The Business Times, 3 January 2004

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  • 12 1 85C MtTA (P) 024/03/2003 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE lANUAKY I 1 ;001
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  • 885 1  -  Flash estimates reveal a somewhat mixed bag of sectoral performances, but economists still upbeat about 2004 By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Growth in the final quarter came up short of market forecasts after all, but an 8 per cent pace following
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  • 328 1  -  S'pore investors put aside doubts about recovery to ride surge on Wall St By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Regional stocks kicked off 2004 in fine fashion yesterday, with most markets rising sharply in anticipation of a global economic recovery and
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  • 681 1  -  Flash estimates signal bottoming in private home prices By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] Property insiders polled in the past few weeks have had nothing but bullish forecasts for 2004. And when this happens, the detractors and cynics say it's merely an attempt
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  • 659 1  -  Move may hit hundreds of S 'pore firms located there From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta [SINGAPORE] After postponing the decision for six years, Indonesia finally imposed value added tax (VAT) and luxury goods tax on businesses operating on Batam island from Jan 1, a
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    • 35 1 H MOTORING RW The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren: a high-tech beauty, high-performance beast MM II WDA forecasts 2,500 more new jobs in electronics sector, Pg 8 Singapore market starts year on a bright note, Pg 4
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    • 193 1 11 Ml RAfV||ES CONVERSATION Alan Collins, British High Commissioner to Singapore, on the voice of the new Britain. S NMMtft I mi 8"8 8718 ******4 newsbreak SGX chalks up record volume in 2003 [SINGAPORE] Despite the fallout from Sars and the Iraq war, the volume of stocks traded on the
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  • newsfront
    • 684 2  -  Move seen prompted by fears off US dollar plunge this year From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S Finance Ministry is gearing up for what appears to be a massive assault against a strengthening yen but the motives for the move are unclear.
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    • 436 2 LATEST US DATA ISM Manufacturing Index rises to 20-yr high of 66.2 from November's 62.8 Reuters Bloomberg AP [WASHINGTON] US factories expanded for a sixth straight month in December, with growth surging beyond market expectations to a new 20-year high, in a sign
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    • 595 2  -  Saturday soapbox It may be the only way to motivate service and sales staff to raise service standards vince chong HOW many times have you experienced or heard others complain about poor standards of service in Singapore? When we talk about value-adding
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  • the rafffes conversation
    • 1750 3  -  British High Commissioner to Singapore, Alan Collins, talks to VIKRAM KHANNA about the country that will no longer hide its light under a bushel VIKRAM KHANNA BEFORE we embark on our conversation with Britain's High Commissioner to Singapore, Alan Collins, it's photo-taking time. No, he doesn't
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    • 461 3 AS part of the initiative to project a new image of a dynamic Britain, the 30-year-old, stark-white offices of the British High Commission on Napier Road are being readied for a major facelift. "We will make the building more 21st century," says High Commissioner Alan Collins.
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  • companies
    • 465 4  -  Long-awaited market bull ran in H2, bumper crop of 55 new listings help boost performance By Serena Ng DESPITE the dull stock market activity in the first half of last year, the volume of shares traded on the Singapore Exchange hit a
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    • 334 4  -  Proceeds slated for boosting output, regional expansion By Serena Ng 'HOMEGROWN aluminium .products maker AEI Corporation yesterday became the first company this year -to lodge its preliminary listing prospectus for a mainboard initial public offerring, joining the growing iqueue of 11 companies whose prospectuses
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    • 74 4 Ml 1,791-36 (+26.83) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,791.00 (+17.00) H 9—SCI FUTURES U 21*90 (+2.20) Friday Change KLSE OOMP 788.49 -5.45 NIKKEI 225 dosed HANG SENG +***** SET INDEX dosed JAKARTA COMP _704.49 *12.60 MANILA COMP dosed TAIPEI WP1 .#,***** +150X7 SEOUL COMP ***** +1055 SHENZHEN B 268® 3.36 AlIST
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    • 76 4 FOREX RATES Uft$ ft* i;S$ (S$ per US$) 1.702 £(US$/SS per 1.786 3.040 EURO(1jS$/S$/E). Ii58 2.141 YEN 106.9 6180 KM 3.800 1232 HKS 7.764 4.561 BAHT 3956 2314 RIP1AH 8,442 4559 RENMINBI 8198 4.875 INDIAN RUPEE 45.60 26.78 AS 1328 0.780 NZS 1.525 0.896 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 MALAYSIA
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    • 992 4  -  corporate analysis Remaining 3 finance companies say they're not fading away, writes TAILA KRISHNAKUMAR TAILA KRISHNAKUMAR ARE finance companies heading for extinction? If the rate at which a population dwindles is any indicator of how soon a species will become endangered, the answer is yes.
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    • 611 4  -  market review r sivanithy ITS not often that the stock market behaves exactly as expected. But that's just what's happened recently, with prices gradually moving upwards in anticipation of a bright start to 2004. And a bright start was precisely what players got
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    • corporateroundup
      • 145 4 WEE Cho Yaw's United Overseas Bank has raised its direct stake in property group United Overseas Land to 49.43 per cent from 45.07 per cent, following an exercise of 61 million UOL warrants. Together with a reduced deemed stake of 1.96 per cent down
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      • 98 4 PHILLIP Assets' mandatory conditional cash offer for International Factors Singapore (IFS) has lapsed as it closed yesterday without becoming unconditional. The offeror garnered a total stake of 41.09 per cent which includes a 10.9 per cent stake it acquired earlier from Neptune Orient Lines and
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      • 110 4 Reuters SEMBCORP Logistics said yesterday Swiss firm Kuehne Nagel International (KAN) had delayed increasing its 5 per cent stake in the Singapore-based firm. The delay came as shares of SembCorp Logistics traded below the price at which K&N could exercise its option. The Swiss
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      • 69 4 ROTARY Engineering said it has entered a deal with Honeywell Pte Ltd and Honeywell Rotary Pte Ltd to acquire the remaining 255,000 Honeywell Rotary shares not held by Rotary for $297,000 in cash. Following the acquisition, the joint venture with Honeywell Pte Ltd will be
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      • 49 4 ALLGREEN Properties has acquired Greenspace Investments Pte Ltd and Rodin Investments Pte Ltd for nominal sums of $2 each. Greenspace and Rodin each of which has an issued and paid-up capital of $2 are now wholly-owned subsidiaries of Allgreen. Their principal activity is investment holding.
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      • 34 4 UNITED Industrial Corporation (UIC) has bid its final farewell to Sino-America (UIC) Tours Corporation. The sale of UlC's stake to Natwest Holdings for $3.5 million was completed yesterday.
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      • 87 4 HOTEL Properties Ltd (HPL) said its wholly-owned subsidiary HPL Properties (North Asia) reduced its stake in Shanghai Ning Xin Real Estate Development to 16.49 per cent from 19.4 per cent. HPL North Asia agreed to sell the 2.91 per cent stake to Capita
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    • 433 5  -  Publishing firm pays $3.57 million for 0.5% stake in the healthcare operator By Andrea Tan A NEW year, a new investment. Flamboyant businessman Simon Cheong has just added a third V to his portfolio from publishing to property and now, Parkway Holdings. Mr
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    • 346 5  -  By Taila Krishnakumar IN a move that could significantly enhance its presence and reach in China, main-board-listed Air Ocean group is buying China-based logistics group ÜBI Logistics. The US$9 million acquisition will give Air Ocean immediate access to several trading and broking licences
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    • 471 5  -  By Kenneth Lim CHINA Food Industries (CFI) hopes to bring home the bacon a year ahead of schedule by introducing its premium "Pork Luck" brand of frozen pork to Singapore by February or early March. CFI, a locally based food supplier
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    • 327 5 Airline is targeting business travellers with daily flights to LA Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd (SLA), the world's second-largest carrier by market value, said it plans to charge about 5 per cent to 10 per cent more for non-stop flights to
      Bloomberg  -  327 words
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  • personal finance
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      521 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN Apex-Pal MmmHqml Ltd Jm2M«$Ul HAVING achieved revenue and net profit CAGR (compounded annual growth rates) of 51 and 87 per cent respectively from FYOO to FYO2, Apex-Pal has reached the apex of the popular conveyor belt sushi niche, with no less than 20 Sakae
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      389 6  -  Compiled by SERENA NG BIL Infl chief executive raises stake to 0.12% INVESTMENT company BIL International's chief executive officer Arun Amarsi boosted his shareholding in the firm further by buying 50,000 shares on Dec 30 at 75 cents each and another 1.09 million shares on Dec 31 at an
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    • 916 6 Some owners may need to restructure their loans but others may have more cash on hand THE start of the New Year means the coming into effect of a number of changes to the Central Provident Fund (CPF) scheme. These changes made by the
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    • 518 6  -  Brokerage picks 13 companies worth watching in 2004 By Kenneth Lim ON the first day of trading in the new year, Phillip Securities looked at what's on the cards for the first quar- ter and picked 13 stocks as its lucky hand. In its 2004
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  • personal investment
    • 857 7  -  By Teh Hooi Ling A NEW year brings new hope. But before you embark on yet another ambitious investment scheme, perhaps it's timely to get a reminder on what the most common mistakes made by people are when it comes to managing their
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    • 1466 7  -  show me the money How time flies. Come this column will celebrate its second anniversary. To all regular readers out there, thank you for your support, and thanks too to the many who've taken the trouble to write in with your feedback. In
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  • at home
    • 614 8  -  Feedback group also recommends the govt should accelerate expansion of MRT network Reports by Daniel Buenas THE government should consider ploughing back more of the money it collects from transport taxes into transport development and accelerating the expansion of the MRT network,
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    • 370 8 Feedback Group calls for audits to check standard of subsidised care PUBLICLY-FUNDED health care services should compete via performance and quality of care, not just on bottom line, and should resist rampant commercialisation. Publicly-fUnded healthcare providers should also be audited to ensure the quality
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    • 138 8 Easter for CfclMst to ceme here THE China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) has made it easier tor independent visitors from China to visit Singapore. The Singapore Tourism Board said that the CNTA has increased the number of authorised travel agents for visa applications to Singapore from three to 43
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    • 237 8 KEPPEL Corporation's executive chairman Lim Chee Onn has been appointed to the Monetary Authority of Singapore's board of directors for a two-year term. Meanwhile, Lam Chuan Leong, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Environment, has stepped down after three years on the board. This
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    • 316 8  -  By Chuang Peck Ming WITH the economy bouncing back, the key electronics sector is expected to create another 2,500 jobs in the next six months especially in semiconductors and data storage, according to the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA). And this
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    • 235 8 SIM Kee Boon, the former chairman of Keppel Corp, has replaced Lim Kim San as chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers. Mr Lim, a former cabinet minister and now senior advisor of Singapore Press Holdings, retired on Thursday after having filled the role
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  • region
    • 478 9  -  Proton and EON shares fare the worst From Diana Ooe Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN motor stocks closed weaker yesterday, with national carmaker Proton and national car distributor EON faring worst on the first day of the country's
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    • inbrief
      • 114 9 AP [BEIJING] Initial results of a gene sequencing by Chinese microbiologists show that a suspected Sars case in southern China "may possibly" be severe acute respiratory syndrome, the government said yesterday—even as international tests on the man continued in Hong Kong. The brief announcement by
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      • 85 9 AP [JAKARTA] A powerful earthquake shook Indonesia's tourist islands of Ball and Lombok yesterday, injuring 29 people and damaging more than 250 tniUdJngs, officials and witnesses said. On Lombok, one elderly man died of a suspected heart attack, apparently triggered by the shock of the quake,
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      • 96 9 AP [BANGKOK] Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has denied criticism that ha is intolerant and power-hungry, saying his wife keeps S cJiorlf on htffl SO that hU feet stay on the ground. "What about me says I'm power-ob-sessed?" Dr Thaksin asked reporters during a year-end lunch on Wednesday.
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      • 73 9 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia said tourist arrivals rose for a second month, reflecting a recovery IS months after a terrorist attack on the island of Bali led travellers to avoid the South-east Asian nation. Arrivals roee 27 per cent to visitors in November, led by a more
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    • 680 9 MARKETS 2004 Bourse weighed down by scandals, state shares Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Chinese stocks, the world's worst performers in the fastestgrowing major economy last year, may lag again in 2004 as corruption scandals and a US$34O billion overhang of state shares keep investors away. The Shanghai
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    • 350 9 AP [NEW DELHI] The Indian stock market will likely remain a favoured destination in Asia for foreign investors, although returns in 2004 are expected to be much lower than in 2003, fund managers said. Foreign funds invested more than US$7 billion in Indian stocks last
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    • 360 9 Switch off purchase to China; 'nothing to hide', says chairman [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Anti-Cor-ruption Agency is investigating alleged graft in Felcra Bhd, the government-owned land development company, over the award of a RM72 million (Ss32 million) contract to its subsidiary Felcra Niaga to purchase
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    • 433 9 Reuters Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong property sales, mainly of apartments, rose in 2003 for the first time in six years as more people bought homes amid an economic rebound, according to the city's two biggest realtors. Sales, including apartments, factories
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  • world
    • 425 10 Rising defaults hit figures; lender says it will continue to focus on cleaning up bad loans Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korea's largest lender Kookmin Bank posted a net loss last year because of rising defaults. The loss was "regrettable", president Kim Jung
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    • 672 10  -  A slumping greenback, US trade imbalances and budget deficit, among others, could prove a deadly cocktail for markets by 2005 By Chet Carrier Bloomberg [INCi W lUIUVJ FINANCIAL pessimists of the world, don't give up yet. A popular forecasting view says that you
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    • 659 10 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] Real estate tycoon Donald Trump says he does not like to fire people. It's all part of "The Apprentice", the highly promoted series NBC launches on Jan 8, hoping to spark the kind of lightning in a bottle that CBS
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    • 454 10  -  By Al Lewis [DENVER, Colorado] It is a good time to focus on New Year's resolutions. Here are some that I think some notable business personalities and companies should keep this year: ♦Richard Grasso, deposed head of the New York Stock Exchange: Ignore
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    • inbrief
      • 75 10 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] European manufacturing expanded in December for a fourth straight month, bolstering expectations that economic growth in the region will accelerate this year from the slowest pace in 10 years in 2003. An index based on a survey of about 3,000 companies based in the 12
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      • 86 10 AP [SEOUL] North Korea has agreed to allow a US delegation to visit its main nuclear complex next week, a South Korean official said yesterday. The trip will mark the first time outsiders have been allowed to Inspect North Korea's main nuclear facilities
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      • 65 10 AP [NEW YORK] Companies in the United States are ex- pected to step up hiring this year after a year in.which household spending boosted the economy more than business investment, according to economists sur- veyed by The Wall Street Journal The 54 economists
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • motoring
    • 1530 11  -  The new Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is a high-tech beauty that is also a high-performance beast, says GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU IF you're going to launch a car with world-beating aspirations, you may as well do it in style, and that's exactly what happened when the Mercedes-Benz SLR
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  • sports
    • 554 12  -  Top regional pros seen mounting strong challenge, reports VEN SREENIVASAN VEN SREENIVASAN SINGAPORE'S No 1 golfer, Lam Chih Bing, and his regular sparring partner, Mardan Mamat, will soon be battling it out with other top golfers at the Singapore Accenture Champion of Champions tournament.
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    • 813 12  -  frankly speaking vincent wee IT is ironic that one of the costliest sports often offers relatively little or no prize money in its most prestigious competitions. The typical yacht on the world's premier sailing circuits costs about US$l million on average. Yet, owners
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  • health
    • 1225 13  -  Since no one dietary regime is suitable for everyone, listening to one's own body is key to discovering the appropriate balance, says JOHN YEO JOHN YEO THIS is the season to be guilty. The joy of feasting gives way to a sick feeling that perhaps
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 351 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Story about Spaniard de- in the East worsh| P jjH~~HI BB~~~Bb serving forgiveness (10) 4 Gorilla at loggerheads with —HH —MM 6lt flies about in two dtfferent reptile (9) directions (4) 5 Arnold endlessly confused HI Hi BB WM BB "H| 10 It is not right in
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  • shopping
    • Article, Illustration
      761 14  -  Be it simple yet trendy pieces or quality solid wood furniture, there's bound to be something that catches your eye at OOD or Moss, says CORINNE KERK CORINNE KERK BELIEVE it or not, Chinese New Year is less than three weeks away. But while time is tight,
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    • 535 14  -  By Corinne Kerk HAVING lost its firmness a long time ago, it is now flaccid and barely able to support any movement comfortably. Going to bed every night with it is practically a crime, resulting in discomfort and disappointment. So if you're still sleeping on
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    • instore
      • 237 14  -  Compiled by MIKE SHIJA, CORINNE KERK MlMonla Walk Now you can enjoy wireless surf at Millenia Walk with some perks. The first 100 customers to surf more than 30 minutes at Millenia Walk willreceive a $10 L'Emozione dining voucher (promotion ends Jan 31). You will also get a complimentary
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      • 101 14 If you've got sensitive skin and suffer from allergies, then you may find a solution to your woes in Lavera. The German brand makes a wide range of all-natural cosmetics and personal care products, including skin care, body care, hair care, sunscreen, men's and baby's products. Apart from
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      • Article, Illustration
        38 14 Kick off work shoes in style. These Alessandro casual shoes keep you relaxed and confident A in any social situation. Available in full leather and rubber soles. Priced at $209 at Alessandro, Millenia Walk and Scotts.
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      • 53 14 The Lyby armchair: You'll be sitting on an idea, literally. And its aesthetics do not overcome practicality: the armrests fold out as side tables to seat an adult or child. It costs $225 and is available in red or blue, with removable and washable slipcovers. Check it
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  • pursuits/wine&dine
    • 1582 15 Going out or staying in this weekend? We round up some recommendations books Investigative calling In Spoiler by Amanda Prantera, Ben narrator and priest-in-the-making in a Roman seminary is in psychoanalysis after suffering a crisis of faith arising from the death of fellow novitiate Adam for whom, incidentally, he
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  • food
    • Article, Illustration
      1019 16  -  Quality ingredients and healthy cooking will take centrestage in 2004 as the latest food scare gives meat a lesser role. JAIME EE gets a sampling of trends JAIME EE IT may have been a xiao long bao 2003, but what holds forth for Singapore foodies in the new
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    • 1058 16  -  Documenting food that people grew up with helps to preserve our heritage for the future generations as two recently published cookbooks show. JAIME EE relishes the efforts JAIME EE WHILE many are looking ahead where the culinary stars are concerned, some are looking back instead. Nostalgia may
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