The Business Times, 12 April 2006

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  • 17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg MICA (P) 099/03/2006 Wednesday April 12,2006
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  • 684 1  -  US dollar edges higher but some analysts see currency falling to as low as S$1.57 within the year By LARRY WEE [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore said yesterday that it was sticking to its two-year policy of "modest and gradual" appreciation
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  • 137 1 ST! 2,554.66 (+8.74) ST INDEX FUTURES 2.554.00 (+8.00) SIMSCI 302.81 (+0.87) SIMSCI FUTURES 300.90 (-0.30) MARKETS Tuesday Change KLSE COMP Closed NIKKEI 225 17,418.13 -38.45 HANG SENG 16,475.81 -45.78 SET INDEX 757.40 -0.11 JAKARTA COMP 1,360.12 -3.17 MANILA COMP 2,217.38 +9.44 SEOUL COMP 1,386.08 -12.21 SHENZHEN B 286.07
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  • 580 1  -  Eunice Tay, COO of the NNI, to take up the reins By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has found a new permanent chief executive to lead it in; to its next phase of life. Sources t6ld BT that Eunice Tay, the
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 739 2  -  More executives complain of longer hours, burnout, Says Hudson report By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] The effects of a strongly recovering economy are starting to show, as quarterly hiring hits a five-year high in Singapore. More workers are complaining about longer hours
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    • 664 2 Global trade to grow 7% despite downside risks: WTO GLOBAL trade in goods is expected to grow 7 per cent in volume terms as the world economy accelerates 3.5 per cent this year, despite a number of downside risks, economists from the World Trade Organization said yesterday. And
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    • 667 2  -  By RONNIE LIM [SINGAPORE] Phase one of Vopak's new Banyan Terminal that opens today its fourth here is the first of a slew of mega projects and oil tankfarm expansions coming on stream in the next 18 months. These projects including Hin
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    • 553 3  -  S'pore gains from shift into commercial services, pharmaceuticals By RAVI KANTH in Geneva GLOBAL trade in goods is expected to grow 7 per cent in volume terms as the world economy accelerates 3.5 per cent this year, despite a number of
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    • 580 3  -  But many still don't know enough about companies' risks By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] Boards of directors worldwide are now more informed about and involved in their companies than in the past, says a new McKinsey survey a finding likely to be welcomed by
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 601 4  -  The deal values the SGX-listed firm at $3.05 per share By UMA SHANKARI INDONESIAN tycoon Kris Wiluan yesterday emerged as the much-anticipated buyer of a major stake in KS Energy Services. Using privately held Pacific Oilfields Equipment Investment Corp as a
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    • 754 4  -  9-month earnings, up 74% to $132.5 m, are its highest since listing By TEH HOOI LING SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) continued its winning ways in its third quarter with net earnings nearly doubling to a record $50.1 million. This brings its profit
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    • 571 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By TEH HOOI LING SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) is at a sweet spot right now. As with most entities which find themselves in this unviable position, its gtiod fortune is the result of its smart strategic- moves bearing fruit at an opportune time. Constrained
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    • 483 6  -  Accused questioned in English while she does not know the language: defence By WONG WEI KONG THE way the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) questioned a woman accused of helping to cook the books at Citiraya Industries was put under scrutiny by the defence yesterday
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    • 889 6  -  AGM WATCH They should have some knowledge of company's performance R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IT IS thjtf time of year again when listed companies hold their annual general meetings (AGMs) and in some cases extraordinary general meetings (EGMs). Such events give shareholders a
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    • 103 6 SHAREHOLDERS at the annual general meeting of Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE), the hotel company controlled by United Overseas Bank (UOB) chairman Wee Cho Yaw, yesterday agreed to the various motions put to them. The central issue that was addressed at the meeting was how to unlock
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    • 619 8  -  Top bid of $21Om comes from NTUC Choice/Wing Tai joint venture By KALPANA RASHIWALA BULLISH bidding by developers for upmarket sites seems to be spreading to the suburbs. A 99-year leasehold condo site near Tanah Merah MRT Station has attracted a top bid from
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    • 360 8  -  By CONRAD RAJ SEMBCORP Marine is closing the gap with rival Keppel on rig orders with its latest contract to convert and outfit two semi-sub-mersibles for American rig operator Noble Drilling. The two Singaporelisted companies with over 70 per cent of the global
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    • 138 8 INTEGRATED logistics group CWT Distribution has bought a 25 per cent stake in a Thai warehouseleasing firm for $3.06 million. CWT said yesterday it has completed a sale-and-purchase agreement with WHA Alliance under which WHA will issue 6.5 million new shares to CWT
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    • 236 9 Clontz's pay rise comes as StarHub returns to profit CEO PACKAGES Bloomberg STARHUB Ltd, Singapore's second-largest phone company, increased the pay of chief executive officer Terry Clontz last year after a record profit. Mr Clontz, 55, received between $3.25 million and $3.5 million,
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    • 217 9 Bloomberg WONG Ngit Liong, chief executive officer of Singa-pore-based Venture Corp, received at least three times more pay in 2005, when the company posted a profit gain after a decline the year before. Venture, which makes electronics for companies including Hewlett-Packard Co and
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    • 171 9 SHARES of Olam International, the agricultural commodities supplier, fell as much as 4.1 per cent around midday yesterday to $1.64 after 31.963 million shares were placed at $1.65 each. Olam shares later recovered to close at $1.65, down 3.5 per cent, or 6 cents from
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 52 9 KEPPEL Land yesterday obtained shareholders' approval for the distribution of units in its planned $630.7 million office real estate investment trust, or K-Reit Asia. Each shareholder will get 200 K-Reit units for every 1,000 KepLand shares they own. K-Reit will start trading on
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      • 69 9 CSE Global has clinched a contract worth in excess of £3 million (Ss9 million) from the UK Meteorological Office. Its UK subsidiary will provide an Enterprise Scada solution, which will be the backbone of the buyer's new Meteorological Monitoring System. The system
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      • 48 9 SERIAL System, which has been embroiled in a legal suit with Philips Singapore and Philips Electronic Singapore, said both parties have reached an out-of-court settlement. Philips will pay $2 million to Serial System, being full and final settlement of all claims.
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      • 55 9 ACMA's loss for the year ended Dec 31, 2005 has widened to $7.2 million, from $1.5 million announced earlier. This is due to further adjustments in relation to additional impairment provisions required under accounting rules. Shareholder funds have also been cut to
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      • 74 9 SINGAPORE Telecommunications customers whose babies are in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Singapore General Hospital can now see them via the Internet or 3G phones as well. The company'has installed three cameras on a three-month trial basis to
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 533 10  -  STOCKS Telecom-related counters and some stocks in electronic and oil sectors see plenty of action R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IS the China play over? Or is this just a temporary phase that the market is going through? These are worrying times if you're
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    • Article, Illustration
      467 10  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Innovated Precision April H dose: I3J ctnts BMP PARiSAS RESEARCH, April II INNOVALUES Precision's automo- tive division saw sales more than triple in 2005 to $10.7 million de- > spite a delay in new projects till 4Q05. With the division now firing I on all
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    • 428 10 CURRENCIES AFP [TOKYO] The US dollar was mixed in narrow ranges in Asian trade yesterday as investors awaited fresh leads from the Bank of Japan governor on when interest rates will rise here, dealers said. The US dollar firmed to 118.47 yen in Tokyo afternoon
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    • 184 10  -  CHART POINT By YEO KEE YAN, chartist at Kelive Research DESPITE a series of unnerving dips, the Straits Times Index managed to regain composure and rose to an in-tra-year high of 2,564 points yesterday. For the moment, we believe that an overshoot to 2,580 is
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 393 11  -  It will engage in offshore, corporate and merchant banking services By LESLIE YEE INDIA'S sixth largest private bank yesterday opened its first overseas branch, in Singapore. UTI Bank chairman and managing director PJ Nayak says the bank is looking to raise up to
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    • 463 11  - Q1 prime retail rental index up 1.1 says CBRE By ALEXANDRA HO THE island's prime retail rental index rose 1.1 per cent in the first quarter of the year, a reflection of the continuing positive sentiment brought about by strong economic growth and increasing tourist arrivals, says property consultancy CB
      Source: CB Richard Elcs  -  463 words
    • 302 11  -  By UMA SHANKARI THE squabble between high-society magazines Prestige and Singapore Tatler came to a close yesterday after Tatler agreed to pay Prestige $40,000 plus costs to settle a lawsuit. Prestige sued Tatler this year for claiming it was the leading
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    • 504 11  -  By LESLIE YEE GE MONEY Singapore is stepping up its competition with the banks by creating a new loan product with the friendly name of "James". As with GE's ezyCash loans, it will be made available through post offices, in partnership with Sing Post.
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    • 630 12  -  ELECTION WATCH MM Lee challenges opposition MPs Low and Chiam to contest in GRCs By MATTHEW PHAN, OH BOON PING PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong hopes to win strong support from Singaporeans in the coming elections, DPM Wong Kan Seng said yesterday.
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    • 265 12  -  By ARTHUR SIM REAR-ADMIRAL (NS) Lui Tuck Yew has resigned as chief executive of the Housing and Development Board (HDB). At HDB, he was known as a leader with k common touch and could well be expected to have a future in politics, having
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    • 275 12  -  By OH BOON PING APART from running Mandarin classes, the Chinese community is now stepping up its drive to hire more Malay workers. At a meeting with Malay MPs yesterday, a task force of Chinese community leaders agreed on a proposal to collaborate with
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    • 413 13  -  Crown Prince hopes for Saudi-S'pore joint ventures By JURENA CHAN, NANDE KHIN SOME US$62O billion worth of investment opportunities await Singapore companies which are looking to venture into Saudi Arabia. These opportunities arise as Saudi Arabia the world's largest oil producer seeks to diversify away
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 142 13 SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong arrives today in Beijing for a week-long official trip to China. Mr Goh whose last official trip to China was in November 2003 will visit the cities of Beijing, Suzhou and Shanghai. He is accompanied by Mrs Goh,
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      • 58 13 SOUTH-EAST Asia's first SMS reference inquiry service was launched yesterday by the National Library Board. Customers can now SMS their queries to 9178 7792 and receive their answers within one working day. This service is part of the board's new six-week campaign entitled "Find It",
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      • 49 13 S'pore f NY police forces sign accord THE police forces of Singapore and New York City have agreed to work together to promote law enforcement. A three-year agreement was signed on Monday by Singapore Commissioner of Police Khoo Boon Hui and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W Kelly.
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      • 59 13 CHIA Woon Khien has been appointed as director, Asian Local Market Strategist for Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank Pic. She will be based here, and is responsible for developing trading strategies for regional foreign exchange and interest rate markets. She previously
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 155 14 AFP [TOKYO] The Bank of Japan's policy board maintained its zero-interest rate monetary policy in its first meeting since the central bank dropped its five-year-old ultra-loose monetary policy. "The Bank of Japan will encourage the uncollateralised overnight call rate to remain at
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    • 681 14 Metal prices surge on economic uncertainty, supply worries Reuters [SYDNEY] Gold hit US$6OO an ounce for the first time since 1980 and copper stormed to a new record of just below US$6,OOO a tonne yesterday, as jittery investors chased higher profits not available elsewhere.
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    • 187 14 Bloomberg [LONDON] Financial stability in the global economy has increased in the past five years, reducing the threat of crises, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. "The near-term outlook is as good as it gets," said Gerd Haeusler, director of the IMF's capital markets
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 528 15  -  INDONESIA INSIGHT But it may be not enough to stop political temperature from rising SHOEB KAGDA Jakarta Correspondent AS IS often the case in Indonesia, changing entrenched policies requires patience and perseverance even if the changes ih question are undoubtedly in the national interest.
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    • 242 15 They will be fired if they hamper or delay projects AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's leader has warned senior government officials they will be fired if they delay or frustrate infrastructure projects under a fiveyear development plan unveiled last month, reports said yesterday. Prime Minister
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 78 15 AP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's war on corruption will not see significant results for at least a generation, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said yesterday, underscoring the extent of graft in the country. Speaking to Asian police officers meeting here, he also warned that Muslim militants
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      • 87 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] The overseas arm of Bank of China plans to pay about US$ 116 million for its parent's life insurance business in Hong Kong, streamlining the mainland lender's structure before an US$B billion IPO expected next month. BOC Hong Kong
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      • 75 15 AFP [BEIJING] China's trade surplus surged 98.5 per cent in March from a year earlier toUSSII.I9 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said yesterday. The trade surplus for the first three months of the year was up 41.4 per cent from the same period in
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      • 53 15 AFP [MEERUT, India] Armed paramilitary troops patrolled this northern Indian city yesterday as residents staged angry protests accusing authorities of negligence after some 100 people perished in a trade-fair fire. The protesters shouted slogans as relatives of victims massed outside hospitals demanding that the bodies
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 586 16 Chinese bank IPOs won't go below 2 times book value: source [HONG KONG] The US$6 billion initial public offering of Bank of China (BOC), in which Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings has a stake one of the most eagerly awaited share sales of
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    • 163 16 Reuters [BEUING] US curbs on high-technology exports to China are the main reason for China's growing trade surplus with the United States, Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said yesterday. Asked whether China's campaign to protect intellectual property rights,(lPß) would help narrow the imbalance in
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    • 399 16 Raising reserves would hit banks with large debt holdings: report Reuters [BEIJING] China is unlikely to raise banks' required reserves any time soon because the central bank can use open-market operations and other monetary policy tools to control money growth, an official newspaper
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    • 464 17 The meeting, seen as a snub to President Chen,will focus on promoting commercial ties Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's main opposition party will discuss direct air links with China at a meeting this week that underscores Beijing's determination to sideline the island's pro-independence president
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    • 46 17 [BEIJING] A group of girls dressed as bunny rabbits play with rabbit figures during an event to promote the upcoming Easter season in Hong Kong yesterday. Over 500 rabbit figures by designers the world over are being displayed at a shopping mall. AP
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    • 297 17 Move follows US$900m purchase of sub-concession last month Reuters [MACAU] Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd and Melco International Development are considering raising the number of tables at two casinos they are building on a new "neon alley" in Macau designed to
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    • 220 17 [HONG KONG] Undeterred by a ftew tax on luxury goods and price tags of up to 15 million yuan (Ss3 million) visitors to Shanghai's boat show snapped up nearly all 50 vessels on display at the four-day event, the South China Morning
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  • INDIA
    • 553 18 Reuters [WASHINGTON] US companies are rushing to step up sales of fighter jets and other weapons to India even as the Bush administration struggles to convince Congress to back a civilian nuclear energy deal with India. "By any standards, this
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    • 685 18  -  Developing countries are benefiting more from the trend than higher-income states By SIDDHARTH SRI ASTAVA in New Delhi THE Western world may resent migration of workers from developing countries due to job losses caused by it, but India has emerged as the largest
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 391 19 Ernst Young sued in US over tax shelters Complaint accuses the accounting giant of selling a failed tax strategy Reuters [NEW YORK] Former clients of Ernst Young sued the accounting giant on Monday, claiming it defrauded them and other wealthy taxpayers of millions of dollars in fees through failed tax
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    • 127 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] Bank of America Corp will eliminate 1,900 jobs by closing three call centres by year end, as part of its integration of credit card issuer MBNA Corp. The No 2 US bank will close a call centre in Dover, Delaware,
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    • 382 19 AP [SYDNEY] Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer yesterday denied seeing a string of diplomatic cables warning the Australian government that the country's monopoly wheat exporter was paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein. Mr Downer was the second minister to appear at the inquiry into
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    • 278 19 Bloomberg [SEOUL] BNP Paribas SA, France's biggest bank by market value, paid 937.8 billion won (Ssl .6 billion) to more than double its stake in Shinhan Financial Group to become the South Korean lender's largest shareholder. The Paris-based bank bought 20.12 million shares
      Bloomberg  -  278 words
    • 590 20 He promises strong government though Berlusconi has yet to concede defeat AP [ROME] Romano Prodi yesterday claimed victory over Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Italy's parliamentary elections and said he would form a "strong" government though the official vote count had not been
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    • 230 20 AFP [BANGKOK] The party of Thailand's outgoing Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday he would return to office within a year, as the premier vowed to "totally wipe out" his rivals. "We in Thai Rak Thai are united in making our
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    • 352 20 Reuters [LONDONJ Britain's financial regulator said yesterday it had fined Deutsche Bank more than £6.3 million (5517.7 million) for market misconduct involving two separate transactions in March 2004. The first transaction was a book build in Scania B shares, while the second
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 79 20 Reuters [PARIS] Several large listed French companies which are shareholders of Euronext favour a merger of the exchange with its German peer but they do not want the new combination to monopolise clearance, the head of the shareholder group said in yesterday's Les Echos. About
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      • 66 20 Reuters [TOKYO] Takashimaya Co, Japan's biggest department store, yesterday forecast a 2 per cent rise in net profit in 2006/07, building on a 52 per cent surge in profit in the past business year on an economic recovery in Japan. The retailer said its
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      • 90 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Billionaire investor George Soros and partner Steven Mnuchin are seeking US$745 million in loans to help buy Viacom Inc's Dream Works LLC film library, said a person involved in the transaction. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein is arranging a US$595 million five-year term
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    • 3344 21 SWISSCO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Company Reg. No.: *****1051 D (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of SECOND Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Second Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 9 Pandan Road, Singapore *****7 on 28 April 2006 at 9.30 a.m. for
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    • 726 22  -  Move comes ahead of Jetstar's plans to start flights to Asia, Pacific By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] In a move which underscores the challenges faced by discount carriers in the AsiaPacific region, Qantas is scrapping its Australian Airlines brand in favour of low-cost
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    • 1345 22 NOTICES BUY IT SELL IT FIND IT BKC BRC Asia Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Registration No: *****0054G NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the 60 th Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Raffles Marina Ltd, 10 Tuas West Drive, Singapore *****4 on Friday, 28"
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    • 675 23  -  Trend due in part to move away from unproductive PE, net asset valuations By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Shipping investment trusts are going to become more commonplace as shipping companies increasingly move away from unproductive price-earnings and net asset valuations, according to the head of
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    • 306 23 AP [LONDON] A new Sunday ferry link connecting the remote northern Scottish island of Harris with one of its neighbours has angered some residents who believe Sunday should be an undisturbed day of rest. The first Sunday ferry to Harris, in the Outer
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    • 238 23  -  VAK tariff to be hiked US$300 per 40-foot container By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Container shipping lines, including Neptune Orient Lines' APL, operating on the westbound transpacific trade route between Asia and North America have announced their intention to raise freight rates for chilled vegetables.
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    • 642 23  -  STRAIT TALK By DAVID HUGHES SHIPPING is steadily getting safer. That is the key message to get over despite a widespread perception to the contrary. In 1996 about 250 ships over 100 gross tonnage (gt) were lost worldwide; by 2004 that figure was
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    • 381 23 Reuters [HONG KONG] China Cosco Holdings Co Ltd, the country's largest container shipping firm, beat forecasts with a 21 per cent rise in second-half earnings on the back of China's booming trade, the firm reported yesterday, and pledged to seek faster growth
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    • 510 24 EDITORIAL THE visit next week to the United States by Chinese leader Hu Jintao his first since becoming President in 2003 comes at a time when economic tensions among the two giants are running high. There are multiple fault lines. The biggest is the
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    • 763 24  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING A SENIOR Chinese official has acknowledged that Beijing and the Vatican have been in contact about the normalisation of bilateral diplomatic relations. This was the first formal confirmation of hints from Vatican officials that negotiations for the
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    • 1520 24  -  If a US president decides to change policies, no lobby can prevent him from doing that LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent FOR ABOUT two decades after World War 11, a powerful coalition of US Congressmen, publishers, businessmen and military generals operating close to the
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    • 1893 25  -  Singapore's ex-chief statistician Paul Cheung remains psyched up about pushing changes in the global data system at the UN By ANNA TEO IN SINGAPORE on a week-long visit, Paul Cheung tucks into dim sum and declares that the fare served in Manhattan is even better. He knows
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