The Business Times, 7 June 2005

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    20 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MICA(P) 089/03/2005 Tuesday, June 7,2005 —wm iw m cm SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-tigies.asia 1 .com.sg
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  • Article
    Lock icon Govt seen sticking to reserve list
    776 1  -  Property consultants cite absence of across-the-board recovery for property market By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] The government will probably continue to offer land for private development exclusively through its reserve list in the second half of this year, in keeping with a demanddriven approach. Property
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    Lock icon Cathay Pacific grabs top airline award for 2005
    791 1  -  Skytrax survey puts Asian carriers in 8 out of top 10 spots By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] In a resounding vote of confidence in Asian airlines, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific has grabbed the 2005 Airline of the Year award in a worldwide survey
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      47 1 LONGEIfIH SHINING HOT TRAVEL DEALS Starting today, a new weekly information service on great value flights and hotel deals pgis ■k V i s SPOTLIGHT Still difficult to get financing? v.: Why?PG9 Pere Ocean: with healthier water pg 10 •> ;1 Vf' Nippecraft still going strong pg 11
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      14 1 •PROPERTY Ex-Traffic Mice HQ to become design centre PG2B Markets Dlgtft on Pg 3
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      23 1 CURRENCY 7»}<BWOES :mBL pressure pg 13 CORPORATE MOVES Rival bid emerging for V&ntage Corp pg4 Is:# ;rV»f CHRONO A HOMHAGEIA W W Jr
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Johor to come under spell of Disney Magic?
      521 2 Disneyland across the Causeway will benefit Singapore's IRs, say observers [JOHOR] It may sound like a fairy story, but there are rumours that the "world's most famous mouse" could squeak across the Causeway. There is talk that the Johor state government is
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      648 2 Bursa mulls separate rules for big and small companies THE chief of the Malaysian stock exchange is mulling over ways to help prevent recurrence of the recent fiasco involving second-board counters, and one of these includes introducing separate regulations for blue-chip and small-cap companies listed on Bursa Malaysia.
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      Lock icon CAO report imparts lessons for other corporate players: analysts
      814 2  -  PwC report on CAO Shareholders, directors need to be more proactive By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report on what went wrong at China Aviation Oil imparts lessons not only to the troubled Chinese jet-fuel company, but also to others
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      Lock icon Bursa mulls separate rules for big and small companies
      629 3  -  CEO says this may prevent repeat of recent fiasco involving 2nd board counters Reports by LIZA LIN [SINGAPORE] The chief of the Malaysian stock exchange is mulling over ways to help prevent recurrence of the recent fiasco involving second-board counters, and
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      Lock icon Lifting ban on newspaper sale can boost cross-trading
      280 3 It will add to cross-border investor education, says Yusli Mohamed [SINGAPORE] Removing the long-standing ban on the sale of national newspapers between Malaysia and Singapore could help facilitate cross-trading between the two countries' stock exchanges, Bursa Malaysia chief Yusli Mohamed Yusoff said
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      138 3 STI 2,***** (+8.71) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,180.00 (+2.00) SIMSCI 260.02 (+1.02) SIMSCI FUTURES 259.60 (+1.00) MARKETS Monday Change KLSECOMP 871.97 +6.09 NIKKEI 225 11,270.62 -29.43 HANG SENG 13.860.55 +42.10 SET INDEX 682.30 +5.60 JAKARTA COMP 1.096.83 +4.33 MANILA COMP 2,051.04 +28.55 SEOUL COMP closed SHENZHEN B 220.72 +9.10
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      371 2 j Equity Derivatives Equity Investments beyond the Share Certificate i Dates Equity investments today constitute more than a mere purchase and sale of a 13-14 July 2005 s^n S^ e stock or share. With globalisation and demutualisation, the doors are 9 00am to 5 00pm now °P en f° r
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      462 3 Main Distributors: ODBS ♦POSB 'Bid to Bid, SGD, Net Income Reinvested basis, Annualised Growth Rate. On an offer to bid basis, the returns for Shenton Income Fund since inception is 5.35%. Source: S&P Micropal as at end April 2005 'Shenton Income Fund only suffered one negative year (-1.5%), and underperformed
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Global Advisory makes rival bid for Vantage
      599 4  -  Bid for 50.1 stake at 25 cents a share comes after recent surprise offer by SC Global By MICHELLE QUAH A COMPETING bid has emerged for Vantage Corp the subject of a takeover offer by Simon Cheong's SC Global Developments. Making a partial
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      636 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By VEN SREENIVASAN AS CRAZY Horse Paris looks set to gallop into Singapore by year-end, all the hype and hoopla thus far has been focused on how this French cabaret show will be received in the sanitised Republic. For
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      34 4 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 Goodbye Helios, hello lion at new SPC stations
      483 5  -  Local company completes new look for 28 BP stations it bought in Nov 2004 for US$70 million By RONNIE LIM THE lion of home-grown Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) has eclipsed the rays of Greek sun god Helios, the green-and-yellow BP logo here.
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      Lock icon Talk of iPod stockpile may hit Creative
      589 5 SINGAPORE digital audio player maker Creative Technology could be hit by flagging consumer demand if an Internet report of rival Apple Computer being overstocked on its iPod players proves true, analysts said. Appleinsider.com. a popular website that discusses issues related to the company's
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      Lock icon Pan Asian Water sets up Indonesian unit
      219 5  -  By JOSEPHINE TAY SESDAQ-LISTED Pan Asian Water Solutions (PA Water) said it has set up a fourth office in Asia to tap the buoyant water industry in the region. The latest move by the integrated water piping systems solutions provider involves the formation
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      Lock icon SingTel shares dip on delay in Pakistan telco bidding
      412 5 S'pore telco was shortlisted to bid for Pakistan firm Bloomberg [DHAKA] Shares Jbf Singapore Telecommunications, South-east Asia's largest phone company, fell after the Pakistan government postponed bidding for a 26 per cent controlling stake in Pakistan Telecommunication Co. v Sing Tel
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      Lock icon SGX mulls clearing house for oil swaps
      636 7 Move could help boost liquidity after CAO debacle dried up trade Bloomberg SINGAPORE Exchange Ltd (SGX) may offer clearing services that reduce the risk of default in the country's unregulated US$lOO billion-a-year market for oil and freight derivatives, known as swaps. "We are
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      Lock icon GIC prunes stake in China steelmaker
      176 7 Bloomberg THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp, which manages US$lOO billion of the city-state's reserves, has trimmed its stake in Hong Kong-listed Angang New Steel Co to 5.8 per cent from 6.2 per cent. GIC, as the Singapore company* is known, sold 3.76 million
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon SPH unit refinances loan facilities
        112 7 SINGAPORE Press Holdings' wholly-owned subsidiary. Times Properties, has entered into an agreement with DBS Bank and a syndicate of banks and financial institutions for a term loan facility of $650 million for a tenure of one year. The funds will be used to. refinance the
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        Lock icon Longcheer issues 11.6m shares to DBS
        141 7 LONGCHEER Holdings has issued 11.6 million placement shares to DBS Bank. The shares are expected to be listed today. DBS Bank, which was Longcheer's IPO manager, agreed on May 24 to buy all the 11.6 million placement shares that Longcheer had been required by
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        Lock icon UOB meeting on UOL share distribution
        103 7 UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) is holding an extraordinary general meeting on June 24 to vote on its proposed distribution of 100 United Overseas Land (UOL) shares for every 1,000 UOB shares held. The distribution involving about 154 million shares or 19.4 per cent of
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        Lock icon SHC Capital's marketing EVP quits
        39 7 NIGEL Keng Ban Wan has resigned from SHC Capital as its executive vice-president of marketing with immediate effect. The colour separation and printing services company said Mr Keng left to "pursue his own interest".
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        Lock icon China Entertainment Sports in Velocity deal
        35 7 CHINA Entertainment Sports has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Singapore Agro Agricultural Pte Ltd with regards to their proposed joint operation of a racing circuit at Velocity.
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon It's more of the same in local bourse
      545 6  -  STOCKS Focus remains narrow on a few large caps and speculative penny stocks R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IN France and in some parts of Canada they say of life "plus a change, plus c'est la meme chose" which means "the more things
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      Lock icon ComfortDelGro director trims his stake
      114 6 ONG Ah Heng, a director of ComfortDelGro, sold 0ff200,000 of his shares in the transport group for $348,000 —or $1.74 a share —on the open market last Friday. The sales more than halved his stake from 0.0167 per cent to 0.0070 per cent. Mr Ong
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      Lock icon Leong Hin director raises stake
      90 6  -  Compiled by NANDE KHIN LEONG Hin's independent director Tan Kok Hiang bought 100,000 shares of the company on the open market on Friday for $31,250. The purchase at 31.25 cents per share nudged up Mr Tan's stake from 0.54 per cent to 0.60 per cent.
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      745 6 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Jun 2 and earlier) Subuntial NO of Mco SHAREHOLDING Shareholder Buy/ Shore* Po* Before After Stodl Tram Date Director Sell '000 Shr ('OOP) <000) MultiChem 6-Jun-05 FooSuanSai Buy 3 0.20 *****2 38.75 *****5 38.75 MultiChem 6-Jun-05 Han Juat Hoon "Buy 3
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      896 6  -  Compiled by R SIVANITHY SIA Engineering Company June 6 dose: $249 OCBC INVESTMENT RESEARCH, June 3 SIA Engineering (SIAEC) has progressively been a beneficiary of the recoveiy in in the Asia Pacific, driven by higher flight frequencies, the launch of new destinations, and the entrance of more carriers utilising
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      Lock icon Greenback softens after US jobs data
      356 6 CURRENCIES AFP [TOKYO] The US dollar eased against the yen in Asian trade yesterday after slumping last week on weaker-than-expected May US jobs data while the euro steadied after recent weakness following the French and Dutch rejections of the EU constitutional treaty, dealers said.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Citibank gears up for China's banking boom
      569 8  -  It aims to expand its eight branches to tap into the huge consumer market By SIOW LI SEN LIFE in Singapore does not quite prepare you for China, said Lee Ah Boon yesterday, Citibank's consumer business manager for China operations. "This is a
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      Lock icon LTA to sign charter on public transport
      320 8  -  It seeks to build a sustainable land transport system that meets present needs By SAMUEL EE THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) will sign the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) Full Charter on Sustainable Development today at the UITP's 56th World Congress in
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      Lock icon PM Lee: Ex-G will be remembered, honoured
      271 8  -  He guided judiciary through big changes in Singapore By NANDE KHIN SINGAPOREANS will "remember and honour" former chief justice Wee Chong Jin for his contributions to the country, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. In his condolence letter to Mr Wee's wife
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      Lock icon Education centres less profitable to run: study
      211 8  -  By LISA TAN WHILE the number of establishments providing education services in Singapore climbed 16.1 per cent with 2,808 start-ups in 2003, these businesses were less profitable to run than in 2002, a study has shown. The study part of the Department of
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon Hot response to youth business programme
        130 8 THE Citibank-YMCA Youth for Causes programme, an event of President's Challenge 2005, attracted 259 community proposals this year, or a nearly nine-fold increase in the number of submissions for the programme since its pilot run in 2003. More than 1,000 youths, aged 15 to
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        Lock icon SPTA signs MOU with Temasek Poly
        97 8 SHAANXI Provincial Tourism Administration (SPTA) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Temasek Polytechnic today for SPTA's senior management executives to receive training in Singapore on tourism and hospitality management Xian city tourism officials will attend training in areas relating to integrated resort
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      141 8 Euro-Asian Buffet Lunch Dinner Indulge In the best of two culinary worlds as we bring you the best of International cuisine. Highlights include Roti Prata from Singapore. Sashimi and Caiiibrnlan Hand Rolls from Japan, Fresh Oysters. Soft-shelled Crabs, Braised Oxtail from Europe and lots more. Monday to Sindiy (txeept Saturday)
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  • SME spotlight
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      Lock icon Lending a helping hand
      1230 9  -  Though SME financing is an increasingly attractive market to local and foreign banks alike, many small and medium-sized enterprises still find it difficult to obtain loans. KOH HAN NEE examines the issue KOH HAN NEE SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are typically privately run family businesses
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      Lock icon Rough ocean, but Pere to stay
      1104 10  -  Wanin's winning formula has propelled it to capture 35% of the fiercely competitive bottled water market in Singapore, says LISA TAN LISA TAN HAVE you ever tasted bottled water that tastes "too mineral", with a hint of bitterness to put you off the brand
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      Lock icon Investing surplus cash
      1220 11  -  CONNECTING BUSINESS WITH HSBC Liquidity and risk are among factors a company should consider before proceeding with such an investment. NANDE KHIN gathers some views NANDE KHIN Q: Why should a company invest its surplus cash? Janet: For companies which are in the growth stage and are
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      Lock icon Nippecraft still going strong in the paper chase
      691 11  -  SMALL CAPS By CAROLYN QUEK IT may be a high-tech age we are living in right now, but old-fashioned diaries and calendars are still the way to go, for Nippecraft at least. In fact, the paper diaries and organisers maker has managed
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      154 10 u Company Formation Foreign Direct Investment Virtual Offices Since 1975 OCRA Worldwide has been providing offshore incorporation and administration solutions for Asian and International businesses. We have been at the forefront of corporate and financial trends in China and lead the field in foreign drect inveslmenL Our pioneering spirit, professionalism
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  • SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL
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      Lock icon Garments in art's fashion
      590 12  -  Is fashion art? The Arts Festival's Akira Isogawa showcase suggests it is, reports APARNA RODDAM APARNA RODDAM DEFYING convention is perhaps the most relevant theme in the Singapore Arts Festival's presentations this year, with the introduction of unexplored arenas such as fashion-as-art. The upcoming Akira Isogawa:
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      Lock icon Latvian choir not just a treat for the ears
      451 12  -  By FRANK DeMEGLIO PRE-FESTIVAL hype suggested it would be a standout performance of this year's Art Festival, and reality, for once justified the hype. The performance in question was the much-an-ticipated State Choir Latvija, who delivered the sort of performance that
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Euro may lose further ground against US$
      1048 13 Pressure mounts on European Central Bank to cut interest rates and boost economic growth Bloomberg [LONDON] The euro this year is off to its worst start against the dollar since 2001 and may extend that decline as pressure mounts on the European Central
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      Lock icon China-US textile issue a serious problem: Wu Yi
      227 13 AP [SHANGHAI] China and the US must resolve their dispute over textile trade if they are to keep relations on track, a top Chinese official said yesterday. "The textile products issue is a very serious problem for trade and economic relations between
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      Lock icon Britain suspends plans for referendum on EU charter
      317 13 AP. NYT [LONDON] Britain yesterday put on ice its plans for a referendum on the European Union constitution, following the French and Dutch rejection of the tyForeign Secretary Jack Straw said Britain still viewed the 465-article treaty as a "sensible new set
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      Lock icon China feels heat from Snow on yuan exchange rate
      475 13 US demands immediate action, leading to 'timely' flotation Reuters [BEIJING] China's slowing import growth is generating trade friction and putting upward pressure on the yuan, an economist from the Cabinet's think tank said in remarks published yesterday. But even as United
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      Lock icon Thai economy shrinks for 1 st time in 4 years
      419 13 Q1 growth hit by drought higher fuel costs Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's economy shrank for the first time in four years in the last quarter as drought parched rice and sugar crops and higher fuel costs curbed consumer spending. Gross domestic
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon CIMB moves to become universal bank
      551 14  -  Commercial banking unit to come under enlarged group By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur INVESTMENT bank CIMB yesterday said it was combining its strengths with that of its commercial banking unit, BumiputraCommerce Bank (BCB), to give the enlarged group the firepower needed to become
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      Lock icon Penang loses lustre for Low Yat
      808 14 Property developer boss fed up with stifling bureaucracy [KUALA LUMPUR] Renowned hotelier and property developer Low Yow Chuan has just about had enough of the suffocating red tape and numbing bureaucracy in Penang and is close to pulling out of ever doing any projects
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon China to invest 400b yuan in nuclear plants
        82 14 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China National Nuclear Corp, the nation's largest nuclear power plants builder, said the country would invest 400 billion yuan (SsBo billion) building nuclear plants from 2005 to 2020. China is to decide soon on deals to build two pairs of
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        Lock icon BOC in talks with foreign investors to sell shares
        73 14 Reuters [BEIJING] Bank of China, the country's largest foreign exchange bank, hopes to sell more than 10 per cent of its shares to a number of foreign investors, bank president Li Lihui said yesterday. The bank is in talks with several
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        Lock icon Hongkong may benefit from textiles trade row
        69 14 AFP [HONG KONGI Hong Kong's finance chief Henry Tang said yesterday that China's textiles trade row with the US and Europe could tempt factories to relocate back to the former British colony to avoid threatened sanctions. Hong Kong had a massive textile base
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      Lock icon Regional autonomy starts to pay off
      521 14  -  INDONESIA INSIGHT SHOEB KAGDA Jakarta Correspondent FOUR years after Indonesia chose to dramatically alter its political and economic structure by introducing the Regional Autonomy Law, the country is beginning to reap the dividends of that landmark decision. Starting this month, residents of 200 municipalities
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon Indian BPO providers gear up to maintain lead position
      637 15  -  Nation must offer continuous value creation and higher economies of scale By ASHOK KUMAR in Mumbai GLOBAL competitive pressure is forcing organisations to look for ways to sustain growth and manage costs effectively and efficiently, particularly the selling, general and administration
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      Lock icon Wipro looks to expand with new acquisitions
      504 15 [LONDON] Wipro, the Indian IT company, is looking to make new acquisitions as it seeks to deepen its specialist expertise and move into offering more complex services to its customers, the Financial Times reported. "We have a number of acquisitions in the pipeline,"
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      Lock icon China's Comms Bank planning HK$15b IPO
      502 15 The sale will test investor confidence in Chinese banks Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Bank of Communications Ltd, China's fifth-largest lender, plans to raise as much as HK$l4.9 billion (553.2 billion) in the first of three overseas share sales by the nation's banks this year, according
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      Lock icon BBC's magazine unit to publish first Indian title
      355 15 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] BBC Worldwide, the UK's third-biggest publisher of consumer magazines, will publish its first title in India in three months, tying up with the Times of India, the flagship newspaper of Bennett Coleman Co. The unit of British Broadcasting Corp,
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      Lock icon Intel looking to tap into India market
      384 15 [LONDON] Intel has announced plans to target India's rising demand for personal computers, marking a strategic step up in a country that has mostly been a source for offshore technology skills for the world's largest manufacturer of microprocessors, the Financial Times reported yesterday.
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      Lock icon 'Unlucky' taxis fail to pass muster in China
      157 15 AP [SHANGHAI] A Shanghai taxi company has banned cabs with unlucky licence plates from carrying students to college entrance exams this week. Dazhong, the city's largest taxi company, won't carry students in cabs whose licence plate ends in the number four, which
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Asia-Pac mobile users to soar
      366 16 IDC expects number to cross 910m by 2009, from 625m this year AFP [SINGAPORE] The number of mobile service subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan is projected to exceed 901 million by 2009 after growing a robust 25.6 per cent to 527.3 million
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      Lock icon Diplomat's asylum bid may hurt Aussie-China trade talks
      481 16 AP A CHINESE diplomat's attempt to defect to Australia and explosive claims about Beijing's espionage activities have cast a shadow over Canberra's attempts to negotiate a free trade deal with China. Chen Yonglin, 37, worked as a diplomat at the Chinese Consulate-General
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      Lock icon Arroyo dismisses fresh corruption charges, business remains upbeat
      437 16 Reuters, Bloomberg [MANILA] Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced fresh corruption allegations in the media yesterday surrounding last year's election, but government officials said the evidence had been doctored. ABS-CBN television network said there was an audio tape of a conversation between
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      Lock icon Stanchart looking to buy into smaller China bank
      337 16 Reuters [BEIJING] Standard Chartered Pic is looking at smaller banking acquisitions to supplement its Asian franchise, as it shies away from bigger investments in the region, its chairman said yesterday. "We are in most of Asia, we are looking at add-ons almost
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    • Article
      Lock icon Apple's Intel switch to slash Mac prices by 10-20%
      903 16 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Apple Computer Inc's plan to switch its computers to Intel Corpchips for the first time may help chief executive Steve Jobs sell cheaper laptops and extend gains in market share. Mr Jobs was to unveil plans to use
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      513 17 The finance ministry projects debt this year to reach a record 66% of GDP Bloomberg [PARIS] France is selling a 4.53 billion-euro (559.25 billion) stake in France Telecom SA, making debt reduction the first move by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin since
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      258 17 Reuters [LONDON] A texting lottery for tickets to London's star-studded Live 8 charity concert opened yesterday with hundreds of thousands expected to spend up to £20 million (Ss6o million) competing for the chance to attend the July 2 event Performers expected at the Hyde Park show
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      208 17 Reuters [LONDON] International Business Machines Corp (IBM) is linking with a team of Swiss scientists to create the world's first accurate, computer-based model of the brain, the US company said yesterday. The researchers hope that modelling the brain at the cellular level
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      450 17 NYT [GENEVA] Swiss voters on Sunday approved plans to join the European Union's passport-free zone, an indication that Switzerland is moving away from its traditional isolation in the region. In final results of the referendum, 55 per cent of voters agreed to join
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      499 17 Voters are more concerned with the socio-economic consequences of integration AFP [PARIS] KEEPING the peace may have been the driving factor for Europe's founding fathers in the postwar period, but the argument is no longer enough to convince today's Europeans to pursue closer integration, experts
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      326 17 It will create largest US warehouse, distribution Reit Reuters [NEW YORK] ProLogis is buying rival real estate investment trust Catellus Development Corp in a US$3.6 billion cash-and-stock deal that will create the country's largest Reit focused on warehouse and distribution properties,
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      148 17 AP [LONDON] Exactly a month before the vote, front-run-ner Paris received the best overall review yesterday in an lOC evaluation of the five cities bidding for the 2012 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee issued a 123-page report evaluating the bids of Paris, London, New York,
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      484 18 Airbus CEO visits Dubai to explain delays to largest A380 buyer Bloomberg [DUBAI] Emirates, the largest customer for the Airbus SAS A3BO aircraft, said it is seeking damages from the European maker because of a six-month delay in delivering the plane, joining Qantas Airways Ltd
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      392 18 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), AI: Air India (AK), AY Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA),BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), BI: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR EVA
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      285 18 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Dragonair, the city's second-largest carrier, said it may start cargo flights to Chicago and Los Angeles next year to take advantage of rising air freight demand as trade between China and the US expands. Dragonair plans to fly more
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      253 18 AFP [PARIS] US plane maker Boeing would still prefer to reach an amicable settlement with its European rival Airbus in the dispute over aircraft subsidies rather than having the matter settled by the World Trade Organization (WTO), a senior Boeing official told a
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      638 18 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Deccan Aviation. owner of India's first low-fare carrier Air Deccan, said it is considering a plan to trade its stock on the Nasdaq, becoming the first Indian airline to tap funds from the US equity market. The carrier, which
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  • SHIPPING/AVIATION
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      317 19 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Jet Airways (India) Ltd, India's biggest domestic carrier, said it is suing to remove Jet Airways Inc from the US trademark registry as it seeks to start flights to the world's biggest economy. In a case filed to the
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      353 19 Reuters [LONDON] British regional airline Flybe has placed an order for 14 new planes from Brazil's Embraer and taken options for a further 12 in a deal worth nearly US$l billion, the airline said yesterday. Flybe's order was a loss for manufacturers Airbus
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      424 19 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia yesterday broke ground on the construction of an airport terminal for Asia's booming budget aviation sector, which it hopes win help make Kuala Lumpur a regional transport hub. The new terminal, which will cost RMIOB million (Ss47i£9million) and initially
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      242 19 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA), Asia's most profitable carrier, will seek proposals from Boeing and Airbus as it plans to add as much as 30 new aircraft for regional and medium-haul flights in the next few years. "We foresee
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      432 19 Bangkok urged to support setting up of centre for strait security AFP [BANGKOK] US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged Thailand to support the establishment of a centre in Malaysia to combat rampant piracy in the Malacca Strait, a vital shipping lane, Thai officials
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      564 19  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Re-elected as president of the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA), Teo Siong Seng told his membership to be "alert" to the dynamics of world sea-borne trade and urged Asean governments to develop stronger political will to solve <he region's piracy
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      299 19  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] The buoyant global shipping industry has also benefited Malaysia's Johor Port Berhad which reported increased cargo volumes across nearly all sectors leading to a 6 per cent rise in 2004 pretax profit over the year
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      102 19 AP [SHANGHAI] Construction has begun on what China says will eventually be the world's biggest shipyard, part of the country's plan for taking a dominant role in the industry. China's biggest shipbuilding company began building the 8 km-long facility late last week on an
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      507 20 EDITORIAL MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi certainly got it right when he listed "cheap foreign labour" as one of the "addictions" of the Malaysian private sector. His speech, early last month, to the Harvard Society seemed to have stunned not a few addict-busi-nessmen in
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      784 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE WILLIAM PESEK JR Bloomberg BRIAN Wesbury isn't a preacher, yet you could've fooled the audience of investors and traders the US economist addressed in London recently. One attendee was quick to note an "evangelical quality" to Mr Wesbury's bullish take
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      1035 20  -  The Republic would be able to fill knowledge and information gaps, especially in services By WOLFGANG HUMMEL THE trend of German companies increasingly looking to Asia, and particularly China, to establish operations could open up new opportunities for Singapore firms. The current
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      1087 21  -  Battle for consumer attention continues to propel growth of a cluttered media and competitive advertising industry By JACKSON LO THE advertising industry in China has grown tremendously since its beginnings in the late *****. Today, it is one of the largest advertising markets in Asia.
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      134 21  -  Dulcie Chan (Ms) Assistant Director Corporate Marketing Communication Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore I REFER to Mr Ricky Lee's letter, "Sing Post's massive rate hikes hurting customers" (BT, June 3). IDA has granted Singapore Post Ltd an exclusive licence for the conveyance of
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      539 21  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Angeline Tan Corporate Communications Manager Singapore Post Ltd Singapore I REFER to the letter "SingPost's massive rate hikes hurting customers" by Ricky Lee (BT, June 3). Sing Post's Speedpost air and surface parcel business is highly competitive. Besides Sing
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  • PROPERTY
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      430 28  -  Major draw for Maxwell Rd building is museum to be set up by Germany's Red Dot By ARTHUR SIM THE old Traffic Police Headquarters in Maxwell Road will be converted into a design centre, with its draw a museum by German design institution
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      378 28 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Millennium Copthorne Hotels pic, controlled by Singapore billionaire Kwek Leng Beng, is building a second Bangkok hotel, this time with a local partner, as part of the company's planned Asia expansion. The 326-room hotel, a 50-50 joint venture
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      341 28  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA IN what could be a sign of the current home buying season tapering because of the school holidays when many families go on vacation, developers reported relatively tepid weekend sales for recent launches. Centrepoint Properties sold 15 units over the weekend
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