The Business Times, 19 July 2004

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/03/2004 lntfe.pp. httn.//business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY, JULY 19, 2004 850
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  • 405 1 Hng Kiang warns against investing in products without a full understanding [SINGAPORE] Second Minister for Finance Lim Hng Kiang said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is currently "reviewing the regulatory environment in Singapore to remove any impediments to the development and offering
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  • 604 1 [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, whose last day in office will be Aug 12, said yesterday his successor Lee Hsien Loong has asked him to remain in the new Cabinet. And Mr Goh said he will leave
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  • 371 1  -  The S'pore metals trader is said to have been caught by speculation By Vinoe Chong [SINGAPORE] Singaporebased metal trader Lulee Metals has filed for liquidation after incurring $70 million to $80 million in debt a development that has sent shivers through the
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  • 63 1 Week Change STI 1871.47 +9.44 KLSECOMP ***** -11.41 NIKKEI 225 *****.00 +12.47 HANG SENG *****.20 -143.06 SET INDEX 646.11 -20.48 JAKARTA COMP .756.09 -5.05 MANILA COMP -*****8 -41.23 TAIPEI TAIEX 5502.14 -275.58 SEOUL COMP 739.39 -8.07 SHENZHEN B 253.95 +0.33 AIJST ALL OKI) .3533.47 -25.43 DOW JONES *****.78 73.44
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  • 74 1 FOREX RATES US$ 8$ I !S$ <SS per ISS) 1.707 1.853 3.163 m !ROCl!S$/S$/E| 1-237 1113 YES IM9.6 Will KM 3800 tan H K$ 7.800 4.589 BAHT 23&t' RtHIAH 8*92 5,208 RENMINBI 8277 4.M8 INDIAN RUPEE 4C.I7 27 W AS 1380 0.808 NZS 1532 0897 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25
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    • 668 2  -  Asean is the main victim of this move by firms to protect their technology From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A NEW report from the Japanese Cabinet Office suggests that the "hollowing out" of the nation's industrial base is going into reverse, and that some
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    • 746 2  -  Despite good Q2 results, focus is on poor economic data, oil prices, elections From Andrew Marks on New York WHEN it comes to figuring out why the stock market has been so subjected to jitters in the past four weeks,
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    • 852 2  -  Land banking firm says Singapore investors drawn by prospects of high returns By Joyoe Koh [SINGAPORE] More Singaporeans are putting their money in an investment opportunity called land banking, drawn by the high returns and buy-back capital guarantees. Over 4,000 Singaporeans
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    • 480 2 Financial Reporting Developments 2004 Dates Another wave of changes in accounting standards is hitting Singapore. Improvements to Financial Most of the changes, which are pervasive, will be effective from Reporting Standards 1 January 2005. Generally, retrospective application is required upon Tuesday, 24 August 2004 implementation. As comparative information for one
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 922 3  -  There's no confusing one for another, but there are few exclusive features By Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE'S three local banks may be success icons in their own right but there is something that seems to remain beyond their reach strong brand loyalty among
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    • 713 3  -  HOCK lock siew r sivanithy WHEN the economy is recovering and the stock market turns for the better, it's usually small caps that lead the charge. Certainly, this was the case here in 2003: The Straits Times Index rose 30 per cent but the UOB
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    • 1131 4  -  INSIDE MARKETS Share purchases slide to 16 transactions while sales deals rise sharply to 18, reports Robert Halili Robert Halili A THE sentiment was negative last week with sellers outweighing buyers based on filings to the Singapore Exchange from July 12 to 16. Just seven shareholders in
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 974 5  -  BT portfolio STOCKS kenneth lim Concerns about earnings in the electronics and semiconductor industries sent four of our five portfolios tumbling last week, erasing most of their gains in the previous week. Those four portfolios not only lost value against last week, they
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    • 312 5  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By R Sivanithy WHEN we first featured Malaysian Second Board counter Sarawak Concrete's warrants in this column some six weeks ago, they sold for RM1.25. What was remarkable about this instrument was that despite having plenty of time left till expiry
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    • 874 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IT must have occurred to many market players by now that what ails Wall Street isn't worries of rising interest rates any more, but quite the opposite. It's actually quite funny when you think about it. After fearing that
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    • 623 6 Range-bound trading expected ahead of Greenspan's testimony AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies were mixed against the US dollar in the past week as dealers said range-bound trading was expected ahead of testimony by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in the US Congress and Senate this
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    • 89 6 Events investors can watch out for SMRT*sdividend payment, Aug 3 Tlanfin Zhong's dividend payment, Aug 3 SATS Svs's dividend payment, Aug 4 Weames Intnl's dividend payment, Aug 5 SB Hidgs'i dividend payment, Aug 6 Metro Hldgs's dividend payment, Aug 6 Sing Post's dividend payment, Aug6 WBL Corp's dividend
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 743 8  -  BT exclusive Regional banks run programmes for children of Asia's richest families By Siow Li Sen SOME children of the super rich chafe at the conditions tied to their inheritance and wonder why their money is distributed to them in a piecemeal fashion. "One child
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    • 667 8  -  By Chen Huifen THE green and yellow sunburst logo of BP may disappear from Singapore roads, but that will not be the last we see of the energy giant. BP which is selling its retail network here to Singapore Petroleum Company in a
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    • 266 8 AMERICAN oil giant ChevronTexaco has sold its entire interest in Singapore Syngas, an industrial gas production plant, to German conglomerate Linde. Singapore Syngas, located at Jurong Island, produces industrial gases like oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide for export to regional markets, according to
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    • 190 8 Reuters SINGAPORE'S unemployment rate could fall below the government's target of 4 per cent by the end of this year, Acting Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen told state radio yesterday. Dr Ng said that while 30,000 new jobs had been created in
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    • 397 8  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala HOI Hup group is restocking its landbank after achieving brisk sales for its two residential project launches earlier this year. It is inking a deal to buy the 10-year-old Pacific View Condo in Pasir Panjang Road for $23.5
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  • REGION world
    • 450 9  -  Report names heart surgeon who did Mahathir bypass as potential partner From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE guessing game continues on who are the partners of Singapore's Temasek Holdings in its bid to gain a foothold in the Malaysian banking sector. The latest
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    • 704 9  -  BT comment KL STOCKS eddie toh TWO major Singapore institutional investors have made greater inroads in Malaysia in recent months even though good bilateral ties between the two countries have yet to be fully restored. The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) snapped
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    • 91 9 AFP [BAGHDAD] Talib al-Tabatabie, chairman of the Iraqi bourse (left) and Taha Ahmed Abdul Salam, acting chief of the bourse's executive office, open a trading session at the well-guarded stock exchange building in the centre of Baghdad yesterday. At present, the Iraq stock exchange
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    • 303 9 KUALA LUMPUR Owner of EL's Twin Towers may raise RM726m in IPO Reuters THE owner of the Malaysian capital's soaring twin towers, KLCC Property Holdings, has priced its initial public offer of shares for retail investors at RM1.68 each, a source familiar with
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    • 311 9 MUMBAI INDIA'S biggest software company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to launch its new share issue India's largest at over US$l billion this month. The company said on Saturday that its plan to sell 55.45 million shares, or 11.6 per cent of its
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    • 647 10 WASHINGTON Rates need to rise gradually to keep recovery healthy, he's expected to say Reuters FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan will go before Congress this week armed with data showing the US economy is solid and free of dangerous price pressures that could
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    • 749 10 BANGKOK Western companies want developers to build and own offices and factories Reuters WESTERN multinationals are struggling to find developers in India and China with the expertise and money to construct and own the buildings they need as they shift manufacturing and technology businesses
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    • 651 10  -  Many firms have almost fixed their balance sheets By Chuang Peck Ming THOSE and there are still many of them who doubt Japan's current economic recovery is for real, point to structural problems that remain. According to these critics, only a major overhaul
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    • 269 10 LONDON ENGLISH Premiership champions Arsenal have set up a tax avoidance scheme for their players that uses secretive front companies and offshore accounts to save them huge sums in tax, The Sunday Times newspaper reported. The scheme described by one expert
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  • 1119 11 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP ILONDONj Oil prices raced up towards recent record highs las: week or. worries about tight supplies and terrorism Precious and base metals gained a fillip from bouts of weakness in the value of the US dollar
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  • WORLD news
    • 290 12 LONDON Secrecy can lead to charges of sex bias, say analysts Reuters INVESTMENT banks must be more transparent about the methods they use to calculate bonuses if they are to avoid further headlinegrabbing accusations of sex discrimination, industry experts say. The
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    • 172 12 NEW YORK Reuters CITIGROUP, which agreed to the biggest penalty in last year's settlement over biased stock research, last Friday said it hired five companies to provide independent stock research to clients as part of that settlement. Citigroup's Smith Barney unit said it chose Standard
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 233 12 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD appears 30 Education wallah read them as ordered (10) □OWN t0 worship there (4,6) Across: 1 Happiness, 9 Scales, 1 Relocate to make progress 16 Not all passed a test for 10 Mardi Gras, 11 Pop Art, 12 (4) drugs (7) Affluence, 13 Ideate, 17 Ask, 19 2
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  • BizIT
    • 718 13  -  BT exclusive It may list regional arm on SGX to fund growth if it meets internal targets By Amit Roy Choudhury INDIAN software firm ICICI Infotech, which is using Singapore as a launch pad into the Asean region and North Asia, sees regional sales
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    • 272 13 AFP [WASHINGTON] Global sales of personal computers grew at a stronger-than-ex-pected pace of 13 to 15 per cent in the second quarter, two market research firms said. International Data Corp (IDC) said late on Thursday that its quarterly survey showed that strong
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    • 443 13 NYT [TOKYO] Gadget geeks in Japan with cutting-edge cellphones will soon be able to call up their medical records, anytime, anywhere or, in a totally different vein, check out the provenance of their broccoli at the supermarket. The technology is nascent, but
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    • 811 14  -  BT comment INFOTECH The claim ignores the software's growing potential and appeal tang weng fai Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' tour through Asia recently created the expected column inches in the newspapers, with most of the stories highlighting the cut-price offers for its Windows operating system
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    • 220 14  -  By Gea Swee Jean FOLLOWING the roaring success of the world's leading mobile industry event held in Cannes in February, its organisers are now taking it to Asia, with the 3GSM World Congress Asia slated to be held here later this year. The congress
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    • ITTAKES
      • 36 14 MICROSOFT has expanded its Express product lines for SQL Server and Visual Studio to include new tools for entry-level, non-professional users. The new products are downloadable for free at http://msdn.microsoft.com/sgl/expressand http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express.
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      • 52 14 EASTMAN Kodak Company has launched two new digital cameras. The 4-megapixel DX7440 camera has a 4x optical zoom lens and a 0.2-second click-to-capture rating. It retails now for $649. The 6-megapixel DX7630 camera has a 3x optical zoom lens, a precision low-light autofocus system, and retails
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      • 62 14 PHOTOS can be transferred to a connected computer at a touch using the $139 Easyshare camera dock, which charges the lithium-ion battery in the camera in under three hours. An Easyshare printer dock is also available at $349, which can also connect to other manufacturers'
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      • 80 14 MOTOR sports fans, pay attention. Siemens Mobile, in co-operation with the Formula 1 team West McLaren Mercedes, has produced a limited edition of the Siemens SX1 mobile phone. The 116g phone incorporates a 640x480 pixel VGA camera, an MP3 player, FM radio, and 32 MB
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      • 76 14 lOMEGA Corporation has launched its solid-state Micro Mini USB 2.0 drive (above), with a smaller form factor than its original Mini Drive. The 9g Micro Mini transfers files at a speed of up to 8 MB per second, and prides itself on its stylish
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      • 50 14 CANON Inc is sponsoring an international environmental photo competition organised by the United Nations Environment Programme, the fourth so far. It will run till Oct 24 and is open to all. Entries can be submitted through the post or over the Internet. For details, visit www.unep-photo.com.
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      • 55 14 INFORMATION management company EMC Corporation has launched its e-mail archiving solution. Customers can apply centrally-defined e-mail archiving policies to enhance e-mail retention efficiency, and comply with e-mail retention requirements and regulations, preserving corporate records. Already available, an EMC Centera with IOTBs of raw capacity starts at
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      • 35 14 INTERNATIONAL Data Corp's conference this year on übiquitous mobility will be held on Aug 19 at The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore. It is organised by IDC Asia/Pacific. For details, e-mail apevents@idc.com.
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      • 42 14 A SEMINAR on Security Management: The Necessary Link Between Policy, Management and Technology will be held on July 23 at Raffles City Convention Centre, Level 4, Canning Room. It is organised by Computer Associates. For details, e-mail ca_sin@events-mgt.com.
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      • 51 14 IT solutions provider Crimson Logic Pte Ltd, headquartered in Singapore, has announced that its India offshore development centre has achieved Level 5 on the Capability Maturity Model Based Appraisal for Internal Process Improvement assessment. It is the highest award given for software process
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      • 68 14 THE National Day Parade committee has started another moblog contest, this time championing local causes. Well-known Singaporeans such as swimmer Leslie Kwok and director Jack Neo will send moblogs to stir the public spirit. The blog sites that provoke the most number of hits and
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      • 58 14 THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore has launched what it believes is the first wireless enterprise guidebook of its kind published in Singapore. The vendor-neutral volume provides enterprises with a step-by-step guide to determine the value proposition of wireless and how to go wireless. It
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      • 58 14  -  Compiled by Gea Swee Jean THE essays of two Singapore Management University students, identifying the biggest problems facing business in Singapore and proposing solutions, won the Microsoft-SMU Business Challenge and a trip to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Their essays were selected from 40
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    • 735 16  -  BT exclusive It's also adding engineers, aiming for S'pore and M'sia to handle half of its R&D needs in next three years, reports Raju Chellam Raju Chellam US electronics giant Agilent Technologies Inc is beefing up its Singapore semicon operations and adding more engineers
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    • 309 16  -  By Raju Chellam THE surge in semicon sales, coupled with a potential shortage of supplies, will see global semiconductor capital spending grow 50.9 per cent this year to reach US$44.B billion. Of this, spending on capital equipment alone will shoot up 63.5
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 256 17 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young DRY CARGO: THE continuing improvement in the dry bulk market has, not surprisingly, seen the emphasis switched firmly to this sector, with pan am ax bulk carriers being the most notable beneficiaries. The 2002 built Jin Tai was sold at round US$3l.5 million
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    • 53 17 [PUSAN] Anti-war protesters staging a protest in front ofa ship being loaded with war supplies for Iraq at a port in Pusan, South Korea. The protesters staged a rally yesterday to block the ship's departure and demanded the government drop its plan to send more troops
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    • 518 17 May shipment figures up 29% as demand from US, Europe keeps vessels fall Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's container shipments are still rising after the government introduced measures to cool economic growth, shipping lines such as China Ocean Shipping Group and Japan's Kawasaki
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    • 279 17 SGX '000 Jul 16 SS w- Vol CH Offshore 0.38 unch 741 Oman Hup 0.52 0.01 1305 Cosco Investment 0.87 0.01 ***** CWT Distribution 0.49 unch 20 EzraHldgs 0.97 -0.02 74 Freight Links .0.10 -0.01 132 GB Holdings 0.88 0.01 33 Jaya Holdings 0.89 0.01 1134 K1 Venture
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    • 309 17 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China Ocean Shipping Group's chief executive Wei Jiafu said the country's largest shipping company will order two crude oil tankers to be delivered by 2007 as the nation's fleet expands to cope with soaring oil imports. The very large crude carriers,
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    • 473 17 Golf state plans to spend over US$525m to renew its tanker fleet Bloomberg [DUBAI] Hyundai Heavy Industries Co and Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world's largest shipbuilders, may win as many as seven tanker orders from Kuwait, which plans to spend more
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    • 183 17 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's shipbuilders booked record orders in the first half of 2004, up 16 per cent on a year earlier because of strong demand to replace worn-out ships, the commerce ministry said yesterday. The firms had taken orders for 9.06
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    • 93 17 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] Four workers injured on Wednesday evening in an oil tanker fire in Shanghai are in a stable condition, hospital sources said. The fire broke out in the dormitory area of the Daqing No 254. The ship, which was berthed at Lixin Shipyard of Shanghai,
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    • 324 17 Bernama [PUTRAJAYA] Malaysia's cargo handling grew by 16 per cent in the first six months of this year to 4.88 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) from 5.69 million TEUs in the previous corresponding period. "For the first six months of this year, the Malaysian ports
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    • 745 18  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes THESE are interesting times in the liner shipping business. Contradictory signals about the nature of the market seem to be coming in from every direction. Everything is fine, the big operators seem to be saying. Strangely, though, it is
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    • 184 18 PAGE Alianca 3 AAL 5 Avant 5 Bank Line 4 B'tang Mas 3 BSA 4 BTL 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 China Shpg 4 Confer 5 Crocodile Line ....4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 EP Carriers 5 ECL 3 Eng Lee 5 Eukor 2 Eurasia 2 Foong Sun
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      • 495 25 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL AMR-TA 7 52 J4/5 A/SIDE 18/07 2300 GOLDEN HIGH V0406 J14 A/SIDE 18/07 0700 KALTIM EXP 2422E J15 A/SIDE 18/07 0600 MARCOPOLO 12 EL242J J15 A/SIDE 18/07 0630 MEKONG 4 5A/04 J5 A/SIDE 18/07 1200 PULAU NANAS 06/04 J3
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      • 1758 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing I ACX DAHLIA 078S 078S 1 21/07/2004-22:00 22/07/2004-16Q0 AOHIBISCUS 094N 094N 1 2007/2004-0800 20/07/2004-22:00 AL SHAMIAH S422W S422W 1 20/07/2004-1500 2107/2004-1800 ALAMJAYA AJ006 AJ006 1 1807/2004-20:30 1907/*****700 T06 ALAMJAYA 2 8905
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      • 134 25 Jul 19 Japan: Marine Day. Malaysia: Agung Birthday. Jul 21 Belgium: Nat Day. Angl Switzerland: Nat Day. AngO Singapore: Nat Day. Aug 12 Thailand: Queen's Birthday. Aug 15 France: Assump Day. Belgium: Assump Day. India: Indepen Day. S Korea: Libe Day. Aug 17 Indonesia: Independ Day. Aug 20
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      • 971 26 FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW With global travel rebounding, they may announce more orders at air show Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Airbus and Boeing, the world's two biggest planemakers, predict an increase in sales in 2005 as air traffic recovers after three years of declines following the Sept
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      • 656 26  -  Aircraft maker Boeing is applying human psychology to create an illusion of space in its new Dreamliner model. DAKIEL BUENAS who visited its Seattle plant recently tells how DANIEL BUENAS MENTION the word air travel these days, and images of grumpy passengers,
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      • 582 26 AFP [PARIS] The recent surge in oil prices may turn out to be a boon for aircraft manufacturers, as it is encouraging airlines to acquire planes that are more efficient than an earlier generation of fuel guzzlers now sitting idle
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      • 195 26 AP [MOSCOW] Sukhoi Aviation, famed for its military fighters, will be promoting its civilian side at this week's Farnborough international air show, the company's general director said. Thirty countries already fly fighters from the Sukhoi stable, and it plans to deliver 40
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