The Business Times, 25 November 2004

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE online at hltp^/business-time&asial.conLsg MICA (P) 023/03/2004 Thursday November2s,2oo4
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  • Article
    Lock icon CAO parent blocks SPC deal in shock move
    866 1  -  Company says it's seeking legal advice in connection with its parent's vote By KENNETH LIM [SINGAPORE] 'Twas the month before Christmas, and the parent of China Aviation Oil (CAO) said at a truly extraordinary general meeting yesterday that its child cannot spend
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    139 1 Dsn 2.040.19 (+10.33) ST INDEX FUTURES 2.016.00 (unch) SIMSCI 242.06 (+0.86) SIMSCI FUTURES 242.10 (+0.50) MARKETS Wednesday Change KISECOMP 910.86 +1.48 NIKKEI 225 10.872.33 +22.94 HANG SENG 13,997.02 -26.27 SET INDEX 643.06 -7.81 JAKARTA COMP 961.32 +2.31 MANILA COMP 1.826.19 +14.96 SEOUL COMP 872.56 +12.16 SHENZHEN B 238.99
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    Lock icon CONTENTS
    47 1 TOP STORIES ...PG 2,3 COMPANIES... PG4-8 MARKETS PG 8 BLUE CHIPS PG 9 SINGAPORE PG 10 ECONOMY PG 12 M'SIA/INDON.. PG 13 CHINA PG 14 WORLD PG 17 AVIATION PG 18 SHIPPING PG 19 EDITORIAL PG 20 STOCKS PG 22-23 BIZIT PG 28-29 PROPERTY.. PG 30-32
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    Lock icon S'pore Business Federation chief Cedric Chan quits
    375 1  -  By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] In a surprise announcement, the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) said yesterday that its high-profile chief executive Cedric Chan has left the job after just six months. Earlier in the day, there had been talk that Mr Chan who
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon GIC hikes stake in Proton to about 5%
      535 2  -  Move reflects warmer ties between S'pore and Malaysia: analysts By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) has emerged as a substantial shareholder of Malaysia's national carmaker Proton. GIC, which already owns 4.81 per cent of Proton,
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    • Article
      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      664 2 M'sian pays dearly for running bootleg movie site A MALAYSIAN resident who ran a website that offered pirated films for a fee was ordered by a California court to pay US$23.B million to movie studios, the industry's trade group said on Tuesday. The studios had sued Tan Soo
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      Lock icon Malaysian pays dearly for running bootleg movie site
      215 3 AFP [LOS ANGELES] A Malaysian resident who ran a website that charged users to watch pirated films was ordered by a California court to pay US$23.B million to movie studios, the industry's trade group said on Tuesday. The studios had sued Tan
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Hong Leong in $900m luxurious hotel, residential project
      510 3  -  Deal includes a six-star hotel with the St Regis branding and 255 homes By VINCE CHONG [SINGAPORE] Tycoon Kwek Leng Beng's Hong Leong Group will jointly develop a $900 million project comprising a six-star hotel and 255 luxury homes. The integrated development
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • Article
      Lock icon CAO owes shareholders a lot of explanation
      623 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By WONG WEI KONG flft tj HAT'S happening at China £5 M a Aviation Oil (Singapore) is g g bewildering, to say the least. ♦J m W Whatever transpires Jfnext, CAO, widely considered the best **China play on the Singapore
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      Lock icon Twists and turns in the saga
      514 4  -  Latest twist in story came at CAO's EGM yesterday By JOYCE KOH FOR a while, China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation, or CAO, was a darling stock that could do no wrong as its share price shot up like a rocket since last year. But
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      Lock icon From market darling to...
      446 4 March 28,2003: FY2002 earnings rose 19 per cent to $48.2 million, buoyed by strategic acquisitions in Shanghai and Spain. Proposed a one-for-five bonus share issue. Sept 26: Aborted plans to buy a stake in an Asean company because of high price. fj "There were rumouiViafche market
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      Lock icon SingTel's weighting on MSCI indices may rise
      285 4 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Telecommunications may have its representation in Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc's indices increased after Temasek Holdings sold shares in the phone company this month. Temasek, the Singapore investment company, sold 339 million shares, or about 2 per cent of the outstanding
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      Lock icon Robinson picks Marks & Spencer's HK chief as CEO
      693 4  - Robinson picks Marks Spencer's HK chief as CEO Appointment could help retailer venture overseas By KALPANA RASHIWALA IN a move that could signal its intention to venture overseas, blue-chip retailer Robinson has picked as its new CEO a 37-year-old, Mandarin-speaking British from the Marks Spencer Group who heads the British
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      Lock icon ComfortDelGro buys UK taxi-hire business
      527 5 It ties up with the maker of London's black cabs to expand its UK operations and boost overseas sales Bloomberg COMFORTDELGRO will pay Manganese, the maker of London's black cabs, £1 (553.09) as a token sum for the Zingo taxi-hiring business under a 20year agreement,
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      Lock icon 2G Capital buys 20% of Junma IPO shares
      529 5  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN PRIVATE investment firm 2G Capital has taken up a fifth of the initial public offer shares of Junma Tyre Cord Company. 2G the investment vehicle of Tommie Goh and Gay Chee Cheong has subscribed to 19.6 per cent of
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      Lock icon Sinomem exec director places out 20m shares
      383 7  -  Sale of 5% stake to institutions sparks heavy trading, lifts shares up to 9.5% By JOYCE KOH AFTER a sharp spike in its share price and volume trading yesterday and a query from the Singapore Exchange, Sinomem Technology yesterday came out to say
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon ST Engg's US unit wins US$3lm ferry order
        64 7 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering's US unit, VT Halter Marine, has won a US$3l million order to build a double-ended pas-senger-vehicle ferry for Nantucket Steamship Authority (SSA), a public entity of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The ferry, which will be able to accommodate 1,200
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        Lock icon Shanghai Asia to buy 25.5% stake in LTCP
        76 7 SHANGHAI Asia Holdings has entered into two share transfer agreements with shareholders of Liaoning Tianli Colour Printing Co (LTCP) namely Jiangyin Liantong Enterprise Co Ltd and Everbright International Group Ltd of Hong Kong—to acquire a 25.5 per cent stake in LTCP for
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        Lock icon Pan United wins two contracts worth $45m
        71 7 PAN United Marine Ltd has secured two shipbuilding contracts worth $45 million from Swire Pacific Offshore Operations, a wholly owned unit of Hong Kong's Swire Group. The two anchorhandling tug supply vessels to be built are scheduled for delivery in the first half
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        Lock icon Jackspeed buys rest of Thai leather unit
        43 7 JACKSPEED Corporation Ltd had on Nov 1 bought the remaining 20 per cent of the total issued capital in Jackspeed Leather Manufacture (Thailand) Co Ltd for 2.17 million baht (S$90,000), making it a wholly owned subsidiary.
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      Lock icon HG Metal's profit jumps 5-fold to $16.6m
      467 7  -  By VINCE CHONG DESPITE a shorter reporting period of 11 months because of a change in financial year-end, steel trader HG Metal Manufacturing's FY2004 net profit soared more than five-fold to a record high of $16.6 million. The $16.6 million earnings for the
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      Lock icon Chartered slips to 4th spot in global foundry rankings
      625 8  -  BT exclusive China's rapidly expanding SMIC outperformed it to clinch the 3rd place By RAJU CHELLAM THE slowdown in the chip sector seems to have inadvertently claimed a victim: Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing slipped from the third spot in the global
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      Lock icon Newsprint supplier ups prices by 5-7%
      316 8  -  By JOYCE KOH ONCE again, newsprint prices are going up. Pan Asia Paper, one of the top suppliers of newsprint and other publication paper in the region, yesterday said it is increasing its prices by 5-7 per cent for its Asian export markets, effective
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Property, tech stocks boost ST Index
      528 6  -  STOCKS Some dealers believe foreign funds are buying S'pore property stocks as part of their regional portfolio reshuffle TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent BUYING in property and technology counters helped the market to gain for a second day. The Straits Times Index rose 10.33
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      818 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM Stariiub Nov 24 dose: SO CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON, Nov 24 ue to drive subscriber and growth. At the same time, the recent launch of Its digital cable-TV service should drive cable-TV subscriber and ARPU (average revenue per unit) growth. ing leverage, we project
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      413 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 24 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 24.00 +188.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 +43.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +3.00 AH-SG Equities 523.20 +1.92 SG Equities Elect 159.28 +1.76 SG Equities Fin 1609.26 +7.79 SG Equities Prop 515.37 +11.47 SIMSCI 242.06 +0.86 SiMSCI Futures 242.10 +0.50 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME 5'nomtm
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      Lock icon Downside target of S$1.6 for greenback
      522 6  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent OVERNIGHT comments from the Russian central bank provided •frgflfIl,er1 l, er good unpopular Usfpollar to tumble to more fresh lows in Asian trading yesterday. And, as this kind of slide continues, longer-term downside objectives for the greenback versus the
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Lafe CEO's stake increased further
        92 6 LAFE Technology chairman and chief executive Christopher Ho Wing-On's deemed interest rose to 63.68 per cent from 63.63 per cent after the Grande Group bought 485,000 shares on the open market yesterday. The shares were bought at 18 cents apiece. Mr Ho's stake in the
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        Lock icon Adroit MD's wife buys shares in open market
        111 6 THE wife of Adroit Innovations managing director Richard Chan Sing En bought 500,000 shares on the open market on Monday at 4.5 cents apiece through a Mayban nominee account. The purchase by Ms Low Chin Yen brings the couple's combined shareholding to
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        Lock icon QAF unit accumulates more PSC shares
        97 6 QAF's unit Pemscorp bought 10.2 million shares of PSC Corp on Monday in a series of purchases and now controls an 18.08 per cent stake of the Econ Minimart franchise owner from 17.53 per cent previously. No pricing details were disclosed. QAF, a food
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        Lock icon Sam Goi's stake raised in Youcan Foods
        112 6 FOOD magnate Sam Goi's deemed holdings in newly listed Youcan Foods International now stands at 15.36 per cent from 14.99 per cent after Chinatown Food Corp bought 700,000 shares in a transaction on Youcan's Monday debut. No pricing information was released. Mr Goi,
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        Lock icon MFS units' director converts options
        55 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM A DIRECTOR of two MFS Technology subsidiaries converted 96,000 share options on Tuesday. The options were exercised at 76 cents apiece, bringing Mr Peter Tan's shareholding up to 0.02 per cent from 0.01 per cent. MFS shares gained one cent yesterday
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  • BLUE CHIPS
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      Lock icon Market divided over Datacraft
      745 9  -  Shares soar but results unremarkable, reports WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG JUST looking at the recent surge in the share price of Datacraft Asia, the IT company looks set to reclaim its blue-chip status. But market opinion remains divided on its appeal as an investment
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      34 9 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS LEGEND:All prices are indicative;Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused;$ Lower Risk;^ Low to Medium Risk;& Medium to High Risk;** Higher Risk;open-ended;+Before subdivision of units;After subdivision of units;SP after stock split N.A-Non Dealing Day
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Chinese curriculum revamp helps bilingualism: Tharman
      648 10  -  YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT Bilingualism policy will fail if students are incompetent in mother tongue By CHUANG PECK MING SO hung up are many of us with the details of the overhaul in the teaching of Chinese language in schools that we have overlooked a
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      Lock icon Sanyo Electric to shut plant
      399 10 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Sanyo Electric Co Ltd said yesterday it would raise its stake in a Thai unit and close a factory in Singapore as part of a plan to streamline production of home appliances in South-east Asia. Sanyo is gearing up for intense competition
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      Lock icon Marginal rise seen for Oct manufacturing
      448 10 Reuters SINGAPORE'S factory output probably rose marginally in October after dipping in September and August, as electronics production offset weaker pharmaceuticals output, a Reuters poll showed yesterday. Since April, factory output has fallen every month apart from July. The threemonth moving average has been
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      Lock icon S'pore still has edge as commo trading hub
      571 10  -  By CHEN HUIFEN SHANGHAI may be a contender for Singapore's position as a commodity trading hub, but Jeffrey Chen, who heads the energy risk management desk at SG Corporate Investment Banking (SGCIB), reckons it is "not really a short-term threat". "It's possible
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      Lock icon Intensive coaching for budding entrepreneurs
      246 10 STARTING an enterprise may be daunting, but some "hand-holding" is now available for those who are starting out on this path. A Business Clinic was launched yesterday by the Innovators Entrepreneurs Association (IdEA). This is the first comprehensive programme in Singapore to help entrepreneurs through
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      Lock icon FedEx opens financial services centre
      130 10 Xinhua [SINGAPORE] FedEx, the world's largest express delivery company, opened a financial services centre in Singapore, the first of its kind outside the United States. Local press reports yesterday quoted David Cunningham, Fed Ex's Asia Pacific president, as attributing the choice of the centre's location
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  • FOCUS: SERVICES
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      Lock icon PTC hones competitive edge
      1333 11  -  LOGISTICS It offers door-to-door service to any part of the world for locally-based manufacturers to keep their loyalty, reports NANDE KHIN NANDE KHIN LAST week, we looked at a logistics company that many consumers are familiar with, DHL. Fewer people are, however, familiar with chemical logistics
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Consumer confidence higher in Asia than West
      461 12 53% in Asia upbeat on growth, against 43% in US, 31% in Europe: survey Bloomberg [LONDON] Asian consumers, led by Chinese and Indians, are more confident than their European and US counterparts as their economies outperform the rest of the world, a survey
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      Lock icon Boost from cheaper petrol
      282 12 Reuters. Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US consumer sentiment brightened slightly in November, helped by cheaper gasoline and a better jobs outlook, a survey released yesterday showed. The University of Michigan's final reading of its consumer confidence index for November was 92.8, up from a final October reading of
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      Lock icon Surging euro a boost for Asian economies
      615 12 AP [SHANGHAI] Asia knows all too well the power of currency markets to wreak havoc on regional economies the upheavals of the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s ensured that. This time around, currency speculators are bestowing a windfall on Asia, as
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      Lock icon Indon deficit expected to exceed forecast: minister
      437 12 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia will probably miss its budget deficit forecast this year as record oil prices push up the cost of fuel subsidies, Finance Minister Jusuf Anwar said. The shortfall may reach as much as 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP),
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Time for KL to review ringgit peg
      703 13 Ratings agency Fitch says now is good time as economy is strong Reuters. Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] The time is ripe for Malaysia to consider reviewing the ringgit currency's peg to the US dollar, since the economy is so strong, ratings agency Fitch said
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      Lock icon Indon Supreme Court rules in favour of US power firm
      156 13 AFP [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a US-based power company against state oil and gas firm Pertamina, overturning a lower court ruling, a lawyer involved in the case said. "We are very pleased with the
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      Lock icon TRULY MALAYSIA
      42 13 [KUALA LUMPUR]A model displays an outfit by Malaysian designer Rizalman Ibrahim during the Kuala Lumpur Asia Fashion Week. It is the first event in Malaysia with the main aim of promoting Kuala Lumpur as the fashion hub of Asia. AFP
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    • Article
      Lock icon DRB-Hicom tussle to end soon: chairman
      245 13 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] DRB-Hicom Bhd chairman Saleh Sulong has said that a tussle between two groups to acquire a stake in the Malaysian car group is "close" to a resolution. "I believe and I hope that we are already this close to ending this
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      Lock icon Genting shares hit eight-month high
      343 13 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Shares of Genting Bhd, Asia's biggest publicly traded casino group, rose to an eightmonth high on expectations that its plan to develop Las Vegas-style casinos in Britain with the UK's Stanley Leisure Pic will bolster profit. Stanley Leisure, the largest UK casino
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Foreign networks rush to tie up with China TV firms
      565 14 They are taking advantage of new rules to set up de facto channels Reuters [HONG KONG] Many of the world's biggest cable TV networks, including HBO and Nickelodeon, are taking advantage of newly relaxed laws governing media investment to set
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      87 14 AP SHANGAI from corrupt oflßci&b Chinese le&ci case since the founding of the communist state in 1949. "•V Since the scandal broke four years ago, Lai has become a poster boy for the Chinese leadership's an-ti-corruption efforts. Exhibitions and television shows have detailed his alleged crimes
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      Lock icon IN FULL SWING
      63 14 [BEIJING]A Chinese worker attaches a net onto a scaffolding at the construction site for a new skyscraper in Beijing's business district. China's interest rate hike is set to hurt first-time home buyers rather than deflate a speculative bubble on high-end apartments. Property prices have tripled in five
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      Lock icon Beijing speeding up plans to revalue yuan
      495 14 Move will help slow inflation and cool economic growth Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China may relax the yuan's decade-old peg to the dollar by April 1 as the government attempts to slow inflation and cool economic growth, analysts at Bank of America Corp and
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    • Article
      Lock icon China insurance premiums up 13.7%
      274 14 Reuters [BEIJING] Insurance premiums in China rose 13.7 per cent in the first 10 months of 2004 from a year earlier, the official Economic Information Daily said yesterday, a further sign of revival after a recent slowdown. The growth was faster than the year-on-year 12.5
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      Lock icon Foundation laid for tallest tower
      136 14 AP [SHANGHAI] Construction of a 101-storey skyscraper, billed as the world's largest future building, has resumed after a near sevenyear delay with the laying of the foundation, the Shanghai Daily said yesterday. Japan-based Mori Building Co on Tuesday signed deals with two local building contractors
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      502 15 FAMILY FEUD He declares his resignation is not connected to the issue of ownership Bloomberg, AFP [MUMBAI] Mansingh L Bhakta said he resigned as director from Reliance Industries Ltd because of his "advancing age" and that his departure wasn't connected to the issue of
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      Lock icon Wage hike deal to cost Indian banks 22b rupees
      245 15 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] State Bank of India, the nation's largest lender, and other banks have agreed to increase wages by as much as 22 billion rupees (SsBo3 million) in a move that may crimp profit. The Indian Banks' Association, which represents management,
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      156 15 AFP [NEW DELHI] South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Tue: lay it will double the numbe of software professionals i its centre in Bangalore t 1,400 over the next thre years. K S Kim, president c Samsung South West Asia, said the number of employees
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      170 15 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] McDowell Co, India's largest liquor company, is likely to gain control of Herbertsons Ltd, allowing Vijay Mallya's UB Group to proceed with a plan to consolidate its liquor businesses. "We are close to a settlement," AK Ravi Nedungadi, chief
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      451 16 First quarterly decline in almost two years points to slowdown in sector Reuters, Bloomberg [TOKYO] The utilisation rate of the world's chip factories fell in July-Septem-ber from the previous quarter, the first decline in almost two years and the latest evidence of
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      495 16 Studies show parties stand to gain A$48b a year Reuters [CANBERRA] A free trade agreement being pursued between Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia would boost regional trade but could also help Australia cement its sometimes uncertain friendships in Asia, analysts say.
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      145 16 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea will begin negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) next year, Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon said yesterday. Seoul will make an official announcement when President Roh Moo Hyun attends a
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      554 16 Hollywood's big-time financier tells how he picks winners Bloomberg HOLLYWOOD'S biggest banker never reads a .script. John Miller, head of JPMorgan Securities Inc's entertainment group in Los Angeles, says he often doesn't even know the names of the films he's financing. And he's responsible
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      426 16 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Intel Corp* the world's biggest semiconductor maker, said it's helping Chinese and Indian customers build personal computers that use the Linux operating system, an alternative to Microsoft Corp's Windows software. Intel is providing customers with software drivers, documentation
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      593 17 Wall St firms under probe over expensive gifts to win business NYT [NEW YORK] Regulators are apparently not basking in the spirit of holiday giving, at least where Wall Street is concerned. NASD, which is the regulatory arm of the Nasdaq stock market, and the
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      298 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Women hold more top jobs on Wall Street than ever before, even though their overall numbers dropped in the three-year bear market from 2000 to 2002, according to the Securities Industry Association (SIA). Some 19 per cent of managing directors in
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      163 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Google Inc, owner of the world's most-used Internet search engine, jumped in extended trading after Goldman, Sachs Co rated the company "outperform" and said the stock may climb 28 per cent over the next year. Shares of the Mountain View, California-based
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        105 17 AP [TOKYO] UFJ, one of Japan's "Big Four" banking groups, said yesterday it suffered a net loss 0f674.3 billion yen (Sslo.B billion) in the first six months of the fiscal year as it struggled to rid itself of mounting bad debts. UFJ said it
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        74 17 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's Intercontinental Hotels Group pic hopes to announce the sale of 20 hotels in North America for up to £505 million (Ssl.6 billion), the Times newspaper reported yesterday. The Times said the announcement of a sale in two tranches could come before the end of
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        68 17 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Mandiri, Indonesia's biggest lender by assets, said profit rose 19 per cent in the nine months to Sept 30 as lower interest rates encouraged companies and consumers to borrow more and the cost of funds fell. Profit rose to 4.48 trillion
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        72 17 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia, the nation's fourth-largest lender, said profit rose 48 per cent in the nine months ended Sept 30 on rising demand for credit in an economy growing at its fastest pace in four years. Profit rose to 2.7 trillion
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        89 17 AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's business community is becoming more upbeat about the local economy over the next two years although it is increasingly dissatisfied with the environment, a survey said yesterday. The study by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) found over
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        63 17 AFP [LONDON] Easy Group, the holding company of no-frills British airline easy Jet, is close to striking a deal to launch a low-cost mobile telephone service in Britain, the Financial Times reported yesterday. Easy Group founder Stelios Haji-loannou is keen to launch a mobile service in
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        60 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] Cingular Wireless will cut 7,ooojobs, or 10 per cent of its workforce, to cut costs as it integrates recently purchased AT&T Wireless, the company said on Tuesday. Cingular, owned by SBC Communications Inc and Bell South Corp, said the cuts would
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      43 17 [LONDON] Britain's Queen Elizabeth II making her speech in the chamber of the House of Lords, during the state opening of Parliament on Tuesday. The Queen's speech is an outline of the government's legislative plans for the forthcoming parliamentary year. AP
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      345 17 Agreement covers insurance sales to two companies LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] American International Group Inc (AIG) has reached tentative agreements with the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle investigations into its sale of "income smoothing" insurance to two companies that may
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      Lock icon Air France-KLM Q2 profit surges 41 %
      478 18 Air France-KLM Q2 profit surges 41 Benefits of the carriers' merger turn out better than expected Bloomberg AFP. [PARIS] Air France-KLM reported yesterday solid profit gains in line with analysts' forecasts for its first results incorporating fully the performance of Dutch airline KLM which it now controls. The airline, born
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      158 18 AP [BEIJING] The flight recorders of an airliner that exploded and crashed into a lake in northern China, killing 55 people, were found yesterday after a three-day search by police and divers, the government said. The flight data and cockpit voice recorders
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      306 18 Reuters [WASHINGTON] US state and local air pollution control officials said they are pulling out of five-year-old talks to develop a voluntary programme for reducing pollution from aircraft engines. A pollution-fighting deal with the aviation sector which is expected to
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      269 18 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways and Hong Kong Dragon Airlines, the city's two biggest passenger carriers, will increase surcharges on tickets for the second time in three months to cover higher fuel costs. Cathay Pacific on Dec 1 will raise the
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      234 18 Reuters [NEW YORK] United Airlines, which is trying to save US$725 million a year, has offered its pilots two ways to cut their salaries, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The No 2 US airline, which has been operating under Chapter
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      583 18 Reuters [WASHINGTON], Struggling American airlines will stuff their planes with passengers this week to start the holiday travel season, but there is no expectation they will salvage much to ease the sting of big losses this year, US airlines
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      385 18 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), AI: Air India (AK), AY Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA),BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), BI: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR EVA
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      419 19  -  Steps to improve navigational safety in Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait By EVELYN DUFFY in Perth AN upgraded ship reporting system for travelling through Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait comes into effect on Dec 1. The system, known as Reefrep, will become
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      405 19  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] PSA International yesterday denied an Indian newspaper report that it had made a financial bid for a stake in Royal Dutch Shell's proposed multi-cargo project at Hazira Port in India. PSA International issued a statement yesterday
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      435 19 Reuters [SEOUL] Panamax dry bulk rates this week are up more than 20 per cent from a year ago, backed by strong Asian demand to ship iron ore and grains. Demand for charters of panamax ships is also being driven up by
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      Lock icon Cosco, China power firm sign partnership deal
      272 19 Xinhua [BEIJING] China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (Cosco), China's largest shipping company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Huaneng Power Group, the top Chinese electricity producer, to become the latter's long-term carrier. The move comes as Chinese companies are seeking to secure
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      616 19 Reuters (GDANSK, Poland] Once the scene of the Solidarity strikes which broke the back of communism, a new investment seeks to turn Poland's historic Gdansk shipyard into Eastern Europe's answer to the London docklands. Venture capital funds backed tyy the US
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      199 19 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] The Port of Seattle expects to handle a record 1.72 million containers this year, up 16 per cent from 2003, because of increased US purchases of goods from China. The number of 20-foot containers will rise from 1.486 million
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      292 19 S6X '000 No»24 SS W- Vol CHOffshore .039 unch 528 ChuanHup .0.65 unch 1457 Cosco Corporation 1.19 -0.01 7317 CWT Distnbution 0.55 unch 0 EzraHidgs 1.13 0.05 287 Freight Links .0.10 unch 205 Grand Banks Yacht 0.90 0.01 56 Jaya Holdings 1.03 unch 1303 K1 Venture 0-25 -0.01
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      517 20 EDITORIAL THERE have, thankfully, been no economic consequences for Thailand over recent events in the deep south that left scores dead. The administration of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has devoted considerable efforts to find solutions to a historical problem that has now been brought to the international
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      721 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE SHADA ISLAM Brussels Correspondent IT has been a tough three weeks for Jose Manuel Barrc.so. But the 48-year-old former Portuguese premier was finally voted in as the new European Commission president by the bloc's Parliament on Nov 18
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      990 20  -  Investors are cashing in by buying more than US$450b of bad bank loans at a fraction of their cost WILLIAM PESEK JR IT DIDN'T make banner headlines, yet Citigroup Inc's investment in a Hong Kong-listed real estate outfit portends one of the big stories of
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      1065 21  -  Spurred by the dollar's fall, foreign investors were net sellers of US$5.9b of US stocks in Aug and Sept and the outflow is likely to continue By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER NYT ARE foreign investors souring on Wall Street? The data says yes. In September and
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      686 21  -  By DANIEL ALTMAN IHT f f INGLE, mostly Muslim country with 69 million people, fairly attractive private sector, slight inflation problem, seeks closer relations with neighbours (free-trade agreements, foreign direct investment, maybe more?), multiple partners OK." So might read a personal ad for
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      Lock icon Asti poised to enter new market
      628 28  -  In deal with Unisteel, it will supply cutting-edge tools to detect defects in semicon fasteners, CEO Charles Cher tells RAJU CHELLAM BT exclusive RAJU CHELLAM SESDAQ-LISTED Asti Holdings Ltd, which makes specialised semicon equipment, has tied up with mainboard-listed Unisteel Technology Ltd, to supply
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      256 28  -  By ROLAND LIM TWO local projects have won grants under the Samsung Digit All Hope programme, which supports research that helps the disabled to lead full and independent lives. One winner was the "Brainy Communicator", which aims to enable people with severe physical disabilities
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      Lock icon E-Book Systems, SoftBank in joint venture
      351 28  -  By ROLAND LIM HOMEGROWN software company E-Book Systems (EBS), creator of the popular Flip Album software, has formed a joint venture company with Softßank Media and Marketing Group (SBMM), a subsidiary of Japanese digital media giant Softßank, to push its electronic publishing technologies in
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      Lock icon eBay uses snail-mail to hook new users
      178 28 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Online marketplace and auctioneer eßay Inc is using a decidedly low-tech retail tool to lure more Christmas shoppers: a glossy, 32-page catalogue. With the move, eßay joins Internet companies such as Amazon.com and Red Envelope in using catalogues to reach
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      Lock icon Gemplus eyes growth in 3G SIM cards
      872 29  -  Smart card maker sees telecoms and financial sectors as main avenues of growth, reports AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY LEADING smart card maker Gemplus is following the impending roll-out pf 3G networks by Singapore's three telcos with strong interest. The reason: it
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      Lock icon Smart card sector seen growing 9-10% a year
      232 29 RESEARCH agency Frost Sullivan, which closely tracks smart cards in AsiaPacific, expects 9 to 10 per cent yearly growth for the industry in this region. Factors driving this growth include telecom applications, particularly SIM cards; efforts to reduce fraud in the financial
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      481 29 IHT [BERLIN] Lars Gravesen, a Danish computer engineer, rarely got to see his wife Tina, a nurse who worked long hours making house calls to 20 patients a day in the suburbs of Copenhagen. So Mr Gravesen, a 36-year-old entrepreneur, devised a solution this
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      16 28 INTERVIEW Smart card maker Gemplus is hoping to ride on the migration to 3G phones. PG29
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      222 29 NOKIA V; y< v The megapixel Nokia 6670 imaging phone. 9B& \j' Welcome to the perfect work tool. Now you can view Microsoft* Office* applications with ease while on the move. With dual language capability and dictionary, communicating in English and Chinese is a breeze! It's official, the new multifunction
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  • PROPERTY
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      Lock icon Vito Koh leaves MCL Land for UIC
      259 30  -  He is second person to leave MCL after ex-MD Lim Ee Seng By KALPANA RASHIWALA VITO Koh, MCL Land's general manager (business development and marketing) is leaving the property company for United Industrial Corporation, sources told BT yesterday. Mr Koh is expected to
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      Lock icon Plans to raise the buzz on Orchard Rd
      558 30  -  Vacant sites, carparks being considered for development By ANDREA TAN SHOPAHOLICS can look forward to even more places to spend their money along Orchard Road in a few years. Several vacant sites and carparks along the famous shopping strip are being considered
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      Lock icon AIG, 8 others to invest in HK Reit
      507 30 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] American International Group (AIG) and eight other investors will buy HK54.45 billion (Ss94l million) of the shares in an initial public offer of the Hong Kong government's first real estate investment trust next month. AIG, AMP Ltd and the
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      Lock icon Nathan Court, adjoining site sold for $26m
      335 31  -  They can be built to an apartment project with 50 units of 1,200 sq ft By KALPANA RASHIWALA Court and an adjoining site have been sold ffiir about $26 million or £}00 per square foot of potential gross floor area, Jiurces told BT.
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      296 31  -  By ANDREA TAN TWO freehold sites at Upper Paya Lebar and the Rangoon area have been put up for collective sales. They are How Sun Park in Paya Lebar and Northern Mansions at Mergui Road. "How Sun Park is expected to fetch
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