The Business Times, 16 September 2005

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://biisiness-times.asia 1 .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Friday; September 16,2005
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon SC Global sparked Orchard site sale: sources
    696 1  -  Developer may be small, but has skills to execute projects over $1b: observers By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Boutique developer SC Global, which has a market cap of just $150 million, is said to be the mystery company that triggered the release of the
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    Lock icon Two major US airlines file for bankruptcy protection
    839 1  -  Northwest Delta hit by soaring fuel costs, Katrina By ANDREW MARKS in New York BUCKLING under the enormous pressures of soaring oil prices and the dislocations caused by Hurricane Katrina, two major American airlines have sought court protection from their creditors. Northwest
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    132 1 sn 2317.67 (4432). ST INDEX FUTURES 2319.00 (+4.00) SNMSO 274.76 (+0.34) SIMSCI FUTURES ***** (-0.40) MARKETS Thursday Chang* KLSECOMP 91M5 «4tl NIKKEI 225 12.9H.7j >***** HANG SENG 15,041.02 -45.60 SET INDEX 711 JO -157 JAKARTA COMP 1,050.91 -7.72 MANILA COMP 1,903.09 -11.65 SEOULCOMP 1,169.59 -1.18 SHENZHEN B 232.79
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      757 2 Krishnan, Syed Mokhtar most charitable M'sians T ANANDA Krishnan—recently dubbed South-east Asia's second-richest man by Forbes magazine and Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary have been Malaysia's most charitable people in the past two years, donating a total of RM2B7 million (Ssl2B million), according to Malaysian Business magazine. Mr Krishnan gave
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      Lock icon Ong Beng Seng is back in the IR race: sources
      402 2  -  He's said to be joining Genting and Universal in his personal capacity By ALEXANDRA HO, DANIEL BUENAS [SINGAPORE] Singapore businessman Ong Beng Seng is joining Genting International and theme park operator Universal Studios in their bid for the Sentosa integrated
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      Lock icon Big Brother is listening to your keystrokes
      325 2 Researchers warn of potential security risks from acoustic snooping Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Forget about watching Big Brother may be listening. Sounds from typing on computer keyboards are distinctive enough to be decoded, allowing security breaches caused by "acoustic snooping", University of California, Berkeley
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      Lock icon Krishnan, Syed Mokhtar most charitable M'sians
      330 4  -  They gave a total of RM287m in the past two years By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur TWO tycoons have been Malaysia's most charitable people in the past two years, donating a total of RM2B7 million (Ssl2B million), according to Malaysian Business magazine. The
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      Lock icon Fliers show bankruptcy fatigue
      732 4 NEWS ANALYSIS Many are fed up over US airlines' frequent landings in bankruptcy courts NYT AIR travellers reacted to Wednesday's bankruptcy filings by Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines the same way they greeted earlier decisions by United Airlines and US Airways to seek Chapter 11
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Temasek well-placed to raise more funds
      472 6  -  Pricing for its maiden bond issue tightest ever achieved globally By LESLIE YEE THE excess demand that led to Temasek Holdings successfully launching a maiden US$l.75 billion bond issue from an initial targeted US$l billion has put it on an even better footing to
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      Lock icon Jardine C&C gets more time to file Q3 results
      337 6  -  By MICHELLE QUAH JARDINE Cycle Carriage has been granted an extension to file its third-quarter results, because of the added accounting work involved in consolidating a new subsidiary's results for the first time. The Singapore Exchange (SGX) is giving Jardine C&C
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      Lock icon S'pore, Thailand to deepen ties in capital markets
      113 6 FINANCIAL players in Singapore and Thailand can look forward to further tapping each other's market following several initiatives to better bilateral cooperation in the regional capital market. The two countries will work to establish crossborder trading of collective investment funds, mutual recognition
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      Lock icon StarHub turns the heat up on SingTel
      670 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By ANGELA TAN AS RIVAL telco Star Hub continues to build on its strong position as the country's sole cable television operator by delivering unique content to its mobile and broadband users, it is not surprising that Singapore Telecom is
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      Lock icon Citiraya graft scam: 4 plead guilty
      594 8  -  CORPORATE WOES Former employees of Citiraya's customers accused of taking bribes from its former execs By WONG WEI KONG FOUR men charged over the corruption scandal at electronics waste recycler Citiraya pleaded guilty yesterday to taking bribes from its former top executives. Sentencing for
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      Lock icon CAO still firm about relisting in 3-6 months
      351 8  -  By MICHELLE QUAH TROUBLE-PLAGUED China Aviation Oil (CAO) has reiterated its bold commitment to have its shares trading again in 3-6 months. CAO's special task force head Gu Yanfei who pinned down that ambitious target last week said yesterday that restructuring efforts
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      Lock icon Sin Soon Huat gains 68% but analysts see overvaluation
      399 8  -  By MATTHEW PHAN SHARES of industrial hardware supplier Sin Soon Huat shot up 68 per cent to 23.5 cents yesterday following news that three board members of Indone-sia-based PT Citra Turbindo had acquired a 29.1 per cent stake in the company.
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3788 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS MHnaMtw *****® AM Aan Aaal Mfl (S'pore) Sfctftad/V? Star Europe Eqty'" 085* CW/WilntaiueU* 1X772****** S&r Europe Bond 1.26* Star EuapeBal 1.171/ amond S'pore A/$ U931 Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1X161/ CMBond Spore 8/1 1J44 Star Asia Bond ,.Z!Z 1336/ a# MoneySGO Oa« A ***** Star Asia Bafcrad
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      Lock icon CapitaLand may unveil regional Reit within 3 years
      573 9 REGIONAL PROPERTY Trust to have assets worth US$500m by the time it sells shares to public Bloomberg CAPITALAND Ltd, South-, east Asia's biggest developer, may set up Asia's first regional real estate investment trust as office rents rebound in cities including Singapore
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      Lock icon Mapletree to build Vietnam logistics park
      379 9  -  By ARTHUR SIM, UMA SHANKARI MAPLETREE Investments will develop its first industrial park outside Singapore in Vietnam. Worth US$lOO million, the 56 ha development will be part of the larger 342 ha Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) II by SembCorp Park Holdings and Vietnambased
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      Lock icon A-Sonic buys into software business
      214 9 AVIONICS components supplier A-Sonic Aerospace is buying up the business of aerospace software solutions provider Asprecise Pte Ltd for $2.6 million. Under a specially structured takeover deal, A-Son-ic will own 56 per cent of a new company (newco) into which the assets and business of
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Sun Business in asset sale talks
        69 9 PUBLISHING group Sun Business Network said yesterday that it is in an advanced stage of negotiation to sell certain business assets to Nasdaq-listed SE Global Equities Corp and that the appropriate announcements will be made when an agreement has been reached. Sun made the
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        Lock icon Soilbuild launching Cliften
        46 9 BOUTIQUE property developer Soilbuild Group will launch a 32-unit freehold development this weekend. Called Cliften, the 18-storey development is located in District 10 and features three and four-bedroom units ranging from 1.066 to 2.260 sq ft. Prices start at $686 per square foot.
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        Lock icon OCBC unit made full subsidiary
        58 9 OCBC Investment Research has become a wholly owned subsidiary of OCBC Bank after it was transferred from one OCBC unit Specialists' Services (Pte) Ltd to another, Orient Holdings. Specialists' is 66.7 per cent owned by OCBC and its subsidiaries while Orient is wholly owned by
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        Lock icon IPC in China high school tie-up
        66 9 IPC Corp, a former personal computer maker that has gone into the Chinese education sector, said yesterday that it has struck a cooperation agreement with China's ZhongSheng Investment Holdings to set up a network of high schools in China. Feasibility studies will first be
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      Lock icon Bid to oust FirstLink chairman takes a new twist
      368 9  -  By OH BOON PING FIRSTLINK Investments, which is trying to fight off attempts by Putra Pacific Holdings and a Olivia Then to remove its executive chairman, yesterday rejected their call for an extraordinary general meeting, claiming they were not shareholders. First
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      Lock icon Raffles, Amex launch luxury suites for elite cardholders
      301 9 FOR the times when the luxury of a run-of-the-mill suite at Raffles is not quite enough, Raffles International and American Express yesterday launched their exclusive range of Centurion Suites. The suites will be present in eight Raffles hotels and resorts at seven
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Stock-picking, timing skills essential
      517 10  -  STOCKS Oil and gas, Indon-linked stocks in play as STI trades in narrow band R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IN an environment where traders are worried about the financial consequences of rising oil prices, it would be logical to expect timing and stock picking skills to be
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      Lock icon Ace Dynamics directors raise their holdings
      499 10  -  TRADES TO WATCH Compiled by Nande Khin ACE Dynamics' directors continued to boost their holdings of the industrial equipment and hardware distributor's shares this week. Chairman and chief executive Steven Tham had his deemed stake raised to 14.54 per cent (20.35 million shares) from
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      415 10 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Sep 15 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 32.00 +27.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +118.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +3.00 Atl-SG Equities 593.21 +1.38 SG Equities Elect 138.37 +0.36 SG Equities Hn 1662.32 +2.38 SG Equities Prop 685.13 +5.66 SIMSCI 274.76 +0.34 SiMSCI Futures 274.30 -0.40 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      967 10  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI United Envirotech Sept IS dose: 38.5 cents CIMB-GK RESEARCH; Sept 15 UNITED Envirotech has secured a $14.5 million transfer-operate-transfer (TOT) plant to treat domestic wastewater for discharge into nearby rivers in Xintai City, Shandong province, for 30 years. This plant is made up of two
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      Lock icon European units hit even as yuan rises
      517 10  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent EUROPEAN favourites continued to languish badly against the US dollar yesterday, even as the Chinese yuan hit its strongest levels against the latter since it was depegged on July 21. The euro was forced south of ow- key
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon PUB awards $15m worth of water jobs
      444 11  -  One is for boosting Newater; the other, for improving treatment process By CHEN HUIFEN THE Public Utilities Board has awarded to the private sector two projects which will boost Singapore's water supply and improve treatment processes. The first is a $7.4 million contract
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      Lock icon Hock Kee owners compensated
      165 11 THE Singapore Land Authority has offered a total compensation of $17 million to the 35 owners of units in Hock Kee House, a five-storey residential and office building in Paya Lebar. The building, acquired to make way for the construction of the Circle Line, has a
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      Lock icon Panel: S'pore needs to boost creativity, openness, talent
      361 11 SINGAPORE has an excellent quality of life and remains globally competitive, but it needs to develop creativity, openness and talent, according to a panel of analysts and executives. The panel which included executives from the finance, IT and oil industries was speaking
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      Lock icon July overall retail sales rise 10.7%
      260 11 THE Singapore shopaholic continued to keep busy in July. Compared to a year ago, the overall retail index rose a healthy 10.7 per cent, according to statistics released yesterday by the Department of Statistics. Even with the exclusion of a big-ticket item such as
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      Lock icon S'pore Expo expands to 10 halls
      376 11  -  By MATTHEW PHAN SINGAPORE'S largest exhibition hall is now even larger. With an eye to "total flexibility", the Singapore Expo yesterday expanded by some 66 per cent when four more halls of 10,000 square metres efich were added to the existing six halls, giving
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      Lock icon A toast to 10-year-old DTZ
      122 11 DTZ Debenham Tie Leung executive chairman Edmund Tie (fourth from left), with guest of honour President S R Nathan and other directors, raises a toast at the 10th anniversary celebration of DTZ South-East Asia and fund-raising event to benefit The Arts House. DTZ was founded
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Fuel pushes up US inflation in Aug
      336 12 LATEST US DATA Reuters [WASHINGTON] US consumer prices jumped 0.5 per cent last month as petrol prices soared, but costs outside of energy barely budged, the government said yesterday in a report largely unaffected by Hurricane Katrina. A separate report, however, offered a
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon China tightens grip on inflows of forex
      282 12 'Abnormal capital flows' raising concern of yuan speculation Reuters [BEIJING] China is stepping up curbs on unusual inflows of capital, the official China Securities Journal said yesterday, signalling official concerns about persistent speculation on the yuan after July's landmark revaluation. "Foreign exchange authorities
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      Lock icon US, Europe pledge to break stalemate at WTO talks
      415 12 They won't impose 'tablets of stone'on rest of the world AFP [WASHINGTON! The US and Europe vowed to work in harness to break the stalemate at WTO talks, but insisted they would not impose "tablets of stone" on the rest of
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      Lock icon FDI to Philippines hit by rising business risk: ADB
      312 12 AFP [MANILA] The risks in doing business in the Philippines are rising, leading to a sharp drop in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the South-east Asian country, according to an Asian Development Bank study. Rising fiscal deficits, the increasing influence of
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Asean trade ministers to boycott Asem
      323 13  -  Diplomats in KL cite EU's refusal to grant visa to Myanmar's rep By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur ECONOMIC ministers from the region have decided not to take part in an Asia-Eu-rope Meeting (Asem) on economic and trade matters, which starts on Saturday in
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      Lock icon Samy Vellu defends privatisation
      454 13  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur THE government cannot afford to stop the process of privatisation as it has brought "the best benefits" to the country, according to Malaysian Works Minister S Samy Vellu. His comments came amid public disquiet over failed privatisation projects that had
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon More Asian firms plan to invest in India's telecom industry
      462 14 Country's laws, graduate pool and research institutes cited as pluses Reuters '[TOKYO] India's booming technology and telecoms industries will see more investment coming their way from Asian companies such as Flextronics and Kyocera as they tap Asia's thirdlargest economy for
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      Lock icon Google may expand in China, buy faster computers
      360 14 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Google Inc, the most-used Internet search engine, may expand its business in China and purchase faster computers to support new services after the company raised US$4.lB billion in a stock sale. Chief executive Eric Schmidt and founder Sergey Brin
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      Lock icon Minsheng bank eyes strategic foreign investor
      264 14 Timing of HK listing depends on market conditions: official Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's Minsheng Banking Corp will consider attracting a strategic foreign investor as part of its reform plans, a senior executive was quoted as saying by state media yesterday. Bank ivice-chairman Zhang Hoogwei added
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Malaysia eases investment rules
        72 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's markets watchdog announced relaxed investment rules yesterday, allowing local investors to buy foreign-listed securities and foreign companies to sell shares in the domestic market. The new rules, which also free up some restrictions on domestic trade in foreign-currency bonds, follow a relaxation
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        Lock icon Tenaga buckling under RM30.5b debt
        104 14 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian utility giant Tenaga Nasional said yesterday that it is struggling with billions of dollars in debt amidst growing pressure over costs sparked by spiralling fuel prices. Che Khalib Mohamad Noh, chief executive of the state-controlled power company, said that the RM30.5
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        Lock icon Jakarta to charge ex-Mandiri execs
        97 14 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia will next week file formal charges against three former officials of Bank Mandiri, the country's largest lender, as part of a high profile graft investigation, a government spokesman said yesterday. Former PT Bank Mandiri Tbk chief executive Edward Neloe and two former
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        Lock icon Cheung Kong seen launching office Reit
        120 14 Reuters [HONG KONG] Developer Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd wants to spin off Hong Kong office buildings into a property trust, newspapers reported yesterday. The Ming Pao Daily reported that the offices could be packaged into a new real estate investment trust to be listed
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      • Article
        Lock icon Tata buys US specialty tea brand
        72 14 Reuters [MUMBAIJ India's Tata Tea Ltd is close to acquiring US specialty tea brand Good Garth in a deal worth just under US$lOO million, the Times of India newspaper reported yesterday. The world's second-largest branded tea company will buy Good Earth, which sells herbal,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Haze in KL port, town at unhealthy levels
        73 14 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Haze from forest fires in Indonesia's Sumatra reached unhealthy levels in Malaysia's biggest port and in Kuala Selangor, a town outside the capital Kuala Lumpur, the Department of Environment said. The air-pollution index reached 102 at Port Klang as
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      Lock icon PetroChina to spend up to 100b yuan on new pipelines
      340 14 AP [BEUING] China's largest oil and gas company, PetroChina, says it plans to spend up to 100 billion yuan (5520.7 billion) to expand its network of oil and gas pipelines over the next five years to meet soaring demand. Much
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Outsourcing to increase: PwC
      409 15 Although unhappy with service abroad, cutting costs is still priority Reuters [LONDON] Although many financial firms are unhappy with the service they get in overseas work centres, more financial companies around the world expect to send work abroad to cut costs over the next few years,
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      Lock icon Time Warner, M'soft in AOL stake talks
      229 15 Bloomberg [LONDON] Shares of Time Warner Inc, the world's largest media company, rose in European trading yesterday after the New York Post said the company is in talks to sell a stake in America Online (AOL) to Microsoft Corp. Microsoft —the world's biggest
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      Lock icon Thai publisher counters bid by Grammy unit
      317 15 Bloomberg Reuters [BANGKOK] A fight for ownership of Thailand's most respected newspaper, the Bangkok Post, heated up yesterday as its publisher countered a takeover by offering shareholders market price for their stakes. Meanwhile, critics are urging a boycott of the music giant which
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Gulf banks agree on currency union terms
        77 15 Reuters [MANAMA] Central bankers of the Gulf Arab region have agreed on terms for a regional currency union that they hope will one day be like the euro zone, Bahrain's central bank governor said on Wednesday. Until now, the six Gulf Arab states
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        Lock icon Iran to share nuclear know-how
        87 15 Reuters [TEHRAN] Iran is ready to share its nuclear technology with other Islamic countries, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying yesterday. "The Islamic Republic never seeks weapons of mass destruction and with respect to the needs of Islamic countries, we are ready to transfer
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        82 15 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Sun Microsystems Inc, whose server computers run corporate networks, said Dow Jones Co's Wall Street Journal won't run advertisements critical of rival Dell Inc. A page on Sun's website says "censored" in red letters on a story about Sun Server
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        43 15 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] PTT Pel, Thailand's only member of the Fortune 500, scrapped a planned merger of its wholly owned Rayong Refinery Co with Chevron Corp's Thai unit after a disagreement about listing, PTT president Prasert Bunsumpun said.
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      686 16 It is looking at fuel-efficient jets like Boeing's 787, Airbus'A350: CEO Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA), operator of the youngest fleet among full-service carriers, said it plans to pick from the latest, fuel-efficient models of Airbus's AS and Boeing Co by
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      648 16 Some hedge, others bank on price drop, most levy surcharge Reuters [SINGAPORE] Asian airlines are taking sharply different strategies to mitigate the risk of rising fuel costs, as some increase their hedging on fears oil will keep surging while others pray for a
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      228 16 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International pel said it may report an operating profit of about seven billion baht (*****.6 million) in die year ending September 2005, The airline's earnings may recover "due to increased profitability from passenger traffic and fuel
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      229 16 AP [NEW DELHI] An Indian royal is banking on his heritage to fill seats in his latest venture a luxury domestic airline that will even have a separate cabin for servants. Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wodeyar is still deciding whether to call his new
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      200 16 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] European low-cost airline Ryanair said yesterday it was not changing its profit forecast despite rising fuel costs, saying it still expected to post a 10 per cent rise in full-year earnings. "We see no reason to change our guidance, nor would we
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      664 17  -  First phase of work to expand port capacity will be completed then By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] In a matter of three years India's exports will be able to go straight to their destination without having to be transshipped through regional ports,
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      205 17  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted Portek International has secured new global orders worth $19.2 million, including the company's first entry into the European market. The Singapore port equipment, services and terminal operating company announced yesterday it had secured orders for the sale and delivery
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      94 17 Reuters [HONG KONGJ State-owned Chinese container shipping major China Cosco Holdings Ltd said yesterday its first-half earnings rose 42 per cent as freight rates remained strong and contributions from its terminal unit Coscp Pacific jumped on asset sales. The container line, posting its
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      1025 17  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR THE Singapore High Court last week threw out a bid by the owner of the crane barge Antara Koh B8 to limit its liability from the toppling of its crane on Feb 15, 2003, which resulted
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      286 17 Double-digit growth expected for next year: CEO Reuters (TANJUNG PELEPAS, Malaysia] Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas, a key rival to neighbouring Singapore's PSA International port, expects container throughput to jump more than 25 per cent this year thanks to a boom in global
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      526 18 EDITORIAL THE World Bank's latest ranking of the "easiest" places to do business in contains no real surprises. Other than the Baltic states Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia perhaps, the top 30 league is filled with the usual suspects predominantly OECD countries, and other high-income economies such as
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      810 18  -  THE BOTTOM LINE NEIL BEHRMANN London Correspondent THE release of oil from American and other national strategic stockpiles has pulled prices back from their historic highs. It has also discouraged speculation, but the big question is whether it will put an
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      1047 18  -  Opec urged to be transparent on its members' oil reserves and their plans to develop them By GEORGE JAHN FACT: The world will some day start running out of oil. Up for debate: When? In months, years or decades?
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      138 19  -  Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to the letter, "Ban contra trading to remove false market" (BT, Sept 15). If implemented, it would cause SGX to lose its uniqueness as the only bourse among the leading ones of the world that offers contra trading. And removal of
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      173 19  -  Jimmy Ho Singapore I REFER to the letter, "Ban contra trading to remove false market", by Mr PH Tay (BT, Sept 15). It was most unfortunate that Mr Tay had to leave the stockbroking industry in the face of dwindling commissions. There has been, however, no mass
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      160 19  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ganesh Pillai Singapore I READ with interest Teh Hooi Ling's article, "Warrants sucking the life out of small cap stocks" (BT, Sept 14), on the surge in trading of covered warrants. She reported that an SGX spokeswoman had disagreed with
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      246 19  -  Wilfred Ng Cheng Aik Singapore LET me share with you some of my experiences in trading covered warrants. From what I understand, some so-called covered warrants are not really covered at all. In other words, the issuing banks do not have any of the underlying shares
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      203 19  -  Tan Kok Tim Singapore I REFER to the article "Breakaway group opposes move for cash payment" (BT, Sept 14). If Raffles Town Club (RTC) were to close, would the buildings and the assets it owns disappear into thin air?
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      646 19  -  Something's wrong when hair oil accounts for 10% of output growth By ANDY MUKHERJEE Bloomberg INDIA is undergoing a hair-care revolution because Indians are lubricating their scalps like never before with hair oil. If you believe that, then maybe you should consider production of pens in the
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      1229 19 Singapura Finance Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at 391 A Orchard Road, Tower A #26-00, Ngee Ann City, Singapore *****3, on Wednesday, 12 October 2005 at 11.00
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      686 19 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 50.1994 ED) AND IN THE MATTER OF GRANITE RESOURCES PTE LTD (Company Registration No. *****1105R) (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 16 Raffles Quay,
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      577 27  -  off the cuff jaime ee A STORM seems to be brewing in a tea cup over at the new Hong Kong Disneyland, and it's not the name of a new ride. The tes is literally brewing by Chinese mainlanders taking advantage of the park's free hot
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      1290 27  -  There has been a move of late to move beyond just restoration of heritage buildings. CHEAH UI-HOON looks at some of these projects CHEAH UI-HOON BY the end of this year, Singaporeans will see the "resurrection" of a local landmark its familiar facade transformed with a sophisticated
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      1217 28  -  Plays based on text are showing themselves to be contemporary in a spate of recent and upcoming plays. PARVATHI NAYAR finds out how text is faring against experimental theatre in S'pore PARVATHI NAYAR TEXT vs Experimental. Somewhat dramatically, it's always been perceived as
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      551 28  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR SHAYNE Courtright displays a frighteningly perfect sense of balance as he spins around on a giant wheel, defying gravity, throwing himself perilously close to the audience but holding back in time, exuding high energy without sacrificing grace. The routine, titled German
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      438 29  -  PHOTOGRAPHY Stephen Wong talks to NGIAM YING LAN about 'An Ocean Odyssey', his book showcase of stunning images of marine animals NGIAM YING LAN m a HEN Stephen M II a Wong threw in M I 1 K the towel as a m m hotel
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      421 29  -  CALLIGRAPHY By SUSIE WONG FOR the novice, Dancing Ink and Brush offers an instant initiation into Chinese calligraphy's timeless tradition and history. As curated by Chen Jiazi (senior curator of the Museum, NUS Centre for the Arts), you learn, for example,
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      357 29 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 6 Meant not to be caught in ACROSS the act (7) 1 Just reason for offering en- 7 about on fire tertainment venues (11) 9 This little room is. said to be a 8 ine in Mil,n T ton's work (2,9) 10 A fellow appearing after the 2
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      541 30  -  'The Brothers Grimm' opens well but fails to live up to its potential, says PARVATHI NAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR ONCE upon a time, there was a director called Terry Gilliam who had a wonderfully quirky imagination. His gift of conjuring up the fantastic and the
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      447 30  -  By JAIME EE SO you make a mistake. Tell a little white lie and refuse to apologise when you're found out. In most cases, you get a rap on the head or suffer some serious silent treatment. Very rarely do you get beaten
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      470 30  -  By JAIME EE HOW many ways can you portray a nice guy? From the point of view of director and professional nice guy Ron Howard, just one—with as much aw-shucks earnestness as possible. No wonder then, that Cinderella Man can't quite
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      370 30 l J. 1 k r "XlO,OOO wisely invested in a wine portfolio back in 1974 would currently be worth somewhere in the region of £1.4 million." Financial Times Wine investment Special, June 2005. < "1961 Chateau Latour cost just £25 a case when released. Today, a case could sell for
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      1076 31  -  GREG WALDRON finds out there is more to wine investing than just buying a few bottles, locking them in the wine fridge, and waiting GREG WALDRON THE business of wine investment is peculiar. Unlike investing in the stock market, there are no regulatory bodies like the Monetary
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      611 31  - Appreciating Shiraz a guide for beginners By TOMMY LAM IN Barossa, it's called Shiraz, but in California, it's Syrah. Are they still one and the same wine? Not necessarily. For the wine novice, it's important to understand where wine comes from, and why wines with the same name can taste
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      122 31 Cellar picks Whafs on offer at local wine shops 2000 Reserve de Comtesse de Lalande, (2nd Wine Contains 15 per cent alcohol of Chateau Pidton-Lalande), Pauillac $39.50per bottle at Auric Pacific Fine Wines A classic Bordeaux with copious quantities of ripe black fruits, combined with an exotic, complex, 2001 Great
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