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Singapore Petroleum surged 20.2% in afternoon trading on news of PetroChina's offer to buy Keppel Corp. 's 45.5% stake in the company and make a general offer for the rest of the oil refiner, if Keppel's stake sale proved successful.
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In the meantime, Keppel's shares have rocketed some 40% year-to-date, with Sembcorp's up nearly 30%, even as the wider Singapore market has risen closer to 5%.
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Keppel's order book alone is valued at more than S$13 billion (US$9 billion).
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Keppel's praus must have rounded the bend and come in sight of the town at the precise minute when there was light enough to shoot by; any later and their approach might have been seen, and the pirates been on the q.v..
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Beith, Keppel's surgeon, was up and down the fleet constantly, digging the beastly things out of limbs and cauterizing wounds; fortunately they were seldom fatal, but I reckoned we were suffering a casualty every half-hour.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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On one side of him was Keppel, in full fig of uniform dress coat and epaulette, with his best black cravat, looking sleepy and solemn; Stuart and I in the cleanest ducks we could find; Charlie Wade, Keppel's lieutenant; Paitingi Ali, very brave in a tunic of dark plaid trimmed with gold and with a great crimson sash, and Crimble, another of Brooke's lieutenants, who absolutely had a frock coat and fancy weskit.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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As the boats pulled past the blazing wrecks and touched shore, Keppel's rockets began firing at higher elevation, towards the stockaded fort, but at that range the rockets weaved and trailed all over the place, most of them plunging down somewhere in the jungle beyond.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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One of them was the renegade Makota, I think; at any rate he and Brooke conversed earnestly for about five minutes, while the squat little villain grinned and shuffled his bare feet, looking bashful - according to Stuart, he was confessing to indescribable tortures which he and his pal had inflicted on some of the women prisoners the previous evening - Keppel's party had found the grisly evidence in the village.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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A spy-boat was scooting out towards us from Keppel's prau, the burly figure of Paitingi in the bow; beyond him the village was half-hidden by the smoke from the pirate praus, which were burning down to the waterline, and the rockets were firing again, this time against the smaller praus which were assembled farther up, near the Linga river mouth.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Keppel's praus were standing in towards them, in line ahead, like ghost ships floating on the morning mist which swirled above the river's surface.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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