The Business Times, 13 December 2004

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http^/busmess-time&assal.conksg MICA (F) Q23K8Q004 Monte*, Detente 13l 20M
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    Lock icon S'pore is top M&A player in the region
    740 1  -  It bought the most foreign assets by volume By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Singapore is the largest buyer of foreign assets in the region by volume, reflecting its saturated domestic market, and this trend is likely to continue, according to Vishal Sharma,
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    137 1 MARKETS Week Chge STI 2016.33 -45.25 KLSE COMP 894.23 -22.94 NIKKEI 225 *****.80 -318.09 HANG SENG *****.81 -310.03 SET INDEX 648.78 -15.06 JAKARTA COMP 945.23 -36.18 MANILA COMP ....1753.47 -63.52 TAIPEI TAIEX 5911.63 +18.36 SEOUL COMP 844.85 -37.70 SHENZHEN B 238.21 -2.10 AUSTALLORD 3911.40 -40.00 DOW JONES *****.22
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    46 1 TOP STORIES PG 2 MARKETS PG 4,6 COMPANIES... PG 5,7 DINING OUT PG 10 ECONOMY PG 13 M'SIA/INDON.. PG 14 CHINA PG 15 INDIA PG 16 ASIA-PACIFIC.. PG 17 WORLD PG 18 AVIATION PG 19 SHIPPING PG 20 STOCKS PG 22,22 BIZIT PG 28 30
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    Lock icon How to get a free ride to space
    367 1  -  You only have to win a series of software quizzes By RAJU CHELLAM in San Francisco CALLING all software developers, computer programmers and systems analysts in Singapore. Here's your chance to win a free trip to outer space. All you have to
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      30 1 CAO DEBACLE Global markets may look closer at IPOs: analysts pgs VIEWS FROM THE TOP FOREIGN TALENTGETTING THE RIGHT BALANCE Should the government further liberalise companies' access to foreign workers?
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      27 1 FAMILY FEUD Reliance chief to abide by mother's wish to settle power struggle PGI6 H B9 K'fl Hlr Mm B*9 m %L lr Santos 100 1904-2004 Ca/lie/'
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      5 1 YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM financial institution
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    Lock icon Waging bets on faulty premises
    760 2  -  COMMENTARY An academic analysis of the casino-for-Singapore proposal is based on questionable assumptions and biases VIKRAM KHANNA Associate Editor ON DEC 3, BT ran an article by two Singapore-based academics, who ambitiously purported to estimate the net quantitative impact on Singapore's GDP of a casino
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    Lock icon Interest rate concerns grip investors
    757 2  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT FOMC statement will set mood for trading this week By ANDREW MARKS in New York THE black cloud of rising interest rates will come floating into view this week as the Federal Reserve's policy-making committee gathers tomorrow for an expected short-term rates
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    Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
    564 2 CAO scandal will raise wariness about Chinese IPOs THE China Aviation Oil affair involving US$55O million losses in speculative oil derivate trading will push foreign investors to take a closer look at future Chinese share sales, say analysts. It has once again drawn attention to the problem China
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Year-end rally not a certainty this time
      696 4  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent What are the chances of a year-end rally? This has to be the question at the forefront of everyone's minds as we head into the final two weeks of 2004 with a possible fifth US interest rate hike
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      Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
      456 4 Compiled by Thomson Financial I/B/E/S OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Dec 10 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -590.00 +4SL00 BT CADI -47.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -59.00 All-SG Equities 516.53 +2.51 SG Equities Elect 159.23 +1.68 SG Equities Fin 1579.74 +7.13 SG Equities Prop 500.79 +4.59 SIMSCI 239.46 +1.47 SiMSCI Futures
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      Lock icon Asian units dip against resurgent US$
      333 4 CURRENCIES AFP IHONG KONG] Asian currencies retreated against the US dollar as it rallied following a period of heavy falls. Japanese yen: The yen dipped to three-week lows against the US dollar as the greenback was bought back for technical position-adjustment after its recent
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      Lock icon WEEK AHEAD
      83 4 Investor events to watch out for Kyodo-Allied, transfer to mainboard from Sesdaq, Dec 13 HoWah, EGM, Dec 13 Cheung Woh's dividend payment, Dec 13 GP Ind's dividend payment, Dec 13 CSA's dividend payment, Dec 14 Ezra Hldgs, AGM, Dec 15 Natsteel, EGM, Dec 15 Mentor Media's dividend payment,
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon CAO scandal will raise foreign wariness about Chinese IPOs
      685 5 Analysts say it could spur demands for discounts by investors AFP [BEIJING] The arrest of the chief executive of China Aviation Oil (CAO), listed in Singapore, will push foreign investors to take a closer look at future Chinese share sales, analysts
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      Lock icon Auston scandal puts auditors in the spotlight
      530 5  -  Ernst Young worked on Auston's 2002, 2003 results By KENNETH LIM AUSTON International's revelation that it wrongly reported its financial results for the past three years has cast a spotlight on its auditors, Ernst Young. Auston said on Wednesday that, pending a further
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      Lock icon Raffles Medical calls off deal to buy Penang hospital
      474 7  -  Principal issues could not be satisfactorily resolved By ANDREA TAN RAFFLFS Medical Group (RMG) has called off its proposed RMIIO million (Ss4B million) acquisition of Pe-nang-based Island Hospital Sdn Bhd (IHSB), which the mainboard-listed group unveiled six weeks ago as a
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      Lock icon The numbers game can be deadly
      530 7  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R SIVANITHY IT MUST surely have rankled China Aviation Oil (CAO) shareholders to see chief executive officer Chen Jiulin's grinning countenance plastered all over the front pages of the daily newspapers last week. Although we cannot, at this stage, jump
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      Lock icon Global Crossing offers US$350m notes sale
      417 7 The notes will be issued in US dollars and British pounds Bloomberg (LONDON) Global Crossing Ltd, a fiber-op-tic network operator that emerged from bankruptcy a year ago, will sell US$35O million in notes to get the cash the company had said it needed for
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Buyers still on a roll
      1081 6  -  INSIDE MARKETS 63 purchases worth $7.9m last week versus 18 disposals worth $5.3m, reports ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI DIRECTORS and substantial shareholders I were very bullish on the local market last week with buyers outweighing sellers in II every trading category based on filings from
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      Lock icon Most portfolios suffer heavy losses
      1127 6  -  TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent Funds were pulled out of the second-liners in the Singapore market in a rather drastic manner and, as a result, most of our portfolios suffered one of their biggest one-week losses since they were set up in FebruaQ[^oo3. LasfweelT tfTeTStraits"limes*lndex
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      Lock icon WORKING ON THE BEST FIT
      1286 8 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC Should the government further liberalise companies' access to foreign workers? If so, how should this be done? There is clearly a demand for foreign talent in sectors where the required resources are just not available locally. But a gate-keeping approach is needed
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon New Medishield plan to start in July: Mr Khaw
      348 10 The new MediShield coverage scheme is expected to begin by July, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday. Another round of public consultation will be conducted before details of costs are released in the next two months, Channel News Asia quoted
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      Lock icon Sennheiser subsidiary in Asia-Pac by Q2
      515 10  -  S'pore in running to be base for global development of a product group By DANIEL BUENAS SENNHEISER Electronic, one of the world's leading manufacturers of professional and consumer microphones and headphones, plans to invest around US$B million to set up a subsidiary in Asia
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      Lock icon Just what makes you a Dynamo or Fledgling?
      365 10  -  By NANDE KHIN ARE you an energetic Dynamo or a conservative Day-Grinder? Or, perhaps, you are an impulsive Fledging. According to a recent Nielsen Media Research study, based on your consumption patterns, you belong to one of seven archetypes. "Each of us
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  • DINING OUT
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      Lock icon Tempting festive treats
      1000 11  -  CHEAH UI-HOON suggests some places where you can start indulging now if you can't wait till Christmas to start feasting CHEAH UI-HOON fIMMgpWM IS the season to start feasting as restaurants and hotels roll out the roast turkey, roast beef and honey ham, plus logcakes and puddings
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      Lock icon Hotel festive lunch buffets
      248 11 One-Ninety restaurant. Four Seasons Hotel $47 per person, from 11,30 am to 3pm. From Dec 6-24. Tel: 6831 7250. A buffet spread of modern European festive cuisine. The carving station includes traditional roast US turkey and honey baked ham. Greenhouse, Ritz Carlton Hotel $42 pp from
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
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      Lock icon Your financial institution and you
      766 12  -  By Nande Khin Illustration by Choo Hua Keong DEALING with financial institutions such as banks* brokerages and insurance companies is an unavoidable part of our lives, and some problems, big or small, are bound to crop up in the course of our interactions. This week,
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      Lock icon Michael takes IT global
      676 12  -  CAMPUS LIFE Michael Furdyk, co-founder of an Internet organisation, talks to NANDE KHIN about his mission NANDE KHIN rO-FOUNDER and director of technology with TakingltGlobal.Org, Michael Furdyk, 22, has one major, preoccupation in life right He wants to enable "youth around the world to get access
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      251 12 Be smart with your finances FANCY becoming the next Warren Buffett or George Soros? Or even the famous Robert Kiyosaki? Then read on. The Young Investors' Forum, part of the BT-Citibank T ertiary Outreach Programme, isn't another dry page out of your financial textbook. To complement our editorial content, we
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Opec seeks to quell doubts on oil cut conviction
      370 13 Reuters ICAIROI Opec oil producers said over the weekend that they had already moved to rein in excess supply, a day after doubts about the group's resolve to cut supplies sent prices into a tailspin. Oil prices fell 4 per cent
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      Lock icon Have central banks hobbled US savings?
      716 13 Buying up US debt in huge amounts has let Americans spend too freely Reuters [WASHINGTON] Have Asia's central banks lulled Americans into a false sense of security? While the collapse in US household savings rates over the past decade to near zero make it
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      Lock icon Two world labour bodies decide to merge
      441 13 Reuters [GFNFVAJ Two major world labour union groupings on Friday set course for a merger to boost their struggle against what they see as growing worker exploitation as big companies tighten their grip on the global economy. The link-up, expected to be finalised
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      Lock icon World economic growth to slow to 3% in 2005
      447 13  -  By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORFI World economic growth is set to slow from 4 per cent this year to 3 per cent in 2005, but four "potentially serious threats" could turn the mild slowdown into a slump, says the Economic Intelligence Unit
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      Lock icon China lifts import curbs on steel
      174 13 AFP [BEIJING] China announced on Saturday it has lifted restrictions on the import of steel, natural rubber, wool, acrylic fibers and plywood according to its obligation to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), state media said. "All eligible enterprises can import the five commodities (from
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Bursa Malaysia wins shareholder nod for IPO
      494 14 Approval puts exchange on track to list by end of first quarter next year Reuters. Reuters, Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's stock exchange won shareholder approval on Saturday for its proposed initial public offering next year. The sale was approved by a simple majority
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      Lock icon Telecom Malaysia to invest in Bangladesh
      174 14 Reuters [DHAKAI Telecom Malaysia International Bangladesh (TMIB), the country's sec-ond-largest cellular phone operator, said on Saturday it will invest US$3OO million in the country by 2006. 'This investment will be for network expansion and upgrading of systems with latest technologies and more products," Vijay
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      Lock icon Indonesia, Bumi agree to value Kaltim Prima at US$1.45b
      284 14 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] The way has been cleared for a stake sale with PT Bumi Resources agreeing with the government to value its PT Kaltim Prima Coal unit at US$l.45 billion. The government expects the sale of 32.4 per cent in Kaltim
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      8 14 Compiled by Thomson Financial I/B/E/S
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      Lock icon The twists arid, turns of ringgit policy
      762 14  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT All agree that when change happens on the exchange rate front, it will be unexpected S JAYASANKARAN KL Correspondent HOW things change. Way back in the late 1980s then finance minister, Daim Zainuddin once commented acidly on Malaysia's management of its
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon HK's first Reit priced at HK$10.83 each
      618 15 The 1.97 billion shares offered is priced at the top end of the range Bloomberg. Reuters [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong government priced shares in the city's first real estate investment fund at the top end of the range, raising US$2.7 billion. The
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      Lock icon Taiwan poll results good for markets
      561 15 TAIWAN ELECTION Bloomberg [TAIPEI] The victory of Taiwan opposition parties on Saturday in retaining control of parliament is good news for markets, said analysts yesterday. The vote "is good news for financial markets," said Andrew Yang, secretary of the Council for Advanced Policy Studies
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    • Article
      Lock icon China to end IPO suspension in Jan
      524 15 AFP. Bloomberg [BEIJING] China will end a near four-month suspension of initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2005 when institutional investors will have more say in pricing, China's top securities watchdog said last Saturday. From Jan 1, companies and underwriters wanting to launch IPOs
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      Lock icon China flays US move on anti-dumping duties
      218 15 AFP [BEIJING] China has blasted as "unfair" a US decision to leave punitive duties in place following accusations that Chinese wooden furniture was "dumped" in the United States, state media said yesterday. "If the information is true, then this decision is unfair to
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Reliance chief leaves resolution of feud in hands of mother
      454 16 Chairman Mukesh hasn't sought legal separation of business: source AFP [MUMBAI] It has fallen on the mother to resolve a bitter fraternal power struggle at India's biggest private company that has transfixed the nation for weeks. Mukesh Ambani, chairman of
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      Lock icon Reliance drama gives media new freedom
      543 16 [MUMBAI] The bitter dispute between Mukesh and Anil Ambani, the brothers disputing ownership of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company, is being conducted almost entirely through the media, says a report in the Financial Times. For more than two decades, India's media had
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      Lock icon Central bank taking steps to cut surplus cash: minister
      208 16 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said the central bank is taking steps to reduce surplus cash from the banking system and slow inflation. The Reserve Bank of India, the central bank, in its twice-yearly review of monetary policy
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      Lock icon India's industrial output rises most in 7 yrs
      508 16 Cheap loans, rising rural incomes lift spending in Oct Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India's industrial production grew at its fastest pace in almost seven years in October as cheap loans and rising rural incomes boosted spending during the Hindu festival season. Production at factories,
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon All eyes on tankan to gauge Japan's economy
      438 17  -  Confidence may dip amid slowdown in demand from US, China: analysts By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE fate of Japan's economic recovery will become clearer on Wednesday when the Bank of Japan publishes its latest quarterly tankan survey of corporate sentiment. A
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      Lock icon Sony launches latest handheld game console
      468 17 AFP [TOKYO] Sony launched a frontal assault on Nintendo's domination in the portable game console market yesterday by kicking off sales of its new Play Station Portable (PSP), drawing long lines in Tokyo. About 660 people lined up in front of a Bic Camera
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      Lock icon Talent shortage also key to US offshoring: study
      514 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] While cost savings and competitive pressure are still the most attractive reasons for sending jobs offshore, a new study shows that a lack of enthusiasm for entry-level positions in the US and a talent shortage are also driving the
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      Lock icon Quietly a new international grocery giant emerges
      465 17 With more than 15,000 stores in 34 countries, Spar is now moving into China IHT [PARIS] In the Netherlands, "spar" means "fir tree" like the green symbol that adorns Spar grocery stores. In Dutch, as in German, it also means "save." And the
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      Lock icon Manila stocks, peso look set to go downhill
      502 17  -  By AL LABITA in Manila PHILIPPINE stocks and the peso look headed for a sharp, deep plunge amid talk that foreign credit rating agencies will cut sooner than expected the country's credit ratings by two notches that could prove costly to a
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Are options seducing directors, too?
      563 18 Directors' options align them more with management than shareholders NYT [NEW YORK] Trying to extricate company directors from their chief executives' pockets has been at the heart of many changes in US corporate governance during these dizzying scandal years. Indeed, the most commonly cited cure-all
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Siemens wants to sell mobile unit
        75 18 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Siemens has taken a preliminary decision to dispose of its loss-making mobile phone division, German newspaper Frankfurter AUgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported yesterday. The company is at the very least looking for a partner for a sale of part of the unit, the paper
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        Lock icon Citigroup in Dubai metals centre
        79 18 Reuters [DUBAI] Citigroup said it has joined Dubai Metals $nd Commodities Centre (DMCC), a state-run free zone that aims to make the Gulf emirate a regional hub for commodities. The bank had also joined the Dubai Commodities Receipt system, which was launched in September as
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        Lock icon Wal-Mart December sales rise
        96 18 Bloomberg [PRINCETON] Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, said December sales at US stores open at least a year are rising within its forecast for a gain of as little as one per cent, buoyed by food sales. The company has forecast a gain of
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        Lock icon Fannie regulator bill top priority
        66 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] US Treasury Secretary John Snow considers the creation of a new regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the top legislative priority for financial services, said Senator John Sununu, a New Hampshire Republican. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee almost
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        Lock icon Lucent warrants to settle suits
        89 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Lucent Technologies distributed 200 million warrants to buy shares as part of a more than US$6OO million settlement of shareholder lawsuits. The warrants, part of a December 2003 agreement, allow the purchase of shares of common stock at U552.75 each. They were
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        56 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Time Warner Inc will take a US$6O million pretax charge for severance benefits related to job cuts at its America Online division. The charge will apply in the fourth quarter. On Nov 3, it said restructuring at AOL would cost US$5O
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      287 18 Reuters [LONDON] The London Stock Exchange says it is experiencing very strong growth in trading volumes in the booming sector of exchange traded funds (ETFs), and expects to overtake rival exchanges to be number one in ETFs in Europe. ETFs, which are
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      651 18 NYT [WASHINGTON] President George Bush has nominated Samuel Bodman, the deputy Treasury secretary and a former executive in the chemical industry, as the secretary of energy. As the former chairman and chief executive officer of Cabot Corp, a company that imported
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      341 18 White House now likely to turn to a 'safer' nominee LATWP [WASHINGTON] The abrupt withdrawal of the White House's choice to head the Homeland Security Department is an embarrassing setback for President George W Bush's effort to put his second-term Cabinet in place quickly and
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  • AVIATION
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      Lock icon Viet Air ready to take on giants
      557 19 Following rapid Asia expansion, it has set sights on direct flights to US AFP [HANOI] Yesterday Vietnam, today Asia, tomorrow the United States: Vietnam Airlines has expanded to the point where it is even eyeing the huge American market, a move which would
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      259 19 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International pel, the country's biggest carrier, said it plans to spend 67 billion baht (552.79 billion) this fiscal year on new aircraft, facilities at Thailand's new international airport and other assets. The carrier will take delivery of
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      410 19 Bloomberg [TOULOUSE] European Aeronautic, Defence Space Co (EADS), the controlling shareholder of Airbus, approved the plane maker's 4 billion-euro (558.75 billion) plan to develop a new long-range aircraft, the A 350, to challenge Boeing Co. The A 350 is a variant of Toulouse, France-based Airbus's
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        102 19 AFP [NEW DELHI] India has decided to set up an aviation watchdog and says the national regulator will steer a 400 billion rupee (Ssl 5 billion) programme to revamp the country's ramshackle airports. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, No 2 in India's national planning agency, said
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        88 19 Bernama [KUAIA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and its parent company Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad (PMB) have agreed to the selection of Rolls Royce T rent 900 engines for the six Airbus A3BO aircraft purchased from Airbus, MAS said in a statement here last Saturday.
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        128 19 Reuters [LONDON] Pilots at British no-frills airline easy Jet are baring all for charity in a nude calendar shoot they hope will take off in the shops this Christmas. The calendar features photos of naked pilots on the flight deck and cavorting on the
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        161 19 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's biggest heavy machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will invest 80 billion yen (Ssl .26 billion) to build wings for Boeing's next-generation 7E7 Dreamliner jet, a company spokesman said late last week. Some 40 billion yen will be used to set up a
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  • SHIPPING
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      285 20 Bloomberg [LONDON] Oil tanker rates for shipping 80,000 metric tons of crude from the North Sea to Europe fell to the lowest in more than two months as a shortage of cargoes for December loading prompted shipowners to cut tariffs. "The
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      688 20 Fuel from wrecked ship threatens endangered marine life AFP [ANCHORAGE, Alaska] Thousands of gallons of fuel oil spilling out of a Malaysian freighter that snapped in two off the US state of Alaska have put the Aleutian islands' fragile ecosystem in jeopardy, fuelling fears
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      129 20 AFP [JAKARTA] A Chinese crewman remained missing after a tanker functioning as a fuel station for fishing boats caught fire in the sea off the Indonesian province of Maluku, a port official said yesterday. Ten people were rescued. The PSTJ-03 tanker, floating in
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      385 20 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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      78 20 [SHENZHEN] The MSCllona. a container ship registered in Germany, is seen leaking oil from its fuel tanks into the South China Sea after colliding with a Panamanian vessel. The oil tank on the MSC Ilona, which was heading to Shanghai from Shenzhen, was punctured during the collision
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      281 20 Reuters (OSLO] A possible merger between Norwegian tanker group Frontline and US rival General Maritime would make operational sense by creating a suezmax power house, analysts said. Crude oil transport company General Maritime said on Wednesday that Frontline had bought an unspecified amount
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      211 20 Reuters [HONG KONG] Beijing-backed container leasing and port investor Cosco Pacific is in talks with China's Ningbo Port about investing in a new container terminal, newspapers reported yesterday. The port of Ningbo, China's busiest after Shanghai, said in November it planned
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      298 20 SGX '000 Pec 10 SS +1- Vol CH Offshore 0.37 -0.01 525 Chuan Hup 0.63 uncti 1798 Cosco Corporation 1.05 0.01 4754 CWT Distribution 0.57 unch 61 Ezra Hldgs 1.16 0.01 33 Freight Links 0.09 unch 563 Grand Banks Yacht 0.99 0.07 9249 Java Holdings 1.02 unch 1122
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    929 22 COMMODITIES: WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP [LONDON] World oil prices see-sawed over last week through a series of conflicting pressures, with the market eventually finishing up where it started after industry cartel Opec (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) trimmed recent abovequota production. Precious metals,
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  • BizIT
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      619 28  -  <cool stuff> That's a dilemma if you already use an XDA II. But for everyone else, shopping for a powerful and attractive PDA-phone just got a whole lot easier, says KENNETH JAMES KENNETH JAMES IT grabs you from the word go. Soft and smooth to the
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        71 28 STARHUBS Blackßerry service, which uses "push-based" technology to deliver e-mail access to its handheld devices in real time, now includes real-time financial information services. Blackßerry enterprise customers can obtain equity, futures and foreign exchange information from around the world. Prices for this service start at 120
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        Lock icon XBox Action Pack for Christmas
        58 28 MICROSOFT has released the XBox Action Pack for this festive season. It includes the Xbox gaming system, a controller, the DVD movie playback kit, and a 3-game package comprising Halo. Crimson Skies, and Grabbed by the Ghoulies. The package costs $349, and is available at
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        Lock icon Store pictures in Sony Photo Vault
        84 28 SONY Electronics Asia Pacific has launched the Photo Vault, a device that lets users download their pictures from a digital still camera and burn them onto a 200 MB Bcm CD-R without the need for a computer. The Photo Vault also features a video
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        Lock icon Desktop switch from Netgear
        61 28 NETWORKING company Netgear has released the FSIOBP Prosafe 8 Port 10/100 Desktop Switch which features Power-over-Ethernet capabilities. Power-over-Ethernet technology eliminates the need to place the device near a power outlet as the device can draw power from the Ethernet networking interface. The FSIOBP is available before
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        Lock icon New security device from Symantec
        72 28 SECURITY specialist Symantec has released the Gateway Security Appliance 400 series, which integrates a firewall, a virtual private networking gateway, a wireless local area network access point, and antivirus services, into a single device. It also features Symantec's Live Update solution that allows it to
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        Lock icon Nokia clamshell hits the market
        67 28  -  Compiled by ROLAND LIM NOKIA has announced the availability of the Nokia 6170, a clamshell design phone that features push-to-talk capabilities, an integrated VGA camera that will also capture video, a 65,536 colour display capable of 128x160 pixels on the inside, and a smaller 4,096
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      Lock icon Fuji Xerox extends digital print scheme
      288 29  -  Invitation-only Premier Partner programme opens in Asia-Pacific By ROLAND LIM FUJI Xerox has moved to stamp its presence in the growing market for digital production printing with the expansion of its Premier Partner programme in the Asia-Pacific. "Customers today want new kinds of printing
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      Lock icon Interoperability testing at Microsoft .NET centre
      251 29  -  By ROLAND LIM The first Microsoft .NET Centre in the region, launched in Singapore last week, will help developers test their applications for interoperability across different technology platforms, company executives said. Microsoft claims that enterprises commonly adopt a dual platform strategy where they use
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        Lock icon Infineon Asia-Pac head joins mgt board
        53 29 SEMICONDUCTOR manufacturer Infineon Technologies has appointed Loh Kin Wah, president and managing director of Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific, to its management board. Mr Loh has been in his current position since the founding of Infineon in 1999, and will continue to be responsible for
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        Lock icon ST Telemedia unveils anniversary book
        80 29 S1NGAP0RF Technologies Telemedia has published a book entitled One Enduring Vision to commemorate its 10th anniversary this year. The book celebrates the company's achievements since its inception in 1994. These include helping to start Singapore's first cable television operator Singapore Cable Vision (now known as
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        Lock icon AT&T starts new data centre in Singapore
        71 29 COMMUNICATIONS giant AT&T has started a new Internet data centre (IDC) in Singapore, its sixth in the Asia-Pacific region. The latest centre is one of its four regional hubs in the Asia-Pacific, and is linked to its other IDCs in Hong Kong, Tokyo
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        Lock icon USONYX launches hosting service
        57 29 LOCAL Internet hosting provider USONYX has launched its Dynamic Dedicated Server (DDS) hosting service. Priced at $148 a month, it claims to offer similar performance to web hosting on a dedicated server despite being a virtual server. It is targeting enterprises with more than a hundred
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        Lock icon Singapore tech firms hit Deloitte list
        101 29  -  Compiled by ROLAND LIM TWELVE Singapore companies have made it to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2004 list, which ranks the top 500 leading technology companies in the region based on percentage revenue growth over the past three years. The latest batch
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      Lock icon US back on top of American consumer electronics market
      466 29 Cox News Service [NEW YORK] Until recently, just about every device with a cord or battery under the Christmas tree came from a company based in Japan, China or somewhere else overseas. Rut something surprising has happened in many sectors of
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      Lock icon Potential waiting to be mined
      1023 29  -  &lt;you say&gt; M-commerce hasn't taken off in Singapore, but its future remains bright JUSTIN HO IT IS ironic that Singapore, which is advanced in so many other areas of finance and technology, isn't a leader in mobile commerce, or m-commerce, in spite of the deep
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      Lock icon The future will be free: McNealy
      695 30  -  Sun Microsystems CEO says the company is on that road to low cost hardware and software. RAJU CHELLAM reports from San Francisco RAJU CHELLAM IMAGINE a future where your computer hardware and software are free and you only pay for the services you use.
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      Lock icon PCs are starting to feel a lot like cellphones
      300 30 HOW much did your cellphone cost? What's the average price of a handset? What's the average operating margin for a telco's handset business? The answers to those questions give you no clue to the health of the handset industry, says Jonathan
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      Lock icon IBM launches two new RFID centres
      263 30  -  By ROUND LIM IBM last week launched two new Radio Frequency Identification Solution (RFID) centres in Singapore, worth a combined investment of $12 million from IBM and Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP). The IBM Asean/South Asia RFID Solution Zone is IBM's first in Asean and South
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      Lock icon Motorola seen as biggest loser if Sprint, Nextel merge
      632 30 Reuters (NEW YORK! The prospect of a deal between Sprint and Nextel Communications sparked concerns on Friday about a shrinking US market for mobile network equipment, sending shares of Nextel's key supplier Motorola Inc down almost 8 per cent. Sprint Corp
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