This year, Southeast Asia has accounted for 17% of revenue in the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan in core investment banking, up from 15% for all of last year.
Asia was up 17%, rebounding from a 12% drop in 2009.
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She is fluent in Mandarin, French and Russian (her three years in Moscow for Newsweek are almost the only break she has taken from Asia in her 17-year journalistic career).
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Convention, Chinese National Academy of Arts (China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage), International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP), Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Hangzhou Municipal Government are planning to co-organize the West Lake Expo on Traditional Craftsmanship in the Asia-Pacific Region from 17 to 21 October 2013 in Hangzhou, China.
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Another Asia Foundation survey discovered that only 17% of SMEs have ever received a bank loan in Indonesia, largely because they have very little information about credit programs or they cannot complete the paperwork required to obtain a loan.
Prices of the widely used 32-gigabit NAND flash chip, typically used in smartphones and tablets to store data, jumped as much as 17.7% in late Asia trade Monday, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia's biggest spot market for chips.
The Conference will also involve representatives from the Intangible Cultural Heritage sector and will be preceded by a meeting of the Regional Memory of the World Committee for the Asia-Pacific Region (MOWCAP) on 17 and 18 February.
Good news for travellers who want to use the web when abroad but don't want to pay a fortune for doing so, as Tep Wireless announces support for 17 more countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania regions.
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Logitech's retail sales for Q4 FY 2012 decreased year over year by 2 percent, with an increase in EMEA of 13 percent, an increase in Asia of 12 percent, and a decrease in the Americas of 17 percent.
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Asia Pacific is expected to lose significant share from 32% in 2012 to 17% in 2016.
Last quarter, MetLife reported a 17% year-on-year increase in operating income from Asia, which drove a 47% increase in company-wide operating income.
Its co-passenger will be Intelsat 17, a telecommunications satellite covering a region that will extend across Asia and into Europe and Africa.
Latin America, with a 17.9% share, fell even harder (10%), while the Asia Pacific region (14.4% of revenues) saw sales come in flat.
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The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has fallen nearly 17% over the past year, compared with a nearly 13% drop in the broader Dow Jones Asia-Pacific index over the same period.
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