The Business Times, 26 January 2002

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  • 8 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend 85C JANUARY 26-27, 2002
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  • 533 1  -  ST Index soars 4%, with volume doubling to $1.07b By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The weather may have been damp and dreary yesterday, but inside dealing rooms the climate was decidedly sunnier as institutions, probably worried about the possible loss of currency pegs in China
    Source: Bloomberg  -  533 words
  • 670 1  -  EXCLUSIVE UOB gives assurance there'll be no sudden changes to credit facilities By Quak Hiang Whai [SINGAPORE] News that United Overseas Bank had placed three projects in the Ban Hin Leong stable under receivership has raised concerns among other developers who bank with
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  • 834 1  -  SATURDAY SOAPBOX jennifer lien [SILICON VALLEY] THE cynicism in the room was so thick you could cut it with a knife. It was there in the rolling of the eyes during the presentation; in the nervous laughter and applause accompanying points made from the floor;
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  • 518 1  -  By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The Singapore economy could grow 4 per cent this year and 6.4 per cent in 2003 on the back of an upturn in the global electronics industry and external demand, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)'s intrepid economists have
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  • 362 1  -  By David Boey [SINGAPORE] Two statutory boards the Trade Development Board (TDB) and the Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) will be renamed as part of a plan to re-engineer the Singapore economy for its next phase of development. TDB will be renamed International
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  • in the news
    • 489 2  -  By Chnang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said last night that while he had chosen Lee Hsien Loong as his deputy, the next prime minister has to be picked by BG Lee's colleagues as has been
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    • 75 2 STI 1,790.83 (+67.85) BT4M 705.59 (+26.00) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,746.00 (+78.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 215.00 (+10.70) Friday Change KLSECOMP 693.58 +7 63 NIKKEI 225 10.144.14 -7009 HANG SENG 10.772.96 +3150 SET INDEX 338.99 +503 JAKARTA COMP _.452.4« +6 60 MANILA COMP 1.337.15 -2.49 TAIPEI WPI 5.950.64 +148.72 SEOUL COMP 774.68
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    • 69 2 FOREX RATES US$ u US$ (S$ per USS) 1.836 £(l'S$/S$ per S) 1.424 2.616 El'RO(US$/S$/E) 0.878 1.613 DM 2.228 1513 YEN 134.7 73.30 RM 3.800 2.0«9 HK$ 7.799 4.247 BAHT 4411 24.02 RUPIAH 10.459 5.695 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* _535 KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 HONGKONG 5125 JAKARTA 38.00 TAIPEI 1725 TOKYO
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    • 915 2  -  Some expect prices to rise, but others see a dear picture only after CNY By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] With latest government figures showing private home prices at end-December having fallen 16.5 per cent from the recent peak 18 months ago
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    • 167 2 [NEW YORK] Executives of large companies put their own personal interests ahead of workers' and shareholders', according to a poll released in the Feb 4 issue of Business Week. In the wake of the collapse of energy giant Enron Corp, 79 per cent
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    • 82 2 IN our Jan 23 report "Tong, Vincent Tan revive plans to list media groups", we said that Edge Communications Sdn Bhd (ECSB), which publishes The Edge in Malaysia, is set to launch a Singapore edition, The Edge Singapore. The Edge Publishing Pte Ltd has clarified that it is the
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    • 875 2  -  Bi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] No layoffs this is the defining feature of 80 of the 100 best US employers in these worst of times. And where workers have been axed only as a last resort, when pay cuts, reduced workloads, hiring freezes
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    • 406 3  -  By David Boey MAINBOARD listed healthcare firm, Osim International, opened its new $42 million headquarters yesterday and said the group's performance for its fourth quarter ended December 2001 fell "in line with its expectations". Ron Sim, Osim chairman and chief executive officer,
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    • 214 3  -  By Andrea Tan HONG Kong-based Roly International Holdings yesterday announced a plan to spin off its buying agency Linmark Group through an initial public offer. Shares of Singaporelisted Roly soared 20 per cent to 21 cents before they were suspended pending the announcement. They
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    • 377 3  -  Analysts say its upcoming results may be much better By Christopher Tan CYCLE Carriage Ltd's (CCL) share price rose sharply and inexplicably on heavy volume yesterday to touch an 18-month high of $4.10. The spike followed a steady climb from late last
      Source: Bloomberg  -  377 words
    • 330 3 Reuters SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd shares rose in heavy trade yesterday as its Indian associate went on a roadshow for its initial public offering (IPO) but analysts were divided on the reasons for the gains. Sing Tel closed up 5 cents
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    • 607 3 serena ng The soundcard maker should learn from its two diversification fiascos and stick firmly to its core business INVESTORS yesterday chased Creative Technology's shares to an 11month high yesterday on the back of its better-than-expected second-quar-ter results, even though many analysts think the soundcard
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    • 439 3  -  The two are writing down a total of $191.4 m on their property projects By Andrea Tan FIRST Capital Corp and Tuan Sing Holdings are set to join the list of property groups making hefty provisions a move that
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 110 3 Reuters CONSTRUCTION group Econ International Ltd said yesterday that its operating subsidiary Econ Corp had won several government contracts over the past few months. These included a $50.2 million deal from the Public Utilities Board, to be completed in 19 months, and one worth
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      • 117 3 Dow Jones Newswires NETWORK systems integrator Datacraft Asia Ltd, together with its major shareholder Dimension Data Holdings Ltd, have won a three-year contract from HSBC Holdings pic (HSBC). The contract is to provide network project implementation and operational support services globally. Datacraft and Dimension will
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      • 54 3 CSE Systems and Engineering has placed 40 million new shares at $0,467 each. The placement price is at a discount to CSE's pre-suspension share price of 10.505. Net proceeds from the issue of about $18.2 million will be used to finance expansion of the
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      • 61 3 QIAN HU Corporation has entered into a 20-year Joint venture in Thailand to breed and farm ornamental fishes and food fishes. The venture will also trade ornamental fishes, food fishes and aquatic plants. The company holds 49 per cent OF the joint-venture company,
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      • 103 3 Reuters GOLDMAN Sachs has upgraded four Singapore property developers. Its analyst Sharmini Rajasingham said in a report yesterday that she saw signs that home prices could firm by year's aid and recommended investors to go overweight in property companies that focus on development. She upgraded
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    • 604 4  -  Agents blame Sept 11 attacks in US, low-end private property competition By Vince Chong RESALE Housing and Development Board flat prices sank to a six-year low in the fourth quarter of 2001, down 7.8 per cent from a year ago. Prices were also 1.1
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    • 165 4 SINGAPORE'S port chalked up 960.1 million gross tons (GT) of shipping tonnage last year a new record. This is 5.5 per cent higher than the 910.2 million GT achieved in the previous year, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said yesterday. "With
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    • 186 4 SINGAPORE and Canada held their first round of negotiations for a Canada-Sin-gapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) this week, covering a wide range of issues, including trade in goods and services, financial services, investment, competition and dispute settlement. A Ministry of
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    • 180 4  -  MAIL B A G Deborah De Souza (MS) Executive PR Officer for Chief Corporate Development Officer Housing Development Board I REFER to your article, "When public housing goes upmarket" by Lee Han Shih (BT, Jan 22). Mr Lee suggested that HDB is competing with
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    • 311 4  -  By Andrea Tan THE price of office space slumped 21.5 per cent last year, making it the worst performer in the property market. The decline gathered pace in the fourth quarter, when the slide was 7.5 per cent against Q4 2000, figures
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    • 379 4  -  But sluggish demand seen for products made here this year By Eugene Low THE near-term outlook for the petrochemical industry may be weak, but ExxonMobil remains confident that Asia-Pacific will be a significant area of growth in the long term, a top company
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    • 429 4  -  URREN C I E Euro takes a hard knock for a second day running larry wee A MORE upbeat take on the US economy from US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan consolidated the greenback's gains yesterday taking it to a new peak of 134.95
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    • 513 5  -  TRI under deadline pressure in proposed sale of restricted shares From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur TIME is not on Tajudin Ramli's side. So much so the tycoon stands to lose control of his Technology Resources Industries (TRI), a leading
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    • 106 5 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday Singapore has to understand Malaysia's domestic water needs if they want the water supply issue to be resolved. "They have to understand that Malaysia also needs water on our side. Water is important to
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    • 530 5  -  Indomobil probe casts doubts on future deals From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S asset sales programme, a key component of the government's efforts to raise hard cash for the state Budget, could be severely affected if an investigation under way uncovers proof of
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    • 153 5 Reuters (HONG KONG] Hong Kong police yesterday said they were hunting for the owner of a local brokerage as complaints piled up from investors who said some HK$llO million (5525.9 million) of their money had gone missing. Anxious pensioners, housewives and other small-time investors have
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    • 233 5 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's controversial Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka broke down in tears yesterday after being labelled a liar in an unseemly public spat with senior colleagues from her own party and the top bureaucrat at her ministry. "I regret this because I am working so hard," the
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    • 974 5  -  WRITER'S JOURNAL An insightful commentary in Harakah—a PAS newspaper—forces this columnist to rethink his view of the party organ karim raslan RECENTLY, Harakah, the party organ of the opposition Parti Se-islam Malaysia or PAS, surprised me by producing a well-considered commentary that reminded
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 71 5 Reuters (KUALA LUMPUR] Shares of casino and leisure group Genting Bhd jumped as much as 4 per cent yesterday as investors wagered it would win one of three casino licences put up for tender by the Macau government. A subsidiary, Genting International, bid for
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      • 80 5 AFX-Asia [LABUAN] The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange is monitoring trading in the shares of Lipo Corp and may take action, a market source said. When asked by the KLSE to comment on a recent sharp drop in its share price, Lipo said it was unaware
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      • 74 5 Reuters [BEIJING] Top Chinese financial officials will hold a three-day meeting from Feb 5 to chart the future of reforms for the next 5-10 years, industry officials and analysts said yesterday. Bickering over the agenda of the Central Financial Work Conference the second
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      • 100 5 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China invited Taiwan's ruling party to visit Beijing, muting its usual demand that the island recognise mainland sovereignty before any dialogue can resume. "We hope that the leaders of the Taiwan authority muster their courage, face reality, and for the sake of Taiwan's
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      • 76 5 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Transport Ministry is preparing a cabinet paper on the fate of the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SAAS) in Subang when commercial flight operations revert to the KL International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang. Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik, however,
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      • 101 5 AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand has told the European Union that it must resolve the confusion over the 10-baht coin, which has been popping up in European vending machines in place of the two-euro coin. The Treasury Department said in a letter obtained by AFP that
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      • 54 5 Reuters [NEW DELHI] New Delhi is on high alert as it prepares for Republic Day celebrations today after last month's suicide assault on its parliament brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. India meanwhile also flexed its muscles by testing a
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      • 65 5 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said yesterday it earned NTJO.26 per share in the fourth quarter, meeting expectations, and expects further improvement. Rick Tsai, president and chief operating officer of TSMC, said at a briefing of institutional investors that sales in the first
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      • 83 5 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China Everbright International Trust and Investment Corp, part of one of China's biggest state-run conglomerates, was shut by the People's Bank of China, which said the trust is unable to repay its debt. The trust is owned by China Everbright Group
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    • 413 6 It expects to return to the black this year after revamp Reuters, Bloomberg [STOCKHOLM] Ericsson AB, the biggest phoneequipment maker, had a fourth-quarter loss because of its unprofitable handset business and a slump in network sales. It stuck to a forecast of posting an
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    • 432 6 They also expect rate hikes by year-end, following Greenspan's upbeat reading of economy Reuters [NEW YORK] Wall Street's top US Treasuries dealers say the Federal Reserve is done cutting interest rates and will leave rates at 40year lows until at least midyear
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    • 266 6 Bloomberg [POWAY, California] Gateway Inc, the second-biggest direct seller of personal computers, said it would eliminate 2,200 to 2,300 jobs, a 16 per cent reduction, even as it reported its first profit in five quarters. Net income came to
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    • 484 6  -  From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S policy of allowing the yen to depreciate against the dollar and other major currencies received high-level endorsement yesterday from IMF first deputy managing director Anne Krueger. "The Japanese government is quite correctly letting the yen
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 95 6 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Sony Corp's fiscal third quarter profit fell a less-than-expected 14 per cent as the company benefited from a weaker yen and a surge in Play Station 2 game console sales. Net income was 64 billion yen (*****.7 million) in the three months
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      • 74 6 Reuters [ARMONK, New York] IBM Corp yesterday said it is launching its first mainframe computers that will only run Linux, saying the alternative operating system is gaining ground as companies tighten purse-strings. IBM said the two new machines, the iSeries for small businesses and
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      • 61 6 Reuters [SYDNEY] Richard Branson's discount carrier Virgin Blue yesterday said it would sell 10,000 seats for one dollar, just days before the relaunch of rival Ansett Australia. The All fares, which must be booked over the Internet, are available on mid-week flights to eight
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      • 61 6 Bloomberg [BETHESDA, Maryland] Lockheed Martin Corp, the largest defence contractor, had a fourth quarter loss of US$l.5l billion, mostly because of cost of quitting the satellite access business. The per-share loss was U553.49, compared with net income of US$B9 million, or 21 cents, in the
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      • 83 6 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON) AMR Corp's American Airlines and British Airways won tentative US antitrust immunity for their proposed alliance if the two carriers give up 17 daily round trips to competitors on routes between the US and London's Heathrow airport. The order the US
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      • 73 6 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo yesterday said it would apply to list its shares in New York and London to expand operations, aiming to make its overseas debut in early March. It has no immediate plans to invest funds
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      • 74 6 Bloomberg [OAK BROOK, Illinois] McDonald's Corp's profit fell for the fifth straight quarter as the restaurant chain was hurt by job-cutting expenses in the US, higher food costs and declining sales in Latin America and Asia. Fourth quarter net income fell 40 per cent to
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      • 77 6 AFP [TROY, Michigan] Kmart Corporation yesterday said it has launched an internal investigation after it received an anonymous letter expressing concern regarding unspecified accounting matters. The letter, which was addressed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Kmart's auditors and board of directors, purports to come
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      • 57 6 Reuters [LONDON] The American Stock Exchange has been put up for sale amid expectations of a wave of consolidation among securities markets in the US and Europe, the Financial Times reported yesterday. Potential buyers of the ASE have already been approached by the National
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    • 720 7 Enron's off-the-book holdings were disclosed to wealthy investors NYT, Reuters [NEW YORK] Enron executives enticed wealthy individuals and institutions to invest in one of the partnerships that helped wreck the company by dangling the prospect that inside knowledge could potentially help them double their money in
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    • 143 7 [HONG KONG] Andersen may lose the audit business of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd, due to the top accounting firm's involvement with Enron Corp, the Ming Pao Daily reported yesterday, citing unnamed sources. A spokeswoman for Bank of China (Hong Kong) said
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  • week in review
    • 829 8 For the full stories, visit http://business-times.asial.com.sg Taxes may be pared to spur growth: BG Lee Jan 24 The government may offer tax incentives to business start-ups, open healthcare and education to competition, and hasten public asset sales as manufacturing jobs are lost to low-cost competitors like
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    • 262 8 Wong Wei Hons Jan 25 Corporate governance code needs teeth to work THERE are good reasons why the new Singapore Code of Corporate Governance should be made law. Shareholding structures in Singapore work against minorities, and there is no tradition of shareholder activism. With minorities weak and
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  • 2527 8 Transaction date: Jan 25 KUALA LUMPUR J ¥o i Fraser»Nea*« 3.72 0.02 S8 KM COOO) FS8M— 232 0 02 30 pw Industries 104 0 02 42 AIM Realty 1.08 0.05 157 Gadang 1.37 0.02 9 Abric 1.99 0 06 153 Gamuda 4.78 006 1752 ACPIndustnes 320 0.06 240 GanadCorp
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  • in the money
    • 708 9  -  Low-volatility STI stocks benefited as investors returned to value-investing in the down years W Teh Hooi Ling HIGH risk, high return? Not in the past two years. A survey by BT has shown that low-risk, low-volatility stocks significantly out-perform-ed their more volatile counterparts
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    • 530 9  -  By Patrick Peck The writer is a vice-president at Paris-based JCF Group THE strong tide of upgrades continued this week. We received 42 opinion changes 32 upgrades versus 10 downgrades. Some IT companies were prominent in the upgrades. Disk-drive and precision tool maker
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    • 1100 9  -  INVESTOR EDUCATION By Sebastian Chong The writer is associate professor in finance accounting, Faculty of Business Administration, National University of Singapore, and is a committee member of the Securities Investors Association of Singapore. The views expressed in this article are his
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  • what's in style travel
    • 1153 10  -  Some of Langkawi's best attractions lie away from its white sands, in the jungle and swamps, says PARVATHINAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR URBAN jungledwellers that we are in Singapore, it's good to get a taste of the real jungle sometimes. And that's the coolest thing offered by the archipelago
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    • 453 10 Reuters [BOMBAY] Suicide squads. Deadly assaults on Parliament. The armed forces of nuclear-capable rivals put on high alert. This is not the stuff of travel brochures. Yet for weeks that image of India has been splashed across front pages of newspapers worldwide, wreaking
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 225 10 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 26 Middleman means to award officer status to spy (10-5) (4) examination (4) 27 Comic appears in a suit (4) 7 Dress on time? Rubbish! (7) 25 Rum fare for an infant (4) 28 Celebrity set back from the 8 Concerning chaste people in YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION beginning (5.
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  • food
    • 787 11  -  CHINESE New Year is all about new clothes, new beginnings, new "guaranteed delivery before CNY" ears to go visiting in, and of course, new goodies to stuff your face with. What's the festive season without the übiquitous pineapple tarts and love letters, or the reunion dinner with
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  • what's in style collections
    • 793 12  -  Antoine Preziuso's passion sets him apart from other watchmakers, says GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU FOR one week each year, Antoine Preziuso travels from his Geneva home to the forests of southern Italy in search of culinary gold: a cache of prized subterranean black truffles. It's his second-most
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    • 793 12  -  In Popo Iskandar's paintings off cats and roosters, he has given a unique expression to their forms ART By Parvathi Nayar THE late Indonesian artist Popo Iskandar (1927-2000) is best known for his cats, striped, textured or abstracted, painted with solid green eyes that stare laconically out
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    • 294 12  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon THE appreciation of some art exhibitions can be based on their works alone. While other exhibitions need some prefacing and just that little bit of contextualisation for a deeper resonance. A mere view of artist Tan Kwank Liang's recent art show, Seeing Red In Progress
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    • 1279 13  -  After dressing Michelle Yeoh for the Oscars, it's not Hollywood but China that Hong Kong designer Barney Cheng is now after, says CAT ONG CAT ONG AS A boy. Hong Kong's most famous couturier Barney Cheng says, like any other child of his age, he also played
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    • 1022 15  -  BIZWOMAN A widow breaks into the male-dominated world of philately and has even earned herself fans, reports CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON IN the world of philately, a woman collector is probably as rare as a Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp. The demure, stately presence
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    • 796 15 AP [SINGAPORE] All things Korean from food and music to eyebrow-shap-ing and shoe styles are becoming all the rage across Asia where pop culture has long been dominated by Tokyo and Hollywood. Not long ago, Korea's best-known cultural export was kimchi, the pickled cabbage and
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  • what's in style motoring
    • 843 14  -  s i Model face-lifts are rarely worth i 1 jv. n M 1, ,f r ymfly CHRISTOPHER TAN BANNER at a cosmetic surgeons' convention reads: "Beauty fades, but implants last forever." Ahem, a little humour there, something to lead us into today's topic of discussion the facelifted
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    • BRAVE NEW WHIRL
      • 106 14 THIS year's Singapore Motor Show is expected to feature more prototypes than before. The show from Nov 15-24 will take up three floors of exhibition halls at Sun tec or a gross area of 25,000 sq m. A record 38 motor vehicle brands out of an
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      • 113 14 SOME 80 buyers have booked the new BMW 7-series, well before its launch on Feb 6. The customers, a number of them diehard Mercedes-Benz fans, will be paying above $300,000 for their 735iA and 745iA cars, which will be delivered around the Lunar New
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      • 63 14 MANAGEMENT consultant Anthony Kam landed himself a sexy Audi TT Roadster on Monday by being a DBS credit card user. The TT was the first of three roadsters to be won during a nine-month promotion (from July 1,2001). All DBS credit card
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      • 103 14 AUDI is using a new kind of liquid film to prevent damage to the paint work. The process, for which a patent has been filed, is more cost-efficient and environmentally friendly than wax and adhesive films currently in use in the industry. An
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      • 61 14 TONY GOTT, the 45-year-old former head of Volkswagen's RollsRoyce Bentley Cars who left several weeks ago, will take over as chief of Rolls-Royce from March 1, in preparation for BMW's eventual takeover of the marque at end2002. BMW's new premises for Rolls-Royce is at Goodwood, south England.
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      • 136 14  -  Christopher Tan BMW agent Performance Motors Ltd (PML) has teamed up with its leading dealer Teo Tian Seng to start Singapore's first authorised used BMW programme. Under the non-ex-clusive scheme, Teo Tian Seng will retail used Beemers that have undergone 100-point checks by Performance Motors. If needed,
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