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Asia Market Outlook, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
Live Trading News
Kuroda said the crisis in the Euro zone was not expected to cause a significant drag on growth rates of Asian economies and on remittances that countries like the Philippines receive. “We expect a rosier 5 to 6 percent GDP growth for 2012” not only ...

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Western Union may start domestic money transfers
Business Standard
Western Union, a global money transfer services provider, might extend its business to the remittances segment within India. With 100000 brick and mortar agent locations across this country already, it is thinking of leveraging existing infrastructure ...

Taking a Flier on Revitalizing Philippine Airlines
Wall Street Journal
But there is a model for what Mr. Ang hopes to achieve across the Celebes Sea in Indonesia. PT Garuda Indonesia also struggled for years, losing much of its domestic market to upstart low-cost carriers such as Lion Air, much as Philippine Airlines lost ...

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Reliance on remittances 'risky'
ABS CBN News
“Although remittances held up quite well during the crisis, we think that through this channel, the Philippines is exposed to external slowdown risk,” Kuncinas added. The Philippines's three decades-old export of Filipino labor has been an ace up its ...

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Cards and Payments in Asia-Pacific
Sacramento Bee
... expansion of e-money and the very early development of mobile payments: Indonesia4.1 The Indonesian banking industry 4.1.1 The forthcoming card chip implementation bringing costs to Indonesian banks4.1.2 The "blocking the fraudster account" measure ...

New Policies helped rebalance external sector - Dr. Saman Kelegama
Sunday Observer
According to the ESCAP report, many Asia Pacific countries recorded lower growth in 2011 compared to 2010 except for a few countries such as Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Indonesia. These Asia Pacific countries brought inflation under control ...

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BSP: PH an 'audience' to the Europe crisis
Malaya
It is designed to transfer the credit exposure of fixed income products between parties and considered as an insurance against non-payment In contrast, the latest CDS spreads of ASEAN-5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) were ...

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Asia Close Highlights
FXMarketAlerts.com
Indonesia: Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik said the government could unveil 'fuel-saving' plans by end-May and could be effective from the June. - Jakarta Post - Indonesia: Apr motorbike sales slipped 12% y/y, after 12.8% the month ...

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Cover Report: The New Players in the Region
Island Business
Under the Bainimarama administration, Fiji is broadening its international links by opening embassies in Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia. Addressing the UN General Assembly in September 2010, Commodore Bainimarama stated that “this significant shift ...

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Is the Philippines Finally Reawakening?
Asia Sentinel (blog)
This is in the same projected growth league as China, India and Vietnam and way ahead of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, so long the development stars of Southeast Asia which are projected by the bank to be in the 4-5- 5.5 percent range.