The Business Times, 2 February 2013

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    19 1 weekend THE BUSINESS TIMES www. usinesstimes.com. g FEBRUARY 2-3, 2013 S$1.00| MICA (P) 075/08/2012 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article
    Lock icon Loan curbs to slam brakes on car demand?
    549 1  -  Authorities said to be looking at doing away with 100% loans; may also cut repayment period By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore PECULATION is rife in the motor industry that the government may re-introduce restrictions on vehicle financing to cool strong demand for
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    Lock icon China’s PMI readings show it is recovering, but still not out of danger
    592 1  -  By Virginie Mangin btworld@sph.com.sg Beijing MANUFACTURING activity expanded in China last month, showing again that a recovery is on its way though there are signs that it could be fragile. China’s official purchasing managers’ index came in
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  • TOP STORIES
    • MARKETS
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        58 2 GSTI 3,291.14 (+8.48) GSTI FUTURES 3,292.00 (+10.00) GSIMSCI 370.09 (+1.01) GSIMSCI FUTURES 370.80 (+2.40) Friday Change KL COMP 1,627.55 -0.18 NIKKEI 225 11,191.34 +52.68 HANG SENG 23,721.84 -7.69 SET 1,499.22 +25.02 JAKARTA 4,481.63 +27.93 MANILA 6,318.61 +75.87 KOSPI 1,957.79 -4.15 SHENZHEN B 870.14 -0.04 MUMBAI IND 19,781.19 -113.79 11.00
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        Lock icon PRIME RATES
        29 2 SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 6.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 13.840 TAIWAN 5.036 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 3.00 SWITZERLAND 0.50 INDIA 14.50 Source: Bloomberg
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        48 2 US$ S$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.242 (US$/S$ per 1.586 1.969 EURO(US$/S$/€) 1.362 1.691 Foreign currency per US$ S$ YEN 92.10 74.20 RM 3.107 2.502 HK$ 7.757 6.247 BAHT 29.81 24.01 RUPIAH 9,750 7,853 RENMINBI 6.225 5.013 INDIAN RUPEE 53.30 42.93 A$ 0.961 0.774 NZ$ 1.187 0.956
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      Lock icon Budget to have specific measures for SMEs
      608 2  -  The recommendations that will be revealed will focus on helping SMEs along three broad thrusts, says Ser Luck By Malminderjit Singh msingh@sph.com.sg Singapore SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can look forward to measures in the Budget which will support them with productivity growth,
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      Lock icon Jobs report points to steady growth in economy
      576 3 Employers add 157,000 jobs to their payrolls in January LATEST US DATA Reuters Washington JOB growth in the US grew modestly in January and gains in the prior two months were bigger than initially reported, supporting views the economy’s sluggish recovery was
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      Lock icon Meet big media’s biggest nightmare
      1489 4 / 5  -  Gen Y is thriving on tweets, instantly streamed TV shows and snatches of news from Internet, all without paying a cent By Joyce Hooi joyceh@sph.com.sg Singapore FACEBOOK is for older people. Television is for people who are just old. Phonecalls are three-second semaphores Where are
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      Lock icon Changing landscape
      3 4 / 5 Source:TDG
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      Lock icon Danish govt bonds worst performer
      306 4 / 5 Bloomberg Oslo DENMARK’S government bonds ended January as the world’s worst performing sovereign debt class after investors unwound a trade that had benefited from the country’s euro peg, without the drawback of bailout commitments. Danish government bonds with maturities longer than one year lost 2.8
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    • Article
      Lock icon Too soon to bet on plot ratio hikes: analysts
      675 6  -  MND says it will look at intensifying land use only where infrastructure can support it; opinion divided over impact on collective sales By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg Singapore THE Ministry of National Development (MND) has indicated in its Land Use Plan that
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      Lock icon Mixed impact on property stocks
      543 6  -  By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg Singapore PROPERTY counters ended mixed yesterday, following the release of the Land Use Plan, which outlined how the government intends to maintain quality of life amidst the expected population growth to 6.9 million by 2030. Some of the counters which posted
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      Lock icon Sakae non-exec director asked to resign
      532 8  -  Andy Ong given 7-day deadline; he faces removal by EGM if he doesn’t quit By Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Singapore TWO weeks after external auditors of Sakae Holdings Ltd flagged financial irregularities at an associate firm, Andy Ong Siew Kwee, a non-executive director of Sakae,
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      Lock icon Retailers flock to HK despite high costs
      724 8 NYT Hong Kong THIS is one of the busiest and most crowded shopping districts in the world with sky-high retail rents to match but that has not stopped retailers from opening yet more stores in the city of seven million, attracted by hordes
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      63 2 CONTENTS NEWS Top Stories 2-8 Week in Review 9 Raffles Conversation 10-11 Companies 12-15 From the Desk of 16 Singapore 17-18 World 19-22 Stocks Stats 23-27 Perspective 28-29 Wealth 30-35 Show Me The Money 33 Househunt 34 LIVING Design L2-5 Dining L6-9 CEOs’ Hawker Choices L10-12 Gadgets L13 BT Readers’
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  • WEEK IN REVIEW
    • THIS WEEK Jan 28-Feb 1, 2013
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        Lock icon Budget: Restructuring takes priority over business aid
        70 9 THE calls for the government to aid businesses in the current tough environment have grown louder, but don’t expect the upcoming Budget to dish out help across the board. Trying though the business climate may be, the longer-term policy priority of restructuring Singapore’s
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        Lock icon TCC Assets’ $9.55 offer ‘fair’: F&N directors
        73 9 THAI tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi’s offer of $9.55 per share for Fraser and Neave Limited (F&N) is “fair”, according to F&N’s directors, who added that they intend to accept the revised offer in respect of their own direct share holdings. This includes chairman Lee
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        Lock icon Singapore’s total package still a strong draw
        77 9 DESPITE the manpower and cost challenges arising from foreign worker policy changes, Singapore still presents a “total package” that is attractive to global companies looking to tap the growth potential of Asia, particularly South-east Asia, said the Economic Development Board (EDB). Even so,
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        Lock icon How quest for growth led to housing and transport crunch
        45 9 SINGAPORE had hoped to ride a growth wave and tailored its policies accordingly. As things turned out, this led to the crunch in public housing and transport, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong explained on Monday.
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        Lock icon Singapore sets its growth path on a gentler slope
        57 9 SINGAPORE is putting a new economic roadmap in place, one that will see a gentler but more sustainable pace of growth than before. At the same time, it will also start growing its workforce far more slowly than it has been
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        Lock icon Singapore population could reach 6.9m by 2030
        56 9 IN about 17 years’ time, Singapore’s population could rise from 5.31 million today to as high as 6.9 million, based on the government’s latest projections. According to a population White Paper released on Tuesday, the population is likely to be anywhere between 6.5
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        Lock icon Businesses point to one risk that rules them all
        69 9 THE biggest risk to the population scenario presented by the government is that companies fail to raise productivity swiftly enough to make up for the projected slowdown in workforce growth. Business associations, whose members already feel the pinch of tightened foreign
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        Lock icon Lees and Tans lock horns again – over WBL
        83 9 Lees and Tans lock horns again over WBL A FRESH takeover tussle between two of Singapore’s most famous corporate families is erupting this time, at technology, property and motor group WBL Corporation. United Engineers, backed by OCBC Bank’s founding Lee family, on Wednesday made a counter-of-fer for WBL that values
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        Lock icon Singapore offers a glimpse of its future
        96 9 A COUPLE of days after projecting that the population could rise to up to 6.9 million by 2030, the gov- ernment has revealed how they might be accommodated without Singapore feeling the squeeze. Reclamation alone will raise the land area by up to
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        Lock icon SBF signals risks to firms from demographic tsunami
        78 9 A CONTINUED slide in workforce growth will have devastating consequences for many companies, the Singapore Business Federation warned. “Some Singaporeans do not realise its impact but are seized with the prospect of an over-crowded island of 6.9 million people. We must explain
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      Lock icon NEXT WEEK Feb 4-Feb 8
      69 9 US DATA Feb 5 Dec Factory Orders Feb 7 Productivity Preliminary Q4 Feb 8 Dec Trade Balance Dec Wholesale Inventories CHINA DATA Feb 3 Non manufacturing Feb 8 Consumer Price Index Producer Price Index Imports Exports SINGAPORE DATA Feb 7 Jan International Reserves EVENTS Feb
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      307 9 Across 1 Go on about head of root vegetable (6) 5 Last, in spite of expectations to the contrary (5,3) 9 One qualified to make songs better? (6,2,5) 10 Good manners in palace? Yes, all over the place (8) 11 Favourite left out? That’s brave (6) 12 Rumour about harbour
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      19 9 SATURDAY with Ludwig ‘After the battery of tests, it was found that the cause was you’re right battery failure.
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  • THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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      Lock icon India’s tough reformer
      2407 10 / 11  -  Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram talks to Vikram Khanna about how and why things are looking up for the Indian economy Vikram Khanna vikram@sph.com.sg IN 66 years of post-independ-ence Indian politics, where cabinet positions are much-coveted, only one individual has had the distinction of holding the prized
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Singapore market cap hits post-crisis high
      747 12  -  It ends January with value of $940.6b, up 6% from December By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg Singapore GLOBAL inflows into equity markets and still-attractive valuations pushed the market value of Singapore-listed stocks to a postfinancial crisis high. The total market capitalisation of companies listed on
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      Lock icon Temasek reshuffles senior management positions
      280 12 Bloomberg Singapore TEMASEK Holdings Pte said Chia Song Hwee replaces Tan Chong Lee as head of the investment unit as the Singapore state-owned asset manager reshuffles senior management positions. Effective yesterday, Mr Chia becomes head of the investment group in a change of title, while
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      Lock icon Kirin accepts Thai offer for F&N shares
      449 12  -  By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg Singapore JAPANESE brewer Kirin Holdings said yesterday that it will sell its entire 14.8 per cent stake in Fraser and Neave (F&N) to Thai tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi for $2 billion. Kirin, which bought into F&N in 2010 and is
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      Lock icon Genting’s RWS casino licence renewed
      354 13  -  Three-year renewal comes with additional requirements to strengthen compliance By Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Singapore THE Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore (CRA) has renewed the casino licence of Genting Singapore’s Resorts World at Sentosa (RWS) for a further three years. In a news release issued yesterday,
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      Lock icon HPH Trust 2012 DPU ‘in line’ with projection
      400 13  -  By Lynn Kan lynnkan@sph.com.sg Singapore THROUGHPUT and revenue at Hutchison Port Holdings Trust ports were below projections, but the trust is sticking to its prospectus when it comes to its 2012 distribution per unit (DPU). For the six month June-De-cember 2012 period,
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      Lock icon Chinese consumption boosts CRCT
      429 13  -  By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg Singapore STRONG Chinese consumption gave CapitaRetail China Trust (CRCT) a boost in its quarterly results. Its fourth-quarter distribution per unit (DPU) was 2.3 cents, up 0.9 per cent from a year ago. For the whole of 2012, DPU was 9.54 cents, up
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      Lock icon Ascott to manage fifth Hanoi property
      365 13  -  By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg Singapore CAPITALAND’S serviced residence business unit, The Ascott Limited, has received a contract to manage its fifth property in Hanoi, Vietnam. The 252-unit Somerset West Central Hanoi will be situated in the Nam Trung Yen new urban area in Cau
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      Lock icon Chuan Hup Q2 net falls 21%
      214 14  -  By Jasmine Ng jasng@sph.com.sg Singapore CHUAN Hup Holdings recorded a 21.2 per cent decline in net profit for the fiscal second quarter, hit by a slowdown in its electronics manufacturing services business. The company, which has investments in marine services and property, said yesterday
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      Lock icon Firms must focus on issue of talent crunch: Deloitte
      350 14  -  Organisations need to develop strategies to attract, retain talented people By Malminderjit Singh msingh@sph.com.sg Singapore ORGANISATIONS need to keep a firm eye on replacing top talent, especially in countries with ageing populations, according to a latest report by professional services firm
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      Lock icon Rowsley returns to the black in Q3
      313 14  -  By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg Singapore ROWSLEY Ltd returned to the black in its fiscal third quarter, as it posted a net profit attributable to equi-ty-holders of $70,000, compared with a $2.2 million net loss a year earlier, when it registered a $1.8 million
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      Lock icon US economy, local population targets, land use main talking points
      635 15  -  STOCKS R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg Senior Correspondent THE main trading themes for the week just past were the same as the week before and the week before that near-frenzied penny stock churning resulting in the value per unit traded every day
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      Lock icon RRJ Capital raises 2nd largest Asia Pac-based pte equity fund
      207 15 Reuters Hong Kong RRJ Capital, a Hong Kong firm led by prominent Asia dealmakers the Ong brothers, has raised US$3.5 billion for its second fund, a source with knowledge of the matter said, making it the sec-ond-largest Asia Pacific-based private
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      Lock icon TOP GAINERS
      59 15 BY CENTS CLOSE UP Lyxor Indonesia10US$ 9750 252.0 2.1 Lyxor US DJIA 10 US$ 1413 96.8 5.8 Great Eastern 1790 93.0 5.5 DBXT MSINDO 10us$ 1570 43.5 2.3 DBXT STGLDv100 10US$ 2979 37.3 1.0 DairyFarm 1242 27.3 1.8 DBS Grp 1515 19.0 1.3 Jardine C&C 5080 19.0 0.4
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      Lock icon TOP LOSERS
      62 15 BY CENTS CLOSEDOWN DBXT iBoxxKR 5US$ ***** -497.9 -2.7 GLD 10US$ ***** -111.7 -0.6 DBXT Nifty 10US$ ***** -70.8 -0.5 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 2613 -55.9 -1.7 JMH 6441 -49.7 -0.6 DBXT iBoxxSing 5SG$ ***** -35.0 -0.3 JSH 3798 -34.8 -0.7 DBXT MSTHAI 10US$ 2209 -19.9 -0.7 IS ASIA
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      Lock icon GuocoLand’s Q2 net profit dips 2%
      318 15  -  By Teo Si Jia teosj@sph.com.sg Singapore GUOCOLAND’S net profit for the second quarter ended Dec 31, 2012, dipped 2 per cent to $12.57 million from a year ago. This is despite revenue rising 61 per cent to $234.85 million, from $145.76 million a year
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      Lock icon TOP 20 ACTIVES
      153 15 VOL CLOSE Ntegrator 31 2,412 7 1 .3 22.8 YHM 149,781 4 1 0.0 0.0 I PCO I ntl 145,173 2 4 0.0 0.0 ElektromotiW*****0 11 3,726 0 1 0.0 0.0 Ha l cyon 103,794 49 5 0.0 0.0 Geo Energy 85,644 56 5 3.0 5.0 AEM
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      108 15 Stock name Close Change CapMallsAsia 2.240 +0.080 CapitaLand 3.980 -0.020 CapitaMall 2.120 CityDev 11.70 +0.010 ComfortDelGro 1.915 -0.015 DBS Grp 15.15 +0.190 F&N 9.430 -0.120 GLP 2.800 +0.040 Genting SP 1.525 -0.025 Golden Agri 0.640 +0.005 HK Land 7.900 +0.070 IHH Healthcare 1.340 +0.005 JMH 64.41 -0.400 JSH
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      57 14 CITISPA is hiring a Management Trainee(s) Harvey Norman has a position open for an Accounts Assistant/ Executive EA Technology Asset Management has a vacancy for the position of Sales Manager Platts is recruiting a Client Development Manager Multi-Fineline Electronix Singapore is looking for an Assistant Finance Manager Check out more
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  • FROM THE DESK OF
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      Lock icon Time to rethink the traditional workspace
      1010 16  -  With the technological revolution in full swing and the marketplace always changing, businesses have a new, more efficient and more sustainable workplace solution be it a virtual office, cloud computing or serviced workspace FROM THE DESK OF Susie Martin General manager, South-East Asia India,
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon 6.9m population figure not a forecast or target: Khaw
      559 17  -  It’s a basis for planning for future and worstcase scenario, he says; MND clarifies how it arrived at figures of population densities By Malminderjit Singh msingh@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE may not hit the 6.9 million population figure as provided in the White Paper
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        Lock icon Bukit Timah Saddle Club wins back lease for old site
        160 17 THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) yesterday awarded 51 Fairways Drive back to Bukit Timah Saddle Club (BTSC). SLA had put out the 104,567.2-square metre site for public tender to allow other interested parties who wish to run a saddle club
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        Lock icon MOF launches app for Singapore Budget
        97 17 A MOBILE application for the Singapore Budget was launched yesterday to allow users to listen and view the Budget Speech “live” while on the move. Called “SG Budget 2013”, the application is available free on iPhone and Android smartphones. It will also give access
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        Lock icon JTC awards tenders for 2 Tuas sites
        79 17 JTC Corp has awarded the tenders for two industrial sites at Tuas South Street 6. Plot 30 in Tuas South Street 6 was awarded to Koh Brothers Building Civil Engineering Contractor (Pte) Ltd, which put in the highest bid of $6.6 million or
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      Lock icon Top S’pore LNG official quits to return to Australia
      532 17  -  The company says general managers of its commercial and operations units will be made directors By Ronnie Lim ronnie@sph.com.sg JUST months before the start-up of the first-phase $1.7 billion liquefied natural gas terminal here, Singapore LNG has lost its number two,
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      Lock icon Qoo10 bullish about Singapore, thanks to torrid 2012 sales
      376 18  -  Online retailer sees mobile sales here rising to 30% of total group sales, from 20% last year; local players now on its website too By Joyce Hooi joyceh@sph.com.sg QOO10, which is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO), is bullish
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      Lock icon JP Morgan gives US$200,000 to BT Budding Artists Fund
      374 18  -  By Ma Xiangyu xiangyu@sph.com.sg US bank JP Morgan has given US$200,000 to the Business Times Budding Artists Fund (BTBAF) in support of arts programmes for underprivileged youth. JP Morgan Private Bank head of South Asia and philanthropy chair Rahul Malhotra presented
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      Lock icon Complaints against motor, electronics sectors up
      347 18  -  By Ma Xiangyu xiangyu@sph.com.sg COMPLAINTS in the motor and electronics sectors shot up last year, data from the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) shows. The number of complaints against the motor industry soared 79 per cent to 2,255 in 2012 ous year, giving the
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon S Korea signals start of an Asian currency war
      825 19 Easy monetary policies in rich economies spark concerns of competitive devaluations Reuters Singapore SOUTH Korea’s threat to impose a broad tax on financial transactions is the first sign of deepening concern in Asia that speculation of competitive currency devaluations is prompting
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      Lock icon Global banking stocks are no longer pariahs
      526 19 They have surged 40% in 8 months, but investors are wary Reuters London ONCE-SHUNNED global banking stocks have surged nearly 40 per cent in just eight months, but many investors remain wary of buying into a sector whose future size and shape is
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      Lock icon Indonesia’s Dec trade deficit narrows, but concerns linger
      364 20 Reuters Jakarta INDONESIA’S trade deficit narrowed in December, but exports fell much more than expected and some economists predict that 2012’s first annual deficit in history might not be the country’s last. December’s deficit, announced yesterday by the statistics bureau, was US$0.15
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      Lock icon Thailand’s Jan inflation eases from one-year high
      568 20 BOT seen leaving its policy rate unchanged at 2.75% at next meeting Reuters Bangkok THAILAND’S headline inflation rate in January eased from a more than one-year high in December, showing a big wage rise last month has had only a limited impact so
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        Lock icon Bharti Airtel quarterly profit plunges by 72%
        71 21 AFP New Delhi Bharti Airtel, India’s top mobile company, reported yesterday its net quarterly profit plunged by an unexpected 72 per cent, hit by punishing price competition and a surge in interest charges. The profit drop to 2.84 billion rupees (S$66.2 million) in
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        Lock icon Barclays CEO Jenkins not to take a bonus for 2012
        92 21 Reuters LondonNew Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins has opted not to take a bonus for 2012, saying he should “bear an appropriate degree of accountability”for the difficult year his bank endured. Mr Jenkins, who became CEO in August, said he
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        Lock icon VW, US automakers lead French sales decline
        88 21 Reuters Paris French car sales fell 15 per cent to their lowest January level in 16 years, as Volkswagen and US carmakers led declines, leaving no end in sight to Europe’s autos slump. Registrations in France fell to 124,952 cars last month from
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        Lock icon StanChart ATM at Suria KLCC mall compromised
        48 21 Bloomberg Kuala Lumpur A Standard Chartered plc automated teller machine at Kuala Lumpur’s Suria KLCC shopping mall was compromised and customer funds were illegally withdrawn. Thirteen customer accounts were affected, said Norliza Kamaruddin, a Kuala Lumpur-based spokeswoman at the bank. Bloomberg
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      Lock icon US Congress passes debt bill
      626 21 Statutory debt ceiling will be suspended until May as US$1 t in spending cuts loom NYT Washington THE Senate gave final approval on Thursday to legislation suspending the statutory debt ceiling until May, officially turning Congress’ attention to the next budget showdown: US$1 trillion in
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      Lock icon Panasonic, Sharp post combined US$11b loss
      548 21 AFP Tokyo PANASONIC and Sharp racked up more than US$11 billion in combined losses over the nine months to December as the embattled Japanese electronics giants warned yesterday that there was more bleeding to come. Japan’s battered electronics sector has suffered from myriad problems
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      Lock icon Rate pressures on pensions hit Q4 earnings
      915 22 More than US$20b wiped out at major American firms; actuaries blame low rates, mark-to-market accounting Reuters New York PENSION charges wiped out more than US$20 billion in fourth-quarter earnings at major American companies, as persistently low interest rates leave some of those with
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      154 27 Feb 1 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2914 1.2917 1.0401 1.0403 Canadian dollar 1.2440 1.2447 1.0024 1.0019 Euro 1.6911 1.6914 1.3620 1.3622 NZ dollar 1.0463 1.0466 0.8427 0.8429 Sterling pound 1.9688 1.9693 1.5857 1.5860
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        1623 30 / 31 Markets funds there earn returns at least 7 percentage points higher than mutual fund managers globally Bloomberg Hong Kong STOCK pickers focused on the least-developed markets are trouncing their benchmark index and producing annual returns at least seven percentage points higher than mutual fund managers
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        1100 32  -  After years of selling equities and buying fixed-income assets, there’s now a case for a rotation back to stocks WEALTH INSIGHTS William Tan Franklin Templeton ~The writer is the director of Retail Fund Distribution in South-east Asia for Franklin Templeton THE late
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        1049 33  -  The global financial crisis has shown that some models and theories investors have relied on may not always stand SHOW ME THE MONEY Teh Hooi Ling hooiling@sph.com.sg Senior Correspondent ~The writer is a CFA charterholder WHAT do you know, it has been more than four years
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        635 35 Beijing might tighten mortgage policies for second-home buyers, according to the report Reuters Shanghai CHINA will postpone the expansion of a pilot programme to implement a property tax, the official China Securities Journal reported, citing anonymous official sources, who added that Beijing intends
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        470 35 Bloomberg Shanghai CHINA’S new home prices rose one per cent last month, the biggest gain in two years, as developers turned optimistic because the government did not impose additional measures to curb the property market last month. Prices
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        1167 8  -  Nothing ushers in the Lunar New Year like the aroma of buttery pineapple tarts. Debbie Yong and Sara Yap munch their way way through more than 20 brands to compile the best 10 Debbie Yong, Sara Yap Goods of Desire Mahjong Box Quirky Hong
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        566 13  -  Christopher Lim takes a look at various options for getting good sound quality for TVs and monitors without adding much clutter Christopher Lim limchris@sph.com.sg Bose Solo TV speaker $649 THERE’S an easier way to add Bose sound to your TV than buying a whole VideoWave II set. The
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        840 17  -  no holds barred Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg Correspondent VICTOR Cui, the founder and CEO of Singapore-based One Fighting Championship (One FC), knows a winning formula when he sees one. Toss a couple of the best mixed martial artists from around the world into an imposing, 2.8
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