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<pubDate>9 Feb 2010 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>NYSE Tech hired to set up Asean e-trading link</title>
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<description>THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) and three other regional exchanges have hired NYSE Technologies to set up an Asean e-trading link.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>Texchem-Pack receives privatisation offer</title>
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<description>TEXCHEM-PACK Holdings (S) yesterday said its Malaysian parent company and key shareholder is offering 13.5 Singapore cents a share to take the Singapore-listed plastic packaging products maker private.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>Temasek sells $1 billion of 10-year notes</title>
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<description>TEMASEK Holdings yesterday sold a 10-year $1 billion note issue with a coupon of 3.265 per cent, in yet another indication of the growing depth of the local bond market.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>SingTel gains more handphone customers</title>
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<description>SINGTEL said its total handphone customers in Singapore grew to 3.2 million by end-December 2009, up 8.1 per cent from a year ago.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>$140m deals for Keppel; $38.5m order for ASL</title>
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<description>NEWBUILD orders are starting to trickle back for shipbuilders, with Keppel Singmarine sealing $140 million of contracts for a rock dumping fall pipe vessel and a pair of tugs. Meanwhile, ASL Marine grabbed a $38.5 million order for a diving support vessel (DSV).</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>China Animal Healthcare Q4 net profit up 40.5%</title>
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<description>CHINA Animal Healthcare - which makes drugs used to treat animals - posted a 40.5 per cent jump in fourth-quarter net profit due to firmer sales, and expects a future revenue boost from selling more forms of vaccine for pigs.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>Rickmers lowers Q4 DPU on funding shortfalls</title>
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<description>RICKMERS Maritime Trust put in a creditable fourth quarter performance despite the cloud of unsecured funding hanging over it, with charter revenue and income available for distribution rising 29 per cent and 12 per cent to US$38.1 million and US$17.7 million respectively.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>KSH reports Q3 net profit of $5.1m</title>
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<description>KSH Holdings made a net profit of $5.09 million for the three months to end-December 2009, reversing a loss of $965,000 a year earlier, as expenses fell more quickly than revenues.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>Cerebos racks up 22% growth in Q1 profit</title>
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<description>CEREBOS Pacific, a food and health supplements company in the Asia-Pacific region, posted a net profit growth of 22 per cent to $36.8 million for its first quarter ended Dec 31, 2009, from $30.1 million for the previous corresponding period.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>Company Briefs</title>
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<description>BOUSTEAD Singapore's net profit fell 15.5 per cent to $8.7 million for the third quarter ended Dec 31, as revenue slid 9.6 per cent to $103.6 million, compared to a year earlier.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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<title>Governance will work only with solid deterrence</title>
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<description>JOHN Quincy Adams, the sixth US president, once famously said that 'Congress should not be palsied by the will of our constituents'.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010 04:00 SGT</pubDate>
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