Browsing Archive: May, 2010
Posted by Jonathan Chi on Tuesday, May 18, 2010,
Published May 18, 2010 BT Singapore 
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Adoption of new accounting standard, last year's high base cited as reasons
By PAULINE NG IN KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) lifted revenue 12 per cent to RM436.4 million (S$189.3 million) for the first quarter ended March as passenger movements rose about a fifth from a year back. International passenger numbers improved 31.4 per cent and domestic numbers almost 13 per cent as recession fears eased. Profit was lower at RM72.6 million versus R... |
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Saving capitalism from itself
Posted by Jonathan Chi on Sunday, May 2, 2010,
Published May 1, 2010 
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Economist Roger Bootle dishes on the fundamental flaws in economic and market theory. By Anna Teo
WHEN his book The Death of Inflation first hit the streets in 1996, Roger Bootle strode proudly into his local bookstore, expecting to see it prominently displayed. To his dismay, it was nowhere around, though he later found it - in the fiction section, under 'murder mystery'. No such confusion greeted the British economist's next two books, with just a touch of intrigue for T... |
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