PITTSBURGH (AP): In her native Malaysia, Mary Tiong developed a reputation for selling leftover computer monitors for a large manufacturer behind the industry's best-known brands. She earned a nickname: The Monitor Queen. More ...
Indonesia Investment
Update 2007
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Diamond Room 1 Nikko Hotel – Jakarta.
BACKGROUND
The Indonesia parliament has just enacted
the new Investment Law at March 29, 2007. More ...
Global carbon trading, one of the mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gasses under the Kyoto Protocol, has been increasing over time, and is today worth tens of billions of dollars. But Indonesia has been far left behind the rest of the pack. More ...
Indonesia is on the right track to once again becoming one of Asia's fastest growing economies, but still has a lot to do if it wants to rival China and India, say analysts from UBS AG. More ...
TOKYO (AP): Perhaps the Asian Development Bank is doing its job a little too well.With the vast majority of Asia projected to escape poverty in 15 years, a development bank chartered four decades ago to end poverty is now struggling to stay relevant. More ...
Mobile phone operator PT Mobile-8 has announced an increase of 14 percent in its unaudited net profit to Rp 16.9 billion (US$1.8 million) in the first quarter on the back of an increased subscriber base.The number of Mobile-8 subscribers surged by 101.1 percent to 2. More ...