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Groser leaves for Apec trade ministers meeting (NZPA)
Singapore :: Singapore | 4 months ago
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Trade Minister Tim Groser leaves today for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) trade ministers meeting in Singapore and says he will be emphasising the importance of advancing trade liberalisation talks. "This is one of the biggest Asia...
Tags: Asia Pacific, Singapore
Get ready for an Asian spending wave
Hong Kong :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility On a recent trip to Asia, including stops in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, I spoke to people with deep experience in that part of the world and came away with a sense that this shift could happen sooner than many assume. And if it does, it would...
Tags: Asia Pacific
Citi Names New Asia Chiefs
Hong Kong :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility Citigroup Inc. said Monday it appointed Stephen Bird and Shirish Apte as Asia-Pacific chief executives, sharing the job vacated by 13-year veteran Ajay Banga when he left for MasterCard Inc. late last month. The bank said in a statement 42-year old Mr....
Tags: Asia Pacific, Citigroup Inc., Asia-Pacific, Citi Reaffirms Global Commitment, Northern Asia
UBS appoints new head of Asia unit
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility Swiss bank UBS said Thursday that Rory Tapner, the head of its Asia-Pacific region, has left the bank after 25 years of service. Tapner will be succeeded as chairman and CEO of the region by Chi-Won Yoon, UBS /quotes/comstock/!ubsn ( 14.85 , +0.77 ,...
Tags: UBS AG, Asia-Pacific, Asia Pacific, Rory Tapner
ADB to double clean energy investment
Manila :: Philippines | 5 months ago
Credibility The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday said it plans to double its clean energy investments to 2 billion U.S. dollars a year in a bid to accelerate low carbon growth and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region. "We expect that this contribution...
Tags: climate change, ADB, clean energy, Asia Pacific, Asian Development Bank, energy investment, Asia-Pacific, South Asia
Alcatel-Lucent awarded Optical vendor of the year in Asia Pacific by Frost & Sullivan for second consecutive year
Singapore :: Singapore | 5 months ago
Credibility The Frost & Sullivan award recognises Alcatel-Lucent's exemplary innovation, growth and performance in the Asia Pacific carrier network optical infrastructure market. Nominees were judged by an influential panel of representatives from the regional ICT...
Tags: Asia Pacific
Russia eyes Asia Pacific grain market
Moscow :: Russia | 5 months ago
Credibility Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says his country wants to increase grain exports to an expanding Asia Pacific market. Speaking Saturday as the first World Grain Forum opened in St. Petersburg, Medvedev said the region is quickly turning into Russia's...
Tags: Russian, Dmitry Medvedev, grain market, Western Europe, U.S, grain exporter, Iceland, president dmitry, world grain, Asia Pacific
ILO: Unemployed Asians over 112 million
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 6 months ago
Credibility With the global recession deepening at an unprecedented pace, the International Labor Organization has predicted that the number of unemployed in Asia will grow between 9 million and 26 million this year. This means that the number of jobless workers...
Tags: ILO, Asia Pacific
Cash for ANZ Asia dream
Sydney :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility The main part of the raising, an underwritten $2.5 billion institutional placement, was three times oversubscribed at $14.40 a share -- a discount of only 7.5 per cent to the stock's last trade at $15.57 and a further pointer towards stability in the...
Tags: ANZ Bank, Asian, RBS Group, asian assets, royal banking, Australia, Asia Pacific, share placement, Royal Bank of Scotland, anz raising
Biocon chief wins Nikkei Asia Prize
Bangalore :: India | 6 months ago
Credibility Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon, has been awarded the Nikkei Asia Prize for 2009. The prize has been instituted in 1996 by Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), a Japanese business daily...Shaw was awarded the prize for promoting...
Tags: Nikkei Asia, asia prize, Asia Pacific
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