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Singapore Stocks CapitaMall, Genting Singapore, Ascendasreit

Shayne Heffernan Best Buys in Singapore this week are CapitaMall, Genting Singapore, Ascendasreit
Real Estate Stocks: CapitaMall, Ascendasreit
Singapore has been for many years one of our lead investment destinations, and now as the economy is growing we expect to see an uptick in Real Estate, Local Demand and continued growth of the Singapore Stock Exchange.
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Myanmar in ASEAN, Trade Booms

Myanmar’s border trade amounted to over US$3.046-B in nearly the whole F-Y 2011-12, + about 60% from more than US$1.9-B in the same period for F-Y 2010-11, a local media reported Friday.
The increase of the border trade volume was due to the rise of nearly US$1-B export, said the Biweekly News.
Myanmar’s border trade was [...]

HCM Report on Investing in Hotels

HCM Report on Investing in Hotels
If you are considering buying a hotel or investing in a hotel company it is important to be able to value the underlying asset. Hotel valuations are specific and not as simple as valuing other types of real estate.
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iPhone and Android Online trading

The firm Saxo Bank has again taken the lead in financial trading services with their new applications for iPhone and Android that they hope to reach the mobile market under the slogan “World Class Trading. Anytime, Anywhere.”
Saxo Bank is renowned for its award-winning online Forex trading, for its superior liquidity, outstanding reliability, and last, but [...]

New life begins for Nepal’s Maoist ex-rebels

Nepal’s Maoist fighters on Saturday began the process of leaving the camps they have called home since the end of their insurgency in 2006, to join the regular army or start new lives.
The historic transition follows a breakthrough peace deal signed on November 1 by the Maoists and the three other major [...]

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Central Bangkok ’safe’ from floods: Thai PM

Thailand’s premier declared central Bangkok safe from the kingdom’s devastating floods Saturday, as the death toll passed 600 and President Barack Obama vowed the US will give whatever help it can.
Thailand is suffering its worst flooding in half a century, and 5.4 million people are still affected around the kingdom, but Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra [...]

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Risk Of Hard Landing Rises As China Begins Monetary Easing

Chinese policymakers have begun to selectively ease macroeconomic policy to support growth, according to Barclays’ analysts. While full on easing won’t come until 2012, China will face a significant economic slowdown as the export sector feels the impact of a fragile global economy, and residential investment, which makes up 12% of GDP, falls drastically as [...]

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China police in multi-million-dollar fake drug bust

Chinese police said Thursday they had seized two-billion-yuan ($315-million) worth of counterfeit drugs and packaging in nationwide raids on fake medicine, the second such bust in recent weeks.
Police arrested 1,770 suspects and broke up more than 1,400 dens that made or sold fake medicine during the operation, which involved 16,000 police officers, the [...]

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China’s Wen warns “outside forces” off sea dispute

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Friday that “outside forces” had no excuse to get involved in a complex dispute over the South China Sea, offering a veiled warning to the United States and others not to stick their noses into the sensitive issue.
But Wen also struck a softer line [...]

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Chinese craft returns from space docking mission

BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday that the safe return of an unmanned spacecraft that docked twice with an orbiting module was a major step in preparation for the launch of its own space station.
The Shenzhou 8 craft landed by parachute in China’s western desert late Thursday after more than two weeks in [...]

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