The Business Times, 21 November 2005

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  • 16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Monday, November 21,2005
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  • 517 1  -  For a start, ADB will track a basket of Asian currencies By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has begun to monitor Asian exchange rates in a move that could lay the groundwork for Eu-ropean-style monetary cooperation
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  • 974 1  - Analysts relook China stocks ana like what they see Fallen valuation and decent earnings growth are a recipe for good returns, they say By TEH HOOI LING [SINGAPORE] China stocks, neglected by investors for much of this year partly because of the recent scandals surrounding some of them, have fallen
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    • 15 1 VIEWS FROM THE TOP CEOs on how to kindle creativity pgs 10,11 8 Hi I
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    • 21 1 BUSINESS AWARDS A boost for Australia, S'pore business ties PGI6 HU China to act j I. k on trade surplus,yuan f
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    • 56 1 Binning out Something special at Blu PGI3 COMMENTARY IN DEFENCE OF SGX FEE HIKES 'If indeed there are any SGX companies in such dire straits, then it may be better that their vulnerability is exposed by the fee hike, than let some unwitting retiree or widow with young children buy
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 659 2 Tat Hong to gain from Aussie unit's listing LISTED Tat Hong Holdings' Australian unit, the Tutt Bryant Group, is launching its initial public offering on the Australian Stock Exchange today to raise As 26 million. Roland Ng, Tat Hong's president and chief executive officer expects the listing to
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    • 443 2  -  It'll start projects in Kolkatta and Pune in next 3 months By CHEN HUIFEN in Bangalore IN a move that is seen as a vote of confidence for the Indian property market, business space solutions provider Ascendas Pte Ltd says it plans to double
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    • 588 2 Beijing will also step up protection for intellectual property rights LAT-WP, Reuters, Bloomberg IBEIJING] In a meeting closely watched by the world's media, US President George W Bush has won assurances from the Chinese leadership on several major issues
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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    • 694 4  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent SHORT-TERM traders would undoubtedly have noticed how closely the local market has, over the past fortnight, tracked Hong Kong and Japan when both markets were open, and how players here tried to position themselves ahead of an
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    • 308 4 CURRENCIES AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies mostly fell against the US dollar last week, with the US unit being bolstered by expectations nf a rise in interest rates. > Japanese yen: against the USillar amid prospects of a widening interest rate
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    • 330 4 COMMODITIES: WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP [LONDON] Oil prices extended losses last week as the market took the view that adequate energy supplies were in place to meet heating fuel demand during the northern hemisphere winter. The Commodities Research Bureau's index of 17 commodities
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    • 1700 4 Consensus No.of Forecast Mean FiTs Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Frfs recommendation esti- EPS PE target price recommendation esti- EPS PC target price Company name This wfc Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price (S) Company name TMs wk Last mth mates (crnts) (ratio) price Allgreen Properties 2.00 2.11 10
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    • 78 4 WEEK AHEAP New Listing of Oniontech Ltd Nov 21 Advanced SCT Bonus Issue, ex-date Nov 21 Amtek Engg's dividend payment, Nov 21 Boardroom's dividend payment, Nov 21 Eu Yan Sang's dividend payment, Nov 21 GES dividend payment, Nov 21 Radiance's dividend payment, Nov 21 Raffles Edu's dividend payment, Nov 21
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 770 5  -  Aussie subsidiary's IPO will boost parent's balance sheet, cut gearing By VEN SREENIVASAN TAT Hong Holdings will enjoy significant enhancement in shareholder value from hiving off its Australian unit Tutt Bryant Group, says its president and chief executive officer Roland Ng. Mr Ng
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    • 884 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By MICHELLE QUAH IT WAS the moment that many in the financial community had been waiting for: a review of the quarterly reporting regime that has been in existence in Singapore for three years. Having been the source of much
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    • 299 6  -  Reits will feature prominently in regional index for dividend stocks By LESLIE YEE STANDARD Poor's (S&P) is considering the creation of an index for dividend stocks in the Asia-Pacific, said David Blitzer, managing director and chairman of the Index Committee of S&P. Such an index,
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    • 225 6 KEPPEL Land's takeover of associate Dragon Land is one step nearer completion, having gone unconditional last Friday. At the end of trading on Friday, Keppel's cash offer at 11 US cents cash per share of listed Dragon Land became unconditional on it having
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    • 906 6  -  COMMENTARY Rises may look large in percentage terms but absolute numbers are manageable By TAN SAI SIONG WOULD listing costs be an obstacle if a company were gunning for its shares to be traded in London, New York, Frankfurt or Australia? At the other end
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    • 87 6 This announcement appears as a matter of record only November 2005 onion ONIONTECH LIMITED (Company Registration No. *****1873E) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 16 September 2004) Invitation in respect of 42,000,000 new ordinary shares of 550.02 each as follows: (i) 2,100,000 Offer Shares at 550.22 for each Offer
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    • 985 6 ONIONTECH LIMITED (Company Registration No. *****1873E) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 16 September 2004) Invitation In respect of 42,000,000 new ordinary shares of 550.02 each aa follows: (I) 2,100,000 offarBliares at 510.22 for aach Offer Share by way of public offar; and (II) 30,000,000 Placoment Shares at 550.22
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 1087 8  -  INSIDE MARKET It's 78 purchases worth $29.4 million, versus 18 sales worth $15 million, says ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI After six straight weeks of flat trading by directors and substantial shareholders, buying and selling activities surged last week, based on filings on
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    • 1824 8 CHIN SENG MOH (IMPORT EXPORT) PTE LTD (Co. Reg. No. *****1440 M) (Incorporated In Singapore) LOST SHARE CERTIFICATES NOTICE is hereby given that the following share certificates have been reported lost. Nine ol holder Certificates No Number of shares Tan Ah Whel 06 30,000 -do- 14 20,000 do 22 30,000
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    • 709 8 Blow keng huat (Singapore) limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration Number *****0209G) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an Extraordinary General Meeting of LOW KENG HUAT (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (the "Company") will be held at Chijmes Hall, 30 Victoria Street, Singapore *****6 on Tuesday,
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    • 33 8 Get a I Leading Edge Your sailing schedules get wider attention in The Business Times shipping pages Call Bernard Ong at 6319-1645 or Michael Chng at 6319-2062 I THE BUSMBS TMES Shipping Times
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      4081 10 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC How integral is creativity to the running of a successful business? What can be done to enhance corporate creativity? CREATIVITY is essential to the longterm success of any business, and it can be fostered by granting sufficient autonomy to employees to make decisions
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    • 70 10 BT CEOs e-Club Members of the BT CEOs e-Club are Singapore's top corporate leaders whom BT editors would like to interact with in an atmosphere of informality and trust This 'dub* is a virtual one* with interaction mainly via e-mail. Each week, we will invite comments from these top executives
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    • 21 11 HAVE YOUR SAY What do you think of the opinions expressed m these pages? Share your views by writing to btietterbsph.com.sg
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 364 12  -  Part of the Singapore 2006 events, it will chronicle country's development By SIOW LI SEN DBS Bank will spend over $1 million to chronicle the development of Singapore in a spectacular performance for next year's International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings. Singapore will
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    • 380 12  -  By CHEN HUIFEN in Bangalore MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said he regards high-end research in space technology as both a boon and serious threat to humanity. He made the comments yesterday during a visit to the government-funded Indian Space
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  • DINING OUT
    • 1756 13 NEW Baccarat Restaurant 51 Bras Basah Road #01-01 Plaza by the Park. Tel: 6884 9929 THIS free fork dining thing is tricky terminology. Say it too quickly and it could be misconstrued as another matter entirely. But even if the person heard you right, he
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
    • 788 14  -  LAST week we took a peek into the life of a CitiGold relationship manager, and gave a glimpse into life in the banking world. This week, we explore some other jobs that are available in a large international bank like Citibank. Here are
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    • 588 14  -  CAMPUS LIFE Swiss student Sabrina Risch tells KELVIN SAM there are lots of things she loves about Singapore KELVIN SAM M LOVE SingaJf I pore." So says final-year business manK agement student Sabrina Risch, who H spent four years studying here. Sabrina is currently studying in Saint
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    • 246 14 FANCY becoming the next Warren BufTett or George Soros? Or even the famous Robert Kiyosaki? Then read on. The Young Investors' Forum, part of the BT-Citibank Tertiary Outreach Programme, isn't another dry page out of your financial textbook. To complement our editorial content, we have a whole host of exciting
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 671 15 They also address possibility of bird flu pandemic, hold bilateral FTA talks AP. AFP [BUSAN, South Korea] President George W Bush and other Pacific Rim leaders have ended their annual economic summit with an indirect challenge to European countries to help revive global
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    • 556 15 But top statistician says excessive investment is a risk Reuters [BEIJING] China is set for another year of robust growth and low inflation in 2006 but excessive investment is a risk, the country's top statistician said yesterday. Yao Jingyuan, chief economist at
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    • 236 15 If you are facing any of the following: You need to keep your payroll absolutely confidential. Your payroll staff are bogged down, and are bored with the routine of rushing payroll every month, and there is limited room for staff development for payroll processing functions. You or your payroll staff
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  • AUSTCHAM BUSINESS AWARDS
    • 803 16  -  In conjunction with the AustCham Business Awards, OH BOON PING examines the business and investment links between Australia and Singapore through a Q A with Miles Kupa, Australia's High Commissioner to Singapore; John Dick, president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce Singapore (AustCham); and
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    • 570 16  -  By OH BOON PING IMAGINE you are managing a crew on board an offshore drilling facility in Azerbaijan and, all of a sudden, there's an explosion. How chaotic is the situation likely to be, even in the face of an evacuation plan? And how
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    • 702 17  -  It sees the Asian market as the 'next logical step', reports LEE KIM SIANG LEE KIM SIANG ANZ Bank is looking towards Asia, particularly South-east Asia and China, as the next area of growth. Lan Mathews, ANZ's director for project and structured
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    • 166 16 The Australian Chamber of the wmners of its annual AustSham Business Awards 2005 AustCham President's Medal Lt General Winston Choo (RETD), PJG, PPA AustCham Entrepreneur Award David Hulme Wayne Salamonsen mmmm W 1 Freeh ills Breakthrough Award Austrade New Exporter Award ©isktec Australasia Commonwealth Bank Of Australia Cold Storage Business
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 716 19  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT It's best to scale down expectations as all the good news appears to have been priced in PAULINE NG KL Correspondent ARE governmentlinked corporations in Malaysia already in their summer of discontent? The signs, of course, were evident in the first-quarter
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    • 481 19 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) should be prudent and careful in its expenditure to overcome the financial crisis currently faced by the national carrier, the airline's former managing director has said. Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman, said MAS should not spend
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    • 752 19 [KUALA LUMPUR] Sime Darby Bhd, the Malaysian conglomerate, is to go big on the China market, according to a report in Star Bizweek. The company is said to be busy negotiating with authorities in China on big ventures in the mainland.
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 590 20 It is expected to be one of the few firms to walkaway with a 3G licence Reuters [HONG KONG] An expected spending spree by China Mobile is shaping up as a beauty pageant that will yield a small winners' circle among network
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    • 173 20 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Hong Kong Exchanges Clearing Ltd, which operates the city's stock and futures market, proposed abolishing a rule requiring companies to publish announcements in newspapers on matters relating to them. Scrapping the rule should lower the cost of maintaining listings
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    • 3068 20 Transaction date: Nov 18 For a full listing of the dosing prices, log on to BT Online at http://business-times.asia1.coni.sg after 11.30pm every trading day HONG KONG vol E T fc r. HKt i. 'onn eForce Hldgs 0.02 unch 300 Egana Jewellery _..1.07 -0.02 23 Aeon Credit 5.95 unch
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    • 259 20 With govt over-allotment option fully exercised, IPO size will be HK$22b AFP [HONG KONG] The price for the world's largest property trust in Hong Kong has been set at the upper end of the range at HK$lO.3O, a press
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    • 637 20 Research engineers in India will halve costs for Conexant NYT [HYDERABAD] Millions of low-technology jobs, from textile production to corporate call centres, have migrated to Asian countries like India and China in recent years. Now, though, high technology is increasingly coming up for
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 911 21  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT Nasdaq index hits highest levels in four years after climbing more than 9% over past month By ANDREW MARKS in New York WHEN Wall Street investment strategists read the stock market tea leaves to divine how equities might perform over the short term,
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    • 419 21 AFP [NEW YORK] Marking the end of an era in the telecom industry, SBC Communications on Friday finalised its US$l6 billion-acquisition of AT&T, creating the biggest US firm in the sector. The companies sealed a deal in which SBC, one of
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    • 701 21  -  Price spike could lead to collapse soon, dealers warn By NEIL BEHRMANN in London ASIAN cable, pipe and other factories that consume copper should steer well clear of the market in coming weeks, metal dealers and analysts advise. Speculation that China may not honour
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    • 61 21 [TOKYO] Olympic judo champion Yasuhiro Yamashita presenting Russian President Vladimir Putin with an ancient scroll expressing a wish to live in mutual prosperity. The Russian leader began a visit to Japan yesterday, hoping to secure new business even though the two countries have not compromised on
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    • 384 21  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo AN overlapping web of free trade agreements in Asia could have a potential downside exporters and importers may find it costly to take advantage of the free flow of trade. The proliferation of FTAs has meant
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    • 474 21  -  Around 10% of domestic workforce affected by cuts By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPANESE electronics group Pioneer Corporation will cut around 1,000 jobs in Japan or 10 per cent of its domestic workforce according to Japanese media reports yesterday. This will make Pioneer the
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    • 120 21 Reuters [LONDON] French telecoms equipment company Alcatel is considering a £5 billion ($14.5 billion) bid for French defence group Thales, the Sunday Times newspaper said. Citing financial sources, the paper said Alcatel was considering the move as a strategy to counter tough international
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  • AVIATION
    • 774 22 DUBAI AIR SHOW Boeing also signs US$4b-deal to supply 70 737s to 8 Chinese airlines AFP [DUBAI] The Dubai air show kicked off yesterday with the announcement by the emirate's flagship carrier Emirates of an order for Boeing's new long-haul 777 aircraft worth
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    • 480 22 AFP [PARIS] Surging oil prices continue to weigh heavily on airlines' earnings around the world, as carriers press hard to cut costs so rising fuel costs do not eat into revenue generated by a rise in passenger traffic. After a three-year slump, international
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    • 448 22 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US and European Union agreed to end restrictions on where airlines can fly to boost competition in the US$lB billion transatlantic aviation market. The accord was reached on Friday in Washington after two years of talks. The agreement may take effect
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    • 329 22 Reuters [CANBERRA] A foreign ownership limit on Qantas has cost the Australian airline billions of dollars in extra capital costs, chairwoman Margaret Jackson said yesterday in a renewed push for the government to scrap the 49 per cent cap. The
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • SHIPPING
    • 1026 23  -  More infrastructure investment needed in US West Coast, Panama Canal By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] A new study commissioned by Neptune Orient Lines' container division, APL, warns of impending capacity shortages on the US West Coast and at the Panama Canal within the next three years, highlighting
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    • 343 23 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's Shipping Minister TR Baalu reiterated the government's plan to sell a 15 per cent stake in state-run Shipping Corp of India Ltd, the nation's biggest shipping company. The government had said earlier this year that it was
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    • PORT SHOTS
      • 127 23 AP [BANGKOK] About 50 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Thailand from a Japan-registered ship yesterday as it attempted to dispense some of its cargo at a refinery buoy, a company official said. The Ryaho Maru had moored to
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      • 142 23 Bloomberg [COPENHAGEN] D/S Torm A/S, a Danish operator of oil-product tankers, said third-quarter profit jumped 52 per cent as a surge in demand for ships to haul gasoline after hurricanes shut US refineries boosted freight rates. Net income jumped to U5565.9 million, or US$l.9O
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      • 95 23 Bloomberg [DUBAI] UK billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group Ltd is in talks with a Miami-based cruise operator to enter the passenger line business in the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas next year. "There's a whole swath of the population, if we can create a tasteful
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    • 397 23 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nippon Yusen K K, Japan's largest shipping line, said it expects its cruise operations to return to profit next year for the first time in five years, helped by a recovery of demand for leisure travel. Nippon Yusen expects
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    • 295 23 SGX '000 Hull St W- Vol CH Offshore .037 unch 228 Chuan Hup....... .0.83 0.01 3837 Cosco Corporation 226 0.01 2632 CWT Distribution 0.83 0.01 10 Ezra HkJw 1.36 unch 412 Freight Links 0 07 0.01 330 Grand Banks Yacht .0.91 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 1.24 0.02 512
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  • 11290 24 STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS Stock name Wt dot* Chang* Allgreen 50c 0.32 1.330 Ascendasreit 0.97 1.920 -0.010 BIL Irrtl US20c 0.53 1.310 ->0.020 CapitaLand 3.32 3.340 +0020 CapitaMall 0.85 2.340 Chart SemiCond 26c 0.77 1.170 +0 030 CityPev 50c 2.48 8.500 +0.200 ComfoctDelGro 25c 1.71 1.570 +0.020 Cosco
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