The Business Times, 27 October 2003

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  • 16 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85c THE BUSINESS TIMES S INGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2003
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  • 994 1  -  Workers and some tech bosses are fearful. Others see an upside to the pain From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley THE heartland of the world's infotech revolution is feeling the raw edge of outsourcing, the new corporate trend that is reshaping businesses around
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  • 125 1  - All the numbers with panache By Kenneth Lim ANNUAL reports can be informative, insightful, full of important numbers but incredibly boring to the uninitiated. Thank goodness for GES International and TR Networks, two listed Singapore companies whose once-a-year publications show that a bland interior need not have a dull exterior.
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  • 671 1  -  All eyes are now on this week's Fed meeting and release of a key economic report From Andrew Marks in New York WITH the robust third-quarter earnings reported so far, it may be hard to believe that Wall Street is looking
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  • 81 1 FOREX RATES U8$ SS ISS (SS per ISS) 1.742 V(l SS/SS per S| I 2.94S El RO0 'S$/SS/E). 1.1K2 1«59 YEN MM 62JW KM IBM 1181 HKS 77« 4.4-iO BAHT ffl.M 22.92 Kl II AH Ml 4.K66 -RENMINBI 8.298 4 763 INDIAN Kl PEE4M3 2602 AS 1.425 11.818 NZS
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  • 501 1  -  BT exclusive But industry says it won't be enough to cover Sars losses By Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] A slew of international conferences here is generating a tidy windfall for local hotels. Although some say this will not be enough to cover their lost earnings
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    • 34 1 Morgan Stanley FLIP-FLOP Vikram Khanna takes issue with the investment bank's controversial report that downgraded the Singapore stock market Pg 2 Wafer fabs ready to roll next Pg 18 lllllffill 8 1 *****1 *****4™
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    • 783 2  -  BT comment ECONOMICS In particular, it makes you wonder about the relevance of 'economic analysis' to the stock market vikram khanna LAST week, in a report dated Oct 23, an analyst from US investment bank Morgan Stanley abruptly downgraded his rating on the Singapore stock
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    • 628 2  -  Growing economic ties not matched by means for dialogue From Macabe Keliher in Taipei INCREASING economic ties between China and Taiwan have made the two political adversaries so interdependent over the past few years that economists worry the lack of a cooperative
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 767 4  -  HOCK lock siew quak hiang whai OVERSEAS Union Enterprise (OUE), a sleepy property and hotel group now controlled by Wee Cho Yaw's United Overseas Bank Group, has lately seen some renewed interest from stock market investors. And it's probably about time. While the overall market, led
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    • 1244 4  -  INSIDE MARKETS Heavy sales activity this month could point to a market correction By Robert Halili SENTIMENT was very bearish for the second straight week with 49 directors and substantial shareholders of 44 companies posting 120 disposals worth $44.7 million for the week ending
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    • 974 5  -  Short-term profit-taking seen but longer term outlook still positive By Raju Chellam WHAT a difference a couple of days make. Early last week, two of the world's largest hard disk drive makers Seagate Technology and Maxtor Corp reported excellent results for their just-over quarters.
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    • 192 5 BRIGHT Orient (Holding), a Shenzhen-based contract manufacturer of international fashion brands, has received its letter of eligibility for a Sesdaq listing. Started out as a contract manufacturer for ties and scarves in 1996, Bright Orient's customers list has since grown to include FTR, a
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  • 417 6 Compiled by Thomson Financial I/B/E/S OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 23 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 48.00 -491.00 BTCAW -*****.00 -313.00 BT 10-day IU 5019.00 +4.00 Aft-SG Equities 477.09 9.66 S6E*ritfmEhct 173.44 -4.65 S6D|«Hi«i Fin 1505.96 -41.02 SGEqaftfesPro* 443.35 -17.77 MSCt Sfagapor* 214.42 SflHISa Futures 214.40 -6.30 Stocks Volume Beyonics
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 817 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THERE seems to be a general sense of outrage among brokers and punters over Morgan Stanley's downgrading of the Singapore market last Thursday. Not only did it come just two months after the US bank "doubleweighted" Singapore
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    • 601 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies ended last week mixed with the yen seeing directionless trading while the Australian dollar continued the surge that has seen it jump 25 per cent against the US currency this year. Japanese yen: The yen moved narrowly against the
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    • 318 7  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By R. Sivanithy WE last featured the warrants issued by Malaysian infrastructure company Gamuda Bhd on March 3 in this column. The warrant expiring in December 2006 has run from RM1.86 to RM3.36, a gain of 81 per cent, while the one expiring
      Source: Bloomberg  -  318 words
    • 1107 7  -  BT portfolio STOCKS teh hooi ling THE market turned choppy in the last two trading sessions of last week. It declined in sympathy with the sharp correction in the US market Sentiment was further dampened when two major foreign broking firms issued
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 550 8  -  UBS, and its top manager here, have plumped for S'pore for its many advantages By Siow Li Sen "YOU shouldn't underestimate the quality of life here," says Brad Orgill, ÜBS Singapore's country manager. While he made a personal choice to move to Singapore from
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    • 238 8 Singapore-Aussie exhibition is on today and tomorrow NANYANG Technological University (NTU) has linked up with research institutes from Singapore and Australia to organise a two-day event to showcase the potential of photonics as the optical and opto-electronic technology of the future. The event,
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    • 320 8  -  MAIL bag Ang Hao Vao Singapore I REFER to the article "ExSGX chief has exercised all his 15m stock options' (BT, Oct 23). The article quoted David Gerald, president of the Securities Investors Association, as saying that "...options could be highly dilutive to other
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    • 114 8  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to the advertisement that has been appearing in the newspapers asking Singaporeans to charge their taxi rides to their credit card and stand a chance to win lucky draw prizes. Charging the taxi fare to a
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 763 9  -  BT comment KL STOCKS While the viability of some of Dr Mahathir's ideas remains questionable, one thing for sure is that M'sia wont be the same without him eddie toh Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad will leave office this Friday after
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    • 355 9 He threatens to take action against Aussie broadcaster AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Jailed former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday denied allegations that either he or a US-based organisation he had worked for had terrorist links, and denounced them as attempts to inflict further
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    • 230 9 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S transport minister says the government is not bound by letters of intent issued to Chinese and Indian firms for a US$3.B billion rail contract, The Star reported last Saturday. Indian Railway Construction Co (Ircon) and China
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    • 366 10 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Two industrial sites being developed, experts to pin-point key growth areas AFP OIL and gas-rich Brunei has embarked on an ambitious campaign to diversify its economy, starting with the development of two major industrial sites and the hiring of
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    • 271 10 GENEVA AFP CHINA topped a list of countries that have triggered an-ti-dumping investigations on their exports in the six months to June, but the number of cases was down 43 per cent from a year ago, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Friday.
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    • 93 11 [HONG KONG] A vintage travel poster, among many others, on display at an exhibition here last Friday. All the posters were used by international airlines and other travel and tourism-related organisations in the *****, '30s and '50s—an era when this part of the world was
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    • 171 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S third-largest lender, RHB Capital Bhd, said it had applied for a licence to set up an Islamic bank, the Edge business weekly reported in its latest issue. At present, Malaysia only has two banks which provide full Islamic services
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    • 353 11 HONGKONG IPO proceeds to help improve solvency margin Reuters IN what is set to be Hong Kong's largest IPO so far this year, China's largest property insurer, PICC Property and Casualty Co Ltd, confirmed plans to sell shares to the public today in
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    • 180 11 AFP [HONG KONG] HONG Kong reported a 38 per cent increase in the amount of money lost in business fraud cases in the first nine months of 2003, police commissioner Tsang Yam-pui said on Saturday. Speaking at an anti-fraud symposium, he said losses
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    • 347 11 BEIJING He's expected to posh for honoring of WTO commitments by China Reuters US Commerce Secretary Don Evans is to put pressure on China this week for fair trade and moves towards a market economy, the US Commerce Department said yesterday, but he
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  • 936 12 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP (LONDON] Gold prices hauled themselves back over US$3BO an ounce last week as fresh cracks appearing in the value of the US dollar and US stocks boosted the precious metal's value. Cotton and grains were also winners. Gold: Prices broke through
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  • 748 12 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Oct 24 SDIOAPORE QOVERltMElIT SECURITIES DfPICATIVE PRICES AMP YIELDS Issue Coupon Maturity Latest Yield liw Cif» Matrtty Latest YleM M*****0H 3.5 01 FEB 2004 BU 100.72/A 100.74 0.757/0.682 NX*****H 5.625 01 JUL 2008 BU 112.95/A 113 2.662/2.652 N*****1T 3.375 15 MAY 2004 BU 101.4/A 101.43 0.825/0.772
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  • WORLD news
    • 425 13 LONDON But central banks should keep markets guessing on tactics: study Reuters TRANSPARENT central bank policy on currency intervention can increase the bank's credibility and make the action more effective, according to a study for the Bank for International Settlements. But keeping the
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    • 346 13 BAGHDAD Reuters US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was unhurt when anti-American guerillas blasted the Baghdad hotel where he was staying with a barrage of rockets yesterday. The brazen attack killed a US soldier but a defiant Mr Wolfowitz vowed that the US
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    • 598 14 NEW YORK SEC investigating how common is market timing practice among funds NYT AN investigation by securities regulators has uncovered widespread improper trading of mutual fund shares at the largest US fund companies and brokerage firms, an official at the Securities and Exchange Commission said
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    • 341 16 MEXICO CITY Finance ministers will also discuss terrorism and currencies AP FINANCE ministers from 20 nations launched a twoday meeting in Mexico yesterday to look for ways to revitalise the world economy and halt funding for terrorists. Representatives from the Group of
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    • 510 16 Kremlin conservatives eager to curb his growing influence believed to be behind move Reuters, AP [MOSCOW) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO of Russia's largest oil firm Yukos and the country's richest man, is a techhappy workaholic who has been tipped as a future president of Russia.
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    • 570 16 SAN FRANCISCO AFP ARRESTS of illegal immigrant workers, a spate of supermarket strikes and city bans against its superstores have put a harsh spotlight on the employment policies of Wal-Mart, America's biggest private employer and largest retailing chain. Last week, US federal agents
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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    • 2353 15 Notices y stems AXIS SYSTEMS HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of AXIS SYSTEMS HOLDINGS LIMITED will be held at The Executives' Club, 65 Chulia Street, OCBC Centre #33-01, Singapore *****3 on the 12th day of November
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  • BizIT
    • 279 17 It may bypass Wall St by selling shares in a massive online auction AFP [WASHINGTON] Google, the search engine started by two students that has become one of the hottest Internet properties, is considering taking the privately held firm public in an electronic offering. The Wall
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    • 165 17 Xinhua [LOS ANGELES] US chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are cutting desktop chip prices to usher in the holiday com-puter-buying season, CNet reported. Intel was scheduled to reduce the cost of its Pentium 4 desktop chips by 7-35 per cent
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    • 120 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Western Digital Corp, which makes hard disk drives, is hiring employees such as product managers and engineers as demand recovers, Western Digital's chairman and CEO Matthew MassengiU said. "For the first time in a long time, we expect to see two years in
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    • IT TAKES
      • 53 17 THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Microsoft Singapore have launched the IDA-Microsoft BackPack.NET initiative. The five-year scheme will drive R&D, testing and showcasing of innovative infocomm technologies in the education sector. IDA, Microsoft, industry partners and participating schools will invest up to $20 million
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      • 45 17 DIGEMASTER has released its latest digital camera. The Mouse 610 costs $275, offers a 6.6 megapixel resolution (achieved by using the latest interpolation technology), 1 weighs 100 grams, offers a 4x digital zoom, and a PC Webcamera function. For details, fax *****770.
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      • 53 17 DELL Computer has unveiled its new "hyper-threading technology" based Inspiron notebook line with the Inspiron 5150. The system will let users do more tasks In less time. Dell said. The Inspiron 5150 runs on Intel's Mobile Pentium 4 processor at 3.20 GHz. Prices start from $3,326. For
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      • 64 17 NEC Solutions Asia-Pacific has introduced its new projector. The WT6OO costs $10,500 and utilises NEC's lens-less mirror design to attain the shortest throw distance of any front projector, NEC said. It can project a 40 inch image at a 2.5 inch distance from the screen, and
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      • 78 17  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury FUJI Xerox Printers has introduced its newest laser printer models with threemonochrome printers (Phaser 3115, Phaser 3120, Phaser 3130) and a colour printer (Phaser 6250, left). The monochrome printers offer a first-Daee-out timp of below 12 seconds. They cost between
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    • 172 17 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Making evidence of cybercrime stand up in court should be easier after the European Commission released guidelines at www.ctose.org on how to investigate computer viruses, website hacking and online credit card fraud. Just like physical evidence, any e-evidence of online crime contained
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    • 181 17  -  By Chen Huifen EXABYTE Singapore is launching an automatic backup system that it hopes will drive its Asia revenues from the current US$BOO,OOO to more than US$l.6 million in the next 12 months. Built for server data storage, the VXA-2 Packet Loader
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    • 854 18  -  Silicon wafer sales are set to rise 10% by this year-end and 15% next year globally. This should be good news for S'pore, says Raju Chellam Raju Chellam LAST fortnight, chip leader Intel Corp and other semiconductor companies led the way, announcing better-than-ex-pected Q3
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    • 377 18  -  The average US$1b corporation generates 88m sheets of paper a yean Lexmark By Amit Roy Choudhury rUOK management of electronic and hardcopy documents is not only slowing the pace of business globally but is also impacting customer services and significantly increasing corporate costs, according
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 261 19 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE dry bulk market continues to flourish with the obvious upward pressure on prices. BULK CARRIEB& Grain Union: 66,837 tdw bit 1/86 CSBC reported sold region U559,650,000 to undisclosed buyers. Mariman: 37,049 tdw bit 6/86 Hyundai crs 5/33 ts reported sold region U558,200,000
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    • 303 19 SGX '000 Oct 23 SS *t- Vol CH Offshore 0 40 -0.01 4787 ChuanHup 051 -0.01 6205 Cosco investment .0.64 urxti ***** CWT Distribution 0 60 -001 172 Ezra Hldgt 108 -004 1198 FreWttUnkj .0.13 -0.01 6123 G8 Holdings 0.72 -0.03 50 ImHoMngi 0.86 0.02 5993 K1 Venture—
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    • 614 19  -  Its 60%-owned company in deal to transfer assets to Yemeni govt By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation has reportedly finally bowed out of its once booming Aden Container Terminal (ACT), handing the expensive assets back to the Yemeni Government 12 months after
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    • 497 19 Canberra vows fiasco will never be repeated AFP [CANBERRA] Australia finally closed an embarrassing and politically damaging saga over 52,000 stranded sheep on a so-called "ship of death", announcing that they had been accepted by Eritrea. Livestock trucks last week began their third
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    • 425 19  -  Russia also rebukes EU for its bilateral deal initiative By Donald Urqahart {SINGAPORE] International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Secretary-General William O'Neil has blasted the European Union (EU) for pushing ahead with its controversial single-hull oil tanker regulations before the issue has finished being aired
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    • 685 20  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes THE container shipping lines are starting to enjoy a period of higher freight rates and the pundits are predicting this happy state of affairs could easily last as long as two years. Of course the real
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      • 146 27 Oct 27 Brunei: Awal Ramadhan New Zealand: Labour Day. Oct 31 Germany: Reformation Day. Taiwan:Chiang Kai-shek's Day Nov 1 Philippines: Saint Day. Nov 3 Japan: Culture Day. Nov 25 Singapore: Hari Raya Puasa. Malaysia: Hari Raya Puasa. Dec 5 Thailand: King's Birthday. Dec 10 Thailand:Constitution Day. Dec 23
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      • 840 27 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 indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 498 28 ASIA-PACIFIC AIRLINES MEETING Plane maker on track to deliver 300 jets this year Reuters [CHEJU, South KoreaJ European plane maker Airbus SAS believes its planned A3BO superjumbo will be the key to breaking into Japan's airline market, a top Airbus executive
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      • 177 28 Bloomberg [CHEJU, South Korea] Japan Airlines, Korean Air and other Asian carriers carried 8.8 million passengers last month, 2.5 per cent fewer than a year ago, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines said in a statement. The association's 17 members filled 72.9 per cent
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      • 393 28 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways (BA) chief executive Rod Eddington said on Friday economy travel will remain airlines' focus and keep revenues under pressure, hours before the last commercial flight of BA's costly supersonic Concorde. "A very sad day in many ways,
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      • 115 28 AP [HONG KONG] Express delivery company FedEx Corp said it will launch six weekly direct flights from Hong Kong to Paris later this month. The new service, starting tomorrow, will be an extension of existing flights from the Philippine city of Subic Bay to Hong
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      • 164 28 Bloomberg [CHEJU, South Korea] China Airlines, Taiwan's largest carrier, said it expects to post a full-year profit of more than US$3O million, recovering from a first-half loss after the Sars outbreak, because of an increase in cargo shipments. The airline reported a first-half loss of
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      • 108 28 Reuters [CHEJU, South Korea] Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong's main carrier, said it would be difficult to push up average fares as it tries to boost travel in the wake of the Sars outbreak. "We were doing quite a lot of promotions stimulating demand," director
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      • LOG Book
        • 78 28 Oana-Xinhua [SEOUL] Asiana Airlines said it would launch a new air route today linking Incheon directly with Auckland, New Zealand. The carrier will operate a 8777-200 jet on the route four times a week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The flight, which is expected to
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        • 54 28 Reuters [LONDON] Nearly 1,000 support staff at Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport, are to stage a 48-hour strike next month over pay, Britain's TGWU union said. The union said the strike by Swissport staff, who handle baggage and perform check-in duties, would start
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        • 66 28 Reuters [CHICAGO]- America West Airlines said it has reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with the union representing its 1,700 pilots. The deal is subject to a ratification vote by members of the Air Line Pilots Association. The vote will begin around
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        • 74 28 Reuters [CHICAGO] Mesa Air Group Inc said it remains committed to a merger with Atlantic Coast Airlines Holding Inc even though Atlantic has rejected an offer made earlier this month. "We are disappointed the management and board of directors of Atlantic Coast have chosen to
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      • 331 28 Surge largely due to more demand from China for air services to HK AFP (HONG KONG) Air traffic at Hong Kong's international airport has recovered and is higher than levels seen before the devastation of the Sars outbreak earlier this year, the
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      • 236 28 Xinhua [SHANGHAI) The Shanghai Aerospace Industry Corporation will be able to produce 13 sets of level tail assemblies for new-generation Boeing 737s every month as of October. Ken Yata, deputy president of Boeing China Company, said Chinese aerospace manufacturing enterprises have
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      • 135 28 Bloomberg [TOKYOJ Japan and South Korea will start "shuttle" flights between Tokyo and Seoul using airports closer to the centres of the countries' capitals. The Japanese and Korean governments agreed to allow as many as four flights a day from Nov 30 between
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