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Tibetan Hope for Obama's India Visit
Friday, September 10, 2010
DHARAMSALA, India - The latest United States government report on Tibet negotiations has sparked off speculation and hope among the exiled Tibetan community that the Tibet issue might be on US President Barack Obama's agenda during his maiden visit to India in November.

Rusal Tries Serving Up Yuan Bonds
Friday, September 10, 2010
MOSCOW - The promoters of United Company Rusal have kicked off a new marketing campaign for oligarch Oleg Deripaska's heavily indebted aluminum company, disclosing this week that "Rusal is planning Russia's first offering of bonds in China, spurred by McDonald's Corp's debut sale in yuan".

Exalted Aquino has Far to Fall
Friday, September 10, 2010
MANILA - Yellow flags stamped with portraits of President Benigno Aquino's deceased politician parents wave along the capital's historic Roxas Boulevard. It is one of the ironies of Philippine politics that high hopes for change are so closely associated with death and disappointment. One of the flags, bearing the likeness of Aquino's assassinated father, reads: "Filipinos are worth dying for."

Anwar's Party Lays Ground For A New Era
Thursday, September 09, 2010
PENANG - As Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy case meanders its way through the courts, the spotlight has shifted to how his party is preparing for the possible outcome. A guilty verdict in the high-stakes case would be a significant blow his opposition People's Alliance (Pakatan Rakyat - PKR), which hopes to capitalize on significant gains it made against the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition at the last general election in 2008. By Anil Netto

US Religious Leaders Condemn Islamophobia
Thursday, September 09, 2010
WASHINGTON - Leaders of some three dozen mainstream United States religious denominations on Tuesday condemned what many commentators have called a rising tide of Islamophobia touched off by the recent controversy over the construction of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of the twin World Trade Center towers destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Chinese Back No-Blame Equity Risk
Thursday, September 09, 2010
BEIJING - Numbers in China are hard to come by, and statistics everywhere are notoriously worse than lies. However, the trend is certain - China is in the middle of a private equity (PE) craze. State-owned enterprises set aside funds to finance their home-grown PE funds, foreigners line up to register yuan or dollar-denominated PE funds, private entrepreneurs pool their money to start up their own PE funds, and groups of friends even get their savings together to brave the new world.

New Case for US Reparations in Laos
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
VIENTIANE - Laos carries the tragic distinction of being the most heavily bombed country in the history of modern warfare. Thirty-five years after the United States wound up its so-called "secret war" against communist guerillas, the impact of its unexploded ordnance (UXO) continues to take a heavy human and economic toll.

Confused - But Forward
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
MONTREAL - This week was positive for Asian equity markets, but correlations between volatility and percentage move were low, and there were no sub-regional patterns at all. This means that trading was swamped by events from outside Asia. As of early afternoon Friday in Tokyo, the MSCI Asia Pacific Index was up 1.1% on the week to 119.63. It is continuing to respect the support in the 118-119 range but is not showing any real dynamism. Resistance continues in evidence at 123, 127, and 129, with another support at 100.

Taiwan in A Rice Wine Stew
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
TAIPEI - Taiwan found recently that World Trade Organization (WTO) membership can be a pain in the proverbial when it announced a drastic tax cut on locally brewed rice wine. Taipei's intention to halve the bottle price of home-produced rice wine did not go down well with the United States and the European Union (EU), the biggest exporters of alcoholic beverages to the Taiwanese market.

Sheen Wearing Off Indian Growth
Friday, September 03, 2010
BANGALORE - India's 8.8% economic growth in the three months through June stands out like a beacon in a world clouded by pessimism. Not surprisingly, the government and policymakers in New Delhi are smiling from ear to ear while anticipating growth of close to 9% by the end of the fiscal year.

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