The Business Times, 16 June 2004

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    16 1 MITA (P) 023/03/2004 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGA PORE !..tc;r.ei: http://business-times.asial .com.sg WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2004
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  • Article
    Lock icon Private-sector job openings hit 18-month high in March
    808 1  -  But more of the unemployed find difficulty getting re-hired By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] There's good and bad news on the employment front. The number of private-sector job openings rose to an 18month high in March. But more of the unemployed especially those
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    79 1 STI 1,820.50 (+6.44) ST INDEX FUTURES 1*820.00 (+5.00) SIMSCI 222.17 (+0.98) SIMSCI FUTURES 222.70 (+0.80) Tuesday Change KI.SE COMP 810.03 -7.58 NIKKEI 225 11,387.70 -103-96 HANG SENG 12,050.69 -25.88 SET INDEX 613.76 -0.24 JAKARTA COMP 707.41 +11.07 MANILA COMP __1 ,547.25 10.42 TAIPEI WPI 5,646.49 +72.41 SEOUL COMP 752.10
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    70 1 FOREX RATES US* 8$ lJS$(S$perUS$) 1.718 £(l'S$/S$ per 1.813 3.114 EI!RO(US$/S$/E). 1.205 207U YEN 110.9 64.60 RM 3.800 2.212 MKS 7.798 4.539 BAHT 40.98 2:185 RIJPIAH 9,400 5.471 RENMINBI 8.298 4.830 INDIAN RUPEE 45.32 26.38 A$ 1.465 0.853 NZS 1.607.. 0.935 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25 MALAYSIA 6.00 HONGKONG 5.000
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    Lock icon EC-Asia launches Aussie IPO after failed S'pore bid
    592 1  -  BT exclusive Gross proceeds will be almost doable what it had hoped to raise here By Kenneth Lim [SINGAPORE] EC-Asia International, the only company here to have been slapped with a stop order on its initial public offering the day its invitation
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    Lock icon S'pore can help China clean up banks: SP Tao
    1051 1  -  BT exclusive Businessman thinks S'pore's emphasis on corporate transparency will serve it well By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Singapore's emphasis and track record on corporate transparency could help China clean up its banking system, said SP Tao, the former chairman of
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      Lock icon US inflation up 0.2%, easing fears of sharp rate hike
      621 2 LATEST US INDICATORS University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index rises to 95.2 Reuters Bloomberg AP [NEW YORK] An inflation reading that is in line with expectations yesterday eased financial markets' fears that the Federal Reserve will need to raise interest
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      Lock icon Asia is home to quarter of world's richest
      476 2  -  They own US$6.5t of assets, or 22.5% of the wealth of the richest people From Neil Behrmann in London ASIANS account for more than a quarter of the world's richest people and control US$6.5 trillion invested in equities, bonds, property, venture capital,
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      Lock icon BOJ leaves easy money policy unchanged
      602 2  -  It gives no indication when it will tighten up From Anthony Rowley in lokyo THE Bank of Japan's Policy Board decided yesterday to leave its ultra-easy money policy unchanged in the face of the strongest and most sustained economic recovery that Japan has enjoyed
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    • ON THE grapewine
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        Lock icon Tough act
        64 2 SINGAPORE mainboard aspirant Media Asia Entertainment Group, the Hong Kong film company behind the Infernal Affairs trilogy, has arranged a meet-the-management session for tonight. But directors could easily lose the limelight to their "supporting cast" celebrities Leon l-ai. Edison Chen. Richie Jen, Anthony Wong, Kenny Bee and Maggie
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        Lock icon Environmental treat
        73 2 THE executive chairman of Bio-Treat Technology. Wing Hak Man, received the prestigious Excellent Award of World Environment Protection from former US President George Bush Senior at the Shanghai International Environmental Protection Forum recently. The award is jointly sponsored by the US-China Foundation, the China United Nations Association and
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      Lock icon Clarification
      93 2 IN the article "KFC plans to hive off Singapore properties" (BT, June 14), we quoted a source close to the group as saying that "they don't mind selling off the Singapore business". In a letter to BT, KFC's group company secretary has said this is inaccurate. He pointed out
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SGX risk management chief Alan Shaw leaving in Aug
      637 3  -  Exchange acts to keep firms on investors' radar post-IPO By R Sivanithy, Kenneth Lim ALAN Shaw, one of the architects of the Singapore Exchange's push towards a disclosure and informationbased regime, will leave SGX in August to return to Australia. The
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      Lock icon Hong Leong Asia CEO to step down
      297 3  -  By Andrea Tan KWEK Leng Beng's Hong Leong Asia (HLA) said yesterday its chief executive officer Wrixon Frank Gasteen will step down at the end of September. HLA did not give any reason for Mr Gasteen's departure. The manufacturing and distribution arm of
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Super Coffee to make Pringles chips
        81 3 MAINBOARD-LISTED Super Coffee mix Manufacturing said its Malaysian subsidiary, Super Food Technology, has entered into a contract manufacturing supply agreement with consumer giant Procter Gamble (P&G) to supply P&G potato chips under its Pringles brand. Super, whose key shareholders include food magnate Sam Goi
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        Lock icon China plant revenue in 2006: Hyflux
        124 3 WATER treatment company Hyflux Ltd said its project to design, build and run China's largest seawater desalination plant would not generate any revenue until mid-2006 when it is scheduled for completion. Hyflux said funding for the project would be in place at the end
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      Lock icon DBS Hong Kong hires S&P to offer research on funds
      435 4 It will be the first Asian bank to provide independent research to clients Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings, Singapore's biggest bank by assets, said its Hong Kong unit hired Standard Poor's to provide its clients with independent research on funds, the
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      Lock icon A-Reit to buy C&P building for $225m
      470 4  -  It intends to issue up to 83m new units to raise $115m By Andrea Tan ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) will make its largest asset purchase to date of $225 million and plans to issue up to 83 million new units to
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      Lock icon The end of innocence for local banks
      679 4  -  HOCK lock siew siow li sen WHAT'S the bet that when the local banks report their second quarter earnings sometime late next month or so, DBS Group Holdings executives will once again face a barrage of questions over the bank's treasury income or
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      Lock icon Keppel expects to win more rig deals this year
      262 5 Bloomberg KEPPEL Corp chairman Lim Chee Onn said the company expects to win more oil contracts in coming months, aided by the growing demand for new oil rigs. Keppel has been winning a number of contracts in recent months, including a
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      Lock icon SIA passenger, cargo volume climb in May
      397 5  -  Strong demand on most routes boosts passenger load factor to 68.2% By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) filled an improved 68.2 per cent of available seats in May this year, despite boosting capacity by 73.6 per cent from May last year. Singapore's flagship
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      Lock icon Addvalue expects improved showing
      288 5  -  By Carolyn Quek MAINBOARD-LISTED Addvalue Technologies which narrowed its net loss to $4.9 million for the year ended March 31 from $6 million the previous year is expecting a better showing this year as its new strategy of strengthening its marketing and distribution network gains momentum.
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      Lock icon Vikay's China interests set to pay back
      514 5  -  Its China fibre network plans to link up with New York's Stealth By Vince Chong VIKAY Industrial could finally be close to ending its revenue drought now that its China fibre network interests are on the brink of linking up with New York's
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      165 4 www.alfaromeo.com.sg gv." .^S^—^. V ;,v r *v '^l >£ mi tf^^w^^!?.^^'ifa3tfejSCTWWi»^i—1 1 "••"I'T"** r T '■-'V* **'■>' if* ''"-ft---.. *"Vf' f> > ,3*..^. ."r^-'.x^s• J*' f "-^>^ -.A. I In conjunction with the Italian Festival, in celebration of Italy's National Republic Day on the 2nd June 2004, i f i-
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      150 5 USt «>Sf/fT. Competition In the race to get new business, you'll probably have to venture abroad and expand your horizons. jirig zheng Is speaking Mandarin one of them? r SO" V t ■'fife EdEEI S > v t--r -a <•> iMMm M 1 h Now the world is a scalier
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      634 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN Hyflux June IS dosing: $1.46 HYFLUX plans to spend US$9O million on a seawater desalination plant in the Chinese city of Tianjin. When completed in 2006, the membrane-based plant, with a capacity of 100,000 cubic metres (m 3) a day, will be one of
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      Lock icon STI headed towards low end of 1,760-1,840 band
      384 6  -  CHART POINT By Lim Say Boon and K Ajith, OCBC Investment Research. OCBC Investment Research. If we may indulge in a fusion of fundamentals and lechnicals, the equity marIkets currently look as if they are waiting for US Fed- eral Reserve chairman
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      Lock icon Players focus on prospect of bigger US rate hikes
      978 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES larry wee OVER the past one month, the US dollar has been somewhat supported, if not boosted, by a series of impressive US numbers and record oil prices which have focused currency players' attention on the prospect of
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      Lock icon How important are valuations in a trading market?
      552 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy ALTHOUGH stocks show no sign of breaking out of their declining trading bands, there's still money to be made from intraband bounces with yesterday's 6.44-point jump in the Straits Times Index to 1,820.50 proving there's some life
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Novena CED raises stake to 44.73%
        83 6 FURNITURE retailer Novena Holdings said its chief executive officer Toh Soon Huat raised his stake to 44.73 per cent from 44.69 per cent with an open-market purchase of 144.000 shares through Kim Eng Securities this week. On Monday, Mr Toh bought 115,000 of those
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        Lock icon 'Popiah King' Sam Goi on buying spree
        179 6 DAYS before Super Cofleemix Manufacturing said its Malaysian subsidiary had won the world's first contract manufacturing deal for Pringles potato chips, substantial shareholder Sam Goi, also known as the "Popiah King", increased his shareholding to 14.95 per cent from 14.76 per cent in
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        Lock icon Deutsche Bank pares Thai Prime slake
        75 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM THE London branch of Deutsche Bank has ceased to be a substantial shareholder of Thai Prime Fund with a 270,000-share sale for investment purposes. Thai Prime Fund is a 25-year closed-end fund investing in Thai securities. The bank, which previously
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      426 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jun 15 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -100.00 +116.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +23.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -10.00 AO-SG Equities 485.33 +1.19 SG Equities Elect 160.59 +0.78 SG Equities Fin 1515.59 +13.31 SG Equities Prop 405.35 -2.65 SIMSCI 222.17 +0.98 SiMSCI Futures 222.70 +0.80 Stocfci Votow UniFiberlOc 52,376,000
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon IP gets fillip with 6 bills passed
      462 7  -  TODAY IN PARLIAMENT Tighter laws include those governing trademarks, patents and optical disc manufacture By Chuang Peck Ming INTELLECTUAL property protection in Singapore has been given a big boost. Parliament yesterday passed six bills that will tighten laws covering trademarks, patents, copyright, plant
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      Lock icon Reverse mortgages seen as unappealing to HDB lessees
      438 7  -  By Andrea Tan THE current reverse mortgages are not attractive for Housing and Development Board lessees, said Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan in parliament yesterday. Mr Mah said while his ministry and the Housing Board had explored the concept of
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    • IN Brief
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        Lock icon NS cut from 2.5 to 2 years
        163 7 FULL-time national service for corporals and above will be cut from 2.5 to two years, starting with those to be enlisted this December. NS men enlisted for 2.5 years before then between June and November will get a four-month cut in service. And
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        Lock icon Why ministers receive pensions
        162 7 MINISTERS and other political appointees receive pensions because their terms of service follow those of administrative officers. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. And the pension scheme has stayed relevant to administrative officers even after the civil service phased it out for most of the
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        Lock icon GLCs' foreign forays beneficial
        83 7 LOCAL enterprises and Singaporeans gain from government-linked companies' investments overseas. Second Finance Minister Lim Hng Kiang said. Such investments help build and nurture internationally competitive businesses, he said. "This in turn enhances Singapore's economic resilience," he said. "Singaporeans and our local enterprises ultimately get to benefit
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      185 7 USE IT. DON'T LOSE IT. < V~' VT, f Assets Every business has a value attached to it. However, when it comes down to you, what value do you add? zi chan Is speaking Mandarin one of them? CO y fc'V A MANDARIN t- KHbI IN 1927, THE ST. JAMES
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  • EXECUTIVE money
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      Lock icon More clients opting for wrap services
      1182 8  -  GENEVIEVE CUA looks at the pros and cons of having such accounts with financial advisers GENEVIEVE CUA BY most accounts, portfolio management services for individual investors are a niche area, but that may change as more providers get into the act. Some licensed financial
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      Lock icon MAS seeks feedback on switching
      356 8  -  By Genevieve Cua THE Monetary Authority of Singapore is seeking feedback on a set of guidelines to deter "undesirable switching" of investment products, in a bid to clamp down on the practice of churning. Churning occurs when clients are persuaded to switch investment products to
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      Lock icon Manulife offers riders for basic term plans
      569 8  -  By Genevieve Cua JUST about every Singaporean adult has more than one insurance policy, but it's a fair bet that most people are still under-insured. So in a bid to make pure protection plans more attractive, Manulife Financial has come up with a
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      106 8 International Business Park (IBP) Close to Jurong East MRT station and bus interchange The Strategy 115sqm onwards Raised floor system lg^a» Column-free layout The Synergy 142sqm onwards Great tenant mix Jiw Column-free layout J Changi Business Park 10-min drive to Changi airport and close to PIE ECP The Signature 127sqm
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon S'pore to invest $50m in trade, logistics gateway
      502 9  -  S'pore companies will save $700m with integrated logistics platform By Raju Chellam SINGAPORE businesses may stand to save more than $700 million as well as generate additional revenues of up to $4 billion over 20 years if they integrate their entire shipping
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      Lock icon Lucent sews up US$120m of deals
      444 9  -  Contracts bagged include those with South Korea's KT Telecom, India's Tata Group and China Telecom By Raju Chellam TELECOM equipment giant Lucent Technologies Inc said it signed contracts worth more than US$l2O million to help Asia's telecoms service providers deliver next-generation services and solutions
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      Lock icon India's VSNL sites its international HQ in Singapore
      349 9  -  Its submarine cable project is also still on schedule By Tang Weng Fai FORMER Indian phone monopoly VSNL has underscored its global expansion by placing its international headquarters here and affirming that its end-2004 deadline for going live on a US$lOO million
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      Lock icon Retail sales rise 14.4% in April
      301 9  -  EYE on the economy retail sales By Teh Shi Ning THE overall retail sales index rose a significant 14.4 per cent year on year in April, according to data at current prices compiled by the Department of Statistics. Excluding sales of motor vehicles, the
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon China dives into fresh WTO lobby
      763 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION frank ching LESS than three years ago, China joined the World Trade Organization with great fanfare after having launched a global effort to win support for its cause from WTO member countries. Now, China is again launching an all-out campaign
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      54 10 'We are a poor country, not a fancy country, and we should not be wasting our money on monstrosities. I believe it is an insult to the people of China' Xiao Mil an architectural historian at Qinghua University in Beijing, on the controversial US$325 million National Theatre
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      Lock icon Arroyo's mandate for change
      561 10 EDITORIAL BY most unofficial counts, Gloria Arroyo has finally secured the legitimacy that eluded her in her first term as president Even so, when the Philippines Congress eventually declares her the winner, she will still face a daunting challenge to set the country's economy in order.
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      Lock icon Beware debt squeeze
      1017 10  -  Central banks should be cautious about raising interest rates too far, too fast From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo UNTIL a few months ago, the world was poised on the cusp of a great deflation, or so it seemed. Yet now central banks are engaging in preemptive monetary
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      Lock icon The Fed doesn't have news of another Sept 11, does it?
      800 10  -  By Caroline Baum Bloomberg IT must say something about fear and greed that normally sane people take leave of their senses to construct financial market conspiracy theories. Some of these theories, embarrassing as it would seem, find their way
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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      333 10 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS (9,3) 1 Wine transporter? (7,3) 4 A Greek id enveloped in 6 Measure that's too expen- generosity (4) sive to lose heart (4) 5 Mature su PP° rt for 18 30 9 Most organic matter, in fact, 9 rou P for instance 3 7 > has broken
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Thai disk drive goal needs support
      538 11 BANGKOK Development needed in education, research to compete with rivals THAILAND, the world's No 2 maker of hard disk drives, will have to strengthen its education and research if it wants to compete with regional rivals like Singapore and Malaysia, and newlyemerging China, industry
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      Lock icon Cutting routes will cost 5,000 jobs: MAS union
      205 11 KUALA LUMPUR THE union representing Malaysia Airlines' employees is against any plan by the airline to hive off domestic routes. New Straits Times reported yesterday. It quoted MAS Employees Union (Maseu) president Alias Aziz as saying that the union is also against
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      Lock icon S'pore firm to dip into China water business
      350 11  -  Environmental Holdings has tied np with Malaysia's Gadang in a new JV From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur HYFLUX is not the only Singapore company that is venturing into China's huge water treatment market. On Monday, Kuala Lumpurlisted Gadang Holdings signed a
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon China's investment curbs working
        94 11 AFP [BEIJING] Chinese measures to slow down an economy close to overheating are working, the central bank chief was quoted as saying yesterday. "In a general view, macro-control policies have had a positive effect on controlling investment," Zhou Xiaochuan was cited as saying in the China
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        Lock icon Indonesia ups oil reserves estimate
        82 11 Bloomberg IJ AKAKTAJ Indonesia nas raised its estimate ot tne country's oil reserves for the second time in five months as the government finds more oil in a bid to stem a fall in output. Indonesia boosted its crude oil reserves estimate to 10.82 billion
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        Lock icon Signing of Thai-Australia FTA in July
        63 11 Reuters [CANBERRA] Australia and Thailand will formalise a bilateral free trade agreement during a visit by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in July, the Australian government said yesterday. "Dr Thaksin and I will witness the signing of the Thailand-Australia free trade agreement," Prime Minister
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        Lock icon EU cancels meetings with Asia
        65 11 AP IL.U A£iiviouuKLjj uppusea io a roie ior xviyanmar 111 European Union-Asia relations, the EU has cancelled two meetings with Asian ministers and cast doubt on an October summit of leaders. The EU ministers cancelled the EU-Asian finance ministers' meeting scheduled for July 6 in
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      Lock icon HK housing site fetches HK$1b in brisk auction
      442 12 HONG KONG Chinachem Group of Nina Wang plans 45-storey building on Kowloon site Reuters Bloomberg LAND-HUNGRY developers bid aggressively yesterday in Hong Kong's second government land auction of the year, despite signs of a slowing property market. The urban residential site in
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      Lock icon KL's 'Beverly Hills' sets new pricing benchmark
      308 12 KUALA LUMPUR KIARA Hills, dubbed the Beverly Hills of Kuala Lumpur, has set a new benchmark for high-end residences with its enclave of 88 bungalows priced from RM4.5 million (Ss2 million) each, The Star reported on Monday. This compares with similar homes in
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      1318 12 NEDCOR fj Parent company of Nedbank Limited, South Africa Group Balance sheet Group Income Statement As at 31 December for the year ended 31 December 2003 2003 Rm Rm ASSETS Interest income ***** Cash and short-term funds 12 227 Interest expense 21 333 Other Short-term securities 10 610 Net interest
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      469 12 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF (1) FORLUK TOBACCO PTE LIMITED |2) BETAWAN PRIVATE LIMITED NOTICE OF FINAI MFFTINP, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50, the Final Meeting of the abovenamed Companies will
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      422 12 FORM 69(3) NOTICE OF INTENDED PREFERENTIAL PAYMENT Name of Company Jackson Piling Civil Engineering Construction Pte Ltd (In Liquidation) Address of Registered Office c/o The Liquidator's Office Last day for receiving Proofs 15 July 2004 Name of Liquidator Mr. Don M Ho, CPA Address c/o DON HO ASSOCIATES Certified Public
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      377 12 VISIT PROMINENT INDUSTRIAL TRADE EVENTS 6-9 JULY 2004 I 10 AM-6 PM I SINGAPORE EXPO ASIA'S LARGEST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION SOUTH EAST ASIA'S LARGEST INTERNATIONAL ON ROTATING EQUIPMENT; FLUID. GAS AIR EXHIBITION ON HEATING. VENTILATION. HANDLING SYSTEMS INCORPORATING FLUID AIR-CONDITIONING, REFRIGERATION, AIR POWER; POWER TRANSMISSION AND FILTRATION PURIFICATION AND BUILDING CONTROL
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  • REGION world
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      Lock icon Oil needs to top US$30 to whet investment: analysts
      544 13 KUALA LUMPUR US$2t must be invested to meet demand over next decade, they say AFP Bloomberg CRUDE oil prices will have to average at least US$3O a barrel to stimulate the estimated investment of US$2 trillion needed to meet growing energy
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      Lock icon Fed clears JP Morgan-Bank One deal
      376 13 WASHINGTON US$58b merger to be effective from July 1 AP THE Federal Reserve on Monday cleared the way for Wall Street powerhouse JP Morgan Chase to combine with and absorb Chicago-based Bank One, forming the second-largest US bank with over US$l trillion in assets.
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      412 14 SAO PAULO, Brazil WTO chief: consensus lacking in key areas Reuters IT is unlikely world trade talks will break a nine-month stalemate before a crucial July deadline even with the new-found "can do" spirit, the World Trade Organization chief said on Monday. Trade ministers for
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      472 14 NEW YORK 30% of 16,000 employers polled plan to increase staff in July-Sept Reuters Bloomberg US COMPANIES are gearing up to create jobs at rates not seen since the height of the 1990s boom, a widely watched survey shows, adding to evidence
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        93 14 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Foreign mvestors retamed their appetite for US assets in April, according to a Treasury Department report yesterday. Net inflows of capital totalled U5576.2 billion in April, though this was down from the revised US$BO.7 billion in inflows seen in March, Treasury said.
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        58 14 AFP [TOKYO] German business software giant SAP AG s merger talks with Microsoft Corp last year never got serious, SAP senior vice-president Stephan Rossius said. "There was never a formal discussion or negotiation between the two companies," Mr Rossius said. The two companies acknowledged last
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      187 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] New York City's economy grew at a 7 per cent annual rate in the first quarter, its best performance in more than four years. For the first time the city also outpaced the US growth rate since the
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      195 14 NEW YORK Reuters LEHMAN Brothers Holdings Inc, a Wall Street investment bank known for its bond business, yesterday said quarterly profit rose 39 per cent, helped by strong debt and equity underwriting. Its net income increased to US$6O9 million, or US$2.Ol per share, in the
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      568 15 PARIS Opposition from France, Belgium, Italy and Spain may block IASB rule NYT THE effort to impose an accounting rule that would force European banks to disclose the market value of their investments in derivative securities ran into an obstacle on Monday
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      321 15 WASHINGTON Reuters THE top US accounting regulator has warned corporate auditors against charging fees based on the results of services, such as tax work, sold to audit clients. In another sign of regulatory concern about conflicts of interest among auditors, Donald Nicolaisen, chief
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      594 17  -  Theatreworks' Sandakan Threnody seeks to make history by telling it, says Sangeetha Madhavan Sangeetha Madhavan WHEN Singapore Arts Festivalcommissioned Sandakan Threnody by Theatreworks makes its debut on Friday, it'll seek to make history by simply acknowledging it. Home to timber tycoons in its heyday, the
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      687 17 Gold Merchant partners of the Citibank Gourmet Pleasures programme Equinox and Jaan play host to two of the world's renowned chefs at the annual Chefs with Altitude event this week. Citibank invites its cardmembers to this gala event and offers exclusive privileges
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      331 17  -  By Michael Hu IN today's enlightened world, everyone knows that it's perfectly fine for men to dance. No longer are male dancers referred to as sissies or wimps. Instead, they are celebrated artists who hold their own against their female counterparts on stage. But
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      476 18  -  By Samuel Ee CHINA is Volkswagen's largest single market outside its home market of Germany, and contributes 20 per cent to the carmaker's profits. As VW's biggest growth market, it is hardly surprising that the German carmaker is pouring in 5.3
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      712 19  -  IMB centre urges Indonesian authorities to take immediate action By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A sharp rise in kidnap and ransom cases in the northern Malacca Straits off Sumatra has prompted fresh warnings to the shipping community from the Kuala Lumpurbased Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC).
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        111 19 [SINGAPORE] NYK Line has received this year's Ford Motor Company's "world excellence award" for environmental leadership. Ford's Corporate Citizenship Award for Environmental Leadership recognises environmental achievements and innovation. NYK, the only logistics supplier to achieve this recognition, was also commended for its continual improvement in
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        105 19 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co said on Monday that it has obtained five new orders worth US$1.1 billion. The new contracts include the building of three LNG carriers for Norway's Bergesen dy ASA, one LNG carrier for Greece's Marangas, three
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      179 19 Reuters [SINGAPORE] China's largest oil and gas firm PetroChina plans to rent more oil storage space in Singapore to boost its trading portfolio, traders said yesterday. PetroChina, also China's second-largest refiner, had a one-year lease from June 2003 for 20,000 cubic metres (126,000
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      307 19 SGX '000 Jun 15 SS *1- Vol CH Offshore 0.37 0 01 103 ChuanHup .0.51 0.01 346 Cosco Investment 0.76 0.01 7366 CWT Distribution 0.47 unch 0 Ezra Hldgs .0.97 -0.02 1742 Freight Links 0.10 001 441 GB Holdings .0.82 unch 11 Jaya Holdings 0.83 unch 1802 K1
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      285 19 Xinhua [YANGON] Survey work has started on a deep-sea port project at Mawlamyine in Myanmar's southern Mon state, a local news journal reported on Monday. The report said the project is expected to contribute to the development of the east-west corridor under the
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      335 19 Xinhua [MANILA] Philippine antismuggling czar Angelo Reyes yesterday ordered his National Anti-Smuggling Task Force to intensify operations against big-time smugglers operating at the Manila International Container Port. Mr Reyes issued the order after inspecting at least four containers used for smuggling rice,
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        828 26 THIS report, compiled 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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        596 26 Carbon 180 Mat 986.7 0.3 14.3 0.04 46 0.02 Jun 3 Density Water Residue AshAluminium Sediment No above E25 0 0 0 0 7T7; 380 Ave 987.0 0.2 13.7 0.04 31 0.02 Exxon 380 Max 993.2 0.7 17.7 0.07 68 0.07 KG/M-3 v/v m/m m/m ppm
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        933 27 The project to replace Lockheed's P-3 Orion could be worth US$44b by mid-2030s NYT [WASHINGTON] The US Navy on Monday awarded a US$3.B9 billion contract to Boeing Co to replace a fleet of submarine-hunting airplanes from Lockheed Martin Corp one of
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        41 27 [YANGLING, China] Workers trying to remove derailed oil tankers in Yangling in China's Shaanxi province, on Monday. The rail link between Shaanxi and the western Xinjiang Autonomous Region was cut off by the derailment which killed two people. REUTERS
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        107 27 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Fraport's Frankfurt Airport, Europe's second-busiest airfield, handled 11.9 per cent more passengers in May as demand for travel recovered from war in Iraq and severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak. The number of travellers using Frankfurt Airport rose to 4.4 million
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        301 27 Bloomberg [CAPE TOWN] Airports Company South Africa Ltd, which owns and operates South Africa's nine biggest airports, may bid for stakes in India's two main airports after receiving a request from possible partners, chairman Tommy Oliphant said. India plans to
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        260 27 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Dutch airport operator Schiphol has offered 400 million to 500 million euros (SsB24 mil-lion-Ssl billion) for a 70 per cent stake in Belgium's state-controlled BrusselsZaventem airport, a newspaper reported yesterday. Schiphol, which runs Amsterdam's airport that is one of the
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        291 27 Man armed with fake explosives, knives and guns boards 12 flights AFP [PARIS] A confidential test carried out at French airports last year revealed dramatic security loopholes, after a passenger carrying fake explosives and weapons managed to board a dozen separate flights,
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        193 27 AP [MIAMI] A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by disabled fliers seeking better access to 10 airlines, ruling that US$3.2 billion in bailout money paid to the carriers after the 2001 terrorist attacks did not make them subject to the Americans with
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