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MCIS Zurich Insurance Bhd's major shareholders have denied that there is any rift between them and say they remain keen to build the business together.

They also denied that Switzerland's largest insurer, Zurich Financial Services Ltd (Zurich FS), might sell its shares in MCIS Zurich.

The main shareholders of MCIS Zurich are Koperasi MCIS Bhd (43.69 per cent) and Zurich FS (40 per cent).

"The marriage is sound," Zurich FS global corporate business head Geoff Riddell told Business Times during a meeting called by the insurer in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, yesterday.

The meeting, in which Riddell was the spokes-man, was also attended by other Zurich FS bigwigs, namely chief executive officer (CEO) for Greater China and Southeast Asia, Johnny Chen, and chief operating officer for Asia-Pacific, Dirk de Nil.

Koperasi MCIS chairman Mustapha Md Nasir and board member Arokiasamy Savarimuthu were also present, but sat on the sidelines. They did not participate in the briefing.

MCIS Zurich CEO Md Adnan Md Zain was absent.

However, Riddell admitted that the Business Times report on tension between the major shareholders was not entirely wrong.

"I do not deny that the broad details in the report were discussed," he said.

"This story ... had some fairly accurate substance in it, but not the conclusion," he said.

He said the article had "some facts which were correct", namely MCIS Zurich's plans to have a bancassurance partner and to enter the lucrative takaful market.

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Business Times had reported that Zurich FS might quit MCIS Zurich after the proposed sale of a 30 per cent stake in MCIS Zurich to EON Bank Group was blocked by the cooperative.

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Koperasi MCIS had partnered Bank Muamalat Malaysia Bhd and made a bid for a takaful licence last year.

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"We are still looking at how we can do takaful. I don't consider takaful (proposal) is dead," he said.

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GUANGZHOU, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- A pilot scheme to sell railway tickets based on proven IDs began Thursday in south China in a bid to prevent ticket hoarding by scalpers during the upcoming Chinese New Year travel peak.

The first real-name ticket was booked at 7:03 a.m. by phone, confirmed sources with the ticket booking system of Guangzhou Railway Group (GRG), operator of Guangdong Province's railways.

The ticket, priced at 423 yuan (61.96 U.S. dollars), was for a hard berth on a train coded K446 scheduled for Jan. 30, from Guangdong's Shenzhen City to northwestern Xi'an City.

The real-name system was initially adopted on trains between Guangdong and inland provinces of Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou and Chongqing Municipality, home to millions of migrant workers in Guangdong who will rush back for the Spring Festival holiday.

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The new system is aimed at making ticket purchase more convenient and fairer without price hike, as travellers can book 10 days in advance by phone and get tickets from booths in railway stations or ticket agencies.

GRG is expected to transport 24.9 million travellers during the 40-day Spring Festival peak, or 623,000 passengers a day, up 6.8 percent year on year, said Cao Jianguo, GRG's deputy manager.

GRG has increased the hotline capacity of simultaneous bookings from 8,000 to 15,000.

Passengers only need to follow automated voice instructions and dial in necessary information. After the booking is accepted and processed in a computerized database, the automated voice system will issue a booking code. With the code and ID card, passengers can get their tickets in railway stations or ticket agencies.

"This procedure is expected to prevent long queues at railway stations because most of the communication is by phone," said Huang Xin, head of GRG's passenger transport section.

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Hundreds of people were receiving tickets at Guangzhou Railway Station. Among them was Liu Chao, who recalled queuing in the chilly winter dawn and failing to get a ticket.

Chang Xiaodan, a native of central China's Henan Province working in Guangdong, was carefully checking the ID card number printed on his ticket.

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"The whole booking process took me only three minutes. It was very convenient," said Li Jiangang, a migrant worker from Sichuan. Statistics from GRG showed more than 40,000 tickets were booked just between 7 a.m. and 8:16 a.m..

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BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's property prices rose at the fastest pace in 18 months in December, ending the year with rising fears of bubbles in the property market.

Housing prices in China's 70 large and medium-sized cities rose 7.8 percent in December 2009 from a year earlier, and were up 1.5 percent compared to the previous month, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday.

The property price increase stood at 5.7 percent in November year- on-year, accelerating from the 3.9 percent in October.

"The growth is within expectation due to the low base of the property prices in December of 2008 amid the ongoing global economic downturn", said Hao Daming, an economist with the China Galaxy Securities.

The country's property market was depressed by the global economic downturn at the end of 2008, with property prices in the 70 major cities down 0.4 percent year on year in December and down 0.5 percent from the previous month.

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Prices of second-hand homes rose 6.8 percent in December from a year earlier and 1.0 percent from a year ago, according to the NBS. Prices of new houses in December rose 9.1 percent from the same month last year, and were up 1.9 percent from November.

The climbing property prices, driven up by record high bank lending, favorable policies and speculation, has become a headache for Chinese residents and also stirred up concerns of a property bubble.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in December that housing prices in some cities were rising too fast, which drew "great attention" of the central government. Wen pledged to cool property prices with tools of taxes, interest rates and land policies.

Since December the government has made a series of moves to cool the market, including reimposing a sales tax on homes sold within five years of their purchase from this year and increasing the down payment requirement for land purchases to at least 50 percent of the total price.

The latest one came from the State Council which issued guidelines over the weekend that strictly required the down payment at no less than 40 percent for those applying to buy a second or more houses backed with loans.

The government also renewed its pledge on Wednesday to stabilize home prices by providing more affordable housing and cracking down on speculation.

The People's Bank of China, the central bank, announced on Tuesday to raise the deposit reserve requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage points from Jan. 18 this year, aiming at pace lending.

"This move would not have a major impact on the property market as property developers have already earned enough money from their surging sales this year", Hao said.

China Vanke, the country's largest real estate developer by market value, said earlier this month that its sales jumped 32.5 percent to 63.42 billion yuan (9.29 billion U.S. dollars) in 2009.

"Given the demand-supply gap is still evident, the growing trend in prices would likely continue in the first half of this year," he added.

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