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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYKE
A RENOVATION and expansion of Yangon International Airport, Myanmar, is to be completed by the end of 2005 at a cost of US$36 million. The country’s construction ministry, private Myanmar company Asia World, Japan’s Taisei Corp., and Singapore architectural consultants CPG are involved in the scheme, the 7-Days journal reported.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL corruption watchdog Transparency International has confirmed Britain’s place as one of the world’s cleaner countries, ranking it 11th in its annual league table of government probity. In a report containing few surprises, Finland, New Zealand, Denmark, Iceland and Singapore were lauded has having the most honest governments, while the graft-ridden administrations of Nigeria, Bangladesh and Haiti were bottom of the table.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SINGAPORE has lifted its notorious ban on chewing gum, approving the sale of 19 medicinal (including nicotine containing lines) and dental chewing gums in pharmacies, such as Wrigley’s Orbit. Customers must however submit their names and ID card numbers to pharmacists, who could be jailed up to two years without such documentation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…

BY MARK ROWE
WHEN anti-money laundering officials draw up their lists of most notorious nations, Burma – or Myanmar by its official name – is routinely identified as one of the murkiest epicentres of money laundering. Ignore the fact that Burma has only been classified as a non-cooperative country or territory (NCCT) by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) anti-money laundering body for just three years.…

BY PHILIP FINE

HONG Kong, China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea are among 18 countries restricting US poultry imports, after four American states – Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas – discovered cases of a new variant of bird flu.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN tough economic times, an industry has to sell itself harder. It is no surprise, then, that if you glance at the websites of Singapore’s leading paint companies, you will see plenty of buzzwords such as “technology”, “improvement” and “development”.…

BY MARK ROWE
Christmas saw a rise in sales of consumer titles in Singapore, particularly self-help books, which sold well alongside the other leading categories of children and fiction.

Among lifestyle books, cookery books and titles focusing on home and décor were a popular theme according to MPH Bookstores, along with the lifestyles of the rich and famous.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
MALAYSIA’S Senai Airport Terminal Services (SATS) is to spend Ringgit 1 billion (US$0.26 billion) over the next five years to turn its terminal into a logistics hub, exploiting its proximity to Singapore. SATS director Mohamad Sidik Shaik Osman has wants to raise 70-80 per cent from banks by this summer.…