AsiaPulse News back issues from March 2004:
FOREX - AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR OPENS STRONGER - MARCH 1, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - The Australian dollar opened stronger this morning, tracking a firmer euro over the weekend after a choppy session of trading. At 0700 AEDT the local currency was trading at .7735/40 compared with Friday's close of 0.7703/11. In offshore ...
AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 1, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - The woman who has accused a number of Bulldogs players of raping her will be videotaped by police as she re-enacts events on the night of the alleged attack. - The federal ...
SAMSUNG OPENS SEMICONDUCTOR R&D CENTER IN CHINA.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - The Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:005930) said it has opened a research and development center for system large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductors in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Samsung's R&D center, officially dedicated Feb. 27 at a ceremony in ...
AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING SECTOR HIT BY RISING DOLLAR.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - A new survey shows that the rise of the Australian dollar has seen a significant decline in manufacturing activity in February. The Australian Industry Group PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) fell to 51 points ...
AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY SURGES AHEAD IN 2003.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - Australia's economy powered ahead in 2003, with one survey estimating that gross domestic product (GDP) was likely to have grown by 1.5 per cent in the December quarter. The AAP economic indicator for February shows that the annual rate of GDP is ...
STOCKS - BSE CLOSES UP - MAR 01, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... MUMBAI, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The sensex rallied sharply and soared by 156 points at close for the second session in a row in brisk activity on the Stock Exchange here today on hectic buying by retailers and operators as well as heavy purchases by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs). ...
FOREX - US DOLLAR MILDLY CHEAPER AGAINST RUPEE - MAR 01, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... MUMBAI, Mar 1 Asia Pulse - The US Dollar ended mildly cheaper against the Rupee at Rs 45.24 per dollar but the Pound sterling turned dearer at Rs 84.47 per pound at the ...
SK CORP., KEPCO UNIT SIGN LONG-TERM COAL DEAL.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - SK Corp. (KSE:003600) said it has signed a coal supply deal with the Korea Western Power Co., a power-generation unit of the Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO). Under the contract, SK is to provide about 500,000 tons of Australian coal annually to the ...
S KOREAN BANKS TARGET RECORD PROFITS IN 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - South Korea's 19 major banks are aiming for a combined record net profit of 7.8 trillion won (US$6.7 billion) this year, due to improvements in the overall business environment, according to government sources. In a recent report to the authorities, ...
KOREAN MOBILE PHONE CO SECURES ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - KTF Co., the second-largest of South Korea's three mobile phone operators, said it had secured one million new subscribers so far this year, as at 4 p.m Saturday. The mobile unit of fixed-line giant KT Corp. (KSE:030200), said that almost 300,000 new ...
SK TELECOM APPOINTS NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - SK Telecom Co. (KSE:017670), the country's largest cell phone operator, said Friday its managing director Kim Sin-bae has been promoted to chief executive officer. Kim assumed the post on Friday and is to be formally appointed at a meeting of the ...
N. KOREA'S ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION "VITAL" FOR REGIONAL PEACE.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - The economic reconstruction of North Korea is a precondition for resolving the military tension on the Korean Peninsula, a U.S. researcher said Friday. The comment came from Peter Haynes, executive director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and ...
S KOREAN GROWTH FOR 2004 SET TO SURPASS 5.3PCT.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - Kim Choong-soo, president of the Korea Development Institute (KDI), has said that growth figures for 2004 are likely to edge up from the 5.3 per cent figure estimated by the think tank last year. Speaking to reporters at the international conference ...
S. KOREA'S RAW MATERIAL CRISIS WORST IN SIX YEARS: POLL.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - Manufacturing companies in South Korea are experiencing their worst shortage of raw materials in six years, a survey has shown. In a poll of 2,064 small- and medium-sized manufacturers by the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK), the businesses which ...
BERGER INT'L REGISTERS US$1.8 MLN NET PROFIT.
Mar 01, 2004 ... MUMBAI, March 1 Asia Pulse - Singapore-based Berger International Ltd (BIL) (SGX:BEGR), in which Asian Paints (BSE:ASPN) had taken a controlling stake last year, has reported a net profit of S$3.1 million (US$1.82 million) for the year ended December 31, as compared to S$0.6 million ...
S KOREAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENT LAW.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - South Korea's parliament has passed its first-ever law to protect the environment of the Antarctic and promote related scientific research, officials said Friday. The National Assembly's action is part of an international protocol for protecting the ...
S.KOREA TO PLAY GREATER ROLE IN NORTHEAST ASIA COOPERATION.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - South Korea expects to play a greater role in increasing financial cooperation and coordination in Northeast Asia, participants in an international conference said Saturday. Experts on regional development such as Bae Soon-hoon, the chairman of the ...
SINGAPORE'S FACTORY OUTPUT UP 18.1PCT IN JANUARY.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SINGAPORE, March 1 Asia Pulse - Singapore's factory output for January was up by a robust 18.1 per cent over the previous month's figure, the Economic Development Board said. The growth was boosted by higher production in the biomedical manufacturing and transport engineering ...
S. KOREAN PM PLEDGES CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD PROSPERITY.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - South Korea's prime minister said Saturday that South Korea will continue exerting efforts to contribute to global peace and prosperity as a responsible member of the international community . Delivering a speech at the closing ceremony of a two-day ...
HONG KONG'S DEFICIT HITS US45.8 BLN FOR FIRST 10 MONTHS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... HONG KONG, March 1 Asia Pulse - Hong Kong's official deficit surpassed HK$45 billion (US$5.8 billion) for the first 10 months of the 2003-2004 Fiscal year. The government announced Friday that the deficit for the 10-month period ending ...
CHINA AIRLINES' SALES IN JANUARY HIT RECORD MONTHLY HIGH.
Mar 01, 2004 ... TAIPEI, March 1 Asia Pulse - China Airlines (CAL) - Taiwan's largest carrier - posted a record single-month high in business sales of NT$7.7 billion (US$231 million) in January, with pre-tax profit hitting around NT$500 million, a CAL executive said. With deliveries of new ...
LUFTHANSA PLANNING TO REOPEN TAIPEI-FRANKFURT ROUTE.
Mar 01, 2004 ... TAIPEI, March 1 Asia Pulse - Germany's Lufthansa is planning to reopen the Taipei-Frankfurt route after a hiatus of four years, the carrier announced in a press release issued recently by a Taiwan public relations company. Lufthansa first opened its Taipei-Frankfurt route via ...
FIRE BREAKS OUT AT POSCO PLANT IN POHANG, S KOREA.
Mar 01, 2004 ... POHANG, March 1 Asia Pulse - A plant of POSCO (KSE:005490), the world's fourth largest steelmaker, at Pohang, 374 kilometers southeast of Seoul, caught fire Saturday night. The fire at the POSCO plant, which annually produces 620,000 tons of electrical steel used in transformers ...
NEW AGRI-BIOTECH PARK LAUNCHED IN TAIWAN.
Mar 01, 2004 ... TAIPEI, March 1 Asia Pulse - Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has presided over a groundbreaking ceremony to launch a national agricultural and biotechnology park in southern Pingtung County. Chen said about 30 companies are planning to open up shop in the park this year, ...
STOCKS - AUSTRALIAN INDEX OPENS HIGHER - MARCH 1, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - The Australian sharemarket lifted higher at the open today, led by resource stocks after a virtually flat end to the US market last week. By 1018 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 13.7 points at 3374.3 and the all ordinaries index was 12.4 ...
N. KOREA DENOUNCES U.S. HARD-LINE STANCE.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - There will be no progress in international efforts to resolve the nuclear issue as long as the United States keeps its hard-line stance, North Korea said Sunday. "The United States has shown little effort to peacefully coexist with us and has ...
TAIWAN FIRM ABOUT PROTECTING 'SENSITIVE' AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... GENEVA, March 1 Asia Pulse - A senior Taiwan trade official in Geneva made it clear that the island will stand firm in protecting its "sensitive" products such as rice when the new round of Doha Development Agenda trade talks are resumed. Yen Ching-chang, Taiwan's permanent ...
S KOREAN GOV'T TO DOWNSIZE TAX PROBES OF FOREIGN-INVESTED FIRMS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - The South Korean government will significantly scale down its tax probes into foreign-invested companies in a bid to help lure more direct investment from abroad, the National Tax Service (NTS) said Sunday. The NTS said it will soon introduce a number ...
"SILMIDO" BREAKS SALE PRICE RECORD FOR KOREAN FILM GOING TO TAIWAN.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - South Korea's blockbuster movie "Silmido" broke the record sale price for a Korean film sold to Taiwan, the film's promoter said Sunday. Silmido, about a group of mainly ruffians trained as commandos to assassinate then North Korean leader Kim Il-sung ...
STOCKS - DSE REMAINS TRADELESS FOR YET ANOTHER WEEK.
Mar 01, 2004 ... NEW DELHI, Feb 28 Asia Pulse - The Delhi Stock Exchange witnessed another tradeless week ending February 27 with most of the market participants carrying out business on the country's other leading bourses. Marketmen said member brokers, retail investors and financial ...
STOCKS - SENSEX DIVES BY 3.13% FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE WEEK.
Mar 01, 2004 ... MUMBAI, Feb 28 Asia Pulse - The sensex dived by another 3.13 per cent even as stocks staged a smart recovery on Friday on the Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE) in the week under review. The BSE Benchmark 30-share Index that extended its losses for the second consecutive week, ...
ASIAN AEROSPACE 2004 ANNOUNCES US$3.52 BLN WORTH OF DEALS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SINGAPORE, March 1 Asia Pulse - Asian Aerospace 2004 re-affirmed its position as the world's second most influential air show, announcing US$3.52 billion worth of deals over the exhibition's four trade days. The amount surpassed the US$3.2 billion in deals announced after the ...
QANTAS APPOINTS JAMES PACKER AS NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - Qantas Airways Ltd (ASX:QAN) today appointed James Packer as a non-executive director of its board. Qantas chairman Margaret Jackson said Mr Packer would fill a casual vacancy on the Qantas Board and take up the position effective from today. ...
SEOUL STOCKS LIKELY TO BE MIXED THIS WEEK.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - South Korea's main bourse is expected to undergo corrections this week as Wall Street remains sluggish and foreign investors in Seoul also reduced buying this week, analysts said Saturday. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index, the barometer of the ...
INDIA, PHILIPPINES TO STRENGTHEN ECONOMIC COOPERATION.
Mar 01, 2004 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - India and the Philippines on Friday agreed to cooperate in the sectors of information technology, railways, small/medium enterprises and pharmaceuticals, and to make efforts to boost the current level of US$596 million of bilateral trade. Eight ...
FITCH UNLIKELY TO RAISE S KOREA'S RATING FOR 1-2 YEARS: REPORT.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - Global credit appraiser Fitch Ratings is not prepared to upgrade its current sovereign rating for South Korea because of the ongoing North Korean nuclear issues, Dow Jones reported in a Seoul dispatch Saturday, quoting a senior Fitch official. Fitch ...
INDIAN MINISTER MOOTS ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE UNIT.
Mar 01, 2004 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - In an apparant bid to check manipulations and price rigging, Federal Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie on Friday suggested creation of an 'economic intelligence unit' to monitor markets and said he had mooted the idea before Prime Minister and Deputy Prime ...
UNIFIED KOREA LIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE TO ARMS REDUCTION IN ASIA.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - A unified Korea will be in a position to play a major role in furthering peace in Asia by triggering a fundamental move towards arms reduction, University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Klein said Saturday. The Nobel laureate for economics said at ...
DILITHIUM NETWORKS, NETCENTREX ENABLE SOLUTIONS FOR 3G VIDEO.
Mar 01, 2004 ... (Full text of statement. Contact details below.) LARKSPUR, Calif. & PARIS, March 1 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Dilithium Networks, the leading supplier of 3G multimedia solutions and NetCentrex(TM), the leading enabler of converged voice-video-data networks, announced ...
TV PFALZ DOUBTS FINDINGS OF SFK ACCIDENT COMMISSION.
Mar 01, 2004 ... (Full text of statement. Contact details below.) FRANKFURT, 27 Feb. /newsaktuell-AsiaNet/ -- Fraport AG: TV Pfalz' Statement Confirms Our Objective Criticism of the SFK Opinion Frankfurt am Main (ots) - TV Pfalz (the technical inspection agency of the State of ...
PRIME MINISTER KOIZUMI INVITES THE WORLD TO JAPAN.
Mar 01, 2004 ... (Full text of statement. Contact details below.) Tokyo, February 27/Kyodo JBN-AsiaNet/ -- -- Visit Japan Campaign promotional video features Japanese leader -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi bids the world a warm welcome to Japan in a new ...
PACE URGES RECALL OF BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE STEELTEX TIRES.
Mar 01, 2004 ... (Full text of statement. Contact details below.) NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- The following statement is from the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical & Energy Workers Intl. Union: The 300,000 member Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and ...
ING AUSTRALIA POSTS 50 PCT RISE IN YR NET PROFIT.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - ING Australia, the nation's fourth largest retail fund manager and life insurer, has booked a 50 per cent increase in net profit in 2003. The ING Australia operation, which is 49 per cent owned by the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd ...
INDIA, NETHERLANDS TO PROMOTE MUTUAL INVESTMENT.
Mar 01, 2004 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - India and the Netherlands on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote mutual investment. The MoU was signed by Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley and the Netherlands Economic Affairs Minister Laurens-Jan-Bringkhorst, an official press ...
INDIA'S HUGHES SOFTWARE SETS UP LAB IN GERMANY.
Mar 01, 2004 ... NEW DELHI, March 1 Asia Pulse - Hughes Software Systems (BSE:HUGH) on Friday announced the launch of its inter-operatbility services for handset equipment manufacturers and said it has set up a dedicated lab at its Germany development centre for multi-vendor integration challenges. ...
PROGEN RELEASES H1 RESULTS, SET TO MEET 2004 TARGETS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... (Full text of this release can be found at http:/www.asianetnews.net) BRISBANE, Feb 27/MediaNet International-AsiaNet/ -- Further Encouragement for PI-88 from Avastins Approval Progen Industries Limited (ASX: PGL, NASDAQ: PGLAF), a progressive Australian ...
FTSE, INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDER SERVICES CREATE NEW INDEXES.
Mar 01, 2004 ... (Full text of statement. Contact details below.) ROCKVILLE, Md. and LONDON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- The growing number of investors wishing to measure and analyse non-financial risk will soon be able to use an innovative new tool from FTSE Group, the global ...
CARAVAN ORGANIZED TO MARK OPENING OF AIRPORT IN CENTRAL TAIWAN.
Mar 01, 2004 ... TAIPEI, March 1 Asia Pulse - A caravan of cars and horses decorated with colorful flowers moved through the streets of downtown Taichung City in central Taiwan Sunday to mark the opening of an international airport in the region. The carnival-style activities were sponsored by ...
NEW TAIWAN DOLLAR TO MAINTAIN DEPRECIATION AGAINST U.S. DOLLAR.
Mar 01, 2004 ... TAIPEI, March 1 Asia Pulse - The new Taiwan dollar is expected to hover around against the U.S. dollar between a range of 33.35 to 33.45 this week, maintaining a trend of slight depreciation against the greenback, market dealers said Sunday. Market dealers predicted that the ...
LG ELECTRONICS TO STRENGTHEN R&D FUNCTIONS OF CHINESE PLANTS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - LG Electronics (KSE:066570) said Monday it will expand the research and development (R&D) functions of its Chinese factories as part of a plan to make China its second digital television R&D base. "LG Electronics' Chinese plants for digital TVs are ...
S KOREA'S HANARO TELECOM TO ISSUE US$600 MLN OF YANKEE BONDS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - Instead of arranging a five-year syndicated loan, Hanaro Telecom Inc. (KOSDAQ:033630) plans to issue US$600 million of bonds in the United States to refinance debt, company chief executive officer Yoon Chang-bun said Monday. "In order to overcome ...
UNIONISTS OF KOREA'S KEB CREDIT AGREE TO RETIREMENT, END STRIKE.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - Unionists and management at KEB Credit Service Co., South Korea's third-largest card company, reached an agreement Saturday to end a strike and implement a voluntary retirement package system. Instead of the layoffs threatened by the management, the ...
STOCKS - TOKYO SHARES OPEN HIGHER - MARCH 1, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... TOKYO, March 1 Asia Pulse - Tokyo share prices opened higher Monday, with the Nikkei-225 index ...
HO WAH GENTING KINTRON NOTIFIES HAZARDS OF KB-1F CUBE TAPS.
Mar 01, 2004 ... (Full text of statement. Contact details below.) KULIM, Feb. 27 /XFNHK-AsiaNet/ -- Ho Wah Genting Kintron SDN. BHD. wishes to notify consumers and merchandisers that models KB-1F cube taps (39 pcs) indoor extension cords that are manufactured by Ho Wah Genting Kintron ...
RACING CLUBS TO SIGN TV DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA'S SKY CHANNEL:REPORT.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - Sydney's major racing clubs are reportedly set to sign a TV broadcasting deal with Sky Channel, despite spending weeks negotiating with other parties for a better deal. Newspapers today reported that Sydney's Australian Jockey Club (AJC) and Sydney ...
WOORI FINANCIAL CHAIRMAN CANDIDATE TO BE SELECTED WITHIN WEEK.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SEOUL, March 1 Asia Pulse - The recommendation for the new chairman of Woori Financial Group will be made within the week, the company's selection board said Sunday. The head of the selection board, Lee Chae-woong, an economics professor at Sungkyunkwan University, said the ...
MALAYSIAN NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 1, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers: THE STAR: - Shah Alam is rapidly turning into one of the fastest growing corridors in the Klang Valley, with at least 15 property development projects on 6,500 to 7,000 acres currently underway. ...
INDIA'S FOREX RESERVES REACH US$107.67 BLN.
Mar 01, 2004 ... MUMBAI, March 1 Asia Pulse - The country's foreign exchange reserves on Saturday surged ahead with further accretion of US$169 million due to fresh inflows and revaluation of the US currency vis-a-vis other currencies for the week ended February 20. The foreign exchange reserves ...
AUSTRALIA'S ZINIFEX TO RAISE US$809.86 MLN IN IPO.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - An initial public offer for Zinifex Ltd will raise A$1.05 billion (US$809.86 million) to A$1.35 billion (US$1.04 billion), with 500 million shares offered. The institutional offer indicative price range for Zinifex is A$2.10 to A$2.70 per share. ...
HYUNDAI MOTOR INVESTING US$220 MLN TO EXPAND INDIAN PLANT.
Mar 01, 2004 ... CHANDIGARH, March 1 Asia Pulse - Hyundai Motor India Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Company (KSE:005380) of South Korea, is investing an additional US$220 million to expand the capacity of the company's Chennai plant, a top company official said. "HMIL has sold ...
PHILIPPINE NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 1, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... MANILA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers: THE MANILA TIMES: - Malacaang has asked the Government Service Insurance System to relax its rules barring members with outstanding obligations from taking out additional loans. - A group of ...
INDONESIAN GOVT'S RICE IMPORT BAN EFFECTIVE: MINISTER.
Mar 01, 2004 ... JAKARTA, March 1 Asia Pulse - The recent ban on rice imports has been effective as it caused the rice price in the domestic market to rise, Trade and Industry Minister Rini MS Soewandi said here Thursday. Trade and Industry Ministry issued a decree banning the import of rice one ...
STOCKS - AUSTRALIAN INDEX HIGHER TO NOON - MARCH 1, 2004.
Mar 01, 2004 ... SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - The Australian sharemarket made gains of almost half a per cent to midday, helped along by rises by the big banks and key resource stocks. By 1208 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 16.9 points at 3377.5 and the all ordinaries index was 14.5 ...
MALAYSIA'S INT'L RESERVES HIT US$47.7 BLN AT END JAN: CENTRAL BANK.
Mar 01, 2004 ... KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 Asia Pulse - Malaysia's total international reserves as at end-January 2004 amounted to US$47,728.8 million, comprising official reserve assets of US$47,034.5 million and other foreign currency assets of US$694.3 million, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) said. ...
NEW HOLLAND TRACTORS INDIA TEAMS UP WITH CORPORATION BANK.
Mar 01, 2004 ... BANGALORE, March 1 Asia Pulse - New Holland Tractors (India), part of CNH Global N.V. on Friday announced its tie-up with Corporation Bank (BSE:CRBK) to offer attractive finance schemes for New Holland tractor customers. Under the "Corp Kisan Farm Mechanisation Scheme", farmers ...