A representative of the TSE said SGX's bid for ASX " would flag off a race to consolidate ".

The contracts previously traded on JADE were transferred to SGX's QUEST trading platform.

In 1980 Aston-Martin had plans, which did not materialise, to buy MG, which they would have utilised as a sister marque, probably building smaller sports cars.

In December 2005 Belarus bought 10 L-39 jet trainer aircraft from Ukraine, and plans were announced to buy 18 used Su-30K fighters.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

Whale, wary of doing two horror films in a row and concerned that directing Dracula's Daughter could interfere with his plans for the remake of Show Boat, instead convinced Laemmle to buy the rights to a novel called The Hangover Murders.

The scheme has met with strong opposition from environmentalists, who protest the damage that would be done to the rivers and jungle. The project will be like the original plans only in the fact that the US government would buy the land for investors to start building the canal.

In 1839, the New Zealand Company announced plans to buy large tracts of land and establish colonies in New Zealand.

In The Muppets, a version of the Muppet Theater is seen in Los Angeles and is the main plotline of the movie where the Muppets reunite to raise money to buy back the Muppet Theater deed from an oil magnate named Tex Richman ( who got the deed from Statler and Waldorf tricking them into believing that he will rebuild it as a museum ) as he plans to demolish it and drill for oil.

The Port Authority also has plans to buy 340 new PATH cars and begin major expansion of Stewart International Airport.

British Major John André met with American traitor Benedict Arnold near Stony Point to buy the plans for the fortifications at West Point.

FluxHousing Co-Operatives continued to redevelop the area over the next decade, and were widened to include plans to set up a FluxIsland-a suitable island was located near Antigua, but the money to buy and develop it remained unforthcoming-and finally a performance arts centre called the FluxFarm established in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.

During 1926 and 1927, plans were developed to buy property for a larger camp ground.

That evening, when Haddock returns to Marlinspike, he and Tintin watch a news report featuring their old friend Emir Ben Kalish Ezab, who, flushed with oil profits, plans to buy Windsor Castle from the Government of the United Kingdom and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Seeing the success of this, Hinckley came up with the idea of putting in a rail line that would pass through Darby and continue all the way to the semi-rural city of Chester in what became known as the Darby Improvement Hinckley's plans met with initial resistance from farmers, and at the end of the first year, he had managed to buy only one farm.

$ 50 million ($ today ) would have bought the Baja California Peninsula and a large portion of its northwestern Mexican states while $ 15 million ($ today ) was to buy the of desert necessary for the railroad plans.

Norma gives him their word, then promptly plans to marry Michael in 6 months, when he's made ' good in the hills ' so he can buy her a home in the valley.

During a celebration after the trial, when Robert announces that he plans to draw his savings out of his account in order to buy a rubber plantation in Sumatra, Howard and Leslie are forced to tell him that his savings are gone, that the impact of the letter would have hanged Leslie and its price was accordingly high.

The plans came to nothing: the society failed to buy the whole line ; and most local residents were not interested.

Interim plans were made for AMC to buy Packard Ultramatic automatic transmissions and Packard V8 engines for certain AMC products.

Although not widely known, it has been reported that in 2000, amid takeovers of the other licensees by Carlton, Granada and SMG, Channel Television had plans to buy HTV, valuing the company at £ 450 million.

All the plans relied on his divisions each having previously organised a motorised rapid reaction unit ( Kampfgruppe ) which could move speedily to meet the threat and buy time for the rest of the defenses to get in place.

A follow up in the August 15, 2005 issue reveals plans by China to buy a controlling interest in all of America's banks, effectively buying out the nation's economy.

Persuading Oz to get the old gang back together to dismantle the bridge, he then plans to cheat them out of their share of the profits, until a Native American from Arizona ( played by Gordon Tootoosis ) turns up to announce that he would like to buy the bridge for the benefit of his tribe's casino, and flies them to his reservation to reconstruct the bridge.

I venture to express the opinion that will find among the projects and plans which he will be called upon to discuss none containing a more Socialistic principle than that which is embodied in his own scheme, which, whether it can properly be described as a scheme of protection or not, is certainly a scheme under which the State is to undertake to regulate the course of commerce and of industry, and tell us where we are to buy, where we are to sell, what commodities we are to manufacture at home, and what we may continue, if we think right, to import from other countries.

On June 5, 2012, it was revealed that a widely publicized 2010 news conference announcing Conservative plans to buy 65 F-35 Stealth Fighters had cost $ 47, 000.

* July 14, 1979: McGraw-Hill announces it plans to buy Data Resources, a major competitor of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates for about $ 103 million.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

I hope the man who plans to sit on his hands until the emergency comes will have a change of heart, will get busy and be the first member of our `` plus-one '' shelter club.

Others have so-called development plans, but some of these are little more than lists of projects collected from various ministries while others are statements of goals without analysis of the actions required to attain them.

There have been a number of sound plans proposed.

The size and scope of other important programs have been reduced from earlier plans.

The outlook for entertainment electronics in 1961 is certainly far from clear at present, but recent surveys have shown a desire on the part of consumers to step up their buying plans for durable goods.

We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.

For example, in accordance with the fashion of the times, most transitional societies have announced economic development plans of varying numbers of years ; ;

Similarities to the approach which I have described are evident in the prompt establishment of a helping relationship, quick appraisal of key issues, and the immediate mobilization of treatment plans as the essential dynamics in helping to further the ego's coping efforts in dealing with the interplay of inner and outer stresses.

In July, Alcott announced their plans in The Dial: " We have made an arrangement with the proprieter of an estate of about a hundred acres, which liberates this tract from human ownership ".

Although the proposal seemed to have been approved, the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad's son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.

However, it has been shown that some animals, like chimpanzees, were able to generate creative plans of action to achieve their goals, and thus would seem to have a causal insight which transcends mere custom.

Andronikos seems then to have resolved to exterminate the aristocracy, and his plans were nearly successful.

The moves to develop the port for more tourism have been welcomed by the city and its residents, but the latest plans to develop an industrial estate in the port have caused great controversy.

Although local police were surprised by the size of N30, law enforcement agencies have since reacted worldwide to prevent the disruption of future events by a variety of tactics, including sheer weight of numbers, infiltrating the groups to determine their plans, and preparations for the use of force to remove protesters.

Revenge for the massacre of his family at the hands of the Abbasids must surely have been the driving factor in Abd al-Rahman's war plans.

Recently, in England, there have been plans to raise the age limit for purchasing knives, including utility knives, from 16 to 18, in an effort to reduce knife crimes.

Those who made the Third Reich ’ s military plans and organized its war economy appear rarely, if ever, to have employed the term blitzkrieg in official documents.

They have also removed the plaques from the other trees, with plans to incorporate the stones into their own memorial to the dead.

In places the line's speed limit has been raised from to, and plans have been made to raise this further to on certain sections.

Croatia does have a locomotive class capable of this speed, and during the Yugoslav era there were plans for ' high speed ' rail.

The plans have originally foreseen 2008-2010 as the date for completion.

The project plans have been drawn, however.