The Business Times, 7 January 2003

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES internet http://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPO RE TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2003 MfTA (P) 010/03/2002
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  • 744 1  -  98 steps up bid to §st shareholders to withdraw acceptances and sell on market By Catherine Ong {SINGAPORE] As the battle for Nat Steel Ltd draws to an end, Indonesia-born tycoon Oei Hong Leong has turned the heat on the
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  • 813 1  -  The exec committee of NOL board will ran the group till a new CEO is named By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines last night announced the immediate departure of its president and chief executive Flemming Jacobs some four months after denying
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  • 783 1  -  Jakarta wants to retain strategic say despite equity cat By Yang Razali Kassim THE reshuffled leadership of PT Indosat is working on a new plan to turn the Indonesian company into a major regional telecom player amid growing protests over its divestment to
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  • 484 1 Study of economic package will lead to FTA talks [SINGAPORE] Singapore and India will study a comprehensive economic cooperation package which will lead to talks on a free trade agreement between the two countries, President S R Nathan revealed yesterday. Speaking to reporters
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      43 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jan 6 VALUE CLOSE iTOW 24.00 -59.00 irom -*****.00 -21.00 irifriqrMft -*****.00 +2.00 OMQBpMw 348.76 -0.90 Mfp*hiflnl 121.30 -0.44 ueui -15.69 11I« Jin hip 316.64 -4.21 162.90 -1.60 Closing prices are in trading currencies, but absolute difference is in St.
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    • 261 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRAMT By Ven Sreenivasan FLEXIBLE printed circuit board maker MFS Technology has received fol-low-on orders for $32 million from key customer Philips for the design and manufacture of circuits and related assemblies for use in colour LCD
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    • 728 4  -  -l i comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE market lumbered along yesterday as investors stayed sidelined amid continuing concerns over the global macro-econom-ic outlook, another Middle East war and rising oil prices. There is also scepticism over the sustainability of the past week's
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    • 473 4  -  ■j_ r commen CURRENCIES Geld back at recent US$363 peaks as bears eye US iata iae est tkis week larry wee THE greenback was again in the doghouse in Asia yesterday, after a brief respite late last week sparked by news of
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    • 1687 5 MANDATORY UNCONDITIONAL CASH OFFER by O DBS BANK THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD for and on behalf of LUM CHANG HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) to acquire all the issued ordinary shares of Sso.lo each in the capital of L.C. DEVELOPMENT LTD (Incorporated in the Republic
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  • FOCUS property
    • 587 6  -  l I comment PROPERTY Its going price will indicate whether it's thriving mainly on govt patronage lee han shih DO governmentlinked companies (GLCs) benefit from government patronage? The answer or at least part of it might soon be forthcoming. In March,
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 513 7  -  exclusive Provisional liquidator appointed; creditors meeting on Friday Byi Andrea Tan CONSTRUCTION design firm MEI Project Engineers has succumbed to the tough times facing the industry. MEI, headed by founder and managing director Roland Wee, was to have celebrated 30 years in the business
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    • 184 7 ASCENDAS will build a business-class hotel and clubhouse at its flagship International Tech Park in Bangalore, India, to cater to the park's multinational tenants. Talks are under way with "one of the top hotel operators in India" for the hotel, says Ascendas, which
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    • 199 7 NEW Independent, a financial advisory firm founded by former fund manager Joseph Chong around a year ago, has received a financial adviser's licence under the new Financial Advisers Act. The licence, granted on Dec 23 last year, allows the firm to advise customers on
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    • 282 7  -  By 1 David Boey SINGAPORE received a vote of confidence yesterday from the world's third largest electronics manufacturing services (EMS) firm, Sanmina-SCI, which has set up its regional headquarters here. The California-based firm's president and chief executive officer, Randy Furr, said:
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    • 154 7 JAPANESE no-frills store Muji is making a comeback to Singapore after pulling out in 1998 and will open its flagship store at Seiyu Bugis in the next few months. Muji, which also shut four stores in Hong Kong in 1996 as part of its strategy
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    • NEWSRoundup
      • 56 7 DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will visit Switzerland and France from Jan 23-29. He will address the World Economic Forom in Davos, Switzerland. In France, he will meet French leaders in Paris and visit the RSAF detachment at Cazaiot. He will also attend
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      • 91 7 THE Defence Ministry has clarified that Singapore did not seek permission from any country to launch Search and Rescue (SAR) operations for the missing crew members of RSS Courageous as the incident happened in Singapore territorial waters off Fedra Branca. In accordance with international
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      • 62 7 THE National University of Singapore's Faculty of Law has obtained a licence to run the New Yatk Bar Review Course. Ihe inaugural course will prqpare students for the New York Bar Exam to be conducted inNew York on July 2940. The course will
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      • 35 7 THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations held a ceremony in Jakarta yesterday to hand over the secretary-general post from Rodolfo Severino of the Philippines to the Ong Keng Yong of Singapore.
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 821 8  -  bottom line OPINION william pesek jr The writer is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own. ASIA'S worst economic nightmare may be afoot not worsening tensions with North Korea but a falling US dollar. Concerns about the US economy, possible war
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    • 32 8 These are taxing times for us. North Korea is coming at a very awkward moment, with the focus on Iraq.' -MduunedHßaraM the International Atomic Energy Agency's Egyptian-born director general.
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    • 572 8 EDITORIAL IS it time the Singapore Exchange (SGX) faced competition? Two weeks ago, the SGX wielded what market watchers dubbed its "monopolistic powers" when it announced that it will hike listing fees, even as many companies struggle amid the economy's woes. The increases are not inconsiderable. A
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    • 1065 8  -  Flexitime can help keep down foreign maid numbers, allows for more parental care By John Gee AS another year begins, the passing of time readily comes to people's minds. That could be a good point at which to reflect upon how it might
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    • 259 8  -  (bag Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to the article "Latest Nat Steel results crucial" by Lee Han Shih (Hock Lock Siew, Jan 1). The 98 Holdings Group has already made several extensions for acceptance of its offer and there is no indication that its Jan
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    • 146 8  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore ACCORDING to newspaper reports, some 128,000 people have missed out on their Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS) because they did not top-up their CPF by the Dec 31, 2002 deadline. Given that the $3.6 billion ERS package was the key feature of the $4
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    • 1857 9 Offer for Nat Steel A Notice To All Nat Steel Shareholders From 96 Holdings 98 Holdings refers to the letter dated 3 January 2003 from Nat Steel to the shareholders of Nat Steel. Nat Steel shareholders may only withdraw their acceptances of 98 Holding's offer ("Offer") if at the date
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    • 1090 9 ror snares new m scnpwso Torm, pmw cm out me rorm or witnorawai of Acceptance and Authorisation below: THIS FORM OF WITHDRAWAL OF ACCEPTANCE AND AUTHORISATION fFWAA*) IS IMPORTANT. F YOU ARE M ANY DOUBT ABOUT THE ACTION TO BE IAKBI, YOU SHOULD CONSULT YOUR STOCKBROKER, BANK MANAOCn. SOLICITOR OR
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 520 10 KUALA LUMPUR DrM reckons country's 2002 GDP growth was at lower end of 4% Bloomberg, Bernama MALAYSIA will consider "pump priming" measures to boost the economy, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said, signaling growth in 2002 was at the lower end of the government's expectations
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      • 63 10 Reuters (HONG KONG] Asia-Pacific firms outside of Japan sold USI4&B billion of equity and equity-linked securities in 2002, up 175 per cent from US$3B.7 billion in2ool, data from Thomson Financial show. ÜBS Warburg was the top book runner of global equity issues in the Asia-Pacific outside
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      • 65 10 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia will hold a key meeting with its foreign donors later this month, most likely on bomb-hit Bali, to seek fresh aid pledges for the struggling country after an earlier gathering was postponed in the wake of the blasts, A
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      • 62 10 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Rolex Group sued Hong Kong jeweller LukFtook Holdings (International) Ltd for selling as new second-hand timepieces made by the Swiss luxury watchmaker. LukFook, which runs 24 retail jewellery shops in the city, denied the charges. Rotet also eued two other Hong Kong jeweOers
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      • 76 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Binotrans, the Chinese joint venture partner of courier giant DHL Worldwide Express, yesterday kicked offpre-marketing for a USOOO-JGOO million initial public offering in Hong Kong, sources dose to the deal said. Co-lead manager Bank of China International has ftyecast the company will post
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    • 37 10 [KUALA LUMPUR] Australian skydiver Jimmy Freeman leaps off from Malaysia's landmark KL Tower in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Daredevil jumpers concluded an extreme skydiving tournament that allowed them to leap from Malaysia's tallest buildings. AP
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    • 456 10 KUALA LUMPUR It refutes reports KAF may drop plan to boy bank stake Reuters MALAYSIAN lender Affin Holdings Bhd said yesterday that talks to sell a 30 per cent stake in its banking unit to financial services firm KAF Group were still alive,
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    • 295 10 ■JOHORBAHRU Purchases will stop mid-year, when its own plant is ready JOHOR will stop buying treated water from Singapore from the middle of this year with the completion of its water treatment plant in Semanggar, Kota Tinggi, said Chief Minister Abdul Ghani Othman.
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    • 551 11  -  Legislators are against Indosat sale and hikes in phone and fael prices From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S parliament is gearing up to take on the government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri over the sale of state-owned telecommunications company Indonesia Satellite Corp (Indosat)
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    • 368 11 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Citic Securities Co shares rose less than expected on their Shanghai debut as concerns about the outlook for Chinese stocks dampened the enthusiasm that greeted the brokerage's initial offer last month. Shares in Citic, an arm of state-owned China International Trust Investment
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    • 390 11 BEIJING The 18 apartments, houses were seized in tax crackdown AP AUTHORITIES have auctioned off apartments and houses seized from a Chinese film star who has become the focus of publicity about a tax crackdown on the rich, state media reported yesterday.
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    • 278 11 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's economic growth of 5.8 per cent in the second quarter of the fiscal year despite a crippling drought showed the economy could be heading for a turnaround, experts said on Sunday. A buoyant 6.4 per cent growth of the manufacturing and
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    • 429 11 TAIPEI Jan 26 flight will be first by Taiwan carrier in 50 years Reuters CHINA Airlines said yesterday that Beijing had given the airline permission to become the first Taiwan carrier to fly to China in more than 50 years. "Our application
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    • 454 11 HONGKONG AFP BEIJING is considering wide-ranging restructuring of the central government bureaucracy to reduce the state's role in running businesses while improving its regulatory role, a report said yesterday. China's incoming premier Wen Jiabao, is considering the merger of a number
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  • WORLD news
    • 463 12  -  Buy foreign bonds to weaken yen, urges Nakahara, tipped to be next BOJ chief From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE man considered most likely to become the next governor of the Bank of Japan, Nobuyuki Nakahara, yesterday urged the central bank to
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    • 144 12 LOS ANGELES AP RUPERT Murdoch might put the Los Angeles Dodgers up for sale within the next six months, an Australian newspaper reported on its website on Sunday. Mr Murdoch's News Corp would sell the Dodgers to raise cash before bidding on the
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    • 308 12 NEW YORK AFP iw executives of media giants, banks and other multinationals topped the list of the "worst managers" of 2002 compiled by Business Week magazine. The magazine, which has in the past rated the "best managers", said for the first time
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    • 636 12 MELBOURNE Reuters THE world's largest diversified mining firm, BHP Billiton, announced the surprise resignation of its chief executive Brian Gilbertson yesterday, citing irreconcilable differences with the board. Executive director Chip Goodyear, 44, known for his rigorous financial analysis, takes over immediately as the
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    • 194 12 TOKYO Reuters JAPAN'S Elpida Memory Inc, a chip joint venture between Hitachi Ltd and NEC Corp, said yesterday its parents have asked Intel Corp for capital investment in it An Elpida spokesman declined to comment on the size of the possible investment by the
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    • 427 13 ni<niata WASHINGTON But pace of growth slows from Nov; real estate, health and business lead Bloomberg SERVICES, the largest part of the US economy, grew in December for an 11th straight month, helping maintain the expansion, an industry report showed.
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    • 497 13 DETROIT FT GENERAL Motors is preparing to take on RollsRoyce with a 1,000 horsepower ultra-luxury car designed to re-establish the ailing Cadillac brand as the company's flagship, the Financial Times said. The world's biggest carmaker on Sunday unveiled the "Sixteen" concept Cadillac,
      FT; REUTERS  -  497 words
    • 463 13 war JirruKS Reuters, Bloomberg (LONDON] Gold hit its highest level for almost six years yesterday and the US dollar slipped as reports that the US and Britain were readying troops for possible action in Iraq rattled investors. Oil, however, pulled
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    • 347 13 BAGHDAD Reuters, Lat-WP, AFP A DEFIANT Iraqi President Saddam Hussein yesterday declared his country was ready for war and accused UN weapons inspectors of engaging in "pure intelligence work". In a televised message on Army Day, Saddam dismissed US threats to
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    • 616 14 WASHINGTON Terrorism, homeland security, economic growth to get priority LAT-WP AFTER several years of hefty increases in spending for popular domestic programmes, the US administration is attempting to put the government on a new, wartime fiscal path that could sharply restrain the growth of
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    • 341 14 LONDON Bloomberg EUROPEAN service industries, which is more than half of the economy, grew at a slower pace in December as businesses cut jobs and reduced prices. An index based on a survey of 2,000 purchasing managers in the dozen countries using the
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    • 463 14 LONDON Focus on public services, Iraq make euro vote mtlikely Bloomberg BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair's goal of joining the euro is being overtaken by domestic demands and a possible military showdown with Iraq, economists and investors said. As lawmakers gather
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  • KNOWLEDGE economy
    • 990 16  -  AT Kearney's Paul Ray tells Eugene Low that successful leadership is ultimately about good old-fashioned vision and strategy Eugene Low ONE of the common ideas about leadership is that the personality of a leader matters. But nothing could be further from the truth, says consulting firm
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    • 2342 16 Notices IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF S) ROTOL METALS PTE LTD ROTOL RESOURCES PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At the Extraordinary General Meetings oftheabwensmedConoarwsdJyconvenec and held at No. 17 Tuas Avenue 9 Singapore *****7 on toe 31"
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 238 17 Knight-Ridder, Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 1 point to 1739, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 18 points to 2411, the Baltic Panamax Index fell 4 points to 1725 and the Baltic Handymax Index fell 79 points to 9736. TIME-CHARTER: Kassos Warrior HMM relet (built 1986) *****4 dwt
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    • 482 17 Conference, starting on Jan 21, the first of its kind in Asia [SINGAPORE] The need for heightened maritime security will be put under the spotlight at an unprecedented maritime security conference being held here later this month. The conference, the first of its
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    • 183 17 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] Carnival Corp, the largest cruise ship company, will ask the European Commission to reapprove its US$6.3 billion takeover of P&O Princess Cruises pic to ensure it will not face a legal challenge by rivals. The commission, which cleared the original
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    • 394 17 AFP [WASHINGTON] A giant US Navy hospital ship, equipped to treat wounded soldiers, set sail for the Indian Ocean early yesterday, as the United States continues to beef up its forces in the Gulf region ahead of a possible war
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    • 1124 17 PROFILE Feeder operator is not one to be left behind when shipping trends shift PSA Corp's Port View HE saw the opportunity some 30 years ago and he seized it. Today, the shipping service that Sumate Tanthuwanit started in Thailand in the mid-1970s
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    • Article, Illustration
      256 17 PEOPLE RONALD Wallace, a long-time executive of UPS who for the oast ftve years has been responsible for the growth of UPS* international last wick announced his retirement. Effective last week, he was succeeded by David Abne*whohas helped giride the evolution of UPS* global supply chain management business.
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    • CORPORATE profile
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      • 144 25 Jan 13 Japan: Com ing-of- Age-Day. Jan 31 Hong Kong: Lunar New Year's Day. Korea: Lunar New Year's Day. Feb 1 China: Lunar New Year's Day. Hong Kong: Lunar New Year's Day. Korea: Lunar New Year's Day. Malaysia: Lunar New Year's Day. Singapore: Lunar New Year's Day. Feb
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      • 738 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 489 26 Checks for explosives at over 400 US commercial airports AP [CHICAGO] Knowing holiday travellers would be putting the country's new airport baggage-screening system to its first big test, Robert Chesniak gave himself 90 minutes to check his luggage on Sunday at O'Hare
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      • 75 26 [HAINAN] A Chinese worker stands on a carriage at the newly built Haikou train station on China's southern Hainan Island. A rail service between Hainan and the southern province of Guangdong will officially start today, and will be the first time in the island's history that
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      • 235 26 Carrier to fly 9 times a week to Europe, Tokyo Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International will operate flights to Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo nine times a week from Chiang Mai in a bid to make the northern city the country's second aviation hub,
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      • 233 26 Xinhua [WELLINGTON] The New Zealand Customs Service is putting on trial high-tech, computer-linked video cameras able to film the faces of passengers arriving in New Zealand to help identify terrorists and other undesirable travellers. The Dominion Post reported yesterday. Customs' chief financial officer
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      • 333 26 Economic, political woes deterring passengers from flying Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV said it will have a fiscal year loss as a slowing economy and increasing political instability deter passengers from flying and increase oil prices. "As the operating environment in the fourth
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        • 56 26 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Hong Kong's largest carrier, plans to expand its direct flights to and from London to three times a day from June, adding capacity to one of its most lucrative routes. The airline currently operates 18 non-stop flights
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        • 87 26 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] Hongqiao and Pudong, the two airports of Shanghai, have been listed among the world's busiest airports. In 2002, the two airports handled 24.68 million passengers with 225,167 sorties. They also handled 1.31 million tonnes of cargo and mail. There were remarkable increases in
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