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MANILA, June 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers:
THE MANILA TIMES:
- The Department of Agriculture has rejected the plea of local meat processors to lift Administrative Order No. 39 or the veterinary quarantine clearance as a requirement on meat importation.
- Digitel Telecommunications (Phils.) Inc. of the Gokongwei group is expecting losses to hit a high this year as the company continues to expand its wireless business in order to keep up with rivals.
- Economic growth in the Asia-Pacific will continue to outpace the rest of the world in the next five years but a Chinese slowdown looms as a genuine threat to the region, the Economist Intelligence Unit said.
- FedEx Express has signed an extension of its lease in Subic Bay for three additional years, the company said in a statement issued on Monday.
- Trade officials have asked retailers to keep the prices of school supplies low after it noticed that some products have become costlier by 5 to 10 per cent as compared with last year's prices.
Source: HighBeam Research, PHILIPPINE NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - JUNE 1, 2004.