ASIA News, Sep 05, 2011

Asian Companies Won't Jump on Slumping Prices, Citigroup Says Bloomberg By Cathy Chan - Mon Sep 05 04:34:31 GMT 2011 Colin Banfield, Asia-Pacific head of mergers and acquisitions at Citigroup Inc. (C), comments on the outlook for mergers and acquisitions in the region and how it will be affected by recent market turmoil. ... See all stories on this topic »

Tired Asian teams brace for WCup qualifying SI.com After failing to qualify for the 2010 World Cup and exiting the 2011 Asian Cup in the first round, Saudi Arabia is desperate to qualify for the tournament in Brazil, but Rijkaard was quick to deflect pressure on to the visitors. ... See all stories on this topic »

China's Likely Premier-to-Be Does Another Turn on Global Stage Wall Street Journal (blog) Mr. Li, who as premier would be a leading voice on China's economy, promoted bolstering trade ties with neighboring central Asian states while at the same time focusing on domestic development in largely impoverished regions like Xinjiang, ... See all stories on this topic »

FT.com Launches New Asia Brand Campaign Asia Media Journal Jocelyn Cripps, Marketing Director for the Financial Times in Asia said: “The FT newspaper has firmly established itself in the region with a loyal readership amongst the C-Suite and banking and finance industries. We wanted to create a an innovative ... See all stories on this topic »

HIV rising rapidly in Philippines Manila Bulletin The report titled “HIV in Asia and the Pacific: Getting to Zero” cited HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs in the city of Cebu accelerated rapidly from 0.6 percent to 53 percent in just two years, between 2009 and 2011. ... See all stories on this topic »

Stock Market Big Picture The Market Oracle Short term momentum ended the week extremely oversold. The recent rally from SPX 1121, Primary A, took the form of an abc (1191-1136-1231). Wave c was 1.382 times wave a. The total rally was 110 points, and we labeled it Major A. Normal retracement ... See all stories on this topic »

Burmese still walking on deadly ground Sydney Morning Herald Photo: David Longstreath Despite a worldwide ban, landmines continue to kill and maim victims in south-east Asia, Lindsay Murdoch reports. SAW Maungpu's dead eyes point towards the bare concrete floor of a hut clinging to the side of a jungle mountain ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Kofax Announces Record Software Business Results for the Fiscal Year Ended ... MarketWatch (press release) Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organization, as well as through a global network of more than 700 authorized partners in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. ... See all stories on this topic »

Kevin Spacey, Christian Louboutin and Sophie Marceau - new celebrity fans join ... eTravelBlackboard - Asia Edition A short video of Louboutin will feature in Mandarin Oriental＊s new I-Pad advertising campaign which will launch this September in the Asian editions of the Financial Times, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. Talented French actress Sophie ... See all stories on this topic »

Anil Gupta: Are the Gandhian tools of civil resistance relevant today? Daily News & Analysis The recent breakthrough that Anna Hazare had with Indian parliament through a persistent non-violent social pressure has brought issue of civil resistance, or protest and corruption at the centre of national attention. A large number of protestors, ... See all stories on this topic »

Human Rights and Democratic Governance Asian Human Rights Commission News (press release) If we reflect on the meaning of a state becoming dysfunctional I think we could grasp to some extent the problems relating to democratic governance as well as rule of law not only in Nepal but in many of the countries in the Asian region and, in fact, ... See all stories on this topic »

Banks' bad loans lowest on record Malaya The ratio, according to the BSP, is better than the end-December 1996 ratio of 2.80 percent, the lowest NPL ratio recorded in the Philippine banking industry before the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The NPL ratio hit its highest at more than 18 percent ... See all stories on this topic »

Manmohan's Dhaka visit a test for Delhi's neighbourhood diplomacy Daily Star Online “If the new strategic partnership between Bangladesh and India takes the expected step forward when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits Dhaka next week, it could herald a new beginning for the eastern sub-region of South Asia”, opined Dr Sanjaya Baru, ... See all stories on this topic »

Williams share price falls 40% in six months pitpass.com At the end of 2010 Williams lost six sponsors including the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Air Asia airline. Its biggest backers are now Venezuelan oil company PDVSA and telecoms giant AT&T. If they scale back, Williams' performance could stall because ... See all stories on this topic » pitpass.com

Club hopes to punch above its weight Yorkshire Post The poverty Cath saw in Asia also inspired her to volunteer for work with the SOS Children charity. “I love helping people achieve their goals and ambitions and love it when people share my passion for this amazing art.” See all stories on this topic » Yorkshire Post

9/11 changed Fort Drum and the north country forever WatertownDailyTimes.com As of 2009, the majority of the division's deaths were in Iraq, but the unit kept a near-constant presence in Afghanistan and made national headlines when Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack ... See all stories on this topic »

California farm workers rally for union rights at State Capitol in Sacramento Examiner.com Just click on the "Subscribe" link above. Then-California attorney general and Democratic candidate for governor Jerry Brown (C) speaking during a news conference with Asian Pacific Islander leaders on October 18, 2010 in San Francisco. See all stories on this topic »

MARKS: Part Failure Yields 28th Place At AMS TruckSeries.com Phenomenally, justified buy microsoft word 2010 the entire office application outside atlantis (), multi-tasking down msnbc in a crt-screen included specified.. A difference (prix adobe photoshop) cites the tiny magenta dots towards the inspiron 1525 ... See all stories on this topic »

Honda to recall nearly 1 mln Fit, other models Portfolio.com In Japan, the recall covers Fit vehicles produced between October 2005 and October2009. The subcompacts were also sold overseas, mainly in China and other Asiancountries. The spokesman said the company was not disclosing the cost of the global recall ... See all stories on this topic » Portfolio.com

IBM expands Power architecture licensing program Eetasia.com (subscription) One of Versilicon's recent designs for Chinachip was featured at the Asia Power Architecture Conference in Shenzhen, China. Easier access to Power technology enables designers to create embedded solutions on a powerful microprocessor architecture that ... See all stories on this topic »

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AFRICA News, Sep 05, 2011

Rugby World Cup latest: Shane Williams fed up of coming second best against ... WalesOnline Shane Williams admits Wales are fed up of being the nearly men in their recent battles against world champions South Africa, and he knows there would be no better time to start addressing matters than next Sunday's World Cup Pool D opener. ... See all stories on this topic »

China Sought to Sell Arms to Qaddafi, Documents Suggest New York Times The Chinese companies apparently suggested that the arms be delivered through third countries like Algeria or South Africa. Like China, those countries opposed the United Nations authorization of NATO military action against Qaddafi forces in Libya, ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

UN: 750000 people in Somalia face 'imminent starvation' CNN International Famine in the African nation has spread to the Bay region, which is now the sixth area in Somalia suffering from an acute shortage of food, according to the the UN's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and the Famine Early Warning Systems ... See all stories on this topic »

SMEs, landlords, government, to blame for Ibadan flood catastrophe BusinessDay The recent Ibadan flood calamity, which shut down business and other activities in the biggest city in West Africa, South of the Sahara, was largely caused by government's dereliction of duty and insensitivity to the plight of the governed, ... See all stories on this topic » BusinessDay

Smartphone industry to grow 55 percent globally in 2011 Al-Bawaba The GALAXY S II, the successor to the equally popular GALAXY S smartphone that was launched 2010, boasts faster and more powerful user experience with a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and the latest version of the world's fastest-growing mobile operating ... See all stories on this topic » Al-Bawaba

Like Libya, Zimbabwe must move on ZimEye Zimbabwe But despite its tired 'liberation' rhetoric, South Africa realises that the world has moved on and that Libya has changed. South Africa's duty is to make Zimbabwe move on too (see: No GPA implementation spirit in govt: Zuma ... See all stories on this topic » ZimEye Zimbabwe

Happy birthday to you! Fifa.com Jeremy Toulalan (28) is the latest in a long line of classy and hard-working members of the French engine-room, managing to emerge with some credit despite Les Bleus' shambolic showing at the2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. ... See all stories on this topic »

Again, Lagos is one of worst cities to live in NEXT The EIU latest survey for July 2011 explained that a small adjustment in Vancouver's score for transport, caused by the "recent intermittent closures of the key highway, resulted in a 0.7 percentage point decline in the Canadian city's overall ... See all stories on this topic »

Platinum could be a better bet than gold Telegraph.co.uk About 80pc of global reserves are in South Africa, where input and staffing costs are rising significantly. Miners in the country are also being hit by the relative strength of the rand against the dollar. The case for platinum is clear. ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Global gathering needs Fiji and Samoa to come to the party The Independent The Fijians are not bad at 15s: hell, they knocked Wales out of the last World Cup with a joyously athletic performance in Nantes and very nearly did for South Africa, the eventual winners, on a mesmerising afternoon in Marseilles. ... See all stories on this topic »

Eight family members killed in central Nigeria AFP JOS, Nigeria — Unknown gunmen stormed a mainly Christian-dominated central Nigerian community overnight and hacked eight members of a family to death in thelatest violence to hit the region, officials said Sunday. ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

Security: Nigeria's President has 'strong leads' on bombings Afrique en Ligue Some 23 persons were killed and dozens more injured in the UN House bombing, the latest in a series that started 1 Oct. 2010 and included explosions that disrupted the country's 50th independence anniversary, the bombing at a military barracks and the ... See all stories on this topic »

The battle for Libya Daily Star Online And the latest decision by the NTC to hold back on moving its interim government to Tripoli for a week only confirms the continued volatility of the situation. Meanwhile, the recent meeting of western leaders in Paris, styled as friends of Libya, ... See all stories on this topic »

'Hezb' chief an exploiter Arab Times Kuwait English Daily Both of them have delusions of being great and untouchable leaders of their people, so they committed horrible crimes that are unprecedented in recent history. In his latest praise for the Syrian regime, Nasrallah failed to take into consideration the ... See all stories on this topic »

Dhaka: Second worst liveable city on earth Financial Express Bangladesh With a sort of democratic façade in place through reconciliation between President Robert Mugabe and his political opponents, the African nation which is blessed with vast mineral and agricultural resources is expected to do better in the near future. ... See all stories on this topic »

Peter Popham: Reporting war can possess you The Independent He went on to repeat the same trick in Sudan, where he both took part in and reported the last cavalry charge in history, and South Africa – by which time the top generals were so livid with him for mixing up his two roles that they refused to have ... See all stories on this topic »

The dangerous migration of IT professionals CIO Magazine Analysis of the latest industry figures would suggest that as many as 130000 IT professionals right now are actively looking for work environments that are more stimulating and challenging. To put that into perspective, that would be enough to fill the ... See all stories on this topic »

South Africa: State Security welcomes progress on Info Bill 7thSpace Interactive (press release) Pretoria-The Ministry of State Security has noted the latest developments with regards to the processing of the Protection of Information Bill. According to the Ministry, the recent developments represent a major step in the direction of completing ... See all stories on this topic »

Business calls for flexible contracts WA Business News (subscription) WA's exposure to the resources sector failed to shield the state from the volatility that drove the broader sharemarket to a two-year low in August, according to Deloitte's latest monthly survey of the state's listed companies. ... See all stories on this topic »

Iraqi tourists flock to Kurdish region for fun, safety Arab News By SERENA CHAUDHRY | REUTERS IRBIL, Iraq: Shan Abdullah Ahmed travels to Irbil in northern Iraq at least once a month so her teenage daughter can shop for the latest catwalk fashions and stroll freely through an amusement park without fear of bombs. ... See all stories on this topic »

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