The Business Times, 18 March 2005

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    18 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES t online at http://business-timesasial .com.sg Friday, March 18,2005 1 SINGAPORE 85 cents MICA (P) 089/03/2005
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    Lock icon S'pore electronics output set to fall in Q1
    694 1  -  But MAS economist expects gradual pick-up in second half By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] Singapore's electronics output is likely to contract further in the first quarter and remain lacklustre over the next three months, but a gradual pick-up can be expected in the
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    Lock icon S'pore to get its own Guggenheim?
    666 1  -  BT exclusive Las Vegas Sands' casino proposal may include one By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE) Singapore could soon join a select band of cities with their own Guggenheim Museum. BT understands that USbased Las Vegas Sands has included plans to build a local extension of
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    Lock icon Tommie Goh's disclosure error was 'due to inadvertence'
    276 1 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Post director Tommie Goh maintained yesterday that it was "inadvertence" that was the cause of his failure to make full disclosure of his stake in troubled mobile phone service company Accord Customer Care Solutions. Sing Post intends to invest up
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      15 1 GARUDA BOARD SHAKE-UP Bank Danamon VP named Gisrud h" f Markets Digest on Pg 4
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      39 1 Bp HK BUDGET Analysts impressed, but GST concerns remaii^Gi^^^^ BT ONLINE For the latest financial news, currency movements and a 7-day archive, visit .convjg This service is available to subscribers from 4am Singapore time (2000 GMT) each day. n
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      55 1 EXEC LIFESTYLE Artistic director flr GauravKripalani's enduring love pg 29 J? YUAN REVALUATION Wider yuan trading band won't affect Ss: MAS PG2 Watch out fqp BT's new 1 "If%Uu)inCii Mccron wjiitunuw ■MR 2Bl^^ESBHHBtaktf^ Ml —««M A I -fl—J M ic 1 r\ Ml| ®^m a via kV7//jifl Bi 11 J
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Three more reasons to get your Business Times every Saturday
      155 2 FROM this Saturday, property buyers and executive job-hunters have three more reasons to read The Business Times. Two new housing features appear on BT every Saturday. Landed Properties showcases a range of private property while New Properties highlights new units
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      672 2 Crude hits new highs despite latest Opec move CRUDE oil prices scaled fresh highs 4 yesterday, forcing Opec to consider a second output increase just a day after the cartel's deal to raise supplies failed to halt oil's record-breaking advance. Crude oil for April delivery climbed US$l.O4, or
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      Lock icon Wider yuan trading band won't affect S$: MAS
      530 2  -  Worries about higher inflation in S'pore are misplaced: official By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE! Even if the trading band for the Chinese yuan is widened, as economists have forecast, there will be no major repercussions for the Singapore dollar or the exchange rate
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      Lock icon Exports beat estimates in Feb, but electronics slip
      530 2  -  Tech goods form non-oil shipments' minority in a first By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Non-oil domestic exports in February jumped by a surprising 7.9 per cent from the month before as pharmaceutical shipments rose|te<Sl'.47 billion from $I.o#Bffion. Economists lacvforecast a month-on-month hike
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      Lock icon Crude hits new highs despite latest Opec deal
      646 4 Cartel mulls second output increase if prices do not ease Reuters Bloomberg J LONDON] Crude oil prices fresh highs yesterday, forcing the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to a second output just a day after the deal to raise supplies
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      Lock icon Bank Danamon VP named new Garuda chief
      379 4  -  He is seen to be well-qualified to turn airline around By SHOEB KAGDA in Jakarta BANK Danamon vice-presi-dent Emirsyah Satar has been appointed presidentdirector of troubled national airline Garuda Indonesia a day after State Enterprises Minister Sugiharto fired Garuda's entire 13member board for
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      121 4 □sn 2,159.89 (-9.75) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,***** (-4.00) SIMSa ***** (-0.70) SIMSQ FUTURES ***** (-0.10) MARKETS Thursday Chang* IOSECOMP ♦1.75 MKKE22S 11.T75.5P 47* HANG SENG 13JI7.99 -14.53 SCTMKX 706.53 J01 JAKARTA COMf 1.134.59 -3*4 MANRACOMP 2.100.11 +0.99 SEOUL COMP 980.05 -1>.Q6 SHOOHBO 265.12 -1.06 BOMBAY H® 6,669.52 -77.36
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      146 2 mm b B i Even with the progress and positives that are taking place, bad things will still happen 5 y James Turley, chairman and CFO of Ernst Young, on why he won't be surprised by more corporate scandals post-Enron W W V P?»«i Fi V B 1 A A.
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Goldman Sachs unit left options worthless: CAO
      521 6  -  J Aron says suit has no merit and will defend it 'vigorously' By WONG WEI KONG CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) ended up with options portfolios that were worthless, unsuitable and riskier after they were restructured by a unit of US bank Goldman Sachs,
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      Lock icon Casino could pay off for CityDev, HPL: UBS
      472 6  -  By ALEXANDRA HO GAMING might not be the core business of property heavyweights City Developments and Hotel Properties Limited (HPL), they could still benefit if the Government gives the go-ahead for a casino next month. That's according to a report by ÜBS
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      Lock icon Don't bank too heavily on KS Tech
      688 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By TEH HOOI LING WHAT'S driving the share price of KS Tech? Since February, it has gone up almost at a 60-degree straight line. The company, which is proposing to change its name to KS Energy Services (KSES) to better
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      42 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS LEGEND: All prices are indicative; Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused; S 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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      Lock icon Jardine Group may have exited Malaysian banking sector
      465 7  -  It's seen as seller of EON Capital stake that Khazanah bought this week By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur HONG Kong-based Jardine group, which is listed in Singapore, may have exited the Malaysian banking sector, sources said. They said that Jardine was
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      Lock icon LMA shares snapped up by Temasek companies
      300 7  -  Medical technology newcomer's share price falls short of top target By CHEN HUIFEN PSA International and three other Temasek-linked companies have emerged as surprise shareholders of medical device supplier LMA International. As a whole, the Tema-sek-linked entities have spent some $14.7 million acquiring
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      Lock icon SGX to pay 15-cent special interim dividend for Q3
      399 9  -  It is poised to use up its Section 44 tax credits with the quarter's total dividend payout By WONG WEI KONG THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) will be paying a net special interim dividend of 15 cents per share on top of
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      Lock icon Sim Lian planning condo project in West Coast area
      489 9  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA LISTED Sim Lian Group hopes to launch a 330-unit freehold condo in mid-2006 on the 237,939 sq ft Hin Seng Garden site in the West Coast area that it bought last week for $95 million. Much sooner than
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon CAPITALAND offloads Heliconia
        128 9 Capita Land is selling its entire 51 per cent stake in Heliconia Investment—the vehicle through which it holds its investment in the Kiaraville condominium project in Kuala Lumpur to Mezzo Capital. Capita Land owns 19.67 per cent of Mezzo, which it formed with a group of institutional
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        Lock icon News portal with a difference
        118 9 READERS looking for the latest Singapore, regional and world news, ranging from technology, finance, business, health, sports and show business, can find it all on the newly-revamped SPH Asia One news portal (www.asiaone.com). The revamp is not just to enhance Asia One's look-and-feel, said Singapore
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        Lock icon Promotion at Singapura Finance
        60 9 S1NGAPURA Finance has appointed executive director Jamie Teo Miang Yeow, 32, as deputy chief executive officer. He is son of Singapura Finance's chairman, managing director CEO Teo Chiang Loi>g. Jamie, who was once a senior consultant at Ernst Young, will take care of corporate planning, information
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        Lock icon Eco Water's China agreement off
        73 9 ECO Water said its agreement with China Yunnan Tian Long Eco Water Hydro Electric Co to set up a joint venture company in China has been mutually terminated. Eco, which announced the agreement in June last year, said it could only announce the break-up now
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      Lock icon Offshore funds' remit opens up to derivatives
      510 9  -  MAS works out how to accommodate new European rules By GENEVIEVE CUA UNKNOWN to investors here, the investment mandates of the offshore funds they have put money in may get much wider. This is because Luxembourg and Dublin-domi-ciled offshore filnds most of which
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      Lock icon Jackson Tai gets 17,022 performance shares
      369 9  -  By SIOW LI SEN DBS Group yesterday said chief executive Jackson Tai received 17,022 performance shares. Last year, he got 10,000 performance shares. The latest share award worth $253,628 based on yesterday's DBS share price boosts Mr Tai's holdings to 107,822 shares, representing a
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      40 6 Dresdner Global Internet Fund Winner of the Sector TMT Global (3Year) Category* and Best Equity Sector Allianz Dresdner Information Technology Fund over 1 Year** Asset Management Source: "Standard Poor's 2005 Singapore Fund Awards A The Edge-Lipper Singapore Funds Awards 2004
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      340 7 ■VnVHIIHI Call toll-free 1800 289 8822 ODIN MARINE SPECIALTY (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY given pursuant to Section 308 (2) of the Companies Act, Cap, 50 that the Final Meeting of Members of the abovenamed Company will be held at 5 Shenton Way #37-04, UIC Building,
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon This time, it's Unifiber and Cap Land
      525 8  -  STOCKS One theme making the rounds in the market is the casino licence story R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent TO some analysts, a surging oil price is either the flip side of a weak US dollar or the natural consequence of the "sell the
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      862 8  -  Compltal by JOYCE KOH Petra Foods March 17 dose: $1.08 v GK GOH RESEARCH, Mardl 17 PETRA Foods is the undisputed leader of Indonesia's chocolate consumption in Indonesia has been growing at 31 per cent CAGE in the post-crisis years. With robust GDP growth expected for 2005, Petra
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      425 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 17 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -168.00 -63.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -57.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -17.00 All-SG Equities 560.71 -1.48 SG Equities Elect 139.97 -2.44 SG Equities Fin 1616.89 -1.22 SG Equities Prop 568.37 -0.18 SIMSCI 256.34 -0.70 SiMSCI Futures 256.30 -0.10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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      Lock icon US$ hit by record deficit and oil prices
      528 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar's fortunes again took a turn for the worse in overnight trading, hurt anew by a record trade deficit and more record highs in oil prices. By the Asian close yesterday, the only two good
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon GE, units have no deemed interest in MFS
        95 8 GREAT Eastern Holdings (GEH) and its subsidiaries The Great Eastern Life Assurance (GEL) and The Overseas Assurance Corporation (OAC) no longer have any deemed interest in MFS Technology. This followed the reduction of GEL's and OAC's joint interest in WBL Corporation Ltd
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        Lock icon Firstlink shareholder raises stake
        159 8 FIRSTLINK substantial shareholder Leadville Pte Ltd has raised its stake in the company to 14.83 per cent (50 million shares), from 9.12 per cent. It paid 14 cents apiece for 10.4 million shares and 15 cents for 8.83 million shares on March 11,2005, in off-market purchases.
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        Lock icon Raffles Edu investor buys more shares
        135 8 LLOYD George Investment Management (Bermuda) made another investment purchase of Raffles Education shares, its third in as many weeks. The investment raised its deemed interest in the private education provider to 8.3 per cent (42 million shares) from 6.54 previously. Raffles Education last month
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        Lock icon Yong Nam director's wife buys warrants
        89 8  -  Compiled by TEH HOOI LING LEE Pui Ching, wife of Yong Nam's director Seow Soon Hee, has on Tuesday bought 300,000 Yong Nam warrants in the open market at 1.5 cents each. This raised her interest to 2.7 million warrants or 1.23 per cent
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      18 9 For more information call your travel agent or Royal Brunei Airlines at 6235 4672 or visit www.bruneiair.com BRUNEI
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      223 9 jETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE!! w Approximately 5 years j I Amount Allotted SGD 2,300,000,000 jl unt Allotted to I -Competitive Applications SGD 577,798,000 1 'hich allotted to MAS SGD 400,000,000 j 8 I Amount Applied SGD 3,658,814,000 jl aon Rate 2.625% p.a. j I Cut-off Yield Price 2 J3% p.a.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon S'pore may soon have liberalised gas market
      568 10  -  This is if a key recommendation of an energy review panel is adopted By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE could have a liberalised gas market by the end of this year, if a key recommendation of the Energy System Review Committee (ESRC) is adopted. The
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      Lock icon Sharing the Australian education experience
      474 10  -  By ALEXANDRA HO WHAT do Tony Tan, Khaw Boon Wan, Lee Boon Yang. Raymond Lim, David Lim and Chew Heng Ching have in common? If you guessed that they are or have been members of parliament and some are cabinet colleagues, you are only partly
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      Lock icon SingLand to let buyers defer payment in Paterson relaunch
      428 10  -  By ARTHUR SIM IF YOU are waiting for perks and incentives before buying a new property, you might want to check out Singapore Land's relaunch of the Paterson off Orchard Boulevard this weekend. The 88-unit freehold development was first launched in
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      Lock icon Oil traders to pit their skills on soccer field for charity
      321 10  -  By RONNIE LIM OIL traders here have a new game plan this weekend, after crude shot to record levels nearing US$57 a barrel yesterday. They will still apply the same killer instincts—but to new goals. Just like the big
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon HK budget wins analysts' praise
      604 11 But few benefits for the public, and no timeframe for GST was announced Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's government won praise from analysts yesterday for its much-improved fiscal position but there was concern that it might be delaying plans to lay the framework for an
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      Lock icon Banks upgrade China stocks on yuan prospects
      358 11 Stronger currency expected; brokers favour importers Reuters [HONG KONG] Speculation that China could soon increase the value of its yuan currency is prompting investment banks to raise their expectations for China stocks. Goldman Sachs said a rising yuan would boost book values of
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      Lock icon Fall in US jobless claims in line with forecasts
      295 11 LATEST US DATA Reuters Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell 10,000 last week, largely in line with expectatfons, a government report showed yesterday. Initial claims for state unemployment insurance aid fell to 318,000 in
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Berjaya Times Square still quiet
      670 12  -  RM1.9b mall not drawing crowds; investors turning doubtful By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur UNLIKE some of the more popular shopping malls in the Klang Valley, Malaysians have ydt to warm to the RMI.9 billion (*****.9 million) Berjaya Times Square. Investors also appear to have
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      Lock icon Closed Asean trading bloc ruled out
      222 12 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Southeast Asian nations should discard any "misguided notions" of being a self-contained trade bloc and instead improve business cooperation with India. Australia and other crucial trading partners, Malaysia's deputy leader said here yesterday. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)
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      Lock icon M'sian fund may buy control of PSC Ind
      373 12 [KUALA LUMPUR] Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT), the Malaysian armed forces superannuation fund, may acquire a controlling stake in PSC Industries Bhd (PSCI) if problems over a multi-billion ringgit defence contract persist, the Malaysian Business Times reported Deputy Prime Minister Mohd Najib
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      Lock icon Indon court okays probe on mining execs
      142 12 AP (JAKARTA] Indonesia's Supreme Court has ruled that a police investigation into five executives of US mining giant Newmont Mining Corp over pollution allegations is legal,, clearing the way for the men to face trial. In December, the South Jakarta District Court ruled
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon China warns of risks of soaring property prices
      594 13 Central bank takes more measures to cool sector and protect lenders Reuters AP [BEIJING] China's central bank warned yesterday that soaring property prices posed a risk for lenders, a day after it unveiled steps to cool the hot sector, which has defied
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      Lock icon WHAT LIES BENEATH
      55 13 [MAHABALIPURAM] Officials of the Archaeological Survey of India and labourers work at an excavation site here on March 13.2005. The ruins of several ancient temples, which according to the locals are part of local folklore and legend known for generations, were unearthed by the receding tidal waves
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Cheung Kong's profit up 6.2% to HK$3.6b in 2004
        80 13 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd, a roads and utility company owned by billionaire Li Ka-shing, said its profit rose 6.2 per cent last year. Net income increased to HK53.56 billion (SS74O million), or HKSI.SB a share, from HK53.35
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        Lock icon Malaysia's Titan Chemicals may raise RM950m in IPO
        102 13 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Titan Chemicals Corp, Malaysia's biggest petrochemical company, may raise about RM9SO million (Ss4os million) in the country's biggest IPO in 18 months, bankers involved in the sale said. Kuala Lumpur-based Titan plans to sell 438 million new shares, about
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        Lock icon Indonesia planning to build two gas pipelines on Java
        69 13 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia plans to build two gas pipelines for six trillion rupiah (Ssl .04 billion) on Java island and wants offers from construction companies by March 30, a government official said. Sumitomo Corp and Mitsui Co have said they may
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        Lock icon India's UTV makes robust debut on Bombay exchange
        80 13 Reuters [BOMBAY] Indian television show producer and film distributor UTV Software Communications Ltd (UTV) made a strong debut on the Bombay exchange yesterday, rising as much as 30.8 per cent in early trade. Rising advertising revenues in children's programming and a healthy
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        Lock icon Commonwealth Bank eyes Indian banking sector
        79 13 Reuters [HONG KONG] Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd, the country's second-largest bank, is eyeing small acquisitions in India to tap one of the world's fastest growing markets. India's booming loan growth has become too big for Commonwealth to ignore as it turns its attention
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      Lock icon India hopes to wean citizens from gold
      235 13 IHT [MUMBAI] The Indian government is placing a long-range wager that an increasingly prosperous population can be coaxed to part "at least physically" with its boundless hoards of gold. A policy floated recently would allow Indians to buy virtual, or "paper" gold in
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon GIC eyes £330m UK property deal: report
      394 14  -  It's in talks to buy part of Bluewater Shopping Centre near London By JEAN CHUA THE Government Investment Corporation of Singapore (GIC) was reported yesterday to be in talks to buy part of Britain's huge Bluewater Shopping Centre for about £330 million (Ssi.o3
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      Lock icon San Miguel switching its target
      358 14  -  SMG Australian bid falters as it looks to New Zealand offer By AL LABITA in Manila San Miguel Corp's .(SMC) A 51.78 billion (552.29 billion) takeover bid of Australia's largest listed food company appears to be faltering as the Philippine corporation is instead looking at
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon JPMorgan settles World Com suit
        72 14 Reuters [NEW YORK] JPMorgan Chase Co on Wednesday agreed to pay US$2 billion to settle a lawsuit accusing it of hiding risks from World Com investors when the bank helped the company sell bonds. It is the last major financial institution to settle the class-action
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        Lock icon Mixed reactions to Wolfowitz proposal
        79 14 AP AFP [PARIS] US President George W Bush's nomination of US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to lead the World Bank met with reactions that ranged mainly from official reserve to outright denunciation, but there was some support International bodies worried about the nominee's hawkish
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        Lock icon Wynn Resorts to build 2nd Las Vegas resort
        60 14 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Wynn Resorts Inc. the casino company led by Stephen Wynn, plans to build a second resort in Las Vegas. It will put the US$l.4 billion resort, called Encore, next to its new Wynn Las Vegas hotel, set to open
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        Lock icon Goldman, Morgan Stanley Q1 profits up
        64 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Goldman Sachs' fiscal Q1 profit rose 17 per cent to US$l.5l billion, or U552.94 a share, compared with a record US$l.29 billion, or US$2.5O a share, in the year-ago period. Morgan Stanley's profit meanwhile climbed 19 per cent to US$l.5 billion,
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Delay plans, tighten up: Fed tells Citigroup
      346 15 Bank pursuing five-point plan to develop stronger internal controls Bloomberg [NEW YORK] US Federal Reserve officials have told Citigroup Inc to delay any takeover plans until the company tightens internal controls and improves its standing with regulators. The Fed wants Citigroup executives to
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      Lock icon Viacom mulls splitting into 2 companies
      210 15 NYT [NEW YORK] Viacom said on Wednesday that it was weighing'a plan to divide its businesses into two separate public companies, a move that would unravel years of empire-building by chief executive Sumner M Redstone, while resolving the company's succession issues. One company, led
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      Lock icon S&P, Fitch closer to cutting GM debt ratings to junk status
      490 15 Reuters NYT [NEW YORK] US credit ratings agencies Standard Poor's and Fitch on Wednesday moved closer to cutting General Motors Corp's debt ratings to junk status after the company slashed its 2005 earnings forecast. The world's largest car maker
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      390 15 AP Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Profit at the New York Stock Exchange was halved last year as expenses rose. But bonuses awarded to the Big Board's co-chief operating officers more than doubled. Net income slumped to a 13year low last year of U5524.6 million,
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      632 16 Shocked victims' kin call for public inquiry into crime and investigation Reuters [VANCOUVER] A Canadian judge cleared two Sikh militants on Wednesday of involvement in the 1985 bombing of an Air India jetliner over Ireland's Atlantic coast, history's deadliest bombing of a
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      209 16 AFP [BEIJINGJ A fledgling private Chinese airline plans to offer luxury business travel between the capitals of South-east Asian countries to Yunnan province, state press said yesterday. Ying'an Airways hopes to launch its maiden flight in June, flying a 19-seat YI2E business
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      317 16 AFP [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways' move into the burgeoning Asian budget airline market has failed to gain traction, with its 49-per-cent-owned Jetstar Asia conceding it may have to lease out part of its aircraft fleet. Qantas spokesman, Michael Sharp, told yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald
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      359 16  -  By LIZA LIN [SINGAPORE] European network carrier Lufthansa German Airlines is the latest to join other airlines in delivering a rosy forecast for the Asia-Pacific region. Uwe Mueller, vice-presi-dent of the Asia and Pacific operations of Lufthansa, yesterday said that barring any
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      397 16 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:
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      145 17 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Seacor Holdings Inc has agreed to buy Seabulk International Inc for about US$532 million in stock and cash in a merger of oil tanker operators. Seacor will also assume about US$47l million in Seabulk debt, Seabulk said in a statement.
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      709 17  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR A SHIPOWNER that time chartered its vessel on terms that included very wide geographical trading limits could not later ask the charterer to pay to remove barnacles from the vessel's hull, an English court ruled last month. The
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      1201 18  -  The Central-Asian country offers investment-friendly policies and a gateway to the region By ADIL TURSUNOV N Feb 18, Kazakhstan President Nursultan m Nazarbayev read his annual address to the H nation and delivered a M M landmark document worthy of note by foreign
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  • ESPLANADE
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      622 27  -  MOSAIC MUSIC FESTIVAL A coming out party for Singapore, says KANNAN CHANDRAN KANNAN CHANDRAN TILL today, Dan Storper is still unsure as to the exact meaning of "Putumayo", the name of the clothing label he started in 1975 that evolved into a world music
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      427 27  -  By KANNAN CHANDRAN WITH its alternative billing as a festival of celebrations, Mosaic Music Festival lived up to its patchwork name. The celebration opened on a lively note, with James Moody turning 80 onstage, complete with cake, and you got to eat it
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      291 28  -  CINEMA By PEPPER LEE TAKE away the loud and overbearing soundtrack, and what you have left is 110 minutes of charmless cinematic cliche. Whatever attempts made to spruce up a stock plot like a chaotic sub-plot simply leaves Hostage fraught with unresolved gaping holes. Bruce
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      450 28  -  DVD By PEPPER LEE We Don't Live Here Anymore Directed by John Outran BEHIND every fancy dinner and champagne-fuelled giggle lies seething discontent, deceit and oh, your typical not-so-happy marriage. We Don't Live Here Anymore chronicles the disintegrating unions of two couples English
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      205 28 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD DOWN 1 Jack with a French city girl (6) 13 From Beirut Joe and I removed YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 2 Reason to go about half-time jewellery (10) Across: 1 Maceration, 6 Epic, 10 (6) 15 Attack on something funny in y ire( j 1 Dreariest, 12 Carry out, 13
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  • PERSONAL STYLE
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      1334 29  -  Artistic director Gaurav Kripalani tells PARVATHINAYAR he wants Singapore Repertory Theatre to be around, 50 years from now PARVATHI NAYAR WHILE being interviewed in 2001, Singapore Repertory Theatre's (SRT) outgoing artistic director Tony Petito spoke fondly of the kid with a burning passion for theatre:
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  • ARTS
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      582 30  -  SINGAPORE SEASON Singapore Dance Theatre had all the right moves on opening night, says CHEAH UI-HOON in London CHEAH UI-HOON THE Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT) outdid itself at the opening night of its performance at London's Peacock Theatre on Wednesday, giving a luminous performance to
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      510 30 MUSIC IF she hadn't gone intq singing, singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto might have been an actress. The former teenage actress recalls her acting days with fondness, although it's "some 15 years ago," she chuckles warmly over the phone from her home in New York.
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      319 30  -  By PEPPER LEE JUDGING from its line-up of illustrious big names, there is little doubt that Mumbai Masti is holding nothing back to deliver a "Masti" (fun) evening of musical hits on Mar 26. Audiences can look forward to meeting the best of
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      451 30  -  By CHEAH UI-HOON [LONDON] Flushed with the preliminary success of Singapore Season in London, the government is now set to continue on this track of "cultural diplomacy" to present the creative side of Singapore to the world, said Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communication and
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      402 30  -  LIFE THEATRE AWARDS By PEPPER LEE THE theme of this year's Life Theatre Awards, which paid uh, oom-age to the best of local theatre, was you guessed it all things Zen. But while the evening's dress-code was understated, with loose-fitting white shirts being the men's
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      355 30  -  DANCE By PEPPER LEE WITH each Lord of the Dance show using up to 3,000 amps of power, you know it is going to be one electrifying, highly-charged experience. So it's cause for celebration when creative director Michael Flatley wunderkind of tapdance
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      622 32  -  off the cuff jaime ee HUMAN behaviour has become so puzzling that I had no choice but to invoke the spirit of Sigmund Freud to help me to explain why there are so many road bullying cases nowadays. "Dr Freud, what is happening?
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