The Business Times, 30 April 2011

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1 28 The Business Times
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Heng Swee Keat has my vote, says MM Lee
      820 2  -  From Hougang property prices to foreigners, he weighs in strongly on election debate By Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg Singapore MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew stamped his presence on this year’s election campaign as he attackedtheOpposition’sproposals, point by point. Speaking to reporters yesterday
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      Lock icon Help for lower-income starts but needs more time
      269 2 Singapore THE People’s Action Party has started schemes to help the low-er-income families cope with rising costs of living, but implemented policies will take time to kick in. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said at the PAP rally at Yio Chu Kang
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    • Article
      Lock icon Correction
      78 2 IN the report “Ex-Shook Lin Bok partner fined $50K for insider trading” (BT, April 29), we said that Song Qing, a former employee of Shook Lin Bok LLP, was the legal adviser to Bright World’s majority shareholder for China Holdings’ takeover offer for Bright World shares. This is incorrect.
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      Lock icon MARKETS
      139 2 H STI 3,179.86 (-5.13) H STI FUTURES 3,159 (-26) H SIMSCI 374.72 (-1.52) H SIMSCI FUTURES 370.60 (-5.10) STOCKS Friday Change KL COMP 1,534.95 -0.35 NIKKEI 225 Closed HANG SENG 23,720.81 -84.82 SET 1,093.56 +1.25 JAKARTA 3,819.62 +10.69 MANILA 4,319.51 +40.68 KOSPI 2,192.36 -15.99 SHENZHEN B 799.99 +15.09 MUMBAI
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      Lock icon iPad 2 flies off the shelves on S’pore debut
      640 4  -  Most resellers report sellouts after queues formed outside their stores from as early as 11.30pm the night before By Victoria Ho vhoip@sph.com.sg Singapore THE iPad 2 was sold out just hours after doors opened yesterday at Apple resellers islandwide. Buyers were
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    • Article
      Lock icon Welsh gold and other nuggets
      396 4  -  By Neil Behrmann btworld@sph.com.sg London 45KATE Middleton’s wedding band was fashioned by the jeweller who made Princess Diana’s ring. Royal warrant holders Wartski in Grafton Street, London used a nugget of Welsh gold which was given to Prince William by the Queen as an engagement
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    • Article
      Lock icon KhattarWong officially splits up
      548 5  -  Splinter group of partners and lawyers sets up new firm RHT Law By Grace Leong, Michelle Quah gleong@sph.com.sg michquah@sph.com.sg Singapore IT’S official. A number of KhattarWong’s lawyers and partners, mostly in the corporate, banking, IP, civil and criminal litigations departments, are leaving the law firm for
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      Lock icon Redas-NUS property index eases in Q1
      962 6  -  Sentiment among Redas members dented by Jan 13 government market cooling measures By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg Singapore THE Redas-NUS Real Estate Sentiment Index (RESI) slipped in the first quarter of this year, as the Jan 13 cooling measures dented sentiment among members ofthe Real
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      Lock icon Business optimism dims a notch: poll
      432 6  -  By Lynn Kan lynnkan@sph.com.sg Singapore MANUFACTURERS and service firms remain more upbeat than pessimistic about business prospects in the next six months, although optimism has dimmed since a quarter ago. An Economic Development Board (EDB) survey found a net weighted balance 12 per cent
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      59 2 CONTENTS NEWS Top Stories 2-8 Week in Review 9 Raffles Conversation 10-11 Companies 12-14 From The Desk Of 15 Singapore 16-17 World 18-20 Stocks Stats 21-25 Perspective 26-27 Wealth 28-35 Show Me The Money 33 Househunt 34 Real Estate 35 LIVING Dining L2-7 Home Garden L8-9 Luxe Life L10-19 Shopping
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  • GENERAL ELECTION 2011
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      Lock icon Unemployment at 3-year low, hiring ramped up
      535 7  -  Job creation dips, likely due to limits on foreign worker inflows By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S overall unemployment rate fell to a three-year low in March as companies ramped up hiring amid a strong economy. In a reflection of the tight labour market,
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      Lock icon ‘Old-style’ campaigning still rules in Moulmein-Kallang GRC
      370 7  -  By Winston Chai winstonc@sph.com.sg THE upcoming May 7 polls may be heralded as the Facebook elections but in Moul-mein-Kallang Group Representation Constituency (GRC), the decisive battle to win voters’ hearts is still being waged offline. “We have a disproportionately large percentage of elderly
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      Lock icon Election results could prompt policy reviews
      397 7  -  By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg TIMES they are a-changin’, sings Nomura, noting that this year’s elections could prompt a review of policies on immigration, property and the casinos if the People’s Action Party sees a significant reduction in the popular vote. Nomura, with other broking
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      Lock icon GRC system against the spirit or democracy: Workers' Party
      485 8  -  It says people’s votes are secret, urges civil servants to not fear voting for Opposition By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg THEWorkers’ Party(WP) team in Aljunied GRC has hit back at Foreign Minister George Yeo’s suggestion that its contest in the GRC is
      ARTHUR LEE  -  485 words
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      Lock icon Hwee Hua paints scary scenario for Aljunied voters
      457 8  -  By Teh Shi Ning tshining@sph.com.sg ON top of the “national burden” being placed on Aljunied voters, the possibility that more areas than Aljunied may fall to the Opposition is one that complicates their choice further, says Lim Hwee Hua, one of two
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      Lock icon SDP hits back at ministers criticising National Regeneration Plan
      396 8  -  By Uma Shankari shankari@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Tan Jee Say last night hit back at ministers who have criticised his economic proposals, which call for some $60 billion to be set aside for a National Regeneration Plan. He responded
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  • WEEK IN REVIEW/WEEK AHEAD
    • THIS WEEK April 25-29, 2011
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        Lock icon Taiwan bourse’s foreign push a challenge for SGX
        47 9 THE Taiwan stock exchange (TWSE) is expected to rack up another record year in new listings, as efforts to woo foreign-based issuers in overseas roadshows pay off. This may set the stage for more competition with the Singapore Exchange.
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        Lock icon Mah Bow Tan: government is fiscally prudent
        52 9 THE government has touched Singapore’s reserves only once and not “for years” as alleged by Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said on Sunday. “The government is fiscally prudent. Other than 2009, we have never drawn on
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        Lock icon Analysts flag risk as home supply builds up
        40 9 THE number of private homes in the pipeline has never been higher. And it is poised to climb even further with the Government Land Sales Programme recently rolling out a large supply.
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        Lock icon Nissan follows Toyota into the slow lane
        75 9 THE impact on business of Japan’s March 11 triple disasters earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis began to emerge on Monday as the nation’s second biggest carmaker, Nissan, followed leader Toyota in reporting a steep drop in output and exports for March, and as
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        Lock icon Ex-chief of defence force to succeed Widdows at NOL
        67 9 RON Widdows, the shipping veteran at the helm of Neptune Orient Lines Group, will be replaced by former defence chief Ng Yat Chung when the former retires at the end of this year. Mr Widdows will stay on as senior adviser
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        Lock icon Don’t risk what we have achieved, MM urges voters
        48 9 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had “one simple message” for Singaporeans: “look at the fundamentals” and “not rock the foundation”. He stressed that today’s Singapore did not come about by chance but through planning by earlier generations of leaders.
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        Lock icon Big boys squeeze out boutique hedge funds
        62 9 THE big boys are squeezing smaller players out of the hedge fund industry here, with larger funds getting most of the capital in the market and leaving boutiques in the lurch sometimes to flounder. The rumblings in the industry have grown louder over
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        Lock icon 2 very different groups to vote for first time
        39 9 THEY are gearing up to cast their vote at next month’s general election for the very first time. But they young Singaporeans and new citizens see the world very differently.
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        Lock icon Brains drain out of M’sia, swallow growth
        65 9 THE World Bank on Thursday described Malaysia’s brain drain, the migration of talent across borders, as “intense and elevated”, and said that it could hurt efforts to become a high-income economy. If migration to Singapore was included, it estimated that one out of
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        Lock icon Asia to grow at around 7% for next 2 years: IMF
        47 9 ECONOMIC growth in Asiawill “remain robust” this year and in 2012 with Japan’s triple disasters unlikely to have any major adverse impact, the International Monetary Fund said in its latest Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific.
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        Lock icon All eyes on Aljunied as battle-lines are drawn
        72 9 THE battle for the hearts and minds of 2.2 million Singaporeans moves into top gear on Thursday after a drama-packed Nomination Day that saw the Opposition mount its strongest challenge yet to the ruling People’s Action Party. It will contest 82 seats.
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        Lock icon Economy poised to push 6% growth: MAS
        41 9 THE Republic’s economy is likely to grow at the higher end of the official 4-6 per cent forecast this year, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said on Wednesday in its latest half-yearly macroeconomic review.
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        Lock icon Japan finds its wounds deeper than expected
        51 9 IT appears that Japan will have to pay a far higher price for the disasters that struck the country on March 11 than it anticipated. Not only will it grow much slower, but it has already seen its industrial output drop by record
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      Lock icon NEXT WEEK May 2-6, 2011
      89 9 US DATA May 2 April ISM manufacturing index May auto sales May 3 Q3 gross job gains May 4 April ISM non-manufacturing index May 6 April unemployment rate March consumer credit March non-farm employment survey EVENTS May 2 ECB annual report May 3 Reserve Bank
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      324 9 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Strive to cheat as many as possible (2,3,3,3) 9 One may bowl a maiden over, or get a wicket (4,5) 10 Symbol of sovereignty King Charles had to acknowledge (5) 11 Provocative article in communist paper (3,3) 12 Bow Street? (8) 13 Subject matter about right
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    • Miscellaneous
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      8 9 SATURDAY with Ludwig ‘Didn’t you get my SMS?...’
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon All fillet & no bone
      2194 10/11  - All fillet no bone Canning Fok, group managing director of Hutchison Whampoa, explains why he is bullish about the conglomerate’s port business, and why he has no truck with doomsayers who expect the Chinese economy to start overheating in the near future. By Joyce Hooi By Joyce Hooi joyceh@sph.com.sg CANNING
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  • COMPANIES
    • Article
      Lock icon DBS Q1 profit surges 52% to record $807m
      708 12  -  Earnings boosted by strong growth in loans and fee income, and lower bad-loan charges By Conrad Tan conradt@sph.com.sg Singapore DBS Group’s net profit rose 52 per cent to a record $807 million in the first quarter from a year earlier, buoyed by
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      Lock icon UOB ‘chairman mentor’ in fine form
      729 12  -  By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg Singapore WEE Cho Yaw, chairman of United Overseas Bank (UOB), was in his element at the bank’s annual shareholders’ meeting yesterday as he showed how in sync he was with the 300plus strong crowd. It was yet another quintessential
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      Lock icon SMRT's Q4 profit jumps 50% to $34m
      560 13  -  For the full year, net profit slips 1.1% to $1 61.1m By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore HIGHER operating profit, mainly from improved train and bus ridership, boosted SMRT Corp's net profit by 50.3 per cent to $34 million for the fourth quarter ended
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      Lock icon SingPost profit slips 9.6% in Q4
      310 13 SINGAPORE Post (SingPost) saw net profit fall 9.6 per cent year on year to $36.97 million for the fourth quarter ended March 31,2011, despite a 5.7 per cent rise in revenue to $141.53 million. Excluding one-off items such as the amortisation of deferred gain
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      Lock icon Indofood Agri Q1 net profit soars 66% to 514b rupiah
      483 13  -  By Felda Chay feldac@sph.com.sg Singapore THE combination of higher selling prices and sales volumes for palm products helped lift Indofood Agri Resources’ net profit for its first quarter to 514.3 billion rupiah (S$73.6 billion) 66 per cent higher than the
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      Lock icon No surprises as stocks drift lower
      574 14  -  stocks R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg Senior correspondent THERE were no real surprises in this week’s trading in the local stock market, where daily trading exhibited all the same features that have been present for many weeks now: low volume generated mainly by proprietary desks and
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      Lock icon TOP 20 ACTIVES
      110 14 VOL CLOSE GoldenAgri 63,566 66.5 -0.5 -0.7 HPHTrustUS$ 51,192 92 -1.2 -1.1 GentingSP 36,299 217 -3.0 -1.4 SingTel 34,297 312 0.0 0.0 Dyna-Mac 33,142 63 -2.5 -3.8 Oceanus 29,314 27.5 3.5 14.6 NobleGrp 25,224 223 3.0 1.4 MapletreeCom 21,966 88 0.0 0.0 Gallant 18,954 43.5 -1.5 -3.3
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      109 14 Stock name Close Change CapMallsAsia 1.770 CapitaLand 3.400 -0.020 CapitaMall 1.890 +0.020 CityDev 11.840 +0.100 ComfortDelGro 1.530 -0.020 DBS Grp 14.980 +0.060 F&N 6.270 -0.010 GLP 1.930 -0.020 Genting SP 2.170 -0.030 Golden Agri 0.665 -0.005 HK Land 7.490 +0.090 JMH 48.000 +1.000 JSH 28.400 +0.100 Jardine C&C
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      Lock icon TOP GAINERS
      57 14 BY CENTS CLOSE UP Lyxor EmergingMkts 1 1320 147.1 10.0 JMH 4800 122.6 2.1 IS S&P500 ***** 52.7 0.3 DairyFarm 884 30.7 2.9 StraitsAsia.ES.1104 292 24.0 9.0 STXPO 100 1026 20.0 2.0 Great Eastern 1548 18.0 1.2 Hyflux 6% CPS 10 ***** 18.0 0.2 OCBC Bk.ES.1104 951 18.0
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      Lock icon TOP LOSERS
      60 14 BY CENTS CLOSEDOWN DBXT Nifty 10US$ ***** -192.5 -1.2 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 3272 -120.1 -2.9 Jardine C&C 3688 -86.0 -2.3 DBXT MSINDIA 10US$ 1061 -39.2 -2.9 DBXT MSBrazil 10US$ 739 -35.6 -3.8 UOB 1962 -34.0 -1.7 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ 4135 -29.4 -0.6 GLD 10US$ ***** -27.0 -0.1
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      Lock icon Oceanus shares surge on report of KKR takeover
      338 14  -  By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg Singapore A REPORT that Oceanus Group has become the takeover target of a global private equity firm sent its shares surging yesterday. Oceanus shares hit an intraday high of 28 cents in heavy trading and were last traded
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      Lock icon Bright World net profit up 67.3% in Q1
      365 14  -  By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg Singapore BRIGHT World Precision Machinery rode the buoyant demand in the Chinese automotive and consumer electronics sectors to post a 67.3 per cent year-on-year increase in first-quarter net profit to 45.7 million yuan (S$8.61 million). Revenue for the
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      169 12 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF KHUSHI SONS PTE. LTD. (IN CREDITORS’ VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) COMPANY REGISTRATION NO. *****7351 R Notice is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the abovenamed company duly convened and held on the 20th day
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  • FROM THE DESK OF
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      Lock icon Moving up the value chain
      831 15  -  Investment companies are focusing more attention on their IT infrastructures to mitigate operational risk, identify long-term cost savings and position themselves for sustainable future growth from the desk of Nick Quin Regional sales director SimCorp Asia AS WE progress past the first quarter of the
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Ritz Carlton, McDonald’s win top award
      369 16  -  They are jointly deemed Outstanding Employers in this year’s Best Employers in Singapore awards By Maxie Aw Yeong maxieay@sph.com.sg RITZ Carlton, Millenia Singapore and McDonald’s Restaurant have emerged as Outstanding Employers in Singapore, in the Best Employers in Singapore 2011 awards. They emerged tops
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      Lock icon Japanese fashion chain plans more outlets here
      396 16  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg JAPAN-based fashion retailer UNIQLO is accelerating its expansion plans in Singapore after its first three stores outperformed expectations. “The Singapore business has been well received, better than expected. We outperformed our targets,” Satoshi Onoguchi, managing director for UNIQLO Singapore,
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    • Briefing
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        Lock icon New board members for Singapore Tote Board
        66 16 THE Minister for Finance has appointed two new board members to the Singapore Totalisator Board (Tote Board). These appointments take effect from May 1. The new board members are Chan Heng Kee, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and
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        Lock icon World Gourmet Summit Charity Dinner raises $500,000
        135 16 ON April 28, the annual World Gourmet Summit Charity Dinner took place at the St Regis Singa- pore. Now into its 11th year, this special “giving back” dinner is held yearly as part of the World Gourmet Summit, a gourmet extravaganza which showcases
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      Lock icon Cross border electricity sales ‘workable’
      609 17  -  They help cater to emergency power needs and enable sharing of reserves: Tenaga chief By Ronnie Lim ronnie@sph.com.sg CROSS-BORDER electricity sales can help cater to the emergency power needs of neighbouring countries and also enable them to share “spinning reserves”, or standby power-on-tap, which they
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      Lock icon Youth science, tech academy launched
      226 17  -  By Rebecca Liu rebeccal@sph.com.sg BUDDING scientists and engineers will now be able to further develop their interests through a newly launched national academy designed to further science education and engagement among youths. A brainchild of the Science Centre Singapore and the Agency for Science, Technology
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      Lock icon Supply disruptions may slow Asian growth
      347 17  -  By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg IN spite of inflation jitters, Asian economies have surged in recent months. But in its Q2 2011 Asian economies report, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) warned that Asia’s ascent may temporarily slow as the region faces some
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon AIG out to recoup billions ‘it lost to fraud’
      589 18 Insurer may now take on BOA, Goldman Sachs and others after it sues two money managers Reuters Wilmington, Delaware AMERICAN International Group Inc (AIG) launched a fight to recoup billions of dollars the bailed-out insurer said it lost due to fraud,
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      Lock icon Dip in S&P 500 seen as Fed deal ends
      296 18 Bloomberg New York THE Standard Poor’s 500 Index may begin a 10 per cent slump in June after the Federal Reserve ends its bond-buying programme, Credit Suisse Group AG’s Douglas Cliggott said. “It’s probably going to get bumpy in the equity
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      Lock icon Chinese manufacturing continues to grow
      177 18 Bloomberg Beijing CHINA’S manufacturing sustained its expansion this month even as the government raised interest rates and let the yuan strengthen at a faster pace, a purchasing managers’ index showed. The index was 51.8 in April, unchanged from March, HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics
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      Lock icon EON accepts Hong Leong offer
      472 19 Bid has been sweetened with a dividend payment Bloomberg Kuala Lumpur EON Capital has accepted Hong Leong Bank’sRM5.06billion(S$2.09billion)takeover offer after the bid was sweetened with a dividend payment to existing EON shareholders. EON accepted the bid on condition that Hong Leong had no objections to
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      Lock icon iPad demand hits Windows sales
      474 19 Bloomberg Seattle MICROSOFT Corp’s Windows sales slumped last quarter as the iPad crimped demand for consumer laptops, marking the first time in 20 years that the software maker reported a smaller quarterly profit than Apple Inc. Revenue in Microsoft’s Windows division fell 4.4 per cent
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      Lock icon Samsung Electronics posts fall in Q1 profit, faces challenging outlook
      429 19 Reuters Seoul SAMSUNG Electronics faces a challenging outlook after reporting its third consecutive fall in quarterly profit as it struggles to make ground on Apple Inc and faces a tepid recovery in its TV and flat screens business. The world’s
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      Lock icon Consumer spending rises on higher prices
      489 20 March spending, adjusted for inflation, up 0.2% after rising 0.5% in February LATEST US DATA Reuters Washington US consumer spending rose as households stretched to cover the higher cost for food and petrol as inflation posted its biggest year-on-year rise in 10 months. The
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      Lock icon Hui Xian shares’ sharp swings erode yuan gain
      645 20  -  By Shu-Ching Jean Chen btworld@sph.com.sg Hong Kong THE lukewarm response to the first initial public offering (IPO) in yuandenominated shares outside mainland China contrasts starkly with the strong showing of the yuan, providing a curious footnote to the history oftheChinesecurrency’sinternationalisation. Hui Xian
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  • SGX
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      10139 24 Transaction date: Apr 29 52-wks Last Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net M Cap High Low Company Sale +/-(‘000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 21 14.5 8Telecom 17cd 16.5 17.5 7.8 3.6 3.6 81.4 12 4.5 A-Sonic 7.5cd unch 50 7.5 7.5 7 7.5 1.7
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 24 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 2 7 5 0 0 0 2 7 5 Manufacturing 28 66 68 2 13 11 30 79 79 Commerce 18 20 19 2 5 6 20 25 25 Tpt/Stor/Comms 6 17 19
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      Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      821 24 For week beginning Apr 25 SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS Substantial Buy No of Price ———SHAREHOLDING Trans Shareholder/ Sell Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Conv '000 Shr ('000) ('000) Time Watch Invest 28-Apr-11 Tung Koon Ming *Buy 4310 na *****6 90.02 *****6 91.17 Time Watch Invest
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 24 TURNOVER (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 47,402 47,402 110,960 110,960 Manufacturing 202,184 12,098 214,282 213,652 1,632 215,284 Commerce 99,202 6,345 105,547 119,924 1,194 121,119 Tpt/Stor/Comms 157,200 3,112 160,312 266,447 461 266,907 Finance 28,745 28,745 301,361 301,361 Construction 18,405 399 18,804 7,206
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  • MARKETS
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      Lock icon FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES
      118 25 Apr 29 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Sell Buy Aust dollar 1.386 1.308 Can dollar 1.315 1.265 Euro 1.855 1.784 Sterling pound 2.082 2.002 NZ dollar 1.014 0.966 US dollar 1.244 1.197 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency: Currencies Sell
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      Lock icon STOCK MARKETS
      95 25 YTD change: -0.32% 52-week high: 3,313.61 on Nov 9,2010 52-week low: 2,648.15 on May 25,2010 Source: Bloomberg YTD change: +2.98% 52-week high: 24,988.50 on Nov 8,2010 52-week low: 18,971.50 on May 27,2010 Source: Bloomberg YTD change:+10.24% 52-week high: 12,776.10 on April 28,2011 52-week low: 9,614.32 on July 2,2010
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      Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INT`L INDICES
      374 25 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Apr 28 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminary 941.7 0.3 4.9 0.4 3.6 0.9 8.1 ‡EAFE Preliminary 815.3 0.6 1.8 1.3 3.6 1.7 8.1 Europe Preliminary 1218.0 0.5
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        575 4 / 5  -  By Geoffrey Eu btnews@sph.com.sg IT WAS a dark and stormy night in the Tuscanhills. Leonora Tan and herhusband Ju Seng were driving towards Florence, in search of somewhere to eat. They chanced upon a nondescript family restaurant in a small town and it was there that she had
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        1624 20 / 21  -  The adage ‘Health is wealth’ seems to ring true for three outlets which bank on a fitness-related business model embracing sport, retail and food. By Melissa Lwee By Melissa Lwee mellwee@sph.com.sg The wheel deal LifeCycle 18 Gemmill Lane THREE years ago, a life-threatening heart condition meant that
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        642 22  -  Toggle seamlessly between your playlist and incoming calls with the new headphones designed with built-in microphones and remote music controls. By Christopher Lim By Christopher Lim Jays a-JAYS Four, $118 Apple’s iPhone is so popular that some headphones are made specifically to be used with it. The a-JAYS
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        1132 23  -  The use of medical imaging involving radiation is an integral part of medicine. But how safe are the effective radiation doses used in heart tests? By Michael Lim By Michael Lim ~Dr Lim is the medical director at Singapore Medical Specialists Centre. He is also editor-in-chief, Heart Asia,
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