12/04/2008
EA Buys J2MSoft in Another Move Into Online Games in Asia (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Digital game developer Electronic Arts (EA) announced its second move into Asia's online game market on Tuesday, by buying South Korean online game developer J2MSoft Inc.
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12/05/2008
Bumi, China Mobile, KNM, Shinhan: Asia Ex-Japan Equity Preview (Bloomberg)
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes today in Asia trading , excluding Japan. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close, unless otherwise noted.
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12/05/2008
TREASURIES-Fall in Asia before U.S. jobs report (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
* Treasuries fall in Asia on profit-taking
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12/04/2008
Australia seeks closer security ties with Asia: PM (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Australia is seeking stronger ties with regional states to counter security concerns raised by the dawn of the Asia-Pacific century, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told parliament Thursday.
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12/05/2008
Asia-Pacific shrugs off Wall Street sell off (Financial Times)
Asia-Pacific shares edged higher on Friday managing to shrug off a last-minute sell off in the US. However, gains were muted ahead of important employment data due out of the US later today.
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12/05/2008
Survey renames Tokyo Asia's costliest city for expats (Borneo Bulletin)
HONG KONG (AFP) - Strengthening currencies made Tokyo reclaim the title of Asia's most expensive city for expatriates while Beijing has become more costly than Hong Kong for the first time, a survey showed Thursday.
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12/05/2008
PM: East Asia must pull together to handle crisis (The New Straits Times)
KUALA LUMPUR: The precarious global economy magnifies the imperative for countries in East Asia to respond clearly and boldly, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
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12/04/2008
Citigroup’s Laskowski Moves After 10 Years in Asia (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Chris Laskowski , who started Citigroup Inc. ‘s financial sponsor business in Asia four years ago, is relocating to Chicago to head up the same operations in the U.S. Midwest region.
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12/05/2008
Malaysian PM urges East Asia to act rapidly against global crisis (People's Daily)
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi urged East Asian countries here on Thursday to act quickly to strengthen its capacity in response to the current global crisis. East Asia must set new goals and take massive collective actions, he said in his keynote address at the 6th East Asian Congress which opened here on Thursday. The ramifications of the global economic crisis were much larger ...
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12/05/2008
As Asia's PC Market Slows, HP Braces for Difficult Times (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Hewlett-Packard is counting on Asian businesses and consumers to continue spending on laptops and desktop PCs to weather the economic downturn, but the company won't say to what extent that's likely to happen.
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