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ASIA News, Aug 18, 2011


Asian forex trade looks for focus with SNB out the way
FX-MM
Net effect still shows that recent efforts to control the real estate sector are on-going with a definite slowdown yet to be detected. It was the CHF that grabbed the spotlight early in the European session yesterday as the SNB announced intensified ...
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Goodman Group sees good five years after profit beat expectations
The Australian
At noon, it was unchanged at 66.5c. The group's gearing fell to 23 per cent and it had liquidity and undrawn debt of $1.3bn on its balance sheet. Goodman declared a distribution per security of 3.5c, up 3 per cent on 2010. He has forecast another 3 per ...
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Shadow Warriors: Movin' On Up
Berkeley Daily Planet
Those higher numbers, according to Dennis C. Blair, retired admiral and director of national intelligence from 2009 to 2010, “are widely believed [in Pakistan] and, Blair points out, “our reliance on high-tech strikes that pose no risk to our soldiers ...
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JDSU Announces Fiscal 2011 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results
MarketWatch (press release)
EMEA and Asia-Pacific customers represented 26% and 25%, respectively, of total net revenue for the quarter. -- The Company held $728.7 million in total cash and investments and generated $56.0 million of cash from operations for the quarter ended July ...
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Latest Version of ClickSoftware's ServiceOptimization Suite Enables Ultimate ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"The clear ROI is difficult for C-level executives to ignore; we are seeing the move from a 'nice to have' technology, to a core enterprise solution that takes companies to the next level of competitiveness. These latest improvements are another firm ...
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Situation Brewing Between Abercrombie & Fitch and Reality TV Star
ABC News
(C. Flanigan/FilmMagic) Abercrombie & Fitch does not want Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino to wear their clothing. Yes, the same company that markets thong underwear to pre-teen girls and padded bikini tops to 7-year-olds would prefer if the rapscallion ...
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ABC News
MF Global Daily Energy Report – August 17th, 2011
Wisdom Financial (blog)
Crude oil futures were weak all day on Tuesday, as poor macro data out of Germany exacerbated the modest declines inherited from the Asian session. In this regard, it was reported that the German economy expanded only 0.1% in the second quarter, ...
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Second Circuit Joins Ninth: No First Sale Defense for Foreign-Made Copyright Works
The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA)
Judge Donald C. Pogue, sitting by designation from the US Court of International Trade, ruled that Kirtsaeng could not use the first sale doctrine, 17 USC §109(a), as a defense against a charge of infringement. 93 USPQ2d 1432 (SDNY 2009) (210 PTD, ...
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The violent story of Columbus' forgotten colony
Salon
By the time those babies had grandchildren, slaves from Africa mined silver in the Americas for sale to China; Spanish merchants waited impatiently for the latestshipments of Asian silk and porcelain from Mexico; and Dutch sailors traded cowry shells ...
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Salon
A Panic Low in Copper, FCX?
Forbes
Chinese imports started to increase in June and recent reports from the London Metals Exchange indicate that Chinese buying has caused the copper inventories to decline in Asian warehouses. So what's ahead for copper prices? ...
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16th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) calls for entries
DearCinema
Films with a minimum length of 70 minutes and above, produced or co produced or had first theatrical screening after Sept 1st 2010 from a country in Asia, Africa or Latin America can be submitted for the International Competition. ...
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iSoftStone Reports Higher Revenues and Net Income for the Second Quarter 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
Our non-GAAP income from operations (note 1) increased $4.6 million or 124.1% to $8.2 million in the second quarter 2011 from $3.7 million in the second quarter 2010. In December 2009 and April2010, the company issued $38.0 million Series C ...
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Philippines counts on upstream revival
Petroleum Economist
The new government of President Benigno Aquino III offers more stable business environment, however, and has made progress by clarifying taxation issues, said Tom Grieder, IHS Energy's Asia-Pacific analyst. And these advances seem to be working....
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Petroleum Economist
Organizers seek physicians, volunteers for Asian-American Health Fair
Frederick News Post (subscription)
By Nicholas C. Stern AT A GLANCE WHAT: Asian-American Health Fair WHEN: 8 am to 2 pm Oct. 22 WHERE: Frederick Community College Language, particularly the ability to speak English, remains an important factor for minority communities seeking proper ...
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Abysymal ACT scores heighten urgency for educational reform
Business Clarksville
The study puts the average score for Hispanic students in 2010 at 18.6 and the average score for African American test takers at 16.9. Asian American/Pacific Islander score highest at 23.4, followed by White students with 22.3. ...
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Business Clarksville
Fever in Returned Traveler: Think Malaria First
Family Practice News Digital Network
Knowlesi is found mainly in Southeast Asia, especially in the border areas of Thailand. It is one of the fatal malarias. It looks benign and like [Plasmodium] malariae under the microscope, but it kills like P. falciparum. So if you see someone from ...
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New Climate Paper Suggests Climate Models Exaggerate CO2 Effects
Pajamas Media
Anthony Watts at Watts Up with That links a new paper by Linzen and Choi, upcoming in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. I haven't read the full paper yet, but based on the abstract and conclusions, what they're reporting is that, ...
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Pre Market Briefing, including UK unemployment rate rises to 7.9pct
Proactive Investors UK
Markets in Asia are trading lower this morning, after reports showed that Japans exports fell more than expected in July. In Japan, Minebea and TDK are trading 5.4% and 3.2% lower, respectively, after a broker lowered profit and share price estimates ...
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For low-cost airlines, innovations bolster profits
한겨레
But after being faced with redundant investment costs for servicing and parts, it decided to sell off all four of its Q400s. Jeju Air also increased its rate of aircraft operation by expanding its SoutheastAsia routes into nighttime hours when ...
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Adult movies back at multiplexes
Manila Standard Today
Mallgoers recently had the rare opportunity to view four of the award winning films of the first Asiandirector to win in the Cannes Film Festival, as well as interact with him during the Brillante Mendoza Film Festival at SM City Cebu. ...
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Cass Business School: Home-working vital to maximise participation of women in ...
Al-Bawaba
According to the Oxford Strategic Consulting (OSC) report prepared by UK and Gulf academics, including Professor Chris Rowley, Director of the Centre for Research on Asian Management, Cass Business School, London, home-working initiatives are the ...
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Santa Clara council names 16 people to review fairness of elections
San Jose Mercury News
... Eric Stroker, Sameena Usman, Peter Yoon, Teresa O'Neill, David C. DeLozier, Gary Alver, Raj Chahal, Karen Hardy, Michael E. O'Halloran, James Rowen, Steven Silva and Ralph Sivilla. Nadeem and O'Neill both ran for council seats in 2010, but lost. ...
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Beijing blames Pakistan of inciting Muslim terror in its restive western ...
Organiser
In fact, in an article in July 2008 issue of CSIS (Centre for Strategic and International Studies) newsletter, South Asia experts Elizabeth GM Parker and Teresita C Schaffer wrote, “Until about 1990, Beijing clearly sought to build up Pakistan to keep ...
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Yes, Indians play football too
Trinidad Guardian
More recently, they defeated Qatar 2-1 in a friendly in July, and participated in the AFCAsian Cup where they qualified after 24 years. They were placed in strong Group Calong with South Korea, Australia and Bahrain, losing all three games. ...
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Trinidad Guardian
Nigerian man involved in collection scam targeting law firms
CBS 21
Upon his arrival in the United States, Ekhator was arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering; mail fraud; and wire fraud. ...
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Happenings this week
Queens Courier
6 pm Corona Library: Andean Pipe Music with the Ethereal and Haunting Melodies of Grupo Wayno; an evening of Andean music from Peru with Grupo Wayno; they have appeared throughout the USA, Europe and Asia, and their music has been featured in movies ...
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