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Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... rises of just 4% in 2013, much lower than our Asian neighbours. In particular they expect pay rate jumps to be 13% in Vietnam, 11% in Indonesia and India, 10% in China, 8% in the Philippines and 6% in Malaysia. But unless surveys like this take even ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... jumped by a better than expected 7.1% in the year to the third quarter - better than Indonesia's 6.2%, Malaysia's 5.2%, Vietnam's 4.7% and Thailand's 3.0%. More, according to the 'Philippine Daily Inquirer', "The country is the only economy in the world ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... and that, "September saw manufacturing production decline in the US, the European Union and Asia" (mainly, China, Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan). Just ask the Wall Street Journal. It printed that Spain would miss its budget targets - yes, target with an ...

J.P. Morgan buys into online shopping

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... sites and replicates them in other countries. Lazada is an online department store with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand. Considered to be a replica of Amazon, Lazada caters for everything from consumer electronics ...

IAG urges Asia focus

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... already market laggards. IAG is currently targeting six priority markets in Asia including Thailand, Malaysia, India, China, Vietnam and Indonesia. Wilkins said that IAG currently has $460 million investment in five of those six countries but are yet ...

PE firms Myanmar bound

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... allocations to the country include Leopard Capital, Cube Capital, the Indochina Opportunities Fund (a joint venture between Vietnam's Dragon Capital and private equity firm Frontier Investment & Development Partners) and Link Road Capital Management ...

Indonesia readies for bond rating upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... prices. Yet, the impact on inflation will remain manageable, as the government reported seeking for alternative sources from Vietnam, Cambodia and India," noted Mandiri Investasi. The Sukuk issue is being handled by Citi, HSBC and Standard Chartered ...

AIA Australia creates Asia role, new CEO

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... branches across Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand and Macau. It has total assets of US$115,782 million as of May 31, it says on its website. Green will promote ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index covering second-tier emerging markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... What is it good for? Absolutely nothing..." Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote this song in 1969 in protest of the Vietnam War. Its lyrics talk about the lost of lives and "tears to a thousand mothers' eyes". "War! It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker. ...