North America, where rigs have grown from 40 in the beginning of the year to over 100 currently, is the only global region where the company's revenue increased in the third quarter.
Yet executives played down the latest indications of a slowdown, saying Asia still offers growth potential that is among the most valuable of any global region, spurred by rising numbers of aspiring drinkers, as well as a high concentration of the super rich.
" Of the global survivors in the region, Gupta believes "one would be Yahoo!
This is only one of the many aspects of global change in the region.
If we work as a team with partners in the community, the region and global business community, we can make a real difference.
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The deadly logic of addiction -- the drive to acquire oil at all costs -- is experienced with particular ferocity in the oil-producing states of the equatorial region and global south.
All of which makes for a happy mix of old and new, helping Dubai sustain the links with its mercantile past while feeding a global appetite for the region's much-loved traditional fruit.
Measured against global economic clout, the region is under-represented on the NYSE - 59 Asian companies are listed, compared with 95 from Latin America.
The European Commission said it was disappointing that West Wales and the valleys had not managed to improve their prosperity, but blamed the global economic crisis and the region's geography.
The tiny oil-rich Gulf state of Qatar, with a population estimated to be around 1.7m, will be the first Middle Eastern country to host a major sporting event, and a central crux of their bid centred around boosting the region's global profile.
For all this happy news, will the region weather the next global dip better than before?
Giving the region more independence from existing international financial institutions, the bank would also offer the region added insulation from global shocks.
Samsung Electronics Company is the No. 1 smartphone provider worldwide according to Strategy Analytics Global Smartphone Vendor Market Share by Region: Q2 2012.
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Unlike western clients, who are often content to invest at home, rich Asians generally demand a global service, partly because the region's financial crisis in 1997-98 taught them to spread their risks.
And obviously this has added economic and financial costs due to the influx, and has further strained the economy that is already under considerable external pressures with an unstable region, a sluggish global economy that is still recovering.
President Bush said that during this visit, sure to be Blair's last as prime minister, the two leaders discussed not only Iraq and Afghanistan, but also unrest in the Middle East, ongoing violence in the Darfur region of Sudan and global climate change.
We want to be top of the mind space of any investor in the Asian region, anchored by our global thought leadership.
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So the region remains crucially important to global handset revenue outlook.
Martin Sommerkorn from the WWF International Arctic Program believes that the changes in sea-ice cover in the region are likely to increase global temperatures further.
China is still a candidate for the role of global savior and early indicators from the region show strong proof that legions of hopeful traders could be onto a winner.
Asians are right to be proud of their region's resilience in the global financial crisis.
But while money will soon flow into the region, the biggest losers are global insurers.
We live in the growing region of the world where its global -- contribution to global growth is a profound one.
Asia ex-Japan is mostly given a pass in the swirling global concerns about sovereign debt, but the region has its worrisome deficit cases, such as India.
Over the decades, our Alliance has steadily developed into a comprehensive partnership that contributes to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, an important center for global economic growth, and beyond.
African ministries of education welcome the Education First initiative of the UN Secretary General, but note the reported drop in external aid to education in the region in the wake of the global economic downturn.
And the Western Indian Ocean is a region which has warmed up steadily with global warming.
In the middle of the 2009 global economic recession, Africa was the only region apart from Asia that grew positively, at about 2%.
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