The Business Times, 14 September 2007

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    22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Singapore 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg «P* A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION MICA (P) 202/12/2006 Friday, September 14,2007
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    Lock icon It's about engaging the employee, stupid
    587 1  -  NANDE KHIN How 'best employer' CEOs separate themselves from the rest of the pack [SINGAPORE] The talent crunch is starting to bite as Asian economies boom, but the best chief executive officers (CEOs) have found ways to fight back. A recent study by Hewitt
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    Lock icon Gardens and sea to frame new Marina South homes
    646 1  -  UMA SHANKARI 60 hectares set aside for 11,000 units in latest makeover move By [SINGAPORE] A landmark residential district with lush gardens by its side, a spectacular view of the sea and the Sands Integrated Resort a mere stone's throw away
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
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      44 1 lursday 1,284.02 lange -1.92 1COMP IIKKEI225 15,821.19 +23.59 IANG SENG 24,537.02 +226.88 ;et index 807.10 +5.10 IAKARTACOMP 2,222.75 +12.82 IANILA COMP 3,289.22 -18.38 ;eoulcomp 1,848.02 +34.50 ;henzhenb 738.81 +10.46 IUMBAI IND 15,614.44 +109.08 11.30AM EDT Change 13,436.99 +145.34 )OW IAS DAI 2,605.69 +13.62
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      Lock icon PRIME RATES
      29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 7.75 INDONESIA 15.437 TAIWAN 5.956 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.75 US 8.25 CANADA 6.25 SWITZERLAND 3.96 INDIA 12.75 Source:
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      40 1 IS$ (S$ ier US$) 1.51 (US$/S$ per 2.028 3.06! ;URO(US$/S$/E) 1.391 2.10' 'EN 114.50 75.71 3.485 2.30: IK$ 7.788 5.141 !AHT 34.34 22.7I 1UPIAH 9,403 6,21 1ENMINBI 7.512 4.96 1 INDIAN RUPEE 40.43 26.72 1.190 0.78I IZ$ 1.405 0.92'
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      61 1 MPIIBF!^ A3BO FLIGHTS PROPERTY BUSINESS EXEC LIFESTYLE Bids hit HDB upgraders S'pore to be Lippo's Lifestyle leaders on l6s& felßfiPß neai>lys2m are back in force g<TV*^4l/i| ;i |s^. springboard to Asia selling to the affluent 1\ Bilk^m^S W .A '':mik iX 4 CUPPER RACE The gruelling Clipper Round the World
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Singapore to be Lippo's springboard to Asia
      513 2  -  UMA SHANKARI Group in expansion mode to make Republic its international HQ By [SINGAPORE] The Lippo Group will use Singapore as its international headquarters as it grows its presence in Asia, chief executive James Riady told BT in an interview. Right now, about
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      Lock icon Bids for SlA's A380 flights hit nearly $2m
      425 2 By YEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] From a young American celebrating his 22nd birthday to a 76-year-old Canadian, they have all been snapping up seats by bidding in Singapore Airlines' first Airbus A3 80 Flight Charity Auction. The airline yesterday said that the total
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon HDB upgraders are back in force
        82 2 THE broad-based recovery in the property sector is gathering pace with data showing a spike in the number of property transactions by Housing and Development Board upgraders. Looking at data which captures transactions made by buyers with registered HDB addresses, Citigroup noted that in
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        Lock icon Another dozen Gulf investors buy into DBS's IB Asia
        77 2 DBS Bank said yesterday that another dozen Gulf investors have bought stakes in its subsidiary, the Islamic Bank of Asia (IB Asia), raising its capital backing to US$5OO million. DBS now holds a majority stake of 50 per cent plus one
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        Lock icon ST Electronics wins $60m Saudi traffic system deal
        44 2 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering, through its electronics arm ST Electronics, has won a contract worth about $60 million to provide integrated traffic management and security systems in three major areas in Saudi Arabia. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE 5
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        Lock icon SingTel advertising account up for grabs
        73 2 ONE of the island's biggest advertising accounts is up for grabs. After a 20-year relationship with Young Rubicam, Singapore Telecom has begun a global search for a creative agency as it gears up for expansion. In 2004 when Sing Tel renewed its Young Rubicam
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        Lock icon Horizon sellers miss deadline; hearing expected in 2 weeks
        73 2 THE majority sellers of Horizon Towers missed a deadline to extend the completion date for the collective sale of the development. And the buyers are now set to make good on their threat to haul each and every one of the
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        Lock icon China output growth slows in August on export curbs
        77 2 CHINA'S industrial production rose 17.5 per cent in August, slowing for a second month after the government increased taxes on exports. The increase was less than July's 18 per cent gain and the 17.9 per cent median estimate of 23 economists
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        Lock icon Malaysia confident of hitting 3.1% deficit target
        76 2 MALAYSIA is committed to progressively reduce its fiscal deficit and is confident of achieving a deficit of 3.1 per cent as targeted in 2008, the government said yesterday. The finance ministry said that the 3.1 per cent target was based on an estimated
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        Lock icon Appeals could derail HK moves on insider dealing
        81 2 HONG KONG'S already patchy record in curbing insider dealing could be facing a major new blow with a string of legal challenges to its core powers looming. A number of appeals are to be launched against high-profile insider dealing findings after a
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      Lock icon HDB upgraders are back in force
      673 3  -  ARTHUR SIM Big hike in secondary market deals shows genuine demand: analysts By [SINGAPORE] The broad-based recovery in the property sector is gathering pace with data showing a spike in the number of property transactions by Housing and Development Board (HDB) upgraders. Looking at
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      Lock icon Plastic electronics seen as next big thing for S'pore
      538 3  -  CHEN HUIFEN R&D planned in field expected to grow to USs2sob in 2025 [SINGAPORE] Singapore is looking to launch R&D in plastic electronics, possibly growing it into a new industry sector with the help of inputs from the private sector. The
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      Lock icon Temasek pulls out of LSE race: report
      201 3 -Reuters [LONDON] Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings has pulled out of the running to buy Nasdaq's 31 per cent stake in the London Stock Exchange, the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday. The United States' Nasdaq exchange said last month it would sell its stake
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Another dozen Gulf investors buy into IB Asia
      526 5  -  CONRAD TAN List of shareholders published by DBS includes prominent people in GCC DBS Bank said yesterday that another dozen Gulf investors have bought stakes in its subsidiary, the Islamic Bank of Asia (IB Asia), raising its paid-up capital to US$5OO miUion.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Below 50% acceptance for Apex-Pal's offer
        49 5 APEX-PAL International said its offer for Thai Village closed yesterday with acceptances totalling about 63.17 million shares, or a stake of about 30.41 per cent. Since this is below 50 per cent, the 3Her did not become unconditional and will not be extended.
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        Lock icon Boustead unit in deal to sell warehouse
        70 5 BOUSTEAD Singapore said that a fully-owned unit of its 91.67 per cent-owned subsidiary Boustead Projects Pte Ltd has antered into a conditional put and call option agreement with AMB Changi North DC 1 Pte Ltd for the disposal of a warehousing facility at
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        Lock icon Fuxing China offers 175m shares in IPO
        59 5 ZIPPER maker Fuxing China Group yesterday launched its initial public Dffering here. It is offering 175 million new shares at 46 cents apiece, with five million shares for public Dffer and the rest for placement. The IPO, which is expected to raise net
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        Lock icon Metro clarifies Ongs' stake in company
        120 5 METRO Holdings said yesterday that although the deemed interests of Ong Tjoe Kirn and his son Jopie Ong have increased from 21.95 per cent to 22.11 per cent and from 29.93 per cent to 30.09 per cent respectively, their combined interest in the company,
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        Lock icon China Flexible's Q3 profit up 21.9%
        36 5 CHINA Flexible Packaging Holdings posted a 21.9 per cent year-on-year increase in Q3 net profit to 52.22 million yuan (5510.5 million). Revenue increased 12.8 per cent to 283.2 million yuan.
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      Lock icon ST Electronics wins $60m Saudi traffic system deal
      353 5  -  MATTHEW PHAN By SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering (ST Engg), through its electronics arm ST Electronics, has won a contract worth about $60 million to provide integrated traffic management and security systems in three major areas in Saudi Arabia. The contract was awarded to
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      Lock icon Sing Tel advertising account up for grabs
      372 6  -  SIOW LI SEN Search for creative agency begins as contract with Y&R nears expiry ONE of the island's biggest advertising accounts is up for grabs. After a 20-year relationship with Young Rubicam, Singapore Telecom has begun a global search for a creative agency
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      Lock icon Biosensors eyes India, Taiwan, S Korea
      248 6 Reuters LOSS-MAKING heart stent maker Biosensors International told Reuters the firm's full-year results ending March should be "better than a year ago" following the acquisition of a Chinese firm. The company is also looking to penetrate India, Taiwan and South Korea within the next
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      Lock icon Straco: a China tale worth spreading more widely
      760 6  -  YEN SREENIVASAN THE folks at listed Straco Corp must be fans of that age-old story about the hare and the tortoise. Remember the one about the speedy but showy hare which shot off from the starting line, only to lose the race
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      114 6 Moving To The Next Stage Of Growth CNA Group is now on SGX Mainboard m Since 6 September 2007, CNA Group Ltd has been trading on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange y -j^Jr As we celebrate the transfer from SGX Sesdaq to the Mainboard, we wish to thank our
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      339 7 Spring in Paris. Summer, Autumn J I Citi Premier Miles Most miles. Most freedom to redeem them. They are your miles. So shouldn't you have the choice of how to redeem them? PSS^ Unlike ordinary miles, Citi Miles do so much more. Earn the most miles whenever you charge to
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon External factors rule in mixed session
      567 8  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS HK rise helps STI recover from morning plunge, but index's bounce capped by soft start in Europe ONCE again, external events dictated the Straits Times Index's (STI) direction a surge in Hong Kong first helped reverse a morning STI plunge, but
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      108 8 MAIN Up Down Unch SDQ Up Down Unch TOTAL Up Down Unch Multi Ind 10 4 5 0 0 0 10 4 5 Manufacturing 71 87 58 10 17 11 81 104 69 Commerce 27 23 24 34 29 30 Tpt/Stor/Com ms 15 17 11 15 19
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      123 8 TURNOVER ('000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN VALUE C000) SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 44,054 44,054 128,959 128,959 Manufacturing 659,421 149,210 808,631 432,828 39,728 472,556 Commerce 282,847 24,147 306,994 158,200 6,675 164,875 Tpt/Stor/Comms 103,113 2,082 105,195 270,195 1,347 271,542 Finance 36,192 149 36,341 362,071 16 362,087 Construction 101,068 241,324
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS
      225 8 Jlgreen 0.52 1.760 +0.010 \scendasreit 0.94 2.650 +0.030 lapitaComm 0.54 2.700 -0.040 :a pita Land 4.97 7.800 +0.100 lapitaMall 0.93 3.600 +0.040 :hart SemiCond 0.55 1.040 -0.010 :ityDev 2.80 14.900 -0.100 lomfortDelGrc 1.36 1.970 +0.010 losco Corp 1.76 5.450 +0.100 Creative Tech 0.15 6.100 -0.100 DBS
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      970 8  -  MATTHEW PHAN Singapore Strategy Credit Suisse, Sept 13 THE Straits Times Index has rebounded 12 per cent since correcting to 3,131 on Aug 17, and is now 5 per cent below the all-time high of 3,665 (on July 24). Since the correction, 11 STI stocks have now surpassed
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      Lock icon Carry trades impress on fresh US$ losses
      541 8  -  LARRY WEE I CURRENCIES FRESH US dollar losses on Wednesday night deepened in Asia yesterday, accompanied by the strong return of carry trade fans, and elsewhere the Canadian dollar hit fresh highs after US oil prices posted a fresh all-time high of US$BO.lB
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      Lock icon OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES
      49 8 Sep 13 VALUE CLOSE 959.00 -63.00 BT OB/OS BT CADI -*****.00 -34.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +96.00 All-SG Equities 962.46 -1.85 SG Equities Elect 124.34 -0.52 SG Equities Fin 2395.29 -18.39 SG Equities Prop 1490.84 +6.03 SIMSCI 431.22 -0.53 SIMSCI Futures 431.60 -1.00 PrimePartnersCI 253.23 +4.58
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      53 8 VOLUME Sapphire 113,637,000 Sapphire R 104,710,000 Unionmet 76,343,000 PineAqritech 68,502,000 Diqiland 57,683,000 Centillion 56,100,000 SunVic 47,361,000 Gems TV 38,754,000 Thakral 32,225,000 Wanxianq 31,729,000 VALUE(S) DBS Grp 192,634,228 Capita Land 133,044,608 SingTel 87,823,800 Keppel Corp 83,016,660 UOB 70,923,600 HK Land 64,897,216 CityDev 61,030,940 OCBC Bk 51,657,000 STXPOKW100 39,721,530
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      Lock icon RISES
      107 8 CLOSE UP SIA 10 1920 40.0 2.1 Kei DBeCW/*****2 58 33.5 136.7 BukitSemW*****3 630 25.0 4.1 DBS Bk6% NCPS 10 ***** 20.0 0.2 Jardine C&C 1700 20.0 1.2 SIA 200 1910 20.0 1.1 HK Land 420 18.2 2.9 «or Hai 10US$ 312 18.2 4.' ISMSCI India 100 715 15.1
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      Lock icon FALLS
      116 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 2750 150.0 5.2 Omei |aNav GLD 10US$ 7000 90.7 0.8 ICBCCai :.93%Pref10 9990 60.0 0.' iBS Gri 1960 40.0 2: NOL 520 30.0 5.5 SGX 1040 20.0 1.9 STXPOSGAeCW*****9 81 14.0 14.7 STXPOSGAeCW/*****7 73.5 14.0 16.0 MOIL 200 12.1 3.8 I seta n 440 12.0
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      86 8 Where S$ stands Sep 13 %CHNG CLOSE FRSep12 YR 2007 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.5110 0.34 1.5479 1.5033 Euro 2.1006 0.06 2.1062 1.9913 Pounds 3.0601 0.83 3.1194 2.9323 AS 1.2720 -0.36 1.3411 1.1741 Yen* 1.3175 1.00 1.3821 1.2285 Rupiah* 0.***** 0.29 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.4091 0.40 4.5700 4.1730
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      Lock icon Rim-maker OZ races ahead with its wheels
      545 9  -  OH BOON PING Selecting the right mix of material and hours of machining ensure light rims WHAT goes into a racing wheel? A lot more than what most people will think, if you ask Claudio Bernoni. And Mr Bernoni should know. He is
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      842 10 A message from the President Wincor Nixdorf Worldwide Wincor Nixdorf in Asia Central Role for Asia U t Lt LJ n/A I IM U Wincor Nixdorf Asia Pacific has come a lonqwav s one t'ie wor'^'s leading suppliers of IT We have been developing our business in Asia As we
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Asia Netcom plans upgrade of undersea cable network
      395 11  -  ROLAND LIM Spending of up to USs3oom could be partly funded by an IPO: CEO UNDERSEA cable operator Asia Netcom (ANC) yesterday said it will be spending some US$2OO million to US$3OO million to upgrade its network over the next 36 months,
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      Lock icon AIS to spend 20b baht to keep market share
      378 11  -  OUR CORRESPONDENT ADVANCED Info Services, Thailand's largest mobile phone operator, yesterday said it plans to invest 20 to 25 billion baht (*****.7 million to Ssl.2 billion) in network expansion next year to maintain its market position. Advanced Info, the key asset
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      7635 11 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!** 1.063/ Star Europe Bond 1.217/ Star Europe Bal 1.249/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.602/ Star Asia Bond 1.287/ Star Asia Balanced 1.096/ Star Global Technology Fund!** 0.239/ Multi St Fd 0.977/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.847/ Gib Multi St USD
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      65 11 [MHH Kf i| SEARCH WORLDWIDE :-am|gH raL To avoid having all your eggs in the wrong basket at the wrong time, every investor should diversify. J,1 1!] |j|| If you search worldwide, you will find more bargains and better bargains than by studying only one nation. '49 Hi ou a^soSSan
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Asia govts pip private sector in security spend
      517 12  -  NANDE KHIN Security outlay for all industries in Asia, Mid-East is 2.5% of turnover: survey THE government sector in Asia and the Middle East spends 4.3 per cent of annual turnover on security, followed by the finance and telecommunications sec- tors which
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      Lock icon Richard Yong admits guilt, is 'remorseful'
      521 12  -  WEE LI-EN FORMER National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chairman Richard Yong yesterday pleaded guilty to three criminal charges and will be sentenced on Sept 18. Yong, 66, appeared in court yesterday, handcuffed and wearing a white T-shirt and brown pants. He pleaded guilty to two
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      Lock icon Suet Fern first lawyer to win ALB lifetime award
      377 12  -  CONRAD RAJ ONE of Singapore's top lawyers, Lee Suet Fern of Stamford Law Corporation, has been conferred the inaugural Mondial Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the legal sector by Asian Legal Business (ALB), a leading legal publication. ALB said that
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      Lock icon Horizon sellers miss deadline; hearing expected in 2 weeks
      541 13  -  MICHELLE QUAH Majority sellers still trying to form sales committee; some keen to contest suit THE majority sellers of Horizon Towers missed a deadline to extend the completion date for the collective sale of the development. And the buyers are now
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      Lock icon Star-studded performance
      222 13  -  ARTHUR LEE By A WORLD classic, Swan Lake On Ice held its first performance here on Wednesday evening at the Esplanade. The story of a prince who triumphs over an evil sorcerer to save a princess was performed to Tchaikovsky's score for the original ballet. The show, under
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      Lock icon Companies and CDCs urged to work together
      352 13  -  MATTHEW PHAN COMPANIES looking to fund social or community programmes have been urged to work with Community Development Councils (CDCs). And CDCs have been urged to pitch their projects to the private sector more actively. CDCs are "social brokers" that can help bring
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      Lock icon SLA puts Paya Lebar Swimming Complex up for tender
      431 14  -  ARTHUR SIM The successful bidder can provide a water-based facility as well as land-based activities: official THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is seeking tenders from developers with plans for the former Paya Lebar Swimming Complex, the first time such a development
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      688 14 YOU may think that The Business Times Weekend is best confined to the walls of your office, but that's where you've got it wrong. Comprising an extensive coverage of local and international corporate and economic news as well as lifestyle sections to
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      134 12 __JJ^^^ J SHlFT_performance NISSAN Showrooms: Authorised Dealers: Auto Mega Trading Re Ltd 300 TampinesAve 5, #01-01, NTUC Income Tampines Tan Chong Motor Sales Pte Ltd Bukjt Timah g1 Bukit Timah Rd Te) 6466 7711 Junction. Tel: 6787 2882 Hong Heng Co Pte Ltd 33 Sembawang Road, #01-01 102. Tel: 6452
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      262 13 ANA MORNING FLIGHT Ist ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ***** ANA Tokyo Morning Flight turns one this October. And as our valued customer, you get all the birthday goodies! Enjoy our exclusive celebratory tare to Tokyo from *****. What's more, don't miss our USA promotion from SsBBB. All these, along with ANA Japanese
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      10 13 The grand prize winner is Mr. Thomas Erickson FINANCIAL TIMES
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      517 14 IVT A TTr^lVr A Skf^l "PIVT^Th The National Science and Technology Award ■L -■-Vy 1 JT\J~f \J V^l Mil V^J-i (NSTA) recognises outstanding scientists and &f I* 1 /^IT T"|VT/^\T /^\Z^ 1 engineers for their invaluable contributions to J_ .XZjV^/X XJ.^l \*J A^\*^/\J X the development of science and technology
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon China output growth slows in August on export curbs
      594 15 Bloomberg Slowdown may not deter rate hike as inflation hits 11-year high, trade surplus nears record [HONG KONG] China's industrial production rose 17.5 per cent in August, slowing for a second month after the government increased taxes on exports. The increase
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      Lock icon World Bank's anti-graft unit told to open up
      524 15 -AP Reach out to other departments to fight corruption: report [WASHINGTON] A siege mentality prevails at a World Bank unit that investigates allegations of misconduct and corruption in bank-financed projects, an independent panel says. It recommends the group reach out to other
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  • INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Refineries, plants escape quake damage
      484 16 Reuters, Bloomberg Industrial areas largely unaffected in southern and western Sumatra [JAKARTA] Indonesia's main refineries and industrial plants on Sumatra island were not significantly damaged by Wednesday's severe earthquake and aftershocks, company officials said, but some were hit by a subsequent power outage. State energy
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      Lock icon Jakarta may push foreign firms to open new palm oil land
      207 16 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia is considering limiting the acquisition of existing palm oil plantations by foreign investors while pushing them to open new palm oil land instead, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said on Wednesday. The move aims to protect small
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  • MALAYSIA
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      387 17 KL confident of hitting 3.1 deficit target -Reuters Finance ministry says figure is based on development spending of RM4Ob [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is committed to progressively reduce its fiscal deficit and is confident of achieving a deficit of 3.1 per cent as targeted in 2008, the government said yesterday. International
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      738 17 Bloomberg Employers now face labour crunch for low-skilled jobs [KUALA LUMPUR] Suis Anas, an Indonesian who sneaked into Malaysia for work, slumped in the corner of a detention camp after being arrested, jailed and caned. His eyes were fixed on the ferry that would take
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      449 17  -  PAULINE NG 1/ i i By in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN satellite radio and TV operator Astro All Asia Networks has reported a loss of almost RMSB million (5525.2 million) for its second quarter to end-July and warned that provisions
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  • INDIA
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      444 18 Bloomberg It's also looking to expand by buying hotels, drinks, IT companies there [MICHIGAN] Tata Group, the Indian company bidding for Ford Motor Co's Jaguar and Land Rover, may buy car parts makers in the US, an executive said. Tata AutoComp
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      674 18 -AP [FRANKFURT] Global automakers on the hunt for new and lucrative markets are jostling for a place in India, where the car market is growing at an average of 20 per cent a year, outpacing even China. Getting a foothold in the giant country
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      103 19 NOW assurance has a new name. With almost 50 years of providing the highest level of security in Singapore, we are proud to announce :hat CISCO is now Certis CISCO. Derived from the Latin word for assurance, certe, our new name heralds our promise to provide the same uncompromising evel
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      439 20 -Bloomberg [TOKYO] Mori Building Co, Japan's biggest private developer, signed its first tenants for China's tallest skyscraper and is asking rents 40 per cent higher than Shanghai's priciest, underlining demand for offices in the nation's financial centre. Subsidiaries of Mizuho Financial Group Inc and
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      580 20  -  JANE MOIR May court ruling will open floodgates to at least 20 highprofile challenges HONG KONG'S already patchy record in curbing insider dealing could be facing a major new blow with a string of legal challenges to its core powers looming. A
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      335 20 Reuters Local rates will stay, subject to pressure from cautious lending [HONG KONG] Hong Kong banks are unlikely to follow any cut in US interest rates next week because cautious lending will continue to put upward pressure on local interbank
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      308 20 Reuters FRANKFURT] Shenyang Brilliance Jinbei, the Chinese au;omaker and unit of Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd, is on track to start selling a car in the United States within 12 months, a senior executive said. In an interview at the annual Frankfurt International
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      Lock icon Thailand must scrap capital controls: Abhisit
      396 21  -  OUR CORRESPONDENT A LEADING candidate to become prime minister of Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva, says his Democrat Party wants to abolish some policy innovations of the present military-installed government, many of which relate to foreign investment in the country. "The capital controls will have to
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      560 21  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY Reports say govt to downgrade view on economy; vote for new PM on Sept 23 JAPAN'S Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was admitted to hospital for checks yesterday, one day after stunning the nation by announcing his decision to
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      435 21 Bloomberg It is confident of beating rival Borse Dubai [COPENHAGEN] Nasdaq Stock Market Inc has the resources to be flexible in its offer for OMX AB, chief executive officer Robert Greifeld said, as the US exchange tries to overcome a rival bid from
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      217 21 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] NYSE Euronext will cut some transaction costs and shrink the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange to the size last seen in 1969 after its share of the US equity market dropped to a record low. Brokerages will
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Hedge funds in the red for first time this year
      593 22 -AP They collectively post a 1.3% decline in August; worse may be in store [NEW YORK] Hedge fund investors have grown used to huge returns. No longer. Last month's market volatility has caused the US$2.4 trillion industry to suffer its
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      71 22 GERMAN police scuffling with activists from the environmental organisation Greenpeace yesterday. The environmentalists were staging a protest with black balloons marked with "Co2"(carbon dioxide) in front of the fair ground in Frankfurt, Germany, where the International Automobile Show (LAA) is being held. The 62nd lAA opened
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      370 22 Bloomberg [LONDON/NEW YORK] Red Kite Metals, the world's largest hedge fund dedicated to metals, tumbled about 20 per cent last month as the US$2.5 billion Touradji Capital Management LP commodities fund gained. The decline at Red Kite, co-founded by Michael Farmer, extends its loss
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      160 22 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US has made enough headway in talks on ending North Korea's atomic programmes to prepare for the possibility of rewarding Pyongyang with US$25 million in fuel, according to a US document obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. Under a multilateral agreement reached
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  • AVIATION
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      512 23 -Bloomberg 140 furloughed pilots to be recalled to replace retirees, staff new flights [DALLAS] US Airways Group Inc will hire more than 350 new pilots and move up 140 others from regional affiliates as the carrier builds a fleet of 99-seat jets
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      739 23 -AP [BEIJING] Beijing showed off its new multi-billion-dol-lar airport terminal on Wednesday a mammoth glass and steel structure with a gracefully sloping roof that the owners said is meant to impress visitors to China's capital for the 2008 Olympics. Terminal 3 at the Beijing
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      2379 23 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 „50 Boursq Airlines (BOU), BR E. Airways Corpn
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      Lock icon Thai Air Asia plans IPO in next three years
      183 23 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Air Asia, a unit of Malaysian budget airline Air Asia, said on Wednesday it planned to sell shares on the Thai bourse in an initial public offering in the next three years. Proceeds from the IPO would be
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      505 23 -AP [TORONTO] Plane maker Bombardier called for the grounding of at least 40 per cent of its Q-400 turboprop planes after a Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) aircraft skidded off a runway with 52 people aboard on Wednesday, the second such incident in three days. No
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      341 23 Xinhua [JAKARTA] Aiming to avoid lost opportunities and ensure flight safety, major Indonesian airlines are taking steps to cope with pilot shortage by investing in pilot training, local press said yesterday. National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, which often sees its pilots lured away by
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  • SHIPPING
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      386 24 -AP Service resumes Sept 26 between Oahu, Kauai, with coast guard escort [HONOLULU] A ferry service grounded for nearly a month because of heated protests and legal challenges over its potential impact on the environment will resume service between the Hawaiian islands of Oahu
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      759 24  -  SELVA KUMAR ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By By AN AUSTRALIAN court last month dismissed an appeal by a salvage company that wanted up to 20 per cent of the value of a bulk carrier it salvaged. Instead, the court upheld a trial judge's finding that the salvor
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      250 24 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, a maker of motorcycles, trains and ships, rose by the most in two weeks after the company said earnings may exceed its forecast. Kawasaki Heavy's shares climbed five yen, or 1.3 per cent, to close at 404 yen in
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      212 24 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Delhi-based coal trading company Knowledge Investment Services (KIS) has bought a three million tonnes a year coal-discharging jetty in Gujarat on India's west coast, KIS founder Rahul Bhandare told Reuters. He said the jetty was unused and had been refurbished for
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      491 25 FEW tears will be shed over the premature departure of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after a brief and troubled term in office. Some of Mr Abe's more egregious failures involved the selection of government ministers who were subsequently found to have been involved
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      1011 25  -  MARK GILBERT The right number of banks that should fail when a credit bubble bursts may not be zero FURTHER important cause for alarm was the danger that the troubles, if not solved, A would be transmitA ted through a domA mo effect
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      780 25  -  FRANK CHING THE BOTTOM LINE IT is intriguing to note that, at a time characterised as "highly dangerous" by Chinese President Hu Jintao apparently because of Taiwan's stepped-up efforts to achieve independence, the US is once again saying that the status of
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      862 26  -  ROBERT SAMUELSON Agriculture has become the US economy's most subsidised sector but farm programmes actually damage American interests THE farm legislation now proceeding through US Congress symbolises much of what's wrong with Washington. It's government by inertia. We do today what we did yesterday, because
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      948 26  -  SHEILA MELVIN NYT By CHINA spent the greater part of the last century struggling to become a modern nation. But after so many years spent looking outward and forward, some Chinese are once again looking inward and back, way back, to the golden age of
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
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      8465 27 Transaction date: Sep 13 High Low Code Company Sale +1('000) High ow Buyer Seller C'vr P/E $mil 3.5 2 5716 1st Software 22 6.5 3148 STelecom 34 17.5 5834 A-Sonic 103 98 6389 ABF SG Bond ETF 30 15.5 1938 AEI Corp 27 14 1100 AEM 42 10
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      258 27 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; N Net2 or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer cdca cum dividend cum all
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      372 28 Sepl2 In local curr In S$ In US$ %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminan 1128.9 0.3 2.6 0.1 3.9 0.4 5.2 t EAFE Preliminan 1113.3 0.2 0.5 0.1 3.7 0.5 5.1 Euro[ Preliminary 1524.6 0.3
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      134 28 As at 9am Sep 13 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2600 1.2760 Can dollar 1.4490 1.4670 Euro 2.0890 2.1140 NZ dollar 1.0630 1.0870 jterlin iund 3.0500 3.0850 US dollar 1.5040 1.5210 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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      163 28 Sep 13 fer Overnight 2 1/4 1 -month 2 5/8 2-months 2 21/32 3-months 2 11/16 Overnight mode: 2 1/16 US$ Offer 2 1/8 2 1/2 2 17/32 2 9/16 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months SFr 5.40 5.80
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      25 28 Sep 13 len Hii Sett STI SIMSCI Sep 431.9 438.4 431.6 Taiwan Sep 347.8 348.3 344.2 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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      21 28 Sep 13 Bid Offer 1-month 1.5085 1.5097 2-months 1.5045 1.5058 3-months 1.5011 1.5025 6-months 1.4922 1.4936 Source: OCBC
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      152 28 Sep 13 Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$fUS$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2713 1.2724 0.8406 0.8407 Canadian dollar 1.4604 1.4618 0.9656 0.9658 Euro 2.1028 2.1048 1.3904 1.3907 NZ dollar 1.0758 1.0781 0.7113 0.7123 Sterlim md 3.0667 3.0691 2.0277 2.0278 US dollar 1.5124 1.5135
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      340 28 Sep 13 EURODOLLAR FUTURES SepO7 DecO7 MarO8 JunO8 94.350 95.080 95.510 95.640 0 0 0 0 6487 ***** ***** 6495 EUROYEN FUTURES SepO7 99.165 99.170 DecO7 99.195 99.220 MarO8 99.180 99.195 JunO8 99.155 99.170 SepO8 99.105 99.120 DecO8 99.035 99.040 MarO9 JunO9 99.165 99.190 99.175A 99.155 99.105
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      272 28 Sep 13 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 1 (S cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest Oct 07 Nov 07 Dec 07 Jan/Mar 08 Apr/Jun 08 Jul/Sep 08 325.00 324.25 322.75 323.25 326.25 328.50 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month Hig gh Low Sett Volume (tonnes)
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      98 28 Sep 12 (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Sep07 925.00 905.00 940.00 910.00 Nov07 938.50 920.50 959.50 921.00 Jan 08 953.75 935.75 973.50 936.50 Mar 08 964.75 947.50 984.00 948.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Sep07 38.87 37.88 39.03 38.35 Oct07 38.95 38.02
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      78 28 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Sep 12 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 76.4 1.29 WTI (Near Mth) 79.76 1.53 Dubai (1-Mth F) 72.19 0.72 Tapis blend 82.15 0.85 Minas 76.9 0.75 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 74.15 85.95 1.43 1.15 US$/barrel Opec Oil
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      469 28 Sep 13 AS CS Rmb Euro HKS Ind Rs Ru Yen Won RM NZS Pak Rs Peso SS Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound us: Australia 0.870 6.315 0.605 6.547 33.987 79.046 0.962 7.831 2.930 1.181 50.960 39.040 1.272 6.001 0.995 27.803 28.868 0.415 0.841 Canada 1.149 7.254
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      91 28 Sep 13 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hi, Day's |h Low 3-Month BQ*****W 13.12.07 1-Year BY*****V 30.04.08 2.26 2.25 2.22 2.22 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Day's High Low 2-Year N*****0Z 2.375 5-Year N*****0A 2.625 7-Year NX*****F 3.625 10-Year NY*****F
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      169 28 Sep 13 GOLD (USS/oz) Sep 12 Sep 13 GOLD BULLION COINS (S$) Sellim Hong Kong 710.50 707.20 711.50 708.20 Sep 11 Sep 12 London 705.70 708.30 706.30 708.90 Source: Reuters (S$) Selling Buying 1 oz 1194.12 1068 UBS GOLD LUNAR KINEBAR (S$) Selling Buying 10gm $418.37 343 SILVER
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      70 28 iep u\ Aluminium, 99.7% purity (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2382.20 2401.80 3 months 2440.00 2458.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 7484.50 7420.00 7540.00 7475.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 3149.00 3 months 3080.00 3082.00 3030.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash 3
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      79 28 Sep 12 (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low SepO7 915 932 Dec 07 950 961 Mar 08 965 974 May 08 976 984 930/901 962/935 974/951 963/963 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low SepO7 1864 1855 1857/1855 Nov07 1904 1904 1928/1896 Jan 08 1805 1801 1820/1799 Mar 08 1790 1786 1803/1786
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      1678 32 Lifestyle industry leaders attending the Forbes Global CEO Conference this week talked about what it takes, reports CHRISTOPHER LIM THERE are more rich people in the world than ever before, with a taste for the best in life and the temperament to pursue it. But while
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  • CINEMA
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      637 33 off the cuff jaime cc A THOUGHT occurred to me at Changi airport the other day. I was reading about SlA's upcoming inaugural flight of the super-fancy A3BO to Sydney which had people paying unfathomable amounts to be the first ones on that plane. Huh, I
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      Lock icon Now serving: soul, humour, quirkiness
      536 33 An element of fantasy runs through Waitress but there's real-life tragedy too, says GEOFFREY EU WAITRESS is a warm-hearted, whimsical tale about a small-town gal whose pie-baking prowess is exceeded only by a propensity to give the pastries names that precisely reflect her agitated state
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      488 33  -  MATTHEW PHAN By FANS of Placido Domingo will relish the chance to watch him up close in The First Emperor the film version of a new production by New York's Metropolitan Opera. If you're not so hot on the Spanish tenor, though, the movie is better
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      456 33  -  WEI-TZE SAM By MICHAEL Moore's new documentary, Sicko, was the subject of much controversy in America when it opened in June this year. A critique of the state of America's private healthcare system, Sicko opens with a series of graphic anecdotes
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      365 33  -  PARVATHI NAYAR DVD By MORE bovine than badass, Wild Hogs turns out to be a movie about whiny wimps rather than weekend warriors. Feeling the unbearable lightness of being suburban middle-aged losers are Doug (Tim Allen) and his high-school buddies, henpecked Bobby (Martin Lawrence),
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  • NIGHT OUT/MUSIC
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      589 35 The birthday bash for IndoChine's Michael Ma had plenty of high-profile guests and a solid spread of food, reports MELISSA LWEE FEW people in Singapore can top IndoChine Group's CEO Michael Ma's reputation in the lifestyle and partying industry. So when "The Dude" (as he is
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      654 35  -  CHEW XIANG By LUCIANO Pavarotti died last week, mourned by millions; this week, he got a posthumous tribute of a different sort download sales of his showpiece aria Nessun Donna pushed him into the UK singles chart, almost 15 years after his last
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      683 35  -  BEN MUNROE CD REVIEW Made of Bricks Kate Nash Universal Rating: CThe Very Best Of Diana Krall Universal Rating: B+ Reviewed by WHILE not exactly song of the summer, Kate Nash's Foundations was all over the airwaves in the UK this year, despite initial reluctance from
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      114 35 II I H 9 More Amazing Grazing A Singapore's most stylish and beautiful Sunday Brunch just keeps getting better. Discover why it's the only place to be [9^ for brunch and discover al fresco adventures and buffet I 4BL tnat 9°es beyond, set to a soundtrack of smooth live jazz.
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  • WINE/ARTS
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      1049 37 If you are prepared to venture into the lesser known appellations, you will find some outstanding wines, says N K YONG T seems that just about everyone (and his dog) is looking for Burgundy today. The sudden surge in demand for this wine is at
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      416 37  -  WEI-TZE SAM SWAN Lake On Ice opened dramatically at the Esplanade Theatre on Wednesday with Prince Siegfried (Vadim Yarkov) and his friend Benno (Andrei Penkine) dancing riotously on the eve of his 21st birthday in a palace courtyard. Amidst the elegant lines and graceful curves
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      490 37  -  CHEAH UI-HOON By IT'S easy to forget homegrown talent, especially if the artiste in question died 20 years ago, and if his career found a platform overseas rather than in Singapore. The Singapore Dance Theatre's (SDT) tribute to Goh Choo San last week
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      176 37 International Enterprise Singapore's Featuring an Exquisite collection of 100 Paintings by Andrew Jack Ang Ah Tee Christine Mak Eng Tay Gog Sing Hooi Henri Chen Kezhan Lim Leong Seng Lim Tze Peng Mohamed Sadali Musbah Ong Kirn Seng Poh Siew Wah Tan Chee Teck Tan Choh Tee Tang Dawu Tay
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  • CLIPPER ROUND THE WORLD RACE
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      858 38 The sea beckons again Singapore's yacht is all set for Sunday's start of the Clipper 07-08 Round the World Yacht Race, reports VINCENT WEE in Liverpool THE Clipper Round the World Yacht Race has become a race that has grown steadily in international reputation and reach. The 2005-06 edition of
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      Lock icon Pushing the boundary towards Clipper success
      589 38  -  VINCENT WEE Mark Preedy: Skipper Place of birth: Barking, Essex, England Age: 35 Background: Graduated in Rural Resources Management from Aberystwyth University. Was a policeman with Avon Somerset Constabulary for three years before making the switch to a sailing career. Sailing experience: 19 years,
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  • PROFILE
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      Lock icon Plausible fantasies power his books
      1126 39 Best-selling novelist David Gibbins' ideas are rooted in historically feasible what-ifs, writes PARVATHI NAYAR ADVENTURER, academic, archaeologist David Gibbins has tried on many roles for size before donning the present one of best-selling novelist. And it's a good fit, says Gibbins, because "it draws a
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