The Business Times, 5 April 2007

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    21 1 The Business Times SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg r A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Thursday, April 5,2007
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Soft interbank rates bode well for economy
    683 1  -  For banks, OCBC seen to be a winner while DBS might lose out By WONG WEI KONG [SINGAPORE] A period of softer interbank rates is expected to be generally positive for the economy and lending; although for individual banks, the impact could be
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    129 1 sn 3332.92 (+44.56) ST INDEX FUTURES 3319j00 (+44.00) siMsa ***** (+6.51) SIMSa FUTURES 407.60 (+5.50) MARKETS Wednesday Chang* KICOMP 1,271.31 +14.49 NIKKEI 225 17.544.09 +300.04 HANG SENG *****.71 +207.01 SET WOO 693.54 +7.01 JAKARTA COMP 1,922.05 +27.47 MANILA COMP +46.23 SEOUL COMP 1.483.41 +19.66 SHENZHENS 536.00 +1.97 MUMBAIINO
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    Lock icon Stanchart taking MBFC space: sources
    592 1  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] The developers of Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) are said to have secured the project's first office tenant. Industry sources say it is likely to be Standard Chartered Bank, which will lease close to half a million square feet in what
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon SPH, CapLand Retail to offer new avenue for advertisers
      304 2  -  Strategically placed screens will keep shoppers updated about special offers By PAMELA CHEW (SINGAPORE] Shoppers will soon be able to get the latest news and hot buying tips from a network of more than 100 interactive screens in 10 malls across
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      Lock icon Property tycoon Nina Wang dies, aged 69
      553 2  -  By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong NINA Wang, Asia's richest woman and one of Hong Kong's most high-profile property developers, has died at the age of 69 of an undisclosed illness. Her death comes just 18 months after she won a marathon battle
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      Lock icon Permanent F1 track good but not vital: Jackie Stewart
      324 2  -  By JANICE HENG [SINGAPORE] Singapore's proposed permanent race track is a good idea but not necessary, Formula One racing legend Jackie Stewart said yesterday. A permanent track would be good because motorsports infrastructure could be built up around it, he said.
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      504 2 NYSE Euronext debuts as first transatlantic bourse NYSE Euronext made its market debut yesterday, the last step in a year-long drive to create the first transatlantic exchange with 4,000 listed companies worth US$28.5 trillion in market capitalisation. Executives of the new group said that the world's largest stock
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      Lock icon HK unfazed as giant exchange eyes China
      492 3  -  By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong A VOW by the merged New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Euronext to tap the vast China initial public offering (IPO) market has failed to ruffle feathers in Hong Kong, which has capitalised on a huge boom
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      Lock icon Nasdaq to launch China equities index
      200 3 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc said on Tuesday it will introduce the Nasdaq China Index to track the performance of the largest Chinese companies whose securities are listed and actively traded in the United States. Nasdaq said it will begin disseminating
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      Lock icon NYSE Euronext debuts as first transatlantic bourse
      693 3 Merged exchange has 4,000 listed companies worth US$28.5 trillion Reuters Bloomberg AP AFP [PARIS] NYSE Euronext made its market debut yesterday, the last step in a year-long drive to create the first transatlantic exchange with 4,000 listed companies worth US$2B.5 trillion in market
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon When a rising cost-income ratio is fine
      571 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By WONG WEI KONG APART from spreads, the cost-to-income ratio is arguably the most widely used measurement of a bank's performance. But focusing too much on an optimum cost-income ratio may prove counter-productive for both banks and investors. Put simply,
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      Lock icon Food Empire unit loses fight over MacCoffee mark
      369 4  -  By WEE LI-EN US hamburger chain McDonald's has won in the Court of Appeal against Singapore company Future Enterprises, the core unit of Food Empire Holdings, over Future's use of the "Mac Coffee" mark. However. Food Empire says that the decision will
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      Lock icon Keppel O&M wins deals worth $280m
      542 4  -  They include contracts for local, Brazil, Dutch units By CONRAD RAJ OBDERS for the offshore marine sector continue to grow with Keppel Offshore Marine (KOM) the world's largest builder of offshore oil rigs yesterday announcing contracts worth $280 million from repeat customers. Subsidiary Keppel
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      Lock icon Genting, Golden-Agri shares surge
      449 4  -  Bullish ratings by two broking houses spark buying By VEN SREENIVASAN SHARES of Genting International and plantation company Golden-Agri Resources surged in price and volume yesterday after two international broking houses put out extremely bullish ratings on them. Golden-Agri Resources jumped 30 cents or 17 per
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      Lock icon Retail investors suggest stock split to DBS
      602 5  -  AGM WATCH Bank also questioned on its reluctance to repurchase shares By JANICE HENG WITH DBS Holdings shares trading well above $20, some retail investors called yesterday for a stock split so more small fry can buy in. At an extraordinary general meeting,
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      Lock icon SC Global shareholders to vote on dividend
      232 5  -  By ARTHUR SIM DEVELOPER SC Global wants shareholders to approve a scrip dividend scheme that would give them a choice of either cash or new shares in the company. On Feb 28, SC Global CEO Simon Cheong said the company was proposing a
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      Lock icon It's decision time for Daka
      513 5  -  COMMENTARY MICHELLE QUAH Senior Correspondent TODAY is D-Day for Daka Designs, as shareholders ready themselves to vote at a special general meeting (SGM) this morning to decide its fate. Long-suffering shareholders will finally get the chance to decide on the future of their investment in
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      Lock icon COMPANY MEETINGS
      260 5 COMPANY MEETMG PLACE DATE TWK Daka Designs S 11 Cross Strict MS-01 Marsh S-Apr 10.00am McLennan Centre SP Chemicals A Carlton Hotel, Esplanade Room. 5-Apr 2.30pm Level Four. Bras Basah Road Evergro Prop A 31 Tennery Land #06-01 9-Apr 3.00pm Aztech Sys A 31 Ubi Road 1, Aztech
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      Lock icon CosmoSteel Holdings seeks listing on SGX
      436 6  -  IPO WATCH It plans to use proceeds to widen product range and marketing reach By MATTHEW PHAN CosmoSteel has earned about three-fifths of revenues from Singapore-based customers. About 5 per cent came from Europebased customers, with the remainder from neighbouring countries Malaysia. Indonesia, Thailand
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      Lock icon Sin Ghee Huat to raise $21m
      93 6 Reuters STAINLESS steel products distributor Sin Ghee Huat Corp Ltd plans to raise up to $21 million in an initial public offering in Singapore, a financial industry source told Reuters yesterday. Sin Ghee Huat is offering 59.67 million shares comprising 51.9 million new shares
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      Lock icon OKP joint venture wins its first contract
      320 6 OKP (Oil Gas) Infrastructure a new joint venture of Sesdaq-listed OKP Holdings and mainboard Rotary Engineering targeting the booming oil and gas sector has bagged its first contract worth $3 million for an isotherm power plant on Jurong Island. The JV's maiden contract
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      200 6 Ei-Nets signs China property deal EI-NETS Ltd has inked a deal to co-develop a 13 sq km financial, commercial hub and high-end residential development in Changchun in China's Jilin Province. It signed the preliminary cooperation agreement with the Jing Yue Economic Development Zone. China Enerswe in $50m bond
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      Lock icon MIIF to take up its share of Arqiva rights issue
      171 6 Reuters MACQUARIE International Infrastructure Fund (MIIF) said yesterday it will subscribe to the rights issue of a British broadcasting services provider, raising its debt level to 18 per cent of assets. The Singapore-listed fund said in a statement that it
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Wall St, property send STI to new high
      523 8  -  STOCKS Index's 44-point leap means it has regained all the losses incurred earlier this month R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent WALL Street's Tuesday rally, continued optimism on the property market, and a fresh slew of "buy" recommendations with high target prices helped keep
      Source: Bloomberg  -  523 words
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      918 8 SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD MAM SOQ TOTAL U» jgg Ifcch Up Down Undi Up Down Undi MuttUnd _6 0 1 0 6 J Manufacturing 74 73 68 12 18 17 86 91 85 31 22 26 2 4 13 33 26 39 Tpt/Stoc/Comms 17 13 11 111 18 14 12 Finance
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      Lock icon BROKEKS' TAKE
      937 8  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN WE INITIATE coverage on Genting InternatkmAl(GlUwidi an "outperform" recommendation: We are highly positive on Sentosa in the long term. Despite using conservative financial and operational assumptions, our discounted cashflow (DCF) value for GIL is $1.57 per share. In the short term, the lack of
      Source: Bloomberg  -  937 words
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      Lock icon US$ steadies, carry trades well-supported
      501 8  -  CURRENCIES LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent THE US dollar managed a steadier session yesterday against most of its major counterparts, ahead of an extended four-day Easter break for many financial centres starting tomorrow but, elsewhere, it remained under pressure versus selected favourite Asian currencies even as
      Source: Reuters  -  501 words
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon COE premiums rise across the board
      269 9 COE premiums continued to edge up yesterday as the effects of a new and smaller quota kicked in. For the new quota year starting this month there are 19 per cent fewer certificates of entitlement in Category A for cars below 1,600 cc, 10
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      Lock icon More professional bodies may scrap fee guide
      611 9  -  Like SMA, the concern is possible breach of the Competition Act By WEE LI-EN OTHER professional organisations may follow suit after the Singapore Medical Association (SMA) announced on Monday that it will abandon its long-standing fee guidelines. SMA said it withdrew its fee
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      Lock icon Bio-Rad unveils first plant in S'pore
      399 9  -  By CHEN HUIFEN CALIFORNIA-BASED BioRad Laboratories yesterday opened its first Asia-Pacific manufacturing plant in Singapore, which will hire up to 50 workers by next year. The life sciences company will make scientific instruments here for the global market and could use Singapore as a
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      Lock icon David Lane to replace Brenner as chief of A*Star biomed council
      335 9 Brenner appointed scientific adviser to A*Star chief IN another leadership renewal move, A*Star said yesterday its biomedical research council (BMRC) chairman Sydney Brenner will be replaced by eminent cancer researcher David Lane from July. The announcement comes just days
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      Lock icon Total to expand gasoline trading here
      275 10  -  By RONNIE LIM FRANCE'S Total the world's fourth-largest oil company is going into gasoline trading in a bigger way here. It has apparently taken up storage capacity on Jurong Island so it can blend gasoline to enhance its trading ex-Singapore, sources said yesterday. They
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      Lock icon Electricity prices up 20% in 2006
      429 10  -  But competition among gencos, power retailers tempered hike, says EMC By RONNIE LIM HIGHER oil prices as well as increased electricity demand sparked by stronger economic activity caused average Singapore electricity prices to rise a significant 20 per cent last year, the Energy Market
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      Lock icon S'pore can't afford revolving door leadership: MM Lee
      434 10 It needs to pay market rate for competent people [SYDNEY] Singapore cannot afford to have a "revolving door" style of government where top leaders change every five years, Channel News Asia reported Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew as saying yesterday. The country
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  • SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL
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      Lock icon Building e-govt services in Mid-East
      774 14  -  S'pore is a leader in the field but homegrown service providers venturing out can do better, reports CHUANG PECK MING CHUANG PECK MING IT LOOKS almost too good to be true. The Middle East has a big market for e-government services and the governments there
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      Lock icon CrimsonLogic forges partnership
      641 14 THEY look like they are made for each other. The Middle East is a fast-growing region that wants to modernise its governance and sharpen its global competitiveness. It thrives on trade but could do better. Crimson Logic is wellequipped to meet such needs. The Singaporebased company is
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      Lock icon NCS embarks on fast-track growth
      456 14 NO wonder NCS Group sees the Middle East as a key market. "We are doing well and are experiencing almost 100 per cent year-on-year growth. We expect continuous high growth for the next three years," says Chong Yoke Sin, chief executive of the Singaporebased information
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      Lock icon A strategic new market for ST Electronics
      576 14 FIVE years after setting foot in the Middle East, the business environment there is still somewhat strange to ST Electronics, according to the the company's president Seah Moon Ming. "We are still learning how things are done in this region," he says. "Things
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Asean currency swaps in the works: official
      355 15 Also in the pipeline is the use of foreign capital inflows to fund infrastructure Reuters ICHIANG MAI] South-east Asian nations are working towards multilateral currency swap deals and ways to use capital flowing into the region to finance infrastructure, a senior Thai finance
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      Lock icon BOJ to tweak rates as inflationary pressures rise
      328 15 Reuters [TOKYO] Inflationary pressures in Japan are likely to increase in the future and the central bank will gradually nudge up interest rates accordingly, Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto said yesterday. "As we have said before, we have no predetermined
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      Lock icon Big trade surplus not good for China: central bank
      234 15 Reuters [MUMBAI] A large trade surplus is not good for China's sustainable development but the exchange rate is "just one side" contributing to it, China's deputy central bank governor said. Wu Xiaoling told reporters yesterday on a trip to India that
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      Lock icon Aussie central bank opts not to raise rates
      464 15 Stocks surge to all-time high, currency falls Reuters [SYDNEY] Australia's central bank skipped a chance to raise interest rates yesterday, quashing speculation it might tighten to cool domestic demand as insurance against future inflationary pressures. The Australian dollar fell while shares hit
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  • ISKANDAR PROJECT
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      Lock icon Asean's Shenzhen takes shape
      2133 16  -  Singapore will be the key to unlocking Johor's economic potential through the Iskandar Development Region, and it's all systems go PAULINE NG KL Correspondent THERE is an obvious great potential in Malaysia's ambitious economic plans for the Iskandar Development Region or IDR, just across the Second
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon RHB Bank's new owner eyes merger with CIMB
      639 17 With assets of US$70b, they could edge out Maybank from top spot Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The new owner of Malaysia's fourthlargest lender, RHB Bank, sees larger rival CIMB Bank as a likely merger partner for RHB, which together could become a regional
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      Lock icon M'sia defends 'worst car in the world'
      253 17 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia yesterday defended a car made by national automaker Perodua after British motoring critic and BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson labelled it the worst car in the world. Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Abdul Raman Suliman, said that the
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
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        Lock icon Indian rupee rises to near 8-year high
        70 17 AP [NEW DELHI] The Indian rupee rose to its highest in nearly eight years against the US dollar yesterday, as banks sold dollars to raise funds to meet new central bank requirements to keep more cash on hand. The rupee climbed to 42.90
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        Lock icon Hutchison Telecom to vet payment to Essar
        65 17 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd, a mobile-phone company controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, said shareholders will meet on May 8 to vet a planned US$4l5 million payment to Essar Group, its partner in an Indian venture. Hutchison Whampoa, with a 49.7
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        Lock icon M'sian telcos agree to share network
        81 17 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's three mobile phone operators Maxis, Celcom and DIGI, have agreed to share their networks. The Star reported yesterday. "We have discussed this with the telcos who agree that rather than all of them going into the same area, it is
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        Lock icon Blackstone in talks to buy China's Guofeng
        67 17 Reuters [SHANGHAI] US private equity firm Blackstone Group is in talks to buy into China's Guofeng Group, the country's leading plastic products manufacturer, sources said. Blackstone has been in talks with Guofeng Group, based in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, for a
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      Lock icon Plantation firms help NEA to fight haze in Sumatra
      585 17  -  S'pore agency adopts regency in province under Asean pact By LAUREL TEO in Jakarta AT LEAST five plantation companies in Indonesia have teamed up with Singapore's National Environment Agency (NEA) to fight the causes of atmospheric haze at a fire-prone spot
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      256 19 [HONG KONG] Hundreds of retail investors clamoured for share applications for this year's biggest public float Country Garden, encouraged by CITIC 1616's strong trading debut on Tuesday, The Standard reported. Singapore investment agency Temasek Holdings, Henderson Land chairman Lee Shau-kee and New World Development
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      217 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] US casino operator MGM Mirage Inc said on Tuesday it is forming a joint venture with China's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing to develop luxury hotels and resorts around the world, initially targeting locations in China. MGM said the companies
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      435 20 Ceiling will hit mega projects, including plans by Salim, Posco [NEW DELHI] Corporates and state governments drawing up mega plans for building special economic zones (SEZs) over thousands of hectare are in for some disappointment. The government may introduce an area ceiling of
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      218 20 Reuters [MUMBAI] India's Tata Power Co Ltd said on Tuesday it was considering opportunities to build power plants in West Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Indonesia. The utility, India's biggest private sector power producer, did not give any details, but the Times of
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      841 21 Other 5 Gulf states still committed to meeting deadline for monetary union Reuters [DUBAI] Gulf Arab central bank governors did not formally discuss a system of dollar-pegged exchange rates but agreed informally that current rates should remain unchanged, the executive president of Oman's central bank said
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      445 21  -  By CLARENCE MICHAEL in Dubai DUBAI International Capital (DIC). the international investment arm of govern-ment-owned Dubai Holding. will continue to seek geographic diversity, targeting expansion in the US and Asia to build on the US$5.5 billion assets under management at present,
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      225 21 Reuters {DUBAI] Qatar has approved a budget for 2007/2008 that forecasts a surplus of 6.74 billion riyals (Ss2.B billion) on expenditure of 65.71 billion riyals. the state news agency QNA said. The surplus forecast is up 193 per cent from the previous
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      351 22 LATEST US DATA AP [WASHINGTON] New orders placed with US factories for a range of manufactured goods rose by a disappointing one per cent in February, a sign companies remain wary of bulking up spending amid the economic slowdown. The increase in
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      445 22 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's financial regulator plans to introduce a single listing regime for investment firms, dropping a two-tier system that prompted heavy industry criticism, and will begin a wider look at UK listing rules. In an update to the market yesterday, the Financial
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      318 22 AP Bloomberg [VIENNA] Oil prices fell yesterday after Iran's hardline president announced his country would release the 15 British marines and sailors it had been holding for nearly two weeks. "The great Iranian people and the Islamic republic, despite
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      549 26 It moves forward with recovery plan to cut 13,000 jobs AP (BERLIN] DaimlerChrysler AG is confident a turnaround programme at its Chrysler unit will return the beleaguered American brand to profitability, but chairman Dieter Zetsche said yesterday that the automaker is in talks
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      343 26 Lone Star's move sparks talk it may exit country over KEB legal woes AFP [SEOUL] US equity fund Lone Star, which has been beset by legal problems since buying a South Korean bank in 2003. announced yesterday it is selling
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      571 26 Reuters [SINGAPORE] It would be ironic if Thailand cut interest rates at a central bank meeting next week and the high-fly-ing baht finally declined. Thai authorities have tried everything but orthodox monetary policy to rein in a currency that they feared
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      636 27 Group still eyeing Aussie supermarket chain, but it may not raise its offer Reuters [SYDNEY] Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co (KKR) said it was still in the race for Australia's Coles Group Ltd, despite a A 519.7 billion (5524.26 billion) offer for
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      241 27 Reuters [LONDON] British recruitment firm Michael Page International Pic posted a 33.2 per cent rise in its first-quarter profit yesterday and said it was continuing to focus on markets outside the UK. Britain, which currently contributes around 40 per cent
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      299 27 Reuters [SYDNEY] Australia's Publishing Broadcasting Ltd has teamed up with Macquarie Bank to buy nine Canadian casinos for C 51.37 billion (Ssl.B billion), extending its gaming empire to North America. PBL, controlled by Australia's richest man James Packer, and investment bank Macquarie yesterday
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      320 27 AFP [WASHINGTON] An Indian chief executive of a US firm was charged on Tuesday with shipping restricted weapons technology to the Indian government in a case that could put a pending bilateral nuclear deal under extra congressional scrutiny. Parthasarathy Sudarshan, 46,
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      121 27 f\cjvbn f tmMSi fc— GLOBAL BUSINESS SUMMIT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 19-20 APRIL 2007 I SHANGRI-LA HOTEL SINGAPORE The first major international conference focusing on business and environment in Asia will see industry luminaries from leading organisations discuss issues, create partnerships and explore solutions for a better future. Topics to include:
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      769 28  -  APAMA AVIATION LECTURE Europe and US have lost the vision that made them natural leaders By TAMARA MOHANAN KUPPUSAMY [SINGAPORE] Asia must overtake Europe and the US as an aviation leader because the industry's future is in Asia's hands, the di-rector-general of
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      565 28  -  By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] In a significant upgrading of its presence in Singapore, Brazilian plane maker Embraer is investing US$4O million to establish its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters here. The Singapore unit, Embraer Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, will be responsible for the
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      121 28 AFP [WASHINGTON] After lengthy study, US regulators on Tuesday announced they are leaving in place a ban on cell phone use aboard aircraft, saying research remained inadequate to overturn the ban. In a statement published on its website, the Federal Communication
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      251 28 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways (BA) had the worst record among major European airlines for mislaying passenger baggage last year, according to figures released yesterday. It came bottom of 24 airlines who filed reports with the Association of European Airlines (AEA), with 23 bags
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      535 29  -  SEA ASIA 2007 It'll be an on-shore facility with capacity of 300,000 cu m Reports by DONALD URQUHART {SINGAPORE] Singapore's liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal is on-track to be up and running by 2012 with the location to be announced in
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      844 29  -  STRAIT TALK By DAVID HUGHES THE port city of Fujairah is probably not in the diaries of many events organisers. But last week, it was host to some 200 delegates from the global bunker industry, much to the delight of the owners of the
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      251 29 [SINGAPORE] The inaugural threeday Sea Asia conference and exhibition closed in Singapore yesterday, with industry participants praising the fresh approach and high calibre content of the maritime event. At the closing, the total number of participants reached 7,000 from more than 40 countries, according
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      228 29 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Cosco Container Lines Ltd, Asia's largest container transporter, and nine other shipping companies plan to raise rates to move wastepaper from the US to Asia as they seek to recover increased costs. A group comprising 10 of the world's top 20 shipping
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      518 30 EDITORIAL IT must be plain refusal to face up to reality. How else does one explain why despite regular, indeed unremitting. reminders about Singapore's unmistakable demographic trends many employers here remain unprepared for the prospect of a workforce with more older workers? That the
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      862 30  -  Companies can invest in the community through a philanthropic foundation By WAYNE BURNS and CORAL KEE IN SINGAPORE, and internationally, corporations are finding that focusing on returning profits to investors alone will not create the type of environment they need to flourish and stay
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      806 30  -  THE BOTTOM LINE ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent ASIAN Development Bank chief economist Ifzal Ali this week likened Japan in economic terms to Rip Van Winkle, who has just woken up after more than a decade of deep slumber. To suggest that Japan
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      1288 31  -  The US Congress now appears to be on a firm course to enact anti-China protectionist legislation by the end of 2007 By STEPHEN ROACH IN A stunning about-face for US trade policy, the US Department of Commerce imposed countervailing duties on the imports of coated free
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      539 31  -  LEON HADAR Washington Correspondent THE Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and South Korea that was reached at the last minute on Sunday after long and gruelling negotiations of several months should have been regarded as one of the major geo-economic and geo-strategic victories won
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  • BizIT THE BUSINESS OF INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Audit scheme to root out illegal software
      775 43  -  BSA, Ipos-led initiative will certify firms that are licence compliant, writes AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY THE Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Ipos) yesterday announced a self-audit programme aimed at helping Singaporean companies ensure that the
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      Lock icon IBM launches new tech centre in India
      144 43 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] International Business Machines Corp, the world's largest computer-services company, opened a technology centre in Bangalore, India, to work on adding more intelligence and automation to computer systems. The centre employs 35 developers and engineers who are responsible for developing so-called
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      Lock icon Satyam continues S'pore expansion
      484 44  -  It will add 80 new positions over the next quarter, reports WINSTON CHAI WINSTON CHAI SATYAM Computer Services is set to boost its local headcount by over 20 per cent as it looks to make Singapore the base for housing a pool of highly-specialised, globetrotting IT
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      Lock icon SCS chief is former IT 'Person of the Year'
      302 44 Wilson Tan takes over as president of 23,000-strong body THE Singapore Computer Society's (SCS) new president, Wilson Tan, couldn't have better credentials as far as the 23,000-strong professional body is concerned he was "Person of the Year" in the society's IT
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      Lock icon Qualcomm, Nokia talks still deadlocked
      195 44 Reuters [HELSINKI) Qualcomm's chief executive Paul Jacobs hopes to avoid "Armageddon" in a week's time when a patent agreement between the chip maker and Nokia expires, he said in an recent interview. Qualcomm, the dominant supplier of chips for phones based on CDMA technology, has
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      Lock icon Sun Microsystems' Greater China president Daniel Yu to leave
      497 44 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Computer networking specialist Sun Microsystems Inc said on Tuesday that its Greater China president, Daniel Yu, has decided to leave the US company, amid stiff challenges in China's software sector. Lionel Lim, president of Sun Asia South and chief
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      Lock icon StarHub unveils mobile conference service
      258 44  -  By WINSTON CHAI LOCAL operator Star Hub has taken the wraps off a new service which allows busy executives to conduct conference calls with the push of a button on their mobile phones. The Call2Meet service allows a user to easily initiate a multi-party conversation
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      Lock icon Google pulls toilet prank on April Fools' Day
      465 44 AP [SAN FRANCISCOI Presiding over a company with a market value of US$l43 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley's most famous billionaires a good sense of humour. Senior executives at Google Inc launched their annual April Fools' Day prank last Sunday, posting a
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      1571 44 MANUFACTURING INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY LTD Sm£s S S Company Registration Number: *****0075N S 7 IhZ (Incorporated in Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Manufacturing Integration Technology Ltd ("the Company) will be held at Ficus 1, Level 2, Jurong
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      5095 45 CATS NOTICES JmM Celestial NutriFoods Limited (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Celestial NutriFoods Limited (the "Company") will be held at Raffles Hotel Singapore. Casuarina Suite A, Level 3,1 Beach Road Singapore *****3, on Tuesday,
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      5577 46 NJOTICFS JL JL A j L L-J Toll free: 1800-289-8822 Email: I 1 ECS ECS Holdings Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Company Registration No *****4760R Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ninth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 19
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  • PROPERTY
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      Lock icon Britain can avert property crash despite growing risks
      896 47 Focus turns to business property market in UK amid US subprime crisis Reuters [LONDON] A UK commercial property crash this decade is a growing possibility as borrowing costs rise and as a cold wind begins to blow through the white-hot market, but
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      Lock icon Far East buys Ocean Apartments for $39m
      407 48  -  East Coast site may be combined with another for redevelopment By KALPANA RASHIWALA FAR East Organization has bought Ocean Apartments in East Coast Road for $39 million or $481 psf of potential gross floor area including an estimated $150,000 development charge (DC). The
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      Lock icon Warehouse rents up nearly 5% in first quarter
      348 49  -  Average rent for high-tech space also rises by 5% in Q1 By ARTHUR SIM WAREHOUSE rents rose almost 5 per cent in the first quarter of this year the first increase since Q2 2003. According to a report by £B Richard Ellis
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      Lock icon Tax changes planned for Aussie REITs
      265 49 Reuters [LONDON] The Australian government plans changes to the tax treatment of Australian listed property trusts (LPTs) that will boost their competitiveness abroad, an Australian trade magazine said yesterday. According to a report in Financial Standard, the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Peter
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      Lock icon Spottiswoode Apt sets new benchmark
      145 50 UOL's $79.5 million acquisition of Spottiswoode Apartment, announced late on Tuesday, works out to a unit land price of $732 per square foot per plot ratio including an estimated $167,000 development charge. This is a new benchmark for the Neil Road/Cantonment Road area. says United
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      Lock icon Another site available for hospital-cum-hotel project
      401 50  -  1.36ha Race Course Rd site was put on reserve list in 2006 By ARTHUR SIM THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) says a reserve site on Race Course Road can now be developed with a hospital component. The 1.36 ha site, which has a maximum
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      1498 50 PROPFRTYTRANSACTIONS I ODfiFD RFTWFFN MARCH 77 AND APRII 3 7007 PROJECT NAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE 8UIU-INAREA PRICE P5F PROJECT NAME/ PROP COKTWCT TENURE 8UUJ4NAAEA PRICE PSF PROJECT NAME/ PROP CDNTWCT TENURE BWJ-WA#A PRICE PSE STREET NAME TYPE DATE C9QFT) (SfOOO) (St) STREET NAME TYPE DATE 6QFT) (St 000) STRtET
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      369 47 Residential Site For Sale SIMON VILLE (100% consensus obtained) Residential site off Upp Serangoon Rd Poh a Minutes walk to Kovan MRT Station Land area: 31.932 sq ft "Tsss&ZEr gwg 0 km Leasehold 999 years Plot ratio 1.4, up to 5 storeys 8)8810 /f V V «S" Peggy Tan 6531
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      207 48 savills It \i\ I Collective Sale of \i \l\ 396-398 River Valley Road Land Area 1,7332 sq.m. (approx. 18,656 sq.ft) \sb%c v\ Mp 2003 P.R. 2.8 \A Maximum permissable GFA: 4,852.96 sq.m. v Tenure: Freehold s'y/ Yp\ Weal for boutique SOHO-theme development Walk to Great World City and Valley Point.
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      79 48 Meyer Road Vicinity Land Area: 10,600 sf Plot Ratio: 2.1 Height: Up to 25 storeys Hotels For Sale Beijing 4/5-Star Hotel, GFA 61,750 sm Xi'an land for development, GFA 60,000 sm Service Apartment Blocks For Sale Puxi, Shanghai Estimated GFA 15,000 sm Shenyang Estimated GFA 25,000 sm Changsha Estimated GFA
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      1364 49 H7 units 2-sty "Peronokan-Styie" shophouses LORONG 24A GEYLANG Owner's Auction Site area 10,567 sq ft (approx.) Freehold, within Conservation Area Zoned "Residential/Institution" Potential for SOHO Apartment development 12th April 2007 at Amara Hotel 2.30pm A portfolio of 13 intricately restored shophouses Total built-up area: 66,000 sq ft Within walking distance
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      196 50 Address 73 Bukit Timah Rd N mwimmm Singapore *****2 Site Area sqm r- >-' Strata Area 4,437 sqm approx J Zonin 9 Commercial il I I Ist1 st fir Showroom ii, 2 nd 6 th fir Office I' fjP Height 6 storey 2 basement 1 car park (48 For further
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