Once seen as the next dragon in Asia's long line of miracle stories, Vietnam seemed ready to boom in the late 1980s.
"The bigger the ship the lower the fuel consumption, that's one thing, " said Thomas Riber Knudsen, Asia Pacific CEO of shipping line Maersk.
Avon missed expectations for its earnings in the last quarter ending September 11, as weak sales in North America and in the Asia Pacific region pressured top line revenues.
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How do cellular stocks compare with fixed-line phone company stocks in Asia?
The phone company's first ethnic Chinese chief executive is also confronted by intense competition as Hong Kong's telecommunications market liberalizes in line with the rest of Asia.
White House officials said the plant in China was to meant to increase sales in China and across Asia and has strengthened the financial bottom line of the company's U.S. operations.
That line has gained much credence with Asia's recovery from the Crisis.
The bottom line is that our alliances in the Asia Pacific are as strong as, or stronger than, they have ever been.
If the Chinese government pressures the country's big airlines, which are state-owned, to buy the C919, it will be especially bad news for Airbus, which is pinning more of its hopes for future growth on Asia than Boeing is, and has established a production line for the A320 in Tianjin.
Robert imported a line of lower-priced lookalike utility footwear from Asia, and the Greenbergs put the name Skechers on them.
Despite the advantages of their business model, management companies saw Asia's economic crisis as an opportunity to straddle the line.
At EM, although overall sales were relatively in line with initial expectations, the lower-margin Asia business had a stronger than expected quarter, which was offset by a pronounced slowdown in the Americas region.
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Apps such as WeChat, LINE, and KakaoTalk are very popular, especially in Asia.
To stretch Mr Rogoff's metaphor, the rope East Asia extends to America is not a noose but a tow-line, which will gradually pull Asian economies towards greater prosperity.
The second line of work we undertook with respect to strategy in Asia was to engage intensively with the emerging power centers in the region -- like China and India and Indonesia.
So the company launched a line of cosmetics, called Astalift, which is sold in Asia and is being launched in Europe this year.
For the Soviet government and its tsarist predecessors (Tashkent was captured by the tsar's army in 1865) Central Asia was the Muslim south, a backyard (and a front-line against British mischief from India).
Some of the countries with well-developed plans, such as Canada and Australia, were in the front line of the effort to stop the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome from Asia in 2003.
In line with that, more than half of the total growth in oil demand will be in Asia, and two-thirds of the new electric power capacity.
In its latest earnings, rivals UPS missed top and bottom-line estimates, while highlighting that uncertainty in the U.S., export weakness in Asia, and the European sovereign debt crisis would continue to put downward pressure on earnings, as my colleague Steve Schaefer reported.
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