The Business Times, 7 April 2007

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  • Title Section
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    21 1 The Business Times wèekend SINGAPORE 85 cents A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBUCATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg April 7-8, 2007
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Revving up for an F1 treat
    635 1  -  By SAMUEL EE [SINGAPORE] First, there was a Formula One driver in a convertible cruising past the Esplanade. Soon there could be a real F1 car hurtling down that same route. A street demo of a Formula One car could be organised by financial
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    Lock icon S'pore telcos tap into a trendy, young market
    859 1  -  Tech-savvy youths are providing growth in a mature mobile phone market By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] "It's got Bluetooth, 3G, MP3, and 3.2 megapixel camera," said 15-year-old A Yong of his latest and third handphone, a Nokia 73 that cost $499 with
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    Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
    31 1 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 7.75 INDONESIA 14.168 TAIWAN 5.926 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.25 US 8.25 CANADA 6.00 SWITZERLAND 3.96 INDIA 12.25 Source: Bloomberg
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Top UN panel issues bleak warning on climate
      690 2 Scientists accuse govts of watering down text of widely awaited report AFP Reauters [BRUSSELS] Top climate scientists issued their bleakest forecasts yet about global warming yesterday, ranging from hunger in Africa to a thaw of Himalayan glaciers in a study that may
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    • Article
      Lock icon S'pore a top draw for American R&D dollar
      822 2  -  By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] Singapore is one of the global hot spots for research and development (R&D) for American multinational corporations (MNCs), which are spending more to discover new products and cutting-edge processes to stay ahead of the competition. They have
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      580 2 LottVision bets on China gaming market AS China moves into legalised lotteries, 'Singaoui iy lijlJd LettVision is gambling nw bpting a winner wftK a-slice of the exponential growth it sees there. LottVision has also moved on from supplying video surveillance systems to get into betting software. COMPANY NEWS,
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  • RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon From rags to US$2.8b fortune
      2094 3  -  More than a few eyebrows were raised last year when Sukanto Tanoto became the richest Indonesian on Forbes Asia's list. Who is this self-made tycoon? LAUREL TEO catches up with him recently in Singapore, where he has been based for more than 10 years LAUREL
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      Lock icon A sprawling empire
      292 3 THE Tanoto family controls a string of resource businesses grouped loosely under the banner of RGM International, which does not own the companies but provides accounting, human resources, finance and other corporate services to them. The group has US$B billion of assets, employs more than 50,000 people,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Building ties that bind
      443 3 HE MAY be viewed with suspicion by some in his home country, and with wary respect by the Western media. But in China, Sukanto Tanoto is adored. Google his name in Chinese and glowing reports that pop up from China Daily. Xinhua and China Business Weekly,
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      67 3 The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles 7*' Hotels and Resorts. The Traveller's Palm in I 9 the Raffles Hotels and Resorts logo is an apt I I I symbol. Not only has water stored at the base j of this palm provided sustenance,
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      2183 4 EASTECH EASTERN ASIA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED Company.Registration No.: *****8484 D (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ninth Annual General Meeting of Eastern Asia Technology Limited ("Company*) will be held at Connaught Room, Level 2, Cartton Hotel, 76 Bras Basah Road,
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      326 4 Cats Notices PACIFIC CENTURY REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration Number *****0381N) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of Pacific Century Regional Developments Limited (the "Company") will be held on Monday, 30 April 2007 at 4.00 p.m.
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • Article
      Lock icon Vietnamese bank eyes S'pore share listing
      199 5 Value of Southern Commercial Bank put at US$670m Reuters [HANOI] Vietnam's Southern Commercial Bank, which sold a 10 per cent stake to United Overseas Bank earlier this year, wants to get a share listing in Singapore. "Southern Bank has expressed determination to become one
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon LottVision bets on China gaming market
      759 4  -  Deregulation spells big opportunities for Singapore-listed HK company By CHRISTINE SIM CHINA appears to be moving towards increasing the availability of legalised betting and Singapore-listed LottVision Ltd is gambling on being a winner in the new, more relaxed market. "We believe an industry revolution
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      Lock icon Super Coffeemix sees record earnings again
      472 4 It's banking on rising demand for products in China, Central Asia SUPER Coffeemix Manufacturing, which makes and distributes instant beverages and snack food, says its capacity expansion plans and contribution from new markets are expected to drive the group's earnings to another record high
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      Lock icon Education group TMC sets sights on world
      708 5  -  It wants to attract more students from emerging markets, widen course range By BENITA AW YEONG FROM its base in Singapore, the TMC education group has set its sights on the whole world. It all started in Kramat Lane 26 years ago, when
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      1047 5 REYOUNG PHARMACEUTICAL HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of REYOUNG PHARMACEUTICAL HOLDINGS LIMITED ("the Company") will be held at Republic Plaza 11, Level 18, Trademark Room, 9 Raffles Place, Singapore *****9 on Monday, 30 April 2007 at
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      1542 5 Hyffwc HYFLUX LTD (Company Registration No. *****2722Z) (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Hyflux Ltd ("the Company") will be held at 202 Kallang Bahru, Hyflux Building, Singapore *****9 on 27 April 2007
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon Sanguine about the market
      1611 6  -  SHOW ME THE MONEY TEH HOOI UNG Senior Correspondent ONE of the benefits of my job is the opportunity to meet various types of people from visionary entrepreneurs, to astute investors and super-smart academics. This week, while rummaging through stacks of notebooks in search of an
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Call for closer media collaboration
      426 7  -  Ministers urge move to strengthen ties between Singapore and Malaysia By MATTHEW PHAN THE information ministers of Singapore and Malaysia yesterday called for more regular collaboration between their media sectors, as part of an overall effort to strengthen ties between the two countries. Besides broadcasting,
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      Lock icon Reits take hold in the Asia-Pacific
      1338 7  -  From Singapore to Japan, they offer much in the way of investments By TOM MIĹS and LIJIAN CHEN REIT structures now exist in all of the Asia-Pacific markets in which we believe institutional investors should consider core property acquisitions. Australia created the Listed Property
      Source: UBS Global Aśets Mgmt Real Estate Research based on data obtaimed from FTSE EPRA/NAREIT  -  1,338 words
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  • WALL STREET BOOKS
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      Lock icon Wall Streetnow there's one for the books
      1563 8  -  A new crop of books, both fiction and nonfiction, are coming out and aim to capture the mix of greed, strive, intrigue and vanity in the world of big business By LANDON THOMAS Jr IN HIS 1958 novel From the Terrace, John O'Hara
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    • Article
      Lock icon A peek into the secretive, mysterious world of old Lazard
      825 8 Bloomberg The Last Tycoons William D Cohan Doubleday, 742 pages, U5529.95 Reviewed by JAMES PRESSLEY WHEN a former Lazard Freres Co banker returns to his roots as a journalist, he leaves no skeleton (or mistress) unturned. William D Cohan mixes
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • Article
      Lock icon UAE's Al-Batha to use M'sian JV to launch more businesses
      564 9  -  It's keen to bring more Mid-East investors to M'sia, explore other areas By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur UNITED Arab Emirates' AlBatha group plans to use a RM4SO million (Ssl9B million) property development joint-venture project in Malaysia as a launch
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      Lock icon Rationalisation plan proposed for Johor' sports
      315 9 Bernama [JOHOR BARU] Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) wiU handle only containers while other cargoes go through Johor Port at Pasir Gudang these are the likely roles for the two sea gateways at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. Their parent company, Malaysia Mining
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      Lock icon Cigarette firms given two weeks to stop price war
      12 9 AP (Kuala Lumpur)
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      Lock icon Indonesia, Egypt to work on vaccine
      275 9 Joint R&D plans to produce bird flu vaccine for humans Reuters [JAKARTA] Egyptian vaccine maker Vacsera is looking to team up with an Indonesian company to develop a bird flu vaccine for humans, an Egyptian minister and a company official said recently. A 13-year-old
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    • Article
      Lock icon RHB drops RHB Cap share sale plan
      21 9 Move follows the impending takeover offer for RHB shares by EPF Reuters (Kuala Lumpur)
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      Lock icon Jakarta to raise spending on infrastructure
      464 9 TJAKARTA] The Indonesian government will allocate more money for infrastructure development in next year's budget in an effort to ease the distribution bottlenecks that have seriously hampered the country's economic growth, according to a report in Jakarta Post. "The bottleneck problem will become worse
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    • Article
      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
      2476 9 VM Ml W- QOt) ASM Realty 1.72 0.01 17 Abric Bhd .035 0.02 85 Acp Industries 179 unch 65 Advance Synergy 0.39 -0.02 3582 AdventaBhd .0.90 -0.01 52 AeMultiHIdgs 0.39 0.05 2741 Affin Holdings .2.37 0.02 2842 Ahmad Zakiftewu 3.77 0.09 100 Ak Corp .0.60 -0.01 168 AirasiaBhd
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Saudi prince eyes Chinese consumer sector
      597 10 Blossoming ties might tempt him to venture into energy sector Reuters [BEIJING] Billionaire Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who has snapped up three hotels during a 10-day tour of Asia, is also mulling investments in China's consumer and energy sectors. Rising affluence in the
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      Lock icon Taiwan plans car, horse racing
      315 10 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan is crafting plans to set up a speedway andhorse racing track in a bid tojghir economic growth in the less-developed southern portion of the island, local media reported yesterday. The proposals would mirror similar actions by governments around Asia and worldwide, which
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    • Article
      Lock icon Insurers can double share investments
      240 10 Reuters [BEIJING] China's insurance regulator has given insurance companies permission to double, to 10 per cent, the proportion of assets they may hold in domestic equities, industry sources said yesterday. Given that Chinese insurers' assets totalled 1.97 trillion yuan (Ss3B6 billion) at the end of
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      Lock icon ABN Amro and US bank eye stake in China's Huishang
      548 10 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Dutch financial services firm ABN Amro and US community bank UCBH Holdings Inc are among potential rivals seeking to buy a minority stake in China's mid-sized Huishang Bank, regulatory and banking sources said yesterday. ABN Amro Holding NV
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      Lock icon NYSE seeking Chinese listings
      6 10 AFP (Beijing)
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      Lock icon Shanghai real estate official in graft probe
      153 10 AFP [SHANGHAI] An official who spent a decade in charge of real estate transactions here is under investigation for corruption after his immense wealth raised suspicions, state press reported yesterday. Yin Guoyuan, the former deputy director of the Shanghai housing, land and resources
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      Lock icon Hangxiao Steel's shares tumble as it faces probe
      331 10 [SHANGHAI] The China Securities Regulatory Commission has begun a formal investigation into irregular trading of shares of Zhejiang Hangxiao Steel Structure after the stock tripled in two months, underlining risks behind the mainland's stock market boom, the South China Morning Post reported.
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  • India
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      Lock icon Indian developers happy with new SIZ rules
      749 11  -  State govts can't seize land; SEZ size now restricted to 5,000 hectares By By SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA in New Delhi SEVERAL developers have heaved a sigh of relief over the new rules specified by New Delhi for Special Economic Zones. The federal government has
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      Lock icon Congress appeals for votes as local polls get under way
      341 11 AFP [KANPUR] Ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi appealed to voters in India's largest state to stand by the party of "every Indian" ahead of month-long local polls set to begin today. But the last-minute appeal is likely to have
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      Lock icon NSE proposes SME share-trading platform
      415 11 [MUMBAI] India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) is chalking out a strategy to launch a separate trading platform for small and me-dium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to a report in Business Standard. The newspaper said the move is expected to cut into the business of rival Bombay
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      Lock icon India plans 500b rupee nuclear power plant
      10 11 AP (New Delhi)
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      Lock icon Intercontinental, Istithmar Hotels to expand in India
      143 11 Starwood plans chain of 15 Aloft Hotels in 3-5 years Reuters IMUMBAI] The Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Istithmar Hotels are planning to expand operations in India one through management contracts and the other, new budget properties to tap strong demand for rooms.
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Stronger than expected job growth in March
      522 12 LATEST US DATA Surprise fall in unemployment rate to 4.4% from 4.5% in February Reuters Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 180,000 new jobs in March, largely because of a bounceback in construction hiring, and job growth was stronger in the
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      Lock icon IMF cuts US growth forecast to 2.2%
      248 12 Reuters [BERLIN] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised down its forecast for US economic growth by 0.4 percentage points to about 2.2 per cent, a German newspaper reported in its online edition yesterday. The slowing is only likely to be temporary, as
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    • Article
      Lock icon Protests mount against Thailand's post-coup govt
      492 12 Reuters [BANGKOK] Protests against Thailand's generals and the post-coup government they appointed are growing and threaten to become serious, analysts say. In a matter of weeks, the gatherings have grown from a handful of people opposed to the September coup on principle to several
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      Lock icon US consumer confidence hits 6-mth low
      427 12 AP [WASHINGTON] US consumer confidence sank to a six-month low as higher gasoline prices, a housing slump and stock market turbulence made people fret more about the economy. The RBC Cash index showed confidence dropping to 85.4 in April. That was down from 92.3
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      Lock icon Gucci owner said to eye bid for Puma
      327 12 Reuters [PARIS] French furniture-to-catwalk fashion retailer PPR is in advanced talks to buy out a leading shareholder of German sportswear company Puma and bid for the firm, newspapers reported yesterday. The Wall Street Journal, citing people close to the matter, said two
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      Lock icon NYSE Euronext acts to guard against US rules
      213 12 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] NYSE Euronext has appointed members of a Dutch foundation and US trust, set up to prevent a possible spillover of US rules into European markets, the newly merged transatlantic exchange said late on Thursday.* The group, a combination of NYSE
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    • WORLD WATCH
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      26 12 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF TENDER JOBS Check out the most comprehensive collection of tender notices in CATS Notices in The Straits Times. »AT>i j NOTICES 5
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  • FOCUS: JOBS MIGRATION
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      Lock icon Back office to high-skilled jobs
      1444 14 Outsourcing is not just about back office jobs any more. Western companies are increasingly shifting high-end professional work to India IHT [BANGALORE] Outsourcing is breaking out of the back office. Until recently, the migration of service industry jobs from the West to places like India
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  • MOTORING
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      Lock icon Winter driving in a Bentley
      857 15  -  Power on Ice is memorably up to the marque, says GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU FROM a motoring perspective, few things are more incongruous or thrilling than driving a high-perfor-mance luxury car around a circuit Qn the traction-free suxfj}ce of a frozen lake in "WML Based
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      Lock icon C1, want 1?
      545 15  -  By C Y CHEW CUTE is not the best way to describe the Citroen CI. because it implies that beneath the stylish facade there is little substance to this charming little French hatch. And that couldn't be further from the truth. Nonetheless, most potential owners will inevitably
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      Lock icon A true blue BMW man
      839 15  -  DRIVING STYLE German car maker's Asia MD tells SAMUEL EE about his passion for BMW and why the car has become the world's top luxury brand SAMUEL EE YOU could call it a lifelong love affair. As a child, Roland Krueger grew up with a
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  • GOLF
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      Lock icon Will Augusta see an upset?
      982 16  -  Though initial odds are on former champs, given the game's unpredictability, dark horses could sneak in and spoil the party at Augusta, reports JUSTINE MOSS JUSTINE MOSS THE PGA Tour is in full swing, and the year's first Major has begun with 97 players teeing
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  • WELLNESS
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      Lock icon Why suffer from slow urination problem?
      884 17  -  It could be a prostate disease, for which a new treatment is now available here, says CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON IF YOU'RE a male above 50 years and have been taking a much longer time than usual urinating, you might think it's just your
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      Lock icon Nature's way to looking beautiful
      1027 17  -  Natural plant-based products now come in high performance ranges, debunking the general view that they are only effective over a long period of time. CHEAH UI-HOON checks out two brands which have natural formulations and also promise to work faster and better CHEAH UI-HOON EVOLU
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      330 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD &roncc 4 South American people put 777 .n. into container? Not quite (5) 1 Father and British qirl love 5 m NASA lab, amazing state of framing old picture for artist some Americans (7) s?'. V i 6 Singer taking offence at artist 9 Cricket side before test
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  • SHOPPING
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      Lock icon New shop to sell old French brand?
      636 18 New shop to sell old French brand AFTER closing his Fabulous Linens shop back in 2002, Whang Sung Lin is making a comeback next month with a new boutique and an old French brand of luxury bedlinen. Oh. how pleased the tai tais will be. D Porthault, the brand ill.question,
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      Lock icon Modern look, Italian craftsmanship
      635 18  -  The booming economy and an appetite for luxury homes spell good news for two companies marketing luxury bedlinen which costs upwards of $1,000 per set. CORINNE KERK checks them out CORINNE KERK WHEN Fabrizio Viccaro picked up the local papers on Tuesday morning, the headlines screamed
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      Lock icon Architect Koolhaas tries his hand at fashion
      250 18  -  By CORINNE KERK WHILE we're in the mood for celebrity architects on the property development front, why not have a taste of them in fashion? A collaboration between Italian label Prada and AMO—the think tank of Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas—has resulted in Obvious
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      Lock icon Going back to its (hair) roots
      367 18  -  By CORINNE KERK BRITISH fine bath and body brand Molton Brown is going back to its roots in more ways than one. Started in 1973 as a hair salon with a natural philosophy and an ethical hair-care line, Molton Brown then went successfully into
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  • PERSONAL SPACE
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      Lock icon Fine art of living
      1011 19  -  Bridget Tracy Tan's compact pad gives ample evidence of her interests, writes GEOFFREY EU GEOFFREY EU THE old adage about good things coming in small packages certainly applies to Bridget Tracy Tan's home, which like its owner is bright, compact and filled with a quirky, confident
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  • The Business Times weekend
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      Lock icon Sugar, spice and everything nice
      1148 20  -  JAIME EE and CHEAH UI-HOON discover that's what trendy cafes are serving simple sweet and savoury food of consistent quality usually made in-house JAIME EE CHEAH UI-HOON THE chic cafe seems to be a growing trend in Singapore, as you see more eateries opening that
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      Lock icon Get ready for fine cuisine and great wines
      695 20  -  WORLD GOURMET SUMMIT PREVIEW By GEOFFREY EU IT'S time for discerning epicures to loosen those belt buckles for the 11th year running, the culinary circus known as the World Gourmet Summit (WGS) is coming to town. From April 9 to 28, a
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