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BAY OF BENGAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SOUTH Asia regional meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed to set up a Central Reporting Agency (CRA), which would evaluate ground and airborne ADS/CPDLC systems performance in an operational trial for the Bay of Bengal area.…
EAST ASIA ICAO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting has supported a plan to boost civil airliner access to Afghanistan airspace, offering new choices for long-haul flights from southern and east Asia to Europe. ICAO’s coordination meeting on reduced vertical separation (RVSM) implementation for the Bay of Bengal and India backed an International Air Transport Association (IATA) proposed traffic orientation scheme for commercial flights crossing the Kabul FIR.…
CENTRAL ASIA FEATURE -MONEY LAUNDERING
BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…
CANCUN SUMMIT FEATURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the diplomatic impasse crystallised at Cancun recedes into memory, the World Trade Organisation is facing what may be the sternest test of its eight year existence: can a body of 146 members actually agree comprehensive trade deals by consensus?…
DRINKS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…
VIETNAM POWER PLANT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…
ASIA ROUND UP - HARRY POTTER
BY MARK ROWE
WHEN the first two Harry Potter novels hit Singapore shelves, only 200 copies were sold. Now, the battle for sales resembles that between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Members of staff from the Kinokuniya bookstore, dressed as wizards shouted “Harry Potter books this way!”…
VIETNAM POWER PLANT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…
SOUTH PACIFIC MONEY LAUNDERING
BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE CLUTCH of much-maligned offshore financial centres (OFCs) on remote Pacific islands have been swamped by so many accusations of impropriety, they are now struggling to stay afloat.
Labelled as palm-fringed, sun-drenched laundries for the world’s dirty money, these tiny island states and dependent territories are trying to fend off attempts by international organisations to excommunicate them from the global financial church.…
ASIAN E-LEARNING
BY MARK ROWE
THE SCHOOL textbook and related academic reading material has been a traditionally lucrative and never-ending market for publishers. But the growing phenomenon of e-learning is opening up new dimensions in this field across the globe.
The reason is the sheer scale of future need for education in developing regions, particularly in Asia where the potential numbers of higher education students is staggering.…