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ASIA News, Sep 19, 2011


China's cash floods into Canadian energy sector
Asia Times Online
Canada has become the latest addition to Beijing's FDI investment priority list withC$15 billion (US$15.2 billion) worth of Chinese capital pouring into the energy-rich province of Alberta in 2010. [1] These fast-paced investment activities have ...
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US Stock Futures Sink As Greece Worries Mount
Wall Street Journal
Asian stocks dropped Monday and European equity markets also fell sharply, with the pan-European Stoxx 600 index down 2% in midday trade. The ASE Composite index in Athens fared even worse, slumping 3.2%. In Greece, the cabinet of Prime Minister George ...
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U.S., China Tone Down Taiwan Fight
Wall Street Journal
However, a decision not to provide the new planes would leave President Barack Obama open to accusations that he has sold out a democratic ally in Asia for the sake of commercial ties with the world's largest economy. An F-16C/D fighter visiting Taipei ...
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Wall Street Journal
Geopolitical Realignments: USA-Israel-China versus Russia-Europe-Arabia
Foreign Policy Journal
by Dr. KR Bolton Despite the focus of the mass media on (mostly theoretical) rivalry between the USA and China, and the rapport in recent years between China and Russia through a Central Asian axis, neither of these apparent geopolitical alignments are ...
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What Wall Sell-Side Analysts Are Buzzing About This Morning
Business Insider
Channel checks and a recent trip to Asia suggest stronger supply chain management. Teva Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: TEVA): Day 7 of patent infringement Copaxone trial against Novartis AG's Sandoz unit, Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc., Mylan Inc., ...
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Developed market currency risk draws heat in equity portfolios
Pensions & Investments
“Historically, equities managers have been less focused on the currency impact to the portfolios than fixed-income managers,” said Wayne Bowers, CEO of asset management for Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific at Northern Trust Global ...
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'Well-rounded' Rural grad Warkentine excelling at Yale
Topeka Capital Journal
The group makes a CD biannually and the most recent, “Speak for Yourself,” — on which Warkentine sings a solo — was just recently released. While Warkentine has missed out on international singing trips to Europe and Asia because of softball ...
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The hottest sector in this raging inflation scenario is..
Equitymaster.com
Combine this with higher fuel prices as well as increasing prices of the car itself, it is little wonder why demand for cars has seen a slowdown in recent times. In fact, the Automobile Association expects demand for cars to slowdown even during the...
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Guarding against misadventure
The News International
As a prologue to the Great Game, the US has so far technically succeeded in forming an imperialist armed ring against the Central Asian Oil Republics óstretching from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan, the target, of course the oil resources of the former ...
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Ambassador Learned Duties Only After Appointment
Patch.com
For example, when the nuclear reactors were melting down in Japan after therecent tsunami, we arranged for a US C-17 cargo plane to fly to Perth, in western Australia, load up a couple of huge water cannons, and take them to the reactor site, ...
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Know your digestive irritants
Herald.ie
However, in places such as East Asia, where dairy produce has not been traditionally consumed, lactose intolerance affects around 90pc of the population. This suggests that our bodies take a very long time indeed to successfully learn how to digest ...
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Markets News Monday: UBS revises up rogue trader loss to $2.3bn
FinFacts Ireland
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index-ex Japan fell 2.4% Monday. Japan's markets were closed; China's Shanghai Composite fell 1.76%; Australia's S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.64% and the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex 30 declined 0.93% in Mumbai. ...
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FinFacts Ireland
Clarion Partners is on its own again
Pensions & Investments
We just launched in South America and I would hope we get back to Europe, Asia. We are locked out (under Clarion's agreement with ING) of doing that for a year and that's fine because we have our hands full over here. I am very hopeful we get back into ...
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ANDRE LOUW: Food security
Business Day
It is expected that in the next couple of years about 1-billion people will have moved into the middle-class group in Asia. In China, the effect on food demand is already apparent — in 1995, China produced and consumed 14- million tons of soybeans;...
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Has Africa lost Libya?
The Guardian
Nevertheless, the outcome of the recent AU meeting in South Africa hints at a likely recognition of the NTC, and a new partnership. There is much at stake in how this relationship plays out. The NTC will need Africa's assistance to prevent dissidents ...
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