But the weakness in non-residential construction spending in Europe and North America has impacted growth from Asia in the building-related businesses of the company.
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The flight for Will from Asia, where he was building the FORBES brand, could have been 12 hours.
Some multinational institutions that once spent a lot of time and resources building franchises in Asia are starting to have a rethink.
Any move to build Apple products in Brazil would surely be more costly than building them in Asia. iPhones and iPads for sale in the retail market go for at least three times the price of US retail, leading many Brazilians to smuggle unblocked handhelds in from Paraguay, duty-free.
It is not, says one Chinese shipping executive, yet worth building new containers in Asia to meet the shortfall.
How Itochu plans to distribute in Asia is revealing of how relationship building and alliances among companies within the region have give players like Itochu formidable capabilities.
In 1970, when India was still a country of licenses and controls, Aditya Birla, then in his 20s, had led a charge overseas, mainly to Southeast Asia, and was credited with building India's first multinational group.
India is building relationships throughout Southeast Asia.
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These contributions will be used to support six capacity-building programmes in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Arab States.
The building is the headquarters of Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, who owns strike-hit port operator Hong Kong International Terminals.
But the race to design Asia's most energy-efficient building is heating up.
Other Chinese developers are taking similar steps abroad, building vacation homes in Southeast Asia, resorts in South Korea and high-rise condos in New York and Sydney.
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Bush said he is dispatching high-level delegations -- composed of officials from the State and Defense departments and the National Security Council -- to Europe, Asia, Australia and Canada to talk about building a new missile defense strategy.
Whether or not China is able to avoid the "Malacca trap" by building pipeline and railways across Central Asia to the Middle East, it will still need Dubai as its hub for its growing reach into the Middle East and Africa.
Then the President will be moving along to the leaders' meeting of the APEC Summit, where he'll have the opportunity to engage in a dialogue about our continued efforts to promote balanced and sustainable growth in the Asia Pacific region and around the world, building upon the strong efforts that have taken place at the G20 -- which Mike Froman can discuss in a bit.
Heinecke has been building his fortune in Thailand and throughout Asia for nearly five decades.
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At the top of the list: expanding Allianz's life insurance operations and building its modest presences in America and Asia.
Today Premji, by virtue of his building software power Wipro , is one of Asia s richest men.
The report, which cited an unnamed source, is in line with Apple's usual practice of outsourcing the gritty business of building its products to big contract manufacturers in Asia.
The report, which cited an unnamed source, is in line with Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) usual practice of outsourcing the gritty business of building its products to big contract manufacturers in Asia.
The EPL clubs are building global brands by setting up business units in Asia, the Middle East and North America.
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And to this end, both our countries will work on regional trade and investment rules-making, with a view to building AFTA or the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific.
Brazil is currently focused mainly on building up its internal market and expanding its exports to Asia.
As de Geer works towards his vision of expanding iZettle into Asia, Latin America, and Europe, he also aspires to building a way for his customers to provide them with business analytics of their huge quantities of transaction data.
So this focus on the U.S. having a presence not just in North Asia but in south -- in the South Pacific and in building our partnerships with Australia and other allies is something that we pursued coming out of the last trip.
And fifth and finally, we are building an international consensus to support peace and stability in South Asia.
The biggest dam enthusiast of all is dirt-poor Laos, which hopes to enrich itself by building enough hydropower projects to become the battery of South-East Asia.
And because of the importance of building stability and countering violent extremism in the Middle East and South Asia, we are increasing the number of Foreign Office staff in those regions by 30 per cent.
Former colonial outposts across Asia harbor Art Deco gems -- from the former Banque d'Indochine building in Hanoi, which now belongs to the State Bank of Vietnam, to the Hotel Savoy Homann in Bandung, Indonesia.
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As a continental trade port, admittedly, its future is dim: Chilean shippers say that they handle little traffic between Asia and Argentina or Brazil, and there has been only slow progress on building the road and rail links across the continent that could extend the hinterland of Chilean ports.
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