The Business Times, 22 August 2007

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  • 23 1 The Business Times SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg mm A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Wednesday, August 22,2007
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  • 880 1  -  NANDE KHIN nterest on Special, Medisave, Retirement accounts to be tied to long-term bond yield By [SINGAPORE] The buzz that has surrounded changes in the CPF scheme was given a new direction yesterday, when Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen highlighted a
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 47 1 uesday 1,231.48 lange -11.91 ICOMP IIKKEI225 15,901.34 +168.86 IANG SENG 21,729.35 +133.72 ;et INDEX 764.40 -27.62 JAKARTA COM P 1,993.01 -48.58 1ANILACOMP 3,167.52 +283.18 ;eoulcomp 1,736.18 +4.91 ;henzhen B 718.13 +10.27 IUMBAI IND 13,989.11 -438.44 12 noon EDT Change 13,146.06 +24.71 )OW IAS DAI 2,519.74 +11.15
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    • 30 1 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 7.75 INDONESIA 15.718 TAIWAN 5.956 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.75 US 8.25 CANADA 6.25 SWITZERLAND 4.48 INDIA 12.75 Source:
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    • 39 1 IS$ (S$ per US$) 1.52, (USS/SS )er£) 1.979 3.023 ;URO(US$/S$/E) 1.348 2.05! 'EN 114.30 74.8I 3.499 2.29I IK$ 7.811 5.112 !AHT 34.51 22.5: lUPIAH 9.445 6.181 1ENMINBI 7.588 4.961 INDIAN RUPEE 41.17 26.95 1.250 0.81 IZ$ 1.440 0.942
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  • 503 1 Reuters, AP, Bloomberg Markets will settle down after repricing risks, says Paulson [LONDON] Finance chiefs from the world's three biggest economies yesterday tried to keep a lid on credit jitters, but US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson admitted that global financial turmoil would
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 41 1 5 INVESTMENT SUB-PRIME FALLOUT EXEC MONEY MOTORING PILOT PLAN Investors shy away from Risks and rewards 3M eyes bigger jf j |HK shares surge commercial paper of currency funds S'pore market ji PAGE 2 PAGE 14 PAGE 33 PAGE 21 BJ^~V
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 612 2  -  JANE MOIR Hang Seng ends 0.6% up on move to let China residents buy HK stocks By in Hong Kong THE prospect of millions of Chinese investors pouring their cash into Hong Kong's stock market gave the bourse a timely boost
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    • 351 2  -  WEE LI-EN They will also keep the $3m deposit paid by Travista By [SINGAPORE] Owners of Mayer Mansion on Devonshire Road have won their case in the Court of Appeal against a company that sued them for cancelling a $30 million collective sale. The
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    • 350 2 [SINGAPORE] Former health minister Howe Yoon Chong, whose name became synonymous with a 1984 report pushing for the CPF withdrawal age to be raised, died yesterday, aged 84. A member of the Cabinet old guard, Mr Howe began his career as a
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 66 2 TWO new upgrading schemes, Home Improvement Programme (HIP) and Neighbourhood Renewal Programme (NRP), are seen as benefiting a broad spectrum of Singaporeans. HIP will include optional improvements like the upgrading of toilets, for which the government will subsidise 87.5-95 per cent of the cost.
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      • 69 2 The re-employment law may be five years away, but the minister tasked with looking into jobs for older workers urged employers yesterday to start preparing for it now. "The earlier we start, the earlier then we know what kind of issues
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      • 64 2 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering has big plans for China, with the aim to grow revenue there in five years to match that from the US now. This would be no mean feat, seeing as how the company expects to sell more than US$1 billion
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      • 61 2 LEADING stockbroker and UOB-Kay Hian Holdings deputy managing director Tang Wee Loke is retiring from active management at the end of the year. Mr Tang, 60, who oversees sales and general operations at Singapore's largest broking firm, will remain on the board
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      • 76 2 SENTOSA Cove Pte Ltd yesterday released three more 99-year leasehold bungalow plots for sale, after reporting new benchmarks being set for waterway and fairway facing plots in the upscale locale. Now, the only sites that are left for sale are two individual bungalow
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      • 61 2 THE Bank of England's emergency lending facility was on Monday tapped for the first time since the US sub-prime mortgage crisis broke. And yesterday, Japan's and Australia's central banks injected more funds into money markets, continuing a string of such injections to
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      • 64 2 CHINA has raised interest rates a fourth time since March to cool the economy after inflation surged to a 10-year high. The benchmark one-year lending rate will increase 0.18 of a percentage point to 7.02 per cent today and the one-year
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      • 70 2 INDIAN banks will be able to check starting from November the creditworthiness of 100 million borrowers before extending fresh loans in the first nationwide rating system aimed at reducing defaults. The Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd, set up by Citigroup Inc,
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    • 640 3  -  ARTHUR SIM Subsidised optional improvements will cheer sandwich class By [SINGAPORE] The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has released details of two new upgrading programmes which are seen as benefiting a broad spectrum of Singaporeans, including the middle class. The two new programmes, which
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    • 520 3  -  CHUANG PECK MING Early preparation will yield likely solutions to possible issues: Lim Boon Heng By [SINGAPORE] The re-employment law may be five years away, but the minister in charge of looking into jobs for older workers urged employers yesterday
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 979 4  -  MATTHEW PHAN Group's China revenue may hit present US level within 5 years: CEO By IF chief executive Tan Pheng Hock is right, Singapore Technologies Engineering (STE) could see China contribute as much to group revenues within five years as the United
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    • 717 4  -  WONG WEI KONG TIME may be running out for China Aviation Oil (Singapore) or CAO to announce a much-anticipated asset injection which has been one factor keeping its shares on the boil this year. But while a failure to secure new assets
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    • 433 5  -  OH BOON PING SGX partners Lyxor Asset Mgt and Tokyo exchange for the offering By LOCAL investors who wish to gain exposure to Japan's stock market can now do so through a new fund that will be listed here on
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    • 441 5  -  VEN SREENIVASAN By LEADING stockbroker and UOB-Kay Hian Holdings' deputy managing director Tang Wee Loke is retiring from active management at the end of the year. Mr Tang, 60, who oversees sales and general operations at Singapore's largest broking firm, will remain
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    • 280 5  -  MATTHEW PHAN By SGX-LISTED Asia Water Technology has completed a US$6O million financing via a combination of senior secured bonds with detachable warrants and junior secured convertible bonds, according to CLSA Capital Partners, which managed the deal. The bonds were fully taken up by
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    • 355 6  -  VEN SREENIVASAN Those with lower gearings in better position to ride out storm: Citigroup report By -\SIAN airline sector stocks are still trading at a discount of 12 per cent to their peak in July, following their 9 per cent decline last week. Aviation
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    • 588 6  -  CONRAD TAN Cheaper targets due to falling stocks, less buyout competition may make it happen By INVESTMENT bank JPMorgan expects to see more merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in Singapore and the rest of South-east Asia later this year as falling share prices
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    • 400 6  -  OUR CORRESPONDENT Earnings for nine months up 42% on robust freight rates By in Bangkok THAILAND'S largest shipping company, which plans to list a subsidiary in Singapore this year, says its fiscal 2007 earnings should show strong growth on robust freight rates.
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    • 387 8  -  ARTHUR SIM Ho Chi Minh City joint project with 1,500 units could fetch $185-215 psf By fCEPPEL Land will launch its high-end condominium The Estella in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The project will have about 1,500 units with a potential gross
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 73 8 HLN Technologies said its subsidiary, HLN (Suzhou) Rubber Products Co Ltd, has been notified by one of its major customers, an international construction tractor manufacturer, that orders for 2008 will be ramped up as this customer embarks on its expansion programme. It added
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      • 90 8 CHINA Petrotech Holdings said its wholly owned unit Petroservice Engineering Inc (PEI) has signed a new MOU with PT Pertamina EP for a six-month period, under which PEI will deploy its technical staff to conduct the first trial programme at one of Pertamina's working
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      • 165 8 NH Ceramics is still in the red with a net loss of $2.64 million for the fuU year ended June 30, 2007. Its previous year's net loss was about $2.7 million. Its turnover for the latest full year was $6.08 million, down
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      • 62 8 CONSUMER electronics distributor Enzer Corporation said it has acquired a 51 per cent stake in Shanghai Jianhua Telecommunication Satellite Co, for $2 milion in view of strong prospects in the Chinese satellite communications industry with the onset of Beijing Olympics 2008. Shanghai Jianhua
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    • 342 8 Reuters It expects revenue rise to be in line with that of industry [SINGAPORE] China Sunsine Chemical Holding, which makes rubber-treat-ment chemicals used by tyre makers, said on Monday that it expects revenue growth for 2007 to be in line with the 30
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    • 178 9 ati mW I M\ %n V*" revosave Enjoy everything your money can do Your life has always been about striking the right balance. You're working hard to secure a bright future, but playing hard is just as important. You want to make the most of your money not just by
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 713 10  -  LARRY WEE CURRENCIES Few dare assume that the worst is really behind us FINANCIAL markets have come back from the brink after last week, thanks to the Fed's deft move to stave off a meltdown in global financial markets. But only the very brave
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    • 232 10 Changes over the past week YEAR TO DATE AUG 21 '07 HIGH LOW CLOSE CHNG US$ vs CURRENCY JPY 114.41 -3.37 124.16 111.60* SGD 1.5255 0.30 1.5479 1.5033 IDR 9445 0.96 9260 8650 THB 34.55 1.32 36.72 33.18 CNY 7.5906 0.19 7.8150 7.5543 MYR 3.4980 0.56 3.5250
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    • 94 10 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 1 14 3 0 0 0 14 lanufacturini 39 138 42 28 14 47 166 56 Commerce 50 23 13 63 29 "pt/Stor/Comms 30 33 :inance 20 22 Construction 16 24 'roperties 32 34 lotels/Rsts iervices
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    • 120 10 MAIN SPQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL lulti Ind 39.059 39.059 144.509 144.509 lanufacturing 419.366 137.895 557.261 374.618 27.633 402.252 Commerce 191.763 12.940 204.703 141.909 3.769 145.678 'pt/Stor/Comms 137,600 5.080 142.680 339.487 4.432 343.919 :inance 71.455 83 71.538 653.215 17 653.232 Construction 132.743 46.548 179.291 53.200 14.918 68.118
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    • 217 10 Jlgreen 0.49 1.530 -0.050 \scendasreit 0.90 2.340 -0.120 lapitaComm 0.50 2.310 -0.010 la pita Land 4.72 6.850 :apitaMall 0.95 3.380 +0.040 :hart SemiCond 0.65 1.150 +0.020 jtyDev 2.89 14.200 -0.400 lomfortDelGro 1.45 1.950 -0.060 losco Corp 1.51 4.300 -0.100 Creative Tech 0.16 5.800 -0.250 IBS Grp
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    • 442 10  -  CONRAD TAN STOCKS INVESTORS here endured another day of volatile trading yesterday, after Monday's euphoric upward surge. The Straits Times Index (STI) ended the day 93.72 points or 2.8 per cent lower at 3,228.66, after rising as much as 1.3 per cent during the
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    • 285 10  -  CONRAD TAN Singapore Banks Credit Suisse, Aug 20 IN LIGHT of the recent drop in equity and credit markets, we stress-test our assumptions on Singapore banks' earnings, book values and P/B (price-to-book) value multiples. Paring market-sensitive earnings shaves 3-4 per cent off FY2OO7E (estimated) profit, 2-3 per cent
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    • 48 10 Aug 21 VALUE CLOSE -1295.00 +268.0 BT OB/OS BT CADI -*****.00 -331.0 BT 10-day MA -*****.00-130.00 All-SG Equities 875.48 -21.46 SG Equities Elect 116.52 1.07 SG Equities Fin 2296.32 -94.88 SG Equities Prop 1351.11 -26.02 SIMSCI 396.47 -11.94 SIMSCI Futures 396.70 -11.90 PrimePartnersCI 213.80 -6.92
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    • 59 10 VOLUME *Star Cruises 50,189,000 Thai Beverage 37,210,000 Ban Joo 35,141,000 DBS MBL eCWOBO2O6 33,076,000 Yonqnam 31,947,000 Chip EnqSenq 30,681,000 UOBMBLeCWOBOIO3 29,188,000 CapitalanMßl_eCWoBo2o6 26,560,000 Diqiland 26,223,000 Liang Huat 25,967,000 VALUE(S) DBS Grp 233,177,750 UOB 204,130,780 Capita Land 127,859,366 OCBC Bk 107,013,719 SGX 90,473,649 Cosco Corp 86,454,660 Keppel Corp
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    • 101 10 CLOSE UP China H 10US$ 1620 168.0 7.3 CCCCRBeCW*****5 278 48.0 20.9 CCCCRBeCW*****5 240 31.0 14.8 Venture Con 1500 30.0 2.0 CoscoCori iBNPeCW***** 88 21.0 31.3 QUE 1300 20.0 1.6 SGXRBeCW*****1 40 16.5 70.2 STI 3300SGAePW*****0 83 16.0 23.9 STI 3600SGAePW*****7 134 16.0 13.6 STI 3400 DBePW*****1 68 13.5
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    • 110 10 CLOSE DOWN 2020-110.0 -5.2 DBS Gri UOB 2010-110.0 -5.2 STI 3400SGAePW*****0 91.5 -60.5 -39.8 Jardine C&C 1380 -60.0 -4.2 ISMSCI India 100 625 -45.8 -4.6 lit 1420 -40.0 -2.7 'e Land 840 -40.0 -4.5 Labro' larDBeCW*****5 6 -37.0 -86.0 SPC 595 -35.0 -5.6 Great Eastern 1810 -30.0 -1.6 BY
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    • 292 12  -  HAN MIN CHUNG By A FREEHOLD site on Wilkie Terrace in the vicinity of Mount Sophia has been put on the market. The site belongs to a family-owned investment company, and thus, unlike an en-bloc sale, the sale of the property is
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    • 404 12  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA New benchmark price of $1,233 psf set for a waterway bungalow site By Source: SENTOSA Cove Pte Ltd (SCPL) yesterday released another three 99-year leasehold bungalow plots for sale, after reporting new benchmarks being set for waterway and fairway facing plots
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    • 611 12  -  LYNETTE KHOO Local firms invested in 604 projects worth US$l b in '06 By SINGAPORE is Tianjin's sev-enth-largest investor and trading partner, with total trade value for 2006 growing by a robust 44.5 per cent from a year ago to US$4.5l billion. Companies here
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    • 289 12  -  OH BOON PING By THERE are lessons to be learnt from the game of poker beyond the obvious one of how to lose large sums of money very quickly or so some people have been persuaded. A Harvard professor is aiming to promote
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    • 611 13  -  CONRAJ RAJ Its navy will also increase presence in Singapore with bigger Pacific fleet By THE United States Navy plans to increase its presence in Singapore in line with the expansion of its fleet in the Pacific. This was disclosed by US
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    • 303 13 Foreign wholesale trade surges 5.9% from a year ago DOMESTIC wholesale trade put up a mixed performance in the second quarter of 2007, increasing by a modest 1.9 per cent year on year. But foreign wholesale trade did better, growing 5.9 per cent over
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  • FOCUS: SUB-PRIME FALLOUT
    • 722 14 Bloomberg USsl.lt market seizes up as more than half of that is due in the next 90 days [NEW YORK] Ottimo Funding, whose name is Italian for "excellent", has the highest possible credit rating and does not own sub-prime mortgage bonds. That made no
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    • 545 14  -  ANNA TEO Asia's fundamentals still strong, says Deutsche Bank exec By [SINGAPORE] The current credit crunch will prolong the correction in the US housing market but have little effect on the global real economy, says Deutsche Bank chief economist Norbert Walter. "On
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    • 315 14 Reuters Parts of firm may be attractive to Warren Buffett, says report [NEW YORK] Countrywide Financial Corp's stock slipped 7.6 per cent on Monday even as the largest US mortgage lender sought to reassure depositors that their funds were safe at
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    • 458 14 Bloomberg, AP Japanese, Australian central banks inject more funds into money markets [LONDON] The Bank of England's emergency lending facility was tapped for the first time since the US sub-prime mortgage crisis prompted other central banks to inject liquidity into financial markets.
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    • 243 14 -NYT [NEW YORK] In yet another casualty of the fallout in the mortgage industry, Capital One Financial Corp said on Monday that it would stop making residential mortgages and close GreenPoint Mortgage, its wholesale mortgage banking unit. As part of this decision, about
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    • 2409 14 VOL Cooo) I1KJ21 RM S.&M Realty 3.02 s,bricBhd 0.28 \dvance Synergy 0.31 \dventa Bhd 1.41 \e Multi Hldgs 0.29 \ffin Holdings 2.46 \hmad Zaki Resou 3.80 \ic Corp 0.52 \irasia Bhd 1.80 \kn Messaging Te 0.20 \kn Technology 0.71 \luminium Co 1.28 \malgamated Ind 0.53 \minvestment Grp 3.58
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 600 15  -  LAUREL TEO Construction of the Ist line set to begin in 2010 and to complete by 2014 3y n Jakarta PLANS for a long-awaited mass rapid transit (MRT) system to relieve traffic jams in Jakarta appear to be on track, with
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    • 445 15 -AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian authorities are facing a scandal over debts allegedly exceeding US$l billion incurred by the country's main port authority, sparking concerns about a possible government bailout, politicians said yesterday. The issue is politically sensitive for Prime Minister Abdullah
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    • 356 15  -  LAUREL TEO Oil exploration pacts will be signed during Putin's visit By in Jakarta TWO Russian oil and gas companies are planning to sign cooperation pacts with Indonesian counterparts, pledging investments of US$3-4 billion to explore for oil. The agreements are intended to
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    • 599 15 Reuters Small holders suffer while big firms enjoy boom [LANGKAT, Indonesia] Palm oil prices might be going through the roof and making investors and businessmen rich, but the soaring prices have not improved the lot of pickers and locals working on the fringes
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 300 16 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd, a mo-bile-phone company controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, said first-half profit soared on a one-time gain from the sale of its stake in an Indian carrier. Net income surged to HK$7O.l billion (5513.7 billion), from a profit of
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    • 460 16 Bloomberg 1-year lending rate up 0.18 pt to 7.02%; 1-year deposit rate up 0.27 pt to 3.6% [HONG KONG] China has raised interest rates for the fourth time since March to cool the world's fastestgrowing major economy after inflation surged to
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    • 320 16 Reuters It will underwrite China Construction Bank's Shanghai share listing [BEIJING] Cinda Asset Management Co, created to deal with bad assets carved out of China Construction Bank (CCB), is about to take a big step on the path to becoming a diversified financial institution by underwriting
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    • 234 16 Reuters [WELLINGTON] The New Zealand government said yesterday it was investigating the safety of imported clothing from China and other countries following concerns that it contained dangerous levels of chemicals. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs said the investigation had been launched after a
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  • INDIA
    • 435 17 Bloomberg Creditworthiness of 100m borrowers to be available; aim is to cut default risk [MUMBAI] Indian banks will be able to check starting from November the creditworthiness of 100 million borrowers before extending fresh loans in the first nationwide rating system
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    • 275 17 Reuters [MUMBAI] After a spate of big M&A deals, corporate India's drive for foreign acquisitions has ebbed amid concerns about a global credit squeeze, though firms with strong balance sheets may look for bargains as valuations come down. Indian firms are still negotiating
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    • 51 17 AFP {NEW DELHI] Australian cricketer and Timex brand ambassador Brett Lee and Indian actress and cricket anchor Mandira Bedi posing with the newly launched Timex 'Racing Chronograph' watch collection yesterday. Fast bowler Lee unveiled the Timex Racing Chronograph watches with a starting price of 3,000 rupees
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    • 233 17 -AFP [BANGALORE] US private equity giant Blackstone Group has bought a majority stake in India's largest garment manufacturer and exporter, Gokaldas Exports, according to a statement, at an estimated cost of US$l65 million. Blackstone will acquire a 50.1 per cent stake in
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    • 474 18 Bloomberg Govt clampdown on fees has eroded consumer credit industry earnings [TOKYO] General Electric (GE), the world's largest provider of private-label credit cards, may sell its Japanese consumer credit unit Lake after a government clampdown on fees eroded earnings in the industry. "Now is an
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    • 264 18 -AFP [TOKYO] Japan will propose scrapping duties immediately on 90 per cent of imports from Asean member-coun-tries when it holds free trade talks with the regional bloc this week, a report said yesterday. But Japan wants to exclude politically sensitive rice from a
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    • 7669 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!** 1.032/ Star Europe Bond 1.186/ Star Europe Bal 1.218/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.477/ Star Asia Bond 1.288/ Star Asia Balanced 1.091/ Star Global Technology Fund!** 0.23/ MultiStFd 1.003/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.843/ Gib Multi St USD 1.19/ Asia
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  • WORLD
    • 561 19 Reuters Some agree to accept a share-only bid for the Nordic exchange: report [STOCKHOLM] US exchange Nasdaq said it was talking to key shareholders in OMX to persuade them to accept a share-only bid for the Nordic exchange operator and that some
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    • 357 19 -NYT [LOS ANGELES] Hollywood's squabble over which of two technologies will replace standard DVDs reignited on Monday with two studios throwing their weight behind one format and several rivals ramping up support for the other. Paramount, part of Viacom,
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    • 301 19 -AP [LAS VEGAS] Caesars Palace, a Las Vegas casino owned by Harrah's Entertainment, will pay US$B5O,OOO to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by seven female kitchen helpers and a male supervisor, federal officials said on Monday. The employees complained that the
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    • 217 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] Mattel was sued on Monday in an attempt to force the toy maker to set up a fund to pay for testing children who may have been exposed to lead poisoning from its toys, according to a
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    • 371 19 -AP [NEW YORK] Leona Helmsley, the cut-throat hotel magnate whose title as the "queen of mean" was sealed during a tax evasion case in which she was quoted as snarling "only little people pay taxes," died on Monday at
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    • 492 19 -NYT [NEW YORK] Americans earned a smaller average income in 2005 than in 2000, the fifth consecutive year that they had to make ends meet with less money than at the peak of the last economic expansion, new government data shows. The average annual
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    • 608 21  -  SAMUEL EE It will invest more resources here to introduce new automotive products By S AMERICAN technology giant 3M finds the Singapore market particularly attractive for its growth and stability, and the company will be investing more resources to introduce new automotive products to car
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  • AVIATION
    • 613 22 -AP Why China Airlines 8737-800 burst into flames at Okinawa remains a mystery [TOKYO] Police and aviation officials began examining the charred shell of a China Airlines jet in southern Japan yesterday, widening an investigation into why the plane exploded in flames just seconds after
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    • 2353 22 AIRLINE CODES: AA American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), Al Air India (AIC), AY Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR
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    • 245 22 Bloomberg [ROME] Boeing Co may decide to increase production of its new 787 Dreamliner to 10 per month from seven "in the next few weeks", Finmeccanica SpA general manager Giorgio Zappa said in an interview. "I believe it will make this decision
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    • 355 22 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd, Australia's sec-ond-biggest airline, increased full-year profit 93 per cent as it added new corporate clients and frequent fliers. Net income rose to A5215.8 million (*****.7 million), or 20.6 cents a share, in the 12 months ended June 30, from
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    • 343 22 -AP [DUBLIN] No-frills airline Ryanair said on Monday that it has boosted its stake in Irish rival Aer Lingus to 29.4 per cent, cementing its position as the No 1 shareholder and adding pressure on the government. Ryanair Holdings
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    • 168 22 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, owned by India's biggest brewer, plans to start flying to the US by April. The airline has applied to the US transport department, Vijay Mallya, chairman of Kingfisher Airlines, told reporters yesterday. The UB Group is open
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  • SHIPPING
    • 782 23  -  DAVID HUGHES STRAIT TALK The US Coast Guard needs to beef up its expertise in marine safety By MOST seafarers and shipping companies are rather circumspect about criticising the US Coast Guard in any way. And for good reason. The body often seems all-powerful and,
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    • 806 23 NYT [NEW YORK] For years, cruise passengers enjoyed hitting golf balls into the ocean with no pin in sight. The fun ended in 1990 when the International Maritime Organisation prohibited dumping plastic waste into the sea, those little white balls included. But in the
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    • 194 23 Reuters [BEIJING] China's oil giant twins, Sinopec Group and CNPC, have each proposed building a major refinery and petrochemical complex in a new northern Chinese port, an industry newspaper said yesterday. Both planned to build separate 200,000 barrels per day refineries and one million
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    • TRANSPORT STOCKS
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      • 35 23 '000 Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings Nepline Bhd PDZ Holdings 1.41 9.15 9.05 3.78 2.88 0.24 unch 0.01 unch -0.15 0.04 0.02 -0.01 unch 25: 135: 14: 363} 5'
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      • 44 23 '000 21 Yen Vol Kawasaki Hvy Ind ..451.00 10.00 ***** Kawasaki Kisen ...1394.00 35.00 8238 Mitsubishi Hvy 685.00 12.00 ***** Mitsui Eng&Sbldg ..572.00 -3.00 ***** Mitsui Osk Lines ...1546.00 46.00 ***** Nippon Express 582.00 14.00 3260 Nippon Yusen 1065.00 31.00 6722 Source: Reuters
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    • 257 23 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Ships waiting to load coal at Newcastle, the world's biggest export harbour for the fuel in Australia, had their shortest delay in five months, helping to ease costs for producers and buyers. Ships were held up an average of 19.3
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    • 307 23 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Rates to transport oil from the Caribbean basin rose as Hurricane Dean headed towards Mexico after battering Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. The Caribbean is the world's third-largest Aframax market after the Mediterranean and South-east Asia. Houston-based shipbroker Lone Star RS
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 491 24 MALAYSIA turns 50 next week. Half-a-century is a significant milestone and, in many ways, Malaysia can take pride in what it has achieved so far. Malaysia was and still is an accident of history, a multi-racial, multi-reli-gious and multi-cultural society stitched together
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    • 957 24  -  PAUL SAMUELSON Hedge funds, in the thousands, may crumble in the current global financial turmoil UNDER warm spring skies, global 2007 economics seemed to be blossoming nicely. China and India were growing explosively. Even slumbering Germany showed signs of awakening economically. And why not?
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    • 733 24  -  LEON HADAR THE BOTTOM LINE LAST Friday's decision by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to cut its discount rate by a half-point would probably be recalled one day as a timely move by America's central banker to avert a global financial meltdown. In
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    • 1303 25  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY REUTERS Market players are divided on whether the worst is yet to come, but agree Asia will be hit by weaker global demand IS it a case of "game over" with the financial crisis and Pandora's Box safely closed again? It is tempting
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    • 872 25  -  ANDY MUKHERJEE Bloomberg Inflationary consequences may be inevitable for China and the rest of the world AS central banks around the world try to contain the sub-prime crisis by easing money and credit, their response will be stymied by concerns that Chinese inflation might
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 363 27 %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Aug20 World Index Preliminary 1101.7 0.6 0.1 0.3 1.0 0.5 1. EAFE Prel liminan 1087.5 1.5 -1.8 1.0 -0.1 1.2 o.: Euro[ Preliminary 1489.6 0.6 -0.3 0.2 1.0 0.4 1.! Pacific 941.9
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    • 124 27 Aug21 /oz) Hong Kong .ondon 655.70 656.80 656.20 657.30 Aug 17 Aug_20 656.40 657.80 657.10 658.30 Source: Reuters CAST BAR (S» Aug21 Buying Sellim Kilobar "34,671.21" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (SS) Selling Buying gm igm Ogm !0gm JOgm /OOgm oz ozUBS Kinebar™ 78.11 220.42 393.76 741.51 1793.32 3542.77
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    • 24 27 Aug21 ten Hji Sett STI IIMSCI Am 408.1 416 396.7 "aiwan Aui 326.6 333 326.8 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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    • 21 27 Aug 21 Bid Offer 1-month 1.5237 1.5248 2-months 1.5203 1.5215 3-months 1.5170 1.5182 6-months 1.5076 1.5089 Source: OCBC
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    • 288 27 Aug 21 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 1 (S cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest Sep 07 Oct 07 Nov 07 Dec 07 Jan/Mar 08 Apr/Jun 08 320.50 319.00 318.50 317.75 317.25 319.25 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month Hig gh Low Sett Volume (tonnes)
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    • 100 27 Aug2o (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low SepO7 811.75 811.50 813.50 804.50 Nov07 827.25 827.75 828.50 819.00 Jan 08 841.50 842.75 842.50 835.00 Mar 08 852.75 852.50 853.00 845.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low 5ep 07 34.99 35.39 35.13 34.79 3d 07 35.24
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    • 77 27 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Aug 20 origin] USS/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 69.51 -1.1: WTI (Near Mth) 71.11 -0.7' Dubai (1 -Mth F) 66.82 -0.1' Tapis blend 74.7 -0.2' Minas 72 -0.. PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Changi Naphtha Jet Kerosene 72.15 83.75 -0.3I unci USS/barrel Opec Oil Basket
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    • 443 27 Aug2l wstralia 0.849 6.073 0.594 6.251 32.950 75.588 0.915 7.551 2.800 1.153 48.442 37.526 1.223 5.964 0.963 26.351 27.614 0.404 0.80I Canada 1.178 7.152 0.699 7.362 38.805 89.020 1.078 8.893 3.297 1.357 57.050 44.194 1.440 7.023 1.135 31.034 32.521 0.476 0.943 !hina 0.165 0.140 0.098 1.029 5.426
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    • 128 27 As at 9am Aug2l Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2150 1.2300 Can dollar 1.4340 1.4510 Euro 2.0450 2.0680 NZ dollar 1.0510 1.0730 Sterlinc 3.0140 3.0481 US dollar 1.5180 1.5350 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency: Currencies
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    • 161 27 Aug 21 Overnight 2 1/4 1-month 2 11/16 2-months 2 3/4 3-months 2 3/4 Overnight mode: 2 1/8 USS Offer 2 1/! 2 9/K 2 5/! 2 5/! Bit 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months SFr 5.40 5.52 5.52 5.52
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    • 71 27 Aug 20 Co irii iiuiii, yy.i (USS/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2414.50 2434.20 3 months 2477.00 2495.00 Copper, Grade A (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months 7107.00 7020.00 7108.00 7010.00 Lead (USS/tonne) Cash 2975.00 3 months 2929.00 2937.00 2890.00 Nickel (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (USS/tonne) Cash
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    • 83 27 Aug 20 COCOA (Btonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low Sep 07 917 927 Dec 07 938 953 Mar 08 957 970 May 08 969 981 938/915 963/936 -/956 985/968 COFFEE (USS/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Sep 07 1672 1654 1689/1654 Nov 07 1700 1681 1717/1682 Jan 08 1710 1690 1724/1691 Mar
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    • 154 27 Aug2l Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency. Australian dollar 1.2223 1.2234 0.8002 0.8004 Canadian dollar 1.4395 1.4408 0.9424 0.9426 Euro 2.0585 2.0603 1.3476 1.3479 NZ dollar 1.0599 1.0622 0.6939 0.6949 Sterlini 3.0220 3.0244 1.9784 1.9787 US dollar 1.5275 1.5285
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