Zoellick a friend of Australia and an effective leader of World Bank The Australian | I MEET him in his vast office at World Bank headquarters on 18th and H streets in Washington. Long and lean, he is the ultimate global insider. | A former US trade representative, a former deputy secretary of state and before that an under-secretary of the treasury, Robert Zoellick - notoriously o...
India, Indonesia close to sorting differences in ASEAN FTA The Times Of India | NEW DELHI: India is believed to be working out a trade off with Indonesia on palm oil, the last hurdle to a Free Trade Agreement that New Delhi has been negotiating with ASEAN for several years. | The trade off, however, may harm interes...
Zoellick a friend of Australia and an effective leader of World Bank The Australian | I MEET him in his vast office at World Bank headquarters on 18th and H streets in Washington. Long and lean, he is the ultimate global insider. | A former US trade representative, a former deputy secretary of state and before that an under-secretar...
India, Indonesia close to sorting differences in ASEAN FTA The Times Of India | NEW DELHI: India is believed to be working out a trade off with Indonesia on palm oil, the last hurdle to a Free Trade Agreement that New Delhi has been negotiating with ASEAN for several...
IT waste a ‘major challenge’ to human health Dawn | NUSA DUA (Indonesia), June 26: Millions of discarded mobile phones and computers are posing a “major challenge” to human health, the chief of the United Nations Environment Programme said on Thursday. | Achim Steiner told a UN conference on waste m...
IT waste poses 'major challenge' to health Bahrain Tribune NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) | Millions of discarded mobile phones and computers are posing a "major challenge" to human health, the chief of the United Nations Environment Programme said yesterday. | Achim Steiner told a UN conference on waste manageme...
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China failing to build trust ahead of Olympics The Australian | PUBLIC opinion surveys in five Asian countries and the US show perceptions of China's "soft power" lag those of the US and Japan - though a great Olympic Games in Beijing might c...
Downer on new Asia-Pacific grouping Australian Broadcasting Corporation | This is a transcript from The World Today. The program is broadcast around Australia at 12:10pm on ABC Local Radio. | You can also listen to the story in and and formats. | Downe...
Full text of Kevin Rudd's speech to the Asia Society Australasia The Australian | THE Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century. | That means planning for our long-term future. | Plan...
Hazard of old mobile phones under spotlight at UN meet Inquirer | NUSA DUA--The disposal of massive numbers of unwanted mobile phones will be a key focus of a five-day meeting on waste management which started Monday in Indonesia, organizers said. | The fate of the more than three billion of the gadgets in use to...
Malacca Straits in dire straits The Statesman The Straits of Malacca connect the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. It is the shortest sea route between India and China. The 800-km-long Straits, one of the most heavily travelled shipping channels, lies between Sumatra and the Malaya peninsula...
Japan ratifies free trade pact with ASEAN Inquirer | TOKYO -- Japan ratified a free trade accord with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Saturday as the country's divided parliament ended its session. | Under the deal, about 90 percent of trade between Asia's largest economy and the 10-nat...
Asian consumer confidence plunges -- MasterCard survey Inquirer | HONG KONG -- Consumer confidence in Asia has fallen sharply from six months ago amid concern about the impact of surging food prices, volatile financial markets and the continuing global credit crunch, a MasterCard survey shows. | For the region as a whole, MasterCard's measure dropped to 56.0 in the second quarter of 2008, versus 69.3 in the fou...
Most Indian spices down on weak demand, arrivals The Times Of India | MUMBAI: Arrivals in Indonesia and Brazil, two of the world's largest producers and exporters, will start in July. However, a tight supply situation in the physical market may restrict the losses, they said. At 10:46 a.m., the benchmark August contract was trading at Rs 14,017 per 100 kg...
