The Business Times, 4 April 2003

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 024/03/2003 j Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg SINGAPORE o FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2003
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  • Article
    Lock icon Top UK doctor in research scandal sacked
    1003 1  -  His assistant faces criminal charges after alleged violation of patients' rights By I Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Professor Simon Shorvon, a renowed British doctor and director of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH)'s National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), has been sacked and his research manager
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  • Article
    Lock icon MARKETS
    72 1 STI 1,302.54 (+2.77) ST INDEX FUTURES (+11.00) SMfISCI FUTURES 159.50 (+1.30) Thursday Change KLSECOMP 628.54 -0.43 NIKKEI 225 8,017.75 -52.10 HANG SENG 8,648.16 -5803 SET INDEX 365.12 +2.10 JAKARTA COMP 400 76 +170 MANILA COMP .1,062.49 +10.53 TAIPEI WPI 4.358.39 +46.83 SEOUL COMP 545.24 +132 SHENZHEN B 204.48 +017
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    79 1 FOREX RATES US* SS IS$ (SS per 1SS) 1.771 £(l'S$/SS per i) 1.566 2.774 EXROfl'SS/SS/E) 1.078 1909 YEN 118.9 67.10 RM 3.800 2.145 HKS 7.799 4 403 BAHT 42.96 24.25 RITIAH 8£98 5.024 RENMINBI 8.299 4.685 INDIAN Rl'PEE 47.41 26 76 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 555 KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 HONG
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    Lock icon Amtek's Lee Ah Bee is Businessman of the Year
    622 1  -  MobileOne'sNeil Montefiore clinches GEO award By. Andrey Tan [SINGAPORE] He may have been the dark horse in the Singapore Business Awards (SBA) 2002 nominations, but Lee Ah Bee still galloped away with the Businessman of the Year Award. The founder and
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    Lock icon S'pore infocomm growth to skid to 3-4%: DC
    624 1  -  SABS OIPFRREAK Impact on IT market hinges on epidemic's duration By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic is set to slow Singapore's infocomm growth to 3-4 per cent this year, from the more than 4.5 per cent forecast
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  • Article
    Lock icon SIA to offer masks to passengers, crew on flights to hot spots
    224 1 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines yesterday announced that it will provide masks for all passengers and crew on flights to Sars-afflicted and other suspect destinations Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Kaohsiung and Hanoi. Aircraft would be thoroughly disinfected with
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      141 1 What makes winners tick? Thai tourism, retail hit,Pg2 Sars could be here to stay: Lim Hng Kiang, Pg 3 Belt up for a rough ride, Editorial Pg 10 More reports, Shipping Times Pages 1& 10 Michael Schumacher's Choice E o tt m %> M 0 m 1 m E o
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Move on Baghdad raises hopes in markets
      517 2  -  Wall Street and US$ surge as Allied troops close in on Iraqi capital By\ Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] Wall Street surged overnight and the US dollar jumped in Asian trading yesterday as Allied troops closed in on Baghdad, rekindling hopes for a quick showdown
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      Lock icon Indonesia declares Sars national health threat
      463 2  -  SARS OUTBREAK From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA moved yesterday to contain the spread of the Severe Acute RespiraTory Syndrome (Sars) by declaring it a national health threat and setting up quarantine centres across the country. The announcement by Health Minister Ahmad Sujudi came
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      Lock icon Thai tourism, retail sectors catch chill as visitors stay home
      404 2  -  Hotels, tour agencies see drop of 20-30% in arrivals Front. Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S tourism and retail industries are being battered by the regional outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). Hotels and tour companies report a sudden 20
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      Lock icon Breach unlikely to affect clinical trials in S'pore: EDB
      329 2  -  RRBBABCH PROJECT SCAMDAL Lapses are an isolated case, says EDB official By Tang Weng Fai [SINGAPORE] The Economic Development Board does not believe the alleged breach of ethical conduct at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) will seriously affect future decisions by
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      442 2 Nw Dec 2991: Approval by Tan Tock Seng Hospital ethics committee, which supervises overall conduct of research under ethical guidelines relating to patient welfare. Approval from committee is needed before clinical research is conducted on patients. Scope of approval sought and granted is limited to taking and
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  • SARS outbreak
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      Lock icon Sars could be around for a while: minister
      517 3  -  Signs of disease elsewhere, earliest safety period is April 17-20 By' Vince Chong PEOPLE should be prepared for the possibility that severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) could be around for the long term, Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday. Other countries
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    • In brief
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        Lock icon Guangdong cases declining: WHO
        132 3 AP [GUANGZHOU] The World Health Organisation team investigating severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in China said yesterday that government figures for hard-hit Guangdong province show "the number of cases is going down". The team that travelled to Guangdong said its meetings with Chinese health authorities there
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        Lock icon Sars resurfaces in Hanoi
        57 3 Bloomberg [HANOI] A man was hospitalised in Hanoi with what is suspected to be the first new case of Sars in Vietnam in more than a week. The man, who is in serious condition, visited a relative last month at the Hanoi French Hospital, which was
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        Lock icon Bangkok ban French warship
        66 3 AP [BANGKOK] Thailand has turned back a French warship en route from Singapore to prevent the spread of a mystery flu-like illness, officials said yesterday. The ship, with a crew of about 500, was scheduled to make a rest stop in the resort town of Pattaya
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        Lock icon HK punters back at race
        102 3 AFP [HONG KONG] Gambling-mad Hong Kong race fens put fears of a killer mystery respiratory virus behind them as they flocked to the city's weekly horse racing meeting, attendance figures released yesterday showed. Unfazed by the escalating Sars crisis that has gripped the territory, 15,380
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        Lock icon HK schools shut till April 21
        60 3 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong will keep schools closed until April 21 because of Sars. "Since the situation has not fully stabilised, we have decided to extend the suspension by one week and advance the Easter holiday," said Education Secre- tary Arthur Li. "Well
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        Lock icon HK to import 1m masks: 3M
        71 3 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] 3M Co, the leading maker erf a mask used by the US Postal Service to guard against anthrax, said orders in Hong Kong jumped 20 times in the last three weeks amid a Sars outbreak spreading globally. Hong Kong will import
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        Lock icon China Airlines grounds 11 crew
        75 3 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] China Airlines, Taiwan's biggest airline, grounded 11 crew members who worked on a flight from Hong Kong after a passenger on the plane was suspected to have the deadly new strain of pneumonia. China Airlines sterilised an Airbus A3OO plane after Taiwan's Centre
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        Lock icon NZ turns away Chinese group
        52 3 Reuters [WELLINGTON] A Chinese delegation has been turned away from a New Zealand conference because of fears they might have Sars, the Chinese ambassador said yesterday. Ambassador Chen Mingming said the decision to exclude the 43 Chinese delegates would damage relations between China and New
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        Lock icon 14 suspected Sars oases in Japan
        59 3 OANA/Kyota [TOKYO] Fourteen Japanese are suspected of having contracted Sars, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said at a news conference yesterday. Of the 14,11 have shown symptoms and have travelled to Sars-hit regions in the past 10 days or have been exposed to the
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        Lock icon M'sia orders first quarantine
        100 3 AP [KUALA LUMPUR} The Malaysian government has ordered a stay-at-home quarantine for five relatives of a man who died possibly from a flu-like illness that has killed at least 78 people worldwide health officials said yesterday. The quarantine order was the first in Malaysia, which has
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      Lock icon Genting shares recover but uncertainty lingers
      495 3  -  It could be big loser if virus is prolonged or is not controlled From, Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE share price of gaming company Genting Bhd recovered some ground yesterday as uncertainty continued over the effect of the ongoing war and Sars
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  • WAR IN IRAQ
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      Lock icon Allies at Baghdad's gates, and showdown lies ahead
      677 4 SOUTH OF BAGHDAD Iraqis move to reinforce defence of capital as concerns over use of chemical weapons mount EVEN as Allied forces reached Baghdad's gates, with some units just 10 km from the city outskirts, the downing of a US helicopter and
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      Lock icon Powell kicks off talks with EU and Nato on Iraq
      655 4 BRUSSELS Disagreement on how postwar Iraq should be ran Reuters US Secretary of State Colin Powell kicked off a hectic round of meetings with European and Nato ministers yesterday likely to expose new transatlantic rifts over how postwar Iraq will
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    • WAR Briefs
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        Lock icon Many believe war is about oil: UK poll
        86 4 Bloomberg AFP [LONDON] Almost one in three Britons believes the US-led war in Iraq is about controlling the country's oil, a Mori poll released by Greenpeace UK found. But an influential British research institute rejected this. Analysts at the Royal Institute of
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        Lock icon NBC puts its war costs at US$50m
        47 4 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] As the war in Iraq grows ever more unpredictable. General Electric Co, parent of the NBC television, conceded on Wednesday that pre-empting some entertainment shows in flavour of news had cost it US$5O million in pre-tax profits.—Reuters
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        Lock icon Move to speed up missile production
        90 4 Reuters [NEW YORK] Defence contractor Raytheon Co said on Wednesday it is in talks with the US Navy to speed up production of its newest Tomahawk missile, two weeks into a war in Iraq that has used more than 700 of the previous version
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        Lock icon IMF, World Bank 'ready' to help Iraq
        71 4 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Internationa] Monetary Fund and World Bank are prepared to help rebuild Iraq after the war, Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said. "They haven't made any decision about entering Iraq at this stage because the war is still on," Mr Downer
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        Lock icon Protests mount in Asia against war
        87 4 AP [JAKARTA] In continued protests in Asia against the Iraq war, thousands of students yesterday marched in Indonesia, while tens of thousands of Muslims demonstrated in Thailand's largest protest against the war. In Indonesia, the biggest demonstration took place in Makassar, where 10,000 students
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      591 4 P TJL n _S° Tbk PAYMENT PROCEDURE OF 2002 FINAL DIVIDEND As resolved in agenda item 4 of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company held on April 1,2003, the 2002 final dividend is 1 (one) cent US Dollar per share. Schedule: 1. Cum Dividend Date for transaction
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      91 4 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF IRISO ELECTRONICS SINGAPORE PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF MEMBERS VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION Notice is hereby given that at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of the abovenamed company held on 31 March 2003 it
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      166 4 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND M THE MATTER OF ROBINSON NUGENT ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE TO SUBMIT PARTICULARS OF DEBTS OR CLAIMS Notice is hereby given that the credrtors of the abovenamed Company, whose debts or ciams have not already
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      577 4 A pt inco Tbk PT INTERNATIONAL NICKEL INDONESIA Tbk ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULT OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS It is hereby announced to all shareholders of PT International Nickel Indonesia Tbk. ("PT Inco" or "the Company") that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on Tuesday, April 1,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SingPost shares tipped to sell at 53-54 ¢
      600 5  - SingPost shares tipped to sell at 53-54 Pre-m&rketing trips to HK, Europe and Japan axed By. Angela Tan THE pre-marketing of Singapore Post, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd's soon-to-be-listed postal service, began for Hong Kong yesterday. But instead of face-to-face meetings, syndicate banks in Singapore are canvassing potential investors by the phone
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      Lock icon Technics' IPO shares at 22¢ each
      273 5  -  By I Stephanie Yap OIL and gas production equipment maker Technics Group Holdings yesterday launched an initial public offering of 25 million new shares at 22 cents apiece. Technics aims to raise net proceeds of $4.3 million to fund expansion of production facilities in
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      Lock icon Global Active to go ahead with IPO in Q3
      279 5 IPOs Bloomberg GLOBAL Active Ltd, which sold about a third of itself to an investor last week, said it will proceed with an earlier plan to sell shares to the public in the third quarter after a delay. For Global Active,
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      Lock icon Higher gearing may not boost Reits
      689 5  -  HOCK lock siew kalpana rashiwala THE Monetary Authority of Singapore last week revised its guidelines for property funds, allowing them to raise their gearing level. Property funds, including real estate investment trusts like Capita Mall Trust (CMT) and Ascendas Reit (A-Reit), can now borrow
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      Lock icon Khoo Teck Puat firms get new SGX deadlines
      268 7  -  By' Vince Chong THREE listed holding vehicles of hotelier Khoo Teck Puat Central Properties, Hotel Malaysia and Goodwood Park Hotel have been given extended April deadlines to meet the 10 per cent public float requirement or face share trading suspension. Hotel Malaysia
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon KFC M'sia revamp set to get GIC nod
        124 7 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd, the nation's No 1 fast-food group, said yesterday that it expects the Government of Singapore Investment Corp and other shareholders to support a reorganisation plan to be completed in December. "They are very positive on
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        Lock icon Raffles Int'l to manage Osaka hotel
        70 7 RAFFLES Holdings' hotel management arm, Raffles International Ltd, will fly its flag for the first time in Japan. It has inked a lease agreement with the Nankai Electric Railway Co to operate the Nankai South Tower Hotel Osaka. Raffles International will re-flag and manage
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        Lock icon KS Tech to take 25% stake in Ezra
        111 7 MAINBOARD-LISTED oil and gas supply specialist KS Tech Ltd has entered into an agreement with Ezra Holdings Pte Ltd to take a 25 per cent stake in the latter for $7.82 million. Ezra and its subsidiaries provide offshore support vessels and services
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        Lock icon Chip Eng Seng unit wins $23m deal
        68 7 CONSTRUCTION group Chip Eng Seng Corporation Ltd said its subsidiary, Chip Eng Seng Contractors (1988) Pte Ltd, has been awarded a contract worth $23 million by the Housing and Development Board to complete the balance of works on 456 HDB flats in Bukit
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        Lock icon ST Engg unit in China venture
        84 7 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engg) said its unit, Singapore Technologies Kinetics, and Beijing Heavy Duty Truck Plant have agreed to set up a joint-venture company to design and produce specialised heavy commercial and industrial vehicles as well as a range of vehicle-mounted industrial
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      Lock icon ST Engg unit bags $83m marine contract
      370 7  -  US yard to complete construction of car-track carrier By David Boey SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering said yesterday that a US yard belonging to its marine arm has won an $83 million (US$47 million) deal to complete the construction of the first pure car-truck carrier
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      Lock icon SembCorp buys into major China power facility
      307 7  -  Its utilities unit will pay $218 m for 30% stake By] David Boey SEMBCORP Industries' unit SembCorp Utilities will pay $218 million for a 30 per cent stake in a huge co-generation plant in China. SembCorp said yesterday the plant which will cost
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      319 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Apr 3 VALUE CLOSE BTOB/OS -33.00 -69.00 1FCJUM -*****.00 -21.00 -*****.00 -3.00 AS-SG EqbMM 349.33 40.23 MfrribMlhrt 116.60 -0.47 1115.75 +1.64 WElJIiiPwp 306.57 +2.62 naawm i60.02 +o.io SM9CI Fstarts 159.50 +1.30 Stocks Volume SingTel 15c 17,942,000 ComfortDelgro 25c 13.650,000 Chart SemiCond 26c 10,904,000 Datacraft 10c 10,716,000 SembCorp
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      Lock icon SembCorp Ind stock holds up well in turbulence
      279 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By' Ven Sreenivasan SEMBCORP Industries' (SCI) stock has held up well in a turbulent market. The stock has risen about 15 per cent in the last three weeks. And it is up about 40 per cent since the beginning
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      Lock icon Dealers in a veritable casino
      776 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy A ROUND and around the litw tie ball goes, where it stops t nobody knows,' barks the roulette i wheel operator. It's a line that local stock market players would be familiar with we're dealing with a casino out there,
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      Lock icon US$ rise picks up pace; ECB overshadowed
      815 6 Reuters Bloomberg [LONDON] The US doUar resumed its advance on the euro yesterday as US troops closed in on Baghdad, positioning for a battle that wiU be key for the progress of the US-led war against Iraq. News from the war has gripped
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  • Article
    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    3044 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Lifestyle Index fd 0 804/ Com Global Health Index Fd 0.77V Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0 384/ MNAaaro Asset Mgt (5 pore) Com Global mfotec Index Fd!" 0258/ Star Europe Eqty! 0.57/ Gtoba Energy lnde)l F<J 0 794/ Star Europe Bd .1.22/ Com Global
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Unit Share Market not an improvement
      567 8  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to the letter "All-or-none share trading option not critical to trading needs" by Benjamin Toh of the Singapore Exchange (Mailbag, April 1). It is naive of Mr Toh to state that "trades can only be executed when both the
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      Lock icon Why not close varsities too?
      127 8  -  Leong Wai Mun Singapore GIVEN new evidence that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus is more infectious than previously thought, will the Ministry of Health seriously consider the temporary closure of universities and other institutes of tertiary education? The Sars virus, like any other
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      Lock icon Revised fees for home-office coming
      112 8  -  Ang Hwee Suan Head (Public Relations) For Chief Executive Officer Urban Redevelopment Authority I REFER to the letter "Why charge entrepreneurs $520, URA?" by Leong Sze Hian (Mailbag. March 28). Mr Leong asked why the Urban Redevelopment Authority charges $520 to approve the use of
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      Lock icon Asian Retail Mall Fund closes with $320 m raised
      393 9  -  Returns for investors likely to be pegged to that of Capit&M&ll Trust By] Kalpana Rashiwala GRA Singapore, the Asian arm of Prudential Real Estate Investors, has closed its Asian Retail Mall Fund to new investors after raising $320 million of equity
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      Lock icon MAS eases unsecured education, SME loans rules
      294 9 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has relaxed its guidelines for unsecured loans for education and small businesses. But the cap two times monthly income continues for credit cards and unsecured lines of personal credit. Yesterday in Notice 635 to banks, MAS said the
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      Lock icon Taxman warns if 11 pursue GST cheats
      579 9 IRAS files fraud charges in fifth GST evasion case THE tax authorities have filed charges in a fifth case of goods and services tax evasion in Singapore, and said yesterday they will not hesitate to take action against parties that underaccount GST, whether
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      Lock icon Money supply up for 2nd month
      251 9  -  EYE on the economy By] Kenneth Lim SINGAPORE'S money supply, as measured by the broad aggregates M 2 and M 3, grew in February as fixed deposits expanded year-on-year for the first time since July. The latest unrevised figures from the Monetary Authority of
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    • Article
      Lock icon CoA rules on dispute between contractors
      596 9  -  Key point in claim is whether a running account exists By Serena Ng IN Singapore's building and construction industry, it is not uncommon to see the same two companies working together on several separate projects concurrently and being intertwined in claims and counter-claims over
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      Lock icon DPM to speak on remaking economy
      166 9 DEPUTY Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lee Hsien Loong will deliver a key speech on the remaking of the economy at the annual dinner of the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS) on Tuesday. Mr Lee, who is guest of honour at the event, is
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Is Thaksin overstretching himself now?
      776 10  -  OPINION .MIM.JITTI harish mehta THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra recently sparked a new controversy with his comment that the Thai economy would "shock" economists and forecasters by logging an astonishing 8 per cent growth next year. The new medicine that the prime minister plans to
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      82 10 'It not only generates money, but it puts us in bed with reputable partners.' -JDudAUßaOont Al-Jazeera's marketing chief, on its deals with American TV networks. The war is about government versus government It has nothing to do with the people. If anyone wants to flush their French
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      Lock icon Belt up for a rough ride
      560 10 EDITORIAL IT MAY still be too early to weigh the economic impact of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), but the virus could not have come at a worse time for the fragile Singapore economy. With consumer and investor confidence already rocked by the
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      Lock icon The prohibitive cost of a new US imperialism
      1374 10  -  The upsurge of the US defence budget will magnify the federal deficit and increase the risk of the current account deficit expanding even further By David Hale THERE is little doubt that America's war with Iraq will be the dominant event shaping
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      358 12 JAKARTA Logical pick for Telekom to grow in region: analysts Bloomberg TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd is considering the purchase of a stake in Indonesia's thirdlargest cellular phone operator PT Excelcomindo Pratama to help expand business in the region, chief executive Md Khir Abdul Rahman
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      186 12 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIAN Resources Corp, developer of a real estate and rail hub, missed the first redemption deadline on its RM92O million (Ss42B million) Islamic bond issue and got approval to delay it for one year. Malaysian Resources' unit Kuala Lumpur Sentral
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        74 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia raised ceiling prices for billets and steel rods from yesterday to help meet higher production costs, the government said on Wednesday. Malaysia's Domestic Trade Minister Muhyiddin Yass in said the ceiling prices for billets and steel rods would be
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        58 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's YTL Power International Bhd is planning to sell RMI.3 billion (S|6ll million) of six- to 10-year bonds sometime in May, bankers close to the deal said yesterday. Traders said the Arm was either lining up funds for an acquisition or
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        70 12 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian manufacturers yesterday warned that weak global growth prospects meant the industry was likely to grow only 2 pa* cent this year, compared with a 5 per cent official forecast The Iraq war and a killer pneumonia outbreak have dealt a double blow
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      273 15 Reuters [BANGALORE] Indian financial software firm I-flex Solutions Ltd said that British police on Wednesday released on bail one of its senior executives who had been detained over alleged visa irregularities in the Netherlands. Senthil Kumar, chief executive of the Dutch subsidiary
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      256 15 HONGKONG Bloomberg HONG Kong's assessments of taxes to be paid by companies fell 13 per cent in the first 11 months of last fiscal year as declines in consumer spending and prices eroded corporate profits. The assessed corporate tax was HKJ3B.S
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      226 16 AFP [SYDNEY] Australia's government yesterday formally abandoned its 12-year search for fugitive businessman Christopher Skase's missing millions. Mr Skase, who died while on the run in Spain in August 2001, was Australia's most wanted man after he fled Australia in 1991 rather than face
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      416 16 NEW YORK Civil suit claims Sw&rtz used firm for personal gain AP TYCO International has filed a US$4OO million lawsuit against former chief financial officer Mark Swartz, claiming he looted the conglomerate for his personal gain. Mr Swartz already faces criminal charges of theft and
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      304 16 LATEST US IMDICATOHS Reuters Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The number of new US jobless claims last week jumped to its highest in nearly a year, the US government said yesterday, offering little hope for a turnaround in the grim labour market picture. First-time claims
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        65 16 AFP [PARIS] French telecoms equipment maker Alcatel recorded a net loss of 11.5 billion euros (5521.9 billion) in 2002 under US accounting standards, according to its annual report The company's loss is more than twice the 4.9 billion euro loss recorded the previous
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        56 16 Bloomberg [ROME] The European Central Bank (ECB) left its benchmark interest rate at 2.5 per cent as policy makers await more signs the war in Iraq is curbing economic growth before cutting borrowing costs further. The ECB reduced borrowing costs to the lowest in
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        47 16 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea will set up a fund of between five trillion won (5)7.1 billion) to 10 trillion won to help indebted credit card firms secure cash as investors shun their bonds, a government official told reporters yesterday. Reuters
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      386 18 ATLANTA HP banks on new ideas in computing such as its tablet PC NYT HEWLETT-PACKARD and Dell are locked in a slugfest over the sale of personal computers, but the battle threatens to get even hotter. And HP chairman Carly Fiorina
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      535 18  -  Outburst sparks speculation that one or both ministers will quit From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo SIMMERING tension between two Japanese ministers boiled over yesterday when Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa publicly accused Economics Minister Heizo Taken aka of "lying" about comments allegedly made by Prime
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      365 18 NEW YORK They will produce low-cost high-tech 'cluster' servers LAT-WP DELL Computer Corp and Oracle Corp said on Wednesday that they will expand their cooperation in computer servers, producing low-cost "cluster" servers based on their most recent technologies for international markets. Computers from Dell combined
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      330 18 WASHINGTON AFP SHOULDER-FIRED missiles present a dire threat to commercial airplanes, said a bipartisan group of lawmakers who called on Wednesday for US jetliners to be equipped with antimissile technology. The lawmakers said an-ti-aircraft missiles such as the US-made Stinger and the Russian-made
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      259 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Goldman Sachs Group Inc, the third-biggest securities firm by capital, is firing about 3 per cent of the professionals in its equities division worldwide after revenue from the unit dropped by more than two-thirds in two years, a person
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      424 25  -  -By Audrey Tan W[ ITH so much talk about Singapore's economic restructuring, it is perhaps fitting that this year's Businessman of the Year award should go to an entrepreneur whose story closely echoes the history of Singapore's industrialisation policy. Lee Ah Bee's Amtek Engineering may not be
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      1559 30  - Slow steady Amtek chairman Lee Ah Bee, winner of the Businessman of the Year award, still remembers his early years in business wnen he had to run to his father for funds. But his never-say-die attitude has helped build the company into an operation with 8,600 staff worldwide and plants
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      1013 35  -  M 1 CEO Neil Montefiore is not about to rest easy after turning M 1 into a leadinq handphone operator and launching its public flotation. Instead, he is set to ride on the growth of visual communications and 3G, he tells angelatan ANGELA TAN
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      496 35  -  By< ANGELA TAN HAVING built Ml from scratch, clinched 10 per cent of Singapore's cellular market within three weeks of launch in 1997 and 33 per cent barely six years later, Mi's chief executive officer Neil Montefiore now wants the mobile phone operator to look
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      788 36  -  Henry Tan's entrepreneurial edge has transformed Accord Express Holdings from a small freight forwarding business into a 1,500-strong logistics enterprise that is now making an international push. He shares his story with doiuald urquhart DONALD URQUHART THE competition is keen being recognised in the Singapore Business Awards
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      1074 36  -  Profit growth targets can be attainable if CEOs understand what forms the core business and explore opportunities for differentiation and to create market power By EDMUND LIN and CHEE-YUEN NG IN today's turbulent business environment, CEOs are under constant pressure to find the next wave
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      288 38  -  By\ STEPHANIE YAP and ELGIN TOH ADMIT it. It doesn't feel good to be known as a country of uncreative, uninnovative, risk-averse employees. It's not cool. But what arguments do we have against those who are scathingly critical of the lack of entrepreneurs in Singapore? What
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      541 38 JEFFREY Goh's parents were both teachers not the most entrepreneurial background, he admits. But that didn't stop the 36-year-old from becoming one of Singapore's bright, young entrepreneurs and founding Lightspeed Technologies, a growing desktop support and services firm with annual revenues of about US$l million. Mr Goh
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      345 38 JEFFREY Goh is not just the CEO of Lightspeed Technologies. He also sits on the board of the Singapore Chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organisation (YEO), a global network of successful entrepreneurs. Founded in the US in 1987, YEO is a non-profit educational organisation
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      638 38 EVER sat through a lecture feeling as though nothing is going into your head? Or nodded periodically at someone showing you how his newest gadget works while trying to stifle a yawn? It may just be a mismatch of teaching methods and learning preferences, a
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      434 38 THERE isn't a single thing Joe Ngoi, 29, doesn't have a clear strategy about. From how to start an enterprise, to which customers to woo, to which countries to expand to, the chairman and CEO of local start-up dotERP knows exactly what he is doing. After
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      626 38 WELCOME to an era of modernage communications where the tiresome routine of exchanging name cards at conventions or exhibitions may be replaced with an efficient system using smart cards. This innovation is the brainchild of Leonard Tan who, with four other colleagues, founded Iworks Solution one-and-a-half years
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      1506 39  -  The real test of a recession is being competitive in preparing for a recovery, says teo lay lim TEO LAY LIM THE last couple of years have been among the most troubling times for global businesses. The pressing challenge that business leaders across the world face at
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      55 27 I While we've always I believed that the I pursuit of excellence I is its own reward, I we at the I Amtek Group of Companies I are honoured that I The Business Times and DHL I have selected our I Executive Chairman, I I I as Singapore's I Businessman
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      894 28 &W v 'T p ~V*--. Profile of a Pioneering Entrepreneur: > Lee Ah Bee MiSlliaM'ftW MMH A ,„h k« Ksri a Q ar .h«i«r «f Mo<-hanirai Fnninrrrinn rtporw from While being a strong leader at the helm of the company he founded, Lee also strongly believes In empowering his staff
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      179 29 J 1 t Experience Expertise nwirtffl "He- *3BF J I Jl®3 hß^ JHHB&uak I ML ;^fIfIBHBBF*MBBHIBB^S9to^. ;r J^Bjfy, PEOPLE I^^B^B QS-9000: 1998 1 9002 I V>v s Congratulations to Amtek and Mr Lee Ah Bee from: ACP AIREX PRIVATE LIMITED AMSON INDUSTRIES PTE LTD /i^!!lKHWfiMffiA«x* ACP METAL FINISHING PTE LTD
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      32 31 Vm/f Outstanding^£EO as recognised by Singapore Business Awards, for jAvative and strong Leading Ml forward. 7 -VX 1 g^HHHl^^^ SB _?M 1V 1 fl 1 Hfe I i r' I w i
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      198 32 ///W j #1 Fulfilling When Ml was founded, our vision was to Engineering It takes more than just technology to give Ml the most 3 Vision t>ecome the leader In personal communications. greater advanced network. It takes the Ingenuity and dedication By embracing a culture of innovation and of our
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      218 33 4 ikes more than just technology to give Ml the most Blazing The on-going quest to satisfy our customers has led Ml to anced network. It takes the ingenuity and dedication new become an innovative trendsetter, from SMS to MMS, from >ur team of highly skilled engineers in harnessing it,
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      698 40 A Heritage of Excellence: 33 VO3TS of AITItGK |A|l fss AmteklSJ 1 v.i nSta%di, an Amtek r***^ i Mitia 1 -_I_III j arii U BBBOCI9BBO 9 ItftW I on the Main Board of the I 2002 i Singapore Stock Exchange, I Arntiek p I' a witerHy becoming tf* third Amtek
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      265 41 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 16 points to 1959, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 26 points to 2634, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 22 points to 1879 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 7 points to *****. HMB-CBAZIHEi Lowlands Glory (built 2002) *****4 dwt 14/52.4 2.3 delivery
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      263 41 MX HO Aprl St *h V* CWT Distribution 0.54 unch IS ChuanHup 0.39 -0.01 419 CH Offshore 0.20 aOI TI3 Cosco Investment 0.20 -0.01 124 Freight Links 0.03 unch 0 GB Holdings 0.57 unch 0 Jty* Holdings 0.32 unch 4252 KappalCorp 4.34 aiO 3169 K1 Ventura 0.15 unch
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      243 41  -  Logistics firm Schenker opens 7th M'sian ops base By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) free trade zone will get a boost in the next week, with the opening of a new facility for German third party logistics company Schenker.
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      647 41  -  ME shipping firm to handle UN chartered vessels moving aid to Iraq By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Gearing up for what the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says will likely be the largest humanitarian operation in history, the Gulf Agency Company (GAC)
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      459 41  -  Lines also taking own measures to protect staff By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore's health authority has officially expanded passenger screening to include cruise arrivals in its battle to contain the alarming spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). As of yesterday, the
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        106 41 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Wharf Holdings, the parent of Hong Kong container terminal operator Modern Terminals, posted a one-fifth decline in second-half profit, dragged down by provisions for a decline in the value of its properties. But the port unit did better, with income rising 7
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        136 41 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co said yesterday it had won three new overseas orders totaling US$B73 million for an offshore plant and three oil tankers. The deals included a US$73O million order to build an oil rig and pipeline in
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      86 41 AFP [ANKARA] Five Russian and Ukrainian sailors were missing in the Black Sea off Turkey's northern coast on Wednesday after their ship capsized and sank in bad weather, Anatolia news agency reported. The Cambodian-registered freighter was bound for a Russian port with
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      939 42  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK Aldgate wasn't a party to the 22 bills of lading, English court rules -By Selva Kumar THE English Commercial Court last week ruled that a local importer's liability to pay freight and demurrage turned on whether it was a party
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      198 42 PAGE Avant 8 B'tang Mas 5 BSA 4 BSC 8 BTL 8 Cargoways 8 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 Chahaya 8 China Shpg 5 Confer 8 Cougar 5 CWT Globelink ...4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 EP Carriers 8 ECL 3 Eng Lee 8 ESP Lines 4 FoongSun 5
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        144 49 Apr# Hong Kong: Ching Ming Fest Korea: Arbor Day Apr* Thailand: Chakri Day Apr 13 Thailand: Thai New Year Apr 14 Thailand: Thai New Year Australia: Bank Holiday Apr 15 Thailand: Thai New Year Apr 17 Philippines: Maundy Thursday Apr 18 Australia: Good Friday Hong Kong: Good Friday
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        729 49 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market. Prices shown are based on average sued stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        459 50 SARS CRISIS lata says more flexibility needed as travel pltwges dne to war and virns [GENEVA] Airlines are stepping up pressure on the European Union to allow them more flexibility in slashing services as the outbreak of a deadly
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        169 50 AFP [SYDNEY] Qantas cabin crews have been given the option of refusing to service flights to countries hit by the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), the flight attendants' union said. Flight Attendants' Association of Australia Spokesman Wayne Cooper said Qantas had agreed
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        215 50 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International said it would reschedule some flights to countries hit hard by a deadly flu-like virus to avoid having air crews staying overnight. Pichate Satirachaval, cabinet minister supervising the airline, told a news conference on Wednesday the measure would comfort many
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        515 50 Revamp may cut costs by 500-600 m euros in the next 2-3 years AFP [AMSTERDAM] The chairman of Dutch carrier KLM, which has just announced massive job cuts, said on Wednesday the company would decide "in the course of this
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        420 50 Carriers have asked for USs4b to offset losses Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Congressional proposals to give US carriers such as AMR Corp's American Airlines and UAL Corp's United Airlines at least US$3.2 billion in federal aid are "excessive," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
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        118 50 Reutmt [SEATTLE] Boeing Co, the world's largest jet maker, said it delivered 71 commercial Jets in the first quarter, down 35 per cent from the first quarter of 2002 as its airline customers struggle to survive. Boeing's Seattle-based jetliner unit shipped 32 new transports
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        246 50 Rivals' cutbacks dne to war fears increase damand Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System Bhd's cargo unit added three flights to Europe in the last two weeks to meet demand because the Iraq war has prompted its rivals to cut services. The extra demand is a
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