The Business Times, 22 March 2007

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  • 18 1 THE BUISNESS TIMES SlNGWtefc-C^ts online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg Thursday, March 22,2007 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006
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  • 707 1  -  Bank governor does not rule out making ringgit fully internationally traded currency By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S central bank yesterday relaxed the rules on foreign exchange, but stopped short of opening the ringgit to completely free trade. The move was seen as
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  • 457 1  -  Singaporean pays over $4,080 psf for 53rd level penthouse By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] A Singaporean businessman is said to have paid a benchmark price of over $4,080 per square foot, working out to over $17 million, for a 53rd level penthouse at The Orchard
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    • 26 1 AJMIAM r O rr™ year will reap pre-tax LATEST ON US INTEREST RATES: Go to http://vvvvw.busmesstimesxom.sg for the US Federal Reserve's interest rate decision and comments
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    • 96 1 COMMENTARY Chips are up for Global Ttestiiig PAGE 4 PROPERTY 2007 m 1 rHf gjg- I 1 Luxury residential property prices: Singapore compared with London, New York, Shanghai and HK Hottest deals this year Retail: Why Singapore will not be overshopped Resale HDB flats: The hot estates Tips: Buying a
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    • 61 1 ■W&l JICL BRITISH BUDGET Corporate, personal taxes slashed PAGE 24 MM BbIT Net attacks: home s f y < users targeted PAGE 35 Hhml I Ifiu CM *ca liili I HEIIw IfiH v ■"■ill I —iißifc- Bflllß 1 1 Mbdn ll«fl HHH IH hhBU'B z Hi s« lala I'-Hlni^H ■Hi
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 560 2 BID FOR ABN AMRO Top two jobs in combined bank to be split between CEOs of Barclays, ABN Reuters, AP [LONDON] British bank Barclays and Dutch rival ABN Amro said a merger of their companies would be listed in London,
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    • 556 2  -  Package may work in last year's impressive bonuses By SIOW LI SEN banks here. But the good news is that people fired as a result of a merger could well enjoy a windfall because international banks' terms are understood to be fairly generous
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    • 524 3  -  Survey finds almost half not expanding now nor later B V OUR CORRESPONDENT in Bangkok THE continuing policy uncertainties in Thailand are taking their toll on the longer-term investment decisions of larger corporations, a survey by the United States Chamber of Commerce says.
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    • 364 3  -  He offers three branding ideas for S'pore in lecture on the national brand By JANICE HENG [SINGAPORE] One of Singapore's biggest challenges is to demonstrate to its neighbours that the old image of the island "as a parasite on the region is
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    • 524 2 S'pore faces image problem in the region: ex-diplomat ONE of Singapore's biggest challenges is to demonstrate to its neighbours that the old image of the island "as a parasite on the region is wrong", academic and former diplomat Kishore Mahbubani said yesterday. Singapore has to persuade them that
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    • 135 3 sn 3,155.69 (+38.81) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,156.00 (+43.00) siMsa 388.73 (+5.32) SIMSa FUTURES ***** (+5.70) MARKETS Wednesday Change KLCOMP U09.34 >4.06 NIKKEI 225 Closed HANG SENG 19.516.41 +159.51 SET INDEX 669.56 -2.20 JAKARTA COMP 1.779.24 +3.81 MANILA COMP 3.090.47 +51.16 SEOUL COMP 1.442.85 -1.32 SHENZHEN B 508.28 +3.51
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 742 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By OH BOON PING CHIP tester Global Testing Corp (GTC) looks like a neglected stock and a potential gem waiting to be unearthed. At present, the company is rated by only two brokerages UOB Kay Hian and DBS Vickers and its
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    • 235 4  -  By MICHELLE QUAH FU YU Corporation said yesterday it has lodged a report with "the law enforcement authorities of Singapore" on its former chairman and founder Lui Choon Hay over "what appears to be possible contraventions of provisions of the Companies Act". The
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    • 347 4  -  Qantas happy with its maintenance works: SIAEC By MICHELLE QUAH SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC) has rebutted claims by an Australian newspaper that there are doubts over the quality of the maintenance works it does on Qantas planes here. The report in The Australian newspaper
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    • 411 6  -  MacarthurCook lodges preliminary prospectus for industrial Reit By UMA SHANKARI ANOTHER six real estate investment trusts (Reits) could be listed here by June, said Peter Mitchell, chief executive of the Asian Public Real Estate Association (Aprea). "Singapore has 15 Reits now.
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    • 732 6  -  VDH Biodiesel will start production by December 2008 By TEH HOOI LING VAN Der Horst Engineering Services yesterday signed a joint venture agreement with a technology development company of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to build a US$4O million biodiesel processing
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    • 347 7  -  Two breweries bought from Foster's transferred to its Viet unit By CONRAD RAJ AS part of an ongoing integration exercise, Asia Pacific Breweries is transferring two breweries, which its Australian unit bought last year from Australia's largest brewer Foster's, to its 60 per cent-owned Vietnamese subsidiary
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    • 261 7  -  By TETTYANA JASLI IN a move to increase its market reach in Russia and Ukraine, Food Empire Holdings has struck a deal to acquire Naturant Systems Inc the owner of the Petrovskaya Sloboda brand of popular instant coffee mixes for US$B.77 million. Naturant,
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    • 99 7 Bloomberg CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, the world's third-largest custom chip maker, said its first-quarter profitability will be "roughly the same" as the previous threemonth period. Revenue in the first quarter will fall around 5 per cent from the fourth, chief executive Chia Song
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    • 254 7  -  By OH BOON PING CG Tech, a maker of polyester products used in functional textiles, has forged an alliance with a Chinese menswear brand company to supply it with high-margin yarn products. The tie-up is expected to be earnings-accretive this year, CG Tech
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    • 266 7 XFN-Asia TT International Ltd said it expects stronger earnings in the next two fiscal years to March 2009 as two new acquisitions start contributing to its bottom line and its Akira consumer electronics business gets access to more funds to pursue further
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    • 369 7 Jurtech to buy Amouldfor $4.1 m JURONG Technologies Industrial Corp (Jurtech), which in January announced a deal to acquire Amould Plastic Industries Pte Ltd, said yesterday that the consideration has been finalised at $4.1 million. This will be satisfied through the issue of about 3.49 million new Jurtech
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    • 310 7  -  By JANICE HENG ZHONGGUO Powerplus Industries, a manufacturer of forestry and garden power tools, has appointed Lehman Brothers to provide financial advisory services. Lehman Brothers will advise the company on matters regarding possible partnerships and future plans, rather than on the company's financial
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    • 560 4 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAR 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF AMS MERCHANDISING PTE LTD I'fht Company") (CO REG NO. *****3967Z) (IN CREDITORS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Chapter 50, that the Final
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 534 8  -  STOCKS Second-line activity played out among penny stocks from various sectors with no discernible pattern R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent An afternoon bounce in Hong Kong and a positive foreign-broker recommendation on DBS and UOB yesterday enabled the Straits Times Index to enjoy its third
      Source:Bloomberg  -  534 words
    • Article, Illustration
      943 8 DAILY SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD MAIN SDQ TOTAL Up Down Undi Up Down Undi Up Down Unth Multilnd 9 17 1 0 0 10 1 7 Manufacturg 102 31 58 7 15 17 109 46 75 Commerce 39 13 25 5 3 9 44 16 34 Tpt/S tor/Com 25 5 10
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      988 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI Singapore Banks ÜBS INVESTMENT RESEARCH, March 20 THE Singapore three-month interbank rate, which has averaged 3.4 per cent since January 2006, declined this month to touch the sub-3 per cent rate last week. While we had forecast the rate to fall to 3.1 per cent,
      Source:Bloomberg  -  988 words
    • 531 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent A STRONGER US housing starts number for February released overnight could not prevent the US dollar from recording fresh multi-year lows against a host of favourite regional currencies as well as the Australian dollar yesterday. Overnight comments attributed to
      Source:Reauters  -  531 words

  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 251 9  -  By SAMUEL EE PREMIUMS for all categories of COEs rose yesterday on a combination of worries about the smaller allocation from next month, and distributors clearing the backlog of orders netted after last month's plunge in premiums. A certificate of entitlement for Category A
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    • 508 9  -  WOOING INVESTORS CMC Markets drumming up interest in contracts for difference By CONRAD TAN LONDON-based online trading company CMC Markets has opened an office in Singapore to drum up interest in contracts for difference, or CFDs, in Southeast Asia. The company, which says
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    • 189 9 French senators meet President Nathan CHRISTIAN Poncelet, president of the French Senate, with three other French senators, today complete a visit to Singapore. Mr Poncelet visited President S R Nathan yesterday. Both officials recognised the excellent bilateral relations and co-operation between the two countries, while noting that this
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    • 432 9  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA US-BASED State Street Asset Management, recently named Asia's largest asset manager, is beefing up its Singapore office in a bid to raise the region's share of group revenues to 50 per cent. Assets sourced from the Asia-Pa-cific
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    • 553 9  -  Income levels will rise with creation of new knowledge By CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE'S focus on research and development is important not just for scientists and universities, but also for the spillover effect it can have on the general economy, according to DBS
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    • 530 10  -  ENERGY SECTOR Overall trading volumes set to rise by 20-25% in Q1 after Q4 slide Reports by RONNIE LIM CONTRARY to earlier concerns that the naphtha swaps market here could collapse, the "Wall Street refiners", or investment banks which
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    • 562 10 Indonesian gas contract remains intact, says US genco's CEO US power-generation company Inter Gen's Ssl billion power station being built on Jurong Island by its subsidiary Island Power is in its final "100-metre dash" to the finishing line, InterGen's CEO tells BT. All systems
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    • 309 10  -  Group of 5 firms will focus on China, Middle East By JANICE HENG FIVE Singapore security companies have formed the Singapore Protective Technologies Consortium, aiming to achieve $30 million in overseas projects over the next five years. The consortium, led by CPG Consultants,
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    • 456 10  -  By PAMELA CHEW A SURVEY has ranked Singapore the least tainted in a study of counterfeit production in eight Asia-Pacific countries which assessed how profit margins are affected when the production of fakes eats into original goods. Profits lost by legitimate producers
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    • 390 10  -  By TAMARA MOHANAN KUPPUSAMY ZAPCODE, a product which enables more interactive advertising, may be leased from SPH New Media for as little as $10 a month, said the company at the trade launch yesterday. Zap Code allows advertisers to reach consumers in "real-time,"
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  • SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL
    • 1280 11 A roadshow will help Singapore firms to zero in on China's lucrative automotive component industry. CHUANG PECK MING reports INTERNATIONAL Enterprise Singapore, which is pushing Singapore companies to spread their wings overseas, is hosting a major roadshow for car producers in Shanghai in May to
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    • 441 11 ALLIED Technologies is a Singapore-based company that is using its know-how in electronics manufacturing and presence in China to expand into the fastgrowing automotive market. The company has built its business by manufacturing precision stamped metals parts and providing related services for clients in the
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  • GLOBAL SECURITY ASIA
    • 749 12/13  -  MATTHEW PHAN finds out what will be discussed at Global Security Asia 2007 which will also showcase the latest technologies in the field MATTHEW PHAN GLOBAL Security Asia 2007, a three-day conference focusing on terrorism and homeland security, makes its second appearance at the Singapore Expo
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    • 1160 14  -  JOHN HARRISON looks at the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and like-minded groups and terrorism's impact on the global supply chain JOHN HARRISON THE modern international economy is a marvel, but the benefits of trade have not been cost free. Criminal organisations have used the speed and
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    • 416 16  -  Small local players such as Blaz and Altrus are making their mark in an industry dominated by big companies, reports JANICE HENG JANICE HENG QUITE a few small companies are helping to preserve homeland security even though the defence and security industry is normally
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    • 571 16  -  By BENITA AW YEONG AESTHETICS, productivity or security? Most companies would opt for the former two, much to the dismay of security consultants, who say this leads to businesses being more vulnerable to threats. Industry players also say that businesses do not see terrorism as a pressing
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    • 984 17  -  Singapore Technologies Engineering's Patrick Choy discusses homeland security issues with MATTHEW PHAN MATTHEW PHAN IT seems only logical that Singapore Technologies Engineering (STE), South-east Asia's largest defence contractor, should channel its expertise towards homeland security as well. In Singapore, it serves local law enforcement, government and
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  • GLOBAL SECURITY
    • 1025 12/13  -  TAMARA MOHANAN KUPPUSAMY looks at the measures taken to enhance the security of Singapore against terrorism TAMARA MOHANAN KUPPUSAMY TRANSPORT security remains high on the agenda for Singapore. Just last week. Al-Qae-da's former third-in-command Khalid Sheikh Mohammed revealed the terrorist organisation's plan to attack Singapore's ports,
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    • 637 15  -  JANICE HENG looks at the forces that are pushing more companies to consider business continuity planning JANICE HENG THE consequences of terrorism are many: social, political and, of course, economic. What business continuity firms seek to do is limit the economic impact of terrorism or any threat
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 738 18 ANALYSIS Money seems to have moved within, instead of across, asset classes [LONDON] While investors have rattled and stock markets rolled over the past few weeks, safe-haven assets haven't had as much to show for it as might be expected. The implication
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    • 601 18 Trade talks stall on opening of Korean rice market tariffs for US vehicles AFP [WASHINGTON] The administration of US President President George W Bush warned on Tuesday that a failure to strike a free trade agreement with South Korea could damage American
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    • 326 18 NYT [WASHINGTON] After months of internal wrangling, the World Bank committed itself on Tuesday to a new strategy to combat corruption in its US$2O billion annual loan programme but not to cut off financing to poorly or dishonestly governed countries without consulting
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    • 144 18 Bloomberg, Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's trade surplus narrowed in January as gains in the baht curbed sales of rice, rubber and other products, the commerce ministry said. The trade surplus in January was US$BBO million, compared with a US$9l2 million excess in December, Commerce Minister
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 331 19 Khazanah Nasional wants its companies to bolster returns Bloom berg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Khazanah Nasional Bhd, owner of the country's biggest companies such as Tenaga Nasional Bhd and Telekom Malaysia Bhd, will push state-run firms to make overseas takeovers to create pan-Asian businesses
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    • 586 19 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's economy may expand in 2007 at the fastest pace in three years, spurred by higher investment and government spending and a recovery in mining output, the central bank said. South-east Asia's thirdlargest economy is expected to grow 6
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    • 470 19 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia should end a policy favouring the ethnic Malay majority to help attract foreign investment to the US$lO9 billion development of Johor state, said Musa Hitam, former deputy premier and an adviser on the project. Ethnic Malays, who account
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    • 164 20/21 < > SC GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS I W M f 1 f JM f M Jk J presents L y/y/>7/i L4 yf/ l y SINGAPORE'S MOST EXTRAVAGANT RESIDENCES y The latest luxury residences by SC Global, The Marq (pronounce 'mark') and Hilltops defy all conventional notions of luxury living. Conceived with
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 2506 22 VOL Mar 21 KM C000) A»M Realty 1.66 -0.02 3 AbricBhd 0.34 0.02 174 Acp Industries 1.86 0.05 894 Advance Synergy .0.43 0.11 ***** AdventaBhd .0.84 unch 78 AeMutti Hldgs 034 -0.01 139 Affm Holdings 235 unch 1168 Ahmad Zaki Resou .2.45 unch 9 A* Corp .0 58
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    • 391 22 UB Group set to acquire Scotland's Whyte Mackay Deal will extend record year for takeovers involving Indian companies Bloomberg [BANGALORE] Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya's UB Group is set to buy Scotland's Whyte Mackay "in a few weeks" to tap the growing market for whisky in India, UB Group chief financial
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    • 359 22 The company will add 32% more stores as competition with global brands hots up Reuters [HONG KONG] Li Ning China's largest sportswear retailer, plans to expand stores in China by 32 per cent over three years but conceded yesterday that it was
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    • 11 22 AFP (Beijing)
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
    • 326 22 AFP [NEW DELHI] Dell chief executive Michael Dell told India on Tuesday to slash tariffs on personal computers if it wants large-scale investment by the world's sec-ond-biggest PC maker. "If we have fantastic opportunities, we will have fantastic investment." said
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    • 229 22 It'll take over Idea Cellular's back-office work Bloomberg [MUMBAI] International Business Machines Corp (IBM), the world's largest computer-services provider, won an order valued at as much as USSBOO million from India's Idea Cellular Ltd, a contract that may help Idea cut costs. IBM will manage
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  • MIDDLE EAST
    • 564 23 Investor concern over transparency, dilution of shares in land-equity swap [DUBAI] Shares of Emaar Properties, the Middle East's biggest real estate developer, fell for a second day on Tuesday as investors awaited details on the company's swap of land for equity with Dubai's government. "Some
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    • 87 23 Bloomberg [DUBAI] Dubai Holding, owned by Dubai's ruler Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, will set up a company to manage and develop business parks worldwide. "We aim to take forward the success that Dubai has achieved in the creation of knowledge-based
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    • 7396 23 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty'** 1 049/ Star Europe Bond 1 193/ Star Europe Bai .1227/ Star Asian Tger Eqto 1.286/ Star As*a Bond 1316/ Star Asia Balanced 1 09V Star Global Technology Fund'**. 0208/ MutoStFd 0988/ Star Asia BorxKUSO) 0 863/ Gfc Mutt)
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 546 24 Pressure from UK hedge funds led to ABN discussing tie-up with Barclays AFP [LONDON] The potential merger of British bank Barclays and Dutch group ABN Amro reflects the rising influence of investment funds in European corporate management, analysts said on Tuesday. The announcement on Monday
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    • 427 24 AP [TEXAS CITY] Overly lax federal oversight and costcutting by BP were factors in a 2005 explosion at the oil giant's Texas City refinery that killed 15 people and injured 170, a government report found. It was the worst US industrial accident
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    • 417 24  -  By NEIL BEHRMANN in London IN one of the most radical budgets since the era of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, British finance minister Gordon Brown yesterday slashed individual and corporate income tax by two pence (550.06) in the pound.
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    • 225 24 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The head of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp on Tuesday defended the agency's handling of the subprime mortgage crisis and acknowledged rising default rates will affect the earnings of some United States banks. In an interview with Reuters, FDIC chairman
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    • 309 24 Reuters [NEW YORK] Morgan Stanley yesterday posted a 60 per cent jump in quarterly earnings, setting new records and exceeding expectations on improved trading and banking results. The No 2 investment bank by market value said income from continuing operations rose to
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    • 314 24 The firm earned US$1.03b, or 20 cents a share NYT [NEW YORK] Lawrence J Ellison's three-year buying spree as chief executive of Oracle appears to be paying off. Oracle reported on Tuesday that its profit increased 35 per cent during the third
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  • AVIATION
    • 580 26  -  SIA watching rising prices as airline keeps surcharges under review By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Aviation players are worried by the rising price of jet fuel, which has spiked about 10 per cent this year after falling sharply in the final
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    • 204 26 AP [BRUSSELS] Just weeks after the EU agreed on ambitious targets to reduce its contribution to global warming, it plans to back an aviation deal with the US that it hopes will boost the number of people flying across the
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    • 105 26 Bloomberg [CANBERRA] A proposed law requiring Qantas Airways Ltd to keep its subsidiaries based in Australia was rejected by a parliamentary committee. The legislation, proposed by independent Victorian Senator Steve Fielding, could threaten the Sydney-based airline's "future viability" if it was passed, the Senate Economics
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    • 189 26 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] Belgium will provide 150 million euros (Ss3o4 million) of state aid to help its makers of aircraft parts win contracts for the A 350 XWB, a widebody plane Airbus SAS plans to develop to challenge Boeing Co's Dreamliner. The state-aid package
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  • SHIPPING
    • 369 27 PSA Int'l will run Gwadar port in Q2 when its terminal starts operations AFP. Xinhua [ISLAMABAD] Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday inaugurated a multi-million-dollar Chi-nese-funded deep sea port in south-western Baluchistan province, officials said. Gwadar port, on the Arabian Sea, has been around 75
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    • 342 27 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Wharf (Holdings) Ltd, which owns real estate and ports in Hong Kong, said underlying profit fell 5 per cent in 2006 because borrowing costs increased and its cable unit paid more taxes. Net income excluding the revaluation of assets fell to
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    • 401 27 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] The queue of ships waiting to load coal at Newcastle, Australia, the world's biggest coal-export harbour, fell for a second week after mining companies using the port voted to re-introduce export quotas. Sixty-one ships were waiting outside the port in New
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    • 208 27 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Chinese shipyards gained the biggest share of dry-bulk commodity ship orders for the first time in at least a decade, shipbroker Clarkson pic said. Orders with Chinese shipbuilders for vessels that carry commodities such as coal and iron ore will outpace
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 559 28 EDITORIAL WHAT is a central bank to do when it has to minimise price pressures and maximise growth potential at the same time, especially since the former can hurt the latter. In essence, that's what the US Federal Reserve's top policy-makers have had
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    • 1025 28  -  One of the major issues facing most Asean countries and an important concern for Standard Poor's when rating their creditworthiness is the extent of monetary flexibility By SURINDER KATHPALIA ASEAN countries' new intent to further open up their individual capital markets and ease money flows
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    • 776 28  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ROBERT SAMUELSON The Washington Post Writers Group "My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue. It's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started,
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    • 869 29  -  But it would be premature to infer that all of this points to any tectonic shift in the balance of power in the region ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent UDDENLY, and almost jjr without the world yL noticing, the political and diplomatic landscape of East Asia
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    • 793 29  -  Such talk worries established Asian gas importers like Japan By MICHAEL RICHARDSON AS demand rises rapidly in Asia and the West for low-pollution natural gas. the world's major producers of this increasingly valuable energy source will meet next month to discuss the pros
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    • 1021 35  -  Attackers using cross border networks, Symantec study shows. AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY reports AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY ANEW report on Internet security in the Asia-Pacif-ic, including Japan (APJ), to be released here today, shows that attackers are now refining their methods and consolidating
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    • 276 35  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY MARK Bregman, Symantec's executive vice-presi-dent and chief technology officer, says that as far as Internet attacks are concerned, Singapore accounts for a relatively low proportion of malicious activities within the region. "In general, areas of concern revolve
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    • 169 35 AFP [GENEVA] A solar-powered airship that replaces communications satellites is one of a series of projects that can help bridge the "digital divide", the organisers of an information technology fund for poor countries said on Tuesday. The Digital Solidarity Fund was launched by
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    • 429 35  -  By WINSTON CHAI THE trade and logistics sectors will soon enjoy a further reduction in paperwork and repetitive processes, thanks to a new Web-based system to be launched in October this year. The platform, called TradeXchange, adds dozens of new services that will
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  • PROPERTY
    • 112 36 Bloomberg [LONDON] Tesco Pic, Britain's biggest retailer, raised £570 million (551.69 billion) by selling a 50 per cent stake in 21 stores to British Land Co, to help pay for the company's expansion. Tesco will lease back the outlets for 20 years from a
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    • 679 36  -  Largest is Leedon Heights in prime District 10, going for $981 psf ppr By UMA SHANKARI ANOTHER four sites have been put up for collective sale, two property firms said yesterday. The largest of the four is Leedon Heights in the prime District
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    • 347 37 Data suggests continued demand for non-residential development Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Billings by US architecture firms rose at a slower rate last month, indicating continued demand for future non-residential development even as housing construction remains below its peak of last year. The Architecture Billings
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    • 570 38  -  Condo is first of three group will launch this year; projects could reap over $600 m profit By KALPANA RASHIWALA LIPPO this week previews the first of three Singapore condos it plans to launch this year that could generate a total pre-tax profit
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    • 496 39  -  Jones Lang LaSalle sees further rise of 2-3% for next quarter By KALPANA RASHIWALA RESALE values for nonlanded private homes in the mass market have risen about 9.5 per cent this quarter over the preceding three months to average $460 per
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    • 1340 39 PROPFRTYTRANSACTIONS I nnfiFD RFTWFFN MARCH 17 AND MARCH 70 7007 PROJECT NAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE BUIIJ-IN AREA PRICE PSf STREET NAME TYPE DATE (SQ FT) (Sl'000) (S$) District 2 NON-LANDED Dragon Mans Apt 26/02/2007 FH 1399 825 590 icon Apt 01/03/2007
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  • THE BUISNESS TIMES Property 2007
    • 2106 41 MICHOLAS MAK and MICHELLE TEE look at how Singapore's luxury properties compare with those in other global cities A S Singapore's high-end homes reach ever higher prices it may i be illuminating to see where the f mmm city now stands in relation to i the
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    • 996 44  -  TERENCE WONG and ALVIN YONG look at where investors can get the best returns TERENCE WONG ALVIN YONG IT has been quite a year for the Singapore property market, emerging from the gloom and heading into uncharted territory. The spark that started the uptrend can
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    • 1245 46  -  CHRIS ARCHIBOLD looks at the likelihood that MNCs may find S'pore less attractive as office rents continue to surge CHRIS ARCHIBOLD THE office market in Singapore has changed dramatically in the past two to three years. In mid-2004, Singapore office rents were in a trough
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    • 1128 47  -  JEREMY LAKE answers some of the commonly asked questions on the collective sales process JEREMY LAKE THE Singapore residential market is witnessing the third wave of collective sales, with a hive of transactions in 2006 and the highest volumes recorded in the last decade.
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    • 1032 48  -  The offerings at auctions have evolved from the typical mass market property to include more prime properties. And they are attracting international buyers as well, writes GRACE NG GRACE NG AUCTIONS are fast gaining acceptance by both sellers and local and foreign buyers as a
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    • 1174 49  -  Singapore will see some 20 new retail venues by 2010, but the space may well be overdue, say ELAINE CHEW and WILLIAM TEO ELAINE CHEW and WILLIAM TEO SHOPPING fanatics may have to hang on tight to their purses as Singapore is poised to see a
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    • 1018 52  -  DORIS TAN looks at some points investors should consider when investing in overseas properties DORIS TAN INVESTING in overseas properties can be lucrative, as long as you are aware of the dos and don'ts. Different countries have different foreign investment guidelines, so you have
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    • 708 54 Average land prices for good class bungalows may surge to $650-$750 psf this year, says STEVEN MING THE surge in Singapore's stock market in the past year has not dimmed the allure of property. With property favoured by many wealthy investors across the
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    • 440 54  -  By JEREMY LAKE A COLLECTIVE sale market abuzz with activity helped boost total investment sales for 2006 to $29.4 billion, the highest in a decade. And this year will see the same level of activity, with developers eyeing sites across the island, including areas outside
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    • 1182 56  -  While last year's fall in total HDB resale volume was largely expected, there is some room for optimism in the near future and beyond. EUGENE LIM explains why EUGENE LIM COMPARED with the headline-grabbing private residential property market, the HDB resale market seems to
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    • 997 57  -  But investors should be wary of a possible decline in real estate values if financial markets stutter, and the pound falls. NEIL BEHRMANN reports NEIL BEHRMANN LONDON'S booming residential property market has become increasingly dependent on a buoyant fmancial sector. If the recent downturn
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    • 1480 58 FRANCIS LI and ALVA TO look at where foreign and local investors are targeting in China real estate EVERYONE seems to be scrambling for a piece of the pie in China with its high potential of investment offerings for the global market. Mainland China's
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