The Business Times, 18 October 2005

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http^/business-times.asial.com.sg MICA (P) 069/03/2005 Tuesday, October 18,2005
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  • 398 1  -  DBS says Tai did not refer to OCBC as being irresponsible By LESLIE YEE [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank chairman Cheong Choong Kong yesterday hit out at DBS Bank chief executive Jackson Tai over remarks he made on corporate governance at a seminar
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  • 137 1 STI 2,288.54 (-14.70) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,290.00 (-15.00) SIMSCI 271.34 (-1.86) SIMSCI FUTURES ***** (-1.10) MARKETS Monday Change KLSECOMP 924.27 -1.32 NIKKEI 225 13,400.29 -20.25 HANG SENG 14,541.35 +55.47 SET INDEX 696.28 -3.74 JAKARTA COMP 1,090.09 -6.61 MANILA COMP 1,947.46 -5.68 SEOUL COMP 1,176.36 -13.81 SHENZHEN B 207.79
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  • 837 1  -  Operators are allowed to expand; govt moving ahead with stringent social safeguards By ARTHUR SIM, CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE! The government has backed off from an early move to put a 50 per cent cap on casino revenue but is pressing ahead
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 756 2  -  Electronics growth stays at 1.7% but pharmaceutical shipments fall 22% By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] The 6 per cent flash estimate of thirdquarter economic growth is at risk of being cut, following a surprise contraction in September's non-oil exports. Figures released yesterday
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    • 109 2 IN our report, "New company to organise Asian Aerospace" (BT. Oct 15-16), we said a new company is being set up to organise Asian Aerospace from 2008. This is incorrect. The new company, Changi International Airshow Rvents, will organise a new air show called Changi International Airshow
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    • 585 2  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo WITH the bitter battle over postal system privatisation behind him as from last Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is turning his attention for the remainder of his term in office to selling off more stateowned assets,
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    • 546 2 HK, Aussie partners in dispute over running of Golden Village Multiplex [HONG KONG] Golden Harvest Entertainment (Holdings) has won the first round in a battle with Australian firm Village Roadshow over a Singapore joint venture that the Hong Kong movie giant claims has
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    • 717 2 OCBC explains capital reduction exercise OCRC Bank has explained how in spite of paying a special dividend and carrying out a selective capital reduction exercise in the first half of 2003 it actually increased its capital during the period. TOP STORIES, PG 3 C&O Pharma slips below offer
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    • 450 3  -  Involved buying in and cancelling 12.1 million OCBC shares held by F&N By LESLIE YEE [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank has explained how, in spite of paying a special dividend and carrying out a selective capital reduction exercise in the first half of 2003, it actually increased
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    • 375 3 Jackson Tai, DBS Vice-chairman and CEO f at the Asian Corporate Governance Association's fifth annual conference, Oct 14 "Here's another situation where pressure from the market may bring unintended results. Even as people were mysteriously dying during the 2003 Sars episode, the stock market was on then
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    • 574 3  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By WONG WEI KONG DID last week's comments by DBS Bank chief Jackson Tai amount to observations of rival banks OCBC and United Overseas Bank? Should those banks be left to mind their own business and the share price
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 571 4  -  IPO WATCH Weak sentiment blamed for 21st IPO this year to close with a first-day loss Reports by TEH HOOI LING IN line with the weak market sentiment, new listing C&O Pharmaceutical Technology closed below its offer price making it the 21st
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    • 353 4  -  Purchase will enable it to tap China's growth potential By UMA SHANKARI UNVEILING further details of a proposed acquisition, Fung Choi Printing and Packaging Group said yesterday that it intends to acquire China-based Flying Media Group for HK$4BO million (*****.4 million). Flying
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    • 308 4 SINCE its listing in December last year, news from Sembawang Music Holdings has not exactly been music to investors' ears. Barely four months after its listing, the music retailer warned that its net operating profit after tax was expected to be much lower
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    • 309 4  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) filled 67.9 per cent of the space on its planes last month, up from 67.6 per cent a year ago and also higher than in August. The airline filled 76.5 per cent of seats system wide versus 73.3
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    • 235 4 UNITED Overseas Bank's (UOB) Xiamen branch yesterday celebrated its 20th anniversary, which also coincided with United Overseas Land's (UOL) official opening of Sofitel Plaza Xiamen Hotel, the first internationally managed five-star hotel in Xiamen. The double celebration had UOL and UOB Group chairman Wee Cho
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    • 505 5  -  Receivers and managers seek buyers for issued shares meanwhile By ANGELA TAN SINGAPORE Telecom yesterday said it is still in talks with the lenders of its troubled 59.5 per cent owned submarine cable unit C2C Pte Ltd to revamp the latter's debt
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 52 5 DMX Technologies Group said it has won a 2.2 million yuan (S$460,000) contract from Shanghai Media Group (SMG), said to be currently the only authorised Internet Protocol Television (IP-TV) service provider in China. DMX will build the first phase of an IP-TV content platform
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      • 77 5 NTEGRATOR International Ltd, a regional integration specialist for network infrastructure and voice communication systems, has launched its initial public offering (IPO) of 20.1 million new shares at $0.23 apiece. This represents roughly 25.1 per cent of Ntegrator's enlarged share capital. The offer, which is
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      • 53 5 CHKUNG Woh Technologies, a specialist manufacturer of precision components for the global 3' t-inch hard disk drive industry, reported a 14 per cent drop in net profit year-on-year to $2.48 million for the financial half year ended Aug 31. 2005. Turnover was $33.6 million, up
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      • 93 5 PF.ARL F.nergy has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to acquire 100 per cent of Sebana Ltd from PT Petroland Rnergi. Sebana's primary asset is a 90 per cent working interest in the Bulu Production Sharing Contract (PSC) off the coast of East
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      • 117 5 CLARIFYING a Reuters report, which BT carried in this column on Oct 15, MPC Holdings said the decision to update its listing prospectus and delay its initial public offering was made solely by the company. "The prospectus had not yet been registered by the
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      • 74 5 XPRESS has entered into a conditional agreement to buy 60 per cent of Precise Media Group, the holding company of a group of companies whose main businesses are printrelated services and printer consultancy services in Hong Kong and China. The proposed $38.5 million
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    • 341 7  -  First right to buy property will be offered to Shariah compliant fund By KALPANA RASHIWALA CAPITALAND continues to increase its investments in Japan. This time, it has inked a deal to invest in a 380unit rental apartment block that will be built as part
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    • 177 7 JAKARTA-BASED car maker Astra Internationa], a subsidiary of Singapore-listed Jardine Cycle and Carriage, has entered into a joint venture with Japanese partner Toyota to offer a range of financial services. Under the agreement, Astra and Toyota will have equal stakes in the joint venture.
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 534 6  -  STOCKS The root of internal scepticism could be the index's inability to rally convincingly above the 2,300 mark R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IT is often said that markets every so often need to climb a wall of worry. This bit of wisdom may need to
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    • 511 6  -  TRADES TO WATCH By LEE KIM SIANG THE Capital Group Companies Inc raised its deemed interest in Mapletree Logistics Trust from 6.1611 per cent to 7.1757 percent in a series of open-market transactions from Oct 12 to Oct 14. This followed earlier
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    • Article, Illustration
      427 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 17 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -339.00 -138.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -164.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -34.00 All-SG Equities 587.82 -4.32 SG Equities Elect 124.90 -0.78 SG Equities Fin 1684.52 -9.63 SG Equities Prop 724.27 -7.25 SIMSCI 271.34 -1.86 SiMSCI Futures 271.40 -1.10 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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      909 6  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Capita Land Oct 17 dose: $3.34 CIMB-GK RESEARCH. Oct 17 CAPITALAND h&s sold over 750 private homes in Singapore year-to-date, worth nearly Ssl billion, topping sales 0f468 homes totalling just under Ss4oo million for the whole of last year. In the first nine months,
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    • 529 6  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar suffered some fallout from Friday's weaker-looking US stats in Asia yesterday, but Asian units were noticeably soggy compared to some of their counterparts elsewhere. The euro and sterling pound, for example, started the day and week
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    • 6964 8  -  By Graham Owens COMPANY YEW i CONTBIT CONTEXT Ml NM/ CMS UQBT PflEYKRttj 1 I 1 QianHu Corporation Ltd Dec2004 54 40 94 88 6 2 Raffles Holdings Ltd Dec 2004 55 35 90 82 8 3 SingTel Ltd Mar 2005 54 35
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    • 1022 9  -  PENELOPE PHOON-COHEN and GRAHAM OWENS spot a significant increase in technology usage for investor relations PENELOPE PHOON-COHEN, GRAHAM OWENS update of the 2005 Business Times/ACCA Singapore Corporate Transparency Index (CTI) has also been completed. The update includes 103 companies that have posted revised scores
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 397 10  -  YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT It aims to stockpile enough anti-viral drugs for a quarter of the population By CHUANG PECK MING SINGAPORE has built up a "significant" stockpile of an anti-viral drug in preparation for a deadly bird flu outbreak and is aiming
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 66 10 HIGH home ownership boosts Singapore households' net assets to about 3.7 times of gross domestic product, although their liabilities alone are higher than those in Hong Kong and Japan, according to Tharman Shanmugaratnam, deputy chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Singapore households' liabilities
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      • 78 10 CREDIT card charge-off rate bad debt written off as a proportion of average rollover balance was 5.8 per cent on average in the past two years, according to Mr Tharman. This was comparable to the level in the US but lower than that in
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      • 59 10 A VACANT plot of land in Tuas may be developed into a site for motorcross racing and training ground for riders, according to Vivian Balakrishnan, the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports. He said it "will have sufficient space to house a
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      • 53 10 PARLIAMENT yesterday passed the Public Transport Council (Amendment) Bill which, among other things, provide for jail sentence of up to six months for fare evasion on bus and rail services. It is estimated that fare evasion on buses occurs on about 1.8 per cent
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    • 269 10 THE partnership of Harrah's Entertainment and Keppel Land bidding for the contracts for Singapore's integrated resorts (IRs) in Sentosa and Marina Bayfront yesterday introduced a flourish of artistic ornament to their proposal. The consortium announced that it had teamed up with the Centre Pompidou
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    • 157 10 COMPUTER giant HewlettPackard Company is recalling 135,000 battery packs worldwide for some of its Pavilion and Presario range of laptop computers, including about 2,700 across the Asia-Pacific. The defective batteries made by a third-party supplier tend to overheat and could pose a fire
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    • 451 10  - Entrepreneurial success lies in the trying and also in the failing By CHEN HUIFEN LKARN if you can, fail if you must, but above all try this was what delegates to the Asia Business Leaders' Forum were told during a panel discussion on entrepreneurship. Jannie Tay, vice-chair-man of luxury watch
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    • 609 10  -  Move follows spat with EDB over new Singapore venue By VEN SREENIVASAN REED Exhibitions, co-orga-niser of the Asian Aerospace show, has reacted strongly to the announcement that it will not be running Singapore's replacement show on a new site. Reed says there are several
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    • 241 10 Retail index rises 8.1 in August THE Great Singapore Sale was a magnet for Singaporeans and visitors. The overall retail index rose 8.1 per cent year on year in August, according to figures released yesterday by the Department of Statistics. Excluding vehicles, retail sales rose a more modest 5.6 per
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    • 366 10 INVESTMENT property sales continue to hot up. Another two sites have been launched for sale the collective sale of Lincolnsvale at Surrey Road in the Newton area at $49 million, and a 999-year residential site at Jalan Anak Bukit in the Upper Bukit Timah
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    • 201 10 Xinhua THE Singapore Fashion Week started yesterday with the participation of over 1,000 exhibitors. Some 80,000 visitors are expected at this year's Singapore Fashion Week, which is set to generate close to $200 million in business. The seven-day event, organised by the Textile
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 38 10 SENTOSA island resort has appointed Robert Bird as its new general manager in charge of planning and staging international events such as the Singapore Open golf tournament and Forbes "Best-under-a-Billion" Awards next year.
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      • 52 10 A PROJECT that provides efficient means to upgrade optical data transmission systems to high-bandwidth networks has emerged as one of four winners of the lES Prestigious Achievement Awards 2005. The collaboration is between researchers from Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology of
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      • 50 10 OFFICIALS from the World Bank, Shell, Nat Steel, Thai Military Bank and other institutions will convene at two conferences in Singapore Asia Waste Management Summit and Sustainable Energy Asia 2005 Conference running on Nov 30 and Dec 1 respectively to address environmental and energy issues.
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  • CHARITY CONCERT
    • 446 11  -  Organised by BT and ST, proceeds will be donated to needy students and young budding artists Reports by MATTHEW PHAN THE Business Times and The Straits Times have joined forces to organise a two-night charity concert showcasing Singapore's top young musicians, with the
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    • 587 11 THE last time 13-year-old pianist Abigail Sin played on behalf of The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund, her solo recital and subsequent concerto with the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra raised $200,000 in a single evening at The Esplanade. Several
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  • SME
    • 267 12  -  By UMA SHANKARI KOREAN companies are looking to make inroads into Singapore's IT industry, which provides lots of opportunities for collaboration with their Singaporean counterparts, according to the director of a centre aimed at promoting Korea's IT industry in Southeast Asia. Bob Chua,
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    • 596 12  -  By NANDE KHIN WEL Corporation has launched a new service in Singapore that allows small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reach out to their clients, suppliers or business partners en masse through e-mail, SMS, or fax, without the need for costly infrastructure investment.
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    • 692 12  -  InnovAsia survey makes surprising finding that backing right from start-up occurs as often as during pre-dotcom-bust era, NANDE KHIN reports NANDE KHIN ASIA seems to be bucking the trend found elsewhere in start-up funding by venture capitalists (VC), according to a survey by
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    • 743 13  -  SMALL CAPS One of this year's best performing China IPOs, it is raising production capacity. ANGELA TAN reports ANGELA TAN PINE Agritech is one of this year's best performing China IPOs. But the maker of soybean-based products wants to persuade investors that its stockmarket success is
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    • 378 13  -  By TEH HOOI LING SINGAPORE shares chalked up four consecutive days of losses to yesterday, the longest continuous correction since August. For the week to yesterday, the UOB Sesdaq Index was down 2.1 per cent, while the Straits Times Index slipped 2.3 per cent. As
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    • 790 14  -  Business models and objectives determine operation, say DAVID TOH and EVELYN LIM DAVID TOH, EVELYN LIM WISH to ride the waves of China's high growth, yet do not know where to start? Many expanding enterprises have thought of venturing into a country which has
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    • 617 14  -  By OH BOON PING THINK New Moon and a can of abalone comes to mind. But Goh Joo Hin, the company which produces the New Moon line of products, wants its products to be seen as a gift of love as well a
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    • 669 14  -  By MATTHEW PHAN FEATURING a 20-metre-long saltwater aquarium at one location and a minus-15 degrees Celsius bar literally made of ice at another, restaurants of the IndoChine Group are by all accounts one of the hippest venues to eat, drink and be merry
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 457 15 AFP [HONG KONG] World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy wouldn't be drawn on the chances of a deal to ease global trade less than two months before a crucial ministerial meeting here seeks to end import and export tariffs. Mr Lamy said on
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    • 592 15 But he warns Beijing has to show progress to hold off US protectionism Reuters [BEIJING] US Treasury Secretary John Snow said yesterday that he was convinced China was committed to letting market forces drive the yuan's value but warned Beijing had to show progress to
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    • 325 15 AFP [SHANGHAI] China's recent reforms to its currency have done little to prompt reform in many of the country's commercial banks, which remain unprepared for foreign exchange rate fluctuations, state press reported yesterday. "Domestic banks have never operated under a flexible exchange rate
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    • 271 15 AFP [JAKARTA] President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono revised down Indonesia's growth forecast yesterday from six to "above five per cent" for 2005 saying the economy had been dented by several unforeseeable factors. "During the first year (of my government) the tsunami, oil prices, the avian flu
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    • 399 15 Reuters ITOKYOI The number of Japanese corporate bankruptcies fell 4.8 per cent in the first half of the fiscal year through September, supported by improved earnings especially among large companies, a research firm said yesterday. Bankruptcy cases totalled 6,388 in the sixmonth period,
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    • 356 15 [HONG KONG] Takeover activity in Asia has reached record levels more than two months before the end of the year, increasing the chances that 2005 will be a bumper year for investment banks in the region, according to a report in the Financial Times.
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 614 16  -  It may exit auto-finance business entirely: bank execs By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S state-owned Commerce banking group has received the nod from the central bank to downsize Bumiputra-Commerce Finance, or BCF, its small, but troubled, finance arm. With this development, at least half
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    • 2469 16 VOl General Corp 0.43 -0.01 214 Oct II Ml COOP) Genting 21.60 unch 1727 George Kent 0.59 -0.01 121 ASM Realty 1.67 0.02 141 GHLSystems .011 -0.01 327 Abric 032 -0.01 51 GlobetronicsTech 0.30 unch 2405 ACP Industries 0.67 0.02 78 Glomac Bhd 1.33 0.02 3 Advance Synergy
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    • 681 16  - Bursa M'sia shares up 51 since March listing By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur ARE some fund managers and investors kicking themselves over Bursa Malaysia? Perceived as an "expensive" stock at the time of its listing in March, Bursa Malaysia debuted with a 50 sen or 16.7 per cent premium
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    • 255 16 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday refused to reveal whether a Cabinet reshuffle was imminent following the resignation of a top minister embroiled in a corruption scandal. Speculation has mounted over the past week that Mr Abdullah
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    • 735 16  -  INDONESIA INSIGHT Indonesia needs to reform its judiciary to fight graft effectively SHOEB KAGDA Jakarta Correspondent A SPATE of recent high profile revelations of blatant corruption in Indonesia's judicial system could not have come at a more inopportune time for the government and President Susilo
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 402 17 Deutsche Bank takes 9.9% stake; private bank Sal Oppenheim, 4.1% Reuters [SHANGHAI/HONG KONG] Deutsche Bank said yesterday that it would lead a consortium to take a 14 per cent stake in a mid-sized Chinese lender for US$329 million, in a deal analysts said was overpriced.
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    • 243 17 [HONG KONG] Risk management firms are lauding a due diligence boon as investment banks look to boost background checks on mainland companies before they opt to sponsor them, the Souih China Morning Post reported. According to Hill Associates senior executive vice-president Kim Frisinger, past demand
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    • 465 17 [HONG KONG] United States Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox on Sunday cast doubt on the prospects for the China Construction Bank (CCB) initial public offering on the sidelines of the Group of 20 conference, the South China Morning Post reported. "There is
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    • 122 17 AFP [HONG KONG] American property mogul Donald Trump's hopes of airing a Chinese version of his successful The Apprentice reality TV show has suffered a setback after its would-be presenter quit. Chinese real estate tycoon Pan Shiyi mysteriously pulled out of negotiations
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    • 517 17 [HONG KONG] Concern that the liquidation of bankrupt Hong Kong-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of eyeglasses, Moulin Global Eyecare Holdings, might force a quick disposal of its most valuable asset, Eye Care Centers of America (ECCA), has triggered a ratings downgrade for
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 107 17 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said that Malaysia's automotive sector might as well shut down if the public thinks it can't compete with foreign car makers. Dr Mahathir, adviser to national auto company Proton Holdings, acknowledged
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      • 83 17 Reuters [HONG KONG] PetroChina, the world's fifth most valuable listed oil and gas producer, yesterday said its total output rose 5.2 per centyear-on-year in the third quarter, despite slowing oil demand growth in China. State-owned PetroChina also said it ran its refineries at full tilt
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      • 75 17 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's largest memory chip maker Powerchip Semiconductor Corp reported a 67.5 per cent drop in quarterly earnings from a year ago as a glut weighed on the market, though easing supply growth lifted profits from the second quarter. It said July-September net
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      • 66 17 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] HDFC Bank, India's third-largest lender by market value, said profit rose 32 per cent in its fiscal second-quarter on higher borrowing by individuals. Net income increased to two billion rupees (5575.4 million) in the three months ended Sept 30 from
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      • 42 17 Reuters [LONDON] Battery and power equipment maker China Shoto said it planned to list on London's junior AIM market in November with a stock market value of about £35 million (S$ 104 million). —Reuters
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  • INDIA
    • 484 18 Minister says auction lacked propriety and transparency [NEW DELHI] India has accused Goldman Sachs of presiding over an auction for the PetroKazakhstan oil group marred by a "lack of propriety and transparency" and where the rules were changed mid-way through to help a state-con-trolled
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    • 482 18 [LONDON/NEW DEHLI] Three of the world's biggest energy companies are competing for a stake in a giant natural gas field discovered by Reliance Industries in the deep waters of India's Bay of Bengal, reports the Financial Times. UK-based BP and Chevron
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    • 275 18 OIL GAME PetroKaz drama Setter: PetroKazakhstan (Petrokaz). Canadian company, with rocky ties with Kazakh government On tale: Crude reserves and refineries in Kazakhstan; estimated value US$5OO billion. PMcteri: 1) China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) 2) Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) and Mittal Group PHOTOS
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    • 410 18 CNPC trying to give govt as little as possible: source Reuters [SINGAPORE] Pressure is building on China's CNPC to transfer a big stake in oil firm PetroKazakhstan to the Kazakh government, a day before PetroKaz shareholders vote on CNPC's US$4.lB billion
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    • 435 18 Boomberg [MUMBAI] Cipla Ltd, India's second-biggest drugmaker, said it plans to become the first company to sell a generic version of Roche Holding's Tamiflu, the antiviral treatment for bird flu, by the end of the year. "We will be equipped
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    • 371 18 [XIANGHF, China] India, which trails China in attracting foreign direct investment (FDD and economic development, has a lot to learn from the "remarkable" growth path adopted by the communist giant, The Hindu online edition quoted India's Finance Minister P Chidambaram
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    • 278 18 IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF 8.K.8. ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTIONS PTE LTD (Company Registration No. *****0767W) (In Judicial Management) NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF MEETING Take notice that a meeting of creditors in the above
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 579 19  -  China and South Korea lodge strong protests; timing of visit baffles many By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo IN a move that threatens economic as well as political repercussions, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday made another of his highly controversial visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni
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    • 413 19 [BANGKOK] Some of Thailand's non-performing loans (NPLs) that have been restructured may revert to NPL status due to rising in-i terest rates, The Nation reported yesterday. Tumnong Dasri, director of the Bank of Thailand's Corporate Debt Restructuring Department, said debt-restructuring plans approved recently
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 100 19 AFP [SYDNEY] Fred Hilmer, the outgoing chief executive of Australian newspaper group Fairfax, was named vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales yesterday as the school prepares to open an Asian campus in Singapore. He was dean of the Australian Graduate School
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      • 90 19 AFP [BRUSSELS] The Kuropean Union and the United States yesterday re-launched long-stalled talks on opening up the transatlantic air market to greater competition. "I'm hopeful that we can reach an agreement by the end of the year," Francois Lamoureux, head of the transport department
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      • 86 19 Reuters (LONDON) Europe's biggest mutual life insurer. Standard Life, said yesterday that its board had formally approved plans to demutualise, clearing the path for a £4 billion (Ssl 1.9 billion) to £6 billion London flotation next year. Standard Life said its members
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      • 91 19 Reuters lAMSTKRDAM] Dutch group Philips Electronics reported an increase in third-quarter net profit to 1.4 billion euros (Ss2.B billion), above analysts' expectations, and said it was on track to deliver financial targets. The net profit was boosted by 1.09 billion euros in one-off
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      • 80 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd, the cellular-phone joint venture of Sony Corp and Ericsson AB, reported a 16 per cent rise in third-quarter profit as sales beat analysts' estimates. Net income at Sony Ericsson, the world's fifth-largest mobile-phone
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      • 123 19 AFP [LONDON] British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's second largest cigarette company, has secretly been operating a factory in North Korea for the past four years, a newspaper reported yesterday. "It's a very small entity within the BAT group and, therefore, does little
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      • 74 19 AFP [LONDON! Charlie McCreevy, European Union Internal Market Commissioner, will seek to eliminate discriminatory treatment of company shareholders by introducing the principle of "one-share, one-vote" across the Union, the Financial Times reported yesterday. He said he would not propose binding legislation on the
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    • 538 19 Reuters, NYT [NEW YORK] Embattled futures and commodities brokerage Refco yesterday said it was in advanced discussions with a group led by investment fund J C Flowers Co over the sale of its futures brokerage business. Refco said it expects to
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    • 358 19 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Creditors of South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor will sell about US$2.3 billion in shares to recoup half of the money they spent to bail out the company in 2001 and 2002. Creditors of the world's second-largest maker of memory chips will sell
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    • 305 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] Citigroup's third-quarter profit rose 35 per cent as growth in investment banking and a gain from the sale of insurance businesses helped offset consumer banking weakness and the impact of Hurricane Katrina. Net income for the New York-based company increased to US$7.l4
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    • 180 19 Reuters [DETßOlT] General Motors Corp yesterday announced a deal with the United Auto Workers union to slash its healthcare costs, sending its shares up as much as 13 per cent even as it posted a fourth straight quarterly loss. The cash-strapped carmaker said that the
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  • AVIATION
    • 605 20  -  A key challenge is carrier's inability to get rights to operate in S'pore By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] The region's largest and most successful low-cost carrier (LCC) could hit turbulence as a result of rising fuel price, the political unrest
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    • 332 20 Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Aircraft leasing giant International Lease Finance Corp (ILFC) has quietly ordered 20 Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" jets valued at US$2.4 billion, the first major leasing company to sign up for Boeing Co's newest jetliner, the Wall Street Journal
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    • 138 20 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Global financier George Soros has agreed to invest a further US$25 million in Hainan Airlines, doubling his investment in the Chinese regional carrier, state media said yesterday. The funds will be invested in Grand China Air, a carrier that Hainan Air is
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    • 482 20 Firm may give contracts to China, Russia and India Reuters [FRANKFURT] European planemaker Airbus plans to outsource more of its aircraft production abroad to help it achieve higher growth, Airbus chief executive Gustav Humbert was quoted as saying in German newspapers yesterday. Mr
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 348 20 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 5 Displeasure about lake fish (6) 8 Shower with autumn precipita- 8 9 Sorts out town centres! (7) 10 Subject taken by highest inter- college, initially (5) 11 Take heed of daily letter writing 1211 11 "ll I^l 13 Series of shops looked at a cer- LmJ tain
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  • SHIPPING
    • 590 21  -  US Coast Guard's chief investigator says shipping lags aviation in this area By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] The investigation of maritime accidents should be made mandatory, according to the US Coast Guard's chief investigator who added that as an industry, shipping accident investigation lags
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    • 61 21 [MANlLA]Philippine Coast Guard officers take part in an anti-terrorism drill in Manila Bay on Sunday. The Philippine government has launched a campaign to instil public vigilance and prod Congress to pass an anti-terrorism law amid continuing terrorist threats and the presence ofJemaah Islamiyah militants, who have
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    • 361 21  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Calling on the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) to play a larger role in Singapore's effort to become a key international maritime centre. Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said the SSA could help in the areas of R&D, manpower development and
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    • 292 21 SGX s '000 Oct 17 S$ +1- Vol CH Offshore 0.41 unch 1040 ChuanHup 0.90 ufKh 1673 Cosco Corporation .2 37 -0.05 2645 CWT Distribution 0.91 -0.01 534 Ezra Hldgs 1.48 0.02 1152 Freight Links 0.07 unch 230 Grand Banks Yacht 0.95 unch 0 Java Holdings 126 -0.02
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    • 313 21 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (NOL), which operates Asia's secondlargest container shipping company, handled 11 per cent more volume in the four weeks to Sept 23 as demand for Asian products rose ahead of the year-end holidays. The company's container shipping unit, APL
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    • 252 21 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, China Merchants Holdings (International) Co and other operators of southern China's Shenzhen port handled 25 per cent more containers in the first nine months of the year after the country's trade increased. Shenzhen, the world's fourth-busiest port, handled
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    • 733 21 Pirates demand huge ransoms, steal cargo Xinhua (NAIROBI] A recent increase in piracy attacks, both in port and at sea, is threatening United Nations food aid for millions of people in Somalia and has increased fears that disorder in the lawless nation
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    • 399 21 Bloomberg [OSLO] Bergesen Worldwide Gas ASA, the world's biggest gas-shipping company, won two 20-year contracts to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers to Suez SA to haul the fuel from Yemen to the United States. Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 484 22 EDITORIAL JUST when the going was getting increasingly turbulent, Singapore's low-cost carriers (LCCs) have received a lifeline from a most unexpected source: India. In a move which surprised many industry observers, India offered Singapore-based carriers 2,760 extra seats on routes from Singapore to Bangalore,
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    • 800 22  - Birdjlu: is it a real risk or Y2K-like hysteria? THE BOTTOM LINE WILLIAM PESEK JR POP stars the world over have their causes: human rights, poverty, illegal drugs, the environment you name it. But cockfighting? Odd as it sounds, Thai star Ad Carabao had a hit this year singing about
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    • 1230 22  -  Many of Bush's staunchest supporters and neoconservatives are now abandoning him LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent C. the conclusions Wk that former US Wk president Harry B Truman reached after spending several mm decades in the US ®|r capital, first as a
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    • 1076 23  -  The city is catching the waves of business from Asia, the Middle East and Russia By HEATHER TIMMONS NYT FOR Wall Street, these are good times. But London's financial industry is enjoying a particularlyheady boom that may put New York, at least for the
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    • 817 23  -  By JENNY LEONG WHFN it comes to the human spirit, advertising slogans know what they are talking about. Just Do It. Impossible is Nothing. Reach for the Stars. All indicate that performance is a large function of the will that drives
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    • 221 23  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Kenneth Pang Cheow Jow Singapore I BKFER to Denis Distant's letter "Declare dividends as interim, not final"(BT, Oct 11). I suggested in a 2002 letter to BT that companies should endeavour to exhaust their Section 44 tax credits via dividend distributions
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  • PROPERTY
    • 343 30  -  More than half of investment grade properties already snapped up: DTZ By ARTHUR SIM OF the estimated US$2.l trillion worth of investment grade commercial real estate stock in the Asia-Pacif-ic, US$l.5 trillion has already been snapped up, according to Joe Valente, director of
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    • 412 30 Bloomberg [HONG KONG) Hong Kong's government may protect individual investors from further legal challenges to the city's first sale of a property trust by giving them the right to cancel their investment, people familiar with the matter said. In the event of
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    • 468 30 [JAKARTA] With a number of Asian property developers constructing new office buildings in the capital, foreign investment in the Greater Jakarta property sector more than doubled in the first semester of 2005, The Jakarta Post reported, citing a property research company's survey. According
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