The Business Times, 30 September 2006

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  • 776 1  -  Mooncake sales are hotter than ever and so is the competition in the face of demanding taste buds By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Mooncakes are not just delicacies for the restaurants and hotels selling these seasonal goodies, the traditional offerings are serious money-makers that are
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  • 131 1 STI 2,568.86 (+0.89) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,573.00 (+5.00) SIMSCI 307.74 (+0.22) SIMSCI FUTURES 308.00 (+0.30) MARKETS Friday Change KLCOMP 967.55 -1.33 NIKKEI 225 16,127.58 +102.73 HANG SENG 17,543.05 +12.48 SET INDEX 686.10 -1.80 JAKARTA COMP 1,534,61 +0.81 MANILA COMP Clostd SEOUL COMP 1,371.41 -0.02 SHENZHEN B 323.36 +7.51
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 115 2 By ARTHUR LEE [SINGAPORE! The cheery smiles of the ranks of sunflowers that lined Orchard' Road and Marina Centre for last week's International Monetary FundWorld Bank meetings have faded. With their work of < welcoming the thousands of delegates for the meetings over, the plants now
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    • 673 2  -  It says it complied with all laws and regulations when it took over Shin By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings cannot be blamed for the political crisis in Thailand, a senior official of the Singapore investment company said yesterday, giving
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    • 443 2  -  By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] The battle of the budget barbers is awaiting resolution in the High Court, with two chains of $10 hairdressing salons embroiled in a legal battle over intellectual property. The dispute is between Japanese company QB Net, which operates
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    • 523 2 New China rules won't stem IPO flow in long term: SGX THE Singapore Exchange has a diversified pipeline of companies for listing here and the new China rules won't stop the flow of companies in the long term, said the bourse's top officials yesterday. Chinese companies dominated the
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    • 558 2  -  Move further fuels talk it's looking at Reit-based divestment By ARTHUR SIM [SINGAPORE] In reviewing its financial year 2005/2006, the Housing and Development Board has for the very first time conducted valuations of individual properties in its portfolio. The move has further fuelled persistent market
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    • 53 2 IN the report, "Subjectbased banding to replace language stream" (BT, Sept 29), the headline is inaccurate. The EM3 stream is not determined solely by the languages offered but is based on a range of subjects. Also, EM3 students do study science, but as a non-ex-aminable subject. We are sorry
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  • RAFFLES CONVERSATION
    • 2507 3  -  Life for world-famous chef Alain Ducasse is not about making big bucks but the thrill of the creation process. JAIME EE meets the man who has helped elevate the status of chefs and keep the industry vibrant JAIME EE JUST who is Alain Ducasse and why
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    • 66 3 The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles ill Y Hotels and Resorts. The Traveller's Palm in I J I I the Raffles Hotels and Resorts logo is an apt symbol. Not only has water stored at the base of this palm provided sustenance, the
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 676 4  -  A healthy and diversified pipeline of firms waiting to list in S'pore By SIOW LI SEN THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has a healthy and diversified pipeline of companies queueing to list here, including Chinese ones, and the new China
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    • 452 4  -  By JEAN CHUA AN INDEX that represents about half of the value of China companies here will go "live" on Monday, in response to a need for these firms to be tracked as they grow in number. The Prime
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    • 365 5  -  Customers can transact property at 3 outlets initially By LAUREL TEO THE neighbourhood post office has added yet another dish to its growing menu of services. From Oct 16, property advice and transaction services will be offered at Singapore Post outlets,
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    • 281 5 SINGAPORE Press Holdings Limited (SPH) yesterday announced that its magazine publishing unit SPH Magazines Pte Ltd (SPHM) has entered into agreements to buy Hardware Zone Pte Ltd, a homegrown IT magazine and website publisher. As part of a $7.1 million acquisition deal that is
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    • 303 5  -  By CONRAD TAN STARHUB'S chief operating officer Yong Lum Sung will leave on Dec 31 after more than four years in the post, said the telco yesterday. Mr Yong joined Star Hub as COO in July 2002 after the merger of Singapore
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    • 293 5  -  By WEE LI-EN THE Capitaßetail Japan Fund (CRJ Fund), a private retail property fund sponsored by Capita Land Ltd, has acquired a shopping mall in Hokkaido in Japan for 4.2 billion yen (5556.4 million). The purchase of ItoYokado Eniwa from a Japanese real
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    • 157 5 LUXURY retailer FJ Benjamin Holdings Ltd is in talks with a prospective buyer to sell its property at 6B Orange GrOve Road for about $37 million. "The proposed disposal of the property is in line with the company's stated intention to
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
    • Article, Illustration
      750 6  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Parkway Sept 29 dose: $2.80 CITIGROUP RESEARCH, Sept 29 PARKWAY has declared a special interim cash dividend of $0.1125 (or a net dividend of $0.09) per ordinary share. To fund this payment of $65.7 million, Parkway has called for a renounceable non-underwritten rights issue
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    • 944 6  - Fixed interest a global outlook While the housing market has slowed and leading index has fallen in the US, the picture of a cooling economy doesn't extend to the UK, says CHRIS WOZNIAK CHRIS WOZNIAK Global Economics The United States EMERGING signs of a housing market slowdown in the US
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 409 7  -  Its 10% stake in the Vietnamese bank is expected to be finalised in a month By LESLIE YEE SINGAPORE'S OCBC Bank has obtained the regulatory green light for its investment in Vietnam Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Private Enterprises (VP Bank). "OCBC is
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    • 282 7  -  By ROLAND LIM VANTAGE Corp, which earlier this year rejected Mediaßing's takeover offer for Pacific Internet (PacNet), said yesterday that it is evaluating its investment in the Internet service provider. The company, which is the second-biggest shareholder of PacNet with a
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 57 7 SINGAPORE Telecommunications has appointed Kaikhushru Nargolwala, 56, as non-executive and independent director to replace Jackson Tai who did not seek re-election to the board at the recent shareholders' meeting. Mr Nargolwala is currently the group executive director of Standard Chartered pic based in Singapore and
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      • 64 7 XPRESS Holdings, which was required to file its financial statements for the year ended July 31 by yesterday, has asked the stock exchange for an extension of time. The company said that it needed more time to resolve "some significant outstanding matters" related to
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      • 38 7 RETAILER Robinson said yesterday that it is in advanced discussions with the River Island clothing label of Britain for franchise rights for the region, adding that nothing has been confirmed yet.
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      • 24 7 ADVANCESCThas appointed Seah Hock Thiam, 40, as an executive director to manage the group's new copper recycling business.
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    • 385 7  -  STOCKS CONRAD TAN Reporter THE market staggered to an unremarkable finish yesterday, but with its winning streak still intact for now. The Straits Times Index (STI) recouped losses in the morning to end the day just 0.03 per cent
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    • 253 7  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA GUTHRIE GTS and Lee Kim Tah Holdings are pitching their 99-year leasehold Centris apartments not only for their location next to Boon Lay MRT Station and Jurong Point mall, but for a unique opportunity to earn some extra
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 405 8  -  It enjoyed higher profitability and operating efficiency: DOS By WONG WEI KONG OPERATING efficiency and profitability of the corporate sector in Singapore improved in 2004, according to a survey released by the Department of Statistics (DOS) yesterday. The annual survey
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    • 246 8  -  By WEE LI-EN THE increasing use of mass market licences now places intellectual property (IP) owners in a more advantageous position than before, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong said at a conference yesterday. Noting that the advent of e-commerce has revolutionised IP
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    • 479 8  -  By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE has set up a national RFID (radio frequency identification) centre to accelerate the adoption of the technology, with the aim of creating projects that will generate $300 million in revenues over the next five years. Housed at the Singapore Institute of
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    • 323 8  -  By LESLIE YEE BANK lending to non-bank customers inched up by 0.4 per cent month-on-month to $190.4 billion as at endJuly, representing the fourth consecutive monthly rise, according to latest preliminary numbers released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Bank
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    • 415 9  -  Plans to grow Tiger into a multinational, pan-Asian airline By VEN SREENIVASAN TIGER Airways shareholders, led by Singapore Airlines, are to set up a holding company for the budget airline's regional tie-ups, including the purchase of stakes "in other Asian carriers. Tiger's chief
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 115 9 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew leaves for France today and will head on to the US before returning home on Oct 22. He will attend the JPMorgan Chase International Council Meeting in Paris on Oct 4-6 and call on French President Jacques Chirac,
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      • 78 9 JTC Corporation has launched a 1.5-hectare site at Changi North St 1 for sale through a tender that closes on Nov 10. The site is zoned for Business 2 use, has a maximum gross plot ratio of 1.0 and carries a 30-year
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      • 85 9 SINGAPORE and Peru have concluded their third round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry. It said that "significant progress" was made on a range of issues, with the rules of origin, investment, e-commerce and dispute settlement
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      • 44 9 FAR East Organization has signed on Parkway Holdings subsidiary Medi-Rad as the resident radiology clinic operator at its $257 million Novena Medical Center to be completed next year. Medi-Rad will invest $5.5 million in the clinic.
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    • 432 9  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR IT IS a feast of jewels fit for kings, some even made for kings, and created by the so-called king of jewellers. The Art of Cartier exhibit at the National Museum of Singapore (NAMOS) presents 115 pieces selected from the more than
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    • 277 9  -  By MATTHEW PHAN JETQUAY CIP Terminal. Changi Airport's new terminal targeted at Commercially Important Persons or CIPs, opened yesterday. The 2,000 sq m facility has a separate driveway and entrance, with an array of five-star facilities such as a lounge, a business centre,
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 424 10 Close contenders are ex-Finnish president and Chinese exile AFP [OSLO] Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono remains a favourite to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, though he faces stiff competition from former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for brokering a peace accord in Aceh
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    • 151 10 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Loss-making Malaysia Airlines (MAS) warned that its recovery plan could be derailed if the government advanced the liberalisation of the aviation industry before 2008, said a report yesterday. "Our turnaround plan was conceived to coincide with the (Asean) roadmap and an earlier
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    • 352 10 [KUALA LUMPUR] Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd, Malaysia's largest publicly traded plantation group by landownership, is working on a plan to hive off its non-core assets, and list some profitable units, to help shave RMI billion (Ss43l million) in debt, says a report
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    • 7718 10 Transaction date: Sep 29 52-Wk Td Last Vol Day LxtQuot* Wv GrYW Net MCao High law Code Company Sato +h 000; High Lout Buyer Sdhf Cvr P/t Soil 3.5 1 5716 1st Software 23 unch 410 2.5 2.5 2.5 3 10.1 115 6 3148 STelecom 7 +0.5 35
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 56 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Shares in fertiliser maker China Blue Chemical Ltd jumped by more than a quarter on their Hong Kong debut. Blue Chemical, a sister company of offshore oil firm CNOOC Ltd, hit HK$2.3B yesterday, against an IPO price of HK$l.9O, before closing up
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      • 60 10 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's current account surplus narrowed by 4.5 per cent to RM18.9 billion (SsB.l billion) in the second quarter of 2006 from RM19.8 billion in the first quarter. Exports rose 5.0 per cent from the first quarter to RM 143.8 billion a"nd
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      • 65 10 AFP [SHANGHAI] China's central government has told local authorities to obey its orders aimed at cooling property markets, a report said yesterday. "Local governments should not defy orders given by the central government, which aim to stabilise housing prices, and adjust investment and supply
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 674 11 Shortlisted firms said to include Barclays, State Street Wellington Reuters [HONG KONG/SHANGHAI] The world's biggest and best-known money managers are poised to win the coveted mandate to rim money for China's US$29 billion national social welfare fund. The prize is an estimated US$l billion
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    • 5822 11 Transaction Date: Sep 29 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME VALUE (S) Equation 87.526.000 UOB 90.338,780 AsiaTioer 43.365.000 Capita Land 84,023.430 Synear 31.966.000 DBS Grp 80.727.948 SingTel 28.387.000 CitvDev 75.498.599 CapitalanMBleCW***** 18.001.000 SingTel 69.091.024 Thai Beverage 17.849.000 Keppel Corp 49.118.000 CapitaLand 16.62a000 OCBCBk 42,281.040 CEnersave 15.313.000 S<A 40.696.700 CapitalanMBLeCW***** 14.492.000 SGX
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    • 650 12  -  Nevada gaming regulators to assess her suitability as partner in Macau project By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong NEVADA gaming regulators will hold a public hearing in November 1 to scrutinise whether businesswoman Pansy Ho is a suitable partner for casino giant MGM
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    • 337 12 Reuters [BEIJING] Corrupt plunder of state assets is the worst threat facing China, the top national auditor said in a report yesterday as Shanghai sought to recover from a corruption scandal that has shaken the financial hub. Li Jinhua, plain-speak-ing chief
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    • 163 12 AFP [SHANGHAII Two highprofile Shanghai businessmen already under investigation over the city's widening pension graft scandal have been kicked out of the local parliament, state press reported yesterday. Wang Chengming, the sacked chairman of the state-owned and Hong Kong-listed Shanghai Electric company, was
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    • 1278 12 KAT3 NOTICES Toll free: 1800-289-8822 Email: notices@sph.com.sg I /f-r-A VITA HOLDINGS LIMITED \f I l/\ (Company Registration No. *****0950 D) holdings (incorporated in Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Wfo Holdings Umlttd ("the Company*) will be held at 165 Tanjong Pagar, Amara
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  • INDIA
    • 534 13 It expanded 8.9% in 3 months to June, exceeding median forecast gain Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India has maintained its position as the second fastest-growing major economy after China as rising consumer and government spending drove manufacturing output to a sixyear high. Asia's fourth-largest economy
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    • 594 13 Reuters [BOSTON] Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between US$25 to US$lOO an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for US$2.5O an hour in India. "It's made the biggest difference. My daughter is literally
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    • 223 13 Economic Times [NEW DELHI] Voting rights for non-resident Indians are likely to become a reality by the end of this year. The minister for overseas Indian affairs, Vayalar Ravi, said on Thursday that a Parliamentary Standing Committee has cleared the Representation of
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 574 14 US confirms it is suspending US$24m worth of military aid By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THAILAND'S military ruling council, the Council for Democratic Reform, yesterday said it has forwarded a draft constitution to the royal palace for approval, clearing the way for
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    • 357 14 AP. Bloomberg [TOKYO! Major Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp said yesterday that it is recalling 830,000 batteries made by Sony for its laptops. Fujitsu has also said that it is recalling Sony batteries. They are the latest in a growing massive global recall. Toshiba
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    • 443 14 Bloomberg. Reuters [WASHINGTON] HewlettPackard Co chief executive officer Mark Hurd described the company's probe into boardroom leaks as a "rogue operation" that spiralled without his knowledge into potentially illegal spying. Mr Hurd told a US House committee hearing in Washington on
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    • 359 14 LATEST US DATA Reuters Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Core US consumer prices rose 0.2 per cent as expected in August, but a year-on-year inflation index was at an 11year high, pointing to risks of inflation, a government report showed yesterday. The year-on-year rate
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    • 310 14 NYT [PARIS] Talk is not cheap, after all. Kirk Kerkorian, the billionaire investor, said on Thursday that he was willing to spend another US$4OO million on General Motors (GM) stock in an apparent bid to pressure GM to redouble its efforts to explore
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  • MOTORING
    • 704 15  -  SAMUEL EE gives a sneak preview of some of the cars taking centrestage at the Paris Motor Show, which opens today SAMUEL EE THE Paris Motor Show has always been the world stage for the French to show off their style and flair with interesting concepts and quirky
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    • Article, Illustration
      534 15  -  Both models are made by German marques and both have 1.8-litre engines. But that's about all these two cars have in common, writes SAMUEL EE SAMUEL EE SOME things get better with age. Premier cru wine is one of them; the Mer-cedes-Benz C-Class is another. The strange thing
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    • 441 15 IN Singapore, the casual definition of the perfect car more often than not includes one of the following three attributes: four doors, big cabin, and small engine. If that is so, then the new Opel Vectra 1.8 sedan would come pretty close to some people's idea of
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  • GOLF
    • 721 16  -  Sean Fister, 3-time World Long Drive Champion, puts his record-breaking feats in perspective when he was in town recently, reports VEN SREENIVASAN VEN SREENIVASAN #can only do one thing best in the world, but there is more to golf than just driving the ball
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    • 542 16  -  By VEN SHEENIVASAN Callaway ERC 111 CALLAWAY used to command the market for drivers some 10 years ago. Its Big Bertha series of drivers were a "must have" for all aspiring weekend hackers and serious golfers alike. But all that was before the
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  • WELLNESS
    • 1512 17  -  CHEAH UI-HOON looks at the growing acceptance of TCM treatments among the younger and English-educated patients CHEAH UI-HOON WITH the government regulating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners in 2000, and the sprouting of TCM clinics at hospitals and medical centres like Paragon, TCM is steadily
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    • 623 17  -  By JAIME EE IT'S the usual conundrum faced by those seduced by the strains of Thai instrumental music, with muscles alternately squeezed and stretched into blissful submission, followed by a comforting cup of hot herbal tea. You get that anywhere in
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    • 137 17 MODEL and TV host Eunice Olsen. actress Karen Tan and former national hockey captain Melanie Martens were the first to sign up for the Great Eastern Women 10K run, organised in aid of its adopted beneficiary "Women Make a Difference". The organisation offers tangible
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  • SHOPPING
    • 815 18  -  Furniture store Room's rebirth as Dream boasts top-end brands at its vast River Valley showroom, says CORINNE KERK CORINNE KERK IT'S just as well that the market for high-end property is on the up and up. This means folks will want to furnish their expensive homes
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    • Article, Illustration
      269 18  -  By CORINNE KERK ECLECTIC lifestyle concept store, Egg 3, has just upsized its nest near The Scarlet Hotel at Erskine Road. Moving a couple of doors down the street from its original shop unit, the new Egg 3 now offers more breathing room at 900 sq ft. Compared to
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    • 658 18  -  By CORINNE KERK THREE men and a Thai trip. That's roughly how it all began for army buddies Benny Low, Gang Jong Khai and Danny Lam, owners of a mini literally business that's making women executives and tai-tais alike break spontaneously into squeals of "so
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  • PERSONAL SPACE
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      1149 19  -  Deep inside Bali's jungles, GEOFFREY EU finds a palace GEOFFREY EU The fashionable tourist enclave of Seminyak and its attendant pleasures may be just 20 minutes distant, but they are worlds away from Puri Kaba, the fanciful, fantastical jungle estate that Jakarta-based designer Fabian Gelael has created on
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend
    • 2045 20  -  In neighbouring cities like Kuala Lumpur, the Ramadan season has also become a convivial time to celebrate family and communal ties over food during the breaking of fast, or Iftar meal, at sunset. The whole city gets a bazaar buzz as food stalls pop up all
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