The Business Times, 19 November 2003

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    15 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: httD://business-times.asial com.sq WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 2003
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  • Article
    Lock icon IPO boom triggers scramble for directors
    1170 1  -  BT exclusive Independent director shortage sees more holding multiple seats By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] This year's bumper crop of initial public share offers has put a squeeze on the supply of independent directors, while boosting the number of listed-company directorships held by some individuals
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    74 1 □sn 1*700*38 (+10.26) ST MDEX RJIURES 1,696.00 flinch) SSMSCI FUTURES 207*40 (-0.30) Tuesday Change KLSECOMP ***** +012 NIKKEI 225 9,897.05 +***** HANG SENG —*****16 +3014 SET INDEX 636.75 -4.09 JAKARTA COMP _605.79 100 MANILA COMP .1,328.04 -0.62 TAIPEI WPI 5.***** -1185 SEOUL COMP H0057 +6.50 SHENZHEN B 156.12 -10.65
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    77 1 FOREX RATES US* S$ l'S$ (S$ per US$) 1.723 £(l'SS/SS per 1694 1918 El'RG(lS$/S$/E). 1.177 1028 YEN 108.9 6310 RM 3.800 1206 HKS 7.761 4.505 BAHT 39.90 23.16 R1JPIAH 8,482 4523 RENMINBI 8198 4.817 INDIAN RUPEE 45.59 26.46 A$ 3 1J397 0.811 NZS 1.590 0.923 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25
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    Lock icon Broking houses step on brakes as STI takes dive
    392 1  -  BT exclusive Clients face huge contra losses but firms say situation is under control By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The sharp pullback by the market in recent days has prompted broking houses to intensify internal controls and step up trading curbs to
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    Lock icon MAS reinstates tax break for capital secured funds
    444 1  -  Qualifying criterion for scheme revised following dispute By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Capital guaranteed and capital protected funds will be eligible for special tax status after all, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said. The government, after talks with the fund
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      137 1 SINGAPORE ECONOMY Not quite a recovery II 111 8"*****1 *****4 The Lange Datograph. This unmatched techncal masterpiece •Made in Germany* is a new Lange milestone in the realm of superb mechanical watches. ft For the first time in the history V watchmaking, a manufactory has created I a classical chronograph
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      10 1 Syed Mokhtar faces %®N! Bah n hurdle 'U5& Pa<ir 2
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        Lock icon The downside of passive trading
        177 2 MUCH has been made of index investing, or the passive strategy of simply buying an index fund and staying put. But Barron's reports that investors thinking of leaving their retirement money in such funds may be in for something of a shock. In its Nov
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        Lock icon Unbecoming familiarity
        170 2 A ROSE by any other name would smell as sweet, the Bard once said. Apparently not in Malaysia. Exactly how the new prime minister should be addressed has become a bit of an issue. Some quarters are suggesting that the name by which Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is
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      Lock icon Syed Mokhtar faces Bakun hurdle
      474 2  -  Abdullah says govt 'not sure yet' whether to privatise dam From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary's bid to take over the Bakun Dam project and build a US$2 billion aluminium smelter in Sarawak is suddenly fraught with uncertainty. His ambitious
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      Lock icon Cheaper transport holds US consumer prices steady
      404 2 LATEST US DATA October CPI unchanged after 4 straight monthly increases; core up 0.2% Bloomberg, AP [NEW YORK] An index measuring prices paid by US consumers was unchanged in October after four months of increases, restrained by cheaper gasoline and new cars, a
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      Lock icon Pipeline leak likely to hit retail power prices
      477 2  -  Wholesale power prices already up 27% to 40% By Tang Weng Fai [SINGAPORE] The disruption of gas supplies caused by a pipeline leak last week has pushed wholesale power prices 27 to 40 per cent higher and is expected to have an
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      6 2 Buy It. Sell It. Find It.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Strike ends placement deal with Ipco unit
      438 3  -  It will seek new placee(s) to take up the 40m new shares earmarked for unit By Kenneth Lim CONSTRUCTION group Ipco International has been thrust into the spotlight again with news that Strike Engineering is ending a placement agreement with an Ipco subsidiary.
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      Lock icon Lion Air makes things hotter for SIA
      741 3  -  HOCK lock siew ven sreenivasan THE already crowded skies between Jakarta and Singapore just got a little bit more crowded yesterday with the entry of Indonesiabased low-cost carrier Lion Air. Lion Air had its inaugural Ja-karta-Singapore flight yesterday and has sold out its
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      Lock icon COMPANY Briefs
      494 4 Oomo to MM op fleet COSCO Investment a bulk carrier unit of China's largest shipping company, has ordered two 55,500-tonne ships for US$37 million, to be built by a shipyard half-owned by Cosco. Hie vessels are to be delivered by Q3 2006. Cosco, which operates 14 bulk carriers,
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      Lock icon CSFB manages to sell 2/3 of NOL share placement
      547 4  -  But stock sale at discounted price means it feces a loss of over $12m By Wong Wei Kong EUROPEAN investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has managed to sell two-thirds of Neptune Orient Lines' poorly received share placement, but at
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      Lock icon Robinson impresses with $3.3m Q1 profit
      522 4  -  Group bottomline lifted by both its core businesses By Kalpana Rashiwala BLUE-CHIP retailer Robinson, which is in the midst of finding buyers for its retail assets, yesterday reported another set of impressive results. First-quarter group net earnings rose from $746,000 to $3.3 million on
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      Lock icon Wing Tai's Q1 profit slips but outlook optimistic
      250 4 Reuters MID-SIZED luxury property developer Wing Tai Holdings Ltd reported yesterday lower quarterly profit, but said a rebound in the economy could boost Singapore's hard-hit residential market. Net profit for the first quarter ended Sept 30 declined to $1.06 million, from $1.2
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      Lock icon Datacraft returns'to profits in 2nd half
      529 4  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury DATACRAFT Asia, which sets up and manages corporate computer networks, failed to enthuse analysts yesterday despite reporting a return to profit in the second half of its fiscal year, mainly due to cost-cutting. Analysts' recommendations varied from "under-per-form" to "sell".
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      Lock icon SingTel seen eyeing mobile acquisitions in China, Malaysia
      297 4 Reuters SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd, South-east Asia's largest phone company, is ready to hunt for acquisitions again after strong quarterly results and its sights are set on mobile operators in Malaysia and China, analysts said. Sing Tel, Singapore's most valuable listed company. already
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      Lock icon PSC to boost logistics business with new JV
      379 7  -  It can expect 9-15% cost savings, says partner Tibbett Britten By Chen Huifen MAINBOARD-LISTED PSC Corp yesterday entered into a joint venture with supply chain management services provider Tibbett Britten Group pic in an attempt to strengthen its logistics business. PSC, which
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      Lock icon Singatronics invests in China salt mine
      375 7  -  By Wong Wei Kong MAINBOARD-LISTED Singatronics has taken its first step into the resource business by investing in a salt mining and processing interest in China. Singatronics said yesterday it has entered into a conditional investment agreement with Green Salt Group Ltd (GSGL) through
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      518 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN u ITS Q3 net profit grew 9 par cent #oq to $6.6 million, in line with our expectaIT^wai^pteii y-o-y to $27.7 million thank* to marketshare gain from Japanaae HDD customers (Fujitsu Hitachi) and greater contributions from non-HDD business. Maintain NT. Net of its cash
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      Lock icon S'pore, US markets in for further pullback?
      401 6  -  CHART POINT LIM SAY BOON for OCBC Investment Research Pte Ltd THE past month's price action on the Straits Times Index unfortunately confirms our recent bearishness on the Singapore bourse. Indeed, much the same could be said about the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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      Lock icon Early warning signals of another US$ sell-off
      713 6  -  A longer view CURRENCIES larry wee A FAIR bit has happened since our last "Longer View" currency column at the end of October, but one thing stands out: While Wall Street has been able to draw some strength from a whole bunch of
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      Lock icon The watchword for now is caution
      536 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy BETTER-than-expected third-quarter growth numbers, a slight up-tick in US employment numbers and decent if not overly spectacular earnings reports. Confronted by such a happy combination, you would have expected stocks to thrive. Instead, prices have gone backwards in the
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Commerabank ups Federal stake
        76 6 AFTER acquiring 12 million shares of Federal International (2000) in late October to become a substantial shareholder, Commerzbank Asset Management Asia bought another 2.3 million shares on the open market last week for $12 million. The purchase takes Commerzbank's stake in Federal to 8.16 per cent
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        Lock icon Two Yongnam directors sal sham
        104 6 TWO top directors at Yongnam Holdings had to sell shares last week. Managing director Seow Soon Yong last Thursday sold 205,000 shares at 5 cents each, reducing his direct stake in the company to 8.76 per cent from 8.87 per cent. Executive director Siau Sun
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        Lock icon live buys more SktgLand shares
        72 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM UNITED Industrial Corporation, which has been accumulating shares of subsidiary Singapore Land, yesterday said it bought another 222,000 shares in one of Singapore's largest CBD landlords on Monday off the open market. The transaction was worth about $850,000. UlC's stake is
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      388 6 gOTHER SINGAPORE MINCES Nov 18 VALUE CLOSE -823.00 -*-143.00 trCWM -*****.00 +154.00 WlUgl -*****.00 -82.00 WMfipMn 461.06 +2.17 tQr|iMiiHlH 168.73 -0.53 flpMwHi 1443.31 +11.27 427.80 -4.80 ■WliliHn 209.03 +1.11 BeautyCNna HK10 119,215,000 Chat SemtCond 26c 49.551,000 N0L.~ *****,000 EJ-Netslc *****.000 KXD D&* 4.5c 20,090,000 HortlonEduc 56 15,781,000 SingTel 15C 15.265.000
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  • EXECUTIVE money
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      Lock icon Investing in regularity
      815 8  -  Not prepared to take on the risk of high-growth, high-return funds? BEN FOK gives a rough guide to funds that offer a regular income stream with some prospect of capital gain BEN FOK MOST investors building their portfolio equate unit trusts with funds that invest in stocks,
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    16 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS t£6«D:M pries mMcMtm an* Www** I ißiewly F**d; loww MMtoWanafunMc VaftortMfcfpK —Hoor PlterSSD-tIS
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Outlook brightens, but high growth unlikely
      492 9  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Economists have reservations over recovery's sustainability By Anna Teo THE economic outlook may have brightened lately, but the recent strong numbers don't mark a return to precrisis high growth, economists say. No doubt, the sharply revised third-quarter GDP data released
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      Lock icon Burgeoning life sciences to trigger big growth in bio-IT
      394 9  -  By Raju Chellam EVEN as the biotech sector begins to wake up to its potential in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region, at least one sub-sector is showing signs of stirring. Bio-IT, or the use of IT in tooling up biotech, genetics
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      Lock icon Starwood makes S'pore comeback
      602 9  -  It bags job to manage Hong Leong's Tomlinson Rd hotel slated to open mid-2007 By Kalpana Rashiwala STARWOOD is making a major comeback in Singapore though it will only be in mid-2007. It has inked a management contract with Kwek Leng Beng's Hong Leong Group to
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      Lock icon China PM invites S'pore to develop its west
      436 11  -  Investments in environment and high-tech industries also welcome From Loh Hui Yin in Beijing CHINESE Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has told Singapore companies to invest more in his country's Western region, environment, infrastructure and hightech industries. Mr Wen, who met his visiting
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      Lock icon Experience sharing as effective aid
      224 11 MORE than 25,000 officials from some 150 countries have made study visits or attended training courses here since 1992 under Singapore's technical aid programme. And the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) a worldwide partnership of distance learning centres and other organisations focused on development issues
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      1318 9 third quarter 2003 n results announcement A Sk ft M O DIG noble group limited V W I I "Delivering Tomorrow's Growth Today \J U I J -Asia's leading supplier of strategic J I raw materials" (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) To our shareholders, The Board of Directors of
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      919 10 t has been a difficult, but reasonably satisfactory year for the The DIVIDENDS SHARE BUY BACKS 1 I modest recovery achieved in the first half of the financial year was abruptly jhe Board is committed to returning surplus cash to shareholders. A final reversed in the second half as the
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    1089 11 Transaction date: Nov 18 mTERBAMg CROSS BATES CS NO fan WO Mis fcjtoH Yw Woo 1 Mh N» SS la* Sfr WTS 81* Hmt US$ AotraSa 0.939 5.940 0408 5.555 32.637 60.715 0.730 1442 2.720 U38 40.970 ***** 1233 4.805 0.947 ***** ***** 0.423 0.716 Cauda 1065 6.327 Qi4l
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      1686 11 r* NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Nineteenth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at The Auditorium, 1000 Toa Payoh North. News Centre, 1" Storey, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 on Friday, December 5, 2003 at 10.30 a.m. for the following business:- Ordinary Business tg jl. To receive
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon China making more friends to influence people
      783 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION frank ching CHINA has stepped up its activities on the diplomatic circuit recently, with senior officials visiting Washington, Seoul and Tokyo to continue consultations on the North Korea nuclear issue. The Chinese, who host the six-party talks, now expect
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      76 12 'This does not mean that we support Saddam. He was a nightmare. But what Bush has done has not helped ordinary Iraqis at all. There is chaos there. Children are dying every day.' Mell Harrison a British peace activist, on why protesters will topple a giant effigy
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      Lock icon Not quite a recovery
      642 12 EDITORIAL WHILE the third quarter growth numbers for the Singapore economy are a welcome surprise, any optimism about the future still needs to be tempered with caution. The 1.7 per cent year-on-year growth in Q3 is the fastest of any quarter in the year to date
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      Lock icon Domestic politics vs international trade
      1182 12  -  The WTO has made it crunch time: Bush most decide to either pander to workers in politically-sensitive states or honour his free trade agenda From Leon Hadar in Washington BY ruling that US President George W Bush's tariffs on imported steel were illegal under global
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      Lock icon Mutual funds and games
      762 12  -  COMMENTARY The industry has been taking ordinary investors for a ride for ages By Paul Krugman NYT YOU'RE selling your house, and your real estate agent claims that he's representing your interests. But he sells the property at less than fair value to a friend, who
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Thaksin Jr takes steps into media industry
      383 13 BANGKOK New venture to import Japanese cartoon, produce TV game shows HAVING earlier dabbled in hobbies such as a photo studio, the only son of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is now getting down to some serious business, the Bangkok Post reported. Panthongtae Shinawatra,
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      Lock icon Sime among bidders for InterGen's Aussie assets
      345 13 MELBOURNE Reuters MALAYSIAN conglomerate Sime Darby which recently bought a half stake in a new Singapore power company is among three final bidders for two Australian power assets valued at As2so million (*****.15 million) belonging to US-based power firm Inter Gen, a unit
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      Lock icon Telekom Malaysia raises Excelcomindo bid: sources
      495 13 KUALA LUMPUR Offer price for majority stake it's eyeing undisclosed Reuters TELEKOM Malaysia has raised its offer price for a stake in Indonesia's thirdlargest mobile phone company, Excelcomindo, sources said yegterdiy, as rivals also try to Tweak into the country's fast growing cellular market.
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      Lock icon Revalue yuan or face serious inflation: Koizumi aide
      525 14  -  But top China bank exec says yuan appreciation now will upset economy's stability From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo CHINA faces the threat of a "huge asset bubble or serious inflation" in future if it does not take steps to revalue the yuan,
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      Lock icon China allows HK banks to deal in yuan on trial basis
      541 14  -  Banks will be able to remit yuan and issue yuan-based credit cards From Jeff Wagner in Hong Kong IN AN unprecedented loosening of its currency controls, China has agreed to allow Hong Kong banks to take personal deposits in
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon China infrastructure spending slows
        82 14 Reuters LBbiJiNUj orowtn in spending on China s roads, power plants and other projects slowed for a fourth straight month in October as government steps to cool red-hot sectors of the economy hit their mark Fixed asset investment was 22.6 per cent higher in October than
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        Lock icon KLSE allows stock splits
        66 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) will introduce share splits from Dec 1 to boost liquidity of shares listed on its board, the exchange said yesterday. The exchange said this will complement a move introduced in May to standardise board lots at 100
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        Lock icon Yangtze Power up 44% on debut
        104 14 AFP [SHANGHAI] Shares of China Yangtze Power Co, the listing arm of China's massive Three Gorges Dam project, closed up nearly 44 per cent on their trading debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange yesterday. The gains in the world's biggest hydro-power project were disappointing
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        Lock icon Thais mull roles to çurb speculation
        69 14 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] The Thai central bank may announce by next month rules to curb property speculation, seeking to curb excessive demand for homes on concern it may lead to a property bubble and a recurrence of the 1997 financial crisis. The central bank is
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        Lock icon Petronas' H1 profit rises to RM9b
        79 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's national oil firm Petroliam Nasional (Petronas) yesterday reported a net profit of RM8.96 billion (Ss4 billion) in the six months to Sept 30, up around 8 per cent from last year. Unlisted Petronas, which posted its results on its website
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      Lock icon Developers rush to lap China's golf addiction
      582 14 HONGKONG Bloomberg FROM Heilongjiang province to Yunnan province, developers are poised to double the number of golf courses in China to 400 next year. "This is just the start," says David Chu, developer, owner and chairman of Mission Hills Golf Club in Guangdong,
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      146 13 Date Sat. 29 Nov 2003 Time 9.30 am sharp Venue Goodwins Law Corporation 3, Anson Road .1 #07-01 Springleaf Tower for directions click on View map' a mww.qoodwinslaw.com/main/contact asp r Seminar Fee Ssso Seats are strictly limited. To avoid disappointment please register by 24 Nevemker 2063 Attendance strictly by RSVP
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      4090 15 GUL TECHNOLOGIES SINGAPORE LTD Technologies (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) notice of extraordinary general meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Gul Technologies Singapore Ltd (the (5M2) Mandatory Converaion: Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8A(5)(1), if a GTS CPS Shareholder "Company*) will be held at
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  • REGION world
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      Lock icon Conrad Black sowed seeds of own downfall
      862 16 Hollinger CEO quits amid payment controversy and concerns over lack of corporate governance Bloomberg, Reuters CONRAD Black, who last year told shareholders to "sell their shares and get out" if they had concerns about how he was running Hollinger International, sowed the seeds
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      Lock icon General Motors may start China car loans by H1
      387 16 BEIJING Easier financing rules expected to boost sales Bloomberg GENERAL Motors Corp, the first car-maker to apply for a licence to offer car financing in China, said it can probably commence handing out loans to Chinese customers by Q2 next year.
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        73 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] Vodafone Group Pic, the world s biggest mobile-phone company, announced a £2.5 billion (557.3 billion) share buyback after reporting a narrower first-half loss. The net loss shrank to £4.25 billion for the six months ended Sept 30, from £4.34 billion a year
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      256 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK) The US government's budget deficit widened to U5569.5 billion in October, the first month of the 2004 fiscal year. This was up from the US$54.l billion gap in the same month last year and the biggest October deficit on
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      585 23  -  Volumes at Dalian, Guangzhou, Fuzhou swell as foreign trade soars By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Growth at PSA Corporation's terminals in three key mainland China ports should exceed expectations this year, updated trade figures released by the Ministry of Commerce indicate. The Singapore-head-quartered
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      218 23 AFP [SYDNEY] Australia's notoriously tough quarantine officials will issue on the spot Fmes to cruise ship passengers who bring ship food ashore. Agriculture Minister Warren Truss said six new mobile X-ray machines would be used in the crackdown on banned items
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      332 23 Net income of US$37.9 million compared to year-ago loss Bloomberg [OSLO] Frontline Ltd, the world's biggest operator of tankers that carry 1 million barrels of crude oil or more, posted a third-quarter profit as an increase in shipments boosted freight rates. Net
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      107 23 [TOKYO] Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has signed a long-term transport contract for two newly built vessels with Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation (Baosteel). The Shanghaibased company is China's largest iron and steel group. Both new vessels will carry iron ore from Western Australia to Shanghai, the first
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      59 23 [HARTLEPOOL, England] The Canisteo, the second vessel in a fleet of controversial former US Navy 'ghost ships' has arrived at a Hartlepool, England, breakers 'yard. The Hartlepool firm Able UK has a contract to dismantle four vessels but environmental groups fear chemicals on board
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      359 23 World's biggest port operator one of nine interested in Bayonne project: report Bloomberg {HONG KONG] Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, the world's biggest port operator, submitted an expression of interest for development of the Bayonne port project in New York, said John Meredith, managing
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        455 31 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on average sized stem Market movements are indi rated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        662 32 Its jet order from Airbus is valued at as much as US$1.2b Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways, Australia's biggest airline, agreed to buy single-aisle jetliners from Airbus SAS for the first time, extending the European aircraft maker's lead over Boeing Co with
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        224 32 Athena Air is 3rd airline to use the airport after MAS, Air Asia AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] New regional carrier Athena Air Services yesterday launched flights from Malaysia's Senai Airport to Jakarta and Surabaya, the airport's operator said. The carrier, jointly operated by
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