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Genting HK US$

Symbol:
S21

Currency:
US Dollar

Last:

0.255

+ 0.01

Vol (K): 24403.0

Trading
Updated Time	30-Jul 17:05
Open	0.25	High	0.26	Low	0.24
Prev Close	0.245	Buy	-	Sell	-
Volume(K)	24403.0	Buy Vol(K)	-	Sell Vol(K)	-
52 Wk High	0.310	52 Wk Low	0.155	52 Wk Avg Vol	8305.534
All Time High	12.2	All Time Low	0.06
Comments	No Info

*Reporting Currency in USD
Important: ShareJunction obtains our finance data from a third party. Check financial year before use. EPS values are recorded up to two decimal points.

Financials
Date Updated	30-Jun-2010	Financial Year	31-Dec-2009
Current Year Profit (After Tax) $'000,000	-28.289	Previous Year Profit (After Tax) $'000,000	-101.127
Net Asset Per Share	0.24	Turnover $'000,000	112.53
Current Year EPS (After Interest and Tax)	0.0	Previous Year EPS (After Interest and Tax)	-0.02
PE Ratio (After Tax)	0.0	Times Covered	0.0
Price (at update time)	0.190	Dividend Yield	0.0

*Technical Analysis Information is updated Daily

Technicals
RSI	86.07	Williams %R	-6.67
Comments (RSI)	Overbought	Comments (W%R)	Overbought

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this counter is illliquid ?

chaosdiablo ( Date: 31-Jul-2010 17:09) Posted:

NAV - $1.562 (have not taken into account the profit it earns from selling One financial street)

Cash from balance sheet : 164M

Recent divestment of One Financial Street of 610.9M, 45% = 280M

Pay loan of 143.5M = 136.5M

Total cash after completed sale = 164+136.5 = 300.5M

Cash/share = 300.5/634.3 = $0.4737/share

EPS 13.7 cents
PE 5.62

Hence, for $0.79 - $0.4737 = $0.3163, we get all their properties and the retail businesses......

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MetroHldg

Symbol:
M01

Currency:
Singapore Dollar

Last:

0.785

No Change

Vol (K): 129.0

Corporate Action - Ex Dividend

Trading
Updated Time	30-Jul 17:05
Open	0.78	High	0.785	Low	0.775
Prev Close	0.785	Buy	-	Sell	-
Volume(K)	129.0	Buy Vol(K)	-	Sell Vol(K)	-
52 Wk High	0.885	52 Wk Low	0.615	52 Wk Avg Vol	838.522
All Time High	1.15	All Time Low	0.225
Comments	No Info

*Reporting Currency in SGD
Important: ShareJunction obtains our finance data from a third party. Check financial year before use. EPS values are recorded up to two decimal points.

Financials
Date Updated	30-Jun-2010	Financial Year	31-Mar-2009
Current Year Profit (After Tax) $'000,000	39.411	Previous Year Profit (After Tax) $'000,000	65.968
Net Asset Per Share	1.47	Turnover $'000,000	5.64
Current Year EPS (After Interest and Tax)	0.06	Previous Year EPS (After Interest and Tax)	0.1
PE Ratio (After Tax)	12.7	Times Covered	3.1
Price (at update time)	0.76	Dividend Yield	0.03

*Technical Analysis Information is updated Daily

Technicals
RSI	44.34	Williams %R	-77.78
Comments (RSI)	No Info	Comments (W%R)	No Info

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MetroHldg

Symbol:
M01

Currency:
Singapore Dollar

Last:

0.785

No Change

Vol (K): 129.0

Corporate Action - Ex Dividend

Trading
Updated Time	30-Jul 17:05
Open	0.78	High	0.785	Low	0.775
Prev Close	0.785	Buy	-	Sell	-
Volume(K)	129.0	Buy Vol(K)	-	Sell Vol(K)	-
52 Wk High	0.885	52 Wk Low	0.615	52 Wk Avg Vol	838.522
All Time High	1.15	All Time Low	0.225
Comments	No Info

*Reporting Currency in SGD
Important: ShareJunction obtains our finance data from a third party. Check financial year before use. EPS values are recorded up to two decimal points.

Financials
Date Updated	30-Jun-2010	Financial Year	31-Mar-2009
Current Year Profit (After Tax) $'000,000	39.411	Previous Year Profit (After Tax) $'000,000	65.968
Net Asset Per Share	1.47	Turnover $'000,000	5.64
Current Year EPS (After Interest and Tax)	0.06	Previous Year EPS (After Interest and Tax)	0.1
PE Ratio (After Tax)	12.7	Times Covered	3.1
Price (at update time)	0.76	Dividend Yield	0.03

*Technical Analysis Information is updated Daily

Technicals
RSI	44.34	Williams %R	-77.78
Comments (RSI)	No Info	Comments (W%R)	No Info

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http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_560038.html

Latest comments

If I have a job like the MM, I die die also won't retire lah.

If your job is already paying $600 a month cleaning sewage, after 65 how much more pay cut can you tahan.

If you job is high high above, and your favourite hobby is telling off young punks their mistakes, how to accept them as your boss?

Posted by: LaoHero64 at Sat Jul 31 09:54:55 SGT 2010

Posted by: LaoHero64 at Sat Jul 31 09:54:55 SGT 2010

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Jul 31, 2010

Key conundrum

'The crux of the problem is what to do with highly paid older workers and how to create opportunities for younger workers.'

MS PAULINE MARGARET CHUNG: 'I cannot agree more with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's remarks yesterday ('Never retire') that there should not be an official retirement age. What is WRONG is the assumption that once we get older, we get slower and less productive and, therefore, should be paid less. The crux of the problem is really what to do with highly paid older workers and how to create opportunities for younger workers. It was much easier when there was an official retirement age, but with longer lifespans and the growing irrelevance of fixing an official retirement age (except for the purpose of cashing out pensions), many organisations may be stumped.

Why don't organisations treat all their employees as contract workers?

It sure beats generalising about the productivity of workers and paying them less when they reach a certain age.'

Retirement is good

'The Government should promote an official retirement age, not pressure citizens about losing out if they do not continue working.'

MR JOSHUA SELVAKUMAR: 'Retirement is not about getting oneself unplugged from the world and fading away. It is a stage when one should pursue new horizons. Are Singaporeans working all their life and not enjoying the rest they require to savour their life's toil?

There is a time for everything in a person's life - to be born, to play, to study, to work, to start a family, to mature and to rest.

Life isn't about how long one has lived, but how satisfying the experience was; it is not about vegetating once one stops working, but about how active one is after retirement.

Retirement is the BEST stage of one's life, a time to rest from the rat race.

Someone who has retired gracefully and sufficiently has planned his retirement well. In fact, the Government should continue to promote an official retirement age, to encourage Singaporeans to enjoy the fruits of their labour. It should not pressure citizens about losing out if they do not continue working.'

Mindsets

'Too many employers regard workers as elderly and slow, inefficient and unproductive once they reach 45.'

MS AGNES SNG: 'Too many employers regard workers as elderly and slow, inefficient and unproductive once they reach 45 years of age. This comes as no surprise when HDB fitness corners openly label exercise areas 'Senior Citizens' Fitness Corner' for people aged 45 to 60; when media reports imply that anyone who is aged 50 and above is 'elderly' and are peppered with phrases like 'the sprightly 50-year-old housewife', as if one is automatically arthritic and lumbering when one reaches that age. Unless this ATTITUDE is changed, mature people will never be able to work, as MM Lee entreats, as long as they can.'

Exceptions

'Lower-income earners are better off retired.'

MR SEAH LEONG KHAI: 'Not everyone can do what MM Lee suggests.

Lower-income earners like cleaners or the self-employed, such as hawkers and taxi drivers, work after the retirement age because they have to. In fact, this group, whose work also involves physical labour, are better off retired once they grow older as carrying on will affect their health.'

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ST Forum

Create more job openings for seniors

MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's remarks in Thursday's report ('Never retire'), on the need to work for as long as one is able, are inspiring.

http://www.straitstimes.com/The+Print+Edition/The+Print+Edition.html

Jul 31, 2010

NEVER RETIRE? REACTIONS TO MM LEE'S REMARKS

Create more job openings for seniors

MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's remarks in Thursday's report ('Never retire'), on the need to work for as long as one is able, are inspiring.

Many of us would like to keep on working for as long as we can. We want to remain active and be involved in significant work. We wish to continue to contribute and participate in challenging projects and experience enjoyable work.

We want to be financially independent and we hope to continue to learn.

However, job opportunities for seniors in Singapore are not great. Many organisations are slow to offer work to retiring staff.

Discrimination against recruiting seniors persists and seniors must contend with negative social and community attitudes.

In extreme cases, they are treated with condescension and considered unimportant. More action is required to help seniors to continue to work as long as they can.

The following should be addressed:

Set up more job-search centres for retirees.

Companies and organisations could offer retirees more part-time jobs.

Create job-sharing situations for retirees.

More information on working after retirement age should be provided to employees.

Provide more tips and job-specific information, and help seniors find jobs and adapt to change.

Provide seniors with more training and educational opportunities.

Media and advertising should portray seniors working in different situations.

Recruit more seniors as media presenters in the manner of American media and entertainment personalities, such as journalist Barbara Walters, comedian David Letterman and talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

Present seniors as active participants using a full range of abilities in different roles and activities.

Avoid stereotyping, ageism and ageist language.

Without opportunities, it is difficult to work for as long as we can. With opportunities, we will see more seniors working and enjoying their retirement years.

Zaibun Siraj (Ms)

Jul 31, 2010

Mistake to discard NDP classics

MY FRIENDS, colleagues and I share the same sentiments expressed in Mr Victor Khoo's letter on Thursday ("National Day songs: Pointless to have new ones every year").

The only songs that remain fresh in our minds are Count On Me Singapore, Stand Up For Singapore and We Are Singapore. The songs composed thereafter remain forgotten.

It would be a challenge for new artists to inject life into the golden hits, singing in their own genre. But it is a mistake to discard these golden hits altogether.

National Day is a day when all Singaporeans come together to celebrate the nation's independence day. How terrible it would be if most Singaporeans have to mumble through unfamiliar songs and, worst of all, give up singing altogether.

For now, the only time everyone dares to sing with gusto is during our National Anthem.

Leong Pui Ying (Ms)

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Word leader

For the past three years, Canadian author Yann Martel has been sending a book once every fortnight to his Prime Minister, Mr Stephen Harper, despite never receiving any personal acknowledgement from him.

READ to LEAD

A gOOd LEADER must READ

YANN MARTEL

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Learning through Failure
Disasters teach more than successes.
While that idea may sound paradoxical, it is widely accepted among engineers. They say grim lessons arise because the reasons for triumph in matters of technology are often arbitrary and invisible, whereas the cause of a particular failure can frequently be uncovered, documented and reworked to make improvements.
Disaster, in short, can become a spur to innovation.
There is no question that the trial-and-error process of building machines and industries has, over the centuries, resulted in the loss of much blood and many thousands of lives.
Failures, sometimes appalling, are inevitable, and engineers say it pays to make good use of them to prevent future mistakes. The result is that the technological feats that define the modern world are sometimes the result of events that some might wish to forget.
“It’s a great source of knowledge — and humbling, too — sometimes that’s necessary,” said Henry Petroski, a historian of engineering at Duke University and author of “Success Through Failure.” “Nobody wants failures. But you also don’t want to let a good crisis go to waste.”
Now, experts say, that kind of analysis will probably improve the complex gear and procedures that companies use to drill for oil in increasingly deep waters.
They say the catastrophic failure involving the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20 — which took 11 lives and started the worst offshore oil spill in United States history — will drive the technological progress.
“The industry knows it can’t have that happen again,” said David W. Fowler, a professor at the University of Texas, Austin, who teaches a course on forensic engineering.
“It’s going to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself.”
In London on June 22 at the World National Oil Companies Congress, protesters from Greenpeace interrupted an official from BP, the company that dug the runaway well. Planetary responsibility, a protester shouted before being taken away, “means stopping the push for dangerous drilling in deep waters.” The history of technology suggests that such an end is unlikely.
Devices fall out of favor, but seldom if ever get abolished by design.
The explosion of the Hindenburg showed the dangers of hydrogen as a lifting gas and resulted in new emphasis on helium, which is not flammable, rather than ending the reign of rigid airships. And engineering, by definition, is a problem-solving profession. Technology analysts say that constructive impulse, and its probable result for deep ocean drilling, is that innovation through failure analysis will make the wells safer, whatever the merits of reducing human reliance on oil.
They hold that the BP disaster will ultimately inspire technological advance.
From the sinking of the Titanic to the meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986, from the collapse of Washington’s Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 to the World Trade Center’s fall in 2001— all forced engineers to address what came to be seen as deadly flaws. Design engineers say that, too frequently, the nature of their profession is to fly blind.
Eric H. Brown, a British engineer who developed aircraft during World War II and afterward taught at Imperial College London, candidly described the predicament.
In a 1967 book, he called structural engineering “the art of molding materials we do not really understand into shapes we cannot really analyze, so as to withstand forces we cannot really assess, in such a way that the public does not really suspect.”

Dr. Petroski, at Duke, writing in “Success Through Failure,” noted the innovative corollary. Failures, he said, “always teach us more than the successes about the design of things. And thus the failures often lead to redesigns — to new, improved things.”

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Life-long learners
LOS ANGELES —
For every year a person stays in fulltime learning, the risk of suffering memory loss and loss of control falls by 11 per cent, researchers from Cambridge University found.
Researchers believe that education makes the brain more flexible and improves its ability to offset the symptoms of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

“Our study shows education in early life appears to enable some people to cope with a lot of changes in their brain before showing dementia symptoms,” said researcher Dr Hanna Keage.

Education helps the brain stave off the effects of dementia, a new study claims. AGENCIES

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People with Parkinson’s
LOS ANGELES —
Researchers have found a molecule that causes the nerve cell death in the brain that sparks the condition.
The discovery was described as a “significant step forward” in the battle against the degenerative disease, a movement disorder characterised by uncontrollable shaking and loss of co-ordination of muscles.
Professor Lu Bingwei and his team at Stanford University found that the genetic mutation in fruit flies led to the overproduction of at least two proteins that can cause brain cells to die. After toning down the levels of the proteins, “the flies no longer got symptoms of Parkinson’s”, he said.

Testing on mammals of pharmaceuticals which would reduce the level of the two proteins would soon begin, Prof Lu added. “The clinical impact of our findings may be five to 10 years down the road.”Parkinson’s disease sufferers have been offered new hope after the gene mutation which triggers it was identified by scientists.

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Good news for ...

People with paralysis

TEL AVIV —

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, are testing a “sniff detector” that is able to pick up pressure

changes in the wearer’s nasal cavity and convert it into electrical signals.

The device can then be hooked up to special software and used to move a cursor on a computer screen or control a wheelchair.

It was tested on three people with locked-in syndrome, a paralysis that “locks” a fully intact mind into a paralysed body.

One patient, a 51-year-old woman who was left unable to move, speak or blink after a stroke, was able to communicate for the first time using the new technology.

After 19 days learning to produce a sniff on demand, she was able to write her family a message for the first time.

The system is still in its development stages, said its developers.People with severe paralysis may soon be able to surf the Internet or drive a wheelchair simply by breathing, according to scientists in Israel.

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If you’re still alive — duck!

LONDON

A team of experts, including some working for Nasa, believes the 560m-wide object has a 1-in-1,000 chance of an impact 172 years from now.

The odds of a crash are considerably shorter than those given for the asteroid Apophis, which has a 1-in-250,000 chance of striking Earth in 2036.

Prof Maria Eugenia Sansaturio from the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain told — A giant asteroid called 1999 RQ36 may crash into Earth on Sept 24, 2182, scientists believe.Universe Today that knowledge of the risk posed “may help design in advance mechanisms aimed at deviating the asteroid’s path”.

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

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A step closer to finding the ‘GOD particle’

PARIS — A thousand physicists working at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, reported in Paris on Monday that they had not found the “God particle” — yet. But they are beginning to figure out where it is not.

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Singapore is just a RED dOt and a "BONSAi"

Yet Singapore releases one of the HiGHEST LEVEL of CARBON ? ? ? ?

If SINGAPROE want the PEOPLE to OPT for BICYCLING,

THE CABINET must WALK THE TALK

and TAKE THE LEAD in

CYCLING TO AND FROM WORK

BECAUSE BY THEN

SINGAPROE WiLL CLEAN & GREEN

WITHOUT TRAFFIC JAM

pharoah88 ( Date: 31-Jul-2010 16:02) Posted:

http://www.cyclelicio.us/2010/new-uk-prime-minister-commutes-by-bike/

UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron today was selected as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The 43 year old Cameron, who is Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost two centuries, regularly rode his bicycle to parliament. It’s unknown if Cameron will continue riding his bike from his new official residence at Number 10 Downing Street.

David Cameron Arrives At Parliament For Prime Ministers Questions

What other world leader gets around by bike?

In his campaign, Mr Cameron threw a few bones to the motoring lobby, though he also promotes high speed rail across Britain and green initiatives to encourage walking, cycling, and mass transit use.

Like the United States, the UK is increasingly dependent on imported oil for its energy needs. North Sea oil production fueled economic growth from the Thatcher era onwards. Although production peaked in 1999, the national government continued to receive substantial revenue from North Sea production, allowing lavish spending on social programs.

North Sea oil has not cushioned Britain from the worldwide economic turmoil of the past two years, leading to the dissolution of Gordon Brown’s Labour Party government. The Conservative Party plans to cut some taxes to stimulate economic growth, but with declining energy supplies economic growth is impossible though, to his credit, Cameron has resisted most tax cut proposals in favor of plans to cut government spending.

The UK’s 2009 oil revenue was half what it was in 2008, and 2010 will likely be even worse. Cameron and his coalition government with the Liberal Democrats will need to deal with the realities of physical resource constraints, climate change issues, economic recession, and lower tax revenues. It should be interesting for them and for all of us.

See also:

German Defence Minister rides a bicycle

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Mr. Gibbs rides “a sweet new Trek bike“, and tweets about his “15 miles on the new bike … more hills and lots of wind today but still a pretty day.” He also solicits advice on saddle comfort after an 18 mile ride.

The Heritage Foundations calls the Obama Press Secretary’s endorsement of the local bike shop an abuse of power.

Author Rory Cooper wonders, “Will every business Robert Gibbs walks into now offer him special treatment in the hopes he gives them a shout-out or endorsement?”

I wonder what they think of former President George Bush’s well publicized mountain bike rides on Trek and Cannondale bikes — all of them gifts from the respective bike companies? Incidentally, Revolution Cycles is also where President Bush took his mountain bikes for maintenance. And what of President Reagan’s well known fondness for Jelly Belly jelly beans? Finally, has anybody attempted a bad ‘influence peddling’ pun with this story yet?

See also:

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German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg leaves by bicycle, after an economic council of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union CDU in Berlin, June 9, 2010.

Can you imagine US Defense Secretary Robert Gates riding a bicycle from the Pentagon?

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http://www.cyclelicio.us/2010/new-uk-prime-minister-commutes-by-bike/

UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron today was selected as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The 43 year old Cameron, who is Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost two centuries, regularly rode his bicycle to parliament. It’s unknown if Cameron will continue riding his bike from his new official residence at Number 10 Downing Street.

What other world leader gets around by bike?

In his campaign, Mr Cameron threw a few bones to the motoring lobby, though he also promotes high speed rail across Britain and green initiatives to encourage walking, cycling, and mass transit use.

Like the United States, the UK is increasingly dependent on imported oil for its energy needs. North Sea oil production fueled economic growth from the Thatcher era onwards. Although production peaked in 1999, the national government continued to receive substantial revenue from North Sea production, allowing lavish spending on social programs.

North Sea oil has not cushioned Britain from the worldwide economic turmoil of the past two years, leading to the dissolution of Gordon Brown’s Labour Party government. The Conservative Party plans to cut some taxes to stimulate economic growth, but with declining energy supplies economic growth is impossible though, to his credit, Cameron has resisted most tax cut proposals in favor of plans to cut government spending.

The UK’s 2009 oil revenue was half what it was in 2008, and 2010 will likely be even worse. Cameron and his coalition government with the Liberal Democrats will need to deal with the realities of physical resource constraints, climate change issues, economic recession, and lower tax revenues. It should be interesting for them and for all of us.

See also:

German Defence Minister rides a bicycle