The Business Times, 8 December 2007

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  • Title Section
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    18 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO REGN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 202/12/2006
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon A HEAVE AND A HO HO HO
    144 1  -  ARTHUR LEE ARTHUR LEE [SINGAPORE] This is hard work. But it will all be worth it when this 30-foot beauty from Oregon, USA, is set upright and decked out to admiring eyes. For Singapore's tallest Christmas tree this festive season, home is the
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  • Article
    Lock icon Get ready for super-low S'pore-KL airfares
    603 1  -  YEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Singa-pore-Kuala Lumpur airfares from $1 one-way? No, it's not a typing error. Singapore's Ministry of Transport said yesterday Tiger Airways and Jetstar Asia have been awarded the rights to operate daily Singapore-XL return flights fromFebl, 2008. Jetstar Asia CEO Chong Phit
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    Lock icon STB approves en bloc sale of Horizon Towers
    856 1  -  MICHELLE QUAH But it may not spell end of saga as minority owners who oppose sale may still appeal [SINGAPORE] Almost a year of wrangling and millions of dollars in legal fees later, the controversial en bloc sale of Horizon Towers was
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    • Miscellaneous
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      29 1 W tale display tmm^ Gran entrance University of Alberta president N- I I page 17 page 14 Indira Samarasekera page 4 COMPANIES HK watchmaker makes offer for Sincere Watch
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Economists take paring knife to '08 growth forecast
      373 2  -  ANNA TEO 18 forecasters polled by MAS see growth slowing sharply in H1 2008 By, [SINGAPORE] Economists have pared their forecasts for Singapore's 2008 GDP growth to a median 6.3 per cent, from 6.5 per cent three months earlier. Eighteen market economists
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      Lock icon HK company moves to launch takeover of Sincere Watch
      528 2  -  ARTHUR SIM By [SINGAPORE] Main-board-listed Sincere Watch, one of Singapore's top luxury watch retailers, looks set to be taken over by Hong Kong-listed Peace Mark Holdings. The voluntary offer by the Hong Kong watch retailer, at about $2,564 per ordinary share,
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon STX Pan Ocean sees freight rates resurging
        78 2 STX Pan Ocean Co, South Korea's largest carrier of coal, iron and commodities, ordered about US$4OO million of new ships last week, betting that freight rates will rebound from a slump of as much as 10 per cent last month. The company has
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      • Article
        Lock icon Pioneers needed to build the Singapore brand
        69 2 WANTED: Trailblazing entrepreneurs like Acer founder Stan Shih, so that Singapore can forge a name for itself globally as a product innovator, rather than just a services hub for Asia. The lesson in branding comes from Dominique Turpin, a professor with Swiss business
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        Lock icon Vincent Tan's U Mobile gets US$200m injection
        81 2 U MOBILE, a telco owned by Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan, has succeeded in landing a joint investment of US$2OO million from a Korean and Japanese telco with expertise in 3G technology. U Mobile has very few subscribers, so the decision by Japan's NTT
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        Lock icon Beijing to probe steep housing prices
        75 2 CHINA'S Cabinet will send teams to major cities next week to investigate whether policies to cool the sizzling property market are being enforced properly, sources said. Beijing has introduced a series of policies over the last few years to curb surging prices and provide
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        Lock icon Japan pares growth; rate hike unlikely
        80 2 JAPAN lowered third-quarter growth yesterday, surprising markets that had expected an upward revision and prompting many to predict that the Bank of Japan would have no chance to raise rates until late next year. Soft capital spending saw gross domestic product rise just 0.4
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        Lock icon James Murdoch in line to inherit News Corp throne
        59 2 RUPERT Murdoch has tapped his son James Murdoch to take over News Corp's Asia and Europe operations. James was appointed News Corp's chairman and chief executive for Europe and Asia, officials said yesterday, suggesting that he would most likely succeed his
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        Lock icon Bush's mortgage plan draws mixed reactions
        88 2 PRESIDENT George W Bush's plan to slow the mortgage meltdown could help hundreds of thousands of people from losing their homes, but many others would get no relief- and the plan's effect on the broader economy remains a topic of sharp debate. Under the
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      Lock icon Singapore bankers upbeat about fatter bonuses
      432 2  -  CHOW PENN NEE By [SINGAPORE] Despite market volatility stemming from the sub-prime crisis in the United States, Singa-pore-based bankers are counting on higher bonuses this year, and are optimistic about next year as well. So says a worldwide survey of 20,270 employees working in
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    • MARKETS DIGEST
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        16 2 AST INDEX 3,557.95 (+5.40) AST INDEX FUTURES 3,551 (+5) ASIMSCI 431.51 (+2.35) TSIMSCI FUTURES 430.10 (-2.80)
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        Lock icon PRIME RATES
        29 2 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 7.00 INDONESIA 15.522 TAIWAN 6.156 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.50 US 7.50 CANADA 6.00 SWITZERLAND 4.02 INDIA 12.75 Source:
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        46 2 Friday 1,434.04 lange -6.35 1 COMP IIKKEI 225 15,956.37 +82.29 IANG SENG 28,842.47 -716.45 ;et index 841.39 -3.80 IAKARTA COMP 2,778.95 -16.45 1ANILA COMP 3,745.39 +11.43 ;eoulcomp 1,934.32 -18.85 ;henzhenb 724.81 +11.06 IUMBAI IND 19,966.00 +170.13 11.30AM EDT Change 13,614.28 -5.61 IOW IASDAQ 2,700.60 -9.02
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        43 2 USS SS US$ (S$ ier US$) 1.444 (US$/S$ ier 2.022 2.919 EURO(US$/S$/E) 1.461 2.109 YEN 111.20 77.00 RM 3.326 2.304 HK$ 7.796 5.401 BAHT 33.74 23.37 RUPIAH 9,270 6,421 RENMINBI 7.402 5.127 INDIAN RUPEE 39.43 27.31 A$ 1.141 0.790 NZ$ 1.287 0.892
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon A woman of substance
      1739 4 A university should be judged by the quality of the people it produces, and by its contribution to society, University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera tells KENNETH JAMES SINGAPORE recently played host to Indira V Samarasekera, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Alberta. It was
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      Lock icon The challenge for Singapore
      625 4 UNIVERSITY of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera is a huge fan of nanotechnology. This fast-developing science, which works with matter at the atomic and molecular level, "is going to be in many ways similar, but greater than, the impact of information and communications technology", she says. And
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      Lock icon Raffles Hotels & Resorts
      99 4 Raffles Hotels Resorts Hotels Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles Hotels Resorts. Ranked second among the world's top hotel brands in the 2006 Conde Nast Traveler Business Travel Awards, Raffles Hotels Resorts is a collection of luxury hotels that distinguishes itself through
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Retreat to Reits, trusts with visible dividend: analysts
      953 5  -  MATTHEW PHAN US woes may have made markets view Reits for yield again, not growth By WITH rising uncertainty and volatile markets, investors should retreat to yield instruments such as certain real estate investment trusts (Reits) and business trusts, analysts say. This
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      Lock icon US sub-prime bailouts help stocks but STI runs into headwinds
      558 5  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS IT HAS been bailout week as far as stock markets were concerned but judging by the performance of the past two days, scepticism abounds. First, it was Fed officials dropping blatant hints about cutting interest rates at
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      Lock icon SembCorp Marine shares jump 5.1% on hike in target price
      252 5 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] SembCorp Marine Ltd, the world's second-biggest maker of oil rigs, gained the most in almost three weeks in Singapore trading after Credit Suisse Group raised its target price by 26 per cent. SembCorp Marine climbed 5.1 per
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      Lock icon STX Pan Ocean sees freight rates resurging
      824 6 Bloomberg It wagers rates will return to record highs, justifying USs4oom buy of new ships STX Pan Ocean Co, South Korea's largest carrier of coal, iron and commodities, ordered about US$4OO million of new ships last week, betting that freight rates will rebound
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      Lock icon Vietcombank eyes foreign listing after domestic IPO
      403 6 Reuters It plans to list in either Singapore or HK in 2009 [HANOI] Vietcombank, Vietnam's first state-run bank to float on the stock market, said yesterday it plans to list its shares on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange early next year and
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Datacraft to buy NZ IT security consultancy
        73 6 DAT AC RAFT Asia has struck a conditional agreement to buy the business of Security-Assessment.com, an information technology (IT) security consulting practice based in New Zealand, for NZ$5 million (555.6 million). The company yesterday said that SecurityAssessment.com provides independent security advisory, assessment and
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        Lock icon Sihuan Pharma's drug application approved
        58 6 SIHUAN Pharmaceutical has received its first drug approval from China's State Food and Drug Administration since the latter resumed drug application approval on Oct 1. The company said yesterday that Sodium Ozagrel for injection, an efficient synthetase inhibitor drug, is expected to be launched in
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      Lock icon Ntegrator clinches $9.58m of Viettel contracts
      327 6 NTEGRATOR International Ltd, a regional communications network specialist and systems integrator, has secured four more contracts from Viettel Corporation, worth a total of $9.58 million. Viettel is a fixed line, ISP and cellular licence holder and the second largest telecoms operator in Vietnam. Ntegrator
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      1141 7 Singapore Property CITIGROUP, Dec 7 17 new sites injected into IHOB GLS: The Ministry of National Development (MND) will release 17 new sites which include 12 residential sites, one commercial site, three hotel sites and one white site. Twenty unsold sites from 2H07 GLS programme will be carried
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      Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      894 7 For week beginning Dec 3 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS Substantial Buy No of Price SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Sell Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Conv '000 Shr ('000) ('000) DayenEnv 6-Dec-07 Kor Hock Lai Sell 350 0.40 ***** 20.82 ***** 20.61 Broadway Ind Grp 5-Dec-07 Aegis
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      Lock icon Choosing funds that outperform markets
      1666 7  -  TEH HOOI LING Not much better Unit trusts' performance versus market indices SHOW ME THE MONEY Compared to selected Asian funds, Spore funds appear to have the best record I STILL have some unit trusts I bought many years ago. And earlier this year, I
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Pioneers needed to build the Singapore brand
      459 8  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI Fashion is one business that Singapore might excel in By WANTED: Trailblazing entrepreneurs like Acer founder Stan Shih, so that Singapore can forge a name for itself globally as a product innovator, rather than just a services hub for Asia. The
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      Lock icon A*Star opens new biomedical research centre
      268 8  -  CHEN HUIFEN By THE Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) yesterday opened its newest research outfit, bringing the total number of biomedical research institutes under its wing to seven. The latest addition, the Institute of Medical Biology (1MB), will provide a bridge between
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      Lock icon S'pore scores in e-payment services between business and govt
      327 8  -  TAN SEO YEAN By A NEW survey ranks Singapore joint first with Canada for its business-to-govern-ment electronic payment capabilities. The Republic is placed among the top 10 markets overall in a Government ePayments Adoption Ranking (GEAR) released by Visa International. The
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      Lock icon Lippo's Sentosa condo at about $2,750-2,900 psf
      344 8  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA By LIPPO Group is said to have priced its Marina Collection condo, a 99-year leasehold project on Sentosa Cove, at about $2,750-2,900 psf on average. Over the past few days, the group, controlled by Indonesia's Riady family, is said to have
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      Lock icon Pioneering S'pore surgeon honoured by Australian varsity
      357 8  -  CONRAD RAJ By SURGEON Susan Lim has been awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine by Australia's University of Newcastle for her medical achievements and work with victims of the 2005 Bali bombings. The citation for the Doctor of Medicine honoris causa, delivered at
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      Lock icon Deutsche Bank unit sees global real estate recovery in 2009
      594 8 Reuters [LONDON] Global real estate investment is leaving behind an era of above-av-erage returns and is set for leaner times but it will start to recover in 2009, according to RREEF, Deutsche Bank's alternative investments arm. "There is some justification
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Vincent Tan's U Mobile gets US$200m injection
      498 9  -  PAULINE NG NTT DoCoMo, S Korea's KTF take 33% stake to help it exploit 3G licence By I in Kuala Lumpur U MOBILE, a telco owned by Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan, has succeeded in attracting a joint investment of US$2OO million from a
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
      2280 9 )ec7 RM ('000) \&M Realty 0.95 \bricBhd 0.27 \dvance Synergy 0.32 \dventa Bhd 1.44 \eMulti Hldgs 0.29 \ffin Holdings 2.67 \htnad Zaki Resou 6.00 \ic Corp 0.78 \irasia Bhd 1.89 \kn Messaging Te 0.18 \kn Technology 0.63 \lliance Financi 3.04 \luminium Co 1.26 \malgamated Ind 0.50 \minvestment Grp
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      Lock icon Nippon Oil to work M'sian oilfield
      281 9 -Heaters [TOKYO/KUALA LUMPUR] Nippon Oil Corp, Japan's top oil refiner, said yesterday that it had taken a 75 per cent stake in Malaysia's onshore field with potential oil reserves. Petronas, the Malaysian state energy firm, said that the award of the block in the
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      Lock icon NSTP to sell Malay Mail for RM5m in compromise
      397 9  -  S JAYASANKARAN By in Kuala Lumpur IN a compromise move, the New Straits Times Press (NSTP) has agreed to sell its ailing Malay Mail daily to a group comprising Media Prima and businessman Ibrahim Mohamad Nor for RMS million (552.2 million).
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      Lock icon Qatar to invest USsBsom in Indonesian infrastructure
      427 9 Reuters [JAKARTA] Qatar's US$6O billion sovereign wealth fund plans to spend at least US$B5O million in Indonesia, its biggest commitment to the country so far as it uses record oil and gas wealth to invest more in Asia. The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon Beijing to probe steep housing prices
      262 10 Reuters Teams will be sent to check if policies to calm market are being enforced [BEIJING] China's cabinet will send teams to major cities next week to investigate whether policies to cool the sizzling property market are being enforced properly, sources said. Beijing has
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      Lock icon Pawn one property to buy another
      273 10  -  Xinhua [BEIJING] As bank loans for property dwindle, an increasing number of prospective buyers are turning to pawnshops to finance their plans. Wang, a 40-year-old Beijinger, owns an apartment worth about 700,000 yuan (*****,000) in the capital. His desire to move to a larger
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      8617 10 Transaction date: Dec 7 52-wks Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net ('000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E M Cap Smil Company 3 2 5716 1st Software 22 8 3148 STelecom 34 16.5 5834 A-Sonic 104 98 6389 ABF SG
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      Lock icon New tax measures to help curb illegal land grabs
      229 10 -AFP [BEIJING] China will raise taxes on the industrial use of farmland from the beginning of 2008 and extend the levies to foreign companies in a bid to curb illegal land grabs, state media said yesterday. The new rules, taking effect
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      Lock icon ArcelorMittal to offer to buy China Oriental
      199 10 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] ArcelorMittal will offer to buy China Oriental Group Co for at least HK$l7.9 biUion (553.3 billion) as a Hong Kong regulator has ruled it must bid after agreeing to buy a stake last month. The bid is required as the
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon Record number of new India billionaires
      419 11 Bloomberg Jump of 168 makes a total of 533, with wealth of 12.3t rupees: report [MUMBAI] India, powered by a booming stock market, has produced a record number of new billionaires, 168, according to a survey by the Business Standard newspaper. As many as
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      Lock icon India to spend 166.8b rupees on roads, bridges
      189 11 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India will build roads and bridges worth 166.8 billion rupees (Ss6.l billion) to ease the movement of people and goods across Asia's third-largest economy. The projects will be implemented in partnership with non-state companies, the government said in a statement
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    • SGX
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        Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
        64 11 VOLUME VALUE (S) Lian Ben 33,708,000 iBS Gri 262,981,590 Frontline 32,957,000 Cai litaLand 129,473,011 Koh Bros 28,01 5,000 SGX 103,321,319 Di. Hand 27,858,000 Con 92,469,100 DBS MBL eCW*****4 27,374,000 UOB 90,589,400 iitalandDBeCW*****7 26,618,000 Sin. iTel 68,823,080 Di. liland W*****6 26,050,000 SembMar 59,689,080 Centi llion 24,408,000 OCBC Bk
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        104 11 BY CENTS BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP CLOSEUP Jardine C&C 2010 80.0 4.1 at! ;vBNPeCW*****1 6.5 160.0 4.0 GuocoLand Ltd 580 30.0 5.5 UOB MBLeCW*****4 100.0 1.0 SembMar 450 22.0 5.1 SembMar MBLeCW*****3 3.5 75.0 1.5 Kei Land 790 20.0 2.' >usGrou ieCW*****7 2.5 66.7 1.0 UOL 468 20.0 4.5
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        113 11 BY CENTS BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN CLOSE DOWN SGX 1440 -50.0 -3.4 UOB MBLeCW*****4 0.5 -75.0 -1.5 Asia Pac Brew 1320 -40.0 -2.9 CoscoCori NPePW***** 0.5 -50.0 -0.5 SIA 200 1820 -40.0 -2.2 Gen Int RBeCW*****0 -50.0 -2.0 IS MSCI India 100 950 -36.1 -2.6 SIASGAeCW*****1 4 -42.9 -3.0
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      91 11 Up Down Unch 4 5 8 Up Down Unch OOP Up Down Unch 4 5 8 Multi Ind Manufacture 63 90 57 16 14 71 106 71 Commerce 16 30 26 22 32 J4 )t/Stor/Comms 14 16 10 15 19 10 Finance jn J3_ Jl J3_ lonstruction
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      122 11 TURNOVER ('000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL VALUE ('000) SDQ TOTAL MAIN Multi Ind 24,761 24,761 155,113 155,113 Manufacturing 341,705 51,482 393,187 387,666 9,219 396,885 Commerce 118,502 3,679 122,181 105,722 782 106,504 Tpt/Stor/Comms 81,855 690 82,545 252,727 477 253,204 Finance 44,108 44,108 533,685 533,685 Construction 106,311 16,012 122,323 55,362
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS
      212 11 Allgreen 0.48 1.630 +0.050 NOL 0.82 4.540 +0.140 Ascendasreit 0.84 2.390 +0.030 Noble Grp 0.71 2.240 -0.080 CapitaComm 0.48 2.440 +0.110 OCBC Bk 8.23 8.600 +0.050 Capita Land 4.38 6.950 +0.050 Olam 0.55 2.900 -0.010 Capita Mall 0.91 3.340 +0.040 Parkway Hldgs 0.64 3.720 +0.060 Chart
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      Lock icon BONDS & WARRANTS
      2599 11 BONDS WARRANTS Tel Code Comi Last Sale +orVol Conv Exer C000) Ratio Price Prem Expiry Disc Gear- Mths ing Left 2824 EcoWise Hldgs Ltd W*****1 18.5 8799 Fraserand Neave SGA ECW*****4....36.5 2462 Fraser And Neave SGA ECW*****7 ...16.5 >air 2835 Allgreen RBeCW*****6 8798 Ascendas REIT SGA ECW*****3 1436 AusGroup MBL
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      2248 11 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; N Net 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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      Lock icon SGX XTRANET
      124 11 52-Wk Tel h Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP) h Day Lom Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Cvr Net MCap P/E $mM Jii Comi Jii 1040 745 CIMBAsean4O 1OOUS$ 119 119 6065 Diamonds 8330 6040 5422 GLD1OUS$ 6200 5000 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 1000 6097
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      77 11 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol cooo] Day ihLow Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil Comi 'an: Hii 141 104 6000 AVJennings 21.5 5 6134 Over&Gen 64 18.5 6017 StarCruises 320 179 6019 TanChonglnt A114 A18 US31.5 HK260 +3 -1 unch
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
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      Lock icon Japan pares growth; rate hike unlikely
      612 12 Reuters Lower Q3 growth largely due to slowing capital expenditure growth [TOKYO] Japan revised down third-quarter growth yesterday, surprising markets that had expected an upward revision and prompting many to predict the Bank of Japan will have no chance to raise rates until late
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      Lock icon Timeline for climate change deal at Bali
      271 12 AFP [UNITED NATIONS] UN Sec-retary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that he favoured a binding cap on greenhouse gas emissions but noted that the climate change conference in Indonesia should focus on setting a timeline for a deal by 2009. "As a matter of
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      Lock icon US, Saudi Arabia are worst 'climate sinners'
      298 12 AP [BALI] The US and Saudi Arabia are the world's worst "climate sinners", environmental groups said yesterday, citing their high and mounting greenhouse gas emissions and inadequate government policies to combat global warming. Australia was ranked third, but with a caveat: If its
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      7767 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mgt (Spore) Star Europe Eqty!** 1.049/ Star Europe Bond 1.216/ Star Europe Bal 1.246/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.749/ Star Asia Bond 1.253/ Star Asia Balanced 1.092/ Star Global Technology Fund! 0.239/ Multi St Fd 0.936/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.865/ Gib Multi StUSD 1.175/
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      31 12 Allianz Global Investors one of the world's largest asset managers with more Allianz (jji) than US$l.2 trillion assets under management as at 31 December 2006. Global lnvestors company regn. no *****7169Z
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon James Murdoch in line to inherit News Corp throne
      571 13 -AP,. NYT He takes over firm's Europe, Asia ops, making him likely heir to father Rupert [LONDON] Rupert Murdoch has tapped his son James Murdoch to take over News Corp's Asia and Europe operations. James was appointed News Corp's chairman and
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      Lock icon Employers boost payrolls by 94,000 in November
      582 13 AP, Reuters, Bloomberg LATEST US DATA [WASHINGTON] US employers added a solid 94,000 jobs to their payrolls in November, the unemployment rate held steady at 4.7 per cent and wages grew briskly, said a Labour Department report, in an encouraging sign that the
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      Lock icon Welcome change in weather
      518 13 Clipper Ventures THE long-anticipated stronger winds have at last arrived for the whole fleet and this was reflected in the higher speeds and longer 12-hourly runs reported yesterday morning. The change in the weather will be a welcome relief to the skippers and crew who have
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      Lock icon Euronext to buy Powernext's carbon emission business
      303 13 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Transatlantic exchange NYSE Euronext will acquire French energy exchange Powernext's carbon emission business as part of a plan to set up a international carbon trading market. At the same time, NYSE Euronext will sell its 34 per cent stake in Powernext,
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      Lock icon Bush's mortgage plan draws mixed reactions
      483 13 -LAT-WP No relief for those who can't keep up teaser rate payments [WASHINGTON] President Bush's plan to slow the mortgage meltdown could help hundreds of thousands of people from losing their homes, but many others would get no relief and the plan's effect on
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  • MOTORING
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      690 14 An open sensuous mouth. Big lungs. SAMUEL EE finds the Maserati GranTurismo a sleek and powerful beauty A GAPING mouth is not usually considered an attractive feature. But when it comes to the Maserati GranTurismo, this cavity takes on sensuous overtones. By all accounts, the grille on the
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      Lock icon DRIVING NOTES
      454 14  -  SAMUEL EE Coming soon BMW 1 Series Coupe FINALLY, BMW's brilliant 1 Series is expected to arrive in Singapore soon some time next year. The smallest BMW available was launched in 2004 as a hatchback and has been available here as a parallel import. But now the range
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      Lock icon A variable difference
      478 14  -  SAMUEL EE By LESS than three years after it was launched here, the Lexus GS3OO gets yet another update. Earlier this year, the mid-size luxury sedan adopted direct fuel injection for its three-litre V 6 engine. That boosted output 17 hp to 245 hp, while maximum torque
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  • GOLF
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      Lock icon Swing sisters
      1178 15 More and more Asian women are qualifying to join the LPGA, the world's biggest tour for female golf professionals. JUSTINE MOSS speaks to two of them THE Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour has long held an attraction for many Asian, Australasian and Europe-an-based professional players. The world's
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  • WELLNESS
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      Lock icon Gifts of health and healing
      1039 16 Spread good cheer with premier wellness products to lower that tension a notch for friends and family, writes CHEAH UI-HOON THERE'S this website called www.stupid.com which is dedicated to selling the most idiotic gifts for Christmas, with this year's star product being a nutcracker in
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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      334 16 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS g r j s h man produces a cunI To show up, get out of bed? ning act, under pressure (7) (6) 7 Dance with beat and ener--4 Spot what changed in ways gV/ s t rO ng flavour and love of drawing horses (8) (5) 10
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  • SHOPPING
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      Lock icon IN STORE AT THE MALLS
      269 17  -  SITIZALIZA WARTI Picture perfect WITH Philips Pixel Plus HD Engine, you can be sure to get vivid colours and ultra-sharp picture quality on their new Full HD FlatTY with 1080p display series as pixels in every image are enhanced and digital noise detected is reduced
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      Lock icon Having trouble with the traditional tree?
      1099 17 Experts tell JAIME EE how to turn Christmas foliage into a fairytale display in seven easy steps IT may seem like a no-brainer. You have a Christmas tree. You put stuff on it. You turn on the fairy lights and voila why does it
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  • TRAVEL
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      Lock icon Polish delights and reminders
      1284 18 Steeped in medieval history and sumptuous scenery, Poland is a charming place for tourists. Yet, parts of it also remind visitors of the worst horrors of war, writes CHOW PENN NEE YOUR first inkling of just how far Poland is off the Singapore tourist's beaten track
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  • The Business Times weekend
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      Lock icon Turkey treats
      1710 19 It's going to be a rich Christmas cholesterol-rich that is judging by what hotels have to offer. JAIME EE reports SO. What's it going to be this year? Roast turkey? Beef? Ham? A turkey stuffed with chicken, ham and a partridge in a pear tree? Never mind turkeys
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      Lock icon Escape to simple pleasures at island resort
      698 19 Chill out at an integrated food and beverage outfit in exclusive surroundings, writes GEOFFREY EU Prive at Keppel Bay 2 Keppel Bay Vista, Marina at Keppel Bay JUST when you thought Sentosa had the monopoly on resort island lifestyles, along comes tiny Keppel
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