The Business Times, 30 July 2004

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/03/2004 SINGAPORE I Internet: hnp://Dusiness-times.asial .com.sg FRIDAY, JULY 30, 2004
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    Lock icon Refiners seen raking in gains from oil hikes
    570 1  -  Those with existing inventory can capitalise on high product prices By Chen Huifen, Taila [SINGAPORE] The latest round of oil price hikes has again sparked concerns about corporate earnings. In Asia, analysts believe that while the oil price surge won't have an
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    77 1 Dsn 1,1111 (+16.86) ST INDEX FUTURES MBS.OO (+5.00) msimsci U 229.87 (+2.35) SIMSCI FUTURES 229.30 (+1.30) Thursday Change KLSE COMP 833.50 -5.14 NIKKEI 225 11.116.K4 HAN(i SKN(i 12,183.10 -137.17 SET INDEX 6.11.42 3.31 JAKARTA COMP 760.97 +0.77 MANILA COMP _1,599.06 +15.65 TAIPEI WPI 5,349.66 33.91 SEOUL COMP 730.61 -13.81
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    76 1 FOREX RATES US* S$ L'S$ (S$ per I'S$) 1.725 £<rSS/SS per Si) 1.826 3.149 EURO(US$/S$/E). 1.206 2.081 YEN 111.7 64.70 RM 3.800 2.203 HK$ 7.799 4.522 BAHT ...4140 24.00 RI'PIAH 9.170 5,317 RENMINBI 8.277 4 799 INDIAN Rl PEE 4647 26.94 A$ 1.429 0.829 NZ$ 1.581 0.916 PRIME RATES
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    Lock icon Energy authority to consider LNG terminal feasibility
    510 1  -  It also nn veils tougher grid penalties; new fines By Tang Weng Fai [SINGAPORE] In the wake of this month's major blackout, the Energy Market Authority (EMA) said yesterday it will call a tender for a study on the feasibility of building a
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    Lock icon SIA boosts salaries; Lim Boon Heng resigns
    568 1  -  By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines sprang a twin surprise on its shareholders yesterday a 15 per cent pay rise for its employees and the resignation of Cabinet minister Lim Boon Heng from its board, fuelling speculation of a new political role. "I
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      Lock icon Wall St favours Bush, thinks Kerry will roll back tax cuts
      987 2  -  On both taxes and trade Bnsh is better for the market, say money managers From Andrew Marks in New York FOR Wall Street, one candidate is streets ahead in the November presidential elections: George Bush. That's because Wall Street
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      Lock icon GIC snaps up 5% of Shell Refining M'sia
      467 2  -  S'pore govt possibly its third largest shareholder From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) has acquired another substantial stake in a listed company in Malaysia amid signs of warmer bilateral ties between the two countries. The
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Keppel Corp posts 11% rise in Q2 earnings
      477 4  -  Offshore and marine sector shines; 9-ct interim payout declared By Joyce Koh PROPERTY and the oil rig business proved to be the kicker for Keppel Corporation's performance as it posted an 11 per cent rise in second-quarter earnings yesterday. Earnings for the
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      Lock icon No immediate plans for SPC: Keppel
      318 4  -  By Loh Hoi Yin THE question was: Will Keppel Corp divest its 49 per cent stake in Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC), which chalked up a strong $68.15 million first-half net profit? But Keppel chief executive Lim Chee Oon didn't give a straight "yes" or
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      Lock icon New deal gives Utac bigger UTC stake
      330 4  -  By Tang Weng Fai CHIP tester United Test and Assembly Centre (Utac) has successfully renegotiated the terms of its planned takeover of Taiwan rival UltraTera Corp (UTC) giving it a larger share of UTC while spending less money. Utac had said in April
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      Lock icon SGX raises minimum dividend policy as FYO4 profit surges
      455 5  -  It beats forecasts with net profit of $133 m on stronger trading activity By Kenneth Lim SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) chief executive Hsieh Fu Hua was all smiles yesterday when he announced that the commercially-run bourse is raising its minimum dividend policy.
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Thakral Q1 profit jumps 43%
        59 5 CONSUMER electronics distributor Thakral Corporation has achieved a 43 per cent year-on-year jump in net profit to $5.2 million for its first quarter ended June 30,2004. The better Q1 earnings came on the back of a 17 per cent rise in turnover to $126.9 million
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        Lock icon KS Tech in pact with China firm
        81 5 MAINBOARD-LISTED oil gas supply specialist KS Tech Ltd has entered into an agreement with a listed Chinese state-owned company for the deployment of a jack-up oil rig. The drilling rig is expected to be deployed in the South China Sea by the end
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        Lock icon Hiap Moh profit up five times
        40 5 PAPER company Hiap Moh Corp yesterday posted a first-half net profit of $507,000, nearly five times the $102,000 it made in the previous corresponding first half. Turnover rose 18 per cent to $27.7 million.
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      Lock icon SingTel shareholders okay buyback, ask for more
      483 5  -  By Angela Tan SINGAPORE Telecom shareholders yesterday approved its plans to buy back $3 billion of stock but not before they asked about its plans to stay ahead of rivals, higher dividend payouts and the appointment of cheaper auditors. If Sing Tel officials
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      Lock icon GeneMedix — still a risky proposition
      736 5  - GeneMedix still a risky proposition HOCK lock siew teh hooi ling THERE is a big question mark over whether GeneMedix can reap the benefits of its research and development any time soon some 10 years after it was established and nearly four years after it was listed on the Singapore
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      Lock icon Ascott upbeat on Q3 as Q2 profit rises 76%
      419 8  -  It wants to bring in partners for assets acquired under Citadines purchase By Andrea Tan ASCOTT, the largest serviced apartment provider in Asia, said yesterday the outlook is "favourable" and profit in the current third quarter will be higher than in
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      Lock icon CapitaLand plans to launch over 800 homes this year
      372 8  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala AFTER keeping a low profile on the residential launch front in Singapore for the first seven months of this year, Capita Land yesterday said it will launch for sale a total of 800 to 1,000 homes in four
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      Lock icon CapitaMall share offer snapped up
      110 8 Bloomberg CAPITAMALL Trust said it sold more shares than it had initially allocated to retail and institutional investors in a share sale. The trust, which raised $238.1 million from the sale of 147 million new shares to fund its purchase of Plaza Singapura, said it
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    2862 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ComMrtm* AMI Mot Com Global RnancHndeM 0.936 Com Global litest* Met Fd 0-976/ AM Amre Am) Mgt (S'pore) Com Global Health Index Fd 034* Star Eixope Eqty!** 0718/ Com Global Telecom IndB Fd 0.478 Star Etfope Bond Com Global kitotec mdnFd!" 0328/ Stai Europe Bal 1-033/ Com
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      1310 4 Notices SENfc HUA HNG REALTY PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS'VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION WINDING UP) At an extra ordinary general meeting of the members of the Seng Hua Hng Realty Pte 1-td held at 1 27 Defu I .ane 10. Singapore *****4, on July 23. 2004 at 11.00 a.m.. the following resolutions were
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      557 4 In the Matter ot The Companies Act, Cap. 50 and In the Matter of FUSTAR CHEMICALS PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Fustar Chemicals Pte Ltd held at 1 Stadium Walk Level 2 Kallang Theatre Building Singapore *****8 on 26 July 2004 the following
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      230 5 There is no holding it back. One glance is enough to tell anyone that this is no ordinary Jaguar. The new Aluminium XJ breaks the mould with a rein'orced aluminium body that is 40% lighter than steel, yet 60% stronger, providing increased manoeuvrability and stability. Difficult corners are effortlessly cut
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      747 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN KeppelLand My 29 daring: $1.87 KEPPEL Land is a good proxy to ride on a recovery in the local housing market and a rebound in the office sector come FY 2005. Overseas contributions will rise from 30 to 50 per cent by 2005 as
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      Lock icon AsiaPharm exceptional performer among IPOs
      234 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By R Sivanithy THE IPO market has become very discerning lately, with first-day flops a regular occurrence. Also, it's not unusual to see new listings trade below water. So when one manages to stay above its offer price and attracts "buy" recommendations
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      Lock icon Sudden play on banks pushes STI up 17 points
      501 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy AN afternoon play on the banks livened up what was heading to be yet another drab session in the local stock market yesterday. Still, although the Straits Times Index's 16.86-point rise to 1,892.11 caught many players
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      Lock icon US$ takes a break after weak US data
      603 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES US oil prices at 21-year high bring British pound-yen cross trade into focus larry wee THE US dollar took a breather from its recent sharp rise after weaker-than-expected US durable goods orders were announced overnight, but it remains dangerously
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Aircraft player's placement draws Cockpit
        148 6 COCKPIT Hotel International, the investment vehicle for the family of the late hotelier Teo Lay Swee, has emerged as a substantial shareholder of TPA Strategic Holdings after subscribing for 10 million shares at 22 cents apiece in a share placement. Cockpit now has a 6.75
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        Lock icon Ascott MD converts 200,000 options
        80 6 THE Ascott Group managing director and chief executive Eugene Paul Lai Chin Look exercised 200,000 share options yesterday at 32.1 cents apiece. The exercise gave Mr Lai a stake of 0.013 per cent in Asia's largest serviced apartment provider. He still has 1.4 million unconverted
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        Lock icon GP Batteries director sells more shares
        59 6 GP BATTERIES International executive vicechairman Richard Ku Yuk Hing continued paring his stake in the battery supplier on Wednesday, selling 5,000 shares at $3.30 on the open market. He now controls 0.086 per cent of the company's shares from 0.091 per cent previously. GP
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        Lock icon MTQ chairman buys 7,000 more shares
        89 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM MTQ Corp chairman and chief executive Kuah Kok Kim bought 7,000 shares on the open market on Wednesday at 38 cents apiece, increasing his direct stake to 0.19 per cent from 0.18 per cent. The director also has a deemed
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      412 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jul 29 VALUE CLOSE BTOMB -470.00 -8.00 BTCAPt -*****.00 -29.00 WINyili *****.00 47.00 AUG Equity 495.79 +3.94 SB EmHIm Btct 154.68 +0.32 ICHalBwFte 1573.43 +16.02 S6 Equftto Prop 447.97 +1.87 SMSCI 229.87 +2.35 SiMSCI Futures 229.30 +1.30 SlntfTel 15c~ 27,386.000 Chart SernlCand 26c 24,516,000 8TatecomUS2c 18,736.000 Links
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  • PERSONAL finance
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      Lock icon Figuring out your retirement
      1062 7  -  Having a magic number in sight is good but you also need a plan to work towards it, says ROY VARGHESE ROY VARGHESE This month's Fortune magazine had a terrific article by Lee Eisenberg entitled The Number, about how much money is enough for the dreaded
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    1115 8 Transaction date: Jul 29 DtTERBAMK CROSS EATES AS c$ «w> Euro HXS lnd»s Rupiah Yen Won W K$ Mib fw» S$ Hand Sfr HT$ Batit Pound USS Australia 0.931 5.791 0.580 5.457 32.514 64.158 0.781 8.174 2.659 1.106 40.849 39.201 1.207 4368 0.891 23.922 28.962 0.383 0.700 Canada 1074
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      1542 8 TAncHono > Tan Chong International Limited international (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) INTERIM RESULTS MANAGEMENT REVIEW Tte Board of Directors (.he "Hoard") wishes .0 announce the on momenulm of 2003 oroup progressed following unaudited results of the Group for the six months ended 30 June ">OO4 from strength to
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon ABN Amro home loan deters early redeeming
      412 9  -  New fixed-rate deal with cash rebate eases first-year interest burden By Siow Li Sen ABN Amro Bank is offering an innovative two-year fixed-rate home loan package with a cash rebate that minimises the pain of higher first-year interest rate but acts as a
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      Lock icon Idro has resolved all disputes to date
      271 9  -  By Genevieve Cua MOST of the complaints submitted to the Insurance Disputes Resolution Organisation (Idro) had to do with mis-selling or misrepresentation, said Idro in its first annual report. Idro said it has successfully attained a dispute resolution rate of 100 per cent.
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      Lock icon SGX run draws more funds
      174 9 WITH two new sponsors this week, The Bull Run 2004 the Singapore Exchange's charity fun run in the Central Business District has drawn $529,688 in donations. Jurong Technologies Industrial Corporation and Noble Group are the latest contributors in the $100,000 Diamond Bull Sponsor and $75,000
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      Lock icon CPG FM admits error in bid for SLA tender
      412 9  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala IN an unusual development, CPG Facilities Management (CPG FM) has clarified that the huge $332,700 monthly fee quote it submitted in a Singapore Land Authority tender that closed on Wednesday was actually a lump-sum quote for the entire
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      Lock icon India expects FTA with S'pore soon
      389 9  -  Talks a learning exercise: India's High Commissioner By Amit Roy Choudhury THE free trade talks with Singapore have been a learning exercise for India and an agreement will be reached "fairly quickly", according to India's High Commissioner to Singapore, Alok Prasad. Speaking on the
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    • NEWSRoundup
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        Lock icon System Access partners Satyam
        57 9 SINGAPORE-BASED System Access, which offers universal banking solutions for the financial services industry, yesterday signed a global partnership agreement with Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth largest software services company. Satyam will support the distribution of System Access products and will also act as its primary resource
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        Lock icon S'pore, Panama hold FTA talks
        61 9 SINGAPORE and Panama have concluded their second round of negotiations on a free trade agreement. The talks covered a range of issues including trade in goods, rules of origin, Customs procedures, financial services, government procurement, competition, institutional provisions and dispute settlement. The FTA talks were
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        Lock icon Entrepreneurship course a big draw
        99 9 THE intake for entrepreneurship courses at the National University of Singapore has increased almost five times in the past five years to 1,111 students today. And while entrepreneurship education is a contradiction in terms for sceptics, others believe that if it can be learned, it
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      1286 9 Corporation Keppel Corporation Limited Co Reg No: *****0351N (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE SECOND QUARTER ENDED 30 JUNE 2004 The Directors of Keppel Corporation Limited advise the following unaudited results of the Group for the second quarter ended 30 June 2004: SECOND QUARTER HALF
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      236 9 BFnnniON OF CAPITAL In the matter of Sections 69 and 73 of the Companies Act (Cap. 50) Notice is hereby given that SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE PTE LTD (RC No. *****8326N) ("the Company"), having its registered address at 28 Ayer Rajah Crescent #08-05/08 Singapore *****9 and so authorised by its articles
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Is the bourse a young lass or an old hag?
      731 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION caroline baum Bloomberg EVERYONE is familiar with the psychological experiment where a group of people looks at the same photograph and sees something different Was the woman in the photo a young lass or an old
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      110 10 There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states. We
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      Lock icon The right employment formula
      547 10 EDITORIAL LABOUR chief Lim Boon Heng is right to be concerned about the shortfall of Singaporean workers in the domestic services sector. But that's just part of a bigger, more pressing issue: finding a formula that works for Singapore's employers, employees and unemployed. The NTUC secretary-general
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      Lock icon The rich gang up on the poor at trade talks
      959 10  -  What we are witnessing in Geneva is a failure of European and US political leadership of epic proportions By Kevin Watkins IHT THERE is a Swahili proverb that goes: "When elephants fight, the grass gets crushed. When elephants make love,
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      Lock icon 'Bookends'in pay risk
      711 10  -  COMMENTARY By Graef Crystal Bloomberg TWO chief executive officers of prominent Silicon Valley companies are bookends for the degree of risk in their pay packages. Maxim Integrated Products Inc's John Gifford has an extremely high-risk pay package, while Analog Devices Inc's Jerald Fishman has a package with
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon India software giant's IPO garners strong response
      501 11 BOMBAY Shares set aside for institutional investors have already been fully subscribed to AP Bloomberg SOFTWARE giant Tata Consultancy Services got a strong response as it started selling 55.45 million shares yesterday to raise up to US$l.25 billion in what is billed as
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      Lock icon China to let rogue firms repay cash with shares
      466 11 SHANGHAI It's a step to curb parents milking listed units for cash Reuters CHINESE regulators have devised a plan to allow companies that siphon off funds from listed subsidiaries to repay the cash with shares, hoping to resolve a longstanding problem
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      Lock icon Malaysia's 2nd pay-TV operator to begin service in Oct
      250 11 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MITV Corp, Malaysian billionaire Vincent Tan's television company, said it will go on air in October, earlier than planned, and offer a Korean entertainment channel as part of a 60-sta-tion service. The "soft launch" by Malaysia's second pay-televi-sion
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      Lock icon M'sian interest rates to slay low
      193 11 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's interest rates are expected to remain low next year to support economic growth, Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop said. "The present accommodative policy will continue. As far as I can see, the economic circumstances have not changed," he said
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        Lock icon KL to help Cambodia with rail project
        73 11 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia pledged yesterday to help Cambodia fill missing links in a major Asian rail project that is expected to stretch from Singapore to southern China. Officials from Malaysia's Transport Ministry will enlist local contractors and private firms to provide Cambodia
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        Lock icon Manila gets ratings downgrade
        71 11 Reuters [MANILA] The Philippines' drive to shore up its fiscal position took a blow yesterday with a downgrade of its local debt rating, but a senior government official insisted the budget deficit was under control. Standard Poor's ratings agency affirmed its long-term foreign-currency sovereign rating of
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        Lock icon Wiranto files election complaint
        115 11 AP [JAKARTA] Retired Gen Wiranto said yesterday that he has filed a complaint with the Supreme Court, alleging that widespread irregularities at the polls damaged his chances of victory in the country's first ever direct presidential election earlier this month. The court promised to rule on
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        Lock icon M'sia-Thai gas pipeline by year-end
        85 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] A controversial US$7OO-million gas pipeline between Malaysia and Thailand is expected to be completed by the end 0f2004 after a long delay, a project partner said on Wednesday. "By the end of this year, Thailand will be connected to Malaysia," Hassan Marican,
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        Lock icon Thai GDP growth forecast trimmed
        92 11 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand cut its 2004 economic growth projection yesterday to 6.0 to 7.0 per cent from an April forecast of 6.8 to 7.8 per cent and against actual 6.8 per cent growth in 2003. "The main factors for our more moderate forecast are lower
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        Lock icon Hollywood studio plans Thai project
        63 11 AFP [BANGKOK] A Hollywood studio is to invest US$75 million in new film studios in Thailand and wants to shoot Band of Brothers II in the kingdom. Studios Intl will begin building on a 32.3 ha site in Samut Prakarn province near Bangkok early next
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      Lock icon China's jet set seen taking off when rules are relaxed
      531 12 HONG KONG Number of private jets seen rising from a conple of dozen to over 600 in 10 years Reuters CHINA'S growing billionaire club is attracting makers of champagne- and cavi-ar-stocked private jets, but regulations and other barriers to entry
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      Lock icon Goldman close to China corporate finance venture
      213 12 LONDON Reuters US investment bank Goldman Sachs Group is close to setting up a groundbreaking venture in China that could make it the first foreign firm able to arrange equity and bond deals in the country, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The
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      Lock icon Glaxo patent challenged in China
      293 12 SHANGHAI A group of drug firms move against diabetes drag Avandia Reuters A GROUP of Chinese companies is challenging a patent for a popular diabetes drug made by GlaxoSmithKline pic, Europe's biggest drug maker, weeks after China overturned a patent on Pfizer Inc's Viagra. The
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      1285 11 I Notices IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 50,1994 Ed) AND IN THE MATTER OF BROADVISION SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 585 Broadway, Redwood City, California
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      362 11 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF 1. A'S ASSOCIATE SANITARY ELECTRICAL PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) 2. AMCOL REX PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies
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      1140 11 A of ices Theee financial statements are the raeponsibiltty of toe Bank's menegament Our raaponsJbilty to to express an opinion on htt financial statements baaed on ouf audit 3.We conducted our audit ki accordance with Vie eudWng standards generally accepted In Indta. Those standards require toat we plan and perform
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      1499 12 HSH NOR JbANK Financial Accounts for the Year 2003 Incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany Group Balance Sheet as at December 31, 2003 Group Statement of Income for the period January 1 to December 31,2003 Assets Liabilities 31.12.2003 1.1.2003 31.12.2003 1.1.2003 3112 2003 *****3 thousands thousands thousands Liabilities to
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Oil prices fall as Yukos gets reprieve
      404 13 LONDON Reuters AFP OIL prices fell yesterday from record peaks after Russia's justice ministry said the embattled oil giant Yukos need not halt oil sales. US light crude September delivery lost 40 cents to U5542.50 a barrel early after climbing to a peak
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      Lock icon Shell pays US$150m fine to settle reserves probe
      211 13 LONDON Reuters ROYAL Dutch/Shell will pay about US$l5O million in fines to end regulatory probes into an oil reserves scandal that tarnished its image, as record oil prices drove its second-quarter profits higher. The world's third-big-gest oil group, which shocked investors in
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      Lock icon Susan Buffett dies
      148 13 BEIJING Reuters SUSAN Buffett, the wife of Berkshire Hathaway Inc chairman Warren Buffett, died of a stroke while the two were visiting friends in Cody, Wyoming, the company said yesterday. Susan Buffett has been a director of Berkshire since 1991 and owned 2.2 per cent of the
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      Lock icon Layoffs hold steady as wages rise slowly
      585 13 LATEST US DATA Jobless claims inched np to 345,000 last week; wage, salary costs rose 0.6% in Q2 Reuters AP [WASHINGTON] The pace of layoffs in the US held nearly steady last week, at a level suggesting a strengthening job market but wages
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      670 15 HOUSTON Moves to restrict offshoring counterproductive in long run OUTSOURCING has had a positive effect on the US economy and restrictions to offshoring may adversely impact on the quality of jobs in the country, a US policy think-tank said. The study by the National Center for
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      303 15 WASHINGTON LAT-WP AN on-going federal probe into America Online's financial practices has uncovered potential problems related to the AOL Europe division. This has prompted Time Warner to launch a fresh review of its accounting for the unit that could lead to a restatement
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      652 16  -  OFF the cuff PERSPECTIVE Here's an idea for bndding entrepreneurs develop an anti-terrorist kit that people will want to keep jaime ee I'VE just come up with a great get-rich-quick, oops, business opportunity that will enable me to expand Singapore's entrepreneurial pool and qualify me
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      1164 17  -  The saying 'a man's home is his castle' is especially apt, going by how much some people are willing to spend. JAIME EE reports JAIME EE DESIGNER kitchens may be all the rage for the sophisticated home cook skilled at reproducing River Cafe or Nigella Lawson
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      289 21 Bloomberg FREIGHT rates for very large gas carriers, the biggest ships that carry liquefied petroleum gas, rose last week as near-record Opec oil output boosted exports of gases made from refining crude. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped about 29.3 million barrels of crude in June to
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      541 21 Company forecasts a rise of 10-11% in net yields for Q3 and 1-3% for Q4 Reuters [OSLO] Norwegian-Ameri-can cruise line Royal Caribbean Cruises posted a sharper gain than expected in second-quarter profits, helped by higher prices, and hiked its 2004 earnings
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      771 21 Its key challenges ahead include faster turnaround, equipment control SINCE 1998, when an extensive cost cutting drive started, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) saved almost US$4OO million in its container operations. The exercise will continue for the next three years, MOL deputy president Hiroyuki
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      126 21 [SINGAPORE] Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) president Akimitsu Ashida has announced the setting up of a new subsidiary Mitsui OSK Lines (New Zealand) Ltd, from Aug l. Since MOL started direct services between Japan and New Zealand in 1959, the company has developed a
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      215 21 AP [SINGAPORE] A Singaporeregistered petroleum tanker, Setia Jaya, caught fire in the Indian Ocean earlier this month, killing five crew members and leaving one missing, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said late yesterday. The 6,370 ton vessel, which was empty at
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      753 22  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK A Sydney court ruled that a second prosecution of the owner and master under a different section of the Marine Pollution Act wasnot an abuse of process and did not offend the 'double jeopardy'rule By Selva Kumar THE owner
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      38 22 AP [NEW LONDON] Tug boats helping the Romanian ship Mircea turn around while leaving the State pier during the last day of the New London Tall Ships Environmental Festival in New London, Connecticut, on Sunday.—AP AP
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        1636 29 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX MARGUERI 033N 033N 1 31/07/2004-03:00 31/07/2004 13:00 ACX MIMOSA 002S 002S J 02/08/2004-12:00 02/08/2004 22:00 ACX SWAN 105N 105N 1 31/07/2004 15:00 01/08/2004-01:00 AL FAKAHIDI C297E C297E 1 01/08/2004-02:00
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        837 29 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine 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
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        454 30 Growth seen to exceed 10%, with HI passenger traffic rising 20% Bloomberg [TOULOUSE, France] Airline passenger traffic on international routes may grow by more than 10 per cent in 2004, more than forecast earlier, helped by economic growth, an airline trade
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        358 30 Airline to lease two A320 aircraft, adding to present 2 Bloomberg [BALI] Singapore-based discount airline Valuair Ltd plans to lease two aircraft this year to double the size of its fleet so it can add more routes in Asia, where cheaper
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        236 30 Bloomberg THAI Airways International, Thailand's biggest carrier, said it plans to buy 14 aircraft by 2010 to fly to more destinations in the US and Europe. The company will buy six long-range planes, with a capacity to seat
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        153 30 AFP [LONDON] Ryanair announced on Tuesday plans to launch an additional eight routes helping to serve three new destinations, giving the Irish nofrills airline a network of 161 routes across 17 European countries. Ryanair said seven of its new routes would serve Santander and Zaragoza
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        282 30 AFP [ARLINGTON, Virginia] US Airways Group said quarterly net profit more than doubled but remained too meagre to keep the carrier viable in 2005 without deeper cost-cutting. Net profit climbed to US$34 million in the three months to June 30 from
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        223 30 US Transportation Department cites safety factors AFP [WASHINGTON] The US Transportation Department has informed Ghana Airways it must stop service in and out of the United States until safety questions are answered. "The US Department of Transportation (on Tuesday) notified Ghana Airways
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        301 30 Reuters [BOMBAY] Kingfisher Airlines, an Indian budget airline backed by the country's largest beer company, said it had signed a deal with Airbus to acquire 12 A 320 jets for US$75O million. Kingfisher has also signed a deal with GE Capital Aviation Services
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