The Business Times, 28 May 2002

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  • 12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES I MITA (P) 010/03/2002 SINGAPORE TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2002
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  • 53 1 STOCK MA1IBT UUWKB Monday Change KLSE OOMP Owed NIKKEI 2» —****** *t07 HAN0SEN0_.1UM.75 41ft SET INDEX Closed JAKARTA OOMP -fill 79 +184 MANILACOMP TAIPEI WPI 6,729JO +HSO SEOUL COMP £40.57 -14.00 SHENZHEN B 217,57 -144 AUSTALLORD *****0 -4.00 BOMBAY IND __*****1 -1121 NooaEST Change DOW Closed NASDAQ Closed
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  • 69 1 FOBEX BATES us$ ss l'S$ fS$ per l'S$) L799 £(US$/S$ per 1.463 1616 LTRO(US$/S$/E). 0519 1.663 DM 1216 1.232 YEN 126.0 69 J>0 RM im 1112 HKS 7.799 4.336 BAHT 4186 2182 BUPIAH 8J66 4J>78 FUBB KATES SINGAPORE* 616 KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 HONG KONG 6124 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI I7tt
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  • 1361 1  -  elusive Candidates are in growth sectors and headed by savvy entrepreneurs Reports by Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Red chip fever is set to hit the Singapore Exchange (SGX), with at least half a dozen Chinarelated companies tipped to be listed here
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  • 307 1 A NEW kid on the block, the investment banking unit of HL Bank, has served notice it will be a contender for corporate finance deals and initial public offers. Its head of investment banking, Khong Choun Mun, said: "We expect to launch
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  • 1244 1  -  pilexcTusTvel The recently retired STB chairman believes that having fun is serious business Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE) Traditionally, Singapore and Hong Kong have been seen as rival cities. They compete head-on for a share of the region's trade and commerce, both aspiring to be
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  • 489 1 Revised Q1 figure shows 0.9% rise, after 10% Q4 drop NYT (ATLANTA] For stockmarket investors, the gem buried in the details of the latest US economic growth report was a pleasant surprise: after-tax corporate profits increased in the first quarter of 2002.
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    • 380 2  -  Sun HK chief gets Us managers to make the effort to allay staffs fears By i Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] When the chips are down, senior management should, more than ever, make the effort to clear the doubts and allay the fears of
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    • 345 2  -  Firm is confident of demand for the 150-nnit project From. Al Labita in Manila A SINGAPORE firm has brushed aside the slump in the Philippine tourism market and launched a twintower luxury serviced apartment project. Fraser Place is the first Asean venture by Fraser Serviced
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 379 3  -  •ii exclusive Chnan Soon Hnat, PSL, ex-Pivot MD Too Pea Ngo tie np in La trade Industrial Park for SHEs By' Vince Chong LISTED home-furnishings firm Chuan Soon Huat Industrial (CSH), construction group PSL Holdings and former Pivot Group managing director Teo
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    • 609 3  -  neil behrmann ATTENTION has been focused on volatile and poor-performing stock markets, but since the final months last year there has been a bond bear market in which huge amounts of money have been lost. In percentage terms, the losses don't appear extensive. But,
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    • 254 3  -  on the economy Singapore manufacturing Byi Chua Hui Min MANUFACTURING output in April is likely to have fallen one per cent year-on-year after a 2.9 per cent slide in March, adding to tentative signs that the economy is turning around, says an OCBC Bank economist.
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  • FOCUS property
    • 935 4  -  11 comment PROPERTY But a deficit results because tt takes in development costs lee han shih CONTRARY to popular belief, the Housing and Development Board does not lose money on its carparks. In fact, it is making good profits out of them. HDB, which houses
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  • FOCUS japan
    • 1070 5  -  The country's 10-year record shows that reforms, though sluggish, are still taking place. But the process will take time, Patrick smith reckons PATRICK SMITH The writer is a former correspondent in Japan and the author of Japan: A Reinterpretation. The opinions expressed are his
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    • 9 5 Japan firms heading for first combined loss, Pg 11
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 721 6  -  mill I bottom line OPINION al labita The writer is BT's Manila correspondent IF the Muslim separatist rebellion is now a dying cause in southern Philippines, Malaysia deserves much credit In more ways than one, Malaysia managed to ease Manila's burden of pacifying a
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    • 87 6 There never has been any such thing as free trade, and never will be. It's like world peace. It won't happen in my lifetime.' -bwatlMtagi US senator, on cutting back on President Bush's authority to negotiate new trade agreements. Truly, the conventional big bang theory really is
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    • 632 6 EDITORIAL THE nuclear arms accord that US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed in Moscow is being dismissed as having little significance. Strategic analysts, whose work during the Cold War had been to watch the ups and downs of weapons
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    • 1162 6  -  China's economic rise will not be at the expense of more developed economies. This is because the world economy is not a zero-sum game By\ Eddie Lee The writer is a strategist at DBS Vickers IT was 800 kilometres up, travelling
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    • 890 6  -  COMMENTARY It's a huge economic one that'll hit global growth badly if it isn't arrested soon By' William Pesek Jr The writer is a Bloomberg News columnist. The views expressed are his own. Bloomberg IT'S a generally accepted truth that China lies about how
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  • MAIL bag
    • 575 7  -  Gabriel Lee Beijing via Internet YOUR market columnist R Sivanithy is most insightful in his comments on the Singapore stock market in regard to the small investor. I would like to add that a further and principal factor contributing to the
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    • 320 7  -  James Tan Sek Lock Singapore I REFER to the letter "Firms face too much govt competition" by Lee Kwok Weng (Mailbag, May 16). Mr Lee said the activities of GLCs and govern-ment-supported organisations have increased competition in Singapore, and that the obsession of these organisations
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    • 663 7  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to the BT editorial, "Time for penny stock rules" (BT, May 16). I think you have given a fairly exhaustive overview of penny stocks, the main thrust being that there should be some ground rules for their initial and continued
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 503 8  -  Seasons for shift include high production costs, poor infrastructure From Al Labita in Manila HIGH production costs, poor infrastructure, and security concerns are driving some Japanese companies in the Philippines to China, although officials say only a few have pulled up stakes so far.
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    • 186 8 MANILA GERMAN-US automobile maker DaimlerChrysler AG is considering transferring its factory operations in China to either the Philippines, Malaysia or Indonesia, several Manila newspapers reported yesterday, quoting an unidentified industry source. The source said DaimlerChrysler senior manager for external affairs Heribert KepPler raised the possible
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    • 1042 9  -  WRITER'S JOURNAL M'sia must press on with reforms of the education system, judiciary, civil service and corporate sector karim raslan Malaysians have short memories. Now that the country is poised for a dramatic economic rebound, the events of the late nineties seem like a bad dream,
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    • 223 9 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA'S bank rescue agency will leave a decision on whether to accept bids for a 51 per cent stake in Bank Niaga to the government and a financial committee, said the agency's chief, Syafruddin Temenggung. A decision on the final
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    • NOTE Book
      • 138 9 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's exports rose less than expected in April, suggesting a rebound in global demand may take longer than anticipated to return the city's economy to growth. Overseas sales rose 2.5 per cent from a year earlier to HK5123.1 billion (5528.4
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      • 92 9 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's central bank said yesterday its 2001 net profit jumped almost seven-fold from 2000, results likely to boost confidence in the key institution hit by financial and political controversies. Bank Indonesia posted a 17.6 trillion rupiah (553.5 billion) profit in 2001, up
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      • 83 9 Dow Jones Newswires [TAIPEI] Major Taiwanese banks won't tighten the credit lines of China Airlines Ltd because they don't expect Saturday's crash to hurt the air carrier's finances, the Commercial Times reported. However, the banks said they would consider higher interest rates for future
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      • 143 9 Dow Jones Newswires [HONG KONG] Mass transit railway operator MTR Corp may face a land premium of HK$l.3 billion (*****.7 million) for a 1.53 million sq ft residential and retail development along its Tseung Kwan O line, the South China Morning Post reported. According to
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    • 163 9 Bloomberg [BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN] Europe's No 2 oil company by sales, the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, said it will decide next year the location of a planned US$l billion natural gas-to-liquids plant, the world's biggest. "We continue maturing the prospect and hopefully
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    • 599 10 ZURICH Net purchases of US debt securities rose to USs79.6b in 3 years ended 2001 Reuters THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said that US dollars held by the Chinese have risen sharply in recent years, and large amounts of these were flowing
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    • 205 10 BEIJING Roles to allow multinationals to take over ailing enterprises soon: report Reuters CHINA is drafting rules to allow foreign multinationals to acquire large state-owned firms for the first time, the official China Securities Journal said yesterday. Such a move would be the latest
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    • 237 10 BEIJING Bloomberg CHINA'S industrial companies cut prices for their goods in April, the latest sign of flagging domestic demand in Asia's second-larg-est economy. Factory prices for industrial products fell 3.1 per cent from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
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    • 482 10 HAIKOU. China Project restarted after local banks arrange financing Bloomberg ASIA Pulp Paper Inc (APP), which stopped payment on about US$l3 billion in debt, resumed construction of a pulp plant in China after local banks arranged financing for the project, a government official
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  • WORLD news
    • 441 11 TOKYO Research institute says listed firms had group net loss through to March Reuters CORPORATE Japan is heading for its first combined loss as shrinking global demand and costly restructuring last business year knocked the wind out of high-tech firms in particular, a
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 75 11 Reuters [LONDON] Global banking group HSBC Holdings pic is in advanced talks to invest US$75O million in New York private equity firm AEA Investors, banking sources said yesterday. The AEA investment will give HSBC a foothold in the US private equity market. HSBC
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      • 75 11 AFP [FRANKFURT] The fast-failing media giant Kirch is currently examining whether its holding company, Taurus, should file for insolvency after two main creditor banks insisted it repay its debts, a Kirch spokesman said yesterday. Both Bayerische Landesbank and HypoVereinsbank said last week that they would
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      • 73 11 Reuters [MUNICH] Munich Re yesterday posted a sharp jump in first-quarter net profit, boosted by the sale of shares in insurer Allianz AG and a strong improvement in its core reinsurance business. Net profit in the first three months of2oo2jumped to 4.5 billion
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      • 63 11 Bloomberg [DUBAI] Credit Suisse First Boston lost a four-month-old contract to advise the United Arab Emirates and Total Fina Elf SA on a US$3.5 billion plan to import natural gas from Qatar. The Middle East Economic Digest earlier reported that officials at Dolphin Energy
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    • 169 11 Reuters [NEW YORK] Placer Dome Inc joined the ranks of North American gold mining predators yesterday, launching a As 2 billion (SSI .9 billion) stock bid for Australia's AurionGold Ltd. The unsolicited offer, which comes as bullion trades at its highest price in more
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    • 310 11 TOKYO AFP STANDARD Poor's said yesterday that it may review ratings on major Japanese banks if their earnings performances worsen more than expected due to bad loan write-offs or a slump in the value of shareholdings. But ratings on the megalenders, which
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    • 119 11 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Sales of computerchipmaking equipment declined for a 13th straight month in March, indicating chipmakers curbed spending last year as demand for semiconductors slumped, an industry group said. Global sales slid 57 per cent to US$l.69 billion in March from a year ago, the
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    • 353 13 BASEL, Switzerland Stock prices declined, US long rates fell with waning confidence in strong recovery AFP INVESTORS have failed to revive their confidence in a strong global economic recovery, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in its quarterly review released
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    • 208 13 AFP [FRANKFURT] Industrial confidence in Germany rebounded strongly in May after the setback it suffered in April, data showed yesterday, confirming that recovery is indeed underway in the euro zone's biggest economy. Nevertheless, economists said they were staying cautious about the breadth and speed of the
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    • 414 13 TURIN, Italy It is said to have reached deal on a capital injection Reuters AFP Bloomberg FIAT, Italy's biggest industrial group, is trying to convince lenders that a vast restructuring plan is viable and will reduce debt as the threat of
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    • 275 13 [LONDON] GlaxoSmithKline pic may be contemplating another big merger as a way of escaping its nearterm troubles, the Wall Street Journal said yesterday. After Glaxo's shares tumbled 8.7 per cent on Friday following news late Thursday that it had lost patent protection
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    • 240 13 LONDON Bloomberg VODAFONE Group pic, Europe's biggest cellular-phone company, may write off £8 billion (5520.9 billion) of assets, reveal a spending cut and rule out a share buyback when it releases results today, newspapers said yesterday. The UK-based company, whose shares have dropped 37
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    • 365 14 TOKYO April's 0-8% slide led by 5.6% drop in car sales as jobless rate nears new high Bloomberg JAPANESE retail sales declined in April, led by cars and clothing, reinforcing expectations the world's sec-ond-biggest economy may shrink again this quarter after
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    • 259 14 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co led a rise in overseas output by Japan's five biggest automakers in April as they moved production abroad to tap lower costs and rising demand. Toyota's output of cars, light trucks and commercial vehicles at
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    • 254 14 Dow Jones Newswires [TOKYO] Some 78 companies have been delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange since the beginning of this year, surpassing the previous record high of 53 for all last year, the NihonKeizai Shimbun reported in
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    • 398 14 TOKYO Nikkeiren to form Japan Business Federation AFP JAPAN'S two biggest business organisations are to join forces today with the Toyota chairman leading the new entity as the nation's companies struggle to survive global competition by streamlining operations. The Federation of Economic
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    • 267 15 TOKYO Hefty licence fees for World Cap goods force it to go bast AFP AS World Cup fever mounts in Japan, a small sports gear maker has gone bankrupt, weighed down by huge licence fees for World Cup goods, a former employee said yesterday. Crix
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    • 627 15 SINGAPORE Reuters WITH World Cup fever catching across the region, South-east Asia's fun spots are cranking up their gimmick machines to score profits. Resorts, retailers and even massage parlours have come up with enterprising ways to woo customers in the football-mad region in the
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    • 388 15 LONDON World Cap soccer, Queen's Jubilee to shave 0.8% off Q2 GDP: analyst Bloomberg THE UK economy could lose up to £3 billion (Ss7.B billion) as workers take time off to watch World Cup soccer and celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, the
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    • 153 12 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PACIFIC ALLTRADE PTE LTD (IN CREDITORS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE is hereby given that the creditors of the abovenamed Company, which is being wound up voluntarily, are required, on or before 28 June. 2002 to send in
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  • KNOWLEDGE economy
    • 1198 16  -  The recent run of senior departures from Sun Microsystems was part of a planned succession planning process, chief human resources officer Crawford Beveridge tells ammateo ANNA TEO EARLY this month, Sun Microsystems president and chief operating officer Ed Zander, a 15year veteran of the
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    • 394 16 SUN Microsystems has just started a "leadership institute" at its Palo Alto headquarters to groom its future top brass. The first group of 18 vice-presi-dents in the inaugural class includes Sun's top man in Singapore and South Asia, Lionel Lim. "This is the next generation
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 265 17 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose three points to 1,035, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained three points to 1,080, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHD fell four points to 7,800 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD was up seven points at 1,157. Sea Gloria—(built 1994) 157,462 dwt
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    • 259 17 *h *i CWT Distribution 0.8T 0.03 25 Chgan Hup 0.44 unch 1213 Cosco Investment -.3-23 uncfi 354 Freight Links 0.06 unch 25 GBHsMnos 0.81 aot 30 Jeye Holdings 0.24 indi 260 KeppelCorp 4.38 0.W 756 Keppel Marine 0.19 unch 70 Keppel Tele 1.01 0.03 90 Lafcroy Marin* 0.31
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    • 286 17 Reuters [WEBBERS FALLS, Oklahoma] Rescue workers pulled the bodies of three people from mangled cars as divers searched for several others feared drowned in vehicles that plunged into the Arkansas River on Sunday when part of a bridge collapsed after being struck by
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    • 454 17  -  Shippers moving early due to fears over slimmer peak season surcharges By! Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Surprisingly strong containerised volume growth in the first half of 2002 could detract from a predicted second-half surge as shippers stock up early, analysts suggest.
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 17 [SAN DIEGO] The USS Dolphin submarine sits adrift about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. The submarine was damaged by afire after flooding off the Pacific Coast last week. All crew members were safely evacuated and the navy research submarine was stabilised later.
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    • 310 17  -  From, Alec Almazan in Manila KEPPEL Philippines Marine, the largest shipyard operator in the Philippines, reported a 46 per cent increase in first quarter net income from 8.4 million pesos to 12.3 million pesos (*****,356) this year. Revenues for the first
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    • 83 17 AFP [VLADIVOSTOK, Russia] A massive ice floe ripped off the anchors from 28 ships and dragged the trapped vessels down northern Siberia's Yana river, local emergency officials said yesterday. Rescuers had so far managed to evacuate seven people, but up to 100 crew
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    • 167 17 Reuters [LONDON] The world's biggest cruise operator Carnival Corp said yesterday selling the Cunard line, with the QE2, was too high a price to pay for regulatory clearance of its £4.6 billion (Ssl2 billion) bid for P&O Princess. But the US group said
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    • Article, Illustration
      322 17 AWARDS APL was named MvmMmml Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer. The award was based on Its performance on a monthly scorecard that grades Wal-Mart's carriers on various aspects of service, including condition and availability of equipment, punctuality of sailings and processes, customer service, product knowledge and
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    • SHIP salvage
      • 852 18 The USs6.sm salvage effort could resolve mysteries about the final minutes of the historic ironclad which sank in a storm on New Year's Eve, 1862 NYT NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia NAVY divers and archaeologists are making final preparations to recover the massive turret of
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      • 814 24 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine 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
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      • 915 25 China Air crash search area narrowed down to 500 m radios AP Reuters AFP [PENGHU, Taiwan] Minesweeping ships were helping investigators yesterday in the search for the voice and flight recorders of a China Airlines jet that broke up high over the Taiwan Strait,
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      • 347 25 Move to keep them longer for smooth takeover by federal workers Reuters {WASHINGTON] The US government is dangling US$5OO bonuses as incentives to stay on a bit longer to many of the tens of thousands of privately hired airport security screeners it
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      • 92 25 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co, Japan's largest domestic carrier, said a computer glitch prevented planes from taking off at 54 airports at home and abroad yesterday. Its boarding and reservation computer system failed at 34 domestic airports and at 20 foreign cities, All
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