The Business Times, 20 February 2007

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  • Title Section
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    20 1 The Business Times SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Tuesday, February 20,2007
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  • Article
    Lock icon 80% of SGX stocks already up this year
    926 1  -  Price increases reminiscent of early '93 when stock market began its run-up, reaching a peak a year later By TEH HOOI LING [SINGAPORE] The stock market has been kind to investors so far this year, with advances for every four out of
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    Lock icon This is one girl who shouldn't be dumped
    623 1  -  High-flyers want the S'pore Girl icon to be just tweaked By MATTHEW PHAN [SINGAPORE] Good-look-ing, impeccably groomed, warm and friendly, even imbued with a mystical Asian essence and they want to get rid of her? Senior executives said Singapore Airlines should ditch
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      464 2 Bangkok looking at how to buy back Shin Satellite THAILAND is looking at buying back its Shin Satellite company from Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings, Information Communications Technology Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said yesterday. "Getting them back, that is definitely what we want to do. But the question is
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      Lock icon KL market: still waiting for the bull
      800 3  -  By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur DESPITE an impressive 25 per cent rise in the Malaysian stock market since last November, retail investors have shown little interest in joining in. Exchange data indicates only 10-15 per cent of the more than 2 million
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      Lock icon Bangkok looking at how to buy back Shin Satellite
      645 3 Uncertainty over Shin Corp's fate prompts investors to sell down stock, which sinks 7% By OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THAILAND is looking at buying back its Shin Satellite company from Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings, Information Communications Technology Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom
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      Lock icon S'pore disappointed by Indon report: MFA
      356 2  -  It says good progress made on extradition treaty, defence cooperation agreement By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Singapore is disappointed by an Indonesian newspaper report that quoted an Indonesian government official as saying that the country's ban on the export of concreting sand is a "key
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      Lock icon Hong Kong expected to cut corporate, salary taxes
      615 2  -  Strong public pressure to share recent windfall in investment income By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong HONG KONG is expected to follow Singapore's example with a corporate tax cut in the upcoming budget, although the two cities' motives for doing so may
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    • Article
      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      112 2 MARKETS Monday Change KLCOMP dosed NIKKEI 225 17.940.09 -64.44 HANG SENS dosed r SET INDEX ***** -2.63 JAKARTA COMP 1,799.293 >4.930 MANILA COMP 3,329.03 -4.53 SEOUL COMP dosed SHENZHEN B dosed MUMBAIINO 14,402.90 447.35 12 noon EOT Change DOW dosed NASDAQ dosed PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      Lock icon TO CHANGE OR NOT TO CHANGE
      3709 4 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC Does the Singapore Girl need a makeover? What would you like to see changed? Fong Loo Fern Managing Director, CYC The Custom Shop IF IT AIN'T BROKE. DON'T FIX IT AS YOU know, CYC designs and conceptualises corporate attire for many
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
      1402 6 Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Fri's recommendation esti- EPS PC target price Company name This wk Lastmth mates (cents) (ratio) price Allco Commercial REIT 1.33 1.33 6 5.06 24.50 1.50 1.18 Allgreen Properties 2.22 2.11 9 5.27 31.48 1.39 1.67 Ascendas REIT 3.00 2.50 13 11.98 21.20 2.51 "2.53
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      Lock icon ST Engg heading for India, Mid-East markets
      804 6  -  CEO INTERVIEW Group plans to capture slices of growing markets as economies expand, writes MATTHEW PHAN MATTHEW PHAN FRESH from reporting strong FY2006 results, Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engg) is gunning to expand in the Middle East and India two places where it
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      Lock icon Swissco's leveraged play on Swiber?
      522 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By VEN SREENIVASAN LAST week, local brokerage Westcomb issued a brief research report on offshore oil and gas industry service provider Swiber Holdings. Citing the fact that Swiber had just landed a U*****.6 million project from Brunei Shell Petroleum Company, Westcomb put
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      Lock icon Positive bias for the ST Index appears intact
      504 6  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent ON the plus side, the economic news is good. The government has raised growth forecasts, companies are reporting record earnings and the market is awash with liquidity. On the minus side, prices ran up sharply ahead of
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  • SME spotlight
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      Lock icon Women execs steel the show here
      789 7  -  Two women handle the finances at Asia Enterprises in a largely male preserve, writes JANICE HENG JANICE HENG ASIA Enterprises shows that the steel industry is not the sole preserve of men. Although steel distributor Asia Enterprises is part of a traditionally male-dominated industry,
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      Lock icon MC.2: an infotech retailer+++
      734 7 It sells customers not just a laptop but a whole digital lifestyle. JANICE HENG reports LAPTOP retailer MC.2 does not want to sell you just a laptop; it wants to sell you a digital lifestyle experience. In practice, this means that MC.2's salespeople ask customers about
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon More than enough oil well into the century
      812 8  -  Oil production has risen in tandem with demand By NEIL BEHRMANN in London OIL supplies should satisfy growing world demand well into the century, says energy consultant Duncan Clarke. In his new book The Battle For Barrels (Profile Books), he contends that
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      Lock icon All eyes on crucial BOJ meeting on rates
      586 8  -  Yen already moving up, dollar down, in anticipation of rise in interest rates By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan's (BOJ) policy board today begins what is likely to be its most closely watched two-day meeting ever to decide whether
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      Lock icon More rate increases may be needed, says Fed official
      372 8 Reuters [CHICAGO] The risk of high inflation is still greater than the risks of lower US growth, and as a result, more interest rate increases could be needed, Chicago Federal Reserve president Michael Moskow has said. "I see the economy with
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      Lock icon Brazil cuts 2007 growth forecast to 4.5% in budget
      372 8 Reuters [BRASILIA] Brazil's government has reduced its 2007 economic growth forecast in this year's budget to 4.5 per cent from 4.75 per cent, the planning and budget minister said last Thursday. The government will freeze 16.4 billion reais (Ssl2 billion) in
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon M'sia mulls bill to restrict foreign workers
      324 9 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Foreign labourers in Malaysia's largest city yesterday denounced proposed legislation that would restrict them to their work sites unless they receive special permission to leave. Home Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad said that he intends to propose a bill next month
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    • Article
      Lock icon Q4 earnings boost M'sian stocks' pre-CNY gains
      576 9  -  KLCI rises 4.38% in 2 weeks prior to New Year against 0.2% in 2006 By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN equities have posted some of their best pre-Chinese New Year (CNY) gains since the Asian financial crisis, aided by strong fourth-quarter earnings.
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      Lock icon Bank Indonesia will wait till Q2 to cut rate
      704 9 Delay as floods have pushed up food prices Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's central bank will probably wait until the second quarter to cut its benchmark interest rate because floods pushed up food prices. "For this quarter, the reduction is pretty limited," deputy
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      Lock icon Bank Indonesia may switch to overnight rate
      432 9 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Bank Indonesia may switch the benchmark used as a reference to the overnight rate instead of one-month bill sales to better direct borrowing costs and manage inflation, deputy governor Hartadi Sarwono said. The central bank wants to wait for the government
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    • Article
      Lock icon KL may ban fast-food ads, levy 'sin tax': paper
      12 9 AFP (Kuala Lumpur)
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      Lock icon Abdullah denies talk of early poll
      296 9 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Sunday rejected speculation that he could use the country's positive economic outlook to call a snap general election, a report said. Analysts have said that booming share prices and regular reports in local media
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    • Article
      Lock icon M'sia raids software retailers amid piracy concerns
      261 9 AP [PUTRAJAYA] Malaysian authorities have begun raiding computer retail outlets offeringpirated software amid concerns that illegal copies of Microsoft Corp's newest operating system, Windows Vista, are already on sale. The strategy marks a shift from crackdowns over the past year that mainly targeted
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon Hello New Year, Goodbye fireworks ban
      234 10 Beijingers celebrate Year of the Pig with hopes for prosperity, health, peace Reuters [BEIJING] Bright, deafening explosions and thick smoke covered China's capital at midnight, as Beijingers celebrated the beginning of the New Year and the end of a fireworks ban in exuberant fashion.
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      Lock icon US urges India, China to help spur global growth
      154 10 Lowering of trade and investment barriers essential Reuters [WASHINGTON] Key emerging economies like India and China bear special responsibility to lower trade and investment barriers to help global expansion, a senior US Treasury Department official said last Friday. "Much of the
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    • Article
      Lock icon More women millionaires than men in Hong Kong but...
      487 10  -  generally, women workers earn less than their male counterparts By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong FEMALE millionaires in Hong Kong now outstrip their male counterparts, according to a new study but things are not looking as rosy for women workers generally
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      Lock icon China's seeming 3G delay masks network roll-out
      311 10 ANALYSIS Reuters [SHANGHAI/HONG KONG] The latest setback on China's rocky road to issuing third-generation wireless permits is not all it seems rather than pushing back the launch, Beijing is giving local players such as ZTE Corp a headstart and kickstarting a network roll-out.
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      Lock icon Rushing to invest in India? Beware of bumps
      646 10 AP [NEW YORK] The empirical evidence of India's enormous economic expansion in recent years in particular the sharp run-up in stocks there has proven an irresistible draw to some mutual fund investors. But those chasing the siren song should be aware that,
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      Lock icon Pakistani minister goes ahead with India trip despite blasts
      311 10 Reuters [ISLAMABAD] Pakistan's foreign minister yesterday said he was going ahead with a trip to India today as planned, despite "horrendous" bomb blasts on a train in India that killed at least 66 people, most of them Pakistanis. Foreign Minister Khursheed
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  • MIDDLE EAST
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      Lock icon Qatar fund keen on taking stake in Airbus
      534 11 QATAR'S BIG MOVES Airbus 'under pressure' and shares may be undervalued: QIA Bloomberg [PARIS] Qatar's US$4O billion investment fund may buy as much as 10 per cent of European Aeronautic Defence Space Co (EADS), Europe's largest aerospace company, to diversify the emirate's
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      Lock icon MORE THAN HORSEPLAY
      46 11 [DUBAI] Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia holds an Arabian horse in Dubai on Sunday, a day before the start of the Dubai Open. Hantuchova willjoin the likes of Justine Henin and Martina Hingis vying to win the title in the US$1.5 million tournament. AFP
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    • Article
      Lock icon Gulf govt investment agency doubles profit
      456 11  -  By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai THE Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) a financial institution owned equally by all six Gulf Arab states more than doubled its profit to US$6OO million last year from U*****.8 million in 2005. The 120 per cent increase in net profit
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      Lock icon Gulf Arab central banks set April meet
      113 11 Reuters [DUBAI] Governors of Gulf Arab central banks will meet in April to discuss plans for monetary union and other issues, an official at the United Arab Emirates central bank said on Sunday. The meeting to be held on April 3 and 4
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    • Article
      Lock icon Rice committed to peace talks
      339 11 NYT [RAMALLAH] US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice struggled to hold together her ambitious plan to restart Middle East peace talks, even as arguments continued over a new Palestinian unity government in a signal that the Bush administration's renewed peace push might have arrived at
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    • Article
      Lock icon State fund seeks stake in Sainsbury
      258 11 Shares of UK's No 3 supermarket climb on bid battle hopes Bloomberg [DUBAI] Qatar's stateowned investment fund is seeking a "strategic" stake in J Sainsbury pic and is studying how much of the UK's third-largest supermarket company to buy, the chief executive of the
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      Lock icon ADCB plans to borrow US$2b
      308 11 Bloomberg [ABU DHABI] Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB), the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) third-biggest lender by assets, plans to borrow at least US$2 billion this year to help finance loans and acquire assets in the Middle East and India. "We are in the market for
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  • FOCUS: SHIFTING GEARS
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      Lock icon Car makers going solo again
      1480 12  -  After years of M&As and tie-ups, they now feel it may be better to focus on single company with fewer distractions from partners By MICHELINE MAYNARD NYT EVERY decade provides a new lesson for the American car industry. In the 1980s, car makers underestimated their
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      Lock icon Doing it the Toyota Way
      1258 12  -  By MARTIN FACKLER NYT IT DOES not occupy much space on the office wall, but Latondra Newton calls it the hardest thing for Toyota's new American employees to accept: those coloured bar charts against a white bulletin board, in plain view for all to see.
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Thailand will override more drug patents
      431 13 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand will likely override international patents on more drugs, including those for cancer and heart disease, if pharmaceutical giants do not significantly cut their prices, the country's health minister says. "We have thought about this for more than five years. It's long
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      Lock icon Japan's firms seek tie-ups to thwart foreign takeovers
      480 13  -  Defensive moves reported as new rules make foreign takeovers easier By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo CORPORATE Japan is beginning to bolster its defences against foreign takeovers as legal changes loom that will make it easier for foreigners to finance acquisitions by using
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      Lock icon Thaksin's wife seeks to buy house abroad
      123 13 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] The wife of Thailand's deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sought permission to transfer cash overseas to buy a house, the central bank said. "The central bank has authority to approve the deal," Bank of Thailand Governor Tarisa Watanagase told reporters
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      Lock icon Nobel prize winner starts new party, enters politics
      472 13 He will sever ties with Grameen Bank later this month NYT AFP [NEW DELHI] The only version of democracy known to Bangladesh has been a small, crowded, violenceprone contest between its two begums or ladies as they are also known who lead
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      Lock icon Organic food market booms as consumers seek safety
      572 13 Reuters [NUREMBERG] Anne Faika's company operates 14 markets a week selling organic food in the German city of Hamburg, after starting in 1990 with one market. She is in the frontline of a global industry which achieved sales of about US$39 billion
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      Lock icon Harrah's eyes first Vegas-style casino in UK
      127 13 Reuters [LONDON] The world's biggest casino operator Harrah's Entertainment would like to run Britain's first Las Vegas-style casino in Manchester, but is wary of the "winner's curse", a company source said last Friday. Last month, Manchester was the surprise winner of a competition
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  • World
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      Lock icon Lift makers may face record fine of 900m euros
      381 14 AFP [BRUSSELS] EU regulators, who have vowed to clamp down on illegal cartels, are poised to slap a record bil-lion-euro fine on Europe's four biggest lift makers for fixing prices, sources said on Friday. ThyssenKrupp of Germany, Otis of the United
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      Lock icon Cautious optimism on short-term outlook
      939 14  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT Investors and analysts, cheered by Fed chairman Bernanke's comments last week, believe the bull market is healthy despite the long run-up By ANDREW MARKS in New York AT the end of another week of big gains for the longrunning bull market, Wall
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      Lock icon Citigroup lags behind in US branch network
      449 14 It has just 972 while Bank of America has 5,747 Reuters [NEW YORK] The United States is in the middle of a retail banking war, but Citigroup, one of the biggest US banks, has fallen behind. Take the corner of 23rd Street and
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      Lock icon Chelsea cut losses to £80m in 2005-06
      179 14 Reuters [LONDON] Premier League champions Chelsea recorded a pre-tax loss of £80.2 million (*****.3 million) in the 2005/06 financial year, the club announced yesterday. The loss is a cut of 60 million on the previous year and lower than the £87.8 million Chelsea
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      Lock icon More Americans recharge with a 'power nap' at work
      344 14 AFP [WASHINGTON] Sleeping on the job goes against hundreds of years of American capitalism, but businesses here are flirting with "power naps" 20 to 30-minute siestas that many Europeans enjoy. Not surprisingly, other businesses see the power nap as an opportunity
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
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      Lock icon Airbus may axe up to 12,000 jobs
      473 15 Airbus may axe up to 12 ,000 jobs Papers say three factories could be shut under plan to save 5b euros AFP [PARIS] Troubled European plane manufacturer Airbus could cut up to 12,000 jobs in a long-awaited restructuring plan, the French business press said. Speculation about the so-called "Power 8"
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    • Article
      Lock icon DP World's US port sale clears snag
      214 15 AIG agrees to make US$50m in capital expenditures in Port Newark LAT-WP [NEW YORK] A tentative deal has been reached between the Port Authority of New York-New Jersey and a Dubai company that has briefly run some US port terminals, clearing the way
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      Lock icon Qantas air hostess fired for mid-air sex with Fiennes
      214 15 AFP [SYDNEY] Australia's national airline said yesterday it had sacked an air hostess for having mile-high sex with Hollywood heartthrob Ralph Fiennes in a business-class toilet. The move came a day after her lurid confession of the love session with the
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      Lock icon New Delhi airport begins 85b rupee revamp work
      212 15 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India started work on Saturday on a project that will enable New Delhi airport to handle 37 million passengers a year by 2010, more than double its current capacity, aviation officials said. The 85 billion rupee (Ss3 billion) revamp
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    • PORT SHOTS
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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      170 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD portico (7) (5) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN 7 Unusually large one, first of Across: 1 Gallant, 5 Resorts, 9 1 Allow for certain possibility to 311, in the country (7) Modicum, 10 Ala mode, 11 Retro, be put in the story (4,4,7) 8 Virtually unbelievable (3, 4, 2, 12
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Lock icon The Axis of Evil: now there is only one left
      1024 16  -  There is a possibility the North Korean model of a nuclear deal may be applied to Iran LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent DURING his State of the Union Address on Jan 29,2002, US President George Bush named Iraq, North Korea and
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      Lock icon N Korea induced by peace treaty, not aid
      598 16 EDITORIAL ONE important fact that has been obscured in the publicity surrounding the agreement by North Korea last week to close a nuclear facility in return for fuel oil and humanitarian aid is that the quid pro quo for Pyongyang goes well
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      Lock icon Indian retail will stoke hungerfor land, labour
      410 16  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ANDY MUKHERJEE Bloomberg BY 2012, India may have 14 times as much space dedicated to modern-format retail as it had in 2002, provided the supply of land rises quickly enough to match demand. More than one million new jobs can
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      Lock icon Indonesia's sand ban: a small act by a big nation
      972 17  -  Jakarta's irrational and childish knee-jerk reactions often do more harm than good By ENDY M BAYUNI INDONESIA must cease letting knee-jerk reactions interfere in its foreign policy. They are irrational and childish, they often do more harm than good, they
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      Lock icon The next climate battle will be on the economy
      26 17  -  By BRYAN K MIGNONE Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service The unveiling of the latest scienfic report
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    • Article
      Lock icon Norwegian paper shows how to make profits online
      1154 17  -  By ERIC PFANNER IHT AFTER catching up on the latest news flashes on the death of Anna Nicole Smith, visitors to www.vg.no, the online version of the biggest-selling tabloid newspaper in Norway, can get their minds back to business by scrolling down
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  • FOCUS: INDIAN TELEVISION
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      Lock icon Bollywood's poorer cousin comes of age
      2510 18  -  India's US$3.4b small-screen business is set to get bigger as deregulation and new technology produce an explosion of new offerings, writes VIKAS BAJAJ VIKAS BAJAJ NYT [MUMBAI] GHANSHYAM Shah, an 82-year-old widower, spends up to eight hours a day in front of his television
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  • Article
    Lock icon SINGAPORE STOCKS
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  • Article
    Lock icon FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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