The Business Times, 9 September 2006

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  • 21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Vth ANNIVERSARY JD A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 099/03/2006 SINGAPORE 85 cents on September 9-10 2006
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  • 863 1  -  Major financial institutions re-roster staff to cope with traffic diversions, tighter security By LESLIE YEE [SINGAPORE] As financial chiefs from around the world converge on Singapore, many of the country's own bankers are going on leave or working from home. In response to
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  • 547 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] US multinational corporations' direct investments in Singapore produced the best returns in the Asia-Pacific region last year way above the average for US MNCs globally. Their cumulative investments of US$4B.l billion in book value earned an income
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  • 133 1 Dsn 2,510.14 (+4.75) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,513.00 (+4.00) SIMSCI 299.96 (+0.89) SIMSCI FUTURES 300.70 (+1.30) MARKETS Friday Change KLSECOMP 956.70 >0.85 NIKKEI 225 16.080.46 +68.05 HANG SENG 17,145.76 +49.32 SET INDEX 692.46 -0.10 JAKARTA COMP 1,466.58 -3.89 MANILA COMP 2,378.04 -27.21 SEOUL COMP 1,354.89 +3.72 SHENZHEN B 291.13
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 607 2  -  They hope visitors will compensate for a decline in local shoppers By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Retailers in the Suntec area expect next week's tight security measures and road closures to deter local shoppers, but they hope the lost dollars would be more
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    • 483 2  -  By DANIEL BUENAS EUROPE must engage Asia and build a deeper relationship or risk paying a "heavy price" in terms of economic growth and international influence, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says. Speaking on Thursday at the Lloyd's Annual City Dinner
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    • 441 2 Capita Land eyes China mass market AFTER targeting China's top-tier cities, Capita Land looks set to take on the mass market in second-tier cities like Chengdu. CEO Liew Mun Leong said yesterday that Capita Land is in talks with a Chinese partner to build 25,000-30,000 homes for middle-income
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    • 340 2  -  By LESLIE YEE [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings has over the past couple of months got on board a new team to run its corporate communications. And sources say that the Singapore investment company's corporate affairs department now aims to beef up relationship with
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    • 55 2 IN "Nearshoring: better than outsourcing" (BT, Sept 7), mention was made of Sunningdale Precision Industries. The company is now known as Sunningdale Tech Ltd, following a merger last year. Its chief executive is Koh Boon Hwee. Ng Boon Hoo, previously chief executive of Sunningdale Precision Industries, is now chief
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  • RAFFLES CONVERSATION
    • Article, Illustration
      2456 3  -  Veteran Japanese central banker Shyuro Ogata shares with ANTHONY ROWLEY his recollections of some of the epoch-making monetary events of the 20th century ANTHONY ROWLEY VETERAN Japanese central banker Shijuro Ogata is a very modest man, with very little to be modest about. A former deputy governor
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 453 4  -  In preliminary talks to build another 25,000-30,000 homes in China By ARTHUR SIM AFTER targeting China's top-tier cities. Capita Land looks set to take on the mass market in second-tier cities like Chengdu. Capita Land CEO Liew Mun Leong said yesterday that
      BLOOMBERG  -  453 words
    • 443 4 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Developer CapitaLand Ltd's property trusts have sold SsB66 million of bonds backed by the Raffles City shopping mall and hotel complex, Asia's biggest property securitisation transaction so far this year. The bonds sold were priced at the tighter end of the pricing
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    • 380 4  -  By ARTHUR SIM CAPITAIAND has responded to criticism about the planned closure of the basement linkway between Orchard MRT Station and Wisma Atria. But it will be still have to be closed. Capita Land, together with Sun Hung Kai Properties, won the tender to redevelop
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    • 820 5  -  CEO and executive director resign, 3 board directors expected to leave By LAUREL TEO A MANAGEMENT overhaul is likely to take place soon at mainboard-listed energy player Manhattan Resources, formerly Links Island a month after a publicised clash between its board and its controlling
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    • 309 5 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Venture Corp, Singapore's biggest maker of electronics such as Hewlett-Packard Co printers, wants to buy more companies to gain technology and win market share. "We're open to all kinds of sizes" for acquisitions, chief executive Wong Ngit Liong said in an
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    • 462 5  -  By WONG WEI KONG MARKET jitters over United Fiber System's (UFS) plan to buy an Indonesian pulp mill returned yesterday, when speculation that the deal may be off sent its shares reeling before several assurances from the company steadied the
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    • 213 5 SHARES of Singapore shipbuilder ASL Marine Holdings jumped as much as 7.5 per cent to a record high of 92.5 cents yesterday on news that the group had secured new shipbuilding contracts worth $46.5 million. The stock ended the day at
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    • 521 5  -  By MATTHEW PHAN RETAIL brokerage Kim Eng has resumed research coverage of national carrier Singapore Airlines, making a "buy" call on the stock yesterday and saying the divestment of two major subsidiaries could fetch more than $2 billion. "There are opportunities for SIA
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    • 542 5  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent THE link between the local market and Wall Street was firmly established this week, with traders spending most of their efforts either reacting to how the US performed the previous day or trying to anticipate
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 86 5 JARDINE Cycle Carriage Ltd said net income dropped 38 per cent year-on-year to US$99 million for the six months ended June 30,2006. Sales rose to US$3.5 billion from US$543 million. Indonesia's Astra became a subsidiary on Aug 1,2005, and its results have been
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      • 108 5 THE judicial managers of Citiraya Industries said in a letter yesterday that, subject to certain qualifications, the company will be a going concern as at their discharge date, which is expected to be on Oct 3. Two representatives of the e-waste recycler's proposed new board
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      • 46 5 THE Ascott Group has expanded its sales distribution channels by inking a deal with US-based Pegasus Solutions. This enables Ascott's serviced apartments worldwide to be available for booking real-time by travel agents and consumers through thousands of third-party travel websites.
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      • 44 5 DMX Technologies Group Ltd appointed Jismyl Teo Chor Khin as the designate chief executive officer yesterday. This follows the resignation of Phung Nhuong Giang as CEO yesterday. Ms Teo has been a driving force in DMX's business, said the company.
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
    • Article, Illustration
      954 6  -  Compiled by MATTHEW PHAN CDL Hospitality Trusts Sept 8 close: 550.93 DBS VICKERS SECURITIES, Sept 8 CDL Reit's initial portfolio is in Singapore, and offers investors direct exposure to the potential growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR) in the Singapore hotel sector over the next few years.
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    • 1705 6  -  SHOW ME THE MONEY TEH HOOI UNG Senior Correspondent THE Straits Times Index is currently trading at between 11 and 12 times its historical earnings. Based on weekly data from Thomson Financial Datastream, in the last two decades the index traded to a
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  • FACES GOING PUCES
    • 2079 7  -  Today's manufacturers are young, educated and chic not like the factory workers of the yesteryears,as RUCHIKA TULSHYAN finds out RUCHIKA TULSHYAN GOH LIANG BOON, 28 Head of Operations, Chocz CHOCOLATE manufacturing sounds like heaven for all chocoholics imagine being surrounded by melting chocolate pots and various colourful
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 509 8  -  Lower net balance of firms see brighter prospects in Q3: SMa survey By DANIEL BUENAS ALTHOUGH economists have raised their forecasts for growth in the second half of 2006, domestic manufacturers are more cautious and less optimistic about the Singapore economy, their own industries and
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    • 300 8  -  By MATTHEW PHAN THE police yesterday reiterated that foreigners who "stage events that will pose a security threat to Singapore" will be denied entry to the country, as they step up security in anticipation of the IMF-World Bank meetings next week. "While we welcome
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    • 356 8  -  It'll foster spirit of contributing to the community By CHEW XIANG LEADERS especially those with a social conscience are in short supply these days. So the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), like a true enterprise, is creating its own. SBF yesterday launched the Young Business Leaders
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    • 357 8  -  By OH BOON PING KARSONO Kwee of Eurokars Group of Companies has clinched this year's Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 award (EYA 2006), among a field of 15, in recognition of his outstanding entrepreneurial achievements. "I am really happy to have come
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 91 8 LAWYERS for The Straits Times journalist Ching Cheong have filed an appeal against the conviction and sentence by a Beijing court on charges of spying, as provided for under Chinese law. In a statement yesterday, Singapore Press Holdings, the newspaper's publisher, said Ching has maintained
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      • 51 8 TEN Singapore environmental services companies are visiting China as part of an IE Singapore-organised delegation from tomorrow to Sept 15. The companies including Keppel Seghers Engineering Singapore, SembCorp Environmental Management, United Engineers and Salcon, which heads a water business consortium—will visit Beijing, Tianjin and
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      • 29 8 AMERICAN Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard and Visa have formed an independent council to manage the payment card industry's data security standard.
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      • 32 8 NTUC Income's general manager for life and health insurance Stanley Jeremiah has left the cooperative to join a US company. He joined NTUC in January.
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      • 35 8 DIASPORA, a performance directed by Ong Keng Sen for the IMF and World Bank meeting here will be performed at the Esplanade for invited guests from Sept 18 to 21.
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    • 380 8  -  By UMA SHANKARI THE High Court yesterday dismissed the application of an 80-year-old widow who is contesting 62 of her neighbours to stop the collective sale of Eng Lok Mansion to disqualify two members of the tribunal hearing her case. Chow Ai Hwa who
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  • FOCUS: IMF
    • 568 9 He says a bigger voice for poor countries needed to enhance IMF's legitimacy NYT LARGK economic imbalances caused in part by America s trade deficit with China and other countries are threatening prospects for continued global growth, the head of the international agency
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    • 1009 9 Bloomberg. AP ASIAN countries must develop their corporate bond markets to boost the investments needed to help shift labour from farms to factories and spur economic growth in the region, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. Asian nations need "to develop
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    • 536 9  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo SOMI- of the heat may romc ofT the Chinos*? yuan and move back onto the Japanese yon when Group «»f Seven K. 7) finance ministers meet in Singapore next Saturday to discuss exchange rates and
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 399 10 A mid-range bid would value Stanley at more than £600 m Reuters [LONDON] Britain's biggest casino operator, Stanley Leisure, is poised to recommend a takeover bid from Malaysian gaming firm Genting, worth between 850 pence and 880 pence per share, The Times newspaper
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    • 7764 10 Transaction date: Sep 8 52-Wk Ttl Last Vol Day LattQuot* Div GrYtd Nat MCap ligh low Code Company M» fOOO) High Low »uyr Sa*f Cw M Smll 4 1 5716 1st Software —2 -O S 20 2 2 2 2.5 81 113 6 3148 8Tetecom 6.5 6.5 7
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    • 464 10 AFP. Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Members of Malaysia's ruling party yesterday called for unity ahead of a bid by expremier Mahathir Mohamad to run in a party contest seen as a precursor to a clash with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Dr Mahathir, who is
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 70 10 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] A consortium of four Malaysian firms has won a construction contract worth RM1.32 billion (***** million) in the United Arab Emirates, the companies said yesterday. Tronoh Consolidated Malaysia Bhd, IJM Corp Bhd, LFE Corp Bhd and Sunway Holdings Inc Bhd will
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      • 65 10 Reuters [BOGOR, Indonesia] Indonesia's top car distributor, PT Astra International Tbk, expects to post a lower net profit this year compared to 2005 as the car sector remains weak, the company's head said yesterday. But Michael D Ruslim, Astra's president director,
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      • 67 10 Reuters [BEIJING] China has reduced the tax burden on domestic firms in a move that narrows the tax advantage enjoyed by foreign companies, the state tax bureau said yesterday. Domestic companies can now deduct from their taxable income 1,600 yuan per month for
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  • INDONESIA
    • 487 11 It also expects the US$276b economy to expand by about 7% in 2008 Bloomberg. Reuters IBANDUNGI Indonesia's central bank sees room to cut interest rates in a "more aggressive manner". as growth in Southeast Asia's biggest economy accelerates without
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    • 6279 11 Transaction Date: Sep 8 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME VALUE Unifiber 32.566.000 UOB 60.019.750 ASL Marine 21.485.000 DflSGrp 44.323.200 China Milk 19.755.000 KeppelCorp 38.427.160 MMIHIdgs 19.460.000 CapitaLand 30.524.300 18.833.000 SingTel 26.287.470 Bio-Treat 15.867.000 China Milk 21.103.390 ChinaPDye 15.206.000 Semb Corp Ind 19.884.620 Mediating 14.420.000 ASt Marine 19.256.315 AsiaPtiarm 14.088.000 MMI
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    • 201 11 Bloomberg I.IAKARTAI Japan and Indonesia have agreed to build a US$6B million plant to upgrade and double the value of low quality coal, which makes up more than 60 per cent of coal reserves in the South-east Asian nation. (iovernment-owned Japan Coal F.nergy Centre.
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 388 12 It will offer other products, including bond index, currency futures Reuters [SHANGHAI] China yesterday launched its first financial futures exchange, which will eventually give the country's companies a variety of tools to hedge financial risks, including the risk derived from a slowly but steadily
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    • Article, Illustration
      53 12 [BEIJING] Young girls sing propaganda songs at a Cultural Revolution and Mao themed restaurant here yesterday. Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao Zedong is widely revered for his founding of communist China. Today marks the 30th anniversary of
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    • 2341 12 VOL General Corp .0.57 unch 162 Sepg «M W- C000) Genting 25.00 unch 572 George Kent .0.50 unch 1 A&M Realty 1.43 unch 4 GHl Systems 0.23 unch 1333 Abric 0.31 unch 7 Globetronics Tech .0.30 unch 2781 ACP Industries .0.83 unch 64 GlomacBhd 1.07 unch 46 Advance
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    • 180 12 AFP [SHANGHAI] Already known as the world's factory floor, China now wants to turn into an international outsourcing powerhouse a report said yesterday a move which could challenge India's prominence in the industry. Outsourcing will become a new area of foreign investment
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    • 593 12 People's Daily. Reuters. Bloomberg [HANOI] China yesterday rejected blame for global economic imbalances but promised to cooperate to smooth out international flows in trade and capital. Leading industrial countries have singled out the need for China to let the yuan rise faster, both
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    • 422 12 AFP [SHANGHAI] A Chinese official has urged that the yuan be allowed to appreciate by up to 5 per cent, arguing that not doing so risks greater difficulties with hot money flows, the balance of payments and exports. Chen Bingcai, an
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    • 438 12 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Citic Securities Co, China's biggest publicly traded brokerage, plans to offer chairman Wang Dongming and senior managers US$37 million of stock at a 74 per cent discount to the market price as incentives to improve performance. The executives will be allowed
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  • INDIA
    • 411 13 They import the goods into India via S-E Asia, then rebrand them Economic Times [MUMBAJ] Made in China, Marketed by India Inc. Increasingly that's the sweet secret that Indian marketers are resorting to. Cheaper Chinese goods are proving to be too good to
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    • 232 13 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India's top CDMA-based mobile services provider. Reliance Communications Ltd, has sought the rival GSM spectrum from the government for future expansion, the company said yesterday. The move comes in the wake of differences between Reliance and CDMA technology giant Qualcomm over royalties
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    • 437 13 Reuters [SEOUIVMUMBAI] A consortium led by India's Videocon Industries Ltd was picked as preferred bidder to buy South Korean appliances and TV maker Daewoo Electronics for a reported price of around US$7OO million. South Korean private equity fund MBK Partners was named a reserve
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    • 5802 13 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABAmet Income BTUSD 8 6/ IK AB Amei Income A USD 8.58/ AB Amer Income B USD 15V ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S pore) A8 Amei Income A EUR 6.74/ Star Enope Eqty' 0.956/ A8 Amei Income 8 EUR 6.74/ Sor Europe Bend 1. 85/ AB Europ
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  • WORLD
    • 397 14 Biggest percentage increases expected to be in Asia-Pacific: study Reuters [NEW YORK] US hedge funds are expected to dramatically raise their investment in overseas markets in coming years, particularly in Asia-Pacific markets, according to an analysis released on Thursday. TABB Group, an independent research
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    • 334 14 LAT-WP [LOS ANGELES] Three months before the release of the Leonardo DiCaprio film Blood Diamond, the diamond industry is mounting a publicity campaign to highlight steps it has taken to reduce the flow of illegally traded "conflict diamonds". The New York-based World Diamond
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 14 [MOSCOW] A vintage Rolls Royce Phantom Vcar on display at the International Car Show here yesterday. Only 156 Phantom Vcars were produced between 1959 and 1968. AP
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    • 422 14 He has outstanding warrant for computer gambling AP. Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The chairman of British online gambling company Sportingbet was detained here on a fugitive warrant on Thursday, two months after the chief executive of BetOnSports was arrested in the US on racketeering charges. Peter
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    • 287 14 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] The Nasdaq Stock Market said on Thursday that it plans to get into the options-trading business, a move that would put it up against six other exchanges including its arch rival, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in a race for
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    • 263 14 AP. Bloomberg [BOISE, Idaho] Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president Janet Yellen on Thursday warned that it could take some time before inflation falls back into the range central bankers consider their comfort zone. "To bring inflation down very rapidly
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  • MOTORING
    • 775 15  -  Some evolutionary changes have been made to the new Toyota Camry, says SAMUEL EE SAMUEL EE AT FIRST glance, the new Toyota Camry appears strikingly different from the popular model it replaces. But upon closer inspection. Japan s biggest carmaker has merely tweaked a successful formula
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    • 734 15  -  The 60-year-old success story of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class continues with a radically updated model. WILLIAM WHEY reports WILLIAM WHEY SIX decades and 10 million E-Class cars later, the quintessential Merce-des-Benz model continues to uphold the German carmaker's signature attributes of occupant safety, technological innovation, fuel economy
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    • 509 15  -  By GEOFFREY EU PIRELLI is a brand name that conjures more than just tyres, thanks in part to its artfully conceived calendars of glamorous models in various stages of undress not bad for a corporate gift idea that was first dreamed up more than
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  • GOLF
    • 1067 16  -  JUSTINE MOSS Amateurs can learn from watching the pros as they take the opportunity to test out the course before a tournament, says JUSTINE MOSS PLAYING in a pro-am golf tournament is, for many weekend hackers, an opportunity far too good to miss.
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  • WELLNESS
    • 888 17  -  It can improve symptom severity, reduce medication use and cut down risk of developing new allergies, writes CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON IF YOUR child has a chronic cough or perennially runny nose, especially at night or in the morning, it's important to find out whether
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    • 641 17 NYT THE culinary battle between butter and margarine has raged for decades, but, it turns out, for the wrong reason. We now know that the partly hydrogenated fatty acids in margarine and many processed foods are harmful to health more harmful, in fact, than the saturated fat
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 232 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 9 into Paris, a thing one would like to do? (10) H| 10 Insect of annoying nature (4) tive? (10) □OWN 1 1 Number of hospital patients, YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 Fish unhappy having caught tip might you say? (12) Across: 1 Scholarship, 7 Swarm, 8 of hook (4)
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  • Article, Illustration
    502 18  -  Wisma Atria proves why it's a high-traffic department store with its snazzy mix and match of fashion that appeals to the young, professional urbanite. CHEAH UI-HOON takes a look at some of its new and soon-to-come tenants CHEAH UI-HOON Functional bags PORTER INTERNATIONAL *03-07/08, Tel: 6333 8258 THIS brand
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  • 892 18  -  The Utopia collection, which highlights Lladro's successes throughout its 50-year history, is a form of tribute to the brand's early creators, says CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON WHIMSICAL and full of graceful motion even though the movements are cast in smooth glossy or matt ceramic, it's no wonder that
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  • TRAVEL
    • Article, Illustration
      1374 19  -  The fact that the Four Seasons Tented Camp gives back to the environment by rescuing elephants and giving them a home and dignity makes it a perfect place for both §nind and heart, says JAIME EE JAIME EE rfIBIHBBi HE difference in the way a human and
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    • 402 19  -  IF YOU GOBANGKOK By JAIME EE WHEN you're a business traveller whose laptop is more of a roommate than a work accessory, then connectivity and the ease of it is likely to be one of the things you look out for in a
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    • 384 19  -  By JAIME EE YOU could call it a one-stop international gourmet pig out session and it's perfect for foodies who think the physical act of travelling between restaurants is annoying and should be avoided if at all possible. All you need to do is check into
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  • THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend
    • What's cooking and how
      • 619 20  -  Thinking of recreating at home something that impressed you when you dined out? Some upcoming cookbooks will show you the way By GEOFFREY EU ALMOST three years after he quit Singapore to start his own modern French restaurant in Taipei, Justin
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      • 491 20  -  By CHEAH UI-HOON WITH its reputation as the hawker food capital of Malaysia, Penang has more than a few food guides to its name. What the earlier ones lacked though even if they made a good start in chronicling the island's rich street food
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      • 476 20  -  By CHEAH UI-HOON A HOTEL'S retail merchandising allows its guests to take back a tangible reminder of the experience they had at the hotel. That's the premise for The Peninsula Hotels' boutiques, which aren't just housed within its hotels, but can even be found in cities
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      • 844 20  -  By JAIME EE IF you're in the mood to cook this weekend, check out some of the new cookbooks in the stores: By BiU Buford Knopf Press, $35.35 w/o GST Not a cookbook, per se, but a highly entertaining narrative about what happens when someone
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