The Business Times, 7 July 2011

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  • 23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.00 online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg S|5l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO REGN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 138/08/2010 Thursday, July 7,2011
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  • 435 1  -  Australia chief quits, group CEO moved Down Under By WINSTON CHAI [SINGAPORE] Tiger Airways has made sweeping changes to its management team in response to a brewing safety debacle which threatens to ground its entire Australian fleet until August 1. The
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  • 144 1 HST INDEX 3,114.71 (-14.98) H ST INDEX FUTURES 3,114 (-15) H SIMSCI 360.59 (-2.37) H SIMSCI FUTURES 360.40 (-2.20) FOREX US$ S$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.228 (US$/S$ per 1.602 1.967 EURO (US$/S$/E) 1.437 1.764 Foreign currency per US$ S$ YEN 81.00 66.00 RM 3.010 2.452 HK$ 7.782
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  • 787 1  -  Euro and markets plunge after Lisbon debt is cut to junk; EC president alleges bias against Europe By NEIL BEHRMANN in London BRIEF euro euphoria dissipated after Portugal’s debt was downgraded to junk status and markets decided that the latest Greek bailout
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 498 2  -  By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] DBS India expects to grow 30-50 per cent this year as it aggressively focuses on the wholesale banking business in the world’s second most populous country. The breakneck pace is partly due to its small base but it
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    • 765 2  -  Spokesman says sale of BOC, CCB shares is just routine portfolio adjustment By CONRAD TAN [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings has sold stakes in two of China’s largest banks, fuelling worries among investors who think that Chinese banks could soon face a mountain
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    • 558 2  -  By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) new managing director Christine Lagarde last night promised a more human and caring face for the institution under her leadership. This would be a departure from the rather cold and austere approach that
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    • 461 2  -  By JAMIE LEE [SINGAPORE] Buyout exits by private equity (PE) firms hit US$120 billion in the second quarter setting a new record that last stood in Q4 of 2010, figures from data provider Preqin showed. The record-setting had already been determined by
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    • 528 2 Europe screams foul after Moody’s goal on Portugal BRIEF euro euphoria dissipated after Portugal’s debt was downgraded to junk status and markets decided that the latest Greek bailout was an effective default. Meanwhile, Europe rounded on rating agencies as it battled the latest storm, alleging a bias against
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    • 748 4  -  Genting unit, five tycoons aim to form special-purpose vehicle for the deal By S JAYASANKARAN in Kuala Lumpur A SPECIAL-PURPOSE vehicle (SPV) comprising a Genting unit and five of the biggest ethnic Chinese tycoons in Malaysia could acquire the gaming unit of tycoon
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    • 695 4  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA [SINGAPORE] Office investment sales continue apace, with high prices touched in the Tanjong Pagar and Cecil Street/Robinson Road office micromarkets, BT understands. RCL Centre, a 12-storey freehold office block with triple frontages along Keppel, Tanjong Pagar and Lim Teck Kim roads,
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    • 702 4  -  By GRACE LEONG [SINGAPORE] Most casinos in Macau would be very happy if junket operators would just disappear, according to I Nelson Rose, an industry consultant and gambling law professor at Whittier Law School in California. “The point is that junket operators and other
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 450 5  -  Rise in IPOs, private placements as firms capitalise on region’s bullishness By WINSTON CHAI INVESTMENT banking fees in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan surged 26.2 per cent year on year to US$7 billion in the first half of 2011 as companies step up their fund-raising
      AP  -  450 words
    • 718 5 A special series brought to you by Bursa Malaysia and ShareInvestor KSL Holdings may not be one of the bigger developers, but it claims to enjoy the best margins in the sector. Certainly, reaping 30-40 per cent on its developments has attracted a number of investors, Templeton
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    • 826 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R SIVANITHY AUSTRALIA’S approach towards market regulation has always been admirably simple continually raising the bar, tightening the screws even if brokers and corporates object to it and coming down hard when there’s a need to ensure preservation of public
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    • 427 6  -  Details of projects in Tianjin, Heilongjiang and Hebei will be finalised by year-end By LYNN KAN SEMBCORP Industries’ wholly owned subsidiary Sembcorp Utilities yesterday inked three memoranda of understanding for projects to further its footprint in China. The three projects concern plants
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    • 375 6  -  Firm says no current staff or officer is under investigation By JASMINE NG THE Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) has notified IT service company Teledata (Singapore) Limited to help it with investigations into an offence under the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289. Disclosing this yesterday,
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    • 516 6  -  By LYNETTE KHOO IN a bid to allay fears of a potential loan default, Darco Water Technologies said yesterday that the construction of its second water treatment project in China’s Deqing County has completed and operations have begun. An earlier delay in the construction
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    • 162 6  -  By TEO SI JIA ASL Shipyard Pte Ltd has obtained new shipbuilding contracts worth a total of $131 million for the construction of 11 vessels. The wholly owned subsidiary of ASL Marine Holdings Limited will be building two units of North Sea standard
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    • 294 8  -  Consideration for Premier Sea Land is US$19.3m By CARINE LEE OIL equipment specialist MTQ Corporation has acquired Premier Sea Land Limited, a company dealing in related products and services, for US$19.3 million. Premier, a Hong Kong-incorporated investment holding company, has two Singapore-incorporat-ed subsidiaries Premier Sea
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    • 191 8 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Singapore insurer Great Eastern Holdings plans to expand its general insurance business and does not rule out doing so through acquisitions, recently appointed CEO Christopher Wei said yesterday. Great Eastern, about 87-per cent owned by Singapore’s Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp, is better known
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    • 346 8  -  By CONRAD TAN BE kind to others, one of Singapore’s top bankers told graduating business students here yesterday. “Be nice to people. That’s very different from being polite. Polite is easy, nice take a lot of work,” DBS Group chief executive Piyush Gupta said in
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    • 533 8  -  By KELLY TAY WASTE management company 800 Super Holdings Limited (800 Super) yesterday became the fourth company to launch its initial public offering (IPO) on Catalist this year. The group is offering 32.2 million placement shares at 22 cents each, comprising 30.2
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    • 638 9 Complex structures, huge short selling make them similar to CDOs, says source Bloomberg [LONDON] UK fraud prosecutors are reviewing how exchange-traded funds are marketed and whether they have the tools to prosecute any wrongdoing in the industry, a person directly involved with
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    • 671 9 EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The biggest Chinese exchange-traded fund in the US is losing money faster than any other country-focused ETF, even as the lowest valuations since 2008 convince brokerages in the Asian nation that it’s time to buy. Investors pulled a
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 559 10  -  ST Index ends about 15 points lower after HK index falls 1.1% and Europe markets open weaker STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent AFTERanearlybounce, the Straits Times Index yesterday reversed direction to end a net 14.98 points weaker at 3,114.71. Reports were that there were
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    • 66 10 Jul 6 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 427.00 +110.0 BT CADI -*****.00 +29.0 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +42.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 749.36 +1.61 FTSE ST Small Cap 518.70 +1.84 FTSE ST All Share 761.86 -2.43 FTSE ST China Top 253.30 +0.34 FTSE ST China 289.55 -0.52 FTSE
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    • 186 10 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 5 4 8 0 0 0 5 4 8 Manufacturing 55 47 46 8 5 5 63 52 51 Commerce 25 18 16 3 3 1 28 21 17 Tpt/Stor/Comms 12 19 8
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        240 10 July 6 close: S$1.045 DMG Partners Securities, July 6 AUSTRALIA’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) spokesman Peter Gibson told us that a decision on whether Casa will prolong Tiger Australia’s grounding beyond July 9 will be made by July 6 or July 7 afternoon. He let on that
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      • 368 10  -  Compiled by JAMIE LEE UOB-Kay Hian Research, July CLOUD computing, in its simplest form, is IT services delivered over Internet connections. It creates convergence in communications and computing, and has a direct and sustained positive impact on the telecommunications industry. Increasing adoption of cloud computing leads to four
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      • 137 10 Ebit earnings before interest and tax Ebitda earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation EPS earnings per share FY fiscal/financial year H1, H2 first or second half m-o-m month on month NAV net asset value 9M nine months P/B price/book value (ratio) PE price/earnings (ratio) Q1, Q2, Q3 first,
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    • 120 10 TURNOVER (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 31,379 31,379 93,847 93,847 Manufacturing 239,496 16,202 255,698 180,535 822 181,356 Commerce 49,381 3,048 52,429 73,436 667 74,103 Tpt/Stor/Comms 184,780 3,484 188,264 260,734 560 261,293 Finance 13,725 13,725 159,324 159,324 Construction 101,860 41,364 143,224 42,170
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    • 111 10 Stock name Close Change CapMallsAsia 1.475 +0.005 CapitaLand 2.900 -0.010 CapitaMall 1.895 +0.010 CityDev 10.700 +0.070 ComfortDelGro 1.430 -0.040 DBS Grp 14.640 -0.230 F&N 5.850 -0.080 GLP 2.080 Genting SP 1.895 Golden Agri 0.680 +0.005 HK Land 6.960 -0.100 JMH 55.800 +0.950 JSH 31.640 +0.760 Jardine
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    • 480 10 CURRENCIES Reuters [LONDON] The euro extended losses and commodity currencies fell yesterday after China raised rates for the third time this year, driving investors to shed exposure in riskier assets in a market already shaken by Portugal’s rating being cut to junk.
      Reuters; BLOOMBERG  -  480 words
    • 57 10 VOLUME Golden Agri 68,672,000 PSL Hldgs 63,015,000 Samko 53,979,000 Genting SP 40,545,000 TigerAir 39,287,000 SingTel 29,122,000 Artivision 26,632,000 CCM Grp 23,800,000 RafflesEdu 20,145,000 Marco Polo 18,958,000 VALUE($) SingTel 92,203,855 Genting SP 76,739,455 Keppel Corp 68,207,690 DBS Grp 57,926,054 UOB 48,744,030 Golden Agri 46,986,402 TigerAir 40,613,735 Wilmar 36,654,640
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    • 107 10 BY CENTS CLOSE UP GLD 10US$ ***** 229.5 1.3 DBXT E50 10US$ 4624 211.1 3.9 DBXT MSEurope 10US$ 4985 139.9 2.3 DBXT S&P500 10US$ 2124 119.0 4.8 JMH 5580 116.6 1.7 DBXT MSKorea 10US$ 6556 93.3 1.2 JSH 3164 93.3 2.5 IS S&P500 ***** 65.0 0.4 DairyFarm 859 46.6
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    • 125 10 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN Lyxor China H 10US$ 1603 -92.0 -4.5 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 3171 -62.6 -1.6 Lyxor Malaysia 10US$ 960 -50.3 -4.1 DBXT CSI300 10US$ 1015 -46.6 -3.6 DBXT MSTHAI 10US$ 1690 -45.4 -2.1 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 2848 -44.2 -1.2 Petra 161.5 -43.5 -21.2 UOB 1948 -43.0 -2.2
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 446 11  -  Thriving venture capitalist culture vital for water start-ups: investors WATER WEEK By LYNN KAN SINGAPORE’S water research and innovation is “world class” but there is still a gulf between research and commercialisation needed to produce another Hyflux, cleantech investors noted. Investors got to glimpse
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    • 624 11  -  By TAM YU LING AS part of the government’s push to grow the water industry in Singapore, an outdoor research facility the first of its kind in Asia was launched at Sungei Ulu Pandan yesterday. The Aquatic Science Centre Sungei Ulu Pandan
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    • 260 11 SINGAPORE is looking to share its experience in development with the Republic of Congo (ROC) following a contract and memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the two countries. Yesterday, the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) an agency formed by the Ministry of
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    • 512 11  -  The two resources are inextricably linked: summit By TEH SHI NING WATER and energy are inextricably linked and solutions to manage their scarcity ought to be better coordinated, industry leaders at the Water Leaders Summit yesterday said. “There is a growing realisation that
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    • 383 11  -  By KELLY TAY AS Singapore forges ahead with its efforts to enhance workforce productivity, it will face three key challenges: a global shortage of talent, higher workforce mobility and an increased propensity for workers to become disengaged with their work. In his keynote address
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    • 172 11 CERTIFICATE of Entitlement (COE) premiums rose across the board in the latest bidding exercise which ended yesterday. The COE premium for cars 1,600cc and below as well as taxis saw the biggest jump among the various categories, rising $5,745 from the last round
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    • 316 11  -  By NICHOLAS YEO TWENTY cyclists will next week cover a gruelling 250km of Sabah’s coastal roads in 12 hours to raise funds for charity. The Firefly Night Race II will see the group of 20, led by Lyndon Yeo, cycling
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 70 11 ALMOST $8 million in research funding was presented to 14 principal investigators yesterday morning under the $33 million GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)-Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) Partnership for Green and Sustainable Manufacturing (GSM). This funding will be used by principal investigators to conduct research on
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      • 57 11 MEDIACORP Pte Ltd yesterday appointed Shaun Seow its chief executive officer and board director with immediate effect. Possessing a media career of over 20 years, and having served as MediaCorp’s deputy CEO since 2005, Mr Seow was appointed after an intensive search, following previous
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 553 12 Tax deals between Switzerland and Germany, UK, US blamed for problem Bloomberg [ZURICH] Some Swiss banks are blocking clients from gaining full access to offshore accounts in connection with tax treaties being negotiated between Switzerland and Germany, the UK and the US,
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    • 551 12 AP [SEOUL] Inflation, rising household debt and troubles in part of the banking sector are among factors weighing on South Korea’s rapid economic recovery from the global financial crisis, Finance Minister Bahk Jae-wan said yesterday. “Consumer prices have remained high recently and low
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    • 533 12 They argue that it gives regulators too much power Reuters [WASHINGTON] Banks and other large financial companies that could be seized and liquidated by the US government are baulking at a proposed plan they argue gives regulators too much power to snatch back
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    • 470 12 Reuters [LONDON] Rising disquiet over new issue bond market practices has prompted a rethink among debt syndicate officials regarding the processes they employ and the manner in which they transmit information to investors, bankers said. Underwriters have been discussing
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    • 527 12 NOTICES Toll free: 1800-289-8822 Email: notices@sph.com.sg I BUY IT SELL IT FIND IT MANHATTAN RESOURCES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration No. *****6289K) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an Extraordinary General Meeting (the “EGM”) of Manhattan Resources Limited (the “Company”) will be
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 545 13  -  Every percentage point drop in stake could mean RM8.5b injection of liquidity By in Kuala PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur A ONE-PERCENTAGE point reduction in the government’s ownership of companies linked to it could inject an estimated RM8.5 billion (S$3.5 billion) in trading
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    • 389 13 Reuters [CANBERRA] Australia’s government yesterday removed a month-long ban on live cattle exports to neighbouring Indonesia, saying that it was satisfied that the A$320 million (S$420 million) trade could resume after a furore over mistreatment of livestock. The minority government has
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    • 282 13 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Bumi Armada Bhd received orders for about 25 times the stock it’s selling to institutional investors in Malaysia’s biggest initial public offering (IPO) this year, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The sale to local and foreign
      Bloomberg  -  282 words
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 686 14 Companies such as restaurants and chain stores among those targeted Reuters [SHANGHAI] China’s securities regulator has tightened its approval requirements for initial public offerings by companies in some industries seen as having high risks of financial irregularities, including restaurants and chain stores,
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    • 287 14 AFP [NEW DELHI] India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday gave French cement giant Lafarge permission to resume mining limestone in the country’s miner-al-rich north-east, rejecting environmental opposition. The court decision comes as good news for Lafarge’s US$255 million cement plant in neighbouring Bangladesh that
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    • 613 14 AFP Bloomberg [GENEVA] The World Trade Organisation ruled yesterday that China’s export restrictions on raw materials are illegal, upholding complaints by the US, the European Union and Mexico against the Asian giant. “The panel, therefore, recommends that the Dispute Settlement Body requests
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    • 295 14 AFP [BEIJING] Chinese media and green groups yesterday slammed the state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation and the marine watchdog for keeping an oil spill hidden from the public for nearly a month. CNOOC, in partnership with the Chinese unit
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    • 296 14 THE SME MAGAZINE PRESENTS The Economy Your Business What headwinds ahead do companies face? Get a better picture of how the next 12 to 18 months will pan out. Hear from two of Singapore’s top economists as they share their outlook on how the wider picture can impact local businesses
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    • 707 14 WATS NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP.50 AND IN THE MATTER OF AGL CACTUS PTE. LTD. UEN CO REG NO: *****8819N MEMBERS’ VOLUNTARY WINDING UP At an Extraordinary General Meeting of AGL Cactus Pte Ltd convened and held at Level 2, 251 St Georges Terrace, Perth Western
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  • WORLD
    • 441 15 Adding chipmaker will create little synergy, it says Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Heavy Industries Co ruled out bidding for a controlling stake in Hynix Semiconductor Inc, fuelling speculation shareholders will fail to unload their stake in the chipmaker for the fourth time in
      Bloomberg; BLOOMBERG  -  441 words
    • 242 15 Reuters [BANGALORE] Berkshire Hathaway Inc has joined the group bidding for Citigroup’s consumer lending unit OneMain, formerly known as CitiFinancial, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The report said Warren Buffett’s Berkshire had joined the consortium consisting of
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    • 579 15 Fonterra pays 100 basis points more than swap rate during its notes sale Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Australia’s “hunger” for bonds outside the financial industry is rewarding companies with lower borrowing costs than the nation’s highest-rated banks. Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd, the world’s biggest
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    • 637 16 Top politicians blast News Corp, Brooks; Ford suspends ads in ‘News of the World’ NYT [LONDON] Political pressure is bearing down on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of News Corp in Britain, following allegations that one of the company’s newspapers hacked the cell
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    • 442 16  -  Egypt, Tunisia tap Tokyo’s expertise in holding elections By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo WITH the so-called Arab Spring in full flush following Tunisia’s “jasmine revolution”, one development that has gone little noticed outside the region has been the growth of Japan’s economic and
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    • 517 17  -  By TEH SHI NING [SINGAPORE] THE fourth and newest Vietnam-Singa-pore Industrial Park in Hai Phong province saw its first major tenant receive its investment certificate from authorities on Tuesday. Japan’s Kyocera Mita Corporation, a subsidiary of New York-listed Kyocera Corporation, plans to invest more
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    • 436 17 LATEST US DATA AP [WASHINGTON] The US service sector, which employs nearly 90 per cent of America’s work force, expanded for a 19th consecutive month in June. But growth slowed from May, a sign that the economy remains sluggish. The Institute for Supply Management
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    • 647 17 They are trying to fine-tune a private sector creditors’ deal for Greece Reuters [PARIS] A credit rating downgrade for Portugal has added to fears that Europe’s banks face heavy losses on their euro zone lending if a private sector plan to help
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 475 18 EDITORIAL THE resignation of Japan’s new reconstruction minister, just nine days after he was appointed to the post, has dealt a fresh blow to embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan and further complicated his government’s postdisaster relief efforts. It was Mr Kan himself who created
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    • 1094 18  -  It seems incredible leading media have been complicit in aiding his character assassination ANTHONY ROWLEY Tokyo Correspondent WAS former International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn “set up” over alleged sexual crimes against a New York hotel maid? And, if so, was
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    • 764 18  -  THE BOTTOM LINE J. BRADFORD DELONG J Bradford DeLong, a former assistant secretary of the US Treasury, is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a research associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research Project Syndicate BACK in
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    • 1366 19  -  Gulf of Mexico, Japan and Mena incidents have significantly and immediately reduced the world’s supply of cheap energy By NG WENG HOONG The writer is editor of www.EnergyAsia.com, and can be contacted at Editor@EnergyAsia.com. Part of this article was extracted from his new book,
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    • 879 19  -  NEIL BEHRMANN London Correspondent GLOBAL stock markets have rallied sharply because of the promise of yet another bailout of Greece. Despite the euphoria, the massive private and public-sector European debt overhang is as serious as ever. The threat of contagion, leading to one
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  • AVIATION
    • 672 20  -  It targets projected traffic of 98.5m people, 4m tonnes of cargo by 2020 By VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] In an aggressive bid to further consolidate its position as a key global air hub, Dubai is pressing ahead with a US$7.8 billion airport and airspace expansion programme
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    • 399 20 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India’s commercial airplane market will reach US$150 billion over the next 20 years, Boeing said yesterday, as a burgeoning middle class is expected to drive demand in Asia’s third-largest economy. Indian carriers have orders worth US$40 billion in the pipeline,
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    • 427 20 AFP [SYDNEY] Grounded Australian budget carrier Tiger Airways stopped selling tickets yesterday after the airline came under pressure from the consumer regulator over its ability to deliver flights. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chief Graeme Samuel was tight-lipped on whether he was considering
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    • 3258 20 CITY FLIGHT ETA FLIGHT ETD Abu Dhabi SQ455 1300 KU6458 1415 SQ458 1415 Adelaide LH9771 1745 LH9770 2350 SQ278 1745 SQ279 2350 VS7278 1745 VS7279 2350 9W4081 1820 AF8087 1820 AY5012 1820 BA7381 1820 JL7892 1820 MU8440 1820 QF81 1820 Amsterdam LO4031 0545 KL836 0020 SQ323
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    • 439 20 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] AirAsia Bhd will buy an extra 100 Airbus A320neo jets, taking its record-breaking order to 300 planes, a source said, a deal which would make the Malaysia-based budget airline one of the world’s largest carriers. The two sides announced an US$18.2
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 339 20 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 7 Copper has trouble with something useless a climbing plant (8) 9 US author having effort to produce something that isn’t prosy (6) 10 Gown of fellow given cheers outside university (6) 11 Obstruction ordered with security device to be brought in (8) 12 Hypocritical grief from
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  • 3916 21 n BALISA SHIPPING TRADING PTE LTD 8 Shenton Way, #40-03A, Singapore *****1 Tel: 6345 5700 Fax: 6345 5227 Email: singapore@balisagp.com UEN NO. *****3249E UK CONTINENT SERVICE U.S.A. SERVICE Destination STXPO TBN Antwerp/UK *Loads Singapore, E./W. Malaysia, Indonesia MIDDLE-EAST SERVICE Destination STXPO TBN Camden/New Orleans/Tampico Destination JIMRISE Muscat/Sharjah/Doha/Dammam *Loads
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  • SHIPPING
    • 499 22  -  A paper that details the proposal will be presented to the UN next week By JOYCE HOOI [SINGAPORE] Patrick Phoon, the newly elected president of the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA), is backing a “hybrid system” for tackling piracy, he said yesterday.
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    • 265 22  -  By JOYCE HOOI [SINGAPORE] A joint venture between PSA International and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saudi Global Ports LLC has been awarded the concession for a container terminal at the King Abdul Aziz Port
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    • 458 22 NYT [BEIJING] Oil that spewed from an offshore drilling rig in north-eastern China for two weeks last month has spread over 829 square kilometres, government officials acknowledged on Tuesday, amid uproar over why it took so long for fishermen, local residents and environmental
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    • 460 22 Bloomberg [LONDON] Delays in building capesize commodity carriers that haul iron ore and coal fell to the lowest level in at least three years as record numbers of new vessels constructed in China joined the fleet on schedule. Some
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    • 278 22 SGX '000 Jul 6 S$ +/-Vol CH Offshore 0.44 unch 29 Chuan Hup Hldg 0.25 -0.01 52 Cosco Corp 1.90 unch 8063 CWT Ltd 1.33 -0.02 1222 Ezra Hldgs 1.51 -0.01 3512 First Ship Lea 0.35 -0.01 423 Freight Links 0.06 unch 545 Grand Banks unch unch 0
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 8256 23 Transaction date: Jul 6 52-wks Last Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net M Cap High Low Company Sale +/-(‘000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 21 15 8Telecom 15 -1 10 15 15 15.5 16 7.8 4.1 3.1 71.8 12 4.5 A-Sonic 7.1 -0.2 99
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    • 1504 24 52-wks Last Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net M Cap High Low Company Sale +/-(‘000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 5.5 4 t AA Grp 4 3.7 4.3 19 3.9 202 142 t APStrategic 145 141 150 86 1.5 0.2 t Advanced System 0.3
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    • 9966 24 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS UNIT TRUSTS APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund Cl A!** 1.37/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!** 1.12/ AXA Life Secure Ascent 2020 Fund 0.*****/0.***** AXA Wealth Mgt S'pore Pte Ltd AXA WM -Talents Fund 0.74/ Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Limited American Opp 0.6601/ Asian Credit Fund
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    • 234 24 52-Wk Last Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 56 34 AVJennings A42.5 -2 10 43 42.5 42.5 46.5 3.6 8.2 3.4 110.7 55 18 Genting HK US$ US38.5 +1 ***** 39.5 37.5 38.5 39 2535
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    • 859 24 52-Wk Last Vol Day Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low Buyer Seller C’vr P/E $mil 124 108 ABF SG Bond ETF 114.5 113.1 116 522.7 1083 846 CIMBAsean40 100US$ US1065 -18 5 1076 1065 1064 1071 42.6 350 290 DBS STI
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 374 25 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Jul 5 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Index Preliminary 922.3 -0.2 2.7 -0.1 0.7 -0.2 5.1 EAFE Preliminary 794.8 -0.2 -0.8 -0.1 -0.4 -0.3 3.9 Europe Preliminary 1179.9 -0.2
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    • 77 25 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Jul 5 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Change Brent blend (1-Mth F) 113.25 1.92 WTI (Near Mth) 96.82 1.87 Dubai (1-Mth F) 105.62 -0.42 Tapis blend 116.29 0.26 Minas 113.39 0.26 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha 100.67 0.61 Jet Kerosene 123.65 -1.10 US$/barrel Opec Oil
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    • 107 25 Jul 5 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Jul 11 1332.25 1322.25 1340.00 1322.00 Aug 11 1322.25 1312.75 1329.75 1312.00 Sep 11 1317.00 1309.50 1325.25 1308.00 Nov 11 1318.00 1312.50 1328.50 1309.25 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs; US cent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Jul 11 55.10
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    • 79 25 Jul 6 TREASURY BILLS Period Issue Maturity Yesterday's Day's code Bid High Low 3-Month BQ*****E 06.10.2011 0.31 1-Year BY*****X 02.05.2012 0.41 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year NX*****Z 2.250 01.07.2013 103.67 5-Year N*****0W 1.125 01.04.2016 100.74 100.85 100.75 10-Year NX*****X
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    • 448 25 Jul 6 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES Sep11 99.6350 0 5983 Dec11 99.5500 0 4486 Mar12 99.4950 0 1578 Jun12 99.3950 0 1884 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES Sep11 99.6650 0 1333 Dec11 99.6625 0 1392 Mar12 99.6550 0 1823 Jun12 99.6400 99.6400 99.6400 99.6450 10
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    • 149 25 Jul 6 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Close Volume O/I Month High Low Sett (lots) (lots) Aug 11 478.0 477.0 477.0 8 157 Sep 11 478.0 478.0 478.0 5 387 Oct 11 474.5 473.0 473.0 9 389 Nov 11 338 Dec 11 474.0 472.0 472.0
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    • 75 25 As on 5 July 2011 www.smx.com.sg For membership please contact: Ivan Han, DID +65 9098 8455 membership@smx.com.sg PRODUCT CONTRACT HIGH LOW CLOSE PREV CLOSE PRECIOUS METALS Gold Cash Aug-11 1507.8 1494.9 1502.7 1494.7 Silver Cash Sep-11 34.515 34.515 34.515 34.13 CURRENCY Euro-US Dollar Sep-11 1.4467 1.4426 1.4437
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    • 121 25 As at 9am Jul 06 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Sell Buy Aust dollar 1.355 1.279 Can dollar 1.3 1.25 Euro 1.807 1.738 Sterling pound 2.01 1.933 NZ dollar 1.044 0.995 US dollar 1.245 1.198 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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    • 27 25 Jul 6 Open High Sett STI Jul 3114 SIMSCI Jul 363.0 363.8 360.4 Taiwan Jul 301.7 305.5 304.4 Source: MF Global (S) Pte Ltd
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    • 2401 25 BONDS, WARRANTS EXTENDED SETTLEMENT Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left Asia-Pacific Strategic W*****6 25.5 1 150 21 5.69 34 ASJ Hldgs W*****1 1.5 1 4 38 2.67 7 AlliedTech W*****2 1.9 1 4 28 Asia Water Tech Ltd W*****8 3 -1
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    • 178 25 Jul 6 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 0.01 1-month 5/16 1/16 2-months 3/8 1/8 3-months 7/16 3/16 Overnight mode: 0.05 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.25 0.15 1 month 0.28 0.18 2 months 0.32 0.22 3 months 0.36 0.26 6 months 0.47 0.37 9 months 0.70 0.50 12
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    • 462 25 Jul 6 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 1.030 6.918 0.744 8.325 47.516 91.351 0.866 11.376 3.219 1.295 91.811 45.882 1.313 7.220 0.900 30.857 32.611 0.668 1.070 Canada 0.970 6.713
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    • 85 25 Jul 6 (US$) (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 0.***** 9 mths 0.***** 0.***** 12 mths 0.***** 0.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 9 mths 0.***** 12 mths
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    • 139 25 Jul 6 GOLD (US$/oz) Jul 05 Jul 06 Hong Kong 1499.30 1517.50 Jul 04 Jul 05 London 1495.39 1508.58 1496.21 1509.42 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR Jul 06 (S$) Selling Buying Kilobar "63,939.99" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Selling Buying 1gm 143 60 5gm 407 298 10gm 726
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    • 70 25 Jul 5 5 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (US$/tonne) Close Previous Cash 2544.25 2480.25 3 months 2575.00 2511.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 9522.25 9138.50 3 months 9540.00 9455.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 2689.75 2673.00 3 months 2700.00 2684.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash *****.00 *****.00 3 months *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash
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    • 154 25 Jul 6 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.3125 1.3140 1.0695 1.0700 Canadian dollar 1.2737 1.2750 1.0379 1.0383 Euro 1.7637 1.7650 1.4372 1.4373 NZ dollar 1.0137 1.0149 0.8260 0.8265 Sterling pound 1.9659 1.9675 1.6019 1.6022
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    • 22 25 Jul 6 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.2272 1.2280 2-months 1.2271 1.2280 3-months 1.2271 1.2279 6-months 1.2266 1.2274 Source: OCBC
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    • 65 25 Jul 6 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Jul 11 3072 3034 3072 3030 401 2110 Aug 11 3035 3038 3056 3029 1226 ***** Sep 11 3023 3029 3051 3016 ***** ***** Oct 11 3023 3028
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    • 82 25 Jul 5 COCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev High/Low Jul 11 2000 1980 2002/1966 Sep 11 2023 2003 2027/1992 Dec 11 2046 2032 2050/2016 Mar 12 2062 2048 2063/2032 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Jul 11 2423 2424 2433/2400 Sep 11 2465 2466 2488/2441 Nov 11 2490 unch 2512/2464 Jan 12
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  • BizIT THE BUSINESS OF INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGY
    • 646 26  -  They can better execute the daily deal model with their large customer bases, reports VICTORIA HO reports VICTORIA HO FIRST, Groupon made headlines with its astronomical revenues of US$700 million last year, with US$2 billion projected for this year. And then the
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    • 298 26  -  By VICTORIA HO [SINGAPORE] The government is keen to court third party applications developers to use its data in order to serve the public, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF). An MOF spokesman told BizIT the team that set up data.gov.sg will be
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    • 399 26  -  By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY [SINGAPORE] As part of its IT mobile strategy, Sony on Tuesday announced the launch of its new Vaio Z Series, a high-end mobile PC series targeted at mobile professionals. Talking to BizIT, Kunimasa Suzuki, president of the Vaio Mobile Business Group,
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    • 158 27 Daisy Apartments 100% Owners’ Consent Land 13,621 sf; FH; GPR 1.4; 5 stys Walking distance to Woodleigh MRT Close to nex Mall Serangoon Ctrl NearAust. &American int’l schools Potential for 42 apts of ave. 500 sf Tender Closing on 3 Aug 2011 (Wed), 2.30pm huiling@credo.com.sg (CEA Regn No: R*****0 J)
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  • PROPERTY
    • 542 27 It is also forming a joint venture with seller AXA to provide asset management services Reuters [PARIS/OSLO] Norway’s US$584 billion sovereign wealth fund is spending US$1 billion buying prime Paris property from French insurer AXA and is eyeing real estate in
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    • 1642 27 PROJECT NAME/ STREET NAME PROP TYPE CONTRACT DATE TENURE BUILT-IN/LAND AREA*(SQ FT) PRICE (S$'000) PSF (S$) District 1 NON-LANDED Marina Bay Residences Apt 08/06/2011 99 710 1680 2366 The Clift Apt 08/06/2011
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    • 383 28 Property websites say fall since 2007 peak is about 40% to 50% Xinhua [DUBLIN] Property prices in Ireland continue to fall, according to studies by two Irish property websites published on Tuesday. My Home.ie said property prices fell 4 per cent between April and
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    • 487 28 The new law will further weaken finances of local bodies: Moody’s Reuters [NEW YORK] New York state’s new property tax cap might further pressure counties, cities, towns and school districts already struggling with lower tax revenue and higher expenses in the
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    • 162 28 AFP [LONDON] British house prices rose by 1.2 per cent in June from the level in May, data from a major home-loans provider showed yesterday. However, they slumped by 3.5 per cent in June compared with 12 months earlier, according to figures from mortgage
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    • 380 29  -  By KALPANA RASHIWALA ABOUT two weeks after Hong Kong movie superstar Jackie Chan and singer/song writer Wakin Chau picked up three apartments at the Twin Peaks condo project at Leonie Hill Road, Singapore-born Mandopop idol JJ Lin has followed suit. The 30-year-old
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    • 383 29  -  7.1% and 6.4% respective increases in Q2 largest since Q1 2008 By EMILYN YAP RENTS for prime factories and warehouses shot up in the second quarter, posting the fastest quarterly growth in three years on the back of a healthy economy and a tighter
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