The Business Times, 31 August 2004

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    16 1 MIT A (P) 023/03/2004 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2004
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    Lock icon Record number of bankrupts despite upturn
    491 1  -  Analysts say gap due to time lag and an uneven economic recovery By Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] Despite signs of economic recovery, bankruptcy in Singapore remains on the rise, and the number of people discharged from bankruptcy in the first six months of this year
    Source: Insolvancy and Public Trustee's Office, Ministry of Law  -  491 words
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    79 1 ST! 1,905.45 (-10.45) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,903.00 (-12.00) nsiMsci MM 229.T3 (-1.41) SIMSCI FUTURES 229.20 (-2.50) Monday Change KLSE COMP 827.98 +6.49 NIKKEI 225 11.184.53 -25.06 HANG SENG 12,877.78 +59.36 SET INDEX 612.45 -7.67 JAKARTA COMP 753.03 +6.27 MANILA COMP 1.580.41 -1.63 TAIPEI WPI 5,***** -8.77 SEOUL COMP 805.19
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    73 1 FOREX RATES US* SS US$ (SS per LS$) 1.715 £(USS/SS per 1.790 3.071 El'RO(USS/SS/E). 1.203 2.063 YEN 110.1 64.20 RM 3.800 2.215 HKS 7.800 4.548 BAHT 41.67 24.29 RUPIAH 9,340 5,445 RENMINBI 8.277 4.826 INDIAN RUPEE 46.36 27.03 AS 1.432 0.835 NZ$ 1.540 0.898 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25 MALAYSIA
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    Lock icon Easing singles rules will have little impact on private housing: consultants
    919 1  -  Bat developers see boost as upgraders move to condos By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] What sort of home can you get for $200,000 to $400,000? If you're single and 35 or older, you can buy a four-room or bigger resale
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    Lock icon Widening singles' housing options a move in right direction
    523 1  -  Vince Chong asks whether the government will take the ultimate step and grant total housing freedom to them Vince Chong IT'S like a breath of fresh air. Singapore's older singles have been told they will have more housing options. Soon, those
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      Lock icon Family-friendly workplace gets wide support
      841 2  -  Govt, employers and unions back guidelines to help resolve any dispute By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] They may not have legal teeth, but the guidelines for a familyfriendly workplace unveiled yesterday by an advisory panel have the backing of government, employers and unions. What's more,
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      Lock icon US consumer spending up smartly in July
      589 2 LATEST US DATA But weak consumer incomes growth is raising concerns AP Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US experienced a strong rise in consumer spending in July which bodes well for shortterm economic growth. But an anaemic rise in consumer incomes cast a pall over
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      Lock icon Correction
      42 2 IN our Aug 26 report "Sim Wong Hoo joins South-east Asia's wealthiest", we wrongly described Malaysian tycoon Ananda Krishnan as the owner of MiTV. Mr Ananda is the largest shareholder of satellite television broadcaster Astro. We are sorry for the error.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • Article
      Lock icon Former Blu Inc looks for fresh opportunities
      597 3  -  Vantage Corp doesn't disclose plans saying it's assessing options By Joyce Koh AFTER selling its publishing business, the former Blu Inc now renamed Vantage Corp is looking for other opportunities but it is not prepared to say what and where just yet. When
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      Lock icon Blu Inc: a nasty shock in store?
      683 3  -  HOCK lock siew ven sreenivasan DOES Vantage Corp, formerly Blu Inc, owe its shareholders more than just vague promises about growing the company in new directions? Many shareholders who woke up with the realisation that the stock of the company could be suspended
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      Lock icon Fans can continue to watch live English Premier matches
      323 3  -  By Wong Wei Kong STARHUB and ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) have finally struck a deal that will allow soccer fans here to continue watching live English Premier League matches. "Star Hub CableTV and ESPN STAR Sports wish to announce that an
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      Lock icon OCBC sets up US$2b euro programme
      358 4  -  Move offers more flexibility in using different sources of funds and cuts costs By Joyce Koh IN a move to diversify its funding sources and reduce costs, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation has established a US$2 billion (553.43 billion) euro commercial paper (ECP) programme. The Singapore
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      Lock icon Robinson CEO post may be vacant for few mths
      819 4  -  A competent management can ran group until new chief is appointed after Husum leaves in October By Kalpana Rashiwala IT looks like Robinson may operate without a chief executive officer (CEO) for a few months when incumbent Peter Husum leaves in
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4491 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS BlffllXTIIRTlHHilH Citi US Aggressive Growth Find 0.791 S 8 Sel Gki Bus Ldrs Ptl 03(SGD> 1.08/ S B Sel Gfc Bus ldrs PtB 0307SD) 1.10V n7 Cttond S'pore Class Y 0.98* SfJSbSK Vm, S B Sel Eqty Dividend Pf 04 (SGD) *****/ nfjj S B Sel Eqty
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      Lock icon IPO due diligence guide sets out basic concepts
      348 5  -  Bankers' group offers recommended procedures for making checks By Kenneth Lim KEEP good notes, ask relevant questions, get involved and ask for help when you're not sure. What every good college student already knows is now the backbone of a 45page, $30
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Hua Kok in negative equity
        139 5 HUA Kok International has found itself in negative territory with a net liability of 6.45 cents per share for the year ended June 30 from a net asset backing of 1.7 cents a year ago. This came as the construction group's ftill-year net losses widened
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        Lock icon Ten in field for Bank Pennata stake
        149 5 Dow Jones Newswires THE Indonesian government said yesterday it has identified 10 prospective bidders including United Overseas Bank of Singapore—for the sale of a 51 per cent stake in PT Bank Permata. Besides UOB, the others are Malayan Banking Bhd, PT Bank Rakyat
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        Lock icon Singapnra Fin earning* np 37%
        74 5 SINGAPURA Finance's net profit rose 37.2 per cent to $5 million from $3.6 million for the full year ended June 30, helped by lower loan provision. Net interest and hiring charges income for the group were $14.8 million, up from $13.5 million. Total income before
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        Lock icon SIA Prop sells stake in Indon firm
        106 5 SLA Properties, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, has sold its entire 20 per cent shareholding in the Indonesian company PT Pantai Indah Tateli (PTPIT) to Pacific Link Asset Management Co Ltd. The sale was completed last Friday and PTPIT has ceased
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        Lock icon Euoon to raise $23.7 m from IPO
        120 5 MAINBOARD-LISTED electronic components maker Europtronic Group will sell 22 million shares in associate Eucon Holding's 152 million share initial public offering, priced at 20 cents apiece. The remaining 130 million invitation shares are new. Eucon, a printed circuit board precision drilling specialist, has
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      Lock icon Dividend investing pays off handsomely in Asia
      649 5  -  Such a strategy not only outperforms index but is also less volatile: survey By Wong Wei Kong DIVIDENDS are often associated with being boring in Asia, but a Citigroup Smith Barney survey has found that focusing just on the highest dividend yielding stocks
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      558 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN Keppel Land Ai« 30 dosing $1.78 STANDARD Poor's Asian Equity Research is initiating coverage on Keppel Land with a HOLD recommendation and a target price of $1.98, which offers a 9 per cent upside to current levels. Keppel Land's residential projects in China are
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      Lock icon China Flexible lags despite its potential
      325 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE receding oil prices should give the market a strong leg-up in the coming weeks. In fact, the return of speculative interest was already evident given the manner in which second liners bounced back sharply on high volumes
      Source: Bloomberg  -  325 words
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      Lock icon Properly stocks under the most pressure
      665 6  -  BT comment STOCKS teh hooi ling JUST when players had been lulled into believing that stocks would firm up, the rug was pulled from under the Straits Times Index in the last two hours of trading yesterday. From the start of the session until
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      Lock icon US$ jumps above key resistance lines
      625 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar bullied its way through a few very important barriers at the end of last week, all but ignoring a pointed warning from US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. By yesterday evening, a closely watched index of
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Noel shareholder pares substantial stake
        93 6 A MEMBER of Noel Gifts International's controlling family ceased to be a substantial shareholder of the gift retailer on Friday last week after 250,000 shares were sold on the open market. Wong Koon Hong, whose siblings include Noel managing director Alfred Wong and deputy managing
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        Lock icon PDC gets new substantial shareholder
        93 6 PDC Corp said one Jin Wei-Tsun, by virtue of deemed shares held by investment vehicle Golden River>Holdings, is now a substantial shareholder of the diversified construction, property and trading group with a 6.8 per cent stake. Golden River agreed to take up its 13.6 million
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        Lock icon Koh Brothers directors buy shares
        103 6 KOH Brothers Group's key directors raised their stakes in the construction company last week. Executive deputy chairman Koh Teak Huat on Thursday bought 100,000 shares at 11.5 cents each, and now has a direct and deemed shareholding of 15.91 per cent from 15.89 per cent.
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        Lock icon Prudential's Techcomp stake raised
        70 6 PRUDENTIAL Asset Management saw its deemed stake in laboratory equipment supplier Techcomp Holdings rise to 10.07 per cent from 8.08 per cent last week after a total of 2.7 million shares were bought on the open market. Of those shares, 1.5 million were bought on Thursday
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        Lock icon Asti unit director pares holdings
        83 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM THE director of an Asti Holdings subsidiary continued paring his stake in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier on Thursday and Friday last week, halving his shareholding to 0.1 per cent by selling 283,000 shares at prices ranging from 45 cents to
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      423 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 30 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 296.00 +59.00 BTCADt -*****.00 -134.00 BTlO-dayMA -*****.00 +30.00 AH-SG Equities 496.40 -2.60 SGEquitiM Elect 159.54 -0.04 S6 Equities Fin 1564.45 -9.70 S6 Equities Prop 448.82 -4.29 SIMSCI 229.73 -1.41 SiMSCI Futures 229.20 -2.50 Stock* Volume El-Nets lc 22,291,000 STelecom US2c 18,177,000
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      Lock icon Megachem's race may skid on oil
      628 7  -  Company is sourcing for more principals, introducing new product lines and seeking new customers, reports KENNETH LIM KENNETH LIM AS chemical distributors struggle to meet demand while wondering how to share the costs of high oil prices, Me* gachem managing director Philip Lim is
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      Lock icon Magnecomp boosts portfolio
      526 7  -  By Teh Hooi Ling OUR small capitalisation portfolio outpaced the UOB Sesdaq Index for the third week running. It gained 2.9 per cent, compared with the 2.5 per cent advance by the second-board index. To date, our portfolio is ahead of the UOB Sesdaq Index by 13.45
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      1253 7 Notices OU F J Bank Limited (INCORPORATED IN JAPAN) Non-Consolidated Balance Sheets Non-Consolidated Statements of Operations and As of March 31,2004 and 2003 Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit) For the Fiscal Years Ended March 31, 2004 and 2003 2004 2003 Millions of Yen 2004 2003 ASSETS Millions of Yen Cash and
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Sinsov Bldg sold for $34.1m in deal arranged by Cadmus
      552 8/9  -  New owners plan $10-11m renovation, which will boost saleable area by 50% By Kalpana Rashiwala, Andrea Tan SINSOV Building has finally been sold for $34.1 million or $641 psf of net lettable area. The deal for the 999-year leasehold building
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      Lock icon Tiger Air offers $1 online promotional fares
      428 8/9  -  Offer valid for one-third of its tickets to Thailand in first week; other fares range from $40 to $140 for one-way travel By Ven Sreenivasan TIGER Airways has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors by offering up to one-third of its tickets
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      Lock icon All set for New York
      172 8/9 FLANKED by sponsors, a beaming Yeow Seng Teck, 40, was all smiles after receiving the top prize in the BT Readers Rewards contest which ended last month. He won a pair of tickets on Singapore Airlines to New York, plus a four-day stay at Swissotel
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      Lock icon CapitaLand may expand in Yangtze River delta
      284 8/9 Bloomberg CAPITALAND Ltd. South-east Asia's biggest property developer, may consider expanding into China's Yangtze River Delta Economic Area, which includes the cities of Hangzhou and Suzhou. an official said. The developer's projects have mainly been in the Chinese cities of Beijing. Shanghai and
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        Lock icon S'pore signs training MOUs
        130 8/9 SINGAPORE and Denmark yesterday signed a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a third country training programme in Copenhagen as an extension of the MOU they signed in 1997. The new MOU, which focuses on providing joint training to developing countries in Asia-Pacific, will further enhance
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      Lock icon Singapore hosts first world stamp championship
      227 8/9 IN the spirit of the Olympics in Athens. President SR Nathan lit a similar "torch" over the weekend when he opened the world's first stamp championship last Saturday. Ending tomorrow at the Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre, the inaugural World Stamp Championship (WSC)
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      Lock icon Bull charges past $1m mark in charity run
      132 8/9 THE bull has charged past the SI million fund-raising milestone, as SI. 1 million has been pledged so far to The Bull Run 2004 since its launch on July 13. Contributing to the amount this week are China Paper Holdings, Fibrechem Technologies,
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Two private projects see good response
      546 10  -  Kovan Melody's soft launch sold over 125 homes; Ris Grandeur sold 20% of units released in sneak preview By Vince Chong KOVAN Melody, the joint project of Wing Tai, NTUC Choice Homes, and United Engineers, sold more than 125 homes over the past weekend
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      109 10 For Sale By Tender Industrial Property J Bortoi, Jurong Purpose-built single storey with an annex 2 storey detached factory Built-in 110, 601 sq ft Land area 149, 000 sq ft Tenure :30+ 30 wef March 1981 Sale with vacant possession Closing date of tender: 16 September 2004 at 4pm For
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      179 10 SPACE FOR LEASE Est Area (sqit) CPF Robinson 576 6,300 CPF Jurong 2,271.40 CPF Tampines 1,066 -12,165 Henderson (nd Park 4,370 79 Anson Rd 926 5,748 PSB Anne* from 323 Rental from $1.20 psf Please contact Tgh 687^639^^^ I*;. ;V--' V. 4, < Releasing a financial statement? Caß 1800 289
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Thailand cuts 2004 growth forecast to 6.5% from 7.1%
      487 11 GROWTH AHEAD Government says high oil prices may slow down consumer spending Bloomberg AFP Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's finance ministry trimmed its economic growth forecast for the year, saying high oil prices may damp consumer spending and slow growth in export markets.
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      Lock icon Economists raise HK growth outlook
      572 11 HONG KONG Reuters HONG KONG economists have followed the government and raised their growth forecasts for the territory in the wake of stronger-than-expected, second-quarter GDP data on Friday. "Consumption and investment performed better than we expected and we think they will maintain that momentum in
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      Lock icon Commerce Asset shuffles key jobs
      304 11 KUALA LUMPUR Move comes as it prepares for open competition in 2007 Reuters Bloomberg COMMERCE Asset-Holding Bhd, Malaysia's second-big-gest lender, said Rozali Mohamed Ali resigned as chief executive of its BumiputraCommerce Bank Bhd unit to become executive director at its parent. Mr Rozali, 55, will
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      Lock icon Maybank's Q4 income falls 4.7%
      303 11 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYAN Banking Bhd, Malaysia's largest lender, said fourth-quarter net income fell 4.7 per cent as costs rose and it paid more in taxes, countering a drop in bad-loan provisions and increased loan demand. Net income declined to RM646.7 million (*****.8 million), or
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      Lock icon Philippines posts 6.2% GDP rise in first half
      586 11 Bat high oil prices and budget deficit may crimp growth Bloomberg Reuters [MANILA] The Philippine economy grew a stronger-than-expected 6.2 per cent in the year through the second quarter of 2004, the government said yesterday, as brisk exports and consumption helped offset
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      1048 11 Notices The Sumitomo Trust Banking Co., Ltd. (Incorporated in Japan with Limited Liability) Consolidated Balance Sheets Consolidated Statements of Operations As at March 31,2004 and 2003 For the years ended March 31,2004 and 2003 Millions of Yen Millions of Yen 2004 2003 2004 2003 Assets: Income: Cash and Due from
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Poverty a huge risk to Asian markets
      762 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION william pesek jr Bloomberg ITS no coincidence that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) chose Japan, by far Asia's richest economy, to release a report on poverty. Left unchecked, this developing-nation problem could hold back wealthier ones, too. Poverty isn't
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      73 12 'Simply put, we are not doing today what we did years ago.' George Ledwith chief spokesman for KPMG, on allegations that it was selling a new tax shelter plan two years after the US Internal Revenue Service outlawed a similar one. 'We are fighting on behalf of
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      Lock icon Building Asia's infrastructure
      588 12 EDITORIAL THE search for a workable form of public and private-sector partnership capable of supplying Asia with the resources needed to build or renew the region's infrastructure has become as elusive as the quest for the Holy GraiL Yet unless some formula is found for marrying private
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      Lock icon DBS all set to make it big in China market
      1212 12  -  In anticipation of the liberalisation of the banking sector, DBS is setting up branches and representative offices in key locations By Luo Wenyan CHINA is the next target market for the DBS Group, the largest banking group in Singapore. DBS
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      Lock icon SMS deluge engulfing the world
      658 12  -  COMMENTARY More than a billion text messages are sent each day-and it's not just gossip By Nicola Clark International Herald Tribune IT has been nearly a decade since text messaging by mobile phone emerged as a cheap and easy channel for people to communicate with
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Sinopec's first-half profit rises 51% to 16b yuan
      394 13 BEIJING It raises refining output by almost a fifth to 65m tonnes Bloomberg CHINA Petroleum Chemical Corp (Sinopec), Asia's biggest oil refiner, said firsthalf profit rose 51 per cent as demand for fuels and chemicals soared in one of the world's fastest-growing
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      Lock icon Ikea plans to invest US$800m in China
      271 13 SHANGHAI AFP SWEDISH home furniture retailer Ikea will invest up to US$BOO million in 10 stores in China over the next six years as part of a major push into one of the fastest growing consumer markets in the world, state press said
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      Lock icon China's fund industry posts strong earnings in H1
      468 13 SHANGHAI Regulator pledges to simplify rules to promote new funds and products Reuters CHINA'S fast-growing mutual fund industry got a double dose of good news yesterday from surprisingly strong first-half earnings and a vow by the markets regulator to speed up approvals
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      Lock icon China may spend 1t yuan to boost power supply
      436 13 BEIJING Spending on power grids could be 750b yuan by 2010 Reuters CHINA, plagued by energy shortages that threaten to crimp economic growth, could spend a hefty one trillion yuan (Ss2o7 billion) to boost power generation capacity more than 50 per
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      489 13 Notices IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF FUNTER QRINBERG COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED (In Mamoars' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of FLINTE? GRINBERG COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED duly convened and held at 545 Orchard Road #I(M)2A,Far East Shoppnq Centre
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      503 13 IN THE MATTE* OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF ARDELA PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company held on the 23rd day of August 2004 the following special resolutions were duly passed RESOLVED 1. That ARDELA PTE LTD
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  • REGION world
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      527 14 TOKYO Summer heatwave and Olympics boost sales of air-cons and televisions Reuters Bloomberg JAPAN'S retail sales rose in July for the first time in five months, government data showed yesterday, as a heatwave helped boost sales of air conditioners and demand for televisions
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      637 14 AP [SHANGHAI] For the schnauzer that has everything, how about a sequinstudded raincoat? Would your Pekinese like some "chicken chip cookies"? Or earrings for your poodle? As incomes rise, China's city dwellers have developed a mania for pets some spending up to US$l,BOO
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        78 14 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai tycoon Paiboon Damrongchaitham says he has given Liverpool a detailed offer for a major stake in the English Premier League club and expects an answer by the end of September. If the offer is accepted, the deal should be concluded by the
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        73 14 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Mandiri, Indonesia's biggest lender by assets, said audited first-half profit rose 37 per cent as lower interest rates encouraged companies and consumers to borrow more and the cost of funds fell. Profit in the six months ended June 30 rose
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        53 14 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Acer Inc, Taiwan's third-largest computer company by market value, said first-half profit rose. Net income increased to NT$2.4 billion (Ssl2o million), or NT$l.l5 per share, from NT$2 billion, or NT$l.9B, a year earlier, the company said. Sales rose 88 per cent to
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        86 14 AFP [HONG KONG] Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings will buy a gas transmission network in Britain for more than £1 billion (Ss3 billion) in one of its largest overseas deals, South China Morning Post reported yesterday. The infrastructure arm of Hong Kong property giant
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        87 14 Reuters [BEIJING] China has opened its pay television and cartoon sectors to foreign investment, the Beijing Youth Daily said yesterday. But foreign investors would not be able to work in the country without a Chinese partner, it said, quoting officials from the state broadcasting
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        75 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia yesterday said it has an open mind on foreign ownership restrictions in the non-financial services sector, as the country looks to boost the economy. "For the Financial services, we have progressive liberalisation. In non-financial services, we have an open
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        76 14 AFP [NEW DELHI] India and Thailand were to sign a deal yesterday to eliminate tariffs on 82 goods by 2006 as a first step towards a free trade agreement, an Indian commerce ministry official said. Under the deal, the two countries will end tariffs by
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      464 15 NEW YORK US assets not so attractive this time compared to during 1970s oil shock THE influx of money into the US during the oil shock of the 1970s shows no signs yet of being repeated, raising questions about the attractiveness of US
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      459 15 JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming Reuters LOFTY oil prices may make the road ahead a little steeper, but the US economy is on track to emerge from a recent soft patch intact, private-sector economists at a weekend retreat agreed. This year's gathering of top central bankers, economists
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      590 17 ATHENS Asian squads, led by China, make biggest stride in medals tally in a widening array of sports LAT-WP AP UNDER a brilliant full moon and the burning Olympic flame, the Greeks danced. They clapped, they sang, kicked up their legs and celebrated an Olympics that
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      590 18 TOKYO Top court rules against Sumitomo saying UFJ cannot be forced to pursue deal against its will Bloomberg Reuters UFJ Holdings Inc, Japan's fourth-biggest lender, said the nation's Supreme Court upheld its right to merge with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc and create the
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      277 18 This puts it 12 months ahead of competitors Bloomberg INTEL Corp, the world's biggest semiconductor maker, said it built a test chip with a new process that creates faster circuits by packing 10 million transistors into an area the size of the tip of
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        93 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil futures rose in New York after a blast damaged an oil pipeline in Iraq, renewing concern that violence will disrupt exports from the Middle East's fifth biggest oil producer. Saboteurs caused the blast on Sunday on the pipeline that
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        108 18 AFP [PARIS] Swiss bank ÜBS is expected to purchase Charles Schwab Corp's capital markets business and its Sound View Technology stock-research operation for US$265 million, the Wall Street Journal said yesterday, citing people familiar with the matter. Schwab bought Sound View Technology for US$32l million
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        84 18 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Orders at Japanese chip-making equipment manufacturers rose 43.8 per cent in July from a year earlier, the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan said. Japanese chip-making equipment makers received 141.9 billion yen (552.2 billion) in orders last month, up from 98.6 billion
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        90 18 AFP [HELSINKI] Nokia yesterday said it had received an order from Taiwan Cellular Corporation for next-generation WCDMA, or 3G, mobile phone network equipment. No financial details were disclosed, but Helsinki analysts estimated the value of the deal to be around 200 million euros
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    4720 16 Transaction date: Aug 30 HONG KONG Vol HK Exchanges Clearing..17.05 0.20 2974 HKS '000 HKRInt'l -2.78 0.05 2037 Hong Kong Electric 34.60 0.30 1152 Aeon Credit 4.95 0.02 374 Hongkong Chinese 0.% unch 36 Aeon Stores 6.85 unch 0 Hopewell Holdings 16.70 -0.20 153 AlphaGeneral 0.29 -0.02 48
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    2219 16 Transaction date: A ug 30 KUALA LUMPUR fg Z I RM COOO) FTEC Resources 0.58 0.01 1135 Furqan Bus. Org 0.34 unch 264 ASM Realty 1-25 unch 11 Gadang 1.41 -0.02 217 Abric 0.51 0.01 39 Gamuda 5.15 0.23 219 ACP Industries 1.43 0.02 18 General Corp 0.52 -0.01
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      195 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD England (6) 21 Tales can get edited for liter- 4 silty Adele is dapping biased prolonged reprimand (7) ary collection (8) argument (7,8) 22 Piece of paper the man 23 Man very good about not 5 effect of venus's fly trap found in collection (5) 24 the having
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      220 19  -  George Joseph Editor, Shipping Times. Dear Reader, This is the last issue of Shipping Times in this format From tomorrow, we will be incorporated into the new, one-section Business Times. Shipping and aviation news will be included among other news pages in BT. The daily
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      41 19 [SYDNEY] Indonesians preparing to jump from their sinking cargo vessel2oonautical miles southeast of Singapore on Friday. The Royal Australian Navy ship HMASAnzac, currently on an East Asia deployment, went to the vessel's aid and rescued 15 people. AP
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      286 19 SGX '000 Aug 30 SS Vol CH Offshore 0.37 unch 296 ChuanHup 0.S4 uncti 1024 Cosco Investment 0 84 0.02 4402 CWT Distribution 0.48 -0.02 15 EzraHldgs 1.00 -0.01 94 Freight Links .0.10 -0.01 130 Grand Banks Yacht 0.80 unch 30 Java Holdings 0.88 -0.03 1638 K1 Venture
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      424 19  -  It will consider joint ventures in dry ports to collect hinterland cargo By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] PSA International will continue to seek out new investment opportunities in China's port projects, despite being a little late in moving into China. PSA China's chief operating
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      544 19 British Waterways has invested £2b to restore 350 km of navigable canals AFP [LONDON] Britain's network of navigable canals, the liquid highway of England's industrial revolution, is being revived after decades of disuse to help relieve commercial congestion on British roads. Barges
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      226 19 AP [NEW DELHI] Indian truckers have called off their weeklong strike to protest against service tax after reaching an agreement with the government, the Finance Ministry said. The ministry and the All-India Motor Transport Congress agreed late on Friday to set up a
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        712 20  -  Northwest Airlines charging passengers for tickets issued at its airport check-in desks By Micheline Maynard NYT TO the long list of things that used to be free but that airlines now want you to pay for, add walking up to the counter to buy a ticket.
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        305 20 Bloomberg [DALLAS] Leaders of US Airways Group Inc's pilots union said they received a new contract proposal from the airline yesterday and will meet today to consider a motion to reject the offer and continue negotiations. The union's master executive council recessed at
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      108 20 PACE Austral AL 5 Bank Line 4 BSA 4 B'tang Mas 3 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 China Shpg 4 Crocodile Line ....4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 Eukor 2 ECL 3 Foong Sun 4 Gemartrans 4 Hamburg Sud 3 Hangli 4 Heung-A 3 IRISL 5 Jesselton 5 Kyowa
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      7119 23 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyaqe Telephone Sin Dest n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 19/09 01/10 IRISL IRAN SHAHRYAR PCL 8045 *****144 TO ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoir* 25/09 07/10 IRISL IRAN SATTARI PCL 8046
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        482 25 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL BAYSWATER228 E4210 J3 A/SIDE 31/08 0230 ECO VIGOUR 39 J10/11 A/SIDE 31/08 0600 GIADINH 5/04 J13 A/SIDE 31/08 0600 HARAPAN MAK JB4803 J6 A/SIDE 31/08 0500 KENZUI UC 172 J22 A/SIDE 31/08 1800 UTAMAPERMAI7 UP16A J2 A/SIDE 31/08 0015
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        1733 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX MAGNOLIA 081S 081S 1 *****004-2100 02/*****4-1000 ACX RAFFLES 094N 094N 1 01/*****4-1800 02/*****447:00 ALAMJAYA AJ012 AJ012 1 01/09/2004-05:00 01/09/2004-13:00 ANDA 4203 4203 1 31/08/2004-13:00 01/********** ANEMI 09N 09S 1
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        137 25 Ang31 Malaysia: Nat Day. Philippines: Nat Heroes Day. Sep 0 Canada: Labour Day. Sep 12 Brunei: Ascen of the Prophet. Indonesia: Ascen of the Prophet Sep 27 SKorea: Harvest Day. Sep 28 SKorea: Harvest Day. Sep 20 HK: Mid-Autumn Festl. SKorea: Harvest Day. Oct 1 China: National Day.
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        816 25 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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        556 25 Crton 180 Max 989.9 0J 13.5 0.05 54 0.05 Aufl 26 Density Water Residua AshAlumlnlum Sediment No above E25 0 0 0 0 0 0 380 Ave 984.1 0.2 13.1 0.04 26 0.02 380 Max 990.9 1.7 T7.2 0.07 56 0.06 WM*i V/V m/m M/M ml
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        812 26 European firm may spend US$2b to develop the longer-range jet Bloomberg [PARIS] Airbus, the world's biggest planemaker, plans to challenge Boeing Co's 7E7 airliner, the US company's first new plane in 15 years, with a longer-range version of the
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        100 26 [SEATTLE] Lynne Wenberg, senior manager of Boeing's division of developing a flying car, holds a remote control sporty red helicopter/car as she stands in front of the 1968 Taylor Aerocar 111 at the Museum ofFlight in Seattle. Ms Wenberg, senior manager on the project, said the goal is
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        323 26 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International, the country's biggest airline, filled more available seats on its planes in July than a year earlier, boosted by increased travel demand. Thai Air filled 75.5 per cent of its seats with paying passengers, compared with 72.2 per
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        178 26 Reuters [DHAKA] India's biggest private airline, Jet Airways, said it planned to start flights from Calcutta to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka as part of a regional expansion move. "Jet Airways has been given the opportunity to serve Bangladesh from one point in India to Dhaka
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        440 26 CEO starts 'post-mortem' into week of cancellations The Observer [LONDON] The heads of senior executives at British Airways are on the block after last week's disastrous spate of delays and cancellations at London's Heathrow airport. Rod Eddington, the airline's chief executive,
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        263 26 Additional facility will raise capacity to 18m passengers AFP [HANOI] Construction work has gotten underway for a new international terminal at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat airport to cope with increasing passenger traffic to Vietnam's southern business capital. The ground-breaking ceremony
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