The Business Times, 6 January 2004

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES ir,t? rr et: nttp:'/business-times.asial com.sg SINGAPORE TUESDAY, JANUARY 6. 2004 85t MfTA (P) 024/03/2009
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  • Article
    Lock icon China listings on SGX could hit 50, well ahead of target
    895 1  -  Investment bankers working on at least 25 mandates from the mainland By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Not too long ago, Singapore had to cajole Chinese companies to list here but now, they are lining up in droves. Investment bankers
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    Lock icon Fresh investment opening for SGX across the Causeway
    470 1  -  But experience with Clob could mar the attraction of possible dual listing with KLSE From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) could have an opportunity to buy into another bourse the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), which is set
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    Lock icon Kookmin-Temasek courtship could lead to other liaisons
    921 1  -  BT exclusive Korean bank sees joint buy of BII as testbed for N-E Asia expansion By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE! South Korea's Kookmin Bank, which partnered Temasek Holdings to buy an Indonesian bank last year, is using the acquisition as a "test-bed" for
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    68 1 RMBEX RATES US$ lSS(*»|*rl5$| |7M £4lTSS>'SSpcr£| t.7»» R RiHi i an YE* M3 t£*> KM turn ISfc HKS 77*4 «atf KAIfT tll4 RLTIAH A.40# 4JMI RfcNMINW HW» 1 INDIAN KI PO- 45« AS 07» sa m* PKME RATES stNOANMte* us MALAYSIA (U» hong nova km inmmbia mm TAIWAN &JW
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    Lock icon STI rides regional rally to 34-month peak
    247 1  -  By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Regional stock markets yesterday continued their rally into the New Year, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index breaking through the 13,000barrier and the Straits Times Index finally crossing the 1,800-mark in high volume. Brokers said markets are now in
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      89 1 lp America's trade partners need not A eat its beef Harish Mehta. Pg 12 iSk Korea's Kookmin sees better2oo4. Pg 2 ULYSSE^NARDIN Since 1*46 Li LOCLI Marine Chronometer with official rating certificate issued Official Chronometer Testing Institute Power reserve Oversized LARGE DATE INDIVIDUALLY 660 CT ROSE Available with an exclusive
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      10 1 So tmr, it's going according to script, Pg 6 ■I
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      Lock icon SIA must tackle cost but uphold service: analysts
      585 2  -  Airline must not jeopardise premium service business model, they say By Ven Sreenivasan Singapore should continue to •address the issue of operating costs but must do so Without jeopardising its premium service business Jnodel, analysts said yester- They were responding to i£enior
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      Lock icon China confirms sick man has Sars, raising fears
      541 2 10,000 civet cats to be culled; suspected case in Philippines AP AFP Reuters [BEIJING] After more than two weeks of intricate tests, the Chinese Health Ministry announced yesterday that a sick man in southern China does have the Sars virus, triggering fears
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    • Article
      Lock icon Korea's Kookmin sees better 2004 with less loan defaults
      533 2  -  Credit card default rate improving, economy picking up By Loh Hni Yin [SINGAPORE] Kookmin Bank, which suffered a loss last year due to rising loan defaults, says it has reached the bottom of the credit cycle for its credit cards. v
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • Article
      Lock icon How stable is Wall Street?
      657 4  -  HOCK lock siew r sivanithy ONE major source of optimism surrounding stocks is the strong performance of the US economy and in turn, that of Wall Street, where the crossing of the 10,000 mark in December by the Dow Jones Industrial Average was seen as
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      Lock icon DBS sells STI-linked warrants
      501 4  -  It raises $11.4m after doubling offer to 40m suits on strong demand By Serena Ng BANKING on the success of call warrants it launched recently on shares of United Overseas Bank and Singapore Telecom, DBS Bank yesterday unveiled a similar issue on the Straits Times Index.
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Total Auto shareholding changes
        83 4 ENGINEERING and instrumentation specialist Total Automation yesterday said its major sharehokler Velosi (M) Sdn Bhd is proposing to transfer a per cent stake in it to Trenergy Equity Sdn Bhd. a Malaysian oil and gas player. As Velosi is a subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur-listed Trenergy, the
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        Lock icon Nam Lee placement to raise $7m
        126 4 MAINBOARD-listed Nam Lee Pressed Metal Industries, a third-party manufacturer of aluminium frames for container refrigeration units, yesterday announced a placement of up to 15 million new shares at 48.5 cents a share. This represents a discount of 7.4 per cent from the volume weighted
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        Lock icon Yongman in pact with creditors
        47 4 YONGNAM Holdings, which supplies fabricated steel structures, has secured die agreement of several of its trade creditors—which had filed winding-up petitions against its Malaysian subsidiary, Yongnam Malaysia—to postpone the hearing of their winding-up petitions, pending farther progress of a proposed bilateral agreement
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      Lock icon Auston buys 65% of Indon properly firm
      534 5  -  Reverse takeover sees the Indon firm gaining 71% stake in the S'pore education group By Teh Hooi Ling EDUCATION group Auston International has struck a reverse takeover deal under which it will acquire a real estate concern in Indonesia. In return, the vendor
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      Lock icon HLA gets out of steel trading after more than 50 years
      543 5  -  By Keneth Lim AFTER nurturing its steel trading business for more than half a century, Hong Leong Asia (HLA) has Finally let go of what it called the "lonely child" of its building materials unit in favour of its
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      509 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM UOB tim UOB was the worst-performing bank •lock in Singapore in 2003, up only 12 per cent Drags on performance include MAS postponing the deadline for the mandatory divestment of non-core assets and the apparent delay in deployment of the US$l billion raised in
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      Lock icon AirOcean hits new highs on promise of China deal
      289 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of logistics company Air Ocean charged to a record 34 cents yesterday before closing with a net three-cent gain at 33.5 cents. And volume was a whopping 33.7 million units. This is a
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      Lock icon So far, it's going according to script
      506 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE performance of the local stock market is going almost exactly according to script which, as we've pointed out before, is not something that happens often in the history of stock markets. A weak December, when funds were
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      Lock icon US$ again tumbles to multi-year lows
      623 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES Aussie, NZS hit highest level in mere than 12 years versus Sing larry wee THE US dollar started its first full day of 2004 trading on the dismal note that most currency observers had expected it careened to multi-year lows versus
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Ezyhealth shareholder ups stake
        73 6 SIN Keng Choo, a substantial shareholder of Ezyhealth Asia Pacific, bought a 1.91 per cent stake or 5 million shares in the healthcare IT solutions and services firm at 6 cents apiece on Dec 31 last year. His open-market purchase raised his deemed shareholding in Ezyhealth
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        Lock icon Ellipsix chairman adds to holding
        74 6 THE executive chairman, CEO and founder of Ellipsiz, Xavier Chong Fook Choy (above), bought 50,000 shares in the semiconductor solutions firm at an average of 55.3 cents apiece on Jan 2. The open-market purchase raised his direct shareholding in Ellipsiz to 14.17 per cent, or
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        Lock icon Ventere exec director pares stake
        102 6 VENTURE Corp's executive director, Tan Choon Huat, sold shares in the blue chip electronics manufacturing service provider at an average price of $20.48 apiece on Dec 30 last year. The open-market sale reduced Mr Tan's direct shareholding to 50,000 shares from 250,000 shares. He also
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        Lock icon Jackspeed unit directors sell shares
        136 6  -  Compiled by SERENA NG THREE directors of a subsidiary of recently-listed Jacks peed Corporation sold shares in the company last week. Voo Jim Hing sold 100,000 shares cm Dec 30-31 at prices of 32 to 33.5 cents apiece. The open-market sales reduced his direct shareholding
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      394 6 OTHER SINGAPORE MINCES Jan 5 VALUE CLOSE wrm/m 872.00 +142.00 WOW -*****.00 +138.00 WlUqrMA -*****.00 +87.00 491.34 +6.94 MrpMnPnl 178.97 +0-71 1518.20 +18.85 WlpWllhip 456.44 +12.76 MWqpp— 222.96 +3.24 WWWwi 223.30 +3.50 Stidn ViImih Htf>5c 53,133,000 ReedGrp5c 40,629,000 ThaiVillage 5c 39,652,000 UniRberlOc 38.809,000 BeautyChina HK10 36.635,000 Chart SemiCond 26c 35,464,000
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  • SMALL caps
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      Lock icon Ho Bee builds on stable earnings
      938 7  -  A slew of upcoming projects puts Ho Bee on the watch list, says KALPANA RASHIWALA KALPANA RASHIWALA HO Bee Investment has a market cap of just under $160 million, small when compared to the likes of Capita Land or City Developments. But, the group
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      Lock icon Small caps portfolio beats STI's advance
      416 7  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE new year has been good for stocks so far. For the week to yesterday, our small caps portfolio gained 5.6 per cent. It beat the Straits Times Index's 5 per cent advance, but trailed the UOB Sesdaq Index's 6.6
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      102 7 I FREE WITH I I OUR NEW I I OFFICE I I SOLUTIONS. I I I Wish there was an easier way to manage mundane paperwork? Canon Total Office Solutions will free you from mindless repetitive tasks, allowing you to get more real work done. Our iW software is designed
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon First off: Action Asia, Challenger IPOs
      566 8  -  Auto accessories maker Action to raise $22m; electronics retailer Challenger to raise $6.3m By Kenneth Lim THIS year's initial public offer market got off to a dou-ble-barrel start yesterday, with Action Asia and Challenger Technologies registering their prospectuses with the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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      Lock icon Hua Kok sues proposed China investor
      223 8  -  By Vince Choag BELEAGUERED construction company Hua Kok International is suing the man it thought could give it a footing in the China market for not repaying a US$5OO,OOO loan that was to help set up a company in Beijing. Hua Kok said in
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      Lock icon S'pore stocks still good bet but repeat of 2003 surge unlikely: OCBC
      457 8  -  By Serena Ng OCBC Investment Research (OCBCIR) does not expect the Straits Times Index to perform as well this year as it did in 2003 but the local research house still likes Singapore stocks because it expects stronger
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2776 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS comoubs infencMBw 036* Com Global Enaqy Mb Fd 103/ Com Global Tra« Mb M 082/ Com S-pore Bond Fuid/* 1.0B2/ SorEuopefaS 1 1.27/ SttEtropeW 1.066/ tndocjm Asia Vsjon' 1.11*1171 SarAajanTqerEcft 0898/ DBS Aait Mat SalaM 1.304/ ShentonTweiGt* 1.280 335 Star Am Una) 092* japan Growth'* 7 O
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      360 8 I HHII I 18un Only) }±'l ll_ j Diners Club Credit Card Where to wme, dine and entertain... »|Hj| \> 1 1 1 1 11 J y Celebrate the coming Chinese New Year and treat your employees to a traditional Shou Gong feast with our great value menus. Choose from
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Manufacturing index hits 3-year high in Dec
      542 9  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY PMI expected to remain on the expansion track for the next 2-3 months By Anna Teo ON the expansion track for the seventh straight month, the Singapore purchasing managers' index hit a threeyear high in December and the uptrend
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      Lock icon Global prospects rosy but for 'policy errors'
      435 9 Steer clear of yuan revaluation and ride the China dragon: economists THE first business outlook seminar for the year kicked off, appropriately enough, on an upbeat note, with fairly rosy growth prospects forecast for all key economies and regions. What could muck it
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      Lock icon Singapore to help Indian states with e-govt solutions
      447 9  -  By Raju Chellam THE Singapore government is in talks with five key state governments in India to implement e-government solutions with help from a dozen Singapore infotech companies. Deployments of initial e-government solutions in India could start early this year. The Infocomm
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      309 9 NANYANG Forging leaders, Asian-style, for the global village Ranked by the Chief Executive China (2002) as one of the top five executive MBA programmes in the Asia Pacific, the Nanyang Fellows Programme consistently attracts the best candidates from Africa, Asia and other places. Both faculty and student quality were ranked
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon More industrial land offered on 30-year lease
      725 10  -  Move aimed at lowering business costs and boosting flexibility for industrialists, Vince Chong reports Vince Chong IN an unusual move, the lease period for one of two new plots on the government's industrial land sales reserve list will be pegged at 30 years
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    • Article
      Lock icon BNI looks to sell Cecil St building
      361 10  -  Asking price for Dapenso in region of $27-30m; BNI may lease back premises By Andrea Tan THE office and banking premises of scandal-hit Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) in Cecil Street has been put up for tender. The nine-storey Dapenso Building is owned by
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      670 10 SUNTEC TOWER ONE B* Approx. 2700 to 7000 sf for LEASE at 53.90 psf neg Approx. 1350 to 14,381 sf for SALE at attractive price High low rise Fitted or Bare Immediate Occupation Lobby Frontage Sole Marketing Agent Agnes Heu 9686 6651 Greg Sim 9270 2570 SeHna Yap 9029 7207
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      506 10 hHwMaMrol The Companies Ad, Cap. 50 And In Ik* MuHqi of RHYMTECH ENGINEERING PTE LTD (In Cradfcors' Voluntary Liquidation) Al on Extraordinary General Mooting ol RHYMTECH ENGINEERING PTE LTD duly convened ond held at 190 Middle Road •1601 Fortune Centre, Singapore *****9 on 29th December 2003 the following Resolutions vwre
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      1399 10 Cmßoi CEREBOS PACIFIC UMITEO (Incorporated in Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-Second Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Level 3, Galleria Ballroom, 392 Havelock Road. Singapore *****3 on Monday, 26 January, 2004 at 2 p.m.
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      137 10 M Large Residential Site Near NUS Opposite NUS, near to Business/Science Parks Freehold Site Area: 142,565 sq ft Residential at PR 1.4, 5-storey, 150 units invitation for Expression of Interests Closing: luesday, 10 Feb 2004, 3pm ——i B.i ■■■■■•■■■■ycfxvffifi CAMBRIDGE £9^l Child Dr\r!>>finrnt Crntrc LCAXNIM* CINTM Looking for a proven
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      9 10 I C.A.T.S. 1 Buy It. Sell It. Find It.
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Encouraging response to wage reform
      397 11 EMPLOYERS and unions leaders are ready to push for a more flexible wage system, according to Acting Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen. 4 The Tripartite Taskforce 6n Wage Reform, set up to Accelerate wage reform, has fonducted seminars and talks to gather feedback from corporate
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      Lock icon NTU offers bio-chem engineering degree
      230 11 FROM July, Nanyang Technological University will offer 80 new engineering places in the country's first chemical and bio-molecular engineering undergraduate programme, and relax admission criteria for A-level graduates. Citing the need to support Singapore's biotechnology and chemical process engineering activities, NTU yesterday unveiled the fouryear
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      Lock icon Singapore seeks new chapter in M'sia ties
      576 11  -  YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT It reveals Third Party Note on half-bridge sent earlier to KL By Chuang Peck Ming BILATERAL issues remain as Singapore prepares to welcome Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on his first visit as Malaysian Prime Minister and open a new chapter in
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    • IN Brief
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        Lock icon NSS, ERS seized only as last resort
        139 11 THE Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore has been going after 26,500 taxpayers for $76 million in unpaid taxes, but has recovered only $71,000 through New Singapore Shares and Economic Restructuring Shares trusts. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Parliament that Iras does
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        Lock icon Updated trust laws on the way
        92 11 AN updated Trust Companies Act is due to come into force in the second half of the year. DPM Lee Hsien Loong said that the Finance Ministry and the Monetary Authority of Singapore were now reviewing the Act MAS will also take over the
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        Lock icon Quarterly-reporting review in 2005
        75 11 DPM Lee Hsien Loong yesterday reiterated that the Finance Ministry will review quarterly reporting for small listed companies in mid-2006. Quarterly reporting has generally benefited investors because it helps them track the performance of listed companies easily, he said. Listed companies also have no problem with
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon US' trade partners need not eat its beef
      784 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION harish mahta THE US$27 billion beef industry of the United States is in crisis. Nearly two dozen countries have banned imports of US beef suspected of being infected by the deadly mad cow disease. And the Bush administration
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      Lock icon Investors' reasons to cheer
      626 12 EDITORIAL POR Asian equity markets, 2003 was a year of two distinct halves. The first half was one which investors would rather forget Companies held back investments as profits fell, consumers cut back spending as jobs disappeared, and stocks tumbled to four-year lows as investor confidence
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      Lock icon Hong Kong's rebound is tied to booming China
      731 12 Its economic reliance shifts away from the West NYT (HONG KONG] When Sars spread in Hong Kong last spring, employees at Lee Fung China Ware, a large store selling porcelain, did not see a single overseas tourist for two months and sales
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      Lock icon Euro will be tops when Asia says so
      878 12  -  COMMENTARY By William Pesek The writer is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own WHAT a difference a couple of years make in the currency markets. The once mighty dollar is now sliding; the once feeble euro is
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      51 12 m OTHER WORDS 'Who could know people would travel thousands of kilometres to lie on the beach?' -CfamtitSribk a Thai farmer on Samui island, on land values as developers snap up land in Thailand to cash in on perceptions that the mostly Buddhist country is one of Asia's safest holiday
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      231 12 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Deal with coaches missing one performance (8) 9 Implements it, unless I I o changes are made (8) —-L_J—— 10 Agree with argument against return of constabulary (6) Ts"~^^' 12 Strong tea brewed for this 13 Such a ham can be a weapViews as some--24 Can a
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Telekom M'sia shortlists six banks for Celcom IPO
      461 13 KUALA LUMPUR Thailand's TA Orange, Indonesia's Excelcomindo also plan IPOs this year Reuters TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd, tipped to launch a RM2.5 billion to RM3.5 billion (Ssl.l--1.6 billion) IPO for its mobile phone arm Celcom, has shortlisted six banks to advise on the
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    • Article
      Lock icon AirAsia to meet M'sian minister over low-price ads
      310 13 KUALA LUMPUR Both sides have backed off from tough talk: report AFP OFFICIALS from Malaysia's budget airline Air Asia are to meet a senior minister over his accusations that advertisements promoting low-price tickets are "misleading", local media reported yesterday. In separate comments
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    • Article
      Lock icon Moody's positive on outlook for M'sian banks
      174 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MOODY'S has assigned a "stable-to-positive" outlook for Malaysia's banking system, saying healthy fundamentals demonstrated its resilience in the face of last year's uncertainties over the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and the Iraq war. The ratings agency said
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Arroyo es reforms, files papers
        70 13 AFP [MAMLA] Philippine President Gloria Arroyo filed tor the May2oo4 polls yesterday, V wpri eihinUul reforms including a shift to a jhMMvy and federal form of government. Ms AmptpMpdtocrack down on corruption, drug ataat aai tarrortan while promoting economic isuovwj- She sought support for her
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        Lock icon 14 hurt in HK subway areon attack
        87 13 Bloomberg (HONG KONG] An arson attack on a subway train ta Hong Kong sent 14 people to hospital and disrupted operations at a main interchange for a half-hour. A man lit flammable materials in the first car of the train as it was
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        Lock icon Fresh blasts in Thai town
        67 13 AP (BANGKOK] Two bout* exploded yesterday in a southern Thai town, killing one policeman and htfurtng several people, police and a state-run news afsney said The blasts in Pattani occurred a day after unidentified n—wilnnts set fire to 21 schools and raided a military armoury,
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      Lock icon What's cooking, champ?
      77 13 AFP [MADRAS] Thai tennis player Paradom Srichaphan preparing a dish of Chinese food at a promotional event for the Tata Open Tennis Championship in Madras, yesterday. Srichaphan is the defending champion of the Tata Open which has prize money totalling US$4OO,OOO. The Tata championship is the sole
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  • Article, Illustration
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    996 14 Transaction date: Jan 5 All series Ma > a yr, Short: 1-3 yrs; Long: > 3 yrs DfTE&BAinC CROSS RATES 1 yjyJBFSijy a$ c$ m mm mum v qm m tmpr «s on qm n«o m> AMrtf* 19M 139? 0J04 1M7 KM MMI 0J19 1132 2.911 LM6 ***** 42J43
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  • REGIONAL news
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      260 14 HONG KONG Bloomberg HONG KONG property sales, mainly of apartments, rose in 2003 for the first time since 1997, as more people bought homes amid an economic rebound, data from the Land Registry shows. Sales of properties, including apartments, factories
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      173 14 BEIJING AP CHINA says its politically sensitive trade surplus wfth the United States grew to ?a estimated U5553.2 billion .in the first 11 months of2ooo— A less than half the size of th 4 gap cited by Washington. The increase came as China's
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      552 15 NEW YORK SEC asks if brokers sold funds for their performance or for higher commissions LAT-WP IN a mutual fund scandal with so much wrongdoing that it's losing shock value, state and federal regulators are zeroing in on a practice that could prove to
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      307 15 TOKYO AP JAPAN is finally emerging from a prolonged slowdown thanks to rising corporate profits, investment and write-offs of bad bank loans. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said yesterday. "Japan's economy has strong underlying strength. It has potential energy," he said in a televised New
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        112 15 Reuters [LONDON] Exchange-traded funds (ETF) saw assets under management jump by half last year amid the stock market rebound, with Europe the best performer, Morgan Stanley said yesterday. "They benefited from the market rally and scandals faced by traditional funds," Morgan Stanley said. The
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        79 15 Reuters [SEOUL] Creditors of South Korea's largest credit card company torpedoed a US$4.2 billion rescue plan yesterday and urged the government to take a majority stake in LG Card Co, which warned it was running out of cash. "We can hang on until Wednesday, but
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        62 15 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Inflation in the euro zone eased slightly to 2.1 per cent in December, edging closer to the European Central Bank's 2 per cent tolerance threshold, data from the European Union's statistics office showed yesterday. In November inflation rose to 2.2 per cent from
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      599 17 NEW YORK Purchases fell to US$1.8b, the fourth straight yearly decline to 8-yr low Bloomberg US EXECUTIVES and officers cut purchases of shares in the companies they con- trol by 29 per cent last year to an eight-year low, while increasing
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      924 18  -  Neither the harsh Soviet winter nor volatile business conditions could stop Delta Exports' search for opportunities in steel, its director tells Chen Huifen Chen Huifen DELTA Exports director V Vasudevan's early trips to the former Soviet Union were unforgettable. "Especially during the winter," he recalls. "We had to
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      723 19  -  It's a race against time to complete security plans for 70 ports: minister By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Australian ports and shipping groups are in danger of missing the mid-year deadline for compliance with the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) International Ship and Port
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      340 19 It will supply, operate self-discharging vessels for coal producer Arutmin Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Indonesia's booming coal production will be a focus of Singapore's industrial, marine and mining logistics group Sembawang Kimtrans Ltd (SKL), which has secured a $30 million contract to supply and operate a
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      501 19  -  Group to charge an extra US$25 per TEU container and US$150 per reefer By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The world s second largest container maker, Singamas Container Holdings Ltd, is targeting sales surpassing 500,000 TEUs in 2004. The Singapore and Hong Kong listed group
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      106 19 Reuters [ALGIERS] Spanish and Algerian search teams on Sunday rescued the 12 crew members of a cargo ship which sank off the Algerian coast on Saturday, the official Algerian news agency APS said. It said the ship was carrying steel and sank in the Mediterranean
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        695 26 They say it's a political move to force BA to accept onboard marshals AP AFP [WASHINGTON] Extra security checks again delayed a British Airways flight to Washington Dulles International Airport as the United States entered a third consecutive week on a
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        263 26 AFP [DUBAI] Dubai Duty Free announced record sales of 1.37 billion dirhams (***** million) for 2003, a 24 per cent increase over the previous year. The airport showcase expects that the results will push its global airport retail ranking above its current
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        160 26 AFP [SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt] Egyptian investigators yesterday homed in on the main wreckage of the Paris-bound charter plane that crashed at the weekend killing all 148 people on board, a French official said. Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister Ahmed Shafik, meanwhile, "categorically rejected" Swiss charges
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          122 26 AFP [MUNICH] An Austria Airlines plane with 32 passengers on board made an emergency landing on open ground at Munich airport yesterday after the pilot reported an engine problem, police said. They said no one was hurt, although one person suffered shock, but all the
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