In 2008, MediaTek supplied complete reference designs for phone chipsets, which enabled manufacturers in the Shenzhen region of China to produce phones at an unbelievable pace.
On July 6, the Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opened for business, five days after the territory celebrated its first year as a special administrative region of China.
Mr. Hong: It's one of the most dynamic and convenient cities to work and live in because it's good for both family life and work life, and is in the middle of the Asia region, right next door to China and within a four-hour flight to most of the region's capital cities.
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Commissions from trading bonds or stocks in Southeast Asia are also between 20% and 40% higher than in the rest of the region, including China, according to McKinsey.
Now William Rose, formerly McDonald's station chief of a region between India and China, has been dispatched to become the new chief executive for Donatos.
Sceptics argue that China alone cannot ignite economic recovery across the region because a large portion of Asia's exports to China are just intermediate goods, which are processed into exports to developed economies.
"Central bank currency reserves are in decline in every region with the exception of Asia, where China is still accumulating, " Galy said.
"A further slowdown in China would affect commodity exporters in the region particularly strongly, since, with the exception of Timor-Leste, China is their major trade-partner in commodities, " the World Bank said in its latest report on the region.
He forecasts continued recession for all of the region's major economies except China and India.
The northern region around Dehui is sometimes called the Iowa of China.
GDP's-worth of fiscal expansion throughout the region, including China and Japan, would boost growth by two percentage points in the crisis countries.
Short of Armageddon in the region, it would appear that China is destined to make chips for itself and, one day, the world.
America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan, China and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution and to show the North Korean government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic stagnation and continued hardship.
Our objective is to shape the environment in the Asia Pacific region in which the peaceful rise of important countries, including China, contributes to the common good, is fundamentally stabilizing and not destabilizing, and in which every party can contribute to the work at hand.
Trading was thin, with many of the region's markets, including in Japan, China, Australia and Singapore, closed for the New Year holiday.
"Deceleration in the region's two giants, the People's Republic of China and India, and in other major exporting economies is tempering earlier optimism, " the ADB said.
In the Greater China region, for example, about 95% of the companies are minnows, and most of them lack the ability to link up electronically with clients overseas.
The total consumer market volume for soft drinks in China is forecast to reach somewhere in the region of 20.6 billion liters by 2016, growing by about 47% against 2011.
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This leaves plenty of scope in China and Europe to win market share region by region.
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.
China and India both turn out somewhere in the region of 5 million to 8 million university graduates a year, who are looking for jobs.
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Manufacturing activity in China, the region's biggest economy and one of the key drivers of global growth in recent years, expanded for the third straight month in December.
The Obama administration is seeking to significantly increase its diplomatic presence in Asia, as a number of U.S. allies in the region voice concerns about China's increasingly assertive positions on territorial, security and economic issues.
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She asked Hagel how he can assure China that the increased military deployments to the region are part of an effort to build a more positive relationship with Beijing.
At the same time, economic integration in East Asia has broadened and deepened, such that the importance of China for the economies of all the countries in the region has multiplied.
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