The Business Times, 12 March 2007

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  • 20 1 THE BUISNESS TIMES Monday, March 12,2007 online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 SINGAPORE 85 cents
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  • 764 1  -  Civil service push to slash red tape promotes cost savings, cuts waiting times By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Regulatory changes by government land agencies over the past five years have saved businesses millions of dollars and cut waiting times by weeks in some cases,
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  • 130 1 MARKETS Week Chge STI 3143.71 64.97 KLCOMP 1188.83 24.15 NIKKEI 225 .........*****.04 -53.89 HANG SENG *****.88 -307.13 SET INDEX 671.17 -7.85 JAKARTA COMP ...1764.58 4.56 MANILA COMP ....3099.82 -40.52 TAIPEI TAIEX 7568.20.. -61.95 SEOUL COMP 1423.58 9.11 SHENZHEN B 483.55 -9.46 AUSTALLORD 5810.20 35.00 DOW JONES *****.32 162.22
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  • 908 1  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT Strong jobs report reduces chances of US recession but dampens rate cut hopes By ANDREW MARKS in New York STOCKS recovered some ground last week from the previous week's brutal selloff, but the coming week presents a huge
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 704 2  -  COMMENTARY VIKRAM KHANNA Associate Editor fJF MMHi EMASEK Foun- dation." Some- how, it sounds ft right. And it could do a lot of good, most of all for communities across Asia but also for Singapore's investment company, Temasek Holdings itself. And for Singapore, too. Imagine a
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    • 542 2 Proton may miss April deadline to find partner THE Malaysian government may miss its deadline to find a partner for Proton Holdings Bhd after Volkswagen AG and General Motors Corp, potential investors for the unprofitable Asian carmaker, said no decision is imminent. The government has said that it
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    • 774 2  -  Strong laws cement its private banking pull, says lender By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] Singapore's importance as a regional private banking hub is likely to be undiminished even with the development of large domestic markets in China and India and the emergence of
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    • 42 4 [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank deputy chairman Wee Ee Cheong led 2.000 staff in a charity run and walk yesterday. The UOB Heartbeat event raised $265.000f0r visual arts programmes at Very Special Arts and enrichment programmes at The Children's Aid Society
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    • 255 4  -  Specialist fund manager ropes in Greg Seow as non-exec chairman of new outfit By WEE LI-EN [SINGAPORE] Boosting Singapore's status as a financial centre, leading Australia specialist fund manager AMP Capital Investors has chosen to open its new Asian hub here. AMP,
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    • 605 4  -  Recent merger with Teledata has brought in new skill sets, expertise By CONRAD RAJ [SINGAPORE] Hard disk drive distributor eSys Technologies, which is embroiled in a multi-million dollar lawsuit with disk drive manufacturer Seagate Technology, is moving up the value chain by focusing
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 820 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R SIVANITHY IF YOU'RE bullish on the local market and keen to profit from any extended recovery from the recent blowout, what are some of your options? Medium-to-long-term players would surely look at the dividend yield stocks or "defensive
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    • 529 5  -  It's tying up with S'pore firm to build Sentosa View in Shenyang By NANDE KHIN PROPERTY developer Brothers (Holdings) Ltd and Singapore-based Chee Eng Hang Pte Ltd (CEH Group) are joining hands to build modern terrace houses in Shenyang, China, which are expected
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 1801 6 Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Fri's recommendation esti- EPS RE target price Company name Thiswk Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price Allco Comm REIT 1.33 1.33 6 5.06 24.50 1.50 1.24 Allgreen Properties 2.78 2.22 9 6.30 25.41 1.52 1.60 Allied Technologies 2.50 2.00 2 1.30 9.23 0.15 0.12
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    • 657 6  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent So was it China, the unwinding of the yen carry trade, worries of a rapid US economic slowdown or some cobination of all these that shook up the stock markets a week ago? Also and this is surely
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    • 399 6 CURRENCIES AFP [HONG KONG] Major Asian currencies fell against the US dollar as Japan saw market gains and the US released strong data on employment. Japanese yen: The yen fell back from three-month highs against the US dollar in the past
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    • 1450 7  -  TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent Stocks in general have yet to make a full recovery from the bruising sessions two weeks ago and early last week. This despite the rebound in the last four tradings sessions last week. Consequently, most of our portfolios continued
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    • 1203 7  -  INSIDE MARKETS Number of firms reporting purchases by directors and substantial shareholders hits 55, the highest weekly total since October 2001 By ROBERT HALILI DIRECTORS and substantial shareholders went on a buying spree last week after the steep market correction in the last
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
    • Article, Illustration
      3031 8 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC Should Singapore be more selective about giving special tax incentives for certain companies, so it can lower the overall corporate tax rate for all companies? Charles M Ormiston Director, Bain Company EIGHTEEN per cent is already a very low rate; it is important to
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  • PORT OF GIBRALTAR
    • 778 10  -  Joe Holliday,Minister for Trade and Industry, explains Gibraltar's attractiveness as a maritime business centre JOE HOLLIDAY THE maritime sector in Gibraltar has enjoyed another outstanding year and prospects for 2007 are for continued strong growth in all the main areas which make us the Western Mediterranean's
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    • 540 10  -  Reports by DAVID HUGHES GIBUNCO group chairman John J Bassadone believes that 2006 was another good one for all aspects of Gibraltar's maritime economy and particularly bunkering which remains the main reason why ships call at the port. "While there was a very slight drop
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    • 934 10 CRUISE shipping adviser to the government Tony Davis says that not only are more cruise ships calling at Gibraltar but they are also, on average, getting bigger. Last year 201 cruise ships called, 30 more than in 2005, while by late January it
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    • 698 10 BUNKER volumes at Gibraltar dipped slightly last year, from 4.09 million tonnes to 3.98 million tonnes but nevertheless, most of the suppliers increased deliveries. The one exception was FAMM which is pulling out of the Gibraltar market. It has been using shoreside
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    • 271 10 GIBRALTAR is the flag of choice for an increasing number of European shipowners, according to Gibraltar maritime administrator Cliff Brand. As at end-February, 240 commercial ships flew the Gibraltar flag, representing year-on-year growth over the past two years of over 20 per cent.
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  • DINING OUT
    • 1254 12 DINNER THEATRE The Crystal Mirror At The Padang until April 15 For reservations, call the SISTIC hotline at 6438-555 or go to www.sistic.com.sg. For corporate bookings, call 6535-1262. www. the-crystal-mirror, com THERE'S a new restaurant in town but the menu is fixed, it's
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    • 30 12 iHßrk yy|* W, ...^filWlWW T^tißi^frTn* LISTEN OUT FOR FINANCIAL RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT Find out more about a company's financial performance through CATS Notices in The Straits Times. W AT-3 i NOTICES
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
    • 683 14 HERMAN PHUA lists eight basic rules that can help you safeguard your stockmarket investments BY almost any measure, 2006 was a rewarding year for investors in Singapore's stock market. After slumping briefly in May, the stock market staged a recovery in the second half to drive
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    • 928 14 CAMPUS LIFE JASON LOW speaks to a young, savvy investor who teaches her students more than school curriculum AT 25, while most of her peers are still busy scrambling to climb up the corporate ladder, Laura Oh is already on her way to attaining financial freedom.
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    • 203 14 FANCY becoming the next Warren Buffett or George Soros? Or even the famous Robert Kiyosaki? Then read on. The Young Investors' Forum, part of the BT-Citibank Tertiary Outreach Programme, isn't another dry page out of your financial textbook. To complement our editorial content, we have
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    • 46 14 citibank The Business Times-Citibank Young Investors' Forum is published every Monday in The Business Times. It aims to raise the financial awareness of university and polytechnic students and cultivate a better understanding of business issues. The series is part of BT and Citibank's tertiary outreach programme.
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 567 15 Investors attracted to Russian bonds, equities; prospects for appreciation Reuters [LONDON] The Russian rouble, which became convertible last summer, is carving out a place in the foreign exchange (FX) industry as investors are attracted by local bonds and equities, and prospects for
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    • 210 15 Reuters [GENEVA] Leading farm exporting countries have urged developed states to slash duties on tropical products such as rice, bananas and sugar by at least 85 per cent in any global free trade deal. The Australia-led Cairns Group, whose 19 member states include several
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    • 295 15 [CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts] The US needs to develop a national climate change policy, but also recognise that coal and other fossil fuels will remain an important energy source for decades, the chairman and chief executive of General Electric said on Saturday. Setting a
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    • 320 15 AFP [LONDON] The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), satisfied with the current price of crude oil, is on Thursday expected to maintain its oil output quota, analysts said. With the price of oil trading at around USS6O per barrel in London
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 2862 16 Transaction date: Mar 9 For a full listing of the closing prices, log on to BT Online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg after 11.30pm every trading day HONG KONG vol HKS 000 Aeon Credit 6.84 unch 0 Aeon Stores .9.00 unch 12 Angang Steel 12.00 -0.10 6067 Anhui Conch
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    • 569 16 Potential partners Volkswagen, GM say no decision is imminent Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government may miss its deadline to find a partner for Proton Holdings Bhd after Volkswagen AG and General Motors Corp, potential investors for the unprofitable Asian carmaker, said
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    • 285 16 [KUALA LUMPUR] Scomi Group Bhd, an integrated oil services group, is selling a 19.9 per cent stake in its oil field business to a group of investors led by Standard Chartered Private Equity Ltd for U5599.5 million. At the same time,
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    • 437 16 AFP [BUKITTINGGI, Indonesia] As Sumatra seeks to pick up the pieces after a deadly quake, the local tourist industry near its epicentre on the Indonesian island is struggling to recover its lustre. The scenic town of Bukittinggi is particularly badly hit, with attractions
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    • 709 16  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT Talking up a volatile market could backfire, events show PAULINE HG KL Correspondent IF THE Malaysian stock market spent most of the intervening years after the financial crisis in a comatose state, market volatility in the past 2 weeks
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    • 152 16 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plans to sell off property, including a piece of freehold land and a building from which it currently operates, to the government's pension fund. The sale, worth RMI4S million (5563.2 million), to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 181 17 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] Reliance Industries Ltd, India's most valuable company, plans to sell a 10 per cent stake to financial and strategic investors, the Business Standard reported, without saying where it obtained the information. Reliance official spokesman Tushar Pania declined to comment. Reliance's
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    • 454 17 EU considers taking dispute settlement to WTO panel Reuters [MUMBAI] European drinks makers are keen to increase their presence in India's fast-growing US$l.B billion alcoholic drinks market, but want better trademark protection and lower tariffs on imported wines and spirits. The EU
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    • 434 17 Lou Jiwei doing preparatory work on investment agency, says central bank governor Bloomberg [BEIJING] The governor of China's central bank, which oversees the country's US$l.O7 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, confirmed that a former vice-finance minister will be named to manage part of the
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    • 298 17 It'll sell shares in US, Taiwan; support TSMC's buyback Reuters [TAIPEI] TSMC, the world's largest contract chip maker, said on Friday that Philips plans to sell shares it owns in TSMC to help it make an orderly exit from its US$B.5 billion stake in
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    • 2056 18 i 2006 Consolidated Financial Statements (in millions of Canadian dollars) CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS as at October 31 2006 2 005 millions, for the years ended October 31 2006 2005 2004 Cash and non-interest-bearinq deposits with banks S 1.317 S 1.310 ISJJT* inCOm j f 7 64Q
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    • 987 18 CANON MARKETING (SINGAPORE) PTE., LTD. (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to Section 308(2) of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 that the Final Meeting of Members of the abovenomed Company will be held at 35 Selegie Road, #04-06 Parklane Shopping Mall, Singapore *****7
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 613 19  -  They will supply each other with products under excess production By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo AN agreement signed last Friday between Japan's largest oil refiner, Nippon Oil, and Asia's leading oil producer, PetroChina, to expand cooperation is a further sign that "energy politics" are
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    • 320 19 AFP [WASHINGTON] The United States switched to daylight saving time early yesterday amid concerns that the earlier-than-usual change could result in some confusion that could spill over into the work week. Clocks were moved an hour forward at 2.00 am yesterday in
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    • 409 19 Reuters [KUWAIT] Kuwait's Investment Dar and Adeem Investment Co agreed to buy a stake in Aston Martin, the iconic British carmaker made famous by the James Bond spy movies, an Investment Dar official told Reuters. The two companies, which share Kuwait's Efad Holding
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    • 194 19 AP [ATLANTIC CITY] Shares in the casino company that bears Donald Trump's name rose nearly 8 per cent last Friday on speculation that the casinos are up for sale. Media outlets including CNBC and the website of the Star-Ledger of Newark reported on Friday
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    • 547 19 STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS Stock name Wt Owa Change Stadium* W| Oom Chang* Stock nam* wt Oom Oianfa Allgreen 0.52 1.600 ->0.030 JSH 2.05 1 3.800 *0.500 STEngg 153 3 260 ,0.020 Ascendasrelt 0.94 2400 +0070 JardineCAC 0.67 12.400 STATSChP 1.17 1.820 CaprtaComm 0.62 2.810 +0.030 JuroogTech 0.05 0.970 -0.015
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  • SHIPPING/AVIATION
    • 911 20  -  It is group's first 6,800 dwt doublehulled bunker tanker from China By DONALD URQUHART [SINGAPORE] For homegrown tanker group Global Energy, the delivery of its first newbuild bunker tanker destined for Singapore port waters from a shipyard in China's Fujian province marks
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    • 221 20 Bloomberg [LONDON] Danaos Corp; the largest publicly traded container-shipper in the US by market value, agreed to buy four ships from China Shipbuilding Trading for about US$4OO million. The ships, each with a capacity 0f6,800 standard containers, will be built by Shanghai
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    • 671 20 Jetstar brand lets it access traffic flows north of Australia AFP [SYDNEY] Takeover target Qantas is positioning itself for expansion in Asia, with the Australian flag carrier's regional low-cost brand Jetstar set to provide much of the growth, analysts say. Qantas is in
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • BizIT
    • 664 27  -  <we say> It might not lead to a totally new infrastructure ROLAND LIM Correspondent EARLIER this month, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) announced that it had pre-qualified 12 bidders, consisting of companies as well as consortiums, which will allow them to participate in the
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    • 333 27  -  By ROLAND LIM WHILE analysts are predicting a slowdown in consumer electronics spending this year, the large number of visitors to the consumer electronics fair IT Show 2007 in the past four days must have done their part to try to reverse this
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    • 246 27 NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Palm Inc. the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple's new iPhone. The designer, Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, began work
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      424 29  -  By Arthur Sim THE mantra of the winners of this year's Singapore Business Awards could just be "Connect and Go". All have benefited from the increasing connectedness with the global market Inter-Roller Engineering was just a factory automation and materials supplier before a project for Changi Airport
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