The Business Times, 27 November 2006

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  • 20 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES online at htto*V/business-times.asial.com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) *****/2006 Monday, November 27,2006 SINGAPORE 85 cents
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  • 701 1  -  By MICHELLE QUAH [SINGAPORE] Growing competition and an increasingly complex regulatory environment has increased the risk that companies here face, says a study by KPMG. And that has driven the need for better risk management among corporations here. KPMG's survey this year of
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  • 799 1  -  Sub-sales fetch profits of 7-35% for projects in Sentosa Cove, caveats show By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Property speculators are having a field day in Sentosa Cove, reaping profits of between 7 and 35 per cent from subsale deals in condominium developments there. One
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  • 133 1 MARKETS Week Chge STI .2814.81 +1.63 KLCOMP 1060.43—+19.64 NIKKEI 225. *****.60 -357.13 HANG SENG *****30 —+77.59 SET INDEX 723.87™ -10.05 JAKARTA COMP ...1717.73 —+45.62 MANILA COMP ....2817.84 -24.70 TAIPEI TAIEX 7427.36 ....+167.82 SEOUL COMP 1421.73 +9.51 SHENZHEN B 359.79. +4.34 AUSTALLORD 5431.40—+39.90 DOW JONES *****.17 -62.39 NASDAQ -2460.26—+14.40
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 997 2  -  Number of deals highest since 2001; median price rises 26% from Q2 By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] The number of sub-sale deals for private apartments and condos often used as a gauge of speculation in the real estate market hit 233 in Q3
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    • 496 2 Citibank S'pore aims to grow SME biz by 40% CITIBANK Singapore plans to grow its small and medium-sized enterprise banking business by at least 40 per cent next year, up from a projected 35 per cent increase this year. The group is also looking to bump up its
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    • 430 2  -  PM LEE'S VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA FTA negotiations between Republic, GCC to start in Jan By CHUANG PECK MING in Riyadh SINGAPORE and Saudi Arabia have agreed to speed up talks to expand an existing treaty on double taxation avoidance be- tween
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    • 655 3  -  By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] With helicopter rides and test drives in expensive sports cars, Standard Chartered Bank is revving up its priority banking service to attract more high-net-worth customers. Stanchart, which has around 20,000 priority banking customers in Singapore,
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    • 657 3  -  It's hiring more relationship managers to cope with growth By NANDE KHIN [SINGAPORE] Citibank Singapore aims to grow its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) banking business at least 40 per cent next year. It is also looking to bump up its
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
    • 3808 4 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC Do you agree that raising GST to 7 per cent is the best strategy for Singapore? How will this affect your business, and businesses in Singapore generally? IT IS ultimately a question of balancing revenue from both direct and indirect
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    • 211 5 Mi JWiA L BT CEOs e-uub Members of the BT CEOs e-Club are Singapore's top corporate leaders whom BT editors would like to interact with in an atmosphere of informality and tmst This dub' is a virtual one, with interaction mainly via e-mail. Each week, we will invite comments from
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 491 6  -  It cites auditor's refusal to endorse FY2006 financial statements By ROLAND LIM DISSATISFIED that its current auditor Deloitte Touche (Deloitte) will not sign off on its financial statements for the financial year ended July 31, 2006 despite additional input from an independent accountant,
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    • 777 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By MATTHEW PHAN IT'S auspiciously named, but will it be lucky in China, its main market? Hsu Fu Chi International Croup, a Chinese confectionary aiming for a Singapore listing, derives its name from three words: "Hsu", for the
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    • 514 7  -  Sector's regulatory environment expected to improve By OH BOON PING ANALYSTS are seeing hidden values in the laggard pharmaceutical and medical device companies as they expect the regulatory environment for these firms to improve. In a report, OCBC Investment Research said that the
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    • 152 7 PACIFIC Century Regional Developments Limited (PCRD) denied in a statement released over the weekend that it had solicited proxy votes to vote against its share sale to Fiorlatte Limited. "PCRD categorically denies assertions made in certain newspaper articles published yesterday (Friday) and today (Saturday) suggesting
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    • 508 7  -  C&P Asia has guaranteed $11m profit for FY06/07 By WONG WEI KONG CWT Ltd's recent acquisition of a commodity logistics business from its parent is expected to bring a major earnings boost, especially when its full contributions kick-in in the next financial year.
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 631 8  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IF YOU were to try and make a "guesstimate" of whether there will be a year-end rally, what would your bet be? On the one hand, it'd be difficult to escape the conditioning the market has enjoyed
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    • 197 8 AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies rose against the US dollar, which slid worldwide over concerns about the prospects for US economic growth. Japanese yen: The yen rose over last week in thin holiday trading, buoyed by speculation about possible rate hikes while concern about
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    • 229 8 AFP [LONDON] The price of nickel and platinum hit historic highs last week, while other US dollar-sensitive metals such as gold, silver and copper also posted strong gains. After coming under pressure early in the week, oil prices also advanced, while commodities like sugar, coffee,
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    • 1362 9  -  TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent Three of our portfolios chaiked up strong gains in a week which saw the blue chips holding firm, while many second liners were in play. The one-month top winners portfolio surged 9.1 per cent thanks, to a large
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    • 1123 9  -  INSIDE MARKETS Last week, 58 trades worth $127m took place on heavy selling from directors and substantial shareholders, writes ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI TRADING by directors and substantial shareholders remained high last week with 58 trades worth $127 million, based on filings on
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 275 11  -  By CHUANG PECK MING in Riyadh GREATER economic cooperation and stronger ties between Singapore and Saudi Arabia were the order of the day when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met with Saudi King Abdullah yesterday and prospects for both look good. "We
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    • 443 11  -  It will boast the world's largest living coral reef By ROLAND LIM EIGHTH Wonder yesterday unveiled plans for a billion dollar marine-themed zone within its Sentosa Integrated Resort (IR), including proposals for the world's largest cultivated coral reef, and marine conservation facilities. Mark
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    • 159 11 CONGLOMERATE Keppel Corporation is the latest gold category sponsor for the charity concert ChildAid 2006, with a contribution of $50,000. Chairman and chief executive of Keppel Offshore Marine, Choo Chiau Beng, said: "We have a great passion in nurturing the communities where we operate. This
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    • 415 11  -  By MATTHEW PHAN SINGAPORE should mandate the use of energy-effi-cient technology in buildings and for the transport sector, and also consider using tax credits to encourage wider use of alternative energy sources, David Jhirad, vice-president of research at the World Resources Institute (WRI), told
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 646 12 NBS GDP growth estimate exceeds World Bank's forecast of 10.4% Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's economy, the world's fourth-larg-est, may expand as much as 10.7 per cent in 2006, said Yao Jingyuan, chief economist at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Gross
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    • 408 12 Bloomberg [BEIJING] An official with China's currency regulator cautioned against being tempted by large trade surpluses to open up the capital account too quickly. Guan Tao, a deputy department head at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, didn't directly say that he was
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    • 433 12 Euro hits 19-month high with PBOC dollar fall warning Reuters [LONDON] Renewed talk of central banks diversifying their foreign currency reserves out of dollars should add to the longer-term appeal of euro-denominated bonds. People's Bank of China (PBOC) governor Zhou Xiaochuan said earlier this
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    • 475 12 New fields coming onstream may help ease Opec's burden in 2007 Reuters [LONDON] A rise in oil production from the Caspian, Africa and North America will ease the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' (Opec) burden in meeting world oil demand in
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    • 2585 12 Transaction date: Nov 24 For a full listing of the closing prices, log on to BT Online at http://busmess-times.asial.com.sg after 11.30pm every trading day HONG KONG ><5 JS Digital China .....3.06 0.04 1493 Aeon Credit..- AOS und, 12 Dream md -0-j» °J>} 10 AeonStores A* 032 118 DynamKGtobal
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  • AUSTCHAM SILVER JUBILEE
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      733 13  -  The Free Trade Agreement that Australia and Singapore signed in 2003 has served to further strengthen trade and investment links between the two countries, reports MICHELLE QUAH MICHELLE QUAH TIES between Singapore and Australia have gone from strength to strength since both nations signed a Free Trade
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    • 658 14 The Australian Chamber of Commerce celebrates 25 fruitful years in S'pore FROM humble beginnings as an informal, monthly get-together of Australians working in Singapore, the Australian Chamber of Commerce (AustCham) has grown to become a major regional business organisation boasting more than 600 individual and
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    • 383 14 Donnelley Simpson deary, t Oehlers' client- focused philosophy coupled with the pursuit of innovative and value-adding solutions has led DSCO to become a key partner of many clients throughout the Asia Pacific region and Australasia. I DSCO has projects ranging from commercial, industrial, information technology, banking
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    • 1255 15  -  In conjunction with the AustCham Business Awards, MICHELLE QUAH examines the business and investment links between Australia and Singapore through a Q A with (from left) Miles Kupa, Australian High Commissioner to Singapore; Maurine Lam, counsellor of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) Singapore; and John Dick, president
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
    • 787 16  - Bonds safer bonds A Citibank guide calls bonds among the most predictable forms of investment, allowing you to manage your cashflow in a controlled manner. DANIEL BUENAS reports DANIEL BUENAS LAST week, we took a look at some of the basic terms and definitions used in the field of investing.
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 599 17  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT The key to the success of Malaysia's biggest merger will be the resulting cost savings S JAYASANKARAN KL Correspondent EVEN before Malaysia's biggest merger gets under way, there are already signs of division. Last Thursday, Deputy Premier Najib
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    • 180 17 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] CIMB Investment Bank Bhd said it will hold a media briefing today about a "substantial merger exercise" involving several listed companies. The bank didn't identify the companies involved, according to an e-mailed statement from public relations firm Alpha Platform Sdn in Kuala
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 119 17 AP [NEW DELHI] China has endorsed the India-US civilian nuclear trade deal, India's external affairs minister was quoted as saying yesterday. China and India agreed during last week's visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao that international civilian nuclear cooperation should be advanced through innovative and
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      • 109 17 AP [NEW DELHI] Hundreds of executives and policy-makers from around the world were gathering in India's capital yesterday to get a firsthand update on the country's sweeping economic transformation, the opportunities it presents and the challenges it faces. The three-day India Economic Summit, organised by
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    • 356 17 [KUALA LUMPUR] Melewar Industrial Group Bhd may be looking to take its subsidiary Mycron Steel Bhd private. The Star reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. It understands that Melewar is likely to offer between 70 sen and RMI for Mycron shares
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    • 171 17 [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia must market its Islamic financial and capital products more aggressively abroad to face impending competition from new players such as Singapore, says a report in Malaysia's Business Times over the weekend, quoting a Kuwaiti CEO. Kuwait Finance House deputy chief
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 493 18 He seeks to avoid conflict of interest with SJM which is eyeing HK listing Reuters Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Melco International Development Ltd said major shareholder Stanley Ho will pare his stake in the firm by 4.26 per cent to avoid any conflict
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    • 225 18 Reuters [HONG KONG] A rare piece by renowned Chinese artist Xu Beihong has smashed the record for a Chinese oil painting, selling for HK553.9 million (5510.7 million) at a Christie's auction yesterday. The work Slave and Lion, far exceeded the pre-auction
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    • 253 18 [NEW DELHI! The Indian government is considering a proposal to raise the foreign investment cap in domestic carriers from 49 per cent to 74 per cent, according to a report in Business Standard. This follows the failure of the existing regime
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    • 452 18 Few ready to adopt int'l emissions standards AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's businesses are snubbing an initiative to help ease the city's worsening air pollution, a report said yesterday, amid reports that chronic smog is hurting business and health. Just 100 Hong Kong
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 557 19  -  But London mayor an obstacle, wants UK's OFT to launch 'proper inquiry' By NEIL BEHRMANN in London HEDGE funds hold the key to a successful Nasdaq bid for the London Stock Exchange, but London's mayor wants the competition regulator to intervene.
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 37 19 Reuters [GAZA] Palestinian militants fired several rockets at Israel from Gaza yesterday just hours after the start of a ceasefire aimed at ending five months of bloodshed in the impoverished coastal strip.
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      • 74 19 AP [SEOUL] South Korean quarantine officials yesterday began slaughtering more than 200,000 poultry after an outbreak of the deadly HSNI strain of bird flu at a chicken farm, the agriculture ministry said. A total 236,000 poultry within a 500-metre radius of the outbreak
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      • 93 19 AFP [MELBOURNE] Australia's centre-left Labor Party has won re-election in the key state of Victoria, sending a warning to Prime Minister John Howard's conservative coalition ahead of a national vote next year. Labor Party leader Kim Beazley said the result pointed to a rejection
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      • 73 19 [LONDON] Vodafone has earmarked £2.1 billion (556.29 billion) to cover the potential costs of a long-running tax dispute with the Inland Revenue, The Observer reports. The huge special provision represents the most that the telecoms giant believes it will have to pay if it
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    • 725 19  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT Will buyers outlast profit takers in the last Nov week? By ANDREW MARKS in New York WHAT can be made of last week's action, when stocks dipped in a holi-day-shortened week of trading? That's the question investors will be asking as
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    • 206 19 Xinhua [LONDON] The real estate boom is turning 80,000 million people to millionaires in England and Wales, according to new figures. The ranks of property millionaires swelled by nearly 32 per cent in the past year, Portman Building Society, Britain's third largest building society,
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    • 617 19  -  By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THAILAND'S ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will quit politics and remain in exile, his legal adviser said, adding that his family will appeal against, but likely pay the taxes sought by the new government. "If we are
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
    • 671 20  -  It has just delivered first jack-up rig of a two-rig contract to the Qatar company By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Delivering its first jack-up drilling rig of a two-rig contract to Qatar's national drilling company Gulf Drilling International (GDI) on Friday, Keppel Offshore
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    • 658 20 It has concerns over funding of US$10b A350 project Reuters [PAßlS] Disagreement over the funding of a US$lO-bil-lion new plane project at Airbus has forced parent firm EADS to cancel a Friday board meeting which was due to decide on whether to go
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    • 179 20 Bloomberg [LONDON] The cost of shipping crude oil from the Middle East to Asia on two-mil-lion-barrel oil tankers may fall to a sevenmonth low as mild US weather and reduced Opec production curb tanker demand. Freight rates for oil supertankers moving between the Persian
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    • 477 20  -  By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai DUBAI'S existing airport will have an annual cargo capacity of five million tonnes once the construction of new concourses and terminals are completed, according to a top official here. "However, if Dubai wants to be the cargo
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • 6731 21 STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS Stock name Wt Co* Change Stod. name Wt Oom Chang* Stodcnawa Allqreen 0.35 1.780 -0 030 Hyflux 0.34 2.470 +0*20 If? 3*60 Asldasrert 104 2.340 JMH 3*2 ***** *-400 STATSO* 0.86 1. 40 insi 042 iSo JSH 2.09 11.700 -0100 S«mbG»plnd 255 CapitaLand 479
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  • 5653 22 FINANCE COMMODITIES MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES la local cwt In Si '"if** dy »r dy yr «*V Nov 24 Indo Cngng« Change Cnanq< Ch.fj* -h<nq» Lbtny, The World Indesi Preliminary 1074 2 -0 4 10.8 0.0 74 M 15.2 t EWE Preliminary 1062 7 -0.7 9.2 O.J 105 0.1
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    • 853 27  -  It also aims to grow its new thin client business to US$1.25b in next 3 years, writes ROLAND LIM ROLAND LIM JAPANESE electronics and IT giant NEC Corp last week unveiled its thin client solution in the AsiaPacific region for the first
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    • 951 28  -  <we say> We may now be at the tipping point where open source becomes mainstream, with profound impact on the software industry AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY Correspondent OPEN source software has quite a bit of urban legend attached to it. The Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds
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      • 99 28 CIVIL service IT veteran Ong Lih Ling has been appointed as the centre director of the Singapore e-Goverament Leadership Centre (eGL). The eGL is a partnership between the Institute of Systems Science (ISS), the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), and the Lee Kuan Yew
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      • 72 28 ENTERPRISE software vendor Borland has appointed Frank Teh as its managing director for the Asean region. Mr Teh's responsibilities include. planning and implementation of all business development initiatives, sales and marketing programmes, and the general management of Borland's South-east Asia operations. Mr Teh joined Borland in
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      • 79 28  -  Compiled by ROLAND LIM EPICOR Software has appointed David Ho as its regional director for South-east Asia. He will be responsible for driving growth of software licence sales in the region. Prior to joining Epicor, Mr Ho was leading the business development initiatives for Computer
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    • 273 28 AFP BRISBANE] An Infra-red camera reportedly designed to track fighter jets has become the latest hitech gadget used to cover the Ashes series between Australia and England. Host broadcaster Channel Nine said the device, known as the "hot spot", could show whether a
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    • 786 29 BT ADVERTORIAL Two 42-inch made-in Japan plasma TVs from Hitachi redefine high-definition viewing with superior technology While TV broadcast in the 20th century has often been referred to as the video era, the present century's driving force, till now, has been digital broadcasting, which has been made
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    • 568 30  -  New architecture supports video, voice as well as multimedia content By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY WITH competition hotting up in the video conferencing market as new entrants like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems muscle in, industry pioneer Polycom has unveiled its next-gener-ation high-definition (HD) communications and collaboration
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      • 93 30 HANDSET giant Nokia has released three new phones in its L'Amour line of fashion phones. The clamshell Nokia 7390 ($748), touted as its first 3G fashion phone, has an integrated 3-megapixel camera, FM radio, and audio and video playback capabilities. The Nokia 7373 ($558)
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      • 89 30 THE popular Treo 650 finally has a successor in the Treo 680 (above). While the latest Treo remains a quad-band phone that lacks 3G and Wifi connectivity, the 680 improves upon its predecessor with an increased on-board memory capacity of 64M8 and expansion via an
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      • 93 30 LG Electronics has launched the DPI 81 portable DVD player which has a 7-inch widescreen display. With a battery life of up to 3.5 hours, the DPI 81 allows the user to finish watching a DVD and still have enough power left for listening to
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      • 87 30 LENOVO has released the ThinkPad X60 Tablet, a tablet notebook featuring a new MultiTouch feature that enables users to use either a pen or finger on its 12-inch touchscreen. Its screen also boasts a 170-degree viewing angle, and coupled with its anti-reflective and anti-glare MuWView
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      • 84 30 SAMSUNG'S latest MP3 player, the T9, comes with a Bluetooth stereo headset that allows users to listen to music unencumbered by wires. The headset is also compatible with mobile phones that have Bluetooth, so users need not fear missing a call while listening to music.
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      • 74 30  -  Compiled by ROLAND LIM KODAK'S latest Easyshare Z7lO Zoom4above) is its latest 7.1-megapixel digital camera which features 10 times zoom, a high quality Schneider Kreuznach Variogon lens and a 2-inch LCD display. It also features full manual controls for photo enthusiasts who need
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    • 427 31 Toys, electronics most sought-after items on eBay, Shopping.com Reuters [LOS ANGELES] Bargain hunters tracking down sought-after toys and electronics flocked to the Web ahead of "Cyber Monday", the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season, three websites said on Saturday. Web auctioneer eßay
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    • 160 31 Reuters [SHANGHAI] German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG may withdraw from the Internet TV market in China, a local newspaper reported on Friday. Siemens has dismissed its team in charge of Internet Protocol Television in China, the Shanghai Securities News said, citing sources saying that
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