The Business Times, 30 October 2009

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    20 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Ssl.oo online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg Sf!l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION COREGNNOI9B4O2B6BE MICA (P) 123/08/2009 Friday, October 30,2009
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    Lock icon In dollar terms, '09 home sales pale before record of '07
    856 1  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Volumes may be as high, but units sold this year are smaller and less expensive By [SINGAPORE] Numbers tell only half the story. While developers are heading towards the record number of private homes sold in 2007,
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
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      29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 15.459 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:
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      47 1 lursi lay lange I COMP 1,241.75 -7.30 IIKKEI225 9,891.10 -183.95 IANG SENG 21,264.99 -496.59 ;et INDEX 690.10 -13.85 JAKARTA COMP 2,344.03 -11.28 IANILACOMP 2,862.33 -45.88 ;eoulcomp 1,585.85 -23.86 ;henzhen B 531.82 -9.72 IUMBAI IND 16,052.72 -230.77 12 noon EDT Cham )OW 9,876.35 +113.66 IASDAQ 2,088.23 +28.62
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      Lock icon FOREX
      42 1 IS$ (S$ per US$) 1.401 (US$/S$ per 1.643 2.301 ;UR0 (US$/S$/E) 1.474 2.065 Foreign currency per US$ S$ 'EN 90.70 64.70 3.425 2.445 IK$ 7.750 5.532 !AHT 33.48 23.89 lUPIAH 9,635 6,877 lENMINBI 6.829 4.874 INDIAN RUPEE 47.41 33.84 1.110 0.792
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    Lock icon Services to drive 2010 growth: MAS
    672 1  -  ANNA TEO Recent GDP surge may taper off; slow, uneven recovery on the cards By [SINGAPORE] Services will fuel growth next year as the economy settles to a more gradual pace following two euphoric quarters, says the Monetary Authority of Singapore. With only modest
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  • TOP STORIES
    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Services to drive 2010 growth: MAS
        74 2 SERVICES will fuel growth next year as the economy settles to a more gradual pace following two euphoric quarters, says the Monetary Authority of Singapore. With only modest recovery in end demand in sight, manufacturing is expected to rebound at a moderate pace. The
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        Lock icon In dollar terms, '09 home sales pale before record of '07
        72 2 NUMBERS tell only half the story. While developers are heading towards the record number of private homes sold in 2007, CB Richard Ellis says that the total transaction value of primary market sales in 2009 so far at about
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        Lock icon Financial services expected to grow slowly but surely
        76 2 SINGAPORE'S financial services sector should see "moderate and broad-based" growth next year as risk appetite returns and demand for bank loans recovers, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in its Macroeconomic Review yesterday. "In particular, demand for wealth services should continue to
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        Lock icon Fourth publicly-funded S'pore university unveiled
        66 2 SINGAPORE'S fourth publicly-funded university has officially been named the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Also unveiled to the public yesterday was its founding president Thomas Magnanti, an institute professor and former Dean ofthe Engineering School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.
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        Lock icon Baring Asia acquires 16.5% of Hsu Fu Chi
        61 2 BARING Private Equity Asia has emerged as a substantial shareholder of China-based Hsu Fu Chi International, after an affiliate invested US$l35 million for a 16.5 per cent stake in the Singapore Exchange mainboard-listed group. One ofthe top confectionary companies in China, it
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        Lock icon SingPost Q2 earnings up, helped by one-off items
        90 2 SINGAPORE Post chalked up a net profit of $40.5 million for the second quarter ended Sept 30, up 8.3 per cent from the previous corresponding quarter. The net earnings were higher as a 98.7 per cent fall in share of profit of
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        Lock icon Asian, European banks say bad debts still an issue
        81 2 SOME ofthe world's leading banks warned yesterday that bad debts would continue to weigh on lenders and signs of recovery were not clear, overshadowing an improvement in underlying earnings and shaking markets. The caution was not confined to one region, as
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        Lock icon Price spike in rice seen as Indian harvest plunges
        78 2 INDIA, the world's second-largest rice grower, may become a net importer for the first time in 21 years in 2010, potentially sparking the kind of "panic" that sent prices to records last year, a rice specialist said. India may import as
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      Lock icon Financial services expected to grow slowly but surely
      480 2  -  CONRAD TAN MAS REVIEW Risk appetite is returning and demand for loans is recovering: MAS By [SINGAPORE] Singapore's financial services sector should see "moderate and broad-based" growth next year as risk appetite returns and demand for bank loans recovers, the Monetary Authority
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      Lock icon 'Modern services' primed to lead S'pore's charge
      468 2  -  ANNA TEO By [SINGAPORE] Singapore's services sector has been more resilient in the current downturn than the export of goods and trade-related services. And given the services sector's potential as a growth engine, and its resilience, there's great scope to grow Singapore's global
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      Lock icon All eyes on dollar as US economy grows 3.5%
      597 2  -  ANDREW MARKS By in New York WALL Street was riveted on Thursday by official word that the US economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year, by an esti-mate-topping 3.5 per cent, after contracting
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      Lock icon 4th publicly funded varsity to focus on design & technology
      535 4  - 4th publicly funded varsity to focus on design technology LEE U-WEN Magnanti, former dean of engineering school at MIT, is founding president By [SINGAPORE] Singapore's fourth publicly funded university has officially been named the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SU). Also unveiled yesterday was its founding president, Thomas Magnanti,
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      Lock icon NOL's losses mount, more storms ahead
      385 4  -  LYNETTE KHOO It expects to incur significant losses in Q4andHl of 2010 By [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) continued to sink deeper in the red in the third quarter ended Sept 30, racking up net losses of U*****.9 million, compared to a net profit
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      Lock icon Galleon's switch to cash may ease redemptions
      644 4  -  SIOW Ll SEN 90% of portfolio is in cash as it moves to return money By [SINGAPORE] The assets of Galleon Group have not been frozen by the US authorities and there should be no hold up in returning money to investors, a
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Baring Asia acquires 16.5% of Hsu Fu Chi
      475 5  -  LYNETTE KHOO Fund's MD Gordon Shaw will join board of directors from Nov 1 By BARING Private Equity Asia has emerged as a substantial shareholder of Chi-na-based Hsu Fu Chi International, after an affiliate invested US$l35 million for a 16.5 per cent
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      Lock icon Del Monte Pacific sued for breach of contract
      208 5 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc has filed a US$lOO million lawsuit against Del Monte Pacific Ltd, the Singapore-based beverage and packaged foods company, for breach of contract for allegedly selling pineapple concentrate in its territory. Fresh Del Monte, the
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      Lock icon SingPost Q2 earnings up, helped by one-off items
      414 7  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI Revenue up 7.9%, boosted by consolidation of Quantium turnover By SINGAPORE Post (Sing Post) chalked up a net profit of $40.5 million for the second quarter ended Sept 30, up 8.3 per cent from the previous corresponding quarter. The net
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      Lock icon SMX may launch carbon products by Q2 next year
      602 7 Reuters THE Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX) plans to trade carbon products and could launch by the second quarter of 2010, chief executive Thomas McMahon said yesterday. He said he hoped to have clarity within 90 days on what type of carbon
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      Lock icon Watch the language – it's earnings season
      656 7  - Watch the language it's earnings season WONG WEI KONG IT'S earnings season and most of the focus rightly is on the financial numbers reported by companies. So far, the figures haven't been bad. At the end of last week, the combined net profit of $693.4 million for the 21 Singapore
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      Lock icon Keppel unit aims for $2b new orders next year
      510 8 -Reuters Keppel O&M seeks 'fair share' of Petrobras orders for oil rigs [SINGAPORE] Keppel Offshore and Marine, the world's largest offshore oil rig builder, is aiming to secure Ss2 billion worth of new orders in 2010, as oil prices return to
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      Lock icon Aspial buys another residential site
      148 8 ASPIAL Corporation said yesterday that it has agreed to buy a property at 26C Lorong Marzuki for $2.5 million. The freehold site has an area of 281.1 square metres and is zoned for residential use with a 1.4 plot ratio. Aspial previously bought two properties
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      Lock icon At a glance
      99 8 9-month and Q3 results ended Sept 2009 9 months ended Sept 200!) 3 months ended Sept 2009 1 China Animal Health I 22.64 I 21.48 5.4 63.29 59.57 6.2 10.58 8.45 25.2 26.93 24.47 10.1 2 China Paper 16.17 22.49 -28.1 132.60 140.30 -5.5 6.16 8.10 -24.0
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      Lock icon Eu Yan Sang's Q1 net profit up 11% to $3.6m
      405 8  -  FELDA CHAY By TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine (TCM) group Eu Van Sang International's net earnings for the first quarter ended Sept 30 climbed 11 per cent from the year-ago period to $3.63 million. The rise in net profit attributable to equity-holders
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Lifebrandz served with writ of summons
        108 8 LIFEBRANDZ Ltd said yesterday that it has been served with a writ of summons filed in the High Court of Singapore. A claim has been made by M/s Giorgio Ferrari Pte Ltd for alleged breach of four contracts entered into by four of Lifebrandz's
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        Lock icon Teledata chairman sells his 17.62% stake
        55 8 TELEDATA (Singapore) said yesterday that its chairman and managing director, Quek Chek Lan, has entered into an agreement to sell all his 17.62 per cent stake in the company for about $7.51 million. The buyer, Calypso Management Holdings, will pay 3.6 cents a share
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        Lock icon Samudera posts Q3 net loss of US$3.99m
        66 8 SAMUDERA Shipping Line reported a net loss of U553.99 million for the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2009, compared with a net profit of U555.73 million a year ago. Turnover sank 31.6 per cent to U5585.14 million. This was mainly due to the
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      253 5 Co} Many parts working together— the only way to solve the world's energy challenges. Energy demand is expected to be 35 percent higher in the year 2030 than it was in the year 2005, driven largely by people in the developing world seeking higher standards of living. Meeting this growing
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon US woes trigger third day of losses
      622 6  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS STI ends 16.67 points lower but off day's low on short-covering and mixed Europe opening THE local stock market suffered from a third consecutive Wall Street-trig-gered sell-off yesterday, this time resulting in 16.67 points being cut off the Straits Times
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      100 6 MAIN Up Down Unch SDQ Up Down Unch TOTAL Up Down Unch Multi Ind 8 7 2 0 0 0 8 7 2 Manufacturing 42 70 77 15 47 75 92 Commerce 23 15 25 23 19 27 Tpt/Stor/Comms 23 11 11 23 11 Finance 19 19
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      122 6 TURNOVER ('000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN VALUE ('000) SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 34.783 34.783 60.923 60.923 Manufacturing 360.885 25.039 385.924 205.417 991 206.409 Commerce 128.252 27.747 155.999 120.510 9.899 130.409 Tpt/Stor/Comms 169.779 12.650 182.429 268.223 3.175 271.398 Finance 38.824 38.824 306.760 306.760 Construction 34.219 8.550 42.769 12.446
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS
      105 6 Stock name Close Cham Capita Land 4.080 -0.070 CapitaMall 1.600 CityDev 9.940 -0.120 ComfortDelGrc 1.520 -0.020 Cosco Corp 1.130 -0.010 DBS Grp 12.920 -0.060 F&N 3.770 -0.050 Genting SP 1.070 Golden Agri 0.430 HK Land 4.600 +0.010 JMH 30.500 +0.500 JSH 17.240 +0.020 JardineC&C 23.280 -0.640
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      65 6 Oct 29 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -818.00 -59.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -70.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -82.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 618.91 -4.11 FTSE ST Small Cap 528.45 -2.59 FTSE ST All Share 648.93 -4.09 FTSE ST China Top 268.55 -0.14 FTSE ST China 287.27 +0.32 FTSE
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      53 6 VOLUME Teledata 180,406,000 Gentinq SP 91,055,000 Golden Aqri 48,272,000 SingTel 40,911,000 Capita Land 33,396,000 AusGroup 24,306,000 NOL 24,236,000 Ezion 22,923,000 CapitaMall 22,887,000 FrasersComm 21,514,000 VALUE(S) CapitaLand 135,504,790 DBS Grp 122,834,300 SingTel 121,843,090 Genting SP 95,929,780 UOB 67,648,558 OCBC Bk 60,470,270 Noble Grp 49,398,890 SGX 46,450,961 Wilmar 40,018,191
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      Lock icon RISES
      103 6 BY CENTS CLOSE UP DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 5880 112.0 1.4 JMH 3050 70.0 1.7 OCBC Bk5.1%NCPS 100 ***** 20.0 0.2 DBS Bk6% NCPS 10 ***** 12.0 0.1 OCBC Bk 765 12.0 1.6 OCBC Bk.ES.0911 765 7.0 0.9 Ramba 69 6.5 10.4 Tri-M 67.5 5.5 8.9 itraits Trdi 411
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      Lock icon FALLS
      120 6 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN *****-215.7 -1.5 iBXT Ni 10US! DBXT FTVietnam 10US! 5470-201.7 -2.6 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 2982-186.3 -4.3 DBXT MSKorea 10US 4231-177.9 -2.9 DBXT MSTaiwan 10US$ 1456 -89.6 -4.2 China H 10US 1610 -70.0 -3.0 STXPO 100 1326 -70.0 -5.0 Jardine C&C 2328 -64.0 -2.7 UOB.ES.0910 1674 -62.0
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      Lock icon CURRENCIES
      85 6 Where S$ stands Oct 29 %CHNG CLOSE FR0O28 YR2009 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.4007 0.03 1.5579 1.3897 Euro 2.0665 0.23 2.0952 1.9150 Pounds 2.3011 -0.55 2.4366 2.0356 AS 1.2682 0.01 1.2900 0.9453 Yen* 1.5442 -0.37 1.7278 1.4831 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.18 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.1799 0.15 4.3390 4.1040 Peso*
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      765 6  -  CONRAD TAN OCBC Bank Oct 29 close: $7.65 KIM ENG SECURITIES, Oct 29 OCBC posted Q3 2009 core net profit of $450 million that way exceeded market expectations. Excluding the $154 million loss due to Great Eastern Holdings's redemption offer for Great Link Choice (GLC) products, net profit
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      Lock icon Greenback falls on good US GDP data
      449 6 Reuters CURRENCIES [NEW YORK] The US dollar weakened against the euro yesterday after data snowed that the US economy returned to growth in the third quarter, reducing the greenback's safe-haven allure and sending investors elsewhere for better returns. The US economy grew at
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Crisis prompts countries to reassess tax policies
      670 10  -  MICHELLE QUAH Need to boost tax bases checks fall in corporate rates: KPMG survey By THE global crisis has forced governments worldwide to reassess their tax policies. Where once they focused on cutting corporate taxes to lure investment, the need now to shore
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      Lock icon Molly Malone's Pub changes hands
      251 10 A MAINSTAY of Singapore's pub scene, Molly Malone's Irish Pub, is changing hands. The previous owner ofthe pub, McCraic Group, has sold all shares in the companies holding Molly Malone's and another pub, the BQ Bar. The new owner is the Tadcaster Group, which paid
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      Lock icon NCSS giving up role of VWO regulator
      332 10  -  FELDA CHAY By THE National Council of Social Service (NCSS) said yesterday that it would relinquish its role as the regulator of voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs) here in January next year. The council said at the Bth NCSS Members' Conference that it will
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      Lock icon BCA giving Green Mark awards for cluster devts
      225 10  -  UMA SHANKARI By THE Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has added another category to its Green Mark certification it is now giving Green Mark awards for cluster developments. The first two projects certified under the new BCA Green Mark for Districts scheme
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      Lock icon Industrial site in Jurong West for sale
      264 10  -  EMILYN YAP By THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will put a 30-year leasehold industrial site in Jurong West up for tender. The plot is at Pioneer Road North and Soon Lee Drive, near Pioneer MRT station. It became available for sale through the
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon S'pore to show its arts, culture in Paris
        71 10 AN exhibition of Singapore arts and culture will be staged at the Musee dv quai Branly in Paris next year. The Singapore Showcase, from Oct 4, 2010, to Jan 23, 2011, will be anchored by a Peranakan exhibition and a mini arts
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        Lock icon NTU to offer joint master's with lITB
        63 10 NANYANG Technological University (NTU) will launch a master's degree in infrastructure engineering and management. The programme will be offered jointly with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). It will be a full-time, 18-month course comprising three semesters. Students will spend one semester
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        Lock icon EDB invests $8.5m in US-based SanScout
        61 10 THE Economic Development Board's equity investment arm EDB Investments has pumped in $8.5 million into US-based in-stream video ad provider SanScout. The funding will aid the growth of the company in the US and help it establish a presence in Asia. It is setting
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        Lock icon TP students raise $40,000 from websites
        53 10 FOUR students from Temasek Polytechnic have raised over $40,000 for the Singapore Heart Foundation by selling ad space on two websites in just over two months. The websites TPbuysell and TPon9 are believed to have helped raise the highest amount ever by local students
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      Lock icon Public services easily accessible
      269 10  -  LEE U-WEN 4 out of 5 polled say so, according to Forbes Research By ABOUT four out of five people in Singapore agree that public services are easily accessible, and a similar number say they are able to contact the right agency without being referred from
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Asian, European banks say bad debts still an issue
      462 12 Reuters They caution that signs of recovery are not clear, notably in the US [AMSTERDAM] Some ofthe world's leading banks warned yesterday that bad debts would continue to weigh on lenders and signs of recovery were not clear, overshadowing an improvement
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      Lock icon Global stock surge to fade: Morgan
      428 12 Bloomberg End will come when govt stimulus slows, credit bubble bursts [MUMBAI] The global stock market rally, which resembles the bull run between 2003 and 2007, wiU end as government spending slows after so-called easy money boosted asset prices, according to Morgan Stanley. "Such
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      Lock icon Global financial crisis not yet over
      286 12 Bloomberg Harvard professors challenge G-20 optimism, say the financial crisis may morph into a government-debt crisis [SAN FRANCISCO] The global financial crisis hasn't ended, said Harvard University professors Kenneth Rogoff and Niall Ferguson, who challenged assertions made by Group of 20 leaders at their
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      Lock icon Tokyo keeps heat on BOJ on eve of meeting
      413 12 Reuters CORPORATE SUPPORT REVIEW [TOKYO] The government kept up the pressure on the Bank of Japan on the eve of a policy review as the bank seeks to end its corporate support steps, with a deputy to the finance minister saying
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      Lock icon Japan factory output up for 7th straight month
      201 12 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese industrial output rose for the seventh month running in September, the longest streak of gains in more than 12 years, as global stimulus measures led car and electronics makers to increase production. The numbers bode well for Bank of
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      398 13  -  PAULINE NG Auto stocks drop slightly in show of ambivalence after liberalisation moves By in Kuala Lumpur MOST analysts see little impact in the near to mid term after Malaysia further liberalised its automotive sector. Auto stocks reflected the ambivalence yesterday, dropping slightly after
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      286 13 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's president said yesterday that his administration would focus on eliminating bottlenecks and overlapping regulations to help lift growth in South-east Asia's biggest economy to 7 per cent or more by 2014. Indonesia has attracted strong inflows this year into
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      380 13  -  S JAYASAN KARAN By in Kuala Lumpur SHARES of Malaysian mobile phone services provider Digi.com jumped over one per cent to RM21.72 on news that the firm planned a special dividend of 75 sen a share after it posted respectable earnings for its third quarter.
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      375 14 Reuters [HANGZHOU] China and the United States kicked off an annual trade meeting yesterday with both sides reiterating calls against protectionism, against a backdrop of friction over trade and the value of their currencies. The annual Joint Commission on Commerce and
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      290 14 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's top contract chip maker, met market expectations as it posted its biggest quarterly net profit in a year, after making more advanced chips for new PCs and other high-tech gadgets. Analysts expect TSMC's sales to be
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      510 15 Bloomberg Nation may become net importer for Ist time in 21 years in 2010, causing panic [NEW DELHI] India, the world's second-largest rice grower, may become a net importer for the first time in 21 years in 2010, potentially sparking the
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      220 16 AFP [BANGKOK] Thai authorities are to charge four people with spreading rumours about the health of the country's king which sent stock markets plunging earlier this month, the prime minister said yesterday. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 81, the world's longest-reigning monarch,
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      435 16 ■Reuters But mobile phone operator is forecast to see stronger Q4 with firmer economy [BANGKOK] Thailand's se-cond-largest mobile phone operator, Total Access Communication PCL (TAC), reported an 11 per cent fall in net profit on Wednesday, hurt by a weak economy,
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      249 16  -  TEH SHI NING By [SINGAPORE] Asean environment ministers met in Singapore yesterday to discuss climate change and transboundary haze pollution, ahead ofthe Copenhagen climate talks in December. Both meetings yesterday went "quite well", said Yaacob Ibrahim, Singapore's Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, who
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      573 17  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY Airline seeking funds from govt-backed turnaround agency By in Tokyo JAPAN Airlines (JAL), the financially troubled carrier, announced yesterday that it will open talks with statebacked Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation with a view to securing funds for its reconstruction. The news sent shares
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      608 18 Respondents relate to the Oracle of Omaha's consistency and humility [WASHINGTON] The Oracle of Omaha retains his pre-eminence as a market visionary, outshining a new wave of financial strategists and the best-known central bankers. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of
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      415 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] If Goldman Sachs Group Inc, the most profitable securities firm, decides to make a major charitable donation, it would take "at least US$l billion" to mollify anger over bonuses paid to its employees, billionaire philanthropist Peter G Peterson said.
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      576 18 Bloomberg This may help it emerge quickly from Europe's recession [MADRID] Germany is finding that quality counts when it comes to the rising euro. While its 17 per cent gain against the US dollar since March has been called a "disaster" by French
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      1917 19 There are just four hospices in S'pore with a total of 125 beds, far short of what's needed as the population ages. MICHELLE QUAH reports HOSPICE care the end-of-life care provided by health professionals and volunteers is not a topic often discussed due to its
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      460 20 THE cry has gone up in the wake ofthe global economic recession for better monitoring of risk in the macro economy, in the banking system and elsewhere. The call is amply justified. Repeated crises ofthe kind experienced in recent decades ought not to happen
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      956 20  -  NOURIEL ROUBINI -IHT It's fundamental to achieving sustainable global growth in the long run By GLOBAL imbalances roughly defined, the different emphasis that the world's leading economies place on savings, spending and debt is a phrase much used and little acted upon. Well before
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      781 20  -  FRANK CHING THE BOTTOM LINE TAIWAN President Ma Ying-jeou, in his first interview after taking on the chairmanship of the ruling Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, again urged China to scrap missiles along the coast aimed at the island. Those numbers, instead of
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      1363 21  -  JEAN-PIERRE LEHMANN The Berlin Wall may be gone, but all kinds of other divides are sprouting up By THE destruction of the Berlin Wall and the global market revolution that followed emancipated hundreds of millions of people. Though censorship and various forms of
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      678 21  - Poll voting be careful what you wish for Mak Yuen Teen LETTER TO THE EDITOR I REFER to the report "No rush for electronic full poll voting by firms" (BT, Oct 29). I am fully supportive of poll voting as it is consistent with the one-share-one-vote principle. I also understand
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      614 22  -  YEN SREENIVASAN But lata director-general cautions against calling it a recovery By [SINGAPORE] International air passenger traffic, though still below its 2008 peaks, has bounced off its lows, according to the latest September data compiled by the International Air Transport Association (lata). lata noted that passenger demand
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      411 22  -  YEN SREENIVASAN Move is first solid step towards Bengal Aerotropolis By [SINGAPORE] The West Bengal government has released the first land for a huge private airport project in which Changi Airports International (CAI) has a 26 per cent stake. The release of 216 hectares,
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      465 22  -  VINCENT WEE By container unit APL unsurprisingly won, for the second time in a row, the Asian Container Operator of the Year award while Keppel Shipyard showed its consistency by once again winning the Shiprepair Yard award. Sing Tel also stamped its growing
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        112 22 '000 :H Offshore Ihuan Hup Hldgs losco Corp ZWTLtd Ezra Hldgs rirst Ship Lease rreight Links jrand Banks laya Hold Ltd <1Ventures <eppel Corp Vlercator Lines V1TQ Corp MOL Pacific Shipping 3an-United Corp Rickmers Mari iamudera Ship iembcorp Indust iembcorp Marine ipore Ship itar Cruises 0.70 0.32 1.13 0.65
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        36 22 '000 Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings Nepline Brief PDZ Holdings 0.93 9.00 8.86 3.09 3.05 unch 0.09 -0.01 0.15 -0.04 -0.01 unch unch -0.01 15: 12; 89( 10! 31 491
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        12 22 ■oo ■recious Ship Jegional Cont 18.40 11.20 -0.30 unch 379! 133)
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        11 22 '000 Doil iingamas Cont .37.40 ...1.45 -1.60 -0.05 105. 933.
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        17 22 '000 Aboitiz Equity Intl Container Keppel Marine 8.00 20.25 2.00 -0.20 unch -0.04 131i 295: 151
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        21 22 Evergreen Marine ...16.75 :irst Steamship 41.80 /Van Hai Lines 15.65 fang Ming Marine ..11.70 -0.35 -2.30 -0.35 -0.35 1. 1
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        38 22 '000 (awasaki Hvylnd...229.00 -1.00 1684: (awasaki Kisen 340.00 3.00 747' Mitsubishi Hvy 327.00 -3.00 ***** l/litsui Eng&Sbldg ..236.00 -4.00 755! 1/litsuiOsk Lines ....529.00 -10.00 ***** Jippon Express 373.00 -2.00 382! JipponYusen 341.00 3.00 802! 'iource: Thomson Reuters
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      2808 22 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), Al: Air India (AIC), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bourag Airlines (BOU), BR:
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      8857 23 Transaction date: Oct 29 52-wks Tel |h Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP) Hii Day Last Quote |h Low Buyer Seller Div Gr Yld C'vr Net P/E MCap $mil Hii Comi >an] 17 3 3148 8Telecom 9.5 2.5 5834 A-Sonic 34 12 5000 ABR Hldgs 15.5 5.5 1938
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      255 24 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non-Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer
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      9199 24 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIG Global Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Acorns of Asia Balanced Fund!S 2.058/ AIGIF S'pore Bond Fund/A 1.35/ APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund!** 1.1/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!** 0.79/ AXA Life Secure Ascent 2020 Fund 0.*****/0.***** AXA Wealth Mgt S'pore Pte Ltd AXAWM -Talents
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      371 25 In local curr In S$ In USS %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Oct 28 World Index Preliminan 787.1 -1.5 16.1 -1.4 17.7 -1.6 21.0 EAFE Preliminai 746.7 -1.8 15.0 -1.6 20.5 -1.8 23.' Euro[ Preliminan 1061.8 -2.1
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      132 25 As at 9am nuicnHic] oct29 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2460 1.2840 Can dollar 1.2910 1.3060 Euro 2.0530 2.0760 NZ dollar 1.0000 1.0210 iterlini ind 2.2840 2.3090 US dollar 1.3950 1.4120 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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      173 25 Oct29 IS Offer Overnight 1-month 2-months 3-months Overnight mode: 1/4 ys$ 5/16 7/16 9/16 11/16 Offer 1/4 3/16 5/16 7/16 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months >—■. I. $Au 0.30 0.33 0.37 0.40 0.70 1.10 1.25 Offer 0.20 0.23 0.27 0.30
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      28 25 Oct29 ten Jii Sett iTI Oct 2614 2614 2632 ilMSCI Oct 315.2 316.8 314.3 "aiwan Oct 273 273.5 267.2 Source: MF Global (S) He. Ltd
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      20 25 Oct29 Bid Offer 1-month 1.4007 1.4020 2-months 1.4010 1.4023 3-months 1.4011 1.4025 6-months 1.4015 1.4029 Source: OCBC
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      64 25 Oct29 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Month Range Price Price Hi Vol Open Done Position Low Nov09 2129 2179 2179 2129 305 1328 Dec 09 2130 2170 2184 2125 2788 ***** Jan 10 2133 2189 2195 2130 ***** ***** Feb 10 2140 2199 2201 2138
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      292 25 Oct29 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES DecO9 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 99.6750 99.4750 99.1600 98.7850 7873 5220 3853 4687 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES DecO9 99.490 99.495 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 99.490 99.495 99.510 99.520 99.500 99.440 99.355 99.295 99.295 160 3673 3742 1879
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      153 25 Oct29 (UBBtK Futures (Closing prices) !SS 3 (US cents/kg) /lonth High Low Close Sett Volume (lots) O/l (lots) Mov09 240.0 Dec 09 Ian 10 =eb 10 Vlar 10 241.8 <\pr10 240.0 241.8 240.0 241.0 242.0 242.0 242.0 243.5 5 136 80 FSR 20 (US cents/kg) Month High Low
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      463 25 Oct29 AS CS Rmb Euro HKS IndRsRu Yen Won RM NZS Pak Rs Peso SS Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound us: lustralia 0.970 6.151 0.611 6.981 42.707 86.792 0.817 10.744 3.085 1.245 75.352 43.004 1.262 7.049 0.924 29.339 30.154 0.548 0.901 Canada 1.031 6.343 0.630 7.199 44.037
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      86 25 Oct29 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hi< Day's |h Low 3-Month BQ*****X 28.01.2010 1-Year BY*****N 01.11.2010 0.43 0.59 0.52 0.52 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 2.500 15-Year NY*****H
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      140 25 Oct29 GOLD (USS/oz) Oct 28 Oct 29 Hong Kong 1038.20 1033.10 London Oct 26 Oct 28 1045.95 1032.00 1046.75 1032.80 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR (S$) Oct 29 Buying Sellinc Kilobar ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Sellinc "50,110.24" iq Buying Igm 5gm lOgm 20gm 50gm lOOgm 1 oz
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      100 25 Oct 28 (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Nov 09 968.50 973.50 978.50 959.25 Jan 10 970.50 976.50 981.75 962.00 MarlO 971.25 978.50 984.00 964.25 May 10 967.25 974.25 980.75 961.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Dec 09 36.86 37.48 37.76 36.70 Ian
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      70 25 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Oct2B origin^ t/barrel Close Cham Srent blend (1-Mth F) 76.19 -1.62 VTI (Near Mth) 77.31 -2.04 iubai (1-Mth F) 76.72 -0.40 "apis blend 81.55 -0.35 i/linas 79.05 -0.35 >RODUCT JS$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 74.50 84.05 0.4! -0.6! US$/barrel )pec Oil Basket Price 75.53
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      156 25 Oct29 Against SS Currencies Bid Offer Against US$ Bid Offer S$fUS$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2613 1.2628 0.9007 0.9009 Canadian dollar 1.3005 1.3022 0.9287 0.9290 Euro 2.0642 2.0664 1.4740 1.4742 NZ dollar 1.0128 1.0140 0.7232 0.7234 Sterlini 2.2999 2.3026 1.6423 1.6427 US dollar
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      71 25 Out 28 iri iiuiii, yy.i (USS/tonne) Co Close Previous Cash 1876.75 1949.75 3 months 1912.00 1985.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 6404.00 6430.00 6554.50 6580.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2204.75 3 months 2230.00 2245.00 2270.50 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash
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      74 25 Oct2B :OCOA (Btonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low Dec 09 2153 2172 2168/2122 Mar 10 2186 2207 2203/2156 May 10 2216 2236 2232/2186 Jul 10 2145 2163 2145/2117 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Nov09 1393 1394 1395/1373 Jan 10 1438 unch 1441/1418 Mar 10 1468 1471 1471/1449 SUGAR (US tonne)
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      593 28  -  jaime cc GREETINGS, Singapore motorists! I am a representative of Clam Petrol, a direct competitor to that other company which I would rather not name. Clue: without it, most molluscs would be naked. The reason I don't want to mention its name is that
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        966 29 CHAMPAGNE According to industry players, the local market is now developed enough to accept, and appreciate such boutique labels, hence their popularity, reports MELISSA LWEE WHEN it comes to champagne, there was a time when few could recite names beyond the likes of Dom Perignon,
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        686 29  -  > MELISSA LWEE PROFILE By IF there was ever someone who is living the bartending equivalent ofthe American Dream, world renowned mixologist Sam Ross would be it. Armed with nothing but a three month visa and a whole lot of heart and passion for
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        378 29  -  AUDREY PHOON CHARITY By. YOU don't usually see Singaporean tourists going to Cambodia carrying huge bags, but the 29 Lexus Club members who travelled to Siem Reap recently on Lexus' Journey of a Lifetime were the exception: they had 400 kg of luggage between them.
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        915 30 No longer a cheap table wine, Barbera has come in out of the cold, says N K YONG MENTION Piedmont wines and the most common, most frequent response is "Barolo" or even "Barbaresco", the King and Queen of Piedmont's wines. Mention the word "Barbera" and more often
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        596 31 Jackson's last dance this really is it The movie gives a rare glimpse of the man behind the tabloid headlines, says AMANDA DE GUZMAN THERE is no doubt that Michael Jackson's final concert tour would have been spectacular. This Is It shows us that much, and perhaps something even more
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        476 31  -  AMANDA DE GUZMAN By DESPITE what the movie poster will tell you, Coraline is no ordinary animation. The first hint should be that it is based on a novella by Neil Gaiman, whose decidedly dark but wondrous mind has produced some ofthe most imaginative fantasy
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        540 31  -  CHEAH UI-HOON DVD REVIEW By MOVE over modern romcoms, and make way for the period romance. Especially when the romance revolves around a historical character, and one as significant as Queen Victoria. Amid this year's lacklustre crop of romantic dramas and comedies, The Young Victoria
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        947 32 An outdoor fair at Clifford Square wants to help demystify Surrealism, Impressionism, Cubism and a lot of other 'ism's in Western and local art, writes CLARISSA TAN ROSIHAN Dahim is a man of many hats. There's a straw hat, perched on an easel covered with red
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        481 33 DA:NS FESTIVAL Flamenco meets contemporary dance in Dunas, a cross-cultural piece that deliberately emphasises the stylistic differences, reports MELISSA QUEK THE fact that Dunas brings together two well-known figures from differing dance genres immediately presents a comparison with Sacred Monsters a collaboration between classical ballerina Sylvie
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        495 33  -  MELISSA QUEK By ALTHOUGH the performance was entitled A Ballet Gala Evening with Paloma Herrera, it was Staatsballet Berlin's lana Salenko and Marian Walter who stole the show with superb technique that underpinned their engaging performance quality and the chemistry of their partnership. First they captured
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        418 33  -  MELISSA QUEK By THROUGH Void-Jendela Peradaban, Boi Sakti and T.H.E Dance Company had the lofty ambition of revealing the hypocrisy of modernism, where the comforting facade of labels blinds people to the truth of their situations. With such a highly charged theme,
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        764 33  -  AMANDA DE GUZMAN By WHEN the Ml Fringe Festival takes off next January, audiences will see performances from Myanmar and Iran for the very first time. For the first time too, the organisers will be paying for the two artists' trip, unlike its
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        782 34 Experimental dancer Nirmala Seshadri's Outcaste Eternal is an intense and moving multi-medium performance. She tells WOON TAI HO why it's staged for the Writers Festival SHE is 14. On the night of her wedding, she is raped by her bro-ther-in-law while her husband
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      745 29 Revellers are certainly in for a treat this Halloween never mind the fact that most Singaporeans have never gone trick or treating in their lives as venues all around town are going all out to make it the 'scariest' and possibly the most decadent weekend of the year with parties
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