The Business Times, 27 August 2007

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg •ff* A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Monday,August27,2oo7
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    Lock icon Share buybacks soar as prices fall
    745 1  -  LYNETTE KHOO Listed firms bought back $174.6 m of shares in August, more than triple the July figure [SINGAPORE] The recent slump in stocks here has seen companies buying back their own shares in sharply higher quantities, reflecting their view that external selling pressures
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    Lock icon US$1.4b investment set to kickstart project
    583 1  -  S JAYASANKARAN i/ i i ISKANDAR DEVELOPMENT REGION Mid-East investors, Khazanah in special purpose vehicle A SPECIAL purpose vehicle comprising majority Middle Eastern interests and Malaysian state investment agency Khazanah Nasional is poised to jump-start the Iskandar Development Region (IDR) with an initial US$l.4
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
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      53 1 Weekly Change 3,369.45 +238.74 iT Index 1 COMP 1273.52 +81.97 IIKKEI225 16,248.97 +975.29 1ANG SENG 22,921.89 +2534.76 ;et INDEX 790.72 +32.30 JAKARTA COMP 2,143.11 +234.47 1ANILA COMP 3,206.94 +322.60 ;eoulcomp 1,791.33 +153.26 ;henzhenb 736.58 +65.42 IUMBAI IND 14,424.87 +283.35 )OW 13,378.87 +299.79 IASDAQ 2,576.69 +71.66 ;&P 500 1,479.37 +33.43
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      Lock icon PRIME RATES
      29 1 Source: Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 7.75 INDONESIA 15.6331 TAIWAN 5.956 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.75 US 8.25 CANADA 6.25 SWITZERLAND 4.23 INDIA 12.75
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      39 1 IS$ (S$ per US$) 1.524 (USS/SS per 2.002 3.052 IURO(US$/S$/E) 1.357 2.069 EN 116.10 76.20 3.489 2.289 IK$ 7.809 5.122 IAHT 34.38 22.55 UPIAH 9,408 6,171 ENMINBI 7.567 4.963 INDIAN RUPEE 41.12 26.97 1.218 0.799 IZ$ 1.401 0.919
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      31 1 t BizlT |||sf| VIEWS FROM THE TOP DINING OUT Lenovo sets sights i Business leaders on PM Lee's San Marco's on Japan i/i National Day Rally speech still a hit HmJH
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  • TOP STORIES
    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Horizon owners have two weeks to decide their fate
        79 2 TWO weeks is all the time the majority sellers of Horizon Towers now have to find a way to salvage the botched collective sale of their development. If they fail to do so by the deadline of September 11, each of
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        Lock icon Rowsley's reverse takeover by Perfect Field delayed
        72 2 ROWSLEY Ltd's reverse takeover by Chinese solar energy firm Perfect Field Investment has been delayed, said the firm yesterday. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange, Rowsley chief executive Koh Kirn Huat said its due diligence checks on Perfect Field showed that "there
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        Lock icon NUH to get 2 new specialty centres
        45 2 TWO new specialty centres for cancer and heart disease will be set up at the National University Hospital to cope with rising demand for tertiary care in these areas, said the Health Ministry yesterday. SINGAPORE NEWS, PAGE 9
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        Lock icon Fed officials warn against protectionism
        80 2 OFFICIALS from the Federal Reserve on Saturday warned of dangers from a rising tide of trade disputes and the harmful impact on the US economy. Three regional Fed presidents steered clear of current economic or monetary policy topics at a panel discussion on the southern
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        Lock icon Venetian Macau bets US$1.8b on family fun
        44 2 THE gargantuan Venetian resort casino will have US$l.B billion at stake when it opens tomorrow, betting it can turn Macau from a gambling paradise into a family entertainment centre to rival Las Vegas. GREATER CHINA/INDIA, PAGE 16
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        Lock icon Asean, dialogue partners set to wrap up FTAs by 2013
        77 2 ASEAN Secretary-General Ong Keng Yong expressed confidence that the 10-member Asean will wrap up its proposed FTAs with each of six countries by 2013. Mr Ong said that given the pace and progress of the negotiations, Asean's FTA with South
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        Lock icon Back in the black, Lenovo targets Japan
        55 2 HAVING turned around Lenovo's international business from an operating loss in its first fiscal quarter last year to an operating profit in the same period this year, Lenovo chief executive Bill Amelio tells BT he's now setting his sights on its last trouble
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      Lock icon Horizon owners have 2 weeks to decide their fate
      848 2  -  MICHELLE QUAH Majority sellers seek individual legal advice in face of potential lawsuit [SINGAPORE] Two weeks that's all the time the majority sellers of Horizon Towers now have to find a way to salvage the botched collective sale of their development.
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      Lock icon SGX to outsource Pulses magazine to BT from Jan
      434 4 [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) has decided to outsource the production of its monthly financial magazine, Pulses, to The Business Times with effect from January 2008. The arrangement will see BT's senior correspondent Teh Hooi Ling at the helm as
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      Lock icon Temasek seeks Nasdaq's 30% stake in London bourse: report
      364 4  -  NEIL BEHRMANN Purchase of stake may cost up to £800 m and could lead to full takeover, says paper SINGAPORE investment company Temasek Holdings has approached Nasdaq, the US stock exchange, to buy its 30 per cent stake in London Stock
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      Lock icon S'pore tops in returns on US investments in Asia
      608 4  -  CHUANG PECK MING American MNCs post USss9b income last year in region as investments too rise [SINGAPORE] Asia, led by Singapore, continues to offer United States multinational corporations (MNCs) one of the world's best returns, as US direct investments in the
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Rowsley's reverse takeover by Perfect Field delayed
      457 5  -  CONRAD TAN Rowsley hopes to update shareholders on status of the deal by September end ROWSLEY Ltd's reverse takeover by Chinese solar energy firm Perfect Field Investment has been delayed, said the firm yesterday. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange, Rowsley chief
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      Lock icon Doubts continue to persist over Bio-Treat
      714 5  -  WONG WEI KONG WATER treatment firm Bio-Treat Technology is set to announce its full-year results this week, but the state of its earnings may not be the main pre-occu-pation of some investors. Instead, lingering doubts and questions stemming from a major controversy which had
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      Lock icon China Energy completes acquisition
      382 7  -  CONRAD TAN New facilities will quadruple production capacity CHINA Energy, a producer of dimethyl ether (DME) fuel, said it has completed a 400 million yuan (5580.3 million) acquisition of new facilities that will quadruple its production capacity. The purchase, first announced at the time of its
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      Lock icon CDL may seek partners to expand overseas
      432 7  -  ARTHUR SIM But it remains steadfast in being the proxy to Spore property market By CITY Developments Ltd (CDL) is looking for opportunities to expand to regional markets like Korea, and could be seeking new partners in the process. CDL announced earlier this
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      Lock icon Mapletree Logistics Trust buys 4 warehouses
      259 7 MAPLETREE Logistics Trust is acquiring four warehouse properties in Singapore from listed Union Steel Holdings for $36.8 million. Mapletree, through its trustee, HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore), has signed a put and call option for the properties, it said in a statement yesterday. The
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon US economic data to come under scrutiny
      554 6  -  STOCKS THIS week will see a slew of economic data from the US, which will give investors here plenty to get excited over. The data is slightly old, mostly referring to the period before the recent turbulence in global equity markets started. But
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      Lock icon Asian currencies mostly up against dollar
      262 6 -AFP CURRENCIES [HONG KONG] Asian currencies ended the week mainly higher against the dollar, with concerns easing after global bourses rebounded, but the yen fell after hitting a 14-month high the week before. Japanese yen: The yen lost ground against the dollar during the
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1450 6 "Legend: (F) Final; (I) Interim; (N) Net Of Tax; (Q) Quarterly; (S) Special; (TA) Tax Not Applicable; (TE) Tax Exempt; (tba) To be advised; (a) Cash/Bonus; (b) First and Finaj; (c) First Interim; (g) First Interim; (j) Interim with Scrip Div Option; (q) Special Interim; (v) Special Tax
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      Lock icon Oil prices slip, wheat hits record high
      334 6 -AFP COMMODITIES [LONDON] Oil prices slid last week on fading supply fears, as calmer global financial markets eased concerns that weaker economic growth would dampen energy demand, analysts said. Wheat prices hit an all-time high in Chicago on fierce global demand and flagging
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      Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
      1695 6 Reuters Source: Consensus No. of Forecast Mean Fri's recommendation esti- EPS PE target price This wk Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price Company name \EM Holdings 2.50 2.00 2 4.20 3.81 0.23 0.16 .llco Commercial REIT 1.60 1.50 5 5.11 20.37 1.47 1.01 .llgreen Properties 2.80 2.90 10
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX
      4 6 WEEKLY
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      Lock icon OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES
      45 6 CLOSE -586.00 +316.0 IT OB/OS IT CADI -*****.00-106.00 IT 10-day MA -*****.00 -59.00 JI-SG Equities 918.70 -1.24 G Equities Elect 120.26 -0.08 G Equities Fin 2357.96 -13.92 G Equities Prop 1436.42 +3.77 iMSCI 416.08 -0.20 iMSCI Future 414.60 -2.90 'rimePartnersCI 236.45 -0.32
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      55 6 ien Int R 528,295,000 "hai Beverai 331,283,000 :StarCruises 250,235,000 ien Intl 222,685,000 •in< iTel 190,391,000 'ont I nam 172,297,000 iBSMBLeCW*****6 144,819,000 Ian Joo 133,147,000 IOBMBLeCW*****3 124,934,000 .ottVis 118,059,000 VALUE(S) iBSGri 1,383,802,108 IOB 1,010,465,758 •in< iTel 670,105,497 i Land 626,988,886 ICBC Bk 582,998,857 ;gx 497,041 ,399 Cosco Cor|
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      99 6 China H 10US$ CLOSE UP 1680 411.5 19.1 'enture Con 1550 200.0 14.1 IMH 2450 198.1 5.i Con 1260 160.0 14.1 LP 10US! 6520 152.4 1.i lardine C&C 1480 140.0 10.. 1500 130.0 9.I ilA 1820 130.0 7. ilA 200 1820 130.0 7. Land 950 120.0 14.1 BY PERCENTAGI
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      Lock icon FALLS
      96 6 CLOSE DOWN m 3500SGAePW*****7 72.5 -80.5 -52.6 iTI 3600SGAePW*****7 105 -78.0 -42.6 ;TI 3300SGAePW*****0 21.5 -75.0 -77.7 ;TI3400SGAePW*****0 77 -75.0 -49.3 ;TI3500SGAePW*****0 98.5 -54.5 -35.6 iTI 3400SGAePW*****7 60.5 -47.5 -44.0 ;TI3300SGAePW*****0 56 -47.0 -45.6 ;TI3500BNPePW*****0 47.5 -42.5 -47.2 ;TI 3600SGAePW*****0 105 -41.0 -28.1 m 3300 DBePW*****1 -38.0 -88.4 iBS
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      Lock icon CURRENCIES Where S$ stands
      98 6 Reuters Clob Closing prices are in trading currencies, but absolute difference is in Ss. Source: I Aug 24 CHNG CLOSE FRAug23 YP. S$ LOW P. 2007 S$ HIGH ISS 1.5244 -0.12 1.5479 1.5033 iuro 2.0731 -0.53 2.0996 1.9913 'ounds 3.0545 -0.37 3.1194 2.9323 1.2525 -0.72 1.3411
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      Lock icon All portfolios post strong gains
      1363 8  -  TEH HOOI LING SINGAPORE stocks rebounded off their lows the week before to end significantly stronger last week. All our portfolios posted strong gains compared with the week before. However, prices have yet to recoup losses of two to three weeks before. Among our portfolios,
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      Lock icon Buyers outweigh sellers by big margin for second week
      1496 8  -  i ROBERT HALILI INSIDE MARKETS Purchase activity by institutional shareholders also stayed high, consistent with the week before THE buying remained strong among directors and substantial shareholders last week as buyers outweighed sellers by a huge margin for the second straight
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon NUH to get 2 new specialty centres
      457 9  -  CONRAD TAN Heart disease and cancer centres will help meet demand for tertiary care TWO new specialty centres for cancer and heart disease will be set up at the National University Hospital to cope with rising demand for tertiary care in these areas,
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      Lock icon TBWA's family pitch is winning factor
      652 9  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI 'Chemistry' also helps it land Resorts World at Sentosa account: MD DAN Paris is clearly a family man. The managing director of advertising agency TBWA Group Singapore whipped out pictures of his son with obvious pride during an interview with BT. His
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      Lock icon KEY NOTES
      3969 10 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC What key messages did you take from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally speech? PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the economy is expected to grow at between 4 and 6 per cent for the next five to 10 years. Not only
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      213 10 If you are facing any of the following: You need to keep your payroll absolutely confidential. t^^^^S^&^^^^t^A I Your payroll staff are bogged down, and are bored with the routine of rushing y BH payroll every month, and there is limited room for staff development for payroll I processing functions.
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  • DINING OUT
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      Lock icon Stylish Italian', authentic Korean
      1355 11  -  Jaime E& Geoffrey Eu REVISIT San Marco@The Lighthouse Bth Floor, Fullerton Singapore Tel: 6438-4404 THE litmus test for any new restaurant, we're told, is not how crowded it is in its first few months, but whether it can still bring in the crowd in its second
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      1963 11 Stiotvavr CHINA TRANSCOM TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) (Bermuda Company Registration Number: *****) NOTICE OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special General Meeting of China Transcom Technologies Limited ("Company") will be held at Function Room D, M Hotel Singapore, 81 Anson Road, Singapore
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Commodities still a haven for those with long-term view
      643 13 Reuters NEWS ANALYSIS Large investors turn to commodities to diversify portfolio [NEWYORK] Commodity indexes remain popular with large investors looking to balance stock and bond holdings, even after oil and metals markets dropped along with equities during this summer's credit mar-
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      Lock icon Fed officials warn against protectionism
      734 13 .-Reuters They also call for educated, flexible workforce to cope with competition [BILOXI, Mississippi] Officials from the Federal Reserve on Saturday warned of dangers from a rising tide of trade disputes and the harmful impact on what one would otherwise termed a "resilient" US economy.
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      Lock icon Stronger measures needed from Fed to contain credit crunch
      429 13 ■NYT Half percentage point cut in fed funds rate essential, says analyst [NEW YORK] It may be hard to muster concern for multimillionaire hedge fund speculators who got burnt in the debt markets, but their problems are quickly becoming yours, one
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      2415 13 CSI UCOBank i A GOVERNMENT OF INDIA UNDERTAKING Head Office: 10 BIPLABI TRAILOKYA MAHARAJ SARANI: KOLKATA *****1, INDIA BALANCE SHEETS AS ON 31ST MARCH 2007 AUDITORS' REPORT (000'S OMITTED) 1- We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of UCO Bank as on 31st March, 2007 and the rAPiTAi Aun i
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon Venetian Macau bets US$1.8b on family fun
      884 15 AFP The resort casino aims to make Macau a centre for family entertainment [MACAU] The gargantuan Venetian resort casino will have US$l.B billion at stake when it opens tomorrow, betting it can turn Macau from a gambling paradise into a family entertainment centre
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      Lock icon Tata looking for successor, may step down early
      500 15 [MUMBAI] Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, said that he was in search of a successor and might step down ahead of his five-year term if he finds a worthy replacement, the Economic Times reported yesterday. "Yes I am in the
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      Lock icon Dr Reddy's in bid to buy US firm Bradley
      124 15 Reuters [MUMBAI] Indian drug maker Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd is in the race to acquire US-based Bradley Pharmaceuticals to boost its presence in the dermatology drug segment, three newspapers said on Saturday. Specialty drugs maker Bradley is expected to be valued
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      Lock icon Cosco Pacific to sell Chong Hing Bank stake to parent
      220 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] Port operator Cosco Pacific Ltd plans to sell its 20 per cent stake in Chong Hing Bank Ltd to its unlisted parent, Cosco Group, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources. The shares
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      Lock icon China-NZ FTA likely by April
      121 15 -Bloomberg [MANILA] China and New Zealand may reach a free-trade agreement by April next year, trade officials from both countries said yesterday. "Ninety per cent of the substance of negotiations has already been settled," China's Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai told report- ers in Manila,
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      Lock icon Supermarkets in India shut on security concerns
      594 15 Reuters Closures reflect the country's rocky road to modernisation [NOIDA, India] The new supermarket was slated as the shape of retail to come in globalising India. Now shutters covered its windows, staff meandered outside and customers picked final bargains before its closure. The
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon Asean, dialogue partners set to wrap up FTAs by 2013
      584 16  -  AL LABITA China and Asean to sign MOU on product inspection ASEAN and its six dialogue partners yesterday agreed to take new steps to firm up their planned free trade agreements (FTAs) through increased trade and investment flows over the
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      Lock icon Scare over for now, traders seek direction
      962 16  -  ANDREW MARKS WALL STREET INSIGHT Upbeat mood seen as investors treat recent sell-off as buying opportunity AFTER a strong day of advances in the US stock market's major indexes of Friday, Wall Street traders headed out of the office intent more on enjoying
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      Lock icon Farm trade draft offers hope for stalled WTO talks: ministers
      566 16 Reuters [MANILA] Agriculture holds the key to progress in stalled world trade negotiations, with proposals on opening up industrial trade still facing objections from some developing countries. The trade talks, launched in 2001 after the Sept 11 attacks on the
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon PRIME LENDING RATES Aug 24
      396 17 The Association of Banks in Singapore BANKS ABN Amro Bank NY 5.5 Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 American Express Bank 5.75 Arab Bank PLC 5.5 Banca Di Roma Singapore branch 6.5 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A 6 Bangkok Bank 6 Bank
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      345 17 Aug 24 iURODOLLAR FUTURES >epO7 3ecO7 VlarO8 lunO8 94.712 95.150 95.365 95.395 0 0 0 0 9962 ***** ***** 8650 EUROYEN FUTURES >epO7 99.155 99.175 3ecO7 99.110 99.130 VlarO8 99.045 99.085 lunO8 99.000 99.045 >epO8 98.945 98.985 3ecO8 98.880 98.910 VlarO9 98.805 98.825B lunO9 98.735B 99.155 99.110
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      Lock icon Newcomers gain ground in Gulf energy sector
      669 17 Reuters They cash in on the region's economic boom and industry expertise [DUBAI] A new group of Gulf Arab oil and gas companies and investment funds is rapidly gaining prominence both in the region and the wider international energy sector. The mixture of
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      Lock icon Top Europe bankers lose jobs amid sub-prime crisis
      514 17 Reuters Major casualties include Barclays Capital CDO head and ÜBS chief exec [ZURICH] Market turmoil set off by the US sub-prime meltdown has taken a toll of bankers across Europe, and analysts say many more could lose their jobs before the crisis
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      Lock icon US$100 bill set to get high-tech makeover
      227 17 ■AP [WASHINGTON] After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the US currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come. A new security thread has been approved for the US$lOO biU, the Associated
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      2809 17 Transaction date: Aug 24 For a full listing of the closing prices, log on to BT online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg after 11.30pm every trading day IONG KONG Vol ■000 HK$ \eon Credit \eon Stores \ngang Steel \nhui Conch \nhuiexpressway \sia Satellite \sm Pacific Sank Of E Asia Jeida Jade
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      550 18  -  NEIL BEHRMANN Problems mount for BAA as two quit the airport operator's management By I in London FERROVIAL has encountered an unexpected management rebellion at BAA, a year since its consortium acquired the British airports operator. The Ferrovial consortium, includes Singapore's GIC and the
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      374 18 Reuters [ROME] US private equity firm TPG is still interested in bidding for loss-making airline Alitalia and is waiting to see what conditions management puts on the sale, a source close to TPG said on Friday. Italian financial
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      252 18 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world's third-largest shipyard, said it earned a profit last month as soaring demand drove up prices in an industry with a four-year backlog of orders. Net income was 37.5 billion won (5560.6
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      363 18 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India completed the merger of state- run carriers Air India and Indian Airlines, saying the combination will create one of the top 30 airlines in the world by fleet. Air India, as the merged carrier will be known, will have 112
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      245 18 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Adam Skyconnection Airlines hired a US-based underwater engineering company to recover the flight data recorder of a plane that crashed off Indonesia's east coast on Jan 1 with 102 people on board. It may take Phoenix
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      2332 18 AIRLINE CODES: AA American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), Al Air Ind (AC), 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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      308 18 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS HF JF BBVBVR BV IV Bl 7 Crumbling bone found in tu- HB__HH__HH__H^B^^M__^B__BH__HH King returning (6) BJ BJ BJ BJ BJ BJ BJ BJ 10 Success ends following com- R^| Hf] piler confusion (4) _^J__^J__^J__^J__^^\ 11 Continuing pollution in- BJ BJ BJ BJ eludes Amenc3 (I u)
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      227 19 tocl name lose lange Allqreen 0.51 1.670 -0.040 Ascendasreit 0.88 2.390 -0.080 iComm 0.54 2.600 +0.040 Cai .and 4.86 7.350 +0.100 Cai litaMall 0.90 3.360 -0.140 Chart SemiCond 0.59 1.090 -0.010 Cr 'Dev 2.92 15.000 +0.100 ComfortDelGro 1.39 1.950 -0.100 Iosco Coi 1.68 5.000 +0.060 Creative
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      85 19 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 14 3 1 0 0 0 14 lanufacturini 179 28 27 36 13 215 41 35 Commerce 63 11 10 15 78 19 14 >r/Cc ims 39 41 :inance 29 30 Construction 17 26 ■roi ies
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      127 19 TURNOVER C000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN VALUE ('000) SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 191.467 191.467 798.480 798.480 Manufacturing 1.929.066 633.837 2.562.903 1.817.621 123.565 1.941.186 Commerce 877.650 51.329 928.979 710.180 15.793 725.973 691.956 24.234 716.190 1.921.615 21.868 1.943.483 Finance 329.806 364 330.170 3.561.250 78 3.561.328 Construction 616.385 217.178 833.563
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      260 19 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; N Net2 or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer cdca cum dividend cum all
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      361 20 %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Am 24 World Index Preliminary 1125.6 0.1 2.3 0.2 3.3 0.3 4.1 EAFE Preliminary 1117.9 0.1 0.9 0.4 3.1 0.5 3/ Euro[ Preliminary 1524.2 0.5 2.1 0.7 4.2 0.9 5.I Pacific 978.2
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      66 20 Aug 24 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Month Range Price Price Hii Vol Open Done Position Low Sep 07 2541 Oct 07 2485 Nov 07 2438 Dec 07 2419 Total o/p: ***** contracts 2532 2547 2524 2050 6787 2470 2486 2460 2192 ***** 2430 2445
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      24 20 A ug 24 ten STI SIMSCI Aug 417.9 419 414.6 Taiwan Aui 337.2 337.4 339 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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      22 20 Aug 24 s: Bid Offer 1-month 1.5201 1.5214 2-months 1.5165 1.5178 3-months 1.5134 1.5148 6-months 1.5047 1.5061 Source: OCBC
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      158 20 Aug 24 Against SS Currencies Bid Offer Against US$ Bid Offer S$fUS$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2505 1.2522 0.8206 0.8211 Canadian dollar 1.4472 1.4489 0.9497 0.9501 Euro 2.0682 2.0700 1.3572 1.3574 NZ dollar 1.0870 1.0885 0.7133 0.7138 Sterling md 3.0504 3.0531 2.0017 2.0020
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      278 20 Aug 24 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 08 317.00 315.50 315.00 313.00 313.00 315.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month Hig a!? Low Sett Volume (tonnes)
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      141 20 As at 9am Aug 24 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2420 1.2570 Can lar 1.4370 1.4530 Euro 2.0530 2.0760 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4376 0.4384 NZ dollar 1.0820 1.1060 Sterlini ind 3.0350 3.0680 US dollar
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      147 20 Aug24 fer Bii )vernight 2 1/4 -month 2 5/8 l-months 2 11/16 i-months 2 3/4 Overnight mode: 2 1/4 JS$ Offer 2 1/8 2 1/2 2 9/16 2 5/8 Bid days month months months i months months 2 months >Fr 5.40 5.53 5.53 5.54 5.40 5.30 5.25 Offer
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      452 20 Aug 24 iuro ren Ion >eso Earn 'oum wstralia 0.864 6.211 0.605 6.410 33.749 77.221 0.953 7.730 2.864 1.150 49.793 38.342 1.251 5.979 0.989 27.075 28.217 0.410 0.821 Canada 1.157 7.187 0.700 7.417 39.055 89.361 1.103 8.946 3.314 1.331 57.621 44.370 1.448 6.919 1.145 31.332
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      131 20 Aug /oz) long Kong .ondon 660.70 658.50 661.20 659.00 Aug 23 Aug 24 659.25 661.70 659.75 662.20 Source: Reuters CAST BAR (S$) Aug 24 Buying Sellini Kilobar ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Sellini "34,726.85" nq Buying Igm 5gm lOgm 20gm 50gm 1/QOgm 1 oz 1 oz UBS
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      70 20 Source: Reuters SWAP Offer rates (Ss) 1 mth 2.***** 2 mths 2.***** 3mths 2.***** Aug 24 6 mths 2.***** 9 mths 2.***** 12 mths 2.***** SWAP Mid rates (Ss) 1 yr 2.***** 2yrs 2.***** 3yrs 2.***** 4yrs 2.***** syrs 3.***** 7yrs 3.***** 10yrs 3.***** 12 yrs 3.***** 15 yrs
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      85 20 Aug 24 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Mi Day's |h Low 3-Month BQ*****H 22.11.07 1-Year BY*****V 30.04.08 2.36 2.34 2.35 2.3 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Day's High Low 2-Year N*****0Z 2.375 5-Year N*****0A 2.625 7-Year NX*****F 3.625 10-Year NY*****F 3.750 15-Year
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      71 20 lumimum, 99.7 jrity (US$/tonne) Co Close Previous Cash 2510.50 2473.00 3 months 2568.00 2532.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 7403.00 7315.00 7343.00 7251.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 3316.00 3 months 3240.00 3196.00 3180.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash
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      80 20 Aug 24 COCOA (Btonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low SepO7 921 923 Dec 07 948 950 Mar 08 966 968 May 08 977 978 937/909 964/936 981/954 991/970 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low SepO7 1668 1663 1700/1663 Nov07 1706 1700 1738/1701 Jan 08 1715 1711 1740/1711 Mar 08 1722 1721
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      101 20 Aug 24 (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Sep 07 849.00 842.00 850.00 839.00 Nov07 865.00 858.25 866.00 854.00 Jan 08 880.25 873.25 881.00 869.00 Mar 08 890.50 884.00 891.50 881.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Sep 07 35.92 35.29 35.97 35.30 Oct07
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      80 20 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS A ug 23 UDE (FOB origin) US! (/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 69.68 1.33 WTI (Near Mth) 70.08 0.71 Dubai (1-Mth F) 65.85 -0.4 Tapis blend 74.05 -0.15 Minas 71.05 unch PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 69.65 83.85 0.50 1.8 US$/barrel
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      1148 25 The managed services market in the region is expected to hit USs7.3b this year, according to research firm IDC, reports ROLAND LIM HILE outsourcing and managed services are not new solutions, they continue to be a growing market. According to research house IDC, managed
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      334 25  -  AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY By/ [N a fast changing competitive landscape, many companies are finding themselves hobbled by the fact that they have to put too much resources and effort into managing their increasingly complex IT networks. As a result, they find less time and
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      451 26  -  ROLAND LIM The firm is expected to be cashflow positive by the end of the year COME Oct 31, homegrown games publisher Infocomm Asia Holdings (lAH) will open the Hellgate that it hopes will rake in US$lOO million from some 10 million
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      67 26 IT was an enjoyable outing for the more than 1,000 participants of a charity walk organised by IBM Singapore at East Coast Park on Saturday. Taking part were IBM employees and their families and friends, along with community partners. The event was part of IBM's fundraising
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      587 26  -  JUDHI PRASETYO <you say> TO combat the surge in spam from local marketers, Singapore recently implemented the Anti-Spam Act. Although this new Bill may prove effective in stopping local spam, organisations need to note that the major part of spam today comes from overseas and
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      689 27  -  AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY IT giant sees good business opportunities from sites such as Second Life GIVING a fillip to its online business strategy by taking advantage of Web 2.0 technologies, IBM last week announced that live sales agents from Singapore, Australia and Malaysia
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        71 27 SAMSUNG has launched a 70-inch LCD TV, the largest LCD TV that is currently commercially available. The Samsung F9 also features LED backlighting technology that improves the picture quality, and is also compatible with showing high definition broadcasts as it has a screen resolution of 1920x1080
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        115 27 CANON'S latest flagship DSLR is the EOS IDs Mark 111, which sports a full-frame 21.1-megapixel image sensor, two "Digic III" image processors, and can shoot up to five frames per second. While Canon did not disclose a price for the new camera, the EOS IDs Mark
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        130 27 and Nikon follows suit NOT to be outdone, Nikon also unveiled two DSLRs last week the Nikon D 3 and the Nikon D3OO. The 12.1-megapixel D 3 is Nikon's first full-frame DSLR that can shoot at up to 11 frames per second and offers light sensitivity of ISO 6400 which
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        76 27 SONY Ericsson's latest T6soi is a 12.5 mm slim 3G phone that features a 1.9-inch scratch resistant mineral glass display in a stainless steel casing. It also comes with a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera, an integrated FM radio, and a choice of two colours "glowing green" or
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        94 27 LG Electronics has released its latest notebooks that are built on Intel's latest "Santa Rosa" platform. Key benefits of the new platform are faster boot up time, faster wireless networking, as well as increased power savings. The LG R2OO-G ($2,499) is a 12.1-inch widescreen multimediacentric
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      772 28  -  AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY Study shows that despite this, few centres have used new technology BUSINESSES in Asia-Pacif-ic are facing increased pressure to integrate their Inter-net-based tools with their contact centres, but few have yet to fully take advantage of the multiple
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      286 28 Reuters [BOSTON] SAP AG will release a line of Web-based business management software in September that customers can access on demand, entering a market established by smaller rival Salesforce.com Inc. The new line, which SAP developed in a US$5OO million project under the code
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      420 28 Reuters [SEATTLE/HELSINKI] Leading mobile phone maker Nokia said last week it would bring Microsoft Corp's Windows Live suite of Web services, like e-mail and instant messaging, to many of its mobile phones. Microsoft, Yahoo Inc and Google Inc are competing for valuable
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        83 28 US-BASED Compuware Corporation and local IT company Frontline Technologies ire partnering with INSEAD to organise a roundtable seminar featuring a keynote address from Gabriel Szulanski, professor jf strategy, INSEAD Business School on \ug 23. The seminar, which is targeted at diief information officers (CIOs), will be held
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        83 28 SJOKIA Siemens Networks has announced that Rajeev Suri, previously the company's Singapore-based head of the \sia-Pacific region, has been appointed to lead its services business unit. Mr Suri will be based in India and will be a member of Nokia Siemens Networks' executive board, reporting to CEO
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        44 28 THE Institute of Systems Science (ISS), National University of Singapore last Friday graduated more than 70 students of the Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis (GDipSA). The majority of the students were from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar and Vietnam.
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      645 29 THE BUSINESS OF INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGY Its Asia-Pacific business has shown double-digit growth everywhere across the region except Japan, reports ROLAND LIM HAVING turned around Lenovo's international business from an operating loss in its first fiscal quarter last year to an operating profit in
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      310 29  -  ROLAND LIM Caring for Cambodia is another passion of Lenovo's CEO WHILE Lenovo CEO Bill Amelio's passion for making the China computer manufacturer a household brand can be seen from the way he is driving his company's growth, another mission is perhaps not as public. "One
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