PRESS DIGEST - Singapore newspapers - Oct 16

SINGAPORE Oct 16 (Reuters) - The following are stories from Singapore newspapers on Friday. Reuters has not verified these stories.

BUSINESS TIMES

- Midas Holdings (MIDA.SI) has secured its first contract worth 152 million yuan ($22.26 million) from the second round of tender for the inter-city high-speed train project in China.

- Ezra Holdings (EZRA.SI) posted a more than quadrupling in net profit to $27.1 million for its fourth quarter ended August 31, despite a 22 percent fall in revenue to $93.5 million.

STRAITS TIMES

- Scientists in Singapore have become the first to "semi-clone" an animal by fertilising an egg with an embryonic stem cell that mimics sperm.

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