The Business Times, 22 August 2006

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  • 18 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES ■vth ANNIVERSARY 5> SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg MICA (P) 099/03/2006 Tuesday, August 22,2006
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  • 937 1  -  Mid-sized firms view Middle East, Africa and Latin America as attractive markets By NANDE KHIN [SINGAPORE] Angola, El Salvador, Kazakhstan and Algeria. Most people here would be hard pressed to locate these countries on a map but that's not stopping Singapore companies
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  • 746 1  -  Libeskind may be facing a brick wall with his design for condo at Keppel Bay By KALPANA RASHIWALA, ARTHUR SIM [SINGAPORE] Some big-name architects much touted here for upcoming landmark projects may not see their designs built after all. Pelli Clarke Pelli
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    • 38 1 SPOTLIGHT Hie 'real' Phua Chu Kang page 10 mmmpmm national DAY RALLY Companies applaud iH PM Lee's speech pages COMMENTARY CityDev should build up a Reit platform PAGE 4 jit l r xiBEflflDm !n I I /^HH|^^H an^HU^%*
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    • 56 1 ANALYSIS China's small banks underpressure PAGE 21 PROPERTY 9)« ,'fk &raraJ».*A'£: ak #2 '"tK" i 1 n h UOL close to buying Nassim Park: sources PAGE 4 Horizon Towers Ms to fetch minimum price PAGE 3 En bloc sale firming j up for Ming Arcade j PAGE 30 ij H^EL
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 933 2  -  Pleasant surprise over quality of country's innovations By DANIEL BUENAS SINGAPORE may be small but its innovations are of the highest "quality" and have some of the greatest technological impact in the Asia-Pacific, a study by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Entrepreneurship
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    • 400 2 SMEs fret over recruiting and retaining staff: survey RECRUITING and retaining qualified staff these are issues that more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are losing sleep over. Manpower issues overtook operating costs to become the second-biggest challenge faced by SMEs, according to a DP Info survey. TOP STORIES,
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    • 398 2  -  By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok ADVANCED Info Service (AIS), Thailand's leading mobile phone operator, yesterday said it is looking to invest heavily in improving network quality and the company's image, which had suffered from the political fallout over the takeover of
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    • 544 2  -  By CHEN HUIFEN [SINGAPORE] MerLion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd has merged with Germanybased Combinature Biopharm AG and Swiss firm Athelas SA in a landmark cross-border deal that will see both European biotech firms become wholly owned subsidiaries of the Singapore drug discovery
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    • 282 3 All 4 bids understood to be below $500 m reserve price [SINGAPORE] It was pitched as the biggest collective sale deal ever, with a price tag of $500 million. But the tender for the leasehold Horizon Towers which closed last week failed to
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    • 700 3  -  Operating costs, manpower issues, competition are top worries: survey By NANDE KHIN [SINGAPORE] Recruiting and retaining qualified staff these are issues that more small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are losing sleep over, according to latest SME Development Survey conducted by DP Information Group
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    • 241 3 Crustrade stays lean and trim PAGE 1 I? Asti aiming to breach $lb sales mark: exec chairman. Michael Loh. page 12 Our unrivalled range of markets includes thousands of individual shares, plus FX and global stock indices. Qf) C! *1 O Opening a position is quick and easy, and all
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 384 4  -  Collective sale for freehold site may go for record $390 million By KALPANA RASHIWALA UOL Group is close to hammering out a deal to buy the prime Nassim Park through a collective sale, sources say. The price for the freehold site is understood
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    • 447 4  -  GROWING REITS MARKET They will spend up to $86m to add 200,000 sq ft of net retail space By ARTHUR SIM MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR plans are underway to increase the net lettable area at Raffles City, say new owners Capita Mall Trust (CMT) and Capita
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    • 264 4  -  By CHEW XIANG MKDIA group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) yesterday donated $200,000 to 20 charities. This is the third year running that it made a group donation and the first time that it chose to support programmes serving the needs of the disabled.
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    • 697 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By LESLIE YEE THERE was acrimony when Suntec Reit abandoned its $788 million purchase of 11 properties from City Developments Limited (CDL) in October last year. But that has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. At
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    • 336 5  -  By CONRAD TAN MICRO-Mechanics' net profit jumped 42 per cent to $7.73 million for its full year ended June 30, on the back of a 19 per cent increase in revenue to $31.7 million. The home-grown company, which makes precision tools and parts for
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 80 5 DAYEN Environmental said yesterday it plans to issue 13.1 million new shares at 45 cents each to Singapore Airlines (SIA) chairman Stephen Lee, who is also chairman of the Singapore Business Federation. The shares represent 19.99 per cent of Dayen's existing share capital.
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      • 37 5 ROTARY Engineering has been awarded a $24 million contract to build a biodiesel process plant on Jurong Island by Nexsol Singapore Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of the German Peter Cremer group.
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      • 60 5 JARDINE Matheson has appointed Simon Dixon as group treasurer with effect from Sept 25. The Hong Kong-based conglomerate said Mr Dixon, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong for the last two years, will succeed Jim Rush, who has joined the board of the group's UK-based
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      • 53 5 HARTFORD Education Corp's full-year net profit more than trebled from $327,000 to $1.17 million, on the back of a 36 per cent rise in revenue to $8.5 million due to an increase in student enrolment. The company proposed a final cash dividend of 0.4 cent per
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      • 52 5 CHINA Aviation Oil has issued a tender to buy 37,000 tonnes of jet fuel for September delivery, according to Reuters, citing an unnamed company source. If awarded, the latest tender will boost the firm's jet fuel purchase for September to a record-high level of
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      • 38 5 NOBLE Group said its joint venture partner Mid America Bio Energy and Commodity has secured a US$68 million credit facility to support the construction of an ethanol manufacturing plant in Cambridge, Nebraska.
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      • 104 5 SINWA Ltd said yesterday that its substantial shareholders Mike Sim family and David Sim have reached an agreement over David Sim's 13.5 per cent stake in their joint holding company, Evenstar Investments Pte Ltd, following an order by the Court of Appeal to settle their
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    • 397 5  -  CORPORATE RESULTS Results fuelled by boom in Aussie commodities sector By MICHELLE QUAH ENERGY and resources play AusGroup Ltd has turned in an impressive set of full-year results benefiting from the boom in the commodities sector in Western Australia, where it serves global customers such as Shell,
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 549 6  -  STOCKS Banks and SingTel pull down index; motley mix of second-line stocks in play R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent ■■■■■I HE local stock market kicked off the week on a soft note yesterday, dragged lower by a steep fall in Hong Kong as well
      Source: Bloomberg  -  549 words
    • 1011 6 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Aug 21 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Buy/ Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Sell '000 Shr S 000) 000) CIH Ltd 21-Aug-06 Gold Peak Ind *Buy 1174 na ***** 70.56 ***** 71.47 CIH Ltd 21-Aug-06
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    • Article, Illustration
      810 6  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Synear Food Holdings Aug 21 close: 91 cents DEUTSCHE BANK. Aug 21 WE ARE initiating coverage of Synear with a "buy" rating. Our target price of $1.08 implies more than 25 per cent' total return potential from the price of $0.8i6. As a manufacturer
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    • 525 6  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent EUROPEAN units led another assault against the US dollar yesterday after the latter's weak showing in the US last Friday, and the Chinese yuan also posted a fresh postdepeg high following rate hikes an- nounced by China.
      Source: Reuters  -  525 words

  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 399 7  -  By LESLIE YEE OCBC Bank may have failed in its attempt to take insurer Great Eastern Holdings private but the bank is busy buying up more shares in its listed subsidiary. Market players say should OCBC continue to buy more GEH shares,
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    • 209 7 THE Malaysian arm of Singapore's OCBC Bank has expanded its branch network in Malaysia for the first time in 40 years, following a change in banking rules. OCBC Malaysia has opened a branch each in Penang and Selangor. Two others will open in
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    • 351 7  -  The convenience food joint venture is expected to bring in revenue by H207 By JEAN CHUA SINGAPORE-listed Super Coffeemix and China Lifestyle Food Beverages Group are forming a US$5 million joint venture to make convenience foods and snacks in China. The
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 433 8  -  169 venture capital firms, 900 venture-backed high tech firms here By DANIEL BUENAS INCREASING numbers of foreign technopreneurs are setting up shop in Singapore, showing that efforts to build an attractive environment for research and commercialisation seems to be paying off, permanent secretary of
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    • 446 8  -  Execs say 'timely' speech discussed the 'right issues' By WEE LI-EN BUSINESS leaders yesterday welcomed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally speech, saying it was timely and identified the right issues. "The speech is very timely for Singapore which is shifting gears
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    • 212 8 SINGAPORE'S domestic and foreign trade indices each rose 17.4 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2006, boosted by higher oil prices, according to latest figures from the Department of Statistics. Strong oil prices were the main reason for a 30.8 per cent jump
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    • 401 8  -  Loans up 1.1% m-o-m, 5.7% y-o-y to $189.6b in June By LESLIE YEE BANK lending to non-bank customers continued to grow in June, rising 1.1 per cent month-on-month and 5.7 per cent year-on-year to $189.6 billion at end-June, according to latest preliminary numbers released
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    • 195 8 A NEW chief executive will take the helm at the National Heritage Board (NHB) from Septl. Michael Koh Soon Hwa takes over from Lim Siok Peng, who will retire after 29 years with the Public Service. Mrs Lim was made NHB's chief
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    • 335 8 SOME 16,000 foreign delegates in Singapore for the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in September will walk down the hallowed corridors of the former City Hall. The historic 68-year-old building at St Andrew's Road, which has been closed for maintenance since last
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    • 440 8  -  By MICHELLE QUAH ANOTHER local charity is being probed for possible governance and financial management irregularities. The Commissioner of Charities (COC) will conduct an inquiry into Youth Challenge (YC), after receiving a complaint about the way the charity is being run. The Inland Revenue
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    • 362 8  -  By LESLIE YEE HSBC yesterday launched the first principal-protected retail note in Singapore, to be called Prime Notes, while Maybank announced that it will be the first Qualifying Full Bank in Singapore to offer a CPF time deposit. Prime Notes offers retail investors a potential
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  • ENTERPRISE & INNOVATION
    • 898 9  -  Local start-ups are benefiting from capital inflow, but many funds are moving to China and India, says MATTHEW PHAN MATTHEW PHAN THE venture capital (VC) industry in Singapore has grown steadily over the past few years, helping the country's ambitions to become a hub for
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    • 962 9  -  By MATTHEW PHAN "WE tap into the empty space between how far up angels and how far down venture capitalists are willing to invest," says Carmelo Pistorio, managing partner of Upstream Ventures. Upstream, as its name suggests, is involved in early
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    • 1094 9  -  By MATTHEW PHAN HURT by the dotcom bust in 2001, many angel investors dropped out, leaving professional venture capitalists to carry on the hunt for profitable start-ups. But with the economic recovery, the emergence of new highnet worth businessmen and executives and perhaps most
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  • SME SPOTLIGHT
    • 1274 10  -  Jason Parquet MD tells NANDE KHIN about his customer-friendly business strategy NANDE KHIN THE yellow boots are not there, nor are the curly hair and the infamous big black mole on the face. But the lack of a physical resemblance does not stop Jason
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    • 1003 11  -  Crustrade is growing despite remaining lean, reports MELISSA LOH MELISSA LOH SPARKED by more than just culinary interest in seafood, Crustrade Pte Ltd managing director T Ravindran has steered his company from a small start-up to rank 64 on the SME 500 list for sales
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    • 1049 11  -  By CRYSTAL NEO All it took was a bus vendor's assurance. That was Mr Ooi Kim Thong's ticket to the start of Nam Ho Travel Service which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Having heard that bus operations were profitable, the former
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    • 830 12  -  SMALL CAPS Two-year sales growth is being reached with the help of takeovers, writes MATTHEW PHAN MATTHEW PHAN ASTI Holdings, which provides inspection equipment and services to the semiconductor industry, is aiming to leapfrog several stages of organic growth and grow the topline
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 859 13 Last Friday's rise in interest rates took market by surprise, say dealers Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's surprise interest rate rises last Friday are likely to prompt an upward test of the yuan against the US dollar, while stocks and bonds will
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    • 275 13 ADB keen to fund S'poreKunming rail link Bernama [SEPANG, Malaysia] The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has indicated that it is keen to fund certain parts of the trans-Asia railway project from Singapore to Kunming, Malaysian Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy said on Sunday. "Other than that, the various countries have
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 523 14  -  It may sell land for the project or join the venture by new Genting unit By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur GALLANT Venture, the Salim group's Singapore-listed vehicle, may team up with a new unit of Malaysia's Genting group to help
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    • 2357 14 vol General Corp 0.S9 -0.01 50 Aug 21 RM *1- ("000) Qenting .24.80 0.10 208 George Kent 0.50 0.01 8 ASM Realty 1.45 unch 3 GHL Systems .0.23 unch 1696 Abric 0.32 unch 0 Globetronics Tech 0.30 0.01 129 ACP Industries 0.81 unch 183 Glomac Bhd 1.14 unch
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    • 482 14 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Indonesian bank Renaissance Capital is struggling to seal its US$3.2 billion coal mine deal with Bumi Resources as foreign creditors, alarmed by poor performance of one of the mines, want to cut lending for the deal. Under the previous plan,
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    • 188 14 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] South Korean auto maker Ssangyong Motor is planning to make Malaysia its export hub for Southeast Asia, capitalising on lower taxes for vehicles made in the region, a report said yesterday. Competitive Supreme, Ssangyong's Malaysian distributor, said the Rexton II
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    • 501 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Southeast Asia has hit a new record in inward investment, surpassing levels last seen on the eve of the Asian financial crisis a decade ago, a study showed yesterday. The study, prepared by accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers for Asean, says foreign direct
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    • 219 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is considering setting up a telecommunications infrastructure firm to oversee a state plan to give more Malaysians access to high-speed Internet services, a minister said yesterday. Malaysia, which lags far behind more tech-sawy Asian neighbours like Singapore and South
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 59 15 Reuters [MUMBAI] Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, India's top drug maker by sales, is close to acquiring Russian generic drugs maker Akrikhin for US$ 100 million, the Business Standard reported yesterday. It says the likely acquisition of Akrikhin would help Ranbaxy expand in the Russian market, which
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      • 76 15 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong pro-democracy legislator Albert Ho was beaten on Sunday at a city-centre restaurant by men armed with baseball bats and is being treated in hospital. Police are investigating the attack. The men beat Mr Ho at a McDonald's restaurant on Queen's Road in
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      • 67 15 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Citic Pacific Ltd, a Hong Kong-listed company with investments in utilities and airlines, said first-half profit rose 24 per cent as sales jumped by two thirds. Net income increased to HK53.44 billion (*****.2 million), or HK$l.57 a share, from
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      • 61 15 Reuters [LUCKNOW] Bismillah Khan, one of India's best-known musicians and a master exponent of the wind instrument shehnai, died of heart failure at the age of 90 early yesterday, doctors and his personal secretary said. Schools and government offices were closed in his home state
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      • 65 15 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has urged Indonesia to tackle the forest fires it blames for the choking haze that has engulfed the region. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said cooperation was ongoing with Indonesia over forest fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island and Kalimantan on Borneo
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    • 303 15 Most survey respondents say they would not report bribery cases Reuters [BEIJING] Most Chinese see bribes and kickbacks as an indispensable part of doing business in the country, state media yesterday cited a survey as showing. China is known for its millennium-old business culture centred
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    • 411 15 Three former execs have been detained by govt officials under graft charges Bloomberg Reuters [HONG KONG] Shanghai Electric Group Co Ltd yesterday again dismissed any connection to a widening corruption probe that has ensnared three of its top executives and cast a cloud over
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    • 67 15 —Reuters [QINGDAO] Competitors of the 2006 Qingdao International Regatta sailing competition compete on the first day of the games in Qingdao. in China's eastern province of Shandong, yesterday. The first official test event for the 2008 Olympics got underway yesterday afternoon when a fleet of boats sailed
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    • 360 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong has reached an agreement with mainland China to prevent double taxation by the two jurisdictions and to reduce the tax burden for Hong Kong residents and businesses, the government said yesterday. Under the arrangement, Hong Kong-registered companies
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    • 300 15 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] Shares of Centurion Bank of Punjab Ltd, an Indian lender headed by former Standard Chartered pic chief executive Rana Talwar, surged after the bank said it will combine with a smaller rival. The stock gained as much as 14.1 per cent
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    • 282 15 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] GlaxoSmithKline Pic, the world's second-biggest drugmaker, withdrew its patent application for the Aids drug Combivir in India after resistance by patient groups in the South Asian country. "GlaxoSmithKline has voluntarily withdrawn its patent application" for the drug, N Y
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 423 16 Aug 31 deadline by UN to halt uranium enrichment looks set to be ignored Reuters [TEHERAN] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday Iran would press ahead with its pursuit of nuclear energy, indicating it will not heed a UN demand to stop
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    • 213 16 Reuters [LONDON] Anglo American pic, the world's third-largest miner, could face a potential US$BO billion break-up bid from rivals, The Observer reported on Sunday. Brazil's CVRD, Swiss-based Xstrata and Rio Tinto are looking at a possible break-up bid and have hired financial advisers ahead
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    • 395 16 He aims to improve Tokyo's relations with China, S Korea AP. AFP [TOKYO] Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso officially announced his candidacy yesterday to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi next month, and called for better ties with Asian neighbours. Mr Aso said
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    • 470 16 AFP [TOKYO] The United States is moving to freeze North Korean bank accounts which have proliferated in friendly countries in recent months, a prominent scholar said yesterday, quoting a US-South Korean joint probe. North Korea has boycotted talks on ending
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    • 590 16 Did Temasek's Shin stake break foreign ownership cap? Reuters [BANGKOK] This week's Thai investigation into the takeover by Temasek Holdings of Singapore of its biggest telecoms company is seen as having far-reaching potential consequences for foreign businesses as well as investors. The
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 85 16 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Germany's Infineon Technologies has won an order from the US state department to, supply security chips for a new electronic US passport. The US government will start giving the new passport to its citizens later this year and plans to issue about
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      • 84 16 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Shinhan Financial Group, South Korea's second-largest lender, said it offered to buy as much as 78.6 per cent of LG Card for 6.7 trillion won (Ssl 1 billion). Shinhan plans to pay 68,410 won a share in a public tender for
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      • 65 16 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler must pay former Daimler-Benz shareholders an additional amount because they weren't paid enough in the merger, the Stuttgart district court said. DaimlerChrysler should pay the investors 22.15 euros for each Daimler-Benz share because the original payment in the 1998 combination of
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  • WORLD
    • 393 17 Bloomberg, Reuters [LONDON] British investment firm Belgravia Group said yesterday it was considering buying Newcastle United pic sending shares in the English football club up as much as 16 per cent. The statement from the Belgravia Group, based in the British island of
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    • 630 17 Decaying facilities could add 20% to oil prices in 10 years: analyst Bloomberg [LONDON] BP pic's shutdown of the largest US oil field may be the first of many, as decaying pipelines threaten to add 20 per cent to energy prices in
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    • 687 17 Salarymen are driving Japan's fashion sales Bloomberg [TOKYO] With five years to go before retiring, Sakae Tajima has taken to shopping for Ermenegildo Zegna blazers and Issey Miyake T-shirts. He's among Japan's growing band of choiwaru oyaji or "middleaged men who are a bit bad".
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    • 728 17 Websites process codes faster and also collect consumer demographics NYT [NEW YORK] Advertisers do not always need funny commercials, snappy slogans or catchy jingles to capture the attention of consumers. Often, all it takes are combinations of letters and numbers
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    • 403 17 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] A 1958 Ferrari driven by racing legends Phil Hill and Richie Ginther was sold for US$5.6l million in Monterey, California, falling short of the record price for an automobile sold at an auction in North America. The Ferrari 412 S
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  • AVIATION
    • 619 18 Economy fares for 23 routes up by weighted average of 15% work. Bloomberg, Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System Bhd, the nation's biggest carrier, raised domestic prices yesterday for the first time in 14 years, giving its low-fare rival Air
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    • 295 18 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US is at least a year from being able to detect explosives in liquids carried by airline passengers, the weapon in a failed plot to blow up US-bound planes from London, the head of a congressional panel said.
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    • 289 18 Reuters (SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines, whose new Chinese air cargo joint venture was unexpectedly hit by US trade sanctions last week, said yesterday that it is working towards resolving the issue quickly. Great Wall Airlines, in which SIA and Temasek Holdings
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    • 141 18 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines Corp and All Nippon Airways Co, the nation's two largest carriers, flew more passengers on domestic routes during the peak summer travel period, as the fastest economic growth in over a decade spurred demand. JAL carried 1.46
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 184 18 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD DOWN 1 nf 3r iiii +Qr I t Q a beating (4,5) Across: 4 Tide over, 8 Astray, 9 k i 16 Determined man will be not Gauntlet, 10 Pooh-pooh, 11 rw-Dreea p; disheartened (4-4) Hearth, 12 Retainer, 13 Overplay, 2 Cut off commercial break (6) 1g Understood
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  • SHIPPING
    • 590 19  -  Fuel oil seeped into the sea after Israeli bombs struck power utility in July By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] United Nations' bodies, the European Union and various Mediterranean Sea countries have reached an agreement on a 50 million euro (Sslol
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    • 447 19 AFP [ROME] About 10 bodies have been spotted from the air and about 10 other people are feared missing after a second boat carrying would-be immigrants sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the ANSA news agency reported on Sunday. Sicilian maritime
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    • 229 19 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Cargo handlers at South Korea's Busan port moved 1.2 per cent fewer containers last month as shipping lines sent more goods through Shanghai and Hong Kong. Busan, the world's fifth-busiest port, processed one million 20-foot containers in July, compared
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    • 531 19 AFP [NUEVA VALENCIA. Philippines] Oil from a sunken tanker is threatening a second island in the central Philippines, officials said yesterday, as a desperate battle went on to contain the country's worst oil spill. Thousands of poor villagers scoured beaches and
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    • 299 19 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Cosco Shipping Co, a unit of China's biggest shipping company, had a 46 per cent decline in second-quarter profit as fuel costs rose and cargo rates dropped. Net income fell to 126.4 million yuan (Ss2s million), from 234.1 million yuan
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    • 288 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] Shipping billionaire John Fredriksen's Geveran Trading had almost US$lOO million of assets frozen by a South Korean court after it broke insidertrading laws., Cyprus-based Geveran sold a stake of more than 10 per cent in Hyundai Merchant Marine Co to Hyundai Heavy
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    • 273 19 SGX '000 Aug 21 S$ Vol CH Offshore .0.36 unch 306 ChuanHup .0.33 unch 1229 Cosco Corporation 1.54 -0.06 ***** CWT Distribution .0.64 0.01 237 Ezra Hldgs 2.74 -0.04 207 Freightunks .0.06 -0.01 549 Grand Banks Yacht..- 0.86 unch 24 Java Holdings 1.35 unch 1666 K1 Venture 0.37
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    • 141 19 SINGAPORE/MALAYSIA/COLOMBO TO CHITTAGONG V.V. CHITTAGONG PORT CONGESTION SURCHARGE j A review of the current situation at Chlttagong Port was carried out with the Chlttagong Port Authority (CPA) on 15 and 16 August 2006. j In view of the improvement in the conditions at Chlttagong Port, the following Feeder Operators have
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 521 20 EDITORIAL THE campaign by Taiwan's pro-democracy veteran Shih Ming-teh to force President Chen Shui-bian out of office shows that discontent is no longer a limited, partisan issue between supporters of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Kuomintang. Clearly, the tide of public opinion is
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    • 749 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE PAUL SAMUELSON Tribune Media Services GLOBALLY, and also in the United States, the summer of 2006 has been dismal in terms of geopolitics. World economics is a different story. Now is a time of puzzlement. Are we in a stage of
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    • 1196 20  -  Even Chinese firms have been lured by tax breaks, inexpensive land and cheaper labour By DON LEE LAT-WP HECK that label: "Made in Jfr China" is starting to give mm way to "Made in Vietnam". Taking a page tfrom Beijing's economic playbook, Vietnam is luring makers
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    • 1208 21  -  City commercial banks must position themselves correctly as competition heats up amid liberalisation By TIGER TONG CHINA'S banking sector is facing a looming deadline. It has to fully open its market to foreign banks in accordance with the WTO agreement soon and competition is about
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    • 1039 21  -  ANDY MUKHERJEE Bloomberg THE demise of India's fragmented, wasteful and corruption-ridden agricultural market, and its replacement by a modern supply chain, may well be the most significant change in the Indian economy over the next decade. Since the new arrangement will inevitably see local
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    • 231 21  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Kelvin Quek Head,Investor Relations OCBC Bank WE REFER to the commentary, "Analysts not bullish on OCBC numbers" (BT, Aug 18), by Siow Li Sen. We wish to point out the following: Following the results release, three brokers (Citigroup, Bear Stearns
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    • 231 21  -  Siew Peng Yim, Group Financial Controller, HTL International, Singapore 1 REFER to the the article "More than just the numbers" (BT, Aug 18). I need to elaborate to give your readers a more thorough and complete understanding of the deci-sion-making process on major issues/projects
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  • FOCUS: ART OF SELLING
    • 2159 22  -  Home buyers and sellers as well as their brokers need to brush up on the finer points of negotiating, writes VIVIAN S TOY VIVIAN S TOY NYT IN THE frenzied housing market of the last several years, money did all the talking. Sellers sat
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  • 10676 23 SGX MAINBOARD Transaction date: Aug 21 52-wk TtJ Last Vol Day Lait Quota Oiv GrYld Nat MCap High low Coda Company Sale ('000) High Low 8uyar Sailer C'vr P/l Smli 4 1 5716 1st Software 2.5 2 2.5 10.1 11 5 6 3148 8Tel«om.„ 7 -0.5 2 0
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    • 1736 25 UK CONTINENT SERVICE U.S.A SERVICE Destination Destination EVGENIA RDM/ATW/BMN/TLB/NAN HANJIN PENANG LAX/VCW/MZL Loods Singapore, E./W. Malaysia, Indonesia E/w Ma aysio( ndo nesia MIDDLE-EAST SERVICE F.E./S.E.A. SERVICE Destination VOYAGER V DBI/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT Destination ASEAN PREMIER DBI/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT STX PO TBN INC/BSN PAN DYNAMIC JDH/AQA ASEAN EXPRESS DBI/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT Loads Singapore, E./W. Malaysia, Indonesia Loods
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    • 559 25 vOOv WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN LOGISTICS website: http://www.2wglobal.com VESSEL VOY RAMP HEIGHT SIH HC MAO SAV ML ORF TAMERLANE AF625 320Teei 6.4 M 26/ M 20/09 29/09 03/10 07/10 05/10 TAUIOT AF627 400Teei 6.3 M 16/09 10/10 19/10 23/10 28/10 26/10 TAUSMAN AF62B 320h« 6.4 M 27/09 20/10 29/10 02/11 06/11 04/11
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  • PROPERTY
    • 831 28 Interest rate hike seen as bid to avert slump in demand for homes Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China's decision to raise benchmark interest rates and give lenders more discretion over mortgage costs may curb soaring investment by developers while avoiding a slump in demand from home buyers,
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    • 258 28 Bloomberg [LONDON] The price of a home in the UK fell by the most in almost two years this month as the Bank of England raised interest rates. Britain's biggest real-estate website Rightmove said. The average asking price declined 1.6
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    • 516 29  -  Marina IR will benefit existing malls, industry players say in survey By UMA SHANKARI MALLS in the Marina Bay area are expected to benefit from the upcoming integrated resorts (IRs), but Orchard Road needs a revamp to remain a main shopping
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    • 449 29  -  By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai ISTITHMAR PJSC, a UAE-based alternative investment house with an initial investment capital pool of US$2 billion and part of Dubai World, has signed an exclusive agreement with Rezidor SAS Hospitality to manage its luxury hotel in Dubai under
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    • 576 30  -  Deal could prompt more Orchard Road strata commercial buildings to be sold By KALPANA RASHIWALA THE first collective sale of a shopping centre in the Orchard Road area may be in the offing, as majority owners of Ming Arcade on Cuscaden Road
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    • 411 30  -  By ARTHUR SIM GIVEN the rise in average daily rates at five-star hotels, analysts at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels (JLLH) believe transactions in the hotel property sector could hit $500 million for the rest of 2006. Already, JLLH says, total transaction activity excluding portfolio
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    • 161 28 LARGE PRIME RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SITE: SOPHIA COURT TV JT\ Near to Orchard Road and n\ ft JJ Singapore Management M University Site area approximately Muilm 166,140 sq ft Carlton >\ smu Freehold y Plot rotio 2.1 H IWM mbt /yr 1 w 1 1 Ilw t 1 st *BsEiTvJ p
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    • 346 28 For Sale Cavenagh Rd Cavenagh Mansion Parcel A: 19,813 Sq Ft Clemenceau Court Parcel B: 38.131 Sq Ft 1 p 4 f Possible Amalgamation of: JJ m 3rd Neighboring Land Plot I A Parcel C: 43,150 Sq Ft Orchard Shopping BeH tTmft Ovwhead Bridee to Possible Total of 101.094 Sq
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    • 218 28 PRIME FACTORY FOR SALE BY lENDER Address 118 Pioneer Road Description A 4-storey factory/warehouse bldg with mezz. office basement carpark Tenure JTC 30 yrs from 1 Jan 1996 Land area approx. 173,225 sq ft GFA approx. 426,866 sq ft Tender Closing 7 Sept 2006, 3pm For tender document, please contact:
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    • 233 29 Supermarket C °t«^ DS LOYA resort DAY IKEA RESORT RESORT LOYANG GIANT MTUC SANDY WATER LODGE Cineplex downtown loyang PA lm P 1 EAST M m GOUR-r yg RESORT Eg PA MRT R S Pasir Ris New Town Devt Zone Few mins to NTUC Downtown Plot Ratio 1.4 (up to
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    • 266 29 SUPER LUXURIOUS DEVELOPMENT SITE FOR SALE BY TENDER V Sv I Prestigious location and address Raffles Girls' /<£/ I |5| 7 Ardmore Park JJ L\ Quiet locality, ideal for super |S| yV \o\ .luxurycondominium development Site area approximately nod 60,224 sq ft ity f Ckib /Goodwood J U PkH W
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    • 246 30 IT"-'- 1 FOR SALE BY TENDER I F —£gr—■—l jgUTL, 99-Year Leasehold ?-srzsrlsil Site Area: Approx. 836,424.7 sq ft L l'l_ Plot Ratio 2.1 I 2=l —ss— Near amenities and reputable schools About 0.5 kilometre to Queenstown MRT Station 5-minute drive to Harbour Front Centre 1I f rTTT. m h
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    • 223 30 5 Leisure m *jpj your resort residence... with an island sanctuary clubhouse DFWAPns c h ebate RM o foFeariy blfd Package purchasers* Attractive prices from RM4M.OOO 'Conditions apply. Please enquire with our sales staff for details. *^Tim *"VT, y^rjzxifr ■■■HMMRHH "i "WMl^*! ll IMhnapftfn Located within high growth Southern Johor
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