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At your service
Asia focus, Published on 28/10/2013
» With a service mind, good spoken English proficiency and communication skills, Rica Joy Alojado, 29, has worked as an agent in a business process outsourcing (BPO) company in Manila for six years. Now she is looking to move up to a higher position in the company, a call centre that mainly serves American businesses.
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We can all be better guests and hosts
Asia focus, Published on 28/10/2013
» The boom in tourism from the newly rich and much more open society of China has created a new global phenomenon with both good and bad sides.
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Fasten your seatbelts
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 28/10/2013
» Although the global economic outlook for next year is improving as the United States and Europe recover, capital markets will remain volatile as the US Federal Reserve tapers its quantitative easing measures, likely by the end of the first quarter or early second quarter, say top regional analysts.
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India outsources its outsourcing
Asia focus, Nalin Viboonchart, Published on 28/10/2013
» India-based IT and business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) companies, particularly call centres, are moving more to the Philippines to use the country as a base for serving American company clients and improving profits.
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Turning point in Cambodia
Asia focus, Published on 28/10/2013
» As Cambodia marked the 22nd anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements that laid the groundwork for UN-sponsored elections to end the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, tens of thousands of protesters were on the streets of the capital to seek UN help again.
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The two faces of Modi
Asia focus, Published on 28/10/2013
» Riding on a wave of popular anger against political corruption, India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hoping to win the 2014 general election by projecting the “clean image” of Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate.
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Bittersweet fruit
Asia focus, Published on 28/10/2013
» At the turn of the 20th century an American travelled to a remote mountain region in Himachal Pradesh in India and tried to propagate a strange idea. He told the farmers to plant apple trees instead of the traditional wheat and maize they grew year after year. He was ridiculed and chased from village to village. “What will we eat for food?” they demanded. “Apples?”
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Youth movement
Asia focus, Published on 28/10/2013
» Although he was born and raised outside his family’s home country, journalist-turned-politician Khairy Jamaluddin, the country’s youngest cabinet minister, has cultivated a love of politics and a passionate commitment to make changes for the better in Malaysian society.
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Protesters paralyse South traffic
Chaiwat Satyaem, Published on 28/10/2013
» PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN – Large numbers of motorists are being forced into a traffic bottlneck on the two-lane Bang Saphan–Nong Hat Thai road used as a detour around the main highway, Phetkasem Road, which has been closed by rubber protestors since Sunday.
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