The Business Times, 3 June 2005

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPOREBS cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sq MICA (P) 069/03/2005 Friday, June 3,2005
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  • Article
    Lock icon Companies worldwide count cost of compliance
    910 1  -  Even companies in S'pore that provide compliance services are feeling the burden By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] As debate rages on whether more rules and regulations are needed to improve corporate governance here, a new study has yielded an ironic finding. The growing need for
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    Lock icon Foreigners' home purchases up 17% in Q1
    783 1  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Foreigners accelerated their home buying spree here in the first quarter. They lodged 17.2 per cent more caveats for private homes in Ql than they did in the previous quarter a reversal after two consecutive quarters of declines. United
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon RHB keen on Islamic banking in Singapore
      599 2  -  Group eyeing such a licence, but MAS says no need for one as RHB is a full bank By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MAIjYYSIA'S RHB group could soon be offering Islamic banking products and services in Singapore sooner than even the bank
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      633 2 China detains 2 more people, issues warning CHINA has detained two more people on suspicion of leaking state secrets, and Chinese officials have issued a warning that it will prosecute overseas journalists who violate the country's laws and regulations while reporting. Over the last two months, sociologist Lu
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      Lock icon The EU Constitution
      224 2 The 25-member European Union's first Constitution was signed by EU leaders last October in Rome, bestowing on it trappings of statehood such as a flag, a president and an anthem. It lays the foundation for a political entity of 450 million people accounting for one quarter of
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      Lock icon 'No' vote by Dutch deepens crisis of confidence in Europe
      653 2 EU leaders struggle to salvage what can be saved [BRUSSELS] The European Union faces a deepening crisis of confidence after the Dutch joined the French in rejecting a new constitution a move that could stall the bloc's expansion and disrupt
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      Lock icon China detains two more people, issues warning
      748 3  -  DETENTION OF ST JOURNALIST Overseas journalists who violate laws while reporting face prosecution By DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] China has detained two more people on suspicion of leaking state secrets, and Chinese officials have issued a warning that it will prosecute overseas journalists who
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      141 3 sn 2,***** (+14.62) ST INDEX FUTURES 2.180.00 (+10.00) simsq 258.74 (+1.71) SIMSa FUTURES 258.20 (+1.50) MARKETS Thursday Change KLSECOMP 862.40 +0.44 NIKKEI 225 11,280.05 -49.62 HANG SENG 13,814.58 -58.49 SET INDEX 672.81 +5.29 JAKARTA COMP 1,091.465 +8.524 MANILA COMP 2.010.56 +46.25 SEOUL COMP 970.88 +1.37 SHENZHEN B 213.63
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Overseas forays seen too costly for StarHub,M1
      507 4  -  Analysts say they're better off growing at home instead of following SingTel By ANGELA TAN IT MAY be too late for StarHub and Mobile One to emulate rival Singapore Telecommunications' overseas forays to fuel growth, given the higher acquisition costs and competitive bids
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      Lock icon SingTel buys 45% of Bangladesh telco
      432 4  -  By ANGELA TAN SINGAPORE Telecommunications has bought a 45 per cent stake in Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Ltd (PBTL) for US$llB million, with an option to raise the interest to 60 per cent for an additional US$65 million. Explaining the move, SingTel's president and chief
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      Lock icon Andersen reversal no balm for destroyed firm
      561 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW But it does suggest that govts should gun for just guilty individuals By MICHELLE QUAH WHAT a shocker. After years of believing that Arthur Andersen was guilty of obstructing justice in the Enron debacle, the entire saga has been flipped
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      Lock icon CAO's grip on China fuel market may slip: analysts
      638 6 Beijing could allow rivals into US$1b jet fuel import business, they say Reuters CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) may survive its June 8 bailout vote, but analysts say the company's hold on the US$l billion jet fuel import market could slip if
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Koh Boon Hwee is Innovalues adviser
        66 6 INNOVALUES Precision Ltd has appointed prominent businessman Koh Boon Hwee as adviser to its board of directors yesterday. "Mr Koh will guide and support the board and the company with-counsel and advice on corporate and business strategies, key management and investment matters as well
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        Lock icon Keppel secures USsl74m order
        102 6 Bloomberg KEPPEL Corp, Singapore's biggest offshore marine engineering company, said Keppel Shipyard won a US$l74 million order for the hull conversion of a floating product unit from Charter Development Limited Liability Co. The order includes marine conversion as well as the fabrication and integration of a
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        Lock icon CSE Global unit wins $8m contract
        106 6 CSE Global announced yesterday that its Singapore-based subsidiary, Transtel Engineering, was recently awarded a contract worth about $8 million by the JGC/KBR consortium, a Japanese-American partnership, to deploy a telecommunications network for the Tangguh LNG gas plant in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Transtel will implement
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      Lock icon UOL, UIC buy sites for $60m
      266 6  -  By ALEXANDRA HO THREE adjoining freehold sites near Tiong Bahru MRT station that were put up for collective sale in January have been sold for $60 million. Developers United Overseas Land and United Industrial Corp, both part of United Overseas Bank chairman Wee Cho
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      34 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS LEGEND:All prices are indicative;Broadly Diversified; Narowly Focused;$ 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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      Lock icon Pearl partners Horizon and Tana
      375 7  -  It'll drill for gas in Gulf of Thailand, and share the exploration risks By RONNIE LIM LISTED exploration and production (E&P) company Pearl Energy has signed up two "very experienced" E&P partners Australia's Horizon Oil and US-incor-porated Tana International Exploration to help it drill for
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      Lock icon OCBC buys 19.6% more of Bank NISP
      201 7 Bloomberg OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corp, the smallest of Singapore's three lenders, completed the purchase of an additional 19.61 per cent stake in Indonesia's PT Bank NISP for 729.7 billion rupiah (Ssl2B million). The purchase lifted OCBC's stake in NISP to 70.62 per cent. The
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Bombed-out second-liners shine
      556 8  -  STOCKS Their recovery comes as the ST Index hits a five-year high on US interest-rate hopes R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent THANKS to a renewed push on the Jardine group, Singapore Telecom and DBS, the Straits Times Index soared to a new fiveyear high yesterday, but the main
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      757 8 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Jun 2 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Shareholder BuyI Share* Per Before After Stock Trans Date Director Sell [000 Shr ('000) C000) Datacraft Asia 2-Jun-05 Yung-Cheng Yung Sell 10 1.12 40 0.01 30 0.01 Raffles Edu 2-Jun-05 Chung Gim
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      Lock icon Raffles Education chairman sells 25m shares
      208 8  -  Compiled by CHUANG PECK MING QHEW Hua Seng, Raffles Education Corporation's chairman and CEO, yesterday sold 25 million of his shares in the company for about $17.8 million in a series of willing* buyer, willing seller transactions. The sales at 71 cents a share
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      860 8  -  Compiled by R SIVANITHY People's Feed Hdgs Ltd June 2 dose: 865 cents OCBC INVESTMENT RESEARCH, June 2 THE share price of People's Food Holdings (PFH) plunged sharply by 11.5 cents to Wednesday's closing priceof 82cents. Rumours on viral outbreaks in China, which resurface every now and then, and
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      Lock icon Asian currencies pare early losses
      501 8 CURRENCIES Reuters [SINGAPORE] Asian currencies pared early losses yesterday as the euro and yen pulled back from multi-month lows against the dollar, but were seen vulnerable as markets scale back their bets for a Chinese yuan revaluation. The euro rallied from an eightmonth low. hit
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Jurong seafood processing complex in the offing
      483 9  -  JTC getting ideas before awarding tender to developers By ALEXANDRA HO A MULTI-STOREY, multitenanted seafood complex will soon rise near Jurong Fishing Port and wholesale fish market. The readybuilt facilities will house the entire value chain of seafood processing operations from import/export, to
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      Lock icon Two major condo launches this weekend
      283 9  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA THOSE shopping for their dream home can look forward to at least two new major projects this weekend. Centrepoint Properties previews today Tangerine Grove at Paya Lebar Crescent, and MCL Land is releasing The Calrose in Yio Chu Kang. Both condominium
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      Lock icon NTU don on creating info, knowledge
      438 9  -  By JEAN CHUA REMAKING Singapore isn't just about improving infrastructure and pumping millions of dollars into getting technical know-how. It's about creating information and knowledge that can be disseminated to the rest of the world, says a team of NTU professors who are working
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      Lock icon Rating service for S'pore firms launched
      220 9  -  By JEAN CHUA TO help raise the credit standing of companies in Singapore especially the small and medium ones the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and DP Information Group have come up with a credit rating system based on the Moody's K
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      Lock icon More Sichuan firms seen heading for S'pore
      236 10 MORE enterprises from the Chinese province of Sichuan are expected to come to Singapore with the opening of the Chengdu Centre here scheduled for next year. This came to light as Singapore and Sichuan officials of the Singa-pore-Sichuan Trade and Investment Committee (SSTIC)
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      Lock icon BioVeda, Temasek to set up China bio fund
      415 10  -  Group raising US$40m to invest in China's biomed sciences industry Reports by CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE-BASED venture capital firm Bio Veda Capital yesterday said it is teaming up with Temasek Holdings and a few other institutional investors to raise up to US$4O million
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      Lock icon S'pore team for biotech meet
      348 10 THE Economic Development Board (EDB) will be leading more than 30 representatives from 12 organisations to an international biotechnology conference in the US later this month, with the aim of strengthening awareness about Singapore's biomedical sciences initiatives. The conference, called 810 2005, is the world's
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Gutierrez: China risks outbreak of protectionism
      380 11 US may further curb textile imports unless Beijing take more measures AFP [BEIJING] US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez warned yesterday that China risks "an outbreak of protectionism" if current trade tensions are not addressed and this may lead to further textile restrictions. "The Bush
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      Lock icon Protests greet Wolfowitz on his first day as World Bank chief
      671 11 The former US defence secretary pledges to focus on 'real-world priorities' AFP [WASHINGTON] Taking the helm as the new World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz yesterday pledged to focus on "real-world priorities" as a small group of protesters vented their
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      Lock icon ECB holds rates steady despite weak growth
      314 11 AP [FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank kept its main interest rate unchanged at 2 per cent yesterday its level for two straight years despite weak growth in the eurozone economy. The bank, chief monetary authority for the 12 countries that use the euro,
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      Lock icon BOJ passes over bill-buying operation
      403 11  -  Possible sign of monetary policy tightening By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan yesterday openly skipped a billbuying operation that it has been aggressively using to pump liquidity into the financial system for the past four years. This is the first concrete sign
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      Lock icon Yudhoyono sees 5.5% GDP growth
      111 11 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Indonesia's average annual economic growth rate is expected to be 6.6 per cent for the next five years, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said. Mr Yudhoyono, who is on a visit to Tokyo to seek more investment from Japan, said that he expects economic
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      Lock icon China too dependent on exports: government think tank
      276 11 Reuters [BEIJING] China's economy has become too reliant on exports to fuel growth, and authorities should ease credit curbs somewhat to spur domestic demand, a top government think-tank said in a report published yesterday. The report by the State Information Centre, carried
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon S'pore, KL working on closer energy ties
      333 12 Temasek eyeing power investment opportunities, says Malaysian minister SINGAPORE arid Malaysia are working towards closer energy collaboration, including possible cross-bor-der electricity sales, with investment company Temasek Holdings also eyeing energy opportunities across the Causeway, according to a Malaysian minister. "They will explore first,"
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      Lock icon HK, S'pore have best judicial systems in Asia: PERC
      693 12 AFP [SINGAPORE] Hong Kong and Singapore have the best judicial systems in Asia, while those of Indonesia and Vietnam suffer the worst, according to a survey of expatriate business executives working in the region released yesterday. Hong Kong pipped Singapore for
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon India lifts cap on media investments
        71 12 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India has lifted a 74 per cent foreign direct investment cap for non-news publications in another sign the country is freeing up its media sector. Companies publishing scientific, technical or speciality magazines, periodicals or journals were now clear for full takeover,
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        Lock icon Beijing approves Tsang's campaign
        73 12 AP [HONG KONG] Donald Tsang moved closer to his widely expected selection as Hong Kong's next leader when he won Beijing's approval yesterday to campaign for the top job. MrTsang is heavily favoured because many believe Beijing values his long experience in the government and his
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        Lock icon AIG puts off China group insurance plans
        67 12 AP [HONG KONG] US Insurer AIG has withdrawn an application to add group insurance to its business in China because its Hong Kong agents violated rules by selling policies to mainland Chinese customers, the company said in a filing with US regulators. It
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        Lock icon China to make listing easier for good firms
        68 12 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's securities regulator said it will make it easier for "high-quality companies" to list on the country's stock exchanges and "attack" poor disclosure. "We will make it easier for high-quality companies to seek financing," Shang Fulin, chairman of the China
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      Lock icon Car import fraud costs M'sia about RM1 billion every year
      306 12 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Many importers of foreign cars under-declare the value of their vehicles to evade taxes, causing the country to lose about RMI billion (Ss44o million) a year in revenue, a newspaper reported yesterday. The Malay-language Utusan Malaysia, citing
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon Citic unit plans tie-up to buy 75% of Thai Petrochemical
      540 13 Announcement throws Thai govt's restructuring plan into disarray Reuters. Bloomberg [BANGKOK] State-backed Chinese firm Citic Resources Holdings Ltd threw a Thai government plan to restructure the country's biggest corporate defaulter into confusion yesterday. A day after the Thai Finance Ministry
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      Lock icon India seeks WTO pact to block outsourcing ban
      374 13 Proposals in US Congress to prevent jobs moving overseas alarm Delhi Reuters [WASHINGTON] India wants a new world trade pact that would prevent the US and other countries from taking steps to ban companies from outsourcing jobs, a top Indian official said
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      Lock icon India software, service exports up 35%
      191 13 AFP [BANGLALORE] India's software and service exports soared 34.5 per cent to US$l7.2 billion in the last fiscal year as companies from abroad outsourced more work, an industry lobby group said yesterday. Including domestic revenues, Indian companies earned US$22 billion in the year ended
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      Lock icon Christie's record HK auction fetches HK$990m
      444 13 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Christie s International Pic says it fetched HK5990.5 million (Ss2l3 million) in a record Hong Kong auction that featured a 120-carat diamond, the largest sold publicly in Asia, along with paintings, watches and ceramics. The .company, the sec-ond-biggest auction house by
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      Lock icon Why Zhao manuscript is so sensitive
      809 13 Economic reforms not enough, former leader told author AFP [BEIJING] A secret manuscript that Beijing is desperately trying to stop from being published outlines purged leader Zhfco Ziyang's plea for China to abandon one-party rule and follow the path of democracy, the author told
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Crude oil prices climb 5% on supply concerns
      686 14 Prices top US$54 on expectations of higher demand in second half NYT. Reuters [NEW YORK] Crude oil prices rose 5 per cent on Wednesday on revived concerns that supplies will be tight this summer and through the end of the year. Oil
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      Lock icon BAT outsourcing production to S'pore
      220 14 AFP [LONDON] Cigarette giant British American Tobacco (BAT) yesterday announced plans to outsource a quarter of production at its main factory in Britain to Singapore and South Korea to cut costs, raising fears of job losses. "Costs of production in the Far East are far
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      Lock icon Nissin noodle founder bows out of limelight at age 95
      403 14 AFP [TOKYO] Momofuku Ando, the man credited with inventing instant noodles, will bow out of the business frontline at age 95 after seeing his cups of quick, hot and inexpensive meals sweep the world. The entrepreneur who entered the food
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      Lock icon Soros joins group eyeing baseball club buy
      295 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Billionaire financier George Soros joined an investment group trying to buy baseball's Washington Nationals, the head of the group said. Mr Soros, 74, joined Big Train Holdco, a group headed by Jonathan Ledecky that is among the bidders for the
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      Lock icon US labour costs surge 3.3% in Q1
      454 14 LATEST US DATA Reuters [WASHINGTON] US business productivity at the start of the year was a bit stronger than first thought, the government said yesterday, but labour costs rose at a swift 3.3 per cent annual rate, well ahead of expectations. Another report
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    • Article
      Lock icon Monster PartyGaming IPO in June
      267 14 Reuters [LONDON] Party Gaming, the world's biggest online poker company, aims to float this month in what is likely to be London's biggest new listing for four years and reap millions for executives and employees. Party Gaming said yesterday that up to 23 per cent
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      107 14 i V Vmm Ali great companies were once startups. tVbe^reat? 81 I. p Nominations for the «BBHHI 2005 eSO.startup awards 2 005 are now open Recognising Singapore's New Enterprises To be eligible, a company must: be a privately-held enterprise be under 5 years old (from date of incorporation) have a
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  • WORLD
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      922 15 Mr Bush nominates limited government advocate as next chairman Bloomberg. Reuters. AP [NEW YORK] The resignation of William Donaldson, as chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 31, may trigger a battle to reduce the agency's reach
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      323 15 AP [BOSTON] The chief executive of Gillette Co testified for nearly six hours on Wednesday about the pending takeover of his company by Procter Gamble Co, providing information state regulators said could prove "very helpful" to their investigation of the deal.
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      493 15 Asset management unit profits are only 1% of bottom line NYT [NEW YORK] Citigroup, which has been disposing of its non-core assets, is in talks with Legg Mason about a possible sale of its asset management unit, sources said on Wednesday.
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      367 15 [NEW YORK] Two leading UK institutional investors have formed a transatlantic alliance with the pension funds of Illinois and New York City to urge Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, to set up an independent review of its legal and regulatory controls, said
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      326 15 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] The New York Stock Exchange knocked off a bit early on Wednesday, four minutes early to be exact. Instead of the normal 4 pm closing time, stocks stopped trading hands at the world's largest market at 3:56 pm.
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
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      366 16 Plane maker to source aircraft parts from them to cut costs Bloomberg. AFP [BEIJING] Boeing Co, the world's second-biggest maker of commercial aircraft, said that it signed contracts with Chinese aircraft parts makers valued at an estimated US$6OO million as part of its plan
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      484 16 Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European. Commission (EC) opposes a voluntary tax on air travel to fund extra development aid for Africa and will defy a request by EU finance ministers to make such a proposal, a commission source said on Wednesday. The European
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      320 16 Narita to cut landing fees by 21 on Oct 1 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Narita International Airport Corp, manager of Japan's largest terminal for overseas flights, will cut landing fees by 21 per cent to attract airlines and compete with other airfields in Japan and abroad. Starting on October 1, the average
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      294 16 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Delta Air Lines must keep unrestricted cash of at least US$l billion, an increase from US$75O million, under an amended loan agreement with a General Electric Co finance unit that may help the carrier avoid bankruptcy. The airline disclosed
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      648 16 AFP, Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Pirates have kidnapped a Thai captain and crewman from a tanker in the busy Malacca Strait, in the latest of a string of sophisticated kidnap-for-ransom attacks, an international watchdog said yesterday. The owners of the Thaiflagged vessel reported
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      307 16 SGX '000 Jun* 2 SS Vol CH Offshore 0 35 "-0.01 547 Chuan Hup .0.74 unch 449 Cosco Corporation 1.78 -0.02 4275 CWT Distribution J>66 0 01 67 EzraHklgs 123 0.01 102 Freight Links 0 06 unch 87 Grand Banks Yacht .0.97 unch 20 Jaya Holdings 1.04 unch
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      385 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 EVA
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  • SHIPPING
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      572 17  -  Long-term solutions to North America gridlock still years away By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] A transpacific container shipping line industry body has called for advance planning and communication by all supply chain parties, as it warned of "another challenging peak shipping season" ahead.
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      635 17  -  But there's widespread unease over its future By DAVID HUGHES in London AS Norway prepares to host the biennial Nor-Shipping show next week, the country's maritime industry is looking ahead with a strange mixture of determination and anxiety. Norway is, in population terms,
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      814 17  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR THE charterers of a vessel that was hired for a single trip from US Gulf ports to South Korea have won a court declaration that the vessel was off hire for the six days that it spent waiting for
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      228 17 FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE (FEFC) Asia (excluding Japan) to North Europe and Mediterranean Trades Ist July 2005 Conference Rate Restoration In April 2005, in the face of unprecedented cost increase in almost all areas of their business, Member Lines of the FEFC implemented a Conference rate restoration. Although this Conference
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      513 18 EDITORIAL A THAI court's decision this week to fine former central bank governor Rerngchai Marakanond 186 billion baht (557.6 billion) for a failed attempt to protect the baht some eight years ago has put the 1997 Asian financial crisis and its aftermath back in the news again.
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      827 18  -  A breather and a little 'management consultancy' can put things back on track again DAVID MASON THE draft European Union Constitution has been rejected by a large majority of voters in both France and The Netherlands, the first two countries to have held
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      722 18  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING MAINLAND China is stepping up its campaign to woo Taiwan by offering sweeter "carrots", but so far Taiwan has remained suspicious and, in some cases, has rejected the overtures and questioned Beijing's goodwill. For example, in response to
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      2040 19  -  A mammoth regional grouping involving Asean and other countries and groups is in the works By K KESAVAPANY ASIA is in the process of creating a huge regional grouping such as the Asean Plus Three, which includes Asean, plus China, Japan and Korea,
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      541 19  -  Ricky Lee Singapore WHY are privatised Singapore state-owned companies continually raising their prices for Singapore consumers and businesses, when the government's rationale for their privatisation was that it would bring about greater efficiencies and, therefore, lower prices? Before privatisation, Singapore state-owned companies do not
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      355 19  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chong Kim Seng Principal Specialist Consultant Personal Business Consultants Associates I REFER to your article "Big boost for Singapore's bid to be trading hub" (BT, May 27). I must congratulate the Minister for Trade Industry, Mr Lim Hng Kiang, for his announcements
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES SHIPPING TIMES
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  • SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL
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      591 27  -  APARNA RODDAM looks at the results of the joint effort between the Victorian Tapestry Workshop and Singapore artists APARNA RODDAM THE Arts Festival this year is seeing the emergence of new media, new formats, ami new platforms especially in the realm of contemporary visual arts. As
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      518 27  -  By AZIZAN DUANA WITH the new Malay Heritage Centre's official opening tomorrow at the former Istana Kampung Gelam, it's hoped that the new home for Malay heritage will also spark a revival in Malay folk theatre —or lakon rakyat. For the Singapore
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  • ARTS
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      1062 28  -  Curator Eugene Tan tells PARVATHI NAYAR why the artist was chosen PARVATHI NAYAR Conceptually, Singapore's participation at the 51st Venice Biennale promises to be a stimulating partnership. After all, the artist being showcased is Lim Tzay Chuen, known for the strongly conceptual underpinning to
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  • COVER STORY/CINEMA
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      148 29 A FEW years ago, a lego game for corporate executives was making its rounds as a corporate training tool. Before that, paintball sessions and outdoor bound-adventure camps were popular tools for team-building as companies constantly looked for ways to improve team work and inject "fun"
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      470 29 HERE'S a new one: you emerge from a long training session, ready for lunch, and when you get to the restaurant, you find out that you have to set your own table and make your own canapes before you can tuck into your meal. That's
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      702 29  -  By JAIME EE WHAT'S the meaning of life, the universe and everything? Douglas Adams was particularly interested in this, but rather than become a full-time philosopher writing books that only other philosophers would read, he created a cult hit called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
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      Lock icon Building castles, strengthening ties
      420 29 COMPANIES which sign up for Alvin Lee's unorthodox method of corporate training get this instruction list: Come in comfortable beach gear. Bring shades, sunblock and hat. Be prepared to get sandy and sweaty. The brief? To build sandcastles that are no less than 1.5 metres high.
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      463 29 IMAGINE a roomful of people banging on drums or shaking some tambourines just making percussive noise in general and there you have Human Rhythms' unusual group activity that's burst onto the corporate training scene in Asia with a literal bang. It's the brainchild of
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  • executive lifestyle
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