Made-in-Asia chat apps too are growing by leaps and bounds, particularly in the Asian region.
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Back in 1993, about 700 million people in the Asian region were in disadvantaged situation because of illiteracy.
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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And because of that, tensions have accelerated in the Asian region.
It forecasts Japanese domestic demand will hardly grow in the next decade, but growth in the Asian region as a whole will be a robust annual 7 percent.
Stores in shopping districts like Myeongdong have added Chinese-speaking staff, their headquarters are using Korean celebrities popular across China and Southeast Asia in advertisements, and glitzy duty-free stores are dropping European luxury brands to give more space to Korean cosmetics chains that are less expensive but more popular in the Asian region.
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After all, under the Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation agreement, Japan's Self-Defense Forces would be allowed to engage for the first time in detailed planning with U.S. forces to meet a range of contingencies, including non-combat support, in the event of conflict in the East Asian region.
As of the end of 2011, the most recent period for which such data is available, 43.8% of CIC's equity holdings was in companies based in North America, followed by 29.6% in the Asian-Pacific region, 20.6% in Europe, 4.7% in Latin America and 1.3% in Africa.
Diageo said Thursday that sales growth in the Asian-Pacific region, excluding acquisitions, disposals and currency effects, slowed to 4% in the nine months ended March 31 from 10% in the year-earlier period.
In a survey by industry association Anrev tracking investment intentions in the Asian-Pacific region early this year, 68% of the 110 respondents noted a preference for investing in the industrial and logistics real-estate sector this year, up sharply from 28% in 2012.
The picture was different abroad: Some 79% of two-year degree programs in the Asian-Pacific region and 80% of those in Central Asia experienced application gains as more locals sought graduate certifications and international students considered the region's strong job markets and economic opportunities.
Since last month, North Korea has repeatedly threatened to strike the U.S. mainland or its bases in the Asian-Pacific region, as well as South Korea and Japan, a move widely seen as an attempt to create anxiety and push South Korea and the U.S. into offering concessions such as aid and security guarantees.
Some blame the IMF's policies during the Asian crisis for spurring countries in the region to build up enormous reserves.
In fact, three out of four senior executives hired in Asia by multinationals were Asian natives already living in the region, according to a Spencer Stuart analysis of 1, 500 placements made from 2005 to 2010.
The crisis has hurt consumer sentiment in the region and dented demand for Asian exports.
The National Archives of Malaysia was selected by the Jury in recognition of its outreach, educational and training programmes in the area of preservation within the Asian region.
The disruption of the seafood industry caused by the BP Oil Spill in 2010 continues to have a significant impact on the livelihood of an estimated 80% of Southeast Asian American families in the Gulf Coast Region.
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The works being presented represent a breadth of what the Asian region has to offer, in terms of the diversity of artwork and the countries that are represented, said Mary Dinaburg of Fortune Cookie Projects, which is organizing the exhibition.
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Until 1996 and early 1997, investors in Asian shares thought the region could do no wrong.
We will work closely with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to enhance their work in the region on these issues.
The company has operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Asian-Pacific region and North America, but China projects account for 83% of revenue.
The Hong Kong event, which closed on Sunday, is the first time Art Basel has appeared in the Asian city, which has emerged in recent years as a major art hub for the region.
Earlier this year, the head of the Asian football associations warned that powerful illegal betting syndicates in the region could attempt to rig World Cup finals games by bribing players or referees.
"Unlike some of the other foreign banks in the region, Citi has had a presence in key Asian markets for nearly a century, " says Long.
Not Asian, not resident in the region, the IMF chief won out on the basis of the make-or-break influence his organization had on Crisis-hit Asian countries.
The planned sale comes as Southeast Asian stocks are in demand and on the rise, reflecting the region's strong economic growth and attractive demographics.
He subsequently joined the Pentagon as director for Asian and Pacific affairs, in charge of devising foreign policy for the region.
And we've done so in a coordinated basis with a lot of our EU partners, a lot of our Asian allies, some countries in the region.
As the Asian Crisis bites deeper, capitalism in the region is struggling to reconcile its free-market aspirations with the reality of increasing and indispensable state intervention.
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