• NEWS.com.au | Regulator humiliates NAB (March 25, 2004) / Profit-is-king NAB put back onto P-plates - BusinessNews - www.smh.com.au: Australia's biggest bank has been delivered a humiliating reprimand and ordered to change its 'profit is king' culture and keep about $700 million in reserve in case of future financial disasters. Could the worm be turning? It'd be nice to think so; but banks are just too damn rich and powerful.
• EU fines Microsoft half a billion euros - BusinessNews - www.smh.com.au : European regulators on Wednesday went dramatically further than their US counterparts by imposing a record fine of 497 million euros ($A817 million) and product changes on US software giant Microsoft for stifling competitors.
• Dogs hold the line on cocaine claims. 25/03/2004. ABC News Online: Despite intense media pressure, the Bulldogs rugby league club is sticking by its policy of refusing to confirm or deny that forward Willie Mason has tested positive to cocaine.
• Singapore launches high-tech campaign to eliminate rats. 24/03/2004. ABC News Online
• NEWS.com.au | Bullet train average - only 12 secs late (March 25, 2004)

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