The Business Times, 22 July 2004

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    14 1 85C Jtfffjp)®l9eoo4 THE BUSINESS TIMES S INGAPORE THURSDAY, JULY 22. 2004 Internet: http://business-times.asia1 .com.sg
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    Lock icon Govt set to raise growth forecast for 3rd time
    665 1  -  Economists expect slight rise in higher end projection to 8.5%, from 7-5% By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The government is again expected to raise its growth forecast for the economy, following four consecutive quarters of solid growth. And if the forecast
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    Lock icon Brokers, investors upset over new risk-profile rules
    780 1  -  BT exclusive Investors baulk at invasive questions, convoluted language By Joyce Koh [SINGAPORE] Local brokers are up in arms over an initiative requiring them to advise clients based on the latter's risk profile, saying it is unpopular, cumbersome and only makes the industry
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    Lock icon Microsoft plans biggest ever corporate payout of US$75 billion
    602 1 It will buy back shares and pay a special dividend Reuters [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp, the world's biggest software maker, plans to return more than US$75 billion in cash to shareholders over the next four years in the largest corporate payout ever.
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    78 1 Dsn 1,873.17 (+7.91) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,878.00 (+10.00) ffIMSCI U 228.03 (+1.50) SIMSCI FUTURES 228.70 (+1.70) Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 840,88 +2.24 NIKKEI 225 11,4*188 +175.49 HANG SENG 12,395.11 +271.48 SET INDEX 665X2 +10.24 JAKARTA COMP —761.24 +4.57 MANILA COMP —1,539.32 +6.32 TAIPEI WPI 5,***** +83.45 SEOUL COMP *****
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    77 1 FOREX RATES U8$ S$ l,S$ (S$ per US$) I 707 X(l.'S$/S$ per X) 1.854 1165 ElJRO(lJS$/S$/E). 1.234 2.106 YEN 108.6 CU0 KM 3.800 1227 HKS 7.800 4.571 BAHT 40.90 2:1.97 Rl'PlAH 8.996 5.271 RENMINBI 8.277 4.850 INDIAN RUPEE 46.07 27.00 A$ 1.375 0.806 \Z$ 1.532 0.898 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE
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      6 1 mas profit soars to $sb, Pg2
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      89 1 COMMENTARY Im A-Reit: Watch out for i jft depreciation mC~tS rT (lM J AIR TRAVEL J Tiger Airways'low-cost fares mOtm /Kttttk' may trigger fresh price war I B kITL <■ Znltt* iW 4 Pg2 MM: LIBEL Which hat was David Ban wearing? Ml «Mille Miglia» The sporting spirit by Chopard
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      Lock icon Balanced view from Greenspan reassures Wall St
      816 2  -  Analysts reckon Fed funds rate may be raised gradually to 2.25% this year From Andrew Marks in New York US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's latest pronouncement on the economy has a reassuring effect on Wall Street, with analysts predicting a continuation of
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      Lock icon MAS posts 8-fold jump in profit to $5b
      592 2  -  Sharp spike due to strong financial markets worldwide By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority Of Singapore posted a net profit of $5 billion, eight times more than the previous $623.42 million, thanks to buoyant global financial markets. Pleased by the
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      44 2 IN the report "CMT expects to make more mall purchases" (BT, July 21), we said Capita Mall Trust's preferential offering of 90.6 million shares would be open until noon yesterday. The offer is open until July 27. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon Tiger Airways' plan to undercut by 40% may spark fresh price war
      494 2  -  SIA's low-cost carrier expects to take off by Q4 By Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] Cut-price carrier Tiger Airways the low-cost airline that SIA set up with local and foreign partners could trigger a new air-fare price war by offering
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      339 2 Canny Guide to Corporate Treasury Risk Management Dates Why 12-13 August 2004 Corporates can no longer excuse themselves from the imperative 9.00 am to 5.00pm responsibility to manage their financial risks effectively just because they are "only in the business of making widgets (or whatever)". This Venue workshop provides an
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  • FOCUS libel suit
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      1561 3  -  Question exercised the parties as cross-examinations end in Oei's defamation suit By Angela Tan, Kenneth Lim AFTER more than two weeks, the High Court yesterday heard the last of the cross-examinations in the defamation suit brought by Oei Hong Leong, with former Business Times
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      Lock icon WHAT THEY SAID
      389 3 On ancient mythology Mr Khoo: "Incidentally, Janus was not Greek." Ms Ong: "I know. It is Roman, Your Honour." Mr Khoo: "In Roman mythology Janus was a god with two faces?" Ms Ong: "Yes, Mr Khoo, I deeply apologise for getting the nationality of Janus wrong. I
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      132 3 jjj, jj FROM 28 JULY, SIA FLIES TO COLOURFUL AHMEDABAD, INDIA. ihjoy A SPECIAL FARE Of $800 ON ECONOMY CLASS AND DOUBLE MILES ON ALL CLASSES.* Starting 28 July, we fly direct to Ahmedabad 3 times weekly. Discover one of the most colourful destinations in ■P3H India, renowned for its
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  • SINGAPOREM companies
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      Lock icon SembCorp Marine buys 30% of Cosco shipyard arm
      821 4  -  It will pay $49m for stake which it will use to expand business in China By Jean Chua in Shanghai SEMBCORP Marine said yesterday it will pay $49 million for a 30 per cent stake in the shipyard operations of China's largest
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      Lock icon Qian Hu's new strategy testing market's patience
      749 4  -  HOCK lock siew wong wei kong IT looks like it's sink or swim for ornamental fish breeder Qian Hu Corp. More accustomed to being a market darling, the company has apparently lost favour with investors. After it announced disappointing interim earnings on Monday,
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      Lock icon Osim half-year profit rises 26% to record $13.6m
      322 9  -  Better sales in major markets, with North Asia expected to do well By Uma Shankari M AINBO ARD-listed healthy lifestyle company Osim International yesterday announced record results for the half-year ended June 30. Net profit climbed 26 per cent to $13.6 million
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      Lock icon Overseas earnings drive SFI profit up 16% in H1
      264 9  -  By Jessica Cheam SINGAPORE Food Industries (SFI) yesterday reported a 27 per cent increase in Q2 earnings to $6.2 million, from $4.9 million last year, all thanks to overseas profit before tax, which was seven times the previous year's at $1.8
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      Lock icon People's Food shares slip again
      401 9  -  Bat analysts upbeat on its purchase of soy product firm By Joyce Koh SHARE price volatility once again appears to have hit China-based meat products producer People's Food after a recently announced acquisition by the company. A briefing held by the company yesterday morning to
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      Lock icon Two China agriculture firms eye listing on SGX
      431 10  -  Companies brought in by founder of S'pore-listed China Food Industries By Loh Hui Yin UNDAUNTED by the current stock market skittishness towards initial public offers, Singapore businessman Lim Seek Yeow is rolling out simultaneously two China share offerings here. Both are in
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      Lock icon CapitaMall Trust offering snapped up
      286 10  -  By Andrea Tan CAPITAMALL Trust's public sale of 31 million new units was sold out in just 20 minutes yesterday. And investors who decided to wait until their lunch break to queue up at ATMs were left disappointed. CMT is raising $238.1 million through the
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      Lock icon k1 to buy retail gas assets in Hawaii
      373 10 KEPPEL-LINKED venture capital company kl Ventures will buy the retail gasoline assets in Hawaii of US Oil refiner ConocoPhillips (CoP) for U5538.15 million in cash, the Singapore investment company said yesterday, a year after buying a gas company in the US state.
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        Lock icon A-Reit completes Phase 1 of C&P bay
        68 10 ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) yesterday completed the first phase of its acquisition of C&P Logistics Hub, comprising two multi-storey warehouse buildings at Penjuru Lane in Jurong for $142.1 million. The second phase of the acquisition, comprising the third warehouse building, will
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        Lock icon TAM chief operating officer quits
        27 10 L&M Group Investments Ltd said Howard W Koswara has resigned as chief operating officer and director of the company with immediate effect.
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        Lock icon DBS' unit sells 8.6b pesos of NPLs
        58 10 Reuters BANK of the Philippine Islands (BPI) yesterday said it is selling 8.6 billion pesos (***** million) worth of non-performing loans to Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Inc. The Philippines' second-largest lender, which is owned by DBS Group and Ayala Corp, said it expects
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        Lock icon Cheung Woh forms China subsidiary
        55 10 CHEUNG Woh Technologies said it has incorporated a new subsidiary, Cheung Woh Technologies (Zhuhai) Ltd, in China. The subsidiary will be principally engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of sheet metal components, sub-assembly, hard disk drives and computer-related components. The total investment in the
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      447 4 f TH^MONE^R^^UTHORIT^^^INGAPORE TENOR APPROXIMATELY 2 YEARS I I TOTAL AMOUNT OFFERED SGD 2,600,000,000 I MINIMUM DENOMINATION SGD 1,000 I MAS'INTENDED TENDER AMOUNT SGD 300,000,000 I (NON-COMPETITIVE) I p ISSUE CODE N*****1F I ISIN CODE 5G********** I ISSUE DATE/SETTLEMENT DATE 2 AUGUST 2004 I 1 MATURITY DATE 1 AUGUST 2006 I
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      83 4 China Global Franchise Markets Spearheading Growth Record turnover and record net profit for first half 30 june 2004 Key points: Group Revenue Growth at Sustainable Rate of +20% North Asia Revenue +29%, Strong Growth In China's 32 Cities America/Africa/Europe/Middle East/Oceania Turnover +74%, Revenue Per Outlet Expanding Strongly OSIM Brand Footprint
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      894 5 CagftaMall Trust Constituted in the Republic of Singapore pursuant to a trust deed dated 29 October 2001 (as amended) Earn 5.69%' yield tax-free 2 Subscribe to New Units offered at 551.62 per New Unit Capita Mall Trust Management Limited, the manager of Capita Mall Trust ("CMT"). proposes to issue 147,000,000
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      714 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREDHVASAN K1 Ventures My 21 dosing: 27.5 cants K1 VENTURES breakout yesterday on high volumes suggests a test of April's 30.5-cent high soon. The stock has followed a set pattern of making only 38.2 per cent retracements from major highs since it bottomed out at
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      Lock icon Fu Yu a good play on Asian outsourcing trend
      296 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan TECH sector stocks have been going through a rough patch in recent weeks on concerns that earnings growth for the sector has plateaued. While this may be true, the slowdown does not affect all players
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      Lock icon Market set to see more range-bound trading
      579 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IF playing the stock market is like playing poker, it'll certainly be interesting to see who blinks or folds first. Will it be the bulls like Alan Greenspan, who extol the virtues of an expanding US economy and
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      Lock icon Greenspan comments spark US$ rebound
      603 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES But key 88 barrier on greenback index holds fast larry wee THE US dollar staged a decent rebound after unusually blunt comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan overnight. But it is too early to say if this was anything more
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        Lock icon Sam Goi stfl ping Wo Super Coffeemix
        54 6 'POPIAH King' Sam Goi bought another 509,000 shares of Super Coffeemix Manufacturing on Tuesday and increased his shareholding to 15.29 per cent from 15.19 per cent previously. Price details were not disclosed. Shares of Super Coffeemix, a producer of convenience foods, closed unchanged
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        Lock icon J P Morgan cuts Magnecomp stake
        69 6 J P MORGAN Chase Co is no longer a substantial shareholder of hard disk-drive component maker Magnecomp International after its deemed stake was pared to 4.72 per cent from 5.38 per cent aa Jridny last week. The stake reduction cama ter 1.6 million shares
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        Lock icon Bou stead directors convert warrants
        129 6 BOUSTEAD Singapore directors Wong Fong Fui (right) and Chong Ngien Cheong exercised all their warrants in the company yesterday at a strike price of 25 cents apiece. The warrants, which are exchangeable for one share each, expire on Aug 2. Mr Wong, chairman and group
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        Lock icon Hour Glass chairman buys more shares
        70 6 THE Hour Glass executive chairman Henry Tay bought 403,000 shares of the luxury watch retailer at 66 cents apiece on Monday and saw his direct interest climb to 7.82 per cent from 7.45 per cent. Mr Tay also holds another 51.91 per cent deemed
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        Lock icon Raffles Lasalle director's stake raised
        117 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM RAFFLES LaSalle independent director Chew Chin Hua saw his stake in the fashion and design education specialist jump to 0.1 per cent from 0.06 per cent on Tuesday after he was deemed to be interested in the purchase of 100,000 shares
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      411 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jul 21 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -637.00 +23.00 BTCADI -*****.00 +92.00 BTHMayMA *****.00 -63.00 M-SCEquitiw 494.28 +2.42 SCEgriMtEkct 156.98 +2.05 SG Equities Fin 1559.35 +3.45 SG EquitiK Prop 432.88 +0.29 SHMSCI 228.03 +1-50 SMSCI Futures 228.70 +1.70 Moefci y/wkmm China Paper US4c 33.976.000 L&Mlc 32,168,000 Wee Poh
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      Lock icon A steeper climb ahead for M1
      763 8  -  It faces more challenges than opportunities ahead, says ANGELA TAN ANGELA TAN THE 26 per cent first-half earnings growth reported this week by Mobile One (Ml) is impressive given the full-year forecast is only 5-8 per cent but investors should be wary. As Ml
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    4054 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS SBSelEqtyDividendPf04<SGD) 0.9571/ SI Sd Eqty Dividend Pf 04 (USO) 0.9564/ Sa!tiTO > E5S^ (S W,> 0729/ c£5£ifi£?&T 0.941/ i J*u Com Global Lifestyle Index Fd 0.989/ inSu Com Global Heal* Index Fd 0.851/ 08W Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0.47/ 1J1» Com Global Infetec Index Fdl" 0327/
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Aussie regulators clear SingPower's TXU purchase
      597 11  -  It will raise A$1b from debt markets; expects to close deal by July-end By Tang Weng Fai SINGPOWER'S ambitions Down Under have been given a major boost by regulatory approval of its Ass.l billion (556.3 billion) purchase of TXU Australia, one of the largest
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      Lock icon A*Star launches database on S'pore researchers
      217 11 700 scientists from 60 fields of expertise already listed; move expected to boost collaboration THE Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) yesterday launched a Singapore Researchers Database on the Web to help facilitate local and international collaboration. In its pilot phase, the database
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      Lock icon COE premiums slide for all categories
      253 11 COE premiums continued their slow downward spiral yesterday, declining across the board. A certificate of entitlement for Category B cars above 1,600 cc saw the biggest fall when it plunged $1,989 to $27,001. The drop for small cars was less. Cat A cars under
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      Lock icon Tourist arrivals up 5% from pre-Sars level
      348 11  -  EYE on the economy tourism By Daniel Buenas TOURIST arrivals grew 5 per cent year on year in the first half of 2004 from the same period in 2002, before Sars distorted the figures in 2003. And the number of visitors in June
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      Lock icon A-Reit: Watch out for depreciation
      1148 12  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala RETAIL investors who think they have found their pot of gold investing in real estate investment trusts (Reits) such as Capita Mall 2Trust (CMT) and Ascendas Reit (A-Reit) may want to be a tad careful these days. The unit prices of both
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      Lock icon Crack in US market
      507 13 Home sales slow as supply across the US surges Reuters [NEW YORK] The US housing market, a pillar of economic strength that propped up the sagging US economy last year, may be showing some cracks, experts said. From Laguna Hills, California, to Lexington, Massachusetts, realtors said
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    1102 13 Transaction date: Jul 21 UTERBAlfK CROSS RATES A$ C$ ttmt) Euro HKS Ind RapWi Ym Won B*> HZ$ PifcBs Peso S$ Rand Sfr UTS BUt Pound USS Australia 0.956 6.021 0.589 5.674 33.508 65.433 0.790 8.431 2.764 1.115 42.378 40.678 1.241 4.346 0.903 24.689 29.751 0.392 0.727 Canada 1.046
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      2216 13 NANYAN6 BUSINESS SCHOOL Nanyang Technological University i§ifc Executive Presentations Key Account Management 6 8 September 2004, Singapore »9 20 October 2004, Singapore Overview Overview In this competitive marketplace, companies increasingly value Key Account Management The presentation has become an increasingly important executive function. It provides as they realize that the
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon When directors are truly independent
      799 14  -  THE bottom line OPINION david mason INDEPENDENT, non-executive directors have been coming in for some stick recently. Questions have been asked about their ability to fulfil governance obligations when they hold multiple directorships and there has been talk of holding them more directly accountable for
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      48 14 'Removing Saddam Hussein was not a war crime. It was an act of liberation for the Iraqi people.' Tony Blair British Prime Minister, defending his decision to join America in waging war against Iraq in light of a highly critical of British intelligence on Iraq
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      Lock icon Global issues in November
      678 14 EDITORIAL THE conventional wisdom in Washington these days seems to be that the US invasion of Iraq and its aftermath and US global economic policies are on the top of the agenda of the majority of American voters in November. If the pundits have it right,
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      Lock icon Germany seeks to revive depressed east
      821 14  -  What east Germany needs is more jobs to lure back those who had migrated west in search of work By Mark Landler NYT [DRESDEN, Germany] Standing outside her freshly painted, restored apartment house, Gabi Kaminke gazed ruefully across a parking lot at her old
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      Lock icon New England's political parable for Democrats
      631 14  -  COMMENTARY By Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group [WASHINGTON] In some ways, the Democrats' selection of Boston for their convention couldn't have been worse. If you're trying to shed the liberal label to appeal to the middle then you wouldn't pick a famously
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  • REGEIONAL news
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      Lock icon Enriching young lives
      52 16 [HONGKONG] Children looking at books at the Hong Kong Book Fair which opened yesterday. Some 360 exhibitors from seven countries and territories —Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Macau—are taking part in the six-day annual event, with this year's theme being 'Reading enriches life'.
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        Lock icon Calpers gets nod to invest in India
        80 16 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] The California Public Employee's Retirement System, the biggest US pension fund, won Indian regulatory approval to trade in the country's stocks. Calpers, with U*****.8 billion under management, in April added India and Peru to the list of markets it wanted to
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        Lock icon Bangkok Bank enjoys profit jump
        109 16 Reuters [BANGKOK] Bangkok Bank, Thailand's largest commercial bank by assets, reported a 58 per cent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, citing strong loan growth in a booming economy and lower funding costs. It reported a second-quarter net profit of 4.3 billion baht (Ssl79 million),
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        Lock icon China launches anti-dumping probe
        75 16 Reuters [HONG KONG] China has launched a formal anti-dumping investigation into certain chemical imports from the US and other countries after receiving complaints from three local producers, one of the firms said yesterday. Jilin Chemical Industrial Co said it and two other companies had filed an
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        Lock icon India's June exports rise 34%
        65 16 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's exports rose 34 per cent in June as automobile companies sold more cars overseas and steel companies stepped up sales to China. Exports in June were US$5.6 billion, the Commerce and Industry Ministry said. Imports rose 43 per cent to US$7.9
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      412 16  -  Part of RM770m proceeds from IPO will be used to finance project From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur KLCC Property, the owner of the world's second tallest buildings, will use part of the proceeds from its initial public offering to extend its
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      368 16 BANGKOK THAILAND wants to stay as Asia's top golf haven, with developers set to pour 10 billion baht (Ss4l9 million) into the construction of 25 new courses there over the next three years, The Nation reported on Tuesday. The Thai
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      132 16 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN'S investment in China in the first half reached U553.39 biUion, a 68.18 per cent year-on-year rise, despite rising tensions between Beijing and Taipei, the Investment Commission said yesterday. The commission said it approved 1i074 investment applications fcy Xaiwanese firms
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      374 16 JAKARTA China gives the all-clear to 131 suspected cases but remains alert AP, Bloomberg, AFP THAILAND yesterday confirmed bird-flu virus infections in two more provinces, bringing to 13 the number of provinces where the disease has reappeared this month, while Indonesia said
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      389 16 KUALA LUMPUR It aims to produce for local, export markets: report TAN Chong Motor Holdings plans to set up a local manufacturing plant to produce passenger cars for the Malaysian market and also for export to other Asean countries and worldwide, the
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      396 17 BEIJING Shanghai adopts rolling shutdowns for companies to save power Reuters, Bloomberg AS companies like General Motors Corp, the world's largest carmaker, halted production at its Shanghai venture for 11 days because of the country's power shortages, state media said yesterday the
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      340 17 SHANGHAI Loss at many firms expose endemic problems in sector CHINA'S second-largest brokerage lost more than US$3O million in the first half as Beijing's efforts to slow economic growth hammered stock markets, portending ill for the country's overcrowded securities
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      213 17 BEIJING Reuters CHINA has shelved plans to build in Beijing a 5 billion yuan (Ssl billion) television tower billed as an urban icon as well as a new parliament building as part of official efforts to cool the overheating economy. Construction of
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      497 18 LONDON World's biggest multinationals likewise pay little or no tax in UK LEADING investment banks in the UK have succeeded in eliminating most of the current tax charge they owe to the UK tax authorities, the Financial Times reported yesterday. This
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      423 18 LONDON Bloomberg THE Bank of England was scheduled to auction some of its furniture including antique desks, cabinets and chairs yesterday after the 310-year-old institution adopted an open-plan layout at its London headquarters and stripped out layers of
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      313 18 TOKYO Domestic demand to power fastest growth in 8 years Reuters JAPAN yesterday almost doubled its economic growth forecast for the current fiscal year, bringing its view in line with private economists who see an upturn in domestic demand adding momentum to
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      428 18 CORPORATE RESULTS Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Pfizer Inc, the world's largest drugmaker, had a second-quarter profit of US$2.B6 billion, or 38 US cents a share, as sales of its cholesterol medicine Lipitor rose 17 per cent. In the year-earlier quarter,
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      578 19  -  He says there is scope for Tokyo to raise income tax and close deficit From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S public debt "cannot be allowed to snowball" to the point where it could provoke a crisis, OECD sec-retary-general Donald Johnston warned in
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      242 19 MELBOURNE Reuters AMERICAN investors have cut their weighting of Australian investments to the bottom of their target ranges as value opportunities dwindle, according to a survey of US institutions holding Asls billion (5518.6 billion) in Australian stocks. Korea, Indonesia and India increased their lead
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      696 21  -  It wants to increase market share to 50% from 15% now and may look at acquisitions By Amit Roy Choudhory MONSTER.COM, the online jobs portal, is eyeing the Singapore market aggressively and aims to increase its current market share of 15 per
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      218 22 Business revenue totals RMB281.59b by end of Jane Xinhua [BEIJING] China's information industry grew fast in the first half of this year, with business revenue totalling RM8281.59 billion (SssB billion) by the end of June, up 13 per cent over the same
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      583 22  -  SLA will be initial user in digitised land data sharing system. Tang Weng Fai reports Tang Weng Fai THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and computer data-base-maker Oracle Corp will collaborate to build the Asia-Pacific's first digitised land data sharing system in a $25
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      1299 22 One of the biggest challenges facing IT departments today is how to meet the increasingly demanding service levels required by users. With more applications directly accessible to customers via the Web, "normal" business hours for many enterprises are now 24 hours a day, 7 days
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      293 22 Most of them are new versions of old ones modified to avoid detection AFP [NEW YORK] A new breed of computer worms and viruses, modified by hackers to avoid detection, is spreading at an alarming rate across the Internet, security experts said.
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      246 22 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] BTG pic, which buys and develops technology from inventors, sued Microsoft Corp and Apple Computer Inc over patents for technologies that let users update software over the Internet. The two suits, filed on Tuesday in US District Court in
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      734 23  -  US$400m port decision takes into account existing facility ran by PSA By George Joseph [SINGAPORE] The Brunei government has launched a global search for a partner to build and operate a new US$4OO million container terminal, which will be in addition
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      311 23 Bloomberg [OSLO] The shipping derivatives market more than doubled to US$B billion in this year's first six months as banks, shipowners, oil producers and miners sought to profit from record freight rates, International Maritime Exchange (Imarex) estimated. Forward Freight Agreements (FFAs), which
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      39 23 [HAMBURG, Germany] The 'Queen Mary 2', the world's largest cruise ship, arriving in Rotterdam early yesterday from Hamburg. The 150,000-ton vessel was scheduled to leave Rotterdam Harbour yesterday afternoon for its home base of Southampton, England. AFP
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      435 23 They express concern about abductions to piracy watchdog Reuters [SINGAPORE] Ship captains have written to maritime authorities expressing fears for their lives on voyages through the Malacca Strait after a spate of violent kidnappings in June, a sea crimes watchdog said. The fears
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      559 23 The terminals, costing US$600m each, are needed to ease energy shortages Bloomberg CHINA National Offshore Oil Corp, the country's third-biggest oil producer, may build as many as seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals by 2010 to help meet the
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        463 24 Net income jumps to record US$15.8m from US$4.49m a year earlier Bloomberg [ATHENS] Stelmar Shipping Ltd, a tanker company that last month rejected a takeover offer from bigger rival OMI Corp, said sec-ond-quarter profit more than tripled as it
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        43 24 AP [SYDNEY] A container truck pulls itsloadpasta shipping container facility at Sydney's Botany Bay on Tuesday. Australia is boosting counter-terrorism measures by increasing X-ray inspectionsfrom 5 of containers to 25% in the major ports of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Freemantle. —AP
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        811 29 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 average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        428 30 Talks failed because Virgin wanted too much control: Fernandes Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Air Asia, South-east Asia's biggest discount airline, said it has decided to end talks to sell a stake to Virgin Blue because it didn't want to give up control. "We
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        353 30 Bloomberg FRAPORT AG, which owns the Frankfurt Airport, and Singapore Changi Airport Enterprise are among the 10 companies that made initial bids for stakes in India's biggest airports, helping the government progress with its plans. The bidders for stakes in the New Delhi
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        333 30 No farther state aid to be given to ailing carrier in future Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European Commission was set on Tuesday to approve a lifeline 400 million euro (SsB44 million) bridge loan to struggling airline Alitalia but it warned that the carrier could
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        258 30 NYT [NEW YORK] The pilots union at Delta Air Lines proposed a 23 per cent wage cut late on Tuesday, a day after the airline posted its worst results in 25 years. The latest offer by the Air Line Pilots Association comes
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        406 30 Bloomberg [CLEVELAND] Honeywell International Inc, the world's largest maker of cockpit electronics, said second-quarter profit rose 13 per cent as demand from airplane and factory-equipment makers increased. Net income climbed to US$36l million, or 42 US cents a share, from US$3l9 million,
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        376 30 Carrier leaves its outlook for rest of the year unchanged Reuters [LONDON] Europe's sec-ond-biggest airline, British Airways pic (BA), said its outlook for the rest of the year was unchanged but that it was encouraged by a cautious return of business. "Global economic and
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