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Keppel Offshore & Marine and Sembcorp Marine are eyeing shipbuilding orders from an expected uptick in small-scale liquefied natural gas activity.

With a key capital-raising opportunity looming, shareholders of KLW Holdings need to consider the history of its new directors and determine if they are truly independent.

KLW Holdings’ largest single stakeholder on Monday won his bid to replace a majority of directors with his own nominees as the company sought police help in investigating alleged unauthorised transactions by its managing director.

At first blush, the mystery of who sold a 7.04 per cent stake in offshore and marine group Ezra Holdings to Norway’s DNB Bank on Sept 25 might appear to have been much ado about nothing. As analysts have conjectured, the roughly S$25 million deal was likely to do with a substantial shareholder having pledged some shares to DNB Bank as collateral for financing.

I read with interest your BT article “Singapore market value down five months in a row” on Oct 1, 2015. It is worrying that despite all the IPO capital raising from 2012 to 2015, the Sept 30, 2015 closing market cap “was the lowest month-end reading since August 2012, when the total market was worth S$829.3 billion”.

The sell-down on the Singapore bourse has coincided with a sharp spike in short-selling activity in some component stocks of the benchmark Straits Times Index.