The Business Times, 15 December 2006

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  • Article
    Lock icon US$4.3b deals to put Kuok assets under S'pore unit
    716 1  -  Merger will turn SGX-listed Wilmar into a leading Asian agribusiness By LAUREL TEO, S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur THE Kuok family plans to merge and regroup its vast assets in edible oils, palm plantations, grains and other commodities under a Singapore-listed
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    130 1 sn 2,916.28 (+32.13) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,912.00 (+32.00) SIMSCI 354.75 (+3.99) SIMSa FUTURES 353.60 (+2.40) MARKETS Thursday Change KLCOMP 1,075.47 -4.13 NIKKEI 225 16,829.20 +136.27 HANG SENG 18.919.40 +201.21 SET INDEX 732.40 -2.58 JAKARTA COMP 1,767.80 +14.00 MANILA COMP 2,833.27 -2.59 SEOUL COMP 1,418.38 +35.10 SHENZHEN B 394.56
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    Lock icon IRAS scraps concession to defer stamp duty
    913 1  -  Change takes immediate effect today By ARTHUR SIM, UMA SHANKARI IN WHAT appears to be a subtle warning to the real estate industry to keep the property market in check, the government has withdrawn the concession to defer stamp duty a move that
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Correction
      32 2 IN the report. "Investment sales hit record $26.9b" (BT, Dec 14), the Good Class Bungalow market generated $859.2 million of investment sales, not $859.2 billion. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon Qantas accepts A$11.1b offer in mega airline takeover deal
      407 2 Consortium says it has no plans to break up airline AP Bloomberg Reuters [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways yesterday accepted a sweetened Asll.l billion (5513.3 billion) takeover offer from a private equity consortium in the world's biggest airline takeover. If approved, it will
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      Lock icon Thai govt seeks $4.3b in fines, fees from iTV
      609 2 But AG has to make a decision, and cabinet may take a different stand Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's government is seeking about 98 billion baht (554.28 billion) in fines and 2.2 billion baht in back fees from the iTV television network that
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      495 2 Marina Bay penthouse goes for $28m THE 11,000 sq ft "über" penthouse at Marina Bay Residences last night sold for what is said to have been slightly over $28 million even as some people who had bought apartments in the project earlier this week were already seeking to
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      Lock icon Surgeons cross scalpels over vaginal procedures
      577 3  -  Committee set up to study issue and guide practitioners By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] Claims by a plastic surgeon to be able to treat stress urinary incontinence have upset established members of Singapore's gynaecological community. A BT report last month featured Martin Huang, executive director
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      Lock icon India's Teledata to pump up to $160m into eSys
      402 3  -  By CONRAD RAJ [SINGAPORE] Singaporebased eSys Technologies, one of the world's largest distributors of hard disks, has signed an agreement for a strategic investment of up to $160 million from India's Teledata Informatics, a company whose $210 million worth of assets
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      Lock icon Marina Bay penthouse sold for $28m
      728 3  -  Some apartment buyers already seeking to cash in By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] The 11,000 sq ft "über" penthouse at Marina Bay Residences last night sold for what is said to have been slightly over $28 million even as some people who had bought apartments
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon SGX investors expected to shift to value stocks
      504 4  -  Citigroup rates SingTel, SPH, ComfortDelgro as buys with strong cash flows, dividend yields By MATTHEW PHAN SINGAPORE stocks have been riding the wave of sentiment that has lifted Asian equity markets over the past two-and-a-half years. But the local market is now
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      Lock icon Chemoil up 30% from IPO on first trading day
      247 4 Company CEO delighted with strong trading debut performance CHEMOIL Energy, which took a second stab to go public on the Singapore Exchange, made its debut yesterday to close at U550,585 at the end of the trading day, up 30 per cent
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      Lock icon Is the Malaysian stock market a buy?
      638 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R SIVANITHY THE Malaysian stock market looks like it's finally stirring after years in the doldrums so far this year, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index has risen about 20 per cent, all of which has taken place
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      Lock icon CCT to take 30% stake in M'sian Reit
      436 6  -  CapitaLand and Maybank arm to set up US$250m fund Bv PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur CAPITALAND'S CapitaCommercial Trust (CCT) has decided to take up 30 per cent of Quill Capita Trust (QCT) the real estate investment trust established in joint venture with
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      Lock icon Tokyo exchange agrees to trading tie-up with SGX
      487 6  -  Topix-related indices may be licensed to SGX for trading products By SIOW LI SEN INTERNATIONAL investors may soon be able to trade Japanese stock indices and securities on the Singapore Exchange under a tie-up between the SGX and the Tokyo Stock Exchange
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      Lock icon MacarthurCook seeking to raise $22.3m
      352 6  -  IPO WATCH By MATTHEW PHAN LOCAL investors looking for exposure to unlisted property trusts invested in North America and Australia may wish to consider Australia-listed MacarthurCook Property Securities Fund, which is making a secondary listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). MacarthurCook is seeking to raise
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      Lock icon Raffles Education to place up to 30m new shares
      191 6 v. 2 RAFFLES Education Corporation will place up to 30 million new shares to investment bank Credit Suisse (Singapore) Ltd to raise net proceeds of up to $47.95 million for general corporate purposes as well as potential mergers and acquisitions. At
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      Lock icon Affinity's offer for First Engineering now mandatory
      337 6  -  By CONRAD RAJ THE voluntary offer last week by private equity firm, Affinity Equity Partners, to buy up mainboard-listed First Engineering for $1 a share has now become mandatory, following openmarket purchases by the offeror. The actual offer for the plastics components maker
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  • COMPANIES: CHINA STOCKS
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      Lock icon PrimePartners China Index looking good
      709 10  -  Out of 25 stocks in the market capweighted index, 8 saw prices fall Reports by JEAN CHUA SINCE the Prime Partners China Index went live on Oct 2. it has done pretty well. Of the 25 stocks in the market cap-weighted index. only eight have
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      Lock icon Sino-Env trials project in China
      338 10 Successful pilot may see its systems spread across China SINO -ENVIRONMENT Technology Group is going to start a 10 million yuan (Ss2 million) pilot project which could see its waste gas management systems deployed across China by the world's biggest maker of shipping containers. Sino-Environment
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon STI hits new high after recent weakness
      529 12  -  STOCKS Region's firm trading sparks interest in blue chips; low-priced stocks in play among second-liners R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent A FIRM session for most markets throughout the region yesterday resulted in a surge of interest in local blue rhips. driving the Straits Times
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      1110 12 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Dec 14 and earlier) SubuntUI No of Price SHAREHOLDING Tram Shareholder 1 (vy/ Share* Nr Before A ft or Stock Date Director Sel 000 She > 000) OOP Asia Enterprises 13Dec-06 ChongThim Pheng Buy 503 na ***** 9 92 ***** 10
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      933 12  -  Compiled by MATTHEW PHAN Fraser and Neave Dec 14 dose: 554.50 CITIGROUP RESEARCH. D«c 13 Temasek takes 14.9 per cent stake in F&N: Temasek is keen to expand its F&B exposure in the region and sees F&N as a vehicle with a strong F&B presence in region. The
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      Lock icon Yen blasted again after strong US retail sales
      543 12  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent AN UPBEAT US retail sales number for November bought the US dollar a nice breather against its major counterparts overnight. but it was a tale of some quite contrasting outcomes closer to home in Asia. For at
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Popular Q2 net profit rises 9.4% to $1.18m
      454 13  -  But half-year profit drops 18.9% to $8.2m over forex loss, higher costs By OH BOON PING PUBLISHING and education group Popular Holdings yesterday reported a 9.4 per cent rise in net profit to $1.18 million on sales of $90.8 million for the
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      Lock icon Keppel Singmarine bags $135m rigbuilding deal
      297 13  -  By CONRAD RAJ DEMAND for oil is keeping rig builders busy, with Keppel Singmarine (KepSing) clinching an order for a $135 million floating storage offloading system (FSO) unit for Russia's zhnevolzhskneft, a subsidiary of Lukoil Oil Company. The 28,000 tonne FSO is a new
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Ex-MD of Auston unit sues firm
        122 13 EDUCATION provider Auston International is being sued for breaking an employment contract by Ng Swee Hua, the former managing director of its wholly owned subsidiary Auston Institute of Management Technology (AIMT). Auston International said yesterday that Mr Ng, who is also a director of
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        Lock icon Straits Asia posts USs72.3Bm sales
        51 13 COAL miner Straits Asia Resources said sales figures have hit U5572.38 million in the third quarter. This has resulted in a net profit of US$9.4B million. Straits Asia also said it is on track to achieve its best-ever coal sales of 3.5 million tonnes this
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        Lock icon Ascott buys stake in SOSACL
        73 13 ASCOTT Residence Trust has entered into conditional sale and purchase agreements with Coral Holdings and Sparkle Limited to purchase an effective 26.8 per cent stake in Saigon Office and Serviced Apartment Company (SOSACL), the owner of Somerset Chancellor Court in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,
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        Lock icon MLTM to buy office properties
        39 13 MAPLETREE Logistics Trust Management (MLTM), manager of Mapletree Logistics Trust, says the trust has signed put-and-call option agreements to buy two warehouse-cum office properties in Singapore for an aggregate acquisition price of $35.1 million.
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        Lock icon SMRT launches $200m note issue
        77 13 SMRT Corp has launched $200 million of notes under its $500 million multi-currency medium-term note programme, the company said. The proceeds will be used to refinance the existing $250 million of 3.41 per cent bonds. The $200 million note issue comprises $100 million of three-year
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      196 13 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 SINGAPORE CHI CHENG PTE LTD (Co. Reg. No. *****2721Z) CAPITAL REDUCTION EXERCISE At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company deemed to be held on 13 December 2006, the following special resolutions were duly passed:That pursuant to the Company's Article
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      448 13 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF ASIA CABLE TV PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) (COMPANY REG N0.*****5824D) Mnnrt of BFsni irnoNS AT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the above named Company duly convened and beld at 88 Jian
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  • THE CFO INTERVIEW
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      Lock icon Not just a one-trick pony
      1519 14  -  What's after Ho Bee's sought-after Sentosa Cove waterfront projects? Plenty, going by the group's track record, executive director Desmond Woon tells KALPANA RASHIWALA KALPANA RASHIWALA FROM the time that Ho Bee Investments was listed on the Singapore Exchange in 1999 to November 2004 when it
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon S'pore-Brunei tax agreement in effect
        63 16 SINGAPORE'S avoidance of double taxation agreement with Brunei came into effect yesterday. The agreement will apply to all types of income earned from Jan 1,2007 and is expected to promote greater cross-flow of trade, investment, technical know-how and expertise. The full text of the agreement
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        Lock icon LTA building downtown viaduct
        107 16 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) is to build a two-lane vehicle viaduct running along Cross Street from Raffles Quay to the east of China Street to minimise the impact of the construction of the Downtown Extension (DTE). There will be up-ramps to the viaduct at Central
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        Lock icon Singapore, World Bank sign MOU
        63 16 SINGAPORE and the World Bank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for collaborative programmes in human resource development in Africa. The MOU—which came into effect yesterday—will see Singapore and the World Bank jointly conducting technical training courses and study-visit programmes for government officials from
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      Lock icon Call for first public tender on Pulau Ubin
      424 16  -  Govt approves recreational uses for former govt chalet site By VINCENT WEE CHANGES are afoot on rustic Pulau Übin as the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) calls for its first tender for state property on the island. The property, which used to be
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      Lock icon Office sales double 2005 value to reach $4.34b
      450 16  -  By ARTHUR SIM OVER $4 billion worth of office assets have been transacted so far this year, more than double the value of deals done in 2005, with many of the significant acquisitions made by real estate investment trusts (Reits). According to
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      Lock icon S'pore to ramp up hiring of healthcare workers
      384 16  -  By OH BOON PING SINGAPORE will recruit more healthcare professionals and expand the number of private hospitals to help meet its target of treating orte million foreign patients a year by 2012, the government said yesterday. "We are gearing up for the
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      Lock icon Siemens setting up Asia-Pac research centre here
      415 16  -  By MATTHEW PHAN SIEMENS Water Technologies is planning an Asia-Pa-cific research centre for water technologies in Singapore, making it at least the third water-indus-try multinational this year to set up a regional base in the republic. In September, GE Water announced it would
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon ECB warns of risks as funds pour into Asia
      597 17  -  Stanchart doesn't agree, and says it sees no justification for a crisis By NEIL BEHRMANN in London THE world's pension-fund and insurance companies are putting themselves at risk by pouring money into Asia and emerging markets, the European Central Bank (ECB)
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      Lock icon Top US officials press China on currency
      557 17 US urges lift oh yuan's value to help preserve nations' trade ties Bloomberg Reuters [BEIJING] Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told Chinese policy makers that a stronger yuan would be good for their country, US Labour Secretary Elaine Chao said yesterday. Ms Chao
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Tolls rise up to 60% on five major M'sian expressways
      558 18  -  Concessionaires need to be compensated RM2.59b: govt By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA has announced an increase of up to 60 per cent on five tolled roads around the Klang Valley beginning Jan 1, in a move that is
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      Lock icon Past 5 years' bailouts cost M'sia RM11b
      252 18 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has spent RMII billion (Ss4.B billion) in the past five years bailing out ailing companies including Malaysia Airlines, according to a report yesterday. The operation from 2001 saw the government rescue seven companies and their key projects, which ran
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      Lock icon Bursa Malaysia fine-tunes its listing and disclosure rules
      178 18 Reuters {KUALA LUMPUR] Stock exchange operator Bursa Malaysia loosened some restrictions on listed firms yesterday, announcing rule changes designed to speed up equity issues and cut disclosure costs. The changes to the listing rules are part of Bursa's goal to become a
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon Delhi urges Japan to invest more in India
        63 18 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on Japan to increase investment in his country, saying the world's second-biggest economy was trailing China in recognising opportunities in the South Asian nation. Dr Singh, in Tokyo for a four-day visit, is pressing
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        79 18 AP [BEIJING] The pace of China's spending on real estate and other fixed assets jumped in November despite official controls meant to slow an investment boom that economists worry could ignite a financial crisis, according to data released yesterday. Urban fixed-asset investment grew by
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        75 18 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Chinese television maker Sichuan Changhong Electric Co Ltd has acquired a majority stake in Orion PDP Co Ltd, a South Korean flat-panel display maker, for U5599.9 million, a government website said. Changhong affiliate Century Shuanghong Display Devices Co Ltd had acquired
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        Lock icon Beijing acts to curb pension fund frauds
        73 18 AFP [BEIJING] China will launch an audit campaign to scrutinise pension funds under local authorities' control following a recent US$4OO million scandal in Shanghai. The campaign is aimed at preventing a repeat of the graft scandal in Shanghai, which involved officials misusing the
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        Lock icon Reliance Comm seeks US$1b loan
        42 18 Bloomberg [BANGALORE] Reliance Communications Ltd, India's second-largest mobile phone operator, is seeking a US$l billion loan, bankers with knowledge of the deal said. Lenders are bidding for the mandate to arrange the loan, said the bankers. —Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Ping An plans IPO in Shanghai next year
        58 18 AFP [SHANGHAI] Chinese insurance giant Ping An, already listed in Hong Kong, is planning an initial public offering (IPO) in Shanghai in the first quarter of 2007. Ping An Insurance, China's second-largest life insurer, planned to sell 1.15 billion shares on the
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      Lock icon Indon rate cuts will spur fund investment
      461 18 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Mutual-fund assets in Indonesia will probably rise for a second year in 2007 as falling interest rates make bank deposits less attractive to investors, PT Fortis Investments and PT Mandiri Manajemen Investasi predict. "Lower rates will make people try to find
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  • SENSE AND SIMPLICITY
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      1042 19  -  The URA unveiled a masterplan to light up the city last month. MINT KANG walks you through its projections and explains how it will plug the Singapore night skyline into the electric map of global metropolises like London, New York and Paris MINT KANG LIGHT is
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      308 19 HOW does the promise of an enhanced nighttime experience go down with the typical heartlander? Are the lights only for the cameras? What about action, or rather, interaction? The Goh family, from Serangoon Avenue 3, did not have a clue about this grand plan, until last Saturday.
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      489 19 A KEY feature of the Urban Redevelopment Authority's masterplan is for the traditional yellow street lighting in the Central Business District (CBD) to be replaced by white light. A decade ago, such a proposal would have been dismissed by city planners. The reason: white light
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      423 19 GOOD lighting design is not just about flooding a space with light. It involves the integration of lighting and architectural elements, to provide viewers with a three-dimensional experience that is attractive without being intrusive to the vision. So say the experts behind URA's Lighting Up The City
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      577 20 Officials warn that private equity firms may not be vigilant enough to risks AFP (LONDON] The multi-bil-lion-dollar takeover of Australian airline Qantas yesterday underlines an increasing trend by cashrich investment funds to snap up established companies. At the same time, finance officials are warning about
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      383 20 LATEST US DATA Reuters (WASHINGTON] US import prices posted a surprising 0.2 per cent rise in November even though oil import prices fell. Analysts polled by Reuters were expecting import prices to stay unchanged. US Treasury debt prices fell and the US dollar
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      445 20 They want tougher fuel standards and push for biofuels NYT [WASHINGTON] More than a dozen prominent business executives and retired military officers including the chairman of FedEx and a former commandant of the Marine Corps are lobbying Congress and the White
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      Lock icon Euronext purchase to be completed by Q1
      265 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] NYSE Group will complete its planned purchase of Euronext NV "towards the end" of the first quarter and may consider expanding in Asia next, chief executive officer John Thain said on Wednesday. NYSE Group and Euronext shareholders are scheduled to
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      383 20  -  By ROLAND LIM JAPANESE chemical and electronics manufacturer Showa Denko KK said that it will invest 60 billion yen (Ss7B6 million) over the next three years in its second hard disk media plant in Singapore which opened yesterday. The new plant at
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        63 20 AFP [TOKYO] Electronics and energy giant Toshiba Corp is selling its entire stake in Japanese label Toshiba EMI to British partner EMI Group, saying that music was no longer relevant to its business. Toshiba said yesterday that it would sell its stake for
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        46 20 AFP [GENEVA] Swiss food giant Nestle said yesterday that it had acquired the medical nutrition business of pharmaceuticals major Novartis for US$2.5 billion. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second half of 2007, pending regulatory approval. —AFP
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        75 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Bank of America Corp (BOA) chief executive officer Kenneth Lewis said he is in no hurry to make an acquisition in Europe, damping speculation that the second-biggest US bank is considering a bid for Barclays pic. "We never say never, but
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        71 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] Citigroup Inc said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire Central American commercial and retail bank Grupo Cuscatlan forUSsl.sl billion in cash and stock to further expand in Latin America. Grupo Cuscatlan is based in El Salvador and has operations in Guatemala,
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      512 21  -  By SAMUEL EE in Hong Kong THE Peninsula hotel experience begins the minute a guest enters the car, declares Michael Kadoorie, chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, which operates the luxury chain. And the car he is referring to is, of course,
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      393 21 It may raise up to US$3 billion on HK bourse after govt capital injection [HONG KONG] State-owned lender China Everbright Bank is likely to speed up its planned listing in Hong Kong after receiving a boost to its balance sheet from
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      261 21 Situation due to huge sums of foreign currency held by banks AFP [BEIJING] China's three largest stateowned commercial banks have suffered exchange losses of hundreds of millions of dollars as the local currency continues to rise in value, state press
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  • MIDDLE EAST
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      485 22  -  Its 188-ha Tijara Town project in Dubailand aims to attract SMEs By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai WORK has begun on a sprawling freehold master development here at a cost of US$l.63 billion, and will be aimed at small and medium enterprises. Dubai
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      178 22 AFP [LIVERPOOL] Liverpool FC are not expecting to be handed a blank cheque in the event of the proposed Dubai takeover of the club, according to its chief executive, Rick Parry. Accountants for Dubai International Capital (DIC), the investment arm of
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      682 23  -  COMMENTARY Protectionist measures shoring up airline will come under scrutiny VEN SREENIVASAN Senior Correspondent IT now looks like the US$ll billion takeover of Qantas may go through after all, with the airline changing course yesterday and recommending acceptance of an offer of
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      350 23 NYT [NEW YORK] Jetßlue Airways, trying to improve its appeal to travellers and cut costs in one move, said on Wednesday that it planned to remove a row of seats from all 96 of its Airbus 320 planes, giving the front 11 rows
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        115 23 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co (ANA), Japan's second-largest carrier by sales, expects costs for jet fuel to rise by about 24 per cent next fiscal year as hedges run out. Costs for fuel will rise by about 45 billion yen (*****.7 million)
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        101 23 AP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd has said it will join the oneworld global alliance a move that will give the flight network much-needed access to over a dozen additional cities in China's booming market. There has been intense competition between oneworld and
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        89 23 AFP [SINGAPORE] Tiger Airways will launch an extra flight to Darwin from June 2007, increasing the airline's flight frequency to the Australian city to five times a week, the Singapore-based budget carrier said yesterday. With the extra flight. Tiger Airways will offer
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      719 23 Restructuring at Airbus poses pressing challenge AP [PARIS] Airbus, poised to fall behind US rival Boeing Co in orders for the first time in six years, must be wishing 2006 was already history. But the coming year may not be much easier for the
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      505 24 EDITORIAL SINGAPORE sporting history was created at the ongoing 2006 Asian Games in Doha when the Republic hit its ambitious target of eight golds three more than its previous best with days to spare. The feat has reignited visions of
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      700 24  -  THE BOTTOM LINE AL LABITA Manila Correspondent IS the Philippines back on the elusive radar screen of Singaporean investors? It appears to be so. After years of lying low following the crippling 1997 Asian currency crunch, Singaporeans or Singapore-linked companies are making waves
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      834 24  -  It seems they are commissioning advertisements that are turning prospective clients off By MARK GILBERT Bloomberg Mj OW do the world's I biggest investment banks view themselves and their clients? The following examples are culled from the glossy, full-page advertisements H that adorn the
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      1156 25  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Martin H S Huang MBBS M Med Surg (Sing), FRCS (Glasg), FRCS (Ed), FAMS (Plast Surg) Executive Director and Consultant Plastic Surgeon The Cosmetic Surgery Clinic, Pacific Healthcare Holdings Ltd I REFER to the the letter entitled
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      218 25  -  Tan Lye Huat CEO, HIM Governance Singapore IN THE article "Call to disclose pay of listed firms' key staff" (BT, Dec 13) Tan Lay Hong is correct in her assertion that greater disclosure is needed with regards to executive remuneration. This disclosure should include the
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  • SHIPPING
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      795 26  -  SeaAsia will showcase Asian talent resources and expertise By GEORGE JOSEPH [SINGAPORE] Singapore will attempt its biggest maritime show ever in April next year with the inaugural Sea Asia event, a new entrant to the exhibition scene here which will give the incumbent Asia
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      Lock icon New EC rules 'may spark price wars, mergers'
      283 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] European Commission (EC) rules banning pricing alliances between shipping companies may trigger "price wars" and mergers among container lines, Clyde Co said. Operators such as A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, the world's biggest shipping company, and Hapag-Lloyd AG will no longer be
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      49 26 [SYDNEY] A replica of the Dutch ship 'Duyfken' sailing through the harbour here on Wednesday. The 'Duyfken' has made a 12.000-kilometre voyage to commemorate the 400 th anniversary of the first documented European contact with Australia, which occurred at Queensland's Cape York in 1606. AP
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      316 26 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Pusan Newport Co, which counts Dubai's DP World as one of its major shareholders, will start operating three more berths next year in South Korea's Busan as the world's fifth-largest port tries to attract more business. The new berths, which
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      879 26  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR A CANADIAN appeals court has rejected a bid by a ship owner and its charterer to blame their shipping agent for the compensation they had to pay to cargo interests for negligently causing damage to a cargo
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  • WINE
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      922 33  -  N K YONG gives his wish list for the wines that best go with the festive mood N K YONG IBM's motto is, or used to be, KISS as in, Keep It Simple, Stupid. It is a motto that applies aptly to all life's activities and
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      1345 34  -  There are ample titles to suit all tastes and preferences. PARVATHI NAYAR checks out what's available at the stores PARVATHI NAYAR m m EADING is one of the mm 1 best disciplines I know m of to stay 'on your game' and at your highest." So says
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  • PURSUITS
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