The Business Times, 29 August 2009

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  • 15 1 weekend THE BUSINESS TIMES www.businesstimes.com.sg august 29-30,2009 sji.OO mica(p)l24/08/2009 SCll A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • 516 1  -  Samuel Ec Guests at glittering Fl lunch will get to stretch their charity dollar and enjoy celeb chef Nobu's creations By samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore IT MAY all be for a charitable cause, but some guests at this year's President's Challenge Fl Charity Luncheon will
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  • 713 1  -  Siow Li Sen Conrad Tan Credit Suisse, Barclays, Citi among those active of late By and lisen@sph.com.sg conradt@sph.com.sg Singapore EVIDENCE is growing that banks are stepping up their hiring of senior bankers in Asia, in a sign that sentiment in at least
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 159 1 THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION M^T^ SI ART SHOW ME 111 I 111 111! ill 111 ■V RAMCHARAN, The next big THE MONEY I CONSULTANT v^^^gl I thing? L 23 Is China worth the risk? |33 B lii!9Jffi| TORRID TAKE-UP Trevista going like hot cakes NTUC Choice Homes had to release 190
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  • TOP STORIES
    • CONTENTS
      • 31 2 Top Stories 2-6 Week in Review 7 Raffles Conversation 8,9 Companies 10-13 Letter From Abroad T8 W°Hd 19^22 Stocks Stats 23-27 Perspective 28-29 Wealth 30-34 Househunt 35 Real Estate 36
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        19 2 ShoPPlng j tl^l Home Garden Ll2-13 Gadgets Ll4 Health LI 5 Sport LI 6 Golf LT7 Motoring LIB-20
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    • MARKETS
      • 47 2 KL COMP 1,174.27 -2.63 NIKKEI 225 10,534.14 +60.17 HANG SENG 20,098.62 -144.13 SET 656.98 +4.58 JAKARTA 2,377.24 +21.18 MANILA 2,884.18 +2.78 KOSPI 1,607.94 +8.61 SHENZHEN B 494.09 -8.71 MUMBAI IND 15,922.34 +141.27 12 noon EDT Chanpe 12 noon EDT Change DOW 9,541.25 -39.15 NASDAQ 2,031.04 +3.35
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      • 29 2 SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 16.448 TAIWAN 4.776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 050 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.52 INDIA 11.75 Source: Bloomberg
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      • 49 2 US$ 'S$ ier US$; 1.441 ;us$; IS$ ier£; 1.629 2.347 EURO. ;us$/s$/i 1.433 2.066 Forei: ;n current >er US$ S$ YEN 93.90 65.20 RM 3.526 2.446 HK$ 7.751 5.378 BAHT 34.02 23.60 RUPIAH 10,080 6,994 RENMINBI 6.831 4.740 NDIAN RUPEE 48.88 33.91 A$ 1.190 0.825 NZ$ 1.459 1.013
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    • 387 2 AP, Reuters LATEST US DATA Aug consumer confidence at 4-month low on jobs worries Washington US CONSUMER spending edged up in July with help from the popular Cash for Clunkers programme, but household incomes, the fuel for future spending increases, were flat. Meanwhile, US consumer
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    • 621 3  -  Chuang Peck Ming COMMENTARY Otherwise, some companies will be tempted to take the easy way out and just cut jobs to improve numbers By IT'S time to turn the spotlight on Singapore's labour productivity. But any move to reverse its decline now
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    • 502 4  -  Kalpana Rashiwala 320 of 590-unit project taken up; co-op to release more at weekend By kalpana@sph.com.sg Singapore IF it's priced attractively, it still sells. Hungry home buyers yesterday bought around 320 units at the 590-unit Trevista condo in Toa Payoh.
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    • 604 4  -  Anthony Rowley By btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo CONSUMER prices in Japan plunged by a record 2.2 per cent in July while the nation's unemployment rate soared to a record high of 5.7 per cent, it was reported yesterday on the eve of a
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    • 649 5  -  Jamie Lee Of those in the black, 64% booked lower full-year earnings than before By leejamie@sph.com.sg Singapore FULL-YEAR profits for the 66 firms that have so far reported their results for the year to June 30 slumped 68 per cent to $692 million. More
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    • 473 5  -  Yen Sreenivasan By ven@sph.com.sg Singapore THE man who turned around once-struggling Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has been promoted to a Cabinet job, while his understudy of four years takes over as the airline's chief executive. Idris Jala, the former Shell executive who took the helm
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    • 816 6 Bloomberg China Unicorn will sell the original iPhone 3G and the 3G S models Hong Kong APPLE Inc's iPhone will go on sale in China in the fourth quarter, entering a market that has more subscribers than the combined populations of the US and
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    • 319 6 Bloomberg Frankfurt EUROPEAN confidence in the economic outlook increased twice as much as economists forecast in August, adding to signs the region is emerging from the deepest recession in more than six decades. An index of executive and consumer sentiment in the 16 nations
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  • WEEK IN REVIEW/WEEK AHEAD
    • THIS WEEK
      • 60 7 CONTROLLING shareholders may in future be forced to disclose any significant share pledges they have made, based on new regulations now being studied by the Singapore Exchange. Such shareholders may also have to custodise their shares in Singapore, said SGX chief
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      • 59 7 WITH Air China last week boosting its stake in Cathay Pacific, the globally renowned Hong Kong airline has moved a step closer to becoming a mainland company, analysts say. Air China's 29.99 per cent stake is just a hair's breadth away from
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      • 62 7 COMPANIES audited by an overseas accounting firm may need a joint sign-off by a local auditor, while new listings may need to hire governance advisers for two years after their initial public offering. These were part of the proposed regulatory changes indicated by Singapore
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      • 66 7 FORTUNE Reit is raising funds totalling close to HK$5 billion (Ss93o million) through debt facilities and a rights issue, joining the spate of S-Reits that have rolled out their re-financing plans. The bulk of the HK$l.9 billion gross proceeds from the rights
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      • 59 7 IF there was one message from central bankers gathered at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, over the weekend, it was this: don't expect us to raise interest rates anytime soon. They noted that economies were recovering only with extraordinary stimulus and said that it
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      • 46 7 FOR the fourth time in about a month, a 99-year leasehold site on the government's reserve list has been triggered for release, as developers seek to replenish their landbanks with suburban condo land after the run-up in home sales.
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      • 65 7 TEMASEK Holdings has removed all direct references to Singapore and the government in its updated charter a move seen as part of its ongoing efforts to bolster its credentials as an investment firm driven solely by commercial interests. The updated charter reflects the "very different
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      • Article, Illustration
        19 7 Has been nominated by US President Barack Obama to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman AFP
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      • 57 7 US President Barack Obama nominated Ben Bernanke to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday, aiming for continuity at a time when the US economy is breaking free from a deep recession. Mr Obama interrupted his vacation to make the announcement with
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      • 53 7 IMPROVED sentiment in the private residential sector has filtered from the mass market to the upper tiers in the second quarter of this year, an analysis of caveats shows. The proportion of caveats for private housing transactions above $1.5-million was
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      • 45 7 SINGAPORE'S million-dollar club continued to grow, as did these top earners' average tax bill. A total of 3,838 taxpayers earned above a million dollars in the year of assessment 2008. This is 40 per cent more than a year earlier.
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      • 48 7 CONSTRUCTION of Singapore's $1-1.5 billion liquefied natural gas terminal on Jurong Island is set to kick off next January, says Lawrence Wong, CEO of the Energy Market Authority, which had taken over the delayed project from Power Gas and GDF Suez.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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    • 111 7 NEXT WEEK Aug 31-Sept 4, 2009 US DATA Aug 31 Chicago PMI Aug Sept 1 Construction spending July ISM Index Aug Car sales Aug Sept 2 Factory orders July Crude inventories Aug 28 FOMC minutes Aug 12 Sept 3 Initial job claims Aug 29 Sept 4 Unemployment rate Aug SINGAPORE
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
    • 2178 8  -  Joyce Hooi Ram Charan is the man CEOs call when they really need help. By His consulting methods remain devoid of frills. He does not go about peddling catchy corporate philosophies, like telling CEOs to '"up" something or other, or to behave like Sun Tzu in a board
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    • 76 8 Raffles Hotels Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles Hotels Resorts. A collection of luxury hotels, Raffles Hotels and Resorts distinguishes itself through the highest standards of hospitality, service and cuisine. Its hotels in Singapore, Beijing, Cambodia, Beverly Hills, Dubai and the Caribbean
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  • COMPANIES
    • 594 9  -  Chew Xiang His foundation and Novena Holdings had bought 66.3 m shares in May By xchew@sph.com.sg TYCOON Oei Hong Leong has sold his deemed interest in 69.9 million shares in Chinese water company United Envirotech (UET), according to regulatory filings. The stake represents 17.6 per
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    • 311 9 Reuters London SINGAPORE-LISTED Noble Group is building a global oil trading team in a bid to become a major trading house across energy and commodities, a senior director told Reuters. "We are already in the energy sector, we just weren't at the heart
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    • 152 9 THE Singapore Exchange has granted FibreChem Technologies a series of extensions of time to report its 2008 and 2009 financial results as well as to hold its annual general meeting. The company said that it has been given a further threemonth extension to Nov
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    • 642 10  -  Chew Xiang CORPORATE FOCUS Out of the 18 Reits that have announced their results, 12 reported revenue growth. By YET another real estate investment trust (Reit) went cap-in-hand to its shareholders this week. Fortune Reit said that it was raising HK$l.9 billion (*****.4
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    • 306 10  -  Arthur Lee By arthurl@sph.com.sg FORTY staff of Noble Group, a supporter and sponsor of The Bull Charge, spent time with 120 Pathlight School students yesterday morning on an educational tour of the Marina Barrage. The event was the first under the Bull Charge Beneficiaries Outreach
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    • 635 11  -  R Sivanithy STOCKS sivan@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent LAST Saturday's column "A case of running but standing still" spoke of hectic churning of blue chips over the preceding fortnight by investors, but with little in the way of upside gains since prices hardly budged during that
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    • 258 11  -  Jamie Lee By leejamie@sph.com.sg PETROCHINA, which has offered to take over Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) in a $3.2 billion deal has extended the closing date for acceptance to Sept 4. The offer which PetroChina made to buy the remaining 54.5 per cent that
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    • 112 11 :hina Hon! 101,489 23.5 0.5 2.: ientinj SP 96,406 102 25 2.5 >ino-Env 68,044 14 0.5 3.7 Intl 59,262 5.5 25 83.3 vP Tech R 58,245 0.0 0.0 atarCruises 56,720 29 43 11.5 Saker Tech 51,514 36 3.5 10.8 :hinaEner£ 45,986 31 1.0 3.: :roi 43,137 725
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    • 62 11 CLOSE UP iBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 5413 327.0 4.. ;ld 10US$ 9338 100.8 0.1 iBXT MSTaiwan 10US$ 1368 28.8 1.! lardine C&C 2400 28.0 i.: :hina Env 100 65 22.0 si.: iBS Bk6% NCPS 10 ***** 20.0 o.: )CBC Bk 5.1%NCPS 100 9996 16.0 o.: ;pc 623 15.0 2.!
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    • 54 11 CLOSEDOWN iBXT Nil 10US$ 9700 -43.2 -a: laii 562 -40.3 -4." iTXPO 100 1300 -20.0 -1.! iGX.ES.0909 857 -16.0 -1.1 ir China H 10US$ 1492 -15.9 -o: ;gx 857 -15.0 -1." iBXTS&P Short 10US$ 5990 -13.0 -a: cor Mala1 10US$ 633 -13.0 -1.. 'enture Con 863 -11.0 -i.:
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    • 95 11 litaLand 3.760 -0.030 litaMall 1.680 +0.050 :it> 10.340 :omfortDelGro 1.570 +0.020 ]osco Corp 1.270 -0.020 IBS Grp 12.900 +0.020 :&N 4.000 ientin: SP 1.020 +0.025 iolden A; 0.480 -0.010 IK Land 4.030 -0.010 IMH 28.160 +0.040 ISH 16.200 +0.020 lardine C&C 24.000 +0.280 Corp 7.800 +0.010 loble Gri
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    • 497 12  -  Teh Shi Ning It will acquire 14.73% of fully-diluted capital from Venture One Finance, and also option shares from 3 directors By tshining@sph.com.sg INDIAN billionaire Bhupendra Kumar Modi's Spice Group is acquiring up to about 20 per cent of home-grown voice, data and
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    • Business briefing |
      • 40 12 METAX Engineering incurred a net loss of $5.05 million for the year ended June 30, compared with a net loss of $3.04 million for the preceding year. Revenue rose 150 per cent to $28.5 million.
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      • 53 12 SPINDEX Industries posted a net profit of $4.59 million for the year ended June 30 21 per cent down from last year. This followed a 20 per cent drop in revenue to $63.86 million. The firm is giving out a final dividend of 1.4
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      • 59 12 CHINA Hongcheng made a net loss of 11.5 million yuan (552.4 million) for the fourth quarter ended June 30, slipping from a net gain of 13.1 million yuan for the preceding year. Revenue rose 4.8 per cent to 165.2 million yuan. The company
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      • 49 12 SILVERLAKE Axis's net profit for the year ended June 30 plunged 82 per cent from last year to RM19.1 million (SS7.B million). Revenue fell 63 per cent to RM54.8 million. The company declared a final dividend of 0.3 Singapore cents per share.
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      • 72 12 LIAN Beng Group said that auditors have drawn an emphasis of matter to the investment in a joint-ly-controlled entity which has been reclassified as "assets held for sale" and fully impaired in prior year and amounts due from an ex-jointly controlled partner, Manhattan
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      • 39 12 SCINTRONIX Corp incurred a net loss of $5.5 million for the year ended June 30 reversing from a net profit of $122,000 a year ago. Revenue dropped 38 per cent to $25.2 million.
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      • 32 12 LANTROVISION'S net profit for the year ended June 30 fell 64 per cent from a year ago to $4.2 million. Revenue shrank 27 per cent to $93.4 million.
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      • 42 12 FUNG Choi Media reported a net profit of HK5137.6 million (5525.5 million) for the year ended June 30 32 per cent lower than a year ago. Revenue rose 9 per cent to HK$l.4B billion.
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      • 52 12 ELITE KSB posted net earnings of $5.35 million for the year ended June 30, up 86 per cent. This was driven by a 47 per cent jump in revenue to $64.4 million. The company declared a first and final dividend of one cent
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      • 39 12 TRUMP Dragon Distillers registered a 26 per cent drop in net profit for the year ended June 30 to 104.9 million yuan (5522.1 million). Revenue fell 2 per cent to 702.9 million yuan.
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      • 57 12 GRAND Banks Yachts posted a net profit of $2.1 million for the quarter ended June 30 more than three times that earned a year ago. This was despite a 68 per cent dive in revenue to $9.6 million. Earnings were boosted by a $3.9 million
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      • 33 12 STRATECH Systems Limited announced that it has secured a US$4.O5 million sub-contract to design, co-develop and implement a TV Ordnance Scoring System for the Republic of Korea Air Force.
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      • 54 12 LC Development incurred a net loss of $9.1 million for the year ended June 30, compared with a net profit of $12,000 a year ago. Revenue slipped 4.9 per cent to $58.1 million. The firm declared a first and final dividend of
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  • FROM THE DESK OF
    • 1299 13 As the global financial system emerges from the ashes of crisis, Asian banks must seize the day and take advantage of the window of opportunity that has opened up FROM THE DESK OF Dato' Sri Nazir Razak CEO, CIMB Group THE dramatic events in the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 409 14  -  Uma Shankari Firm aims to re-affirm commitment not to maximise profits, to engage using a more energetic and modern approach By shankari@sph.com.sg NTUC Income yesterday launched a rebranding campaign in a bid to make itself more relevant to younger Singaporeans. There are two aims,
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    • 364 14 Bloomberg ASIAN bank bonds "look attractive" as markets recover from the global financial crisis, said Koyo Ozeki, head of credit research for the region at Pacific Investment Management Co, which runs the world's biggest bond fund. "The worst is over," Tokyo-based Mr Ozeki
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    • 395 15  -  Teh Shi Ning NUS forms unit to conduct research, training, help link up student teams with social firms By tshining@sph.com.sg NUS Business School yesterday launched a research centre to look into social entrepreneurship and philanthropy in Singapore, with a $1.5 million gift from the Mrs
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    • 190 15  -  Xinhua NANYANG Technological University (NTU) and Temasek Foundation are working together to bring earthquake resistance technology to China's earthquake-prone regions. According to a statement from NTU yesterday, the programme aims to promote safer construction practices, achieve transfer of technology, and enhance the skills of
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    • 349 16  -  Felda Chay Agency wants to make sustainable development research a key focus, with funding directed at four areas By feldac@sph.com.sg THE push for sustainable development has been given a boost by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) injecting $27.5
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    • 423 16 SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Sing Tel) will raise more than $2 million for its Sing Tel Touching Lives Fund (STLF) this year. STLF is SingTel's philanthropy vehicle in Singapore and the main thrust of the company's corporate social responsibility programme. The fund
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  • LETTER FROM ABROAD WITH ASCOTT
    • 612 17  -  Tan Kirn Huat LETTER FROM BEIJING NATIONAL Day came a day earlier for me this year, as the Grand Millennium Beijing the hotel where I work played host to over 500 guests for the Singapore Chamber of Commerce (SingCham) National Day celebrations on Aug 8.
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  • BT Living
    • ART
      • 1653 19  -  I -> Woon Tai Ho Ronald Ventura's "Nesting Ground" sold for HK$2.lB million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong last year, a world record for Filipino Contemporary art at auctions. Is Filipino art set to fill the bubble that Chinese art exploded? By BLINK and you'll miss
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      • An investment guide
        • Article, Illustration
          75 19 Randy Solon (b. 1971), a relative newcomer, holds two degrees in the visual arts. He is also the recipient of numerous awards from national art competitions. One of his most attractive styles is of images in various monochromatic hues, using light so intense that it disfigures and creates
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        • Article, Illustration
          112 19 Kiko Escora (b. 1970) is one of Manila's hippest individuals (named as most eligible male in magazines). Al3 Artists Awardee, Kiko has taken part in solo and group exhibitions in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea and Indonesia. He has also participated in several art fairs in Singapore,
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        • 100 19 A master of the dark and the mysterious, Barrioquinto (b. 1975) alternates between a fragmented semi-cubist style and a shadowy realism, while wallowing in a Blue period he never seems to leave. Graduating in Fine arts from the University of Santo Tomas, he received the 13 Artists Award
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          134 19 Bitancor (b. 1967) started first with social realism, going on to symbolic work full of commentary on the plight and ills of his people. He is another 13 Artists Awardee, who has exhibited extensively in the Philippines, Singapore, US, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong. Trained in the University
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        • Article, Illustration
          109 19 His canvases are populated by monstrous characters in dark, swirling landscapes. Culaba (b. 1971) graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, has exhibited extensively in the Philippines, Korea and the US. A finalist at the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards, he won
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        • 82 19 The baby in this grouping, Garcia (b. 1986) creates dense, crowded and textured figuration; his works are almost naive in appearance. A graduate of fine arts, majoring in advertising, Garcia was one of ten finalists at the Philippine Art Awards and a grand prize winner at the
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          80 19 A star, whose youthful career has been nothing short of stellar, lumalon (b. 1984) focuses almost exclusively on the face and its deconstruction. Starting first in the famed Philippine High School for the Arts in Los Banos, graduating as a painting major from the University of the Philippines
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        • Article, Illustration
          98 19  -  Lynyrd Paras by Paras (b. 1982) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Technological University of the Philippines, he is also a recipient of numerous awards and a finalist of the Philip Morris Philippine Arts Award. Lynyrd's most attractive style is the way he decorates an emotionless
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    • CEOS' HAWKER GUIDE
      • Article, Illustration
        1281 20 Geoffrey Eu puts fiery favourites to the taste test AS its name suggests, nasi padang a plate of white rice served with a variety of pre-cooked dishes and condiments prepared with chillies, herbs and Indonesian spices has its humble roots in West Sumatra and the regional capital of
        PHOTOS BY JOHN HENG  -  1,281 words
      • 626 20  -  Audrey Phoon Suhaimi Rafdi CEO, Cathay Organisation Holdings By SUHAIMI Rafdi speaks quickly as it is, but when the topic of conversation is something that really excites him, the words pour out even faster. So when we ask him about nasi padang, it's as if we've pressed a
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    • DINING
      • 1919 21  -  Audrey Phoon All-day brunch near the Botanic Gardens, stone-oven pizzas and artisanal handburgers these uncomplicated eats from three new eateries provide multiple levels of enjoyment. By Hatched #01-06, Evans Lodge 26 Evans Road www.hatched.sg To open Sept 19 QUESTION: What do you call a mischievous egg? Answer A
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    • SHOPPING
      • 422 24  -  Melissa Lwee Wisma Atria has positioned itself as a fashionista's mall. By WHEN you offer what women want, they'll flock to you. This was key to Wisma Atria's campaign three years ago when they launched the "What Women Want" initiative to set themselves apart from the malls
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      • 450 24 What's new and hot at Orchard Road Where the goods are BRITISH label Warehouse keeps its finger on the fashion pulse, and this sequin open-front blazer is proof to that. It's the perfect investment piece to channel the rocker-chick vibe and has all the makings of
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      • 855 25  -  Melissa Lwee Having lived and breathed leather since he was a little boy, it seems only natural for Ethan Koh to choose to work with exotic skins for his accessories label Ethan K. By c... My mum's friends would ask me to make bags for them
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      • 641 25  -  Melissa Lwee UDO Edling is a man on a mission. The Romani-an-born designer who took over as art director of German fashion house Aigner a year and a half ago, wants to inspire women all over the world to carry, not black, not blue but Chianti-coloured
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    • HOME & GARDEN
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        1094 26 personal space Glen Goei's two-storey house is an example of 1960s Modernist architecture which is relatively uncommon here. By Geoffrey Ei AS A theatre director and filmmaker, Glen Goei has a definite flair for the dramatic, but he also has a strong appreciation of history a subject he
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    • GADGETS
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        886 27  -  Christopher Lim Nairn's HDX and NaimUniti replace computer-based music systems. By IF you can't beat them, join them. Traditional hi-fi companies used to try to differentiate their products from computers by writing off innovations like Internet radio and MP3s as low-quality fads, but most have realised they have
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    • HEALTH
      • 744 28  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon It can protect women against the five most common cervical cancer-causing virus types. By CERVICAL cancer vaccination is now found to protect women against cancer caused by the five most common virus types, instead of just two. This recent finding is further fuelling the
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    • SPORT
      • 721 29  -  ChewXiang no holds barred xchew@sph.com.sg Reporter lONATHAN Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid is a remarkable book. It is a concise history of football tactics and if you ever wanted to add weight and depth to your pub commentary, this is the perfect companion. The "Makelele" role,
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    • GOLF
      • 1134 30 The First Tee Life Skills was developed by a group of sports psychologists to introduce mental exercises to golfers from a young age. By Justine Moss WHEN The First Tee of Singapore (TFTS) was launched here in 2003, it attracted just 15 young golfers to sign
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    • MOTORING
      • 584 31  -  CV Chew Made by MV Agusta, the new Cagiva Mito 5P525 is surprisingly easy to ride. By DUCATI and MV Agusta are two of the most famous names in the Italian sportbike scene. While Ducati might be a household name thanks to MotoGP and Casey Stoner, the MV
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      • 872 32  -  Steve Slatei fl watch\ Can Ferrari or McLaren uphold their proud winning traditions at the Belgian Grand Prix? By THERE really couldn't be a greater contrast between the hot, dusty, concrete-lined man-made Valencia street circuit and the cool, possibly damp, tree-lined Spa Francorchamps track, high in the
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      • 822 33 driving style Yves Pouliquen, MD of Michelin Malaysia, firmly believes that shopping for tyres can be an enjoyable experience. By Samuel Ec THE last thing one may associate a tyre with is coffee but that is what Yves Pouliquen refers to when he speaks passionately about
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  • WORLD
    • 499 34  -  S Jayasankaran Khazanah will not sell its 64% stake because Plus provides a lot of cash, says Malaysian prime minister By in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Najib Razak has poured cold water on a proposal by a private company to buy the country's
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    • Briefing
      • 152 34 Reuters :oul THE rival Koreas reached a deal yesterday to resume from September reunions of families torn apart by the 1950-53 Korean War, as the isolated North reaches out to its foes after being hit by UN sanctions. In another gesture that could
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      • 76 34 Reuters in BRITAIN'S economy shrank by a smaller-than-expected 0.7 per cent in the second quarter, after statisticians revised up their initial estimates for manu- facturing, energy, wholesale and car dealerships. The Office for National Statistics yesterday said that the revisions reduced the annual drop
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      • 120 34 Reuters Ie ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer said yesterday. His lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said that lawyers acting for Mr Berlusconi
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      • 108 34 AP in THE agency that guarantees bank deposits in the US said on Thursday that it has no immediate plans to borrow money from the government to bolster its insurance fund, which has shrunk under the weight of collapsing banks. The fund
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      • 127 34 Reuters it GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel said that her government is committed to its negotiating stance over carmaker Opel, which has strongly favoured car parts maker Magna's bid, a newspa- per reported. "There is a (negotiating) line that has been agreed at ministerial level,
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      • 74 34 Bloomberg Manila PHILIPPINE billionaire Andrew Tan and Star Cruises Ltd yesterday opened their US$7OO million Resorts World Manila, which will double the tables in the city and may boost its casino revenue more than 120 per cent. "Our expectation is this will contribute to earnings within
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    • 539 35 Reuters Outcome holds wide-ranging implications for G-20 and their stimulus spending New York A DEBATE is emerging over how curbs on energy market speculation may impact oil prices, with at least one major bank boldly expecting the new rules will trigger a 30-per cent
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    • 454 35 AFP Washington RESEARCHERS and students at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a website which allows users to calculate their risk of dying. Deathßiskßankings.com uses public data from the United States and Europe to compare mortality risks by gender, age, cause of death and
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    • 330 35 AP San Francisco NEWSPAPERS' financial woes worsened in the second quarter as advertising sales shrank by 29 per cent, leaving publishers with US$2.B billion less revenue than they had at the same time last year. It's the deepest downturn yet during a
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    • 46 36 A US$22-billion urban development being built in the United Arab Emirates is set to become the world's first built-from-scratch eco-city. Designed by British architect Norman Foster, the six-hectare Masdar City will house 40,000 residents in a solar-powered, car-free, zero-waste, carbon-neutral city environment
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    • 779 36  -  Paul Krugman NYT The projected USs9t deficit, while worrying, is necessary to help boost the US economy By New York SO new budget projections show a cumulative deficit of US$9 trillion over the next decade. According to many commentators, that's a terrifying number, requiring drastic
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    • 614 37 Reuters Uncertainty damages tourism, limits country's rebound from recession Bangkok FORMER Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra is showing he can still whip up supporters and flex his political muscle while in exile, signalling trouble ahead for Thailand's fragile ruling coalition and chronic political crisis. Plans
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    • 269 37 AP New York MICROSOFT is slashing the price of the high-end Xbox 360 console by US$lOO, matching Sony's US$lOO price cut for the Play Station 3 last week. Now, both the Xbox 360 Elite and the PS3 will cost US$299. The price cuts
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    • 326 37 Diageo interested in Moet stake at the right price Reuters, Bloomberg London DIAGEO'S chief executive Paul Walsh said on Thursday that he would be interested in buying the 66 per cent of champagne and cognac house Moet Hennessy that the British group does not own, if available at the right
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    • 9124 38 SZ-wks Tel ligh Low Code Company Last Sale Vol Cooo) Day Last Quote High Low Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net C'vr P/E M Cap Smil 5.5 3 3148 8Telecom I 2.5 5834 A-Sonic !9.5 12 5000 ABR Hldgs 4.5 5.5 1938 AEI Corp I 1 1100
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    • 1728 41 High Low Code Company Sale ('000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E Smil 6 5 1181 s AAGrp !6 12 8538 t APStrategic 1 0.5 1501 s Advanced System '5 2 3480 t Adventus !0 8.5 3518 s Afor 2.5 2 1524 t Alantac 1 3.5 7814 t
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    • 47 41 Up Down Unch 7 3 8 Up Down Unch OOP Up Down Unch 7 3 8 lulti Ind Tarufl |-acturin; .ommerce -inance ,onst ruction 'roperties Tfo\ Totel Sts~ >ervices led m ateF linin; iarr Active counters with no volume for today are not included
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    • 175 41 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
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    • 763 41 For week beginning Aug 24 Trans Date Substantial Shareholder/ Director Buy Sell Conv No of Shares '000 Price Per ShrS SHAREHOLDING Before After ('000) ('000) Stock Trans Date Substantial Shareholder/ Director Buy Sell Conv No of Shares '000 Price Per ShrS SHAREHOLDING Before After COOO) ('OOP)
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    • STOCK MARKETS
      • 20 42 YTD change: +50.03% 52-week high: 2,763.42 on Sept 2,2008 52-week low: 1,455.47 on March 10,2009 Source: -Bloomberg
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      • 20 42 YTD change: +39.70% 52-week high: 21,546.90 on Aug 28,2008 52-week low: 10,676.20 on Oct 27,2008 Source: :Bloomberg
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      • 25 42 YTD change:+9.l6% 52-week high: 11,790.10 on Sept 2,2008 52-week low: 6,469.95 on March 6,2009 (Chart shows Thursday's index closing) Source: Bloomberg
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      • 20 42 YTD change:+s7.ll% 52-week high: 3,478.01 on Aug 4,2009 52-week low: 1,664.92 on Oct 28,2008 Source: Bloomberg
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      • Article, Illustration
        18 42 Source: YTD change:+lB.9o% 52-week high: 13,079.30 on Aug 29,2008 52-week low: 6,994.90 on Oct 28,2008 Bloomberg
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      • 364 42 Aug 27 %dy %yr %dy %yr dy %yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminai 775.6 -0.8 14.4 -0.7 17.7 -0.7 17.3 EAFE Preliminai 746.6 -0.6 15.0 -0.5 20.3 -0.5 19.9 Euroi Preliminai 1042.8 -0.4 14.4 -0.6 21.1 -0.5 20.6 Pacific 628.9
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      • 143 42 lurrencies Bid >$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: \ustralian dollar 1.2110 Offer 1.2123 Bid 0.8406 Offer 0.8407 :anadian dollar 1.3242 1.3261 0.9192 0.9196 iuro 2.0647 2.0671 1.4332 1.4335 IZ dollar 0.9864 0.9888 0.6847 0.6857 Sterlini 2.3459 2.3484 1.6284 1.6286 IS dollar 1.4406 1.4420 >$/US$ to WO
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      • 72 42 Aug 27H :OCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev Hi! ;h/Low Iep09 1820 1884 1905/1790 )ec09 1838 1902 1925/1806 /larlO 1834 1900 1916/1808 /lay 10 1832 1898 1910/1822 :OFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Sep 09 1375 1399 1421/1370 \lov09 1402 1423 1449/1391 Ian 10 1422 1445 1465/1413 SUGAR (US tonne) White Close
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      • 96 42 Aug 2S Aug 2^ iOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; USc/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Sep 09 1114.*****0.*****6.*****0.25 \lov09 996.00 996.*****3.50 989.25 Ian 10 997.50 997.*****5.00 991.00 vlar 10 993.50 993.*****0.00 987.00 JOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs; usc/b) Close Previous High/Low Sep 09 36.21 36.46 36.70 35.96 Dct09 36.41 36.66 36.92
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      • 76 42 Aug 27 ISS/barrel (FOB origin) Close Chang) Srent blend (1-Mth F) VTI (Near Mth) )ubai (1-Mth F) "apis blend /linas 71.00 -0.10 72.70 1.41 70.17 -0.82 76.90 -0.90 74.60 -0.80 •RODUCT ISS/barrel (FOB S pore) Close Change \l aphtha let Kerosene 68.55 -0.71 77.20 -1.7! JSS/barrel )pec Oil Basket
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      • 72 42 Aug 2s| GOLD (US$/oz) Aug 28 Aug 27 Hong Kong 949.00 942.60 950.00 943.60 Aug 27 Aug 26 London 943.35 942.90 944.15 943.90 Source: Thomson Reuters SILVER Selling Buying Passbook 1 oz 20.88 20.65 Source: UOB PLATINUM Lon (US$/oz) Aug 27 Close Previous PM Fix 1234.*****0.00 AM Fix 1235.*****8.00
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 1129 43  -  Susanna Leong While a family brand naming system enables the transfer of goodwill from one product to another, it is also open to imitators. BRANDS and trade marks are valuable symbols that reflect an organisation's image and benefits. Companies have fought tooth and nail
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    • 638 43  -  Ju-Min Park By KIM Hyang-soo tightened his shoelaces, grabbed his backpack and hit the subway one recent hot summer day in central Seoul. At 75, he wasn't taking a joy ride. He was setting out to accomplish something many elderly residents in South
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  • Wealth
    • 597 44 Reuters Average portfolio holdings barely changed in August as managers remained cautious over extent of global equity rally London LEADING investors kept their portfolios steady this month, a Reuters poll showed, as the northern summer doldrums and caution about how far the global equity market rally
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    • 391 44 Reuters Tokyo JAPAN'S public pension fund, the world's largest, turned its first quarterly profit in a year in April-June thanks to a recovery in stock prices as markets stabilised following the financial crisis. The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) on Thursday reported a 3.89 per
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  • WEALTH INVESTING
    • 727 44  -  Joyce Hooi Eu Van Sang International Hold OCBC Investment Research Aug 28 close: $0.47 FY2009 in line with expectations. Eu Van Sang International Ltd's (EYS) FY2009 results were spot on with our estimates. Revenue grew 7 per cent to $222.5 million while net profit grew 164 per cent
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    • 841 45  -  Wong Sui Jau WEALTH INSIGHTS They can be equally safe but offer better returns than the dismal rates paid by banks General manager Fundsupermart.com DID you know that the average bank savings deposit rate in Singapore was just 0.16 per cent last month? At the
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    • 1228 46  -  Teh Hooi Ling SHOW ME THE MONEY Based on the assumption that equities are not overvalued today, China is worth taking a bet on hooiling@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent EARLIER in the week, I attended a briefing by Henderson on its China fund. The fund manager, Andrew
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    • 491 47 AFP The top 100 Islamic banks held assets totalling USssBob last year, up 66 per cent from USs3sob in 2007 ASSETS held by the world's 100 biggest Islamic banks grew 66 per cent in 2008 from the previous year despite the financial turmoil that clobbered
      AFP; BLOOMBERG  -  491 words
    • 559 47 Reuters New York MAJOR credit rating companies hold diverging views on the state of the US junk bond market in 2010. Current forecasts for US high-yield bonds show a wide gap between bearish calls from Standard Poor's, which forecasts a 13.9
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    • 654 49  -  Kalpana Rashiwala As prices of new homes rise, investors are turning to auctions and the resale market. By INVESTORS who are put off by the exuberant prices of late for newer properties are turning to auctions to pick up older properties that have not
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    • 229 45 Rock bottom Investment product Net Yield to Maturity* Invests into BankSavingsAccount 0.16% Placed with bank (low risk) Cash Fund 0.48% Fixed deposits (low risk) Fixed deposits 0.53% Fixed deposits (low risk) 5 year SGS bond 1.36% SGS bonds (low risk) lOyearSGSbond 2.5% SGS bonds (low risk) Schroder Asian Bond 2.97%
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    • 891 48 PROJECTNAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE BUILT-IN/I_AND PRICE PSF PROJECTNAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE BUILT-IN/I_AND PRICE PSF STREETNAME TYPE DATE AREA*(SQFT) (S$'000) (Ss) STREETNAME TYPE DATE AREA*(SQFT) (S$'000) (Ss) District 14 Serangoon Gdn Estate 1-Ter 05/08/2009 999 2713 1480 546° LANDED Simon Lodge 2-Sd 06/08/2009 FH 2671 1500 562 KimnanPark 3-Ter 06/08/2009 FH
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