The Business Times, 16 May 2003

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  • 18 1 MfTA (P) 024/03/2003 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGA PORE j internet: http: '/business-times.asial .com.sg FRIDAY. MAY 16, 2003
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  • 695 1  -  Lessons from Sars' spread in China conkl pay off for the regional grouping From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo ASEAN economies, deeply fearful of a hollowing-out of their manufacturing sectors as companies up stakes and move to China, may now have reason to breathe a bit
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  • 55 1 Thursday Change KLSECOMP Closed NIKKEI 225 8.***** -121.51 HANG SENG 9,126.07 +22.38 SET INDEX Closed JAKARTA COMP .Closed MANILA OOMP 1.057.14 4.42 TAIPEI WPI 4.331.24 986 SEOUL COMP 619.35 >9.38 SHENZHEN B 214.01 +4.51 A1STALLORD 2.***** 1200 BOMBAY INI) __.3,012.97 +1903 I2innhi EDT ('bailee IK)W .8,681.35 +33.53 NASDAQ 1,541.28
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  • 76 1 FOREX RATES (May 14) us$ s$ i;s$ (S$ per ISS) 1.7.12 S(rS$/SS per S)_ 1612 4791 Kl!RO(I!S»/SS/E) 1.153 1.997 YEN 1166 67 JO KM 3.80U 1194 HKS 7.799 UN BAHT 4122 24,18 RUPIAH 8,446 4,877 RENMINBI 8499 4792 INDIAN RUPEE 47.14 2722 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5£5 Kl'ALA U'MPI'R 640
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  • 698 1  -  t-ti exclusive Indofood, 10 others may launch Shariah bonds this year Front Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta FACED with higher borrowing costs from Western financial institutions and tougher competition for global funds, Indonesian companies are increasingly turning to the growing Islamic market for
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  • 616 1 Ministers urge interest rate cats to stem euro rise Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] Europe is teetering on the brink of recession after the German and Italian economies contracted in the first quarter, increasing pressure on the European Central Bank to cut interest
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    • 887 2  -  Curbs on profit repatriation are holding back investments, reports Jennifer Lien from Silicon Valley Jennifer Lien US high-tech companies have long been scrambling for a piece of the action in China. American venture capitalists would be equally eager if only the road
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    • 701 2 Reuters Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's 19-year-old currency peg to the US dollar could come under pressure if the Sars outbreak is not resolved soon, Financial Secretary Antony Leung warned yesterday. Already there are signs that speculators entered the Hong Kong dollar
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    • 624 2 LATEST US DATA Wholesale prices drop a record 1.9% as war in Iraq ends, raising fears of deflation Bloomberg Reuters AP [WASHINGTON) US industrial production dropped in April and factory capacity in use fell to a two-decade low as the Iraq war tempered
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    • 344 2 SABS OUTBREAK This is even though WHO says they may not have the infection Reuters AP [SINGAPORE] Singapore will treat an outbreak of fever among staff and patients at its mental hospital as possible Sars even though the World Health Organization has
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    • 78 2 IN our BizlT section yesterday, we carried a news report about a hoax played on Microsoft by the software house's UK division. In a press release, the UK division had claimed that Microsoft was developing a portable toilet called "iLoo" with Internet access. We inadvertently ran the news report
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
    • 558 3 Taiwan reports biggest single-day jump of 26 new cases with 3rd hospital outbreak AFP Bloomberg Reuters [BEIJING] China's northern region is the current hotspot for the Sars epidemic in China, with Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Hebei provinces seeing the worst spread of the disease.
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    • 200 3 Reuters [SYDNEY] Online traffic to shopping, education, news, medical and banking sites soared in Hong Kong as people sought safety at home from the Sars virus and steered clear of public places, according to a survey. Internet monitor Nielsen/Netßatings said April was the
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    • 45 3 [TAIPEI] Taiwan pop singer Elva Hsiao wearing a mask at a news conference in Taipei yesterday to promote her latest album "Love to be loved Due to the worsening Sars outbreak, Taiwan has cancelled hundreds of concerts and other cultural events. REUTERS
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    • 244 3 Reuters [SHANGHAI] High-flying executives are turning increasingly to China's fledgling business jet operators as the outbreak of Sars forces regular airlines to cancel flights, airline officials said yesterday. The tiny business jet operations of Hainan Airlines Co and Shanghai Airlines both report soaring
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    • TNBrief
      • 84 3 Washington Post [TORONTO] The World Health Organization on Wednesday removed Toronto from the list of areas infected by the Sars virus, saying that Canadian health officials had broken the chain of transmission and stopped the spread of the respiratory disease. WHO announced the decision
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      • 67 3 Reuters [BEIJING] China has said it will execute or award a jail sentence of up to life imprisonment for anyone violating quarantine and intentionally spreading Sars. The Supreme Court and the country's top prosecutor laid down the punishment in an interpretation of laws on hindering the
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      • 107 3 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian yesterday urged China not to prevent the island from obtaining observer status at the World Health Organization as it battles to contain the Sars epidemic. Mr Chen made the plea as the death toll from Sars in
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      • 71 3 AP [ATLANTA] Colleges and companies should welcome and watch—not ban or quarantine—visitors from Sars-affected areas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. The CDC issued guidelines for universities and businesses as some campuses are discouraging travellers from parts of Asia at graduation
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      • 49 3 AFP [CLARK, Philippines] Two new cases of Sara have been found in the Philippines, taking the total to 12, a health official said yesterday. However, "both have already recovered and one has already been discharged," National Epidemiology Cento* head Consortia Quizon said. —AFP
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      • 94 3 AFP [BEIJING] China announced yesterday it would host a symposium in June on controlling and preventing Sars that will include Japan, South Korea and the 10 members of the Association for South-east Asian Nations. "The theme of the symposium will be to exchange information
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 602 4  -  irTSTsm lock siew anqela tan WHEN a well-estab-lished mainboard name like luxury hotelier Shangri-La Asia suddenly changes its mind and threatens to scrap a recommended $24 million dividend payout to shareholders, there is cause for concern. Early this week, Shangri-La said the rethink on its March
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    • 287 4 Sales of beer, property seen as main profit drivers Reuters BEVERAGE group Fraser Neave is likely to report a 25 per cent rise in interim net profit today, nourished by sales of soft drinks, beer, and a strong property portfolio, analysts said. F&N,
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    • 215 4 Bloomberg CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing's search for a business ally in China has not been hampered by the outbreak of Sars, according to its chief executive officer Chia Song Hwee. The company is "pretty far along in discussions" with a Chinese chipmaker
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    • 222 4  -  By' Tang Weng Fai KEPPEL Corp's Brazilian subsidiary, Fels Setal Group, said yesterday it won a contract to build two support ships for offshore oil rigs. Keppel Corp spokeswoman Samantha Tan declined to comment on the value of the contract for
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    • 163 4  -  By' Tang Weng Fai LISTED food group Want Want Holdings Ltd yesterday reported marginally higher first quarter net profits of US$2B.2 million, 7.3 per cent higher than the same quarter last year. Group turnover edged up 6 per cent to U*****.69 million
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 756 6  -  ■in bottom line OPINION frank ching CHINA, which until recently had been content to be a spectator during international crises, has assumed a much more activist role in the dispute between North Korea and the US over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. Not only
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    • 97 6 'After robbing Argentines of their rights to work, then to eat, study and hope, he has come for the last remaining right of citizens: that of the Vo^e Nestor Drdner who will be sworn in as Argentina spresident on May 25. on Carlos Menem, who governed the
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    • 599 6 EDITORIAL ONE of the interesting developments of the year on the trade front is the new-found willingness of the United States to forge a free trade area (FTA) with the Middle East an area Washington has tended to neglect economically. The proposal for a
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    • 1152 6  -  While global chip sales rose just 1% in 2002, China's chip sales jumped 23%. And a new generation of wafer fabs being bnilt there will raise stakes From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley THERE'S a new phenomenon in the semiconductor
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    • 771 6  -  COMMENTARY The US faces chaos in Iraq, terrorism in Sandi Arabia and a moribund Middle East peace process By Leon Hadar THE neo-conservatives who were the intellectual driving force behind the US invasion of Iraq had assured the American public as well Iraqis, Palestinians
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 571 7  -  Conple is offering op a new range of skin-care products By Daniel Buenas THERE is life in the Dead Sea. And it comes in the form of the revitalising minerals found in its waters, according to husband and wife Ronald Koh and Loh
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 557 8  -  Departure of foreign partners has not retarded the industry Frorr Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN cellular players are growing by leaps and bounds despite the departure of two major foreign partners in the past few years. "Malaysians are fast learners," said Richard
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    • 360 8 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA said yesterday Washington was creating "scares all over the world" after it warned Americans in the mostly Muslim country to beware of a terrorist threat from groups linked to Al-Qaeda. On Wednesday, just hours after suicide attacks on foreign residents
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    • 311 8 MANILA It underestimated war's effect, then washitbySars Bloomberg PHILIPPINE Airlines Inc. the South-east Asian nation's biggest carrier, said full-year profit was almost half its most recent forecast because of surging oil prices in the lead-up to the war in Iraq, while Sars curbed
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    • NOTEBook
      • 58 8 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission reported a 25 per cent increase in investigation cases in the past financial year. As at March 31, there were 391 probes begun last year, and the number of successful prosecutions fell 26 per cent
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      • 85 8 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's long-term credit rating was affirmed by Fitch Ratings, which cited a surge in inward foreign investment, growing exports and high foreign currency deposits in predicting a stable outlook for the country's debt. The affirmation of the 'A-' rating, three levels above the
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      • 68 8 Reuters [BEIJING] IKEA said yesterday it will spend US$6O million on opening a new store in Beij ing and press ahead with expansion plans in China despite the Sars outbreak. The new store in Beijing's affluent Chaoyang district would open in 2005 and
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      • 46 8 Reuters [HONG KONG] The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, plans to buy small Hong Kong lender Chekiang First Bank from Japan's Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd for HK13.5 billion (***** million), the Hong Kong Economic Times said yesterday. Reuters
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      • 33 8 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Edaran Otomobil Nasional Berhad (EON) reported profit attributable to shareholders rose 5.9 per cent to RM476.6 million in 2002 from RM449.9 million in 2001. Bernoma
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    • 347 9 HONGKONG Stock soars after firm promotes Sars tonic tycoon tested personally Bloomberg BILLIONAIRE Li Ka-shing showed again this week that his name means money among investors in the city he helped build. Shares of his three-year-old biotechnology unit CK Life Sciences International
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    • 224 9 SHANGHAI Impact of Sars on industries will be minimised: officials AFP SHANGHAI authorities believe China's largest and most important economic city can maintain doubledigit industrial sector growth despite the uncertainties posed by the Sars epidemic, state press reported yesterday. Officials said that with the
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    • 120 9 Reuters [BEIJING] The world's largest chipmaker Intel said yesterday that it has begun shipping Pentium 4 chips from a Shanghai plant in which it has now invested US$5OO million. Craig Barrett, chief executive of the US semiconductor giant, said last May that it was
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  • WORLD news
    • 518 10 BRUSSELS Dispute shaping np to be more than a simple trade battle Reuters IT may not be on the scale of the Iraq war crisis, but a US-led assault on Europe's blockade of genetically modified food is another blow to an already strained
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    • 406 10 AMSTERDAM Microsoft sales chief gives nod for steep discounts paid from special fond Reuters Bloomberg MICROSOFT has a strategy to discount its products heavily when the software giant competes for orders against the emerging and li-cence-free Linux operating system, the
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    • 247 10 AFP Reuters [LONDON] British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have agreed that Britain is not yet ready to join the euro, the BBC said on Wednesday. The BBC's political editor Andrew Marr reported, without giving his sources, that Mr Blair had
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    • 320 10 NEW YORK NYT THE two largest US stock markets plan to tell the Securities and Exchange Commission that they are not ready to make important changes to their corporate governance policies now. SEC chairman William Donaldson had asked the markets to respond by yesterday
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 93 10 Reuters [LONDON] Gold rose to its highest level in 10 weeks in Europe yesterday morning, despite a slightly stronger US dollar, as a new wave of economic and geopolitical anxiety thrust safe haven assets back into the limelight. Gold began to divorce itself from
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      • 52 10 Bloomberg [BONN] Deutsche Telekom AG reported its first profit in two years after selling assets, cutting spending and paying less tax. Net income amounted to 850 million euros (Ssl.7 billion) in Ql, compared with a loss of 1.8 billion euros in the year-earlier period, CEO Kai-Uwe
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      • 59 10 Reuters [CHICAGO] US retail sales on the Internet are expected to climb by 26 per cent to about US$96 billion this year, according to a study released yesterday. The Shop.org and Forrester Research survey of over 130 retailers found that online retail sales
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    • 433 11  -  More than half chalked op in UK alone; farther costs expected Frorn Neil Behrmann in London BCCI, majority-owned by Abu Dhabi, was closed 12 years ago when the Bank of England uncovered fraud on a global scale. Thousands of large and small
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    • 479 11 Next president faces an economy in deep crisis AP Reuters [BUENOS AIRES] A little-known governor clinched Argentina's presidency on Wednesday after his flamboyant rival, ex-president Carlos Menem, quit four days before a runoff election. Nestor Kirchner, 53, now faces the daunting challenge of lifting the country
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  • EXECUTIVE WOMAN/ARTS
    • 813 13  -  Just 15 months after opening her first Tea Spa outlet Serene Sorenson tells cheah ui-hoon that the store is set to expand to Europe and the US CHEAH UI-HOON PIFTEEN months after Serene Sorenson, 32, established Tea Spa's first outlet at Raffles City —a
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    • 431 13  -  By Aaron Lye BEFORE the premiere of pulse VERSION, director Low Kee Hong said that one of the production's main goals was to "make the private very public", and this is something that pulse pretty much succeeds in. From the get-go, the viewer is
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    • 570 13  -  By Corinne Kerk TWO auction previews which were postponed from early April due to the severe. acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), will finally take place today and tomorrow. Both Sotheby's and Christie's will hold exhibitions of paintings and jewellery that will go under the
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  • CINEMA/EPICURE
    • Article, Illustration
      1013 14  -  Reloaded is laden with enough psycho-babble to sink a ship, says jaxmeee JAIMME EE MATRIX Reloaded spouts a fair bit about the philosophy of choice the freedom of choice, the illusion of choice and the understanding of choice. The same principle applies to viewers of this second movie in
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    • 634 14  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon APPARENTLY, high altitude dulls your tastebuds which is why food in planes is usually heavily salted to compensate for the reduced sensitivity. It somehow seems apt then, that Si Chuan Dou Hua at the 60th story of UOB Plaza is dishing
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  • PERSPECTIVE/EPICPRE
    • 572 15  -  U3d the cuff If this is a computer-generated reality a la The Matrix, life should be less difficult jaime ee WOULD you take the blue pill, or the red pill? If there's one thing that The Matrix doesn't explain, it's why, if
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 289 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ed arete area (6) 18 Aunt Salty (4,4) ACHObb 28 Democrat reacted strange- 20 Bag a drink from Spain (4) H I B I 0 I H I B I [7 I B 1 Game controller s Plea- ly to sure-fire winner (4,4) 21 Left ten out as
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
    • Whole new ball game
      • 659 16  -  Ready, set, serve! Not the ball, but that steaming bowl and tasty dish. Just this year alone, a few of Singapore's young athletes have done a walkover from the competitive sports arena into the equally competitive food business. Courting foodies now besides sports fans athletes
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      • 349 16 NEXT month, Remy Ong, 25, Asia's king of bowling and Singapore Sportsman of the Year will be trying his hand at rolling popiahs on a plate and not just bowling balls down the alley. The aim? To bowl over Singaporeans with his family's popiah recipe.
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      • 517 16 SHERMAN Lim, 28, started P'nang on Mosque Street in February with the son of Datuk Jean Loh of Kah Motors, herself a Penangite. "We have a lot of good friends who like Penang food, so we thought, why not start a joint that serves nofrills Penang food?"
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      • 267 16 REFERRING to the anticipated trials in the business, footballer V Sundramoorthy, 38, figures that just like in soccer, stamina is necessary to keep going. "It's not going to be smooth-sailing all the time, so I guess it's a matter of pacing yourself," he says. Now playing
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 267 17 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 18 points to 2266, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 27 points to 2964, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 13 points to 2311 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 154 points to *****. ♦Nightwhisper (built 1985) *****8 dwt delivery Cape Passero 18/20 May
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    • 435 17 Screening machines to be installed at some ports to deter terrorists AFP [LONDON] Britain has announced it was tightening its port security, two days after suicide car bombings at foreign housing compounds in Riyadh reportedly killed at least 34 people, including one Briton.
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    • 167 17 [SINGAPORE] The main Bangladesh container port of Chittagong is set to become the latest port to join the US Customs' container Security Initiative (CSI)According to a report in Bangladesh's The Daily Star newspaper, three US officials visited the Chittagong Port recently to select the site of
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    • 91 17 [SINGAPORE] Hutchison Port Holdings subsidiary, Hongkong International Terminals (HIT) Ltd, recently took delivery of two new quay cranes for its two new berths at Container Terminal Nine (CT9). Manufactured by Hyundai Heavy Industries, the new quay cranes have an outreach of 63 metres and a lifting
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    • 208 17 Lower costs, higher margin ships behind increase Bloomberg [SEOUL] Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world's sec-ond-largest shipbuilder, reported a 53 per cent increase in first-quarter profit on lower financial costs and as it booked earnings on higher margin ships. The company's net income
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    • 271 17 Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korean truck drivers and cargo workers agreed with the government to end almost two weeks of strike action yesterday, which has cost freight companies about US$45O million in delayed shipments. Under the agreement, the government will cover additional costs to truck
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    • 335 17  -  Incident off Seattle in accident: St&rnnit Jty Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Star Cruises subsidiary Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has once again found itself cruising in sewage as US environmental and coast guard inspectors investigate the Norwegian Sun cruise ship after it dumped 40 tonnes
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    • 316 17 Norway concerned over Russian idea AP [OSLO, Norway] A Russian proposal to turn ageing nuclear submarines into underwater oil tankers sent a shiver through neighbouring Norway on Wednesday over fears of a double environmental disaster in its waters. North-western Russia is
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    • 878 18  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK Offence was minor and there were extenuating circumstances, Aussie court rules -By Selva Kumar THE owner and master of a vessel, from which five litres of hydraulic oil escaped while it was moored alongside Lord Howe Island off the
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      43 18 AFP [COLOMBO] A curious crowd looking at the Maldivian cargo vessel, the MVMaafishi, which ran aground along the coast near the Sri Lankan capital and port of Colombo. The unstable weather created havoc along coastal areas of the island. —AFP
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      • 1736 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AMP VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Btti Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr i—PWi C234E Q3€ 1 *****00&0900 1705/2003-2100 ACX ULAC 0S2N 052N 1 **********00 HBMOBMMO ACX SAKURA 0175 017S 1_ 1805/*****500 1905/*****700 MBI YA1003 YAL003 1 1605/*****700 *****00*2200 K17 ANAN BHUM N286
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      • 734 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market Prices shown are ba9ed on average sized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 533 26 Branson says the carrier's outlook is good as Sars has not hit Australia flights Bloomberg [ADELAIDE] Richard Branson said annual profit more than tripled at Virgin Blue Airlines, the UK billionaire's Australian carrier, and he wants a 30 per cent stake
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      • 359 26 It adds flights, expects some fare increases for this summer AP [DALLAS] Southwest Airlines, the only major US carrier to remain profitable the past two years, expects to continue in the black this year, chief executive James Parker said on Wednesday. Southwest, bucking the
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      • 131 26 Bloomberg [AUCKLAND] Air New Zealand extended capacity cut on flights to Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan until September because a deadly pneumonia virus reduced bookings. The reductions from May until September represent 8 per cent of available international capacity, Air New Zealand said in
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      • 300 26 AVIATION'S SABS WOES AFP [TOKYO] The number of travellers using Tokyo's Narita airport, Japan's main international gateway, saw its steepest year-on-year decline in this year's spring holiday due to the Iraq war and the Sars outbreak, an official said. The number of passengers
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      • 297 26 Major airlines to receive more than USs3oom each under new aid plan Reuters [WASHINGTON] American Airlines, Delta Airlines, and bankrupt United Airlines, are each getting more than US$3OO million in cash for reimbursed security costs, the government said on Wednesday, The Transportation
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      • 275 26 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corps United Airlines, the world's second-biggest carrier, said it and General Electric Co have agreed to restructure lease and financing arrangements for 51 planes, saving United US$2OO million over five years. United, which filed for bankruptcy protection in
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      • 132 26 AP [JAKARTA] Air Paradise Indonesia will begin flights from the resort island of Bali to Taipei and Seoul starting In July, the carrier's owner was quoted as saying. The Bali-based airline currently flies between the island and the Australian cities of Melbourne and
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      • 240 26 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China Eastern Airlines said on Wednesday that passenger traffic dived nearly a third year-on-year, joining a string of other airlines to report diminished travel since the Sars virus outbreak. The country's second-largest airline carried 744,010 passengers in April, down 30.71 per cent from
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