The Business Times, 27 January 2006

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  • 849 1  -  But takeover battle may have only just begin as Dubai Ports World is expected to fight back By DONALD URQUHART (SINGAPORE] PSA International and the Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O) have reached agreement on the terms of PSA's £3.7 billion (5510.7 billion) bid
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    • 22 1 record sales mis■**> Stats ChipPae turns around with USsl7m Q4 earnings PG4 H- Keppel Corp notches record profit of $564 m PGS
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 774 2 Market veteran appointed SGX's new head of listings THE Singapore Exchange has appointed veteran market player Lawrence Wong its new head of listings. Mr Wong, whose appointment takes effect on April 1, has more than 25 years of capital markets experience with key roles in equity fund raising
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    • 766 2  -  $30m set aside over next 2 years to help make workplace age-friendly By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] The government says it will look at a proposal to consider legislating re-employment beyond the mandatory retirement age of 62. And it is ready
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    • 684 2  -  By NANDE KHIN {SINGAPORE] The Economic Developnwnt Board aims to attract more foreign entrepreneurs as-part of its plan to create a more complete enterprise ecosystem. "We hope to be a ground in which entrepreneurs from all over the world find it easy to
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    • 321 2 {SINGAPORE] BT Associate Editor Vikram Khanna's interview with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn has been voted BT's best story in 2005. It was the top choice of two-thirds of readers who took part in the BT-Prudential Business Story
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    • 774 3  -  COMMENTARY S'pore through Temasek has a disciplined approach in the management of its economic ventures overseas By GEORGE JOSEPH THE dust may not have settled with the P&O board of directors agreeing yesterday to accept the £3.7 billion (5510.7 billion) takeover offer for
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    • 272 3  -  Lawrence Wong has held senior posts at OCBC Schroders By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Singapore Exchange (SGX) said yesterday that it has appointed veteran market player Lawrence Wong as its new head of listings. Mr Wong, whose appointment takes effect on April I,'has
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    • 136 3 STI 2,388.22 (+9.58) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,388.00 (+9.00) siMsa 284.03 (+1.86) SIMSCI FUTURES 284.20 (+0.80) MARKETS Thursday Change KLSECOMP 913.14 +3.37 NIKKEI 225 15,891.02 +240.02 HANG SENG 15,520.07 -0.32 SET INDEX 761.14 -1.56 JAKARTA COMP 1,226.653 3.464 MANILA COMP 2,117.81 +5.32 SEOUL COMP 1,352.75 +10.16 SHENZHEN B closed
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 592 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By ROLAND LIM THE report card for Creative Technology's historically strongest quarter of its fiscal year is out, and it must have been thankful that its hard work yielded no red marks. Creative founder Sim Wong Hoo has certainly made good on his
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    • 686 4  - Creative's Q2 profit down 31 despite record sales Company says it will focus on selling higher-margin products By ROLAND LIM CREATIVE Technology Ltd yesterday reported a 31 per cent drop in its secondquarter profit despite recording its highest quarterly revenue in the past five years. Net profit, including an investment
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    • 241 4  -  Company cites increase in raw material costs By UMA SHANKARI RECYCLING company Asian Micro Holdings reported yesterday that its net profit for the six months ended Dec 31, 2005, fell by a third, partly due to increases in the cost of crude
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    • 542 4  -  Company reveals US$300m spending plan for 2006 By LEE KIM SIANG STATS ChipPac, the world's third-largest microchip assembly company, announced a fourth-quar-ter net profit of US$l6.9 million on a US GAAP basis for the three months ended Dec 31, 2005. Tan Lay
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    • 609 5  -  Additional payout of 36 cents a share brings year's total to 46 cents By CONRAD RAJ KEPPEL Corporation reported record revenue and earnings for the financial year ended Dec 31, 2005, but just beating the general consensus estimates of analysts who had
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    • 414 5  -  Unit will produce ultra-low sulphur gasoline and diesel By RONNIE LIM THE green light has been given for Singapore Refining Company (SRC) to proceed with its clean fuels plant estimated to cost US$lOO million-US$4OO million Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) chairman Choo Chiau
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 35 6 ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) has signed a put and call agreement yesterday to buy 150 Übi Avenue 4 for $13.2 million from Sunlight Electrical Pte Ltd.
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      • 60 6 OKP Holdings has warned of a loss for the second half of fiscal 2005, due mainly to additional costs incurred because of customers' request to extend the completion periods for some projects. It also expects lower FY2005 revenue. But the group is expected to
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      • 91 6 SEMBCORP Utilities, a fully owned subsidiary of SembCorp Industries, has been ranked first of two short-listed bidders for the privatisation of an independent water and power plant (IWPP) in Fujairah, UAE, by the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA). SembUtilities had in November
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      • 67 6 BH Global Marine saw net profit for 2005 fall slightly by one per cent to $6.8 million despite a 23.4 per cent rise in revenue to a record $30.3 million. The profit dip was the result of higher cost of goods brought about
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      • 60 6 DBS Group said yesterday that its subsidiaries DBS Bank and DBS Asset Management have entered into an agreement with Hong Leong Asia's China Yuchai International to sell part of its stake in LKN-Primefield for $63.2 million. After the sale, DBS Group's stake in LKN-Primefield will
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      • 46 6 MAPLETREE Logistics Trust (MapletreeLog) is buying two logistics properties in Malaysia for RM41.7 million (SslB million). It is also acquiring a warehouse facility for RM4S million by purchasing shares of a special purpose vehicle, Pancuran Baiduri Sdn Bhd, which owns the assets.
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    • 288 6  -  Rodolfo Mata has been at the centre of admiralty claim By WONG WEI KONG PAN-UNITED Marine (PUM) is finally selling a ship which has been at the centre of an admiralty claim for a gain of Ssl7 million. PUM yesterday announced the disposal of
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    • 701 6  -  Shopping centre trust plans to increase portfolio to $5-6b in 3 years from $3.4b now By KALPANA RASHIWALA CAPITAMALL Trust (CMT) yesterday posted distributable income of $25.82 million for Oct 31-Dec 31, 2.9 per cent higher than its own forecast made in October
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    • 276 6  -  By LESLIE YEE PRIVATELY-HELD application service provider Just Login has been awarded damages of $280,000 after winning a suit it filed against OCBC Bank over a scuppered deal. The case dates back to 2002 when Just Login, in a case against OCBC
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    • 300 6  -  By MICHELLE QUAH CONTRACT manufacturer GES International turned in a 23 per cent rise in net income for its second quarter ended Defc 31, as it pared operating costs, while seeing healthy demand for its original design and manufacturing services. Net profit after
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    • 376 6  -  By CONRAD TAN SHIPBUILDER ASL Marine Holdings yesterday posted a triple-digit increase in first-half net profit, on the back of recent growth in the marine and offshore industry boosted by high oil prices. Net pVofit for the six months ended Dec
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    • 261 6 SC Global buys site at Martin Rd for $17.8 m DEVELOPER SC Global, better known for its highend residential projects, is paying $17.8 million for a Martin Road freehold property that can be redeveloped on a residentiaL-cum-commercial basis. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Kimmingston Pte Ltd, SC Global struck the
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    • 177 4 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PAC-MED S.EASIA PTE LTD (Co. Rag. No. *****1224Z) KINGSTON PACIFIC CORPORATE SOLUTIONS PTE LTD (Co. Reg. No. *****1986H) PATHOLOGY SERVICES PTE LTD (Co. Reg. No. *****0646 C) (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE
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    • 213 4 NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF CHEMQUEST INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) (REGISTRATION NO. *****5690Z) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Final General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company will be held at 11th
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    • 262 5 I FULFILLING ITS«jSP I WEALTH OF APPLICATIONS I China Essence Group Is one of the leading potato-processing producers In China, established to fulfill the growing potential K and applications of potato starch in many industries. kf *^>'\, Ranging from food, textiles, pharmaceuticals, "few 1& in the pharmaceutical industry in the
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    • 510 6 J.P. Morgan International Derivatives Ltd (Incorporated in Jersey with limited liability) NOTICE TO WARRANTHOLDERS To ALL HOLDERS OF EUROPEAN STYLE CASH SETTLED CALL WARRANTS RELATING TO THE ORDINARY SHARES OF SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED ISSUED BY J.P. MORGAN INTERNATIONAL DERIVATIVES LTD. (SIA JP ECW*****0) Notice is hereby given by J.P. Morgan
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 514 8  -  STOCKS China plays and oil dominate second line; technology stocks see active trading albeit with mixed results R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent \m ou would be hardB pressed to find a ses- B sion that typifies the local stock market more than yesterday's. Two stocks,
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    • 513 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar had a mixed session yesterday ahead of next week's extended Chinese New Year (CNY) break for several Asian centres, but the sterling pound noticeably outperformed its European counterparts. The British currency perked up considerably
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    • 523 8  -  By UMA SHANKARI CWT Distribution director acquires 2% of company LOGISTICS provider CWT Distribution said in a filing to SGX yesterday that its substantial shareholder C&P Holdings Pte Ltd has reduced its stake in the company from 62.46 per cent to 60.46 per cent. The reduction came
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    • 1002 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Singapore Petroleum Co Jan 26 dose: $5 JO MERRILL Lynch has revised up its price target for shares in Singapore Petroleum Co Ltd (SPC) to $5.90 from $5.60 after the company reported slightly higher fourth-quar-ter profit The oil and gas refining and marketing firm said
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    • Article, Illustration
      436 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jan 26 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -105.00 +101.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 +5.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -10.00 All-SG Equities 614.70 +3.09 SG Equities Elect 122.87 +0.69 5G Equities Fin 1719.63 +8.74 SG Equities Prop 761.39 -2.71 SIMSCI 284.03 +1.86 SiMSCI Futures 284.20 +0.80 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME SingTel
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    • 1874 9 %l#estpac Banking Corporation I %Mestpac I Banking Corporation Westpac Banking Corporation and its controlled entities (All figures quoted in Australian dollars) ■■■■■■■hh ~~szL STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 30 SEPTEMBER ISX'™*,,,.,, Facsimile: (612)9226 4128 \a/ d i,- n .I, Consolidated Parent Entity a fter deducting distributions on other international
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 363 10  -  It sets target of 9.4 m visitor arrivals, $12b in tourism receipts By ALEXANDRA HO RIDING on the record number of visitor arrivals in Singapore last year, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has set the bar even higher for this year with a
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    • 88 10 A 20-metre tall God OfFortune towering over the site ofSingapore River Hong Bao 2006 with the financial district in the background. It took two weeks to set up. instead of the usual three days due to the heavy rainfall the past week. Made of cloth, fibreglass and steel,
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    • 240 10 BANGKOK, Hong Kong and Jakarta are the top three destinations over the Chinese New Year holidays for local flights booked through online travel portal Zuji Singapore. Some 15.6 per cent of total purchases on Zuji. com. sg for flights over this period
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    • 688 10  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE'S Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) yesterday said that it was "puzzled" by a New Straits Times report which said Malaysia plans to build a bridge across its half of the Johor Straits without demolishing the Causeway.
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    • 862 10 Reuters WHEN Lim Oon Kuin arrived in Singapore as a boy 50 years ago, he worked at a seafood market and then started delivering diesel by bicycle to boatmen. Now 62, he juggles mil-lion-dollar oil deals as head of Hin Leong Group, a
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    • 317 11  - Factory output up 5.1 in December Biomedical production drops 23.9% that month By OH BOON PING SINGAPORE'S factory output rose 5.1 per cent year-on-year in December despite a contraction in the biomedical segment. Excluding the biomedical cluster, manufacturing output rose 15 per cent, based on data released yesterday by the
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    • 716 10 MACCXJARC MACQUARIE BANK LIMITED (ABN 46 008 583 642) (Incorporated under the laws of the Australia) NOTICE TO WARRANTHOLDERS To (1) ALL HOLDERS OF EUROPEAN STYLE CASH SETTLED CALL WARRANTS RELATING TO THE UNITS OF SUNTEC REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST ISSUED BY MACQUARIE BANK LIMITED (SUNTEC REIT MBL ECW*****1); AND
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    • 1348 11 I HIM. Ml Corporation I Keppel Corporation Limited H Co Reg No: *****0351N (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 2005 FULL YEAR FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT I 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMER 2005 4. DIVIDEND/CAPITAL DISTRIBUTION The Directors of Keppel Corporation Limited.advise the following unaudited
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 617 12 Construction boom in India, China and tensions in Mideast cited as reasons Reuters [SINGAPORE] From gold to grains, world commodity prices are surging on the back of aggressive buying by investment funds and Asia's appetite for raw materials, and analysts say the
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    • 434 12 Reducing budget deficit to be a key priority this year Reuters [WASHINGTON] Congress will receive a "quite austere" budget proposal next month that tightens the grip on spending, Treasury Secretary John Snow pledged on Wednesday, adding that constraining the budget deficit will be a
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    • 287 12 AFP THE global advertising market should be stronger this year than last owing to the Winter Olympics, soccer World Cup and US congressional elections, but the situation will still be tough overall, the head of advertising giant WPP Group said
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    • 283 12 Reuters FOURTEEN top Indian chefs will cater for the world's elite at Davos this weekend while local bars host Indian "happy hours" in a charm offensive to persuade investors China is not the only game in town. Leaders from top Indian companies
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    • 367 12 DAVOS FILE Reuters CHINA must allow its yuan currency to strengthen further and last year's revaluation has had no effect on the economy's strong growth rate, US Treasury official Timothy Adams said on Wednesday. "It's more than it was but not enough, and it
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    • 1074 12 o MACQUARIE MACQUARIE BANK LIMITED (ABN 46 008 583 542) (Incorporated under the laws of Australia) NOTICE TO WARRANTHOLDERS Proposed adjustments to the terms and conditions of: (i) 88,000,000 European Style Cash Settled Call Warrants expiring on 8 February 2006 relating to the ordinary shares of Cosco Corporation (Singapore) Limited
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    • 3534 13 /rpc EES International Limited Company Registration Ato. I9B&OI4&7R Unaudited Ist Half Financial Statement for the Period Ended 31/IS/SOO5 5. If there arc any changes in the accounting policies and methods of computation, including any required by an accounting standard, what has 1(a) An income statement (for the group) together with
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 446 14  -  Bankers say it is likely to offer RM4.30 per SBB share By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur THE much-delayed takeover of Southern Bank (SBB) by Bumiputra-Com-merce (BCB), Malaysia's second largest lender, will finally get underway after the close of trading today when
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    • 336 14 Berna ma [KUALA LUMPUR] Former finance minister Daim Zainuddin yesterday asked for the release of specific Cabinet minutes relating to former toll concessionaire Syarikat Teratai KG Sdn Bhd (STKG) or Metramac Corp to be declassified to enable him to clear his name of any wrongdoing.
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    • 184 14 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian prosecutors yesterday sought a 20-year jail term each for three former executives of the country's largest state bank accused of multi-million dollar corruption. The recommendations for the three former Bank Mandiri executives were based on proof that they had
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    • 254 14 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Bank Islam Malaysia said yesterday the central bank has given approval to Dubai Investment Group LLC to start due diligence on its proposal to buy 49 per cent of Malaysia's largest Islamic bank. Bank Islam said in a statement
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 62 14 AFP [BEIJING] China's banking regulator said yesterday the non-performing loan ratio of the country's major commercial banks fell to 8.9 per cent at the end of 2005 the first time it fell to a single-digit figure. This was 4.3 percentage points lower than at
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      • 48 14 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's central bank may allow commercial banks to hold fewer reserves with the regulator, leaving them with more funds to lend, Governor Burhanuddin Abdullah said. "That's one of my objectives in the first quarter this year," Mr Abdullah said yesterday.
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      • 51 14 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian banks will eliminate Saturday hours in many branches in a move to a five-day work week next month, hoping to encourage more online banking, an industry official said. Malaysia's Association of Banks issued a statement on the move on Wednesday.
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      • 55 14 AFP [MANAMA] Bahrain-based Shamil Bank announced Wednesday the launch of the first Islamic fund for investments in Chinese real estate, worth US$lOO million. "The (fund) will invest in the Xuan Huang China Realty Investment Fund Limited, a joint venture between Shamil Bank and
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 389 15 Move to enhance banks' efficiency in dealing with investors' money [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is revising the guidelines for initial public offerings (IPOs) to enhance the efficiency of banks in dealing with large amounts of investors' money and paying refunds
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    • 299 15 Reuters [TAIPEI] Top contract microchip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said yesterday its fourth-quarter profit rose 53 per cent to a record, in line with market expectations, thanks to robust pre-Christmas demand. Demand for TSMC chips has been recovering towards the
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    • 264 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No 3 PC maker, lagged expectations with a 12 per cent jump in quarterly earnings yesterday, fuelled by its US$l.25 billion IBM purchase in 2005. The firm has been losing market share to
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    • 6022 15 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S'porc) Star Enope Eqty< 0.882/ Stat Europe Bond 1208/ Star Europe Bal 1 16/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.15// Star Asia Bond 1 307/ Stat Asia Balanced 1076/ Star Global Technology Fund'** 0.209/ MultiStFd 1061/ Star Asia BomXUSD) 0805/ Gib Multi St USD
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  • INDIA
    • 353 16 Move to help state banks meet global norms taking effect in March next year Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India's central bank will allow wider options for state-owned banks to raise capital to meet new international norms that will take effect next year. Banks will
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    • 324 16 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India's biggest software maker, said "commoditised" or lower-value software development services will move to lower-cost locations such as Vietnam and Cambodia. "Commoditised services, where price is the determining factor, will seek natural locations," S Ramadorai,
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    • 50 16 [SRINAGAR. India]Kashmiri girls singing a patriotic song during India's Republic Day celebrations in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, yesterday. India became a republic on Jan 26,1950, and celebrates the day with military parades, pomp and ceremony in all major cities of the country. REUTERS
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    • 209 16 Move follows US$1b takeover of Aircel in December Reuters [MUMBAI] Malaysia's biggest cellphone company, Maxis Communications Bhd, is looking to buy a stake in India's privately owned Spice Telecom, the Times of India newspaper reported yesterday. BK Modi holds 51. per cent of
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    • 279 16 Reuters [MUMBAI] India's diversified Grasim Industries Ltd posted a larger-than-expected 25 per cent drop in quarterly profit on Wednesday as its strong cement operations were overwhelmed by other weak businesses. Shares in Grasim, a component of the benchmark BSE index, fell as much
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 486 17 Firms benefiting from muted expectations, tight Q4 inventories Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] A raft of solid earnings reports from US microchip companies on Wednesday offers more evidence that strong, steady growth backed by consumer demand is supplanting the wild swings of the past. Firms
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    • 346 17 Bloom berg [DUBAI] Dubai plans to set up a fund worth as much US$l5 billion with other Gulf Arab states and institutions to invest in the world's biggest companies such as BP pic. Dubai International Capital, a government-backed buyout
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    • 284 17 AP [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday invited 1,300 investors from around the world to bid on projects in the country's 1.8 trillion baht (5575.1 billion) national infrastructure improvement plan. The project covers five areas: infrastructure and construction, natural resources and the environment, information
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    • 283 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The world's largest securities firm Merrill Lynch paid chief executive officer E Stanley O'Neal US$2O.2 million in stock for 2005. It also boosted awards to his seven top lieutenants for a total of US$7B.5
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 81 17 LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] Eight US companies, including giant DuPont Co, agreed oh Wednesday to virtually eliminate a harmful chemical used to make Teflon from all consumer products coated with the übiquitous non-stick material. Although it would still be used to manufacture Teflon and similar products, new
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      • 59 17 NYT [BRUSSELS] Facing daily fines from European regulators, Microsoft said on Wednesday that it would license some of the source code for its Windows operating system to competitors. The move is an attempt to comply with a ruling by the European Commission in
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      • 61 17 Bloomberg [PRINCETON] Reebok International Ltd shareholders have approved the company's US$3.B billion sale to Adidas-Salomon AG, a deal intended to help the company better compete with Nike Inc. More than 98 per cent of votes cast were in favour of the US$59 per
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      • 52 17 Reuters [BANGKOK] Italian-Thai Development PCL, Thailand's biggest construction contractor, said yesterday it would join China's Citic Group in bidding for 20 major projects in Thailand. President Premchai Karnasuta said the company planned to bid for 10 transportation projects, six agribusiness projects and four
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    • 278 17 Intelligence agents monitoring for any possible espionage AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand's defence minister said yesterday that the intelligence community is concerned that Singapore's takeover of Shin Corp could allow the city-state to eavesdrop on Thailand with the company's satellites. "Nothing has happened yet, but
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    • 386 17 LATEST US DATA Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose less than expected last week, a signal of strength in the job market. Initial jobless claims rose by 11,000 to 283,000 in the week ended Jan 21, the
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  • AVIATION
    • 534 18  -  Status uncertain following change in shareholding By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] The future could be challenging for Thai Air Asia following the change in its shareholding structure, says research and ratings agency Standard Poor's. "Shin Corp has had its 50 per cent joint venture shareholding
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    • 504 18 It will add 10 parking stands for smaller aircraft to attract budget carriers Bloomberg [HONG KONG] The Airport Authority Hong Kong, which runs Asia's thirdbusiest airfield by passenger numbers, said it will spend HK$4.5 billion (*****.2 million) adding parking stands and other facilities to meet
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    • 116 18 AFP [SINGAPORE] Air traffic for Asia-Pacific carriers in December rose by nearly one per cent year-on-year to 10.96 million passengers, bringing overall traffic in 2005 to 128 million, an industry group said on Wednesday. For air cargo, measured in terms of freight-tonne-kilometres,
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    • 215 18 AFP [ROME] Alitalia staff slowly returned to work yesterday after more than a week of labour unrest, but the airline was Still forced to cancel some 170 flights as a backlog of aircraft had to be checked by returning maintenance
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    • 356 18 Pilots call in sick despite court order to report Bloomberg [TOULOUSE] SAS Group's Scandinavian Airlines division, the Nordic region's largest carrier, cancelled more flights yesterday out of Norway as well as earlymorning flights into Copenhagen amid a walkout by pilots that has
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    • 367 18 Reuters [SEOUL] Korean Air, South Korea's largest airline, reported an 85.7 per cent slump in its quarterly profit yesterday, hit by higher fuel prices and after a strike by its unionised pilots in December. The airline should be set for a smoother path,
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    • 177 18 AP (FORT LAUDERDALE. Florida] An airline passenger bit a fellow traveller, then jumped out of a jetliner moving on the tarmac, authorities said. He was later subdued with a stun gun. It was unclear whether the passenger. Troy Rigby, 28, was
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  • SHIPPING
    • 494 19 Shipbroker attributes 6% drop in order amount to record yard rates Bloomberg [LONDON] Shipowners spent US$7l.5 billion on new vessels last year, 6.3 per cent less than in 2004, as record prices curbed orders for container ships, dry-bulk carriers and tankers, said Clarkson pic,
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    • 257 19 Hyundai Merchant's Q4 profit drops 11 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Merchant Marine Co, South Korea's second-largest shipping line, posted an 11 per cent fall in fourth-quarter profit, largely due to higher oil prices. Hyundai Merchant's net income fell to 110.8 billion won (*****.5 million) in the last three months of 2005,
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    • 459 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] The cost of shipping crude oil from the Middle East to Asian refineries on two million-barrel tankers rose to its highest in almost eight weeks because of an increase in bookings before the Chinese New Year holidays in Asia. Public
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    • PORT SHOTS
      • 112 19 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries SA, the Romanian unit of South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, won the bid to buy Santierul Naval Mangalia, a state-owned Black Sea shipyard, the Romanian government said. The unit of Daewoo Shipbuilding, the world's second-largest shipbuilder,
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      • 80 19 Bloomberg [BANGKOK! Thoresen Thai Agencies pel, Thailand's biggest shipping company by market value, said it has invested three billion baht (Ssl 25 million) to expand its offshore oil and gas business as it diversifies from dry-bulk operations. Thoresen Thai raised its stake in Mermaid Maritime
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      • 108 19 Reuters [ISTANBUL] Turkey's Dardanelles Strait opened for tanker and other traffic after a two and a half day closure yesterday while snow and fog kept the Bosphorus closed for a fourth day, officials said. The closures of the strategic waterways have lifted delays for oil
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    • 283 19 Source: Reuters SGX *000 Jan 26 St vol CH Offshore X)J8 unch 184 ChuanHup .0.38 -0.01 1328 Cosco Corporation 1.11 -0.02 7502 CWT Distribution .0 M 0.01 50 EzraHldgs 1.87 0.08 1982 Freight links .0.06 -0.01 30 Grand Banks Yacht .0.90 -0.01 5 Java Holdings U4 -0.01 487
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    • 769 19  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR A US appeals court ruled last month that loss of market value was by itself adequate proof of cargo damage to establish a prima facie case of liability against a shipowner under the
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    • 335 19 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Orient Overseas (International) Ltd. which operates Asia's sev-enth-biggest container shipping line, said fourthquarter sales at the unit rose 2.2 per cent, a slower rate of growth as it filled less cargo space. Sales at Orient Overseas Container Line increased
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 542 20 EDITORIAL BY MOST accounts, the majority of Wall Street strategists are bullish for the year ahead, with an average gain of at least 10 per cent being forecast. Underpinning this sentiment is the conventional wisdom that all is well with the investment outlook that
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    • 796 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE NEIL BEHRMANN London Correspondent THOSE who try and forecast the future of technology, the Internet and communications should go back in time. When the current technology revolution began 20 years ago, who had predicted that mobile phone consumption, e-mail
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    • 1310 20  -  The world's top retailer benefits lots of people. So the issue isn't US jobs, but something else LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent FORGET about Osama bin leaden and his associates hiding somewhere. Pay very little attention to the growing nuclear threats from North Korea
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    • 994 21  -  Cognitive ability and gender may play a part in shaping risk appetite By VIRGINIA POSTREL NYT US$l,OOO or a 75 per cent chance of US$4,OOO? In economic theory, questions like these have no right or wrong answers. Even if a gamble is mathematically
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    • 403 21  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Simon Liew Wealth manager/ investment strategist Frontier Wealth Management Pte Ltd I APPUMJD the recent commentary, "The case for fixed-income assets" (BT, Jan 25) by Genevieve Cua. CPF rules regarding fixed income funds have long been a bugbear for
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    • 243 21  -  Neil Montefiore Chief executive officer MobHeOne Ltd Singapore I REFER to Wong Wei Kong's commentary, "Mi's generous payouts cannot be sustained" (BT, Jan 23). Ml is committed to a sustainable dividend policy for our shareholders. In keeping with this, Ml paid out
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    • 849 21  -  By JOHN TAGLIABUE THOSE who drink Chateau Latour wine or buy Gucci handbags or order a sweater from the Lerner or Lane Bryant catalogues are all doing business with companies owned by Francois-Henri Pinault, heir to one of France's biggest luxury
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  • executive lifestyle
    • 544 29  -  off the cuff jaime ee I WANT to be a geomancer. They seem to make a lot of money telling people things like this is the year of the fire dog and making studied predictions like "hot weather will make people
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    • 1393 29  -  Geomancers agree that the year of the dog will see natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, nuclear explosions and mayor earthquakes. But they differ on which industries will perform well. CHEAH UI-HOON finds out what the fire dog will bring with him CHEAH UI-HOON FOR those
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    • 365 29 What's in store Rat (1936,1948,1960, 1972.1984) YOU'VE got average luck this year, so you need to persevere and be diligent as you may well be your own biggest obstacle. Maintain a clear head as<well as exercise rational judgment as things will resolve naturally over time. Career-wise, though, it's time to
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  • BOOKS/COVER STORY
    • 599 30  -  WORDS FROM THE TOP Eric Oey, publisher and CEO of Periplus Publishing Group, talks to PARVATHI N AYAR about the business of literature and literary awards PARVATHI NAYAR Q. What aspect of book publishing gives you the most satisfaction? A. It's always exciting to do
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    • 1144 30  -  PARVATHI NAYAR talks to Tash Aw, the winner of the Whitbread First Novel, and reviews his 'The Harmony Silk Factory' PARVATHI NAYAR THE telephone conversation with Tash Aw takes place at an interesting interstice in his remarkably successful debut as author of The Harmony
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    • 445 30 I I WITH most of our English language fiction on Malaysia dating from the times of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, the peninsula was ripe for a contemporary re-visitation. It is one of the strengths of Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory: the lush Malaysian setting
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    • 579 30 Snake (1941 1953,1965, 1977) YOU have extraordinary fortune this year compared to the last. Your career is going well so entrepreneurship or a change of jobs will work favourably. Short-term strategies are likely to yield returns but continue to maintain healthy social relations. It's a good year
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  • CINEMA/WINE
    • 574 31  -  By GEOFFREY EU FOR some reason, Singaporeans never seem to tire of movies that include a liberal dose of (preferably naughty) local dialect almost as if the presence of a few choice Hokkien sentences acts as a kind of nudgenudge, wink-wink bond
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    • 446 31  -  By GEOFFREY EU JET Li is a lot more convincing as an action hero when he's wearing Chinese period costume and not struggling with the complexities of the English language. Freed from the constraints of Hollywood in Fearless, Li flies through the air with the
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    • 695 31  -  FILM REVIEWS In its better moments, Zodiac offers some vivid visuals, but the tale is told in an amateurish way, says JAIME EE JAIME EE IT'S the first ever made-in-Singapore cartoon uh, animated feature that cost US$2 million to make. Zodiac: The Race Begins has
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    • 1227 31  -  By N K YONG IT is quite fascinating that the in* creasingly widespread use of wines to accompany the traditional Chinese New Year's Eve family dinner is a matter of course today. For the occasion, champagne is accepted as the aperitif of
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  • Making Time
    • 1433 32  -  The perpetual calendar movement faithfully reports day, date, month and even the leap year as well. SU JIA XIAN makes sense of the genius behind it SU JIA XIAN IN terms of concept and philosophy, the perpetual calendar must surely rank as
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