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Aug 15, 2011

ASIA News, Aug 15, 2011


Emerging-Market Stocks Rise on U.S. Data; Morgan Stanley Boosts Weighting
Bloomberg
By Ian C. Sayson - Mon Aug 15 06:56:56 GMT 2011 Emerging-market stocks rose the most in a month after US retail sales posted the biggest increase in four months and Morgan Stanley lifted its allocation for developing equities to the highest level since ...
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Clara C announces her 2011 tour, “Shakin Off Silence”
allkpop
As the winner of 'Los Angeles Kollaboration 10′, 'KAC Media Juice Night', and 'ISA2009', Clara C quickly became a phenomenon amidst the myriad of gifted AsianAmerican singers/songwriters. Possessing a voice that's both sweet and soothing, ...
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Business people
Buffalo News
Woon, who joined the company in 2009 as managing director (Asia-Pacific), spent 15 years in Asiaas president of Volvo Construction Equipment China and president and CEO of Tesa Tape AsiaPacific. A graduate of the University of Hawaii, ...
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The pride of Pakistan
DAWN.com
With him as part of the team we won gold in the 2010 Asian Games and the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in 1999, 2000 and 2003. Last year's Asian Games saw him in full form in the final against Malaysia in November, when he gave Pakistan the lead by scoring off ...
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DAWN.com
Tested and Testy, but Stable
Transitions Online
Official figures from mid-2003--the latest available numbers--indicate that it performed pretty well. Aggregate annual growth was 3.8 percent, and higher prices for gold and cotton on world markets helped it to increase its export surplus, ...
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Moody's Reviews Bsi's A1/C+ Ratings for Downgrade
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
The decision to review BSI's C+ BFSR for downgrade was prompted by Moody's concerns that BSI's previous franchise additions -- most notably the acquisition of Banca del Gottardo in 2008 and its growth strategy in Asia -- may burden profitability for ...
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Regent Pacific Group : Discloseable transaction: Acquisitions of and ...
4-traders (press release)
Prior to the above-referenced acquisition and subscription, the Company acquired, during the period from 18 August 2010 to 15 March 2011, an aggregate of 7736500 AVR Shares on market at an average price of C$0.88 (or approximately US$0.89 or HK$6.94) ...
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Biz Buzz: 'Twisting the truth'
Inquirer.net
The plan is for Pinoy Telekoms to enter into a strategic partnership with telco service provider PacNet HK, which owns Asia's biggest submarine cable infrastructure.—Doris C. Dumlao The Metrobank group's stockbrokerage arm First Metro Securities, ...
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New Philips monitors unveiled
Inquirer.net
The Philips Moda PC, the latest from the C-Line, was designed with premium materials. It comes preloaded with top-of-the-line technology features. Its stand is made of stylish aluminum die-cast base, sporting an eye-catching two-toned glossy finish and ...
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California Supreme Court Associate-Justice Ming Chin Subject of Ethics ...
San Diego Reader (blog)
By lesliebrodie | Posted August 14, 2011, 12:51 pm A long-standing involvement with an entity which cater exclusively to Asian-American has led to a complaint being filed against California Supreme Court Associate Justice Ming W. Chin. ...
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Pixelmetrix Danny Wilson publishes OTT White Paper
PR Urgent
Pixelmetrix has been conferred the Cable & Satellite International Highly Commended Product of the Year Award 2010, Frost & Sullivan Industrial Technologies Award 2009, C+T Technology Development Award 2009, Cable & Satellite International Product of ...
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Stricter criteria for foreign professionals
TMC Net
His announcement on the EP last night comes in the wake of recent calls by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) for more to be done for local professionals, in the light of rising foreign PME numbers. The number of EP holders rose more than 20 per ...
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National and International Protests Challenge Naval Base Construction on Jeju ...
Japan Focus
Challengers pointed out that the base would become a center for a naval arms race in the Asia-Pacific and a new phase in the ROK-US military alliance with Jeju as a focal point for monitoring and challenging China. 9 With both China and Japan ...
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Japan Focus
FFA must ditch the Dutch
The Roar
Their excuses come in defence of the Young Socceroo's recent 5-1 thrashing by Spain that had our youngsters sent packing from Colombia at the FIFA U-20s World Cup tournament, after finishing at rock bottom place in their group. ...
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Elder Bar Turned Green - AFF, AGU, AL, AMN, AN
Retirement Planning
Ameron operates its busine sses in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. As of November 30, 2010, the Company had two partially owned affiliated companies: Ameron Saudi Arabia, Ltd. (ASAL) and Bondstrand, Ltd. (BL). On October 21, 2010, ...
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Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 2: William D. Cohan
Bloomberg
There was the crash of 1987 and the credit freeze that followed, the Asian crisis, the Mexican crisis, the Russian crisis, the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, the Internet bubble and, most recently, the risky mortgage-related behavior that ...
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U.S. To Deny Taiwan New F-16 Fighters
DefenseNews.com (subscription)
"They are going to split the baby: no C/Ds, but the A/B upgrade is going forward." Sources said an official announcement of the decision is expected by month's end. But an official at the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the de facto US Embassy, ...
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Fragile legacy
The Hindu
The earliest Asian documentation of Traditional Knowledge (TK) about natural heritage is in Kerala itself: Hortus Malabaricus, says B. Venugopal, Director, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), New Delhi. Festival NMNH recently conducted the ...
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The Hindu
Eton posts 10% income growth in H1
Inquirer.net
Since starting operations four years ago, Eton Properties has launched 41 projects. The company was recently recognized as one of the top 10 developers in the Philippines by construction data provider BCI Asia Inc.—Doris C. Dumlao.
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Volatility: How separately managed accounts were effected
InvestmentNews
Within the Asian developed market, New Zealand and Singapore had positive returns while Australia and Hong Kong were both off a bit in dollar terms. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index was down 1.2% in the second quarter, and again, the weaker dollar ...
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AFRICA News, Aug 15, 2011


Few will fear creaking Boks
Times LIVE
Coach Peter de Villiers may need one the size of a redwood log if he believes SouthAfrica were beaten only on the scoreboard. It's the Max Boyce philosophy of rugby: the comedian from Glynneath always maintains that Wales never lose, it's just that ...
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Times LIVE
Lion bones off to Asia
Times LIVE
Scenes from African Cats, Disney's latest documentary, include Layla chilling out in a tree, left; and Sita with her litter, opposite. Filmmaker Keith Scholey says the documentary focuses on the two mothers and their mutual enemies - a gang of adult ...
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Times LIVE
Tanzania raises petrol pump prices on high oil costs
Reuters Africa
Fuel prices in Tanzania, like its other east African neighbours have been rising inrecent months, and have had a significant impact on the rate of inflation in the region's second-largest economy. On Sunday, Kenya increased pump prices for petrol, ...
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Reuters Africa
OFW families urged not to hoard dollars
Philippine Star
Latest data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed that the growth in OFW remittances picked up in May, expanding 6.9 percent and posting its fastest monthly growth since January amid the political tensions in the Middle East and North ...
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People First: The latest in the watch on Ukrainian democracy
Kyiv Post
... Chile, Ecuador and the Republic of South Africa. The Ukrainian propensity for addictive behaviors, as evidenced by a recent surge in the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal and prescriptive drugs, television and online games, is further debilitating ...
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'Apes' takes in $27.5 million to again thump its chest atop the box office
Los Angeles Times
"The Help," about a young white woman who writes a book about the struggles of a group of AfricanAmerican maids, resonated most with older women. The crowd who showed up to the picture was 74% female, and 60% of the audience was older than 35. ...
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The war habit: What are we doing in Libya?
RenewAmerica
The report was verified by United States Africa Command (AFRICOM). Oh, but that's only to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, the White House at first claimed. AFRICOM spokeswoman Nicole Dalrymple insists, "US aircraft continue to ...
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IBM's Earnings Growth: Overrated or Just Beginning?
Seeking Alpha
The Americas' second-quarter revenues were $11.2 billion, an increase of 10 percent (8 percent, adjusting for currency) from the 2010 period. Revenues from Europe/Middle East/Africa were $8.6 billion, up 16 percent (3 percent, adjusting for currency). ...
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In the name of the New Sports Minister, Peace
Vanguard
The latest one has to do with his view that we can get more medals from athletics at the All AfricaGames than what we are projecting presently. In order to share this view point with the leadership of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria I have gone ...
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Why the Left Elites Are Criticizing Obama
American Thinker
A recent Pew poll showed a 10 percentage point increase in the number of white voters under age 30 who identified themselves as Republican since 2008. The latest Rasmussen poll reports that among identified Democrats the older they are the more they ...
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BOOK WORLD Bestsellers — August 14, 2011
Washington Post (blog)
In fiction, the most recent of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series stays firm at #1, with two other robust series (with fan bases to prove it) joining the top 10 rankings — Preston & Childs' Special Agent Pendergast returns, making a #2 debut, ...
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Asmaa Mahfouz, Egyptian youth activist, is charged by military prosecutor
Washington Post
“The Mubarak trial is supposed to be about an end to the police state and a break with that abusive past,” said Heba Morayef, a Middle East and North Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Yet, ironically, what you have in parallel is the military ...
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Dublin High Dropout Rate More Than 10 Times the Tri-Valley Average
Around Dublin Blog (blog)
This latest graduation rate is significantly lower than last year's dropout rate of 5.7%. The CDE estimates that 18% of all California high school students will drop out over a four-year period. While Dublin High School's projected dropout rate of ...
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England deserves to rule
The Hindu
England's ascent to the top of Test cricket is richly deserved: nowhere is the game's grandest format treated with such reverence — Australia and South Africa come close — and nowhere do the cricketers commit so much of themselves to it. ...
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GEBHART: Movie theater trip not what it used to be
Delaware County Daily Times
On television every day we see previews of all the latest releases. I have yet to see one preview that didn't either have (1) a car hurtling through space, (2) a bridge collapsing, (3) a building destroyed by an explosion or (4) a gunfight in which the ...
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S.Africa's municipal workers start wage strike
Reuters Africa
By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least 145000 South Africanmunicipal workers will walk off the job on Monday in a strike aimed at shutting down services including garbage collection, in the latest dispute to disrupt Africa's biggest...
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Reuters Africa
London Postcard: Punishment and Punditry
New Yorker (blog)
This patchwork of neighborhoods houses large Turkish, Kurdish, Vietnamese, Eastern European, Orthodox Jewish, Caribbean, South Asian, and African communities. Only forty per cent of residents in the latest census described themselves as white, ...
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New Yorker (blog)
World Community vs International Community
Mathaba.Net
Just ask anyone on the streets of Africa or Asia, even if they don't watch tell-lie-vision. After all, the uprising in Libya did not come in the capital city, Tripoli, where 2.7 out of Libya's 6 million people live. It started along the borders, ...
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All Blacks expect 'torrid' Springboks battle
Independent Community Newspaper
The 14-9 Tri-Nations defeat to Australia in Durban was quickly being digested by the All Blacks as they arrived in South Africa. All Blacks assistant coach Wayne Smith said his initial analysis was there were ominous signs from the Boks, ...
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AfriMoney.com | Kenya: Court Ruling Sends Cabinet Into a Panic ...
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August 15, 2011 By AllAfrica NewsLatest. Anxiety has gripped sections of the Cabinet over the future role of ministers in appointing parastatal chiefs after their powers were severely shaken by the courts this week. Article by AllAfrica NewsLatest (c) AllAfrica News: ... African Union Kwame Nkrumah Scientific awards. D/L 15 September.Arthur B. Schultz Foundation grants aimed at non-profit groups involved in women's empowerment and disabled mobility … [Read More...] ...