The Business Times, 5 July 2005

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES siN&S?|sa^ at http://biisiness-times.asia 1 .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Tuesday July 5.2005
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  • Article
    Lock icon Singapore oil traders face tough times
    584 1  -  Physical and derivatives volume dived 35% in first half, second half outlook weak By RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] Oil traders in Singapore the world's third largest trading hub after New York and London have not had a happy first half. Business volume physical and paper,
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    132 1 STI 2,221.16 (+11.21) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,224.00 (+12.00) SIMSO 264.73 (+1.06) SIMSO FUTURES 265.20 (+0.80) MARKETS Monday Change KLSE COMP 898,69 +4.67 NIKKEI 225 11,651.55 +21.42 HANG SENG *****.87 -23.19 SET INDEX 669.78 -5.72 JAKARTA COMP 1,138.88 -0.11 MANILA COMP 1,815.67 -79.58 SEOULCOMP 1021.71 +3.69 SHENZHEN B 213.25
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Stakes high for 2012 Olympics host city
    740 1  -  By JOYCE KOH [SINGAPORE] Tomorrow will bring joy for some and heartbreak for others. After years of planning and campaigning, the race to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will end in a single moment in Singapore. The world will be tuned in
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      16 1 SMALL CAPS China's Keda set to take on big names in telecoms products sector re 13
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  • TOP STORIES
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon D'Original Satay founder in talks with otah maker
      488 2  -  Lim Luan Seng Foods explores possibility of tie-up to make satay By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] Following a failed attempt to revive the Satay Club in the Esplanade area, the founders of D'Original Satay Club may find a new lease of life through
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      Lock icon Easier visas big boost to India-S'pore flows
      425 2  -  By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] The relaxation of visa restrictions for travel between India and Singapore under the newly signed economic agreement will go a long way towards facilitating the flow of investment and talent between the two countries, business executives said. Predeep Menon,
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      Lock icon Temasek, Sabre Capital eye US$5b India fund
      660 2 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Sabre Capital Worldwide, founded by former Standard Chartered chief executive Rana Talwar, is teaming up with Temasek Holdings to raise up to US$5 billion to invest in India. The partners will this week for a licence from India's market regulator
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      Lock icon Electronics drags down June purchasing index to 50.5
      545 2  -  By CHEN HUIFEN [SINGAPORE] After a short revival in May, the demand for electronics has shrunk again last month, dragging down the purchasing managers index (PMI) by half a point to 50.5. The headline figure is not far off from a median
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      749 2 Local IPO underwriters losing ground to foreign rivals LOCAL underwriting stalwarts Westcomb Capital, United Overseas Bank and OCBC Bank have lost significant ground to foreign entrants like CLSA and ÜBS. And at the rate these foreign houses are gobbling up market share, top underwriter DBS Group must surely
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Big IPO underwriters losing ground here
      796 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R SIVANITHY HERE'S an interesting observation about the initial public offer (IPO) market that few may know. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, local underwriting stalwarts Westcomb Capital, \JOB, and OCBC have lost significant ground to not just foreign entrants
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      Lock icon Distribution tightens Wees' grip on UOL
      426 4 UOB will cut its stake to no more than 10% by July 2006 BANKER Wee Cho Yaw and his family have tightened their grip on United Overseas Land (UOL) following the distribution of the property company's shares held by United Overseas Bank (UOB). UOL,
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      Lock icon UOB opens Goh Beng Kwan art exhibition
      227 4 UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB), together with one of Singapore's most famous artists Goh Beng Kwan, yesterday opened Journeys Revisited a retrospective exhibition of Mr Goh's work over the past five decades. Opened to a 200-strong crowd of art enthusiasts ranging from bank custom-
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon ST Engg bags l)S$1 Om deals ,
        87 4 ST Engg bags l)S$1 Om deals SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering has received further orders of US$lO million to build multimedia classrooms in Kazakhstan, bringing the total worth of contracts it has received in the country to US$3O million. The contracts were awarded to Kaz-ST Engineering Bastau (JLSTEB), ST Engineering's joint venture
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        Lock icon Meritus president to retire early
        40 4 MICHAEL Ow will be retiring early as president of Meritus Hotels Resorts, said Overseas Union Enterprise which owns 100 per cent of the Meritus group. Mr Ow's last day of service will be Sept 30.
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        Lock icon Medi-Flex deal gets green light
        76 4 SHAREHOLDERS of Medi-Flex have, in an EGM yesterday, approved an agreement for the company's wholly-owned subsidiary Flexitech Sdn Bhd to get biomass heat supply for its plant in Selangor, Malaysia, from Greenview Properties. Medi-Flex, which makes latex and nitrile cleanroom disposable gloves, expects to achieve
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        Lock icon CDL on subsidiary changes
        143 4 CITY Development's New Zealand-listed unit CDL Hotels New Zealand has increased its shareholding in its property arm CDL Investments New Zealand in a dividend reinvestment plan. CDL Investments NZ last Wednesday allotted and issued some 9 million new ordinary shares at a strike price of NZ$O.32
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      Lock icon Temasek to buy US$1b of China bank's IPO
      162 4 Bloomberg TEMASEK Holdings Pte Ltd, Singapore's investment company, agreed to buy US$l billion of stock in China Construction Bank's initial public offering, the second investment by a foreign company in the bank in a month. Temasek will also buy an undisclosed stake
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      Lock icon Wing Tai to buy Phoenix Mansion for $57.9m
      358 6  -  Group beats 5 other bidders in collective sale tender By KALPANA RASHIWALA FRESH from selling Park Mall last week, listed developer Wing Tai Holdings announced yesterday that it is buying Phoenix Mansion in Cairnhill Road for $57.9 million or $716 per square
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      Lock icon Labroy Marine unit inks record $169m vessel deal
      300 6  -  OIL GAS Shares hit all-time high of 83 cents on full order book By MINDY TAN LABROY Shipbuilding and Engineering, the whollyowned subsidiary of Labroy Marine, yesterday signed a $169 million contract with an undisclosed party, its largest to date, for what
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      Lock icon Pearl Energy ditches drilling at Thai well
      235 6 OIL exploration company Pearl Energy announced yesterday that it had abandoned an exploration well in the Gulf of Thailand after digging to 2,594 m without finding any significant deposits of hydrocarbons. The Chang Daeng 3 well was the final commitment under the current
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      Lock icon ST Telemedia still eyeing India telecoms market
      517 7  -  TELECOMS Its former partner Telekom M'sia set to make new bid for Idea Cellular stake By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur DESPITE a failed attempt at buying into India's Idea Cellular, Singapore Technologies Telemedia remains interested in the big Indian telecoms market. ST
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      Lock icon StarHub to offer free bandwidth with leased line
      393 7  -  Offer comes with 2Mbps Internet leased line package By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY STARTING today, Star Hub will offer free Internet bandwidth to businesses subscribing to the company's 2 mega bit per second (Mbps) Internet leased line package. According to Star Hub, this
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      Lock icon 8Telecom snags set-top box distributorship from Huawei
      240 7  -  By WEE LI-EN -BTELECOM International Holdings has signed an agreement with China's Huawei Technologies for the nationwide rights to distribute Huawei-manu-factured Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) set-top boxes in China until July 2006 but has nevertheless issued a profits warning. BTelecom is a SGX
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Jardine group stocks prop up index
      506 8  -  STOCKS Oil and gas laggards come back into play as turnover remains low R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent THE Jardine group consistently supported the Straits Times Index throughout its rise to new five-year highs last month and, despite a quiet, generally illiquid session yesterday, it
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Goh Bak Heng sells more Best World shares
        384 8 BEST World International's substantial shareholder Goh Bak Heng has sold more shares. Last Friday, he disposed of two million shares by way of a married deal, cutting his direct stake in the company from 10.498 per cent to 9.164 per cent. The
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        Lock icon Linair's director increases his stake
        145 8  -  Compiled by NANDE KHIN LINAIR Technologies' non-executive chairman and independent director Law Chwee Kiat has boosted his stake in the provider of environment control exhaust systems. He bought 200,000 shares on the open market yesterday, increasing his stake in Linair from 0.116 per cent to
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      425 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jul 4 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -7.00 +164.00 BTCADI -*****.00 +20.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -1.00 All-SG Equities 570.21 +2.54 SG Equities Elect 137.81 +0.72 SG Equities Fin 1555.63 +4.72 SG Equities Prop 572.03 +4.90 SIMSCI 264.73 +1.06 SiMSCI Futures 265.20 +0.80 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME CSCHIdqsIc
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      846 8  -  Compiled by R SIVANiTHY Meiban July 4 dose: 63.5 cents KIM ENG SECURITIES. July 1 WE are reiterating our "buy" recommendation on Meiban. Share price has come off by 21 per cent since management indicated programme delays with its major customers. The decline in share price has greater than
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      Lock icon US$ breaks more key barriers
      530 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent A HUGE improvement in US manufacturing sector sentiment last month again propelled the US dollar to impressive new highs in pre-week-end trading last Friday, and forced it even higher against some counterparts yesterday. The greenback exploded almost one per cent
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Infotech services here set to cross US$2b this year
      533 10  -  Gartner says much of the growth to come from public sector By RAJU CHELLAM [SINGAPORE] For the first time, spending on infotech services in Singapore will cross a threshold level of US$2 billion this year, up a good 6 per cent
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      Lock icon Tuas Power names NOL veteran as non-exec chairman
      275 10  -  By RONNIE LIM TUAS Power the third largest generating company here has appointed former NOL veteran Lim How Teck as non-executive chairman. The move comes as gencos here gird up for the next phase of competition in the power industry, when the
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      Lock icon Q2 GDP estimate out on July 11
      155 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE will release an advance estimate of the economy's performance in the second quarter on Judy 11 at Bam. the Ministry of Trade and Industry said in a statement yesterday. The estimate for the quarter ended June 30 is largely based on
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      Lock icon Biotech start-up finds new stem cell source
      440 10  -  By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE biotech start-up Cellßesearch Corp has discovered a new source of stem cells in the outer lining of the umbilical cord, which can yield several hundred times more cells than traditional sources like cord blood and bone marrow. "Although a
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      Lock icon Chinese .sg domain names on trial
      325 10  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY SINGAPORE Network Information Centre (SGNIC), a subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), is now offering, as a part of a sixmonth trial, Chinese or Tamil ".sg" domain names for individuals as well as organisations. These domain names
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  • SMEspotlight
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      Lock icon Get on the right track for growth
      698 11  -  Starting out with a narrow focus, SMEs tend to be at a loss with respect to their future direction. NANDE KHIN finds out how companies can turn things around NANDE KHIN MANY small and medi-um-sized enterprises (SMEs) tend to lose their business direction
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      Lock icon Olympia Diary gets Aussie boost
      469 11  -  Free trade pacts spell good news for S'pore companies. We highlight two of them that benefited from such agreements. By CHLOE CHOY THE inking of the Singapore-Austra-lia Free Trade Agreement (Safta) in 2003 has made available a variety of concessions to businesses of both countries.
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      Lock icon Better business for GN Packaging
      417 11  -  By LISA TAN GN Packaging now has more overseas customers, especially since free trade agreements (FTAs) that Singapore signed with several countries allowed it to offer goods at lower prices. "Before the FTA, the import tax in America was 4 per cent and now it
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      Lock icon Ready for the next hurdle?
      721 12  -  Any expansion calls for a company to review its resources and allocate them realistically. KEOY SOO EARN outlines strategies for growth KEOY SOO EARN WHILE the older generation of entrepreneurs built their businesses one step at a time, the new generation of entrepreneurs is more
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      Lock icon Success is more than skin-deep
      868 12  -  By MINDY TAN PONZ Goo has much to be proud of. The 33-year-old is chief executive officer (CEO) of home-grown Haach, a company that despite its youth, has quickly emerged one of the leading players in the spa and body care industry. Founded in 1997,
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      Lock icon China firm thinks global
      843 13  -  SMALL CAPS Keda Communications is set to take on big names in the telecoms products sector, says WEE LI-EN WEE LI-EN CHINESE company Keda Communications has come a long way in a short time. It started in 1995 as a stateowned enterprise producing telephone switchboards and
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      Lock icon Rotary lifts portfolio
      367 13  -  By TEH HOOI LING GAINS in just a handful of stocks helped lift the value of our small-cap portfolio marginally by 0.2 per cent. The portfolio's performance matched that of the UOB Sesdaq Index, but trailed the continued forward march of the Straits Times Index by half
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Hedge fund assets set to double in 5 years: report
      541 14 But industry could see consolidation as big inflows drive down charges Bloomberg. Reuters [LONDON] The fast growing hedge fund industry is likely to double its assets over five years but also could see consolidation as big inflows drive down charges,
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      Lock icon China investment may slow in H2
      249 14 Reuters. Bloomberg [BElJlNG] Annual growth of China's fixed-asset investment may slow to between 20 and 25 per cent in the second half as the government maintains tightening measures, the Economic Daily said yesterday, citing an official forecast. "Relevant government departments are unlikely to relax
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      Lock icon G8 agenda to focus on African poverty, climate change issues
      348 14 Reuters [EDINBURGH] Leaders of a small group of major industrialised democracies have met every year since 1975 to discuss big issues facing the planet, but this week's Group of Eight summit in Scotland promises to be a bit different. The
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    • Article
      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4560 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS CitiGlobal Healthcare fund 0.97/ CM Gt> Fin Siva Fund Crti US Aggressive Growth Fund 0.84/ ,b P n nanc/ S B Sel Gfc Bus Ldre Ptfl Q3(SGD) 1.1184/ -tL *"T?iS S 8 SH G4) Bus LdR Ptfl 03(150) 1.1677/ Hft Citibond S'pore Class Y 0.98/ V™ "J
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Singapore still a top investor in Malaysia
      538 15  -  Republic was 2nd biggest investor last year, with RM1.5b poured in By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE was Malaysia's second largest foreign investor last year, accounting for RMI.S billion (***** million) of the country's total foreign investments of RM13.1 billion. Not surprisingly,
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      Lock icon Khazanah in talks to buy Bank Lippo stake
      272 15 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's state investment arm Khazanah Nasional Bhd said yesterday it has opened talks ahead of expected negotiations to buy at least 25 per cent of Indonesian mid-sized lender PT Bank Lippo Tbk. Khazanah makes strategic investments on behalf of
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      Lock icon M'sian auto tariffs to stay at 20%, says trade minister
      502 15  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S automotive tariffs would likely be kept at 20 per cent when the government makes its announcement on auto taxes in September, Minister of International Trade Industry Rafidah Aziz has indicated. Given that Malaysia
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon China oil sale seen as bid to depress prices
      849 16 Size and suddenness of Sinopec's offer lead to speculation about its motive Reuters [SINGAPORE] Giant refiner Sinopec's offer to sell millions of barrels of crude was as much a ploy to depress global prices as a bid to shift surplus oil,
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      Lock icon China has approved plans to revalue yuan: JPMorgan
      338 16 Reuters [SINGAPORE] US investment bank JPMorgan Chase Co said yesterday it believes China's top deci-sion-makers have already approved in principle plans to revalue the yuan but the timing is still uncertain. The bank, in a media presentation on its outlook for Asia,
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Rift between Stanley Ho and sister widens
      609 16 [HONG KONG] Stanley Ho, the Asian gambling tycoon, has disowned his younger sister as a four-year rift in one of Hong Kong's most prominent families deepens, reports the Financial Times. The siblings, 83 and 82, have been locked in a bitter power struggle
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    • Article
      Lock icon Anil Ambani to take over Adlabs Films
      346 16 [MUMBAI] Anil Ambani has turned to Bollywood for his first acquisition since hostilities with brother Mukesh led to the break-up of their family-controlled telecoms-to-energy Reliance group, reported the Financial Times. He has agreed to take control of Mumbai-based Adlabs Films for 3.6 billion
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Citik gets nod to pursue TPI bid
        104 16 Reuters [BANGKOK] A Thai court gave China's Citic Resources the go-ahead yesterday to pursue its bid for debt-laden Thai Petrochemicals Industry (TPI), dealing a blow to government efforts to restructure the nation's largest corporate defaulter. The Central Bankruptcy Court said Citic, which has
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      • Article
        Lock icon Myanmar junta may leave Yangon
        73 16 AFP [YANGON] Myanmar's military junta may be readying to move part of its administration outside the capital to somewhere "safer", analysts and diplomats here say. Pyinmana could become the "escape city" for top leaders, military commanders and some ministers, they said. Some suggested that the
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        66 16 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd, a cell-phone company controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said it has sold a 3.4 per cent stake in its Indian unit to a partner for US$6l million. The company sold the stake in Hutchison Max Telecom Ltd
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      595 17 Poll cheating and graft allegations may be weakening her support base Reuters [MANILA] Legal threats to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's economic reforms hit the Philippine peso and stocks yesterday as allegations of election cheating and corruption appeared to be eroding some
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        123 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] Vodafone Group, the world's largest mobile-phone company, is taking advantage of banking competition to slash its borrowing costs with 4.67 billion euro (559.4 billion) credit line. The company will pay four basis points, or 0.04 percentage point, as a fee to maintain the funds,
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        103 17 AFP [SYDNEY] US media mogul Rupert Murdochs' News Ltd yesterday launched a free afternoon newspaper in Sydney the first new daily paper for the city in decades. The first edition of mAwas distributed in the central business district after 3pm. The colour tabloid covering news,
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        97 17 AFP [ROME] Italy yesterday angrily reiterated it had no prior knowledge of the ClA's abduction of a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003, rejecting assertions by a former CIA agent in a newspaper interview that Italy's secret service chief had personally consented to the operation.
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        99 17 Reuters [BANGKOK] US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit tsunami-hit parts of Thailand next week, officials said yesterday, fuelling speculation she will snub a major security meeting in the region later in the month. Ms Rice is due to arrive in Phuket on Sunday and
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        93 17 NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Microsoft's efforts to extricate itself from anti-trust disputes received another setback when the founder of the Go Corp, a maker of a portable computer operating system in the *****, filed suit in federal and state courts last Wednesday. The lawsuits, which accuse Microsoft
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      343 17 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Global sales growth of semiconductors slowed in May, but the industry is still in positive territory as demand for cell phones and personal computers remains healthy, a survey showed yesterday. Revenues rose 4.1 per cent to US$lB.O5 billion, compared with May
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      442 17 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea has cut this year's target for economic growth to around 4 per cent from the previous 5 per cent due to a slow recovery in demand at home and increased risks from abroad, the finance ministry
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      367 17 They fear Opec may not be able to raise output in case of supply disruptions Bloomberg Reuters [NEW YORK] Oil traders are increasingly betting that prices may increase to US$BO a barrel this year. Investors are speculating that the Organisation
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      715 18 Not all airlines raise fuel surcharge; budget carriers see consolidation AFP [SINGAPORE] Asian travellers face costlier air tickets after oil breached US$6O a barrel, but the impact on demand should be limited amid rapid growth in nofrills travel, industry analysts said.
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      220 18 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways pic (BA), the third-largest European airline, said its net assets will be cut by almost half under new accounting rules as the company moves a shortfall in its retirement plan onto the balance sheet. The
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      409 18 [SINGAPORE] The head of Air Asia, the region's most successful discount airline, is forecasting a wave of consolidation in the fastgrowing sector as rising fuel prices and firmer aircraft leasing rates put pressure on new entrants, reports the Financial Times. Tony Fernandes, chief executive
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      267 18 AFP [SEOUL] Korean Air pilots staged a go-slow yesterday, driving planes at half-speed to and from runways to back their demand for better working conditions, airport officials said. They said the pilots halved their speeds on taxiways at the country's two main airports
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      656 19  -  Lloyds committee places waterway under high risk of war, terrorism By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Dramatically higher insurance costs could soon be in store for the 50,000 ships annually transiting the Malacca Strait after the vital waterway was declared a war and terrorism risk
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      468 19 Reuters [LONDON] Exxon Mobil Corp is transporting oil to Asia aboard older, singlehulled supertankers shunned by other major oil companies, industry sources said on Friday. The world's largest listed oil company has regularly chartered ageing oil tankers, built in the late 1980s, to save
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      291 19 SGX '000 Jul 4 SS Vol CH Offshore 0J7 0.01 560 ChuanHup 0.78 unch 384 Cosco Corporation 1.97 0.05 4029 CWT Distribution 0.67 unch 0 Ezra Hldgs 1.22 0.01 321 Freight Links 0.08 unch 539 Grand Banks Yacht 0.97 unch 6 Jaya Holdings 1.09 -0.01 188 K1 Venture
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      457 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] The cost of shipping commodities such as coal and iron ore dropped to a 21-month low as China slowed shipments of the ore used to make steel, increasing the number of vessels available in the so-called spot market. The
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      535 20 EDITORIAL GIVEN that almost all recent opinion polls suggest that most Americans don t think it was worth going to war in Iraq, US President George W Bush clearly had a uphill task in trying to rally voters when he made his speech last week on
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      1195 20  -  Political bickering and protests will hold Arroyo's fiscal reforms hostage AL R DIZON MANILA is heating up once again as it while the cut and democracy moves the country into yet another gridlock. The target: Gloria Arroyo, president of the Philippines. In an exclusive
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      764 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE MATTHEW LYNN Bloomberg IN law, there is a statute of limitations that disregards some offences after a certain time period. Maybe the financial markets should adopt the same principle for Europe's telecommunications giants. No other group of companies made so
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      882 21  -  Singapore well-placed to draw Indian company listings, but still faces competition from international exchanges By BENOY PHILIP ONE of the areas that the Singapore-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement would offer immense potential is in Singapore emerging as a destination for Indian companies to raise funds.
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      361 21  -  By BENOY PHILIP INDIA'S capital market has come a long way since it was hit by scandals during the 90s that eroded investor confidence. The Securitfes Exchange Board of India (Sebi), the capital market regulator, imposed a series of measures to revaftip and
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      506 21  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chua Soon Hock Asia Genesis Asset Management Pte Ltd ASIAN central banks currently hold about US$2.7 trillion of foreign reserves. Japan, China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, hold in total nearly US$2 trillion while South Korea, India and Singapore each
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      448 21  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore THE issues brought up in "PwC report said to have cost CAO $lm-ssm" (BT, Jun 30) compel me to write again. With due respect to your writer, the wide gap between $1 million and $5 million which "the PwC report
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      138 21  -  Denis Distant, Singapore I REFER to the road closure and traffic diversions from Jul 2 costing $4 million, which is to be spent on rerouting traffic in the Somerset/Grange Rd/ Orchard Link area aimed at giving motorists a smoother ride. In
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  • PROPERTY
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      736 28 Experts warn that fear among homebuyers may result in a self-fulfilling prophecy Reuters [NEW YORK] A barrage of news stories and warnings from US officials about possible housing bubbles may in fact become self-fulfilling prophecies, some industry experts and psychologists contend. US housing
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      263 28 US$1b waterfront project in Manama among investments Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Arcapita Bank BSC, a Bahrain-based investment bank, said it plans to provide as much as US$l.3 billion in funding for real estate projects such as residential homes and condominiums in Bahrain. The financing will include US$3OO
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      351 29 Higher interest rates drag on market although y-o-y figures rise Reuters [HONG KONG] The number of property transactions in Hong Kong fell nearly 15 per cent in June from May as •higher interest rates began to cool one of Asia's hottest property markets,
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      254 29 Fans can also bypass waiting list for season tickets ARSENAL football fans will now be able to buy properties right next to the English club'S new stadium in London, and have a chance to see their favourite stars up close. UK property developer Galliard Homes
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      Lock icon Bugis to get $100m 'baby IR'
      628 30  -  By ARTHUR SIM BUGIS will get a new $100 million urban entertainment centre that its architects are already calling the "baby IR" after Singapore's planned integrated resorts. The site next to Bugis MRT on Victoria Street was awarded to Jack Investment by the Urban
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      533 30  -  $32.6m worth of deals done in first half year, reports KALPANA RASHIWALA KALPANA RASHIWALA INVESTORS, small developers and even individuals looking for big plots of land to build their dream homes on are increasingly turning to auctions to buy sites with redevelopment potential.
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      652 28 Notices (Company Registration Number: *****1686N) TRANSMARCO TRANSMARCO LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Orchid Room, Level 2 River View Hotel 382 Havelock Road, Singapore *****9 on Thursday, 21 July 2005 at 10.00 a.m.
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