The Business Times, 9 September 2004

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http^/business-times.asial.com.sg MITA (P) 023/03/2004 Thursday, September 9,2004
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  • 647 1  -  "It targets institutional clients; company also said to be setting up hedge fund By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings is going into the fund management business and is also said to be in the process of setting up a hedge fund. Temasek spokeswoman Eva
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  • 79 1 US recovery in sight The US economy has regained momentum, says US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan. TOP STORIES, PG 2 Stake in Qantas Is Temasek keen on BA's stake in Qantas? TOP STORIES, PG 3 Vanity Fair ranking Wal-Mart's H Lee Scott pips News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch
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  • 129 1 STI 1,959.13 (-2.34) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,970.00 (+9.00) SIMSCI 235.82 (-0.66) SIMSCI FUTURES 236.20 (-0.50) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 850.11 +7.82 NIKKEI 225 11,279.19 -19.75 HANG SENG 13,049.96 -86.08 SET INDEX 630.21 -1.19 JAKARTA COMP 789.14 +2.45 TAIPEI WPI 5,846.02 -0.81 AUSTALLORD 3,595.90 +0.30 BOMBAY INO 5,298.16 +33.49
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  • 32 1 TOP STORIES ...PG 2-3 COMPANIES... PG 4-9 SINGAPORE PG 10-11 ECONOMY ..PG 12-13 FOREIGN PG 14-19 AVIATION PG 20 EDITORIAL PG 22 STOCKS PG 24-25 SHIPPING ....PG 26-29 BIZIT PG 30
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  • 590 1  -  BT Exclusive BKN,a big name in the business, sets up studio and may even go for a listing By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Singapore's bid to tap into the fastgrowing global digital animation business has received another boost. This time it's from
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 461 2 And inflation has eased despite high crude oil prices Bloomberg. Reuters. AFP [WASHINGTON] US economic growth is picking up after hitting a "soft patch" earlier this year and oil prices are not pushing inflation higher, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said yesterday. "The most recent
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    • 439 2  -  BT Exclusive He's building 20-storey block behind his landmark Cairnhill bungalow By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Former OCBC chairman Tan Chin Tuan is developing a 20storey block of apartments behind his bungalow in Cairnhill Road. And he plans to occupy the 8,435 sq
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    • 825 2 Temasek keen on BA's stake in Qantas? SINGAPORE Airlines is not letting on if it's interested in buying the stake in Qantas that British Airlines is selling; and analysts aren't confident it will. Interestingly, parent Temasek Holdings may be a contender after book builder Citigroup said it has
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    • 709 3  -  Temasek gives no hint; Aussie watchdog likely to bar sale to SIA by VEN SREENIVASAN Singapore which lost out to ►ttval British Airlines in a battle for a slice of Australian carrier Qantas 11 years ago, is unlikely to rush in after BA
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    • 481 3 It offers 5,000 Singapore-Bangkok tickets at just 49 cents each [SINGAPORE] Thai Air Asia has picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Tiger Airways. Its response to Tiger's $1 tickets to Bangkok, Phuket and Hatyai came in the form of one-way tickets
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 919 4  -  Smaller companies beat big boys in returns over one, three and five years By TEH HOOI LING WHAT are the chances of you having picked a stock which outperformed the total return of the basket of Straits Times Index stocks over the last one,
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    • 601 4  -  But they're split on whether it'll do so this month By KENNETH LIM LIKE a playful youth, the key Straits Times Index has been flirting with the psychologically significant 2,000 level this week, leaving the market to wonder when it will make the
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    • 321 5  -  It inks joint-venture with EDB Ventures, is subject of upbeat brokers' reports By KENNETH LIM FU Yu Corp led the plastics plays yesterday as investors bought into analysts' optimism about the sector's prospects. Fu Yu, a supplier of plastic parts to mobile
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    • 670 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R SIVANITHY IN an attempt to inject new life into a flagging initial public offer market, US investment banks last December introduced a new type of security known as an "income deposit security", or IDS.
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    • 403 5  -  By JOYCE KOH HOW much higher will Paulson Co push its stake in takeover target Neptune Orient Lines (NOL)? For the second time in three days, the US fund manager has notified the Singapore Exchange (SGX) that it has raised its stakes in NOL
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    • 396 5 UOL acquires remaining 30% stake in MioDino UNITED Overseas Land said it has acquired the remaining 30 per cent stake in MioDino for $53,100. UOL bought the stake in the furnishings unit from Industria Mobili Mio Dino srl and an unrelated minority shareholder. Centrepoint Prop buys stake in
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    • 472 6  -  White Sands tender closes with 5 bids; highest said to be more than 150m By KALPANA RASHIWALA THE sale of Jurong Point Shopping Centre could be in the offing, according to property market watchers. Jurong Point Realty, a 50:50 joint venture between
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    • 461 6  -  By VINCE CHONG MAIN BOARD-LISTED Amara Holdings will make its first foray into the resort hotel business with a $60 million, 125-room-project on Sentosa that should take the number of hotel rooms on the tourist island close to the 1,000 mark.
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    • 461 6  -  Stocks will belong to one of two classes: JP Morgan By WONG WEI KONG THE emergence of trust structures with tax advantages should accelerate the transformation of the Singapore market into two sectors: high-growth stocks paying little or no dividends that are heavily exposed
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    • 582 7  -  New World's Cheng Yu-tung, others buy up 13% of water treatment company By JEAN CHUA HONG Kong's Cheng Yutung, one of the world's richest men, and two other prominent businessmen have individually acquired stakes totalling about 13 per cent in mainboardlisted Bio-Treat gyNews
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    • 363 7  -  By SIOW LI SEN CHINA yesterday announced further liberalisation of its banking sector but analysts believe this is unlikely to make much difference to the measured approach of Singapore's three banks in tackling opportunities in that vast nation. Global banks,
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    • 290 7  -  By JEAN CHUA SEE Hup Seng is acquiring 73 per cent of Top Power Holdings, which controls gas-related businesses in China, to gain entry into the country's energy industry. The Sesdaq-listed company will be paying $17.58 million for the stake
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    • 582 7  -  By KENNETH LIM PAN Asian Water Solutions is set to become Singapore's eighth water-treat-ment play with an initial public offering of 25 million new shares at 21 cents apiece. The piping solutions provider supplies Kubotabrand pipes for projects mainly in Singapore,
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    • 190 7  -  By ANDREA TAN TYRE maker YHI International Ltd said it is pumping $7.8 million into a Malaysian wheel-making plant. The factory will serve the South-east Asia markets, which YHI sees as an increasingly important automotive hub following the Asean free trade agreement. The plant
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 504 8  -  STOCKS Analysts see the latest market move as a rotation out of blue chips into the second line R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent AFTER the fine run that blue chips have had over the past fortnight, it's perhaps natural to expect some spillover into
      Source: Bloomberg  -  504 words
    • Article, Illustration
      917 8  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM First Engineering Sept 8 dose: $1.25 FIRST Engineering (FE) is working on new programs with Hewlett Packard that involve entirely new platforms. This would require a lot more complex mechanisms for the printers that would have more slots for cartridges. We expect FE to
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    • 545 8 CURRENCIES [SINGAPORE] The Singapore dollar rallied to a seven-week high and remained in the strong half of its policy band on Wednesday even as the yen pared its offshore gains and pegged other regional currencies back. With major currencies waiting for Federal Reserve chairman Alan
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    • 470 8  -  Compiled by TAILA KRISHNAKUMAR Broadway's directors in buy, sell deals BROADWAY Industrial Group's executive director Lee Po Lo sold 40,000 shares in the moulding specialist company on the open market yesterday at 27 cents apiece. The sale lowered his direct stake from 0.41 per cent to 0.37
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      440 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Sep 8 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -1.00 -133.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +39.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 All-SG Equities 509.42 -1.30 SG Equities Elect 159.66 +0.96 SG Equities Fin 1612.66 -<-0.20 SG Equities Prop 469.04 -3.88 SIMSCI 235.82 -0.66 SiMSCI Futures 236.20 -0.50 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME Elk
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  • MID CAPS
    • 831 9  -  It has a solid business and robust earnings, but it stays hidden. Perhaps raising its profile may help its share price, says JEAN CHUA JEAN CHUA CHUAN Hup Holdings' stock still has some way to go despite trading near its all-time high of 55 cents
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 453 10  -  DBS to arrange $300m loan portfolio to be launched in Jan By NANDE KHIN DETAILS of Singapore's first loan securitisation pilot programme for small and medium enterprises were announced yesterday by Vivian Balakrishnan, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry. "The
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    • 379 10 INSPIRED by the courage and stamina of a blind marathon runner, Standard Chartered group executive director based in Singapore, Mike DeNoma, has come up with a team marathon idea, said to be the first of its kind. Named The Greatest Race
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    • 644 10  -  S'pore system works so well it has little innovation By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE'S health care system needs to be more competitive internally, if the country wants to become a health care hub, according to an industry observer. Professor Narayan Pant, associate dean of executive education
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    • 257 10 TEENAGERS will soon get a leg-up in learning how to manage their pocket money with the launch yesterday of a new financial literacy education programme aimed at 14 to 18-year-olds. Called Practical Money Skills for Life, the programme was jointly introduced by the Association
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    • 367 10  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA OIL prices could stay above US$4O a barrel until the middle of next year, says Credit Suisse chief economist and strategist, Arunja Mahendran, owing to surging demand from China. Based on data compiled by Credit Suisse, global demand for crude oil
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    • 207 10 Poultry relief packages extended THE relief package for poultry slaughterhouses as well as poultry and egg stalls will be extended by another three weeks. The National Environment Agency will extend the temporary waiver of rental for poultry and eggs stalls in government markets from today to Sept 29.
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    • 319 10  -  By SAMUEL EE SHELL yesterday started the ball rolling when it cut petrol prices by three cents a litre in what is only the second time this year that pump prices have fallen. Its move was followed by ExxonMobil, which runs the
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    • 228 10 COE premiums bounced back across the board yesterday despite the Hungry Ghosts Month and what some dealers said was a relatively quiet market. A Category B certificate of entitlement for cars above 1,600 cc posted the biggest increase of $1,498, to $27,799. The open
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  • SINGAPORE FOCUS: SERVICES
    • 507 11  -  EDB'S IHQ AWARD S'pore is set to be the regional services hub as MNCs settle here, says NANDE KHIN NANDE KHIN Z'J| F the recent International Headquarters fl (IHQ) Award ceremony is anything to go fl by, Singapore is on track to becoming
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    • 342 11 Attractions include well-qualified workforce and reasonable taxes MAGINET Interactive is the largest Internet and movie provider for the hospitality industry in Asia-Pacific. To date, it has provided over 125,000 rooms with interactive TV, digital video-on-demand, and Internet service. Magi Net counts over 550
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    • 272 11 MANY people are familiar with Hermes, but few are aware that the French high-end luxury goods maker has its headquarters for Asia, excluding Japan, in Singapore. Set up by Thierry Hermes, a harness-maker in 1837, the firm has come a long way since
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    • 357 11 EDB's Headquarters (HQ) Programme was started in 1986 with the launch of the Operational Headquarters (OHQ) Programme for firms that provide management and other HQ-related services to subsidiaries, associates or related companies in other countries. The programme also evolved over time to include new awards such
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 740 12 Amount smaller than expected, but deficit outlook past 2006 worsening Cox News [WASHINGTON] The Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday that the federal deficit will hit a record US$422 billion this year, the largest dollar amount in history. Still, the figure was
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    • 519 12 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] The US economy will linger through a "soft patch" for the foreseeable future and a pullback in consumer spending could trigger a recession within the next two years, according to a widely watched forecast issued yesterday. The UCLA Anderson Forecast
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    • 276 12 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries wiil discuss a proposal to increase the group's target range for oil prices at its next meeting on Sept }5 in Vienna to take account ol inflation and the weaker US dollar, a Saudi
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    • 414 12 Q3 exports to grow 3.1% after 13.4% in Q2: Kiel Institute Bloomberg GERMANY'S economic recovery is faltering as oil prices, driving inflation worldwide, dampen both domestic demand and growth in export orders, the Kiel Institute for World Economics said. Europe's largest economy will
      Bloomberg; AFP  -  414 words
    • 475 12 AFP [SYDNEY] Opec president Purnomo Yusgiantoro yesterday blamed a "political premium" of US$lO-15 a barrel for soaring oil prices, saying the oil cartel is exceeding its supply quotas but the market is not responding. Mr Purnomo said Opec was concerned about the
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    • 526 13  -  Deutsche Bank economist sees down cycle in 2006 By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] Norbert Walter, Deutsche Bank Group's chief economist, came away from his August trip through Asia with his impression of "a continent that's back on stage" strengthened. But he also sounds a warning:
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    • 318 13 Reuters [OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso] The International Monetary Fund has urged China to gradually loosen its currency's peg to the dollar, without abandoning all safeguards, the fund's managing director Rodrigo Rato said. Mr Rato also told Reuters in an interview late
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    • 465 13 [KUALA LUMPUR] Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will deliver Malaysia's 2005 budget on Sept 10. Mr Abdullah, who is also Finance Minister, is likely to announce an eighth straight fiscal deficit as the government seeks to support growth, economists said. In what would be his first
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  • MALAYSIA COMPANIES
    • 738 14 No clear winner yet for DRBHicom stake Apart from price, qualitative issues of the two bids must be studied: sources [KUALA LUMPUR] The bids for a strategic stake in DRBHicom Bhd are in and indications are that the winner may not be as clear cut as earlier thought, according to
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    • 686 14 [KUAIA LUMPUR] Sarawak Enterprise Corp Bhd (SECB) is emerging as a major electricity player in Sarawak following the consolidation of the state's power generation, transmission, distribution and supply businesses, reports the Malaysian Business Times. According to the newspaper, SECB said it will pay RM1.03
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    • 521 14 Public offer of 73.6m shares seen raising RM147.2m [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian timber magnate Tiong Hiew King may raise about RM147.2 million (Ss66 million) selling shares in Sin Chew Media Corp, publisher of the nation's biggest Chinese-language newspaper by circulation. Mr Tiong, who controls Sin
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 737 15 Problems in construction force consortium to review contract [KUALA LUMPUR] The Sime Darby Bhd-led consortium is reviewing the contract it was awarded to build the RM1.79 billion Bakun Hydroelectric Dam, says a report in The Edge Malaysia, citing sources. Among the areas under review are
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    • 527 15 Bloomberg, AFP, AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Federal Court will make a decision on Sept 15 after a review of former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim's corruption conviction, for which he has already served time in prison, his lawyer said. The court decided unanimously on
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    • 522 15 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's rupiah and investment may not rise immediately after the presidential election as investors may wait to see new government plans to reduce corruption and spur growth, a former Indonesian central banker said. The rupiah may hover at current levels and
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    • 210 15 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia will offer the quarter of PT Semen Gresik that is currently owned by Cemex SA to other investors after the Mexican company agreed to sell the stake, State Enterprises Minister Laksamana Sukardi said in Jakarta. "About a
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    • 722 15  -  COMPANY PROFILE Indon developer of industrial parks will benefit once FDI flow picks up, says SHOEB KAGDA SHOEB KAGDA SD Darmono is looking much more relaxed these days. The president director of PT Jababeka has seen his company emerge from the financial crisis leaner and hungrier for
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    • 361 15 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian veterinarian hospitalised three days ago with suspected bird flu has been cleared of the disease, health officials said yesterday amid intensified efforts to contain a new outbreak. The woman, who developed diarrhoea and fever while working in
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 180 16 Reuters [HONG KONG] Chinese authorities have urged state firms to go slow with overseas listings to avoid hindering growth of equities markets at home, The South China Morning Post said yesterday. It cited Shanghai stock exchange executive president James Liu
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    • 506 16 It also plans to invest US$150m in wireless network in Vietnam Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd, which is preparing for an initial public offer to raise as much as US$2 billion, plans to spend US$4OB million to buy a wireless operator in
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    • 218 16 AP [HONG KONG] A former Hong Kong financial chief brought down by a major local scandal is seeking to bounce back by taking a senior job with China's fifth-largest bank, a newspaper reported yesterday. Antony Leung (left) resigned from the Hong Kong
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    • 685 16 Bloomberg HONG Kong may get as much as HK$7 billion (Ssl.s billion) for a single site at its next land auction, the highest since 1997, as developers vie to replenish their reserves on optimism a real estate rebound in the city will
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      37 16 [SANYA, Hainan Island] Chinese contestants in a modelling competition taking part in a photo call on a beach here on Monday Beauty contests and modelling competitions are becoming highly popular in China. REUTERS
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    • 289 16 But state-owned enterprises still dominate rankings [BEIJING] More than 400 of China's 500 largest companies are state-owned but the weight of the private sector continues to grow, though more slowly than last year, according to a list published by a Chinese
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    • 300 16 Regulator also asks them to expand through mergers Reuters [BEIJING] China is encouraging city commercial banks to bring in foreign investors and grow bigger through mergers, the bank regulator said on Tuesday, signalling increasing concerns about weaker players. China's city commercial
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  • FOCUS: INDIASOURCING
    • 1547 17 Small US tech companies are joining big players in the offshoring game, and there's no question the trend is permanent and growing NYT TODAY'S the day they meet the new boss from Austin, Texas. The office looks like any cubicle farm off Loop 360: harsh
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    • 749 17 NYT [BANGALORE] Tech workers are job-hopping their way to loftier titles, higher salaries and piles of stock options. Housing prices are soaring, and rush hour traffic backs up for miles. Bangalore, a balmy southern city high on a plateau, is the headquarters of India's surging offshoring industry.
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    • 557 17 Cox News Service [BANGALORE] Three years ago, every line of Trilogy Inc software code was written from the company's headquarters overlooking Austin. Now, it all happens here, in a shiny new glass and marble office building with leather sofas in the lobby and
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
    • 441 18 The company may sell 50% stake in country's second largest share sale [BANGKOK] Thai Oil has launched Thailand's second largest initial public offering, in a move that could raise more than US$6OO million and provide a test of investors' appetite for
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 115 18 AP [HONG KONG] The London Stock Exchange will set up an Asia-Pacific office in Hong Kong in hopes of attracting listings from mainland Chinese companies, the Wen Wei Po newspaper said yesterday. The London market has straightforward listing procedures
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      • 113 18 AFP [BEIJING] The nephew of China's powerful military leader Jiang Zemin has denied a report that the 78-year-old former president is ready to resign, a Hong Kong-based human rights group said yesterday. "There is no such thing," Tai Zhan, a
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      • 101 18 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Chinese companies invested a record US$2.B5 billion abroad in 2003 as the government encouraged businesses to expand overseas. The sum was 5.5 per cent more than the tally for 2002 and Hong Kong was the biggest recipient of Chinese investment,
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      • 103 18 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia said it will sell RM2 billion (*****.4 million) of five-year bonds in an auction on Sept 14, according to a statement from the central bank. The government sold RM32.35 billion of bonds in 10 previous sales
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      • 54 18 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia on Tuesday asked Parliament to approve an extra RM6.B billion (Ss3.l billion) to cover the government's 2004 operating expenditure This would raise its total 2004 operating spending by 8.4 per cent to RM87.3 billion from RM80.5 billion initially
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      • 107 18 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China will let foreign banks such as HSBC Holdings and Citigroup conduct local-currency business in three more cities including the capital Beijing at the end of this year, the China Banking Regulatory Commission said. The addition of
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      • 110 18 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hang Lung Properties, Hong Kong's fourth-largest developer by market value, more than quadrupled profit for the second half as sales tripled. Net income for the six months ended June 30 rose to HK$l.54 billion (*****.5 million)
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      • 74 18 Reuters [BANGALORE] General Electric Co, a pioneer of outsourcing to India, is considering the sale of its back-office services business in the country for US$l billion, the Economic Times newspaper said yesterday. GE, whose subsidiary is the largest in
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    • 755 18  -  ASIA INSIGHT But corporate management could be afflicted by 'short-termism' ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent HAS "shareholder capitalism" finally arrived in Japan and, if so, is it a good thing or not? The issue has taken on new meaning with the launch of the first competitive bidding battle
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    • 594 18 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Asian plans for Western-style freed-up power markets are likely to founder as demand grows and investors baulk at the risks, leaving more room for fixed-price supply deals. China alone needs US$l.9 trillion of new power investment by
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    • 328 18 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] CLP Holdings, Hong Kong's biggest power company, is in talks to sell part of its 50 per cent stake in a Thai power venture to Electricity Generating, CLP's managing director Andrew Brandler said. The companies have been in talks for
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    • 343 18 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's True Corp pel and its major shareholder, Charoen Pokphand Group (CP), have agreed to give TA Orange financial support if the mobile phone firm needs it. The support was a condition required by creditors of TA
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  • WORLD
    • 611 19 It holds talks with media giants, but denies offering assets for sale Reuters [LONDON] The BBC is in talks with media companies including Time Warner, Bertelsmann and Walt Disney about its commercial subsidiary BBC Worldwide, but the corporation denied it has been put up
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    • 719 19 Wal-Mart boss up from 9th place in Vanity Fair ranking [NEW YORK] The readers of glossy society magazine Vanity Fair are likely to raise an eyebrow or two this month after it put the boss of Wal-Mart at the top of its annual
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    • 407 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest public US pension plan with US$l66 billion of assets, was sued for failing to disclose the fees it pays managers of venture capital and hedge funds. Taxpayers and state workers who
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    • 432 19 Bailiffs preparing subsidiary for sale against tax owed AP [MOSCOW] Russia's Tax Ministry has slapped Yukos with a collection order on part of a back tax claim, raising the total due to US$6.l billion, the embattled company said on Tuesday. Yukos has paid
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    • 396 19 NYT [LONDON] The Invesco Funds Group and an affiliate, AIM Advisors, agreed on Tuesday to a US$45O million settlement with regulators, who accused the companies of improperly allowing favoured investors to rapidly trade in and out of their funds. The settlement with
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    • 309 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Playboy Enterprises, the publisher of the most widely read men's magazine, will this month begin a low-cost web subscription service to attract more customers and is considering starting an online dating service. The web service, called "Playboy Daily", will cost
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  • AVIATION
    • 397 20 New deal will raise total weekly passenger fights permitted to 1.600 AP [HONG KONG] In a gradual opening of China's skies to more commercial aviation, Hong Kong and mainland regulators struck a deal yesterday to grant more flying rights to carriers from the
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    • 223 20 AFP [NEW YORK] Delta Air Lines said yesterday it would cut 6,000 to 7,000 jobs and slash US$5 billion in operating costs in a massive restructuring aimed at keeping the carrier in business. Chief executive Gerald Grinstein, in remarks
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    • 43 20 [TOKYOI Japanese All Nippon Airways campaign girl showing off the airline's new uniform for cabin attendants in Tokyo yesterday. Tokyo's Haneda airport will soon open its second domestic terminal and ANA will start operations from Dec 1. AFP
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    • 324 20 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Leaders of US Airways Group Inc's pilots union rebuffed a plan to cut US$295 million in wages and benefits the company says it needs to avoid a second bankruptcy filing in two years. The shares fell nearly 13 per cent
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    • 391 20 It's also banking on Indian fifth rights permission to increase sales Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International, Asia's worstperforming airline stock in the past 12 months, said its pre-tax earnings may rise by about a third next year as it upgrades services to
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  • SHIPPING
    • 584 21  -  Report says it will bid for six new berths at Thailand's Laem Chabang Port By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Hot on the expansion trail seemingly on all fronts, PSA International is one of three international groups bidding for a 30-year concession worth 100 billion baht
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    • 283 21 SGX '000 S*M S$ W- Vol CH Offshore .037 -0.01 83 ChuanHup .055 unch 1078 Cosco Investment .0.85 0.01 ***** CWT Distribution .0.48 -0.01 17 Ezra Hidgs 0.99 uncti 0 Freight unks. 0.09 -0.01 221 Grand Banks Yacht ...0.80 -0.01 6 Java Holdings 0.90 -0.01 1057 K1 Ventm
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    • 153 21 [SINGAPORE] The longest serving golf tournament for the local shipping industry the BTL Masters —saw its 15th annual tournament held on Tuesday with Hanjin Shipping's BS Choi emerging victorious with 38 pts (Stableford nett). The event, organised by common feeder Bengal Tiger Line (BTL), is a fixture
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    • 651 21 Ambitious plan to beat Russia as top LNG exporter Bloomberg [DOHA] Qatar, the site of the world's No 3 gas reserves, plans to order the world's biggest liquefied natural gas tankers next month as the country seeks to be the largest exporter of
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    • 50 21 [KASADO. Japan] The bow of an Indonesian-registered cargo ship is washed ashore on Kasado Island in western Japan yesterday after powerful typhoon Songda lashed southern and western Japan on Tuesday. Eight of the 22 crew members were killed with 14 listed as missing. Japanese media said. REUTERS
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    • 371 21  -  By AL LABITA OFFSHORE ventures, particularly those in Europe, are paying off well for listed International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI), the Philippines' first and only overseas cargo handler. Buoyed by surging cargo throughput, ICTSI subsidiaries in Poland and Brazil booked a combined
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    • 225 21  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Following the recent completion of two new berths under its phase 2 expansion, the neighbouring Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) has placed an order for three super post-pana-max quayside cranes and 15 rubber tyred gantry cranes. The order was
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    • PORT SHOTS
      • 87 21 Bloomberg [DUBAI] China Harbour Engineering Co Group and Societe Beige des Beton SA are among the six foreign companies invited to bid for a US$32O million contract to expand the Khor Fakkan container port, the United Arab Emirates' second largest. A spokesman for
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      • 80 21 Bloomberg [SEOUL] STX Corp, a South Korean holding company for shipbuilders and engine makers, said it was named as the preferred negotiator to buy Pan Ocean Shipping Co, one of the world's top 10 bulk carriers. STX made the highest offer among seven bidders,
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      • 60 21 Reuters [TOKYO] Mitsui OSK Lines, Japan's second-largest shipping company, said yesterday it will spend U*****.6 million to take a majority stake in real estate affiliate Daibiru Corp. Mitsui said property leaser Daibiru will become the core company in its real estate business
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    • 172 21 NOTICE TO TRADE SOUTH EAST ASIA, FAR EAST TO INDIA PAKISTAN TRADE RATE RESTORATION FROM Ist October 2004 In order to maintain a high standard of service to their customers, the carriers serving the trade from the South East Asia, Far East to India and Pakistan wish to inform the
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 546 22 EDITORIAL WHATEVER the reality, there was no question that up until last week Malaysia's judiciary was widely perceived to be under the thumb of its political leaders in its handling of the Anwar Ibrahim affair. Thus the decision of the Federal Court to uphold the former
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    • 726 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group LET'S note, just for the record, that both President George W Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry have evaded the nation's largest budget problem: controlling federal retirement spending, mainly Social Security and
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    • 1820 22  -  Have recent steps to strengthen corporate governance yielded any improvements? MADHAV MEHRA TWO years after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, it is only appropriate that we look at the report card of corporate governance reforms worldwide and evaluate whether they have achieved their intended goal. There is no doubt
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    • 1736 23  -  Failures slide off the famed businessman's back like water off a duck's back By TIMOTHY L O'BRIEN, ERIC DASH NYT WHEN Donald J Trump kicks off the second season of his hit reality television show, The Apprentice, reality may be in short supply. In
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    • 429 23  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Tan Kok Tim Singapore IN his address at the Nanyang Primary School, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong sent a strong signal to educators that, in the coming years, schools and parents have to make "tough choices" in striking the
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    • 352 23  -  Chiam Yeow Khong Head, Environmental Health Department National Environment Agency I REFER to the letter "Assess cost and benefit of thermal fogging" (BT, Aug 30). We thank your reader for his views and observations. We would like to reassure all that the National Environment Agency
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  • 9329 24 STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS Stodi n» Wt dow Change Stodi nun* m Oof dang* Aligreen SOc 0.32 1.130 +0.010 NOL 2.05 2.800 -0.010 BIL Intl US20c 0.47 0.980 -0.015 OCBC 10.85 13.900 +0.200 Capita Land 1.14 1.660 -0.020 Parkway H 25c 0.65 1.360 +0.030 Chart SemiCond 26c 0.81
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  • 4825 25 FINANCE COMMODITIES MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES In kxal curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy %yr dy %yr 7 lnd«x Ch«ng« Ch»nq« Change Ch«ng« Ch«rtg« Ch«ng« World Index Preliminary 794.8 0.4 2.1 0.1 0.8 0.4 08 EAFE Prelitranary 730.7 0.2 42 -0.1 13 02 12 Europe Preliminary 992.9
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES SHIPPING TIMES

  • BizIT
    • 837 30  -  With leading Taiwan firm's entry, Republic is now host to four of the top 10 global fabless companies. RAJU CHELLAM reports RAJU CHELLAM TAIWAN'S top chip design firm, MediaTek Inc. will invest $50 million over the next five years to set up an R&D
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    • 457 30  -  China-based SMIC makes it Big Four at the top: IC Insights By RAJU CHELLAM SINGAPORE'S Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing held on to its third spot in the global pure-play foundry ranking by annual revenues. Its share of the global market however edged up
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    • 278 30  -  By RAJU CHELLAM IN THE fabulous world of semiconductor chips, some IC (integrated circuit) plants are called "fabs" and some others are "fabless". Here's what they mean: Fabs: In semicon manufacturing, wafer fabrication usually refers to the front-end process of making devices and ICs (integrated circuits) in the
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    • 215 30 AP [TOKYO] Sony Corp has developed a computer chip that allows viewers to zoom in on any part of a TV image, such as a favourite soccer player or an intruder on security-camera footage, while keeping the image sharp. In a demonstration yesterday, the
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    • 175 30 Bloomberg [BUSAN, South Korea] International Business Machines Corp, the world's largest computer maker, said slowing economic growth in China has yet to crimp spending by telecommunications companies. Phone companies are still spending on computer equipment and consulting services as they develop new products
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    • 254 30  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY SAMSUNG Electronics has unveiled the world's first mobile phone with a hard drive at the ITU Telecom Asia 2004 event in Busan, South Korea. The CDMA phone, SPH-V5400, comes with a 1.5G8, 1-inch hard drive and a megapixel camera.
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  • PROPERTY
    • 502 31  -  Deal was done at $700-750 psf; third major deal in a month By ANDREA TAN THREE floors at John Hancock Tower have been sold for $21-22 million, or $700-750 per square foot of net floor area. This is the third major office deal
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    • 415 31  -  By ANDREA TAN DRAB or plain rooftops of commercial buildings and hotels could give way to food and beverage outlets as the Urban Redevelopment Authority relaxes its guidelines on roofs. URA said it loosened the guidelines to encourage more innovative and better design of
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    • 1104 31 Brought to you by PROJECT NAMB PROP CONTRACT TENURE BUILf-IN/lAND PRICE PSF STRffTNAME TYPE DATE AREA*(SQFT) (SJ'OOO) (SS) Districts NON-IANDED Icon Apt 21/06/2004 99 1119 742 663 District 03 NOW-LANDED Meraprime Apt 05/07/2004 99 1119 626 559 Meraprime Apt 1S/05/2004 99
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  • MADE IN SINGAPORE
    • 905 32  -  Cost is not an issue with MBE Technology which has wholly manufactured in S'pore since 1983. What's important is the knowledge that S'pore offers, its MD tells NANDE KHIN NANDE KHIN Businesses as a rule want to be where their customers are. So, it may seem
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    • 613 32  -  By JESSICA CHEAM FOR many, it seems like the manufacturing sector in Singapore is starting to be labelled a sunset industry. Countless manufacturing facilities which flocked to China to cut costs have left manufacturing ghost towns in industrial estates not only in Singapore, but in many other
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    • 143 32 SINGAPORE has developed a strong foundation for the electronics and precision engineering industries over the last 40 years. Today, they remain the key contributors to Singapore's economic growth. Singapore is home to 12 wafer fabrication plants, many integrated circuit (IC) design centres, and 18 IC assembly and test facilities. Last
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