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BY MARK ROWE
CAMBODIA’S increasingly stable political environment has led to an unexpected boom for the air industry in south-east Asia, with carriers moving quickly to increase the frequency of their routes to the country.

The main interest focuses on the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, one of the great sights of Asia, with the Cambodian tourism authorities announcing a US$73million plan to redevelop Siem Reap airport near the temple ruins.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE MALAYSIAN government is to launch a new and powerful autonomous civil aviation authority in an attempt to kick start plans to transform the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport into a regional hub to rival Singapore. The new agency will have a remit to negotiate air service agreements with international airlines.…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA’S state oil company Petronas has signed a three-year deal with the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) to introduce its natural gas-powered Enviro 2000 cars to the Philippines. Petronas and PNOC will initially embark on a six-month field demonstration in Manila involving six units of the Enviro 2000.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE MALAYSIAN government has been forced to conduct an embarrassing U-turn in its policy towards major international airlines in attempt to prevent its landmark new airport from becoming a white elephant.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport, 40 miles outside the city, was opened in 1998 an attempt to transform the city into a regional hub to rival Singapore’s Changi, which is regularly voted the world’s best airport.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
ESTABLISHED airport operators, including those of Zurich, Frankfurt, Malaysia, Singapore Changi and Copenhagen, have participated in road-shows in New Delhi and London held to attract interest in Indian government plans to lease the management of its four large metropolitan airports in New Delhi, Madras (Chennai), Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta, (Kolkata).…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE’S biggest industrial landlord, JTC Corporation, has almost completed a year of geological exploration under the city state’s Jurong Island where it hopes to build rock caverns to hold petrochemicals, because of a lack of above-ground storage. JTC will now develop detailed plans for suitable locations.…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA Airports Holdings (MAH) has launched a US$3.5m international campaign to make Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) a regional hub to rival Singapore. Many major carriers, including British Airways, Qantas and Lufthansa, have stopped flying to Malaysia in recent years but MAH intends to offer tax breaks and fifth freedom rights to allow airlines to pick up passengers while in transit in Malaysia.…

BY MARK ROWE
A CONTACTLESS card that can pay for groceries without being swiped through a payment machine at a supermarket checkout counter is to be tested with consumers in Singapore. The card can store 500 times more data than that of existing smart cards – enough data storage space to hold a small novel.…

BY MARK ROWE
A ROW over dealership rights could lead to a permanent parting of the ways for Malaysia’s Oriental Holdings and Honda. Oriental was sole distributor for Honda cars until last July, when Japan’s second biggest carmaker took back those rights to form a local unit, giving it direct involvement in Malaysia’s market.…

BY MARK ROWE
INCHCAPE plc is set to abort its plan to privatise its Singapore-listed subsidiary Inchcape Motors after a key shareholder announced it would block the bid. British investment company Guinness Peat Group, which has been mopping up Inchcape Motors’ shares, said it will reject Inchcape plc’s conditional cash offer of £GB0.90p a share to turn Inchcape Motors and its motor distribution business into a 100 per cent privately owned company.…