The Business Times, 31 October 2009

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    16 1 weekend THE BUSINESS TIMES www.businesstimes.com.sg October 31-November 1,2009 Sji.OO mica(p)l24/08/2009 S*l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article
    Lock icon Jobs are back, and so are job seekers
    622 1  -  Chuang Peck Ming Total employment rises by 15,400 in Q3, even though the unemployment rate creeps up to 3.4% in Sept By peckming@sph.com.sg Singapore THE jobless rate is up, even though the economy is on the mend and churning out more jobs.
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    Lock icon Top-line oven to warm home buyers' hearts
    765 1  -  Emilyn Yap More property developers are throwing in branded ovens and other luxury fittings to draw homemakers By emilyny@sph.com.sg Singapore A MIELE oven can do more than bake a cake these days it might just help whip up a home sale. More developers
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      146 1 ijH&^P^"lf the raffles conversation I CEOS'HAWKER WEALTH II II DENNIS GILLINGS, CEO OF y^ GUIDE Lessons from the > >QUINTILES TRANSNATIONAL 89 Hokkienzichar I L 6-7 last 12 months 132 8 sszisi *****4 1 POSITIVE OUTLOOK Business sentiment improves BUSINESS sentiment for both the manufacturing and service sectors has improved
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  • TOP STORIES
    • MARKETS
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        47 2 KL COMP 1,243.23 +1.48 NIKKEI 225 10,034.74 +143.64 HANG SENG 21,752.87 +487.88 SET 685.24 -4.86 JAKARTA 2,367.70 +23.67 MANILA 2,908.50 +46.17 KOSPI 1,580.69 -5.16 SHENZHEN B 537.40 +5.58 MUMBAI IND 15,896.28 -156.44 12 noon EDT Chanpe 12 noon EDT Change DOW 9,807.73 -154.85 NASDAQ 2,065.21 -32.34
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        Lock icon PRIME RATES
        29 2 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 538 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 15.773 TAIWAN 4.776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 933 BRITAIN 050 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.52 INDIA 11.75 dfgfdgfd
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        48 2 us$ 'S$ .er US$; 1.397 'US$/ /S$ 1.655 2.311 EURO. ;us$/s$/i 1.483 2.071 Forei: ;n current >er US$ S$ YEN 91.10 65.20 RM 3.415 2.445 HK$ 7.750 5.548 BAHT 33.43 23.93 RUPIAH 9,550 6,836 RENMINBI 6.828 4.888 NDIAN RUPEE 46.99 33.64 A$ 1.095 0.784 NZ$ 1.372 0.982
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      Lock icon Improving mood among business spreads
      542 2  -  Teh Shi Ning More expect business conditions to be more favourable in next 6 months: EDB survey By tshining@sph.com.sg Singapore BUSINESS sentiment for both the manufacturing and service sectors has improved further, yesterday's release of findings from official surveys showed. Among manufacturers, the number of
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      Lock icon SPH marks 25th anniversary with gala concert
      334 3 SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) yesterday celebrated its 25th anniversary with a gala concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall. SPH chairman Tony Tan used the occasion to present a cheque for $500,000 to Jennie Chua, chairman of the Community Chest. The money is to
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      Lock icon 'Black October' is just a little red for S'pore market
      893 3  -  Winston Chai wmstonc@sph.com.sg Capitalisation dips just 1.8% in stark reversal from October 2008 By Singapore TTn ft T-% *—i 1 111 FEARS of another black October have turned out to be largely unfounded. The capitalisation of the Singapore stock market
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      Lock icon UOB's Q3 profit up 5.3% at $500m
      840 4  -  Conrad Tan Bigger gains from investment activities, growth in lending income boost results By conradt@sph.com.sg Singapore UNITED Overseas Bank's net profit rose 5.3 per cent to $500 million for the third quarter from a year ago, surpassing analysts' estimates, as the group signalled
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    • Article
      Lock icon Oct consumer confidence slides
      399 4 Bloomberg, Reuters LATEST US DATA New York CONFIDENCE among US consumers fell in October, indicating job losses may keep household spending muted even as the economy resumes growth. The Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer sentiment decreased to 70.6 from 73.5 in September, which was
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      Lock icon S'pore pips London as No 2 financial hub
      638 5 bai. Bloomberg New York stays clear favourite in global survey of investor choice Washington SINGAPORE has emerged as the second leading global financial centre after New York. While New York has withstood the worst economic crisis in seven decades, London slipped behind
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      Lock icon BOJ votes to end unusual corporate funding moves
      661 6  -  Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo Pleas from government to delay such exit strategies go unheeded By THE Bank of Japan's Policy Board asserted its independence yesterday by voting to end unorthodox corporate funding measures it introduced at the height of the global financial
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      Lock icon Hong Kong tycoon sheds stock, loads up on land
      602 6 Bloomberg Hong Kong BILLIONAIRE Lee Shau-kee said he has sold as much as 30 per cent of his Hong Kong stock investments and is buying land, betting that the government's efforts to cool home prices won't work. Mr Lee, chairman and
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      65 2 NEWS LIVING Top Stories 2-6 Shopping L2-4 Week in Review 7 Dining L6-9 Raffles Conversation 8-9 Companies 10-13 H^ «^H From The Desk Of 14 Singapore 15-17 JJ^f \HkV Letter From Abroad 18 Travel LI O-11 World 19-22 Personal space Ll2-13 Stocks Stats 23-27 Weekend With Ll4 Perspective 28-29 Health
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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      267 5 TAT/U CRUCTBLE THE CAMPUS QUIZ SINGAPORE 2009 TheTata Crucible Campus Quiz continues to engage the sharpest young minds in Singapore. In the gruelling finale of the 2009 edition of the quiz, held on Oct 23 rd, 2009 at RockAuditorium, Bai Zhiyong andTay Shijia of National University of Singapore walked away
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  • WEEK IN REVIEW/WEEK AHEAD
    • this week
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        Lock icon Placements: name-dropping for lift-off
        53 7 SHARE placements this year have shown that it is not what you know, but rather who you know that matters. "It makes a difference psychologically when a large fund is involved. It signals that the fund believes in the company," said Carey Wong, research manager at
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        Lock icon Trade picks up after long slumber
        35 7 AFTER a long and painful period of decline, trade volumes have finally picked up. But it is too soon to say whether world trade has finally turned the corner.
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        Lock icon S-chips pay attention to lure of Taiwan
        37 7 SINGAPORE-listed Chinese companies or S-chips are among a slew of outfits that are issuing Taiwan Depository Receipts (TDRs) to Taiwan's investing public. Most TDRs are currently trading at strong premiums.
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        Lock icon Citi, BOA pay top execs average of USslBm each
        57 7 THE amount of taxpayer funds they've taken: US$9O billion. The amount of money they've paid top executives: $18.2 million. Each. And this average pay of top managers at Citigroup and Bank of America was almost double that of the other five
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        Lock icon ING to split in two, launch 7.5b euro rights issue
        72 7 DUTCH bancassurer ING Groep will split into two as part of a restructuring deal with the European Commission, transforming itself over the next four years into a smaller Europe-focused bank. The company also said on Monday that it would pay
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        Lock icon Discount days end, flying's expensive again
        47 7 expensive again AIRFARES have climbed as much as 50 per cent in recent weeks as airlines end promotions and travel demand picks up ahead of the year-end peak period. Rising surcharges, fuelled by the recovering price of oil, are another culprit.
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        Lock icon S'pore exec pay rises in year of squeeze
        43 7 ASURVEYof 60 of the biggest companies listed in Singapore has found that top executives were paid slightly more in fiscal 2008 than the year before, but disclosure and governance standards continue to lag those elsewhere.
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        Lock icon S'pore dragged into Dhaka cash probe
        30 7 BANGLADESH'S top anti-corrup-tion body has charged the eldest son of ex-premier Khaleda Zia with laundering US$3 million to bank accounts in Singapore, police said.
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        Lock icon CapitaLand Q3 profit drops 32.9% to $281.3m
        45 7 THE fall in profit was due to the Q3 2008 bottom line being boosted by gains of $441.6 million from the divestments of One George Street in Singapore, Capital Tower Beijing and the Raffles City properties in China.
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        Lock icon Funds sweat over new CPFIS criteria
        47 7 MORE than 40 per cent of the unit trusts and investment-linked insur- ance funds in the CPF Investment Scheme are at risk of being struck off the scheme if they do not fully comply with CPF's admission criteria by January 2011.
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        Lock icon OCBC beats bleak forecasts as NPLs shrink
        64 7 OCBC Bank yesterday trumped expectations to post a third-quarter net profit of $450 million up 12 per cent from a year ago. Non-per-forming loans fell, a sign of an economy on the mend. BLOOMBERG BEATING ANALYSTS' CALLS OCBC Bank has posted a net
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        Lock icon BOJ may scrap corporate funding scheme
        40 7 THE Bank of Japan is leaning towards scrapping its corporate finance support programmes, such as purchasing corporate debt, in December. But some Cabinet ministers have put pressure on the BOJ to continue the measures.
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        Lock icon Services to drive 2010 growth: MAS
        45 7 SERVICES will fuel growth next year as the economy settles into a more gradual pace following two euphoric quarters, says the Monetary Authority of Singapore. With only modest recovery in end-de-mand in sight, manufacturing is expected to rebound moderately.
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        Lock icon 4th publicly funded varsity to focus on design & technology
        48 7 4th publicly funded varsity to focus on design technology SINGAPORE'S fourth publicly funded university has officially been named the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Also unveiled on Thursday was its founding president, Thomas Magnanti, a former dean of the engineering school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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        Lock icon Crisis prompts countries to reassess tax policies
        40 7 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 is to shore up their tax bases.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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      124 7 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 22 Fine piano had us yesterday's solution 26 First bars of wrought iron 23 Underwear, 25 Aniseed, 26 Triniretaining temperature (5) 1 Joins up with English to (5) ty, 27 Dresser, 28 Hundred. 27 Waiter's 'eavy casserole get respect (6) 5 Boors grabbing hot birds Down: 1 callous,
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      98 7 NEXT WEEK Nov 2-6, 2009 US DATA Nov 2 Construction spending Sept ISM index Oct Pending home sales Sept Nov 3 Factory orders Sept Auto sales Oct Truck sales Oct Nov 4 ADP employment report Oct ISM services Oct Nov 5 Employment cost index Q3 Productivity prel Q3 Nov 6
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon Lord of pharma
      1803 8  -  S Jayasankaran A mathematician at heart, Dennis billings has taken Quintiles to the top of its curve, providing services to the pharmaceutical industry. By ENNIS Gillings is the chairman and CEO of Quintiles Transnational, the world's largest provider of services from biostatistical research to clinical trials to
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      Lock icon Of work and rare accidents
      372 8 AS a mathematician, Dennis Gillings was always fascinated with the logic and order of numbers but as a private company, his Quintiles Transnational does not have to reveal any. Its debt isn't known and neither are its earnings. Even his shareholding in the company he
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      73 8 Hotels Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles Hotels Resorts. Raffles Hotels Resorts epitomizes enchanting experiences, embodying global sophistication and residential charm. Each is exclusive, intimate with a distinctive sense of place, imbued with heartfelt service that is intuitive and unobtrusive "like
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  • COMPANIES
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      Lock icon Falmac sues former directors
      326 9  -  Michelle Quah Company's board also seeking legal advice on ex-CEO's claim for his salary and severance compensation By michquah@sph.com.sg Singapore FALMAC, which recently saw a change in leadership, is suing all of its former directors on the grounds they breached their fiduciary duties. The company said
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      Lock icon CapitaLand gets shareholder nod to list retail arm
      370 9  -  Uma Shankari EGM WATCH By shankari@sph.com.sg Singapore CAPITALAND shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) yesterday approved the company's plan to spin off and list its $20.3 billion retail portfolio after just one hour. But many of them were concerned with two
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      Lock icon Rotary wins $20m contracts from Shell
      307 9  -  Ven Sreenivasan By ven@sph.com.sg Singapore ROTARY Engineering, which recently won contracts worth some $1.1 billion in Saudi Arabia, yesterday said that it had secured two new contracts worth a total of $20 million from Shell Eastern Petroleum. It said that the contract for revamp
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      Lock icon SMRT's Q2 net profit rises 24% to $52.8m
      502 9  -  Samuel Ee By samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore LOWER energy costs and the government's Budget measures helped SMRT Corp to a 24.1 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit to $52.8 million for its second quarter ended Sept 30. Measures like the Jobs Credit scheme
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      Lock icon Sinotel issues first ADRs to US investor
      426 10  -  Lynette Khoo Company talking to potential market maker to distribute its ADRs in US By lynkhoo@sph.com.sg Singapore SINOTEL Technologies' first American Depository Receipts (ADRs) were issued yesterday to a US private investor, marking the first quotation of its ADRs in the United States.
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    • Business briefing
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        Lock icon China Energy expects to report Q3 loss
        48 10 CHINA Energy expects to report a loss for Q3 2009. Lower average selling prices have led to a drop in overall sales, while the low utilisation rate of the group's in-house methanol production facilities had negatively affected the group's profit margins.
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        Lock icon Ausgroup unit wins As3om contracts
        27 10 AUSGROUP said its Australian subsidiary had been awarded contracts worth As3o million (Ss3B million) by Woodside as part of Pluto LNG Project.
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        Lock icon China Kangda warns of lower profit
        58 10 CHINA Kangda Food Company has warned of a lower unaudited net profit for the nine months ended September 2009. The decline was attributed to a decrease in demand for rabbit meat in the European Union, a decrease in sale orders for processed food in
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      Lock icon Straits Asia Q3 net income up 65%
      327 11  -  Oh Boon Ping Coal mining firm attributes jump in profit primarily to higher sales and average selling price By huwenbin@sph.com.sg Singapore Singapore DRIVEN by higher coal sales, Straits Asia Resources yesterday reported a 65 per cent jump in net income to US$3B.6 million
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      Lock icon China Sunsine Q3 profit slumps 44.4%
      553 11  -  Lynette Khoo By lynkhoo@sph.com.sg Singapore HIT by pricing weakness, China Sunsine Chemical Holdings has posted a third-quarter net profit of 25 million yuan (555.12 million, down 44.4 per cent from a year ago, despite racking up record sales volume. For the quarter ended Sept
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      Lock icon At a glance
      216 11 NET PROFIT (S$Nl) TURNOVER (S$IU) __l NET PROFIT (S$IUl) COMPANY CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG I TURNOVER (S$IU) CURRENT PREVIOUS %CHNG 1 UOB 1,380.00 1,605.00 -14.0 4,163.00 3,902.00 6.7 500.00 475.00 5.3 1,322.00 1,213.00 9.0 2 Straits Asia 135.01 115.40 17.0 728.62 612.92
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      Lock icon CDLHT's distributable income for Q3 slips 30.5%
      313 11 CDL Hospitality Trusts (CDLHT) has posted distributable income of about $16.97 million for the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2009, a 30.5 per cent drop from the same period last year. The $16.97 million is after deducting $1.66 million that the trust is
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      Lock icon Another week spent anticipating Wall Street
      590 12  -  R Sivanithy Senior correspondent STOCKS sivan@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent THIS column yesterday raised the likelihood that Wall Street would rise on Thursday. As it turned out, this was indeed the case the major US indices enjoyed strong gains that day, supposedly because an encouraging government
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      Lock icon TOP 20 ACTIVES
      111 12 "eledata 168,143 3.5 -0.5 -12.5 JeBrandz 60,190 -0.5 -33.3 Jan Joo 57,147 7.5 0.0 0.0 iolden 48,090 43 0.0 0.0 ientins SP ***** 108 1.0 0.9 Sins ;Tel 45,472 294 -4.0 -1.3 41,665 414 6.0 1.5 "ranscu Gr^ 28,033 11.5 0.0 0.0 IOL 27,246 159 -3.0 -1.9
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      Lock icon TOP GAINERS
      58 12 CLOSE UP )BXT MSAsExJi 10US$ 2646 283.4 8.3 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 3080 136.8 3.3 GLD 10US$ ***** 136.8 1.0 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 5539 96.3 1.3 DBXTMSKorea 10US$ 4285 75.4 1.3 China H 10US$ 1640 41.9 1.9 JSH 1750 36.3 1.5 UOB 1708 36.0 2.2 DBXT MSTaiwan 10US$ 1480
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      Lock icon TOP LOSERS BY CENTS
      56 12 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 5780 -139.6 -1.7 IBXT Nift 10US: ***** -124.3 -0.9 JMH 2998 -72.6 -1.7 Emeri Ikts 1 932 -41.9 -3.1 India Nift 10 1415 -33.0 -2.3 NOLES.0910 154 -27.0 -14.9 SembMar.ES.0911 349 -11.0 -3.1 MS India 10US$ 1353 -9.8 -0.5 SGXRBeCW *****9 15
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      99 12 litaLand 4.140 +0.060 Noble Gn 2.620 +0.010 1.600 OCBC Bk 7.660 +0.010 :ityDev 10.000 +0.060 Olam 2.750 +0.050 1.540 +0.020 SGX 8.080 -0.010 :osco Con 1.130 SIA 13.600 +0.040 IBS Gn 13.060 +0.140 SIA En: 2.800 +0.030 :&N 3.870 +0.100 SMRT 1.680 +0.010 ientin: SP 1.080 +0.010 SPH
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      Lock icon ABR, SGX reach out to less fortunate
      288 12  -  Lee Arthur By arthurl@sph Singapore GUIDING hands, shouts of encouragement and enthusiastic helpers made the day for "clients" of Hougang Care Centre (HCC) yesterday afternoon at a special sports day jointly organised by ABR Holdings and the Singapore Exchange. About 120 staff, volunteers
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      Lock icon SingTel ups stake in Bharti Airtel
      133 12 SINGAPORE Telecommunications is shoring up its stake in Bharti Airtel, India's biggest wireless operator, to 31.95 per cent from 30.43 per cent. In a regulatory filing yesterday, it said that whollyowned subsidiary Pastel has agreed to buy 730,000 shares in Bharti Telecom from the
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  • FROM THE DESK OF
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      Lock icon The rise of China: a business perspective
      1166 13  -  Liew Mun Leong China's growth is unstoppable, but whether it can sustain its phenomenal rise depends on how it responds to its challenges FROM THE DESK OF CEO CapitaLand LAST Saturday, I delivered a paper at a Symposium at Peking University in celebration
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon NUS unveils three-pronged strategy
      585 14  -  Lee U-Wen Ambitious vision to boost its image as a world-renowned university in a rising Asia By leeuwen@sph.com.sg WHEN he became president of the National University of Singapore (NUS) last December, he laid out an ambitious vision to position the institution as a global player with
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      Lock icon Teaming up to stay ahead
      313 14 MANUFACTURERS, logistics industry players and Spring Singapore are teaming up to prepare the industry for future challenges as they strengthen Singapore's supply chain management and transshipment hub capabilities. "Singapore as a thriving transshipment hub will position us as an important global supply chain control tower.
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      Lock icon PM launches energy efficiency programme
      314 15  -  Teh Shi Ning 'Learning network' to help companies share best practices and technologies By tshining@sph.com.sg PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a new programme to promote energy efficiency among companies, at the launch of Clean and Green Singapore 2010 yesterday evening. Speaking on climate change
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      Lock icon Profit by going green, manufacturers told
      325 15  -  Felda Chay By feldac@sph.com.sg GOING green can be profitable, and local manufacturers should start embracing the idea, Economic Development Board managing director Beh Swan Gin said at a networking session held by the partners of the Manufacturing Excellence Award (MAXA). "Manufacturing holds the key
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      Lock icon Eurocopter breaks ground for its Seletar facility
      327 15  -  Nisha Ramchandani By nishar@sph.com.sg HELICOPTER maker Eurocopter South East Asia (ESEA) broke ground yesterday at the site of a $15 million facility slated for completion in the fourth quarter of next year. The 8,200-sq-m facility at Seletar Aerospace Park (SAP) will have a
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      Lock icon Patient care services as a niche market
      762 16  -  Chen Huifen One-day, one-stop, one-centre concept to woo medical tourism dollars By xuifen@sph.com.sg COMPETITION for the medical tourism dollar may soon shift to the standard of patient care services, rather than on the competency of the doctors, according to one industry observer. This
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      Lock icon Jaya urges expertise in int'l law
      340 16 Centre for Int'l Law launched at NUS SINGAPORE needs to develop expertise in international law to protect its national interests, Senior Minister S Jayakumar said yesterday. He was speaking at the launch of the Centre for International Law (CIL), at the National University of
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      Lock icon Okura sets up global business HQ here
      210 16  -  Felda Chay By feldac@sph.com.sg JAPAN-BASED Okura group of companies said yesterday that it will set up its global business headquarters in Singapore. The company, which has a subsidiary here since 1989, said that it would expand its operations here to include conducting, managing
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  • LETTER FROM ABROAD WITH ASCOTT
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      Lock icon Blame it on Canada
      867 17  -  Rachel Chua Being in the country allows me to see and do things which I would not experience if I lived in Toronto. There is a waterfall (my favourite place), a half-hour's drive from where I live. LETTER FROM TORONTO Infrastructure Advisory and Corporate Finance, Deloitte
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Minsheng, Sands get nod for HK IPOs
      669 18 Reuters The bank seeks to raise more than USs4b, while Las Vegas Sands is aiming for US$2-3b Hong Kong LAS VEGAS SANDS and China's Minsheng Banking Corp have won approval from the Hong Kong stock exchange for more than US$6 billion in combined
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    • Briefing
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        Lock icon Fl's Raikkonen stuck with 14.5m-euro home
        111 18 Bloomberg ki Kimi Raikkonen, the world's second-highest paid athlete before being dropped by the Ferrari Formula One team, is having trouble selling a 14.5 million-euro (Ss3o million) second home in his native Finland. "The potential clientele for this price range is very small," Pasi
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        Lock icon Telkom's Q3 profit up 24% at 3.26t rupiah
        91 18 Bloomberg Jakarta PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia's third-quarter profit rose 24 per cent from a year earlier, the best three-month gain since the period ended December 2007 as sales at the nation's biggest telephone company increased. Net income in the three months to Sept
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        Lock icon Profit growth in Q3 for China's three largest lenders
        106 18 Bloomberg ig Industrial Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of China Ltd reported third-quarter profit that exceeded analysts' estimates, buoyed by a loan surge and lower provisions for potential losses on loans and investments. Net income at ICBC rose 19
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      Lock icon Marlborough College to open M'sia campus oy 2012
      489 18  -  Pauline Ng By btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur THE UK's Marlborough College is to open its first overseas branch in Iskandar Malaysia by 2012, starting with a pioneer batch of 350 students and growing to 1,300 or about four-fold by 2020. An agreement was
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      575 19 Reuters The measure will cost US$B94 billion and reduce budget deficit by US$lO4 billion over 10 years Washington DEMOCRATS in the US House ol Representatives unveiled a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Thursday that would transform the insurance market, create a government-run insurance plan and
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      550 19 Reuters Sydney TRAVELLERS seeking a quiet place need look no further than the numerous abandoned towns around the world. Travel review website IgoUgo.com {http:\www.igougo.com) has compiled a list of the top 10 ghost towns around the world based on recommendations from its readers.
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      237 19 AP Los Angeles FACEBOOK said on Thursday that a California court has awarded the social networking website US$7ll million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace. Facebook sued Wallace for accessing users' accounts without their permission and
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      466 20 AFP Founder Prof Kleinrock led the party at the UCLA campus Los Angeles TECHNOLOGY and media stars, pundits, and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father on Thursday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-chang-ing child. "It's the 40th year since the infant Internet first spoke,"
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      507 20 AP Seoul THE non-profit body that oversees Internet addresses approved yesterday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive. The board of the Internet Corporation for
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      286 20 Reuters Frankfurt GERMAN authorities placed Helmut Kiener, founder of Germany's Kl hedge fund group, under arrest on Thursday in a multimillion-dollar corruption probe of a Caribbeanregistered fund he ran. His arrest warrant said Barclays and BNP Paribas may have lost millions of
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      492 21 Bloomberg Commercial real estate woes won't set off another meltdown, he says Chicago US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner said commercial real estate woes won't set off a new banking crisis, in remarks to the Economic Club of Chicago. "I don't think so," Mr Geithner said,
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      384 21 Bloomberg Brussels LIAQUAT Ahamed's Lords of Finance, a vivid history of how four central bankers brought on the Great Depression, won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. MrAhamed, an adviser to investment manager Rock Creek
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      297 21 iPhone finally comes to China sans Wi-Fi AP Beijing APPLE'S iPhone is making its long-awaited formal debut in the world's most populous mobile-phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black-market models. Apple's local service provider, China Unicom Ltd, hopes the iPhone will give it
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        367 26 In local curr In S$ In US$ %dy %yr %dy %yr dy %yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Oct 29 World Index Preliminai 793.8 1.2 17.1 1.3 18.7 1.5 22.3 tEAFE Preliminai 751.0 0.6 15.7 0.8 21.5 1.0 25.2 Euroi Preliminai 1077.8 1.5
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        73 26 Oct 29\ JSS/barrel (FOB origin) Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) WTI (Near Mth) Dubai (1-Mth F) Tapis blend Minas 78.40 2.21 79.97 2.66 75.71 -1.01 80.30 -1.25 78.60 -0.45 PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 72.55 -1.95 82.90 -1.15 USS/barrel Opec Oil Basket Price 75.94
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        66 26 Oct 3o[ GOLD (US$/oz) Oct 30 Oct 29 Hong Kong 1045.*****3.10 Oct 29 Oct 28 London 1042.*****2.00 1043.*****2.80 Source: Thomson Reuters SILVER Selling Buying Passbook 1 oz 23.39 23.16 Source: UOB PLATINUM Lon (US$/oz) Oct 29 Close Previous PM Fix 1328.*****3.00 AM Fix 1318.*****5.00 Source: Thomson Reuters PLATINUM NYMEX
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        146 26 Qct3<\ :urrencies Bid >$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2745 Offer 1.2759 Bid 0.9128 Offer 0.9130 :anadian dollar 1.3062 1.3078 0.9355 0.9358 iuro 2.0700 2.0721 1.4826 1.4827 IZ dollar 1.0169 1.0189 0.7283 0.7291 jterlini 2.3099 2.3127 1.6544 1.6549 IS dollar 1.3962 1.3975 >$/US$ to
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      1331 27 NYT Like any commodity that*' becomes overpriced, there comes a market correction. And denim's day of reckoning was long overdue. THE US$3OO pair of designer jeans is now, courtesy of the recession, the US$2OO pair of designer jeans. "It was all just a fad," said
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      585 27  -  Chen Jun An By DURING an investment promotion trip to Singapore, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was surprised to learn that 40 per cent of specialist doctors in Singapore's government hospitals were from Malaysia. He was amazed that Singapore valued talent that much and even suggested to
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        401 28  -  Genevieve Cua By ADVISERS to wealthy families are sceptical that client confidentiality will be maintained in the wake of pressure from the G-20 on offshore financial centres to share tax information. A survey by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Step) of 526 advisers
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        859 28  -  Genevieve Cua Amid a highly competitive landscape, independent financial advisers need to find a niche or offer more distinctive services. By ASSETS advised by independent financial advisers (IFA) plunged in 2008, then rose slightly along with the broad market up to June 2009. The silver lining
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        785 28  -  Conrad Tan Neptune Orient Lines Trading Sell CIMB-GK Research Oct 30 Close: $1.59 NEPTUNE Orient Lines' (NOL) Q3 2009 results were below expectations, with its core net loss of US$l39 million exceeding our forecast of US$BO million, due to the absence of any sequential improvement in liner losses. As
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        1279 29  -  Christopher Tan CEO, Providend WEALTH INSIGHTS Rather than focusing on mistakes of the past, it is more important to use it as a basis to move forward CEO, Providend THE last 12 months must have been the toughest period of my life, both personally
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        1302 30  -  Teh Hooi Ling SHOW ME THE MONEY Even buying into the least favoured asset class at any point in time does provide one with some pretty good insurance hooiling@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent IT'S funny how our mind retains bits of conversations and information and to
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        635 32  -  Kalpana Rashiwala Wheelock Properties boss cites firming in office rents, and suggests govt will act fast to keep rents reasonable. Reports by kalpana@sph.com.sg THE government could release two or three large office sites for sale fairly soon as early as first half
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        378 32 DAVID Lawrence has a suggestion for dealing with the problem of rogue housing agents whom the government is trying to rein in: by introducing legislation. Either the Ministry of National Development or Housing and Development Board could set up a separate statutory body
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        538 32 WHEELOCK Properties (Singapore) CEO David Lawrence remains upbeat about prospects for Singapore's luxury residential property market, as the island is increasingly attracting rich people and businesses. "The interesting thing is that more and more people are becoming PRs and citizens," he says. "A lot of
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        2272 35  -  Melissa Lwee Giving up solid jobs with stable income to plunge headlong into the world of fashion proved to be a worthwhile sacrifice for several creative minds By AS a fresh graduate, picking a career path is difficult enough, but deciding to switch professions mid-career takes
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        592 37  -  Vincent Wee Sailing on this leg has been tough and seasickness has taken its toll on some of the crews. By ALONG with the nine other boats on the 09-10 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, Uniquely Singapore set off on Tuesday on the second leg to
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        299 37 KEPPEL Corp is maintaining its commitment to grow with Brazil by sponsoring a programme to train teachers in Angra, the area in Rio de Janeiro state where the group has a huge shipyard. An official presentation was made this week to Angra
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        1148 38  -  Audrey Phoon BT Weekend picks out the best in Hokkien zi char. By IW OKKIEN cuisine, which originates from China's Fujian province, typically involves lots of seafood and soups cooked in simple, hearty style think "hei zor" (fried rolls stuffed with prawns and pork), fish maw soup
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        624 38  -  Audrey Phoon Chew Kia Seng Managing director, Credit Agricole (Suisse) S.A, Singapore Branch By ASK Chew Kia Seng the location of his home, and he describes it thus: "If you draw a straight line, it's only 200m from the Jalan Tua Kong mee pok stall." That's how
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        1343 39  -  Audrey Phoon With unique concepts and talented chefs, these two new eateries are set to carve niches for themselves in the dining scene. By Private Affairs 45 Joo Chiat Place S 6440-0601 www.privateaffairs.com.sg THERE'S a red glow that emits from the entryway of the newest business in Joo
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        506 39  -  Audrey Phoon IT wasn't Singapore's fanciest restaurants that captivated the palate of The New York Times' Gisela Williams when she visited recently, but its local flavours. In an article published in the American newspaper on Oct 18 ("Singapore's culinary melting pot"), the journalist raved about the
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        1236 40  -  Geoffrey Eu Kyushu is rich in history and culture, with natural beauty to spare, but there's also a distinct sense that it is different from the rest of Japan By ASAMI Fukutome is not someone you'd normally run into on a visit to Kagoshima Prefecture in
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        1054 41  -  Corinne Kerk Creating memories together is important to Siow Hua Ming and Karen Soh and their home is set up to help facilitate this very function. By IF the home is truly where the heart is a sanctuary of love, security, comfort and rest then that
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        1046 42  -  Corinne Kerk %J Nishita Shah juggles multiple iobs V while still finding time for flying, sailing and philanthropy. By WHAT were you doing at 29? For Nishita Shah, the answer is: A lot. The 29-year-old Thai national of Indian descent is on Forbes' list of 40
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        396 43 AFP Washington AMERICANS suffer from a chronic lack of sleep, according to a study released Thursday, which says the problem is a bigger public health problem than is generally recognised. The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysed American sleep
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        546 44  -  Lee U-Wen no holds barred leeuwen@sph.com.sg Correspondent WHAT do the governments of countries such as China, Poland, Australia, the United Kingdom and Pakistan have in common? They all have a Minister of Sport in their respective Cabinets, each focused on spearheading the national effort
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        1019 44  -  John Dykes kick off with John dykes WHEN Gianfranco Zola was in his pomp as a player at Chelsea, he became the subject of one of those jokes that rival fans routinely trot out to wind up their mates. It went: "What's the difference
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        1067 45  -  Justine Moss It's been a challenging and eventful year for world No 2 Phil Mickelson, both on and off the course. By WHILE doing what he loves most hanging out with family and friends, playing tournament golf and working on his golf course design
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        547 46  -  Samuel Ee driving style NTU professor Euston Quah's love for the brand goes back a decade. By SPEED is not Professor Euston Quah's top priority when it conies to his motoring preferences. Rather the head of economics at the Nanyang Technological University values ride comfort above all
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        450 47  -  Samuel Ee fl watch The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix promises to be an exciting affair but will anyone be watching it? By THE final Fl race this season may not be as suspenseful as had been hoped for but it could still score high among television viewers for
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        504 47  -  Samuel Ee Major modifications to the chassis means the latest Wish is a surprisingly satisfying drive By RIGHTLY or wrongly, one can get stereotyped driving a certain car. A prime example is the Toyota Wish, once Singapore's most popular compact MPV. Families who wanted an affordable
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        549 48 Audi is rolling out sports models faster than you can shake a stick at it. Samuel Ee drives two of the latest examples from the German premium carmaker JUST when almost every convertible has incorporated the retractable hard top, the new Audi A5 Cabriolet sticks to tradition and
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        520 48 IT IS amazing the effect that an ex- r^j|t tra litre and two more cylinders 1 can have. When the high-per-formance Audi R8 mid-engined I two-seater coupe was first introduced over two years ago, it wowed with its sensational styling and lyrical 4.2-litre \M V8 engine. Then Audi
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