SINGAPORE: As Hong Kong shopping plazas go quiet and tourists shun Singapore and Vietnam, the financial toll from the deadly flu-like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Asia is rising fast.
Big losers are Asia’s airlines and travel companies, whose shares crumbled yesterday. But other industries are starting to suffer as the illness spreads – from taxi operators in Singapore to the shoemakers of China’s rising middle class.
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