The Business Times, 5 April 2004

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES mita 05>a/ns/s>nn4 I Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg SINGAPORE/ MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2004 J*85^-
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  • 661 1  -  BT exclusive S'pore firms can then bid as a group for overseas port development jobs By George Joseph [SINGAPORE] The Government is actively looking at encouraging the formation of a consortium of port and maritime related companies which can take up international
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  • 814 1  -  But M'sia opposes the US maritime security initiative By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The United States is considering deploying Marines equipped with high-speed vessels in the Malacca Strait to flush out terrorists from the commercially vital waterway in a new maritime initiative. The move
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  • 64 1 Week Change STI 1880.45 +5334 KLSECOMP ***** -7.78 NIKKEI 225 _l *****5 >45,10 HANG SENO *****76 *24*52 SET INDEX 693.12 t2757 JAKARTA COMP -750.65 .36.52 MANILA COMP -*****1 +59.99 TAIPEI WPt *****4 ****** SEOl'L COM P 883.69 19.74 SHENZHEN B 304.74 1072 Ai:STALLORD *****0 —+13.20 DOW JONES *****.59 +*****
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  • 78 1 POmX RATES us$ s$ l"S$ (SS (H*r t'SS) 1.672 £|USS/SS per 1851 31»4 El' ROfl'SS/SS/El. 1233 lOttl YEN 104.2 62 3U RM 3800 1273 HKS 7788 4.659 BAHT 39.14 23.41 Rl'PIAH HJU6 5.137 RENMINBI 8299 4J»65 INDIAN RI'PEE 43.78 26.19 AS 1308 0.782 NZS 1.502 0J89 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE
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  • 172 1 IN what could be good news for investors who want to be clued in better to the companies they are putting their money into, corporate transparency seems to have grown in Singapore, going by the latest Corporate Transparency Index (CTI) compiled for companies releasing results
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  • 1013 1  -  BT exclusive New URA guideline could leave some homeowners in a fix By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] A new planning guideline could put landed home owners in a bind when it comes time to consider selling their plots en bloc. It might
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    • 744 2  -  BT comment ECONOMICS In many areas, the Republic is competing not against the averages of other countries, but their peaks vikram khanna Recently, a friend of mine opted to have "lasik" eye surgery, which involves the use of lasers to correct short-sightedness. It's now a routine
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    • 708 2  -  Celebration over jobs report could soon turn to worry over when Fed will raise rates From Andrew Marks in New York WITH the recovering economy finally delivering jobs that many feared may never come, investors can look forward to near term strength in
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 489 3  -  Firm cutting costs, developing sterilisation business, making acquisitions By Kenneth Lim AFTER making losses in four of the past five years, Adroit Innovations could soon be back in the black with the help of financial discipline and a new goods sterilisation business,
      Source: Bloomberg  -  489 words
    • 442 3  -  It pays $6.75m for 60% stake in the S'pore company By Ven Sreenivasan LISTED Tuan Sing Holdings, which has a diversified portfolio ranging from property to printed circuit boards, is poised to become a golf equipment distributor with its takeover of one of
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    • 193 3 TWENTY-SEVEN listed companies will be featured in the second issue of The Business Times Investors' Guide after the huge success of last year's inaugural issue. And having received positive response for the debut issue last September, Singapore Press Holdings is reaching out to a
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    • 700 3  -  HOCK lock siew kalpana rashiwala Property and hotel group City Developments posted flat net earnings of $152.3 million last year, but things should pick up for the group this year. The mean FY 2004 net earnings forecast among analysts polled by Reuters Estimates is about $189 million,
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    • 830 4  -  59% of companies notch up higher total scores, with most struggling to meet tighter reporting deadline By Penelope Phoon-Cohen, Paul Thompson FEBRUARY 29 marked the end of the main company reporting season and corporate results tables tell a story of much improved fortunes for Singapore
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    • 572 5  -  BT exclusive Sales in the region is estimated to grow by 38% By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] As more companies replace their clunky computer monitors with sleek liquid crystal display (LCD) terminals, the local market for these flat screens is set to cross
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    • 1248 5  -  INSIDE MARKETS Buyers outweighed sellers in every trading category as market rebounded by nearly 3% last week, reports ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI THE director and substantial shareholder activity remained high last week with 62 transactions worth $26.6 million based on filings to the Singapore Exchange
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 783 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy tSTOCK market types are notorious for coining fancy terms to explain relatively simple ideas. For instance, is there any real difference between "sell" and "underperform", or "ovstretched valuations" and xpensive"? So, it's probably OK to ijftroduce another one that might describe what
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    • 75 6 Events investors can watch out for Chuan Hup's dividend payment, Apr 12 CEI Contract's dividend payment, Apr 15 Osim Int'l's dividend payment, Apr 16 Fu Yu Mfg's dividend payment, Apr 20 Parkway Hldgs' dividend payment, Apr 20 TP A, AQM and EQM, Apr 5 SlntfFood, AQM and EQM,
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    • 484 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Japan's currency hit a four-year high but the Australian dollar is expected to lose ground. Japanese yen: The yen hit a four-year high last week on growing expectations about Japan's economic recovery as well as the view that
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    • 929 8  -  BT portfolio STOCKS teh hooi ling THE first two days of April have been good for the market. And with the rising tide, most of our portfolios also posted good gains. The analysts' upgrades portfolio topped the 2.9 per cent climb of the Straits
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    • 2468 8 Notices Hfl NIPPECRAFT iUI LIMITED (incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING To All Shareholders NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at, Meritus Mandarin Singapore Hotel, 333 Orchard Road, Singapore *****7, on Thursday, 29th April 2004, at
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 644 9 Govt studying how to share cost of security for trains DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says Singapore remains a target for terrorism "so long as we remain who we are a secular society that stands for modernity and progress". Arguing that
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    • 301 9  -  EYE on the economy gdp By Kalpana Rashiwala SINGAPORE'S economy will grow 6.2 per cent in the first quarter over the same period last year, according to a forecast by Citigroup. "Although we remain wary about a downswing from the volatile biomedical output in
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    • 568 9  -  Poll, minor disputes over some issues delay agreement From Ajoy Sen in New Delhi THE signing of an ambitious trade pact between New Delhi and Singapore expected this month has been postponed due to a parliamentary poll scheduled later this month and as officials
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 631 10 TOKYO It fears being overtaken by China as an economic power AP SUDDENLY, free trade agreements are all the rage in Japan. Before a pact with Mexico last month, Japan had signed just one trade agreement, with Singapore in 2001. But by year's
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    • 264 10 ATLANTA It alleges US govt helped Marcos regime remove gold from Philippines AP A LAWSUIT claims the US government helped steal possibly trillions of dollars in gold from an amateur Filipino treasure hunter. It sounds like something right out of an Indiana Jones
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    • Taiwan minister offers to resign
    • 1121 11 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] Gold prices scaled a 15year peak last week as speculators piled into precious metals, encouraged by a wobbling dollar. Silver hit a 17-year high, palladium reached levels not seen for one and a half years, while platinum flirted with
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    • 540 13 NEW DELHI Country may exceed 8.1% growth estimate for '03-'04: minister AFP Reuters INDIAN Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on Saturday said India's economy was poised for "explosive growth" of more than 10 per cent within a decade and could exceed the 8.1 per
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    • 445 13 COLOMBO But Freedom Alliance is 8 seats short of majority AP Bloomberg Reuters THE political alliance led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga won the largest number of seats in Sri Lanka's parliamentary elections, forcing aside her longtime rival, former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The results,
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  • 981 11 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Apr 2 PRIME LENDING RATES BANKS ABN Amro Bank NV 5.25 ABSA Bank Limited 5.5 Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 American Express Bank 5 Arab Bank PLC 5 Banca Di Roma 5.5 Bangkok Bank 6 Bank of America NA 5 Bank of
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  • 1607 11 SICOM FUTURES Aprl RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS1 (S cents/kq) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest May 04 ***** Jun 04 233.00 Jul 04 236.25 Aug 04 237.50 Sep 04 238.25 Oct/Oec 04 239.25 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tomes) Interest
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    • 3371 12 Notices EX "nwj!iiJiLJßiia Apex-Pal International Ltd. (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Apex-Pal International Ltd. (the "Company") will be held at 25 International Business Park Level 5 German Centre Singapore *****6, on Wednesday, 21 April
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    • 637 12 THE SHIPPING CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD. (Technical Offshore Services Division) Shipping House, 5* floor, 245, Madame Cama Road, Mumbai 400 021, INDIA (Phone 91-22-2285 3556 Fax 91-22-2285 4790) E-mail: M tandos@bomB.vsnl.net.in" TENDER ACQUISITION OF 3 NOS. HIGH SPEED PASSENGER CRAFTS (REF NO. T&OS/NB/UTLT/20PAX/2004) The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. (SCI)
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    • 480 12 In the Matter of The Companies Act Pap. 50 and In the Matter of BUILDFORCE CONTRACTING PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 3 Jalan Bunga Raya Singapore *****8 on Thursday, 31 Morch 2004 at 10.30 a
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 219 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 31 Needless public alarm one cares about (5) 9 Pop group excluded from 28 Turn aside from composer 32 They make their victims late audition (4) (5) (9) 14 People on a fixed course (4) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN 15 Legal right which only one Across: 6 Parts of
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    • 5046 14 Nat Steel Nat Steel Ltd Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 44th Annual General Meeting of Nat Steel Ltd (the 'Company! will be held at The Conference Room Nat Steel Ltd, Level 4, 22 Tanjong Kling Road, Singapore *****8
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  • WORLD news
    • 383 15 SYDNEY Prices have fallen in some cases and there's even talk of a property market slump AFP THE hopes of young Australians who despaired of ever being able to afford their dream of home ownership have been raised by evidence that prices
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    • 420 15 WASHINGTON Reuters LATWP THE US Labor Department and market regulators said on Friday they were looking into a possible leak of employment data because of significant moves in markets before official release of the report. One minute before the market-sensitive March unemployment report was
      Reuters; LATWP; AFP  -  420 words
    • 207 15 NEW YORK Bloomberg JOHN Dean, White House counsel when the Watergate break-in occurred in 1972, said on Saturday that President George Bush and VicePresident Richard Cheney have committed impeachable offences. "The evidence is overwhelming that George W Bush and Richard B Cheney have
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    • 338 16 WASHINGTON Agency report questions objections raised by some US lawmakers Reuters REQUIRING companies to count stock options as a business expense is unlikely to do great harm to the US economy, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office said on Friday. The finding by
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    • 629 16 NEW YORK CEO incentive pay rises even when shareholder returns fall: study NYT THE escalating excess that passes for everyday pay at corporations in America has long been justified this way: If executives are not paid outsized amounts, they will flee
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    • 387 16 NEW YORK NYT GOODBYE to golf games and clubby cocktail parties or many of them, anyway. Hello to weekend work sessions, piles of paperwork and parsing of arcane accounting rules. That is the new reality for corporate directors like Betsy Atkins, chief executive
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    • 1495 16 SEMBAWANG y K I MTR A N S SEMBAWANG KIMTRANS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Sembawang Kimtrans Ltd ("the Company") will be held at 21 Jalan Buroh, Singapore *****8 on Wednesday, 28 April
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  • BizIT
    • 693 17  -  IT comment INFOTECH There are different approaches to solving big-player disputes, but who wins in the end? kenneth james EVEN as Microsoft Corp smarts from a bloodied nose delivered by an uncompromising European Commission, Messrs Bill Gates et al must surely be enjoying the
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    • 298 17 LAT-WP [WASINGTON] After years of a scorched earth approach to litigation and competition, Microsoft Corp's US$2-billion settlement on Friday with Sun Microsystems Inc marks the starkest example yet of the software giant's attempt to impose a sort of Pax Microsoftus on the technology industry.
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    • 730 18  -  BT exclusive And the region's share of that is set to rise to 15% from 10% in the next 3-5 years, reports Tang Weng Fai Tang Weng Fai RIDING on growing global brand recognition and trendy new products, South Korean conglomerate Samsung expects regional mobile
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    • 191 18 IN the US market where Samsung has been in the consumer electronics business for more than a decade, the positive brand image of its mobile phone business has made it easier to seU other product lines in the stable, says Park Sang Jin, Samsung
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    • IT TAKES
      • 66 18 COMPUTER Associates International has appointed Philip Chua as its Singapore country manager. In his new role, Mr Chua will head CA Singapore's sales, marketing and technical organisations and report to Piti Pramotedham, managing director, Asia South. Mr Chua was recently director of sales of C
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      • 50 18 RENESAS Technology, which designs and manufactures highly integrated semiconductor system solutions, has announced the appointment of Yoshitsugu Tamakoshi as tiie managing director of its South Asia headquarters in Singapore. Mr Tamakoshi will oversee Renesas' sales ami marketing operations in Southeast Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand.
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      • 67 18 AUTODESK has announced a loyalty programme for customers using retired Autodesk software sucktus AutoCAD R12,13,14 and 2000 in the South Asia Pacific region. Through this programme, each licence of a valid retired product entitles customers to purchase AutoCAD 2005 or a current AutoCAD-based software with substantial
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      • 90 18  -  —Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury APPLE has introduced Xserve G5 (right) which delivers more than 30 gigaflops of processing power per system, about 60 per cent more than the PowerPC G4-based Xserve. Available with either single or dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 processors, the Xserve G5
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    • 423 18  -  By Raju Chellam GIVEN that more Asian households are going for both a broadband connection and more than one computer at home, is the market for home networking ready to take off? Not quite. Research house IDC Corp recently polled 5,000 respondents
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    • 994 18 91 SINGAPORE PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the shareholders of Singapore Petroleum Company B Limited (the "Company") will be held at Inter-Continental Singapore, 80 Middle Road, Singapore
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 559 19 Reuters [LONDON] A maritime anti-terror law due be enforced globally on July 1 will not hinder the flow of crucial oil exports to world markets, the head of the world's biggest oil tanker industry owners' association said. The tough new United
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    • 254 19 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young DRY CARGO: IT seems strange to refer to the high level of interest and activity when we consider that so few sales have come to light during the last week. Although there are rumours and reports of tonnage being inspected, with seller expectations
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    • 276 19 SGX '000 AgrZ SS W Vol CH Offshore 0.40 0.01 ***** ChuanHup 0.53 0.01 2115 Gosco Investment 1.03 0.01 ***** CWT Distribution... 0.54 0.01 16 EzraHldgs 1.20 0.09 356 Freight Links ...0.13 unch 305 GB Holdings 0.72 unch 0 Jaya Holdings .0.90 unch 6704 K1 Venture 0J7 0.02
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    • 402 19  -  By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Jurong Port is set to boost its box throughput with a new round-the-world (RTW) service connecting Europe with the US East Coast, as the port takes delivery of new quay cranes, pushing annual capacity up to 1.4
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    • 182 19 [SINGAPORE] The long-awaited AdelaideDarwin rail link has secured annual contracts to move 250,000 tonnes of freight since its launch in January. Railway owner and operator Freight Link announced on Friday a third contract worth 80,000 tones annually for Northline Freight Management on top
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    • 679 19 Cruise operator seeking partner to tap region's booming economies Reuters [MIAMI] Carnival, whose luxury ships hold sway over global cruising's best markets in North America and Europe, is looking eastward to tap the booming economies of China, India and other Asian nations. The Miami operator
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    • DOCKYARD
      • 668 20  -  By David Hughes LAST week, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) made one of those pragmatic decisions at which it excels. Whether the flexibility of the Marine Environment Protection Committee's decision on which tankers can carry edible oils and similar cargoes is sufficient to
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    • 204 20 PAGE Alianca 3 AAL 5 Avant 6 Bank Line 4 B'tang Mas 5 BSA 4 BSC 6 BTL 6 Cargoways 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 China Shpg 5 Confer 6 Crocodile Line ....4 CWT Globelink ...4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 EP Carriers 6 ECL 3 Eng Lee
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 393 27 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL GRAND GLORY 29A J23 A/SIDE 04/04 0800 MARCOPOLO 66 01/04J J13 A/SIDE 04/04 0630 PULAU WEH 06/04 J7 A/SIDE 04/04 2300 SIANTEK 15 J11 A/SIDE 04/04 1300 UNION STAR28 05/04J J14/15 A/SIDE 04/04 0900 VINDONISSA *****3 J15/16 A/SIDE 04/04
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      • 1830 27 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX DAHLIA 074N 074N 1 06/04/2004-08:00 06/04/2004-22:00 ACXMARGUERI 029S 029S 1 04/04/2004-15:00 0S/04/2004-00 00 B08 ACX WAFFLES 089S 089S 1 06/04/2004-07:00 06/04/2004-20:00 AKSOY TRUVA 0401 0401 1 06/04/2004-1300 06/04/2004-20:00 AL
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      • 146 27 Apr 4 HK: Ching M Fest. South Korea: Arbor Day. Taiwan: Ching M Fest. Apr 6 Thailand: Chakri Memorial Day. Apr 8 Norway: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Sweden: Maundy Thursday. Apr 0 Sweden: Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday. Philippines: Day of Valor. Norway: Good Friday. NZ: Good
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      • 749 27 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 averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 597 27 Carton 180 Max 983.3 0.5 12.1 0.05 36 0.04 !SL» tW W«t AshAlumlnlum Sediment E25 J. J J q.04 2 0.02 380 Mai 990.9 0.4 17.5 0.07 62 0.05 HG/W3 v/v m/m m/m ppm method No above G35 0 0 0 0 0 0 ISO/Cimac Limits
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 45 28 [LONDON] People watch as British Airways' last Concorde, G-BOAA, is loaded onto a barge on the river Thames in west London on its way to the North Sea and the final destination of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh AFP
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      • 260 28 Reuters [SYDNEY] Europe's biggest airline, British Airways, tipped healthy growth yesterday for the so-called "kangaroo" route between London and Sydney and said the number of flights would have to increase to cater for the demand. "Clearly we see continued growth in the
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      • 466 28 Trinity Time may still join airline's revamp if labour structure changed AFP [MONTREAL] Hong Kongbased tycoon Victor Li's Trinity Time Investment walked away from a rescue deal for Air Canada on Friday, but said it could still join the carrier's restructuring if its labour
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      • 272 28 Continental will provide civil rights training to pilots and cabin crew AP [WASHINGTON] The US Government announced a settlement on Friday with Continental Airlines over allegations the carrier discriminated after the Sept 11 terror attacks against travellers believed to have been of Arab, Middle
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      • 315 28 But progress made on environment, security matters AFP [BRUSSELS] Air traffic talks between the European Union (EU) and the United States remain pinned down on issues of access to the US for European carriers, EU and US sources said. Both sides appeared
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        • 171 28 Reuters [PARIS] Air France will launch its agreed takeover offer for Dutch rival today, pressing ahead with the landmark cross-border merger that will create the world's biggest airline by revenues. Under the terms of the deal which was first unveiled in September 2003, holders
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        • 80 28 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] United Parcel Service Inc, the largest package-delivery company, said it has won US approval to add six weekly flights between Hong Kong and other cities in Asia. The flights will be added in October to United Parcel's existing schedule of
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      • 375 28 Bloomberg (ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines Inc, the least unionised major carrier, told flight attendants, reservation agents and administrative workers they will not receive raises this year because they are already paid at top industry rates. Delta, the third-largest airline, told the workers in a
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