The Business Times, 24 May 2002

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  • 11 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 010/03/2002 SINGAPORE FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2002
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  • 77 1 □sn UHJB (-19.72) ST DIMS FUTURES mm 1,722j00 (-21.00) nsßßanmißß mm HAM (-2.30) STOCK HAIXET DCDICES Thursday Change KLSECOMP W&9 -6J6 NIKKEI 225 __11J7M6 +17.87 HANG SENG _1 1424.16 -178.4s SET INDEX 3KM +6J8 JAKARTA COUP _501«7 -7.96 MANILA OOMP .U2JJ4 +4J6 TAIPEI WPI 5,549.96 +8J2 SEOUL COMP
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  • 68 1 FOBEX SATES USI st l*s$ (SS per USS) 1.716 £(U'SS/S$ per 1.467 1616 EURO(USS/S$/E). 0JB4 1.659 DM 1216 1.234 YEN 1241 6910 RM 1806 1117 HKS 7.790 4J44 BAHT 4180 2184 RUPIAH 9,000 6,611 PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 6.25 KUALA LUMPUR 149 BONO KONG 6.125 JAKARTA 39.00 TAEPH 1726 TOKYO
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  • 865 1  -  Issuers, advisers face legal action for false statements in prospectus By Genevieve Cua, Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] In a landmark move in line with a disclosure-based regime, the Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday issued regulations that require issuers of stocks, debt securities
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  • 710 1  -  But feeder funds will still be around, at least until CPF issue is resolved By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Investors will enjoy reduced costs following the much-awaited regulations announced yesterday to allow offshore funds to be sold directly to investors here without
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  • 348 1  -  Stock jumps 76%; volume a massive 6 times IPO float By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Will Westech Electronics' listing debut be a repeat of Dayen Environmental? And will the Singapore Exchange (SGX) intervene to label Westech a "designated security", as it did with Dayen? These
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    • 550 2  -  Beard will let shareholders decide matter, bat Tajudin side seen spoiling for a fight From] Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur TELEKOM Malaysia has turned hostile by proposing to boot Tajudin Ramli and three key allies out of the boardroom of
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    • 839 2  -  SZNGTEL-ZDA SUIT TAS and Cabinet relied on Deloitte report and mistakenly believed sum was taxable By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE! Singapore Telecom must return a $388 million tax saving on the $1.5 billion compensation it received from the government for early termination of
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 144 2 US-BASED website www.Neopets.com received a mention in Parliament yesterday from Khaw Boon Wan, Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts Transport. Citing its value in teaching teenagers the value of good profit management, Mr Khaw said it seems to be hugely popular with teens
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      • 112 2 AS World Cup fever starts to take hold. Singaporeans are flocking to soccer-related sites. While it is no surprise that most of these soccer surfers are males, Internet measurement company Net Value has found that PMEBs (professionals, managers, executives and businessmen) accounted for the bulk, or
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      • 97 2 IF thoughts of weekend food are coming to mind, here's some food for thought. Fans of Peter Mayle (of Toujours Provence fame) might even consider this a "crisis" of unprecedented proportions. The French bowing to the Americans on matters of the palate? Jamais!
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    • 443 2 High auto demand takes figure past forecast Reuters, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US orders for costly manufactured goods shot past expectations in April, driven by the biggest demand for autos in more than three years, the government said yesterday in a report showing strong consumer
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    • 372 2 Inside ranners inchde acting grantor, ANZ Bank GEO, Wimtpaf HI rhinf or—mint Reuters [WELLINGTON] Wanted: Central hank governor for buzzing South Pacific economy previous inflation-taming experience an advantage. They are not quite the words being used in the search for a
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 344 3  -  Mould maker gets $Lsm loan from Regional Capital By 1 Vince Chong SESDAQ-LISTED Penton International's funding search continues with the latest announcement that Sunningdale Holdings may take a 50.05 per cent stake. This followed Australia's An in Property Investments declining earlier this month
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    • 221 3 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Whampoa and Singapore Technologies Telemedia said they would not raise their US$75O million offer for fibre-optic network operator Global Crossing, even though talks on a formal bid were extended until today. Hutchison has changed the offer to benefit Global
      Bloomberg  -  221 words
    • 510 3  -  It targets sales of $lb by 2005 and aims to be debt-free by next year By\ David Boey KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation Ltd said yesterday it plans to sell non-core assets with a combined book value of $390 million by end-2002 and added that management
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 58 4 MAINBOARD-LISTED Total Automation Ltd, a systems integrator and process control specialist, announced it had secured a $2 million contract to upgrade another two liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vessels. The new contract is in addition to a previously awarded $2 million upgrade of two sister ships,
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      • 85 4 Reuters ELECTRONICS contract manufacturer Huan Hsin Holdings yesterday said it had secured a Taiwanese notebook manufacturer as its third customer for its notebook casings. The Taiwan-based and Singapore-listed firm, which produces 70,000 casings a month at its plant in Shanghai ranks Taiwanese laptop computers
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      • 98 4 Reuters WBL Corp said net profit was down 36.7 per cent in the six months to Mar 31,2002, to $5.40 million. Earnings per share fell to 3.10 cents from 5.00 cents. Turnover dipped to $446.77 million from $456.63 million. Interim dividend was unchanged at
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      • 79 4 Reuters MFS Technology said for the six months to Mar 31, 2002, net profit fell to $2.08 million from $9.19 million. Earnings per share was 0.50 cent from 2.50 cents. Turnover fell to $41.86 million from $50.66 million. MFS makes and sells flexible
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    • 313 4  -  Rising patient yields, improving demand cited as positives By. Andrea Tan AFTER falling out of favour with investors last year. Parkway Holdings, which gave its first-quarter corporate update on Wednesday, received several upgrades yesterday from analysts who cover the healthcare stock. Goldman Sachs has upgraded
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    • 237 4 Reuters GOLDMAN Sachs has kept an overweight rating on the Singapore property sector, with City Developments and All green Properties as top picks as the government reviews its housing policy. The city state said early this week it was reviewing its housing funding policies and may allow
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    • 301 4  -  JV with Chinese partner will build 1,800-home project By Vince Chong KEPPEL Land announced yesterday that it will jointly develop with the Beijing Urban Development Company, its first project in the Chinese capital a 1,800-unit residential development. This development will come up on a
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    • 504 5 Bat recovery in technology spending still not in sight, the company says Reuters A STRONG outsourcing trend is bringing Flextronics International Ltd better business in its consumer electronics and computer segments, but a convincing recovery in tech spending remains elusive, the company says. The Nasdaq-listed, Sin-gapore-based
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    • 331 5  -  Bering wants Internet links for 90% of schools CEO By Grace Tan SGX-listed Achieva, which specialises in electronics and IT-related products, is banking on China as a key market. Fresh from sealing a joint venture with Beijing Stone New Technology
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    • 712 5  -  lock siew harish mehta AS Thailand's economy recovers, property and building materials stocks are back in favour, joining the ranks of the all-time favourite communications stocks. The recovery is, after all, driven by consumers, whose purchases of all those homes and cellphones are
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    • 321 4 M THE MATTER OF THE COMPAMES ACT, CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER OF KOKAMG SINGAPORE PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of KOKAMG SINGAPORE PTE LTD duly convened and held at 3 Shenton Way #10-01 Shenton House Singapore
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      321 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES May 23 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 168.00 12.00 BT CAM -*****.00 -84.00 BT 10-day MA *****.00 -17.00 M-SGEjbMM 454.30 -4.55 Elect 155.25 -0.30 SGTplnFh 1531.22 -23.01 432.48 -3.60 MSaShg»poi» 215.66 -2.74 SMSCI Frtam 216.60 -2.30 Slocks Volume WesTech 10c 115,357.000 GokJtron 5c 42.252,000 IPC020C 31,115,000 TMC Int
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    • 262 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan PARKWAY Holdings, whose stock has been trawling the bottom for months, was again in the news this week as it announced plans to divest some of its non-core interests. The stock slipped 1.5 cents to 86.5
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    • 762 6  -  STOCKS r. sivanlthy LETS hear it for IPOs! After all, where would the local market be without them? And how would brokers pass the time if not for the massive punting chances afforded by new listings especially since the Straits Times Index yesterday sank 19.72
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    • 598 6  -  I li comment CURRENCIES Bat many expect this to only slow yen's rise, not reverse trend larry wee THE Bank of Japan (BOJ) stepped in to buy US dollars again at the Asian close yesterday, lifting the greenback towards Wednesday's
      Source: Reuters  -  598 words
  • 2842 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS CrtiSelecl Asia Titt Balanred 1.2V CitiSelect Asia Tilt Growth 1 21 CitiSetect Asia Tilt EnhGrth 1 16/ AM Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) CitiSelect Global Growth 1 OB/ Star Europe Eqty! A 0 76% CitiSelect Global Income 1.11/ Star EuropeBd 0975/ Citi Global Healthcare Fsmd 094/ Star Europe
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 256 8  -  The regulator wants to study the cost of setting np such a network By. Adeline Chia THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has asked Singapore Telecom and other mobile phone operators to take part in a study on allowing customers to retain their
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    • 216 8 AnBciatiBß mulls appeal for •ao-year reprieve to rebuild Bloomberg THE Singapore Retailers Association is considering petitioning the government to delay raising the island's goods and services tax by a year, said Jannie Tay, president of the trade group. Singapore plans to increase the tax to
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    • 238 9  -  _£I£LliiiiLm l 1 l l 11 i'^ By i Chen Huifen THE inflation rate continued to fall last month, as consumer prices eased 1.1 per cent year-on-year. With April's fall, Singapore's consumer price index (CPI) has seen six consecutive months of year-on-year decline. The index
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    • 596 9  -  NgTeng Pong's firm beats Wee Cho Yaw's UOL with top $100.8 m bid By Kalpana Rashiwala IN what could be described as an upset win at a state tender yesterday, property magnate Ng Teng Fong looks set to break Wee
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    • 190 9 GIC Real Estate has paid Asl6o miUion (*****.5 million) for the five-star Westin Sydney hotel the biggest deal in the Australian property market so far this year. The purchase is in line with GIC RE's strategy to accumulate core hospitality
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    • 374 9  -  By Andrea Tan APPLICATIONS for the use of CPF funds to buy private homes more than doubled during the first quarter to 3,448, from 1,508 in Q4 Developers sold 4,145 units in the first quarter, up from the strong 3,111 units sold
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    • 222 9  -  It H have access to SLA data to market and build applications By' Tang Weng Fai THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) moved yesterday to encourage the adoption of location-based services (LBS) by giving the private sector access to its data. Location-based services allow
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 745 10  -  THEHH ■asiEEiina OPINION frank ching The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator THERE is a story told about Mao Zedong, perhaps apocryphal, that he once admitted that he had made a mistake in proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic of China
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    • 85 10 'Once war breaks out the military dynamic of obtaining a favourable outcome takes control. The spiral of politico-military escalation that begins to unfold has a momentum of its own, which even experienced statesmen find difficult to control' -TRlafbmi a retired Indian lieutenant-general, on the prospect of a
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    • 557 10 EDITORIAL THE Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) agreed this week to work more closely to combat terrorism in the region. It was the most concrete collective step taken yet by the grouping since the fallout of Sept 11 reached the region's shores. Given Asean's
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    • 1177 10  -  NPLs are a problem that is stifling growth in numerous Asian countries, no matter how much fiscal and monetary stimulus is applied From j Anthony Rowley in Tokyo IT is a problem that will not seem to go away, despite
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    • 457 10  -  MalLltETy Chin Hock Jin Executive Director Redas Singapore THE Real Estate Developers Association of Singapore (Redas) would like to thank BT for the article "Redas: Don't aim CPF changes at private homes" by Kalpana Rashiwala and for Lee Han Shih's column "70% of CPF is
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    • 242 10  -  Chia Hui Ping Singapore MY letter ('Let A V Jennings join co-trading arrangement', March 26) mentioned that the co-trading scheme between Singapore and Australia excludes A V Jennings (AVJ) despite the stock being listed on both Clob and the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). MPH later clarified
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    • 204 10  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to the article "Loan interest eating into CPF: Boon Heng" by Andrea Tan (BT, May 11). When the CPF could only be used for housing, it fuelled the property market. When it was extended to Singapore shares, it fuelled
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 393 11 KUALA LUMPUR Move by toll road nnit comes ahead of initial share sale in July Bloomberg UNITED Engineers Malaysia Bhd's toll road unit will write off RM4.2 billion (551.98 billion) owed by its parent and another related company as part of
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    • 475 11 KUALA LUMPUR Brother, associate match reserve price ofßMslomfor tycoon's 45% stake Reuters THE brother of Malaysian businessman Tajudin Ramli and a close associate have matched the reserve price for his forfeited 45 per cent stake in shell firm Naluri, sources close to the bidders said
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    • 327 11 HONGKONG Dow Jones Newswires CHEUNG Kong (Holdings) Ltd said yesterday its balance sheet is as healthy as any company with top credit ratings, though it agreed with Standard Poor's recent verdict that Hong Kong developers' profit margins can no longer match pre--1997 peaks.
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    • 438 11 KUALA LUMPUR THE dispute between the two families controlling the Tan Chong empire has now moved from the courtroom to the boardroom, with attention focused on the coming AGMs of the group's listed units. The Star reported yesterday. Three units listed
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    • 525 12 JAKARTA Draft letter to IMF also says Bank Mandiri sale may be delayed to Q3 Reuters INDONESIA expects to launch majority stake sales in Bank Danamon and Bank Lippo in 2002, pushing the total number of key banks to be sold to
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    • 402 12 AFP [TAIPEI] Some 150 Chinese firms are to recruit several hundred high-tech and financial experts from Taiwan through recruitment agencies in Hong Kong and Taipei, local manpower agencies said yesterday. The Taipei-based 1111 Job Bank will work with a Hong Kong head-hunter to
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    • 247 13 TAIPEI Bloomberg TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) plans to register its patents in China in preparation for the opening of its first plant in the world's third-largest chip market. The world's biggest made-to-order chipmaker denied an Economic Daily News report that the plan
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    • 423 13 BANGKOK Big boys like 6M and Toyota could squeeze them out of market Reuters SOUTH-EAST Asia's car industry will find itself squeezed by stifT competition from giant emerging neighbour China, but that will not spell its demise, industry experts said on Wednesday. China's expanding
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    • 321 13  -  It's the only S-E Arian country that's unaffected by global slowdown, says UN body From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok VIETNAM'S economy is forecast to grow a robust 6.1 per cent this year, and to accelerate to 6.8 per cent next year and 7.3 per cent in
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    • 134 13 HOCHI MINH CITY Reuters A WAR between India and Pakistan could do serious damage to the world economy through its effect on oil prices, the World Bank's chief economist said yesterday. Nicholas Stern told Reuters on the sidelines of a World Bank-sponsored business
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • WORLD news
    • 516 14 TOKYO Robust Asian demand cited; bat analysts see danger from rising yen AFP JAPAN'S trade surplus rose 26.6 per cent in April from last year as exports increased for the first time in 13 months powered by robust Asian demand,
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    • 275 14 SAN FRANCISCO Reuters CRAIG Barrett, chief executive of Intel Corp, on Wednesday proposed that companies be required to expense stock option grants given to their top five executives, proposing a middle ground in what has become a hotly debated issue since Enron Corp's
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    • 314 14  -  From Neil Behrmann in London TWO European hedge fund managers that actively pursue marketing campaigns in Asia have merged into a group that now manages around US$2O billion. Man Group, a Londonlisted group, has acquired RMF, a Swiss-based asset manager for
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    • 312 14 NEW YORK Reuters, LAT-WP STATE regulators and at-torneys-general are gearing up separate inquiries into research analyst conflicts at other major Wall Street firms, on the heels of Merrill Lynch's settlement, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. On Tuesday, Merrill reached a US$lOO million
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 69 14 IMiNLiAr'iJKt.j German luxury carmaker BMW Group is launching a 35 million yen (5|506,645) Samurai bond issue in Japan next month. This is the company's first issue in the Japanese institutional capital market. BMW said it was tapping the Japanese market to further diversify its
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      • 66 14 Reuters (TOKYO] Speculation grew yesterday that Japan Telecom Co, controlled by Britain's Vodafone Group Inc. was preparing to sell its struggling fixed-line business, despite a denial from the company. Japan Telecom shares rose after Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that Vodafone, which owns 66.7 per
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      • 75 14 Bloomberg [SUNNYVALE, California] Yahoo! Inc will stop offering Internet auctions in six of the largest European countries and promote rival EBay Inc's services instead as part of efforts to return to profitability. The owner of the world's most-used group of Internet sites will close
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    • 222 16 BUENOS AIRES AFP US Treasury and IMF officials are to be investigated in Argentina over coercion allegations against the government of President Eduardo Duhalde, official sources said on Wednesday. Federal prosecutors agreed to investigate charges that pressure was brought to bear
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    • 109 23 AFP [SEOUL] Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world's second largest shipbuilder, said yesterday it has won a US$426 million order for an oil and gas rig in Angola. The South Korean firm said it would build the rig in the west African state for US
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      • 228 34 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] AMR Corp's American Airlines, UAL Corp's United Airlines and other US carriers propose creating a company to provide terrorism insurance at half the cost of current coverage. Marsh Inc, the insurance brokerage unit of Marsh McLennan Cos, applied for a
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      • 339 34 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Air System (JAS), the country's third biggest airline, said fullyear profit feU 58 per cent because the country's recession and lingering safety worries following the Sept 11 attacks hurt demand. Group net income fell to 927 million yen (5513.2 million), or 42.4
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