The Business Times, 26 May 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 Friday, May 26,2006
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  • Article
    Lock icon Net investments in S'pore equity funds surge to $1b in Q1
    760 1  -  Most other types of unit trusts record net outflows By GENEVIEVE CUA (SINGAPORE) Investments in equity unit trusts surged in the first quarter of this year, with net inflows of more than $1 billion the highest since market intelligence
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    Lock icon Value of world's stock market operators plunges $22b
    734 1  -  Contributing to the souring of sentiment is NYSE's unspectacular bid for Euronext By TEH HOOI LING [SINGAPORE] Exchange operators worldwide have lost more than Ss22 billion or 17 per cent of their market value in the past two weeks as sentiment for
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Japan, China, S Korea urged to resolve tensions
      846 2  -  MM Lee, Abdullah make call for Asian unity and economic progress By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo SINGAPORE'S Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday called upon Japan, China and South Korea to resolve their diplomatic tensions
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      Lock icon Industrial relations cases in S'pore up 21%
      601 2  -  By JURENA CHAN, GRACE CHONG [SINGAPORE] Industrial relations (IR) cases jumped 21 per cent last year despite the strong economic growth, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) revealed yesterday. "During the economic downturn, union members saw and directly benefited from the help NTUC
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      Lock icon Enron chiefs found guilty of fraud
      203 2 AP [HOUSTON] Former Enron Corp chiefs Kenneth I.ay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted yesterday of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud in a case born from one of the biggest business scandals in US history. The verdict put the blame for the demise
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    • Article
      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      571 2 Keppel Shipyard pleads guilty over tanker fire KEPPEL Shipyard has pleaded guilty to a charge arising from a fire on board the oil tanker Almudaina at its Benoi yard in May 2004 that killed seven workers. Keppel was charged with failing to ensure that the No 3 starboard
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      Lock icon 5.3% revised US Q1 growth is fastest in 2-1/2 years
      344 2 LATEST US DATA Reuters [WASHINGTON! The US economy shot forward at an upwardly revised 5.3 per cent annual rate in the first quarter, the fastest growth in 2-1/2 years, as companies built up inventories and exports strengthened, a Commerce Department
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Giant eBay throws its weight behind soccer minnows
      346 3  -  The BT-Philips World Cup Fund By MIKE CHUA [SINGAPORE] Electronic auction giant eßay is rooting for World Cup minnows Trinidad Tobago (T&T). And the on-line colossus is not shy about it. In fact, eßay is proud of its World Cup affinity with
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      Lock icon How senior executives can play a part
      254 3 WE are looking for 32 senior executives or professionals to sign up one for each of the 32 teams in the World Cup finals. Each executive will be assigned a team. When the team plays, the executive assigned to it will be featured
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      Lock icon Keppel Shipyard pleads guilty over tanker fire
      398 3  -  It has also given $30,000 to each of the seven victims' families By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Keppel Shipyard has pleaded guilty to a charge arising from a fire on board the oil tanker Almudaina at its Benoi yard in May 2004 that killed
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon ACCS founder convicted of cheating Nokia
      546 4  -  COURT HEARINGS Former general manager also convicted for his part in conspiracy By VONG WEI KONG THE founder and former chief executive of mobile phone service provider Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS), Victor Tan, was convicted yesterday of cheating Nokia through fake repair bills
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      Lock icon Citiraya trial witness denies she authorised signing by Aw
      359 4  -  She also denies being told to create false invoices By GRACE CHONG A PROSECUTION witness in the trial of Citiraya accounts clerk Joanna Aw denied yesterday that she authorised Aw to sign documents relating to a company called United Excess (UE).
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      Lock icon Amara finds irregularities in Saigon venture
      226 4 AMARA Holdings said yesterday that an internal audit has ascertained financial irregularities and mismanagement at its 63 per cent-owned Amara Hotel Saigon in Vietnam. "To the best available information, the sum involved may amount to U*****,000," Amara said. "Full provisions have been made and
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      Lock icon SGX should scrap warrant short-selling
      631 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By RSIVANITHY IT'S one of the perennial mysteries of the warrants world, the preference most traders seem to have for trading only call warrants to the exclusion of puts, even when the underlying market is plunging as is the case now with
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      Lock icon Thai Beverage's listing a blow to SET
      448 6  -  NEW ISSUES It would have been 3rd biggest IPO on the Thai bourse By SIOW LI SEN THAI Beverage's $1.8 billion initial public offer (IPO) would have been the third-largest ever by a Thai company if it had been listed in Bangkok, according
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      Lock icon Pacific King Shipping postpones S'pore IPO
      268 6 It cites 'poor stock market conditions' as the reason Reuters SINGAPORE-BASED Pacific King Shipping Holding said yesterday it had postponed its plan to list shares in Singapore, blaming poor stock market conditions. The move came after a slide in global share prices, which prompted
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      Lock icon MacarthurCook fund eyes S'pore listing
      141 6 Reuters [SYDNEY] Property manager MacarthurCook Fund Management Ltd said yesterday it hopes to raise about $100 million via a secondary listing of its Australian bourse-listed Property Securities Fund in Singapore. The listing was part of a growing focus on Asia and would allow the company
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    • Article
      Lock icon Shares in SIA dive to lowest in 6 months
      230 7  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN AMID a cautious market, shares of Singapore Airlines plummeted to their lowest levels in almost six months yesterday over fears of a potential bird flu pandemic. The stock dropped as much as 60 cents or 4.7 per cent
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      Lock icon Man Wah sits pretty with 36.6% profit jump
      405 7  -  Company hopes to bring more cheers to its shareholders By JURENA CHAN MAN Wah Holdings, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of leather sofas, has furnished a strong set of fullyear results and more cheers could be in store for shareholders. Listed on the
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      Lock icon Eng Wah's full-year net earnings tumble 82%
      278 7 CRAZY Horse Paris didn't turn out to be a galloping start for Eng Wah Organization in profit terms. The group yesterday announced an 82 per cent dive in net profit to $584,000 for the full year ended March 31, 2006, against $3.2 million
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    • Article
      Lock icon SembMarine divests Kristiansand stake
      225 7  -  It realised a net profit of $13.3m from the sale By DONALD URQUHART SEMBCORP Marine (SembMarine) has divested its entire 82 per cent equity stake in its joint-venture company Kristiansand Drilling Pte Ltd for US$97 million. Kristiansand is a singlepurpose joint-venture company formed by SembMarine subsidiary
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Circuit Plus posts $3.9 m net loss
        38 7 CIRCUIT Plus Holdings has posted a $3.9 million net loss for the year ended March 2006, against a net profit of $202,000 previously. Revenue dropped 13 per cent to $8.96 million.
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        Lock icon CAO resumes tenders on 'principal basis'
        62 7 CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation said it will conduct future aviation-oil tenders on a principal basis, instead of an agency basis through its subsidiary, China Aviation Oil Trading. It said the resumption is a key step to honour its commitment to recover and improve
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        Lock icon Beng Hui sells 12.2 m BH Global shares
        68 7 BH GLOBAL Marine Limited, a procurement specialist for the marine sector, said controlling shareholder, Beng Hui Electric Trading Pte Ltd, has sold 12.2 million shares at 27 cents each to a group of strategic investors led by Emirates Capital Pte Ltd. The
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        Lock icon Matsushita, AWI in bath business venture
        87 7 [OSAKA] Matsushita Electric Works Ltd and Air Water Inc (AWI) have agreed to collaborate in the domestic bath business. Under the agreement, 80 per cent of the shares of Air Water Emoto, part of the Air Water group engaged in the domestic fittings and
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        Lock icon Fischer's net profit falls 9.3%
        67 7 FISCHER Tech Ltd, a maker of precision engineering plastic components, yesterday reported it has posted a revenue growth of 15.3 per cent to $127.8 million, for the fmancial year ended March 31, 2006. Net profit was $8.1 million, down 9.3 per cent from a year
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Market's not for the faint-hearted
      533 8  -  STOCKS Waves of margin calls and forced-selling among traders make for yet another volatile session R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IF YOU don't have nerves of steel or are unable to react quickly to rapid changes, you should not be in this market. Intraday traders who
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      1004 8 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on May 25 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Buy/ Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Sell 000 Shr C000) ('000) Magnecomp 24-May-06 Douglas Barnett *Buy 500 na ***** 13.04 ***** 13.25 Magnecomp 24-May-06 Thai Focused Eqty Fd
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      937 8  -  Compiled by R SiVANITHY Cougar Logistics Corp May 25 dose; 26 cents OCBC INVESTMENT RESEARCH, May 25 COUGAR Logistics Corporation (CLC) has reported a 21 per cent y-o-y gain in FYO6 net profit to $3.6 million on the back of flat revenue of $44 million. The strong bottomline
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      Lock icon Kiwi a big winner, but A$ sags with gold
      515 8  -  Currencies LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent IT WAS the New Zealand dollar's turn to make a star turn in what was otherwise mixed trading in Asian currency markets yesterday, but the Australian dollar continued to underperform after an- other overnight slide in
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  • THE CFO INTERVIEW
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      Lock icon China a 'new greenfield' for Cerebos
      1157 10  -  Cerebos' CFO tells SIOW LISEN how tough it was to clear up his firm's China operations during the Asian crisis and how the country is once again a challenge SIOW LISEN IT'S AN interesting parallel. One of Ramlee Bin Buang's major task when he
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      Lock icon A fan of accounting
      179 10 RAMLEE Bin Buang, 46, will recommend the accounting profession to anyone as he finds it fascinating. "It's not static," he said. When he first started working—it was with a local audit firm Goh, Tan and Co —there were only two Malays in its 100 plus team.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Owners of Nassim Park invite expression of interest
      369 11  -  HIGH-END PROPERTIES $410m asking price for prime freehold site works out to $1,218 psf ppr By KALPANA RASHIWALA JUST after news broke of City Developments emerging as the highest bidder for the 169,188 sq ft Lucky Tower in Grange Road, and with
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      Lock icon CDL to launch St Regis Residences next week
      431 11  -  By ARTHUR SIM CITY Developments Ltd (CDL) has finally set the date for the launch of its luxury condominium St Regis Residences on June 1. But the market was rife with talk yesterday that a new record price of $3,000 per square
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      Lock icon Tricor rides on growth in number of new companies
      283 11  -  OUTSOURCING SERVICES By LESLIE YEE WITH more companies being set up here, corporate services provider Tricor Singapore is looking at dou-ble-digit growth in revenue and profit this year, up from 5-10 per cent in recent years, says chief executive Ho Lon
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      Lock icon Les Concierges sets up office here
      254 11 CORPORATE services provider Les Concierges yesterday announced the opening of a Singapore office that will be its springboard for expansion in South-east Asia. Les Concierges, set up in 1998, provides a range of enterprise workforce and customer management services aimed at boosting productivity. These
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MAS signs pact with Bank of Thailand
        83 11 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with The Bank of Thailand which regulates the country's banking sector. The agreement provides for banking supervisory cooperation between the two regulators in areas of information sharing and communication during
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        Lock icon SMRT removes Da Vinci Code sticker
        114 11 SMRT has removed The Da Vinci Code floor sticker advertisements at Orchard MRT station following complaints from commuters. These advertisements feature The Last Supper with an image of Jesus Christ and his apostles, together with photos of the lead actors in the movie. As
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      Lock icon National Oxygen expands with $70m plant
      267 11  -  By NOOR AISHA SINGAPORE'S position as one of Asia's leading providers of industrial and specialty gases was given another boost yesterday during the ground-break-ing ceremony of National Oxygen (NOX)'s third air separation plant. "The demand for industrial and specialty gases in Singapore has been
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      Lock icon Singapore Flyer a big draw in Germany
      107 11 MORE than $100 million of equity for the Singapore Flyer project has been snapped up in Germany, Channel News Asia reported yesterday. The shares were offered in two batches and investors bought them over two weekends. The main reason investors are keen on
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Market shake-out gives relief to central banks
      852 12 It removes a major worry of rising currencies hurting exports in Asia Reuters [SINGAPORE] Strange as it may seem, a shake-out in emerging markets that has hit Asian stocks and currencies could be a blfessing in disguise for policy makers in South Korea,
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      Lock icon Asian firms may borrow US$200b this year
      516 12 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Asia-Pacific companies will get a record US$2OO billion of loans this year as borrowing costs drop to levels before the region's financial crisis nine years ago. Asian companies outside of Japan will boost loans by 60 per cent from 2005, John
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      Lock icon HK's US$ peg stays until yuan fully convertible: Tsang
      498 12 Only then will city consider linkage to Chinese currency Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China's yuan will need to be fully convertible before Hong Kong considers replacing a currency peg to the US dollar, the city's chief executive. Donald Tsang, said. Speculation that
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Tenaga's woes not over despite tariff hikes
      548 13  -  Firm has to tackle lopsided deals with independent power producers By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur AFTER nine years, Malaysian power company Tenaga Nasional has finally got the green light frojn the government to raise electricity tariffs by 12 per cent. This will
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      Lock icon M'sia's 40 richest worth US$26b
      345 13 [SINGAPORE] Malaysia's 40 richest businessmen have a combined wealth of US$26 billion, and 82 per cent of that figure comes from the nine billionaires on the list, according to Forbes Asia's first Malaysia Rich List. The list places "Sugar King" Robert Kuok at the top.
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      Lock icon Intel opens US$40m design and development centre in M'sia
      263 13 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Intel Corp the world's largest computer-chip maker opened a US$4O million design and development centre in Malaysia, tapping lower costs and increasing demand for computers in Asia. "This investment reflects a resounding vote of confidence from Intel on
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon Lenovo reports 85% plunge in earnings
        62 13 AP [HONG KONG] Chinas Lenovo Group yesterday said its net profit fell 85 per cent t0HK5173.24 million (5535.3 million) in the company's first fiscal year since it bought IBM's PC business. Lenovo also reported a fiscal fourth quarter net loss of HKS9O3 million compared
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        Lock icon Dell's India plant to be readv by end-2006
        61 13 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Delllnc expects its proposed Indian plant to begin production by end-2006 and help the company win share in a booming market by cutting delivery time. "We would like to have this manufacturing facility up and running within this year,"
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        Lock icon PCCW chief reassures minority shareholders
        51 13 [HONG KONG] Minority shareholders of PCCW have welcomed the attendance of chairman Richard Li at the annual general meeting, his first such appearance in four years, The Standard reported. He promised the shareholders to listen to them more as he sought to create higher shareholder
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Alwaleed eyes US$2b of BOC shares
      466 14 Investment likely to be one of many to come in China, says Saudi prince Bloomberg [DUBAI] Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is seeking to buy US$2 billion of shares in Bank of China Ltd the first investment in a Chinese company by the world's
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      Lock icon China to launch first IPO after year-long ban
      344 14 Reuters [SHANGHAI! China unveiled its first initial public offering yesterday after lifting a year-long freeze, kicking off a string of IPOs that would see its top companies, now listed abroad, issue equity in their home market. The end of the ban will
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      Lock icon China property market 'no bubble'
      352 14 Reuters [BEIJING] China's property market is not a bubble and does not pose serious risks to the banking sector, Fitch Ratings said yesterday. James McCormack, head of Asian sovereign ratings for the agency, said that, in contrast to many analysts, he felt the issue of
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Govt poised to buy RBI's 60% stake in SBI
      428 15 The purchase would work out to close to 27,000 crore rupees Economic Times [MUMBAI] The government has cleared proposals to finally acquire close to 60 per cent of the shareholding in the country's largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) from
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      Lock icon India may revive defunct regional stock exchanges
      337 15 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India is seeking to revive regional stock exchanges to help small companies gain easier access to funds and broaden the investor base. India's finance ministry is in talks with the defunct Over-the-Counter Exchange of India for its revival, a move that
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      Lock icon Lakshmi Mittal confident of acquiring Arcelor: paper
      648 15 Improving position of the steel industry was reason for increased offer [LONDON] Lakshmi Mittal expects Arcelor's management to come to the negotiating table next week, once they have had a chance to look at the Mittal business plan, which will be with the
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Oct 15 date proposed for Thai elections
        97 16 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's Election Commission, which has been asked by opposition parties and the country's top courts to resign for mishandling an April 2 snap poll, said it may propose Oct 15 for the elections to be held. The commission will meet again
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        Lock icon Bertelsmann in 4.5b euro share buy-back
        67 16 Reuters [FRANKFURT] German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG said yesterday it has agreed to buy the Bertelsmann shares owned by Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) for 4.5 billion euros (559.08 billion). The buy-back means that family-controlled Bertelsmann avoids the initial public offering of the 25 per
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        Lock icon Nintendo's profit up 12.5% to 98.4b yen
        91 16 AP [TOKYO] Nintendo's profit jumped 12.5 per cent for the fiscal year ended March 31 as a foreign exchange gain and robust sales of handhelds offset shrinking sales of home consoles, the Japanese video-game maker said yesterday. Net profit at Nintendo Co, which
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      Lock icon MasterCard shares trade below forecast
      461 16 Reuters [NEW YORK] MasterCard Corp began trading yesterday slightly below expectations as the world's No 2 credit-card brand fell victim to a volatile market and concerns over its mounting legal problems. The Purchase, New York-based credit card association's stock began trading on the New York
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      173 16 THE sell-offs in Asian markets over the past few weeks do not mean that investors are growing cautious of investing in the region, said Tharman Shanmugaratnam, deputy chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), yesterday. From what he has gathered from
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      536 16 Reuters, AFP Bloomberg [LONDON] Shares of London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group, owner of Europe's largest equities market, fell as much as 11 per cent yesterday despite a 42 per cent jump in annual operating profit. The better-than-expec-ted results could not outweigh concerns
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      608 18 Analysts fear investigation may dissuade bidders for the company AP, Reuters, Bloomberg [LONDON] Britain's competition watchdog put Grupo Ferrovial SA's hostile takeover bid for BAA pic into question yesterday, announcing it is considering a full-blown inquiry into the domestic airport market. The government's
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      422 18 [KUALA LUMPUR] Budget carrier Air Asia Bhd has denied accusations it was given preference over Malaysia Airlines (MAS) by the government in the recently announced domestic air rationalisation exercise, according to a report in Malaysia's Business Times. "We are not the government's 'golden
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      242 18 Reuters [LONDON] Europe's largest budget airline, Ryanair Holdings, said yesterday it had set a five-year agreement with Morocco to develop up to 20 routes aimed at carrying one million passengers a year to the north African state. The pact covers most
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      516 19 It will use earnings and bank loans to finance the capital expenditure Bloomberg [TOKYO] Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd, Japan's second-largest shipping company, plans to spend a record 600 billion yen (SsB.s billion) over three years to meet growing demand for marine transport. Mitsui will
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      423 19 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Standard Poor's Ratings Services said yesterday it lowered its corporate credit rating on Singapore's PSA Corp Ltd, the operator of the world's largest container transshipment hub, to "AA" from "AAA". The outlook is stable. The ratings were removed from Credit Watch,
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      661 19  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR THE Hong Kong High Court last week ordered a cargo claim to be stayed in favour of arbitration proceedings in London but the decision was not before a debate over which charterparty should apply to the bill
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      295 19 Bloomberg [SlNGAPOßE] Emirates Shipping Line, a container shipping company from Dubai that started operations last month, will begin to move cargo between the US and China in June, tapping the export demand from Asian countries. The shipping line, with headquarters in Dubai and Hong
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      536 20 EDITORIAL THIS seeming urban legend is now almost a well-worn tale, oft repeated by Singaporeans who experienced it firsthand: While shopping in Shanghai, the tourist fancies a suit on the rack, but it needs major alterations. And it's near closing time late at night, and the customer's
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      1104 20  -  The well-known futurist talks about how he arrives at his forecasts and the thinking behind 'revolutionary wealth' and other ideas By ROBIN D SCHATZ Back in 1970, Alvin Toffler challenged us to face the coming technology revolution in the bestselling Future Shock. The
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      755 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING CHINA, the host of the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, is trying to get all the parties to sit down together. However, as Chinese President Hu Jintao said after his summit
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      1162 21  -  By WILLIAM MELLOR, ALLEN T CHENG Bloomberg IT ISN'T easy to be rich in a communist country. Chen Tianqiao earned his first billion dollars at age 30, after his Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd went public on the Nasdaq Stock Market and its shares quadrupled
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      594 28  -  off the cuff jaime ee ADIES and gentlemen, welcome to Humiliation Academy, aka Singapore Idol 2. It is not, as you might think, about watching a bunch of mmm geeks making horrendous fools of themselves, leading you to wonder: how come Singapore has
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      1551 28  -  Toy collecting is serious business. GEOFFREY EU checks out two new toy museums GEOFFREY EU FROM Buenos Aires to Yokohama, from Stockholm to Sydney, toy museums those showcases of porcelain dolls, tin toys, teddy bears and all manner of objects representing childhood playthings from different periods of
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  • ARTS
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      1282 29  -  PARVATHI NAYAR finds out whether the S'pore Arts Festival is seen as a showcase of the best of Singaporean creativity PARVATHI NAYAR IT is, after all, called the "Singapore" Arts Festival (SAF) 2006, and the connotations of that first word is still open to discussion.
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      527 29  -  PUPPET THEATRE By AARON LYE SOME may wonder about Theodora Skipitares' fascination with an art form many would dismiss as childish, but her love for puppets began for very personal reasons. The time was in the mid-70s, and Skipitares was just starting out as
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      995 31 There is much to occupy the visitor in this city rich in architecture, confectionery and, of course, music NYT IN case you haven't been paying attention, this year is the 250 th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth in Salzburg. But that hasn't stopped
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      564 32  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR RIDING Alone for Thousands of Miles by Zhang Yimou is a thoughtful meditation on fathers and sons, individuals and community. The movie opens with all the trappings of the director's trademark style, his penchant to "colour code" films to
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      609 32  -  Despite the potential presented by the various characters, the third installment of X-Men is primarily a special effects showcase, says GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU THE good thing about being a comic book superhero is that death doesn't have to be fatal. In X-Men: The Last Stand,
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      497 32  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR WRITER-DIRECTOR Kelvin Tong's latest offering, Love Story, shows his versatility, for it is a radical departure both from his edgy 1999 debut Eating Air still his best work and last year's horror flick The Maid. Love Story is an intellectual, often
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      303 32  -  DVD By PARVATHI NAYAR THERE was a lot of curiosity/anticipation over Half Light. Demi Moore's first leading role after her much publicised comeback with Charlie's Angels 2. In that, as the slinky angel-gone-wrong. Moore strutted her stuff with so much oomph, the actual angels looked
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    742 34  -  Making Time There are many reasons for lady watch-lovers to be thrilled by 2006's offerings, says LARRY WEE LARRY WEE THIS YEAR will certainly not be a disappointment for the lady watch-lovers out there who have been patiently waiting for Audemars Piguet to make
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