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Korea's Won Is the Winner

BY Shawn Baldwin
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Institutional Investors have named the Korean Won the currency of choice for investing with the weakening U.S. dollar coming in second place.READ»

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Wind Power: Poverty Reducer

BY Jenara Nerenberg
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The Asian Development Bank has granted $630,000 to conduct initial feasibility assessments for three proposed wind farms on the Philippines island of Luzon.READ»

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The New Rupee Symbol Unveiled to the World

BY Addy Dugdale
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The Indian Finance Ministry unveiled its choice for the new Rupee symbol today--and it's an amalgam of both Eastern and Western letters, using the Devanagari "Ra" and Roman capital "R." India's currency has been strangely bereft of ...READ»

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A look into how China is changing how your gadgets are made, marketed, and delivered

BY Robert Scoble
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Liam Casey runs PCH, a supply chain management company in Shenzhen, China. We visited him recently to understand how China's manufacturing capabilities are changing and also how consumer electronics are made, marketed, and delivered ...READ»

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CHINA BEATS UNITED STATES AS LARGEST AUTO MARKET

BY Mr Rickman
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China announces that it surpassed Germany as the top exporter worldwide as December exports jumped 17.7 percent for the first significant increase in fourteen months, official data proves another sign of China's imminent rise as a global economic powerhouse also moving into the top slot as leading auto market with Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota moving agressively...READ»

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China Auto Sales Rise 72% Hit 1.2 Million Units

BY Mr Rickman
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Global automakers are looking to China's fast-growing market to drive sales amid slack demand elsewhere. Sales have been spurred by tax cuts and subsidies meant to help nurture China's auto industry and encourage purchases of more fuel-efficient vehicles. Beijing's 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus has helped to prop up spending on cars and other big-ticket items, and lifted economic growth (GDP) in the latest quarter to 8.9% from a year earlier. China, Brazil, Australia and India are both seeing significant economic growth. READ»

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Is China the Next U.S. Renewable Energy Superhero?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Oh, the irony. All-American oilman T. Boone Pickens scraps his plans for the world's biggest wind farm--a $10 billion project in Texas--and who comes in to pick up the pieces? China. The communist country is honing in on the Texas ...READ»

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Burberry and the Next Big Brands to Come From the East

BY Anne C. Lee
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The plaid giant's significant expansion in Singapore signals the winning strategy for becoming a global brand: Woo Asian customers first.READ»

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Can Indian Banks survive with thinner NIM

BY mahendrakumar dash
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Every Indian Banks have declared good growth and good profit over the last years performance if compared on year to year basis despite the effect of recession looming large and adeherence to Basel II capital adquacy norms. The ...READ»

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Despite crisis, Vietnam a lot more attractive investment than Thailand, senior executives agree

BY Damien Duhamel
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63% of senior business executives believe that Vietnam is now a more attractive investment opportunity than Thailand, according to figures released this week by Solidiance.READ»

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United States The World's Number One Innovator?

BY Saabira Chaudhuri
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The Global Innovation Index, a ranking of 130 countries released yesterday, calls the US the world's number one innovator. The index was created by Soumitra Dutta, a professor at French business school INSEAD, along with New Delhi ...READ»

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Kyoto Musings

BY James Todhunter
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I am taking the bullet train this morning from Tokyo to Kyoto to go speak at the 2008 Japanese TRIZ Symposium. While in Japan, I have also had the chance to meet with several members of the Japanese innovation community. It is ...READ»

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China’s textile industry in need of product innovation

BY Damien Duhamel
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Textile is one of China’s largest industries; it contributes US$ 420 billion to the national GDP. Exports of China’s textile industry were valued at US$178 billion in 2007 and contributed US$150 billion to China’s trade ...READ»

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Mining Copper in Zambia

BY Richard Behar
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I ask Xiao Ye, an Africa statistical researcher for the World Bank, whether a clear chart or table exists laying out the full extent of China's economic involvement in Africa. "I don't know anyone who has done such a ...READ»

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Exhibition Stand supplier in China YoHo Expo

BY SOPHIE WONG
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As China's economy grows,more foreign companies market China by attending trade show promotions,it creats a new business feild called trade show booth contractor,YoHo Expo has beening offering booth design and construction service for ...READ»

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China Hands

BY Ming Zeng and Elizabeth C. Economy
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Is China the next economic superpower? Ming Zeng of Cheung Kong business school and Elizabeth Economy from the Council on Foreign Relations hash it out.READ»

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Fast Talk: China Rising

BY Jena McGregor
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We talked to five of the best and brightest recent Chinese MBA grads -- whose careers will be followed in a 20-year study by Katzenbach Partners -- about China's future and their own hopes and dreams.READ»

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China's Next Great Thing

BY Thomas Hout and Jim Hemerling
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Though China's factories fill our shelves, it has yet to produce truly powerful global companies or brands. That's about to change.READ»

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Change Management: US Recession Impacting India

BY Anupam Mukerji
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Signs of a recessionary US economy are being seen thousands of miles away in India. India’s apparel exporters are facing canceled orders and dried up pipelines, a result of a weakening US economy and a strengthening Indian Rupee ...READ»

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New Challenges for Japan

BY Fast Company Staff
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In a recent conversation, I had the opportunity to hear Peter Drucker discussing potential challenges faced by Japan: China, South Korea and other parts of the region are becoming increasingly competitive. For example, the ...READ»

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You Down with GDP? II

BY Heath Row
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In response to an entry earlier this week, FC Now reader Jivha indicates that Indian finance minister Jaswant Singh employs the metric Gross National Contentment. Jivha expands on the two concepts in a blog entitled The Tongue.READ»

Topic: Asian Economy