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International developers eye Gulf's realty boom

International developers are looking at the Gulf's booming real estate market with optimism as the global credit crunch makes US and European real estate markets less lucrative for the time being. While Malaysia and Singapore...

South Sulawesi to send 451,612 migrant workers abroad

South Sulawesi province will try its best to meet its quota to send 451,612 Indonesian workers (TKI) to the Asia-Pacific region, Australia, the Middle East and Europe in 2009, South Sulawesi Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo said...

QNB net profit up 62% to QR3.003m

H.E. Yousef Hussain Kamal, the Chairman of the Board of Qatar National Bank (QNB), announced yesterday that the Bank has achieved brilliant financial results for the first nine months of 2008. Highlighting the details of the...

Road less traveled offers shelter from U.S. mess

In times of trouble, investors often race to U.S. Treasuries. Alisher Djumanov suggests a far less obvious destination: Central Asia. "Amid global market volatility and sell-offs, frontier markets generally, and in Eurasia in...

Singapore Airlines launches Riyadh-Singapore services

Singapore Airlines will commence operations from Riyadh, on 14 December 2008. Using the Boeing 777-200 aircraft, Singapore Airlines will operate four times weekly to Singapore via Dubai every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and...

Framework for Sovereign Wealth Funds released

By Vimita Mohandas, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 October 2008 1320 hrs SINGAPORE: A voluntary framework for Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) has been released by the International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IWG)....

The multi segment DONE (Part 1) – A380 to almost A380

The multi segment DONE (Part 1) – A380 to almost A380. Discuss The multi segment DONE (Part 1) – A380 to almost A380, on the Trip Reports and Trip Photos forum of FrequentFlyer.com.au, the home of frequent flyers. Join Date:...

An ironic and saterical interlude from Manchester Airport. [Cognitive Edge]

Waking up at 0330 to drive to Manchester for an early flight to Singapore is no fun. Before you ask I was wait listed on all flights out of Heathrow yesterday and today but none came through. It only took three hours which was...

Take a Virtual Food Lover’s Trip Around the World From Seattle to Sydney to Singapore

Recently, the folks at the Foodbuzz blog community helped coordinate a Take a Virtual Food Lover’s Trip Around the World From Seattle to Sydney to... Recently, the folks at the Foodbuzz blog community helped coordinate a...

Singapore investors decry losses from Lehman bonds

Hundreds of distraught Singaporean investors flooded a park Saturday to express their anguish at losses from structured notes issued by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. that they say were sold to them by banks as safe investments.