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Aug 30, 2011

ASIA News, Aug 30, 2011


RIL extends Monday's rally
India Infoline.com
Key benchmark indices surged in mid-morning trade after the latest data showed that the Indian economy expanded 7.7% in Q1 June 2011 from a year earlier, helped by strong growth in the services sector. Firm Asian stocks also underpinned sentiment. ...
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Asia Commodity Day Ahead: Hedge Funds Boost Agriculture Bets
San Francisco Chronicle
Cameco Corp., Canada's largest uranium producer, offered to acquire Hathor Exploration Ltd. forC$520 million ($529 million) to add the Roughrider deposit in Saskatchewan. Gold rose in New York for a second straight day after Federal Reserve Chairman ...
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Taiwan Urges Banks to Add More China Branches
Bloomberg
Citigroup Inc. (C), HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) and Standard Chartered Plc (STAN) have also acquired Taiwan banks to tap Asia's wealthiest people outside China and Japan. Still, the financial reforms were stymied by corruption probes linked to mergers and ...
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Jain Fails to Replicate Deutsche Bank Debt Dominance With Equity Trading
Bloomberg
... Inc. (C) “Equities remains a work in progress, but Jain deserves some credit for reshaping the business.” Since early 2009, Deutsche Bank has hired 150 people in equities across research, sales and trading, with a focus on North America and Asia. ...
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You don't get older, you get better -- really
Reuters
Ayako Shizo (C), aged 85, taps a therapeutic robot named Paro as she sits with other residents at the Suisyoen retirement home in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, July 28, 2011. By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Jokes about creaky knees, thinning hair and...
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Reuters
Bidvest booms in spite of BEE deal
Moneyweb.co.za
Bidvest SA is still the biggest part of the business, though it underperforms Asia Pacific. SA is organised into ten divisions and a new SA CEO Lindsay Ralphs will run the show. Auto profits rose 17%,which is all very well but dealer margins were ...
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Globecomm Awarded Infrastructure Contract from US Government Agency Valued at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
We currently have customers for which we are providing such services in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Based in Hauppauge, New York, Globecomm Systems also maintains offices in Maryland, New Jersey, ...
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APT Satellite Announces 2011 Interim Results
4-traders (press release)
(HKEx stock code: 1045), a provider of high-quality satellite transponder, telecommunications and broadcasting services in Asia Pacific, announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2011 (the ?Period?). ...
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US HOT STOCKS: Universal Display Shares Active In Late Trading
Wall Street Journal
Shares jumped 13% to $9.90 in recent after-hours trading after the real-estate processing and data-service provider said it has retained Greenhill & Co. to advise a special committee on the possible moves. A drug being developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb ...
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COMMENTARY: All God's Children
BlackNews.com (press release)
The poverty rate for children in the US is at 20.7 percent, with 35.7 percent of African-American children living in poverty, 33.1 percent of Hispanic children, 17.7 percent of white children and 14 percent of Asian-American children. ...
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BlackNews.com (press release)
BASE METALS - European Opening View - Metals see follow through buying interest
FXstreet.com
With Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech now analysed the markets seems to be happy to be taking on more risk, the Dow closed up 2.3 percent yesterday and the stronger tone has flowed through intoAsia this morning with the Nikkei up 1.2 percent, ...
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US HOT STOCKS: Pfizer, Allstate, Northgate Minerals, Venoco
Wall Street Journal
For all its fury, Irene might have given something of a break to the property-insurance industry, which has paid out billions of dollars in natural-disaster claims in recent months. The massive storm downed trees and power lines, ripped off roof ...
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INDIA: Human Rights Council's intervention sought concerning India's ...
Asian Human Rights Commission News (press release)
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to highlight the Government of India's failure to ensure the rights of indigenous people in the country, particularly in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, where the indigenous population (also known ...
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TRANSNATIONAL ISLAMISM AND ITS IMPACT IN MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA
GLORIA Center (blog)
See Bilveer Singh, The Talibanization of Southeast Asia (Westport, CT: Praegar Security International, 2007); and Sadanand Dhume, My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with an Indonesian Islamist (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009). ...
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Butter Buds to expand operations
Milwaukee Small Business Times
The Asia Pacific Proving Ground (APPG) is an expansion of Caterpillar's research and development presence in Asia and will provide validation and product development services for Caterpillar machinery produced in China and the Asia/Pacific region. ...
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Air Products' New Freshline® QS Tunnel Freezer Provides Food Processors With a ...
MarketWatch (press release)
With state-of-the-art, fully-equipped food laboratories in the US, Europe and Asia, Air Products can test a customer's product to determine the feasibility of using the Freshline QS tunnel freezer for their specific process. For more information about ...
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Meet The Young Designer Behind The Washington Post's Infographics
Forbes
Jesse: Is there a particular data set you worked with in recent memory that startled you? Something unexpected you found yourself going back and checking? Wilson: In the previous graphic I mentioned, diabetes rates actually dropped in most Asian ...
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Dueling Pension Reform Measures Dominate Voter Handbook
Beyond Chron
SEIU 1021 also paid for a “No on D” ballot argument by LGBT leaders (signed by State Senator Mark Leno, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, former Supervisor Bevan Dufty and others), and one on behalf of Asian-American politicians – which Leland Yee, Fiona Ma, ...
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Beyond Chron
New Zealand employment law firm joins global alliance
Legal Business Online
L&E's global executive director, Stephan C. Swinkels, said that the move is the group's first footstep into Asia-Pacific countries. The benefits are set to flow both ways, as SBM partner Penny Swarbrick said that the move will assist the firm to ...
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US Drone Attacks on Suspected Terrorists Stir Controversy
PBS NewsHour
The US drone strike which killed Rahman is the latest in a series of strikes spanning several years. The attacks, centered in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, have targeted and disrupted al-Qaida militants and their allies. ...
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PBS NewsHour
President Benigno S. Aquino III leaves Tuesday on his first State visit to ...
Manila Bulletin
President Aquino is scheduled to meet with Chinese President HE Hu Jintao, who invited the Philippine leader during their meeting in last year's Leaders' Summit of the Association of SoutheastAsian Nations (ASEAN). The President will also meet with ...
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Hydroquinone alternatives effective in milder cases of hyperpigmentation
ModernMedicine
Another recent study in 28 Asian women in Suwon, South Korea used alpha bisabolol to successfully treat hyperpigmentation. 2 "They determined the patients had improvement in pigmentation," Dr. Rendon says. Newer prescription skin lightening products on ...
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Karnataka athletes honoured by CM
Deccan Herald
The most glaring related to swimmer Shubha C, the booklet said, had won two gold medals at the FINA World Championship held at Italy in 2009. Shubha had in fact won gold in 50M butterfly and 50M freestyle at the South Asian Federation Games last year...
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Deccan Herald
U.S. Air Force Chooses HP as Key Technology Provider
MarketWatch (press release)
The award will add to the USAF's 900000 units of HP products deployed in the past five years throughout the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific and is part of the USAF CCS (client, computer and servers) Quantum Enterprise Buy (QEB). ...
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Nonprofit looks to offer language classes at Prince George's County schools
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Teaching students an Asian language would better prepare them to compete in an economy whereAsian countries and companies, particularly technology companies, are major players, she said. Diane C. Fingers, the principal at Indian Queen Elementary ...
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Local markets follow Friday's US gains
Crikey (blog)
ANZ has said it is targeting Asia for growth and expects that by 2013 they will get up to 30% of their profit from the region. ANZ up 2.5% to 2035c. Select Harvests (SHV) results were in line with expectations and at the low end of guidance. ...
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