The Business Times, 4 January 2008

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    Lock icon Circle Line key to higher plot ratios: JLL
    858 1  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Study looks at how Master Plan 2008 could change landscape, usher in new initiatives By [SINGAPORE] When Master Plan 2008 is unveiled sometime this year, certain areas are likely to see an increase in plot ratios. A study by Jones
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    Lock icon Air China's parent out to hijack SIA bid
    439 1 Bloomberg, Xinhua It'll vote against sale of stake in China Eastern and may make own offer [SHANGHAI] China National Aviation Holding Air China's parent has put an end to the suspense and laid its cards on the table. Not only will it
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • TOP STORIES
    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon 3 S'pore law firms in list of world's top 25 M&A advisers
        86 2 IN a year that saw a rise in mergers and acquisitions between companies in Asia with a consequent benefit for lawyers three Singapore law firms have been propelled into the ranks of the top 25 in the world.
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        Lock icon CCT gets nod to redevelop Market St site into offices
        76 2 CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust has been granted outline planning permission by the Urban Redevelopment Authority to redevelop Market Street Car Park into an office tower that could cost up to $1.5 billion. Lynette Leong, chief executive of CCT's manager, said the viability
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        Lock icon Capital raised through equities hits record in 2007
        71 2 WHILE volatility prevailing in equity markets last year might have caused some companies to hold back their listing plans, Singapore firms still raised a record U559.33 billion of proceeds from equities last year, up from US$7.OB billion in 2006. The total number
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        Lock icon Golden Agri-Resources proposes stock split
        58 2 GOLDEN Agri-Resources has proposed a stock split. The oil palm grower and processor told the Singapore Exchange yesterday it plans to divide each of its issued shares into two. The move will increase trading liquidity of the shares and broaden the shareholder base of the
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        Lock icon Oil spike puts squeeze on US spending power
        93 2 THE US economy needs US$lOO oil like a hole in the head. The spike in oil to a fresh record on Wednesday is not single-handedly going to tip the US into a recession. But on top of a housing slump and lingering
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        Lock icon M'sia car sales forecast to grow 7% this year
        63 2 MALAYSIA'S automotive sales are expected to expand 7 per cent this year with buyers of replacement cars largely responsible, according to consulting firm Frost Sullivan. It expects used car prices to level off after the sharp falls brought about by a
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        Lock icon 'Mini-revaluation' signals China's new forex policy
        82 2 CHINA'S central bank is revaluing the yuan again but in contrast to the sudden, one-off move that jolted global markets in 2005, the current rise is being engineered over weeks and has been signalled in advance. The yuan's recent sharp climb against the dollar,
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        Lock icon Ford picks Tata as top bidder for Jaguar, Land Rover
        68 2 FORD Motor Co has picked India's Tata Motors as the top bidder to buy Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover units, the US automaker said yesterday. Ford said it has entered into "focused negotiations at a more detailed level" with Tata,
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      Lock icon Corporate bonds poised to face another volatile year
      794 2  -  LYNETTE KHOO Credit spreads could widen further, yields go higher: analysts By [SINGAPORE] The repricing of risks in the credit market is likely to weigh on corporate bonds this year, as investors shun securities with the remotest link to US sub-prime mortgages.
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      Lock icon Pharma yo-yo will rebound: economist
      489 2  -  ANNATEO He cautions against reading too much into blip in Q4 estimates By [SINGAPORE] Far too much is being made of the phar-ma-induced dip in manufacturing growth in the fourth quarter, says economist PK Basu. It's "just a blip" that does not signal any real
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      Lock icon Nerves and smiles as oil hits US$100
      570 2  -  VINCENT WEE Some container lines may take a knock, shipbuilders sense opportunity By [SINGAPORE] Although the price of oil spiked just briefly to hit the US$lOO level overnight, the impact in Singapore seems to be mainly psychological for now. Some sectors will be
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      Lock icon Three legal eagles fly high in M&A deals
      731 3  -  MATTHEW PHAN Mien Gleclhill akes sth spot in a anking among legal advisers worldwide By SINGAPORE] In a year that >aw the Asian merger and icquisition (M&A) market ooom, three Singapore law inns have seen a disprooortionately large chunk of growth come
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    • MARKETS DIGEST
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        29 3 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 6.75 INDONESIA 15.552 TAIWAN 6.236 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.50 US 7.25 CANADA 6.00 SWITZERLAND 3.90 INDIA 12.75 Source:
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        46 3 lursi iam ICOMP 1,435.38 -0.30 IIKKEI 225 Closed JANG SENG 26,887.28 -673.24 ;et INDEX 832.63 -10.34 JAKARTA COM P 2,715.06 -16.44 1ANILACOMP 3,501.38 -115.91 ;eoulcomp 1,852.73 -0.72 ;henzhen B 722.16 +5.84 IUMBAI IND 20,345.20 -120.10 11AM EDT Change 13,074.36 +30.40 )OW IAS DAI 2,605.06 -4.57
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        39 3 IS$ (S$ )er US$) 1.434 (USS/SS per 1.981 2.841 ;URO(US$/S$/E) 1.473 2.113 'EN 109.50 76.30 3.291 2.294 IK$ 7.814 5.448 !AHT 33.44 23.31 IUPIAH 9,405 6,558 IENMINBI 7.273 5.071 INDIAN RUPEE 39.43 27.49 1.133 0.790 IZ$ 1.288 0.898
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      Lock icon See you at the Singapore Corporate Awards
      318 3 Those who book tables before Jan 15 can enjoy reduced rates for early birds [SINGAPORE] The importance of good corporate governance cannot be overstated. Far from being just a fad or a punchline, it's an essential part of good business, as recent high-profile
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      30 2 ft Singapore Award-winning local film-maker wtUri Eric Khoo talks about the magic of movies. And why his films are .^^■(■jKfe^ personal, and always about Singapore. In the Raffles Conversation tomorrow.
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Changi eyes stakes in up to 15 airports
      183 4 Bloomberg CHANGI Airports International Pte, the overseas investment unit of Singapore's main airport operator, plans to buy stakes in as many as 15 airfields, about half in China, chief executive officer Chow Kok Fong said. It aims to manage US$7OO million of
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      Lock icon Market St Car Park may be redeveloped into offices
      481 4  -  ARTHUR SIM The total project cost could range from $1 billion to $1.5 billion By CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust (CCT) has been granted outline planning permission by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to redevelop Market Street Car Park into an office tower that
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      Lock icon Goodman Group set to manage JTC Reit
      371 4  -  UMA SHANKARI By JTC Corporation is set to appoint Australian-listed property and wealth management company Goodman Group to manage its upcoming real estate investment trust (Reit), sources say. The news follows last month's report in the Australian Financial Review that Goodman Group beat
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Sincere Watch sells Chrono Star stake
        63 4 SINCERE Watch said it has agreed to sell 175,000 shares or one per cent of Chrono Star International Participations Groupe Franck Muller SA for $10.96 million to Tay Liam Wee, a director and controlling shareholder of Sincere Watch. Chrono Star is a private limited
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        Lock icon Enzer not going ahead with rights issue
        54 4 ENZER has decided not to proceed with its proposed renounceable rights issue of convertible bonds. This is in view of it planning to raise up to $150 million from a proposed bond issue of redeemable zero coupon convertible bonds to DB Zwirn Mauritius
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        Lock icon Asian Micro to buy stake in Cryothai
        59 4 ASIAN Micro Holdings has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sombat Lohkitdvanich to acquire 40 per cent of his company Cryothai Co for 84 million baht (554.09 million). Cryothai provides leasing of cryogenic vessels on trailers and also owns a liquid natural
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      Lock icon Can warrant market keep up strong growth?
      760 4  -  R SIVANITHY THERE'S little doubt that 2007 was a spectacular year for the local structured warrants segment, with volume almost doubling to $28 billion. On top of this, the number of active warrant trading accounts grew 10 times to about 20,000 as at
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      1640 4 FOOD JUNCTION NOTICE OF EIGHTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Food Junction Holdings Limited ("the Company") will be held at The Belvedere, Level 4, Grand Tower, Merltus Mandarin Singapore 333 Orchard Road, Singapore *****7 on 25 January 2008, Friday at 10.00 a.m.
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  • FOCUS: TALENT ISSUES
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      1655 5 Study finds that pay and benefits are not the No 1 factor in one's decision to join or stay with a firm, reports MICHELLE QUAH ATTRACTING and retaining talent is the toughest human resource challenge facing companies and none feel that challenge more acutely than those
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Wall St continues to call the shots
      623 6  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS ST Index falls 64 points on overnight US plunge and loss in Hang Seng OTHER than a brief period after lunch yesterday when pressure on the Straits Times Index (STI) looked like easing, the story of the second trading day
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      89 6 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 2 10 4 0 0 0 10 lanufacturing 35 95 54 20 10 38 115 Commerce 13 34 25 17 40 "pt/Stor/Comms 27 29 :inance 18 19 Construction 'ro| lerties 29 29 lotels/Rsts Cervices 11 35
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      118 6 MAIN SPQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL lulti Ind 13.167 13.167 69.707 69.707 lanufacturing 306.344 30.515 336.859 353.067 5.360 358.428 Commerce 137.510 6.536 144.046 78.805 1.089 79.894 •pt/Stor/Comms 112.175 654 112.829 341.963 257 342.220 :inance 32.675 126 32.801 374.963 36 374.999 Construction 126.931 7.682 134.613 66.835 917 67.752
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS
      217 6 Jlgreen 0.44 1.430 -0.050 \scendasreit 0.87 2.350 -0.010 lapitaComm 0.48 2.300 -0.110 la pita Land 4.10 6.210 -0.040 :apitaMall 0.95 3.330 -0.120 :hart SemiCond 0.51 0.935 -0.030 jtyDev 2.67 13.720 -0.380 lomfortDelGro 1.25 1.760 -0.040 losco Corp 1.88 5.600 +0.010 Creative Tech 0.16 6.320 -0.060 IBS
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      968 6  -  MATTHEW PHAN China Oilfield Technology Jan 3 close: SSO.BO OCBC Investment Research, Jan 3 QUENCHING China's insatiable thirst for oil: China Oilfield Technology (COT) is an enhanced oil recovery technical services provider. While China's demand for oil remains strong, its ageing oilfields are showing alarming signs of peaking.
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      Lock icon Yen rises to 5-week highs vs dollar, euro
      470 6 Reuters CURRENCIES [LONDON] The yen rallied to five-week peaks against the euro and dollar yesterday, boosted by a move to risk aversion as investors worried about the impact of a slowing US economy on global growth and equity markets sold off. A
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      4 6 DAILY
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      46 6 CLOSE 154.00 +134.0 BT OB/OS BT CADI -*****.00 -214.0 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +16.00 All-SG Equities 947.61 -15.82 SG Equities Elect 99.95 -2.42 SG Equities Fin 2350.66 -35.73 SG Equities Prop 1294.34 -18.93 SIMSCI 413.18 -8.13 SIMSCI Futures 411.00 -11.60 PrimePartnersCI 231.46 -3.56
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      56 6 VOLUME Diqiland 59,391,000 Memstar 52,907,000 Lian Beng 43,303,000 Yanqzijianq 39,813,000 STXPOKWIOO 34,855,000 JES 32,292,000 Auston 30,509,000 DBS DB eCW*****3 26,882,000 Sing Tel 26,872,000 Firstßes 26,472,000 VALUE(S) STXPOKWIOO 114,152,530 DBS Grp 110,769,140 Sing Tel 104,226,110 UOB 95,754,140 SGX 87,136,580 Yanqzijiang 76,567,420 Capita Land 58,458,310 OCBC Bk 55,780,560 Keppel
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      109 6 CLOSE UP GLD 10US$ 8500 336.9 2.8 DBS Bk6% NCPS 10 ***** 20.0 0.2 STI ETF 100 3690 15.0 0.4 Cmdt 10US$ 358 14.3 2.9 MOIL 243 11.5 3.4 OCBC Bk4.5%NCPS 100 ***** 10.0 0.1 OCBCC, i.93%Pref10 ***** 10.0 0.1 Fra. I ranee 199 9.0 4.7 Total Access 115
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      Lock icon FALLS
      119 6 CLOSE DOWN Jardine C&C 2132 -70.0 -3.2 STI ETF IOPV 3483 -64.6 -1.8 China H 10US$ 1992 -54.5 -1.9 SGX 1272 -52.0 -3.9 lit 1372 -38.0 -2.7 Venture Con 1242 -38.0 -3.0 DBS Gr| 2028 -36.0 -1.7 Auston W*****5 5 -32.0 -86.5 Korea 10US$ 537 -28.7 -3.6 UOB 1942
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      83 6 iere! S$ stands lan 3 CHNG CLOSE FRJan2 YR 2008/07 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.4339 0.41 1.5479 1.4335® Euro 2.1083 0.09 2.1639 1.9913 Pounds 2.8295 0.99 3.1194 2.9158 AS 1.2621 0.39 1.3555 1.1741 Yen* 1.3101 -1.51 1.3821 1.2285 Rill liah* 0.***** 0.57 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.2867 -0.01 4.5700
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Capital raised through equities hits record US$9.3b in 2007
      462 7  -  LYNETTE KHOO Total number of issues increased from 85 in 2006 to 145 last year By WHILE volatility prevailing in equity markets last year might have caused some companies to hold back their listing plans, Singapore firms still raised a record
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      Lock icon Allco raises $518m for S'pore fund
      174 7 [SYDNEY] Australian investment fund Allco Finance Group said yesterday that it has raised $518 million to create a new wholesale fund to be based in Singapore, ahead of a future initial public offer. The fund, called Allco SIF, will invest in aviation, rail and
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      Lock icon Golden Agri-Resources proposes stock split
      372 8  -  CHOW PENN NEE Move will increase trading liquidity and broaden the firm's shareholder base By GOLDEN Agri-Resources has proposed a stock split. The oil palm grower and processor told the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday it plans to divide each of its issued shares into two.
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      Lock icon Offer for Vantage after chief sells stake
      197 8 FORMER Vantage Corporation chief Kea Kah Kirn yesterday sold off his whole stake in the former publishing company to Galleria Resources for $48.4 million. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange late yesterday, Eastunited Holdings and Fitfield Investments of which Mr Kea is
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      Lock icon Keppel Bay Bridge: a new waterfront icon
      235 8 SINGAPORE'S newest bridge was officially opened by President SR Nathan yesterday evening to the accompaniment of a spectacular pyrotechnics show. It is the first public bridge to be built by a private developer and will be handed over to the Land Transport Authority.
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      Lock icon SG structured notes to hedge against volatility
      546 8  -  MATTHEW PHAN By INVESTORS who wish to position themselves against uncertain market performance in 2008 could consider investing in two equi-ty-index-linked structured notes launched by Society General last week. Investor sentiment is that the market will prove volatile in the near term, with
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      Lock icon Yanlord acquires site for residential devt in Shanghai
      293 8  -  CHOW PENN NEE By REAL estate developer Yanlord Land Group is extending its presence in Shanghai through the purchase of a residential development site for 600.4 million yuan (*****.7 million). Yanlord subsidiary Shanghai Renjie Hebin Garden Property Co acquired the 117,459 square
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Maybank's new Islamic offering
      359 9  -  CHOW PENN NEE Prestige Structured Deposit gives investors exposure to two sectors By MAYBANK yesterday launched an Islamic structured deposit the Prestige Structured Deposit giving investors access to an index Dption comprising 30 Syari-ah-compliant global equities. Investors get exposure to two sectors: oil gas, and basic
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      Lock icon Philippine educators to get Temasek boost
      288 9  -  QUAH CHIN CHIN By TEMASEK Foundation will pay more than $2.2 million over two years in its first overseas education programme, to be implemented by the National Institute of Education (NIE). The Temasek Foundation-NIE Leaders and Educators in Asia Programme (LEAP) will be carried
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      Lock icon Baring all for charity – and maybe a world record too
      336 9  - Baring all for charity and maybe a world record too NISHA RAMCHANDANI By TWENTY celebrities plan to demonstrate that less can be more when they bare all for a coffee-table book aimed at raising $300,000 for charity. And, this being Singapore, they intend to set a world record along the
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      Lock icon Dec PMI falls to 51 from 53.8 in Nov
      323 9 Manufacturing sector expands for 7th straight month SINGAPORE'S manufacturing sector expanded for the seventh straight month in December, albeit at a slower pace, helped by a rise in new orders, a private sector industry gauge showed yesterday. The Singapore Institute of
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Oil spike puts squeeze on US spending power
      662 10 Reuters ANALYSIS Higher inflation risks could limit Fed's appetite for steep interest rate cuts [WASHINGTON] The US economy needs US$lOO oil like a hole in the head. The spike in oil to a fresh record on Wednesday is not single-handedly going to
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      Lock icon Oil price touches US$100, seen heading higher
      451 10 Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices, which on Wednesday hit US$lOO a barrel for the first time, will probably go up further in the next five years unless economic growth falters and slows fuel demand. Falling production in some areas outside Opec, robust growth in
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      Lock icon Fed signals greater concern over growth
      364 10 Bloomberg Remarks suggest it has more incentive to continue rate cuts [NEW YORK] Federal Reserve officials signalled they are now as concerned about a faltering economy as they are about stability in financial markets. Central bankers anticipated growth that was "somewhat more sluggish" than
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Old elite poised to dominate Indonesia presidential race
      724 11 -AFP rudhoyono remains avourite because of weak competition [JAKARTA] As the US presidential race reaches a peak, Indonesians are starting to ponder their choice for president here in 2009 polls and are unimpressed by the old faces already dominating, analysts say. The
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
      2320 11 in 3 RM Cooo) \&M Realty 0.85 \bricBhd 0.28 \dvance Synergy 0.19 \dventa Bhd 1.45 \eMulti Hldgs 0.30 \ffin Holdings 2.56 \hmad Zaki Resou 1.82 \ic Corp 0.80 \irasia Bhd 1.59 \kn Technology 0.61 \lliance Financi 3.04 \luminiumCo 1.20 \malgamated Ind 0.52 \minvestment Grp unch \mmb Hldgs Bhd
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      Lock icon Malaysia to hold fuel prices steady as long as it can
      229 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will keep fuel prices unchanged for as long as it can afford, the prime minister was quoted yesterday as saying, as speculation is rife that he plans to call a snap election this year. Elections
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      Lock icon Political 'enemies' responsible for video
      300 11 -AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's disgraced former health minister suggested yesterday political "enemies" were responsible for secretly making and distributing a sex video showing him committing adultery. Chua Soi Lek, 60, also blamed the press for highlighting his political ambitions, which he hinted led rivals to
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      Lock icon M'sia car sales forecast to grow 7% this year
      517 11  -  PAULINE NG Consultancy cites favourable economic environment, bigger govt spending I By in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S automotive sales are expected to expand 7 per cent this year with buyers of replacement cars largely responsible, according to consulting firm Frost SuUivan (F&S).
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon 'Mini-revaluation' signals China's new forex policy
      823 12 Central bank likely to allow periodic jumps of a few each in '08: analysts [SHANGHAI] China's central bank is revaluing the yuan again but in contrast to the sudden, one-off move that jolted global markets in 2005, the current rise is being engineered over
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      Lock icon Mutual funds quadruple in '07
      229 12 -AFP [SHANGHAI] China's mutual fund industry nearly quadrupled in 2007 as millions of investors rushed to convert their bank deposits for higher returns in the stock market, state media said yesterday. Net assets of China's 363 mutual funds totalled 3.3 trillion yuan (Ss6so billion) by
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      238 12 [SINGAPORE] ÜBS plans to hire four more investment bankers for its Asian property business this year as investor appetite for China and India holds up despite economic uncertainty elsewhere, the bank's real estate head said. "I can easily think of 15 Chinese real
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      Lock icon Ex-China F1 racing boss gets 4 years' jail for embezzlement
      271 12 -AP [SHANGHAI] The former Formula One racing boss in China has been sentenced to four years in jail for embezzlement, state media reported yesterday, the latest person disgraced in a financial scandal in Shanghai. Yu Zhifei, a former city government
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      454 12 Reuters [BEIJING] China's more than 700 million farmers are happier than before despite a growing wealth gap, while poor urban residents are being squeezed by rising food and property prices, a top government think-tank said yesterday. Chinese farmers' satisfaction level has risen
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      Lock icon Tata is top bidder for Jaguar, Land Rover
      469 13 AP, Reuters Ford Motor says it's in 'focused negotiations' with the Indian group [DETROIT] Ford Motor Co has picked India's Tata Motors as the top bidder to buy Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover units, the US automaker said yesterday. Ford said in
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      Lock icon Oil & Natural Gas Corp, Hindujas may spend US$10b in Iran
      323 13 Oil Natural Gas Corp, Hindujas may spend US$10b in Iran Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Oil Natural Gas Corp, India's biggest explorer, and the Hinduja Group may jointly invest US$lO billion in developing oil and gas areas in Iran. The two may work together to develop an oil field in Azadegan and
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      177 13 -AFP [BANGALORE] Wipro, India's third-big-gest software maker, opened an outsourcing centre yesterday in the Philippines as surging costs and a domestic talent shortage drive Indian technology firms overseas. The 45,000 square foot facility in Cebu city will eventually be staffed by 900 employees, Wipro said.
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      7706 13 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mat (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!** 1.019/ Star Europe Bond 1.205/ Star Europe Bal 1.228/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.644/ Star Asia Bond 1.251/ Star Asia Balanced 1.054/ Star Global Technology Fund!" 0.227/ Multi St Fd 0.917/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.868/ Gib Multi St USD
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      534 14 AP, Reuters, Bloomberg LATEST US DATA But worries remain as credit squeeze cause businesses to turn more cautious [WASHINGTON] Orders to US factories jumped in November by the largest amount in four months, but a key gauge of business investment fell for
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      424 14  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY 3y in Tokyo IN the latest example of warming relations between Tokyo and Beijing, Japan will offer yen loans to China to finance emissions-cut-ting projects and in return will receive carbon credits to offset against its own liabilities for reducing greenhouse
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      Lock icon Asian PC makers find growth in US consumer market
      247 14 [SAN FRANCISCO] Asian computer makers including Lenovo Group Ltd and Asustek Computer are finding growth prospects in an unlikely place: the United States, a mature, slowing market compared to other regions. By planning to offer pocket-sized, full-featured notebooks or stylish high-end
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      338 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Bill Gates is spending US$3O million on the US presidential campaign for a cause, not a candidate. The world's richest man plans to make education the No 1 domestic priority with voters. The 52-year-old Microsoft Corp chairman
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      385 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Foreign investors exploited the declining US dollar during the past three months to snap up American companies at the fastest pace in at least a decade. Buyers from Dubai to the Netherlands accounted for 46 per cent of
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      272 14 -AFP [OTTAWA] A majority of the world fears large companies have too much influence on the decisions of governments and they want a more aggressive crackdown on their activities and influence, according to a survey on Wednesday. The Ipsos Reid poll of 22,000
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      453 14 Bloomberg, Reuters [SYDNEY] Centro Properties Group, the Australian owner of 700 US shopping malls, put itself up for sale before a Feb 15 deadline to refinance A 53.9 billion (554.92 billion) of debt. Chief executive officer Andrew Scott said he's also invited
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  • WORLD
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      52 15 k^| DEMOCRATS =g=§| REPUBLICANS Senator Hillary Clinton, New York Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas Former Senator Fred Thompson, Tennessee Senator John Edwards, North Carolina Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts Senator Barack Obama, Illinois Senator John McCain, Arizona Former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani PHOTOS: REUTERS,
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      871 15 THIS morning (Thursday night), about 200,000 lowans, give or take, will begin the process of selecting the 2008 presidential nominees. That number is small, but the results will have enormous significance. The lowa caucuses have been closely watched since 1972, when George McGovern's
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      612 15 Bloomberg Number of contracts up 41% as investors tap derivatives amid market volatility (NEW YORK) US options trading surged 41 per cent last year, the biggest annual gain since 2000. Investors boosted the use of equity derivatives to hedge risk as a key benchmark
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      386 15 -NYT [NEW YORK] With unusually dismissive language, Mayor Michael R Bloomberg offered tart assessments of his potential presidential rivals at a news conference on Wednesday, suggesting they are offering meaningless bromides rather than serious answers to the problems confronting the country. On the eve of
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      395 15 Peltz gets nod for Marsh McLennan deal Bloomberg FTC grants early termination of anti-trust review [NEW YORK] Nelson Peltz, the billionaire who pressured HJ Heinz Co to raise its stock price, has won approval from regulators to invest in Marsh McLennan Cos, the insurance broker that has lost 43 per
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  • AVIATION
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      423 16 Bloomberg Aircraft purchases from M-E airlines are driving sales at Boeing and Airbus [LOS ANGELES] Boeing Co, the world's second-largest maker of commercial planes, said orders for its 787 Dreamliner reached 817 planes after completing contracts with customers in Asia and the Middle East before
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      357 16 Bloomberg Some airlines may retain the single carry-on restriction [FRANKFURT] London Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest, and 20 other UK terminals will allow passengers to bring more than one piece of hand baggage aboard planes starting on Jan 7,
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      371 16 Reuters [BEIJING] China will restructure its two main state aircraft makers, AVIC I and AVIC 11, to beef up their global competitiveness, an AVIC II executive and local media said yesterday. AVIC I unveiled China's first domestically developed regional aircraft last month, moving closer
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      2416 16 AIRLINE CODES: AA American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), Al Air India (AIC), AY Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR
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      654 16 Reuters [CHICAGO] United Airlines cancelled dozens of flights on Wednesday, adding to the more than 1,100 cancellations since Dec 23 that the No 2 US carrier blamed on weather but its pilots blamed on insufficient staffing. UAL Corp's United has cancelled more than four times
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  • SHIPPING
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      798 17  -  SELVA KUMAR ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By AN AUSTRALIAN court has thrown out an argument by a time charterer that a cargo claim against it by the holder of a bill of lading could not succeed because only one of three original bills was
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      614 17 Bloomberg Shipyard says sales wili increase to 9.9t won this year [HONG KONG] Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world's third-largest shipyard, said sales will rise to a record 9.9 triUion won (5515.5 billion) this year as it builds more vessels at higher prices. The
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      285 17 Bloomberg Traffic in first 11 months jump 20.5% to 23.9 m boxes [SHANGHAI] Shanghai International Port (Group) Co, operator of the world's second-busiest container harbour, has reported 3.6 billion yuan (Ss7lo million) in 2007 net income. Sales reached 16.3 billion yuan while earnings
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      279 17 Reuters [MUMBAI] The Port of Rotterdam Authority is in talks with India's Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) for a greenfield port in India, the Mint paper said, citing officials from both firms. A deal could be announced later this month, it
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      512 18 AS global oil prices hit US$lOO, there is a certain pessimism about the global economic future. While gloom is not misplaced, it may be overdone. To be sure, there is a financial, even a banking, crisis unfolding in the US, which will probably get worse
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      965 18  -  AASIM SAJJAD AKHTAR The current unrest in major urban centres reflects the public's anger at the ruling regime By IN attributing the assassination of Benazir Bhutto to "Islamic militants", western governments have ostensibly given a green light to Pakistan's military establishment to continue calling the
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      788 18  -  ANDY MUKHERJEE THE BOTTOM LINE ALLOWING investors to sell shares they don't own is the most significant improvement in the Indian equity market since derivatives were permitted in 2000. The Indian regulator's decision to relax rules on short-selling from next
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      1361 19  -  FRANK DEBETS, NANCY ZHAO GRAHAM TURNER There will be impact on trade compliance for the business community given Singapore's status as a transhipment hub By and YOU think Singapore's trade controls have nothing to do with you? Think again! On Jan 1, 2008, Singapore
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      723 19  - China says 'ni hao to copper-rich Chile PAY JORDAN By XIAO Qiong, 28, stares intently at a group of Chilean teenagers, smiles and says with conviction: "Ni haoV The dishevelled boys and girls in front of her post exaggerated grins and reply in raucous but near-perfect unison, "Ni hao," Mandarin
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
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      6638 20 52-wks Tel High Low Code Company Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net ('000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E M Cap Smil 5716 1st Software 22 8.5 3148 STelecom i i- i 104 98 6389 ABF SG Bond ETF 30 15.5 1938 AEI Corp 27
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      61 20 Hit Low Code Com Sale cooo; Hit Low Bu. Seller C'vr P/E 200 116 6065 Diamonds 6200 5000 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** ***** 6101 ISS&P500 ***** ***** 6170 SPDRS US200d US6200 US1000 US***** US***** 250 80 100 100 100 3983
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      2121 20 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol C000) Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap |h Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E $mil Comi >an< Hii 30 11.5 1181 s AAGrp 41.5 20.5 5000 s ABR Hldgs 31 18.5 8538 s APStrategic 16.5 2.5 1501 s Advanced System
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      183 20 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non-Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
      362 21 %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Jan 2 World Index Preliminary 1120.4 -1.0 1.8 -0.9 -0.4 -0.7 6.: EAFE Preliminary 1113.5 -0.6 0.5 -0.1 1.8 0.0 8.I Euro[ Preliminary 1529.5 -0.9 2.4 -0.7 3.4 -0.5 10.. Pacific 958.3
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      134 21 As at 9am Jan 3 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2630 1.2780 Can dollar 1.4390 1.4560 Euro 2.1060 2.1300 NZ dollar 1.1060 1.1280 jterlin iund 2.8370 2.8680 US dollar 1.4310 1.4470 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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      162 21 Jan 3 Bid JS^ Otter Overnight 5/8 1-month 1 7/8 2-months 2 1/16 3-months 2 1/4 Overnight mode: 7/8 US$ Offer 1/2 1 3/4 1 15/16 2 1/8 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months SFr 4.55 4.60 4.65 4.70
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      25 21 Jan 3 len Hii Sett STI SIMSCI Jan 414.1 417.8 411 Taiwan Jan 320 322.2 318.3 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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      21 21 Jan 3 Bid Offer 1-month 1.4297 1.4307 2-months 1.4274 1.4285 3-months 1.4250 1.4261 6-months 1.4184 1.4196 Source: OCBC
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      158 21 Jan 3 Against SS Currencies Bid Offer Against US$ Bid Offer S$fUS$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2652 1.2663 0.8824 0.8827 Canadian dollar 1.4427 1.4438 1.0062 1.0064 Euro 2.1118 2.1136 1.4729 1.4733 NZ dollar 1.1125 1.1138 0.7759 0.7764 Sterlim md 2.8396 2.8418 1.9805 1.9809
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      293 21 Jan 3 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT URODOLLAR FUTURES Vlar08 Iun08 >ep08 3ec08 95.910 96.435 96.715 96.840 0 0 0 0 ***** ***** 6883 2988 EUROYEN FUTURES Vlar08 Iun08 99.285B Sep08 99.225B 3ec08 99.210 99.210 Vlar09 99.135B Iun09 Sep09 99.020B 3ec09 98.980B 99.200 99.250 99.285 99.220
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      282 21 Jan 3 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 1 (S cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest FebO8 Mar 08 Apr 08 May 08 JunO8 Jul/Sep 08 380.00 383.50 388.25 392.50 394.00 395.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month Hig gh Low Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest
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      102 21 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Jan 08 1232.50 1199.00 1245.00 1221.00 Mar08 1248.75 1214.25 1264.00 1236.00 May 08 1264.50 1229.75 1278.00 1252.50 Jul 08 1272.00 1235.00 1285.00 1261.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Jan 08 49.96 45.85 50.30 49.30 Mar 08
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      Lock icon CRUDE OIL & PRODUCTS
      76 21 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Jan 2 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 96.92 3.3 WTI (Near Mth) 99.60 3.61 Dubai (1-Mth F) 89.29 0.61 Tapis blend 99.95 0.55 Minas 98.2 0.55 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 94.65 110.05 -0.80 -0.2 US$/barrel Opec Oil
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      Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
      468 21 Jan 3 AS Rmb Euro HKS Ind Rs Ri Yen Won RM NZS Pak Rs Peso SS Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound us: Australia 0.877 6.418 0.599 6.896 34.795 83.004 0.966 8.266 2.904 1.137 54.652 36.264 1.266 6.014 0.985 28.626 29.508 0.446 0.883 Canada 1.140 7.319 0.683
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      170 21 Jan 3 GOLD (USS/oz) Jan 02 Jan 03 GOLD BULLION COINS (S$) Sellim Hong Kong 838.50 859.20 839.50 860.20 Dec 31 Jan 02 London 834.40 856.00 835.20 856.70 Source: Reuters (S$) Selling Buying 1 oz 1369.6 1232 UBS GOLD LUNAR KINEBAR (S$) Selling Buying 10gm $480.43 394 SILVER
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      66 21 Jan 3 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Month Range Price Price Hii Vol Open Done Position Low Jan 08 3131 3148 3152 3130 527 1996 Feb OS 3123 3145 3152 3123 2110 7389 Mar 08 3159 3135 3159 3121 7495 ***** Apr 08 3155 3127
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      68 21 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2387.50 2358.20 3 months 2438.00 2409.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 6717.50 6755.00 6641.50 6675.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2606.50 3 months 2615.00 2545.50 2550.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00
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  • CLIPPER ROUND THE WORLD RACE
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      943 26 iVith 12 new crew, it's no surprise Uniquely S'pore is back of the pack for now, reports VINCENT WEE The Uniquely Singapore Clipper carried the hopes and dreams of the whole region as it began Race Five of the Clipper
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      516 26  -  VINCENT WEE By UNIQUELY Singapore continued to bring up the rear as the fleet ran up the West Australian coast. The Singapore boat's decision to head farther out west seems not to have paid off- it notched up the worst 12-hour run of the day.
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      71 26 This series on Uniquely Singapore's adventures in the Clipper 07-08 Round the World Yacht Race is brought to you by ■-^'I'Mi THE BUSINESS TIMES Business Times journalist Vincent Wee, who did a circumnavigation on Uniquely Singapore Clipper in the 2005-2006 race and reported from onboard the boat in the first
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  • PURSUITS
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      925 27 NIGHT OUT Vith party central kicking off on Jan 19, revellers will have a tough ime deciding which ones to attend, reports CHRISTOPHER LIM HAVE you recovered from the hangover after all that year-end partying? Good, because there's a whole new roster of dance
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      466 27  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM SPIRITS By WHAT happens when people become increasingly wealthy and previously unaffordable luxuries become more commonplace? More to the point, what happens when previously exclusive wines and spirits lose their former cachet as status symbols? Booze makers have taken two contrasting approaches to
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        205 27 I t's a beautiful world CELEBRATE the 20th anniversary of one of Singapore's definitive musicals the hopelessly romantic and larger than life Beauty World. Conceived by Michael Chiang and Dick Lee, Beauty World was first commissioned by the Singapore Festival of Arts in 1988, being produced by Theatre Works. The
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        149 27 AN exhibition that opens next week, Trace, takes a new look at the artform of portraits. Working against the backdrop of the portrait being considered, mostly, as a "cultural object" in Chinese society, artist-curator Susie Wong re-examines the form within Western and contemporary constructs. "In the Chinese
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        83 27 SUHOBEZVODNOIE (The Dry Place) is a contemporary and innovative play in which Olga Pogodina recounts the difficult moments in her life and reflects on the different generations born in the former USSR, based on her brother's letters from prisons. An autobiographical production performed in Russian with English subtitles,
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        132 27  -  PARVATHI NAYAR ZAHABIA SALEEM DO Singaporeans have a sense of humour? What is the Singaporean response to satire? Perhaps these and other questions on the serious issue of humour will find an answer in the show Laughing Matter. The show seeks to explore the notion of satire via
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      1054 27  -  N KYONG WINE By EXACTLY 10 years ago to the date I wrote in this column "Wine lovers are in a quandary resulting from the present financial and economic turmoil". We are back to square ONE. Prophetic? No, there are always cycles
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      595 28 CINEMA The acting in Eastern Promises is uniformly good but it's Viggo Mortensen's performance that makes the movie stand out, says GEOFFREY EU DIRECTOR David Cronenberg has a delicious knack for depicting the trauma of human displacement plucking innocents from their comfort zones and
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      Lock icon This janitor cleans it all up very nicely
      627 28  -  PARVATHI NAYAR By MANY word associations come to mind with the title of the new George Clooney thriller Michael Clayton. Such as a man of clay who is redeemed by the qualifier "Michael", which translates as "one who resembles God". The title
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      450 28  -  PARVATHI NAYAR DVD REVIEW 3y FOR many people, the promise of a new year such as the one we have just celebrated is all about new beginnings and starting afresh. Taking this idea to the extreme is a young man in a
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      703 28  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM CD REVIEW Red Carpet Massacre Duran Duran Sony BMG Rating: B Poison Kiss The Last Goodnight EMI Rating: B+ Year Zero Remixed Nine-inch Nails Universal Rating: A- By MUSIC from the last two months could be naughtily labelled retro since it's
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      349 28 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Power to see the future in l_H era before Galileo? (10) M 6 Something removed from __Pbi_JH_H__Pbi_l l__H__ middle of loaf? Nail! (4) 9 I H^ 111I 11 I 9 Note sixties-style skirt on b^bb b^bb bh an bh bh |H 10 Being interrupted, made a financial
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      1690 30 CHEAH UI-HOON visits Sabah's Danum Valley, where reforestation has turned thousands of hectares of logged forest into ush greenery, providing shelter to a rich variety of wildlife and perhaps the answer to climate change THIS might look like any other nursery with its neat rows of leafy
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      592 30  -  CHEAH UI-HOON By VINOD Sekhar, chief executive of the Malaysian Petra Group, wouldn't be a familiar corporate name in Singapore if not for the fact that he created a buzz by bringing in Hollywood producer and actor Mcl Gibson for the Forbes Asia conference
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