The Business Times, 14 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 Wednesday, December 14,2005
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    Lock icon En bloc sales hit 5-year high of $1.9b
    811 1  -  But rapidly rising price expectations among owners could dampen market next year By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] With just two weeks to go before year's end, the value of collective property sales done so far has hit $1.9 billion. This is more than
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    135 1 Dsn 2.323.97 (743) ST INDEX FUTURES 2.325.00 (-8.00) simso 274.79 (-0.23) SIMSO FUTURES 275.40 (-0.70) MARKETS Tuesday Change KLSECOMP 898.27 +1.26 NIKKEI 225 15,778.86 +40.16 HANG SENG 14.942.62 -41.78 SET INDEX 693.48 -4.26 JAKARTA COMP 1,182.03 +7.02 MANILA COMP 2,099.04 -2.36 SEOUL COMP 1,336.48 +3.25 SHENZHEN B 190.85
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    Lock icon Asean, S Korea to phase in FTA next year
    760 1  -  ASEAN SUMMIT But talks with India, Japan need to be stepped up: leaders By NANDE KHIN in Kuala Lumpur ASEAN's relations with two of its dialogue partners South Korea and Russia got a boost yesterday with the signing of three pacts.
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon China scraps capital gains tax on foreign investors
      450 2 Move applies to those who trade yuan shares, bonds Bloomberg [BEIJING] China scrapped the capital gains tax on foreign investors in the nation's local-currency securities, the latest attempt to revive stock markets that have lost more than half their value in the
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      Lock icon WTO chief opens talks with call to take risks
      741 2  -  WTO SUMMIT Expectations of success are low as groupings dig in their heels By ANNA TEO in Hong Kong AMID the sound and fury from protesters, the World Trade Organization's sixth ministerial conference got underway yesterday with its chief urging trade
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      447 2 Social safeguards attract bulk of feedback views MAKE changes to the casino entry levy for Singaporeans, impose limits on the amount they can gamble and prohibit automated-teller machines in integrated resorts, not just in the casinos. These were among the 60 responses submitted on the draft Casino Control
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      Lock icon From spark of an idea to done deal in 90 days
      609 3  -  HARRAH'S-KEPPEL DEAL WITH SUNTEC SINGAPORE By ALEXANDRA HO [SINGAPORE] Ninety days was all it took for the Harrah's Entertainment and Keppel Land consortium to conclude an exclusive agreement with Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. Besides cooperating to
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      Lock icon Social safeguards dominate feedback views
      557 3  -  CASINO CONTROL BILL Ministry says it will consider the various views in final draft By ALEXANDRA HO [SINGAPORE] Make changes to the casino entry levy for Singaporeans, impose limits on the amount Singaporeans can gamble and prohibit automatedteller machines in integrated resorts (IRs), not just
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon CAO equity revamp plan set to be approved
      567 4  -  FOCUS ON CAO RESCUE Parent CAOHC, with about 60% stake, says it intends to vote for proposal By WONG WEI KONG, MICHELLE QUAH THE equity restructuring plan proposed by China Aviation Oil (Singapore) is expected to sail through the extraordinary general meeting
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      Lock icon Should CAOHC vote on CAO's future?
      605 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By MICHELLE QUAH THE situation of China Aviation Oil (CAO) has thrown up an interesting poser: should its parent company and controlling shareholder be allowed to vote in favour of its restructuring, thereby securing the best possible future for CAO, even
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      Lock icon Biosensors sued in Europe for patent infringement
      239 4 HEART stent maker Biosensors International said yesterday it is being sued in the Netherlands for patent infringement by US-based Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC) and Canadian company Angiotech Pharmaceuticals. In a statement, Biosensors said that BSC and Angiotech allege that Biosensors' Axxion Stent infringes
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      Lock icon Bond deal trims UOB's UOL stake further
      407 4  -  By SIOW LI SEN WITH the clock ticking on its divestment schedule, United Overseas Bank continues to deliver shares in associate United Overseas Land (UOL) to bondholders. In a filing to the Singapore Exchange yesterday, property company UOL said UOB has reduced its
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      Lock icon Ascott Group buys over Ascott Beijing
      284 4 THE Ascott Group, which owns 30 per cent of The Ascott Beijing Beijing's largest top-end service residence has acquired the remaining 70 per cent stake from a GIC Real Estate affiliate company. And as part of its growth plan in China, the service residence
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      Lock icon Poor take-up kills Chasen listing
      317 6  -  IPO WATCH Offer's undersubscription sees share spread falling short By SIOW LI SEN THE initial public offer by Chasen Logistics has been undersubscribed the latest victim of IPO weariness as investors turn their backs on company flotations. Chasen, a company which specialises in precision relocation
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      Lock icon UBS, DBS units take up chunks of SP AusNet IPO
      271 6  -  By LESLIE YEE UNITS related to two of the underwriters of the mega initial public offering of Singapore Power's SP AusNet ÜBS and DBS Bank have shown strong support for the IPO. The offering of 1.025 billion securities raised A
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      Lock icon Reits hold steady despite Miref's IPO move
      636 6  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By LESLIE YEE INVESTORS in real estate investment trusts (Reits) appear unfazed by the announcement on Monday that the $676 million initial public offering (IPO) of Macquarie International Real Estate Fund (Miref) is being postponed because of factors including "concerns over
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      Lock icon Popular Holdings' Q2 net profit plunges 64.1 %
      266 6 Popular Holdings' Q2 net profit plunges 64.1 PUBLISHING and education group Popular Holdings posted a 64.1 per cent fall in net profit to $1.1 million for its second quarter ended Oct 31, from $3 million in the corresponding period previously. The profit plunge was despite a marginal 2.3 per cent
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      Lock icon SingTel plans to target youths, foreigners
      489 7  -  Move to widen its reach to help offset fall in mobile subscriber base By ANGELA TAN SINGAPORE Telecommunications plans to target young people and foreigners to help offset the decline in its mobile subscriber base, Lim Chuan Poh, chief executive officer of Sing Tel
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      Lock icon STET awarded $2.3m Qatar security contract
      281 7  -  By LEE KIM SIANG SINGAPORE Technologies (ST) Electronics* subsidiary, ST Education Training (STET), has been awarded a $2.3 million contract to provide homeland security consultancy services to the Qatar Security Service Company (QSSC-Himaya). QSSC-Himaya is a stateowned company that is responsible for all security
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Autron secures contract extension
        117 7 HANGZHOU Eastcom Cellular Phone Co Ltd (HECP) has extended its equipment management facility agreement with Autron Corporation Ltd following the completion of a previous agreement. The new three-year contract, worth another US$2O million, expires in November 2008. "The earlier agreement worth US$2O million, which was intended
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        Lock icon Fire at factory of GP Batteries-linked unit
        111 7 GP BATTERIES International has announced that the factory of its 49 per cent-owned associated company, Ningbo GP Sanyo Energy Co Ltd in Ningbo, China, caught fire on Dec 9. The fire was put out within three hours, according to the company. There were
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        Lock icon MediaRing acquires Indon VoIP company
        98 7 MAINBOARD-LISTED Mediaßing said yesterday that it has, together with an Indonesian partner, signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire 100 per cent of PT Atlasat Solusindo, a licensed Indonesian VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service provider. Under the agreement, Mediaßing will acquire 95 per
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      Lock icon Frontline wins $6m govt firewall deal
      223 7  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has awarded a $6 million contract to Frontline Solutions to deploy and manage desktop firewall solutions for the public sector. Cafe, short for Centrally Administered Desktop Firewall project, is one of the largest
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      Lock icon UFS chalks up initial win in Borneo pulp mill battle
      316 7 [JAKARTA/HONG KONG] Singapore-listed United Fiber System has signed the outlines of a takeover deal with the owners of a controversial Borneo pulp mill, scoring a victory over rival suitor JPMorgan, the Financial Times quoted people close to the discussions as
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      266 7 v International Enterprise Forum (IE Forum) is Asia's premier event on internationalisation that brings together today's most respected thought leaders and entrepreneurs to shed light on the strategy of bringing local businesses to the world. IE Forum 06 will feature international business guru Ram Charan, co-author of the best selling
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon December may become quite ugly for the US$
      892 8  -  CURRENCIES Key round-number supports for the currency have come under fire LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent IT'S that time of the year when thin trading and poor liquidity can make for volatile currencies, and an unsavoury combination of factors could find the US
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Lee Kim Tah Investments ups stake In Lee Kim Tah Hldgs
        411 8 THE controlling shareholder of Lee Kim Tah Holdings. Lee Kim Tah Investments Pte Ltd. has increased its direct stake in the construction company through an open market jyufchase of 135,000 shares a| about 86.4 cents apiece. This raised the
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        Lock icon TTL Holdings' substantial owner cuts deemed holding
        64 8  -  Compiled by AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY SUBSTANTIAL shareholder of plastic injection moulding company TTL Holdings, Tan Boon Tiong Tan BqnJion4 has reduced his deemed interest in the company from 13.8 per cent to 5.69 per cent through a series of married sales on Monday.
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      442 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Dec 13 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 32.00 +60.00 BTCAPt -*****.00 -33.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +3.00 All-SG Equities 592.59 -0.30 SG Equities Elect 127.53 -0.38 SG Equities Fin 1711.00 +5.53 SG Equities Prop 704.43 -0.19 SIMSCI 274.79 -0.23 SiMSCI Futures 275.40 -0.70 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME Gen
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      248 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Singapore Exchange Dec 13 close: $2.78 CIMB-GK RESEARCH. Dec 13 WE are raising our EPS estimates by 9-15 per cent, on higher market volume assumptions. Market volumes in 2Q06 remain fairly strong. With a buoyant market, we have raised our FYO6 daily market volume
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      Lock icon Waiting for the FOMC meeting
      407 8  -  STOCKS Lethargic market reflects the absence oftradeable themes R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent WITH a thirteenth consecutive US interest rate hike looming and given an absence of tradeable themes currently in the market, it probably came as little surprise that the Straits Times Index yesterday surrendered
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      Lock icon STI holds steady despite current lull in trading activity
      200 8  -  CHART POINT By YEO KEE YAN, chartist at Kelive Research WITH market players paring down ahead of the holiday season, trading activity in the first two weeks of December has been slow. However, despite the current lull in volume activity, the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Wee Cho Yaw firms top en bloc deals
      1054 9  -  They account for $485m or 25% of $1.9b in collective sales this year By KALPANA RASHIWALA COMPANIES in the stable of United Overseas Bank chairman Wee Cho Yaw have been the biggest buyers of collective sale sites this year. United Overseas Land,
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon S'porean wins Martell Elite award
        77 9 SINGAPOREAN photographer Russel Wong has been named as one of the five Martel] Elite of the Year which recognises qualities such as discernment, the pursuit of the best quality in life and the innovative vision to achieve great things. The other winners are designer Alan
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        Lock icon Pay utility bills at 7-Eleven stores
        44 9 IN a joint initiative by SP Services and 7-Eleven, starting from yesterday customers will be able to pay their SP Services utility bills using cash, Nets or cashcard at any of the more than 300 7-Eleven stores islandwide.
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      Lock icon Asian companies set to go global in next few years
      545 10  -  They will operate beyond Asia in North America and Europe By CONRAD TAN THE next two to three years will see the rise of Asian companies that are truly global, some business strategy gurus believe. These companies will operate not
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      Lock icon UK marine SMEs looking to S'pore for partners
      222 10  -  By UMA SHANKARI SMEs that make oil and gas equipment should cash in on the strong marine industry worldwide, says government agency Spring Singapore. The director of Spring's transport, logistics and environmental engineering division, Victor Tay, said at a networking session yesterday
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      Lock icon Oct retail sales seen up on car sales, tourist spending
      402 10 Reuters SINGAPORE retail sales probably rose in October from September, due to higher car sales and increased spending by tourists, a poll showed yesterday. The median estimate of six economists was for the retail sales index, due to be released
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon China's economy understated
      503 11 Census discovers understatement of US$300 billion [BEIJING] China's booming economy, already the seventh largest in the world, has been understated by as much as US$3OO billion, the country's first nationwide economic census has discovered, says a report in the South China Morning Post. The sum, equal to
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      Lock icon Fed set to raise rates but intensify debate over tightening
      376 11 AFP [WASHINGTON] The Federal Reserve was expected to lift US interest rates for the 13th time running at its meeting yesterday, but debate about when to call a halt to the tightening campaign is reaching a climax. The meeting of
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      Lock icon Tankan to show rising business confidence
      444 11 Strong domestic demand helping to boost economy AFP [TOKYOJ A key survey of Japanese business confidence is expected today to show rising corporate optimism as robust domestic demand helps haul the world's No 2 economy out of a decade-long quagmire. With the Tokyo stockmarket
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Malaysia inks diverse trade accord with Japan
      502 12  -  Malaysia's first ever trade pact offers preferential market access By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA has formed its first-ever irade pact with another country Japan. Malaysia and Japan yesterday signed a wide-ranging Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) which promises to boost bilateral trade
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      Lock icon M'sia to offer incentives to biodiesel sector
      415 12 It plans to build 12 plants, the first to be ready in 2007 [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will announce several incentives for the biodiesel sector this month, Malaysia's Business Times reported Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Peter Chin as saying on Monday. He said
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      Lock icon Indon investigator in bank graft probe becomes a suspect
      205 12 AP [JAKARTA] A former Indonesian chief detective who led a probe into massive corruption at a state-owned bank was yesterday formally named a criminal suspect in connection with the investigation. TWo other senior officers who worked the case were also declared
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon Burson-Marsteller buys India's Genesis
        62 12 Reuters [MUMBAI] Public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, a subsidiary of WPP Group pic, on Monday said it had acquired Indian public relation firm Genesis. Genesis, with 200 employees, has a nationwide network and handles a variety of clients across sectors. The new company will be named Genesis/Burson-Marsteller,
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        Lock icon China cuts import tariffs on 100 items
        72 12 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China will cut import tariffs on over 100 items, including vegetable oils, chemical raw materials, vehicles an(J automotive parts, from Jan 1, the finance ministry said yesterday, to better align the country with world markets. From next year, exports of textiles
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        Lock icon IMF sees 6-7% growth for Indonesia
        82 12 Reuters {JAKARTA] Indonesia's economy could sustain annual growth of 6-7 per cent in the medium term, a senior official of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. Stephen Schwartz, IMF senior resident representative, also said {he annual inflation rate should be around 8 per cent
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        Lock icon Indian software firm taps Japan market
        63 12 Reuters [MUMBAI] Indian software services firm HCL Technologies Ltd said yesterday it had entered into a five-year agreement with EXA Corporation, enabling it to tap into Japan's estimated US$lOO billion systems integration market. EXA, a joint venture between IBM Japan and leading Japanese steel
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        Lock icon India tax dept seeks bids from consultants
        65 12 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's income tax department is seeking bids from consultants for advice on how to reorganise itself and improve compliance and collections. The department is "initiating a business process reengineering project which would involve fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of existing
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        Lock icon Sime to sell RM300m of Islamic bonds
        67 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Sime Darby, Malaysia's biggest diversified group, plans to sell RM3OO million (Ssl 33 million) of Islamic bonds to fund acquisitions, according to an e-mail from one of the arrangers. The group will sell securities maturing in four years, priced to
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon India seeks funds from state firms
      366 13 Money may be used to revive sick public sector units Bloomberg INEW DELHI] India's government is seeking special dividends from profitable state-run companies that have surplus cash, a part of which may be used to revive "sick" public sector units, Finance Minister P Chidambaram
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      Lock icon Pharmaceutical MNCs swaying to Indian patent piper's tunes
      494 13  -  INDIA INSIGHT ASHOK KUMAR In Mumbai PHARMACEUTICAL multinational companies (MNCs) are caught up in a dead-heat race to land and set up operations in India first. The primary trigger for this is the change in the country's patent laws. The Indian media
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      Lock icon KL offers to invest RM10b on roads and ports in India
      183 13 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Malaysia has offered to invest RMIO billion (554.46 billion) in Indian roads, ports and other infrastructure, a top Indian diplomat said. The offer was made by Malaysian Works Minister Samy Vellu during discussions between Indian Prime
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      Lock icon Merrill Lynch raises 89b yen for Indian equity fund
      255 13 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Merrill Lynch Investment Managers Co raised 89.3 billion yen (551.24 billion) for an Indian stock fund tailored for Japanese clients, raising the most amount of money this year among the nation's mutual funds. Daiwa Securities Group Inc, Japan's second-largest
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Brace for stronger yuan, Chinese firms told
      700 14 Renminbi will rise in next 1-2 years: central bank adviser Reuters. AFP [BKIJING] An adviser to China's central bank said yesterday that Chinese firms should get ready for a strengthening of the yuan. "My suggestion is that companies make preparations for an appreciation
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      Lock icon China admits huge losses from bad copper bets
      272 14 AFP [BEIJING] Speculative copper trading involving a Chinese government body has caused heavy losses, the nation's top banking regulator said in comments reported yesterday. Speaking at a finance seminar in Beijing on Monday, China Banking Regulatory Commission chairman Liu Mingkang included China's
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      Lock icon Shanghai Pharma to sell stake: FT
      127 14 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Group, one of the biggest companies in China's US$lO billion drugs industry, wants to sell a large stake to foreign buyers to raise capital for expansion and stave off competition, the Financial Times reported. The state-owned firm has held preliminary
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      Lock icon China has no timetable to resume IPOs
      460 14 Domestic investors' lack of confidence cited as snag Reuters [SHANGHAI] China has no time frame for resuming initial public offerings on its primary bourses, state media said yesterday, citing the country's top securities regulator. "There is no timetable," Shang Fulin, chairman of the
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      Lock icon CNOOC denies report on its interest in Yukos
      241 14 Reuters [BEIJING] Chinese offshore oil and gas firm CNOOC denied that its general manager had said that the company was interested in the assets of Russian oil group Yukos, as reported by the Shanghai Securities News last week. Fu Chengyu had not
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      521 15 No 3 US energy company makes big gamble on future of natural gas AP. Reuters [HOUSTON] ConocoPhillips Co, the third biggest US energy company, will acquire oil and gas producer Burlington Resources Inc, in a deal worth U5535.6 billion, the Houston-based companies announced on
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      408 15 LATEST US DATA Bloomberg [WASHINGTON! US retail sales rose last month as automobile purchases rebounded and cheaper petrol buoyed consumer confidence and left people with more money to spend on holiday gifts. The 0.3 per cent rise matched the increase in
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      540 15 Downgrading sends US auto giant's shares, bonds lower Reuters [NEW YORK] A bankruptcy by General Motors Corp (GM) is not "far-fetched" if present trends at the company persist, Standard Poor's said on Monday, shortly after cutting the world's largest automaker's ratings deeper into junk territory.
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      373 15  -  CUPPER RACE WEEKLY ROUNDUP By BT journalist and sailor Vincent Wee On board Uniquely Singapore THE dawn race position schedule yesterday brought bad news, with die Uniquely Singapore Clipper dropping down to ninth place. Not that it was totally unexpected, as we have gradually
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      371 15 Reuters [LONDON] The London Stock Exchange's (LSE) biggest shareholder has bought shares in the exchange at 615 pence 35 pence higher than a takeover proposal from Australia's Macquarie Bank values the company. Threadneedle Asset Management bought the 295,981 shares on Friday, according to
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      228 15 AFP. AP [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family are the richest shareholders in the kingdom's stock market. Their shares are worth 33.2 billion baht (551.35 billion), a survey showed yesterday. The family of Thaksin Shinawatra, who built a telecommunications empire before entering politics,
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        81 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Bain Capital and two investment firms have agreed to buy Pernod Ricard SA's restaurant business, including Dunkin' Donuts, for U552.43 billion and will expand to take on Starbucks Corp. The buyout firm will acquire Dunkin' Brands Inc with Carlyle Group and
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        79 15 AFP [MOSCOW] Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered the top post at the Rosneft oil company to former US commerce secretary Donald Evans ahead of the firm's partial privatisation on the stock market, the Kotnmersant newspaper said yesterday. Mr Evans, who served in President George
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        110 15 Reuters [LONDON] Royal Dutch Shell pic is having to raise its annual investment by at least US$4 billion in 2006 and in the years following as costs soar and the firm tries to turn round its industry-lagging record for finding new oil, the company
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        92 15 Reuters [LONDON] British telecoms operator BT Group pic said yesterday that it would become Italian carmaker Fiat's global telecommunications provider in a contract worth 450 million euros (Ss9oomillion) over five years. BT also said that it had purchased Fiat's Italian telecommunications firm Atlanet
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        35 15 AFP [ISTANBUL] British telecommunications giant Vodafone made the highest bid of U554.55 billion in a hotly contested televised auction yesterday for Telsim, the second-biggest Turkish mobile telephone operator. —AFP
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        70 15 Reuters [OSLO] Norwegian oil driller Smedvig's main owners have sold a 28.9 per cent stake in the company to US oilfield services group Noble Corporation in a deal worth about U*****.7 million, the firms said yesterday. Peter Smedvig and family sold almost 21.1 million series-A
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      476 16 Searching for explosives should be the priority, says top official Reuters [WASHINGTON] A top United States security official acknowledged on Monday that small scissors and screwdrivers can be used as weapons aboard aircraft but defended the government's decision to again permit
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      376 16 In talks with Laos but yet to discuss with Myanmar Bernama [JAKARTA] Low-cost airline Air Asia plans to expand its services to Laos and Myanmar as soon as it gets approval from the two governments, says its group chief executive officer, Tony
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      290 16 AFP [NEW DELHI] As many as 11 pilots, citing concerns over the safety of ageing planes, have resigned in the last two months from Indian Airlines budget arm, Alliance Air, a news report said on Monday. The Times of India
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      311 16 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's top airline. Korean Air Co, resumed full flight services yesterday after the government ordered at the weekend its unionised pilots to end a four-day strike and return to work. All cargo and passenger flights for both domestic and
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      270 16 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, the world's fourth-largest air freight carrier. is considering building its own cargo terminal at Hong Kong's airport as rising global trade increases the movement of goods. The Hong Kong-based airline, which derives about 25 per cent of
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  • SHIPPING
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      403 17 Imbalance will drive down global freight rates for commodities Reuters [LONDON] China's growth in demand.for seaborne commodities is likely to be only a ninth of new ship capacity coming on stream in the next two years according to a top analyst,
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      201 17 [SINGAPORE] PSA International handled 8.4 per cent more containers in Singapore in the first 11 months this year from a year earlier, bolstered by increased global trade. The container terminal operator handled 20.37 million 20-foot standard containers at its Singapore terminals in January
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      604 17 Asbestos-riddled French ship a health hazard they say AFP [TOULON, France] A lone Greenpeace activist was camped out aboard a decommissioned French aircraft carrier early yesterday after a larger protest against plans to send the asbestos-riddled ship to India for scrapping, the environmental group said. Originally
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      827 17  -  STRAIT TALK By DAVID HUGHES WITHOUT the shipping industry, world trade would simply not happen. The vast majority of world trade is carried on ships. The industry is global, worth billions, and an employer of labour around the world. So that means
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      397 17 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Road Builder (M) Holdings Bhd expects its port division to spearhead the group's growth in the next three years, riding on several major developments on its Kemaman Port, the company's managing director, Low Keng Kok, said last week. "Prospects
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      156 17 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hutchison Whampoa Ltd's port operating arm, Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), said yesterday it will buy a majority stake in a container terminal in Spain, in its third port acquisition in less than five weeks. HPH said it has signed an agreement
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      514 18 EDITORIAL IN a way, it is probably just as well that there are low expectations for what is likely to be achieved at the ongoing WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. This means that relatively small gains would keep alive hopes
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      1029 18  -  ADB-driven regional integration has been accepted by most Asian governments ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent WHEN Haruhiko Kuroda became president of the Development Bank (ADB) earlier this announced his intention to set up an Office of Regional Economic Integration, the response in some quarters was
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      839 19  -  They need to strengthen and deepen their strategic partnership in all fields By TOMMY KOH, RODOLFO SEVERINO, JUSUF WANANDI THE leaders of China and the 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) are holding a summit meeting today in Kuala Lumpur. A report by
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      869 19  -  Investors betting on carmaker's sale of finance arm need strong constitution By MARK GILBERT Bloomberg AUTO accessory for sale, the advertisement might read. "One careless owner. Price reduced. Please call Rick Wagoner at 1-800-FIRE-SALE." General Motors Corp seems to be struggling to sell General Motors
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      700 19  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lim CFA, Singapore THE current proposal by NOL management to return surplus cash to shareholders has not been met with enthusiastic market response, prompting one to ask whether this is a move in the right direction. Last year,
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      662 19  -  Benny Ong CEO,Life Planning Associates Pte Ltd I REFER to your report on the proposed changes to beneficiary nomination by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, "MAS plans change to insurance nominations" (BT, Dec 8). I believe there has never been any
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  • MOTORING
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      557 27  -  Leading the pack is MPV Wish, with more than 4,000 sold in 27 months By SAMUEL EE TOYOTA rules Singapore roads as with authorised imports, it is also the most popular brand among grey imports. And to prove Japan's biggest carmaker is
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      506 27  -  By SAMUEL EE PROSPECTIVE buyers of the coming Spyker sportutility vehicle have placed orders even before they have seen a photograph of the new model, much less the car itself. Called the SSUV or Super SUV, it will be only the second Spyker bodystyle after
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      779 28  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) recent move g to revamp the framework of beneficiary nominations for insurance policies should come as good news for policyholders seeking greater flexibility. But many questions remain regarding legacy policies, where insurers had allowed policyholders
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      1480 28  -  With Singapore still new to some of the fee structures Reits have introduced here, GENEVIEVE CUA asks industry leaders how fair they are GENEVIEVE CUA REAL estate investment trusts (Reits) have delivered robust returns in the last two to three years, but it is
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      763 28  -  By CHET CURRIER QUICK now, which investment vehicle is growing fastest here in the mid-2000s? a) hedge funds; b) exchange-traded funds (FTFs); c) mutual funds. Answer: c) mutual funds, hands down. And no, that's not a trick question. While hedge funds and
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      1106 29  -  Holding Singapore shares for just five years could ensure 85% chance of no loss, plus a minimum 3% return, says LARRY HAVERKAMP LARRY HAVERKAMP THE CPF Board's plan for a privately managed pension plan (PPP) may well change the way we invest our CPF ordinary
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  • SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
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      1131 30  -  Architect Sim Boon Yang talks to GEOFFREY EU about his adventurous road journey from London to S'pore crossing some of the world's most inhospitable terrain GEOFFREY EU AT the end of a fiveyear stint working in London in the early *****, architect Sim Boon Yang
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