The Business Times, 6 February 2008

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  • Title Section
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    25 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Singapore 85 cents online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg a Singapore press holdings publication co regn no *****2868E mica (p) 122/12/2007 Wednesday, February 6,2008
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  • Article
    Lock icon SingPost may sell landmark Paya Lebar HQ
    787 1  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA It's said to have appointed property consultant to explore its options [SINGAPORE] Singapore Post's landmark headquarters next to Paya Lebar MRT station may be on the verge of unlocking some riches. Sing Post said it is "exploring opportunities" for Singapore Post
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
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      Lock icon PRIME RATES
      29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 5.75 INDONESIA 14.655 TAIWAN 6.236 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.50 US 6.00 CANADA 5.75 SWITZERLAND 4.18 INDIA 12.75 Source:
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      Lock icon MARKETS
      44 1 1COMP 1,432.35 +12.69 IIKKEI225 13,745.50 -114.20 IANG SENG 24,808.70 -223.38 ;et index 807.68 -3.88 JAKARTA COM P 2,704.25 +2.62 1ANILACOMP 3,283.56 -39.69 ;eoulcomp 1,696.57 +6.44 ;henzhen b 674.00 -7.13 IUMBAI IND 18,663.16 +2.84 11AM EDT Change 12,405.22 -229.64 )OW IAS DAI 2,347.57 -35.28
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      Lock icon FOREX
      39 1 IS$ (S$ ier US$) 1.414 (USS/SS per 1.973 2.790 ;URO(US$/S$/E) 1.480 2.093 'EN 107.00 75.70 3.229 2.284 IK$_ 7.800 5.517 !AHT 31.12 22.01 lUPIAH 9,205 6,511 1ENMINBI 7.184 5.082 INDIAN RUPEE 39.45 27.91 1.101 0.778 IZ$ 1.259 0.891
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    Lock icon COE premiums stay firm as measures make their mark
    789 1  -  SAMUEL EE Fears of higher premiums prompt potential car buyers to buy now [SINGAPORE] The Land Transport Review's changes to vehicle ownership rules seem to have had an early effect on COE premiums. In yesterday's tender for certificates of entitlement, passenger
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      59 1 SUPER BOWL Fpl EXEC MONEY MOTORING WORLD BANK J A Giant day of records Growing interest Marginal owners likely China professor appointed W^**% for News Corp i i m fr°ntier markets to exit new car market chief economist PAGE 13 5-J^sSS=^ PAGE 28 PAGE 16 PAGE 2 US services index
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon PM turns spotlight on family bonds
      548 2  -  CHUANG PECK MING Aims to make Singapore an even friendlier place to have and raise children [SINGAPORE] Family remains relevant in today's modern society and in this Year of the Rat, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has called on Singaporeans to renew their kinship
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      Lock icon Justin Lin Yifu
      241 2 Born in Taiwan 1952 Graduated from Taiwan's National Chengchi University MA in economics at Peking University 1982 PhD at University of Chicago in 1986 From 1986 to 1987, he was a research fellow at Yale University, before returning to China to teach at Beijing University While serving
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      Lock icon China professor Justin Lin named World Bank's chief economist
      620 2 -AFP He is the first from outside US, Europe to take up the post WASHINGTON] The World Bank on Monday named lustin Lin Yifu, who defect--3d from Taiwan and rose to oecome a top economic strategist for communist "hina, as its
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon $357m bid to buy out AsiaPharm
        54 2 MAINBOARD-LISTED AsiaPharm Group has become the target of this year's first pub lie-to-private deal, following a $357 million buyout offer by private equity firm MBK Partners. The North Asia-focused MBK Partners is offering 72.5 cents a share to take the Chinese drug company private.
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        Lock icon St James set to be first Catalist listing
        74 2 THERE are anxious times ahead for the next few months at Singapore's largest night-spot, St James Power Station, as its parent plans to become the first company to list on the new sponsor-supervised board, Catalist. St James Pte Ltd, the operator of
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        Lock icon Keppel Gas wins $3b ExxonMobil deal
        48 2 KEPPEL Gas has clinched a $3 billion-plus, long-term deal to supply Malaysian natural gas to ExxonMobil's existing refinery and petrochemical complex on Jurong Island, as well as to a second petrochemical complex the oil giant is now building. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE 3
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        Lock icon S'pore banks may face more writedowns: analysts
        50 2 INVESTORS can expect to see more sub-prime-related writedowns from the local banks in the upcoming results, analysts say. A continuing stream of sub-prime losses coming from banks in the US means lenders here will likely not be spared either. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE 6
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        Lock icon GIC RE to buy stake in Italian shopping centre
        45 2 GIC Real Estate, the property investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, will take a $416.1 million stake in a shopping centre 14 km from the city centre of Rome. SINGAPORE NEWS, PAGE 7
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        Lock icon Malaysia to revise electricity tariffs again
        58 2 MALAYSIA will have to revise electricity tariffs again as part of a plan to reduce costly energy subsidies, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said. "You can't review gas prices without looking at the (electricity) tariffs because otherwise the market will dump TNB (Tenaga Nasional
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        Lock icon China moves to block mining sector mergers
        78 2 CHINA, seeking to cool a merger frenzy in the mining industry, may buy a major stake in Xstrata after Friday's purchase of a 9 per cent holding in rival Rio Tinto, reports and analysts said on Monday. State-owned China Development Bank fears that
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        Lock icon India to tap US$5b satellite launch market
        59 2 INDIA has been looking to tap the US$5 billion global satellite launch market for some time. "We expect to capture at least 10 per cent in the launch business. In the near term, two major contracts will come through," said G Madhavan Nair,
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      Lock icon Associates chip in to lift SingTel's Q3 showing
      637 2  -  SIOW LI SEN Telkomsel, Bharti shine as SingTel's Q3 net profit hits $952 million [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecommunications yesterday posted a net profit of $952 million for its third quarter ended Dec 31, 2007, down 4.2 per cent on exceptional items which included
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      Lock icon 172m customers may entice Apple to bite
      341 2 Size gives an edge in talks with iPhone maker, says CEO [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecommunications' pool of 172 million mobile phone customers is an advantage in negotiating with Apple to bring its iconic iPhone to gadget-crazy Singaporeans and others in the region, said the
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      25 2 GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Create greater transparency for your company by advertising your financial results in our newspapers. Call 1800 289 8822 or email notices@sph.com.sg. B
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon $357m bid to buy out AsiaPharm
      455 3  -  CHEN HUIFEN Buyer plans to delist company; offer is 14.2% higher than last traded price MAINBOARD-LISTED Asia -Pharm Group has become the target of this year's first public-to-private deal, following a $357 million buyout offer by private equity firm MBK Partners. The North Asia-focused
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    • ENERGY PLAY
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        Lock icon Keppel Gas wins $3b ExxonMobil deal
        443 3  -  RONNIE LIM Reports by KEPPEL Gas has clinched a Ss3 billion-plus, long-term deal to supply Malaysian natural gas to ExxonMobil's (EM) existing refinery and petrochemical complex on Jurong Island, as well as to a second petrochemical complex the oil giant is now building. EM
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        Lock icon SembCorp Gas launches GPlus
        372 3 SEMBCORP Gas is launching its new CNG retail service on mainland Singapore under the "GPlus" brand name with a big bang on Chinese New Year, Feb 7, by offering a hefty 19 per cent hong bao discount on current compressed natural gas prices. The offer valid
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      Lock icon St James set to be first Catalist listing
      508 3  -  CONRAD RAJ Night-spot operator in reverse takeover deal with JK Tech THERE are anxious times ahead for the next few months at Singapore's largest night-spot, St James Power Station, as its parent plans to become the first company to list on the
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      Lock icon Transforming Japan Land into a big IDC player
      806 3  -  LYNETTE KHOO HOCK LOCK SIEW SINCE exiting from a loss-making e-commerce business after the dotcom bubble burst to become a real estate player, Japan Land, once known as WizOffice, finally saw rosy earnings in the past two fiscal years driven by its
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      Lock icon CMT's Jurong mall to get new ice-skating rink
      344 3  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA By CAPITAMALL TRUST (CMT) will replace the existing Fuji Ice Palace ice-skat-ing rink at its Jurong Entertainment Centre (JEC) with a new Olympic-size rink the first in Singapore. Costing about $7-8 million, the new facility will be 30 by 60
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      Lock icon S'pore banks may face more writedowns
      660 6  -  CHOW PENN NEE Local lenders expected to be hit by sub-prime losses in US: analysts INVESTORS can expect to see more sub-prime-relat-ed writedowns from the local banks in the upcoming results, analysts say. A continuing stream of sub-prime losses coming from banks in the
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      Lock icon Jaya Holdings' Q2 net up 46% to $32m
      428 6  -  VINCENT WEE Offshore shipping was star performer with $16m earnings BUOYANT oil and gas sector demand sent Jaya Holdings' net profit up 46 per cent to $32 million for its second quarter ended Dec 31, 2007. The year-on-year surge in earnings was
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      Lock icon Tuan Sing's earnings up 92% for '07
      501 6  -  YEN SREENIVASAN By PROPERTY group Tuan Sing Holdings yesterday announced an almost doubling of full-year earnings, thanks to the strong Singapore property market, contributions from its Australian hotels and fair value gains from investment properties. The company chalked up full-year attributable earnings of
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      Lock icon At a glance
      58 6 Full year ended December 2007 TuanSing 151.12 78.69 92.0 322.11 365.57 -11.9 S'pore Food 31.37 30.20 3.9 714.88 636.89 12.2 SNP 29.31 21.07 39.1 517.28 444.59 16.4 Aztech 18.18 20.04 -9.3 268.31 239.00 12.3 Excelpoint 1.74 3.62 -51.9 700.00 653.16 7.2 Notes: Net profit refers to profit
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      Lock icon SFI's profit in Q4 slips 0.1% to $11.78m
      392 6  -  CHEW XIANG By SINGAPORE Food Industries (SFI) said yesterday its fourth-quarter net profit fell 0.1 per cent to $11.78 million despite a 12.6 per cent jump in turnover to $221.48 million. Cost of sales rose 13 per cent to $161.02 million while
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Informatics posts profit after 4 years
        98 6 INFORMATICS Education has finally smelt profit. For the first time in 17 quarters, it reported a net profit of $31,000 for its third quarter ended Dec 31, 2007. This compares with a net loss of $643,000 for the previous corresponding quarter. The group slashed
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        Lock icon Aussino interim earnings down 55%
        64 6 AUSSINO recorded a 55 per cent year-on-year fall in net profit to $2.36 million for the half-year ended Dec 31, 2007. Revenue dropped 6 per cent to $53.6 million. According to the company, the lower sales and net profit were mainly due to the decrease
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        Lock icon HupSteel Q2 profit up 19% to $8.2m
        88 6 HUPSTEEL reported a net profit of $8.26 million, up 19 per cent from $6.96 million one year ago, for the fiscal second quarter ended Dec 31, 2007. For the half-year, it recorded a net profit of $15.6 million, up 6 per cent from
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        Lock icon SNP Corp reports record earnings
        61 6 SNP Corp has announced a record net profit of $29.3 million for 2007, a 39 per cent increase. The growth in profit came on the back of improvements in all of SNP's business segments, in particular its commercial printing operations. For FY2007, turnover of the
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        Lock icon Time Watch H1 earnings soar 49%
        95 6 TIME Watch Investments, one of China's leading watch retailers, reported a 48.7 per cent year-on-year jump in net profit to HK531.29 million (555.7 million) for its fiscal half ended Dec 31, thanks to strong sales of watches for its proprietary Tian Wang and Balco
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      Lock icon Aztech's Q4 profit down 28.7% to $5.56m
      261 6  -  WINSTON CHAI ■By THE weakening US dollar and rising labour costs in China have dragged down Azte eh Systems' fourth-quarter profit 28.7 per cent to $5.56 million. Although sales jumped 9.5 per cent from a year earlier to $83.18 million, the bottomline was
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Bracing for a scrappy Year of the Rat
      961 4  -  LARRY WEE URRENCIES Times threaten to get rougher before they get better in financial markets RATS and mice may be nice enough in Disneyland, but in the real world they tend to be sneaky, dirty animals that have to scavenge for a
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      93 4 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 5 7 6 0 0 0 lanufacturini 71 58 47 13 13 84 64 Commerce 25 20 22 11 36 21 25 "pt/Stor/Comms 10 21 11 22 ■inance 17 17 instruction 12 'roperties 13 21 13
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      117 4 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL lulti Ind 19,052 19,052 115,988 115,988 lanufacturing 285,524 100,960 386,484 251,583 14,715 266,298 lommerce 121,821 2,696 124,517 57,706 450 58,156 'pt/Stor/Comms 119,673 293 119,966 292,406 87 292,494 :i nance 33,937 33,937 245,913 245,913 lonstruction 65,653 120,723 186,376 23,263 3,258 26,520 'roperties
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS
      100 4 la pita Land 5.940 -0.050 :a pita Mai 3.010 -0.070 jtyDev 11.900 -0.100 Iosco Corp 4.510 -0.010 IBS Grp 17.600 -0.380 :&N 5.010 -0.150 ientlntl 0.615 -0.005 IK Land 4.390 -0.060 ISH 14.600 -0.200 lardine C&C 19.320 -0.360 leppel Corp 10.600 -0.200 leppelLand 6.140 -0.140 IOL
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      729 4  -  MATTHEW PHAN ASL Marine announced a decent set of IHOB results yesterday, with the top line growing 23.7 per cent year-on-year (*****.4 million versus *****.4 million) and NPAT surging by 66.7 per cent year-on-year (5516.8 million versus 5528.0 million). These come in line with our estimates of *****.6
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      Lock icon ST Index's mini-CNY rally fizzles out
      522 4  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS NOT unexpectedly, trading in the local market yesterday slowed considerably ahead of the coming Chinese New Year holidays. Between 9am and 4pm, the Straits Times Index (STI) underwent its nowfamiliar tracking of Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index; between 4-spm it was
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      Lock icon OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES
      52 4 Feb 5 VALUE CLOSE 543.00+522.0 BT OB/OS BT CADI -*****.00 +9.0 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +54.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 784.25 -5.66 FTSE ST Small Cap 681.31 +0.96 FTSE ST All Share 783.45 -7.70 FTSE ST China 553.47 +1.15 SIMSCI 374.24 -4.73 SIMSCI Futures 374.10 -3.50 PrimePartnersCI
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      59 4 VOLUME Sapphire 116,040,000 E3 Hlds 111,372,000 Jade Tech 66,622,000 Sunmoon 37,460,000 China Honqxinq 36,961,000 Ban Joo 35,761,000 Sing Tel 35,468,000 ChinaEdu 34,621,000 Wee Hur 26,886,000 Firstßes 24,028,000 VALUE(S) Sing Tel 139,283,840 Keppel Corp 81,697,383 DBS Grp 79,004,700 Capita Land 78,367,420 SGX 66,023,650 UOB 56,364,920 STXPOKWIOO 37,550,030 S
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      Lock icon RISES
      104 4 CLOSE UP Deloni 199 47.0 30.9 SPC 670 30.0 4.7 Pain 445 18.4 3.0 ISMSCI India 100 906 17.0 1.3 Haw Par Cor| 636 16.0 2.6 Kei ilT&T 505 15.0 3.1 Wilmar 443 15.0 3.5 lux 299 11.0 3.8 Lorenzo 33.5 11.0 48.9 DBS Bk6% NCPS 10 ***** 10.0
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      Lock icon FALLS
      116 4 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN GLD 10US$ 8920-212.0 -1.7 JMH 2602 -56.5 -1.5 DBS Gri 1760 -38.0 -2.1 S I A 1588 -38.0 -2.3 UOB 1812 -38.0 -2.1 Jardine C&C 1932 -36.0 -1.8 SGX 986 -36.0 -3.5 StraitsAsia 355 -34.0 -8.7 SIA 200 1590 -30.0 -1.9 TIH 260 -30.0 -10.3
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      Lock icon CURRENCIES
      84 4 Where S$ stands Feb 5 CHNG CLOSE FR Feb 4 YR 2008/07 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.4165 -0.11 1.5479 1.4130 Euro 2.0790 0.88 2.1639 1.9913 Pounds 2.7895 0.21 3.1194 2.7855 AS 1.2809 0.15 1.3555 1.1741 Yen* 1.3164 0.58 1.3821 1.2285 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.16 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.3055 -0.14
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      4754 5 RafflesEducationCor/? RAFFLES EDUCATION CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) (Company Registration No. *****0712N) DELISTING PROPOSAL AND SCHEME OF AMALGAMATION IN RELATION TO HARTFORD EDUCATION CORPORATION LIMITED AND CHINA EDUCATION LIMITED 1. INTRODUCTION 7.2 The CEL Conditions. The CEL Scheme will be conditional on, inter alia. 1.1 Proposals. The Board of Directors
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon GIC RE to buy stake in Italian shopping centre
      382 7  -  ARTHUR SIM It enters JV with ING Real Estate to acquire Roma Est Shopping Centre GIC Real Estate (RE), the property investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, will take a $416.1 million stake in a shopping centre 14
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      Lock icon Germans remain bullish about S'pore
      324 7  -  GEOFFREY LEE Business community upbeat on growth prospects: survey THE German business community remains bullish about Singapore as a regional business hub, a survey published yesterday shows. The survey of businesses varying from small operations to multinationals was conducted by Droege Comp in December, for
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      Lock icon US to join 4 Asia-Pac countries in trade pact talks
      262 7 THE United States is negotiating with Singapore and three other countries on the investment and financial services chapters of a multilateral agreement. Called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, or TPSEP, its member countries are Singapore, Brunei, Chile and New
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      Lock icon CDL luxury development garners green award
      301 7 CITY Developments Limited (CDL) was yesterday conferred the Green Mark Platinum award by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) for its luxury residential development, Cliveden at Grange. The award is for exemplary green projects that achieve 30 per cent energy and water savings. Such
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      Lock icon Chicago maths programme here
      361 7  -  WEE JUN KAI By THE University of Chicago, ranked seventh in the Times Higher Learning World University Rankings 2007, will be establishing its Financial Mathematics Graduate Program in Singapore, beginning with the 2007-08 academic year in September. This will be the first time the programme has
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      Lock icon China releases jailed ST journalist Ching Cheong
      387 7  -  OH BOON PING By THE Chinese government has released jailed Straits Times correspondent Ching Cheong, who had been detained since April 2005 on spying charges. Bloomberg news agency quoted Jacqueline Cheuk, a spokeswoman for the Hong Kong chief executive's office, as saying that
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      Lock icon Bumper year for life insurance industry
      422 7  -  GENEVIEVE CUA By THE life insurance industry yesterday reported a bumper year as new premiums soared 33 per cent to $9.68 billion. On a weighted basis, total premiums rose 30 per cent to $1.66 billion, the highest for five years. Life Insurance Association president
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      Lock icon SLA puts 6 houses up for rent
      400 7 THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is releasing four bungalows and two semi-detached houses on its open bidding system from Feb 18. This follows SLA's January open bidding exercise which saw 75 bids for five state-owned residential properties. One of these properties, a bungalow
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      111 7 PEOPLE I t*P2v«* oW M FEBRUARY ISSUE OUT NOW! The second issue of the revamped Pulses is now out at Buzz Pods, major bookstores, selected newsstands and all Spinelli outlets for only $5.50 IN THIS ISSUE How an airline pilot flies high in the stock market Why it doesn't always
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Europe's central banker charts own course
      987 8 -NYT Trichet displays his cool-headed response to recent market turmoil [FRANKFURT] The day after the Federal Reserve's emergency interest rate cut two weeks ago, JeanClaude Trichet went before the European Parliament to deliver perhaps the most eagerly awaited speech of his four years as
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      Lock icon US banks raise standards on commercial property loans: Fed
      525 8 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The Federal Reserve said it became tougher for US companies and consumers to get loans in the past three months, particularly to buy real estate. Most lenders anticipate more delinquencies and losses this year, assuming "economic activity progresses
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      Lock icon Bush's final budget hints at tough choices to come
      535 8 -NYT Next president will have big challenge cleaning up the inherited fiscal mess [WASHINGTON] President George W Bush's final budget, a US$3 trillion plan offered on Monday that would continue his tax cuts and sharply reduce domestic spending, has little chance
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      Lock icon Bond insurance industry may lose US$34b
      489 8 Bloomberg, Reuters Rating downgrades likely despite bailout efforts: Citigroup [NEW YORK] The bond insurance industry may lose up to US$34 billion on securities they guaranteed, causing them to be stripped of their AAA credit ratings, says a Citigroup Global Markets report. The bond insurers
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      Lock icon G-7 to discuss global financial turmoil with key partners
      482 8  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY By in Tokyo G-7 FINANCE ministers and central bank governors meeting in Tokyo on Saturday will host an "outreach" meeting for their counterparts from Russia, China, South Korea and Indonesia to discuss global financial and economic turmoil in the
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
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      Lock icon Primus says it does not plan to run EON Capital
      541 9  -  I PAULINE NG Equity fund will work with current management and inject additional capital if business plans require it HONG KONG based Primus Pacific Partners, which earlier this week emerged as the single biggest shareholder in EON Capital, said it
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      Lock icon ADCB may buy US$1.2b stake in RHB Capital
      238 9 Reuters It wants to offer Islamic financial services in Malaysia [AßU DHABI] Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) said yesterday it was looking to pay about US$l.2 billion for a stake in Malaysia's RHB Capital to offer Islamic financial services in the South-east
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      Lock icon Malaysian palm oil prices hit record high on supply woes
      408 9 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian crude palm oil prices surged to a record high of RM3,4sB(Ssl,sls)atonne yesterday after Indonesia said it could increase export taxes, raising concerns about supplies. The market also took a cue from a buoyant US soyoil market,
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      Lock icon Jakarta ends talks with Exxon on Natuna gas field
      226 9 -AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia has ceased negotiations with ExxonMobil Corp over its contract to manage a major gas field in the Natuna sea, said the head of the government's negotiating team, Kardaya Warnika. Indonesia terminated a production sharing contract with the US
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      Lock icon Malaysia to revise electricity tariffs again
      453 9 Reuters This will help reduce costly energy subsidies by the govt: DPM Najib [PUTRAJAYA] Malaysia will have to revise electricity tariffs again as part of a plan to reduce costly energy subsidies, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday. The government was still
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      Lock icon Khazanah bond planned
      213 9 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian state investment agency Khazanah Nasional plans to issue at least RMI billion (Ss43B million) of Islamic bonds as it boosts its war chest for domestic investments, a source familiar with the plan said yesterday. The bonds are targeted for issuance in the second
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      Lock icon BURSA MALAYSIA
      2284 9 :eb5 RM COOO) A&M Realty 0.73 \bric Bhd 0.27 Advance Synergy 0.19 Adventa Bhd 1.39 AeMuIti Hldgs 0.28 Affin Holdings 2.35 Ahmad Zaki Resou 1.49 Aic Corp 0.68 AirasiaBhd 1.64 Akn Technology 0.63 Alliance Financi 2.93 Aluminium Co 1.16 Amalgamated Ind 0.48 Ammb Hldgs Bhd 3.82 Amtel Holdings
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  • GREATER CHINA
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      Lock icon China moves to block mining sector mergers
      619 10 Reuters State-owned bank eyes USsl4b Xstrata stake days after Chinalco's Rio buy [LONDON] China, seeking to cool a merger frenzy in the mining industry, may buy a major stake in Xstrata after Friday's purchase of a 9 per cent holding in rival Rio
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      Lock icon Australia govt may look into China's Rio stake
      417 10 Reuters [CANBERRA/SYDNEY] China's move to become the single largest shareholder in Rio Tinto Ltd/Pic, which has vast resources in Australia, may warrant investigation under Australia's foreign ownership rules, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday. "The reason we have Foreign Investment Review Board
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      454 10 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's health minister yesterday raised the possibility that someone had deliberately contaminated with pesticide Chinese-made dumplings imported into the country, an incident that has left 10 Japanese sick and sparked a huge food scare. Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe's comment came as
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      541 10 -Reuters Whole cities have had power and water cut for over a week [KAILI, China] Trains and planes are starting to return to normal across China, but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon India to tap US$5b satellite launch market
      411 11  -  SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA It aims for 10% share in business; expects two major contracts soon in New Delhi INDIA has been looking to tap the US$5 billion global satellite launch market for some time. Such efforts moved a step forward recently when space agency
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      470 11 -AFP Submarine, artillery, helicopter contracts up for grabs [NEW DELHI] A race for Indian military contracts worth billions of dollars will heat up this month when the world's top arms makers descend on South Asia's biggest defence fair. About 300 international weapons companies
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      462 11 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India is set to raise retail petrol and diesel prices this week for the first time in 20 months, a senior oil ministry source said, as the government risks political capital to ease losses at state oil refiners. The source,
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      7858 11 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABN AMRO Asset Mgt (Spore) Star Europe Eqty!** 0.925/ Star Europe Bond 1.206/ Star Europe Bal 1.185/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1.482/ Star Asia Bond 1.234/ Star Asia Balanced 1.013/ Star Global Technology Fund!** 0.196/ Multi St Fd 0.907/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.872/ Gib Multi St USD
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
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      Lock icon US services sector suffers record slide in Jan
      382 12 Reuters LATEST US DATA ISM index slid to 41.9 in Jan from 54.4 in Dec, stoking recession fears [NEWYORK] The US services sector retrenched sharply in January to levels not seen since the 2001 recession, renewing fears about an economic slump, according
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      Lock icon BP posts lower profit on refining losses
      372 12 Reuters [LONDON] Oil giant BP reported a big drop in profits due to refining losses, rising costs and service station writedowns. But higher production, planned job and cost cuts and a more generous dividend policy pushed its shares higher. The third-largest Western oil
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      642 12 Clipper Ventures Nova Scotia,westernaustralia2oll .com and Qingdao led the fleet in their move eastwards on Monday and now the rest of the fleet is also starting to move across the Luzon Strait ready to thread their way through the small islands between the
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      Lock icon Northern Rock rescue list shortens to two
      443 12 Reuters Olivant quit on Monday after saying it was unable to put together a proposal [LONDON] Britain's plans to extricate itself from the collapse of mortgage bank Northern Rock stumbled as it faced the prospect of an auction with only two bidders, unless
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      Lock icon NYSE Euronext Q4 profit triples to US$l56m
      574 12 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] NYSE Euronext, owner of securities exchanges on both sides of the Atlantic, said fourth-quarter profit more than tripled on record equity trading and new listings. Net income rose to US$l56 million, or 59 US cents a share, from US$45 million,
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      425 12 Reuters Assets pumped up by some savvy bets on housing market [BOSTON] Prominent new hedge funds pulled in slightly more money last year than in 2006 largely because savvy bets on the housing market pumped up assets at a small handful of
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon A Giant day of records for News Corp
      699 13 -LAT-WP It posts Q2 profit of USsB32m and reaps USs2som ad revenue from Super Bowl [NEW YORK] The New York Giants were not the only ones to walk away big winners from Sunday's Super Bowl match in Arizona. News Corp said that
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      Lock icon Any deal between Google and Yahoo will be closely watched by regulators
      582 13 Reuters BID FOR YAHOO [SAN FRANCISCO] Google Inc might be able to stymie Microsoft Corp's offer to buy Yahoo by forging a deal to run Yahoo's Web search operations or buy a minority stake but even that risks
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      Lock icon Microsoft's bid for Yahoo hard to resist
      629 13 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Jerry Yang, who pledged last year to lead his team of "Yahoos" to victory, may find investors would rather team up with Microsoft Corp. Yahoo shares rose the most 48 per cent since its first day of trading when Microsoft
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      414 13 Bloomberg They are expected to attain the highest triple-A rating [NEW YORK] Microsoft Corp will probably sell bonds for the first time to finance its proposed U5544.6 billion takeover of Yahoo, offering a top-rated investment in a newcomer to the debt markets. The
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      Lock icon Ex-Credit Suisse Pakistani banker convicted for insider trading
      390 13 -AP [NEW YORK] A former Credit Suisse investment banker from Pakistan was convicted on Monday in a multimillion-dollar insider trading plot in which he was accused of feeding inside information on deals to a high-ranking official at a financial institution in Pakistan.
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  • MOTORING
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      Lock icon A new equilibrium for car population?
      861 15  -  SAMUEL EE Measures to curb vehicle growth will result in a stable car population in 2-3 years' time THE new measures to contain vehicle growth and improve public transport are likely to weed out the marginal car owners, force others to keep their cars
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      392 15 Reuters [CHICAGO] General Motors Corp's 2008 Cadillac CTS moved up in Consumer Reports' ranking of sports sedans, passing BMW's 328 i and Daimler's redesigned Mercedes-Benz C3OO models, the magazine reported in its March 2008 issue. The CTS scored an "excellent" overall score, topping the
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  • AVIATION
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      Lock icon United to charge US$25 to check in second bag
      515 16 Bloomberg [DALLAS] UAL Corp's United Airlines, the world's second largest carrier by traffic, will boost its income by charging some passengers US$25 to check in a second piece of luggage. United, the first major US airline to announce such a policy,
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      393 16 Bloomberg It hopes to add 24 planes to its fleet this year to meet rising travel demand [SHANGHAI] Air China Ltd, China's largest international carrier, plans to borrow at least US$75O million this month to expand its fleet as travel demand
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      299 16 Flying from Europe to Australia in under five hours -AFP [LONDON] British engineers unveiled plans yesterday for a hypersonic jet that could possibly fly from Europe to Australia in less than five hours. The A 2 plane, designed by Oxfordshire-based engineering company Reaction Engines, could carry 300 passengers at a
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      Lock icon Air One prepares offer for Alitalia
      176 16 Bloomberg [MILAN] Air One SpA, the Italian airline seeking to buy larger rival Alitalia SpA, said it's preparing a "binding offer" for the country's state-owned carrier. The company and a "group of Italian investors" will have their offer ready "shortly", Air One said in
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      Lock icon Indonesia arrests Garuda pilot over crash
      259 16 Reuters [JAKARTA] The pilot of a Garuda Indonesia aircraft that crashed at Yogyakarta airport killing 21 people last year has been arrested by police on charges that include manslaughter, his lawyer said yesterday. Captain Marwoto Komar, who was arrested on Monday after eight hours
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      2559 16 AIRLINE CODES: AA Amencao An Air Fraoce (AFR), Al Air India (AIC), AY Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ Alitalia Airlines (AZA), Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Bu .31 831 Airlines (BBC), Bl: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bnd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), EVA Airways Corpn (EVA),
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      322 16 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 4 Refuges for soldiers with I^HI 10 Artist putting head on the I^H B:' 1 13 Maps a sailor needs to re- |^H I Il'' I 14 Recognised that it sounded 17 Man of science who might h^ 20 Log of charges for entry mM IH BB
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  • SHIPPING
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      Lock icon Dongkuk Steel ups price of heavy plate to record
      428 17 Bloomberg [SEOULlDongkuk Steel Mill Co, which sells 30 per cent of steel used by South Korea's shipbuilders, the world's largest, raised the price of heavy plate by 13 per cent as yards face record orders for vessels. The first increase since
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      Lock icon Lloyd's Open Form, 100 years young
      836 17  -  DAVID HUGHES STRAIT TALK Still going strong, but it may need to include environmental salvage awards IT HAS been a stormy few days around the coasts of northern Europe and several ships have got into trouble. One of them, the cargo ro-ro ferry Riverdance,
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      Lock icon Former AP Moller veteran joins Thome Ship Mgt as MD
      301 17  -  VINCENT WEE By [SINGAPORE] Former AP Moller man Bjorn Hojgaard has been appointed managing director of Singa-pore-based Thome Ship Management with immediate effect. Mr Hojgaard, 39, will report directly to Thome Group president and chief executive officer Olav Eek Thorstensen.
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        112 17 '000 CH Offshore Chuan Hup Hldgs Cosco Corp CWTLtd Ezra Hldgs First Ship Lease Freight Links Grand Banks laya Hold Ltd KWentures Keppel Corp Labroy Marine MTQ Corp NOL Pacific Shipping Pan-United Corp Rickmers Mari Samudera Ship Sembcorp Indust Sembcorp Marine Spore Ship Star Cruises 0.56 0.35 4.51 0.82
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        37 17 '000 Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings Nepline Brid PDZ Holdings 0.90 9.65 9.50 3.94 3.02 unch 0.17 unch unch unch -0.08 0.02 unch 0.01 200 1639 3748 1540 11 0 74
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        7 17 '00 ■recious Ship .27.00 -0.50 1125
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        11 17 '000 Doil iingamas Cont 46.55 2.47 0.20 -0.07 764 4116
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        17 17 '000 Aboitiz Equity Intl Container Keppel Marine 6.70 37.00 2.20 unch -1.00 -0.06 1596 443 20
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        22 17 Evergreen Marine ...24.05 :irst Steamship 55.40 ManHai Lines 23.20 fang Ming Marine ..20.00 0.25 3.60 0.25 -0.35 21 8 7 35
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        36 17 '000 :awasaki Hvylnd...258.00 -1.00 ***** :awasaki Kisen ....1066.00 -11.00 9958 /litsubishi Hvy 438.00 2.00 ***** /litsui Eng&Sbldg ..366.00 12.00 ***** /litsui OsR Lines ..1400.00 42.00 ***** lippon Express 586.00 -1.00 2846 lipponYusen 927.00 14.00 7962
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      Lock icon Samsung Heavy Q4 net rises 84%
      405 17 Bloomberg Earnings surge as it increases output on greater Asia trade [HONG KONG] Samsung Heavy Industries Co, the world's second-largest shipbuilder, reported an 84 per cent gain in fourth-quarter profit as it made more vessels to meet trade demand in Asia and Europe. Net
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      288 17 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Asian hiring rates for oil-product tankers may extend declines after falling to the lowest in more than two months as a dearth of cargoes is adding to the number of vessels vying for business. Hiring rates for a ship that can carry 55,000
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      250 17 -AFP [SINGAPORE] Singapore commissioned three state-of-the-art warships yesterday, further strengthening one of Asia's most modern armed forces. The new frigates join one that entered service last year. Two more are expected to become operational next year, the Ministry of Defence said in
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      35 17 i^tiTiTiTTtTl 1111 I A j J RJjffl Jffljffl I J—' iJ/]! ili] ii f'iJjjjjj DJ]L/j\ 4 —4' I>l)Jj£i]iJJiUJiilJiiJ Lianhe Zaobao Largest developer Wanke irst to ower prices China's property market also hit by "snow storms"
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  • FOCUS: ROGUE TRADERS
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      1045 18  -  REBEKAH CURTIS MICHAEL TAYLOR Praditionally, where very large sums of money are at stake, people have formed close-knit groups where trust is hard earned CENERALE WHAT happens in a market where you can no longer smell the fear or see the greed?
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      927 18  -  SUSAN ANTILLA To get on the right track, Kerviel would do best to emulate someone who got in trouble, but didn't do time P- ROSECUTORS are grilling him. His bosses are suing him. Securities regulators are dissecting his toxic trades. Jerome Kerviel
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      500 19 SO all eyes will be on the Budget next Friday, when Singapore's finance minister will apparently be disbursing "a little hongbao", especially to help the needy cope with rising costs arguably the issue of the day. At the rate that the consumer price inflation
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      1084 19  -  LEON HADAR Financial institutions in Wall Street remain very apprehensive about the many 'unknowns' INVESTORS in Wall Street were biting their nails early last week as they waited for US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues to decide whether to slash short-term
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      750 19  - It's still the economy but presidents can't control it ROBERT SAMUELSON THE BOTTOM LINE AS THE US economy weakens and the campaign intensifies, Americans will hear more of liberal writer James Carville's familiar refrain: It's the economy, stupid. Well, it ain't or, at least, shouldn't be. I'm not claiming that
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      2058 20  -  POX SOY YOONG ANG LEA LEA The selection was based on three criteria, namely the most pressing, the most relevant, and the most important HEN we looked at our original F listing of the wishes for this year's Budget, we decided to condense this list to only
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      6922 21 Transaction date: Feb 5 52-wks Tel )h Low Code Last Sale Vol ('000) Hil Day Last Quote |h Low Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net C'vr P/E M Cap Smil Com[ i an; 5716 1st Software 22 6.5 3148 STelecom ii i 107 98 6389 ABF SG Bond ETF
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      81 21 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol Cooo) Day lh Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil Com _Hm 200 116 6065 Diamonds 6200 5000 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** ***** 6101 ISS&P500 ***** *****
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      2039 21 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP] Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap ih Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E Smil Comi _Hm 30 11.5 1181 s AAGrp 41.5 18 5000 s ABR Hldgs 31 18.5 8538 s APStrategic 16.5 3 1501 s Advanced System 34
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      208 21 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non-Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer
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      372 22 In local curr In S$ In USS %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Feb 4 World Index Preliminan 1051.2 0.0 -7.1 0.0 -7.9 0.0 -6.3 EAFE Preliminan 1019.6 0.6 -9.0 0.6 -8.9 0.6 -7.3 Euri Preliminan 1398.0 0.1
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      66 22 Feb 5 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Month Range Price Price Hie Low Vol Open Done Position Feb 08 3350 3316 3400 3350 15 463 Mar 08 3401 3355 3445 3343 1684 ***** Apr 08 3411 3349 3458 3349 8839 ***** May 08 3410 3355
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      20 22 Feb 5 STI SIMSCI Feb 378.6 378.8 374.1 Taiwan Feb closed Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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      21 22 Feb 5 Bid Offer 1-month 1.4109 1.4122 2-months 1.4089 1.4103 3-months 1.4072 1.4087 6-months 1.4023 1.4039 Source: OCBC
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      155 22 Feb 5 Against SS Zurrencies Bid Offer Against USS Bid Offer >$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2838 1.2853 0.9085 0.9088 "anadian dollar 1.4178 1.4194 1.0033 1.0004 luro 2.0918 2.0940 1.4803 1.4806 IZ dollar 1.1217 1.1234 0.7938 0.7943 jterlini ind 2.7882 2.7913 1.9731 1.9736
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      340 22 Feb 5 >ource: OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT URODOLLAR FUTURES V1ar08 Iun08 Sep08 3ec08 96.960 97.410 97.535 97.510 0 0 0 0 ***** ***** ***** 5939 EUROYEN FUTURES V1ar08 99.190 99.190 Iun08 99.340 99.340 Sep08 99.400 99.400 3ec08 99.375 99.380B V1ar09 99.280 99.285B Iun09 Sep09 3ec09
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      Lock icon SICOM FUTURES
      291 22 Feb 5 KUbbbK Futures (Closing prices) RSS 1 (S cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest Mar 08 Apr 08 May 08 Jun 08 Jul/Sep 08 Oct/Dec 08 386.25 389.50 390.25 390.25 390.25 390.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month Hig gh Low Sett Volume (tonnes)
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      131 22 As at 9am Feb 5 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2740 1.2890 Can dollar 1.4130 1.4300 Euro 2.0860 2.1090 NZ dollar 1.1120 1.1360 iterlini 2.7770 2.8080 US dollar 1.4070 1.4220 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency:
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      163 22 Feb 5 fer Bii Overnight 1 1/2 1-month 1 5/8 2-months 1 5/8 3-months 1 5/8 Overnight mode: 1 .60 US$ Offer 1 1/4 1 1/2 1 1/2 1 1/2 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 1 2 months SFr 3.20
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      Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
      464 22 Feis Rm Euro HK' Ini Rs Ru Yen Won RM NZ! Pal Rs Peso Ram NT: Bal it Poum us: Australia 0.907 6.528 0.614 7.087 35.846 83.641 0.972 8.557 2.934 1.144 57.100 36.773 1.285 6.794 0.992 29.079 28.273 0.460 0.909 Canada 1.103 7.198 0.677 7.814 39.522 92.219
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      138 22 Feb 5 GOLD (USS/oz) Feb OS Feb 04 Hong Kong London 893.50 906.50 894.50 907.50 Feb 04 FebOl 895.95 910.00 896.65 910.90 Source: Reuters CAST BAR (S$) FebOS Buying Sellim Kilobar "43,757.65" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Selling Buying 1gm 5gm 10gm 20gm 50gm 100gm 1 oz 1
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      78 22 Fe/oS (US$) (S$) 3.***** 1.***** 1 mth 2 mths 3.***** 1.***** 3 mths 3.***** 1.***** 6 mths 3.***** 1.***** 9 mths 2.***** 1.***** 12 mths 2.***** 1.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 1.***** 2 mths 1.***** 3 mths 1.***** 6 mths 1.***** 9 mths 1.***** 12 mths 1.*****
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      88 22 Feb 5 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hii Day's |h Low 3-Month BQ*****H 08.05.08 1-Year BY*****A 29.09.08 1.45 1.49 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Hie Day's igh Low 2-Year N*****0F 2.625 5-Year N*****1E 2.500 7-Year NX*****F 3.625 10-Year NY*****F 3.750 15-Year NY*****X
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      69 22 Feb4 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2620.00 2613.20 3 months 2665.00 2655.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 7257.00 7260.00 7240.50 7230.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2804.50 3 months 2805.00 2824.50 2825.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months
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      105 22 Feb 4 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Mar 08 1326.00 1287.25 1327.00 1296.50 May 08 1344.75 1306.25 1345.50 1315.00 Jul 08 1358.50 1320.00 1359.50 1330.00 Aug 08 1349.00 1308.00 1349.00 1320.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Mar 08 55.76 54.12 55.78
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      81 22 Fe/o4 COCOA (Btonne) Close Prev Hit h/Low Mar 08 1209 1205 1212/1198 May 08 1235 1228 1237/1222 Jul 08 1260 1256 1263/1250 Sep 08 1243 1240 1246/1237 COFFEE (USS/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Mar 08 2155 2127 2164/2127 May 08 2182 2152 2190/2151 Jul 08 2200 2168 2220/2178 Sep 08
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      Lock icon CRUDE OIL & PRODUCTS
      78 22 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Feb 4 CRUDE (FOB origin) USS/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1 -Mth F) 90.38 -0.33 WTI (Near Mth) 89.97 0.84 Dubai (1 -Mth F) 84.71 -2.47 Tapis blend 94.7 -2.7 Minas 92.6 -2.75 PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 89.25 102.75 -3.05 -2.85 USS/barrel
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