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Overton, Jacobson share Asia Pacific Classic lead
USA Today
Today everything clicked," said Overton, the 28-year-old Indiana player who had a scare before the tournament when his clubs didn't arrive until late Wednesday. Overton eagled the par-4 15th, hitting a driver to six feet. "I watched Mark Wilson hit it ...
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USA Today
China Lawmakers Vote to Strengthen Legislation Aimed at Fighting Terrorism
Bloomberg
... standards,” he said in a phone interview today. Phelim Kine, a senior Asiaresearcher with New York-based Human Rights Watch said the organization is concerned about how China applies measures to investigate terrorists and bring them to justice. ...
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Las Vegas Sands Profit Beats Estimates on Asia Casino Growth
BusinessWeek
Net income climbed to $353.6 million, or 44 cents a share, from $168 million, or 21 cents, a year earlier, the Las Vegas- based company said today in a statement. The figures reflect preferred dividend payments. Profit excluding some items was 55 cents ...
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6waves Lolapps Acquires Chinese Social Gaming Company Smartron5
Sacramento Bee
... Oct. 28, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- 6waves Lolapps, a leading global social and mobile game developer and publisher, today announced its acquisition of Beijing-based social gaming company Smartron5. One of Asia's most talented game development teams, ...
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Advertisers still obsessed with click-throughs
ZDNet Asia
... in today's "post-click" world, insiders have observed. The click-through rate (CTR) is an "archaic metric" that should be abandoned altogether, Lee Smith, CEO of platforms at Omnicom Media Group Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Asia in an e-mail interview. ...
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General Dynamics Appoints Chong as Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific Region...
PR Newswire (press release)
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) announced today that Leda ML Chong will become senior vice president,Asia-Pacific Region, of the company's Aerospace group on November 1, with an initial focus on the ...
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Daimler's Fuso Says Full-Year Vehicle Sales May Rise
BusinessWeek
Deliveries in Asia accounted for 67 percent of Fuso's global sales last year, the executive said today. Fuso's nine-month global sales fell 4.5 percent from a year earlier to 96247 units, the company said today in a statement. ...
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Bangkok Heads Into Critical Days
Wall Street Journal
Asia Today: The flood crisis in Thailand is hitting some the world's biggest manufacturers and disrupting the supply of tech components. Meanwhile, Nokia launches new smartphones to compete against Apple and Samsung. WSJ's Mariko Sanchanta and Yun-Hee ...
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Wall Street Journal
Habitat for Humanity prepares to rebuild after floods devastate Southeast Asia
Reuters AlertNet
Bangkok, 28 October 2011: Today, Habitat for Humanity launches an appeal for US$10 million in order to help an up to an estimated 25000 families rebuild their lives following severe flooding across Southeast Asia. Funds raised by the 'Southeast Asia ...
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The risks arising from Asia's water stress
The Hindu
Yet the world's fastest-growing demand for water for food and industrial production and for municipal supply is in Asia, which now serves as the locomotive of the world economy. Today, the fastest-growing Asian economies are all at or near ...
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The Hindu
Danny and Chinnarat put Asians to the fore
Malaysia Star
Chinnarat, a three-time Asian Tour winner, said he definitely did better yesterday compared to Thursday. “I hit many fairways. On Thursday I missed a lot of drives. I hit every fairway today except for the last hole where it went into the rough. ...
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Indian drivers perform admirably in JK Racing Asia Series qualifying session
India Infoline.com
Rounds 13 & 14 of the JK Racing Asia Series is held this weekend at Buddh International Circuit. Round 13 will be held on today, Saturday, 29th October 2011 at 3.30pm local time with Round 14 scheduled for Sunday, 30th October at noon....
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ADB pledges $3.8 B for Philippines
Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) vowed todayto extend assistance worth $3.8 billion to the Philippines in a six-year period. ADB's assistance is a new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for 2011 to 2016 that will target ...
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V V A potpourri on jihad
Business Standard
Today, with all the turmoil in the Islamic world stretching across West Asia down to Afghanistan and Pakistan, jihad signifies the political opposition between Islam and the West. It isn't surprising then that Dilip Hiro, a London-based writer and ...
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Some Fashion Tips for Legal Types This Halloween
Above the Law
Most US associate hires in Asia during the hiring boom in first half of '11 were cap markets practices in HK / China. Today, M&A hiring remains on same level as first half '11 and fund formation hiring was red hot the past few months (but there are ...
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Shock as Qantas chief Alan Joyce grounds airline's domestic and international ...
Perth Now
In addition to pay rises, the engineers, pilots and ground staff are protesting at Qantas's plans to restructure the airline with job losses of 1000 and a new non-Qantas branded offshoot to be based in Asia. The unions claim the restructure amounted to ...
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Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund (FAX) Price Falls Below the 200-Day Moving...
AVAFIN
Today's trading activities for Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund stock may be an indication that the shares will continue to head lower in the near future assuming the moving average has downward slope. Moving average concepts are useful and can be ...
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Voice Blogging Service, Bubbly, Pops With Over 12 Million Users, Gains ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
This momentum has Asia's largest operators scrambling to add Bubbly to their networks as a value added service. Over the past three months, Bubbly has launched on Vodafone in India, SoftBank Mobile in Japan and Telkomsel in Indonesia. ...
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Arch Coal CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
In fact, while over 78% of South African exports have been diverted from the Atlantic to the Asian-Pacific to date, we anticipate that Asia could capture 90% or more of South African output over the next five years. Coal demand in Asia remained strong, ...
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Asian fuel demands spur plans for natural gas terminals on west coast
Vancouver Sun
Natural gas for December delivery rose 4.2 percent today to US$3.923 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's up from this year's settlement low of US$3.481 for gas futures and down 11 percent in 2011. "Gas prices in Asia are indexed to oil prices ...
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Cliffs Natural Resources' CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
This lower sales volume expectation is partially attributed to pellet availability from Wabush and partially related to a transition in our marketing strategy to work more directly with end-users of the product and less with trading customers in Asia. ...
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Is Asia heading down the wrong energy path?
Pakistan Daily Times
By 2030, world oil demand is likely to be in the region of 112 million barrels a day, with much of the increase from today's 89 million barrels a day coming from Asia. While peak oil theorists are wrong about supplies running out, cheap oil theorists...
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Asia Stocks Set to Rise Most in a Week Since '09 on US, Europe
BusinessWeek
China Construction Bank Corp., the nation's second-largest lender that reports earnings today, gained 3 percent to HK$5.85. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index declined 11 percent this year through yesterday, compared with a 2.1 percent gain by the S&P 500 and ...
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What's in store for the seven-billionth baby?
Vancouver Sun
East Asia will go from 305 million profoundly poor people (16.8 per cent of its population) in 2005, to 140 million (7.4 per cent) in 2010, to 53 million (2.7 per cent) in 2015. . Europe and Central Asia will go from 16 million (3.4 per cent), ...
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Azerbaijan to attend Caspian Telecoms 2012
Trend News Agency
Azerbaijan will be presented at the 11th Regional Turkey, Caspian, Central Asia, Russia, Black Sea Telecommunication and IT Conference & Showcase, Iteca Caspian told Trend today. Main telecommunication conference Caspian Telecoms 2012 will be held in...
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Trend News Agency
HP to Stay in PC Business, Apple Sales Spike in Asia and More: Today's Top Stories
Mashable
Apple's net sales in the Asia-Pacific region have risen to $14.3 billion in 2011, up 174% from the same period a year ago. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone to run Google's next-generation Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, is arriving in ...
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Danaher Corporation (DHR): Today's Featured Conglomerates Winner
TheStreet.com
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services primarily in North America, Europe, and Asia/Australia. Danaher Corporation has a market cap of $32.5 billion and is part of ...
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Morgan Stanley's Roach: Americans Must Save More
NewsMax.com
By Forrest Jones Today's government-fueled economic policies are not going to push the US economy out of the doldrums until consumers pay down the debts they've run up for years, says Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley Asia non-executive Chairman. ...
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Most US Stocks Retreat as Euro Falls
Bloomberg
Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Shen Jianguang, a Hong Kong-based economist at Mizuho SecuritiesAsia Ltd., talks about China's potential role in helping European governments resolve the region's sovereign-debt crisis. ...
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Bloomberg
China's 'Ant Tribe' rides the wave of a booming economy
Toronto Star
By Bill Schiller Asia Bureau Hors d'oeuvres are set out, there's a bottle of white wine chilling and Zhang puts some bossa nova on his Sony CD player before giving a guided tour. His new home, in the aptly named New Horizons community, cost 2.1 million ...
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Asia News Today 18.10.2011 - YouTube
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Commonwealth summit opens in Perth today - Asia News Network
Human rights, food security and economic growth will dominate the agenda at the summit of the Commonwealth nations' leaders, which begins today in the ...
www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=23226&sec=1
Central Asia Finance News - Finance Industry Today
Latest finance news for finance industry professionals & analysts. Breaking personal finance, credit, loans, mortgages, & money management news.
finance.einnews.com/region/central-asia
Ducati Announces New Monster 795 Model for Asia | Ducati News ...
Ducati Monster 1 thumb Ducati Announces New Monster 795 Model for Asia Next Bike Sdn Bhd, the official distributor for Ducati in Malaysia today unveiled a ...
www.ducatinewstoday.com/.../ducati-announces-new-monster-...
INDIA India: Church's social doctrine, the "best kept ... - Asia News
Sacredness of life and dignity of the human being themes of the South AsianSymposium (14-16 October), organized in honor of John Paul II and marking 50 ...
www.asianews.it/.../India:-Church's-social-doctrine,-the-best-k...
Islamic finance good fit for funding Asia ... - Flash News Today
Dubai: In order to maintain solid economic growth and sustain their surging populations, Asian nations need to develop and upgrade their infrastructure and ...
flashnewstoday.com/.../islamic-finance-good-fit-for-funding-a...
In the News Today (20 October ... - Ageing Asia News and Research
Ageing Asia - In the News Today (20 October 2011). Age-friendly employment / Re-employment. Into battle for the elderly. A large number of Kiwis over 65 are ...
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Asia News Today 17 10 2011 - YouTube
Asia News Today 12.10.2011by ucanews64 views; Thumbnail 4:51. Add to. News Today October 11, 2011by ucanews114 views; Thumbnail ...
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Asia Beverages News - Beverage Industry Today
Latest beverage news for beverage industry professionals & analysts. Breaking alcohol, coffee, & soft drink distribution, packaging & production news.
beverages.einnews.com/region/asia
South-East Asia Textiles News - Textile Industry Today
Latest textile news for textile industry professionals & analysts. Breaking fabric, textile export, import textiles, clothing brands & designers news.
textiles.einnews.com/region/south-east-asia
Central Asia Military News - Military Industry Today
Latest military news for military industry professionals & analysts. Breaking aircraft, defense contract, military bases, weapons & Pentagon news.
military.einnews.com/region/central-asia
Overton, Jacobson share Asia Pacific Classic lead
Today everything clicked," said Overton, the 28-year-old Indiana player who had a scare ... For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to ...
www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/pga/story/2011-10.../1
Robert Allenby leads Asia Pacific Classic
By Stephen Morton, AP Robert Allenby of Australia. birdied four of the first six holes and three of the last four in his bogey-free first round at the Asia ...
www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/pga/story/2011-10.../1

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