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ASIA News, Sep 08, 2011


Tired Western brands find new life in Asia
Boston Globe
Various owners tried to turn it around before a Hong Kong company snapped up the Asian rights in2009 and now runs dozens of Aquascutum stores in China and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Westerners are picking up on the idea, with one British startup aiming to ...
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K2 ASIA VENTURES v. TROTA
Leagle.com
... Inc., and Ruby Investment Company Holdings, Inc. In April 2009, Plaintiffs K2 Asia Ventures, BenC. Broocks, and James GJ Crow filed a complaint in Forsyth County against Defendants Robert Trota, Veronica Trota, Joselito Saludo, Carolyn T. Salud, ...
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China, Kazakhstan Sign Agreement to Expand Natural-Gas Pipeline Network
Bloomberg
China is turning to Central Asia for gas supplies to diversify fuel sources and to help cut the nation's reliance on coal and oil. Turkmenistan started deliveries in December 2009 and is the only country transporting gas to China by pipeline. ...
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C-section baby boom in China
Behind the Wall
That's a rate much higher than the Asian average of 27.3 percent, according to a World Health Organization global survey published in the Lancet journal in early 2010. And the statistics are even higher in China's capital city. In 2010, 51 percent of ...
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Here's the Latest on This Year's Art in October Festival
D Magazine
Established in 2009 as a private nonprofit 501(c)3 organization as the AT&T Performing Arts Center neared completion, today's Dallas Arts District serves the residents and patrons of the district increasing awareness of and access to the arts and the ...
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Asian-Americans Buck Stereotypes, Find Fame on YouTube
Voice of America
YouTube stars like Ryan Higa, David Choi, Kevin Wu (KevJumba), or Clara Chung (Clara C) may not be household names yet, but their popularity is serving as an inspiration for other young Asian-Americans. Caught between parents pushing traditional ...
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Manulife Hong Kong To Ramp Up Sales Effort
Wall Street Journal
Toronto-based Manulife is in 10 Asian countries, with the biggest business units in Hong Kong and Japan. The company aims to grow Asian profit to C$1.5 billion a year by 2015, which would be more than double the unit's 2010 profit.
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BASE METALS - European Opening View - Metals in limbo as Asian equities fail ...
FXstreet.com
The dollar is consolidating recent gains with the dollar index at 75.56, the euro is at 1.4073, sterling is weak at 1.5950, the aussie fell to 1.0590 after a rise in unemployment dented confidence, the yen is at 77.40 and the yuan is slightly firmer at ...
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Tsai supports US-Japan alliance to protect Asia-Pacific security
Focus Taiwan News Channel
China's 2010 Defense White Paper published in March this year continues to view "military struggle" and reunifying Taiwan as its main missions and is preparing for large-scale war, according to Tsai. When handling cross-strait issues, Taiwan needs to ...
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Focus Taiwan News Channel
ASU anthropologist says Zomia's people are more complex than popularly depicted
Arizona State University
In 2009, James C. Scott, a Yale University anthropologist and political scientist, wrote a controversial book about Zomia, a metaphorical zone including highland regions of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and four provinces of China. ...
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Ichimoku Cloud Turned Red - BMS, BNA, BOE, BSCD, C/PZ
Health Talk & You
Bemis Company, Inc. (Bemis) is a manufacturer of flexible packaging products and pressure sensitive materials, selling to customers throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, and AsiaPacific. It operates in two segments: Flexible Packaging and ...
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Japan hoping to earn respect on hardwood
The Japan Times
If not best of the best, Japan used to always be a top contender in the AsiaChampionship, which is played once every two years. But with the rise of Western and Middle-Eastern Asian nations in recent years, Japan has been stuck in a dark era in the ...
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The Japan Times
Gulf perfumers smell opportunity in local, global markets
Reuters
"If you want to export to anywhere else, not just to the West, but also Asia, you are going to have to comply with IFRA standards," said Stephen Weller of the Brussels-based International Fragrance Association (IFRA). He added that the association ...
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Reuters
Lack of facilities not a problem for school — Headmaster
The Borneo Post
“Our school is very proud of primary six pupil Elvic Bong Qian Zheng who won a silver medal at the 6th Asian Junior Wushu Championship in Shanghai, China, last month,” he said, adding that it was no easy feat. In his second international appearance, ...
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VimpelCom's CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
We have organized our group into the following five business units: 1) Russia, 2) Europe and North America, 3) Africa and Asia, 4) Ukraine, and 5) CIS. Each of our five business units has impressive leadership, and it is a testament to their efforts ...
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Intelsat's Premier Video Neighborhoods Continue to Attract World's Top Programmers
MarketWatch (press release)
In Asia-Pacific, Canal + Overseas SAS, the largest French-speaking pay-TV operator in the French Overseas Territories, signed a multi-transponder, long-term agreement on Intelsat 18, set to launch in October. The satellite will provide high power ...
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9/11: Six Tech Advances to Prevent Future Attacks
National Geographic
Photograph by Rex C. Curry, AP As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, imagine a replay of the attack: Another band of terrorists armed with box cutters manages to sneak onto an airliner and attempts to seize it for a suicide mission. ...
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National Geographic
Powerful Investment Partnership to Transform Miss America(R) Brand
MarketWatch (press release)
It saw a household rating increase over 2010 of 47 percent and a 40 percent increase in total viewers. Infinity Lifestyle Brands, LLC ("ILB") ( www.infinity-group.com ) is the New York based Infinity Group's consumer products and brand management ...
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Boot up: HTC sues Apple, Facebook flashes 'double in first-half revenue to ...
TMC Net
(Guardian Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Google Hands HTC Patents to Use Against Apple >> Bloomberg And so it goes on: "Asia's second-biggest smartphone maker, ...
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SkyStream Expands its Reach with Intelsat
MarketWatch (press release)
SkyStream will offer Internet and On-Demand services to luxury yachts across the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, and to fixed sites in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. SkyStream will provide these services via Intelsat 17 and the ...
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Splash plans to step up Barrio Fiesta marketing
BusinessWorld Online
We expect that the 2011 level will be better than the 2010,” Ms. Tomas said. In the second quarter, Splash profits rose by more than a tenth to P45 million from year-ago levels. The latest figures allowed Splash to record a 16.3% profit rise in the ...
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Securing Islamabad's past: In fight with greed, heritage wins first round
The Express Tribune
The caves in the suburbs of Islamabad are one such place and according to recentstudies there might be more of such sites in the area. Earlier, members of the Capital Citizens Committee had raised alarm about the danger the site has been facing and ...
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The Express Tribune
Sociedad Quimica Regroups After Correcting 25%
Investor's Business Daily
SQM's latest base, now in its seventh week, counts as a second-stage pattern. Such patterns are less prone to failure than third- or fourth-stage bases. The correction in the base has been as deep as 25%, within bounds of what you want to see for a ...
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Silicon Dragon to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell
MarketWatch (press release)
Silicon Dragon testified as an expert witness on China's Internet before a US-China Commission in Washington, DC Silicon Dragon draws upon a rich library, from Ms. Fannin's extensive reporting inAsia for nearly two decades for Forbes, CEO, HBR.com, ...
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Chinese power plant contractors take half of Indian market share
China Daily
SEPCO III alone takes more than 20 percent of Indian power plant building market, though all Chinese power plant contractors occupy less than 50 percent of market share in the third largestAsian economy, Lu said. Partnering with Adani Power, ...
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Sports Briefs
Times LIVE
Sapa-AFP DISGRACED Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam has claimed race was a factor in his lifetime ban from football over bribery charges, saying he would never have been punished if he was European. The Qatari was slapped with the ban in July ...
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SYRIA News, Sep 08, 2011


Assad got 'license to kill' from international community : 2011-09-07
Washington Times
The 22-country Arab League supported the UN action. Mr. Yadlin contradicted Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who predicted last month that Mr. Assad's “fate is sealed,” a sentiment echoed by many observers during Syria's bloody six-month repression ...
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Washington Times
Iran condemns violent Syrian crackdown
CBS News
For days, security forces have been pursuing activists and anti-government protesters in Homs, part of a ferocious crackdown on the most serious challenge to the 40-year Assad dynasty. The UN says more than 2200 people have died in nearly six months of ...
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Washington Watch: Getting away with murder
Jerusalem Post
That is relevant because of the killing going on in Syria today. Bashar Assad is no Hitler and his victims are numbered “only” in the thousands and not the millions, although he has the capacity to kill millions of Israelis with his arsenal of ...
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Syria could lash out as pressure grows: French judge
Reuters
Tuesday, France said the EU was working to turn the screws on Bashar al-Assad's regime a notch tighter. France and Britain are leading the push for a UN Security Council Resolution that would ramp up pressure on Syrian leaders. ...
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Syrian Ambassador Responds To Deadly Crackdown
NPR
Imad Moustapha, the Syrian Ambassador to the United States, continues to show support for theAssad regime. NEAL CONAN, host: In Syria, activists say at least nine people were killed today in the city of Homs, a place some now call the capital of the ...
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Russia's Middle East dilemma
The International News Magazine
In Libya and Syria today, Afghanistan and Iraq loom large. Russian Profile analyst Alexandre Strokanov fears that “the real war and even more horrifying suffering still lay ahead for the Libyan people” and warns that weapons from Al-Gaddafi's arsenal ...
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Syria's Day is Yemen's Night
Palestine Chronicle
Although China and Russia stand in the way of UN resolutions in Yemen, the Obama administration has devoted limited energy to countering the same BRIC wall found inSyria. While the White House launched its verbal artillery at al-Assad throughout ...
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Palestine Chronicle
US Ambassador to Syria; Ford is making Waves Again
Day Press News
The US ambassador to Damascus denounced the regime of President Bashar al-Assadon Tuesday in a posting on Facebook, taking aim at Syria's justifications for a violent crackdown against demonstrators. Ambassador Robert Ford said he accepted that ...
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Day Press News
Syrian Finance Minister looks at Asia to bypass Sanctions
Day Press News
Trade and industry will be affected because most exports go to Europe,” he told AFP. President al-Assad's government is under increasing political and economic pressure after months of relentless attacks on protests. The UN says more than 2200 people ...
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Day Press News
As Some Syrian Soldiers Record Trophy Videos, Others Join the Protesters
New York Times (blog)
As my colleague Ms. Bakri reports, “Across Syria, residents and activists have reported the defection of hundreds of soldiers from the mostly Sunni army, which is led by officers from the minority Alawite sect, to which Mr. Assad belongs. ...
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Russia and France contemplate global hotspots in Moscow
RT
The conversation then turned to Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad is attempting to hold on to his 11-year rule in the face of violent anti-government protests. Representatives of the Syrian opposition, who are refusing to participate in ...
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RT
Russia officially recognises the National Transitional Council in Libya
World Socialist Web Site
Regarding the Syrian crisis, the Kremlin has until now acted as a defender of the Assad regime, while the EU has imposed an oil embargo on the country and President Obama has publicly declared that Assad has lost his legitimacy as ruler. ...
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EU Bans Syrian Oil Imports
HeatingOil.com
The United Nations puts the death toll at more than 2200. Assad has deployed tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and helicopters to crush an uprising that began in March after “Arab Spring” revolts ousted the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt and sparked the ...
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No international mandate for operation in Syria - Alain Juppe
Aysor
... and the Syrian context is very different from the situation that unfolded in Libya, he told Interfax. At the same time the minister stressed the UN Security Council should not be inactive now and “must exert pressure” on Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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Syria troops step up assault on city
Evening Standard
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said President Bashar Assad must take "bold and decisive measures before it's too late". We welcome your opinions. This is a public forum. Libellous and abusive comments are not allowed. Please read our House Rules. ...
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Arab Spring and Kim Jong-il regime
Korea Times
Meanwhile the Assad dynasty in Syria may be nearing its end. But what of the world's longest surviving dynasty? As Kim Jong-il puts in place the pieces for his family's second power succession, he cannot but fear the winds of change and the scent of ...
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Korea Times
Panetta's Withdrawal Plans
The National Interest Online (blog)
US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is making waves again. This time on Facebook. He went after Bashar al-Assad's government for the violence it's been employing against Syrian protesters. Pulling no punches, he wrote: “Neither the Syrian protest ...
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Ya'alon takes on Erdogan
Ynetnews
Hafez Assad banned cell phones and internet in Syria. He must have seen the world. This wave cannot be contained. "The shockwaves present an opportunity for radical elements to try and step into the picture and wreak havoc. The West must do all in its ...
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Life and Times of Arafat: Mission Incomplete
MWC News
But then Syria's President Assad sent in his army to help the right-wing Christian Phalangists. The civil war's first phase ended in 1976with the siege and fall of the Palestinian refugee camp of Tal al-Zaatar. But at an emergency summit, Saudi Arabia...
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MWC News
China in Syria Series (V)
The Diplomat (blog)
China and Russia will keep the UN route on Syria closed. EU and NATO members likely (will) avoid escalation in Syria, as opposed to how the EU had to follow through on its bet on Libya. The Assad(regime has) been allowed to go on with its atrocities ...
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Economic Sanctions On Iran Haven't Been Enough
Forbes
Iran continues to support allied regimes and terrorist surrogates ranging from Bashar al-Assad'sShiite Alawite government in Syria to Hezbollah to the Palestinian Sunni groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as Shiite militias in Iraq, ...
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Syria accused of outrages, another 23 die
The Australian
Russia has staunchly opposed attempts by Western governments to push through a UN Security Council resolution targeting President Bashar al-Assad and has circulated an alternative draft calling for him to implement reforms. European Union nations are ...
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Marouni: Mikati does not commit to his words
NOW LEBANON
The Kataeb MP also voiced his surprise over Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai's statement earlier in the day that “Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be given a chance by Western countries.”
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France - Press conference given by Alain Juppé, Ministre d'Etat, Minister of ...
ISRIA (registration)
That's exactly what's happening in Syria: we've tried many times – our Turkish counterpart also reminded us of Turkey's efforts to this effect – to advise Bashar al-Assad to engage in a reform process; he hasn't. This shows that today we must speed up ...
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