The Business Times, 16 September 2004

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  • 30 1 TOP STORIES ...PG2-3 COMPANIES ...PG 4-9 SINGAPORE PG10-11 ECONOMY PG 12 FOREIGN PG 13-17 AVIATION PG 18 EDITORIAL PG 20 LETTERS PG 21 SHIPPING ....PG 24-27 BizlT PG 28-29
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  • 455 1  -  Govt seeks views on current-year taxation By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Switching to taxing current income an idea being mulled by the government is exciting consultants with the possibility of a tax holiday in the year of transition, as happened in
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  • 928 1  -  US fund manager Paulson explains why it aggressively raised its stake to over 9% By WONG WEI KONG, JOYCE KOH [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings has succeeded in its bid for Neptune Orient Lines, even though some players see the deal as unattractive.
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 573 2  -  Employment at 2-year high and retrenchments at 3½-year low in Q2 By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Thanks to a strong economy, employment rose to a two-year high in the April to June quarter while layoffs fell to a three-and-a-half-year low. And, according to
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    • 643 2  -  eSys cites economies of scale for making PCs here By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY [SINGAPORE] IN a dramatic demonstration of faith in Singapore's manufacturing capabilities, home-grown IT company eSys Technologies is setting up a major factory here to make personal computers. In a few
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    • 799 2 Sing Tel sells entire stake in Today newspaper SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd has sold its 29 per cent stake in MediaCorp Press, exiting the newspaper business. Sing Tel sold the stake to broadcaster MediaCorp for $13.7 million or 60.8 cents a share. MediaCorp Press' main newspaper, Today, chalked up
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    • 635 2  -  COMMENTARY Now that Umno has shut him out, he's free to galvanise the opposition EDDIE TOH KL Correspondent MORE Malaysians, including some prominent businessmen, have been heading to Munich lately. And the chances are they have dropped in to see former deputy
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    • 455 3  -  He is also scouring region's cities for properties to set up budget hotel chain By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Having made his mark in Europe with low-cost airline easy Jet, Stelios Haji-loannou now plans a Singaporebased budget cruise business. And the 37-year-old entrepreneur is also
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    • 419 3  -  Workers must adjust so SIA can remain competitive By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] A much-pub-licised row between pilots and management of Singapore Airlines over pay and working conditions came to an amicable end with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew telling the pilots
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 625 4  -  Sale comes less than a month after telco raised stake at half the price By JOYCE KOH IN a sale initiated by MediaCorp, Singapore Telecommunications yesterday said it sold its entire 28.51 per cent stake in MediaCorp Press (MPR) back
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    • 416 4  -  By KENNETH LIM SHARES of New Lakeside plunged 17.6 per cent to its lowest ever close at 14 cents yesterday following news of a surprise interim loss, while the Singapore Exchange said it is still reviewing the matter. New Lakeside on Tuesday
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    • 500 4  -  SINGTEL-SCV SUIT By TANG WENG FAI THE third day of hearing of the SingTel-StarHub court battle began yesterday with claims by Starhub that Sing Tel knew about its extension of the leased cable network to non-residential properties in 1997 but did nothing then to
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    • 587 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By WONG WEI KONG WHAT is good for Temasek Holdings may not be so good for the Singapore market. Temasek's offer for Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) raises once again the question of the hollowing-out of the local stock market. Yesterday, Temasek, which
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    • 368 4  -  By JEAN CHUA IN a restructuring move to unlock shareholder value and to focus on its core marine business, Chuan Hup Holdings is spinning off its non-marine assets into a newly formed company that is eyeing a mainboard listing. Mainboard-listed Chuan Hup in
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    • 621 5  -  Analysts split over whether it will rise further, or slip on signs of slowdown By KENNETH LIM AFTER almost four years, the Straits Times Index yesterday broke through the psychologically important 2,000-point barrier. But while some market observers believe that there's
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    • 297 5  -  By TAILA KRISHNAKUMAR IN a move to serve a rapidly growing base of Internet banking customers, DBS Bank launched a new online banking platform yesterday with partners IBM and Siebel. DBS said ißanking will resolve the "scalability problem" and replaces the outdated
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    • 415 5  -  It's buying parent's 51% stake in Cosco Shipyard By JEAN CHUA COSCO Corp (Singapore) is acquiring 51 per cent of the shipyard business of China's biggest shipping group for 578 million yuan (Ssl 18 million). Mainboard-listed Cosco Corp (S) will buy the stake
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    • 542 6  -  Yvonne Goh leads backroom solutions provider KCS's S'pore operations By KENNETH LIM FOR all of July, Yvonne Goh was the retired former managing director of corporate services company Boardroom travelling, looking for cooking classes and thinking of moving to the US. By August,
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    • 444 6  -  By KENNETH LIM WITH its latest investments in the China sports events industry, Reed Group Holdings' chief executive thinks the loss-making company could enjoy a $1 million net profit boost this year and wave its going-concern problems goodbye. "We have put in place
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 39 6 MAINBOARD-LISTED Portek International said it has recently landed 10 new contracts with a total value of about $50 million. The contracts involved provision of port management services, equipment modification and leasing of equipment.
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      • 23 6 AIROCEAN Group has acquired a shelf company, EVS Holdings, as an investment vehicle, the logistics company said yesterday.
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      • 73 6 OAKWELL Engineering yesterday announced that a dispute with Energy Power Systems, now known as EnerNorth Industries Inc, has been brought to the Canadian courts. Following a ruling by the Singapore High Court in favour of Oakwell last year, Canadian firm EPS has filed an
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      • 35 6 BIL International yesterday announced the resignation of its chief financial officer Roch Low. Current deputy chief financial officer Philip Gunn will assume Mr Low's financial responsibilities.
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      • 45 6 Reuters [HONG KONG] Investment holding firm Guoco Group Ltd said its first-half net profit jumped 98 per cent to HK52.44 billion due to the disposal of an associate firm and a revaluation of the firm's property portfolio. —Reuters
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    • 4487 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Cr«dit Aflricota AMt Mgt S'po™ Ltd CAAM Asia Vision Fund!** 1.049/1.103 ttSZwi-'**'"* 0.729/ KT4 <«"<» SW Europe told 2 f* Japan 0.*****.935 Star Europe Bal 1.047/ Mendaki Cap Pro fd *****/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0 894/ Shenton ThnW" H? Atia o~5i .1 345/ Shenton Income 1.438/1
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    • 653 7  -  Wireless surfing, limousine ride home for new mums among perks By CHEN HUIFEN TO woo more foreign patients and keep local ones, Gleneagles Hospital aims to become the Ritz-Carlton of the medical world in the next three years. And to achieve this, it is offering
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    • 520 7  -  By VINCE CHONG BUDGET carriers are boosting demand for budget accommodation, but local hospitality players are confident the expected growth in travellers will be enough for all hotel types. About 40 per cent of consumers surveyed said they would spend less on hotels
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    • 565 7  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN TIGER Airways took off on its inaugural flight yesterday, pledging to beat the lowest fares offered by its low-cost rivals. The Airbus 320 aircraft with 160 passengers left for Bangkok in the afternoon to join what is turning out
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    • 226 7 Reuters [HONG KONG] Asian com panies with strong corpo rate governance outper form others over th medium term but lag whei markets rally sharply, j survey by investment housi CLSA said yesterday. The survey found com panies with high standard: of corporate
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 545 8  -  STOCKS Current sentiment is one of 'cautious optimism', though demand exists for only the real quality stocks R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent "CAUTIOUS optimism" is perhaps an overused phrase which some critics say conveys as much meaningful information as "bargain hunting" or "profit taking".
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      1050 8  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM Amtek Engineering Sept 15 dose: $1.30 KIM ENG RESEARCH, Sept 15 MOLD WE are downgrading Amtek Engineering to HOLD after the 17 per cent run-up in the share price. We had previously upgraded our recommendation on valuation ground with the view of an 18
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    • 496 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent NEWS of a record second-quarter US current account deficit further undermined prospects for the US dollar in overnight trading, with Asian currencies once again well-sought. The U*****.2 billion Q2 shortfall exceeded most forecasts, and it did not help the
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
      • 90 8 ASJ Holdings non-executive chairman Chia Soon Loi's stake in the electrical resistors supplier grew again on Tuesday as a nominee account's shopping spree entered its fifth day. Mr Chia now has a deemed stake of 10.49 per cent, up from 10.28 per cent, after
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      • 150 8 ZHONGGUO PowerPlus non-executive director Zhang Chengbin saw his deemed stake in the newly listed agricultural equipment supplier halved over the past two weeks through open market divestments by his investment vehicle, Sino Horizon Group. Sino Group first sold 4.6 million shares on Sept 3, the day
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      • 75 8 EXECUTIVE director of GP Industries Andrew Chuang Siu Leung sold 20,000 shares of the electronics company yesterday at $1.01 per share. This reduced his direct stake from 0.036 per cent to 0.032 per cent. In July Mr Leung exercised options to buy 130,000
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      • 65 8 LIFEBRANDZ chief operating officer Kenneth Goh Tzu Seoh saw his direct stake in the health and beauty products brand management company rise from 13.4 per cent to 13.44 per cent, or 82.2 million shares, yesterday. This followed an open-market purchase of 200,000
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      • 76 8  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM, TAILA KRISHNAKUMAR HONG Fok Corporation executive director Cheong Sim Eng bought 300,000 shares in the property group on Tuesday at 23.5 cents apiece. His open-market purchase raised his direct stake from 9.93 per cent to 9.99 per cent. Since August,
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    • Article, Illustration
      434 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Sep 15 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 282.00 -109.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -25.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +28.00 All-SG Equities 522.78 +2.84 SG Equities Elect 161.73 +0.48 SG Equities Fin 1651.23 +5.33 SG Equities Prop 484.98 +0.21 SIMSCI 242.27 +1.35 SiMSCI Futures 242.80 +1.10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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  • BLUE CHIPS
    • 981 9  -  The Singapore property market is picking up, but recovery is no certainty, writes WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG WITH signs of increasing activity in the Singapore property market, shares of CapitaLand, a blue chip property group, would be expected to keep on rising. But it
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 499 10  -  The $62 million lab will focus on memory-related illnesses By CHEN HUIFEN PHARMACEUTICAL giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will pump $62 million into a new research facility here that aims to seek a cure for memory-related conditions including Alzheimer's disease. The laboratory that will be
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    • 310 10  -  By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE is gearing up for more expansion activities with the introduction of two initiatives aimed at helping businesses here extend their market reach. f* m.»<WWV* One of thesp is the introduction of a specialist diploma in franchise
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    • 451 10  -  By DANIEL BUENAS LATIN American businesses are turning their sights to Asia, and Singaporean companies should not miss the opportunity to tap into the cross-flow of goods and services between these two regions, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday.
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    • 239 10  -  By NANDE KHIN SINGAPORE'S first conference for the meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) industry has received strong global support and is set to become the platform that connects Asia's events organisation industry. lECM@Singapore, an exhibition and conference dedicated to the MICE industry
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    • 277 10 SEVENTEEN of the 19 persons who were detained for involvement in terrorismlinked activities in 2002 will have their Orders of Detention (ODs) extended by an additional two years, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) yesterday. These 19 people as well as three
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    • 274 10 THE Straits Times. Singapore's most widely read newspaper, is set to unveil a new look and new content come Oct 19. Advertisers and the media were given a sneak preview of the redesigned ST at a trade launch yesterday at the Ritz-Carlton
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  • SINGAPORE FOCUS: SERVICES
    • 85 11  -  EDB'S IHQ AWARD Last week we featured two services companies which received the Economic Development Board's International Headquarters award. The remaining four which received the award at the same ceremony last week are profiled here. These four firms are engaged in myriad services from providing supply
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    • 186 11 CAS Systems a customer relationship management (CRM) solutions provider has had its name translated into Chinese as 'Kai Si', promising great success for the company in the Asia-Pacific region. 'Kai' means 'winning' in Chinese, while 'Si' represents 'ideas'. Thus, the German-based company's name denotes "winning
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    • 282 11 SINGAPORE'S business environment has come in for high praise from Ron Myers, president of America II Asia, prompting it to pick the Republic for its Asian headquarters. Mr Myers said Singapore has a highlydeveloped IT and logistics infrastructure, with renowned fiscal policies, and social and political
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    • Article, Illustration
      277 11 FOR Murex Southeast Asia, it was "logical and natural" to set up its headquarters in Singapore, said Nada Otayek, business development manager of Murex Southeast Asia. "Singapore is in a central and stable geographical location in South-east Asia, a region which promises high growth potential. Singapore also has
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    • 320 11 WITH more than half of the 7,000-odd multinational companies (MNCs) locating their regional headquarters here, it is only natural that Singapore was chosen to be the headquarters for Mercer Human Resource Consulting' Asian operations. "Singapore hosts many of our clients' global headquarters (in the case of
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 495 12 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore's retail sales rose a slower-than-expected 8.6 per cent in July from a year earlier as consumers bought fewer cars and sales of food and drinks fell. The increase in the Statistics Department's retail sales index was a
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    • 452 12  -  It's likely to be last month of big jumps as low base effect wears off: analysts By CHUANG PECK MING A LOW base of comparison in August should have provided Singapore still another month perhaps the last for the year of dou-ble-digit growth in
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    • 472 12 Minister refutes Morgan Stanley view it's too bullish Bernama. Bloomberg, AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will stick to its growth projection of 6 per cent for 2005 based on a solid expected economic performance at the national and regional levels, said Deputy Finance Minister
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    • 352 12 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Traders increased bets to the highest in 31/2 months, that the yuan will rise, after Treasury Secretary John Snow said the US plans to keep pressure on China and other countries that manage the value of their
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    • 226 12 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's economy will probably grow at an annualised 2.8 per cent in the July-September quarter from the previous quarter, a survey of 38 private sector economists by the Economic Planning Association showed yesterday. The association, an economic analysis body
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    • 397 12 AP Reuters. AFP [WASHINGTON] Industrial production in the United States slowed in August, rising by just 0.1 per cent, suggesting the economy is still trying to work through a soft spot. The small rise in industrial activity reported by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday
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    • 356 12 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia foreign investment approvals fell 29.7 per cent to U553.76 billion in January to August this year compared to the same period in 2003, the state investment agency said yesterday. However, domestic investment approvals jumped to 21.65 trillion rupiah (Ss4 billion) from 15.47
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  • MALAYSIA COMPANIES
    • 492 13 Construction group will focus on Middle East and Asean markets [KUALA LUMPUR] Peremba Construction Sdn Bhd, which recently won the contract for the RM295 million Dubai International Financial Complex (DIFC), is eyeing more overseas projects, The Star daily said. Group managing director Ramli Ahmad
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    • 285 13 [KUALA LUMPUR] Hwang-DBS Unit Trust Bhd expects its RMISO million (5567.5 million) Capital Guaranteed Fund II to be fully subscribed within a month, The Edge reported yesterday. Hwang-DBS Asset Management (M) Sdn Bhd executive director Teng Chee Wai told the daily that the
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    • 2135 13 vol Gadang 132 -0.02 467 S*« WW- fOOO) Gamuda -530 -0.10 69 General CWp 0.52 -0.01 79 A* M Realty ISO -0.01 298 Genting 16 JO unch 103 Abric ...0.50 0.01 13 George Kent 035 -0.02 238 ACP Industries 1.3S 0.01 158 GHL Systems 036 0.01
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  • INDONESIA/MALAYSIA
    • 635 14  -  Ex-general seen as having edge in security, economy, fighting corruption By SHOEB KAGDA in Jakarta FORMER general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has emerged as the clear favourite to win next Monday's presidential runoff, according to the results of two opinion polls released yesterday. Mr
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    • 120 14 Bernama [ALOR STAR] Japanese car maker Toyota Motor has expressed interest in setting up a car assembly plant in Kedah. "The company's senior officer discussed the matter with the state government on Tuesday and we will try to get the company to invest
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    • 415 14 High crude prices force oil firms to seek new reserves Bloomberg, Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia, which is struggling to find reserves to replace aging fields and boost production, said a number of companies have submitted bids to explore for oil and gas in 11
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    • 254 14 [KUALA LUMPUR] Murphy Oil Corp, one of the largest holders of exploration rights in Malaysia, announced new oil and natu-ral-gas discoveries off the Southeast Asian nation's coast. The deep water Senangin No 1 exploration well struck oil, and the Pertang No 1 well
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 481 15 Raw materials purchases also fall in signs of industry slowdown Reuters [TAIPEI] The semiconductor industry is showing the first signs of slowing growth, trimming purchases of raw materials and production equipment as demand slows, industry executives and analysts said here on Tuesday. Taiwan's contract
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    • 289 15 Move aimed at enhancing lenders' profitability Bloomberg, Reuters [BEIJING] China will let commercial banks start fund-management companies in a move aimed at enhancing lenders' profitability and boosting the nation's capital markets. This is a step long awaited by the country's financial
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    • 51 15 [SHANGHAI] A visitor takes a picture of himself near separated parts of a Maserati car during an Italian auto show in Shanghai on Monday. Foreign car manufacturers are aggressively pursuing the Chinese car market due to its potential 1.3 billion population and increasing economic wealth.
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    • 248 15 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China will replace its chief markets regulator, an ex-banker who has come under fire for dragging his heels on much-needed reform, a government source familiar with the situation said yesterday. Shang Fulin, who took over from current central bank governor Zhou
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  • INDIA
    • 650 16  -  They seek to become more competitive and venture abroad From Ajoy Sen in New Delhi A proposal made some years ago to strengthen Indian public sector banks through mergers and acquisitions appears to be finding favour now. In the past year, a number
      BLOOMBERG  -  650 words
    • 320 16 Reuters [NEW DELHI] In yet another move to check rising inflation, the Indian government is likely to announce a 10 per cent cut across the board in base import prices of all edible oils, a senior finance ministry official said yesterday. The
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    • 445 16 Bloomberg. Reuters [BOMBAY] India's central bank will review its inflation forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31 next month, said Rakesh Mohan, a deputy governor at the Reserve Bank of India. Measures to slow inflation will be taken "as and when necessary,"
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    • 931 16 Notices I Singapura Finance Ltd (incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at 391 A Orchard Road, Tower A #26-00, Ngee Ann City, Singapore *****3, on Tuesday, 12 October 2004
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    • 334 16 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 90 SOMPO JAPAN RE MANAGEMENT (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company convened and held at 26-1, Nishi-Shinjuku Ichome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo *****38, Japan on 10 September 2004, the following resolutions were duly passed: 1. SPECIAL
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    • 360 16 M THC MATTER Of THI COMMUNIS ACT, CAMO AND M THE MATTER OP SINQ BROTHERS (AUSTRALIA) INVESTMENT PTE LTD At vi Exkaonfcwy (tenant Mating of Sing Brothara (AuatraMa) Investment Pl* Ltd. duly haM at 88 Short Street *0943 GoMen Wad Cantra. Singapore *****6 on 18 Stpinnbif 2004 tw foiowlnQ rMokrttoos
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    • 509 16 \<WU low *v/ IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 ANO IN THE MATTER OF STERLING DATA PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 that a Final General Meeting of the
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 829 17  -  JAPAN INSIGHT Japan is hurting because Tokyo isn't coming to terms with the changing reality of the world ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent A CRITICAL difference between China and Japan, as Japan's former foreign minister Makiko Tanaka observed recently, is that China has a "very clear national strategy"
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    • 313 17  -  By AL LABITA in Manila MORE Cabinet-level resignations yesterday rocked Philippine President Gloria Arroyo's beleaguered government over the debt crisis issue, making the share market jittery. Worried about a looming political instability, foreign and local funds resorted to a wave of profittaking, causing the
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    • 265 17 Reuters [LONDON] Crude oil prices rose yesterday after US weekly inventory data showed crude stockpiles falling to their lowest level in six months, while Hurricane Ivan's passage towards the Gulf of Mexico further heightened supply fears. New York
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    • 532 17 Females heading depts earning more than males: survey [LONDON] The glass ceiling in the workplace has cracked and«may be about to shatter as women gain a bigger share of well-paid senior jobs, says The Guardian citing a survey. According to the paper, the
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    • 472 18  -  Most low-cost carriers often sell direct to consumers online: researcher By VINCE CHONG, VEN SREENIVASAN THE advent of low-cost carriers (LCCs) will hit traditional tour operators and boost the budget hotel industry, according to a report yesterday by travel research firm, Market Share.
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    • 213 18 Bloomberg rrOULOUSE] Mobile calls from airplanes? Airbus, the world's largest passenger-aircraft maker, says travellers will be able to make them on commercial flights by 2006. The Toulouse, France-based aircraft builder completed its first in-flight trial of phones that use the global system for
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    • 226 18 AP [LOS ANGELES] Airport operations were back to normal early yesterday following a radio failure at a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) control facility that tied up travellers for hours. At Los Angeles International Airport, the outage on Tuesday afternoon delayed some 400 flights. Two
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    • 291 18  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN A COMBINATION of sharp capacity increases and moderate growth in loads saw Singapore Airlines' passenger loads slipping 5.8 percentage points from a year ago to 75.9 per cent in August. However, Changi Airport's passenger traffic surged 15 per cent in
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    • 282 18 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways pic, Europe's second-big-gest airline, is to cancel almost 1,000 flights out of London's Heathrow airport in the next three months to ease the congestion that led to travel disruptions. BA said yesterday it would cut 966 flights,
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    • 478 18 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] The European Union said the US would have to cut subsidies to Boeing Co to win a reduction in aid to Airbus as both sides prepared for talks this week on revising aircraftsupport restrictions. "Any tighter limit
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  • SHIPPING
    • 251 19 Reuters [LONDON] A Mitsui OSK Lines-controlled oil tanker, detained at the weekend after French coast guard officials said it had left an 11km long oil slick off the Brittany coast, has been allowed to resume its journey after paying a 300,000-eu-ro (*****,570)
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    • 777 19  -  Industry leaders see big opportunities for Asia in various sectors By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] Latin America offers new opportunities for shipping and logistics businesses from Singapore and Asia as growing exports and increasing consumption drive the area's economic recovery. China's economic growth is fuelling the
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    • 198 19 AP [CANBERRA] Australia has tightened security on both air and sea travel from Indonesia following the bombing of its embassy in Jakarta, a counterterrorism committee announced on Tuesday. Last week, Prime Minister John Howard announced a security crackdown at Australian airports, including screening of all luggage
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      51 19 [MANILA] A bomb-sniffing dog on guard for possible explosives hidden in passenger baggage at a port in the Philippine capital Manila yesterday. Security forces remain on high alert after last week's deadly bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta which left nine people dead and some 180 injured.
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    • PORT SHOTS
      • 157 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] Rotterdam, the world's largest cargo port, will face disruptions on Monday as the Netherlands's largest workers union stages a 24-hour strike against government plans to cut spending on pensions and social security. Protests will be organised by the Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging Bondgenoten union
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      • 86 19 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Hyundai Mipo Dockyard said on Tuesday it has won a US$l44 million order to build four chemical products tankers for Japan's Cido Shipping. Hyundai Mipo said it would deliver the carriers between the third quarter 0f2007 and the first quarter of
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    • 746 19  -  Without direct cross-strait transportation, Taiwan's plan to become a regional hub is in jeopardy By PT BANGSBERG YOU'D be forgiven for not noticing the simmering tension between Taiwan and China, at odds for over half-a-century and still without direct transport links. China last
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    • 80 19 IN an article on marine insurance on Monday, the sub-head Region's shipowners shouldn't rely on Europe: insurer may have given the impression that Singapore insurance broker Richard Loo was suggesting that shipowners should not go to the European markets for their insurance needs. As the article itself states,
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 528 20 EDITORIAL AS the northern summer gives way to autumn, the signs are growing that this may well develop into a season of discontent for those who think the US economic recovery is on track. Tuesday's news of a fall in August retail sales raises fresh concerns
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    • 1266 20  -  More people are eschewing the one-job-for-life route and turning to portfolio careers PAUL HENG CORPORATE loyalty, as we used to know it, is now passe. We once regarded so highly the person who spent his entire career with one organisation, branding him a loyal employee that
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    • 796 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group THERE may be many reasons for Americans to vote for John Kerry over George Bush, but "job quality" isn't one of them. Mr Kerry has been saying that the country is "shipping
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    • 1240 21  -  The following is an exchange of letters between the President of the Executive Council of the Air Line Pilots Association Singapore (Alpa-S) and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, following the reaching of an agreement last week between Alpa-S and SLA management. Lee Kuan Yew To: Honorable
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    • 699 21  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Cynthia Young Singapore PETER Stephens' article (Laos: a development crucible, Sept 14) on the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project and the benefits that will accrue to the people of Laos falls short of convincing the reader. Without going
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    • 482 21  -  Lim Swe Guan, CFA Singapore I REFER to the article "Temasek's NOL offer takes on new shine" by Wong Wei Kong (Hock Lock Siew, Sept 10). His opinion is that Temasek only wants to restore its stake in NOL to above 30 per cent.
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  • BizIT
    • 606 28  -  S'pore stands to benefit from the surge in demand, reports RAJU CHELLAM RAJU CHELLAM LARGE enterprises are ready to invest more money on beefing up their data storage systems to keep up with the continuing uptick in the global economy, new research data from
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    • 332 28  -  Raju Chellam THE demand for HDDs (hard disk drives) is picking up across all markets and is stronger in the current quarter than in the previous one. That prognosis comes from the world's largest HDD maker, Seagate Technology Inc. The company, which is listed
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    • 144 28 SINGAPORE and Kuwait yesterday agreed to work together on a number of e-govern-ment initiatives. The agreement formalised cooperation in e-government between the two countries, and will promote dialogue on e-government issues, so as to identify ways to accelerate its development in Kuwait. Other initiatives include
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    • 383 28  - IT engineers bag nat'l science tech awards Data Storage, STMicro staff among winners By RAJU CHELLAM [SINGAPORE] Researchers from the Data Storage Institute (DSI) and European semiconductor giant STMicroelectronics were among the 11 who won the 2004 National Science and Technology Awards, which were given out yesterday at a dinner
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    • 456 28 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Oracle Corp, the world's third-largest software maker, reported a 16 per cent gain in firstquarter profit on rising demand for its database software. Net income rose to US$5O9 million, or 10 cents a share, from US$44O million, or eight
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    • 274 29  -  Integrated services routers can facilitate intelligent networks By RAJU CHELLAM NETWORK equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc has launched its newest line of routers devices in a network that handle how messages are transferred between computers targeted at SMEs (small and medium enterprises) and branch
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    • 584 29 It becomes the latest player to sell song downloads NYT [NEW YORK] In a move to expand its role in the online music business. Yahoo announced on Tuesday that it would buy Musicmatch, a company that sells music online, for US$l6O million. The move
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    • 161 29 AP [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp announced on Tuesday that it has found a new security flaw with its Windows XP operating system and warned that an attacker could infiltrate other computers by persuading their owners to open a specialised graphics file. The company
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    • 971 28 Notices NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TAT SENG PACKAGING GROUP LTD. (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 28 Senoko Drive, Singapore *****4 on 1 October 2004 at 10.00 a.m. to transact the following business:AS
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  • PROPERTY
    • 671 30  -  Changes to tax rules by government set to propel development of Reit industry in Malaysia By KALPANA RASHIWALA SINGAPORE'S leading real estate investment trust (Reit) manager, Capita Land, is gunning for a role in the development of the Reits market in
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    • 270 30  -  By ANDREA TAN POTENTIAL home buyers can look forward to visiting at least four showflats this weekend. Far East Organization is officially launching its Soho at Central next to Clarke Quay MRT station. Listed property and construction group Chip Eng Seng is having a
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    • 983 31  -  ANDREA TAN talks to Ascott's new CEO who has lofty ambitions for the serviced apartment firm ANDREATAN GOOD is not enough for Cameron Ong, the newly appointed chief of serviced apartment group Ascott. "Great" is what he's after. Just six weeks into the job, Mr Ong
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    • 317 31  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA COLLIERS International Asset Management (CIAM) yesterday bagged the job of managing 24 vacant state sites from the Singapore Land Authority and its chief operating officer, Wong Yew Heng, told BT it won't lose money from the contract
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    • 125 31 I Got the right home? Now get the right home loan. I Buying a house in Singapore is a heavy investment. However, you can still have the freedom to live life the way you want, with HSBC home loans. Enjoy these benefits when you take up an HSBC home loan:
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  • MADE IN SINGAPORE
    • 861 32  -  Technics Group may be in the red last year but the specialist engineering firm is banking on growth picking up next year. Its MD shares more with CONRAD TAN CONRAD TAN SPECIALIST engineering firm Technics Group Holdings has been through some rather turbulent times,
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    • 1062 32  -  By JESSICA CHEAM JUST as Singapore began as a small country with big aspirations, this homegrown company has learnt that we are never too small to have big dreams. Kensteel Engineering Pte Ltd began as a small manufacturing company in 1993 and
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    • 857 32 WHO would have guessed that a non-oil producing city-state like Singapore is today the world's third-largest oil refinery hub, after Rotterdam and Houston? Not only that, Singapore has also been a major oil trading hub since the early 1900s. As one might imagine, Singapore's position as a key oil refinery
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