The Business Times, 21 October 2005

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Friday, October 21,2005 SINGAPORE 85 cents online at .com.sg MICA (P) 069/03/2005
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  • 651 1  -  Also facing the rap is the managing director of Keng Heng Construction By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPOBEI Yet another corporate figure has been hauled to court. Leong Yew Cheong, co-founder of Autron Corp and its former vice-chairman, was charged yesterday in the Subordinate
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  • 136 1 STI 2,226.88 (+8.75) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,228.00 (+9.00) SIMSCI 263.32 (+1.07) SIMSCI FUTURES 262.80 (+1.00) MARKETS Thursday Change KLSECOMP 911.69 -2.48 NIKKEI 225 13,190.46 +60.97 HANG SENG 14,408.94 +36.18 SET INDEX 681.92 -2.15 JAKARTA COMP 1,075.40 -0.51 MANILA COMP 1,944.62 9.67 SEOULCOMP 1,162.23 +9.10 SHENZHEN B 202.64 +1.48
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  • 980 1  -  Borrowing limit raised to 60%, voting threshold prescribed for sacking of Reit managers By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday issued revised guidelines for Singapore's real estate investment trusts (Reits) that have been hailed as putting the industry on the
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 543 2 China Construction Bank rakes in US$8b with sale of 12% stake Reuters, Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China Construction Bank Corp sold US$B billion of stock, the world's biggest initial public offering in four years, as loan demand rises in an economy growing
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    • 546 2 Malaysians mourn death of PM Abdullah's wife MAI.AYSIANS are mourning Endon Mahmood, wife of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who died yesterday morning after a three-year battle with breast cancer. Reflecting the warm ties between Singapore and Malaysia, Singapore's President SR Nathan, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister
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    • 706 3  -  President Nathan, PM Lee and other S'pore leaders pay their respects By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIANS are mourning Endon Mahmood, wife of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who died yesterday morning after a threeyear battle with breast cancer. Reflecting the warm ties
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    • 552 3  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By LESLIE YEE j > HK new Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) guidelines for real estate investment trusts (Reits) appear to strike the right balance between safeguarding the interests of unit holders and giving managers flexibility. With
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 538 4  -  TAKEOVERS Or it may unlock the value of UIC's property assets by securitising them By LESLIE YEE FILIPINO tycoon John Gokongwei's JG Summit Holdings said yesterday that if it manages to take over United Industrial Corporation (UIC), it will
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    • 458 4  -  It has already saved some $16m in forex translation in buying 53% stake By CONRAD TAN A WEAK rupiah may save United Overseas Bank (UOB) millions of dollars in the next few weeks when it makes its offer to
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    • 548 6  -  CORPORATE RESULTS Income from properties jumps to $16.3m for the third quarter By MICHELLE QUAH COMMERCIAL property trust, Capita Commercial Trust (CCT), has benefited from the improved property market and reported a 21-per-cent increase in distributable income for the third quarter.
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    • 408 6  -  By ANGELA TAN KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation (Keppel T&T), which designs and upgrades cable networks, saw its thirdquarter net profit jump 15.7 per cent to $12.52 million, with significant contribution from its investment in Mobile One. The $12.52 million net profit attributable to
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    • 303 6  -  By CONRAD TAN THE shortened working week is partly to blame for a decline in profit at Singapore Food Industries (SFI), the company said yesterday. Announcing a 25.1 per cent drop in net profit in the third quarter to $5.4
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    • 376 9  -  So far, five people have been jailed in US$50m scam By WONG WEI KONG TWO men charged over corruption at electronics waste recycler Citiraya Industries are expected to plead guilty at the next hearing of their cases. The men, who were employed by
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    • 316 9  -  By OH BOON PING ELEVEN Singapore-listed companies have made it to the Forbes Asia's 2005 "Best Under a Billion" list, including Brilliant Manufacturing whose managing director Koh Soe Khon was earlier charged with insider trading. The 200 companies highlighted are seen
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    • 330 9  -  By CHEN HUIFEN HEALTHCARE group Osim International has signed on two master franchisees for Vietnam and Pakistan, an expansion move that could see at least 35 stores set up over the next five years in the two new markets. Representations International Pte Ltd will be
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    • 159 9 FOOD and beverage maker Yeo Hiap Seng (YHS) has appointed its non-executive director Chandra Das as deputy chairman. The appointment of Mr Das, who was former NTUC Fair Price chairman, takes effect on Nov 1. Mr Das, who joined the board
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 75 9 ASL Shipyard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASL Marine Holdings Ltd, has secured $31.1 million more shipbuilding contracts for the construction of four new vessels to be delivered to customers in Europe and Singapore. Of these, two flat top deck cargo barges are expected
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      • 82 9 CHANGSHU Xingdao Advanced Building Material, a subsidiary of FerroChina Ltd, has finalised a 560 million yuan (S$l 18 million) loan with five banks which include CommerzBank, China Construction Bank and China Merchant Bank. This follows a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in July for
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      • 54 9 SCS Information Technology Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of IT solutions provider Singapore Computer Systems, and its partner Brunei ATB Technologies Sdn Bhd have won a multimillion-dollar contract with the Brunei Ministry of Defence to deliver a human resource management system and an electronic document management
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      • 78 9 SEE Hup Seng, served with a letter of demand for about $2.43 million owed to OCBC Bank, has been granted an extension till Nov 21 for an independent financial consultant (IFC) to complete its report and repayment proposal. The company yesterday said it
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      • 127 9 THBEE relatives of two directors of United Overseas Land have been granted options to buy two apartments in Begency Suites, developed by UOL's 80 per cent-owned subsidiary Begency One Development. The offers, cleared by UOL's audit committee, were given to the daughter of
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      • 38 9 TOTAL Access Communication, Thailand's second biggest mobile-phone operator, yesterday said its co-chief executive officer, Vichai Bencharongkul, has resigned but will stay on as a director of the company. The resignation took effect yesterday.
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      • 160 9 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Telenor of Norway and a group of Thai companies have agreed to buy a 39.9 per cent stake in United Communication Industry for 9.2 billion baht (S$380 million) and said they will make an offer for the rest to take full
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 486 8  -  STOCKS STI surrenders most of morning's gains as scepticism still rules the market R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent AFTER losing some 137 points in six sessions including 66 on Wednesday alone yesterday's 8.75-point rebound in the Straits Times Index to 2,226.88 was, perhaps, to be expected.
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    • 506 8  -  TRADES TO WATCH By CHUANG PECK MING BRILLIANT Manufacturing executive director Koh Swee Yong, who has been raising his stake in the company through open-market purchases this month, yesterday raised his holding further to 12.82 per cent from 12.76 per cent. The latest purchase
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      429 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 20 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -821.00 +186.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -7.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -82.00 All-SG Equities 570.87 +1.74 SG Equities Elect 122.89 +2.69 SG Equities Fin 1642.43 +6.11 SG Equities Prop 680.55 -2.36 SIMSCI 263.32 +1.07 SiMSCI Futures 262.80 +1.00 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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      945 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Global Testing Oct 20 dose: 20 cents CIMB-GK RESEARCH, Oct 20 GLOBAL Testing experienced higher testing volume from Sunplus (DVD), Realtek (LAN), ALi (set-top box and MP3) and Marvell (HDD controller) in 3Q05. This has led to higher capacity utilisation of 90-95 per cent
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    • 534 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar traded within small bands in Asia yesterday, though the divergence in fortunes between the persistently strong Chinese yuan and a less resilient Malaysian ringgit continued. Observers said that the greenback appeared to need something
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 430 10  -  Islamic finance, tourism, hospitality offer opportunity, says Stanchart exec By LESLIE YEE ARAB wealth, which has been ballooning in these days of runaway oil prices, is considering investment opportunities outside the US and Europe. Some of this money could increasingly find its way into
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    • 426 10  -  By ALEXANDRA HO PROPERTY and hotel tycoon Kwek Leng Reng calls himself a pragmatic man. And because of his pragmatism, he has no ambitions to have the biggest hotel chain, as it means nothing to him. He is more interested in building a
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    • 397 10 THE tender for the former Gluttons Square site near Somerset MRT Station will close on Jan 18, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said yesterday. URA yesterday launched the tender for the 99-year leasehold site, following a successful application with
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    • 5666 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS en Japan CitiBond S'pore A/t 1.2% CitiBond S'pote B/$ 1-341/ AM AmroAsttt Mgt (Spore) Citi Money SGD Class A 1.0315/ Star Europe Eqty> 0.819 Cm Money Sing Dollar Class B 1.0853/ Star Europe Bond 2» Citi Pan-Europe Equity Eund 1.27/ Star Europe Bal 1122/ CitiSeiect Asia Tilt
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    • 578 11  -  Singaporeans take 65% of 120,900 new jobs created in past 18 months By CHUANG PECK MING EMPLOYMENT hit an alltime high in June, with most of the new jobs going to Singaporeans. The jobs are mainly in the services sector and command good pay
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    • 280 11  -  By UMA SHANKARI LOCAL jewellers must stay ahead of competition by continually upgrading their capabilities, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday at the opening of the Singapore International Jewellery Show. Jewellery sales contribute significantly to the economy, he said. More than 700 jewellery
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    • 239 11  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA NTUC INCOME will launch an enhanced Shield plan in November to cater to those who seek treatment in a private hospital. The new "Plan P" is designed so that the deductible, currently set at $3,000, will be adjusted downwards for policyholders who
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 417 13  -  But Reuters survey shows manufacturers' confidence in Oct at 8-month low By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan (BOJ) yesterday painted an upbeat picture of the country's economy, saying moderate but sustained growth can be expected and that recent improvements in output
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    • 520 13 But govt worry about trade gap, property bubble, social issues AP [BEIJING] China's economy grew at a blistering rate of 9.4 per cent in the first three quarters of 2005 as investment surged and the country's politically volatile trade surplus
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    • 263 13 AFP [BEIJING] China is experiencing a property bubble in some cities but it is not a nation-wide phenomenon and the government is moving cautiously in reining in prices, a top official said yesterday. "Only some cities are experiencing a bubble and it's
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 611 14 WHO expresses concern over the latest outbreak in China [JAKARTA] Indonesia's health minister said yesterday that the discovery of human bird flu cases in at least two separate family clusters adds to worries that the virus could mutate to become more easily transmissible
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    • 396 14 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's giant Cepu oilfield project hit new hurdles on yesterday as state oil firm Pertamina and partner Exxon Mobil Corp disagreed over who would take a leading role in the US$2 billion development. The government signed a contract last
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 70 14 Bernama [SHAH AIAM] The Sessions Court yesterday ruled that the charges against businessman Soh Chee Wen of cheating and abetmentin making false declarations to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) have basis and are not vague or defective. Judge Azimah Omar, in dismissing Soh's
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      • 49 14 AFP [BANGALORE] Narayana Murthy, the chairman of a project to build a new international airport in India's technology hub of Bangalore quit yesterday after a powerful politician criticised his work. Mr Murthy is also chairman of India's second largest software exporter Infosys Technologies. AFP
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      • 87 14 Bloomberg I HONG KONG] Ping An Insurance (Group) Co, China's second-biggest insurer, said premium income rose 8 per cent to 53.7 billion yuan (Ssl 1.2 billion) in the first nine months of 2005. China Life Insurance Co, the nation's biggest insurer, said its premium income
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      • 73 14 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan s Compal Electronics, the world's second-largest contract maker of laptop computers, posted a 53 per cent rise in third-quarter profit yesterday as growing consumer demand pushed shipments to a record high. Compal. which ranks second only to Quanta Computer, earned NT52.326
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      • 41 14 Reuters [SHANGHAI/HONG KONGI China Telecom Corp, China's biggest fixed-line phone company, said yesterday adjusted revenue grew 7 per cent in the third quarter, as newer services picked up slack for its slowing core business. Reuters
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    • 288 14 [KUAIA LUMPUR] The long wait is over, but it may be another week before Malaysians know how much they will have to fork out for a Honda, Toyota or Mercedes Benz, according to Malaysia's Business Times (MBT). According to the tax structure for vehicles and
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    • 233 14 Bernama IKUALA LUMPUR) With an order book of RM633 million (*****.4 million) in hand and bids for projects worth RMI.3 billion, oil and gas player Sime Engineering Services Rhd is confident of returning to the black for the financial
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    • 2452 14 vol General Corp .0.41 unch 52 OflU Mi *h fW> Genting J1.00 -0.10 376 George Kent .0.59 0.01 0 ASM Realty 1.62 unch 1 GHL Systems .0.11 unch 167 0.30 "001 131 GlobetronicsTech 0.28 unch 1072 ACP Industries .0.63 -0.03 139 GlomacBhd 1.25 -002 615 Advance Synergy -0-25
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 611 15 Caps on foreign investment in state banks to stay, says regulator IBEIJING] China will not relax the caps on foreign investment in its banks in the near term, a senior regulator said on Wednesday, the South China Morning Post reported. Yan Qingmin, a department director-general
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    • 355 15 [HONG KONG] Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest lender, is close to inviting banks to compete to advise on an initial public offering that could raise more than US$lO billion in one of the highest-profile deals in Asia, according to
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    • 336 15 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Nasdaq is in talks to host its first US$l billion-plus China IPO, aiming to poach the types of mega-listings that have been the purview of the rival New York Stock Exchange. Nasdaq is talking with one or more companies in China's
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    • 253 15 Reuters (SHANGHAI] Deutsche Bank has an option to buy German private bank Sal Oppenheim's stake in midsized Chinese lender Huaxia Bank, setting it up to become the Chinese bank's top shareholder. The two German banks this week confirmed they would together invest US$329
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  • INDIA
    • 550 16 PHARMACEUTICALS Rivals should fare better due to domestic sales, say analysts Reuters [MUMBAI] Top Indian drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd should post a sharp drop in quarterly profit due to higher costs and competition overseas, but other firms are expected to show healthier
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    • 406 16 SOFTWARE Company revises upwards full-year revenue outlook AFP [BANGALORE] India's fourth-largest software exporter, Satyam, said yesterday that second-quarter net profit shot up 34 per cent on robust global business and revised upwards its full-year revenue outlook. The net profit of the New York-listed
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    • 177 16 Reuters [MUMBAI] India's largest software exporter, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, said yesterday that it had acquired Sydney-based Financial Network Services (FNS) for US$26 million to strengthen its offering for the banking industry. The acquisition would help add 115 banks spread over 35 countries
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    • 258 16 MENG DIE USED Mf/ mm to worry about B||iH||^ Meng Die's father is a construction worker. Her mother does part-time odd jobs. %lfm They barely earn enough for rent and to support Meng Die and her two school-going siblings. E any bright-eyed nine year old, Meng Die has dreams, v
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 384 17 LATEST US DATA But weekly rise in hurricane-related jobless claims down sharply to 40,000 AP [WASHINGTON] A key gauge of future US economic activity fell for a third consecutive month in September, reflecting the surge in energy costs triggered by hurricane-related
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 79 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Shares of the Chicago Board of Trade soared as much as 61 per cent in the first day of trading, jumping as high as U5586.75 in NYSE composite trading, on speculation demand will rise even after the collapse of Refco Inc.
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      • 82 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The Chicago Board Options Exchange may pursue an initial public offering in as soon as nine months, chairman and chief executive William Brodsky said. "We think that it is high time for us to move down the path towards demutualisation, and
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      • 86 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] Mobile phone maker Nokia said its Q3 profit rose 29 per cent, as surging phone sales in China made up for a drop in North America. Net income rose to 881 million euros (Ssl .8 billion) from 685 million euros
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      • 73 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] Kazakhstan plans to increase control over refineries and restrict gasoline and diesel exports in an effort to cut domestic prices and curb inflation. It plans to secure or raise stakes in the Pavlodar oil refinery and in PetroKazakhstan Inc's Shymkent refinery, Kazakh
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      • 87 17 Reuters [SHANGHAI] PC shipments rose 19 per cent in Asia, excluding Japan, in Q3 05, and Lenovo's share jumped sharply. PC shipments totalled 10.9 million units on strong results in China, Taiwan and South Korea, according to IDC. Notebook shipments for the-region grew by
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      • 75 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] Nortel Networks Corp's incoming president and chief executive, Mike Zafirovski, has been sued by his former employer Motorola. The lawsuit alleges Mr Zafirovski broke agreements by accepting the top position with Nortel and that his new role will inevitably result in
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      • 79 17 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Online auction site EBay Inc posted a 40 per cent rise in quarterly net profit on Wednesday. Its net income rose to U*****.0 million, compared with the year-earlier quarter's U*****.3 million. Revenue rose 37 per cent to US$l.ll billion. It
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      • 62 17 Reuters [DETROIT] Ford Motor Co yesterday on said it swung to a loss in the third quarter as sales of high-margin sport utility vehicles declined and its key North American unit remained in the red. Ford reported a net loss of $284
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    • 451 17 NYT [NEW YORK] The world is going mad in its clamour for Tamiflu, making it harder for Roche to supply those who need the anti-in-fluenza drug to treat the flu this winter, a senior company executive said on Wednesday. Roche has been unable to
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  • AVIATION
    • 431 18  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] High fuel prices, the recent relaxation of the international regulatory structure and national policy trends in this region have passed the point of no return, which is creating radical change in the Asia Pacific region's aviation market. As a
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    • 625 18 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Air FranceKLM Group, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and British Airways Pic, Europe's three largest airlines, won't be able to escape the impacts US$65-a-barrel oil for much longer, say analysts including Chris Avery of JP Morgan. The airlines may see passengers rebel against
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 107 18 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines has inked a code-share agreement with LOT Polish Airlines which takes effect from Oct 30. It will enable SIA passengers to fly between South-east Asia and Poland via LOT's daily services to Warsaw through Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Zurich. And LOT's customers
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      • 99 18 Garuda offers 10 ,000 free Bali tickets Bernama [JAKARTA] PT Garuda will offer 10,000 free tickets for passengers using its flights to Bali. There will be 5,000 tickets for international flights and 5,000 tickets for domestic Qights. The free tickets for the routes to Bali will be given to passengers
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      • 78 18 AP [WASHINGTON] US trade officials on Wednesday signed a US$l.3 million agreement with China's aviation ministry to help improve that country's air training and safety. Under the agreement, officials from the US-China Aviation Cooperation Programme, which was set up last year, and the US
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    • 277 18  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Some 2.7 million passengers passed through Changi Airport last month, an increase of 8.7 per cent over the same month last year. This brings the total traffic handled by the world's sixth-busiest airport between January and September 2005 to 23.8
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    • 312 19 Supply pushes freight rates down 29% from year ago Bloomberg [LONDON] The world's fleet of ships carrying commodities such as coal and iron ore is headed for a record expansion this year as new vessels are delivered from yards, according to shipbroker Simpson,
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    • 344 19  -  By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] A Singaporebased tug and barge operator has suggested using decoy tugs manned by the littoral states' armed forces to help curb piracy in the Malacca Strait, which he warned may rise after a lull through much of this year.
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    • 762 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING WIDESPREAD popular protests numbering over 200 per day all across China over everything from illegal land seizures to official corruption to the growing gap between rich and poor have prompted the Communist authorities to reverse a long-standing policy
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    • 955 21  -  Yudhoyono must push through his own economic policies decisively in his second year SHOEB KAGDA Jakarta Correspondent IT IS perhaps a sign of the times in Indonesia that as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono marked his first anniversary in office yesterday, the nation
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    • 651 21  -  By MICHAEL LEWIS TWO days after Katrina hit New Orleans, I received a message from an investor to whom I once peddled stocks and bonds on behalf of Salomon Brothers. When I worked on Wall Street, my customers were generally viewed by my
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    • 1781 29  -  GEOFFREY EU looks at the progress that Singapore players made at the television trade show MIPCOM in Cannes GEOFFREY EU SINGAPORE may be a small cog in the big wheel that is the global television industry, but some established international players are sitting up and
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  • ARTS
    • 542 30  -  THEATRE NGIAM YING LAN checks out the inaugural Asian Children's Performing Arts Festival NGIAM YING LAN WHEN children's theatre company I Theatre staged their musical The Nightingale inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale at the Esplanade last May, artistic director Brian Seward had to
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    • 364 30  -  By SANGEETHA MADHAVAN THR debut work of Cake Theatre, one of the newest theatre groups in Singapore, at The Arts House last week could be called a lot of things but certainly not amateurish. Animal Vegetable Mineral is the story of a personal journey of a
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    • 655 30  -  BATIK By CHEAH UI-HOON IT wasn't so long ago that batik was classified under "craft" and received little recognition in the ranks of contemporary art form. Art shows like Batik Forms: Rethinking Tradition held as part of the Singa pore Art Show, and a retrospective
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  • WINE
    • 698 31  -  GEOFFREY EU finds out how Krug maintains its reputation as one of the world's great champagnes GEOFFREY EU IN the early 1840s, Johann Josef Krug, a master blender from Mainz in Germany who toiled anonymously for various champagne houses, wrote a letter to his boss: "To
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    • 579 31  -  By GREG WALDRON A QUICK browse through the wine section of any local supermarket will tell you a great deal about the popularity of Chilean wine in Singapore. Whereas Australian wines invariably take up a vast section, Chilean wines (if they make an
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    • 462 31  -  WINE 101 By GREG WALDRON IN the hit movie Sideways, the lovelorn, pathetic character Miles extols the merits of Pinot Noir. "It's a difficult grape to grow," he says. "It's temperamental, not a survivor. It needs constant care and attention. Only somebody who really takes
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  • CINEMA
    • 513 32  -  FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL NGIAM YING LAN picks out some highlights of the fest which offers 26 films NGIAM YING LAN FROM double-couple romances and coming-of-age dramas to vintage comedies, this year's French Film Festival (FFF) 21 years in the running and the second largest here,
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    • 527 32  -  FILM By CHEAH UI-HOON REVENGE is a dish best served cold, especially when you're watching how it's planned and dished out in an elaborate manner. But is there justification for it, even when the crime is heinous? In final instalment of his trilogy of revenge
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    • 403 33  -  FILM Jodie Foster handles her complex character in Flightplan with honesty and verve, says NGIAM YING LAN NGIAM YING LAN IT'S not often that you lose a child 37,000 feet over the Atlantic sea, but this perplexing complication hits Jodie Foster's character early in Flightplan.
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    • 291 33  -  DVD By PARVATHI NAYAR FIRST-TIME director Garth Jennings' film adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy succeeds in throwing out most of the wonderful absurdities that made Adams' zany universe so absurdly profound and profoundly witty. The original 1978
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    • 267 33  -  By NGIAM YING LAN DOUR, moody and headed by a serious-looking Sean Penn, The Assassination of Richard Nixon is about as far away from a feel-good movie as you can get. Samuel Bicke (intensely portrayed by Penn), it seems, is one of those grand
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