The Business Times, 26 January 2007

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    20 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Friday, January 26,2007
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  • Article
    Lock icon Thailand's iTV offers to pass control to govt
    651 1 Firm may have to file for bankruptcy, says director By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok SHIN Corporation's television station iTV, faced with government demands for 100 billion baht (S$4.4 billion) in penalty payments, yesterday offered to hand over the country's only independent channel
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    Lock icon THE PLEASURE OF WAITING
    63 1 'In the US, the excitement is being able to drive the car a few hours after seeing it. But the excitement for the customers we see in this region is the wait. That's part of the enjoyment.' Ian Robertson, chairman and chief executive of Rolls-Royce Motor
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    Lock icon Corporate tax cut benefits some more than others
    904 1  -  Impact on companies will depend on incentives and exemptions they already enjoy By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE! Confirmation that Singapore intends to reduce corporate taxes has helped stocks to new highs this week, but the reality is that while a corporate tax
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon S'pore urges KL to jointly manage Causeway diversion
      345 2  -  Multi-agency group studying steps to minimise effects of traffic gridlock By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Singapore officials have called on Malaysia for joint action to minimise disruption caused by Malaysian plans to close the Causeway temporarily to heavy vehicles, diverting them to
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      Lock icon Eng Wah confirms Crazy Horse closure from Feb 1
      608 2  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Cinema group Eng Wah Organization confirmed yesterday that it is pulling the plug on its Crazy Horse Paris Cabaret franchise at Clarke Quay and issued a profit warning on account of write-offs arising from the closure. In
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      Lock icon China's GDP grew 10.7% last year -an 11 -yr high
      412 2 Interest rate rises expected as inflation hits 2.8% in Dec [BEIJING] Belying the slowdown theory, China's economy grew by a sizzling 10.7 per cent last year. The best annual growth figure in 11 years puts the Asian giant well on
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      480 2 UOB to buy 10% of Vietnam's Southern Bank UNITED Overseas Bank is taking an initial 10 per cent of Vietnam's Southern Commercial Joint Stock Bank for about $46 million, as part of its ambition to become a key regional player. The subscription agreement also provides for the bank
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      Lock icon Personal income tax rates may also be cut: consultants
      310 2  -  By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] The proposed tax cut for companies suggests personal income tax rates will also fall, tax consultants say. The current personal income tax rate is 20 per cent for the highest bracket on par with the present
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      136 3 STI 3.108.63 (-41.61) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,109.00 (-41.00) SIMSCI 377.24 (-6.56) SIMSCI FUTURES 377.70 (-6.20) MARKETS Thursday Change KLCOMP 1.179.66 -3.38 NIKKEI 225 17,458.30 -49.10 HANG SENG 20,669.83 _-151.22 SET INDEX 660.71 +3.55 JAKARTA COMP 1,773.96 -31.74 MANILA COMP 3.275.19 +30.44 SEOUL COMP 1,382.36 -0.70 SHENZHEN B 502.51
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      Lock icon Marina Bay Residences subsales hit 16
      435 3  -  Gains said to range from $500,000 to more than $1m By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] There have been at least 16 subsales already concluded at Marina Bay Residences so far, with more pending, sources have told BT. None of the penthouse buyers have made subsales
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      Lock icon UOB to buy 10% of Vietnam's Southern Bank
      535 3  -  It has right to raise stake later; Hanoi expected to increase cap on foreign shareholding to 20% soon By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank is taking an initial 10 per cent in Vietnam's Southern Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Southern Bank)
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Wrong formula for Crazy Horse?
      707 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By CONRAD RAJ IT'S a pity the Crazy Horse Paris cabaret did not take off in Singapore and that the company behind it here, cinema operator Eng Wah Corporation, has had to take the painful decision to close it at the end
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      Lock icon Harry's goes public on OTC Capital
      567 4  -  By CONRAD RAJ HARRY'S, one of Singapore's top entertainment groups which runs a range of pubs and restaurants, has gone public with the placement of 15 million shares on the OTC Capital market, an initiative of stockbrokers Phillip Securities. At 22 cents a share,
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      Lock icon STATS ChipPAC Q4 profit up 67%
      396 4  -  By ROLAND LIM SEMICONDUCTOR test and assembly major STATS ChipPAC yesterday reported record full-year net profit and revenue, helped by its fourth-quarter performance. The fourth quarter ended Dec 31, 2006, saw net profit surging 67 per cent to US$28.3 million or US$0.14 cents per
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      Lock icon KepLand's Q4 profit jumps 46.2% to $81.2 m
      590 4  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA KEPPEL Land yesterday posted a 46.2 per cent increase in Q4 net profit to $81.2 million and a 28.6 per cent rise in full-year net profit to $200.3 million. The group expects profit growth to continue in 2007. KepLand
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      Lock icon CMT reports 24% increase in Q4 distributable income
      452 4  -  By UMA SHANKARI SINGAPORE'S largest property trust, Capita Mall Trust (CMT), said yesterday its distribution per unit (DPU) to investors rose 24.1 per cent to 3.35 cents in the fourth quarter, boosted by increased rentals and income from new properties. The real
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      Lock icon City Spring to raise up to $286 m in IPO
      383 6  -  2 institutional investors have agreed to 9.7% stake: sources By WEE LI-EN CITYSPRING Infrastructure Trust, whose initial public offering (IPO) is being spearheaded by a Temasek Holdings subsidiary, is set to raise about $286 million, with two institutional investors already
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      Lock icon Property, construction stocks take a beating
      433 6  -  By UMA SHANKARI PROPERTY and construction counters took a beating yesterday as both sectors brace themselves for rising constructiofl <jo§ti>. The Property Equities Index, a capitalisa-tion-weighted index of all stocks traded on SGX's property sector, fell 2.7 per cent to 1,304 points, from 1340.3
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      Lock icon Utac's Q4 net soars to record US$22.8m
      402 6  -  By WINSTON CHAI BOOSTED by better-than-expected market demand and its acquisition in Thailand, United Test Assembly Centre (Utac) posted a 13.7 per cent year-on-year gain in net profit and an 83.2 per cent jump in revenue for its fourth quarter ended Dec 31,
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      Lock icon Genting shares plunge after report of Stanley Ho queries
      377 6 AFP Bloomberg GENTING International Pic shares tumbled yesterday after The Straits Times (ST) reported that the company has been queried by the Singapore government over a partnership with Macau gaming billionaire Stanley Ho. Genting International, the Singapore-listed arm of Asia's largest
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      Lock icon CAO sells Spanish investment for $342m
      506 6  -  By WONG WEI KONG CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) is taking 3 major step towards meeting its debt repayment obligations by selling its stake in Spanish logistics services company Compania Logistica De Hidrocarburos (CLH) for 171 million euros (***** million). CAt) said in a statement
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      Lock icon Cosco signs rig deal worth US$200m
      168 6  -  By GEORGE JOSEPH COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Ltd yesterday announced that its 51 per cent owned subsidiary, Cosco Shipyard Group, has signed a contract valued at US$2OO million with Marine Accurate Well (Maracc) to build a semi-submersible rig. Work on the rig will begin on
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      Lock icon SembCorp Marine bags US$24m rig job
      234 9  -  Delivery of the repeat order from PetroRig III scheduled for 2010 By JUDITH JACOB SEMRCORP Marine has landed a US$524 million order to build a deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig. The repeat order from Petroßig 111 Pte Ltd is the third newbuild deepwater semi-submersible drilling
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      Lock icon COMPANY BRIEFS
      136 9 Cambridge Trust reports distribution CAMBRIDGE Industrial Trust has reported distribution per unit of 2.428 cents for the year ended December 2006, exceeding its forecast of 2.14 cents. VT SVC wins US$36m contract for trailers VT SPECIALIZED Vehicles Corporation (VT SVC), a unit of Singapore Technologies Engineering, has won
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      Lock icon Former CityAxis places shares to raise $404m
      333 9  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN CITYAXIS Holdings, renamed Indofood Agri Resources with effect from yesterday, has launched a bookbuilding exercise for its placement shares. According to lead manager CIMB-GK, the indicative price range for the new placement shares will be between 90 cents and $1.25
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      Lock icon First Reit to double portfolio to $500m in three years
      464 9  -  By ARTHUR SIM INDONESIAN Lippo Group's First Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) will double its portfolio size to $500 million in the next three years and raise it further to $1 billion in five years. The Reit now comprises three
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon STI slides as region goes into reverse
      518 8  -  STOCKS Asian markets fail to react positively to Wall Street's strong overnight performance R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IN A recent column the possibility was raised that stock prices here and elsewhere in the region function as advance indicators of how Wall Street might
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      Lock icon TRADES TO WATCH
      996 8 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS (Disclosures made on Jan 25 and earlier) Subsantial No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Buy/ Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Sell '000 Shr COOP) ('000) ISDN Hldgs 25-Jan-07 Teo Cher Koon *Sell 5000 .0.42 ***** 59.29 ***** 56.14 ISDN Hldgs 25-Jan-07 Assetraise
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      859 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Semiconductor stocks MACQUARiE RESEARCH, Jan 25 STATS ChipPAC reported its results yesterday morning. UTAC yesterday evening, while Chartered will announce its results this morning. The stocks of the three semiconduc-tor-related companies had a strong rebound on Wednesday, with Chartered up 7.2 per cent day-on-day, to
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      Lock icon Yen firms in run-up to G-7 meeting
      507 8 CURRENCIES Reuters [LONDON] The yen rallied yesterday as investors became uncomfortable with large short positions, amid speculation that Europe could take a tougher tone over the Japanese currency's weakness at the next Group of Seven (G-7) meeting. A source close to the preparation
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon $13.60 psf is new benchmark for office rents
      561 10  -  Average monthly rent of $7.70 psf also beats peak of $7.64 psf in 2001 By ARTHUR SIM A NEW benchmark for office rents has been set with a $13.60 per sq foot (psf) rent at Republic Plaza, topping a recent high of
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      Lock icon CityDev unveils its first public artwork
      282 10  -  By JUDITH JACOB CITY Developments Limited (CDL) yesterday launched its first public artwork by the Singapore River. Under the National Heritage Board's Public Art Tax Incentive Scheme (Patis), formerly known as the Public Sculptures Scheme, CDL commissioned the Reed Sculpture into a full-sized piece
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      Lock icon Singapore inks MOUs with Uzbekistan
      265 10  -  NEW BUSINESS TIES By JUDITH JACOB SINGAPORE and Uzbekistan in Central Asia signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) yesterday with the aim of developing stronger economic and business ties. The first MOU was signed between the Singapore Business Federation and the Chamber of Commerce and
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      Lock icon S'pore-Tianjin council to be set up
      197 10 ANOTHER layer was added to Singapore-China cooperation yesterday when the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up the Singapore-Tianjin Economic and Trade Council. It will be the fifth such council established between Singapore and China to promote trade and investment. The
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      203 10 15dieselcars in first testbed project FIFTEEN diesel cars complying with the Euro IV emission standard will be used over the next two years for the first biodiesel testbed project in Singapore. A group of private companies and government agencies signed an agreement in December 2006 concerning the project,
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      Lock icon Business chamber voices its wishes for Budget
      521 10  -  By WEE LI-EN COMPANIES should be allowed to claim capital allowances for renovation costs, while all foreign income sourced outside Singapore should be exempt from tax, the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) says in its wish list for the upcoming Budget. SICC
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon HK$ slide prompts fresh debate
      541 11  -  Calls have been made to re-look US dollar peg and consider yuan peg instead By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong THE Hong Kong dollar's recent slide has prompted a fresh round of debate on the future of the city's currency. After hitting a 17-year low
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      Lock icon Japan may come under fire at next G-7 meeting
      549 11  -  It's seen as keeping the yen weak for unfair advantage By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan's surprise decision last week to delay raising interest rates could backfire next month when European officials are expected to complain at a
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      Lock icon 'Corny' inflation could worry Fed and bond market
      468 11 Demand for corn to make ethanol could raise overall prices Reuters [NEW YORK] Oil prices may have fallen from last year's heady levels but rising demand for another fuel corn may boost food prices and spark enough inflationary pressure to worry the
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Brokers excited about Islamic; plantation trust
      220 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian brokers warmed yesterday to the upcoming flotation of the world's first Islamic palm oil property trust, with one tipping it to be a star of the rapidly growing sector for real estate trusts. The Boustead A 1 Hadharah trust, which
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      Lock icon Indon expat policy floors foreign banks
      661 12  -  Hiring of foreigners is already done as last resort because it's costly: banks By LAUREL TEO in Jakarta FOREIGN-OWNED banks in Jakarta are questioning the need for a new policy restricting their hiring of expatriates, and have expressed their concern to the central bank.
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Tenaga tops hopes as profit doubles
      510 12  -  By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur IN NOVEMBER, stateowned power utility Tenaga Nasional went on a roadshow to plug its stock among international fund managers. The tour, organised by CIMB, Malaysia's largest investment bank, seems to have struck a chord with investors. Tenaga's share
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon Palmoil mega merger boosts firms' shares
        66 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Shares of Sime Darby. Kumpulan Guthrie and Golden Hope Plantations surged after the Malaysian companies signed agreements to merge their assets to form the world's largest listed palmoil producer. Sime Darby stock climbed to the highest in almost 10 years. Guthrie
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        Lock icon Putin signs nuke power deal in India
        58 12 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday sealed a deal to construct nuclear power plants in India, as Moscow moved closer to its long-term Asian partner through energy and arms agreements. He met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and will be the guest
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        Lock icon Tata Steel profit seen soaring 48% in Q3
        81 12 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] Tata Steel may say profit rose 48 per cent because of an increase in prices and sales to carmakers. Profit likely rose to 11.13 billion rupees (S$387.1 million) in the third quarter ended Dec 31. from 7.54 billion rupees a
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        Lock icon TSMC reports 18% fall in Q4 earnings
        60 12 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co posted its smallest quarterly profit in five quarters on clients' high inventories. It earned a net profit of NT$27.91 billion (S$l .3 billion) for the fourth quarter, down 18 per cent from NT$33.9 billion a year earlier
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      Lock icon Perodua races ahead of Proton as M'sia's No 1 car
      488 12 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Troubled car-maker Proton has lost its top-dog status after nearly a quarter-century as Malaysia's biggest-selling car-maker was edged out by another homegrown manufacturer, Perodua. 'This is the first time Perodua has secured the number one spot" Malaysian
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      Lock icon M'sian economic progress may face challenges: academics
      348 12  -  By BENITA AW YEONG [SINGAPORE] "Hype or real?" was one of the key questions raised among members of the panel yesterday at a conference on the Malaysian economy held at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies in Singapore. Chua Hak Bin, director of
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon ICICI Bank sees more equity stake sales
      322 14 Lender on track to meet international growth target taking global assets to 25% over next 1-2 years: CEO [DAVOS] The chief executive of India's second-largest lender ICICI Bank, in which Singapore investment agency Temasek Holdings has a stake, expects to put more equity
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      Lock icon Vodafone can sell Bharti stake
      248 14 Bharti MD says he is open to stake being sold in the market [DAVOS, Switzerland]: Bharti Group chairman and managing director Sunil Mittal has said that he is open to Vodafone selling its shares in Bharti Airtel in the secondary markets. He would have no
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Govt concerns, inflation may dampen stocks
      621 15 Liquidity may drop with monetary tightening but bear market unlikely Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's government yesterday warned against the stock market rising too fast and reported higher-than-expected inflation, suggesting the benign conditions which buoyed Chinese markets last year could be about to change. The stock
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      Lock icon Cyber crimes shoot up in HK
      494 15  -  Tech-related incidents up 13.4% while computer hacking doubles By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong CYBER crime is on the rise in Hong Kong, jumping by nearly 33 per cent over the past two years, while computer hacking almost doubled in the past 12 months.
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      Lock icon Macquarie launches China IPO fund in HK
      221 15 [HONG KONG] The fashion for China-related IPOs has given rise to an IPO-focused fund. Macquarie Equities (Asia) yesterday said it is launching a fund that will allow investors to capture China's strong growth. The fund, the first of its kind in Hong Kong,
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Ford posts Q4 loss of US$5.8b on sales dip
      537 17 Full-year loss hits record US$12.7b; company expects more losses in 2007 AP [DEARBORN, Michigan] Ford Motor Co lost US$5.B billion in the fourth quarter amid slumping sales and huge restructuring costs, pushing the fabled automaker's deficit for the year to US$l2.7
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon US homes sales down 8.4% last year
        93 17 AP [WASHINGTON] Sales of existing homes in the United States fell in December, closing out a year in which demand for homes slumped by the largest amount in 24 years. The National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes were down
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        Lock icon eBay beats estimates as Q4 profit rises 24%
        75 17 AP [SAN FRANCISCO] eBay reported that fourth-quarter profit increased 24 per cent from the same period last year, trouncing Wall Street estimates. Thanks to scorching holiday sales particularly in the US, the UK and Germany the auction company earned US$349 million or
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        Lock icon US$ fall will hit US stocks, warns Icahn
        109 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said that US stocks are vulnerable to a decline in the US dollar, which would hurt corporate earnings and cause the market's four-year rally to "really blow up". Mr Icahn, 70, said in an interview
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        86 17 AP [DALLAS] German conglomerate Siemens AG has agreed to buy business software maker UGS Corp from three private equity firms for about US$2.1 billion and assume US$1.4 billion in UGS debt, the companies said. The sellers Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus
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        87 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Symantec Corp, the world's biggest maker of anti-virus software, said profit rose 25 per cent, missing its original forecast, after sales of storage software slowed. Net income in the third quarter rose to US$113.7 million, or 12 cents a share.
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      534 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] The friendship between CNBC TV news anchor Maria Bartiromo and former Citigroup executive Todd Thomson raises questions about ethical boundaries between reporters and their sources, experts say. Mr Thomson found himself out of a job recently after spending
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      326 17 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Multiplex Group, the Australian builder struggling to complete London's Wembley stadium, has received a takeover approach. Directors will hold talks with the potential bidder in the next few weeks, the company said, without revealing who has made the approach. The stock
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      348 17 Bloomberg [DAVOS] Robert Greifeld, Nasdaq Stock Market chief executive, has rebuffed the London Stock Exchange's challenge to raise his offer for the UK bourse before it expires this week. Nasdaq had set a deadline of midnight tomorrow in London for the LSE
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      564 17 It cites ballooning treatment costs as reason for its move Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's army-installed government has issued licences for cheap versions of a heart disease drug and an Aids drug, Public Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla said yesterday, dealing a shock
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  • AVIATION
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      336 18 It will improve transparency and set up independent regulators AFP [BRUSSELS] The European Commission has laid out plans to tackle skyrocketting airport fees charged to airlines, and ultimately to passengers, by making the system more transparent and setting up independent regulators. With
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      237 18 AFP [JAKARTA] An ocean survey ship of the US Navy has located the "black box" flight recorders from an Indonesian airliner which went missing on New Year's Day, the US embassy said yesterday. The USNS Mary Sears detected ultrasonic pinger signals
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      339 18 AFP [WASHINGTON] Airliners flying to and from the United States are still at risk of being hijacked by terrorists, more than five years after the Sept 11 attacks, a US government auditor warned on Wednesday. Government efforts have made great progress
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      270 18 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA (Embraer), the world's fourth-biggest aircraft maker, says it is in discussions with Japan Airlines Corp for an order of as many as 10 regional jets. The Brazil-based planemaker is proposing the Embraer 170 and
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      336 18 Reuters [LONDON] US-based buyout firm Texas Pacific Group plans to express an interest to the Italian government in bidding for the ailing national carrier Alitalia, said sources familiar with the matter. The buyout firm plans to submit its interest alone, rather than in
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      272 18 AFP [SYDNEY] Australian carrier Qantas yesterday confirmed it was engaged in talks to buy a stake in Vietnam's Pacific Airlines, as the country's second largest carrier undergoes an ownership shake-up. Qantas spokesman Simon Rushton said that if talks with the
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      538 18 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways has cancelled all Heathrow flights on two days next week, as its cabin crew prepare to strike for the first time in a decade. Workers will walk out on Jan 30 and Jan 31, after
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      276 19 AP [SAN FRANCISCO] A highly contagious form of the stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a voyage on the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in what health officials have called an unusually large outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control
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      253 19 AP [WASHINGTON] The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded a deal worth about USS7O million for new, secure identification cards for port workers to Lockheed Martin Corp, the largest US defence contractor, US Congressional aides said. TSA and the Coast
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      860 19  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By SELVA KUMAR A VESSEL that rejected a pilot's advice to use a tug while leaving a port in England but later called a tug after getting into difficulties has lost a bid to get away with paying
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      341 19 Customs chief suggests using risk analysis instead of blanket screening Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] A US House measure to require the screening of all cargo on US-bound ships overseas is premature and would needlessly add to business expense, the European Union's chief customs official said. Laszlo Kovacs,
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      499 20 EDITORIAL THINK of Singapore's hot industries of the future and what comes to mind would probably include the latest financial products, nanotechnology, photonics and biotechnology. But refining ores? The idea might seem outlandish. Many may even consider the industry so "Old Economy". The chairman of
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      965 20  -  Income and wealth measures, when taken alone, can give a misleadingly pessimistic picture By By TYLER COWEN NYT THE growing inequality in wealth and income has led many people to question whether the contemporary American economy is rigged in favour of the rich. While
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      778 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE NEIL BEHRMANN London Correspondent A YEAR ago, Hermes Pensions Management, the adviser of British Telecom's pension scheme, proudly said that it had invested £1 billion (Ss3 billion) in commodities. The investment was the "largest single allocation to commodities of
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      848 21  -  The great danger of the biofuels craze is that it will divert people from stronger steps to limit dependence on foreign oil ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group US PRESIDENT George W Bush joined the biofuels enthusiasm in his State of the Union
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      780 21  -  LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent PRESIDENT George W Bush delivered his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday to the American people and to their representatives in Congress, the majority of whom are strongly opposed to his plan for increasing troops in Iraq
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      346 21  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Fai Au Yeung CEO. City Spring Infrastructure Management Pte Ltd (Trustee-Manager of City Spring Infrastructure Trust) I REFER to yesterday's Hock Lock Siew column, "City Spring's funding raises concerns". It contains a number of factual errors. Paragraph three of the column stated
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  • executive lifestyle
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      547 28  -  off the cuff jaime ee HANDS up, those who think the Singapore Girl needs a major makeover. Or at least a different eye shadow colour. Whatever it is, advertising agencies must now be working overtime trying to create a new campaign that will
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        558 28  -  Terri Tan Owner, Designworx Interior Consultant TERRI Tan, 37, is a rarity a graduate who applied to be an SIA girl after taking her last paper to qualify for the Bachelor of Arts in architectural studies at the National University of Singapore. She was
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        511 28  -  Jessica LimCharungchareonvejj Partner, Salut Lifestyle Communications IT was the allure of travel that drew Jessica Lim-Charungchareonvejj to flying, although her first love was food. So after flying with Singapore Airlines (SIA) for two years from 1989 to 1991 she quit and dabbled at other jobs
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        384 28  -  Julia Chung Co-owner of Nail Clinique THE way she draws her hair back in a clip often gives away the fact that Julia Chung, 34, is a former SIA girl. Even if acquaintances don't guess at first glance, they nod knowingly when she reveals that
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      47 28 in Singapore H 2 10 February 2007 The Arts House Drama Centre Esplanade The Substation J Joirtly PtwwUKlßy: omekjl Mogatlnr OtlWdHaM: 01 I'S r, (L ,.y,, I M m A ©IEIM lA3S £m£To***% 4, □fJliif wtfcr- Bnl JS. I V-Aiy^i. Partner* J* JL ift;v.T:r ,e H 717
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      9 28 BOOKS A conversation with writer Peter James PAGE 30
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  • ARTS
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      992 29  -  THEATRE PARVATHI NAYAR pays tribute to the avant-garde theatre group on its 20 anniversary PARVATHI NAYAR WHEN the third Ml Singapore Fringe Festival formally opens next week, it'll mark 20 years in the business of theatre for the festival's founder and organiser,
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      465 29  -  By PARVATHI NAYAR PLAYS in Singapore tend to have short runs, so not many saw the critically acclaimed debut of Singaporean playwright Jean Tay's Everything But The Brain in 2005, directed by the late Krishen Jit. Action Theatre's ongoing revival directed by Samantha Scott-Blackhall is a
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      621 29  -  By MATTHEW PHAN TWO works of Hong Kong theatre starkly different in character if alike in their intelligence are on thenway to Singapore. It is a mark of the Chinese city's cosmopolitan nature that although they are part of dedicated arts festival Spotlight
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      580 29  -  DANCE By CHEAH UI-HOON WHEN the Stuttgart Ballet comes to town to present Romeo and Juliet next week, it's not just a chance to watch yet another rendition of the tragic Shakespearean love story in classical ballet. It's also a rare opportunity to catch and
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  • BOOKS
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      1060 30  -  Peter James tells PARVATHINAYAR how he became a successful writer and film producer PARVATHI NAYAR HIS new series of crime novels all have the word "Dead" in their titles Dead Simple, Looking Good Dead, and the upcoming Not Dead Enough but successful novelist/filmmaker Peter James is
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      645 30  -  By S JAYASANKARAN ISMAIL Abdul Rahman (1915-73) dominated the Malaysian stage during its formative years, but history has yet to acknowledge his worth. He was arguably the best premier Malaysia never had yet one might forgive younger Malaysians for asking: "Who is he?"
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      297 30 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS man (9) 1 Lots of bookshelves (6) 4 I'm unfortunately upset if I 5 Brave opponent of pallid eat complexion (8) 5 ls granted by a lawyer's 9 She can't find a blooming authority? (5,2,8) partner! (10) Liberal gains points for 10 She enlists two Poles in
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  • CINEMA/WINE
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      536 31  -  The cities are characters that shape Babel's stories, writes PARVATHI NAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR Increasingly, the cinematic structure of stories that begin in parallel but are eventually seen to intersect, seem to be a favourite with film directors, whether last year's Oscar winner
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      279 31  -  DVD By PARVATHI NAYAR THE Beat That My Heart Skipped is Jacques Audiard's contemporary reinterpretation of the Harvey Keitel film Fingers (1978) by writer/director James Toback. Like the original, Beat explores two opposing aspects of the male species the civilised side that responds
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      1069 31  -  By N K YONG A FEW days ago, an Indonesian friend of mine called me from Jakarta and said that he and his friends had asked a hotel there to arrange a very special wine dinner with certain wines which the hotel was asked
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      558 31  -  By GEOFFREY EU AT the swank Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, a sign behind the manager's desk loftily refers to the property as "A City Within a City". Indeed, so many storylines converge at that hotel in Bobby a film by Emilio Estevez about
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      104 31 I V* I is I if i I JpT m lip M i Excite your tastebuds with Kopi Tiarn's line-up of Fish Head dishes that will leave you lusting for more! Available at $4s+++ each from 2 January 18 February 2007, this delectable spread includes Steamed John Snapper Pish Head
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    1356 32  -  Making Time LARRY WEE quizzes three senior players in the local industry about new trends, top recommendations and upcoming events LARRY WEE IT has become something of a tradition for BT to start the watch year by talking to its friends in the watch
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