French complaints about the strength of the single currency have been rumbling for some time, as the euro has climbed in value against the dollar and Asian currencies.
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The success of Asian countries in these rankings reflects the high value attached to education and the expectations of parents.
It continues to dawdle about unlocking the value of its Asian assets, he adds.
For Song to fulfill his dream, he must overcome the same challenge that faces all Asian contract manufacturers aiming to move up the value chain.
It is yet another demonstration of the appeal of free institutions, in this case to people with East Asian value systems and in a country with the largest Muslim population in the world.
Having worked their way into the upper reaches of the occupational scale, and taken note of how much the professions value abstract thinking, Asian-American parents have evidently made sure that their own children wore scientific spectacles.
Asian nations are already depressing the value of their currencies to make their exports more competitive with China's.
Though holding Russian and Asian bonds in 1998 meant the market value of its portfolio took a beating, not selling gave the fund a chance to avoid long-term harm.
The drop in value of local currencies against the dollar has caused immense difficulties for Asian carriers: dollars are the currency in which aircraft are traded and aviation fuel is priced.
But since the European auctions, carriers interested in getting access to Asian markets have settled down for a closer look at the real value of 3G networks.
Thank crude's tripling in value since the depths of the Asian Crisis in 1998 for spectacular gains at leading oil companies.
In Asian markets early Monday, the euro is already losing value as traders sold it in favor of the yen.
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As domestic and foreign capital has taken flight, the peso has dropped to about 50 to the dollar-off 25% from its average of 40 in 1999 and about half its value of 26 at the onset of the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
Many currencies tumbled during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, slashing the dollar value of their economies.
The average commission on an Asian stock trade fell to 0.11% of trade value last year, from 0.14% in 2007, data from McKinsey showed.
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More recently as some of Asian currencies have weakened, currency analysts say the ringgit is now close to its fair value.
The rise to prominence of Mrs Hanson comes at a time when the Australian economy is starting to suffer and the value of the Australian dollar has tumbled amid concern about the impact of the Asian financial crisis (see article).
In January 1999, as the Asian financial crisis spread to Latin America, the Brazilian government abandoned the dollar peg and the value of Brazil's real tumbled.
Following in the footsteps of a groundbreaking and widely-cited 2007 UC-Irvine study, which disaggregated the components of a Chinese-assembled Apple iPod and assigned its constituent value to the companies and countries responsible for their production, two researchers at the Asian Development Bank Institute applied a similar analysis to the Apple iPhone.
Even though Britain relies more than other European countries on Asian trade and investment, sterling should have the bigger effect, given that the trade-weighted value of the pound is about 25% higher than in mid-1996.
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