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BY MARK ROWE

SINGAPORE weathered the global economic crisis better than most, and its GDP grew by a staggering 10% in 2010, driven in part by the development of two casino-based resorts. The future also looks bright for the paint industry, with a seemingly endless list of ambitious developments planned for coming years, proposed by the city state’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, a government department that makes decisions, down to the last square centimetre, on how Singapore makes use of the limited land available to it.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INVESTIGATORS of India’s ‘2-G’ multi-billion dollar telecommunications scam have approached authorities in Singapore, Cyprus, Jersey and the British Virgin Islands to track laundered money in the case, the lawyer representing the government agencies told country’s Supreme Court on March 16.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Nissin Foods Holdings, the Japan-based instant noodle manufacturing multinational, will invest about Japanese Yen JPY 3.4 billion (US dollar USD41.5 million) to build an instant noodle plant in Vietnam to meet growing demand in this key emerging market.…

BY AHMAD PATHONI

INDONESIA’S paint and coating market has grown by about 3-4% annually by average over the past decade. Indeed, consumption rose to 688,863 tonnes in 2010, from 646,700 the previous year, according to the Indonesian Paint Manufacturers’ Association.

And a mini-boom could be approaching.…

BY Karryn Miller

An innovative foreign higher education park scheme in South Korea is set to proceed, even though the worldwide recession has caused some overseas universities to postpone plans to locate branches at the Songdo Global University Campus.

Full report on University World News site.…

BY MARK GODFREY

VIGOROUS economic growth and stimulus spending in key growth markets such as Indonesia, Thailand and India is ensuring Asia remains a bright spot in the global US dollar USD100 billion paint and coatings sector. Yet in terms of raw material supplies, south-east Asia and India are not as geared towards production as China, which has been ramping up chemicals refining capacity largely through ventures between local and multinational firms.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

May 31, 2009, a quiet Sunday morning at Mumbai’s ChhatrapatiShivaji International Airport: Air India flight 348 to New Delhi and Jet Airways 651 to Calcutta had accelerated on their runways to 180 km per hour when just seconds before take-off they made emergency stops.…

BY WANG FANGQING

IN maybe one of the most telling signs that China is opening up to the west, as much as it is exporting products there, that Chinese consumers are purchasing more olive oil and moreover, they are using it in a shift to a more cosmopolitan diet, including healthy Mediterranean-based recipes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INVESTIGATORS from the European Commission and the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF should report on May 11 about whether American biodiesel exporters are illegally evading EU countervailing and anti-dumping duties on their product. A probe will examine whether US biodiesel is being illicitly routed through third countries, especially Canada and Singapore, to avoid paying the duties: between Euro EUR211.20 and EUR237/tonne for the countervailing (antisubsidy) duties and EUR23.60 and EUR208.20/tonne for the anti-dumping tax.According…

BY JOHN PAGNI

NORDICS take their global civic responsibilities seriously – paying more than mere lip-service to requests to cut global warming emissions especially. Finland is a case in point, putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to renewable fuels.…