 +644.78 DOW 12,891.86 +42.50 N AS DAI 2,422.93 +19.96 S&P 500 1,397.84
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      29 1 SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 5.25 INDONESIA 15.861 TAIWAN 6.316 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.00 US 5.25 CANADA 5.25 SWITZERLAND 3.75 INDIA 12.25 Source: Bloomberg
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      42 1 US$ (S$ per US$) 1.363 (US$/S$ >er£) 1.971 2.687 EURO (US$/S$/E) 1.559 2.124 YEN 104.70 76.80 RM 3.159 2.317 HK$ 7.794 5.718 BAHT 31.66 23.23 RUPIAH 9,230 6,772 RENMINBI 7.007 5.141 INDIAN RUPEE 40.20 29.49 A$ 1.073 0.788 NZ$ 1.282 0.940
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      99 1 DINING OUT t>M BizlT VIEWS FROM THE TOP '_JKf^* S-SHARES Convivial moments with M British Telecom to Corporate sponsorship: 9MM Analysts bullish, but AXA head Henri Gurs JP^in^l increase investment Picking the right event PkjThl governance a concern PAGE 13 j__l nere PAGE 30 PAGES 10 &11 PAGE 7 DINING
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  • TOP STORIES
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        Lock icon More Japanese firms set up regional HQ in S'pore
        72 2 MORE Japanese companies have capitalised on Singapore's growth as a global business hub to set up regional headquarters here in the past two years, a recent survey shows. Some 58 per cent of 227 Japanese companies polled in the survey in
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        Lock icon S-shares on analysts' radar but governance a concern
        38 2 ANALYSTS remain bullish on S-shares or Singapore-listed China shares. But issues of corporate governance and transparency continue to cast a shadow on some of these stocks. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE 7
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        Lock icon Yangzijiang eyes over 50% jump in earnings
        64 2 CITING expansion plans, robust order books and existing strong fundamentals, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding is confident of sustaining earnings growth of more than 50 per cent this fiscal year and the next. Chairman Ren Yuan Lin expects the group's shipbuilding capacity to jump by 2
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        Lock icon S'pore to be manufacturing hub for Lanxess
        43 2 GERMANY'S Lanxess, which is building a mega 400 million euro (SsB4s million) synthetic rubber plant on Jurong Island, is considering even more chemicals manufacturing projects here, its chairman Axel Heitmann has disclosed. SINGAPORE NEWS, PAGE 9
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        Lock icon Asia losing competitive edge to other regions
        67 2 ASIA is losing international competitiveness because of deficiencies in basic infrastructure provision, according to experts involved in a major new study of the problem. The study, launched jointly by Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank Institute, will look at Asia's infrastructure needs
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        Lock icon British Telecom to increase its investment here
        55 2 SINGAPORE'S Next Generation Broadband Network and Intelligent Nation 2015 project are key to British Telecom's business and continued investment here, said BT Global Services chief Francois Barrault. Expansion plans include a boosting of BT's headcount here by 50 per cent over the next
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      Lock icon Give CAI more space to spread its wings
      795 2  -  YEN SREENIVASAN COMMENTARY If corporatised or privatised, it may freely participate in global aviation growth DURING a recent aviation gathering, I had the opportunity to chat with a senior bureaucrat from the Indian aviation ministry. Our conversation meandered into the subject of
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      Lock icon American chambers want US to stay engaged with Asia
      952 2  -  ANNA TEO APCAC also targets tax law that has hit American expats By [SINGAPORE] Ensuring that the United States stays engaged with Asia is a key priority of the Asia-Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce (APCAC), says its newly-elected chairman,
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      Lock icon More Japanese firms set up regional HQ here
      588 3  -  > CHUANG PECK MING Sales marketing management most common RHQ function: survey By [SINGAPORE] More Japanese companies have capitalised on Singapore's growth as a global business hub to set up regional headquarters (RHQs) here in the past two years, according to a
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      Lock icon S'pore among top picks for Japan's foreign firms
      569 3  -  CHUANG PECK MING 64% say China is strategically the most important By [SINGAPORE] Foreign companies in Japan have picked Singapore as one of the most strategically important for business, along with countries such as China and India, according to a recent survey.
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      1151 2 y+J BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS CO., LTD Head Office: 188 Yin Cheng Zhong Lv, Shanghai *****0, People's Republic of China Singapore Branch: 50 Raffles Place, #26-04 Singapore Land Tower, Singapore *****3 CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET CONSOLIDATED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT (All amounts expressed in millions of RMB unless otherwise staled.) (All amounts
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      113 3 PULSES OUT TOMORROW! The May issue of Pulses will hit the newsstands tomorrow! Why do several Singaporean entrepreneurs sell the companies that they had successfully built from scratch? When is the right time to shop for Reits? How does self-made Indonesian tycoon KrisWiluan make his millions? And on a lighter
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      129 3 ORCHARD iSCOTTS RESIDENCES SINGAPORE (i I' WAV/ vm A great way to live, right down to the littlest detail. "^am^ i,^^m| m Welcome to a life of ease and comfort at N^J| Orchard Scotts Residences, where you have H the assurance that everything will be taken care of, right down
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Fed meeting a key moment for Wall St
      1531 4  -  TEH HOOI LING IS THE market overly optimistic? News from the economic front continues to be worrisome, but the stock market is holding firm. Last week, it was released that new US homes plunged to their lowest level in over 16 years
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      Lock icon Purchases by directors, substantial shareholders falls
      1333 4 INSIDE MARKETS The number of companies on the buying side was sharply up from the previous week's 36 firms, writes ROBERT HALILI BUYING by directors and substantial shareholders fell while the selling was flat last week based on filings on the Exchange from April
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  • RISING ASIA
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      Lock icon Investment portfolios turn green
      941 5 Socially responsible investing is gaining favour among high net worth individuals, reports OH BOON PING INTEREST in environmentally-friendly investments is rising in Asia, and could gather momentum in the months ahead. According to the Merrill Lynch Cap Gemini World Wealth Report 2007, environmental and socially responsible
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon A balancing act between despair and hope
      719 6  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS EQUITY markets currently appear to be delicately balanced between hoping that the worst of the credit crisis is over, knowing that it is probably too early to say that it is over with any real conviction, and yet not wanting
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      Lock icon Asian currencies mixed against US dollar
      200 6 ■AFP CURRENCIES [HONG KONG] Key Asian currencies ended the week mixed against the US dollar following forecasts that the US Federal Reserve may soon end its interest rate-cutting cycle and after an inflation hike in Australia. Japanese yen: The yen slipped to an eight-week
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      2360 6 Payment (cts) Ex Books Pay date close date 8Telecom Intl bn 0.123 06-Ma) 08-Ma) 22-M; ABR Hldgs ak 0.500 07-May 09-May 28-May Action Asia ak 0.500 06-May 08-May 20-May idami ak 0.700 05-Ma) 07-Ma) 23-M; Adami bh 0.550 05-Ma) 07-Ma) 23-M; Advance Hldi ak 0.750 28 At 30-A[
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      Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
      1980 6 Source: Reuters Lansensus no. ot i-orecasi mean i-n s recommendation esti- EPS PE target prici This wk Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price Company name \dvance SCT Ltd 2.50 2.50 2 7.15 4.69 0.50 0.34 Jlco Commercial REIT 2.25 2.25 5.74 14.46 1.10 0.82 .II' ireen Pro Ltd
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX
      4 6 WEEKLY
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      54 6 CLOSE 450.00 -84.00 BT OB/OS BT CADI -*****.00 +53.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +45.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 808.73 +0.04 FTSE ST Small Cap 677.58 +3.26 FTSE ST All Share 814.02 +2.51 FTSE ST China 504.73 +2.24 UOB Catalist 147.68 -1.41 SiMSCI 394.67 +0.49 SiMSCI Future 392.50
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      60 6 VOLUME China Honi jxini 343,363,000 Yan^ |zijian< 293,124,000 !hinaEnen 266,980,000 ChinaEratat 259,837,000 CoscoCo iMBLeCW*****1 219,240,000 Jade Tech 182,755,000 ■osco Cor| 182,606,000 ChinaNTown 165,130,000 151,035,000 ■oscoCo iDBeCW*****9 149,416,000 VALUE($) Cor| 705,886,961 iosco Con 620,764,406 iBS Gri 487,868,356 SGX 458,564,254 >in< [Tel 401,521,834 UOB 361,623,726 Yam izijiani 306,451,545 OCBC
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      105 6 China H 10US$ CLOSE UP 1826 273.9 12.4 JMH 3196 158.1 3.8 Thai Prime Fd 860 147.2 14.4 SGX 900 100.0 12.5 Pair irm 526 87.2 13.9 DBS Gri 1990 76.0 4.0 OUE 1400 70.0 5.3 SGX MBL JCW*****3 384 67.0 21.1 DBS MBLiCW/*****0 670 66.0 10.9 SGXMBLJCW*****0 321
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      108 6 Closing prices are in trading currencies, but absolute difference is in Ss. CLOSE DOWN 2000-2800.0 -58.3 BMT GLD 10US! 8714-846.2 -6.7 SPC 729 -72.0 -9.0 JardineC&C 1676 -68.0 -3.9 Kej Cor| 1090 -60.0 -5.2 GuocoLand Ltd 297 -58.0 -16.3 Kei MBUCW*****3 379 -56.0 -12.9 Kej MBLJCW*****0 303 -55.0 -15.4
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      81 6 Where S$ stands Apr 25 %CHNG CLOSE FRApr24 YR2008 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.3647 -0.60 1.4542 1.3457 Euro 2.1272 0.29 2.2064 2.0474 Pounds 2.6960 -0.62 2.8431 2.6583 AS 1.2719 0.73 1.3235 1.2349 Yen* 1.3059 0.12 1.4484 1.2832 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.44 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.3064 -0.29 4.4299 4.2620 Peso*
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon S-shares on analysts' radar but governance a concern
      930 7  -  LYNETTE KHOO Growth prospects cannot replace good governance and disclosure practices By ANALYSTS remain bullish about S-shares or Singa-pore-listed Chinese firms, after recent correction uncovered value in stocks that present strong fundamentals. But such prospects may be overshadowed by issues of corporate
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      Lock icon What to expect
      50 7 Dates of release of first quarter results ended Mar 2008 HLFin Apr 28 Luzhou Bio-Chem Apr 29 MacQuarie MEAG Apr 29 Prime REIT MCLLand Apr 29 Raffles Mcd Apr 29 Capita Land Ltd Apr 30 CDL Hospitality REIT Apr 30 Cosco Corp Apr 30 Hi-Plntl Apr 30
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      Lock icon Yangzijiang eyes over 50% jump in earnings
      694 7  -  LYNETTE KHOO By CITING expansion plans, robust order books and existing strong fundamentals, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding is confident of sustaining earnings growth of more than 50 per cent this fiscal year and the next. The management of the Chinese shipbuilding company was in Singapore
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      Lock icon Make Chinese listings uphold higher standard of governance
      752 8  -  LYNETTE KHOO THE move by the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to set up a representative office in Beijing is seen as a step forward in its efforts to woo Chinese listings, which make up the bulk of foreign listings in the local bourse.
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      Lock icon Novo aims to be major player in steel trading
      454 8  -  YEN SREENIVASAN By MARKET debutant Novo Group expects to emerge as one of Asia's and possibly the world's most prominent steel trading groups in short order. The company, whose shares start trading on the Singapore Exchange this morning, said it was
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      Lock icon Luck plays a part in success: Noble founder
      835 8 Reuters Richard Elman was a scrap trader before he switched to commodities [HONG KONG] In an office full of modern Chinese paintings overlooking Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, Richard Elman, founder and head of Asia's largest commodities supplier Noble Group, says he has
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon S'pore to be manufacturing hub for Lanxess
      664 9  -  RONNIE LIM Republic may become its Asian headquarters for butyl rubber By GERMANY'S Lanxess which is building a mega 400 million euro (Ssß4s million) synthetic rubber plant on Jurong Island is considering even more chemicals manufacturing projects here, its chairman Axel Heitmann has
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      Lock icon Revving up for Shanghai track
      349 9 FRESH from its inaugural race at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia, SC Global's Porsche recently zoomed into Shanghai for its second race of the season. The Porsche 911 GT3 was plastered over with the upmarket property developer's new monogram design, a branding initiative it
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      Lock icon Jurong hospital will be ready by 2015
      425 9  -  CHEN HUIFEN Medishield claim limits raised for implants, ward stay Reports by THE new public hospital in Jurong will be ready by 2015 and follow the Changi General Hospital model of co-locating with a community hospital. The Ministry of Health (MOH) said that
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      Lock icon Draft regulations on liposuction issued
      292 9 GENERAL practitioners may no longer carry out liposuction at their clinics, if the quantity of fat to be removed is more than one litre. This is according to the Ministry of Health's draft regulation for liposuction released yesterday. "When liposuction involves the removal of more
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      Lock icon ACR writes US$340m in non-life premiums
      284 9  -  GENEVIEVE CUA By HOMEGROWN reinsurance firm Asia Capital Re (ACR) has written about US$34O million in non-life premiums in its first year of operation. The company was recently granted a composite license by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), paving the way for its
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      Lock icon NTUC unveils new logo
      182 9 THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) yesterday unveiled a new logo (right) to replace the labour movement's 37-year-old logo. The rebranding is one of NTUC's initiatives to attract more Singaporeans. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was the guest of honour at the unveiling ceremony at Downtown
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      Lock icon Building synergies
      2928 10 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC What do businesses look for when considering whether to sponsor an event? What can organisers do to make their events more attractive to sponsors? Tony Scaly Managing Director Intense Animation Studio AS the proprietor of an animation company in a currently "hot" medium, my company
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  • DINING OUT
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      Lock icon You call it bulgogi, I call it yakiniku
      766 12  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon Tajimaya is the latest yakiniku restaurant to open in town, and diners who like grilling their own meats would be interested to know that yakiniku is the Japanese adaptation of the Korean barbecue. NEW RESTAURANT Tajimaya Yakiniku #01-1-102/103 Vivo City
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  • DINING OUT WITH citibank
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      Lock icon Giving a new meaning to food
      763 13  -  JAIME EE POWER Lunch By HENRI Gurs comes from the best of both worlds-that is, if both worlds were located in France. His father is from Bordeaux and his mother from Burgundy the two most well known wine regions in the world which means
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      696 13  -  Geoffrey Eu Si Bon Sushi Si Bon, 1 Larkhill Road, Amara Sanctuary Resort, Sentosa, Singapore *****4. Tel: 6276-9896 or 6276-8902 JUST over a year ago, we wrote about Si Bon, an intimate and elegantly rustic Japanese restaurant on Sentosa specialising in kushiage cuisine, where various
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      49 13 Please refer to citibank.com.sg for full details. Indulge in over 700 gourmet pleasures with your Citibank credit card. For more gourmet treats, visit: citibank.com.sg ppl Mobile Gourmet cJ citibank.com.sg/singapore/gpmobile fl ,°in Lj® Your Citibank guide to gourmet pleasures this week t 1^ fl vC Brought to you by citibank
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
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      Lock icon A look at ETFs and Zero Certs
      966 14 These relatively new products are alternative asset classes that provide diversification to investors, reports QUAH CHIN CHIN EXCHANGE-TRADED funds (ETFs) may be the new kids on the investment block in Asia, but already, analysts are predicting that they will get hotter. ETFs are
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      804 14 CAMPUS LIFE Changing strategies midway pays off, the four-man team of aspiring entrepreneurs tells WEE JUN KAI WHILE their peers were taking a break from studies, pursuing their interests or taking up industry internships, National University of Singapore sec-ond-year students Lai Wai Kit, Joshua Lim, Choo
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      Lock icon Be smart with your finances
      158 14 FANCY becoming the next Warren Buffett or George Soros? Or even the famous Robert Kiyosaki? Then read on. The Young Investors' Forum, part of the BT-Citibank Tertiary Outreach Programme, isn't another dry page out of your financial textbook. To complement our editorial content, we have
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      46 14 citibank 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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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon No quick fix to soothe Asia's rice shortage fears
      604 15 Reuters Policymakers should focus on sustainable increases in productivity [MANILA] Asia's fear of impending rice shortages looks to have become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy and exposed the over-reliance of many of the region's economies on food subsidies and other market-imbalancing
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      Lock icon Analysts see bubble in rising oil
      631 15 -AP But growing demand and tighter supplies may keep prices high [HOUSTON] Oil's meteoric rise to near US$l2O a barrel looks like more than just another economic bubble growing demand and tighter supplies are likely to keep prices high. Some analysts say even US$2OO
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      Lock icon Jim Rogers buys Chinese shares as market bottoms
      430 15 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Investor Jim Rogers is buying Chinese shares, among the world's worst performers this year, as the market has bottomed, and he's focusing on agriculture, tourism, airlines and education. "All my new money goes to commodities and China," said Mr Rogers,
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      Lock icon UN set to reveal steps to solve food crisis
      606 15 -AFP [GENEVA] The United Nations is meeting today to discuss the growing crisis caused by a worldwide sharp rise in basic foodstuff prices. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon will lead the meeting of 27 key UN agencies in the Swiss capital of Bern.
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      149 15 If you are in any of these situations: V You are entrusted to set up new business in Singapore, either with overseas or local partners, and don't know how and where to begin You want to focus on growing your business, you need a trusted partner to help keep watch
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  • CREDIT CRISIS
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      Lock icon Calls to reform Swiss banking system after sub-prime losses
      633 16 -AFP [GENEVA] Switzerland's banking sector, once synonymous with stability and secrecy, is now under intense scrutiny and undergoing serious soul-searching after its two biggest banks got caught in the sub-prime crisis. Industry leaders and the authorities, who until recently had stressed
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      Lock icon What's really going on
      1204 16 ■NYT The SEC let broker-dealers set their own valuations on assets and liabilities, reports BEN STEIN You don't really need to find out what's going on. You don't really want to know just how far it's gone. Just leave well enough alone. Don Henley, Dirty Laundry
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      584 17  -  PAULINE NG MALAYSIA INSIGHT Politicians go through some soul searching THERE'S nothing like a hefty repudiation at the polls to bring about some soul searching and tySorry such a difficult word to extract from most Malaysian politicians, especially those ensconced in power for too long
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      313 17 -AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Environmentalists have condemned a trial plan to deploy millions of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in Malaysia to fight dengue fever, a report said yesterday. Malaysia has expressed concern about the insectborne scourge after 25 people were killed
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      295 17 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia plans to spend six trillion rupiah (*****.6 million) this year to provide farmers with rice seeds, including high-yielding hybrid varieties, to boost output, Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said on Saturday. Authorities in Indonesia have been trying to take measures to cushion the
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      425 17 Reuters [TELUK AIR TAWAR, Malaysia] Malaysia expects 5-6 per cent economic growth in 2009, close to this year's forecast, as domestic momentum keeps the economy resilient despite rising energy costs and slowing global demand, a government minister said on Saturday. "I don't think it
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      212 17 -AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia should legalise football betting to stamp out match-fixing, a top coach said yesterday after police launched a graft probe into five of the 13 teams in the Malaysian Super League. Steve Darby, chief coach of former Malaysian Cup champions Perak state,
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      697 18 Reuters Investment welcome subject to rigorous national interest test says minister [SYDNEY] Australia yesterday said that no Chinese companies have been told to withdraw applications to buy into Australian resource firms, despite media reports Canberra was pressuring China to back away
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      403 18 -AFP [BEIJING] Olympics officials insist that the world's best athletes will get a top-level Games in Beijing in August, despite controversy currently swirling around the event. The Beijing Olympic organising committee, working on preparations for the Games for the past seven years,
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      412 18 Reuters [BEIJING] China poured scorn on the Dalai Lama yesterday and hailed protesters against Tibetan self-rule as patriotic heroes, suggesting that the government is not prepared to give ground in talks proposed for coming days. China has blamed the exiled
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      336 18 ■Reuters [BEIJING] Anti-dumping and other trade disputes with Chinese exporters could grow as global economic gloom stokes protectionism, a government official warned, urging local companies to do more to defend their legal rights. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce official in charge of fair
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      324 18 -AP [TAIPEI] The honorary chairman of Taiwan's incoming ruling Nationalist party will meet China's President Hu Jintao in Beijing this week, a party official said on Saturday. The visit appeared to be another indication of warming relations between rivals Taiwan and China, who split
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      395 19 APR 25 BANKS ABN Amro Bank NY 5.5 Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 American Express Bank 5.75 Arab Bank PLC 5.5 Banca Di Roma Singapore branch 6.5 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A 6 Bangkok Bank 6 Bank Julius Baer Co. Ltd(S) 5 Bank
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      484 19 -AFP 5.8 km experimental bus lane leads to massive traffic jams [NEW DELHI] India's capital has put the brakes on a grand project to speed up New Delhi's bus network which has caused massive traffic jams in the city of 18
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      455 19 Reuters Growth of corporate loans, fall in cost of funds help it to beat forecasts [MUMBAI] ICICI Bank, India's second largest bank, on Saturday reported a forecast-beating 39 per cent rise in quarterly net profit as corporate loans grew and its cost of
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      249 19 Xinhua [NEW DELHI] Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil has said that the population is expected to reach 1.20 billion by 2011, according to a report posted on the website of the Indian Home Ministry last Friday. The minister made the prediction on
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      127 19 Stock name Close Change Cai i Land 6.990 +0.04I Cai iMall 3.550 +0.09I Cit' 12.480 -0.060 Cosco Con 3.470 -0.030 DBS Gri 19.900 +0.200 FSN 4.920 +0.020 Gent Intl 0.610 +0.005 HKLand 4.540 +0.140 JSH 17.400 -0.080 Jardine CSC 16.760 -0.200 tod name lose lange Kei
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      Lock icon Transatlantic trade dispute looms over biodiesel
      543 20 Reuters [BRUSSELS] European biodiesel producers kicked off a new transatlantic trade dispute on Friday when they asked Brussels to impose punitive duties on US biodiesel, and their US rivals said they would hit back. With demand for plant-based fuels starting to soar as the
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      661 20  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY Study's findings to guide ADB policies on provision of infrastructure By in Tokyo ASIA is losing international competitiveness not only compared to advanced nations but even against other developing regions of the world because of deficiencies in its basic infrastructure provision, according
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      610 20 -NYT [NEW YORK] Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner of The Daily News, believes he can snatch Newsday from Rupert Murdoch without offering a dime more than the US$5BO million already on the table. Late on Friday afternoon, Mr Zuckerman submitted a bid of US$5BO million for the
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      596 20 Reuters PPP seeks changes in charter that threatens 3 parties with dissolution for poll fraud [BANGKOK] Even by the standards of Thailand's untouchable elite, it was considered bad form. A decorated policeman was shot dead in a Bangkok bar in 2001 after a fracas
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      593 21 Bloomberg Ballmer deadline for USs44.6b bid passes without Net firm agreeing to deal [NEW YORK] Microsoft Corp chief executive Officer Steve Ballmer may start a fight to oust Yahoo! Inc's board and pave the way for a takeover, after the Internet
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      881 21  -  ANDREW MARKS WALL STREET INSIGHT By in New York IF investors thought it was hard-going to get the US stock market into positive territory last week, they haven't seen anything yet. Between another big week of earnings reports, the strong possibility that
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      481 21 Reuters Emerging markets specialist forfeits USs2som bonus and quits GLG Partners [LONDON] Greg Coffey, one of the hedge fund industry's top performers with a pay packet to match, looks set to start his own hedge fund firm when he
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      409 21 -AFP [BARCELONA] Defending world champion Kimi Raikkonen extended his lead in this year's title race to nine points yesterday when he drove to a comfortable victory in an incident-filled Spanish Grand Prix. The Finn, driving a Ferrari, led from start to finish,
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      929 21 1 -AP FORMULA ONE [NEW YORK] Nico Rosberg, Nelson Piquet Jr and Kazuki Nakajima, three sons of former Formula One drivers who are racing in the series, probably resemble one another more than they do their famous fathers. Their presence in Formula One, where there have
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
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      556 22 Reuters It is in talks with US Airways, Continental for merger or alliance, sources say [NEW YORK] American Airlines has had early-stage merger talks with US Airways and is in advanced talks for an alliance with Continental Airlines, sources briefed on the situation said last
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      448 22 Reuters [LONDON] Airports owner British Airports Authority (BAA) will struggle to get a premium price if it is forced to sell one of its airports in a hurry, especially one the size of London's second hub Gatwick. A weak financial climate and
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      241 22 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines (SIA) has taken delivery of its fourth Airbus A3BO, the world's biggest passenger plane, which will start daily flights to Tokyo's Narita International Airport next month. The new plane left the Airbus delivery centre in Toulouse, France, on Saturday
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      325 22 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Smit Internationale, the biggest marine salvage company, may be heading for a takeover two months after rejecting a US$3OO million bid for its oil tanker towing unit. The shares, already lifted by record crude prices, have jumped 25 per cent since chief
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
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      6526 23 Week ended: Apr 25 Hi. Low Code Comi Sale Hi. Low Bui Seller Cvr P/E Sniii 5716 1st Software 22 6.5 3148 8Telecom fto 8do S fc s F °s n& 25? 71] is $£m c°:<:. Ai 58 255?i 22 4 3100 ASAGrp 27 8 1102 ASJ Hlclqs
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      381 24 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Apr 25 World Index Preliminary 1047.6 0.5 -7.4 0.7 -10.1 0.5 -5.1 t EAFE Prel liminai 1006.7 1.1 -10.2 1.4 -10.2 1.1 -5.2 Euroi Preliminary
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      132 24 As at 9am Apr 25 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2690 1.2840 Can dollar 1.3310 1.3470 Euro 2.1200 2.1430 NZ dollar 1.0610 1.0830 Sterlini ind 2.6670 2.6961 US dollar 1.3510 1.3660 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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      25 24 Apr 25 Sett ten Hi in. STI SIMSCI A[ 395.6 396.5 392.5 Taiwan 348 349.2 346.8 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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      23 24 Apr 25 I S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3607 1.3615 2-months 1.3588 1.3597 3-months 1.3575 1.3585 6-months 1.3535 1.3545 Source: OCBC
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      158 24 Apr 25 Against SS Currencies Bid Offer Against US$ Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2691 1.2703 0.9313 0.9318 Canadian dollar 1.3362 1.3376 0.9806 0.9812 Euro 2.1236 2.1250 1.5584 1.5587 NZ dollar 1.0630 1.0641 0.7801 0.7805 Sterlin. md 2.6860 2.6875 1.9711 1.971
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      352 24 Apr 25 VOL OP/INT urtn mun LUVV 3tl I EURODOLLAR FUTURES JunO8 SepO8 DecO8 MarO9 97.100 97.000 96.795 96.725 0 0 0 0 ***** ***** ***** ***** EUROYEN FUTURES JunO8 99.155 99.155 SepO8 99.000 99.020B DecO8 99.000 99.015B MarO9 98.990 99.000 JunO9 98.820 98.820 SepO9 DecO9 Mar10
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      279 24 Apr 25 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 1 (S cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest May 08 Jun 08 Jul 08 Aug 08 Sep 08 Oct/Dec 08 394.00 389.50 384.50 382.75 381.00 380.75 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month High Low Sett Volume (tonnes) Open
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      102 24 Apr 25 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low May 08 1325.75 1348.75 1360.00 1324.50 Jul 08 1337.00 1361.00 1372.00 1335.00 Aug 08 1317.50 1341.00 1344.00 1315.00 Sep 08 1269.00 1289.50 1291.00 1267.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low May 08 58.97 60.17 60.58
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      76 24 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Apr 24 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 115.63 -0.43 WTI (Near Mth) 116.08 -3.4 Dubai (1-Mth F) 109.45 0.28 Tapis blend 122.15 0.45 Minas 114.4 0.45 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 106.95 144.20 -0.05 0.6 US$/barrel Opec Oil
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      468 24 Apr 25 AS CS Rmb Euro HKS Ind Rs Ru iiah Yen Won RM NZS Pak Rs Peso SS Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound us: Australia 0.950 6.528 0.598 7.261 37.444 85.982 0.975 9.264 2.942 1.194 60.253 39.116 1.270 7.157 0.970 28.261 29.493 0.473 0.932 Canada 1.053
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      140 24 Apr 25 GOLD (USS/oz) Apr 24 Apr 25 Hong Kong London 898.80 881.10 899.80 882.10 Apr 25 Apr 24 890.25 891.30 891.45 892.30 Source: Reuters CAST BAR (S$) Apr 25 Buying Sellini Kilobar "41,790.99" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Selling Buying 1gm 5gm 10gm 20gm 50gm 100gm 1
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      69 24 Apr 25 iri iiuiii, yy.i (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2951.00 2957.00 3 months 2995.00 3003.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 8698.50 8575.00 8640.00 8525.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2745.50 3 months 2769.00 2738.00 2759.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash *****.00
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      627 29  -  ONG BOON KIAT By US network service provider Verizon Business has committed to further investment in Singapore to upgrade its network infrastructure here. Liv Yali, director of Asia-Pacific Network Planning and Engineering for Verizon Business, told BizlT last week that Verizon will be upgrading
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      829 29  -  PETER CHAI <you say> By IN recent years, small to medi-um-sized businesses (SMBs) have been topping up IT budgets to increase competitiveness, improve customer service and reduce cost. According to AMR Research, at least 64 per cent of SMBs plan to increase IT
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      585 29  -  WINSTON CHAI IBM-Ricoh JV sets up Asia-Pac HQ in Spore, aims to double sales in 3 yrs By ASIA'S booming business landscape and the resulting increase in demand for digital office printing has prompted a new printer maker to quickly ramp up its regional
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      592 30 Digital infrastructure initiatives in Spore draw British Telecom here, its Global Services CEO tells ONG BOON KIAT SINGAPORE'S Next Generation National Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN) and the Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015) projects are key to British Telecom's (BT) business and continued investment here,
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      165 30 BT Global Services (BTGS) wants to grow its Asia-Pacific business to two billion euros (554.2 billion) by 2010, said BTGS CEO Francois Barrault. With its regional business worth about 500 million euros today, that means a quadrupling of revenues over three years.
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      194 30 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Intel Corp increased its dominance in the personal computer processor market last quarter after Advanced Micro Devices fell behind in updating products. Intel accounted for 78.5 per cent of units shipped, a gain of 2.2 percentage points from
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        134 30 SINGTEL is sprucing up its text-messaging service with a new suite of enhancements called SMS Plus. With the new offering, customers will be able to set and automatically send out-of-office responses when they receive a text message. In addition, subscribers will have the option of copying
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        59 30 STARHUB is giving advertisers the ability to pinpoint their target audience with its new island-wide, location-based advertising service. With the offering, marketers can push promotional text messages to consumers when they are within predefined zones such as a specific shopping mall. Subscribers will not be charged
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        92 30 MICROSOFT is giving consumers the option to stamp their individuality on staid computer accessories such as the mouse, under a new promotion. From now until the end of June, consumers who buy selected Microsoft computer mice will get a free cosmetic makeover for these products. They can
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        86 30 Ml has introduced a new service which allows moblie phone users to give feedback on mobile-related issues by sending a text message to *****. They can also air their grievances through a questionnaire at http://www.youdeservebetter.sg. As part of this effort, Ml CEO Neil Montefiore and
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        125 30 BUSINESS software giant SAP has launched a new academic initiative to train students across the region in its various technologies. Previously available in the US and Europe, the company's University Alliances Program will now be extended to the Asia-Pacific region. The programme is administered out of
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        84 30 DUTCH electronics giant Philips has promoted Paul Peeters to CEO of its operations in the Asean region. Mr Peeters will also continue as chairman and CEO of Philips Singapore, the company said. His new role sees him take over the Asean reins from Philips' Asia-Pacific CEO
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        70 30 LOCAL operator Ml has chosen China's Huawei Technologies to upgrade its 3G and HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) networks in Singapore. Under this deal, Huawei will implement an end-to-end Internet Protocol (IP) network to support the telco's future requirements. Specifically, the network equipment
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