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  • Pahang to become country's first ICT hub 25 Jul 2008 07:35 GMT
    ... by a consortium that would comprise state government-linked company, Pahang Technology Resources Sdn Bhd and ... several well-established companies from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Europe and the United States. ``A proposal ... ICT that is chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak,'' he told ...

  • Leland Wong convicted on 14 felony corruption counts 25 Jul 2008 07:33 GMT
    ... received $100,000 in bribes in a secret Hong Kong account from Ren-Gung Shyu, executive vice president ... low-profile positions of power. Wong curried enough political favor with L.A. mayors Tom Bradley, Richard ... into suspicions that officials in the Hahn administration traded city contracts for campaign contributions. Investigators ...

  • Hong Kong shares end morning lower on renewed U.S. credit, housing woes UPDATE 25 Jul 2008 05:51 GMT
    ... Hong Kong shares end morning lower on renewed U.S. ... problems are still there even after the administrative measures adopted by the U.S. government.' Washington has bailed out the nation's biggest ...

  • Sybase 365 Teams With AFP to Bring Global News to AvantGo Users 25 Jul 2008 05:06 GMT
    ... AFP covers all the news worldwide, from politics and diplomacy to economy and finance, sports ... in Paris, Nicosia, Washington DC, Montevideo and Hong Kong. For more information about AFP, please go ...

  • China tightens visas for business travelers 25 Jul 2008 04:46 GMT
    ... ever-tightening security crackdown before the Beijing Olympics. Government officials confirmed Thursday that visas for business ... market research or training until mid-September. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said at a press ... the biggest headache for foreign businessmen in Hong Kong, who have long enjoyed quick access to ...

  • On A Duchess' Whim 25 Jul 2008 04:42 GMT
    ... as the English gardening establishment, the British Parliament and the press. What started as a ... faced a challenge from English Heritage, the government agency charged with protecting England's architectural patrimony, ... Chicago, San Francisco, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong to lecture about Alnwick Garden and canvas ...

  • For a thousand days Ching Cheong sought God in a Chinese prison 25 Jul 2008 04:41 GMT
    ... (AsiaNews) – Ching Cheong, 57, is a Hong Kong-based journalist and chief correspondent in mainland China ... had in fact called on the Chinese government to make the Olympic year a year ... that through the Games China can become politically more tolerant and improve its human rights ...

  • Controversy grows around monumental garden 25 Jul 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... as the English gardening establishment, the British Parliament and the press. What started as a ... faced a challenge from English Heritage, the government agency charged with protecting England's architectural patrimony, ... Chicago, San Francisco, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong to lecture about Alnwick Garden and canvas ...

  • Trade: Kamal Nath sets conditions for success of WTO talks by Kanaga Raja 25 Jul 2008 02:30 GMT
    ... the developing countries, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said Wednesday. Nath was speaking ... be done and how to get the politics of the negotiation right, the Indian Commerce Minister ... in NAMA, but obviously it's in the Hong Kong text that there is a correlation between ...

  • Beijing Games 'glorious' for some Chinese-Canadians, a non-event for others 25 Jul 2008 00:34 GMT
    ... to him as a reward from a government official but he won't talk about why. ... thing was announced and I was in Hong Kong, I remember I just had no feelings, ... practitioner in Toronto, said he thinks the political issues have been overblown. The 60-year-old says ...

  • China's economy slows in second quarter 24 Jul 2008 21:47 GMT
    ... the face of a global slowdown. The government said that the economy grew 10.1 per ... of slowing growth. In particular, the Commerce Ministry called last week for slower appreciation of ... economist at Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong. However, several economists said yesterday that they ...

  • Fisheries in free trade talks 24 Jul 2008 21:47 GMT
    ... leaders currently in Geneva are asking our government negotiators to exercise the strong political will they personally witnessed at the WTO ... witnessed at the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong last December 2005, when our government successfully ...

  • Business Visas Dry Up For Olympics 24 Jul 2008 21:47 GMT
    ... ever-tightening security crackdown before the Beijing Olympics. Government officials confirmed Thursday that visas for business ... market research or training until mid-September. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said at a press ... the biggest headache for foreign businessmen in Hong Kong, who have long enjoyed quick access to ...

  • China cuts back further on visas for businesspeople during Olympics 24 Jul 2008 21:14 GMT
    ... ever-tightening security crackdown before the Beijing Olympics. Government officials confirmed Thursday that visas for business ... market research or training until mid-September. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said at a press ... the biggest headache for foreign businessmen in Hong Kong, who have long enjoyed quick access to ...

  • Overseas training may aid Thai firms 24 Jul 2008 21:14 GMT
    ... their mid-level managers abroad, such as to Hong Kong or Singapore, for six months or two ... and another thing is that if the government says something is going to happen it ... five to 10 years, with the shaky political situation squarely to blame for this shortcoming. ...


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