Pilots Sought to Fill Cockpits as Travel Boom in Asia Creates Shortage

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., Qantas Airways Ltd. and Emirates Airline are awaiting deliveries of about 400 planes to capitalize on Asia’s rising prosperity. Finding pilots is the next job.

Natural Dairy Donate $200,000 To Earthquake Relief

The Hong Kong head office of Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings Ltd is pledging NZ$200,000 to the relief efforts in earthquake damaged Christchurch and surrounding districts.

If You Can’t Go to Hong Kong Just Yet...

ASIDE from the Philippines getting blacklisted by the international community as a safe destination—no thanks to the botched rescue attempt in that hostage taking last August 23—there’s bound to be fresh discrimination against Filipinos going to Hong Kong.

Bold, black, and brilliant …

This was the year when we saw it all: technical innovations, durable designs, untamed imagination and an amazing surge in sales. Now all that has to be done is deliver the products …

STI gains 0.2% to 3,008.70 at 9:45 a.m.

Singapore’s Straits Times Index gained 0.2% to 3,008.70 as of 9:45 a.m. local time. Three stocks rose for each that fell on the 30-member gauge. Shares on the measure trade at an average 14.7 times estimated earnings, compared with about 17.4 times at the beginning of the year, according to Bloomberg data.The following shares were among the most active in the market.   Commodity suppliers: The ...