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Title Section13 2005-12-27 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MICA (P) 089/03/2005 Tuesday December 27,2005 S<MGAPORLBSrtgrts online at xom.sg13 words
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Article, Illustration716 2005-12-27 1 CHUANG PECK MING - Higher payouts in S'pore also seen as reflecting the flexi-wage system By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Yes. it's bonus time, and it's bringing a wider smile to the faces of Singapore workers this year. They will be getting bigger bonuses and no less than716 words
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Article117 2005-12-27 1 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25 MALAYSIA 6.24 HONGKONG 7.75 INDONESIA 17.35 TAIWAN 6.52 JAPAN 1.375 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 4.50 US 7.25 CANADA 5.00 SWITZERLAND 2.49 INDIA 10.25 Source: Bloomberg Source: Bloomberg FOREX us$ s$ IISS (SS pef US$) r_ 1.669 (USS/SS pef 1.739 2,901 EUWCHUSS/SS/E) 1.187 1.981 YEN 116.7117 words
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Article, Illustration771 2005-12-27 1 UMA SHANKARI - By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Sales of jewellery and watches have climbed this year. But behind the glitter and sparkle, competition is also getting keener for Singapore-listed retailers and neighbourhood shops alike. To retain customers and attract new business, retailers in both segments are pushedFILE PHOTOS - 771 words
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586 2005-12-27 1 ANDREW MARKS - WALL STREET INSIGHT By ANDREW MARKS in New York WITH stock markets closed yesterday for the Christmas holiday and many traders and investors taking the week off, Wall Street will not be notable for any great doings. Still, money managers will be586 words
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TOP STORIES
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Article508 2005-12-27 2 USsl.7b merger stokes Tokyo stocks TWO mergers involving Japanese companies raised the temperature in an already hot Tokyo stock market yesterday, driving the benchmark Nikkei 225 average to close above 16,000 for the first time in five years. One was Seven I's US$l.7 billion takeover of Millennium Retailing508 words
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Article, Illustration1171 2005-12-27 2 PAULINE NG - MALAYSIAN STOCK MARKET Corporate earnings growth projected at high single-digits, from 20% pre-crisis By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur GET used to choppy, for that's the general view of the prospects for the Malaysian stock market this coming year. The market has,AFP - 1,171 words
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433 2005-12-27 2 Reuters [BEIJING] Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings has won approval from China's central bank to buy a 5 per cent stake in Bank of China (BOC). half of what it had sought, a semi-official magazine said yesterday. Temasek agreed inReuters - 433 words
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Article, Illustration449 2005-12-27 3 ANTHONY ROWLEY - Nikkei breaks 16,000 barrier for first time in five years By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo A RASH of big mergers involving Japanese companies raised the temperature in an already hot Tokyo stock market yesterday, driving the benchmark Nikkei 225 average to close above 16,000 forAFP - 449 words
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SINGAPORE MARKETS
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Article, Illustration1051 2005-12-27 4 MICHELLE QUAH - CORPORATE CRIME White-collar crime shot up this year, with over 40 people charged so far By MICHELLE QUAH IT used to be that you could count on one hand the number of high-profile corporate crime cases that occurred in a year. This year, you1,051 words
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678 2005-12-27 4 ROLAND LIM - HOCK LOCK SIEW By ROLAND LIM NEWS of shortages of MP3 players, particularly in Apple iPods, is so last year. This season, while the demand for MP3 players seems not to have abated, there have been few reports of shortages. So while it678 words
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Article, Illustration1638 2005-12-27 4 Source: Reuters Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Frfs Consensus No.of Jora cart Mean Rfs recommendation esti- EPS PE target price ryommendatton estt- PC target prig Company name This wk Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price Company name TNswk Lartnrtli mates (cents) (ratio) price Allgreen Properties 2.18 2.00 11 5.68Source: Reuters - 1,638 words
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COMPANY NEWS
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Article, Illustration1263 2005-12-27 5 KALPANA RASHIWALA - Orchard Turn heat is on MMP Reit CORPORATE ANALYSIS Wisma Atria, 74% owned by Macquarie MEAG Prime Reit, could see its toppish rentals taking a hit, says KALPANA RASHIWALA KALPANA RASHIWALA MUCH has been said about how the bid by Capita Land and Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) for theYEN MENG JIIN - 1,263 words
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Article, Illustration628 2005-12-27 5 R SIVANITHY - STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent DESPITE the declining volume and absence of much interest, the possibility always exists that there will be some fiddling of the Straits Times Index in the final days of the year. This is a subject dealt with many times628 words
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COMPANY BRIEFS
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145 2005-12-27 5 PULP producer United Fiber System (Unifiber), which had earlier signed a letter of intent with Kingsclere Finance to acquire PT Kiani Kertas, has agreed to extend the validity of the agreement for another six months, Unifiber said yesterday. PT Kiani Kertas produces pulp at a facility145 words
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Article135 2005-12-27 5 SYSTEMS integrator CSE Global said yesterday it has won a £10.5 million (5530.3 million) project to deploy one of its systems across London. The project is awarded by BT Capital Care Alliance which has selected CSE-Servelec's RiO system to be used for its Mental Health135 words
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SINGAPORE MARKETS
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Article, Illustration1194 2005-12-27 6 TEH HOOI LING - TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent IN a week which was described as "featureless" and where trading vohime was the lowest in several weeks, it is not unexpected that most of our portfolios softened. For the week ended Dec 23, the Straits Time 6 Index1,194 words
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Article, Illustration1237 2005-12-27 6 ROBERT HALILI - INSIDE MARKET Trades involving Ace Dynamics and Yaan Security stand out along with filings by some asset managers, reports ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI Directors and substantial shareholders kept on trading in the week leading up to Christmas with 70 transactions, worth $82 million, versus 73,1,237 words
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MARKETS
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Article, Illustration958 2005-12-27 7 ANTHONY ROWLEY - JAPAN Strong demand seen from both domestic and foreign investors By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JESPER Koll, managing director and chief economist at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, calls it a "wall of money". Paul Sheard, who occupies a similar position at Lehman Brothers Japan, termsAP - 958 words
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Article, Illustration823 2005-12-27 7 ASHOK KUMAR - INDIA Host of factors point to further gains in new year By ASHOK KUMAR in Mumbai THE pundits were wrong. The year commenced with the stock market, as measured by the BSE Sensex, at an all-time high of 6,626, and most analysts were predictingCompiled by BT - 823 words
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SINGAPORE NEWS
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Article, Illustration729 2005-12-27 8 OH BOON PING - It's also investing in financial market development in India, China By OH BOON PING REUTERS Asia is expected to be increasingly used to making money for its subscribers without their direct intervention, says the incoming managing director of the service, Alexander Hungate. The newYEN MENG JIIN - 729 words
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233 2005-12-27 8 THE Business Outlook Forum 2006, to be held on Jan 12, 2006, aims to help the local business community better understand and interpret the prospects for the new year. Held at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Industry Auditorium, the forum will feature233 words
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SME spotlight
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Article, Illustration1338 2005-12-27 9 NANDE KHIN - High-growth industries are throwing up new opportunities for SMEs in the precision engineering sector, reports NANDE KHIN NANDE KHIN SMALL and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the precision engineering sector have been upgrading their capabilities, investing in innovation and, in some cases, merging with1,338 words
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Article, Illustration1049 2005-12-27 9 NANDE KHIN - Linkers founder and MD Shamsher Zaman talks to NANDE KHIN about an important aspect of the company's success NANDE KHIN LINKERS (Far East) Pte Ltd is one of those few companies SME or otherwise that can claim it has performed better year after year. According to Shamsher Zaman,YEN MENG JIIN - 1,049 words
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FOCUS: ISLAMIC BANKING
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Article, Illustration1574 2005-12-27 10 SAID ABDULLAH - To survive, they must bring their fundamental banking skills up to the level of conventional banks, and also overcome the challenges unique to Islamic banks. SAID ABDULLAH reports SAID ABDULLAH THE Islamic banking industry is robust and profitable and growing more rapidly than commercialSource: Annual reports of Islamic banks, c l banks, Global insight, Mc les y analysis; NSTP - 1,574 words
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ECONOMY WATCH
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Article, Illustration574 2005-12-27 11 Plan comes amid official fears over stagnant farm incomes Reuters [BEIJING! China's parliament has announced plans to abolish the country's long-standing agricultural tax at a time when social unrest and a deepening income divide are raising official fears about stagnant farm incomes. China's economicReuters; REUTERS - 574 words
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489 2005-12-27 11 Reuters [TOKYO] Big Japanese manufacturers grew more confident about business conditions in the three months to December, a government survey showed yesterday, underscoring views that brisk corporate activity is underpinning a modest but sustainable economic recovery. The business survey index (BSI) of sentiment amongReuters - 489 words
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Article, Illustration747 2005-12-27 11 Some predict 8% growth for the year to March 2006, up from 7% earlier Reuters AFP [NEW DELHI] Oft-derided as the slow-moving elephant of Asia, India's economy has been transformed into a star performer with booming growth and a stock market that rocketedReuters; AFP; AP - 747 words
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277 2005-12-27 11 Bloomberg [TOKYOI Japan needs to decide who should be responsible for setting economic policies as that would help the Bank of Japan to maintain its independence. Internal Affairs Minister Heizo Takenaka said. MrTakenaka, appearing on a television programme on Fuji Television Network,Bloomberg - 277 words
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MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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Article, Illustration770 2005-12-27 12 SHOEB KAGDA - INDONESIA INSIGHT Its devastation has given the opportunity to build more than just houses SHOEB KAGDA Jakarta Correspondent ONE year after the devastating tsunami destroyed communities and killed more than 120,000 people in Aceh and left another half a million homeless, the province is on770 words
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119 2005-12-27 12 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Commerce International Merchant Bankers Bhd's electronic trading facility offered by its Singapore brokerage arm, CIMB-GK, will offer cross border trading for Singapore investors to trade directly with Bursa Malaysia. The move was set to strengthen CIMB's leading position in the industry,Bernama - 119 words
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135 2005-12-27 12 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai telecoms group Samart Corp PCL said last Friday it sold a 24.42 per cent stake in its mobile phone distribution unit to TM International Sdn Bhd, an oversees investment unit of Telekom Malaysia. The deal, which sent Samart shares upReuters - 135 words
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Article, Illustration876 2005-12-27 12 SHOEB KAGDA - Its president director tells SHOEB KAGDA his small company is confident of taking on two local giants SHOEB KAGDA INVESTORS looking for opportunities in Indonesia's fast-growing cellular sector need to change their mindsets when reviewing the country's listed telcos, according to876 words
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319 2005-12-27 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Firms in Malaysia are likely to sell RM3O billion (5513.2 billion) of bonds next year, just up from 2005 levels, led by infrastructure companies, the country's top rating agency said last Friday. Corporate bond issues totalled RM29 billionReuters - 319 words
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GREATER CHINA
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441 2005-12-27 13 CHINA GRAFT Jail, fine await anyone found to have rigged securities prices Reuters [SHANGHAI] China may jail listed firms' executives found guilty of abusing corporate assets, official newspapers said yesterday, imposing steeper penalties in a battle against white-collar crime aimed also atReuters - 441 words
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310 2005-12-27 13 Reuters [BElJlNG] Chinese investigators have uncovered the illegal use of 290 billion yuan (Ss6o billion) of government funds in the first 11 months of 2005 and promised to investigate three state banks for wrongdoing by staff, officials said yesterday. A conferenceReuters - 310 words
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270 2005-12-27 13 Reuters [BEIJING] Orient Asset Management Corp, one of China's four state-owned debt-clearing firms, is planning to securitise 8 billion yuan (SSI .7 billion) in non-performing loans acquired from China Construction Bank Corp, an Orient official said yesterday. The bad loans originatedReuters - 270 words
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Article, Illustration54 2005-12-27 13 Two Uighur boys from China's Xinjang region, in the dormitory of a halfway home, after they were found wandering in the streets. Many children from the country's western regions run away to escape deep poverty at home where a proper diet and shelter, health care and educationAFP - 54 words
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Article, Illustration525 2005-12-27 13 Reuters [BEIJING] China's stateowned banks will receive no more government cash bailouts for business losses after they absorb new private investment, the country's top banking inspector told a Chinese-language newspaper. Liu Mingkang, the director of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, said China'sReuters; AFP - 525 words
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339 2005-12-27 13 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Citigroup Inc, the world's biggest bank, agreed to quadruple its stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co to the maximum permitted level in return for the chance to invest in other Chinese lenders. The purchase, which will increase Citigroup's stake to 19.9Bloomberg - 339 words
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602 2005-12-27 13 AFP [SHANGHAI] China's breakneck economic growth once again dominated global headlines this year but so did its tragic industrial accidents, fatal riots, protests and disastrous environmental pollution. Its export-driven economy barely paused for breath in 2005, galloping ahead in the first three quarters ofAFP - 602 words
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INDIA
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Article, Illustration829 2005-12-27 14 With its rapid growth, India still lacks a global financial centre IHT [NEW DELHI] It's something of a puzzle: India's enormous economy is growing at a feverish pace, but the nearest global financial centre is still a fivehour plane ride away. Even with its wealth ofIHT; AP - 829 words
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Article, Illustration317 2005-12-27 14 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India's government said expenditure to link four of the nation's biggest cities, including Mumbai and New Delhi, will be close to the 250.55 billion rupees (SsB.l billion) estimated six years ago. The government has spent 235.59 billion rupees in the projectBloomberg - 317 words
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Article, Illustration567 2005-12-27 14 Move aims to protect lore from being patented AP [NEW DELHI] For thousands of years, Indian villagers have been using an extract of the seeds of the neem tree as an insecticide on their crops. So when a US company patented the process inAP - 567 words
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Article, Illustration286 2005-12-27 14 AFP [MUMBAI] Nike Ms signed US$43 million deal to kit out the Indian cricket team after outbidding rivals Reebok and Adidas, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Friday. The five-year contract, which starts on Jan 1, 2006, also gives theAFP - 286 words
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443 2005-12-27 14 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India's rupee may rally to a 6-1/2 year high by end-2006 as foreign companies follow Microsoft Corp and Motorola Inc in investing in Asia's fourth-biggest economy to cash in on accelerating growth, ÜBS AG said. The US$665 billionBloomberg - 443 words
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283 2005-12-27 14 [NEW DELHI] Independent News Media's 33 million euros (5565.2 million) investment in Jagran Prakashan Ltd (JPL), the Indian newspaper publisher, is expected to be valued at three to four times the initial investment made last June when JPL raises fresh capital in 2006, the Financial283 words
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WORLD
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Article, Illustration575 2005-12-27 15 Putin's move paves the way for foreign funds to buy firm's shares directly Bloomberg [MOSCOW] President Vladimir Putin, seeking to build Gazprom into an energy business to rival Exxon Mobil, signed a law on Friday that ends a cap on foreign ownership ofBloomberg; REUTERS - 575 words
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602 2005-12-27 15 IHT [PARIS] When the European Commission introduced a sweeping plan this month to liberalise product-place-ment advertising, the rationale was an echo of a playground whine: "They're doing it? Why can't we?" In other words, argues Viviane Reding, the commissioner behind the proposed standards, theIHT - 602 words
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488 2005-12-27 15 Microsoft's partner will now own 82% of cable channel LAT-WP [NEW YORK] The MS is slowly coming out of MSNBC. Microsoft Corp on Friday said that after months of negotiations it had sold a controlling stake in the 24-hour cable news channelLAT-WP - 488 words
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374 2005-12-27 15 NYT [NEW YORK] In a setback for a controversial area of biotechnology, the company that led the way in trying to produce pharmaceuticals in genetically modified crops ran out of money and shut its doors on Friday. The company, the LargeNYT - 374 words
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Article, Illustration580 2005-12-27 15 NYT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Tommy Hilfiger. the clothier whose fashions have gone from country club preppy to hiphop baggy and back again, agreed on Friday to be bought for US$l.6 billion by Apax Partners, a private equity firm. Now comes the hard part:NYT; Bloomberg; AP - 580 words
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AVIATION
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Article, Illustration600 2005-12-27 16 Move may bring cost management closer to practices of other carriers Bloomberg IMUMBAI] Air India, India's biggest overseas carrier, will hedge its fuel expenses starting next month, the first such cost-cutting programme by an Indian airline. The airline, whichBloomberg; BLOOMBERG - 600 words
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Article, Illustration396 2005-12-27 16 Bloomberg [ZURICH] Swiss International Air Lines Ltd, which is being bought by Deutsche Lufthansa AG, plans to dismiss 314 pilots from its European fleet if they do not accept neW job contracts offered by year-end. The pilots would be forcedBloomberg; BLOOMBERG - 396 words
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295 2005-12-27 16 AFP [BAKU] Azerbaijani aviation officials on Saturday said that technical failure was the likely cause of a crash in which 23 people were killed when their aircraft plunged into the Caspian Sea late on Friday last week. Amirov, deputy general director of AZAL, theAFP - 295 words
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505 2005-12-27 16 Bloomberg IMUMBAI) Deccan Aviation Pvt. which owns India's first low-fare carrier Air Deccan, said it signed an agreement with Airbus SAS to buy an additional 30 A 320 planes at a list price of US$l.5 billion to meet expansion needs. "We thoughtBloomberg - 505 words
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318 2005-12-27 16 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] United Airlines, the second-largest US carrier, asked a bankruptcy court for permission to buy unidentified assets of FLYi Inc's Independence Air. United submitted a bid to buy '"certain" FLYi assets on Dec 16, Elk Grove Township. Illinois-based United said inBloomberg - 318 words
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Miscellaneous218 2005-12-27 16 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 27 Examine any ales being ||^J—■■■— 1 Religious retreats by the tree and sheep (7) 14 Russia ends with mountain YESTERDAY S SOLUTION 2 Close to the beginning of are in the country? (5,4) Across: 1 Swallow-tail, 10 Lie to, time? (5) 15 Equivocation sees a big turn218 words
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TRANSPORT
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Article, Illustration427 2005-12-27 17 DONALD URQUHART - MOU signed with Suez Canal Authority for 90km-long channel By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] India's ambitious US$55O million Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project is set to tap the expertise of two of the world's great canals: Suez and Panama. Sethusamudram Corporation Ltd (SCL),427 words
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Article, Illustration441 2005-12-27 17 Reuters AFP [TOKYO] An express train running behind schedule in blustery winter weather derailed in northern Japan, killing four people and injuring 33, police said yesterday, and it was unclear if others remained trapped in the wreckage. The train left the tracksReuters; AFP - 441 words
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710 2005-12-27 17 It now accounts for 38% of worldwide airline sales, with total paperless ticketing in sight AFP [GENEVA] WHEN airline executives and IT specialists met in a pub in the English Midlands 10 years ago to plan the first ever Internet flightAFP - 710 words
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EDITORIAL & OPINION
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Article516 2005-12-27 18 EDITORIAL AS 2005 wore on, the administration of US President George Bush seemed to be devoting much of its energy to spin management. The failure to pacify Iraq and to mobilise support from its allies for its Middle East policy have highlighted the widening516 words
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Article, Illustration1347 2005-12-27 18 SARITHA RAI - Prospect of returning is now more appealing as lifestyle gap, salary differences narrow By SARITHA RAI NYT STANDING amid the rolling lawns outside his four-bedroom villa in Bangalore, Ajay Kela pondered his street in the community of Palm Meadows. One of his neighbours recently returnedNYT; AFP - 1,347 words
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Article, Illustration796 2005-12-27 18 PAUL SAMUELSON - THE BOTTOM LINE PAUL SAMUELSON Tribune Media Services THOUGH polls show US President George W Bush's popularity no longer dropping precipitously, he might be envying his father, George H Bush, whom the voters did not give a second term as president.Tribune Media Services - 796 words
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Article, Illustration1478 2005-12-27 19 ANDREW E KRAMER - Officially doctored maps of Russian oilfields make life miserable for foreign engineers at joint ventures in Siberia By ANDREW E KRAMER NYT BRUCE Morrow worked for three years on the shores of Lake Samotlor, a tiny dot of water in a maze of oil wells andNYT; AFP - 1,478 words
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Article, Illustration1146 2005-12-27 19 PAUL J LIM - By PAUL J LIM NYT HEADING into 2005, conventional wisdom said that Americans should invest aggressively overseas because the dollar was expected to weaken further against foreign currencies. That seemed straightforward enough. When the dollar loses value, it's a boon to American investors abroadNYT; REUTERS - 1,146 words
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Article8905 2005-12-27 20 STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS Stock name Wt Oon Change Allgreen 50c 0.31 1.300 40.010 Ascendasrert 0-96 1.940 BM.mt)US20c 055 1380 Capita Land 3.33 3.400 -0.020 CapitaMall 0.79 2220 +0.010 Chart SemiCond 26c 0.83 1.270 +0.060 CityOev 50c 2.42 8.400 ComfoftOetGro 25c 1.69 1.580 *0.010 Cosco Corp 20c 0.618,905 words
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Article6264 2005-12-27 21 FINANCE COMMODITIES MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES In local OUT lass mUSS %dy %yr dy %yr dy %yr Di23 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change WtoridhriwPielraiftay 976.0 00 14.5 -OJ 10.9 0.0 8.7 EAFE Preliminary 9705 0.1 25j6 -01 13.7 01 114 Europe rwJuwaq 1286J 01 215 -02 936,264 words
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