 Washington Post The talks, on Panetta's first trip to Asia as Pentagon chief, are part of a broader Obama administration effort to shore up South Korean confidence in a military alliance that has endured for six decades. Panetta met with the South Korean defense and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Frank Gehry Looks to Asia for Projects as US Growth Slows BusinessWeek s 777 airliner. “With two-dimensional drawings there's a lot of room for error,” he said. “It creates so-called clashes that will result in costly change orders.” There were few such conflicts at the 76-story Manhattan tower -- called New York by Gehry ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Praxair net up 14% on sales in Asia, S. America MarketWatch By Ben Fox Praxair Inc.'s /quotes/zigman/238768/quotes/nls/px PX +2.63% third-quarter income rose 14%, as the company saw substantial sales growth in all major regions, building on its recent strength in Asia and South America. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Parkson Retail Said to Raise $110 Million in Singapore Offering BusinessWeek By Joyce Koh and Chan Tien Hin Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Parkson Retail Asia Pte., a unit of Malaysia's Parkson Holdings Bhd., raised S$138.2 million ($110 million) in an initial public offering in Singapore, two people with knowledge of the matter said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| S.Korea's economy grows 0.7 pct in Q3 Xinhua ... brisk exports contributed to the continued growth of the Asia's No.4 economy. During the third quarter, concerns over the global economic downturn deepened after the US credit rating was downgraded in August and Europe' s debt crisis worsened. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Ace's Greenberg Sees 'Greater Pipeline' for Potential Deals BusinessWeek By Maryellen Tighe Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Ace Ltd., the insurer that expanded by purchasing businesses in Asia and the US, is prepared to make more deals as market turmoil makes potential targets available, Chief Executive Officer Evan Greenberg said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Sony Buys Ericsson's Stake in Phone Venture for $1.5 Billion BusinessWeek Sony Ericsson on Oct. 14 posted third-quarter sales and pretax profit that exceeded analysts' forecasts after sales climbed in Asia while Western European revenue suffered from withering consumer confidence. Asia sales gained 81 percent to 985 million ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| India's Rising Nuclear Safety Concerns Asia Sentinel Concerns about safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs) are threatening India 's massive investment plans in the sector... Post the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan populations around proposed Indian NPP sites have launched protests that are now ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TAIWAN DAYBOOK: TSMC Net May Drop 35%; US on China Military Bloomberg s third-quarter net income may drop 35 percent from a year earlier to NT$30.3 billion ($1 billion), according to the average of 17 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The world's largest custom maker of chips will publish earnings at 1:30 pm in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Chinese Nationalism and Its Discontents Military & Aerospace Electronics THIS NATIONALIST diplomacy bred considerable anxiety among America?s allies in East Asia. Did Washington have the will to sustain its strategic presence and balance China?s rise? A robust US diplomatic response was in order. But the United States went ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ford profit ups expectations The Detroit News North American operations generated a pretax profit of almost $1.6 billion — flat compared with a year ago — but Ford lost money in Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa during the quarter. Last week, two ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bank Of East Asia Seeks To Price Benchmark Dollar Bond At Around Treasurys + ... Fox Business The planned 10.5-year Reg S bond would be callable after 5.5 years, at which point the coupon would reset to a fixed rate equal to the prevailing Treasury yield plus the initial spread, the term sheet said. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and UBS are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Asia to be world's largest tourism market TODAYonline The WTTC expects the industry's total contribution - including its wider economic impact - to global gross domestic product to grow by 50 per cent, to US$9 trillion (S$11.4 trillion) over the next decade. It now accounts for one in 12 jobs. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Asia Long-Short, Macro Hedge Funds Thrive, BlackRock Arney Says Bloomberg On whether the crisis will spur more hedge fund closures as after the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s collapse: “I think so in the sense that if you are a small hedge fund, and you do not have independent risk controls, and you are not truly acting as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Russian language still important in Central Asia Central Asia Online “Our leaders, when they meet, often talk to each other in Russian, and the inhabitants of CentralAsia themselves also frequently use (it) to communicate with each other,“ Inamgeldi S. said. “But even if Russian did not exist, I think that the Central ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| U.S. House passes legislation on APEC travel Hawaii 24/7 (press release) ... the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards Act of 2011, HR 2042, cosponsored by Congresswoman Mazie Hirono, which makes travel to APEC countries easier for American business and government travelers. The Senate version, S.1487, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gupta Insider Case Built on Circumstantial Proof Poses Challenge to U.S. Bloomberg He's accused of telling Rajaratnam about Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A)'s $5 million investment in Goldman Sachs in September 2008, about the bank's unexpected fourth-quarter loss that year, and about P&G's poor performance in late 2008. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN official: Fight against slavery still needs US help DesMoinesRegister.com Thanks in part to US government funding, the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking has achieved unprecedented progress in Southeast Asia using surveillance methods to examine broker-trafficker networks, including financial ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Active Power's CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha On fairly small numbers, our revenue from Asia this quarter of $1.2 million roughly 43% from the same year ago quarter was down $3 million from the immediately preceding quarter. On a year-to-date basis, our Asia revenues of $5.6 million are up 38% ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| s.Oliver to Streamline Design and Development with PLM Apparel Magazine Oliver's approximately 300 users in Germany and more than 550 users worldwide with access to up-to-date information relating to the company's products. s.Oliver's piloted its PLM project with one division and all of its agencies in Asia and Turkey ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Visa's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha Our Asia Pacific region also continues to deliver very strong growth, with payments volume growing by 17% for the most recent quarter. And to drive future growth in the region, we signed several important agreements with key clients. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| S.Korea's presidential hopeful hits out at own party TrustLaw Next year, Asia's fourth largest economy holds general and presidential elections in the same year for the first time in two decades, in April and December respectively. The GNP now has the control of the legislature and the executive branch. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Does the AT&T version of the Galaxy S II Global World phone spell instance ... Mobile bloom News So when Samsung released their Galaxy S second-generation handset, appropriately named the Galaxy S II, earlier this year and confined that release for the first five months to Asia and Europe, they were pleasantly surprised when it moved 10 million ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US HOT STOCKS: Norfolk Southern Active In Late Trading Wall Street Journal Stifel Nicolaus said it remains "most impressed" with the company's growth in the Internet data center vertical, and that it maintains its view on Super Micro as a strong Asia-Pacific data-center play. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s (TMO, $48.36, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Inside Jobs Wall Street Journal s partnership with Microsoft on handset development this year and Google's planned $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. have some Asian device makers fearing they'll have fewer software options in the future, which could affect ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sealed Air's CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha However, we achieved 3% to 4% volume growth in Europe, Asia and Australia, New Zealand due to the expansion of our growth programs and increase in animal and dairy production in those markets, equipment sales in Europe and Australia and continued ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Parker Hannifin Corporation's CEO Hosts Analyst Day - Conference Call Transcript Seeking Alpha ... Operating Officer and President of Aerospace Group; Daniel S. Serbin, Executive Vice President in Human Resources; Robert W. Bond, Vice President and President of the Fluid Connectors Group; Michael Chung, Vice President and President of Asia ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Singapore Stocks: Creative Technology, SATS Ltd., Suntec, Wilmar BusinessWeek Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. (NOL), Southeast Asia's largest container carrier, rose 2.7 percent toS$1.125. Palm-oil producers: Crude palm-oil futures for January delivery increased as much as 1.3 percent in Kuala Lumpur today, heading for its fourth day ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Boeing's CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha Overall global demand for our products and services remains solid, with growth in international markets like the Middle East and South Asia working to offset flat to potentially lower defense outlays here at home. Our baseline assumption for the US ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Analyst warns new Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 7s won't be iOS, Android killers Computerworld (blog) But at least one analyst warns that the phones simply aren't good enough to dethrone popular smartphones such as the iPhone 4S or the Samsung Galaxy II S. Nokia showed off two Windows Phone 7 devices for the European and Asian markets, the Lumia 800 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Stocks Look for Higher Open on Euro-Zone Optimism with Amazon (AMZN) and ... Market Intelligence Center Most of Asia's major stock markets swung from opening losses to closing gains Wednesday, as anxiety ahead of a key European Union summit gave way to optimism over Chinese economic policy.Asian shares had started broadly lower, with investors cautious ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Six killed in U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan - Asia News By XinhuaNET.COM Six killed in U.S. drone strike in NW Pakistan At least six suspected militants were killed and another injured on Thursday as U.S. pilotless planes fired. Siam Daily News Online |
| Laos, S. Korea eye closer relations - Asia News Network That was the message on Monday when Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Thongloun Sisoulith met Korea's Vice Minister of Foreign ... www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=23134&sec=1 |
| PHILIPPINES - ITALY Rome, a Mass for Fr Fausto ... - Asia News Rome (AsiaNews) - A memorial mass for Fr Fausto Tentorio, the PIME ... will be celebrated in Rome Tuesday, October 25 at 7pm at the Church of S. Maria degli ... www.asianews.it/.../Rome,-a-Mass-for-Fr-Fausto-Tentorio-at-S... |
| South Asia Consumer News - Consumer News Today Latest consumer news for business professionals & analysts. Breaking consumer spending, price index, product, credit, safety & recall news. consumer.einnews.com/region/south-asia |
| Three great powers (Asia News Network) « thủy tinh vỡ The global focus on South Asia and the Indian Ocean has increased. That's both good and badnews for us in the region. South Asia is home to India, ... thuytinhvo.wordpress.com/.../three-great-powers-asia-news-ne... |
| ITB Asia 2011 Panellists Say Asia is One of World?s Most Resilient ... Article - ITB Asia 2011 Panellists Say Asia is One of World?s Most Resilient Regions for Travel Industry - Organiser of ITB Asia says the success and growth of ... www.hotelnewsresource.com/article58822ITB_Asia______Pa... |
| Pop artists wow Asia Song Festival in S Korea CCTV News - CNTV ... This year´s Asia Song Festival´s taken placed in S. Korea with 30 pop artists from host country, also Thailand, Japan, the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Hong ... english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/.../105251.shtml |
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