The Business Times, 5 January 2007

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    22 1 THE BUISNESS TIMES Friday, January 5,2007 SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006
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    Lock icon The buzz is on for a strong line of IPOs
    1071 1  -  Offerings this year expected to include Reits, international companies, more medium-size floats of about US$500m By MATTHEW PHAN [SINGAPORE] The piping hot Singapore market for initial public offerings will continue to sizzle this year, with a mixture of Reits and
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    Lock icon Computer heavyweight Dell to pump up S'pore operations
    482 1  -  Job spinoffs as it acts to move closer to suppliers By WINSTON CHAI [SINGAPORE] Computer giant Dell is to move more of its global supply chain management and manufacturing operations to Singapore this year, which is expected to lead to hundreds of
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Thailand to review foreign ownership law
      610 2 Revisions clarifying ambiguous rules to be sent to Cabinet next week Reuters. Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Revisions aimed at clarifying Thailand's ambiguous foreign ownership rules will be sent to the Cabinet next week. Commerce Minister Krikkrai Jiraphaet said. Companies would be given time to adjust their
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      Lock icon US investors unload Asian stocks and bonds
      629 2  -  Net sales of Asian securities hit US$6b in Q3 last year By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] American investors have been unloading their huge holdings of. Asian stocks and bondk including those listed in Singapore as prices in the region's markets have surged, according
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      469 2 PMIdipsin Dec but demand remains high THE purchasing managers' index dipped last month although demand was apparently high, with the new orders sub-indices rising to new levels. After hitting a 27-month high in November, the PMI lost 1.2 points to 53.4 in December. TOP STORIES, PAGE 3 CityDev's
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      Lock icon CityDev's One Shenton set to go for up to $2,500 psf
      413 3  -  Agents ask buyers for blank cheques to get choice units By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Apartments in City Developments' newest condominium, One Shenton, are likely to go for between $1,500-$2,500 per square foot (psf) during its expected soft launch today,
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      Lock icon PMI slips in Dec but demand remains high
      428 3  -  Electronics new orders reading of 59.9 is highest since Oct 2003 By ANNA TEO [SINGAPORE] The purchasing managers' index (PMI) dipped last month although demand was apparently high, with the new orders sub-indices rising to new levels. After hitting a 27-month high
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      132 3 ST! 3,023.80 (-13.94) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,029.00 (-15.00) SIMSCI 369.38 (-1.66) SIMSCI FUTURES 368.00 (-3.40) MARKETS Thursday Change KLCOMP 1,118.18 +1.09 NIKKEI 225 17,353.67 +127.84 HANG SENG 20.025.58 -387.81 SET INDEX 648.22 -11.03 JAKARTA COMP 1,824.10 -10.61 MANILA COMP 3,012.74 -7.96 SEOULCOMP 1,397.29 -12.06 SHENZHEN B 440.61 +7.29
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      29 3 BT ONLINE BT print subscribers get free access to the Business Times Online. To activate your account, log on to http://business-times.asia1 .com.sg. For more information, e-mail btocs@sph.com.sg orcall 6388-3838.
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Rockeby lands new investors, such as ex-minister Cheow Tong
      448 4  -  It places out 120 m new shares at 1.9 Australian cents By WONG WEI KONG LOCAL biotech firm Rockeby biomed, which is planr ning again to get a listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) after having been rejected four years ago,
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      Lock icon Xpress Holdings: cause for concern?
      707 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By MICHELLE QUAH XPRESS Holdings' latest announcement on the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority's refusal to grant it an extension of time to get its accounts audited and hold its annual general meeting may well raise many questions for shareholders. There could
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      Lock icon Offer for Tang a chance to exit, say advisers
      427 5  -  But sell shares in open market if price is higher By CHUANG PECK MING THE voluntary unconditional offer by CK Tang's chairman and his brother in a bid to take the homegrown retailer private is an "exit opportunity" for shareholders wanting
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      Lock icon Benjamin Foo made chief executive of Jade
      373 5  -  It also says its CPO Futures Contract is targeted for launch in first quarter By WEE LI-EN JOINT Asian Derivatives Exchange (Jade) has beefed up its management team, appointing Benjamin Foo, head of Singapore Exchange (SGX) Clearing and Commodities Business, as its chief
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      Lock icon AsiaPharm buys pharma group for 345m yuan
      542 5  -  Deal to give significant boost to sales performance By CONRAD TAN ASIAPHARM Group has bought a specialty pharmaceutical group in Nanjing for 345 million yuan (Ss69 million) in a deal which is expected to give an immediate boost to its financial performance. The
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      Lock icon China Fishery unit signs third vessel deal
      590 5  -  By CONRAD RAJ INDUSTRIAL fishing specialist China Fishery Group (CFG) has entered into its third vessel operating agreement (VOA) through wholly owned subsidiary China Fisheries International Ltd. Three supertrawlers, which have rights to fish in the North Pacific Ocean, are being leased for
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      Lock icon COMPANY BRIEFS
      299 7 China Motion to buy GPILforHK$240m CHINA Motion Telecom International said it entered an agreement last Tuesday to buy Grand Promise International Limited (GPIL) for HK$240 million (S$47.3 million). Half of the acquisition will be paid in cash and the rest via share issue. GPIL's sole investment is a
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      Lock icon Keppel O&M hits $2b in newbuilds, conversions
      338 7  -  Shipyard group reaps bonuses for early completion, safety record By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] Record vessel newbuilds and conversions totalling nearly $2 billion were the hallmark of 2006 for Singapore's largest shipyard group as Keppel Offshore Marine reaped both early completion and safety bonuses
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      Lock icon Sun Business strikes new deal to buy Maestro Mind
      331 7  -  By CHUANG PECK MING MEDIA company Sun Business Network (SBN), which reached an agreement to buy Maestro Mind International last month, has struck a new deal to purchase the holding company which owns 95 per cent of PT Monstermob Indonesia, a
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      Lock icon Man Wah buys back 23 stores in China from franchisees
      394 7  -  By UMA SHANKARI MAN Wah Holdings has bought back 23 of its 131 franchise stores in China for HK$3.6 million (*****,000), in a move that shifts the furniture maker's presence in the country from a pure franchise model to a
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      168 5 I Clariden Leu j x Clariden Leu: The name stands for the tradition and innovative spirit of the four Swiss private banks Clariden, Leu, Hofmann and BGP, as well as Credit Suisse Fides. In joining forces, they will continue to guarantee the first-class service their private clients all over the
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Genting as main sentiment barometer
      514 6  -  STOCKS Stock's performance mirrors the ST Index's climb and volatility in recent weeks R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent YOU have to admit there's an odd but nonetheless appropriate sense of irony of having the shares of a company which makes money through gambling as the main
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      693 6 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Jan 4 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ BuyI Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Sell '000 Shr S C000) C000) Linair Tech 4-Jan-07 Linair Hldgs PL Buy 200 na 26S10 30.69 ***** 30.46 LinairTech 4-Jan-07 Oh
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      927 6  -  Compiled by MATTHEW PHAN Plastoform Holdings Jan 4 dose: 550.23 UOB KAY HIAN, Jan 3 Big business in small speakers: Plastofonn designs, develops and manufactures compact high-perfor-mance speakers for computing, mobile and multimedia devices. A key OEM (original equipment manufacturing) customer is Minebea Group, which in turn supplies to
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      Lock icon US$ bounces back despite mixed data
      517 6  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar staged an impressive comeback overnight yesterday on news of strong US manufacturing sentiment and weak commodity prices, brushing aside a much weaker than expected preview of key US job numbers due out later this evening. ADP,
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Eng Hen, SNEF chief laud Boon Heng's labour role
      448 8  -  They also welcome Swee Say as the new NTUC head By VINCENT WEE ACCOLADES are flowing in for outgoing National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) secretary-general lim Boon Heng for his key role in forging strong tripartite relations over the years. Minister
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      Lock icon Traffic offences: Go online to plead guilty
      451 8  -  Subordinate Courts' new website also allows payment of parking fines By WEE LI-EN PEOPLE who commit minor traffic or parking offences will now be able to plead guilty online by using the Subordinate Courts' new website from home or indeed anywhere in the
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      Lock icon IDA is one of the best, says new ITU chief
      515 8  -  By RAVI KANTH in Geneva SINGAPORE'S Infocomm Development Authority offers "one of the best regulatory models in the world" for countries wanting to play catch-up in embracing new convergence technologies, according to Hamadoun Toure, the new secre-tary-general of the International
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      205 9 Commemorative CashCard for charity THE Network for Electronic Transfers (Nets) has designed a commemorative Combi CashCard for the Children's Cancer Foundation. The contactless CashCard, which has no stored value, can be obtained at the foundation's main office for a minimum donation of $7. In addition, Nets will donate
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      Lock icon CPF tweak relief for middle class
      567 9  -  Previous CPF cuts had negated tax reductions for this sector: Citigroup By MATTHEW PHAN SINGAPORE'S economic restructuring over the last few years may have failed to flow through to middle class wages, Citigroup economist Chua Hak Bin said yesterday. But he thinks that the
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      Lock icon S'pore and US join search for missing Adam Air jet
      428 9 AFP [POLEWALI, Indonesia] US and Singapore military planes were yesterday set to join a massive air, land and sea search for a missing Indonesian passenger jet with 102 people on board. The Adam Air Boeing 737-400, with 96 passengers and
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon US the 'biggest recipient of petrodollars'
      342 10 US$314b investment is about 25% of US$1.3t oil exporters invested globally in 2003-06 Reuters [NEW YORK] The United States was the single biggest recipient of investments from oil exporters in the past three years, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York (NY
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      Lock icon Oil prices hold steady, heating stocks seen up
      373 10 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Oil prices held around USSSB yesterday, after falling 4 per cent a day earlier as mild US weather curbs fuel consumption. The drop reflected the lack of fund interest as investors appeared to favour equity markets and as other commodities
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      Lock icon Some at Fed's last meeting saw increased risks to US growth
      354 10 However, they all agreed inflation was main concern Reuters [WASHINGTON] US Federal Reserve officials agreed at their meeting last month that inflation was the predominant concern, but some felt the "subdued tone" of economic data meant risks to growth
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      Lock icon Personal consumption 'stalling' in Japan: minister
      376 10  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo JAPANESE Economics Minister Hiroko Ota warned yesterday that personal consumption is "stalling" in the world's second largest economy. She sounded an ominous note to the New Year in an interview with Nihon Keizai Shimbun. provoking speculation in some quarters
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon NSTP-Utusan merger likely to be scrapped
      588 11  -  Umno's rank and file protest union would affect journalistic identity By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur A PROPOSAL to merge Utusan Melayu and The New Straits Times Press (NSTP) to create a Malaysian media giant is likely to be scrapped following widespread protest from
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon Guangzhou per capita GDP passes US$10,000
        94 11 AFP [BEIJING] Per capita gross domestic product in south China's Guangzhou city is likely to have surpassed US$lO,OOO in 2006, the first major Chinese city to break that mark, state media reported on yesterday. Gross domestic product for the city of seven million in
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      • Article
        Lock icon Arcelor Mittal makes bid for Sesa Goa
        100 11 Reuters [MUMBAI] Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel maker, has submitted a non-binding bid for a controlling stake in Indian iron ore exporter Sesa Goa Ltd, the Hindustan Times reported yesterday. The paper said Indian companies Sterlite Industries Ltd and iron ore exporter
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        Lock icon Hutchison behind target in UK 3G unit
        125 11 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hutchison Whampoa Ltd is a year behind target in its UK third-generation mobile phone operations and expects its overall 3G business to be cashflow positive in 2008, chairman Li Ka-shing told Forbes. "With 3G, we are facing more competition than
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      Lock icon M'sian auto sales may rally 3.8%
      407 11 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Sales of new motor vehicles in Malaysia. South-east Asia's biggest passenger car market, are expected to rebound 3.8 per cent this year after a sharp plunge in 2006, a global research group said yesterday. Frost Sullivan projects sales last year dropped
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      Lock icon Indonesia grants tax incentives to woo investment
      191 11 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia will grant tax incentives to 15 industries in a bid to attract foreign and domestic investment, a finance ministry official said yesterday. Director general for taxation Darmin Nasution told reporters that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a decree authorising the
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      Lock icon IDB to help Jakarta set up US$1.5b fund for infrastructure
      366 11 [KUALA LUMPUR] THE Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is helping Indonesia to set up a US$l.5 billion fund which will invest in infrastructure projects in the country, according to a report in Malaysia's Business Times. The fund could help kickstart big-ticket
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Tata may up bid for Corus if steel prices soar
      408 12 Its decision will largely hinge on prices and demand outlook: analysts Economic Times [MUMBAI] Tata Steel may not have revealed its next step in the race for AngloDutch steel major Corus just yet, but the uptrend in prices and demand
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      Lock icon Hinduja eager to buy into Hutchison Essar
      363 12 Reuters [MUMBAI] India's Hinduja group joined Reliance Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Pic yesterday as a suitor for mobile phone operator Hutchison Essar Ltd in a USsl7-USS2O billion bid battle. Hinduja TMT executive chairman Ashok Hinduja told Reuters the group was unlikely to
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      Lock icon Laiwu Steel in talks with Mittal to extend stake sale
      269 12 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China's Laiwu Steel Group is in talks with Arcelor Mittal to extend an agreement to sell 38 per cent of its publicly traded unit, Laiwu Steel Corp, to the world's largest steelmaker. Laiwu Steel Group, the nation's eighth-largest
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Adelson sues ex-partner over Macau casino fee claim
      543 13 LV Sands chairman accuses Israeli of defamation, seeks damages [HONG KONG] Sheldon Adelson chairman of casino developer Las Vegas Sands Corp and America's third-richest man as ranked by Forbes is suing a former business partner who claims he is owed money by
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      Lock icon China's bourses to limit trading in 40 stocks
      312 13 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China's two stock exchanges said they will limit the daily price fluctuations of 40 publicly traded companies, in a move to spur them to complete a government programme to convert state shares into tradable stocks. Shenzhen Development Bank Co, China
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      Lock icon Shanghai rate to set bank benchmark
      378 13 [BElJlNG] China's central bank yesterday began publishing a new benchmark rate for borrowing between banks in an important step towards liberalising interest rates, encouraging more financial derivatives and allowing the yuan to float freely, says a report in the South China Morning Post. The
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      Lock icon SMIC being targeted by buyout firms
      466 13 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) China's biggest chipmaker says it is being targeted by buyout firms, which spent a record on acquisitions last year. Potential strategic investors including private-equi-ty firms have approached the Shanghai-based company, spokesman Douglas Hsiung said. He declined to
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      Lock icon Swings in China bank shares may signal end of rally
      476 13 Sector faces rate reform, rapid deposit growth Reuters [SHANGHAI] Big swings in the shares of China's biggest banks yesterday fuelled talk that the sector's spectacular rally in recent weeks might fade as investors reassess the risks hanging over the nation's
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  • MIDDLE EAST
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      Lock icon NT$401b Taiwan project may move to Middle East
      552 14 Conservationists, fishermen oppose planned govt-led petrochem venture Bloomberg [TAIPEI] A Taiwan company may shift its planned NT$4Ol billion (Ssl9 billion) chemical project to the Middle East because of opposition at home from conservationists and fishermen. Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co, a venture led
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      Lock icon Lebanon unveils economic reforms for Paris meeting
      464 14 Reuters [BEIRUT] Lebanon's government has unveiled economic reforms to be presented to an international donors' conference which Beirut hopes will bring financial help to an economy reeling from war damage. The reforms, to be discussed at the Jan 25 conference in Paris, include
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      Lock icon Saudi Aramco cuts light crude oil prices
      523 14 But it raises prices for the medium and heavy oil varieties Bloomberg [RIYADH] Saudi Aramco, the world's largest stateowned oil company, has cut prices of its light crude oil varieties that are to be exported to Asia in February, as diesel and kerosene
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      Lock icon OECD asks UK to explain halt to Saudi arms probe
      408 14 It seeks reply ahead of discussion of affair at meeting this month AFP [LONDON] The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development confirmed yesterday that it had written to the British government asking it to explain a decision to halt an
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Ratings agencies on alert after Bangkok bomb blasts
      851 15  -  They place Thailand on watch list as confidence in economy fades By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THE recent spate of bombings in Bangkok is likely to put Thailand on the watch list of various analysts and rating agencies as confidence in the
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      Lock icon Retailers report disappointing Dec sales
      383 15 LATEST US DATA AP [NEW YORK] The holiday shopping season turned out to be worse than expected for many of the US retailers, who yesterday reported tepid sales gains for December. As retailers reported their monthly results, disappointments crossed all categories, from Limited Brands Inc
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      Lock icon Australia's AGL proposes A$13b tie-up with Origin
      337 15 Reuters [SYDNEY] Australian energy retailer AGL Energy Ltd has approached rival Origin Energy Ltd about a potential Asl3 billion (5515.8 billion) tie-up to create the country's biggest gas and electricity supplier. AGL said yesterday that the merger was based on a "nil premium
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      Lock icon ExxonMobil accused of misleading public
      289 15 Company says scientists are smearing its name AP [WASHINGTON] ExxonMobil Corp gave USsl6 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in an effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted on Wednesday. The
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      Lock icon Time Warner to distribute News Corp channel
      182 15 AP [NEW YORK] News Corp's proposed business-news network received a huge boost as the channel secured a distribution agreement with Time Warner Inc, the second-biggest US cable TV provider. News Corp, the media company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has had a business-news cable
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Cat gets a credit card
        102 15 Reuters [SYDNEY] An Australian bank has apologised for issuing a credit card to a cat after its owner decided to test the bank's identity security system. The Bank of Queensland issued a credit card to Messiah the cat when his owner Katherine Campbell applied for
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        Lock icon Cisco to buy IronPort
        54 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Cisco Systems, the world's largest maker of computer-networking equipment, agreed to buy closely held IronPort Systems for US$830 million to add new security products, said sources. The cash-and-stock purchase adds network e-mail and messaging s»|Curity products to Cisco's network protection business, already the
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        51 15 AFP [TOKYO! Japan's Sony Corp yesterday said it had struck a deal with Eastman Kodak Co of the US to settle a long-running patent dispute in digital photo technology. The two companies have entered a cross licence agreement giving access to each other's patent portfolios. Sony
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      429 16 Move in response to protests by media companies and brokerages Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will review a decision allowing equity markets such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to charge fees for stock price
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      107 16 IN this photo (left) provided by the US Department of Defence, a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle pilot and weapon systems officer from the 4th Fighter Wing prepare their aircraftfor take-off at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina on Wednesday. The
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      493 16 Search Endless.com by price, brand, style, size or colour AP [NEW YORK] Amazon.com has launched a separate website for those passionate about buying handbags and shoes, marking the first time the Internet shopping powerhouse has launched a new online brand. Amazon.com quietly
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      216 16 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] NYSE Group Inc and Euronext NV will subject the companies they list and the securities firms they do business with to local rules after the two stock exchanges finish their merger, according to a regulatory filing. The US Securities
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      657 16 Company to give him US$210m exit package NYT [NEW YORK] In May last year, in a nearly empty basement ballroom at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delware, Robert Nardelli, the chairman and chief executive of Home Depot, stood between two huge
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      582 16 NYT [WASHINGTON] President Bush is all but daring Democratic leaders to attack his signature tax cuts as they take over Congress. But Democrats, perhaps to his frustration, are having none of it. In an opening salvo on Wednesday, Mr Bush proclaimed that
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  • AVIATION
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      561 18  -  Shareholders to extend $20m loan, which is subject to 6% interest rate By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Qantas-con-trolled Orange Star has managed to secure the approval of all its shareholders to extend a $20 million facility to the airline group. Chong Phit Lian, the chief
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      353 18 Xinhua [LOS ANGELES] Aerospace companies in California are in a unexpected business boom as giant aircraft builder Boeing takes advantage of the stumbles of arch-rival Airbus to attract more aircraft orders. Workers at a sprawling factory near here, which has been a long-time Boeing
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      363 18 AFP [HANOI] Vietnam will partially privatise its national airline next year and also sell shares in more than 50 major state-owned enterprises by 2010, the communist government said earlier this week. Vietnam Airlines, one of the most profitable stateowned enterprises (SOEs), will be
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        135 18 Xinhua [KATHMANDU] Last year saw a record number of air passengers in the history of civil aviation in Nepal, an official of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said on Wednesday. The number of people travelling by aircraft hit a new high
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        86 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Air Asia started its ninth daily flight from Kuching to Kuala Lumpur and Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu, respectively, yesterday due to strong demand for these key routes. In the past three months, the airline recorded high loads of over 90
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        99 18 Bloomberg [DALLAS] Continental Airlines Inc. the fourth-largest US carrier, said it expects to report a "modest loss" for the fourth quarter. That won't include some special charges, Houston-based Continental said on Tuesday. Last month after Continental released a fourth-quarter investment update, two analysts predicted
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      289 18 AFP [SYDNEY] Asian airlines will likely reap reduced profits in 2007 as increased competition offsets gains in passenger and freight traffic, a global aviation body said yesterday. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicted that the sector would see total profits for
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      258 18 Xinhua [BEIJING] Tough competition in the China air travel market in 2006 meant the lowest air ticket prices for passengers in three years. Statistics show that the average price of a ticket for a domestic flight in December was 590 yuan (SSI
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      795 19  -  It wants to invest in developing the port in phases to handle 1.5 million TEUs By GEORGE JOSEPH PRIVATELY held Overseas Port Management (OPM), led and managed by several former PSA executives, has proposed to the Yemeni government to turn the
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      511 19 Reuters [NEW DELHI] At least six whales have died since July as a result of digging under the sea to create a shipping route off India's southern coast, proving that the controversial plan hurts the environment, activists said. The digging or dredging is part
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      322 19 AP [HONG KONGJ A newly repaired North Korean ship held in Hong Kong for two months for safety violations has been cleared to leave, but it will leave without its cargo, a port official and the ship's agent said yesterday. Marine
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      183 19 Reuters [ATHENS] Dockhands at Greece's largest commercial ports on Wednesday ended an eight-week overtime ban which has created a backlog of containers and led to customers moving their business elsewhere. "The end of industrial action was achieved after weeks of negotiations between workers representatives.
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      95 19 Bloomberg [MANILA] International Container Terminal Services Inc, a Philippine port operator, said it has bought 91 per cent of Davao Integrated Port and Stevedoring Services Corp for 338 million pesos (S$10.6 million). The company has a 10year contract to provide cargo handling services at the
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      799 19  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR A SAFETY harness that was not fit for purpose and other unsafe working conditions contributed to an Indonesian seaman falling 24 metres to his death while cleaning the bridge windows of the cruise vessel Pacific Sun in Sydney's Darling Harbour
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      477 20 EDITORIAL SINGAPORE investors could not have asked for a better start to 2007, with a set of bullish indicators on Wednesday the first working day of the New Year providing much optimism. Preliminary estimates released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed that housing prices
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      1309 20  -  Many high-end brands chasing country's limited pool of big spenders end up with losses By LE-MIN LIM Bloomberg WHEN Eric Douilhet opened China's first Paul Smith and Moschino fashion boutiques in 2002, he did not expect they would be making money by
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      779 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE WILLIAM PESEK JR Bloomberg THE biggest economic surprise of 2006 a Chinese economy that refused to slow will probably repeat itself this year. As predictions go, more of the same is never exciting. Yet in 2007, the odds
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      1893 21  -  A recent study finds that the region is a successful exporter of high-value goods By SCOTT PRICE ASEAN is a remarkably successful exporter. More to the point, Asean is a successful exporter of high-value goods. This is highlighted in an Economist Intelligence Unit study entitled
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      742 21  -  By VICTORIA SHANNON International Herald Tribune H JPI S HEN the great Internet m i meltdown struck Asia m m ast m any %Jr resourceful and m W knowledgeable computer users devised homegrown work-arounds to avoid the painfully slow crawl that characterised connections
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  • ARTS/WINE
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      490 28  -  National Museum director tells PARVATHI NAYAR about its new directions PARVATHI NAYAR IT IS a dramatic turnaround. Before Dec 8, 2006 before its three-year, $132.6 million makeover the 119-year-old National Museum had perhaps 3,000 visitors a month. After the big bang opening to the
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      617 28  - Engaging with history now By PARVATHI NAYAR HISTORY in the present tense. If this sounds like an abstract concept, Ms Lee is quick to explain that National Museum curators have investigated and initiated practical strategies so that museum visitors in 2007 can engage with histories in the here and now,
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      1062 28  -  By N K YONG THE beginning of the year is a good time to take stock of one's cellar. The year has changed, wines are a year older, some wines are beginning to drink well, others need further cellaring. I am often asked if
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      180 28 Usually, we eat and run.Today, we ran to eat at Sunday Luxe. With only 60 seats available, our reservation was made weeks in advance. Tempted by the possibilities on the menu, we started on a light note with vanilla waffles and coconut pancakes before paying attention to the scrambled eggs
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  • CINEMA
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      633 29  -  Everything about 'The Queen' is so dam smart, from the choice of subject matter, to the way it is interpreted, says PARVATHI NAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR THE Queen is no grand royal epic. It's what you would call a "small movie", but such a satisfying one,
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      Lock icon A flawed diamond lacking sparkle
      637 29  -  By GEOFFREY EU THE film Blood Diamond. the latest high-profile, ca-reer-defining instalment in Leonardo DiCaprio's journey to mega-stardom, is a fast-paced action-adven-ture about a relentless, morally bankrupt, dia-mond-smuggling mercenary who routinely risks life and limb (often his own) in a quest to add some, well,
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      537 29  -  By GEOFFREY EU FAST Food Nation tells quite a bit more about hamburger patties specifically those produced by a fictional fast food chain in the US than the average consumer might care to know. If the rather unsavoury information about the exact nature of the
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      373 29  -  DVD By PARVATHI NAYAR AN entire film dedicated to the female orgasm sounds like an invitation to some really dubious frat boy humour. Yet you harbour a sneaky hope that it will be laugh-out-loud funny; after all, you think channelling Meg Ryan
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      274 29 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS Quite true (9) 6 Row with Teresa about per- 8 Fas^f st s f t Qoes fume (9) t0 the head 7 Neat pilot (5) 9 "It's in the post", said he (4) 10 Cause obstruction prior to 14 Comic's casual remark is disopening (7) posable (9)
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  • executive lifestyle
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      584 30  - Make a resolution —and, get away with it off the cuff jaimie ee IT'S 2007. Do you know where 2006 went? If you do, can you tell me how to get it back? It's not like I want to re-live the events 0f2006 which did not lead to me reaping
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      1680 30  -  Luxury cruise ships are increasingly attracting serious art lovers to appreciate, and even buy, fine art while sailing around the world. EMILYN ANG finds out more and asks if buying art at sea is a good idea EMILYN ANG IMAGINE sailing onboard one
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