The Business Times, 20 March 2004

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    12 1 MITA (P) 023/03/2004 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend SINGAPORE MARCH 20-21, 2004
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    Lock icon Khoo saga seen raising tricky issues of law and liability
    851 1  -  Singapore Exchange gives companies 7 days to explain billionaire's secret shareholdings By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] While the authorities mull over the actions of the late Khoo Teck Puat in having defied corporate disclosure rules, the business and legal community are
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    Lock icon Barisan poised to win 4 in 5 parliament seats
    923 1  -  Ruling coalition is expected to make inroads in Terengganu but could lose Kedah, even as it secures a stronger mandate overall From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE United Malays National Organisation (Umno) and its partners in the ruling coalition Barisan
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    Lock icon Only one way to roll back PAS
    870 1  -  COMMENTARY Whatever the election watchers may say, the issue in the northern Malaysian states is economics walton morais ISLAM has dominated issues in the battle for control of the northern Malaysian heartland states. It shouldn't. Like everywhere else in the country, the core
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    Lock icon Taiwan dollar slides after gun attack on president
    765 1 Shooting ahead of polls may swing votes Chen's way Bloomberg Reuters [TAIPEI] The Taiwan dollar fell and political analysts sensed a dramatic late swing in today's poll after Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian and Vice-Presi-dent Annette Lu survived a shooting incident that left
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  • news front
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      Lock icon How to position Singapore's casino
      856 2  -  saturday soapbox A casino is good for business, but care needs to be taken over location, size, structure and operational details with ronald tan THE government's announcement last week that it may consider setting up a casino is great news for Singapore's tourism and hospitality
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      Lock icon US-Sino venture is clinching plum China IPO deals
      553 2  -  It is even beating Wall Street firms in their own game By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] In the current slew of huge China share offerings, it's not Wall Street bulge bracket investment firms that have been winning the coveted mandates. Instead, a
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  • the raffles conversation
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      Lock icon Bring on the SPOTLIGHT
      1455 3  -  Ernst Young's global chief operating officer is unfazed by the bad press his profession's been getting. The ebullient industry insider tells ANNA TEO why ANNA TEO LAST November, some 60 people from the worlds of accounting, finance, law, academia, banking, journalism and the regulatory authorities gathered
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      Lock icon A convergence of regulatory standards
      472 3 ONE good that will come out of the wrenching corporate crises in recent times is convergence, says Paul Ostling. Convergence in three different areas, he declares: of accounting principles, of auditing standards, and of regulations. "Everybody talks about convergence of accounting principles international accounting standards,
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      Lock icon War between good and evil
      641 3 JUST when the dust seems to be settling on Enron-scale scandals, along comes Parmalat. Will there be no end to corporate shenanigans? "This may sound pessimistic, I don't mean it to be pessimistic, I think I'm a pragmatist," says Ernst Young's Paul Ostling. "I believe
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      61 3 The Raffles Conversation is brought to V y° u through a special arrangement V with Raffles International Hotels and I 9 1 I Resorts. The Traveller's Palm in the I I I |f-*V Raffles International logo is an apt symbol. Not only has water stored at INTERNATIONAL "SI Hotels «St
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  • news companies
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      Lock icon Hotel stocks at a dead end?
      1175 4  -  corporate analysis Analysts tell ANDREA TAN that they attract little interest, have low liquidity and offer meagre returns ANDREA TAN SO it's goodbye to yet another hotel stock. This time, it's Goodwood Park Hotel. But who will it be tomorrow? The Singapore Exchange's hotel
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    • corporateroundup
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      Lock icon Jury's still out on market's direction
      708 4  -  market review r sivanithy IF you're the type who views the glass as half-full, events of the past week could be seen as testimony to the resilience of equities. Despite heightened terrorism fears and increased volatility on Wall Street, the major indices held up
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      Lock icon Performance shares for DBS senior execs
      174 4 DBS Group Holdings' chief executive Jackson Tai and executive director Frank Wong have each been given 10,000 shares for last year under the company's performance share scheme. Based on the DBS stock's closing price of $14 yesterday, the 10,000 performance shares allotted are now
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      Lock icon ABN says 3 parties bidding for Bank of Asia stake
      574 5  -  UOB confirms interest in Thai lender; Dutch bank expects sale to be completed by July By Siow Li Sen UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) is facing off two other banks in its bid to buy Thailand's Bank of Asia. According to
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      Lock icon Schroders keen on pension funds
      713 5  -  It wants to bring its expertise in pension fund management to the S'pore market By Genevieve Cua SCHRODERS pic is determined that its dou-ble-digit growth rate in Asia should continue, and to this end, it is keen to bid for the CPF's proposed privately managed
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      77 5 Dsn 1,839.12 (+3.94) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,848.00 (+8.00) SIMSCI 222.46 (+0.68) SIMSCI FUTURES 223.10 (+1.20) Friday Change KLSE COMP ..904.45 +2.98 NIKKEI 225 11,418.51 -65.77 HAN(i SENG 12,790.58 25.61 SET INDEX 681.27 -552 JAKARTA COMP __742itl +9.34 MAMU (X)MP 1.450.83 +2.77 TAIPEI WPI 6,815.09 +28.06 SEOI'L (DMP 883.33 +1051
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      78 5 FOREX RATES US* S$ l.'S$ (SS per L'S$) 1.689 £(US$/S$ per 1.832 3.095 El'RO(l T S$/S$/E). 1.238 2.091 YEN 106.8 63.20 KM 3.800 2.249 HKS 7.793 4.613 BAHT 1 39 44 23:14 RUPIAH 8,548 5,060 RENMINBI 8.299 4.912 INDIAN Rl'PEE... 45.21 26.76 AS 1.337 0.791 NZS 1.525 0.903 PRIME
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      Lock icon China water-treatment firm set for SGX listing
      426 5  -  UE lodges initial prospectus, aims to raise at least $11m By Andrea Tan ANOTHER China watertreatment company is hoping to make a splash on the Singapore Exchange. United Envirotech (UE), an environmental solutions provider, has lodged its preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority
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      185 5 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF EMS HEALTHCARE NETWORK PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap. SO that the Final Meeting of the above named company will be held at
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      212 5 TPA STRATEGIC HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) AMENDMENT TO ANNOUNCEMENT OF NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING IN RELATION TO PROPOSED FINAL DIVIDEND AND CHANGE OF TAX RATE TO PROPOSED FINAL DIVIDEND Further to the Announcement made on 19 March 2004 on the Notice of Annual General Meeting
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      1035 5 aaaa^_^" NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Hongguo International Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at OCBC Executive Club, 65 Chulia Street #33-01, OCBC Centre, Singapore *****3 on Monday, 12 April 2004 at 10.30 a.m. for the following purposes: AS ORDINARY BUSINESS 1. To receive
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    Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
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  • money personal finance
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      543 6  -  Compiled by SERENE NG Ascendasßeit March 19 dosing: $1.26 WE remain optimistic of the group's prospects after yesterday's visit. Management reiterated their strategy to provide unit holders with yield and capital appreciation through a two-pronged move of organic improvements and acquisitions. Organic expansion will come from growth in
      Source: Bloomberg  -  543 words
    • trades to watch
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        Lock icon Boon Hwee exercises options
        69 6 MEDIARING executive director Koh Boon Hwee yesterday converted 1.3 million options into shares of the voiceover Internet Protocol specialist at 10 cents apiece. The exercise of the options was "due to expiry date", MediaRing said. The move gave Mr Koh a direct shareholding of 0.17 per
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        Lock icon I'M Tech execs raise stakes
        99 6 THREE executive directors of newlylisted I'M Technologies each bought 100,000 shares in the smartcard solutions firm in the open market yesterday at 28 cents or 28.5 cents per share. The purchases raised CEO Teo Zee Vee's and executive director Lee Mui Heng's direct holdings to
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        Lock icon Greatronic chief cuts stake
        71 6 THE president and CEO of Greatronic, Lim Kok Koon, sold a total of 7 million shares in a married deal on March 18 to boutique fund house Pheim Asset Management at nine cents apiece. The sale of the 5.1 per cent stake reduced Mr Lim's deemed
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        Lock icon Datacraft director lowers stake
        79 6 AN independent director of Datacraft Asia, Frank Yung-Cheng Yung, sold 20,000 shares via Winseng Pte Ltd in the open market on March 18. Half of the shares were sold at US$l.37 apiece and the other half at US$l.4l each. The sales reduced Mr Yung's deemed interest
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      Lock icon The true test of a successful investor
      915 6  -  BENNY ONG highlights six qualities an investor needs BENNY ONG SUCCESSFUL investing is not simply the buying and selling of a commodity, stock or real estate. In addition to your capital, we believe that six basic ingredients are needed: T —Time E Experience
      USA TODAY  -  915 words
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      Lock icon Investor, know yourself
      918 7  -  Your emotional make-up may just be the 'x' factor that makes or breaks you as an investor. GENEVIEVE CUA explains GENEVIEVE CUA NEXT time you're faced with a risk profiling form, give it more than a cursory thought. In fact, if you have financial goals and aim
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      Lock icon Discounted cash flow model put to the test
      1275 7  -  show me the money teh hooi ling I AM quite heartened this week. Until now, I'd been rather sceptical about the accuracy of the fair value for stocks derived by the discounted cashflow model. I know the mechanics of the process and
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  • news at home
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      Lock icon Shipping firms flock to HarbourFront Office Park
      427 8  -  NYK Line, P&O Nedlloyd, and Mitsui OSK Lines are among those attracted by the proximity to port terminals By Kalpana Rashiwala THE Harbour Front Office Park, consisting of three towers, is fast becoming a hub for shipping companies, given its proximity to four
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      Lock icon Employers spared family-friendly laws
      480 8  -  YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT Despite baby drive, govt wants flexible labour market Reports by Chuang Peck Ming IT looks like the government will not enact laws to promote family-friendly workplaces as a way of encouraging Singaporeans to make more babies. "Many MPs have urged us to legislate
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      Lock icon Workers accept wage reform, says Eng Hen
      362 8 SOME still don't like it, but according to Acting Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen, the message of wage reform has got through to most workers. "Singaporeans have understood that (wage) flexibility, at the end of the day, can help save jobs," he told
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      Lock icon For a good cause
      79 8 PRESIDENT SR Nathan, who is patron of the National Council of Social Service, receiving $3.5 million raised by The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fundfrom Singapore Press Holdings CEO Alan Chan at News Centre yesterday. The amount is the highest collected since the fund started in
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      Lock icon Citibank loses Japan clients' data
      169 8 Reuters [TOKYO] The Japanese banking unit of US financial giant Citigroup said yesterday that a magnetic tape containing information on over 120,000 of its customer accounts had gone missing in Singapore. The back-up tape, which had monthly transaction data on 123,690 Citibank customer accounts in
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      Lock icon Online hotel bookings cheaper
      265 8  -  hotels By Daniel Buenas IF you want to save money, don't use the phone to make a hotel reservation. Instead, turn on your computer and book online. According to a survey released yesterday by professional services firm KPMG, half of all hotel bookings made through online
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    583 8 Transaction date: Mar 19 IMTERBAMK CPRRBMCY RATES Against S$ Against US$ Against S$ Against U$$ Currtnclas Bid Offtr Bid Offtr Currencies Bid Offtr Bw Offtf SS/VSS to 100 SS/USS to one unit of foreign currency: units of foreign Australian dollar ***** ***** 0.7479 0 7484 currenc 3/ sr- is
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  • focus corporate responsibility
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      Lock icon It's everybody's business
      1482 9  -  Think your corporation's only obligation is to make money for its shareholders? Think again. Corporate social responsibility is being taken seriously by companies, investors and NGOs globally, as VIKRAM KHANNA finds out VIKRAM KHANNA Assailed for "unethical and irresponsible marketing of breastmilk substitutes", the international food and
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      Lock icon S'pore companies heeding the CSR call
      530 9  -  By Vikram Khanna ALTHOUGH Singapore Inc lags companies in developed economies in standards of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the movement is gathering pace. In his opening remarks at the British High Commission CSR Seminar, Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, drew
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      Lock icon Responsibility pays, says Intel
      752 9  -  By Vikram Khanna YOU cannot now find a global multinational company that does not devote at least some resources to corporate social responsibility (CSR), says David Stangis, who holds the title of director of corporate responsibility at Intel, the world's largest chipmaker. "Intel created this job
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  • news region
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      Lock icon Scomi may sell unit involved in N-arms controversy
      384 10  -  Company calls for suspension of trading on Monday, pending announcement of plan to sell 'non-core businesses' From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE company controlled by the son of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi may sell its precision engineering arm that was
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      Lock icon Foreign investors dump Thai stocks
      469 10 Funds move as faith in Thaksin ebbs, says report [BANGKOK] Foreign investors have been dumping Thai stocks over the past several months to invest in Malaysia as they see a growing risk with the "Thaksin premium", The Nation on Thursday quoted market players as saying.
      Source: Bloomberg  -  469 words
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      Lock icon China's bailed-out big banks to form joint stock companies
      309 10 Bloomberg Reuters [BEIJING] Bailed-out Bank of China and China Construction Bank aim to set up joint stock companies by the end of September by bringing in foreign and domestic investors, state media said yesterday. "The two pilot banks are running against
      Bloomberg; Reuters  -  309 words
    • in brief
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        Lock icon HK proposes new mobile phone licence
        74 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's fiercely competitive mobile phone market could get another player, after the regulator yesterday proposed creating a new licence from currently under-utilised spectrum. Under the Hong Kong Office of the Telecommunications Authority's (Ofta) proposal, two licences to operate mobile networks
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        Lock icon Maxis denies DiGi, Telstra tie-ups
        50 10 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's top mobile phone firm Maxis Communications yesterday denied media reports that it would buy Telenor ASA's 61-per-cent stake in smaller local rival DiGi.Com. In a statement to the stock exchange, Maxis also denied it would strike a deal with Australia's Telstra.—Reuters
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        Lock icon Moves to privatise HK airport
        48 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong aims to start legal procedures to privatise its international airport around year-end, the government said yesterday. The government, which fully owns the Airport Authority, said it hopes to introduce a privatisation Bill around the end of the year—Reuters
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        Lock icon HK bankruptcy petitions up again
        79 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Bankruptcy petition filings in Hong Kong edged up again in February, after falling to their lowest level in 30 months in January, indicating that economic recovery is still taking time to filter through. Bankruptcy petitions totalled 1,165 last month, up 11.4 per
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      Lock icon Indian execs quit in protest over state control
      451 11 They fear nationalisation of IDFC, India's largest private infrastructure body whose shareholders include S'pore's GIC [NEW DELHI] The Indian government's plans to sharply increase spending on new infrastructure projects has hit a potential roadblock, with private sector executives alleging that New Delhi
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      Lock icon Shanghai housing juggernaut defies bubble fears
      603 11 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Photo film executive Rebecca Wang owns two apartments but terrified of missing out on an unprecedented property boom is looking at buying a third. "People have talked about a bubble for years, but prices keep rising. To hesitate is to lose out,"
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      Lock icon China accused of costing US chipmakers US$340m
      412 11  -  Unequal tax treatment blamed; Japan may follow America's lead in lodging WTO complaint From Ravi Kanth in Geneva BEIJING'S alleged failure to provide equal tax treatment for imported and domestically manufactured semiconductors is costing American chip companies up to US$34O million on their
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      Lock icon Trump wants to trademark 'You're fired!'
      217 11 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US fast food firm Wendy's asked diners: "Where's the beef?", and Nike commanded sports nuts to "Just do it". Now Donald Trump is seeking to trademark another pithy phrase: "You're fired!" The real-estate mogul and reality TV star has filed a
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      Lock icon Telstra could be fined over A$10m for pricing policy
      315 11 It has been stifling competition in high-speed Net services: watchdog Reuters Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Telstra Corp, Australia's largest phone company, faces a fine of over Aslo million (5512.6 million) for stifling competition in high-speed Internet services, the country's competition watchdog said. The
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  • news world
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      Lock icon Mr Peanut shows off new moves
      580 12 Planters is banking on the makeover of its venerable brand character to help it connect with consumers NYT [NEW YORK] Has Planters gone, well, nuts? After decades of presenting Mr Peanut, its venerable brand character, as a dignified dandy, meant to be timeless in
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      Lock icon Fed policymakers anxious over rate assurances
      301 12 [NEW YORK] Members of the Federal Reserve's policymaking open market committee are concerned that assurances that it is in no hurry to raise interest rates have contributed to financial market valuations that leave "little room for downside risks", the Financial Times said. The FOMC
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      Lock icon CBOT steadily losing bond traders
      482 12 Electronic trading to blame; several traders turn to grains Reuters [CHICAGO] The room at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is enormous, a trading floor that could hold a Boeing 747, with a giant TV screen and wall-to-wall electronic tickers flashing prices, economic data and
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      Lock icon Shell masking details of cuts in Nigerian oil
      593 12 It fears damaging business ties with Nigerian govt NYT Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Royal Dutch/Shell Group has kept secret important details of its sharp reduction in oil and gas reserves, particularly in Nigeria, for fear of damaging its business ties with the government
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  • style motoring
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      Lock icon New kind of SLeeK
      956 13  -  Mercedes-Benz has updated its supercharged but stubby SLK into a slinky modern roadster, as SAMUEL EE discovers in Majorca SAMUEL EE THE centre bulge on the MercedesBenz SLK's nose may be the new roadster's most prominent feature, but its well-proportioned rump has to be its most
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      Lock icon C-Class with razor sharp handling
      360 13  -  By Samuel Ee FOUR years into its model life, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class gets a subtle facelift but a substantially modified chassis one so different it should transform the three-pointed star's image forever. To produce what they call the most dynamic CClass ever, the engineers from
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      Lock icon Getting touchy-feely
      350 13  -  By Samuel Ee ORGANISATIONAL psychologist Jurgen Rosenburg likes to touch, look and listen because he is searching for the most pleasurable materials for a car interior. Not just any car but a Mercedes-Benz. The jovial head of the German car-mak-er's acceptance and behavioural analysis team has been examining
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    48 13 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS LEGEND: All prices are indicative except for Ex Ring Assets; Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused; S Lower Lower Risk; Low to Medium Risk: Medium to High Risk; Higher Risk; open-ended; Before subdivision of units; After subdivision of units; SP after stock split; N.A. Non Dealing Day
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  • style sports
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      Lock icon IRB S'pore Sevens is ready to rock
      579 14  -  After last year's postponement, the organisers have ambitious plans for the event reports VINCE CHONG VINCE CHONG IT IS a year late, no thanks to the Sars outbreak that led to the postponement of the IRB Singapore Sevens tournament 12 months ago, but
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      Lock icon Pakistan beats India by 4 wickets
      608 14 Hameed, Razzaq sparkle as Pakistan goes 2-1 up AFP [PESHAWAR, Pakistan] Pakistan's Yasir Hameed and Abdul Razzaq combined to lead Pakistan to a fourwicket win over India in the third one-day international here yesterday. Hameed scored 98 as Pakistan overtook India's 244-8 with 16
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      Lock icon Raikkonen offers hope of toppling Ferrari
      244 14 AFP [SEPANG, Malaysia] Kimi Raikkonen showed the dominant Ferrari team could be toppled here in this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix when he topped the times in yesterday's practice session. Michael Schumacher had led a Ferrari one-two ahead of team-mate Rubens Barrichello in the opening
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  • Article
    Lock icon SGX
    776 14 Transaction date: Mar 19 TURNOVER COM) VALUE fOOO) Mate >*| T»0> IW TXd MuKilnd 20.006 20,006 26,815 26,115 Manufacturg 120,974 12,142 133,116 123,717 3,573 127,290 Commerce 34,758 33,869 68.627 53,312 13.694 67,006 Tpt/Stor/Com 111.223 388 111.611 189.943 420 190.363 Finance 28,901 342 29,243 95.047 213 95.260 Construction 17,755 9,725
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    Lock icon BONDS & WARRANTS
    47 14 BONDS WARRANTS LEGEND Sesdaq stocks; Currency type indicated at end of warrant name for those traded in foreign currency. Exercise prices are quoted in fame currency as trading prices of respective main shares. c Convertible loan stocks, bonds and notes. u Unconvertible loan stocks, bonds and notes.
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  • style health
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      Lock icon How old can you go?
      1106 15 We're living longer and longer thanks to health advances. But can our bodies keep running or will they put a cap on our life expectancy? LAT-WP Live it up! Life just got 73 days longer. The average person born in the United States can expect
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      81 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD (5) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 19 Almost, 21 Rule-book, 23 7 Polynesia, 8 Teetotal, 13 AsAcross: 1 Chitchat, 6 Repute, 9 Ac^uarius 24 Flo PPy- 25 tronaut 14 Needleful, 15 AppliDOWN Elixir, 10 Revolver, 11 Lun- 26 All there. que, 17 Hornsea, 18 Cooper, 20 1 Ruined by having ice
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  • style shopping
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      Lock icon Say hello, wave goodbye
      860 16  -  CORRINE KERK finds that old tenants have made way for fresh new shops at Palais Renaissance CORRINE KERK IT must be one of the quietest malls on the Orchard Road shopping belt. And with just 44,000 sqft of retail space spread over four compact levels, it's
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