The Business Times, 3 May 2004

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  • 13 1 MITAJRIA2£ffi£Z2OO4 850 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg MONDAY, MAY 3, 2004
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  • 697 1  -  BT exclusive Major hurdles remain, but move could help revitalise Orchard Road By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] If hotelier Ong Beng Seng gets his way, the Hilton hotel and Forum shopping centre will be torn down and redeveloped into an integrated mega hotel
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  • 62 1 Week Change STI *****3 -25.61 KLSECOMP 838.21 -37.29 NIKKEI 225 *****.79 -358.87 HANG SENG ._..l 1942.96 -440.98 SET INDEX 648.15 -33.73 JAKARTA COMP ...783.41 -32.03 MANILA COMP ...1555.01 -34.39 TAIPEI WPI 6117.81 -630.29 SEOUL COMP 862.84 -73.22 SHENZHEN B 261.31 -23.63 AUSTALLORD .3407.70 -54.20 DOW JONES *****.57 -247.27 NASDAQ
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  • 74 1 FOREX RATES U8$ 8$ I'SS (SS per l.'SS) 1.705 £(USS/SS per S).... 1.768 3.013 El'RO(USS/SS/E). 1.194 2.035 YEN 110.5™ 64.80 RM 3.800 2.229 HKS 7.800 4.575 BAHT 40.03 23.48 RITIAH 8,710 5,109 RENMINBI 8.277 4.855 INDIAN RUPEE 44.39 26.04 AS 1.391 0.816 NZS 1.608 0.943 PRIME RATES. SINGAPORE 5.25
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  • 696 1  -  It has been busily recruiting people, renting more office space By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Investment bank Barclays Capital is growing and growing in Singapore. Not only has it been raiding rivals to poach their people and thus been accused of jacking
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  • 598 1  -  By Chen Huifen [SINGAPORE] The venture capital industry in Singapore is suffering from a gap at the seed-funding level, as most venture capitalists and private equity firms tend to invest in more established companies. Nanyang Technological University president Su Guanning thinks it is because there
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    • 655 2 Economists expect Fed to alter statement wording in three key areas AFP [WASHINGTON] US Federal Reserve policymakers, pondering a hotter economy and early price pressures, must brace the world for a U-turn on three years of rate cuts, analysts said. Action is unlikely
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    • 680 2  -  Productivity determines GDP per capita, not size of labour and capital markets By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] It's all due to, in a word, productivity, says a McKinsey study on why rich countries become richer, and others get poorer. And government policies that
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    • 464 2 AP [TOKYO] As Japan's economy sees a glimmer of light after more than a decade in the dungeon, growing ranks of analysts and economists say the country's stock market is lined up to become something it hasn't been in years: a place to
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 1139 4  -  UOB's market value hits $21.53b while DBS's falls to $21.31b By Teh Hooi Ling WEE Cho Yaw now heads the biggest banking group in Singapore, if not Southeast Asia. In The Business Times's latest ranking of the listed companies by market
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    • 702 4  -  HOCK lock siew r sivanithy aoi—<ll jtim—rdays for companies to be told they should invest in good corporate governance. The idea is simple—be honest and transparent in your disclosures to the market, treat your shareholders right, and over time you should be rewarded
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    • 839 4  -  BT exclusive It's setting up IT infrastructure facility, offering e-business services By Raju Chellam IN a unique deal to help large enterprises in the region keep their corporate data secure, IBM Corp says it will invest $39 million to set up an
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    • 548 5  -  BT exclusive It beats 13 others in tight race for mandate to manage 134-room property By Vince Chong FRASER Serviced Residences has expanded its European footprint by winning a tightly contested contract to manage a 134room property in the upmarket business district of La
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    • 572 5 THE sterling first quarter results of DBS Group on Friday won over a few analysts, and led them to upgrade the stock. OCBC Investment Research has raised its recommendation to "outperform" with a price target of $16. Phillip Securities is more aggressive, setting
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    • 73 5 ANNUAL reports are getting glossier by the year. The cover for the latest annual report ofTeck Wah Industrial may well be passed off as a Chinese comic book as the printing and packaging group attempts to showcase its latest online interactive products based on
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  • 2015 6 Payment E« Cooks Pay Ictel date d—e inn Action Asia 10c b 1.2TE 13 May 18 May 31 May Agva Corp l/SI Jc F USO 731A 07 May 1? May 21 May A«igreen50c F 3 SO MApT 04May~ 79May Allied Tech Sc b 049N 28_Ap> 03 May 17
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  • 1757 6 Number FORECAST Median Price fl l ""■V' *the r«o£ C0MPANV Mn»t2 (JHtoS mendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not 1 0.06 21.45 u? every stock is followed by all the 29 brokers. Their recom- CSE Global Lid
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 793 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IN a nutshell, trading this week hinges on the answers to three related questions. First, what will happen to the Straits Times Index after the play on banks is over? Second, can the market overcome its fears over the
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    • 54 6 Events Investors can watch out for Europtronlc's Bonus Issue, ex-date, May 4 China Aviation's Bonus Issus, ox-dato, May 5 IMt Wing's Bonus Issue, ox-dato, May 6 Jack's Int'l's divtdond paymont, May 4 Horsing Corps dlvldond paymont, May 5 Straits Trading's dlvldond paymont, May 5 Startoch, EMU, May 5
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    • 428 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Asian units slumped over the past week after concerns that China's economy was overheating and as markets continued to watch for a US interest rate rise. In Thailand, clashes between militants and security forces in the south pushed the baht down around
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    • 1026 7  -  BT portfolio STOCKS ten hooi ling THE differential in the performance of blue chips versus that of the rest of the market is becoming more pronounced. And this is reflected in the relative resilience of the Straits Times Index which recovered much of
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    • 1092 7  -  INSIDE MARKETS Number of purchases beats sales nearly 4 to 1 but buy value totals $2.4m versus $31m sales. ROBERT HALILI reports ROBERT HALILI THE insider sentiment ended on a> positive note last month with buyers outweighing sellers in almost every
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    • 339 7  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By R Sivanithy WHEN DBS Bank on Friday rocketed 70 cents or 5 per cent to $14.30, few observers might have noticed that the covered call warrant which offers buyers a massive 13 times gearing barely twitched, rising
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 547 8  -  But investment bank warns of possible contagion effect from region By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Singapore remains one of the least risky emerging markets, but it can't afford to be complacent, according to a report by Lehman Brothers. In the first-quarter 2004 update of
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    • 619 8 Aussie deal is latest attempt to grow beyond domestic market AFP SINGAPORE Inc's multi-billion-dollar acquisition of a power company in Australia last week was another significant step in its campaign to build a regional empire away from the limits of a tiny home
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 316 9 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS Coins it in no time for ar--1 They may rise to the occa- fi [f" 9Jt sion? (6 8) 00 German runner 9 Extend path in northern hill 0 (7) 7 People opposed to prison 10 Church circle goes cold on sentenees have a tight elections (7)
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 217 9 BANGALORE Reuters Indian software services exporter Wipro Ltd and International Business Machines Corp have won a long-term outsourcing deal worth US$l billion from Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell, The Economic Times daily reported on Saturday. A spokesman for Wipro, India's third-biggest software
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      • 94 9 AFP [MUNICH] German technology giant Siemens is poised to sign a deal with China which will allow it to sell its mobile phones throughout the country, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported in its Sunday edition. The newspaper said Siemens will sign a contract
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      • 155 9 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] General Motors Corp, Honda Motor Co and other carmakers in Thailand exported 43 per cent more vehicles in the first quarter on rising demand in Australia and South-east Asia. Overseas sales of pickup trucks, sedan cars and other vehicles in the
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      • 108 9 AFP [SEOUL] Hutchison Whampoa, Hong Kong's largest business group, is pushing to buy about US$l billion worth of mobile phones from South Korea's LG Electronics, reports said yesterday. Hutchison chairman Li Ka-Shing disclosed the purchase plan to South Korean Finance and Economy Minister Lee
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    • 499 9 KUALA LUMPUR He also advises: don't sell ailing Lotus group unless it's bleeding badly AFP MALAYSIA'S status as an auto manufacturer is in jeopardy if national car firm Proton is surrendered to foreign control, Proton adviser and ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad warned in
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    • 620 9 MANILA Business community throws support behind president AFP THE Philippines votes next week in a presidential election pitting incumbent Gloria Arroyo, a key Asian ally of the United States, against the country's most famous film star, Fernando Poe. The latest opinion
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    • 328 10 HONG KONG Reuters SHANGHAI Mayor Han Zheng expects the city's property prices to rise at a slower pace this year after surging more than 20 per cent in 2003, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday. "In my personal opinion, the rise in property
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    • 631 10 NEW DELHI Exit surveys indicate race is getting tighter than expected AFP JUST one month ago, it seemed nothing could go wrong for India with economic growth rocketing and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's reformminded government looking like a shoo-in for reelection. Now, all bets
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    • 717 10 SINGAPORE Nervousness on regional stock markets seen as an over-reaction AFP CHINA'S efforts to rein in its high-flying economy could slow down Asia's economic growth momentum but fears that they would spark another Asian financial crisis or a recession are unfounded, economists
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  • 970 12 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Apr 30 PRIME LENDDfQ RATES BANKS Credit Suisse S'pore 5 ABN Amro Bank NV 5.25 Dexia Banc 1 ue lntl A ABSA Bank Limited 5.5 Luxembourg 6 Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 Deutsche Bank AG 5.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 DBS Bank 4.25 American Express Bank
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  • 1093 12 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP [LONDON] Efforts unveiled by China last week to try to cool its sizzling economy roiled many global commodities, which have enjoyed a boom thanks to the country's strong appetite for raw materials. Base metals were particularly hard hit, though gold prices
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  • 1607 12 BICOM FUTURES Apr3( RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS1 (S centsAg) Close Volume Open Month High tow Sett (towns) Interest May 04 232.00 Jun 04 231.25 Jul 04 233.00 Aug 04 233.50 Sep 04 232.75 Oct/Dec 04 233.25 RSS 3 (US centsAg) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest
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  • WORLD news
    • 264 14 DUBAI First attack on one of its oil facilities kills five people Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP SAUDI Arabia has vowed to use an "iron fist" against militants after gunmen killed five Westerners on Saturday at a petrochemical complex in the Red Sea city of
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    • 602 14 OMAHA, Nebraska Billionaire investor tells shareholders his strategy is still solid AP, Bloomberg WARREN Buffett has no plans to change a system that works, even if he has made a few mistakes along the way. "If we were doing it all over
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    • 530 14 Bloomberg Reuters, Warren Buffett's views expressed at the weekend meeting and in the press interview earlier: Interest rates: "They've (The Federal Reserve) perhaps been a little slow in terms of moving up because the economy has heated up considerably. It's clear short-term rates are
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    • 277 14 NEW YORK Bloomberg, Lat-WP, NYT SHARES of Yahoo! Inc, the second most-used Internet search engine, and other Web-search companies have fallen for three days on concern that stockholders will shift money into Google Inc, the most-used search site. Shares of Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo last Friday
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    • 203 14 CHICAGO Reuters IT would be no Google, but a report that the International Securities Exchange may plan an initial public offering sent waves across the derivatives exchange world on Friday. ISE, the largest US exchange for individual equity options, declined comment on a
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    • 623 15 MELBOURNE Competition for Asian gamblers seen fuelling takeovers TWO large takeover bids in the last week will once again change the face of gambling in Australia, says the Herald Sun newspaper. Tabcorp's close-to-successful As 2 billion (552.46 billion) tilt for the New South Wales-based
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    • 240 15 WASHINGTON Reuters TINY Antigua and Barbuda have successfully challenged a US ban on Internet gambling, dealing the United States another setback at the World Trade Organisation. A US trade official, speaking on condition that she not be identified, confirmed that a WTO
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  • BIZIT
    • 685 16  -  The Republic, with 50,000 Java developers, is one of the world's highest in Java development per capita. Raju Chellam has the details Raju Chellam SINGAPORE is in a great position to exploit the massive opportunities that Java technology offers because of the Republic's huge
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    • 359 16  -  By Raju Chellam BOTH Java and its father, James Gosling, celebrate their birthdays this month. Java was born on May 23, 1995 when John Gage, Sun's director of its Science Office, and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, launched it at the SunWorld Conference in California. And Dr
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    • 630 16  -  IT comment INFOTECH tang weng fai LAST week, US supermart giant Wal-Mart began live trials of radio-frequency identification (RFID) at one of its distribution centres in the Dallas area of Texas. The tiny tags embedded into the packaging of the goods are read by scanners, so
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    • 423 16  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury WHILE growth in the global consumer market continues to rev up for Symantec, provider of the well-known Norton range of consumeroriented anti-virus and security products, the information security vendor is focusing on corporate customers in the Asia-Pacific region. A key reason
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    • 205 16 AFP [WASHINGTON] A new Internet worm spreading worldwide hits computers with certain Microsoft operating systems and causes no apparent damage, but closes down the operating system and sends it into a re-boot loop, two US computer security firms said on Saturday. The Sasser worm "breaks
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    • ITTAKES
      • 112 16 CUSTOMERS of British Airways (BA) and Qantas in Singapore will now be able to opt for e-tickets when they purchase them online or from travel agents. The new routes, including flights to and from Singapore, Bangkok and all Australian cities are the latest addition to BA's
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      • 107 16 HANDHELD maker palmOne has introduced two new products in its Zire series of handhelds. The products are: ♦Zire 72: Price, $528. The handheld comes with a built-in 1.2-megapixel digital camera, audio/video capture and playback ability, and Bluetooth wireless technology and has multimedia capability. It comes with
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      • 78 16 YAHOO! has introduced tools to address spam problems of Yahoo! Singapore Mail users. In order to protect primary e-mail addresses from spam, Yahoo! Mail has created AddressGuard which allows users to establish substitute e-mail addresses that are easily managed from their primary Yahoo! Mail account and can
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      • 69 16 STARHUB has announced the search for its millionth mobile customer. Ten winners five existing and five new mobile customers —will get travel vouchers worth $30,000 each to any destination of their choice. All Postpaid and Green Prepaid StarHub mobile customers who are Singaporeans or Permanent Residents are
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      • 79 16  -  Complied by Amit Roy Choudhury DELL has introduced the 3300MP, an ultra-bright projector which replaces the 3200MP model. The new projector's auto vertical keystone con*ection technology straightens images, eliminating the need to place the projector directly in front of the screen. It also ships with a
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 303 17 ♦Contributed by Simpson Spence Young RATHER disappointingly, the major rumour during the course of the week seems to be incorrect. There were reports that Worldwide had disposed of its remaining VLCC fleet to an individual buyer at something around US$ 1.2 billion. However, the owners stated that they
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    • 288 17 SGX '000 Apr 30 S$ +7- Vol CH Offshore .037 unch 4276 ChuanHup 0.49 -0.01 4348 Cosco Investment .0.75 0.03 ***** CWT Distribution .0.52 -0.01 20 EzraHldgs —1.03 0.06 554 Freight Units .0.12 0.01 862 G8 Holdings .0.74 unch 163 Java Holdings 0 80 0.01 2207 K1 Venture
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    • 661 17  -  Advisory panel chief says long-term projects cannot survive without govt support By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Public and private partnerships in maritime research and development (R&D) will pave the way for commercial technology exports from Singapore, the head of a new industry advisory
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    • 176 17 AP [SOUTHAMPTON, England) The Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner ceded its place as Cunard's flagship vessel yesterday, passing a ceremonial cup to its successor the Queen Mary 2. The ageing QE2 served 35 years as Cunard's main transatlantic workhorse. It left Southampton for Germany, where it
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    • 402 17 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Shipment of goods from the largest US ports slowed as California's independent truck drivers stopped working in Los Angeles and Oakland over record fuel prices, expanding a protest that began five days ago. Only about 15 per cent of
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    • 116 17 Bloomberg [CAPE TOWN] A bulk carrier owned by U-Ming Marine Transport Corp, one of Taiwan's largest shippers, is in danger of sinking off South Africa's west coast after its hull was damaged, a lawyer acting for the company said. The 150,000 ton Cape Africa,
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    • 561 17  -  Unions say it's a wake-up call as the box had no support documentation on contents By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] An explosion inside a container last week at the Port of Los Angeles has highlighted the shipping industry's potential vulnerability, despite new security measures,
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    • 901 18  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes REGULAR readers of this column may recall that as the tanker Prestige was labouring in storms off the Spanish coast, I wrote a piece about the circumstances of the casualty that actually appeared in print at virtually the same time
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      • 498 25 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL AMASIS 022W J16/17 A/SIDE 03/05 0500 DAFA 026E J18/19 A/SIDE 03/05 0400 EASTN FORTIS ***** J7 A/SIDE 03/05 2300 RIMBATIGA DENNIS H J11 A/SIDE 03/05 2359 SHAN FURYU 11/04 J3 A/SIDE 03/05 0700 SHANNON EXP 09/04 J3 A/SIDE 03/05
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      • 1704 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Bertl Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmb AO( DAHLIA 075N 075N J 04/05/2004-08:00 04/05/2004-22:00 ACX RAFFLES 090S 090S 1 04/05/2004-07:00 04/05/20M-2000 AKSOY TRUVA 0409 0408 1 04/05/2004-08:00 04/05/2004-19:00 AL YAMAMAH S411W S41j W 1 03/05/2004-12:00 04/05/2004-05:00 ALAMJAYA
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      • 123 25 May 3 Japan: Constitution Day. UK: Early May Bnk Hoi. Mays Japan: Children's Day. Netherlands: Liberation Day. S.Korea: Children's Day. Thailand: Coronation Day. May 8 France: Remem Day (WW2). May 17 Norway: National Day. May 20 Belgium: Ascension Day. France: Ascension Day. Germany: Ascension Day. Indonesia: Ascension Day.
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      • 794 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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      • 620 25 180 Max 989.9 0.6 16.2 0.06 38 0.04 pr 29 Density Water Residue AshAlumlnium Sediment No above E25 0 0 1 0 0 0 380 Ave 986.7 0.3 13.8 0.05 24 0.02 Eiion 380 Max 994.4 0.7 17.8 0.08 64 0.05 »V/V %M/u m/m Wo above
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 835 26 They willingly handed over millions of passenger records NYT [NEW YORK] In the days following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the nation's largest airlines, including American, United and Northwest, turned over millions of passenger records to the FBI, airline and law
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      • 227 26 AP [TORONTO] The court-ap-pointed bankruptcy monitor overseeing Air Canada's restructuring recommended approval of the airline's plan to seek out a new investor in the airline, after its deal with Hong Kong billionaire Victor Li expired. In a report released on Saturday, accounting
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      • 221 26 ANA pilot caught dozing at the controls twice AP [TOKYO] A Japanese airline pilot nodded off twice while at the controls of a domestic flight last month in front of a transport official who happened to be on board for a routine inspection. The 50-year-old All Nippon Airlines pilot has
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      • 427 26 Reuters [ROME] Alitalia slowly got back to business on Saturday after three days of strikes but Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi warned it would be tough to solve the loss-making crisis at the over-staffed airline. Alitalia said it had cancelled 102
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      • 199 26 AP [LONDON] A new weight limit will be enforced for luggage at London's Heathrow Airport in an attempt to reduce injuries among baggage handlers, officials said. From June 1, no piece of luggage may weigh more than 32 kg, airport operator BAA pic said.
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      • 129 26 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Boeing Co, the world's second-biggest commercial aircraft maker, reached preliminary agreement on a four-year contract with the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, which represents 2,000 workers in California and Oklahoma. The deal must be approved by union members.
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      • LOGBook
        • 102 26 Reuters [LONDON] Thousands of Britons taking a break over the long holiday weekend faced disruption on Saturday when dozens of easy Jet aircraft were grounded because of misplaced insurance documents, the low-fares airline said. easy Jet apologised to its passengers after flights from airports
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        • 64 26 AFP [MANILA] Philippine Airlines (PAL) and Royal Brunei Airlines have begun a code-sharing arrangement covering the five weekly flights between the capitals of the two countries, a PAL statement said. Under the accord, PAL will offer a number of seats on Royal Brunei's Boeing 767
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        • 58 26 Reuters [LONDON] British aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce Group pic said on Friday it would invest more than £100 million (*****.2 million) in the UK over the next two and a half years in manufacturing facilities. The facilities will specialise in compression systems, combustion systems, component
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        • 112 26 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan on Friday signed an agreement with Japan to launch scheduled flights to Sendai and Hiroshima, bringing to seven the number of regular air routes between the two countries, local officials said. China Airlines will start flying the Taipei-Hiroshima route in June while
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      • 2229 26 CITY FlIGHT ETA FLIGHT ETC —SiT Dabai Bine 0555 EK349 0030 $0403 0730 EK405 0210 Z EI404 1405 EK431 0325 Amsterdam 0*975 0855 KL838 2255 «430 2005 S0404 2325 55^ —Fraakfart AC9951 0630 IH9765 1345 0100 LH9762 0630 S0326 1345 A«CkM EM05 0100 EM04 1520 S025
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    • 1455 21 I VESSEL VOY SIN PKL DXB BAB DMM BIK CHABAHAW IKHORRAMSHAHRI IRAN SHAHRYAR PCI 8032 03/05 01/05 13/05 14/05 21/05 23/05 25/05 27/05 IRAN HORMOZGAN PCL367 08/05 06/05 17/05 18/05 25/05 27/05 29/05 31/05 IRAN SATTARI PCI 8031 16/05 17/05 26/05 27/05 05/06 07/06 09/06 11/06 IRAN SHAHRYAR PCLBO33 27/05
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    • 597 22 HHHHTIGERWAVE 182N 03-04/05 09 10/05 16-16/05 1 ■PilfiWl TIGER PEARL 183N 05-06/05 12 13/05 18-19/05 ■MUISUfI TIGER SKY 184N 08-09/05 15 16/05 22 23/05 1 Ml 1 MB TIGER SEA 185N 11 12/05 1920/05 25-26/05 ■■■■■TIGER WAVE IB6N 16 16/05 22 23/05 29 30/05 1 TIGER PEARL 187N 18 19/05
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    • 105 25 Issued by Meteorological Service Division,NEA LEGEND: Thunderstorm Wind speed symbols v' Showers O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds Rai n 1 One half fleche represents 5 knots Cloudy Day —One full fleche represents 10 knots Hazy A One solid triangle represents 50 knots D
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    • 98 26 y^^^^Jg^^J^^^T^dvcrtis^alHolKre^B9<^B9^BB2^^mailMiotkes@sphxoiiLsg Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) Currency Adjustment Factor (CAF) Further to the announcement dated Ist April, in accordance with implementation procedure, the Currency Adjustment Factor (CAF) applicable for the period Ist June until 30th June 2004 will be 5.4%. The next review period will be May 2004, the result
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