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Saturday, 13 September 2008

7 ways to fight that spare tyre

Do you think you are getting a little heavy around the middle? Here are seven diet tips to fight flab from nutritionists who spoke to WedMD
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Investor sues Goldman over HK$60m loss

The owner of one of Hong Kong’s leading beauty parlour chains claims that she is HK$60 million out of pocket after one customer got more than facial treatments out of their relationship
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Mainland plays bear brunt of HK sell-off

Analysts expect Hong Kong’s blue chips to remain under pressure over the next few weeks from weakness in the United States and mainland equity markets
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Vanke refuses property refunds in price row

China Vanke has rejected demands for refunds or compensation by customers who bought properties before it cut prices in late August, in a move analysts said could make potential buyers even more wary of the cooling real estate market.
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S&P forecasts rise in bad loans amid global slump

Mainland lenders will see a gradual increase in bad loans taken out by property developers and troubled export-oriented manufacturers amid a global economic slowdown, says Standard & Poor’s.
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Managed funds sink on lack of investor appetite

The local fund management industry has limped through this year as investors lose appetite for their products amid staggering market volatility, according to a report released yesterday by the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association.

Many Chinese have lost huge amount of money in mutual funds; now it's very difficult to raise new funds including QDII funds. Singapore will not see QDII funds buying our S-shares for a while.
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Bank of America ‘likely to win Lehman’

Melco dives after partner reports VIP chip sales drop

Who says casinos are immune from economic downturn?
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Real estate woes spread as sales plummet

Coastal cities in mainland China have had the steepest downturns
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Poverty draws Chinese to unsafe mines

Why anyone would choose to work in China’s often deadly mining industry must surely be a mystery until you talk to people like Lu Renyan. For him, poverty is the motivating factor, given the potential financial rewards.
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Firms put IPOs on hold in hope of better times

Some are wary of listing now, others abort plans for fear of poor interest
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‘Dream Team’ remisiers fined by MAS

UOB Kay Hian duo failed to make timely disclosure of directorships in other firms
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Assuming the worst about Lehman

Bear Stearns bailout which was meant to prevent the crisis from spreading has only helped prolong it
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Bargains lure foreign cash into A-shares

Foreign institutions bought heavily into mainland-listed stocks last month, a fresh sign that overseas investors are hunting bargains as two-thirds of the market’s capitalisation have evaporated
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Daryl Guppy on Inverted Charts

CEO of guppytraders.com, explains how we can make our naturally bullish bias work in our favor during a bear market
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