The Business Times, 19 January 2008

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend SINGAPORE 85 cents A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION COREGNNOI9B4O2B6BE MICA (P) 122/12/2007 January 19-20,2008 online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg
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  • Article
    Lock icon Transport Central – on its way to wean you off cars
    785 1  - Transport Central on its way to wean you off cars SAMUEL EE LTA will play central planner; more operators in bus industry to raise efficiency By [SINGAPORE] In moves that will nudge car owners to hop onto public transport for a quick and comfortable ride, the government has unveiled plans
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    Lock icon Restaurants awash with warm glow of carefree CNY spending
    579 1  -  CHEW XIANG Rates hit $1,888 per table, but bookings still going strong By [SINGAPORE] Bumper bonuses and profits are feeding a frenzy for Chinese New Year feasting. With more than two weeks to go, restaurant bookings are going through the roof
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      102 1 Making the switch LTA to take over planning of bus, train and road networks. More frequent buses and direct feeder services to shorten waiting time Distance-based through fare system by next year so that even if you switch buses, you don't pay extra for the same distance Bus lane network
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      112 1 Strategically located at One Orchard Boulevard, Camden Medical Centre is just minutes from Gleneagles Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Hospital and luxury hotels such as The Regent Singapore and Four Seasons Hotel Singapore. Designed by Pritzker Prize Laureate Richard Meier whose works include the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, this 18-storey multi-specialist
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Citi Singapore untouched by global storm: country head
      537 2  -  CHOW PENN NEE No job cuts here as growth remains strong; bonuses, pay hikes stay on track By [SINGAPORE] Refuting reports on retrenchments and bonus cuts in the light of Citigroup's well-doc-umented problems in the United States the head honcho for Citi
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      Lock icon Clipper crew look forward to big welcome
      648 2  -  VINCENT WEE By in Batam FOR the crew onboard the Uniquely Singapore Clipper, no matter where they are from, Singapore is the home port and they are on the home boat, and sailing into Keppel's new Marina at Keppel Bay will be an
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    • MARKETS DIGEST
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        42 2 :rn iam 1COMP 1,439.49 -21.22 IIKKEI225 13,861.29 +77.84 1ANG SENG 25,201.87 +86.89 ;et index 789.67 -1.58 JAKARTA COM P 2,611.13 -38.15 1ANILACOMP 3,168.30 -80.59 ;eoulcomp 1,734.72 +11.17 ;henzhen b 683.87 -2.60 IUMBAI IND 19,013.70 -687.12 11AM EDT 12,230.18 Change +70.97 )OW
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        29 2 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 6.75 INDONESIA 15.800 TAIWAN 6.236 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.50 US 7.25 CANADA 6.00 SWITZERLAND 4.05 INDIA 12.75 Source:
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        39 2 IS$ :s$ us$: 1.436 (uss/ss ii 1.968 2.826 :uroi ;us$/s$/e; 1.462 2.100 'EN 107.20 74.70 3.269 2.276 IK$ 7.805 5.435 !AHT 33.03 22.99 lUPIAH 9,450 6,580 1ENMINBI 7.246 5.045 INDIAN RUPEE 39.28 27.35 1.139 0.793 IZ$ 1.307 0.910
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      Lock icon The hot issue of embracing buses
      626 2  -  SAMUEL EE COMMENTARY Singapore's climate will play a part in this important decision By HOW do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. Just as Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet described her love for her husband-to-be, some unpublished Singaporeans have passionately and much less
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      Lock icon Regent Garden en bloc sale contested
      364 2  -  UMA SHANKARI By [SINGAPORE] Allgreen Properties' purchase of Regent Garden via a collective sale is now being contested by the majority sellers of the property, the company said in a filing to the Singapore Exchange yesterday. BT understands that the majority owners, who together
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Sembcorp bags $180m NEWater plant contract
        57 2 SEMBCORP Industries has secured a bid to design, build, own and operate what is to become Singapore's fifth and largest NEWater plant. The plant in Changi will cost about $180 million and will produce 50 million gallons per day (mgd) of NEWater when fully
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        Lock icon A-Reit distributable income up 15% at $47m
        73 2 ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) yesterday reported net distributable income of $47.2 million for the three months ended December, up 15 per cent from a year ago. Gross revenue for the third quarter of its financial year, which ends on March 31,
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        Lock icon Biosensors secures CE mark for stent
        59 2 BIOSENSORS International will soon be able to sell its flagship Bio Matrix stent in Europe, South America and Asia, after having obtained the Conformite Europeene mark recently. The company said yesterday that it would begin initial sales by April., starting with Germany, Italy, Spain,
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        Lock icon Singapore Inc a model worth studying
        71 2 IF Singapore were a company, then its business model could be described as akin to a real estate firm, according to Chinese-language periodical Asian Business Leaders. Essentially, its political leaders construct a super building and lease out space to multinational companies. What makes Singapore
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        Lock icon CAAS picks Thales for $300m radar upgrade
        66 2 THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has awarded its tender for a new air traffic control system to Thales Aerospace Asia. Known as the long range radar and display system 111 (Lorads III), the new system will use designs and technologies that
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        Lock icon Proton rolls out new Saga, eyes first-time buyers
        63 2 UNVEILING its latest vehicle yesterday, Proton Holdings insisted that failure was not an option for the Malaysian national car manufacturer. At a crossroads 22 years after its very first vehicle was rolled out, the beleaguered carmaker is keen to prove that it
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        Lock icon Brown invites CIC to set up overseas office in UK
        70 2 CHINA Investment Corp (CIC) was yesterday invited by Britain's prime minister to set up its first overseas office. Gordon Brown extended the welcome on his maiden visit to China as his nation's leader, in sharp contrast to a more guarded
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        Lock icon Top Thai court clears Thaksin allies' poll win
        74 2 THAILAND'S Supreme Court on Thursday absolved the People Power Party (PPP) of vote fraud in December's election, clearing the way for the backer of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to form a coalition government. The court also rejected a suit seeking to
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      112 2 IN THE MAnER OF COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF STRAITS SHIPPING PTE. LIMITED (REG. No. *****1840G) (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap 50 the Final Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      2303 4 ANY of history's great inventors might tell you that their great idea came in a flash of inspiration a sort of "Eureka" moment if you will. However, for doughty Japanese professor Fujio Masuoka, the "Eureka" moment came only after years of hard work and an obsession with integrated circuits
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      Lock icon Where is Silicon headed?
      305 4 PROFESSOR Fujio Masuoka, the inventor of Flash memory, is confident that within the next 10 years Flash memory will replace hard disks as the primary memory storage device in computers. He feels that once his company, Unisantis Electronics (Japan) Ltd, and the Institute of Microelectronics (IME),
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      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 Sembcorp bags $180m NEWater plant contract
      444 5  -  MATTHEW PHAN Singapore's sth and largest unit will produce 50m gallons a day by 2010 By SEMBCORP Industries has secured a bid to design, build, own and operate what is to become Singapore's fifth and largest NEWater plant. The plant in Changi will cost
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      Lock icon A-Reit distributable income up 15% in Q3
      360 5 ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) yesterday reported distributable income of $47.2 million for the three months to end-De-cember, up 15 per cent from a year earlier. Gross revenue for the third quarter of its financial year, which ends on March 31, rose
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      Lock icon Take your chances and hope for the best
      595 5  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS AT THE risk of stating the obvious, it has been a "take your chances" kind of week. If you did take a chance and either went long or short, you could have ended up making plenty of money in
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      Lock icon Biosensors obtains CE mark for stent
      550 7  -  CHEN HUIFEN It will begin initial sales of flagship Bio Matrix stent to Europe by April By HEART stent maker Biosensors International will soon be able to sell its flagship Bio Matrix stent in Europe, South America and Asia, after having obtained the Conformite
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      Lock icon MI-Reit postpones fund-raising exercise
      270 7  -  UMA SHANKARI By MACARTHURCOOK Industrial Reit (MI-Reit) is postponing its $200 million equity fund-raising exercise given the poor market conditions, the trust said yesterday. "We have taken into consideration the current turmoil in the international capital markets in reaching the decision to postpone the proposed equity
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      Lock icon Integra2000 renamed Asiasons Capital
      242 7  -  QUAH CHIN CHIN By CATALIST-LISTED iormer payroll and information technology (IT) solutions company Integra2ooo has been renamed Asiasons Capital Ltd, as a result of resolutions passed at its extraordinary general meeting yesterday. Asiasons' core business will be in asset investment and management, with a focus on
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      Lock icon StarHub seen gaining with portability
      485 7  -  OH BOON PING By STARHUB has emerged as the top pick among Singapore telcos, as the telecom sector prepares for the new regime whereby customers will be able to switch mobile-phone operators while keeping their established phone number, says Cazenove Co. The research house is
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      Lock icon Provisions sink TMB Bank into deeper loss
      190 7 Reuters [BANGKOK] TMB Bank PCL 30 per cent owned by Dutch financial group ING and in which Singapore's DBS Bank has a minor stake, said yesterday that hefty provisions in the fourth quarter widened its 2007 loss as expected while lending contracted further.
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      Lock icon Aztech expands from technology to building materials
      257 7  -  WINSTON CHAI By MAINBOARD-LISTED Aztech Systems is branching out of the technology sector into building and construction as part of its diversification into new, higher-mar-gin businesses. The homegrown company which has been making telecommunications and networking products like cordless phones and routers for
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      Lock icon COMPANY BRIEFS
      142 7 Darco subsidiaries clinch 14 projects DARCO Water Technologies said that subsidiaries of the company have recently secured 14 environmental engineering projects in the industrial sector valued at about $9.8 million for delivery in FY2OOB. This brings total orders received for the industrial sector for delivery in FY2OOB to
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      135 5 X, ~/±JBnJTOI The Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law (GCIP) is a foundational law course for those training to be: Registered patent agents in Singapore In-house IP advisors I -IP portfolio managers I -Licensing/technology transfer executives I The GCIP Information session will cover the following: I Key features of GCIP
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      868 6  -  UMA SHANKARI TWO main themes are expected to dominate Singapore this year. Defensive names with strong earnings prospects and yields should feature prominently in investors' portfolios. S-Reits are also seen as value plays. Second, sectors that are expected to benefit from rising energy requirements and increasing food inflation
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      Lock icon Are falling stocks a harbinger of recession?
      1500 6  -  TEH HOOI LING SHOW ME THE MONEY FROM its peak on Oct 9, 2007, the US Standard Poor's 500 Index has fallen about 15 per cent. But does this point to an economic recession? The market, as measured by the performance of the
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    • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
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        715 6 Trans Date Shareholder/ Director Sefl Conv Shares '000 Price Per Shr$ Before fOOO) JCj After ('000) itock DayenEnv 17-Jan-08 Lee Thian Guan Buy 1000 0.61 ***** 21.60 ***** 22.18 GKGoh 17-Jan-08 GohYewLin «Buy 21 1.05 *****3 52.83 *****4 52.84 GKGoh 17-Jan-08 Goh Geok Khim «Buy 21 1.05
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        Lock icon COMPANY MEETINGS
        263 6 COMPANY MEETING PLACE DATE TIME Xpress Hldgs E 1 Kallang Way 2A Singapore 34/495 21-Jan 10.00am MFS Tech A 22 Tuas Avenue 8 Singapore *****7 21-Jan 11.30am Albedo Ltd E 2 Corporation Road #06-04 Corporation Place Singapore *****4 22-Jan 10.00am CosmoSteel Hldgs A Shan Shui Palace 450 Jalan
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Singapore Inc a model worth studying
      887 8  -  CHEN HUIFEN Chinese periodical observes that country is run like a business enterprise By IF Singapore were a company, then its business model could be described as akin to a real estate firm, according to Chinese-language periodical Asian Business Leaders. Essentially, its political leaders
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      7794 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mgt (Spore) Star Europe Eqty!** 0.925/ Star Europe Bond 1.209/ Star Europe Bal 1.18/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.52/ Star Asia Bond 1.233/ Star Asia Balanced 1.019/ Star Global Technology Fund!** 0.201/ Multi St Fd 0.917/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.863/ Gib Multi St USD
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      Lock icon CAAS picks Thales for $300m radar upgrade
      276 9  -  QUAH CHIN CHIN Lorads 111, replacing Lorads 11, will boost safety and efficiency of air traffic control at Changi By THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has awarded its tender for a new air traffic control system to Thales Aerospace Asia. Known
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon 97% of S'poreans get GST offsets
        83 9 ALMOST 97 per cent of the 2.3 million eligible Singaporeans have received their GST credits and Senior Citizens' Bonus, which were part of the GST Offset Package announced in the 2007 Budget. More than half of the 79,000 Singaporeans who did not sign up
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        Lock icon UniSIM offers study awards of up to $1m
        40 9 SIM University (UniSIM) will this year be awarding scholarships, sponsorships and study awards worth up to $1 million. UniSIM first launched the awards in January 2006 under the university's Financial Aids Scheme.
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        Lock icon Nanyang Poly, Scottish varsity in tie-up
        54 9 NANYANG Polytechnic will be jointly launching a degree in retail marketing with Scotland's University of Stirling in September. This is the third degree programme approved by the Education Ministry under the Poly-Foreign Specialised Institutes initiative to help polytechnic students gain access to more degree
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      Lock icon False MC case lawyer reinstated after 13 years
      502 9  -  MATTHEW PHAN By A LAWYER disbarred over 13 years ago for helping clients obtain false medical certificates in order to absent themselves from court was reinstated yesterday by a specially constituted Court of Three Judges. The reinstatement makes Gnaguru Thamboo Mylvaganam, 55
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      Lock icon S'pore able to dodge recession in '08: analysts
      344 9 Reuters SINGAPORE'S export-driv-en economy, which shrank in the fourth quarter, will feel the impact of a slowdown in the US but will just avoid recession, analysts said yesterday. Weak export figures on Thursday suggested the government's Jan 2 advance estimate, showing the
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      Lock icon Corporate reputation key to hiring
      416 9  -  LYNETTE KHOO MBA students say it plays a role when job hunting: survey By "A COMPANY that fails to look after reputational aspects of performance will ultimately suffer financially too." That is the message a recent survey by Hill Knowlton is driving home. Three in
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Proton rolls out new Saga, eyes first-time buyers
      418 10  -  PAULINE NG It has set lower prices for its 16th model, sales target of 50-60,000 a year By in Kuala Lumpur UNVEILING its latest vehicle yesterday, Proton Holdings insisted that failure was not an option for the Malaysian national car manufacturer. At
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      Lock icon Abdullah calls coalition meeting, indicating polls
      316 10 -AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's prime minister has called a rare unscheduled meeting of all parties in the ruling coalition, which analysts said yesterday was another sign that he is preparing to call early elections, likely in March. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced on
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      8672 10 Transaction date: Jan 18 Ugh »-wks Tel Low Code Company Last Sale Vol ('000) High lay Last Quote Div Low Buyer Seller C'vr Net P/E I Cap Smil 5716 1st Software 22 8 3148 STelecom 30.5 12 5834 A-Sonic 107 98 6389 ABF SG Bond ETF 30 14
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  • INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Telkomsel to pump US$1.7b into capacity growth, cut rates
      345 11 Bloomberg It plans to sell three trillion rupiah of debt to help fund expansion [JAKARTA] PT Telekomunikasi Selular, Indonesia's biggest mobile phone company, will spend as much as US$l.7 billion to expand capacity and cut rates to attract subscribers as competition
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      Lock icon Bakrie to raise 51.3t rupiah
      165 11 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bakrie Brothers, an Indonesian investment company, plans to raise 51.3 trillion rupiah (Ss7.B billion) to help pay for stake in companies including PT Bumi Resources, which is 15 times bigger. Bakrie Brothers, which is controlled by the family of Indonesian Welfare Minister
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        61 11 JiutianC 116,295,000 SGX 238,528,510 JES 73,71 5,000 DBS Gri 192,777,050 FirstRes 54,409,000 Sin. iTel 110,945,454 China Hon ixin 46,958,000 Wilmar 110, ,455,540 Yan. iziii ian 38,995,00! STX PO KW100 85,082,640 Sin. lTelMBLeCW*****3 37,488,000 Kei ■I Con 84,595,417 .rianeCor 33,626,00! FirstRes 80,078,870 STXPO KW100 33,355,000 UOB 79,819,895 Lian
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        108 11 BY CENTS BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP CLOSE UP Cit; 1170 40.0 3. CelestialMBLeCW***** 3.5 133.3 2.0 OCBCBk4.5%NCPS 100 ***** 30.0 0.3 AscendasSGAeCW*****3 2 100.0 1.0 SC Global W*****0 132 30.0 29.4 Gen Int RBeCW*****0 1 100.0 0.5 Cai italanMBLiCW***** 208 24.0 13.1 Kei i Con MBLeCW*****5 1 100.0 0.5
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        116 11 Closing prices are in trading currencies, but absolute difference is in S$. BY CENTS BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN CLOSE DOWN GLD 10US$ 8700-143.6 -1.1 STI 3700BNPeCW*****8 -75.0 -3.0 Jardine C&C 2000 -58.0 -2.8 DBS BNPeCW*****3 -62.5 -10.0 BS Gr| 1868 -46.0 -2.4 Easti )ateW*****1 -60.0 -3.0 JSH 1558 -45.9
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      88 11 Clob Up Down Unch 7 5 6 Up Down Unch OOP Up Down Unch 7 5 6 Multi Ind Manufacturim 56 91 54 12 13 68 99 67 Commerce 18 32 22 27 )t/Stor/Comms 24 10 24 Finance 22 23 lonstruction Pro 14 26 14 26 Hotel
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 11 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 22,490 22,490 122,617 122,617 Manufacturing 575,849 86,842 662,691 480,634 6,852 487,486 Commerce 100,368 7,422 107, ,790 95,682 1,793 97,474 >r/< 130,118 1,425 131,543 369,862 449 370,311 Finance 57,550 50 57,600 579,399 10 579,408 Construction 83,937 14,502 98,439 31,829 2,281
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS
      47 11 Stod name lose lange Capita Land 5.890 +0.130 .apr Jtyl lev .osco .orp ,rp :en lari line ippel .orp ippel .am mp Stod name lose lange 01am 2.830 -0.040 ngg :ngg leml .orp >eml [IF iing >tar lai leverage Imar 'angzijiang 'aril \oR
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      Lock icon BONDS & WARRANTS
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      2328 11 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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      Lock icon SGX XTRANET
      80 11 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol Cooo) Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E Smil Com| Hit 200 116 6065 Diamonds 6200 5000 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** ***** 6101 ISS&P5OO ***** ***** 6170
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      74 11 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol cooo] Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E Smil Comi Hil 141 93 6000 AVJennings... 21.5 5 6134 Over&Gen 64 21.5 6017 StarCruises 320 181 6019 TanChonglnt ...A93 ...A15 .US22.5 .HK245 -3 -0.5 -4 1
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
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      Lock icon Brown invites CIC to set up overseas office in UK
      615 12 AFP British welcome a sharp contrast to guarded response in the US to SWFs [BEIJING] China Investment Corp (CIC), the nation's huge sovereign wealth fund seen as a tool to project Beijing's economic clout, was yesterday invited by Britain's prime
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      Lock icon Hit by rupee gains, Wipro profit jump smallest in 3 years
      327 12 Bloomberg [BANGALORE] Wipro, India's third-largest software exporter, posted the slowest profit growth in almost three years, trailing analysts' estimates, after the rupee's gain curbed earnings from the US. Net income rose 11 per cent to 8.26 billion rupees (*****.2
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      Lock icon China growth may slow slightly
      161 12 Reuters Researcher predicts 10.5% growth as measures take effect [BEIJING] China's economic growth may ease slightly this year to 10.5 per cent from the estimated 11.5 per cent rate of expansion in 2007, a researcher at a state think-tank said yesterday, as the government's cooling
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      Lock icon Indians to clock highest salary increase: survey
      414 12  -  SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA By in New Delhi EXECUTIVES working in India's private sector firms are seeing some of the world's biggest percentage pay increases. The reason is that there are just too few qualified personnel to go round. The trend of big pay rises
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      232 12 Bloomberg [LONDON] Richard Branson plans to establish a company in China to help the world's biggest emitter of climate-altering gases develop clean energy and cut emissions. "We plan to invest quite heavily in it," said the billionaire, who is travelling with
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      475 13 Reuters LATEST US DATA Sluggish future economic activity index faces risks of weakening [WASHINGTON] A closely watched index of future economic activity dropped for a third-straight month in December, implying growth will remain sluggish and faces rising risks of weakening, the
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      209 13 AP [REYKJAVIK, Iceland] Bobby Fischer, the troubled chess genius who achieved fame by taking the game's world championship from the Soviet Union during the Cold War, has died. He was 64. Mr Fischer's spokesman Gardar Sverrisson said Mr Fischer died in a
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      385 13 Reuters Move paves way for the PPP to form a coalition govt [BANGKOK] Thailand's Supreme Court on Thursday absolved the People Power Party (PPP) of vote fraud in December's election, clearing the way for the backer of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra
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      654 13 [ZURICH] ÜBS, Europe's biggest bank, is shrinking its investment banking business, cutting staff and drastically downscaling its exposure to risky investments. The bank's chief executive officer Marcel Rohner said in a memo to staff that the bank will spin off its distressed mortgage-backed securities holdings
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      322 13 AP [LAS VEGAS] Billionaire Sheldon Adelson flipped the switch "on" for his newest creation, the US$l.9 billion Palazzo hotel-casino, with a modest fireworks display and champagne toast. The gigantic hotel-casi-no officially debuted Thursday as the biggest resort to open on the Las
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      474 13  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY By in Tokyo CHINA and Japan should be able to reach agreement on the sharing of oil and gas resources under the East China Sea "well before" Chinese President Hu Jintao's scheduled visit to Japan in the spring,
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      963 14 SAMUEL EE takes the Nissan GT-R R35 for a spin and finds it lives up to the hype it has been getting from hyperventilating admirers THE coverline on the front of the American magazine screams that the GT-R's 480 hp figure is wrong. Turn to the story on the
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      558 14  -  BENJAMIN NG By AFTER a historic moment at the recent Tokyo Motor Show when the Nissan GT-R was unveiled, many had expected the iconic sports car to dominate last weekend's Tokyo Auto Salon. But a quick check with tuners such as HKS
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      450 14  -  SAMUEL EE By FUEL efficiency has taken on new significance in these times of skyrocketing energy prices. Even if you can still afford petrol after these increases, it must be heartening to know that your car isn't as thirsty as it looks. In this context, Volkswagen's introduction of
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      966 15 A S'porean who quit her job as an accountant to play as an amateur full time finds payoffs on the green, reports JUSTINE MOSS MANY amateur golfers especially those whose game has reached a certain standard dream of turning professional one day. Some slave
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      734 16  -  CHEAH UI-HOON What's new in the beauty market this year? BT Weekend takes a look at some of the treatments and products available to those whore determined to age gracefully and imperceptibly By BOTOX, cosmetic surgery's "miracle" drug, continues to be used in new applications the
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      471 16  -  CHEAH UI-HOON By ALLERGAN Inc, the company which came up with Botox, has now launched a "next generation" dermal filler, the only hyaluronic acid dermal filler that's approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Juvederm could well become as much a household name
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      371 16  -  CHEAH UI-HOON By THE award-winning New York nail products and treatments under bliss's Spa Professional have made their way here, offered exclusively at The Nail Room. "It's about offering a bit of indulgence but one with results," says Cindy Chua, the nail salon's owner. bliss is well known
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      1115 16  -  MELISSA HENG By "OLD" surgical procedures are being re-termed so that the modern woman can relate to them in today's aesthetic medicine terms. So, if you know of an older woman who's had "pelvic floor repair", then you might better understand that as "vaginal rejuvenation".
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      876 17 CHEAH UI-HOON looks at how malls on Singapore's main shopping street are differentiating themselves WANT to find a niche label or product but are not willing to venture out to places on the fringe like Club Street or Haji Lane? The good news is
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      641 17  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM By YOU don't just want a pretty mobile phone. You want one built like a tank without looking like one, and you want one that you can travel with. If those are your demands, you're in for a bit of a
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      616 18  -  DAVEN WU Looking for a quick sunny getaway over the Chinese New Year break? Check out the hot resorts in the Maldives and Mauritius By THESE days, it's a traveller's nervous and worried aphorism that now is the time to visit the Maldives
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      618 18  -  OH BOON PING By IT'S a typical holiday cliche warm sunshine, crystal clear waters, pristine sandy beaches but if that is what sums up Mauritius, so be it. And yes, He Maurice did not disappoint with all this and more, like the former French colony's unique Creole
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      298 19 SOME people are confused by something that is deemed to be a healthy meal and one that is either calorie controlled or even vegetarian. The notion of a balanced menu involves moderation, and it would be a good idea to have a meal
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      612 19  -  JAIME EE By My Blood Type Restaurant (opening next month) #01-29 Golden Shoe Carpark. Tel: 6533-5570 www. healthyharvest. com. sg DIETS are never easy to follow, regardless of how delicious their advocates make them out to be. While the spirit may be
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      1009 19  -  JAIME EE By Raw Food Cuisine www.rawfoodcuisine.com.sg ONE of the drawbacks or advantages, depending on how you see it of raw vegan food is that there are no restaurants here that serve it. So, if you want to taste this mouthwater-ing-looking lasagne, you're going
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