Asia

Through the successful implementation of its various projects, CAT Telecom is striving to lead the way in providing wireless multimedia services in one of Southeast Asia’s most economically dynamic nations.

With a GDP worth $602 billion, Thailand is the second largest economy in Southeast Asia. Having enjoyed the world’s highest growth rate from 1985 to 1996, during which time it averaged 12.4 percent growth annually, the country is today considered to be a newly industrialised, emerging economy.

Come 2017, the agency anticipates global coal consumption to stand at 4.32 billion tonnes of oil equivalent, compared to 4.4 billion tonnes for oil itself. In its report, the IEA states that increased demand from India and China is fuelling this push.

"Coal's share of the global energy mix continues to grow each year," says IEA executive director Maria Van der Hoeven. "If no changes are made to current policies, coal will catch oil within a decade."

In addition to the Nikkei 225 index’s one percent rise, the Japanese currency, the yen, has also fallen to a 20 month low against the US dollar.

Liberal Democrat leader, Shinzo Abe, has made it part of this election promise that he will implement measures that will help revive what is the world’s third-largest economy. This includes taking steps to weaken the yen and fight deflation.

Brunei boasts one of the most advanced telecommunication industries in South East Asia and as acting chief executive officer See Wei Kie explains, B-Mobile is a company at the heart of an evolving sector.

Leighton Offshore, in consortium with Boskalis Offshore, has been awarded a transportation, installation and dredging contract by Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd to replace part of the single point mooring (SPM) 48” subsea pipeline. The project is located near Bukom Island, Singapore and is part of Shell’s planned maintenance.

Singapore Airlines currently holds a 49 percent in Virgin, with billionaire Richard Branson holding a controlling 51 percent of the business. Should it become a reality, a partnership with Virgin would provide Delta with access to the lucrative transatlantic business travellers market that exists between the US and London.

It is a well-known fact that Delta has been looking to buy into Virgin for more than two years now as it looks to increase its access to London’s Heathrow airport, where Virgin is the second-biggest airline present.  

Singapore Airlines currently holds a 49 percent in Virgin, with billionaire Richard Branson holding a controlling 51 percent of the business. Should it become a reality, a partnership with Virgin would provide Delta with access to the lucrative transatlantic business travellers market that exists between the US and London.

It is a well-known fact that Delta has been looking to buy into Virgin for more than two years now as it looks to increase its access to London’s Heathrow airport, where Virgin is the second-biggest airline present.  

The deal will see the company set up a joint venture with Hutchison China MediTech and will give Nestle exclusive access to more than 50,000 extracts that are used in the manufacture of Chinese medicines. The joint venture, called Nutrition Science Partners Limited (NSP), will develop and manufacture nutritional and medicinal products.

The deal comes as the global market for Chinese medicines expands. It is valued at more than $83bn by the World Health Organization. In China alone, the industry produced almost $48bn worth of such medicines in 2010.