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Sammitr looks Down Under even as big names retreat
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 07/04/2014
» Melbourne: It was just last May when Ford said it would stop manufacturing in Australia. The General Motors unit Holden followed suit in December. The heartbreak continued this year when Toyota said it would end car production by 2017 after 50 years in Altona, Victoria.
Asean poised for FDI gains
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 21/04/2014
» Heroic efforts by the Aquino government in the Philippines, together with improving economic indicators in Indonesia, have made the two countries prime hunting grounds for foreign direct investment (FDI) recently in Southeast Asia.
Headhunter by chance
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 21/04/2014
» With more than 2,000 employees at 53 offices in 24 countries, Robert Walters is now one of the world’s leading recruitment consultancies, and with expansion in Asia it is only going to get bigger and bigger over the next decades. However, when asked what it takes to become a global business services provider and how he ended up in the industry in the first place, the man whose name is on the door is disarmingly candid.
Listening to leaders
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 22/04/2013
» As the CEO of the multinational executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, Mr Kevin Kelly possesses an uncanny ability to match qualified candidates with the best careers possible. And at a time when Asia is on its rise, he aspires to be part of the dynamic change, hunting for the right executives to lead Asian organisations that are now expanding to the rest of the world.
King of coffee
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 14/01/2013
» When most people think of coffee they do not usually think of Vietnam. Few realise that the Southeast Asian nation last year surpassed Brazil as the world’s biggest coffee exporter. However, almost all of the output is low-quality robusta beans with high caffeine content, used mostly to make instant coffee.
Maybank steadily building pan-Asean business
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 21/01/2013
» As the landscape of Asean’s financial sector changes, Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), Malaysia’s largest commercial bank, hopes to have a greater presence in the region in the years ahead.
Regional food security priorities sharpened
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 03/09/2012
» “We’ve always known that what gets measured, gets done,” said Carl Lukach, the president of DuPont East Asia, offering a few numbers to concentrate people’s minds.
How green can China be?
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 17/09/2012
» No other country is investing as heavily in clean energy as China these days, but at the same time no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy. So how green will China actually become? That is the question posed by a new report on China’s environmental policies.
Capital ideas
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 17/09/2012
» Not many people outside of Laos may have heard of Od Phongsavanh, but as a banker and unabashed capitalist in an officially Communist country, he has made it his mission to promote and improve the entire financial system in one of Asia’s poorest economies.