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Cambodia Garment Strike Spotlights on Labor Rights

on July 30, 2010 by admin in ASEAN News, Economy, Malaysia News, News, Review, Trade Deals, Trade News, Comments (0)

The wraith of global meltdown is still resonating in some form or the other in most outsourcing dependent countries. The recent Cambodia garment workers’ strike turns out to be a […]

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Zimbabwe to Buy Small Denominations to Fix Currency Crisis

on July 20, 2010 by admin in Africa News, Business, Economics, News, Politics, South Africa News, US Business News, Comments (0)

The Finance Minister of Zimbabwe has announced that his country would import small change to stave off worsening currency problems. The day to day lives of the Zimbabweans have become […]

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Indo-Pak Ties – The Chokepoint for Indian Exports to Afghan

on July 19, 2010 by admin in Bilateral Trade, Export News, Indian Exports, News, Pakistan News, Politics, Trade Deals, Trade News, Comments (0)

The trade treaty signed on Sunday between Pakistan and Afghanistan has become a major embarrassment to the visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the deal conspicuously disallows Indian […]

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Indo-Bhutan Power Trade to Reciprocally Obviate Dearth

on July 10, 2010 by admin in Bilateral Trade, Business, Economy, Export News, Import News, India, India News, Indian Exports, News, Trade Deals, Trade News, Comments (0)

India’s plan to create over $1bn sovereign-backed fund to boost trade and investment for domestic power utilities in South Asia will largely benefit Bhutan to fund its power distribution projects […]

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Airline Introduces iTicketing with Apple iPad Kiosks

on June 24, 2010 by admin in ASEAN News, Aviation News, Credit Cards, E-Commerce, News, Tourism News, Travel News, Comments (0)

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) in collaboration with SITA, an air transport technology major, has installed iPad kiosks at the Kuala Lumpur Sentral (KL Sentral), to simplify flyers’ travelling needs. The initial […]

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Lewis Turning Point of Chinese Economy May Improve Quality

on June 21, 2010 by admin in ASEAN News, Business, Economics, Economy, Global Export News, News, Trade News, Tradeoff, World Business News, Comments (0)

The recent strikes at Honda and other factories in China for pay hike have to be construed as the fallout of the dearth in obtaining ‘qualified’ workers and the rapidly […]

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Overarching Trade Promotions by Turkey to Power Growth

on June 14, 2010 by admin in Business, Cameroon News, Economy, Export News, India News, News, South Africa News, Trade Deals, Trade News, World Business News, Comments (0)

The Turkish government through various trade programs is ensuring that its economy will grow by more than 12 percent in the coming quarters. The one such program is the “Turkey-World […]

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Botswana Identifies Cuba as Decisive Ally – Signs Pacts

on June 11, 2010 by admin in Africa News, Bilateral Trade, Botswana News, Latin American Business, News, Trade Deals, Trade News, Comments (0)

The three-day visit by the president of Botswana to Cuba has culminated in the signing of several accords including healthcare, education, sports and agriculture. The Botswanan President Seretse Khama Ian […]

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Financial and Banking Methodology Helps Cambodia to Sustain

on June 10, 2010 by admin in ASEAN News, Business, Economy, News, Trade News, Comments (0)

Cambodia’s World Bank country manager Qimiao Fan on Tuesday said that Cambodia’s financial and banking regulations have assisted the country to sustain during the tumultuous times of global economic uncertainties. […]

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OAS Meet to Heed TI Recommendations

on June 9, 2010 by admin in Business, Economy, Latin American Business, News, Trade News, Comments (0)

The Organization of American States (OAS) in its 40th General Assembly in Lima is understood to have taken into consideration the recommendations by Transparency International (TI) to improve transparency and […]

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Nigeria Loses 10 Percent of the GDP to Illegal Maritime Acts

on June 3, 2010 by admin in Africa News, News, Trade News, Comments (0)

A top official from the Nigerian government has informed that the country was losing more than 10 percent of the GDP solely due to illegal maritime activities taking place in […]

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NZ Reveals Game Plan on FTAs and Bilateral Trade Pacts

on June 2, 2010 by admin in ASEAN News, Australian Business, Australian News, Bilateral Trade, Business, China Business News, Dairy News, Dairy Trade, Export News, Import News, India News, New Zealand News, News, Trade Deals, Trade News, Comments (0)

New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser’s address while laying the groundwork for the FTA talks with Russia has unveiled a strategy that his country would possibly be effecting the early […]

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World Oceans Day 2050 would be a Fishless Celebration

on June 1, 2010 by admin in Canada News, Chile, Economy, Environment, Global Economy, News, Comments (0)

According to a recent UN report, the World Oceans Day June 8 designated and celebrated by the UN since last year would be a fishless one in 2050 if the […]

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Strike Paralyses SA with More in Store Ahead of World Cup

on by admin in Africa News, Business, Economy, News, South Africa News, Trade News, Comments (0)

South Africa (SA) continues to reel under the ’strike’ bogey with transport strike nearing end while others surfacing. A likely strike by half of the workers at state-owned power utility […]

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GCC Puts Oil and Gas Exports at $18.3tn

on May 25, 2010 by admin in Africa News, Business, Export News, GCC News, Kuwait News, News, Saudi Arabia News, Trade News, World Business, Comments (0)

The head of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) while addressing the second day of the MENASA (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia) Forum in Dubai said with the presumption […]

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Global Infrastructure Deficit Pegged at $2Trillion Per Annum

on May 24, 2010 by admin in Business, Economy, Global Economy, Latin American Business, News, World Business News, Comments (0)

The World Economic Forum’s Positive Infrastructure Report (PIR) finds that world faces a global infrastructure deficit of US$2 trillion per year over the next 20 years. The report analyses the […]

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Mosquito-feasting Plants May Well Be the Answer

on May 21, 2010 by admin in Africa News, Business, Miscellaneous, News, Research, Comments (0)

A Ugandan scientific team is believed to have discovered an eco-friendly method to eradicate mosquitoes. The team headed by Prof. Jasper Okeng of the Pharmacology department of Makerere University is […]

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China Initiates Huge Private Participation in Energy Sector

on May 19, 2010 by admin in Business, China Business News, Economy, News, Trade News, Comments (0)

Last week China has announced that it would accept public bidding for national oil reserve projects, indicating that the government is planning private participation in energy domain to cut state’s […]

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Indo-Israeli FTA Talks to Ride on Equal Trade Opportunities

on May 18, 2010 by admin in Bilateral Trade, Business, Economy, Export News, Import News, India, India News, Israel News, News, Comments (0)

A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and Israel, proposed by the latter about four years ago, has all the trappings for an early completion as both sides find the […]

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Used Cooking Oil-based Bio-diesel becomes a Rage in US

on May 15, 2010 by admin in Blog, Business, Economics, Environment, Global Economy, News, US Business News, Comments (0)

In the US, companies and communities alike are fashioning the new wave of energy production by converting cooking oil waste to bio-diesel not just for greening but also for profits […]

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Oman-France Eco-tourism Foray on Course despite Deferment

on May 11, 2010 by admin in Bilateral Trade, Blog, Business, Economy, Environment, Miscellaneous, News, Tourism News, Trade News, Comments (0)

A workshop on ‘green architecture and eco-tourism’ will be held in Oman between 15 May and 17 May after becoming one of the many casualties to Iceland’s volcanic ashes which […]

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Uganda Welcomes New Development Plan with Hopes and Doubts

on May 7, 2010 by admin in Africa News, Business, Commentary, Economy, News, Review, Uganda News, Comments (0)

Uganda’s latest offering of the new National Development Plan (NDP) is looked upon by its citizenry with lot of hope as well as misgivings. The failures of past experiments to […]

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EU Members wish to Increase Trade with Iran‎

on May 5, 2010 by admin in Business, Export News, Import News, News, Trade News, US Business News, Comments (0)

An Iranian official claimed most European countries were keen on engaging in trade with Iran devoid of political pressures and other bottlenecks. The likely reason for that opinion would be […]

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Majority Do Not Buy Terror Advisories Rather Go by Intuition

on May 3, 2010 by admin in Africa News, Australian News, Bahrain News, Business, EU News, News, South Africa News, Tourism News, Travel News, US Business News, World Business News, Comments (0)

A recent opinion poll on whether terror advisories altered one’s business itinerary revealed that 54 percent of the respondents went by their intuition and never fell prey to media hype […]

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Pak Engineering Sector Aims to Step-up Exports by Gov Backup

on April 30, 2010 by admin in Business, Current Events, Economy, Export News, Government, News, Pakistan News, Trade News, Comments (0)

Pakistan’s Engineering sector has urged its government to have a bifocal approach on its export strategies instead of solely relying on textiles. A workshop on National Engineering Exports Development Strategy […]

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