Archive for August 4th, 2012
Philippines’ Philex closes gold mine on safety issue
The Philippines’ biggest gold and copper producer Philex Mining Corp said on Friday it is unlikely to resume shipments next month after it closed its main mine north of [...]
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Boeing Statement on Xiamen Airlines Commitment to Purchase 40 Next-Generation 737s
Boeing BA +1.14 percent announced Friday that Xiamen Airlines has agreed to purchase 40 Boeing Next-Generation 737-800s. The airline plans to use the airplanes for more [...]
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Press Release – VietJetAir launches HCM City – Nha Trang route
Vietnam’s leading low-cost carrier, VietJetAir has made one step further in realising its network expansion plan by adding in a new route this time linking [...]
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Asia: Mostly in the red
Asian markets mostly fell and the euro came back under pressure yesterday Friday August 03 after the European Central Bank dashed traders’ hopes for strong policy [...]
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Thousands in Japan stage anti-nuclear rally
Thousands of people staged a rally in front of the Japanese prime minister’s office Friday, maintaining anti-nuclear sentiment triggered by last year’s atomic [...]
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Jailed Indonesia cleric threatens Burma over Rohingya
Jailed Islamist cleric Abu Bakar Bashir threatened to wage war if Myanmar continues to harm Muslim Rohingyas, in a letter to the country’s president Thein Sein seen on [...]
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N Korea’s Kim holds first foreign delegation meeting
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has held his first meeting with a foreign delegation since he took power after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. China’s official [...]
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Japan defence chief to meet US equal over Osprey
Japanese Defence minister Satoshi Morimoto said he will meet with his US counterpart Leon Panetta on Friday in Washington to discuss the planned deployment of a controversial [...]
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Luxury watch sales show China failing to secure economic rebound
China’s economy, the world’s second- biggest, is yet to rebound according to one gauge: sales of the luxury watches that business people give to clients and [...]
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Vietnam delays blogger trial after self-immolation
Vietnam has delayed the trial of three bloggers accused of propaganda against the state, a lawyer said Friday, after authorities launched a probe into the self-immolation of [...]
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Burma death row bombing convict pardoned: Police
A man sentenced to death over a series of deadly bomb blasts in Myanmar’s main city in 2010 was freed Friday after receiving a presidential pardon, a police official [...]
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SE Asia hopes to shine with renewable energy
Singapore has no room for solar mirror farms, its coast is used for ports and shipping lanes and its tropical air may be ideal for holidaymakers, but no good to generate wind [...]
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HK June retail sales rise 11pct yr/yr
June retail sales data (percent change from a year earlier): CONTEXT: – In the second quarter of 2012, the volume of total retail sales rose by 1.9 percent, seasonally [...]
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Bank of East Asia beats with 10pct net-profit rise
Bank of East Asia Ltd, Hong Kong’s fifth-largest lender by assets, said Thursday its first-half net profit rose 10 percent, driven by a rise in interest income and [...]
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HK’s Hutchison says 1H profit drops 78pct
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa said Thursday that first-half profit tumbled 78 percent from the year before when results were boosted by [...]
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