The Business Times, 2 December 2005

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cenjs- online at http://biisiness-times.asia 1 .com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Friday, December 2,2005
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  • Article
    Lock icon Open skies for major S'pore, China carriers
    628 1  -  But LCCs still barred from major centres like Shanghai, Beijing despite expanded air pact By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Singapore and China have signed an expanded air services pact which allows airlines of both countries to operate passenger and cargo services between China and
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    Lock icon Collective sale made easier for 24 estates
    646 1  -  Upon en bloc sale, original landowners lose all rights By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] A collective sale has just become easier for 24 estates including Kim Yam Mansion and Melody Mansion in the River Valley area wfeere the original landowner/developer retains the freehold title
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon JTC consults potential partners on oil caverns
      569 2  -  Good chance of mega underground project going ahead: officials By RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] JTC Corporation is sounding out potential partners including SembCorp Engineers and Constructors (SEC) to help it build a massive underground oil storage facility on Jurong Island. A final decision on
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      538 2 S'pore household wealth rises 3.5% to $697b GAINS in financial assets and, to a smaller extent, private property values boosted the wealth of Singapore households by 3.5 per cent in the first half of this year to $697 billion. The value of Singapore households' financial wealth defined as
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      Lock icon ECB raises key rates for first time since 2000
      426 2 It ignores calls to give growth more time to accelerate Bloomberg [ROME] The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time since 2000, ignoring calls from politicians to give economic growth more time to accelerate. The ECB raised its
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      Lock icon Household wealth up 3.5% to $697b in H1
      585 3  -  Increase due to gains in financial assets, and private property values By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] Gains in financial assets and, to a smaller extent, private property values boosted the wealth of Singapore households by 3.5 per cent in the first half of
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      Lock icon Manufacturing sector expands for 7th straight month
      474 3  -  By OH BOON PING [SINGAPORE] Continuing the bright fourth quarter manufacturing outlook, November's purchasing managers' index (PMI) expanded for the seventh consecutive month, with most of the key siA-indices showing strong increases. Last month's PMI a barometer of manufacturing activity was 53.5, up
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      133 3 STI 2,310.99 (+10.74) ST INDEX FUTURES 2.310.00 (+10.00) siMsa 273.84 (+1.15) SIMSa FUTURES (+2.00) MARKETS Thursday Change KLSECOMP 887.80 -8.33 NIKKEI 225 15,130.50 +258.35 HANG SENG 15,068.03 +130.89 SET INDEX 660.95 -6.80 JAKARTA COMP 1,096.37 -0.27 MANILA COMP 2,086.18 -13.56 SEOUL COMP 1,305.98 +8.54 SHENZHEN B 194.18 +0.38
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      Lock icon HKLand makes $647m takeover bid for MCL
      621 3  -  Offer of $1.75 a share is a 25% premium over last traded price By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] Hongkong Land Holdings is making a takeover offer worth $647 million for Singapore-listed residential property developer MCL Land in a move to penetrate the Singapore
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Myanmar tycoon to inject assets into Sea View
      466 4  -  M&A DEALS Developer Yoma expected to hold majority stake after reverse takeover By LESLIE YEE SEA View Hotel, the shares of which have been suspended from trading for two years because the company has had no core business, looks as if it
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      Lock icon Possible voluntary delisting for Wearnes
      351 4  -  Parent WBL Corp discussing options with company By CONRAD RAJ WBL Corporation and its privatisation target Wearnes International (1994) Ltd (WIL) are thinking of delisting the latter voluntarily now that more than 90 per cent of its shares are in the hands of the former.
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      Lock icon SBB solicits support for acquisition
      229 4  -  By LESLIE YEE MALAYSIA'S Southern Bank Berhad (SBB) is making a big push to get shareholders to vote in favour of its proposed acquisition of Singapore's privately held insurer Asia General Holdings at SBB's extraordinary general meeting to be held in KL on Dec 12.
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      Lock icon The Del Monte attraction
      674 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By SHOEB KAGDA INDONESIA'S Salim Group has never shied away from making corporate waves. And last month, it proved yet again just how shrewd it is in recognising an opportunity. Its Hong Kong-based First Pacific has made a conditional offer for 40 per
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      Lock icon 96,900 high-speed 3G users in S'pore
      319 4  -  By ANGELA TAN EVEN before Star Hub launched i-mode, Singapore's high-speed 3G subscriber base had more than doubled since July to hit 96,900 in October, according to figures from the Infocomra Development Authority (IDA). The take-up figures compare to 66,200 in September, 47,700 in
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      Lock icon Medi-Flex seeks dual listing in UK
      492 6  -  IPO WATCH Listing on AIM will help in its funding needs for second phase of expansion By TEH HOOI LING DISPOSABLE glove manufacturer Medi-Flex is planning to seek a dual listing on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). It is the-second Singapore company to head
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      Lock icon Stapled securities may become next market darling
      318 6  -  By LESLIE YEE AFTER structured warrants and and real estate investment trusts, Singapore investors are now getting their first taste of an initial public offering (IPO) of stapled securities from Singapore Power's SP AusNet. More offerings of stapled securities in Singapore could follow
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      Lock icon Westcomb launches Contel IPO
      338 6  -  By UMAS HANKARI WESTCOMB Capital Pte Ltd, which was barred by the Singapore Exchange (SGX) earlier this month from submitting new IPO applications for three months, yesterday launched its final IPO of the year Contel Corporation. Choo Chee Kong, chief executive of the Westcomb Financial Group,
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      Lock icon ST Engg's US unit wins US$28.8m design job
      578 7  -  Deal could lead to bigger US govt contract of building 3 fast missile craft By ANGELA TAN SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering yesterday disclosed that its US unit has clinched the first phase of a US$45O million design and build project for up to
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      Lock icon Informatics to contest franchisee's claims
      195 7 INFORMATICS Holdings has said that it vflll vigorously defend itself against a lawsuit filed by KS Consultants Pte Ltd and Kim Seng Holdings Pte Ltd. Businessman Tan Kim Seng is suing mainboardlisted Informatics for the return of $240,000 in fees, costs incurred and damages, claiming
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon SingTel unit forms China subsidiary
        129 7 SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Sing Tel) said its indirect wholly owned unit, NCSI Holdings, has incorporated a fully owned subsidiary in China. The new subsidiary NCSI (ChengDu) has a registered capital ofUS$l.5 million. It will undertake IT research and development and other IT-related services. Meanwhile, Sing Tel
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        Lock icon Biosensors appoints R Chato Abad as CFO
        79 7 MEDICAL devices firm Biosensors International Group has appointed R Chato Abad as its new chief financial officer with immediate effect. Ms Abad, based in the group's California office, has more than 15 years of senior financial management experience in the pharmaceutical and medical
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        Lock icon L&M seeks Bob Low as judicial manager
        52 7 ENGINEERING company L&M Group Investments is proposing the appointment of Bob Low from Bob Low Co as judicial manager. Mr Lo has agreed to be judicial manager if appointed by the High Court. Last month, L&M announced that it had been served a
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        Lock icon Citadines, Boutique form joint venture
        50 7 ASCOTT Group's indirect wholly owned subsidiary Citadines Bangkok (S) Pte Ltd (CBS) and Boutique Group Ltd have formed a joint venture to invest, develop and own one or more properties in Thailand, to be operated and managed as serviced residences under the Citadines brand name.
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      Lock icon Trial dates set for CAO's Chen and Lim
      527 7  -  By MICHELLE QUAH IT is finally certain when the individuals charged over the China Aviation Oil (CAO) scandal will be tried with two weeks in March and three weeks in April next year having been set aside to hear the cases of
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon SingTel continues to dominate index
      551 8  -  STOCKS Component stocks Jardine group and banks also enjoy spotlight, but broad market takes a beating R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IT'S becoming an increasingly frequent sight in daily trading one or two stocks driving the Straits Times Index in one direction, while the rest of
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Funds FMR, Fidelity pare stake in Reyoung ...
        426 8 Funds FMR, Fidelity pare stake in Reyoung FUND managers FMR Corp and Fidelity International, whose combined deemed stake In Reyoung Pharmaceutical Holdings went above the 5 per cent level on Oct 17. have ceased to be a substantial shareholder. From Oct 18 till Nov 18, they had. on behalf of
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        Lock icon ... and accumulate more shares in Parkway
        83 8  - and accumulate more shares in Parkway Compiled by NANDE KHIN A SEPARATE filing to the SGX yesterday shows that the deemed holding of FMR Corp and Fidelity in healthcare group Parkway Holdings has risen. The ftind managers bought 133,000 Parkway shares in a series of non-market transactions from Nov 11
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      429 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Dec 1 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 68.00 -10.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -30.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +7.00 AM-SG Equities 588.19 -1-1.85 SG Equities Elect 127.15 +0.06 SG Equities Fin 1704.73 +6.42 SG Equities Prop 689.44 -8.75 SIMSCI 273.84 +1.15 SIMSCI Futures 274.40 +2.00 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      940 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI DBS Group Dm 1 dose: $16.40 (JOB KAY HIAN RESEARCH, Dec 1 DBS has agreed to sell its Shenton Way office buildings to funds managed by Goldman Sachs for Ss69o million. The transaction is expected to be completed within a month. The Shenton Way offices
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      Lock icon US dollar nudges 120 yen again
      534 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Corespondent ANOTHER strong US number released on Wednesday night lifted the US dollar just short of the psychological 120 yen marker for the second time this week in Asia, and the euro was looking a little vul- nerable to more
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Sharp rate hike could wipe $2.8b off banks' profits
      612 9  -  MAS stress test shows that bulk of losses would be from equities slide Reports by SIOW LI SEN TWO-THIRDS of the local banks' profits could be wiped out if Singapore suffers a sharp contraction brought on by rapidly rising interest rates,
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      Lock icon Oct's ACU loans jump 16% y-o-y
      369 9 BUSINESSES are expanding strongly overseas and are borrowing heavily to do so. This is reflected in October's 16 per cent increase in Asian currency unit (ACU) loans. Foreigners who have helped prop up property prices in Singapore are also swelling banks' ACU mortgage loan
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      Lock icon Sunday road closures for Singapore marathon
      220 9 SEVERAL roads that form part of the main route of the Singapore Marathon will be closed off when the race is held this Sunday, Dec 4. Roads in the Marina Bay area, the part of East Coast Park Expressway (ECP) near Marina Station Road,
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      Lock icon S'pore firms spend 20% of their time on e-mail: survey
      452 9  -  Respondents say limited inbox space a major bugbear By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY PEOPLE working for Singapore companies spend as much as 20 per cent of their time managing e-mails, a survey has shown. Indeed, the information technology (IT) manager in
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      Lock icon Raffles' charity tree auction nets $287,000
      102 9 EIGHT specially decorated Christmas trees found homes with successful bidders on Wednesday night at Raffles Hotel's 14th annual Christmas tree auction. The bids, together with direct donations from well-wishes, raised $287,000 for various charities, far exceeding Raffles Hotel's target of $150,000. The generous tree
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      Lock icon Civil servants to get 1.75 months year-end bonus
      200 9  -  By UMA SHANKARI CIVIL servants will get a 1.75-month year-end bonus, the government said yesterday. This will comprise an annual variable component (AVC) of 0.75 months and a non-pensionable allowance of one month, also known as the 13th-month annual wage supplement. In
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      Lock icon Rockeby launches oral-based HIV rapid testing kit
      488 9  -  By CHEN HUIFEN HOMEGROWN biotechnology firm Rockeby biomed yesterday launched a rapid diagnostic kit for HIV, which could pave the way for Singapore to become the first country in Asia to allow HIV testing outside a clinical setting. Called the OraQuick Advance Rapid
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon KL could hike rates again next year: Fitch
      513 10 Rates still considered low in real terms because of 3% inflation AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia could again hike interest rates over the next 12 months after raising it for the first time in seven years on the back of faster-than-expected economic growth,
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Fitch unlikely to upgrade Malaysia's credit rating
      156 10 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Malaysia, which yesterday reported faster-than-expected thirdquarter economic growth, is unlikely to have its credit rating upgraded in the "short-term". Fitch Ratings said. The ratings company may raise its Malaysian economic growth forecasts for 2005 and 2006, Tony Stringer, head of corporate
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      Lock icon Fed beige book indicates solid US economy
      547 10 Interest rate increases expected to end soon Reuters [WASHINGTON] US economic activity increased across the country through mid-November but the housing market has cooled and high energy prices have raised concern about consumer spending and production costs, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.
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      Lock icon Excess capacity could be a problem in China: surveys
      509 10 2 different PMI readings send mixed signals Reuters [BEIJING] A pair of surveys released yesterday pointed to excess capacity as a growing problem in China's economy, although they gave mixed signals about the overall health of the manufacturing sector. An official
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      Lock icon China defends its yuan reform
      251 10 Reuters [BEIJING] China's central bank believes a more flexible yuan would have little effect on other countries' economic imbalances, official media reported yesterday. The defence of China's gradual approach to reform of its exchange rate came a day before finance ministers from the Group of
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Fitch ready to raise rating on Tenaga
      367 11 Move rests on whether latter gets govt nod to up power rates in 2006 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia's biggest power producer and distributor, may have its rating raised by Fitch Ratings should the government allow it to increase electricity rates next year,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Kalimullah Hassan leaves shining legacy at NSTP
      717 11  -  Editor-in-chief puts zing back into declining firm By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur WHEN Malaysia's largest publishing group, the New Straits Times Press, bid to have Starhill's prospectus carried in its flagship newspaper recently, it approached the company's owners with an intriguing proposal.
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      Lock icon Suharto's half-brother given 4-year jail sentence
      293 11 Bloomberg [JAXARTAJ Indonesia's Supreme Court sentenced Probosutedjo, a half-brother of former president Suharto, to four years in prison and ordered him to pay 101 billion rupiah (Ssl7 million) after upholding his conviction for embezzling state funds, a prosecutor said. "We gave him a month
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon ONGC expects to win stake in Nigeria's Akpo field
      283 12 US$2b bid for deepwater development Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Oil Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India's state-run exploration company, expects to win a stake in an oil field off Nigeria, gaining foreign supplies needed to meet rising energy demand, people involved in the
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      Lock icon UK hedge fund amasses 18% of Link Reit: report
      512 12 Presence of TCI and other hedge funds could prove politically sensitive [HONG KONG] One of Europe's largest hedge funds has accumulated about 18 per cent of the publicly traded shares of Hong Kong's Link Real Estate Investment Trust, says a report
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      Lock icon IT'S NOT OVER TILL THE FAT GUY SINGS
      53 12 Reuters [HONG KONG]ltalian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti attending a news conference in Hong Kong on Wednesday. His concert there today is part of his round-the-world farewell tour. He said he plans to sing with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras again before he
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon CCB seeking MBS underwriters
        66 12 Reuters [BEIJING] China Construction Bank (CCB) said yesterday it was looking for underwriters for an upcoming offering of some US$37l million in mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which would be the first such issue in China. CCB had completed preparations for a long-awaited issue of three billion yuan
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      • Article
        Lock icon Xiamen Port to raise HK$1.2b in IPO
        57 12 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Xiamen International Port Co, one of two operators of China's seventh-largest container port, plans to raise as much as HK$l.2 billion (*****.5 million) in a Hong Kong IPO to expand as cargo volume rises. It plans to sell 858 million
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        Lock icon Malaysia hunts 50,000 illegal immigrants
        68 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia launched a hunt yesterday for some 50,000 illegal immigrants and overstaying foreign tourists, Bernama said. The crackdown comes as Malaysian police have come under fire for allegedly mistreating some visitors from China. "The prime minister has directed that we should trace
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        Lock icon Broadcom in talks with SemIndia
        58 12 Bloomberg [BANGALORE] Broadcom Corp, a maker of semiconductors used in consumer electronics, is in talks with Semlndia Inc to make its chips in India. "We've had initial discussions with them and we are very encouraged about them becoming a supplier for us here in India,"
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      Lock icon ICICI Bank's 70b rupee share sale 44% sold out on first day
      499 12 Received bids for 43.5 m shares at 545 rupees each Bloomberg [MUMBAI] ICICI Bank Ltd. India's biggest privately owned lender, received on the first day of a 70 billion rupee (552.6 billion) stock sale demand for almost 44
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    • Article
      Lock icon 5 Asian firms bid for US$100 laptop deal
      324 12 [TAIPEI] Four Taiwanese and one South Korean company are biddihg to manufacture the world's cheapest laptop computer, which is to be distributed to children in developing countries from next year, says a report in the Financial Times. The laptop, which will cost
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon S'pore-German economic ties set for growth
      505 13  -  PM Lee, Merkel discuss ways to deepen business cooperation From CHUANG PECK MING in Berlin SINGAPORE businesses can expect economic ties between Singapore and Germany to grow under the new German coalition government headed by Angela Merkel. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on
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      Lock icon Nikkei tops 15,000 mark for first time in 5 years
      344 13 Reuters [TOKYO] The Nikkei share average rose 1.74 per cent to close above 15,000 for the first time in five years yesterday as investors bought shipping and construction shares and others seen lagging the market's rally. Advantest Corp, the biggest
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      Lock icon FREMANTLE CALLING
      347 13  -  Round-the-World Yacht Race. Leg 3, Race 4, Day 4 Clipper Ventures The main news yesterday from the ocean was the overnight transfer of parts between Jersey and New York Clippers. New York had reported that an integral piece of their watermaker pump system had failed. In communication with
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      Lock icon Time to stop quarterly earnings reports: US business body chief
      486 13 LAT-WP (NEW YORK] US Chamber of Commerce president and chief executive Thomas Donohue on Wednesday called on all publidy traded companies to stop offering quarterly earnings guidance, saying such predictions create a damaging focus on "meaningless short-term performance" and undermine
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    • Article
      Lock icon US consumer spending up in Oct
      308 13 LATEST US DATA Reuters [WASHINGTON] US consumer spending rose 0.2 per cent in October, driving the personal saving rate into negative territory for the fifth straight month, while jobless claims fell last week, government reports showed yesterday. Personal income also rose in October, by
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        82 13 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Telstra Corp, Australia's biggest telephone company, won't build a planned high-speed Internet network unless the government changes "onerous and outdated" regulations to block rivals gaining access to the network. "You can't ask Telstra shareholders to invest in a new broadband network,
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        128 13 (BANGKOK! The Finance Ministry plans to amend the corporatisation law next year to refine the privatisation process for state enterprises, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday. Areepong Bhoocha-oom, the deputy director-general of the State Enterprise Policy Office, said changes would be aimed at
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        132 13 Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korea's Kospi index closed above 1,300 points for the first time, led by Samsung Electronics Co and Hynix Semiconductor Inc, after the country's exports rose to an all-time high. The Kospi added 8.54, or 0.66 per cent, to
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        115 13 Reuters [LONDON] Morgan Stanley said the chairman of its international business and veteran banker David Walker will retire at the end of this year and be replaced by Jonathan Chenevix-Trench. Mr Chenevix-Trench, a 21-year veteran of the bank, will be in
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        118 13 AFP [MELBOURNE] Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer outlined a vision for an Asian free trade bloc yesterday and said his country was intent on helping shape the emerging East Asian community. Mr Downer said negotiations being held by the 10-member Asean
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        76 13 AFP [TOKYO] Japan yesterday backed away from slapping a levy on hot-selling digital audio players dubbed the "iPod tax". A government panel decided against proposing a royalty on digital music devices such as Apple's phenomenally popular iPod, rebuffing calls from the recording industry to
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      771 14 Analysts split over whether cuts will make airline more competitive IHT [NEW YORK] Management experts are stunned by the layoffs announced late Wednesday by British Airways, saying that the airline is a big and a profitable one, earning U*****.5 million, last year. The company
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      512 14 Reuters [MONTREAL] Bombardier Inc posted a quarterly loss on Wednesday as job-cut costs at its railcar unit and a weaker regional aircraft market outweighed a 71 per cent surge in business jet deliveries. The world's top train maker and No 3 manufacturer of
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      280 14  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Cathay Pacific Airways said yesterday it has ordered 16 Boeing *****0ER (extended range) aircraft and has options for 20 more. The 16 aircraft will be delivered between September 2007 and July 2010. Cathay also said it will buy three A 330-300
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      225 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Delta Air Lines Inc, the No 3 US air carrier, said it had a net loss of US$l.l4 billion from Sept 15, the day after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, through Octo- < ber. The loss includes
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      133 14 AP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Far Eastern Air Transport Corp said on Wednesday that US-based American International Group Inc (AIG) plans to sell its 18 per cent stake in the airline. AIG, a shareholder since 1995. wants to sell its stake as it is
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      247 14 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will buy four A4OOM military planes from European aircraft manufacturer Airbus to further boost its existing fleet for the transport of cargo and troops, a report said yesterday. Negotiations between aircraft manufacturer Airbus Military SL, and the government
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      616 15  -  Industry must expect 'possible changes', especially with high fuel cost By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] While the near-term prospects remain positivfe, the shipping industry must prepare for a dampening effect as more newbuildings come on stream, warned the outgoing chairman of the Federation of
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      359 15 Reuters [LONDON! Dubai Ports World would most likely wait for P&O's struggling ferry arm to return to profitability before selling it, a top shipping consultant said on Wednesday. State-backed DP World agreed to buy UK ports and ferries group Peninsular and
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      289 15 SGX '000 dki a +i- vol CH Offshore 0.36 -0.01 216 ChuanHup 0.39 unch 5721 Cosco Corporation 2.33 -0.03 2809 CWT Distribution 0.81 -0.02 59 Ezra Hldgs 1.42 0.04 612 Freight Links 0.06 unch 14 Grand Banks Yacht 0.89 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 1.23 -0.01 757 K1 Venture
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      800 15  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR A TANKER that was converted in Singapore 10 years ago into a floating offshore oil production unit was at the centre of a recent decision in an Australian appeals tribunal on whether it fitted the definition of a
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      125 15 Berhama [NEW DELHI] Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) has invited investors to invest in the Malaysian free trade zone "to see your, business grow and. succeed in South-east Asia". In a half-page, advertisement in India's leading financial daily, the Economic Times, PKFZ says: "If
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      529 16 EDITORIAL IT was no surprise that the United States Treasury this week stopped short of labelling China as a currency manipulator, an act that could have triggered sanctions by Washington. In fact, this stance was already hinted at before President George W Bush had left
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      1153 16  -  Bridgewater had average annual returns of 13.3 per cent during the decade ended on Sept 3 By RICHARD TEITELBAUM Bloomberg ONE day in the early 1980s, a young trader named Ray Dalio placed a bet in the bond market. Then he reached for a
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      794 16  -  THE BOTTOM LINE PAUL SAMUELSON Tribune Media Services "TROUBLES come in threes." That's the old folk saying. For US President George W Bush's popularity at home and America's leadership abroad, troubles come in three times threes. Repeated hurricanes from the Caribbean might have been
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      1183 17  -  The ban on hormone-laden US beef imports by Europe and Japan is more than just a trade dispute it is a matter of health HARISH MEHTA THE world's biggest markets for beef are slamming the door shut in the face of American exporters
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      648 17  -  By JULIA SMITH WHEN it comes to communicating pay to employees one thing is abundantly clear most companies don't do it very well. In fact, a recent survey conducted by Hewitt Associates found that more than half of the HR professionals in Asia were not comfortable
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      397 17  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Audrey Ang, Lew Nam Mun WE refer to the article, "CPIB should clear air over Air Ocean" (BT, Nov 29), by Conrad Raj. In the article, Mr Raj said: "Far too often, the Commercial Affairs Department and the CPIB keep silent
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      602 25  - It's only words... off the cuff jaime ee ENGLISH is such a powerful language, you can twist it to mean anything you want. No one knows that better than Malaysian Deputy Internal Security Minister Noh Omar, who, in response to the uproar over a film clip showing a naked China
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      1482 25  -  Floral design may have come a long way, but those in the business hope it will be considered an art form, reports CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOOI WHEN Michelle Goh gets a project like the launch of a new collection at watch boutique Roger Dubuis' next week it takes
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  • EPICURE
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      227 26 THEY took you on a crash course of where to eat in Singapore. Now the authors of Life'.Eats have taken their fair share of Nice Bus rides across the Causeway and returned with a comprehensive collection of good eats in Malaysia. Straits
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      728 26  -  The food industry hopes to tap a new upscale market by uniting Tokyo's passions for eating and design, reports KAORI KANEKO KAORI KANEKO AFP I H I ITH your first M fl m course, eat the V m S m plates.
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      740 27  -  Biodynamic viticulture is rapidly catching on among vintners today. With all its virtues, however, it is not a winemaker's Holy Grail, says RANDY SEE RANDY SEE IT's a challenge trying to convince consumers how cow manure fermented in cow horn, buried over several winters in the
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      734 27  -  WINE 101 Understand the appellation system which is built based on villages By TOMMY LAM WHILE other parts of the world have no problems growing i Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, none has come close to > beating Burgundy. Nowhere in the world does a
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      716 27  -  By GEOFFREY EU "ANY man who drinks Dom Perignon '52 can't be all bad," says secret agent James Bond about an adversary in The Spy Who Loved Me and who can argue with that? Indeed, the prestige cuvee of Champagne house Moet Chandon
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      628 28  -  A History of Violence is a killer portrait of a man at odds with himself, says GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY El T first, David Crom\ nenberg's absorb- ing and unortho- dox new film A J History of Violence seems rela- tively clear cut: a couple of murderous thugs
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      690 28  -  By GEOFFREY EU CYNICS might be temDted to dismiss The History of Singapore, which was commissioned to mark the country's 40th anniversary, as a fea-ture-length party political message or at the very least, a slick highlight reel depicting the not-inconsiderable achievements of the People's
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      576 28  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR OKAY, so there's an admission that needs to be made upfront, let's just say it and get it out of the way. Chicken Little is one adorably cute little chicken to look at, with the nerdy green glasses, minute little
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      754 29  -  MUSIC S'pore-born pianist Melvyn Tan talks to MATTHEW PHAN about the works he will be performing at his homecoming concert MATTHEW PHAN Melvyn Tan is known as the Singa-pore-born critically acclaimed pianist, but the moment his picture was splashed across local newspapers when he was slapped with
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      490 29  -  MUSIC By CHEAH UI-HOON EVEN as Singaporeans were watching Rent's international touring cast from New York belt out the 10-year-old musical's famous Seasons of Love at Kallang Theatre last week, that tune was reverberating across America's silver screens as the $50 million movie version opened there
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      396 29  -  ART By MATTHEW PHAN BELIEF has been chosen as the theme for the Singapore Biennale 2006 that will open next September. In the context of a pluralist society, in which many certainties about history and culture are questioned, SB 2006 will itself
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