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The new paper tigers
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 23/04/2012
» As industry leaders gather this week in Bangkok for the largest gathering of pulp and paper makers in Asia, they face challenging questions about the future of their regional and global industries.
IVL poised to grow
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/04/2012
» Indorama Ventures Plc (IVL), the world's leading PET maker, is looking to tap the expertise it has gained from years of expansion all over the world to benefit from the formation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.
Two-sided challenge
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/04/2012
» China and Asia-Pacific continue to be the focus of the world's pulp and paper industry as producers look to tap the region's rising economic might.
No turning back
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 14/05/2012
» As Aung San Suu Kyi, new passport in hand, prepares for her first trip out of Myanmar in nearly a quarter century, investors and analysts are flocking in, hoping that recent gestures of democratic reform will prevail.
IVL voices confidence
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 15/05/2012
» Indorama Ventures Plc (IVL), the leading maker of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), expects a turnabout this quarter and in the year ahead as margins and volumes pick up.
New ways to sparkle
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 21/05/2012
» Thailand's gem and jewellery industry should start to focus on the rising demand from the Chinese market and look at ways to create closer cooperation between the industries of the two countries, say executives.
Myanmar reaches out
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 28/05/2012
» Myanmar is preparing for more industrial development and plans to set up a board of investment to promote companies that want to enter Asia's newest frontier market.
The next major world currency
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/01/2012
» Turning the Chinese renminbi into an international currency, with Hong Kong as the global hub for renminbi trade, is the latest step in the territory's drive to be a top financial centre.
Momentum still healthy
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 06/02/2012
» Emerging markets and Asia in particular appear poised to continue their good growth momentum in the near future despite struggles in the western hemisphere, as the trend of intraregional trade continues to thrive.
Smoothing the way
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 06/02/2012
» NEW DELHI : Thai companies facing hurdles in India may soon find a sympathetic ear and help to make the process go more smoothly.