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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
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
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) called on Monday for a fundamental "rebalancing" of regional economies in response to the global crisis, while predicting a "mild recovery" next year. Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda said the region would record only 3.4...
Tags: Asian Development Bank, ADB, Asia-Pacific, Asia Pacific, annual meeting, China Eximbank, Bali, economic crisis, Export-Import Bank of China, Haruhiko Kuroda
Mr Nath stressed the need for social safety nets to protect vulnerable social groups from the triple impacts of the current food, fuel and financial crises. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva inaugurated the ministerial session which opened yesterday.
Tags: UN Asia-Pacific, Asia Pacific
Frost & Sullivan to host Customer Contact Asia Pacific summit from May 6-7, 2009 in Kuala Lumpur ~ Today, the term customer service has manifested itself beyond the typical back-office operations to what is known as 'customer experience.' Intense competition...
Tags: Asia Pacific
US to avoid protectionism and continue to expand trade with Asia. This was part of a series of recommendations it released for the Obama administration on US-Asia business and trade relations. The US economy has been hit hard by the current downturn but...
Tags: UBS, Asia-Pacific, Asian, US-Asia, Asia Pacific, banking ubs, Singapore
Forbes magazine has named New Zealand the fifth best country in the world to do business in. New Zealand raced up seven places in the finance publication's fourth annual Best Countries for Business rankings and beat Australia, which came eighth out of...
Tags: Hong Kong, Asia Pacific
Executive Secretary Noeleen Heyzer, in her opening address to the three-day meeting. “A person living in our region is four times more likely to be affected by natural disasters than someone living in Africa and 25 times more likely then someone living...
Tags: Asia-Pacific, U.N., Asia Pacific
Four Malaysians have made Forbes Asia's latest Heroes of Philanthropy list which honours leading givers in the Asia-Pacific region. The four, named in the magazine's March 16 issue, are Tun Ahmadshah Abdullah, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah, Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing...
Tags: Asia-Pacific, Asia Pacific, Heroes of Philanthropy, philanthropy list
Indian telecoms firm Tata Communications will invest $430 million in an Asian Internet data center and cable system, a person familiar with the situation said Thursday. "The investment in the Internet data center will be about $180 million, while the...
Tags: Tata Communications Exchange, Tata Sons, AgustaWestland, internet data, India, Asia Pacific, data center, Ratan Naval Tata, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Strategic