The Business Times, 2 January 2004

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  • 1355 1  -  Yen set to lead surge, with currencies getting an extra kick if yuan peg is adjusted By Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] The US dollar is widely expected to remain under heavy selling pressure for at least the first part of 2004, but Asian currencies
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  • 48 1 FOREX RATES IIS$ s$ US$ (S$ per US$) 1.701 £(IS$/S$ per 1781 3.029 EOO(i:S$/S$/E) 1.257 1139 YEN 106.9 62.90 RM 3.800 2134 HK$ 7 763 4.564 BAHT 39 62 2319 Rl'PlAH 8.470 1979 RENMINBI 8198 4.879 INDIAN RUPEE 45.54 26.77 AS 1134 0.784 NZS 1 524 0896
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  • 552 1  -  The 170,000 sq ft Hindhede Rd plot with new 99-year lease costs $68m By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Centrepoint Properties has bagged a sprawling site in Upper Bukit Timah for $68 million, clinching a significant piece of land in an area that is shaping up
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    • 984 2 Analysts expect rally to continue into at least the first half of new year NYT Reuters [NEW YORK] Major US stock market indexes finished 2003 with double-digit annual gains on Wednesday, ending the longest losing streak since the waning years of the
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    • 513 2 AFP [BEIJING] After a tumultuous 2003, the world this year will free itself of major wars and the global economy will accelerate as a new cycle of good fortune is ushered in, astrologers in Asia predict. Stargazers say the coming 12 months cannot fare
      AFP; AP  -  513 words
    • 983 2 American tech firms are redefining products and the way they are made NYT FROM Sony with its Walkman to Toshiba with its televisions, Asian companies have dominated the consumer electronics business for years. But with the rise of US personal computer companies,
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    • 112 2 Clarification IN our Dec 31 article "Global Active takes second shot at listing", we said Osim International has undertaken not to sell any of its shares in Global Active for 12 months from the tatter's listing date. Global Active has pointed out that the moratorium for Osim is six months
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 797 3  -  HOCK lock siew ven sreenivasan IF 2008 was a tough year for Singapore Airlines, 2004 promises to be no less challenging. After suffering the worst bout of turbulence in its half-century history, Asia's most successful carrier seems to be enjoying sunny skies again. Capacity
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    • 356 3  -  By Taila Krishnakumar IN a market dominated by the foreign private banking giants, United Overseas Bank Group is counting on its long-term relationships as a foundation to expand its high net worth client business. Senior officials in charge of the business,
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    • Article, Illustration
      457 4  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN MARCO Polo is believed to have offered $84 million for a 47,216 aq ft freehold plot next to Its Sea Vjtew He*si parcel The plot, owned by China Airlines, also attracted Mds from Keppet Land, Hoe ton Group, SB Development and Fortune Bealty. But
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    • 198 4 Pousible stake of up to 14% in pharma group Bloomberg TEMASEK Holdings may buy as much as 14 per cent of Indian pharmaceuticals group Matrix Laboratories Ltd, Temasek spokeswoman Eva Ho said, expanding into one of India's fastest-grow-ing industries. The disclosure comes two
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    • 180 4 Cazenove calls for cut; DBS Vickers more upbeat about property market Reuters the unemployment rate down from its current 17year high of 5.9 per cent. "Despite the better economic outlook, prices of mass market properties are likely to drift 5 per cent lower in
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    • 255 4  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan SEVERE Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) again threatens to rear its ugly head in East Asia. Yet, while Sars the disease has been a curse for the region as a whole, a few companies have actually benefited from it A
      Source: Bloomberg  -  255 words
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  • CORPARATE focus
    • Movers and Shakers
      • 508 6 Corporate Singapore is in for a better and more exciting year as companies flex their muscles and exercise their wits in an economic upturn. BT takes a look at the movers and shakers who will shape corporate events in 2004 personalities such as Ho
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      • 437 6 n*S been 30 years since Wee Cbo Yaw took over from his father Wee Kheng Chiang as Overseas Bank Group. But all these years, the irrepressible chief executive of the banking group with the biggest domestic operations has never lost the sureneas of
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      • 378 6 CHEW Choon Seng could not have taken over at the helm of Singapore Airlines at a tougher time. Not that the 56-year-old company veteran had much of a choice. Faced with a crisis brought on by war, the Sars epidemic and economic gloom,
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      • 129 6 initiatives. ||,g m Aaml* Ai^ mmn XunillvlßCWillnK W vSMaSSOKfnPO|PW;-fR^ to. l*f»beeß Mned up, fbreign and toc&For those who have lamented the influx of toss-iijifljgiu fljiift. ths rejection of a tit Ing for biotech comnany Rockeby in December because of fknihtn rrrrrm is Mit
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      • 322 6 OVER the past year, David Gerald has matured from a fledgling activist into a confident and fearless fighter for the rights of minority shareholders. His campaigns for the fair treatment of retail investors, too, have become more unrelenting. Known as the face
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      • 327 7 A PROLIFIC IPO manager with a maverick streak, investment banker Choo Chee Kong is set to make even more waves in the corporate world when his SBIE2Capital seeks its own listing this year. A former DBS banker, Mr Choo burst onto the corporate finance
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      • 261 7 LEE Hsien Yang, the chief of Singapore Telecom, was perhaps the most writtenabout corporate figure in Singapore in 2001. That was the year SingTel embarked on its controversial purchase of Optus, Australia's No 2 telco, for $13 billion. Sing Tel followed that up
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      • 620 7 EVEN as we look for the movers and shakers in 2004, there is another group of people who have already been making waves and are likely to continue to do so. Watch this space: Qoek Leaf Chan. If there is another investor on the local
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      • 267 7 FOR investors keen on the real estate sector, Uem Mun Leong, president and CEO of Capita Land, wiD be one man to watch this year. For one, the group can be expected to come up with more real estate-based financial products. For
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      • 376 7 THE man with the deft touch. His investments, when made and announced, get to be the talk of the town. Many investors simply rush into the shares of the companies he has bought into. The interest Koh Boon Hwee generates among copy-cat investors is not
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 412 8 HONG KONG Philippines, Japan and South Korea among the most pessimistic in survey AFP HONG KONG residents are the most optimistic of AsiaPacific nations about economic prospects for 2004, with South Korea and Japan topping the list of the most pessimistic, a
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    • 277 8 HONG KONG Reuters THE Hong Kong arm of China's biggest bank will pay HK$2.l6 billion (***** million) to buy most of the local operations of Fortis, the Dutch-Belgian financial services group said yesterday. The Industrial Commercial Bank of China (Asia) will buy
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    • 186 8 The test could have been contaminated, says WHO Bloomberg [BEIJING] China may have misdiagnosed a case of Sars last weekend because the test could have been contaminated, the World Health Organisation said. The WHO said in a statement that more tests are planned before
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    • 702 8 However, the M'sian casino group will continue to push into the energy business Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian casino and power group Genting Bhd said on Wednesday that it has appointed Lim Kok Thay as chairman, replacing rags-to-riches founder Lim Goh Tong who will
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    • 610 8  -  Some of his projects had to be put on hold hot others received govt support From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary has had mixed fortunes since the political handover in the country less than two months ago. His star has
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    • 513 9 KUALA LUMPUR But new excise taxes mean such cars won't be much cheaper AP AFP MALAYSIA curbed import duties on cars from its South-east Asian neighbours yesterday in a longawaited plan to reduce protection of the Malaysian automobile industry, but also
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    • 281 9 BEIJING The 30km ride to Pudong airport takes 7 minutes AP SLEEK, silvery and ready to fly, Shanghai's 430-kph mag-netic-levitation train began its daily commercial operation yesterday, shooting out of its station amid high hopes for better commuting but at much higher fares. The
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    • 762 9 NEW DELHI Bloomberg THE "Made in India" label on the new Suzuki Motor Corp minicar was a surprise. Yet for owner Mary Pawson, a retiree living in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, that was just fine. "I still like it," said Ms Pawson, 77, who
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    • 161 9 ■HONG KONG AP THOUSANDS of people marched through downtown Hong Kong on New Year's Day to demand full democracy in this former British colony, the biggest rally since the mass protests that threw the government into crisis six months ago. Chanting "return power
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    • 297 9 SHANGHAI Reuters US giant Citibank and HSBC Holdings pic, the world's second-biggest bank by market value, have become the first foreign banks to win approval to issue credit cards in China, state media said yesterday. Bank executives were not immediately
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    • 510 9 HANOI AP ASIAN shrimp exporters on Thursday said a US antidumping lawsuit is an example of blatant protectionism and vowed to fight to keep overseas shrimp on American dinner plates. The US Southern Shrimp Alliance filed the suit on Wednesday with the
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 741 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION anthony rowley SOMETIMES expectations of economic recovery can become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Typically this happens at the bottom of the business cycle when confidence rises, leading to a rise in consumption and investment when the recovery becomes real rather than
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    • 49 10 'We used to think that displaced workers, given new training, could move up fie value chain. There is now a question about whether that upward movement will be possible.' Cbarlenc Barshefaiy former US Trade Representative, on the flow of high-tech jobs to countries such as India
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    • 603 10 EDITORIAL OVER the past few months, the US mutual fund industry has been rocked by news that several of its members may be guilty of gross misconduct by allowing certain privileged clients to indulge in dubious trading practices. A full-scale investigation is now underway, spearheaded by New
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    • 1028 10  -  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History shows that while the factors are varied, there are some common themes By Virginia Postrel NYT THOSE who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. To that old saw, an economist might reply: "If
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    • 825 10  -  By Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group THE political story of 2003 in the US was, in some ways, the fashionability of "hate". It became respectable not simply to disagree with George W Bush or to dislike him and criticise him but to
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  • WORLD news
    • 401 11 NEW YORK Move comes as insaranco firms dropped coverage against bankruptey Bloomberg GOLDMAN Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley Joined with 12 other brokers to selfinsure client assets against bankruptcy after US insurance companies dropped the coverage as too risky. The
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    • 381 11  -  From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TENSIONS between the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan over monetary policy came into the open again yesterday as Economics and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka called on the central bank to agree on a common strategy
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    • 362 11 LONDON LAT-WP THE United States gave serious consideration to sending airborne troops to seize oil fields in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi during the 1973 Arab oil embargo, according to a top-secret British intelligence memorandum released on Wednesday evening.
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    • 250 11 NEW YORK Bloomberg TYSON Foods Inc, the world's largest meat processor, more than doubled the compensation for chairman and chief executive officer John Tyson in fiscal 2003 to about US$2O.9 million, though profit declined. The increase mainly resulted from US$l6.9 million in restricted stock,
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    • 362 11 Reuters [BOSTON] The pay package that Tyco International Ltd used to lure Edward Breen to take over as chairman of the scandal-ridden company skyrocketed in value to at least US$l72 million at the end of last year, boosted by the
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    • 531 12 NEW YORK It handled US$543b of transactions, capturing a 10.2% market share Reuters Bloomberg FOR the third year in a row, Citigroup Inc was the world's biggest stock and bond underwriter last year, market research firm Thomson Financial said on Wednesday, as low
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    • 265 12 LONDON Reuters HSBC Holdings Pic, the world's sec-ond-biggest bank by market value, has sold its US factoring unit to CIT Group Inc to focus on its main US businesses. The unit has assets of about US$l billion before assumed liabilities and net
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    • 558 12 MADRID He may buy Clesa if insolvent parent wants to sell Reuters NYT THE chairman of Parmalat's Spanish subsidiary, dairy firm Clesa, would consider buying the profitable company if its insolvent Italian parent wanted to sell, he said in a newspaper interview published
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    • 487 12 Reuters (LONDON] The Parmalat scandal will deal a severe blow to auditor Grant Thornton's 20-year quest to build a global network and compete with its big league rivals, according to accountancy professionals. On Wednesday, judicial sources said police arrested two executives of Grant Thornton
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    • 594 12 NEW YORK They accent for 7% of charitable gifts declared in 2000 NYT THE top 400 American earners in 2000 provided nearly 7 per cent of all the charitable gifts reported on income tax returns for that year, well in excess of
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    • 552 12 NEW YORK Enron has been billed US$575m by law firms, others LAT-WP EARLY this year, after 19 months and US$9O million in fees, R Neal Batson will wind up his job as Enron Corp's bankruptcy examiner. Appointed by the trustee in the
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    • 557 11 M THE MATTE* Of THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. SO ANO IN THE MATTER Of SOHO INTEtNATIONAI HOME FASHIONS PTE LTD (IN CREDITORS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) STATUTORY DECLARATION BY DIRECTORS Of COMPANY'S INABILITY TO CONTINUE BUSINESS BY REASON Of its LiASnmES We, CSio Hwee Ioom| of SOD, titee Mac M«»MS77O« miiiik Hid
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    • 1299 11 EZRA EZRA HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Ganeral Mooting at Ezra HLimited (the "Caifceny") w* be heW at The Fuierton Hotel. 1 Futerton Square, Singapore *****8 on Tuesday, 20 January 2004 at IT.OO am. for
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  • EPICURE/MUSIC
    • 963 13  -  Amuse Bouche's food is fine and so is its service, but has it set itself one goal too many? JAIME EE wonders JIME EE Amuse Bouche is by definition a culinary terser— a little bite that chefs offer to diners as a preview of tastes
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    • 661 13  -  Competition for scarce funds looks set to intensify among arts groups By Frank DeMegtio 2003 found the classical music scene in Singapore at an interesting crossroads. In their ever-present bid to become "world-class", Singapore has spent generously on several gambits in the past few
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  • THE ARTS
    • Article, Illustration
      1204 14  -  Despite Sars, the Iraq war and funding difficulties last year, the arts scene here continued to thrive. CHEAH UI-HOON reports cm the strides made CHEAH UI-HOON WHEN taking a look at last year's high and low notes in the arts scene, it's inevitable to refer to the twin
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    • 599 14  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon DUSTING off the doom and gloom of last year, most of the arts groups have drawn up full seasons this year. As an indication, venues like DBS Arts Centre have been booked over 90 per cent for 2004, reports Gaurav Kripalani,
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  • COVER STORY/CINEMA
    • 1684 15 CLEARLY, the cinematic year was dominated by a single hobbit-forming franchise, and now that the final instalment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy has achieved the near-miraculous feat of meeting, if not exceeding critical and commercial expectations, it will be a major surprise if The
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    • 509 15  -  By Geoffrey Eu THINK of Jack Black as a modernday, more savvy, PG-13 version of the John Belushi character in Animal House the hilarious and politically incorrect 1978 cult classic about the fraternity from Hell and you begin to have a
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    • 574 15  -  While the film stumbles badly in parts, it never really falls flat By Geoffrey Eu MONA Lisa Smile is a full blown Hollywood confection about a pre-feminism feminist in the early 1950s who causes a stir at a prissy East Coast women's college by trying to
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 798 17  -  It is planning to build third set of locks costing US$8b By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has forewarned of a major toU hike to boost coffers ahead of the likely construction of a massive US$B biUion third set
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    • 217 17  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation's Guangzhou Container Terminal (GCT) has handled one of the largest vessels yet to call Huangpu, in China's booming Pearl River Delta region. China Shipping's newbuild 4,100-TEU (twentyfoot equivalent units) capacity Xin Nantong called GCT's Xinsha Terminal on
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    • 590 17 They were given too little time to meet Wednesday deadline AP [WASHINGTON] More than 5,000 ships and less than a fourth of US ports, ferry terminals and fuel-chemical tank farms failed to meet a Wednesday deadline for submitting maritime security plans
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    • 417 17 Bid to win more smll-bnsiness customers Reuters [NEW YORK] Shipping giant FedEx Corp said it agreed to buy copy centre operator Kinko's for US$2.4 billion in cash, to win more small-business customers in the face of competition from United Parcel Service. The purchase from
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    • 1002 18  -  ADMIRALTY casebook Court has no admiralty jurisdiction over claim based only on settlement agreement By Salva Kumar A CLAIM by a local shipyard for monies owing to it under a "settlement agreement" reached between it and its debtor was not an
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      • 141 25 Jan 2 China: New Year Holiday. New Zealand: New Year Holiday. Taiwan: New Year Holiday. United Kingdom: New Year Holi day, (Scot). Jan 12 Japan: Adulthood Day. Jan 19 United States: Martin Luthei Birthday. Jan 22 Brunei: Lunar New Year. China: Lunar New Year. Malaysia: Lunar New Year.
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      • 437 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 averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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      • 633 26 Qantas and its low-cost carrier will face an uphill fight against Virgin Blue, say analysts AFP [SYDNEY] Australian flag carrier Qantas will face an uphill fight against incursions by Richard Branson's Virgin Blue in 2004, according to analysts. Qantas Airways chief executive Geoff Dixon
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      • 537 26 The moves reflect tough approach to guard US airspace NYT [WASHINGTON] American authorities in the past week ordered a US-bound flight from Mexico to turn around in midflight and imposed extraordinary security measures on at least six other incoming flights because
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      • 555 26 Carriers position themselves for business travel upturn The Washington Post [WASHINGTON] In the fight to win over frequent travellers, what's the one advantage the larger, traditional airlines like Delta and US Airways have over their low-cost rivals? First-class seating. So this year, Delta
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      • 385 26 Roles not relevant as US airlines don't own reservation systems now Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US government will end rules on companies that distribute airfare information to travel agents, letting carriers such as AMR Corp's American Airlines negotiate lower fees from the travel
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      • 130 26 AP [PITTSBURGH] US Airways Group will lay off 200 flight attendants in January to keep its staffing level constant after hundreds of others who had taken voluntary leave returned to work, the airline said. The company said more than 300 attendants returned to
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      • 422 26 AIRLINE CODES: AA: American Airlines (AAL), AF: Air France (AFR), AI: Air India (AK), AY: Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ: Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA: British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG: Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), BI: Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO: Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR:
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