The Business Times, 25 August 2003

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  • 1221 1  -  hi c exclusive But when cost is the biggest concern, intangibles' may not matter as mnch By, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The economy may have taken a beating, but in the eyes of various global competitiveness ratings services, Singapore still remains firmly among the
    Source: PERC  -  1,221 words
  • 65 1 Week Change SI! 1640.19 *45.87 KLSECOMP ***** 14.84 NIKKEI 225 1W281.17 +417.70 HANG SENG *****.73 +336.17 SET INDEX 534.81 +15.77 JAKARTA COMP _***** +1219 MANILA COMP ...1245.34 -171 TAIPEI WPI 5646.62 +157JW SEOUL COMP 754.72 +27.71 SHENZHEN B ***** -&36 Al 'ST ALL ORD -*****0 +37.60 DOW JONES 9348.87
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  • 76 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ US$ (S$ per l'S$) 1.746 £(i;S$/S$ per 1576 1751 EllttHl'SS/SS/E). 1.092 1.907 YEN 117.9 67.541 KM 3.800 2.177 HK$ 7.799 4.468 BAHT 41.52 23.78 RIJP1AH 8,425 4827 RENMINBI 8.299 4754 INDIAN RUPEE 45.86 2617 AS 1.536 0.880 NZS 1.717 0.984 HOME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 MALAYSIA
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  • 750 1  -  Focos is on catting deficit and debts, not development From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta HOLDING the boat steady amidst possible choppy waters. That, in a nutshell, is what the Indonesian government's 2004 fiscal budget is aimed at and going by public
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  • 542 1 No, I'm not leaving yet; do, Dhtubftlu wasn't slapped [SINGAPORE] He isn't going until the economy shows signs of recovery and will still contest the next general election. After starting off on what sounded like a farewell speech, Prime Minister Goh
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    • 578 2  -  Govt has to adopt new rates fast, hot wffl be phased in By] Daniel Buenas (SINGAPORE] The government will implement CPF rate cuts without delay, but will also offer relief measures to help Singaporeans in their transition to a new CPF
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    • 434 2 And HE'S Joseph Tarn is the best paid, says study [LONDON] He is known as the Maestro, but Alan Greenspan remains the poor relation of the world's central bankers, according to a report on The Observer website. The chairman of the
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 537 3  -  Rii exclusive Collective sale of 301,000 sq ft freehold Yio Chn K&ng site expected to be aronnd $110 m By] Kalpana Rashiwala LISTED MCL Land is close to sealing a deal to buy a massive en bloc site, Calrose Gardens,
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    • 220 3 MAINBOARD-LISTED Global Tech (Holdings) said its auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), have tendered their resignation as auditors of the company. Global Tech which distributes cellular hand sets and is also listed on the Hong Kong bourse said that it "could not arrive at consensus (with
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    • 343 3  -  Rli exclusive Adhesive tape maker will be Bth China play to list on S6X this year By] Loh Hui Yin G K Goh has achieved a breakthrough in the highlycompetitive initial public offer business after a Chinese PVC
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      321 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 22 VALUE CLOSE WOMB 729.00 -53.00 WCW -*****.00 -77.00 KTlHirMA -*****.00 +73.00 443.35 +0.16 WCjaMnChrt 165.42 +0.70 MEpBMfti 1409.11 +9.33 408.96 +5.03 MWTIatipiri 202.56 +0.41 sang fain 202.20 -0.40 t*dkm ¥rt— GoodpacK lc 234.050.000 •StarCruises 10c 190.804.000 DMX Tech US5c 162.562.000 Integra 5c 150.140.000 Chart SemiCond
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    • 289 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By' Ven Sreenivasan AFTER a tough six months to endMarch this year, the market has gone into a strong recovery mode which has seen a surge in stock prices and liquidity. The daily volumes during the last 10 weeks
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    • 720 4  -  I-id comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan IT has been a very eventful week for the local bourse, what with speculation about the impact of the Central Provident Fund (CPF) changes, several big earnings result releases, and announcements on key US economic data. The Straits Times
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    • 536 4 Ten gains as investors snap op stocks, bat traders wary of intervention AFP [HONG KONG] The yen made gains against the US dollar during a week that saw other Asian currencies strengthen in line with action on the Japanese markets.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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  • FOCUS outsourcing
    • 1199 6  -  While routine jobs may be lost to cheaper workforces, banks will keep more sophisticated functions in Singapore, reports Stow LI Son Siow Li Sen BANKS in Singapore may be moving their processing functions abroad, but these same banks may simultaneously move other types of
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    • 452 6  -  By Raju Chellam BUSINESS process outsourcing (BPO) may pose a bigger risk to Singapore jobs than mere IT outsourcing, given the trend of white collar jobs now moving to countries like India, China and the Philippines. BPO is done primarily by large organisations
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    • 859 6  -  By Kenneth Lim THE outsourcing of professional services is not new to businesses, but as companies face increasing cost pressures, many are taking another look at how outsourcing works. In accounting, the reality of outsourcing could be a thinning of demand for accountants so jobs
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 380 7  -  =1 on the economy cpf cuts By Daniel Buenas ASSUMING a 6 per cent cut in employee's CPF contribution, total cost savings to businesses could amount to $2.6 billion to $3.5 billion a year, United Overseas Bank Economic Research said in a report. And if
      Source: Household Expenditure Survey 97/98, UOB  -  380 words
    • 498 7 THERE am concerns over how impending cuts to the Central Provident Fund contribution rate will affect mortgage payments and the property mark# in general. We look at what analysts haw to say. The impact on housing alfordabity wi vary with the amount of CPF Orclnary
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    • 361 7  -  Deal compares with developer's $51m asking price in 1997 By Kalpana Rashiwala CLUNY Court, a freehold conservation commercial/ residential building that has been in the market on and off for the past five years or so, has finally found a buyer at
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    • 126 7 BUSINESS space solution provider Ascendas Land (Singapore) yesterday announced a new service which offers light industrial companies custom-built buildings in a new high-tech industrial park close to Sembawang New Town. Ascendas will offer customised development services for customers buying or leasing individual land plots ranging from
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 792 8  -  l-ii comment VISAVTVW Acknowledging stumbling blocks will help to push prefect farther ahead diana oon abdullah Malaysia will host its annual International Advisory Panel (lAP) meeting for its Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project in 10 days' time. This will be the seventh such gathering since
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    • 319 8 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA said on Saturday it wants bids from China and India lowered further before awarding them contracts for a multibilliondollar rail project, which is part of a trans-Asia link from Singapore to China. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told
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    • NOTE Book
      • 74 8 Reuters inuiNu ivuinuj asih s largest ou reimer amopec uorp yesterday said second-quarter earnings declined 12.5 per cent as the Sars outbreak hurt its businesses. Sinopec posted second-quarter net profit of 4.28 billion yuan (*****.5 million), against 4.88 billion yuan in the year-earlier quarter, according
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      • 42 8 AP [BANGKOK] Thailand will ban trucks and other large vehicles from high-rise buildings, department stores and hotels following new warnings that terrorists may attack a coining Asia-Pacific leaders' summit, the Bangkok Post said on Saturday. AP
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      • 49 8 AP [BANGKOK] The International Federation of Journalists has urged Shin Corp, a telecoms group owned by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family, to give up its stake in a local TV network, saying there was a clear conflict of interest. —AP
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    • 477 8 KUALA LUMPUR Carrier may opt to nseinternal fonds, bank loans instead AFP HIGHER bond yields have forced Air Asia, Malaysia's no-frills airline, to rethink the issue of a RMI6O million (5573.5 million) Islamic bond issue to purchase and lease 11 Boeing aircraft, an
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    • 473 9 HONGKONG AP EAGER for fine dining and designer labels, tens of thousands of wealthy mainland Chinese tourists have poured into Hong Kong since Beijing eased travel restrictions last month. And businesses here still reeling from the Sars crisis are welcoming them with
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    • 605 9 HONGKONG Bat move to curb specnlation may backfire: analysts Reuters CHINA is considering setting up an offshore yuan market in Hong Kong with the aim of curbing currency speculation, but the move could backfire by giving investors a chance to bet on a
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    • 529 9 BEIJING Move to curb money supply to take 150b yuan oat of circulation: central bank Bloomberg AP AFP CHINA increased a reserve requirement on the country's commercial banks, allowing it to curb money supply growth in an economy expanding at more than 8
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    • 791 10 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices rose still higher over the week, as markets were rocked by the deadly bombing of the United Nations' headquarters in Baghdad as well as a worrying drain to US petroleum stockpiles. Precious metal
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  • WORLD news
    • 355 11 AMSTERDAM Move aims to cut costs and focus on products that will set it apart from competitors, says chairman AFP Reuters DUTCH electronics group Philips will close down or sell off 50 of its remaining 150 factories worldwide, Philips
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 121 11 AFP [WASHINGTON J A growing number 01 Americans ao not want to see US President George W Bush re-elected, and fear US troops will being drawn into a long, costly occupation of Iraq, according to a Afeiusweefcpoll released on Saturday. For the first
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      • 68 11 AFP [TOKYO] Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa has said japan haato raise the 5 per cent consumption tax as early as in 2006 to replenish debt-ridden state coffers, Japanese newspapers said yesterday. "We canpotbelp raising (the tax rate) in fiscal 3006 or thfltealleifoe Niton
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      • 114 11 Reuters AFP [SEOUL] Soil) Korean consumers tightened their purse strings in the second quarter, even on essentials such as food and clothing, central bank data showed yesterday, indicating deepening sluggish domestic spending. Reduced credit ceilings by local banks and credit card companies aimed at
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    • 267 11 NEW YORK Bloomberg CITIGROUP Inc's Salomon Smith Barney unit was fined US$l million by the New York Stock Exchange for failing to supervise brokers who encouraged World Com Inc employees to borrow money to buy stock in the phone company before it fded
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    • 387 11 KYOTO, Japan Reuters JAPANESE Economics and Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka said yesterday the country's banks were on track to resolve their bad loan woes, a problem which has stifled growth in the world's second biggest economy for the past decade. Speaking at a
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    • 277 11 LONDON Goldman report suggests deficits may be USs4ob wider THE hole in US carmakers' pension funds could be more than twice as big as investors thought, the Financial Times reported over the weekend. A Goldman Sachs report concludes that deficits have been understated
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    • 665 12 NEW YORK Only 31% of all rating changes this quarter are upgrades Moody's Reuters US corporate borrowers are seeing far more rating downgrades than upgrades as the longest credit quality slump on record grinds on, although analysts see a turnaround
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    • Article, Illustration
      33 12 [Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada] People watching the Okanogan Mountain Park wildfire here last Saturday. The fire, sparked by a lightning strike, grew to more than an estimated 190 square kilometres. AP
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    • 365 12 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US manufacturers can't blame 2.6 million in job losses since 2001 only on China's cheap labour costs and currency policy, said John Taylor, the US Treasury Department's Undersecretary for International Affairs. Productivity gains in the US also
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    • 327 13 AFP [LONDON! Aug 24 (AFP) The FBI has uncovered intelligence that the AlQaeda terrorist network is plotting to hijack an aircraft in Britain over the next two months and fly it into an important building, a London-based newspaper said yesterday. British Airways and
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    • 134 14 When NTUC FairPri-cc, one of Singapore's largest supermarket chain, wanted to streamline its inventory control to enhance its customers' shopping experience, they turned to the leader in IP VPN solutions for assistance After all, SingTel Meg <■> POP can provide the means to connect the stores efficiently and offer t
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  • BizIT
    • 857 14  -  lii comment INFOTEO flfwnpnniftg should regularly upgrade computer hardware, spend more on security systems, and pnt employees through computer security courses jennifer lien I never knew I was so popular. I have received 2,000 e-mails in the last three days from editors, colleagues, contacts,
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    • 247 14  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury SPRINT International, a part of the US$B billion Sprint group, expects revenues to grow by 20-30 per cent in the Asean region and greater China this year, according to Connie Tang, Sprint's managing director, greater China/Asean. In July,
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 86 14 CANON has introduced the Canon imageWARE (iW) suite of software. It comprises four modules: iWScan Manager, iW Document Manager, iW Publishing Manager and iW Gateway. Users can use these modules to perform various tasks, such as electronic document archiving and retrieval, high-volume scanning, and on-demand printing
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      • 82 14 SMC Networks, which produces easy-to-use connectivity products for businesses and homes, has announced the newest in its Tiger Stack line of business networking products, the SMC6B24M Tiger Stack 111 10/100 Managed Switch. Priced at $1,359, under $57 per port, the SMC6B24M is a solution for bandwidth-starved
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      • 76 14 lOMEGA Corporation is now shipping two new external hard drives with a dual interface design. They are the lomega HDD 40GB Portable Hard Drive, priced at $449, and the lomega HDD 120GB Desktop Hard Drive ($459). Both drives feature compatibility for both USB 2.0 and Fire Wire
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      • 51 14 BENQ has introduced a DVD+RW drive, which it claims to the world's fastest, the DW4OOA. Offering 4x write and 4x re-write speeds, the DW4OOA utilises components from Philips BenQ Digital Storage (PBDS). It is priced at $299 and comes with bundled software. For more details, visit
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      • 60 14 and digital camera BENQ has released its latest digital camera model, the DC 5330. It has a 3.2 mega-pixel CCD and an interpolated resolution of 5.5 mega-pixels. The camera features a 3x optical zoom and a 4x digital zoom, providing a total of 12x of continuous zoom. It is priced
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      • 51 14  -  Clufilwlbj Amit Roy Choudhury DELL has announced its newest multimedia notebook, the Inspiron 8600. It includes Intel's latest Pentium M processors up to 1.7 GHz and 128MB NVIDIA GeForce(tm) FX G***** graphics capability, and includes widescreen Ultra Sharp displays. Prices start from $3,299. For details, visit
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    • 721 15  -  This comes despite sluggishness in the IT market worldwide Byl Amit Roy Choudhury TriJS leaaing inaepenueni provider of integration software, web Methods, has seen a 53 per cent increase in its revenues from the Asia-Pacific in the past four months. This comes despite the
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    • 137 15 AFP [BOMBAY] Apple Computer on Friday said it plans to make inroads into Bollywood by offering its latest G5 processor-based computers for faster editing of films. Apple hopes to entice Bollywood into using the G5 machines, made in collaboration with IBM, to edit, animate,
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    • 332 15 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] The culprit behind the fast-spread-ing Sobig.F virus is expected to try again in coming weeks to create a vast network of zombie computers to carry out Internet attacks, security experts warned on Saturday. "He wants to build up
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    • 1034 15  -  For customers It's empowerment; tar service providers It's a huge chunk off the spending on customer service g joslin vethakumar TOTAL care is the new mantra that is gaining currency as telecom service providers unleash every ace up their sleeve to slash costs and
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    • 348 15 Intel, Dell say slump may soon be over; HP sees ontlook worsening LAT-WP [SAN FRANCISCO] The computer industry is recovering modestly, except where it's floundering miserably. According to Intel Corp and Dell Inc, the threeyear slump in PC sales that has devastated
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    • IT TAKES
      • 71 15 FOUR Singapore-based IT companies left on an eight-day business mission to Mexico last Saturday. The mission is jointly organised by the International Enterprise Singapore and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. The four companies, Cicada Cube, Ecquaria Technologies, Crimson Logic and Trekstor USA (a 100 per
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      • 58 15 CISCO Systems' Showcase 2003 will focus on solutions that prepare businesses for the global Internet economy. Showcase 2003 will also highlight the benefits that advanced technologies such as IP telephony, security, storage networking and wireless LANs have. The event will be held at the Raffles City Convention
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      • 56 15  -  Amit Roy Choudhury THE 10th Infocomm Horizons seminar will be held at the Level 3 Theatre, Suntec Singapore International Convention Exhibition Centre, on Sept 18 from 9am to 5.30pm. Robert Fontana, president, Multispectral Solutions, will deliver the keynote address on "Ultra wideband technology—from regulatory nightmare to commercial
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    • 681 16  -  l-iri exclusive The Asia region contributes up to USs3b in annual revenues for ABB, group executive vice-president Dinesh Paliwal tells Rqju Chellam Raju Chellam EUROPE'S largest electrical engineering company, Zu-rich-based ABB Group, is betting big on Asia especially on the
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    • 306 16  -  Byl Raju Chellam IN a unique new alliance, four industry majors Intel, Microsoft, Accenture and ABB came together last month to help manufacturers connect their shop-floor plant operations to their top-end business systems. The alliance aims to help large manufacturing companies integrate their shop-floor
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    • 199 16 AFP [TOKYOJ Loss-making technology giant Toshiba said last week it planned to reshape its notebook personal computer (PC) arm to reduce costs, which could include boosting the level of production outsourced to Taiwanese firms. The Japanese manufacturer currently outsources 10 per cent
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    • 322 16 Weakly W SPECIAL RegWef V August2Bth/ SYNOPSIS It has been a treacherous season for the bottom-line. Companies have responded to the economic downturn by significantly reducing spending in all areas. However such cost cutting measures may only result in short term improvements. But now that the economic outlook is improving,
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    • 271 17 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE week fizzled out towards the end with a Major holiday in many European Countries, including Greece. wwj omn—i ♦Golden Laker. 30,838 tdw bit 9/96 Naikai reported sold region U5512,400,000 to US-based buyers. •Bright Phoenix. 27,760 tdw bit 4/96 Shin Kurushima reported sold
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    • 586 17  -  Rate restorations pay off as NOL arm sees demand build up By\ Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines container arm APL has backed up projections of a "significantly better" second half by showing a 13 per cent improvement in its average July freight rates
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    • 42 17 [NORFOLK] Four new cranes are carried to Norfolk International Terminals aboard a ship that sailed in June from China where the cranes were built. The cranes are part of a renovation project at the Norfolk, Virginia, terminal's southern end AP
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    • 243 17 GROUMDnro OTP PAKISTAN Reuters [KARACHI] A Greek oil tanker grounded outside Pakistan's premier port of Karachi since last month, spilled more crude after tilting further and sinking deeper into the sea, a senior official said. "It was a pretty bad
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    • 277 17  -  Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Europe's busiest port, Rotterdam, enjoyed a surge in Asia volumes last year, including 13 per cent growth in Singapore trade, but warned increasing direct shipments could erode the importance of transhipment hubs in this region. Rotterdam saw 9 per
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    • 845 18  -  DOCKYARD -By\ David Hughes WHILE US and European politicians appear to believe that the complete answer to the threat of accidental pollution from tankers is the banning of single-hull vessels, the shipping industry is now having to learn with the problems
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      • 132 25 Aug 31 Malaysia: National Day. Philippines: Nat Heroes Day. Sep 1 Canada: Labour Day. U.S.: Labour Day. Sep 2 Vietnam: National Day. Sep 3 Vietnam: Nat day Hoi. Sep 11 Brazil: Independence Day. South Korea: Harvest Fest Day. Taiwan:Mid-Autumn Festival. Sep 12 Hong Kong: Day after Mid-Au tumn.
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      • 829 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 of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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      • 465 26 MD says not easy to come into Australia and set np third full-service domestic airline Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Singapore Airlines, Asia's largest airline by market value, probably won't become a domestic rival for Qantas Airways and Virgin Blue in Australia, where Qantas is considering
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      • 68 26 AP [NORDENHAM] Workers loading the first fuselage section for an Airbus A39oplane onto a container at the Airbus plant in Nordenham, north-western Germany. The piece of a fuselage is up to 10.80 metre long, 6.7ometres high and weighs 1.6 tonnes. A ship wiU transport the fuselage
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      • 210 26 AFP [BEIJING] European aviation consortium Airbus Industrie said it aims to capture a 50 per cent market share in China by targeting the country's need for 1,600 large aircraft in the coming 20 years. China is a strategic marketplace for Airbus and
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      • 216 26 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), one of the world's 10 largest plane lessors by fleet size, forecasts lease rates for new aircraft will rise by between 5 and 10 per cent in the next year as air travel demand picks
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      • 704 26 Carrier going after long-haul routes with new aircraft AFP [HANOII Fuelled by the delivery of new long-haul aircraft and an ambitious route expansion programme, Vietnam Airlines has signalled its intent to become a major player in Asia's competitive aviation market. Vietnam's flag carrier's roots date
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      • 406 26 Bloomberg [MOSCOW] Boeing, the world's biggest aircraft maker, expects to lease or sell as many as 30 new and used planes to Russia and other Commonwealth of Independent States countries by the end of next year as carriers
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