Southeast Asia

...close product links between the groups. He said that over the first nine months of the year, AXA Asia-Pacific's index of new business for South-East Asia was up 34 per cent, mostly on improved sales of life insurance. New business across...

In this article: Pacific, Audi, Vivienne Westwood, AXA, Australia, Asia, and South-East Asia

Indian ocean fishermen use lanterns to attract fish in the evening. Though some catch for themselves, other fishers in Southeast Asia and elsewhere are forced to serve on vessels against their will, with fatal consequences if they refuse.

In this article: Thailand, Sea, Asia, Owners, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Free the Slaves, World Vision International, and Kevin Bales

...on this issue would damage our relations with our closest ally. It would also inflame our regional neighbours, from China to South-East Asia to the Pacific islands, all of whom are gravely threatened by climate change and expect Australia...

In this article: Climate change, Australia, Carbon, and Moral imperative

...here It's hard to find a scrap of white sand to call your own these days - but they do exist. Try these pure shores... Think of a Southeast Asian beach holiday, and you'll probably imagine vast swathes of sand, shaded by coconut trees...

In this article: Alex Garland, Manila, Cathay Pacific, The Beach, The Beach, and El Nido

...No. 39 (World Wide House) 28F. It had a Taiwan canceled postage stamp. Inside was an ad inviting the public to buy its travel services to Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. It also included two scratch-off award cards, one of which...

In this article: God, Postal Inspection Service, Des Voeux Road Central, Taiwan, San Francisco, and Universal Postal Union

...efficient, environmentally progressive airplanes is strong Bangkok, Nov. Boeing [NYSE: BA] forecasts that over the next 20 years, Southeast Asia s airlines will require more that 2,100 new airplanes valued at approximately US$330...

In this article: Boeing, Recession, NYSE, and Bangkok

...with which the U.S. held ASEAN in recent years. While China, India, Australia and other regional economies have been assiduously wooing Southeast Asia by signing free-trade agreements with the bloc, the U.S., particularly under the presidency...

In this article: Asean, Barack Obama, U.S., Indonesia, Washington, State Department, Burma, George W. Bush, and Singapore

...Africa's Standard Bank <SBKJ.J> and Malaysia's CIMB <CIMB.KL> hopes to double assets to over $1 billion by early 2011 by launching a new Southeast Asia fund and growing its existing Islamic fund, its chief executive officer said on...

In this article: Turkey, Islamic Development Bank, Standard Bank, Asian Development Bank, Malaysia, India, and China