Category: Regional
SmartGate allows Singapore travellers speedier entry into Australia
Singaporeans visiting Australia can now zip through immigration counters at the country’s airports, after Canberra extended the use of its SmartGate facilities to [...]
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G-20 vows to boost world economy by $2 trillion
Finance chiefs from the 20 largest economies agreed Sunday to carry out policies that will boost world GDP by more than $2 trillion over the coming five years. Australian [...]
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Slashing jobs and jets, Qantas makes plea for state aid
Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN.AX) is axing 15 percent of its workforce, slashing spending and selling gas-guzzling older planes after stiff competition at home and overseas pushed [...]
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Russia to expand its worldwide military presence
Russia says it plans to expand its worldwide military presence by seeking permission for navy ships to use ports in Latin America, Asia and elsewhere. Defense minister Sergei [...]
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Struggling Australian carrier Qantas to axe 5,000 jobs
Struggling Australian carrier Qantas Thursday said it will axe 5,000 jobs, defer aircraft deliveries and suspend growth at Asian offshoot Jetstar in a major shake-up after [...]
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Ex-Oyu Tolgoi chief sees Mongolia investment rules improving
Rio Tinto’s former Mongolian chief and boss of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper project says the country is taking the right steps to arrest a drop in foreign investment [...]
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Two more Indian nationals jailed for rioting in Singapore
Two more Indian nationals in Singapore were today jailed for 18 weeks each for their role in the country’s worst riot in 40 years in December last year. Thangaiya [...]
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Air New Zealand posts record interim profit
Air New Zealand posted a record first-half net profit Thursday and predicted its full-year result will also scale new highs as the world economy picks up. The flag carrier [...]
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CAMBODIA PRESS-Coca-Cola auditors visit sugar suppliers – Phnom Penh Post
Third-party auditors hired by The Coca-Cola Company are conducting an audit of Cambodian sugar suppliers, NGOs and community representatives said on Wednesday. “Coke [...]
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Qantas cuts 5000 jobs, ends Perth-Singapore route
Struggling Australian carrier Qantas on Thursday said it will take measures including cutting 5,000 jobs and ending its Perth-Singapore route in a major shake-up after a [...]
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Sea Shepherd challenges shark kill policy in Australia
Militant environmental group Sea Shepherd on Wednesday said it is seeking a Supreme Court injunction to halt a controversial shark culling policy in Western Australia. The [...]
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Carlyle to bid against New Zealand, China funds for Transpacific NZ arm – source
Private equity giant Carlyle Group is expected to bid for Transpacific Industries Group Ltd’s New Zealand waste management business, competing with state funds from [...]
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Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton suffers serious injury in Thailand
Melbourne-born actor Sullivan Stapleton, 36, has been injured in Thailand. According to US media reports Stapleton, who was in Thailand filming his US television series [...]
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The rise of crowdfunding movement in Asia
Last weekend I participated in a youth entrepreneurship forum by signing up on a crowdfunding website in Taiwan. How much does it cost? Free. It is basically a free forum. [...]
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Qantas CEO says doesn’t see short-term changes to Qantas Sale Act
Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN.AX) chief executive Alan Joyce said on Thursday that he doesn’t expect any short-term changes to legislation known as the Qantas Sale Act that [...]
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