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Justin Loh

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Email: justin.loh@agent2call.com

MSc, GDip, GDMM, BSc(Hons), Cert-in-CEHA

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More expats fall prey to rogue property agents
More expatriates have become victims of tricky landlords, dodgy tenancy agreements, disappearing deposits and other rental snares. According to the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case), foreigners lodged 32, out of a total of 365, complaints against real estate agents from last October to March this year. This was a 23 per cent increase from the 26, out of 516, complaints within the same period a year earlier. Case said that most of the complaints it received concerned rental agreements. Commonly cited were overcharging and failure to honour agreements, especially with regard to refunds. Dennis Wee Group said: 'At the moment, only about one-third of real estate agents here are CEHA-certified.'
- The Sunday Times, P12 – 5 April, 2009

Companies News

Business Times Online - Companies News
Keppel Land to redevelop Jakarta office complex	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
AMID rising office demand in Indonesia, Keppel Land is ploughing an estimated 636 billion rupiah (S$95 million) into a partial redevelopment of Barclays House complex in Jakarta's Central Business District (CBD).
Defensive stocks in favour with STI fall seen	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
AGAINST the backdrop of continuing uncertainty in the market, two brokerages are seeing more play on defensive stocks.
Give the time or give up the post	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
SECTION 4 of the Singapore Companies Act defines a director as including 'any person occupying the position of director of a corporation by whatever name called and includes a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a corporation are accustomed to act and an alternate or substitute director'. This definition makes clear that the term 'director' is a broad one.
Swimming in uncharted waters	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
WHAT are the prospects for port specialist Portek International, given that its current revenue driver are its terminals, in a business directly linked to uncertain global trade flows?

Singapore Markets

Business Times Online - Singapore Markets
Deflation of equity cult already started	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
SPEAK to most dealers and they'll tell you that business is bad, with them having to supplement the meagre commissions that they make from their few remaining die-hard punting clients by trading on their own accounts (mainly in Genting stocks and several penny speculatives).

Economy Watch

Business Times Online - Economy Watch
Obama to seek increase in R&D tax credit	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
(WASHINGTON) As part of his pre-election push to spur the slumping economy and his party, President Barack Obama will ask Congress this week to increase and permanently extend a popular but costly tax credit for businesses' research expenses, and to pay for it by closing other corporate tax breaks, according to administration officials.
Analysts: Trouble ahead for developed world	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
(CERNOBBIO, Italy) Is the global economy out of the woods?
ECB's Trichet urges European unity at IMF	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
(CERNOBBIO, Italy) Europe needs to agree common positions on international issues at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet said on Saturday.

Top News Stories

Business Times Online - Top Stories
More privatisations as valuations ease	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
(SINGAPORE) With valuations easing and privatisation becoming a less expensive affair, a steady trickle of listed companies appear to be heading for the exit.
NZ quake bill a hefty NZ$2b	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
(AUCKLAND) New Zealand faces a NZ$2 billion (S$1.94 billion) damage bill and a massive clean-up after Christchurch, its second-biggest city, was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that closed the central business district.
What will broadband competition bring?	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
ON SEPT 1, Singapore welcomed the era of fibre optics with the minting of the country's new information superhighway. With this milestone, the Republic now stands alongside broadband pioneers South Korea and Japan with the ability to provide blazing Internet speeds to homes and offices across the island.
Investors upbeat on hopeful signs in jobs, manufacturing data	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
BETTER than anticipated economic reports on manufacturing and employment last week injected an unexpected measure of bullishness in the stock market as it headed into the first post-summer week of trading.
SingTel mulling C&W takeover: report	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
(LONDON) Singapore Telecommunications is considering a bid for FTSE 100 group Cable & Wireless Worldwide, The Independent on Sunday reported.
Looking to tame the rising yen	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
RADICAL ideas on how to stem the sharp and damaging rise in the yen are being put forward in Japan as authorities come to terms with the fact that the chances of market forces correcting the yen's surge are slim, at least in the short to medium term, in the face of a weak US dollar and an ailing euro.
S'pore seeks to ride on China's growth: PM Lee	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
(SINGAPORE) Singapore wants to be part of China's rapid development, not just to help the Asian giant succeed but also to ride on its stellar growth, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday.
Moderate global economic recovery underway: IMF's Lipsky	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
(GWANGJU, South Korea) The world economy is recovering moderately but still faces challenges such as the need for medium-term fiscal consolidation, the IMF's first managing director, John Lipsky, said yesterday. 'They are mainly confident that there is a moderate recovery underway globally,' he told reporters, referring to delegates at the G-20 meeting of deputy finance and central bank chiefs in South Korea.
Three-Minute Digest	9/5/2010 11:12 PM
WITH valuations easing and privatisation becoming a less expensive affair, a steady trickle of listed companies appear to be heading for the exit.