The Business Times, 9 August 2006

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES w SINGAPORE 85 cents online at .com.sg MICA (P) 099/03/2006 Wednesday, August 9,2006
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  • Article
    Lock icon Govt hikes 2006 growth forecast to 6.5-7.5%
    748 1  -  Singapore economy grew a robust 9.4% in first six months By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] The government has for the third time this year raised its economic growth forecast for 2006, following a highly robust first half. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    135 1 sn 2,465.04 (44.79) ST INDEX FUTURES 2449.00 (+14.00) siMsa 293.76 (+020) SIMSa FUTURES 291.80 (+0.60) MARKETS Tuesday Change KISECOMP 939.06 *0.60 NtKKEI 225 15.464.66 +310.60 HANG SENG 17,048 20 +94.65 SET INDEX 711.80 +6.45 JAKARTA COMP 1,396.06 -7.41 MANILA COMP 2,367.75 -10.88 SEOUL COMP 1,311.10 +21.56 SHENZHEN B
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    Lock icon UP IN LIGHTS
    246 1 [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Fireworks Festival has returned to Marina Bay this year bigger and brighter. The festival opened last Saturday, with the skies above the bay lit up by a show from Team Italy. The display, on the theme of "Dynamic City", drew an enthusiastic response. On
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon SGX to close remaining Aussie trading link
      751 2  -  Co-trading link with ASX falls victim to persistently low demand By ANGELA TAN [SINGAPORE] The only functioning trading link between the Singapore Exchange and another stock market SGX's little-used securities co-trad-ing link with the Australia Stock Exchange (ASX) is to be discontinued at
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      Lock icon Malaysian company Scomi may list unit on SGX: sources
      581 2  -  Group, controlled by M'sian PM's son, in political limelight By S JAYASANKARAN jn Kuala Lumpur OIL and gas firm Scomi Group th 6 Malaysian 1 premier's son's vehicle that has come under political scrutiny in the country may list one of
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      Lock icon Relief as war-risk rating for Malacca Strait is Scrapped
      647 2  -  By CONRAD RAJ [{SINGAPORE] Shipping -Companies can breathe a sigh of relief and expect lower insurance rates now ;that London's insurance market has removed the controversial war-risk rating for merchant vessels us- ing the busy Strait of Malac- paReuters quoted Neil
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      673 2 Consumer spending could get $2b boost THE proposed liberalisation of the unsecured credit market could stimulate consumer spending and increase bank lending to consumers by $2 billion, Citigroup said yesterday. Under proposed new rules, banks will be able to lend unsecured credit to people earning as little as
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      Lock icon Correction
      67 2 IN "Banks poised for slice of moneylenders' pie" (BT, Aug 8), we said that for people earning less than $20,000 a year, the credit limit will be capped at twice the monthly income and that banks will not be able to issue them credit cards. The statement actually applies
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      Lock icon Consumer lending could get $2b boost
      533 3  -  Citigroup analysts see relaxed credit rules stimulating spending By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] The proposed liberalisation of the unsecured credit market could stimulate consumer spending and increase bank lending to consumers by $2 billion, Citigroup said yesterday. Under proposed new rules, banks will be
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      Lock icon Owner-occupiers driving growth in new home loans at banks
      843 3  -  Lenders taking cautious approach to interest rates By LESLIE YEE, CONRAD TAN [SINGAPORE] Despite the recent upswing in the property market, owner-occupi-ers rather than investors continue to account for the bulk of new home loan applications here, according to major mortgage
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon StarHub beats forecasts with 44% rise in Q2 net
      619 4  -  Double-digit revenue growth for all its four lines of business By SIOW LI SEN $TARHUB Ltd yesterday posted better-than-expec-ted second-quarter net profit of $75.7 million, up 44 per cent on strong customer growth for all its businesses. The company, the second
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      Lock icon Citiraya gets crucial creditor nod for debt plan
      416 4  -  By MICHELLE QUAH TROUBLED e-waste recy- cler Citiraya Industries yesterday overcame a major hurdle to its revival by securing the approval of its 1 creditors for a restructuring f>lan. Creditors representing more than 98 per cent of the amount of claims voted
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      Lock icon Is Winstedt Chong planning Vita rebirth as energy play?
      653 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By VEN SREENIVASAN IS LOW-PROFILE Vita Holdings steaming towards becoming an energy play? Last month, Vita which was listed on Sesdaq in January last year proposed taking a 51 per cent stake in privately held JL Chancellor (JLC)
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      Lock icon Trial of 2 ex-Informatics execs postponed
      289 4  -  By WEE LI-EN THE much-anticipated trial of two former top executives of Informatics, which was scheduled for yesterday, has been postponed to Aug 29. BT understands that Informatics founder and former chairman Wong Tai had indicated that he may plead guilty. The Subordinate Courts
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      Lock icon SingTel eyeing 30% of Taiwan Mobile: report
      514 4 SINGAPORE Telecom and Vodafone are reported to have expressed interest in buying a 30 per cent stake in Taiwan Mobile from Taiwan Fixed Network, tfie Economic Daily News said yesterday, quoting an anonymous source. The acquisition would amount to 1.485 billion shares in
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      Lock icon Beauty China Q2 net up 30.4% to HK$26.7m
      419 4  -  By RUCHIKA TULSHYAN COSMETIC and skincare product brand manager Beauty China yesterday reported a 30.4 per cent jump in net profit to HK526.7 million (555.4 million) for its second quarter ended June 30. The China-based company also warned that soaring oil prices
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      Lock icon Hyflux's Q2 profit down 79%; revenue nearly doubles
      533 5  -  Fall in earnings attributed to exceptional gains of $11.6 m last year By MATTHEW PHAN HYFLUX, which provides membrane-based solutions for water-treatment and other systems, nearly doubled second-quarter revenues year-on-year to $37.5 million, thanks to vigorous industrial sales. But its net profits
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      Lock icon Koh Brothers' H1 profit up 33% to $1.3 m
      287 5 KOH Brothers yesterday posted a 33 per cent increase in first-half net profit to $1.3 million. Operating profit improved 32 per cent to $5 million for the six months ended June 30, from $3.8 million in the corresponding period last year.
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      Lock icon Creative may report Q4 loss as prices fall
      416 5 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Creative Technology Ltd, fighting a losing battle with Apple Computer Inc's iPod music players, may report a fourth-quarter loss after prices declined, contributing to the company's worst annual earnings in five years. The Singapore-based company may say its net loss
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon integra2ooo CEO exercises warrants
        59 5 INTEGRA2OOO Ltd's chairman and CEO Kwok Kah Kie a target of an ouster bid by a group of disgruntled shareholders —yesterday exercised 12.49 million bonus warrants, for the corresponding number of shares in the company. He now owns 20.6 million shares in integra2ooo, or 15.03 per
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        Lock icon YHS posts Q2 net loss of $120,000
        46 5 DRINKS maker Yeo Hiap Seng saw a net loss of $120,000 for the second quarter ended June 30. This compares with a net profit of $864,000 in the previous corresponding period. Revenues grew 2 per cent to $93.3 million.
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        Lock icon Lloyd George reduces Advanced stake
        33 5 ADVANCED Holdings said a substantial institutional shareholder, Lloyd George Investment Management (Bermuda), has reduced its deemed stake in the company from 9.14 per cent to 7.84 per cent
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        Lock icon IPC H1 revenues halve to $12.6 m
        60 5 IPC Corporation saw revenues more than halve for the first half 0f2006 to $12.6 million, while net profits fell from $2.2 million to a net loss of $4,00 p. This was due to a 61.9 per cent drop in property revenues, and an
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        Lock icon Undeteves-Jacoberg Q2 losses double
        27 5 ELECTRONICS motor maker Lindeteves-Jacoberg saw Q2 net losses more than double to $55.1 million, as revenues dipped 2 per cent to $62.2 million.
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        Lock icon I'M makes H1 net profits of $1m
        37 5 I'M Technologies turned in IHO6 net profits of $1 million, compared to losses of $2 million for the same period last year. Revenues increased 4.1 per cent to $18 million.
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      Lock icon OUE accepts UOL's offer for Hotel Negara
      204 5  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA OVERSEAS Union Enterprise (DUE), now controlled by a Lippo-Ananda Krishnan consortium, has divested its entire 18.3 per cent stake in listed Hotel Negara bf accepting UOL Group's mandatory cash offer for the company. The offer closes at 3.30 pm on
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      Lock icon Super Coffeemix's Q2 profit down 29%
      373 5  -  By RUCHIKA TULSHYAN DESPITE, an 11 per cent rise in revenue to $45.53 million, Super Coffeemix Manufacturing suffered a 29 per cent year-on-year fall in net profit to $3.57 million for its second quarter ended June 30. Besides being hit by higher raw material
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon US$ unlikely to get too much lift from Fed
      853 6  -  CURRENCIES Call to sell the greenback on rallies gets louder this week LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent ijn M E START this column H m where we left it a m V m week ago, by saying m M m that the
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      1021 6 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Aug 8 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ BuyI Shares Per More After Stock Pate Director Sell '000 Shr$ COOP) (000) Integra 2000 8-Aug-06 Kwok Kah Kie OE ***** 0.08 8128 5.93 ***** 15.03 Boustead S'pore 7-Aug-06 Wong
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      279 6  -  Compiled by MATTHEW PHAN China Milk August 8 dose: $1.02 DBS VtCKERS SECURFTIES, August 8 IQO7 results exceeded our expecta- tions. Net profit grew 58.1 per cent year-on-year to 88.6 million yuan ($17.5 million), underpinned by a strong revenue growth of 37.1 per cent year-on-year to 93.5 million yuan,
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      Lock icon Quiet trading ahead of FOMC meet
      421 6  -  STOCKS TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent MARKET participants yesterday steered clear of any big bets that they might have, adopting a cautious stance ahead of Singapore's National Day holiday and the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting. However, there was selective buying of stocks,
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      Lock icon ST Index in consolidation pattern
      218 6  -  CHART POINT By YEO KEE YAN, chartist at Kelive Research CORPORATE earnings took centre stage last week as the reporting season picked up pace. Reflecting the nervous mood and short-term trading stance of many investors, the market reaction was mainly confined to "buy in anticipation,
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Top honours for Philip Yeo and Lim Siong Guan
      756 7  -  CELEBRATING NATIONAL DAY They will be awarded the Order of Nila Utama (First Class) By CHEW XIANG FINANCE Ministry permanent secretary Lim Siong Guan and A Star chairman Philip Yeo, two visionaries with illustrious track records, have bagged the nation's highest
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      Lock icon CITIBANKERS FLY THE SINGAPORE FLAG
      78 7 JONATHAN Larsen, Citibank Singapore's chief executive (centre in white), and Anil Wadhwani. its head of retail banking (in pink), leading a team ofCitibankers to mark Singapore's 41st birthday. While Citibank has a 104-year history in Singapore, the consumer bank was locally incorporated just two years
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      Lock icon UOB offers fixed deposits at special rates
      259 7  -  By WEE LI-EN UNITED Overseas Bank is marking National Day by introducing a multi-term fixed-deposit bundle with competitive interest rates. The bank is offering a special annual rate of 3.488 per cent to customers putting at least $25,000 in a three-month Singapore dollar
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      Lock icon S'pore to cap pipeline gas imports
      586 7  -  Move allows build-up of LNG demand By RONNIE LIM SINGAPORE intends to impose a moratorium or cap on pipeline gas imports and get its power stations to shift towards using liquefied natural gas (LNG) to assure base-load for the planned US$5OO million LNG receiving
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon Funding youth education in Vietnam
        59 7 IN celebration of Singapore's 41st National Day and the country's ties with Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Saigon Sports City has contributed US$l5,OOO towards the education of needy young people there. Saigon Sports City is Keppel Land's township project in Ho Chi Minh City, which
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        Lock icon DLA Piper appoints Jeffery Tan as partner
        38 7 DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has appointed former Motorola Singapore president Jeffery Tan (right) as a partner to manage and develop the legal firm's corporate and technology practice in South-east Asia.
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Mahathir cool towards KL-S'pore bullet train plan
      582 9  -  M'sian population not big enough for two train companies, he says By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur FORMER Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has poured cold water on the current administration's plan for a possible bullet train linking Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. He
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      Lock icon Jakarta urged to penalise rogue accounting firms
      417 9 [JAKARTA] The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has urged the Finance Ministry to revoke the business licenses of a number of accounting and appraisal firms due to malpractice and misrepresentation, the Jakarta Post said yesterday. "We have reported these accounting and appraisal firms to
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      Lock icon Most bird flu deaths in Indonesia?
      251 9 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia will overtake Vietnam as the country with the most bird flu deaths among humans worldwide if tests show a 16-year-old boy was the country's 43rd fatality from the disease. The youth, who was positive for the HSNI avian influenza strain in
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      Lock icon Syed Yusof may make Landmarks general offer
      501 9 He's unhappy with firm's plan to sell new shares: report [KUALA LUMPUR] Syed Mohd Yusof Syed Nasir, a substantial shareholder of Landmarks Bhd, is unhappy with the firm's plan to sell new shares, and is likely to announce his bid for the property
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon Asean-India FTA negotiations on track
        36 9 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Asean-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is still on as the leaders of the respective countries have committed to the negotiations, Asean secretary-general Ong Keng Yong, said yesterday.
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        Lock icon Beijing tightens acquisition criteria
        76 9 Reuters [BEIJING] The Ministry of Commerce has published draft rules that would allow foreign firms to invest in China via share swaps but would tighten acquisition criteria to protect China's economic security. For the first time, the new rules would require a Chinese company that has
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        Lock icon India won't raise FDI limit, says minister
        33 9 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India has no immediate plans to raise foreign investment limit in insurance, telecommunication and civil aviation, a junior finance minister said yesterday. —Reuters
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        Lock icon Tata Tea sees 70b ranees turnover
        39 9 Reuters [KOLKATA] India's Tata Tea Ltd expects its consolidated annual turnover to rise to 70 billion rupees (552.4 billion) in three years from 31 billion rupees in the fiscal year ended March 2006.
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        Lock icon Shanghai Electric exec face graft probe
        36 9 Reuters [SHANGHAI] A senior executive at Shanghai Electric Group Co Ltd is under criminal investigation after reports of alleged abuse of government funds prompted a suspension of the firm's shares.
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon Cheung Kong plans Reit based on HK$18b hotels: sources
      535 10 Analysts say group could spin off about a third of its hotel assets into the Reit Reuters [SINGAPORE] Hong Kong developer Cheung Kong (Holdings) may list a property trust in the territory for some of its HK$lB billion (553.6 billion) in
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      Lock icon Far East Consortium mulls hotel Reit
      212 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Far East Consortium International Ltd said yesterday that it was "exploring the possibility" of selling some of its hotel properties to a unit trust, but had made no application for a listing. Far East Consortium made the announcement after a Hong
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      Lock icon Life insurance industry in India seen growing 20%
      310 10 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's life insurance industry is expected to maintain 20 per cent growth a year, driven by an expanding middle class and rising incomes, said Standard Poor's. "Improving economic conditions, growing affluence, the need for health protection and low penetration
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      Lock icon India seeks to create land bank for hotels: minister
      488 10 While government upgrades airports, quality hotels in cities trail demand Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India is trying to create land banks that can be used to build more hotels to meet traveller demand and raise its share in global tourism. India has
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      Lock icon BELLY SHOW
      34 10 AP PREGNANT mothers showing cartoon figures on their bellies during a contest of coloured drawings for expectant mothers at a hospital in Haikou. capital of south China's Hainan province, yesterday. —AP XINHUA/AP
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      Lock icon China's domestic IPOs pinch global banks
      647 10 NEWS ANALYSIS Reuters [HONG KONG] A surge in domestic Chinese stock listings threatens to steal fees from global investment banks still locked out from mainland initial public offerings (IPOs). JPMorgan predicts Ashare listings will raise about US$lO billion this year, which at underwriting fees
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      Lock icon Starbucks seeks JV partner to enter Indian market
      345 10 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Starbucks Corp, the world's biggest coffeeshop chain, says it is looking for a venture partner or a licensee to enter India by the end of next year as coffee consumption rises in the nation of more than a billion
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Corrosion escalates BP's leak problem
      834 11 16 anomalies in 12 locations after inspection of 40% of pipeline system Washington Post [WASHINGTON] After noticing an oil spill on a deserted stretch of frozen road in Alaska's North Slope in early March, workers needed three days to find the quarter-inch wide hole in
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      Lock icon Apple turns up the heat on Microsoft, Dell
      573 11 Cox News Service [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Computer ratcheted up its renewed rivalry with Microsoft Corp and PC makers on Monday, announcing two new computers that complete its transition to industry-standard Intel Corp chips and showing off slick new features of its next
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      Lock icon Japan bank loans grow faster
      347 11  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo IN one of the strongest indicators so far that Japan's economic recovery is likely to strengthen, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) revealed yesterday that bank lending in July rose at its fastest annual rate in five years. A surge in
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon SEC won't challenge hedge fund ruling
        86 11 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday decided appealing a court decision nullifying a rule that requires advisers of most US hedge funds to register with it, and said it plans to move quickly on other options to regulate the
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        Lock icon Martha Stewart to pay US$195.000
        96 11 AP [WASHINGTON] Media personality Martha Stewart will pay about U*****,000 and cannot serve as the director of a public company for five years under a settlement announced on Monday on civil insider trading charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the settlement, she agreed
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        Lock icon Starbucks getting into book sales
        57 11 LAT-WP [LOS ANGELES] Starbucks, which has already entered the entertainmentmarketing world with the sale of special-edition CDs. is now getting into book sales. In its first such > in-store campaign, slated to begin on Oct 3, the company plans to sell copies of Mitch Albom's
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        Lock icon AOL removes Web users' personal data
        65 11 ATT [NEW YORK] AOL removed a list of the Web search inquiries 0f658,000 unnamed users from a public website over the weekend, after bloggers complained that the h information was so detailed and personal that it could compromise the users' privacy. AOL said the
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      Lock icon US workers productivity growth slows, labour costs increase
      300 11 LATEST US DATA Bloomberg [WASHINGTON! American workers' productivity growth slowed and labour costs rose at the fastest pace since the end of 2004, suggesting rising wages may exacerbate a pickup in inflation. Productivity, a measure of how much an employee produces for
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      Lock icon Google in US$900m deal with News Corp's MySpace
      469 11 LAT-WP [SAN FRANCISCO] Two of the biggest names on the Internet struck a nearly billion-dollar deal on Monday to combine Google's search and advertising technology with the massive online audience of News Corp's MySpace. The agreement, worth at least US$9OO million to
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  • AVIATION
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      Lock icon Air China IPO scale-back could dent other offers
      751 12 Airline pledges to buy back shares at prices above IPO if necessary Reuters [SHANGHAI] Air China yesterday slashed the size of its initial public offer in Shanghai by nearly 40 per cent because of poor demand a bad omen for a host
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      Lock icon Asiana Air posts profit of 16b won in Q2
      453 12 Bloomberg [SEOULJ Asiana Airlines Ltd, South Korea's secondlargest carrier, posted a second-quarter profit compared with a loss a year earlier, helped by a stronger won and more passengers. The shares fell on concerns the currency will Aveaken. Net income in the
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    • LOG BOOK
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        Lock icon Qantas CEO, CFO extend contracts
        81 12 Reuters [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd. Australia's biggest airline, said yesterday its top two executives had extended their contracts amid tough operating conditions caused by high fuel prices and more competition. Chief executive Geoff Dixon and chief financial officer Peter Gregg had both agreed to remain
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        Lock icon Finnair's Q2 profits fall on fuel costs
        77 12 Reuters [HELSINKI] Finnish airline Finnair reported a fall in second-quarter profits yesterday, burdened by high fuel costs, and said it also expects a drop in profits for the full year. Finnair said it had hedged 60 per cent of fts fuel consumption for
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        Lock icon Fraport's H1 net up 34% to 97m euros
        77 12 AP [FRANKFURT] Fraport AG, which operates airports in Europe and South America, said yesterday that increased flights in the second quarter helped offset weather-delays in the first quarter as it posted a 34-per cent gain in net profit in the first six
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        Lock icon Thai Air to manage Bangladeshi airport
        47 12 AFP [DHAKA] Thailand's national carrier Thai Airways will manage Bangladesh's second international airport in Chittagong from Sept 1, Thai Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon said on Sunday. He was speaking to reporters after talks with Bangladeshi Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan. —AFP
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      Lock icon Equipment malfunction at LAX disrupts flights
      576 12 Thousands stranded; flights across US delayed AP [LOS ANGELES] A navigational system for one run r way failed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Monday, stranding thousands of passengers and delaying hundreds of flights across the US. Airport officials had to delay many
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      157 12 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD —t Everyone's pa--26 Lie about Conservative lead--1 Error from clubs by top golfer 13 stu ffj n g (j$ w j t h hot reply, Across: 1 Streak, 4 Assassin, 9 As- Dossiblv (10) cend, 10 Axle-tree, 12 Bevy, 13 At no<^p*am?ninff^ 0n 16 Shaky United Nations' record
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      1354 15  -  SUKI LOR profiles the patriarchs of Singapore's banking industry SUKI LOR RAFFLES Place may be the glistening steel and glass facade of Singapore's financial sector, but behind it are the handful of exceptional men whose entrepreneurial flair turned them into tycoons even as they became catalysts for the
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      617 21 He gives new Indian carrier 18 months to two years to make a profit AFP [NEW DELHI] Bruce Ashby is an optimist, he has to be. The 45-year-old American has just launched a low-cost airline in India where most rivals are losing money, hit
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      234 21 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Precious Shipping pel, Thailand's biggest sea-transportation company by market value, said profit fell 51 per cent in the second quarter as freight revenue declined and it paid more for marine fuel. Nft income fell to 768.6 millirffb baht
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        46 21 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Overseas Shipholding Group, the largest US-based oil tanker owner, said second-quarter net income fell to US$6O.2 million from U*****.2 million a year earlier. Per-share net income fell to US$l.52 from US$2.B9 in the second quarter of 2005.
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      763 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING CHINA, which used to be thought of as no more than a regional power—albeit an important one. in particular where the North Korean nuclear issue was concerned is increasingly being treated as a world power whose
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      405 23  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to media reports on the proposal to lower the minimum income for unsecured credit lines to $20,000 a year and the article by Matthew Phan, "Number of new bankrupts in HI falls to 1,452f
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      846 23  -  By THOMAS FULLER IHT FAR from the brilliant green rice paddies that spread across the fertile flatlands in Thailand, economists in Europe have calculated that the country's farmers would be among the biggest winners if failed global trade talks were revived
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      358 30  -  By SAMUEL EE VOLKSWAGEN is investing close to a quarter of a million dollars in Singapore's 41st birthday party the second year in a row that it is playing a key role. Tonight, a convoy of white Polo and red Touareg models will transport the
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      145 30 DAVID AAKER ioh&b The world's most influential brand strategy guru FAITH POPCORN The world's no.l brand trend forecaster MARTIN LINDSTROM The world's leading youth and technology branding guru JACK TROUT IST The man who co-created brand positioning millenia Singapore I This November, the anticipated forum on Brands for mr PP9
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      898 32  -  Charges embedded in structured deposits can be as much as 4% according to a JP Morgan report, says GENEVIEVE CUA GENEVIEVE CUA YOU have bought a structured deposit and were told that you would not be charged any fees. Can there really be no charges?
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      654 32  -  CHET CURRIER THE modern history of technology stocks is a simple tale to tell. When they were good in the *****, they were very, very good. Once they went bad in the early 2000s, they turned relentlessly bad. This riches-to-rags transformation is plain to
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      292 32 EQlOTmarfaets in the dweloped world rose sightly in July although the post-May 5 downturn continued to produce higher-than-normal volatility The worsening situation In the Middle East also contributed to the erratic trading pattern diking the past month. According to Standard
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