The Business Times, 19 May 2007

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    22 1 THE BUISNESS TIMES weekend SINGAPORE 85 cents A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 online at http://business-fimes.asml com.scj May 19-20, 2007
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    Lock icon Shoppers, retailers feel the buzz
    721 1  -  Expectations for this year's Great Singapore Sale are running high By UMA SHANKARI [SINGAPORE] Singapore's shopping event of the year starts Friday next week, and shopaholics have more to look forward to this year from new brands and store promotions. And this year there is
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    Lock icon Wolfowitz quits as World Bank head
    478 1 Board to tackle system of choosing its president Bloomberg. AP [WASHINGTON] The World Bank will review the process by which it appoints its president, following the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz on Thursday, an official at the bank said. The system for appointing a new
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Fed chief issues double warning on US economy
      550 2 Trends in housing market, leveraged buyout boom require watching —Bloomberg [CHICAGO/ATLANTA] Federal Reserve chairman Ben S Bernanke issued a dou-ble-barrelled warning on the US economy, saying the housing market will continue to struggle and the Fed sees "significant risks" in the leveraged
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      Lock icon Singaporeans break away from old-style holidays
      913 2  -  More discerning travellers opt for single destinations By VINCENT WEE [SINGAPORE] The buoyant economy and a changing traveller profile has led to new travel trends. Finding a holiday destination for the peak June school holiday period has become both easier and more difficult. If
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      Lock icon MARKETS DIGEST
      137 2 STI 3,***** (-13.11) ST INDEX FUTURES 3,513.00 (-13.00) SIMSCI 432.74 (-1.07) SIMSCI FUTURES 432.70 (-1.20) MARKETS Friday Chang* KLCOMP 1.356.84 -2.53 NIKKEI 225 17,399.58 -99.02 HANG SENG 20.904.84 -89.77 SET INDEX 728.76 +4.39 JAKARTA COMP Closed r MANILA COMP 3.449.18 *31.49 SEOUL COMP 1,612.25 -3.33 SHENZHEN B 745.26
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      Lock icon Dow case turns the spotlight back on Hong Kong
      575 2  -  Episode highlights its patchy record in handling infractions By JANE MOIR in Hong Kong THE high-profile insider dealing accusations lobbed at a Hong Kong couple who traded in Dow Jones shares before news of a takeover bid has put the spotlight
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      Lock icon THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      511 2 SGX seeks views on proposed changes to trading rules THE Singapore Exchange is proposing further changes to trading rules to boost the efficiency and liquidity of the stock market here. It wants to reduce the minimum bid size for securities such as shares and structured warrants priced at
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      101 2 BT ONLINE BT print subscribers get free access to the Business Times Online. To activate your account, log on to asial .com.sg. For more information, e-mail btocs@sph.com.sg or call 6388-3838. PENG KWEE 01 -45A PENINSULA PLAZA 6334 0155 02-90K PEOPLE'S PARK COMPLEX 6327 4628 01 -44 PEOPLES'S PARK CENTRE 6533
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  • RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon Kampong boy with global ambition
      1485 4 Lim Wee-Chai, founder of Top Glove Corp, tells PAULINE NG how he has steered his Malaysian company to become the world's biggest glove maker LIM WEE-CHAI may hail from the small village of Titi in Jelebu, Negri Sembilan, but his business views are decidedly global.
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      Lock icon Billionaire is firm believer in free enterprise
      747 4 Lim Wee-Chai is unfazed at his recent inauguration into Malaysia's select club of billionaires. Taking it all in his stride, the youngest member to the club, at 49 years of age, remarks: "To me, it's about the same. You have to be humble,
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      110 4 The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles Hotels Resorts. Ranked second among the f Y "1 world's top hotel brands in the 2006 Conde I SJk I I Nast Traveler Business Travel Awards, M Raffles Hotels Resorts is a collection of tj i n
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      295 5 (Singapore International y/ A Meeting of Champions/ The Singapore International Racing Festival reaches a riveting climax on Sunday with the staging of Singapore's biggest racing extravaganza... S1 N 0 0 1 Airlines I R P Clf f L) 11 1 Pure excitement... A star-studded cast...The stage is set/ I J
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Jurong Shipyard wins 2 ship convert contracts
      381 6  -  By DONALD URQUHART UNRELENTING demand from the offshore oil and gas sector continues to pad SembCorp Marine's order book with Jurong Shipyard clinching two more ship conversion contracts worth a total of US$BB million. The first contract involves the conversion of the tanker
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      Lock icon China continues to dictate sentiment
      504 6  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent AT THE risk of sounding like a broken record, it's still very much about China. It's a bit like dotcom boom at the turn of the century some seven years ago, when the saying went "if Nasdaq sneezes, the rest
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      Lock icon Utac shares fall on takeover talk denial
      603 6  -  By and JANICE HENG OH BOON PING SHARES of United Test and Assembly Center (Utac) beat a retreat yesterday after the semiconductor testing company dismissed market rumours about an impending takeover. The stock closed five cents or 5.1 per cent down yesterday at
      Source: Bloomberg  -  603 words
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      Lock icon City Spring managers slammed over $63m fees
      268 6 Reuters AN infrastructure fund backed by Temasek Holdings has been slammed for paying its managers such high fees that the fund itself turned in a much bigger-than-expected loss. City Spring Infrastructure Trust's managers were paid a total of $63 million in management fees.
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      Lock icon COMPANY BRIEFS
      310 7 HPL plans special dividend, rights issue HOTEL Properties Limited has proposed a net special interim cash dividend of 22 cents a share for FY2007 and a renounceable non-underwritten one-for-10 rights issue at $2.20 a share. CapLand CEO granted option on flat CAPITALAND'S CEO Liew Mun Leong has been
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      Lock icon SBN warns of bigger second-half loss
      411 7  -  By JANICE HENG AFTER suffering a first-half loss of $35 million, Sesdaq-listed media group Sun Business Network (SBN) warned yesterday it is expecting the second half-year ended March 31 to be worse. "As was in the first half, losses in the second half of
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      7354 7 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIN Amro Asset Mgt (S port) Stat EuropeEqty 1 1126/ Slw Europe Bond '182/ Stat Europe Bal 1266/ Star Asian Tiger 1*26/ Star Asia Bond 1 33V Star Asia Balanced 1116/ StarOoballectwilogyFcrtl'" 0222/ Mult. St Ed 0977/ Star Asia BonddJSD) 0*78/ GfcMJnStUSO "71/ Asia Bond Fd A
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      Lock icon SGX seeks views on proposed changes to trading rules
      380 6  -  It wants to cut minimum bid size for securities that are trading at $3 or more By CONRAD TAN THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) is proposing further changes to trading rules to boost the efficiency and liquidity of the stock market here.
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      Lock icon Temasek closes Stats offer with 83.1 % stake
      500 6  - Temasek closes Stats offer with 83.1 stake Stake falls short of 90% mark for Stats to be taken private By OH BOON PING TEMASEK Holdings' offer for STATS ChipPAC (Stats) closed yesterday with the Singapore investment company successfully gaining control of the microchip packager with a stake of 83.1 per
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      Lock icon CK Tang reports $593,000 net loss
      422 7  -  Though turnover rises 9.5%, higher operating expenses leave firm in the red By CHEN HUIFEN WEIGHED down by higher operating expenses, retailer CK Tang sank into the red with a loss of $593,000 for the year ended March 31, against a net profit of
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      25 7 Allianz Global Investors one of the world's largest asset managers with more Allianz (ffi) than US$l.2 trillion assets under management as at 31 December 2006.
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon BROKERS'TAKE
      931 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI MODIFICATIONS: We have made the following changes: factored in the 40 million new shares placement at 551.46 per share; raised our FYOBE and FYO9E earnings estimates by 6.1 per cent and 8.7 per cent to factor in the group's China push; increased our FYOBE target
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      Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      1084 8 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS Subsantial >uy No of Prkt SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder' Soil Shares Par Mora Aftar Stock Data D if ait Of Coov 000 Shr C000) COOP) Serial Sys 18 May-07 Goh Bak Heng Buy 200 0.17 *****9 38.43 *****9 38 48 Fragrance Grp 1S-May-07 LimWanLooi
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      Lock icon Is your money working hard for you?
      1066 8  -  SHOW ME THE MONEY The reality today is that capital trumps labour in terms of growth in returns TEH HOOI LING Senior Correspondent Make your money work hard for you. The wisdom of that statement could not have been more evident in the
      Source: Singapore Departament of Statistics; Source:Survey on annual wages changes; Source: Compiled by BT  -  1,066 words
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  • BOSSES AND HORSES
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      Lock icon Mixing business with pleasure
      1281 9  -  It's not all about the prize money but the feeling when your horse beats the best to win a race, horse owner Rayner Lee tells MARC TAN MARC TAN COMBINING work and play is not the easiest thing to do. Especially when you work as a
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      37 9 This is the last of a three-part series brought to you by the Singapore Turf Club S/ngapore Airlines International Cup V- m (Singapore International festival 12 to 20 May 2007 Singapore Racecourse Sunday, 20 May 2007 www.siacup.com.sg >
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Cite local court rulings first, CJ urges lawyers
      369 10  -  Other cases can be used for criticism or comparison By JANICE HENG LAWYERS were urged yesterday to favour local judicial decisions when they cite previous cases in support of their arguments in court. "I would like to announce that in future we,
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      206 10 New Maths Science head for NUS High HANG Kim Hoo will take over as Mathematics and Science principal of the National University of Singapore High School when Associate Professor Lai Yee Hing steps down on Aug 31. Mr Hang has served in the Ministry of Education and held
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      Lock icon NTUgrads' average starting pay goes up
      409 10  -  By CHARMIAN KOK NANYANG Technological University (NTU) announced yesterday that its latest batch of graduates Class of 2006 are paid more than their seniors. Students from the same cohort also found employment much faster, said the university. These NTU graduates earned an average starting
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      Lock icon Two S'porean firms raided over software
      324 11  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY TWO Singaporean companies operating out of Batam island have been recently raided by Indonesian police who suspected them of using unlicensed software which would otherwise have cost US$5OO,OOO, according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the trade body for the
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      Lock icon Sizzling hot 'bak kwa' offer at The Centrepoint
      267 11 BT BONUS ISSUE THE Business Times' Bonus Issue serves a Chinese delicacy this week. Just present this copy of The Business Times Weekend edition at Fragrance at The Centrepoint to savour sliced tender bak kwa, or barbecued pork, at 40 per cent
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      Lock icon Come over for a working holiday
      342 11  -  By CHEN HUIFEN OVERSEAS students and young graduates will be invited for working holidays in Singapore as part of the Ministry of Manpower's efforts to attract foreign talent. "This programme will target to bring bright young people to Singapore," said Manpower Minister Ng Eng
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      Lock icon A* Star awards $8.7 m research grants
      255 11  -  11 projects under national research programme benefit By BENITA AW YEONG IN April this year, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*Star) Science and Engineering Research Council (Sere) awarded grants totalling $8.7 million to research teams from A'Star's research institutes, National University
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      Lock icon High Court quashes decision by registrar of vehicles
      372 10  -  Case concerns ARF which the registrar levied on Komoco Motors By WEE LI-EN THE High Court yesterday quashed a decision made by the registrar of vehicles, finding that the registrar did not have an open mind in hearing a $7 million dispute
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      Lock icon Simpler but fuzzy SME accounts?
      532 11  -  Proposed simpler standard may hinder efforts to improve financial transparency By WEE LI-EN WITH small and medium enterprises (SMEs) making up about 80 per cent of companies, the proposed simpler accounting standard for them could hamper Singapore's efforts to become a financially transparent economy, Institute
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      1040 10 COMMERZBANK HBH 1.1-31.12.2006 1.1 -31.12.2005 Assets 31.12.2006 31.12.2005 In Euro m _ln Euro m In Euro m In Euro m interest received 12,522 Cash reserve 5.967 8.628 Interest paid 14,925 9,355 Claims on banks 75,271 86,203 Net interest income 3,916 3,167 Claims on customers 294,471 153,674 Provision for possible loan
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Plantation firm leaps to 3rd spot
      501 12  -  Synergy Drive now worth RM4 48b, putting it almost on par with Maybank By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur SYNERGY Drive, the special purpose vehicle for the merger of three of the country's plantations groups into a global palm oil behemoth, has grown into
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      Lock icon Spice gets Indian long-distance licence
      8 12 —AFP (Kuala Lumpur)
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      Lock icon RHB Capital pays RM3.2b for RHB Bank stake
      326 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian lender RHB Capital Bhd will pay RM3.2 billion (Ssl.4 billion) to buy the 30 per cent stake it does not already own in RHB Bank from state investment agency Khazanah Nasional, it said on Thursday. Khazanah has agreed
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      4822 12 Transaction date: May 18 52-Wk Id Lart Vol Day LutQuoU Mv GrVM Not MCap HWi low Cod* Comp—y Solo f000) High low »uyr SdUf C»r P/t SnA \l I WCSST" L 5S 7,7 14 13 135 14 4.7 1.1 1*2 g 34 20 5834 1-55* 24 unch 39
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      Lock icon Malaysia still keen on new bridge to S'pore
      300 12 [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia voiced fresh hopes yesterday of building a new bridge to connect its south with Singapore, signalling a change of mind more than a year after aborting the contentious project. Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahrtiad Badawi mentioned the bridge as
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  • INDONESIA
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      Lock icon SGX
      6894 13 Transaction Date: May 18 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME VALUE Diqiland 193.458,000 CapitaLand 102.041.960 UTAC 90,725,000 UTAC 85.540.225 CSC Hldqs 77.206.000 DBSGrp 84.669.000 ChinaEntSp 63.307.000 Cosco Corp 84.104.090 Global Test 54.550.000 STATSChP 78,294,210 Yonqnam 50.562,000 UOB 69,107.787 STATSChP 44.685,000 ChinaSnerqy 53.627.530 Frontline 44,536,000 Yanqzijianq 41.946.790 LottVis 41,036,000 OCBC Bk 39,096.950
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      Lock icon Residents scramble as massive waves roll in
      214 13 -Reuters [JAKARTA] Massive waves have hit coastlines across Indonesia, sending hundreds of panicky residents rushing from their homes and also destroying fishing boats and beachside shacks, officials and media reports said yesterday. Television footage showed high waves crashing into the tourist island of
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      Lock icon Indon SEZ rules ready by end-May
      505 13  -  Setting of a deadline likely to please potential investors By LAUREL TEO in Jakarta THE legal structure for Indonesia's special economic zones (SEZ) will be finalised by the end of this month, ending two months of delay, the people in charge say. Investment Coordinating
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon TURNING HEADS
      65 14 [CANNES] Chinese actress Gong Li (centre), with American actresses Andie MacDowell (left) and Kerry Washington arriving for a screening at the Cannes film festival earlier this week. The three were headed for the screening ofWongKar Wai's 'My Blueberry Nights'. Others at the festival in the southern French city
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      Lock icon China funds' values slide as foreigners flee
      754 14 -Reuters [HONG KONG] How overvalued are domestically listed Chinese shares in the eyes of foreigners? As much as 16 per cent, based on two China equity funds for foreigners that trade at discounts to their underlying stocks. As foreign investors increasingly question whether
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      Lock icon Philips sells US$2.56b of TSMC shares
      200 14 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe's largest consumer electronics maker, sold U552.56 billion of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) shares as part of a plan to shed its entire stake in the chipmaker within three years. Philips sold 240 million American Depositary
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      Lock icon Chinatrust will be asked to sell its entire stake in Mega
      377 14 Taiwan financial firms cannot hold stakes in rivals -Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Chinatrust Financial Holding Co, Taiwan's fourth-biggest financial services company, will be asked to sell its entire stake in Mega Financial Holding Co, said Financial Supervisory Commission vicechairwoman Susan Chang.
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      Lock icon China widens yuan trade band, tightens money
      576 14 Move comes just ahead of key trade meeting with US —Reuters [BEIJING] China's central bank announced yesterday that it would let the yuan trade more freely and delivered twin monetary tightening moves just days ahead of a key meeting with the United States
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      Lock icon HK Q1 growth slowed by weaK construction
      323 14 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's economy grew just 0.5 per cent seasonally adjusted in the first quarter from the previous quarter, its weakest performance since economic recovery began nearly four years ago and due mainly to a decline in construction expenditure. Consumer spending
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      Lock icon Investors should pare China holdings, analysts warn
      535 14 Serious impact on Hong Kong bourse if Chinese market bubble bursts —Bloomberg, AFP [HONG KONG] Merrill Lynch Co's China chairman said investors should pare their holdings in the nation, where the benchmark stock index has rallied 84 per cent this year, a day
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
      2487 15 VOL May II KM *1- COOP) A M Realty .2.36 unch 0 Abric Bhd .0.31 0.01 47 Advance Synergy 0.33 -0.01 359 AdventaBhd 1.23 unch 202 Ae Mutti Hldgs 0.32 unch 48 Affin Holdings .2.30 unch 2526 Ahmad Zaki Resou .2 90 unch 13 AicCorp 0.58 -0.01 128
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      Lock icon LOOKING DOWN ON EVEREST
      107 15 [KATHMANDUJA British paraglider has flown over Mount Everest, becoming the first man to do so, Explore Himalaya agency said. Bear Grylls (right), with fellow flier Gilo Cardozo.flew 140 m above the world's highest peak at 8.850 m on Monday after taking off on a powered paraglider
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      Lock icon Euronext to lure Indian firms to bourse for SMEs
      142 15 [MUMBAI] Euronext, Europe's largest stock exchange, yesterday began a campaign in India to attract domestic firms to Alternext, its subsidiary exchange for small and medium companies, after more than a dozen Indian companies raised over £2 billion (Ss6 billion) from its
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      Lock icon HDFC Bank to raise US$1b from share sales
      429 15 Banks in India seeking more funds to meet increased demand for loans Bloomberg [MUMBAI] HDFC Bank Ltd, India's third-biggest by market value, said it plans to raise US$l billion selling shares locally and overseas to meet accelerating credit demand in the world's
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      Lock icon For some residents, Bangalore is changing too mucn, too soon
      631 15 Reuters [BANGALORE] Bangalore, for the world, is the city of promise, a technology hub with hundreds of thousands of skilled but cheap workers who have tons of talent to keep global businesses running and help shape their future. But for
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      Lock icon State govts can obtain land for SEZ developers
      289 15 Earlier ban applies only to compulsory acquisition, says senior official [NEW DELHI] The Indian government has decided to allow states to acquire land for special economic zone (SEZ) projects on behalf of private developers as long as owners sell their land voluntarily.
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Warhol, others break records at Christie's
      711 16 —NYT [NEW YORK] Buyers from all over the world spent millions of dollars at Christie's on Wednesday night as if it were play money. Together they made auction history: the most successful sale of postwar and contemporary art ever. Records were set for 26
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      Lock icon Qantas Airways chairman to step down
      625 16 Failed A$11b bid for Aussie airline claims its first victim Reuters [SYDNEY] The failed Asll billion (5513.8 billion) bid for Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd claimed its first scalp on Thursday with the airline's chairman Margaret Jackson announcing she will retire before the end of
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      Lock icon UBS loses yet another of its executives
      336 16 Reuters [LONDON] The vice-chair-man of ÜBS global investment banking, Hartmuth Jung, is leaving to pursue other opportunities, becoming the latest in a spate of recent defections from the Swiss bank. Mr Jung, who helped build the bank's German operations, was made vicechairman in
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      Lock icon Saudi Basic to buy GE Plastics for about US$11b
      463 16 Analyst says GE using favourable market to sell asset Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Saudi Basic Industries Corp, the world's biggest chemical company by market value, will buy General Electric Co's plastics unit for about US$ll billion, sources familiar with the process said. Both
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      Lock icon BA admits fixing prices, sets aside £350 m for fines
      327 16 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways, Europe's third biggest airline, yesterday admitted fixing prices on fuel charges and set aside £350 million (Ssl billion) to pay potential fines from UK and US regulators. BA shares fell 3 per cent yesterday morning after
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      Lock icon Apple's iPhone wins FCC approval
      178 16 —Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Inc's iPhone, the combination mobile phone and iPod music player, received certification from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and will be available in the United States in late June as planned. "Apple has passed its required FCC certification milestone," Natalie Kerris,
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      Lock icon IMF's forex surveillance not effective enough: watchdog
      547 16 Reuters [WASHINGTON] An internal watchdog sharply criticised the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday for failures in its core duty of foreign exchange market surveillance, but the IMF said that steps were being taken. The report by the Independent Evaluation Office, which examined
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  • MOTORING
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      Lock icon PORSCHE GONE WILD
      476 17  -  The blindingly fast GT3 RSR will show its mettle at the 12-hour Merdeka Race in Sepang on Aug 24, says SAMUEL EE SAMUEL EE ONE of the most exotic Porsche cars to be built has arrived in Singapore. The Porsche 911 GT3 RSR is an endurance race
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      Lock icon Toys for boys
      496 17  -  By SAMUEL EE EVEN before you can begin to think that the BMW 5 Series is looking middle-aged, the Mu-nich-based carmaker opens its bag of goodies to refresh this mid-sized saloon model. Apart from minor cosmetic changes like the front and rear lamps' clear-glass and LED direction
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      Lock icon Powerful machine with a frugal disposition
      394 17  -  By SAMUEL EE IF YOU were Mad Max roaming a postapocalyptic wasteland and scavenging for scarce fuel while evading a marauding gang of vicious bikers, you would be quite happy driving a Volkswagen Golf GT. That's because, according to the German carmaker's specifications, it
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      Lock icon Members of the Golf club
      303 17  -  By SAMUEL EE NOW that the Volkswagen Golf GT has arrived, how does it compare with the all-time favourite hot hatch, the Golf GTI? One analogy is that the GT is like a bull terrier puppy strong and fast but a little awkward whereas the
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  • GOLF
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      Lock icon Beating golf-island greens
      942 18  -  One way is to overcome negative thoughts with hypnotherapy, reports JUSTINE MOSS JUSTINE MOSS WHILE a huge gulf separates top golf professionals and recreational hackers, the first day of last week's Players Championship in Florida showed that they sometimes have a lot more in common than one
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      611 18 WinG&fflinG withweekendßT Cafebiz Oscar's and varied textures of modern French cuisine. Revel in excluding Public Holidays. Traders Hotel, Lobby level Tel: *****374 Conrad Centennial Singapore, the season with an lnvitation Au Plaisir, a six-course Oxford Hotel CAFEBIZ offers exotic Asian and local cuisine as well as 2 Tema&ek Boulevard. Tek
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  • WELLNESS
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      Lock icon Foiling a silent killer called hypertension
      1035 19  -  Prevention still best even as study shows efficacy of medication, reports MELISSA HENG MELISSA HENG IT ISN'T called the silent killer for nothing. Hypertension affects one in five Singaporeans. It often stalks its prey silently and strikes when least expected. Hypertension is a warning
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      Lock icon Quest for that dazzling smile
      949 19  -  Cosmetic dentistry allows for dental makeovers without bothersome braces, reports MELISSA HENG MELISSA HENG COSMETIC dentistry has, in recent years, gained a large following from the young and young at heart. In fact, it is the latter group that is pushing the boundaries of what
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      334 19 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ionable crime (5,2) AUIUSS 3 Ruthless boxers welcome feed 1 Bedroom chats about being (3-3-3) out of action (4,2,6) 4 Trainee soldier from America 8 Putting a price on a Liberal detained (5) university (fashionable) in very 5 Lame but can be changed (7) good surroundings (7) 6
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  • SHOPPING
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  • THE BUISNESS TIMES weekend
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