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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic recovery. But gains were modest across the region as investors took a wait-and-see stance ahead of closely-watched U.S. employment figures due out Friday.
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| Posted at 02:17 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Singapore's economy will likely expand at a record pace this year as a surge in demand for the city-state's exports fuels manufacturing, according to a central bank survey of analysts. The city-state's gross domestic product will likely grow 14.9 percent this year, according to the median forecast of 20 economists in the quarterly survey, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said Wednesday.
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| Posted at 12:45 PM, Sep 01, 2010 |
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Asia Sentinel, Breaking News
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An associate who recently was required to spend a day in Singapore on a business trip became so irritated by the smug attitude of the island republic's officials, taxi drivers and others that it gave rise to this rumination, writes Asia Sentinel. In 1985, the satirical novelist Kurt Vonnegut published an odd novel, Galápagos, the story of band of humans on a nature cruise who are shipwrecked on a remote fictional island in the Galápagos chain after a financial crisis has wrecked the global economy.
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| Posted at 04:58 PM, Aug 31, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Singapore will allow in fewer foreign workers this year than previously announced in a bid to quell a growing backlash among locals against foreigners, the prime minister said Sunday. About 80,000 foreigners will enter Singapore this year, fewer than the more than 100,000 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced last month, he told a National Day Rally.
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| Posted at 08:46 AM, Aug 30, 2010 |
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Jon Russell, Social Media and Technology in Asia
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A week is a long time in politics, as they say, but in this internet-centric age, a week in the the web can be even longer. To keep up with what's happening in Asia, every Monday I recap my pick of Asia's key tech/digital news and articles from the previous week, while also including a round-up of the week's posts from this blog too.
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| Posted at 11:30 AM, Aug 30, 2010 |
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Ben Bland, The Asia File
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...you could fit the global population into an area the size of Texas.
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| Posted at 11:38 PM, Aug 27, 2010 |
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Yeoh Siew Hoon, WIT at TheTransitCafe
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Well, the image of “travelling in tour groups” has taken a severe battering of late. First, there was the Hong Kong tour guide rant at a group of Chinese tourists for not shopping enough, which makes you wonder how long these zero-commission tours should be allowed to continue. Then, we watched in horror as a bungled attempt to rescue a group of tourists from the Hong Thai bus in Manila unfolded before our very eyes this week.
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| Posted at 12:51 AM, Aug 27, 2010 |
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Ben Bland, The Asia File
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The implementation of laws against incitement to violence or hatred is always problematic as they are very much open to interpretation. Abdul Malik Mohammed Ghazali, a 27-year-old Singaporean, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly inciting violence after criticising a minister in a comment left on a Facebook page.
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| Posted at 06:40 PM, Aug 26, 2010 |
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Ben Bland, The Asia File
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Ivy Singh-Lim is one of the few real characters in the rather staid public life of Singapore. An outspoken former head of Singapore's netball association, she has spearheaded attempts to revitalise Singapore's farming hinterland (yes it does have one) in the north of the densely-populated island nation.
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| Posted at 11:32 PM, Aug 25, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Asian stock markets slid Wednesday as a shock drop in U.S. housing sales and slowing growth in Japanese exports added to evidence of a waning global recovery. Global markets have spent most of August in the red as economic indicators from the U.S., Japan, China and elsewhere suggested global growth will slow in the second half, dimming earnings prospects for manufacturers and other exporters.
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| Posted at 03:49 PM, Aug 25, 2010 |
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Zin Linn, The Democracy Question of Burma
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A new Border Guard Force (BGF) program deadline for the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) also known as Mongla group has been scheduled. At an August 20 meeting, the Burmese junta instructed the two ceasefire groups to submit their agreement on transforming into BGF by the first week of September, said Shan Herald News.
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| Posted at 04:43 PM, Aug 24, 2010 |
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Jon Russell, Social Media and Technology in Asia
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The Economist has an excellent feature addressing the mobile industry in Southeast Asia primarily focusing on the saturation of voice revenue and, therefore, the need for operators to promote mobile data and other value-added service to generate new income and growth in the market.
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| Posted at 12:00 PM, Aug 22, 2010 |
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