With the world transfixed by the growing economic importance of China, SooHai Lim, manager of the Baring ASEAN Frontier Fund, warns that investors only focused on this country could be missing many promising opportunities elsewhere in Asia. “India and China are already well invested but the countries in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) are a neglected and forgotten block, despite having just as compelling investment stories,” he argues.

Padang (ANTARA News) - Members of Commission V of the House of Representatives made a working visit to West Sumatra for an inspection of infrastructure construction activities and for a close look at site of the landslide at Anai Vallue on the Padang-Bukittinggi highway. The group headed by Mulyadi inspected a number of mega projects in the province Monday, including the Kelok Sembilan bridge linking the province and Riau under construction.

Mataram, W Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) - The government is trying to cut meat imports by 10 percent per year until the country achieves meat self-sufficiency in 2014, an Agriculture Ministry official said. "Meat imports from a number of countries now account for 35-36 percent (of the domestic needs). We plan to reduce the imports by 10 percent per year," Tjeppy D. Soedjana, the ministry`s director general of husbandry, said here on Monday.

Bandung, W Java (ANTARA News) - The West Java government is to offer opportunities to invest in geothermal energy development to New Zealand to speed up its regional electrification program, a provincial official said. "Only 20 percent of West Java`s geothermal energy potential of 6.101 MW is currently being utilized and therefore we will invite investors to conduct geothermal explorations on `business-to- business` basis," West Java Governor H Ahmad Heryawan said here Monday.