The Business Times, 6 October 2009

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  • 23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES ssi.oo online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg Sj£l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO regn no *****2868E MICA (P) 123/08/2009 Tuesday, October 6,2009
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  • 996 1  -  UMA SHANKARI Capita Malls Asia aims to speed up growth with special focus on China By [SINGAPORE] Singapore's largest property group Capita Land will spin off its $20.3 billion retail portfolio into a separate unit, which will be listed on
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  • 575 1  - For local banks, the worry is loans growth not capital SIOW LI SEN Global drive to raise capital requirements for banks may leave Spore untouched By [SINGAPORE] Local banks are already very well capitalised. So the global trend of making banks safer is more likely to result in tweaking of
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 45 1 KL COMP 1,216.45 +10.20 NIKKEI 225 9,674.49 -57.38 HANG SENG 20,429.07 +53.58 SET INDEX 718.47 -6.09 JAKARTA COMP 2,480.41 +0.57 MANILA COMP 2,819.48 -0.55 SEOUL COMP 1,606.90 -37.73 SHENZHENB Closed MUMBAI IND 16,866.41 -268.14 12 noon EDT Chant DOW 9,559.31 +71.64 NASDAQ 2,064.52 +16.41
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    • 29 1 SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 16.146 TAIWAN 4.776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.52 INDIA 11.75 Source Bloomberg
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    • 48 1 uss (s$ ier US$) 1.411 (US$/S$ per 1.596 2.251 EURO (USS/SS/E) 1.464 2.065 Forei' in curreno ier US$ S$ YEN 89.80 63.70 RM 3.458 2.451 HK$ 7.750 5.494 BAHT 33.45 23.71 RUPIAH 9,553 6,772 RENMINBI 6.826 4.839 INDIAN RUPEE 47.53 33.69 A$ 1.143 0.811 NZ$ 1.389 0.985
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 58 1 SINGAPORE ECONOMY MT^WW SME Inc COMMENTARY INTERVIEW RP^I PMI slips, but many see Powering into A track that every Fl Challenges facing recovery on track the China market driver will relish post-crisis China 'j\i PAGE 4 -C PAGE 13 PAGE 21 PAGE 23 aAA \sl. Minimal drop seen for retail
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  • TOP STORIES
    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 76 2 CAPITALAND will spin off its $20.3 billion retail portfolio into a separate unit, which will be listed on the Singapore Exchange. The group's retail arm Capita Land Retail will be renamed Capita Malls Asia, and will have a Pan-Asian portfolio
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      • 76 2 SINGAPORE banks are already very well capitalised so the global trend of making banks safer is more likely to result in tweaking of the rules here, rather than imposition of additional requirements, say analysts. The Tier 1 ratio of
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      • 49 2 THE Singapore dollar has risen substantially against the greenback amid the better economic environment in recent weeks. But private sector economists do not expect the Monetary Authority of Singapore to tighten its monetary policy stance next Monday. TOP STORIES, PAGE 2
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      • 65 2 SINGAPORE'S purchasing managers' index reading for September, released yesterday, fell to 50.6 from August's 54.4, a sharper slowdown in manufacturing expansion than had been expected. After July and August's strong industrial production, most economists have raised their growth forecasts for Q3
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      • 57 2 A BUYER looking to acquire Asian companies would rather approach with friendly negotiations than spring the punch from a boxer's forgotten arm. While a Citi global report showed that hostile M&As are expected to rebound sharply, bankers say this is less likely in
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      • 77 2 OVERSEAS Union Enterprise is considering the sale of 21 Angullia Park a freehold residential site formerly known as The Parisian which it bought en-bloc for $228.1 million in 2007. In a release yesterday morning, the company said that it is
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      • 70 2 A BIG chunk of perks provided by companies in the Asia-Pacific region are wasted, because almost half of their employees don't see much value in them, says a survey by consulting firm Watson Wyatt. And the waste is all the more
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      • 62 2 MAXIS Communications Bhd hopes to raise at least RMII billion (554.48 billion) in the initial public offering of Maxis based on the lower end of its price valuations of slightly under RMS a share. The telco's IPO price has been set
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      • 58 2 PROPERTY consultancy DTZ expects retail rents to drift "with minimal declines" for the rest of the year and in 2010. The firm's head of South-east Asia research Chua Chor Hoon said: "Although investment activity has risen, retail spending remains weak and depends on
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    • 660 2  -  OH BOON PING MAS expected to take neutral stance, without tightening band next week By [SINGAPORE] The Singapore dollar has risen substantially against the greenback amid the better economic environment in recent weeks. But private sector economists do not expect the Monetary
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    • 488 2 Reuters, Bloomberg USs3Bb is to repay govt funds, USs4ob will be fresh capital [BANGALORE] European banks may raise an additional US$7B billion in capital over the next six months as they attempt to boost capital ratios towards levels proposed under
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    • 602 4  -  TEH SHI NING Purchasing managers' index falls to 50.6 in Sept from 54.4 in Aug By [SINGAPORE] Singapore's purchasing managers' index (PMI) reading for September, released yesterday, fell to 50.6 from August's 54.4, a sharper slowdown in manufacturing expansion than had
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    • 629 4  -  MICHELLE QUAH Global downturn could lead to better corporate reporting By [SINGAPORE] Now, more than ever, boards need to ask more exacting questions of management to fully understand the internal controls they have and their attitude towards fraud, says a new Ernst
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    • 491 4  -  RONNIE LIM By [SINGAPORE] It's going to be a tough road ahead from this final quarter onwards for Singapore's petrochemical plants, which managed to do relatively well during the last two quarters thanks to some delays in expected new Middle East capacity. Q3 was
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    • 558 4 Soros, Roubini also voice concerns over pace of recovery [HONG KONG] Michael Geoghegan, chief executive of HSBC, plans to delay any rush to expand the bank because of concerns that there would be a second economic downturn in the coming
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    • 270 4 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] A six-litre bottle of Chateau Petrus 1982, a vintage described by the seller as smelling of prunes and spices, fetched a record HK5726,000 (*****,000) at a sold-out auction of fine wines in Hong Kong, spurred by Chinese buying. The
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 836 5  -  JAMIE LEE Global Citi report had said such M&As likely to increase By A BUYER looking to acquire Asian companies would rather approach with friendly negotiations than spring the punch from a boxer's forgotten arm. While a recent global report from Citi showed
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    • 347 5  -  GENEVIEVE CUA By EQUITY markets globally are more than fully priced for an economic rebound, says the chief investment officer of Bank Julius Baer. "Cheap money alone does not sustain (markets)," says V Anan-tha-Nageswaran. "When you get an 85 per cent return
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    • 461 5  -  VINCENT WEE By MAJOR Indonesian chemical tanker player Berlian Laju Tanker (BLT) has announced a plan to acquire Norwegian shipping company Camillo Eitzen Co (Ceco) in an all-share deal at a premium of about 3.5 times to Ceco's closing share price on Friday last
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    • 503 8  -  EMILYN YAP Its shares fall 31% to close at $10 after company updates SGX on the move By OVERSEAS Union Enterprise (OUE) is considering the sale of 21 Angullia Park a freehold residential site formerly known as The Parisian which
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    • 554 8  -  LYNETTE KHOO Old board booted out, 4-man team voted in at EGM By KNITTING machine maker Falmac has a new board of directors, led by "Mr IPO" Peter Choo Chee Kong, and may well end up in totally new industries.
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    • 333 8  -  JOYCE HOOI By ANWELL Technologies' wholly owned subsidiary, Sungen International Limited has signed a non-bind-ing memorandum of understanding (MOU) to supply thin film solar panels for US-based Solargen Energy's solar farm projects. Sungen will provide up to 1.25 gigawatts (GW) or 1.25 billion
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    • 320 8  -  VINCENT WEE By BUOYED by recent substantial deals with shipping majors, China Auto Corporation (CAC) is raising its stake in shipping fuel technology company Neftech to 23.9 per cent from the 4.9 per cent it held when it came in as one
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    • 327 9  -  FELDA CHAY It's the third project the construction firm has won from HDB so far this year By CONSTRUCTION company Koh Brothers Group Ltd has won a $51.9 million contract from the Housing and Development Board (HDB) for building works at Choa Chu Kang.
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    • 302 9  -  LYNETTE KHOO By CHINA Pharma will make a compulsory acquisition of Sihuan Pharmaceutical shares after the privatisation offer closes on Oct 20. It does not intend to extend the closing date further. Following the compulsory acquisition of shares, the company will be
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 74 9 UNITED Envirotech, an environmental engineering company, said that it will sell as many as 40 million new shares in a placement to raise $17.1 million. The shares will be priced at $0.4275 each, representing a discount of about 10 per cent to the
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      • 40 9 SEMBCORP Marine (SMM) said that subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has successfully delivered a second ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig to Diamond Offshore Drilling. The rig, formerly know as Petroßig 11, has been renamed as Ocean Valor.
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      • 92 9 OCBC Bank said that the group will be donating in total about $121,950 in aid of relief efforts in the earthquake-hit region of Padang, Indonesia. The bank and its insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, will be donating $100,000 to Habitat for Humanity to support
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      • 70 9 EPURE International's wholly owned subsidiary has entered into a joint venture to undertake a build, operate and transfer (BOT) project in Jiangyan city, China. Epure has a 30 per cent stake in the tie-up and the total investment is around 56 million yuan (Ssl
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    • 77 9 FORTY children from AWWA School went on a Duck Tour yesterday accompanied by their teachers and 30 volunteers from United Overseas Bank. The children, aged 7-11, were treated to a land-cum-water educational tour on the "ducks", which art authentic Vietnam warcraft. The event is
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 601 6  -  YEN SREENIVASAN STOCKS Penny stocks suffer from heavy forced selling amid slew of margin calls; property stocks prominent losers Senior Correspondent IS THIS the start of a major market capitulation or is this just a much needed pullback following six months of
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    • 89 6 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 2 113 0 0 0 2 113 lanufacturing 16 146 37 11 15 17 157 52 Commerce 61 66 12 "pt/Stor/Comms 26 27 ■inance 21 21 instruction 14 19 'roperties 38 38 lotels/Rsts 11 11 iervices
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    • 106 6 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL lulti Ind 70,295 70,295 69,607 69,607 lanufacturing 611,613 38,903 650,516 240,247 1,643 241,890 lommerce 200,453 26,271 226,724 114,535 5,899 120,434 'pt/Stor/Comms 163,524 4,918 168,442 205,973 1,021 206,994 :i nance 48,943 48,943 264,513 264,513 lonstruction 104,571 38,208 142,779 30,726 849 31,576 'roperties
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    • 101 6 lapitaLand 3.670 Noble Grp 2.380 +0.040 lapitaMall 1.820 OCBCBk 7.510 -0.090 JtyDev 9.700 -0.200 Olam 2.390 -0.020 lomfortDelGrc 1.590 +0.040 SGX 8.050 -0.080 losco Corp 1.140 SIA 13.120 +0.060 IBS Grp 12.600 -0.180 SIAEngg 2.560 -0.020 :&N 3.840 -0.010 SMP.T 1.640 -0.020 ienting SP 1.050 -0.040
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    • 233 6  -  CONRAD TAN Ascott Residence Trust Oct 5 close: $0.93 CIMB-GK RESEARCH, Oct 5 WE UPGRADE Ascott Residence Trust (ART) to "outperform" from "neutral" as we anticipate an Asian-led global economic recovery to catalyse revenue per available unit (RevPAU) growth. We believe that ART's key markets, Singapore and the
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    • 227 6 CHARTPOINT DESPITE a valiant attempt by the Straits Times Index to close at 2,604 last Friday and a seemingly firm week for equities, the observant would have noticed two ominous signs about the sustainability of the market. The weak IPO market in Hong
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    • 513 6 Reuters CURRENCIES [NEW YORK] The US dollar fell against the euro and a basket of currencies yesterday after a meeting of Group of Seven finance chiefs reinforced the market's view that poli-cy-makers are comfortable with a gradually weakening US dollar. Gains in US
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    • 4 6 DAILY
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    • 60 6 CLOSE IT OB/OS -1199.00-325.0C IT CADI -*****.00-375.0i IT 10-day MA -*****.00-119.0i TSE ST Mid Cap 590.61 -11.3 TSE ST Small Cap 507.26 -15.1 TSE ST All Share 633.45 -6.9i TSE ST China Top 262.11 -6.6i TSE ST China 274.87 -6.1 TSE ST Catalist 1297.76 -36.8' TSE ST
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    • 55 6 VOLUME Genting SP 123,992,000 Golden Agri 96,711,000 ChinaAniH 92,645,000 Memstar 59,025,000 Beng Kuang 48,561,000 Ezion 40,263,000 Genting SP R 37,427,000 JiutianC 37,257,000 Sapphire 36,991,000 FalconEne 36,255,000 VALUE($) Genting SP 132,320,050 DBS Grp 84,098,609 OCBC Bk 73,199,265 SingTel 61,985,140 UOB 59,925,780 CityDev 58,296,350 StraitsAsia 46,315,720 Wilmar 41,187,570 Golden
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    • 105 6 CLOSE UP •aiwa FT Shariah Ja 726 77.6 8.2 LD 10US$ 9850 60.7 0.. iBXT Ni 10US$ ***** 56.4 0.. India Ni 10 1504 17.0 1.1 IOB 1644 14.0 0: iBS Bk6% NCPS 10 ***** 6.0 0.1 ilA 1312 6.0 0. Cmdt 10US$ 248 5.6 "iani in Zhoni 82
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    • 110 6 CLOSE DOWN lUE 1000-450.0 -31.0 ICBC Bk4.5%NCPS 100 9580-220.0 -2.2 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 5145-115.7 -1.6 IMH 3054 -50.8 -1.2 reat Eastern 1314 -24.0 -1.8 At 970 -20.0 -2.0 At '.ES.0910 970 -20.0 -2.0 ICC 3.93% NCPS10 7960 -20.0 -0.3 iTXPO 100 1294 -20.0 -1.5 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 5999
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    • 82 6 Oct5 CLOSE CHNG FR0O2 YR SSLOW R2009 S$ HIGH USS 1.4103 0.43 1.5579 1.4082 Euro 2.0630 -0.04 2.0897 1.9150 Pounds 2.2555 -0.10 2.4366 2.0356 1.2325 -0.44 1.2433 0.9453 ren* 1.5697 0.94 1.7278 1.4831 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.49 0.****** 0.***** Baht* 4.2149 0.31 4.3390 4.1040 Peso* 3.0193 -0.36
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 483 10  -  CHUANG PECK MING 2 in 5 employers say their staff don't appreciate it, says Watson Wyatt By A BIG chunk of perks provided by companies in the Asia-Pacific region are wasted, because almost half of their employees don't see much value
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    • 436 10  -  CONRAD TAN Services such as estate planning will always be needed By OFFSHORE private banking will continue to flourish despite the increased pressure on financial centres to share information with foreign tax authorities, senior wealth managers said yesterday. "There are many good
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    • 502 10  -  JOYCE HOOI S'poreans among most thrifty in Asia; Chinese, Indians are least restrained By EVEN as the stock markets pick up, expect to see fewer designer labels on fellow passengers on the MRT in coming months, if the latest survey released yesterday by
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    • 221 10  -  SITIZALIZA WARTI By IT'S a double celebration as both The Business Times and British fashion label Warehouse turn 33 this year. And we have a special offer just for our readers. A $33 gift card is yours when you make a
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    • 655 11  -  CHEN HUIFEN By It owns 20 strains of hybrid rice seeds that raise healthier, higher-yielding crops UNDAUNTED by a lack of rice industry in Singapore, a group of businessmen here including Transview Holdings chairman Tan Ching Khoon have created a company
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    • 350 11  -  LYNETTE KHOO By THE topmost concern among companies remains that of cash to fund operations and expansion and how to lower working capital, said Keith Stephenson, consulting leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore. In the face of increased demand for consulting services, the group plans
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  • SME Inc
    • 859 12 Since profitability is a sign of a company's ability to build reserves for expansion, low net profit margins can limit growth. CHEN HUIFEN reports ESPITE calls to A move to H higher-val-ue products and services, many SMEs continue to hobble, with thin profit margins
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    • 406 12  -  TEH HOOI LING By INVESTORS have pulled money out of small cap stocks in the last couple of weeks. As a result, many small cap stocks have fallen with a thud. Our small cap portfolio slumped 6.7 per cent in the five trading sessions to
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    • 1019 13 Spore network provider Net Power's co-founder tells FELDA CHAY about the ups and downs faced by his firm in gaining a foothold in China and its future plans THE Chinese government's control of Internet access on the mainland is well known and requires little
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    • 1192 13 SMEs using infocomm services on a subscription or pay-per-use basis can benefit from ease of management and reduced costs IMAGINE computing without the complexity and the prohibitive costs this is the promise of a new infocomm paradigm that enables businesses to subscribe to software rather than
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    • 1030 14 Its customer-centric approach leads to success for iFAST, report CHAN JIAWEI ADELINE, NGAI SI MIN and POH MING VAN FAVIAN ITS NAME may be iFAST, but it refuses to make a quick buck from its customers. Instead, iFAST Financial would rather help them invest globally
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    • 980 15 Tengah has grown quickly to become a major player, report CHOO MING JIAO, FELICIA GAN PUAY TIN and JONATHAN LOH DONG YUN AS ITS name suggests, Tengah Engineering and Hardware Pte Ltd is primarily a distributor of building and hardware materials ranging from construction
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 94 12 SME We are extending the deadline for last week's topic: "How does HR management contribute to your company's bottom line? What are some of the ways in which HR practices in Singapore can be improved?" If you are an SME owner or leader, we would like you to share your
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    • 77 14 The writers are students of the NUS Business School ENTERPRISE Celebrating Singapore's Enterprising Spirit 2009 Published every Tuesday and Thursday, this series is part of the Enterprise 50 Educational Project between the E5O partners and the NUS Business School. iFAST Financial Pte Ltd was among the E5O winners in 2008.
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    • 70 15 ENTERPRISE 50 Celebrating Singapore's Enterprising Spirit 2009 Published every Tuesday and Thursday, this series is part of the Enterprise 50 Educational Project between the E5O partners and the NUS Business School. Tengah Engineering and Hardware Pte Ltd was among the E5O winners in 2008. The annual E5O ranking is coorganised
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 594 16 Reuters, AFP Fund to develop guidelines by April on exiting measures to fight recession [ISTANBUL] Global finance chiefs made little headway over the weekend in overcoming long-standing disagreements over how much power rich nations should cede to major developing countries at
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    • 510 16  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY By in Istanbul THE global financial system has become "bloated" and needs to be "downsized and restructured," former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz said yesterday. He also called for a kind of "pollution tax" to be imposed on financial institutions, because
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    • 477 16 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Senior US officials deliberately created the impression last year that banks receiving huge government cash infusions were healthier than was the case, a Treasury Department watchdog's report released yesterday said. As a result, the government and the bailout lost public credibility
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    • 492 16 Reuters, Bloomberg [TOKYO] Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said yesterday that he did not think the Japanese economy has turned around despite a fall in jobless rate in August. Some ministers in Mr Hatoyama's cabinet have suggested the new government, which took office less than
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    • 405 16 NYT THE swift rally in stock markets this year caught everyone's attention. But with far less fanfare, a frenzy has been taking place in the market for corporate bonds. When credit markets practically shut down last year, businesses had to pay
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    • 1949 16 CFM cfm holdings limited (Registration No. *****3708R) NOTICE OF THE NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ninth Annual General Meeting of the CFM Holdings Limited (the "Company") I will be held at The Grassroots Club, 190 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8, Singapore *****6 on Wednesday, 21
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 655 17  -  PAULINE NG Share-sale price set at between RM4.95 and RM5.50 apiece, say industry execs By in Kuala Lumpur MAXIS Communications Bhd (MCB) hopes to raise at least RMII billion (554.48 billion) in the initial public offering (IPO) of Maxis based on
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    • 278 17 Xinhua [JAKARTA] Indonesia is upbeat on its growing trade with China, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand following plans to set up Free Trade Area (FTA) pacts with those countries under the Asean agreement and by bilateral agreements, a senior official at
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    • 357 17 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's EON Bank expects its loan book to expand by 5-6 per cent this year even as the economy is shrinking as low interest rates drive up demand for consumer loans, especially mortgages, said a top executive. "It
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    • 300 17 -AFP [PADANG, Indonesia] Indonesia called off the search for survivors in the quake-hit city of Padang yesterday as officials sought to contain the risk of disease caused by thousands of trapped bodies. Local officials and foreign specialists who rushed to Indonesia's Sumatra
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 561 18 Bloomberg This follows Pyongyang's willingness to resume N-talks [SEOUL] China pledged to boost ties with North Korea a day after Kirn Jong ll's regime told visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao of its willingness to resume nuclear disarmament talks. "Neighbourly, friendly and cooperative
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    • 586 18 AFP [BEIJING] "To get rich is glorious" has been the mantra in booming communist China for 30 years, but few have embraced the slogan more vigorously than Wen Qiang, a leading law official in the country's south-west. Wen, a former head of the judiciary
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    • 862 18  -  WILLIAM PESEK COMMENTARY By AMONG all the wildly photogenic moments in Beijing, the red miniskirts were a standout from the missiles, the tanks and the giant fish. The legions of female militia clad in minis, white jackboots and sub-ma-chine guns last week seemed
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  • INDIA
    • 313 19 Bloomberg State-owned firm also seeking mines in the US, South Africa and Indonesia [NEW DELHI] Coal India Ltd, the nation's monopoly producer of the fuel, said it expects to complete a mine acquisition in the year ending March 31, and has hired Royal
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    • 254 19 Reuters Minister warns firms against paying huge wages to executives [NEW DELHI] India's corporate affairs minister has warned firms against paying huge salaries to top company brass and said that the government would keep a watch on executive compensation. India's left-of-centre Congress-led government is on
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    • 194 19 -AFP [NEW DELHI] The world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal is threatening to scrap a US$2O-billion project to build two major steel plants in eastern India because of problems with land acquisition. Chairman Lakshmi Mittal was quoted in yesterday's Financial Times as saying that delays
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    • 232 19 -AFP [NEW DELHI] An Indian man has launched a legal challenge to halt the sale of US$2B,OOO pens engraved with the image of Mahatma Gandhi, saying that they were an insult to the independence leader, a report said on Sunday. Germany-based Montblanc unveiled
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 447 20 Bloomberg, Reuters LATEST US DATA Measure of job prospects also rose in Sept for first time in over 12 months [WASHINGTON] US service industries expanded in September for the first time in a year, as the emerging recovery spread from housing
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    • 501 20 Reuters, Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hana Financial, whose two biggest shareholders are Temasek and Goldman Sachs, said it may raise capital via a new share sale, fuelling talk of financial sector consolidation and knocking Hana's shares down almost 15 per cent. News
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    • 383 20 Reuters [PARIS] France Telecom yesterday appointed a new leader of its French business to calm a political firestorm over a spate of employee suicides and extended its freeze on restructuring until the end of the year. Stephane Richard, a former top
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    • 596 20 -AP They discovered key mechanism in genetic ops of cells [STOCKHOLM] Americans Elizabeth H Blackburn, Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an
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    • 427 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Prudential Financial, the second-biggest US life insurer, said it's studying whether to sell its brokerage and fund management businesses in South Korea. The company is exploring options including a possible sale of either or both Prudential Investment Securities Co and
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    • 417 20 -NYT [LONDON] Ireland's vote to ratify the European Union's Lisbon Treaty has finally cleared the way for the creation of a powerful new president, intended to elevate the 27-nation bloc's standing on the global stage. But do European leaders actually
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  • WORLD
    • 465 21 Bloomberg Payout covers fees from a 20-year USs3b financing agreement [NEW YORK] Goldman Sachs Group is set to earn about US$l billion if CIT Group enters bankruptcy or otherwise ends a US$3 billion financing agreement, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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    • 292 21 -Bloomberg [LONDON] Lehman Brothers Holdings' UK administrator said it will ask creditors to sign contracts to obtain as much as US$B.9 billion frozen after a judge rejected a similar plan. The contracts would create an alternative to the socalled scheme of arrangement, allowing creditors to
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    • 616 21  -  STEVE SLATER COMMENTARY Vettel can take pride in coming out tops at a circuit that sorts the men from the boys By EVEN as rain lashed the Suzuka paddock on Friday, you could still sense an enthusiasm among the drivers. This is a track
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 494 22 IN the aftermath of a global economic crisis, a meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven industrial countries would normally warrant close attention. However, the G-7 meeting that concluded in Istanbul over the weekend did not make even
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    • 862 22  -  LEON HADAR Unemployment at its highest in 26 years means confidence could take a hit THE report coming out of Copenhagen about US President Barack Obama's high-profile failure to win the Olympics games for Chicago made for a less than auspicious backdrop for
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    • 778 22  -  SHADA ISLAM THE BOTTOM LINE IRISH voters' thumbs up for the European Union's reform treaty has been greeted with sighs of relief by pro-EU policymakers across the 27-nation bloc. There are hopes that the EU, stuck in an embarrassing institutional limbo
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    • 1680 23 Millions of workers have lost their jobs, half of SMEs may have closed MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Huang Yasheng talks to BT associate editor VIKRAM KHANNA about China's economy after the global financial crisis. Q. How has China been affected by the global
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    • 701 23 China in 2049 enhancing quality AS THE People's Republic of China celebrates its 60th anniversary, it is tempting to ponder what the future holds for its centenary celebration some 40 years from now. For China, 2049 should be emblematic of yet another important milestone for what will then easily be
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    • LETTER TO THE EDITOR
      • 136 23  -  Derek Goh Bak Heng WE refer to the letter from the Securities Industry Council, "SIC applies merger code consistently," (BT, Sept 25). The third paragraph of the letter mentioned that "where there are breaches of the code and sanctions of a public nature
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
    • 828 24 Bloomberg They aim to defy the downturn but face a reckoning in '10, as analysts predict cuts [SEATTLE] Airbus SAS and Boeing Co will together build a record number of jets this year, defying the recession and slowdown in travel. They face a
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    • 240 24 -AP [SEOUL] South Korea seized four containers from a Panama-registered ship last month on suspicion it could be carrying banned North Korean cargo, a port official said yesterday. The customs officials at South Korea's south-eastern port of Busan found "nothing special" inside the
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    • 264 24 ByVENSREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines continues to right-size its route capacity, this time transferring its Singapore-Penang services to its regional subsidiary Silk Air. Silk Air will take over the operation of SlA's daily services between the two islands from Dec 1. SIA now has
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    • 288 24 Bloomberg [LONDON] The cost of delivering Middle East crude to Asia, the world's busiest route for supertankers, halted five days of declines as owners awaited the remainder of this month's cargoes. Rates to ship Saudi Arabian crude oil to Japan, the benchmark route for
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    • 2754 24 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), AI: Air India (AIC), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR:
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 8883 25 52-wks Tel Hiqh Low Code Com[ Last Sale Vol COOO) Hii Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net |h Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E MCap $mil 17 3 3148 8Telecom 9.5 2.5 5834 A-Sonic 31.5 12 5000 ABR Hldgs 15.5 5.5 1938 AEI Corp 8 1 1100 AEM.
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    • 1683 26 52-wks Tel High Low Code Company Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net ('000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr 7o P/E MCap Smil 12.5 5 1181 s AAGrp 25.5 12 8538 t APStrategic 4 0.5 1501 s Advanced System 7.5 2 3480 t Adventus 20
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    • 409 26 52-Wk Tel h Low Code Last Sale Vol C000) Day Ih Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil Hii Comi Hii 110 100 6389 ABFSG Bond ETF 110 783 427 CIMBAsean40 100US$ US761 -2 274 149 DBS STI ETF 100 261 -1 4317
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    • 263 26 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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    • 9310 26 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIG Global Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Acorns of Asia Balanced FundlS 2.033/ AIGIF Spore Bond Fund/ A 1.353/ APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund!** 1.07/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!** 0.75/ APS Komaba Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Komaba Global Bond SGD 0.5092/ APS Komaba
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  • 2 27 FINANCE COMMODITIES
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  • 373 27 In local curr In S$ In USS %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Oct 2 World Index Preliminary 773.3 -1.2 14.1 -1.2 16.1 -1.3 18.3 EAFE Preliminai 736.5 -1.8 13.5 -1.8 18.7 -1.8 21.0 Euro[ Prelim inan 1050.6
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  • 126 27 As at 9am Oct 5 of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2200 1.2560 Can dollar 1.3020 1.3180 Euro 2.0530 2.0770 NZ dollar 1.0050 1.0260 Sterlini md 2.2440 2.2691 US dollar 1.4040 1.4200 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Chi
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  • 175 27 Oct 5 Overnight 1.16 1-month 7/16 2-months 9/16 3-months 11/16 Overnight mode: 0.15 US$ Offer par 3/16 5/16 7/16 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months $Au 0.32 0.35 0.38 0.40 0.70 1.10 1.25 Offer 0.22 0.25 0.28 0.30 0.50
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  • 26 27 Oct 5 STI Oct 2576 2576 2582 SIMSCI Oct 310.8 311.9 309.8 Taiwan Oct 268.8 270.1 269.0 Source: MF Global (S) He. Ltd
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  • 22 27 Oct 5 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.4106 1.4113 2-months 1.4108 1.4115 3-months 1.4109 1.4116 6-months 1.4114 1.4122 Source: OCBC
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  • 339 27 Oct 5 Delivery Month Opening Sett Av Range Price Price Hi Low Vol Open Done Position Oct 09 2080 2100 2105 2080 109 617 Nov 09 2048 2055 2072 2045 1943 ***** Dec 09 2031 2042 2057 2030 6777 ***** Jan 10 2030 2043 2059 2030 2461 *****
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  • 182 27 Oct 5 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (lots) O/l (lots) Nov 09 218.0 Dec 09 Jan 10 217.5 Feb 10 217.5 Mario 218.0 Apr 10 218.0 217.5 217.5 217.5 218.0 217.5 217.5 217.5 218.0 217.5 2 20 60 40
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  • 87 27 Oct 5 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hi' Day's |h Low 3-Month BQ*****S 07.01.2010 1-Year BY*****W 03.05.2010 0.34 0.40 0.34 0.28 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Day's High Low 2-Year NX*****H 3.625 5-Year N*****0N 1.375 7-Year N*****0S 2.875 10-Year NX*****W
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  • 101 27 Oct 2 (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Nov 09 885.00 918.00 918.00 885.00 Jan 10 892.00 924.25 924.25 892.00 Mar10 895.25 924.75 924.50 895.50 May 10 893.50 920.75 920.00 894.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Oct 09 33.73 34.25 34.23 33.45 Dec
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  • 76 27 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Oct 2 origin) USS/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 67.40 -0.78 WTI (Near Mth) 69.65 -0.87 Dubai (1 -Mth F) 68.36 -0.32 Tapis blend 74.60 0.40 Minas 71.30 0.15 PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 62.67 74.20 -0.43 -0.35 USS/barrel Opec Oil Basket
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  • 464 27 Oct 5 AS CS Rmb Euro HKS IndRsRi Yen Won RM NZS Pak Rs Peso SS Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound us: Australia 0.941 5.970 0.598 6.778 41.571 83.546 0.786 10.266 3.024 1.215 72.793 40.853 1.234 6.677 0.903 28.205 29.251 0.548 0.875 Canada 1.062 6.343 0.635 7.201
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  • 77 27 Oct 5 1 mth 0.***** 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 0.***** 9 mths 0.***** 0.***** 12 mths 1.***** 0.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 9 mths 1.***** 12 mths 1.***** SWAP
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  • 141 27 Oct 5 GOLD (USS/oz) Oct OS Oct 02 Hong Kong London 1004.40 997.30 998.30 Oct 02 Oct 01 1001.35 1000.00 1002.15 1001.70 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR (Sj) Oct OS Buying Sellim Kilobar "48,750.27" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (SS) Selling Buying Igm 5gm lOgm 20gm 50gm lOOgm 1
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  • 157 27 Oct 5 Against SS Currencies Bid Offer Against USS Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: 0.8745 0.8747 Australian dollar 1.2334 1.2342 Canadian dollar 1.3103 1.3112 0.9290 0.9293 Euro 2.0641 2.0654 1.4635 1.4638 NZ dollar 1.0145 1.0161 0.7193 0.7201 Sterlini md 2.2506 2.2522 1.5957 1.596:
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  • 68 27 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (USS/tonne) Close Previous Cash 1770.00 1824.00 3 months 1804.00 1858.00 Copper, Grade A (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months 5857.75 5879.00 5967.50 5985.00 Lead (USS/tonne) Cash 2088.00 3 months 2115.00 2163.50 2190.00 Nickel (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.50 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00
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  • 77 27 Oct 2 COCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low Dec 09 1988 2053 2048/1978 Mar 10 2008 2071 2062/1997 May 10 2028 2088 2078/2017 Jul 10 1976 2031 2022/1968 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Nov 09 1383 1363 1399/1340 Jan 10 1410 1392 1428/1370 Mar 10 1434 1417 1452/1396 SUGAR
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  • 2243 27 BONDS, WARRANTS EXTENDED SETTLEMENT Tel Code Company Tel Code Company Prem Expiry Last Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear- Mths Sale +or- ('000) Ratio Price ing Left Ezion Hldg MBL ECW*****5 8.5 -0.5 1080 Ezra MBL ECW*****4 33.5 Ezra MBL ECW*****3 20 -4 974 1 95 0.7 140 0.7 180 3
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  • PROPERTY
    • 251 30 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] TA Global Bhd, a Malaysian property group that will be listed on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange next month, plans to buy hotels in London and Vancouver to expand its portfolio that includes the Radisson Plaza in Sydney.
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    • 348 30  -  EMILYN YAP Although investment activity has risen, retail spending remains weak By PROPERTY consultancy DTZ expects retail rents to drift "with minimal declines" for the rest of the year and in 2010. The firm's head of South-east Asia research Chua Chor Hoon said:
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    • 679 30 -Reuters Analysts expect 50% drop in 2009 from their peaks last year [DUßAl] Dubai house prices appear poised to fall another 10 per cent in 2009 as financial woes linger, a Reuters poll showed, in stark contrast to more mature markets in Britain
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    • 298 30 Govt announces four new areas for conservation THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday unveiled eight winners of this year's Architectural Heritage Awards (AHAs) and announced four new areas that will be conserved. The restoration projects that took home prizes are: Ascott Singapore Raffles Place at
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    • 786 31 Reuters Its central bank may break ranks with G-20 partners and raise interest rates [SEOUL] Would-be home owner Hwang Min-soon is the sort of bullish property buyer who may prompt the central bank to break ranks with the G-20 and raise interest
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    • 103 31 Reuters [SEOUL] Apartment prices across South Korea rose for the 17th straight week, the longest gaining streak since July 2008, data from the country's top lender showed yesterday. Apartment prices rose by 0.1 per cent last week from the previous week, extending a rising
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    • 438 31 Bloomberg Bank leasing back tower from Israeli purchasers [JERUSALEM] HSBC Holdings pic, Europe's largest bank, agreed to sell its New York City headquarters for US$33O million in cash to a company controlled by Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner. The London-based lender will lease back the
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