Mapletree Industrial Trust says it has achieved a maiden Distribution Per Unit of 1.52 cents from its listing date on 21 October to 31 December 2010, exceeding forecast by 13.4%.
Distributable income and net property income at $22,282,000 and $29,593,000 was 13.6% and 8.7% higher than forecasted.
CDL China, the China division of City Developments which was formed in August, has acquired its first development site in Chongqing, China for RMB 232 million ($45.7 million).
CDL China, through its wholly-owned Hong Kong subsidiary China Venture Investments, was awarded the site at a government land auction on Dec 15. The purely residential site, which consists of two adjacent plots of land totalling 27,200 square metres, is located on top of a historic hill, Eling, in Yuzhong District of Chongqing municipality.
Global Logistic Properties (MC0.SG) +0.5% at $2.23 in moderate volume of 8.6 million shares vs flat STI.
DBS Vickers says maiden results “sterling,” (net profit +216% on year at US$85.4 million ($112.5 million)), better performance due to completion, stabilisation of 200,000 sq m of new space in China, slight uplift in Japan operations, 6.9% rise in JPY vs USD, revaluation surplus of US$11.6 million from Japan portfolio.
ES Group (Holdings) says wholly-owned subsidiary ES Shipping has won two bareboat charter contracts worth a total of $21.8 million to build and charter out two 3,400 dwt bunkering vessels Singapore-registered company.
Construction of both the bunkering vessels will start in the second half of FY2010 at ES Group’s Thailand shipyard.
ES Shipping is expected to take delivery of the vessels from the shipyard in FY2012. It will charter out the first vessel for seven years and the second vessel for a three years upon their respective deliveries.
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THE FINAL FRONTIER WORLD TOUR BEGINS JUNE 9 IN DALLAS, TEXAS
 Iron Maiden |
Iron
Maiden are set to return with their fifteenth studio album, The Final
Frontier, out on
August 17 in the U.S. The band are offering a free mp3 download of album track “El
Dorado.” Click here to download.
The band reunited with long-time Maiden producer Kevin “Caveman” Shirley in early
2010 at Compass
Point Studios, Nassau to record the album and then moved to LA to finish the recording and
do the mixing.
Compass Point Studio is very familiar to the band, it was where they recorded the Piece
Of Mind (’83),
Powerslave (’84) and Somewhere In Time (’86) albums.
Singer Bruce Dickinson comments, “The studio had the same vibe and it was EXACTLY as it had been in 1983,
NOTHING had
changed! Even down to the broken shutter in the corner…same carpet….everything… It
was really quite spooky. But
we felt
very relaxed in such a familiar and well-trodden environment and I think this shows in the
playing and the
atmosphere of the album.”
The full tracklisting for the album:
1. Satellite 15….The Final Frontier
2. El Dorado
3. Mother Of Mercy
4. Coming Home
5. The Alchemist
6. Isle Of Avalon
7. Starblind
8. The Talisman
9. The Man Who Would Be King
10. When The Wild Wind Blows
The Final Frontier World Tour begins in Dallas on June 9th with 25 shows in major cities
across the USA and Canada,
playing to an expected 350,000 fans or more. Following this the tour will ship over to
Europe starting in Dublin on
July 30 and playing a few selected major festivals and stadiums, finishing in Valencia,
Spain, on Aug 21 and including
a concert in Transylvania.
Click here for all
dates.
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LATEST STARS, BIG COMEBACKS, AND PROMISING NAMES AT SZIGET FESTIVAL
2010
 SzigetFestival 2009 by Walter |
Sziget Festival has announced the first names that include current stars, big comebacks and great
promises. Among
the confirmed names is Muse, one of the world’s most popular rock bands, after three sold out concerts at
Wembley stadium and a wildly successful world tour they will be performing on the main stage at Sziget. Very few
bands have managed as outsiders to infiltrate the incredibly exclusive Madchester rock community. The Gallagher
brothers’ favourite band Kasabian is just one such group, who will bring their latest album – voted “Album of the
Year” both by NME and Q magazines – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum to Sziget.
Papa Roach, who is
always in training, hence always able to make great leaps will be performing his spectacular rock work out – which
has expanded in 2009 to include his fifth album, Metamorphosis – on the Sziget main stage this year.
Sziget is
offering a real treat to ska fanatics: The Specials, who celebrated their 30th anniversary with a few exclusive concerts in
2009, will be paying Sziget a visit. This summer the Juno award winning Canadian rock band, Billy Talent will be giving a concert
at Sziget. This year Damon Albarn‘s dream factory will be representing with its
most successful product to date, the Gorillaz Sound System DJ set.
Enter Shikari, will be
holding a power demonstration at the 18th Sziget festival too. And last, but not least Infected Mushroom is preparing an
assault on all the senses with their concert at Sziget. The formation was recently named by DJ Mag, the
world’s number one DJ info-port, as the world’s best psy-trance production of all time.
Among the newly discovered performers will be a dozen names that recall the biggest parties in Sziget history.
During its career Iron
Maiden has recorded the most important heavy metal albums, they have the most dedicated fan base and
are one of the most respected metal bands ever. At Sziget this year they will not only play old favourites, but also
present their new album, The Final Frontier. The electro-pop formation Faithless has a huge fan base in
Hungary, and so far have always put on sold out shows at Sziget, and this year is their chance to prove that they’ve
still got it. Also returning after last year’s success is the Canadian Danko Jones. The Hives, one of the most popular
Swedish rock bands are repeat customers at Sziget festival. The audiences have also had the pleasure of The
Toy Dolls, the band lead by singer-guitarist Michael Algar, aka Olga. After their hugely successful
concert on the main stage, the Spanish Ska-P are organizing an international ska convention at Sziget.
Germany’s best reggae artist of Jamaican roots, Tilmann Otto, aka Gentleman will be bringing his
latest studio album Diversity to Sziget this year. The other end will also be there, represented by Bad Religion, perhaps the only
band in the world that can boast a singer who is a doctor in his spare time.
Sziget festival will also host a number of bands who are perhaps not so familiar to the ear, but have a good chance
of becoming the favourites of the future. The Cribs, for example, will be arriving to Sziget festival on top form after the massive
critical and commercial success of their album, Ignore the Ignorant. During Gwar‘s incomparable heavy metal
enhanced visual orgy at Sziget, festival goers might run into George W. Bush or even Michael Jackson, or they can
follow the magical adventures of Phallus in Wonderland presented by the world’s craziest metal band.
A complete list of confirmed artists is available at sziget.hu.
For more on Sziget Festival see our 2009 coverage here.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane took its maiden flight Monday passing a crucial milestone as it aims to become the first private sector vehicle to take paying customers into space.
The craft, dubbed VSS Enterprise, took to the air strapped to the wings of its WhiteKnightTwo carrier plane just three months after it was unveiled to [...]
PEC says that Verwater-Audex B.V., a 50-50 joint venture company between its subsidiary Audex and Verwater B.V., has won a €118 million ($226 million) contract to build a 465,000 cubic metres tank terminal in the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
CapitaMalls Asia says it has posted profit after tax and minority interests (PATMI) of S$388 million for FY2009, in its first reported results since its listing on Nov 25.
Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) were $521 million for FY2009, 74% higher than the $300 million for FY2008. Revenue under management was $1,615 million for FY2009, 50% higher than the $1,078 million for FY2008.
Airborne at last, the Dreamliner and the A400M still have a lot to prove
ON THE face of it the A400M, a dumpy military transport made by Airbus, and Boeing’s sleek 787 Dreamliner (pictured) have little in common other than that they both flew for the first time in the past few days. But they share a similar history: both planes finally took to the air more than two years late and far over budget. Moreover, both were developed in unnecessarily complicated ways, even though big aviation projects are difficult enough without taking on further risks.
In an effort to reduce the cost of developing an innovative new aircraft, Boeing recruited “risk-sharing” partners who became largely responsible for designing whole sections of the plane, while creating one of the most complex and extended supply chains in industrial history. But Boeing failed to supervise its partners’ work adequately and has probably ended up spending more to put things right than it ever would have saved. With the A400M, European defence ministers jeopardised the project from the outset by setting up a politically conceived consortium to produce the aircraft’s giant turboprop engines rather than allowing Airbus to buy them from America’s Pratt & Whitney. …
British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space — for a mere $200,000. The lunar-like landscape of the Mojave desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas will stage the roll-out of Virgin Galactic’s
Angelo Mathews missed out on scoring his maiden test hundred by one run as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 393 in their first innings early on the second day of the third and final test against India on Thursday. Sri Lanka began the day on 366 for eight and lost the remaining two wickets in
Hamstrung by weather delays, NASA finally lights the match blasting the Ares I-X on its first test flight. The Ares I-X is the first new rocket to be launched by the space agency in the nearly 30 years since the space shuttle Columbia made its maiden voyage in 1981.
– The prototype of the next generation of NASA rockets at
least for the time being successfully
lifted off Oct. 28 from the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
The Ares I-X test rocket flight lasted only 2 minutes, the time it took for the
first-stage solid-fuel booster to burn out.
With a maximum …
