SINGAPORE, May 16- Singapore Airlines Ltd reported weaker-than-expected full-year results and warned of a deteriorating environment as it struggles to cope with the rapid emergence of Gulf carriers and low cost Asian rivals.
SYDNEY, May 3- Australian shares rose 0.7 percent on Friday, as forecast-busting earnings from Westpac Banking Corp. Westpac advanced 0.8 percent after Australia's third-largest lender, reported a better-than-expected 10 percent rise in first-half profit on Friday, as the bank's Australian business recorded double digit earnings growth.
JAKARTA/ DENPASAR, Indonesia, May 2- It's the invisible enemy: something all pilots dread as they land at Asia's tropical island resorts.
JAKARTA/ DENPASAR, Indonesia, May 2- It's the invisible enemy: something all pilots dread as they land at Asia's tropical island resorts.
May 1- MasterCard Inc, the world's second-largest payment network, reported a higher-than-expected rise in quarterly profit, but the company's revenue missed analysts' estimates as a sluggish global economy weighs on consumer spending. MasterCard shares were down 2.6 percent at $538.54 on Wednesday afternoon.
FACTORS TO WATCH* The fate of India's largest copper smelter, run by Sterlite Industries Ltd, is expected to be determined at an environmental court hearing. *India's top soybean processor Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd. India's monsoon rainfall seen average in 2013- minister.
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Asian stocks closed mixed on Monday after Wall Street hit a five-year high in the previous session as strong economic data buoyed sentiment.
A deluge fed by the ex-tropical cyclone Oswald dumped more than 200 millimetres of rain in some areas of the Queensland and New South Wales states over the past three days, swelling rivers and swamping towns.
*U.S. team includes FAA, NTSB and Boeing experts. SEATTLE/ TAKAMATSU, Japan, Jan 18- U.S. and Japanese aviation safety officials finished an initial investigation of a badly damaged battery from a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet on Friday as Boeing said it was halting deliveries until the battery concerns were resolved.
*U.S. team includes FAA, NTSB and Boeing experts. TAKAMATSU, Japan, Jan 18- U.S. and Japanese aviation safety officials wrapped up their initial investigation of a badly damaged battery from a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet on Friday, saying further checks would be held in Tokyo and could take a week to complete.
*U.S. team includes FAA, NTSB and Boeing experts. TAKAMATSU, Japan, Jan 18- U.S. and Japanese aviation safety officials wrapped up their initial investigation of a badly damaged battery from a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet on Friday, saying further checks would be held in Tokyo and could take a week to complete.
*U.S. team includes FAA, NTSB and Boeing. TAKAMATSU, Japan, Jan 18- A team of experts from U.S. aviation authorities and Boeing Co arrived in Japan on Friday to inspect a 787 Dreamliner passenger jet that made an emergency landing on a domestic All Nippon Airways Co flight earlier this week.
*Boeing: Aware of reports, working with customer. TOKYO, Jan 16- Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787 s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns over a plane many see as the future of commercial aviation.
*Boeing: Aware of reports, working with customer. TOKYO, Jan 16- Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787 s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns over a plane many see as the future of commercial aviation.
*Boeing: Aware of reports, working with customer. TOKYO, Jan 16- Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787 s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest and most serious in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns over a plane many see as the future of commercial aviation.
*Japan Airlines also cancels Wednesday Dreamliner flights. *Boeing: Aware of reports, working with customer. All Nippon Airways Co said it was grounding all 17 of its 787 s and Japan Airlines Co said it was suspending all flights scheduled for departure on Wednesday.