The Business Times, 9 December 2005

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Friday, December 9,2005
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  • Article
    Lock icon NOL payout whets market appetite for cash
    625 1  -  Among Temasek-linked companies, analysts see ST Engg, DBS as attractive candidates for returning cash to shareholders By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] The surprise capital reduction and special dividend by Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has turned market attention to other Temaseklinked companies (TLCs) that
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    Lock icon Top Orchard Turn bidder to go heavy on retail component
    797 1  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] The partnership that put in the bullish top bid of $1.38 billion for the plum Orchard Turn site yesterday i§ planning to go big on the retail component of its project. Capita Land group, Singapore's biggest
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      62 1 LONDON DEBUT Local media firm Peach Blossom lists on Ofex PG6 The man who i I masterminded London's successful Tomorrow in The Raffles Conversation tw busmss tmb I 1 Ask for your complimentary copy of BT at any SPC ■hl^^ UOOkDlm petrol station on Saturday if you make a minimum
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      261 1 CHRISTMAS MORE REPORTS, Pg 4 Initial excitement over NOL payout fizzles out An uncommon route to financing payout Commentary: why the tepid response J>. 4 >.'*&&»:•. -1..' .\m-~~. K <x :j -A- <; 1_~TT "~< *ir—ar. kw -xm' '<* J Y <..iu.. un* V -to w-»--.V-J^W—'V- /v ri* r j"
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      9 1 NKF Reserves to last only 6.7 years PG 2
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon NKF has reserves to last only 6.7 years
      815 2  -  Without further donations, coffers will be empty in just 4.5 years By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) does not haVe enough reserves to last beyond seven years, and if no further donations come in, the charity's coffers will be
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    • Article
      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      560 2 Freak sell order spooks Tokyo market A HUGE errant sell order by Japanese brokerage Mizuho Securities in newly listed shares of recruitment firm J-Com Co pushed down stocks of the country's top brokerages and banks yesterday. The ruckus was caused by a sell order for 600,000 shares—valued at
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      Lock icon Freak sell order spooks Tokyo market
      440 3 Nikkei stock average drops 1.95%, its worst loss in 2 months Reuters [TOKYO] A huge errant sell order by Japanese brokerage Mizuho Securities in newly-listed shares of recruitment firm J-Com Co pushed down stocks of the country's top brokerages and banks yesterday. The ruckus
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      Lock icon Execution won't affect SIA route decision: Howard
      275 3 Issue may not be decided 'for a little time yet', he says AP [SYDNEY] The execution by Singapore of an Australian drug smuggler will not affect Canberra's decision on whether to grant the citystate's airline access to a route between Australia and the
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      Lock icon Tiong Bahru to get boutique hotel aimed at China tourists
      470 3  -  By ARTHUR SIM [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Tourism Board (STB), which wants the number of hotel rooms here doubled by 2015, is leading the way by facilitating the development of a 288-room boutique hotel in Tiong Bahru. Two 50-year-old blocks of
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Initial excitement over NOL payout fizzles out
      525 4  -  NOL'S MONSTER PAYOUT Stock surrenders half of gain as market shrugs off distribution move By R SIVANITHY THE market yesterday delivered a thumbs-down to Neptune Orient Lines' proposed capital reduction, wiping out half the 36-cent gain that the stock made on Wednesday in
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      Lock icon NOL takes uncommon route in financing payout
      421 4  -  By TEH HOOI LING INCREASING borrowing for a cash distribution to shareholders as done by Neptune Orient Lines is far from a common practice. A poll of some of the veteran analysts to find out if they rememberftd any Singapore company which had
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      Lock icon NOL cashback: why the tepid response
      786 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By DONALD URQUHART IF pressed to put a description to the announcement by Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) on Wednesday that it would return $1.34 billion in cash to shareholders, "shock and awe" might be appropriate. While the cash distribution itself came
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      Lock icon Loss gush stops, but CAO still bleeding
      383 6  -  $7.3m net loss in nine months as revenue plummets from $2.2b to $13.3m By WONG WEI KONG CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) remained in the red in the first nine months of this year, following its staggering loss of $864.8 million in 2004 caused
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      Lock icon SIA entry of little benefit: Aussie study
      394 6  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN THE Australian economy could gain just A$ 10 million (5512.6 million) if Singapore Airlines was allowed to operate and compete against Qantas on the Australia-US transpacific route, according to a study conducted in Australia. The Australian daily reported yesterday that
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      Lock icon Local media firm makes debut on UK's Ofex
      258 6  -  By UMA SHANKARI SINGAPOREAN media company Peach Blossom Limited made its trading debut on the London Ofex public market yesterday, making it the first local company to do so. Peach Blossom issued 1.146 million shares at 20 pence each. The company said
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      Lock icon CapitaLand to double Bangkok projects
      173 6 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Capita Land Ltd, Singapore's biggest developer, will more than double its Bangkok property developments next year, with four more residential projects planned with Thai joint venture partner TCC Land Ltd, chief executive officer Liew Mun Leong said. TCC Capital Land Co, 40 per
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4362 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS C(ti Money Sing Dollar Class B 1.0875/ Cm Pan-Europe Equity Fifid 1.34 ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!" 0.862/ Jiff Star Europe Bond 1.206/ rJclJS !"i!i' Star Eurooe Bal 1 143/ CrtiSdect Global Growth 1-2W Star Asian Tiger Eqflf r __l -*****/ Fund T Star
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      Lock icon SingTel's Telkomsel faces growing rivalry
      511 7  -  But ST Telemedia's Indosat is more vulnerable, says Fitch Ratings By ANGELA TAN INDONESIA'S leading telcos, which include SingTel's 35-per-cent owned PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) and ST Telemedia's 42-per-cent owned PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat), will enjoy robust customer growth over the next two years, but
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      Lock icon Darco wins Taiwan deal worth $29.3m
      276 7  -  By MATTHEW PHAN CONTRACTS are flowing the way of Darco Water Technologies in Taiwan. Two weeks after winning a joint NT$l.66 billion (SsB4 million) municipal contract in which it has a $46.2 million share the Sesdaq-listed water-treat-ment company yesterday announced another deal worth NT$5BO
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon OCBC ups stake in Bank NISP to 72.29%
        65 7 OCBC Bank said yesterday that it has through wholly owned OCBC Overseas Investments raised its stake in Bank NISP from 70.74 per cent to 72.29 per cent, paying about 483 billion rupiah (S$82.5 million) for 643.9 million new shares in relation to
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        Lock icon SC Global in $7.8m share placement
        68 7 SC Global Developments said that it is raising $7.8 million from a proposed placement of 5.75 million new shares at $1.35 apiece to Mass Noble Ltd. a member of the Yawson Investment Group. The latter is a diversified real estate and financial investment group
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        Lock icon MCL appoints financial adviser
        38 7 RESIDENTIAL property developer MCL Land, whose shareholders are consideringa $647 million takeover bid from Hongkong Land, said yesterday that it has appointed CIMB-GK Securities as its independent financial adviser in connection with the offer.
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        Lock icon SGX signs $95m outsourcing deal
        39 7 SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) announced yesterday that it has signed a five-year contract, with a "nominal value of $95 million", with Hewlett-Packard Singapore (Sales) Pte Ltd to outsource its data centre and IT infrastructure services.
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        Lock icon Strong retail demand for Genting Int'l IPO
        78 7 RETAIL investors are placing their bets on Genting International, making the public offer tranche 13.8 times subscribed. More than 22,000 applications were received for the 50 million shares on offer, making it the highest number of applications this year for a non-Reit offering.
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      Lock icon Eyes on US$500m UOB is raising
      421 7  -  By LESLIE YEE THE market is keenly waiting to see what United Overseas Bank (UOB) will do with the US$5OO million (SsB4s million) it is raising from an issue of preference shares. The bank could buy back part of the 3.1 per cent stake
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      Lock icon Investors here get 20.5% of SP AustNet IPO
      263 7  -  By LESLIE YEE SINGAPORE investors have been allocated 20.5 per cent of the stapled securities in the initial public offering of Singapore Power's SP AusNet. A minimum of 15 per cent of the IPO was set aside for the Singapore offering. The
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Plunges in HK and Japan hit index
      473 8  -  STOCKS Shorts push the ST Index below 2,300 before it finishes the day at 2,305.71 R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent Short-sellers and intra-day scalpers would have had a field day yesterday, after a sudden 2 per cent loss for Japan's Nikkei Average and a
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Matthew International holds over 5% of Hyflux
        450 8 MATTHEW International Capital Management LLC has emerged as a substantial shareholder of Hyflux. Its deemed stake in the water-treatment company has risen from 4.94 per cent to 5.09 per cent following the purchase pn Monday of 790,000 shares at $2,674 each "for investment
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        Lock icon 2 Sarin shareholders sell a combined 4.5% stake
        86 8  -  Compiled by MICHELLE QUAH RECENT market debutant Sarin Technologies says two of its substantial shareholders have sold a total of 11.25 million shares in the company to three unnamed institutional fund managers. The 4.5-per-cent stake was sold by Sarin Research Development Ltd
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      413 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Dec 8 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -73.00 -110.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 -70.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -7.00 Ail-SG Equities 588.43 -1.57 SG Equities Elect 125.94 -1.70 SG Equities Fin 1694.07 -10.48 SG Equities Prop 703.36 +7.20 SIMSCI 272.51 -1.08 SiMSCi Futures 272.20 -1.30 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME Celestial
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      960 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Mobile One Dec 8 dose: 552.20 CIMB-GK RESEARCH, Dec 8 ACCORDING to Dow Jones, Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) will sign a co-operation agreement with Ml on Friday, quoting a PLDT spokesman. The tie-up will provide inexpensive cellular services to Filipinos in Singapore through
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      Lock icon Asian units shine as NZ$ and US$ fall
      530 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent FEARS that New Zealand's generous interest rates may have finally peaked hurt the currency badly, notwithstanding another as-expected 0.25 per cent rate hike yesterday morning, even as the US dol- lar slipped back from its overnight highs.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon LV Sands plans to tap China tourist market
      450 9  -  Company could focus on meetings and conventions segment to do so By ALEXANDRA HO CHINA holds the key to driving up Singapore's tourism numbers and Las Vegas Sands, a contender for the Marina Bay integrated resort (IR), hopes to unlock that potential
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      Lock icon Italian components maker to use S'pore for growth
      329 9  -  STORE'S MANUFACTURING DRAW By OH BOON PING AUTOMATION components maker Carlo Gavazzi Automation (CGA) wants to use its new Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore to help it sustain growth of 45 per cent in regional turnover. The Swiss-listed company is looking for a
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      Lock icon Progress in ExxonMobil's 2nd Jurong Island plant
      286 9  -  By MATTHEW PHAN EXXONMOBIL Chemical took another step towards confirming that it will build a second petrochemical cracking plant on Jurong Island, announcing yesterday that it had appointed a project executive and external contractor to do further feasibility studies. The proposal for the
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      Lock icon Reduced piracy an IT boost: BSA
      399 9  -  A 10-point cut in piracy rate adds US$lb to sector By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY A 10 percentage point reduction in Singapore's piracy rate of 42 per cent over four years would help boost the size of Singapore's information technology (IT) sector by nearly US$l
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      Lock icon SM Goh sends his condolences
      230 9 SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong has sent his deepest condolences to the late former president Devan Nair's son Janadas. In his letter, Mr Goh described how he has benefited from knowing and observing the late president, who died on Wednesday in Canada at the age
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Sensitive issues to be discussed at Asean summit
      472 11 Leaders will tackle oil prices, trade, pollution, bird flu Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Ten South-east Asian leaders are likely to discuss a range of sensitive issues at a summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) next Monday, from oil prices
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      Lock icon 2006 GDP growth could exceed 2005: forecasts
      440 11  -  Singapore's current expansion is likely to peak by end-March 2006 By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] The current expansion of the Singapore economy will likely peak by end-March 2006, if not by year-end, but GDP growth next year could well exceed 2005'5, according to one
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      Lock icon BOJ to keep rates low after shift from loose policy
      436 11 Reuters [NAGOYA, Japan] Chances of a policy shift by the Bank of Japan will increase next year, BOJ governor Toshihiko Fukui said yesterday, though he sought to placate concerns by saying the central bank will keep rates near zero after
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      Lock icon India, Brazil key to WTO deal: HK industry chief
      235 11 AFP [HONG KONG] India and Brazil, two of the biggest and fastest growing of the developing countries, may hold the key to a deal at crucial World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks here next week, the chair of the meeting said
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    • Article
      Lock icon Proton aims to drive up exports fivefold by 2008
      471 13 New MD says it will focus on Middle East, Africa, UK, Australia, Asean Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Proton Holdings Bhd, Malaysia's largest carmaker, said it aims to increase exports by more than fivefold by 2008 amid its declining share of South-east Asia's
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      Lock icon Indonesia expects 20% growth in exports
      198 13 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's exports should grow 20 per cent this year to US$B6 billion and rise further in 2006 by at least 15 per cent, the country's trade minister said yesterday. Mari Pangestu said the main contributors to the growth are exports <5f palm
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
      2354 13 VOl General Corp .0.41 0.01 71 P** M *>- fWO Genting 30.30 0.30 749 George Kent 0.59 unch 454 ASM Realty 1.47 unch 0 GHL Systems .0.10 unch 314 AbrK 031 001 43 Globetronks Tech .033 -0.01 1266 ACP Industries .0.65 unch 0 GlomacBhd .....1.09 -0.01 170 Advance
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      Lock icon MMC to buy 52% of Johor Port for RM427m
      270 13 It will later offer to buy the rest and delist it Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] MMC Corp, a Malaysian builder and engineering group controlled by Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary, agreed to buy his 52 per cent stake in Johor Port Bhd for RM427
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      Lock icon KL food firms bag RM5m orders
      265 13  -  Deals part of promotion tie-up between M'sian govt, Giant By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] Small Malaysian food companies have won RM5.2 million (552.3 million) worth of orders in a meeting with Singapore traders earlier this week, as part of a two-week affair to promote
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon M'sia buys four A400M planes
        31 13 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia signed a deal with Airbus SAS' military division yesterday to buy four A4OOM transport planes worth RM2.B billion (Ssl .2 billion). —AP
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        Lock icon TSMC posts record-high sales
        72 13 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co fTSMC), the world's largest contract maker of microchips, posted record-high sales for a third straight month in November, showing a 31 per cent rise from a year ago on strong pre-Christmas demand for electronics. It said November revenues came to
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        Lock icon Intel invests US$230m in Kulim
        64 13 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The chairman of Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, yesterday said the company will US$23O million in Malaysia as part of a three-year expansion plan. Mr Craig Barrett (above) said the project, which will see the creation of a development centre and an
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        Lock icon Macquarie Goodman to launch HK trust
        44 13 Reuters [HONG KONG] Australian property firm Macquarie Goodman Group yesterday signalled it would launch a property trust in Hong Kong in the first half of next year after it added another warehouse to its assets in the city.—Reuters
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      • Article
        Lock icon Prosperity Reit raises HK$l.9b in share sale
        43 13 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Prosperity Reit, owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd, raised HK$l.92 billion (Ss4l7 million) in the territory's second share sale by a property trust, the sale document showed. Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Pertamina stops LNG sales talks
        35 13 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Pertamina, Indonesia's state energy company, said it had temporarily halted talks on the extension of sales contracts with buyers of liquefied natural gas in western Japan. Bloomberg
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      • Article
        Lock icon Northern Lights oil may not go to China
        71 13 Reuters [HOUSTON] The participation of a subsidiary of Chinese oil major Sinopec in the Northern Lights oil sands project does not necessarily mean the eventual crude output will be destined for the Far East. The 100,000 barrels per day expected to emerge
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      561 13 >at^; NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER OF INET WORLDWIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS PTE LTD (R»giilralion No. *****0461 C) (In Member's Voluntary liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS [Pursuant to Section 290(2Kb)) An Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company deemed to hove been pursuant to Section
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      332 13 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PHOENIX MARITIME PTE. LTD. Co. Reg. No. *****6651E (IN MEMBER'S VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of PHOENIX MARITIME PTE. LTD., duly convened and held on 5 December 2005 ot 11.00 a.m.,
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      333 13 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF CROSBY PTE. LTD. (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) At an Extraordinary Genera] Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 6 Battery Road #13-01 Singapore *****9, on 5 December 2005 at 11.00 a.m., the
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon China takes a shine to Japanese cars
      263 14 [BEIJING] Japanese automakers held a 26.6 per cent share of the Chinese market in the January-October period, just 0.7 point shy of top-ranked Chinese producers, becoming the top foreign car supplier in the world's third-largest market for the first time ever, Japan's Nihon
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      Lock icon Merrill's India move sparks hopes of rival purchases
      403 14 Shares with links to Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sach jump more than 5% Reuters [MUMBAI] Merrill Lynch's decision to pay about US$5OO million for control of its Indian joint venture, DSP Merrill Lynch Ltd, has raised investors' hopes that US rivals might follow
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      Lock icon WHO'S CHICKEN NOW?
      69 14 IHONG KONG] A protester, part of a small demonstration by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), urging people to stop eating chicken and accusing the poultry industry of spreading birdflu. "Avian flu comes from farming animals forfood, "said Andrew Butler, campaign coordinator for Peta?"As long
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      Lock icon CSFB to reenter Indian equities
      149 14 Reuters (LONDON] Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is to resume operations in India's securities market more than three years alter it was suspended by the country's stock market regulator, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The investment bank will reopen its Indian equity trading and brokerage
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      Lock icon CNOOC interested in Yukos' assets
      461 14 Reuters [SHANGHAI] CNOOC Ltd, China's top offshore oil producer, is interested in the assets of Russian oil group Yukos, state media reported yesterday. Chief executive Fu Chengyu said that any potential deal would depend on government cooperation, because of the uncertainties of investing in Russia's
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      1872 14 NOTICES T(ill Irc-t: Lm.|« iltttm?:, iHi'tUUsii I IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND INFOSPEED PTE LTD (Company No. 200I*****N) Al an Extraordinary General Meeting of INFOSPEED PTE LTD held on S December 2005, the following Special Resolution was passed WINDING-UP AND APPOINTMENT OF LIQUIDATORS That the
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      423 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER OF J.DIRECT VENTURE PTE LTD Rag. No. *****4196R (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 3 Irving Road, #05-03 Irving Industrial Building, Singapore
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      339 14 In The Matter Of The Companies Act, Cap. 50 And In The Matter Of GOLDEN YESLINES PTE LTD R»g. No. *****2713W NOTICE OF CREDITORS' MEETING PURSUANT TO SECTION 296 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 296 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50,
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Japan stocks slump on rate jitters, yen rebound
      582 15  -  Central bank governor says easy monetary policy 'near an end' By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo TOKYO shares fell sharply yesterday after Bank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui said that the central bank's commitment to a su-per-easy monetary policy was "near an end".
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      201 15 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The number of US workers filing new jobless claims last week rose unexpectedly by 6,000, the government said yesterday, but a more reliable barometer of labour trends fell for the second straight week. Initial claims for state unemployment insurance benefits climbed
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        92 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Microsoft expects advertising to become its fastest-growing consumer business as the company targets a larger slice of Internet searches from Google Inc and Yahoo! Inc. The world's largest software maker is looking at how it can bring ads into
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        102 15 AP [LONDON] Richard Branson said yesterday he is confident that NTL Inc will come up with an acceptable offer for Virgin Mobile Holdings, which rejected a first takeover bid valued at more than £810 million (552.4 billion). "My gut feeling is NTL
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        81 15 AP [INDIANAPOLIS] Heart device maker Guidant Corp said on Wednesday its board has decided to hold discussions with Boston Scientific Corp about its US$25 billion offer for the company, which seeks to undo a standing, but lower, deal with Johnson
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        82 15 NYT [DETROIT] General Motors said on Wednesday that it was holding discussions with the investment firm run by its biggest shareholder, Kirk Kerkorian, about board representation for his company. It was not clear how many seats Mr Kerkorian's company. Tracinda Corp, was
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      501 16 Reuters [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd, the world's eighth-big-gest passenger airline by market value, has delayed a decision on a fleet renewal plan, but it approved an international expansion for its discount carrier Jetstar. Qantas yesterday said that its board would hold a special
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      302 16 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, a six-month old carrier formed by India's biggest brewery, said it's valuing the country's third-largest domestic airline Sahara Airlines Ltd at 53 per cent less than the floor price recommended by an adviser. Kingfisher has
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      287 16 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korean Air Lines Co, South Korea's largest carrier, cancelled more than half of its scheduled flights yesterday as pilots refused to fly, demanding higher wages. Korean Air cancelled 30 international flights out of 154 with about 77 per cent of its
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      516 16  -  Plansfor 85 aircraft by 2009, says chief executive By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] India's Jet Airways is buying a whole fleet of new aircraft to help it with an aggressive increase in the routes it flies. The airline's chief operating officer,
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      102 17 Xinhua [BEIJING] Shanghai is expected to become world's largest freight port at the e*d of this year, according to materials provided by the Ministry of Commerce. During the January to November period this year, the throughput at Shanghai port totaled 404 million tons, up 16.6
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      302 17 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China Shipping (Group) Co. China's second-largest shipowner, will pay as much as HK$lB5 million (5540.2 million) for a 5 per cent stake in Xiamen International Port Co. which operates the country's seventh-largest container port. China Shipping agreed to
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      711 17  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR NFITHFR general maritime law nor US legislation precludes a shipowner from suing a seaman employed as a mate on its vessel for negligently causing damage to the vessel, a US appeals court ruled last week. The
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      283 17 AP [BRUSSELS] About 45 billion euros (SsB9 billion) needs to be spent improving transport links between the European Union and neighbouring countries to enhance international trade, a group of experts said on Wednesday in a report for the European Commission. The group recommended
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      327 19  -  Jonathan Gressel Agricultural Counselor US Embassy, Singapore I write to correct the information conveyed in Harish Mehta's Dec 2 article "US Beef Unsafe? It's Not Just Bull". His article reflects a particular perspective and does not incorporate the readily available lnformation that reftites his. claims. Mr
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      584 27  -  off the cuff jaime ee DEAR Famous Pianists and all other draft dodgers, It has come to my attention that there are several of you who might be trying to come back to Singapore and thought your biggest obstacle was the government. Now, you know this to
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      1841 28 Gifts to make you go 'wow' Yes, we want peace on earth, goodwill to all men and more time for friends and family. But we also want the latest Xbox (tough, unless you were one of the lucky few who snagged one over the Internet),
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      584 30  -  VEN SREENIVASAN on some of the latest products in the market that are bound to improve your style, if not your game VEIN SREENIVASAN JV XlB Driver: The composite crown lowers the centre of gravity and enhances the ball trajectory. Callaway's SP7OO Hot Face
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      196 32  -  ROLAND LIM and CHRISTOPHER LIM line up some of the ROLAND LIM, CHRISTOPHER LIM MORE THAN JUST A PHONE If you want a mobile phone that screams "designer", look no further than Vertu's Signature Diamond Platinum. For $62,000. you'll get a work of art set with a
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      223 33 hottest gadgets available. And find out from people in the industry what they hope to find under the Christmas tree BE THE IPOD DJ If you're an iPod owner, Numark's new iDJ could be the ideal outlet for your fantasies of being a big-time disc jockey. The
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      557 33 Terry Clontz, chief executive officer, Star Hub 'When I am travelling, I would still be able to watch some of the Star Hub TV channels on my laptop in any hotel room if 1 had the Slingbox Personal Broadcaster (about US$25O). It is a small box
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      317 34 I am very keen to give my son George a set of real golf clubs, the trouble is that he is only 18 months old and perhaps isn't quite ready for them! My wife Annabel fell in love with a beautiful Vietnamese painting by Hoang
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      1076 36  -  It's an old favourite that stays evergreen: books as year-end gifts, especially coffee-table and hardback books. In other words, books that are beautiful to have and keep as objects in themselves, but also represent a guilty pleasure that you'd prefer to receive as a gift than
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      849 37  -  There is a range of excellent red and white wines to match your Christmas dinner, even if you are serving spicy dishes, says N K YONG N K YONG PLANNING the wines for dinner is always a pleasure. Champagne is a natural choice for a starter. At one
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      552 37  -  MUSICAL By CHEAH UI-HOON HAVING gotten the formula right for its past two Christmas pantomimes the exaggerated localisation of a foreign play, improvised comedy, cross-dressing actors, satire, slapstick and double entendres Wild Rice confidently takes the pantomime beyond mere entertainment with a more
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