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In-flight caterer MacroAsia Catering Services was rated the best in the world by Singapore Airlines in 2012. This was learned on Wednesday from MACS general manager Rhodel Esteban who said by email the catering firm was cited for excellence of service during the year and rated the best in a field of 15 other competing catering service providers worldwide. "MACS bested 15 catering stations in Group 1 (stations handling 15 or more weekly flight frequencies) within the Singapore Arilines (SQ) network on the strength of the company's excellent catering products and services," Esteban said. MACS executives received the award only recently from SQ general manager Ranjan Jha and station manager Kelvin Kwan in brief ceremonies at MacroAsia's catering offices at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport or NAIA complex in Pasay City. "This prestigious award and recognition rightfully belongs to MACS and SQ Manila as they remained focused in achieving the high q

China's economy will expand at 8.4 percent this year, up from the 7.8-percent growth rate of 2012, a research institute under the country's top science academy has predicted. China, the world's second-largest economy, will see a mild pick-up in 2013 amid sluggish external demand, according to a report released on Saturday by the Center for Forecasting Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chen Xikang, deputy director of the center's academic committee, said that difficulties still loom large over China's recovery process as investment and export take up too big a proportion of the economic structure and consumption still remains weak. China's strict property curbs and economic restructuring will also affect the growth rebound, he added. On a quarterly basis, the growth rate is expected to accelerate in the first and second quarter of 2013, and gradually draw back in the middle of the year before picking up again in the fourth quarter, the re