The Business Times, 10 June 2004

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/03/2004 Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg SINGAPORE THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2004
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    Lock icon S'pore banks push into Islamic finance in region
    704 1  -  BT exclusive DBS to launch 2nd Islamic fund in M'sia while a rival plans fond for rich By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Local banks are making a push into Islamic finance in the region, but they are not targeting the Singapore market,
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    77 1 STI 1,820.12 (-0.02) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,826.00 (unch) SIMSCI 222.18 (+0.38) SIMSCI FUTURES 223.20 (+0.40) Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 818.40 +1.01 NIKKEI 225 11,449.74 -72.19 HANG SENG -4.22 SET INDEX 611.61 +0.15 JAKARTA COMP _709.75 +6.17 MANILA COMP _1.543.40 2.23 TAIPEI WPI _5.965.70 -21.06 SEOUL COMP 794.53 -14.78 SHENZHEN
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    73 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ IjSS (SSperlJSS) 1.703 Sfl'SS/SS per S) 1.8:17 3.128 El'R()(rSS/SS/E). 1 222 2.082 YEN 108.7 63.80 RM 3.800 2.231 HKS 7.795 4.577 BAHT 40.54 23.80 RIPIAH 9,280 5.449 RENMINBI 8.277 4.860 INDIAN RUPEE 44.98 26.41 AS 1.434 0.842 NZS 1.605 0.942 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25 MALAYSIA
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    Lock icon Plunge in govt bond price signals Tokyo policy dilemma
    567 1  -  Rising interest rates threaten finances of indebted government From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE government bond prices plunged yesterday after revised data showed that the nation's economic growth was revised lip to 1.5 per cent in real terms for the first
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    Lock icon Sing Land soars on talk of privatisation by UIC
    774 1  -  By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Speculators jostled yesterday to get a bite of United Industrial Corp (UIC) and Singapore Land, driven by talk that UIC may privatise SingLand with an offer of up to $650 million to minority shareholders. The two property
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      19 1 INSIDE PROPERTY Top choices of foreign property buyers Pg9 Hotel Royal's Lee family buys The Globe office tower Pg9
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        118 2 IT'S good to know local restaurants are equipped to tackle unforeseen circumstances. At a corporate lunch yesterday at an elegant French restaurant in the Shenton Way area, an unexpected visitor interrupted what was a stunning meal. A fly took a liking to our table and quietly
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        Lock icon The battle for poop
        100 2 SMELLY dung has become a scare resource for farmers using marsh gas to cook in rural China. In Zhoutou Village, Jiangxi Province, villagers are having to wake up earlier and earlier to get their hands on the manure of cows, pigs, dogs, roosters, geese and other
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        Lock icon Bid for my vote
        82 2 A LONDON resident has offered to sell his vote in the coming local and European elections to the highest bidder on Internet auction site eßay. With the starting bid set at 99 pence, eßay shoppers were offered the chance to choose who the unidentified Briton will
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      Lock icon HP to add 5,000 staff globally next year to keep up with demand
      481 2  -  By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US giant Hewlett-Packard Company is set to recruit about 5,000 more people worldwide next year to keep up with the soaring demand for computers and consumer electronics, the company's chairman and chief executive
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      40 2 IN yesterday's Trades to Watch column, we erred in saying that Raffles LaSalle's independent director Henry Tan is also the non-execu-tive chairman of Accord Customer Care Solutions. They are not the same person. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon S'pore corporate debt market up 16% last year
      447 2  -  Govt agencies now form a smaller portion of issuers of local currency debt By Joyce Koh [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday said the corporate debt market enjoyed a healthy 16 per cent growth as the total amount of outstanding debt
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      Lock icon Go local with pay package? No way, say expats at MNCs here
      597 2  -  By Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] Most expatriates at large MNCs here aren't happy about switching to local pay and conditions, even though this is often in line with business needs and reducing costs, a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has
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      Lock icon STB to leverage on Suzhou connection
      697 2  -  It wants to raise number of tourists from Jiangsu From Lab Hui Yin inSuzhou SINGAPORE'S tourism industry, which counts Chinese visitors as its second largest market, is moving to tap deeper into that source. It intends to leverage on its visibility in the prosperous
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Informatics hires Nicky Tan's firm
      491 3  -  NTan Corporate Advisory will help group to review strategic options By Kenneth Lim INFORMATICS Holdings has roped in prominent financial veteran Nicky Tan's corporate advisory company to help the group enhance its value for stakeholders. The move came in the wake of a severe blow
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      Lock icon Islamic finance: banks have their work cut out
      703 3  -  HOCK lock siew siow li sen AS a regional financial centre, Singapore would be well placed to develop Islamic finance. But that seems unlikely, as bankers here prefer to wait for others to take the risks of being creative. It's a pity,
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Thai Village in franchise deal
        76 3 THAI Village Holdings has entered into a unit franchise agreement with Xiamen Hern Cun Seafood Restaurant in which it granted the latter a non-exclusive licence to operate restaurants serving Thai Teochew cuisine under the name of "Thai Village" in Xiamen. The franchise runs for five
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        Lock icon Noble Group forms new division
        74 3 THE Noble Group has formed a new division for merchandising petrochemicals. The new activity will be led by John Johnson and Gregory Richards, who will open a new office for Noble Americas in Houston, Texas. The two men moved to Noble from Shell Chemicals and
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        Lock icon Keppel Corp seeks financing for plant
        72 3 KEPPEL Corp is seeking syndicated loans to build a 417-megawatt, gas-fired power plant that will cost Sssoo million, a banker told Reuters yesterday. He declined to disclose the amount of loans Keppel was seeking for the plant, to be located on Jurong Island. The
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      Lock icon Hua Kok seeking reverse takeover
      525 4  -  Talks preliminary; plans also involve a proposed capital reduction By Vince Chong HUA Kok International (HKI) has become the latest in a line of local big-name contractors in search of a lifeline, announcing yesterday that it is in preliminary talks to sell its business in
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      Lock icon Investors cool to placing money in Fortune Reit
      475 4  -  manager wants nod to allow CPF funds to be invested in it By Andrea Tan NINE months on, the market still seems uncertain about Singapore's first offshore real estate investment trust, Fortune Reit, its managers lament. And they are hoping their aim
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      Lock icon HK Land: a regional property play
      1138 4  -  The developer is likely to benefit from an upswing in the Hong Kong commercial market, writes JEAN CHUA JEAN CHUA HONGKONG Land may not immediately come to mind when investors talk about Singaporelisted property stocks, but those who want to benefit from the upswing
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      36 4 |f r MI Insiders' trades. Brokers' recommendations. Dividend table. FH L BUSINESS IM ES ■in U I The pages also cover transactions by directors and substantial shareholders. VlPlBmliB I J mother words, news you can use.
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      269 5 *NIT M L PUBLIC OFFERING MSB mil*-, .A SBKa ''11 r J ii Lifeßrandz Ltd (Incorporated in Singapore on 7 November 2003) Invitation in respect of 132,000,000 New Shares of $0.01 each, comprising:(a) 2,000,000 Offer Shares at $0.20 for each Offer Share by way of public offer; and (b) 130,000,000
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      490 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN Singapore Press Holdings June 9 dost: $436{ax-a) SPH will acquire all magazine titles owned by Blu Inc Group, including Female, NuYou, Peak and Torque, as well as the whole issued capital of Blu Inc Holdings and certain subsidiaries. The proposed acquisition is not expected
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      Lock icon Fortune Reit getting re-rated upwards
      283 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT The company announced higher than expected Q1 distributable income of HK$41 million last month. By Yen Sreenivasan THE Hong Kong commercial property scene has been enjoying a long-awaited recovery since the second half of last year. And demand for commercial property has
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      407 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jun 9 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/PS 57.00 +68.00 BTCADI -*****.00 -14.00 BT 10-day HA +6.00 All-SG Equities 486.12 +1.01 SG Equities Elect 163.80 -0.06 SG Equities Fin 1509.71 +0.58 SG Equities Prop 416.05 +6.86 SJMSC1 222.18 +0.38 SiMSCI Futures 223.20 +0.40 Stocks Voh— China Petro 4c 84,627,000
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      Lock icon UOB stable is the main play in tough market
      639 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IF you weren't invested in any of the stocks in the UOB stable or the latest IPO China Petrotech, you'd have been hard pressed not just to make money, but also pass the time during yesterday's
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      Lock icon Korean won hits 6-week highs
      551 6 Reuters [SINGAPORE] The South Korean won led gains in Asian regional currencies yesterday, rising by more than a quarter of a per cent to a six-week high. The South Korean currency touched 1,153.6 to the dollar, a level not seen since April 27, as the
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon GP Industries ups CIH stake to 55.17%
        95 6 ELECTRONICS Group GP Industries continued to raise its stake in subsidiary CIH on Tuesday with an open-market purchase of 48,000 shares at $2,745 apiece. GP Industries, which controlled 54.62 per cent of electrical installations product supplier CIH at the end of May, now
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        Lock icon Xpress' K K Fong buys more shares
        89 6 XPRESS Holdings substantial shareholder KK Fong (above) bought another one million shares in the company yesterday, a day after buying the same number of shares. The prices of both openmarket purchases were not disclosed. Mr Fong sold close to 14 million shares in
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        Lock icon SPC unit's director converts options
        51 6 AN alternate director of Singapore Petroleum Company's Indonesian subsidiary, Tan Teck Kwang. exercised 10.000 of the 87.000 share options he owned at 75 cents apiece yesterday. Shares of SPC, the only direct oil play listed on the Singapore Exchange, closed down 2 cents to $2.80
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        Lock icon RSH CEO buys 40,000 shares
        60 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM RSH chief executive Vinod Kumar Gomber has bought 40,000 shares this week, increasing his holding in the company to 5.412 per cent from 5.41 per cent. He bought the shares at about 58 cents apiece. Shares of RSH were not traded
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Longer Home Office Scheme approval period
      183 8 ALL new and renewal applications for the Home Office Scheme will have their approval period extended from one year to three years, the government said yesterday. The extension, which takes effect today, is aimed at giving more certainty to home office users so they
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      Lock icon Uniquely Singapore brand finding its feet
      562 8  -  STB official says tagline is winning support and being used in products By Vince Chong ALTHOUGH the Uniquely Singapore brand got off to a lukewarm start earlier this year, it must have been music to the ears of those in charge of branding at
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      Lock icon Premiums up in most categories
      180 8 EYE on the economy coe CERTIFICATE of Entitlement premiums for most vehicle categories remained strong yesterday at the close of the Land Transport Authority's first open bidding exercise for June. COE premiums for Category B (cars above 1,600 cc) showed the greatest increase for the
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      Lock icon New digital audio technology cuts the buzz from radio
      328 8  -  MDA, Robert Bosch, MediaCorp Radio to jointly promote DAB By Carolyn Quek TIRED of the hissing, crackling sound from your FM receiver? Here's some good news, with Singapore's plans to push the uptake of the new digital audio technology (DAB) format.
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon Foreigners' favourites: Grange Residences, Urbana
      667 9  -  At The Botanic on Lloyd, foreigners bought 6 of the 7 sold in Q1 By Kalpana Rashiwala MARCO Polo Developments' Grange Residences condo, Keppel Land's Urbana in River Valley and Capita Land's The Botanic on Lloyd were among the top choices of foreign property buyers
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      Lock icon Hotel Royal's Lee family buys The Globe
      408 9  -  Price of $19m is about $485 psf of net lettable area By Andrea Tan THE low-profile Lee family, which controls listed Hotel Royal Ltd, has bought The Globe, a 15-storey office tower in Cecil Street for about $19 million. This works out to
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      Lock icon Analysts expect 5% rise in properly prices by year-end
      435 9  -  H2 may be more exciting, as bigger projects make debut By Vince Chong FOR over six months now, analysts and consultants have bantered over a possible 5-10 per cent rise in property prices before 2004 comes to a close. With just
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      Lock icon Membership of EU a tough sell in Britain
      799 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION david mason HISTORICALLY, voters in Britain have treated the election of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) as being of little relevance. At the last election, only 26 per cent of the electorate voted, the lowest of all
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      60 10 The site is supposed to be a site of solitude and meditation where you can bring yourself to a point where you and nature become one, and you can't do this if you are ringed by a shopping mall.' Richard Engelhardt Unesco Regional Adviserfor Culture, on the
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      Lock icon Fed gets set to tighten
      683 10 EDITORIAL THE statement by US Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan to a monetary conference in London on Tuesday contains the clearest evidence to date that US interest rates have bottomed out. The only issue now is how aggressive, and how long, the tightening cycle
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      Lock icon Reagan's unsung fight against inflation
      880 10  -  People often forget Americans' fear of uncontrolled inflation in the 1970s and his role in helping to subdue it By Robert Samuelson IT'S a magnificent irony. Amid all the affection and adulation for Ronald Reagan, one of his greatest achievements stands all but overlooked. He
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      Lock icon Between kimchi politics and free trade
      868 10  -  COMMENTARY By Andy Mukherjee Bloomberg TWO years ago, Han Duck Soo paid a price for believing in free trade. Dr Han, then a top economic adviser to the South Korean government, quit after local farmers raised a stink about Seoul's promise to Beijing to
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  • ARTS festival
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      421 11  -  Geoffrey Eu catches up with the musical minds behind Triology Geoffrey Eu IT'S not often that musicians routinely cross the musical divide during the course of a single performance, switching back and forth between different genres and playing styles with well-practiced ease. Triology, however, is a group that has
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      Lock icon Eloquent sound of a silent film
      324 11 June 8 and 9 DBS Arts Centre Review by Cheah Ui-Hoon A SILENT Mexican movie and the art of Japanese narration don't sound like entertaining bedfellows, but far from being highbrow, the laugh-out-loud El Automovil Gris was like a breath of fresh air in
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      Lock icon Pleasurable immersion in a dream
      272 11 June 8 Esplanade Theatre Studio Review by Sangeetha Madhavan HOW does the 18-minute Morphia Series compare to a full-scale performance? It is more lovely and yet more tantalising. Taking its name from the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus, one of the most unusual shows ever
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    1071 11 Transaction date. Jun 9 INTERBANK CROSS RATES AS C$ Rmb Euro HKS Ind Rs Ruplah Yen Won BM WZ$ Pak Rs Peso s$ Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound USS Australia 0.942 5.771 0.570 5.435 31.359 64.705 0.758 8.047 2.650 1.119 ***** 38.823 1.187 4.613 0.866 23.304 28.263 0.380 0.697
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    4508 11 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS SBSdEqty Dividend Pf 04 (SGO) *****/ S BSel Eqty Dividend Pf 04 (USD) 0.965V AIM Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Commonbank Asset Mgt Star Europe Eqty!** 1762/ Com Global Finance Index Fd 0.97V Star Eirope Bond 1.25V Com Global Lifestyle Index fd 1.027/ Star Europe Bal 1.067/ Com
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    4563 12 i Transaction date: Jun 9 HONG KONG Vol HK Exchanges SCIearing.15 65 -0.30 2989 HK$ *1- '000 HKR Int'l .2.38 unch 4658 Hong Kong Electric 34.00 -0.20 3326 Aeon Credit 4.60 -0.08 648 Hongkong Chinese 0.98 -0 01 182 Aeon Stores 5.70 0.10 260 Hopewell Holdings 14.25 -0.10
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Price surge may spur Asia to build oil stockpile: Manila
      456 12 MANILA Asean+3 pledge to cooperate on oil policy to counter price gains Bloomberg CRUDE oil costs may slow economic growth in Asian countries and prompt the region's governments to build a petroleum stockpile to improve security of supply, Philippine Energy
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      Lock icon TSMC monthly sales hit record in May
      254 12 TAIPEI Reuters MONTHLY sales at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract maker of microchips, surged 29 per cent to a record in May on strong demand for chips used in consumer electronics, but investors are worried about a possible slump
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        Lock icon KL to fire lousy GLC chief execs
        93 12 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] In its effort to upgrade the performance of government-linked-companies (GLCs) in order to be more competitive, the government will terminate chief executive officers (CEOs) who have not achieved satisfactory Key Performance Index (KPI), said Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop
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        Lock icon HSBC may sell stake in M'sian bank
        86 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] HSBC Holdings pic, Europe's biggest bank by market value, may sell its 14.9 per cent stake in Utama Merchant Bank Bhd to Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Bhd as it focuses its local operations on corporate and consumer banking and Islamic
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        Lock icon China, Chicago exchange sign MOU
        71 12 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] US Treasury Secretary John Snow (above) said the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's agreement to help China develop currency derivatives trading is a "significant milestone" towards a more flexible exchange rate for the yuan. The biggest marketplace for currency-futures contracts on Tuesday signed a memorandum
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        Lock icon Indonesia's growth forecast at 4.8%
        47 12 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's growth in the second quarter may accelerate to more than 4.8 per cent from a year ago, boosted by consumer spending, the central bank said. "Consumption will still be the main driver for the economy," Bank Indonesia said. —Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Indian Oil's profit down 16%
        78 12 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Indian Oil Corp, which controls half of the nation's US$l5 billion-a-year fuel market, said its fourth-quarter profit fell 16 per cent after the government barred the company from raising prices of cooking gas and auto fUels. Net income fell to 18.5 billion
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      Lock icon Ex-brokerage chief tried for 26b yuan fraud
      456 13 SHANGHAI 24 others also on trial in one of China's worst cases AP IN one of China's biggest ever fraud cases, a former brokerage executive and 24 other people are on trial on the southern island of Hainan for allegedly embezzling 26 billion
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      Lock icon Top changes at Taiwan exchange, banks
      148 13 TAIPEI Bloomberg TAIWAN said it will change leadership of the island's stock exchange and five other state-owned financial institutions in the government's biggest management reshuffle since President Chen Shui-bian was reelected. The Ministry of Finance is recommending Wu Naijen replace Sean Chen as chairman
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      Lock icon Around the world, through wind and hail
      52 13 [BEIJING] Torchbearer Sang Hyun Lee (secondfrom right) carries the Olympic flame through a cloud of confetti during Day Six of the Athens 2004 Olympic Torch Relay. The Olympic Flame is travelling to 34 cities in 27countries en route to the Athens 2004 Olympic
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      Lock icon Unprofitable policies may cut Ping An valuation
      302 13 BEIJING Nearly half its life assurance products have unprofitably high guaranteed returns NEARLY half of the life assurance business of Ping An, China's second-largest life assurer, consists of products with unprofitably high guaranteed rates of return, dragging down the company's valuation in its
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      Lock icon Creditors of China's biggest stock player sent warning
      218 13 SHANGHAI AP CHINA'S banking regulator has advised creditors of a troubled investment company said to be the country's biggest stock player to take precautions in protecting their own assets, an official said yesterday. Officials of the China Banking Regulatory Commission made the
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    1615 13 SICOM FUTURES Jun9 RUBBER Futures (dosing prices) RSS1(S cents/kg) Close Votam Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jul 04 233.00 Aug 04 231.25 Sep 04 229.50 Oct/Dec 04 227.25 Jan/Mar 05 229.00 Apr/Jun 05 232.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest JuTM
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      Lock icon New US jobs in industries that pay better: Snow
      365 14 Fall in inventories at US wholesalers in April takes Wall St by surprise Reuters [WASHINGTON] Recent hiring in the United States is swelling the ranks in industries that pay more than the average income, US Treasury Secretary John Snow said yesterday.
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        Lock icon Mixed signals on Eurex trading fees
        89 14 FT [L MIL AW J tiUrex on Tuesday sparked confusion in the US futures industry by announcing on its website that it would waive all trading fees for users of its fledgling Eurex US futures exchange in a bid to boost the operation's flagging
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        93 14 AFP [MOUNTAIN VIEW, California] The total number of registered Internet addresses reached a new summit of 63 million after a record increase of 4.7 million in the first quarter, the main Internet registrar said on Tuesday. VeriSign, which owns the domain registrar Network
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        87 14 Bloomberg [LONDON] The UK says reaching its oil and natural gas output target for 2010 is becoming harder as costs rise and the search for new deposits falls to a record low. Keeping oil and gas supply equal to three million barrels
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      Lock icon CEO change at PBL as Packer becomes deputy chair
      522 14 SYDNEY PBL's television and magazine boss to take over reins Reuters AUSTRALIA'S Publishing and Broadcasting yesterday replaced its deal-making chief executive with a hardnosed media boss. That shake-up also saw billionaire Kerry Packer take on a bigger role at his familycontrolled
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      Lock icon Foreign investment firms exit Japan as competition grows
      392 14 TOKYO Reuters FOREIGN investment firms are leaving Japan after having failed to beat home-grown or big name competitors in the race to buy out local companies. Though they have the financial expertise, these institutions have suffered from a of lack crucial connections
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      Lock icon Wealthy US investors' optimism and behaviour mismatched
      393 15 They take defensive stock approach despite rosy market expectations: poll Reuters [NEW YORK] Wealthy US investors are optimistic about the outlook for the stock market but are holding off because of worries over terrorism and other geopolitical factors, according to a survey. The
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    2368 14 Transaction date: Jun 9 KUALA LUMPUR GeneralSoil 1.26 unch 0 Vol Genting 15.10 0.10 925 RM *1- C000) George Kent 0.79 -0.01 38 GlobetronicsTech 0.52. -0.01 676 ASMReatty 1.33 -0.02 18 GlomacBhd .2.42 unch 12 Abnc 0.63 -0 01 59 Gold Bridge Engrg .0.41 unch 83 ACP Industries 1.81
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    747 14 Transaction date: Jun 9 a**—— m o— q—»| mti i oaaa omm AHgreen 50c 0.30 0.985 -0.010 NO. 1.71 2.190 BlltntiUS20c 0.39 0.760 +0.010 OCBC 919 12.100 CapftaLand 1.02 1.380 *0030 Parkway H2Sc 0.58 1.130 -0.010 Chart SamKond 26c 1-21 1.440 *0020 (Copie s Food HK50c 0.44 1.320 -0010
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      Lock icon Japan's Elpida to build 500b yen chip plant
      342 16 The Hiroshima plant will be world's biggest Bloomberg [TOKYO] Elpida Memory Inc, Japan's only maker of the main memory chips used in computers, plans to spend 500 billion yen (Ss7.B billion) in the next three years to build the world's biggest factory
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      Lock icon Mega IT show in S'pore to draw regional crowd
      306 16  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury MORE than 52,000 international trade visitors are expected at this year's megashow the Infocomm Media Business Exchange (imbX) at the Expo next week. The exposition is jointly organised by Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) and the Singapore infocomm
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      Lock icon Google's secret weapon: a pool of doctorates
      375 16 NYT [NEW YORK] Hey, it's not rocket science. And it's not brain surgery. But if your background is in either, you're welcome to take a shot and apply at Google. The company's employees include a former rocket scientist and a former brain surgeon.
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      Lock icon Vanco to push Asian growth from S'pore
      555 16  -  BT exclusive Virtual network operator's S'pore HQ now supports 22 cities in Asia-Pac, reports Raju Chellam Raju Chellam Britain-based vanco, which provides global network services to large companies, aims to double its growth in the Asia-Pacific region and the region's contribution to gross
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      447 16 Demand driven by lower costs and security concerns [SINGAPORE] Asian governments are adopting the freely-available Linux operating system (OS) in a bid to cut costs and address security concerns, helping the region drive global growth in demand for the software. Linux is known as "open
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      248 16 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] Representatives of the Beatles are in discussions with various online music services about licensing their songs for distribution on the Internet, people familiar with the discussions said. The Beatles have been one of the biggest holdouts in releasing their catalogue for sale
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      98 16 BP-^jij|B^M'«_ :i^^^^^BPß!!^^K i i "1| '^MP'SmSKr ■PflV%v 7 f MK^^y M*3* 1 y 1 l iJ^WiH|kin v# #JH liX/ f V II HjKm f m am fAm I V If J T IB M\am Nominations for the 2004 eso.startup awards are now open Recognising Singapore's New Enterprises To be eligible,
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      300 17 Bloomberg OIL tanker rates for shipping crude from the Middle East were little changed for a fifth day at near four-month highs as charterers waited for suppliers to release details of July export plans and a shipping event in Greece limited demand for vessels. "The market has stayed
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      282 17 SGX '000 Jun9 SS W- Vol CH Offshore 037 unch 309 ChuanHup 0.50 0.01 215 Cosco Investment .0.76 unch 2792 CWT Distribution 0.48 unch 0 EzraHldgs .0.99 -0.01 12 Freight Unks .0.10 -0.01 180 GB Holdings 0.83 0.01 41 Jaya Holdings 0.84 unch 1032 K1 Venture .0.27 unch
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      Lock icon Pan United eyes more China port mgt deals
      592 17  -  Unit that owns and operates port near Suzhou celebrates 10th anniversary From Loh Hui Yin in Suzhou SHIPBUILDER Pan United Corporation's foray into port management near Suzhou has been a success and it is exploring more of such investments in China. Patrick
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      87 17 [CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh] Two Bangladeshi men working at a shipbreaking yard in the port city of Chittagong. Villagers in southeastern Bangladesh havefled their homes after a toxic 'gas leak from a shipbreaking yard, a report by the country's news agency said on Tuesday. The shipbreaking industry of Bangladesh is
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      216 17 Reuters [HONG KONG] China Shipping Container Lines, which is raising up to US$l.3 billion in an IPO, will boost the size of the retail tranche of the deal as it is over 20 times covered, a source familiar with the situation said
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        101 17 AP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd said yesterday it has decided to buy a 12 per cent stake in Korean shipping firm Hyundai Merchant Marine Co Ltd. Hutchison said it has agreed to pay Hyundai HK$6O6 million (*****.4 million) for the
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        Lock icon Kuehne purchases Nether Cargo
        79 17 Reuters [ZURICH] Kuehne Nagel International AG has bought Dutch freight forwarder Nether Cargo Services BV, strengthening its position in the perishables and air freight markets, the Swiss logistics firm said on Tuesday. Kuehne did not give terms for the transaction. Nether Cargo had sales of over
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      Lock icon Automatic check for first US port call from July 1
      415 17 45% of US-bound ships have met ISPS Code Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Almost 45 per cent of tankers and other cargo ships that call on US ports meet new United Nations anti-terrorism security rules, Jolie Shifflet, a Washington-based spokeswoman for the US
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      Lock icon MOL launches new liner service
      132 17 [SINGAPORE] Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has launched a new Thai-Indo-nesia Liner Service (CBJ). The new service, linking Thailand and Indonesia, also calls at Singapore and Pasir Gudang, Malaysia. The service begins next Tuesday with the Tuas Express, departing from Singapore. MOL said
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        Lock icon Lost luggage still a problem for business travellers
        1273 18  -  The airline industry is turning to state-of-the-art technology to reduce the rate of missing baggage By Sharon McDonnell NYT [NEW YORK] EVEN for business-travel lore, which is rich in horror stories about lost luggage, Valerie Bent's ordeal stands out. Ms Bent, then
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      104 18 PAGE Austral AL 5 Bank Line 4 BSA 4 B'tang Mas 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 China Shpg 5 Crocodile Line ....4 CWT Globelink ...4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 ECL 3 Foong Sun 5 Gemartrans 4 Hamburg Sud 3 Hangli 4 Heung-A 3 IRISL 5 Kyowa 5
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      7600 22 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN p#st'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 28/07 07/08 WWL TAGUS M4M 65-*****033 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire DUNKEROUE (DKK) 2695 Franc# 21/06 13/07 Del mas FLORA DELMAS
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        557 23 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL CEC PACIFIC 9574 J14 A/SIDE 10/06 230( COS KNIGHT *****3 J18/19 A/SIDE 10/06 060( FIRST BRIGHT 4 J4/5 A/SIDE 10/06 120( HARAPANMAK JB4602 J9 A/SIDE 10/06 001! MAHARDI 06/04 J4/5 A/SIDE 10/06 060( OCSERAYAV 116/04 J3 A/SIDE 10/06 063(
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        1636 23 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX LIUC 066N 066N 1 12/06/2004-15:00 13/06/2004-03:00 ACXSAKURA 031S 031S 1 13/06/2004-15:00 14/06/2004-07:00 AKSOY TRUVA 0421 0420 1 13/06/2004-07:00 13/06/2004-15:00 At ABDALI C298W C298W 1 12/06/2004-15:00 13/06/2004-03:00 ALAMJAVA AJ001 AJ001
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        127 23 Jun 12 Philippines: Independence Day. Jon 14 Australia: Queen's Birthday. Jun 19 Sweden: Mid Summer Day. Jun 22 HK: Tuen Ng Festival. Taiwan: Dragon Boat Festival. Jul 1 Canada: Canada Day. HK: HK Spe Adminis. Jul 4 USA: Independence Day. Jul 14 France: National Day. Jul 15 Brunei:
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        774 23 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine 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 averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        640 23 Carbon 180 Max 986.7 0.3 14.3 0.04 46 0.02 Ju« 3 Density Water Residue AshAluminlum Sediment No above E25 0 0 1 n n n ITJJTu 380 Ave 987.0 0.2 13.7 0.04 31 0.02 tI1( U 380 Max 993.2 0.7 17.7 0.07 68 0.07 K/M»3 H
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        Lock icon Airbus gets US$1.8b jetBlue order for 30 planes
        464 24 This adds to Airbus' 70-order lead so far this year over Boeing's 68 Bloomberg AIRBUS SAS, the world's biggest commercial-aircraft maker, will provide jetßlue Airways Corp with 30 more planes valued at US$l.B billion as the growing low-cost carrier exercised options to
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        Lock icon US airports still vulnerable to terrorists
        469 24 Govt lax about access to sensitive areas, risks posed by airport workers: report AP [WASHINGTON] The government's efforts to prevent terrorists from gaining access to commercial airports are still incomplete and fragmented, a congressional report says. The Transportation Security Administration has focused on screening
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        Lock icon EU warned not to wait for US poll to sign pact
        521 24 Unlikely position will improve, official says Reuters [BRUSSELS] European transport ministers should not wait for a possible change in US administrations later this year before concluding an EU-US airline pact, a European Commission official said on Tuesday. Transport ministers
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          155 24 Reuters [VANCOUVER, British Columbia] A man suspected by police of playing a role in the Air India bombings, but was never charged, denied on Tuesday he had any involvement with the plot that killed 331 people. Daljit Singh Sandhu rejected a claim by a
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          Lock icon Cathay jet makes emergency landing
          87 24 AP [HONG KONG] A Cathay Pacific Airways flight made an emergency landing at Hong Kong's airport after developing engine trouble on its way to London early yesterday, officials said. The Boeing 747-400, carrying 402 passengers and crew members, landed safely and there were no injuries,
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          Lock icon Air Arabia to start flights to Kerala
          84 24 Oana-PTI [DUBAI] Air Arabia, the first low-cost airline in the Gulf region, is fully prepared to start operating flights to India, especially Kerala destinations, and negotiations regarding this are continuing with Indian authorities. "We are fully prepared to operate flights to these countries
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        58 24 [LIBREVILLE, Gabon] Residents, police and rescue teams on a Libreville beach near the debris of the Gabonese airline that plunged into waters off the Gulfof Guinea coast shortly after take-offfrom the capital on Tuesday. Sixteen people died and three were missing, while 11 people survived, the
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        360 24 AFP [SEA ISLAND, Georgia] World leaders at the G-8 summit will this week endorse nearly 30 wide-rang-ing measures to improve international airline security in the face of increased terrorist threats, senior US officials said on Tuesday. The 28 steps, to be implemented by
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      128 23 S REGIONAL WEATHER J 8 FOR 7AM 10 Jun 2004 Issued by Meteorological Service Division.NEA LEGEND: Thunderstorm Wind speed symbols *\j Showers C Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds Rain One half fleche represents 5 knots Cloudy Day -One full fleche represents 10 knots x
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