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11% Growth in YTL Corp’s Full-Year Profit Driven by Overseas Earnings
melisa@ytlesolutions.com - 19 August 2008 6:35:58 PM

YTL Group Managing Director Tan Sri Dato’ (Dr) Francis Yeoh Sock Ping commented, "Improved performances from our utilities and cement businesses ensured another year of solid results, with the Group’s overseas operations in countries including the United Kingdom, Australia and Indonesia,continuing to contribute the bulk of earnings. The strength of the year’s performance has, in turn, enabled us to sustain our dividend pay-out levels, and the Group expects to be able to continue to reward long-term shareholders with dividends for future years. YTL Corp, for example, has paid dividends to its shareholders consecutively for 24 years and remains committed to its dividend policy." [more...]



PADDY BOWIE: Much revered father figures
rhoyba@ytlcommunity.com - 17 August 2008 2:42:03 PM

In fact, the word "father" has become associated with nobility of character, the title bestowed on those feats which are recognised in history. The Pilgrim Fathers, so called, commemorate the first English immigrants to America who arrived in the Mayflower in 1620 and founded the colony, Plymouth in New England. Our subject, Nelson Mandela, was Father of the Nation. He had many predecessors -- Cicero was so entitled by the Roman Senate, as were successive Caesars and George Washington, the first president of the United States. Many of those mentioned above were leaders of their country. In Malaysia, we set great store in lineage in our political establishment. It has almost become a pre-qualification. The pattern is repeated in the private sector, especially among appropriately named Chinese family companies -- Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong and Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay of Genting, Tan Sri Yeoh Tiong Lay and Tan Sri Francis Yeoh of YTL. [more...]



YTL Power shortlisted to buy Senoko
andrew@ytlesolutions.com - 5 August 2008 10:11:40 AM

France's GDF Suez, Japan's Marubeni Corp, India's Tata Power Co Ltd, YTL Power Bhd, and the OneEnergy Ltd tie-up between Hong Kong's CLP Holdings and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp are the shortlisted bidders, bankers told Reuters Basis Point. Other firms that were understood to have submitted last week non-binding expressions of interest included Bahrain investment bank Arcapita Inc, Singapore's Keppel Corp and Sembcorp Industries Ltd. [more...]


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