Risk management key to Asia's resilience: RBA

2nd India Disaster Management Congress gets underway

By: chnarendra

The 2nd India Disaster management Congress got underway here this morning. Gen. N.C.Vij, Vice-chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) inaugurated the Congress. Union Home Secretary Shri G.K.Pillai was among the key speakers at the inaugural session. A web portal on South Asia Disaster Knowledge Network (SADKN) was also launched ...

21 days ago

Asia to lead economic rebalancing: IMF

By: intellectual

SINGAPORE: The head of the International Monetary Fund is calling on Asia to play a leading role in guiding the global economy to a new, more sustainable path for growth. "This is not only appropriate, given Asia's economic weight in the world, but also necessary, since Asia is such an important part of the solution," IMF Managing Director ...

10 days ago

Australia Leads Economic Recovery Riding on Commodities Strength

By: myVox

Australia has given a cause to cheer for the Western economies by becoming the maiden country to increase the key interest rate since the world got engulfed in the financial crisis that started two years ago. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised the rate not once, but twice last month before releasing its quarterly financial http://www....

16 days ago

Cooperation in danger of being suffocated through protectionism

By: Globaltimes

To know more opinions and Comments from Global Times, please visit: http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/index.html Almost each series of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings has two protection-related subjects on the agenda – one is security protection, and the other is trade protection. The APEC meetings in Singapore from November ...

12 days ago