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Air Asia plans to introduce 2 daily flights to Krabi in April

Air Asia plans to introduce 2 daily flights to Krabi in April Krabi route from March the 1st which was welcomed by travelers, Thai Air Asia is planning to add one more return fight to the route from its present one flight daily. The low cost airline was welcomed by the local authority and tourism business there, while Krabi vice governor Chai Panitchpornpan said the airline service is an alternative for travelers, locals or tourists. Tassaporn Bijleveld, the Air Asia CEO, stressed that it will help promote the region’s tourism. He said the airline plan to add extra return flights from

Asia Society plans Hong Kong center

Asia Society plans Hong Kong center In an effort to increase its activities worldwide, the Asia Society will announce a major repositioning of the organization that will involve more than $100 million in new projects, including a $52 million center in Hong Kong designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and a $40 million center in Houston by Yoshio Taniguchi. The plans will be presented at the society's 50th anniversary gala dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York on Thursday evening. "We want to change it from a New York institution with regional branches into a global institution with

Rice meeting with Asia minister protested

Rice meeting with Asia minister protested Hundreds of anti-U.S. protesters broke through a police cordon and marched to a convention center where Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was meeting Friday with other foreign ministers in Malaysias capital. Police pushed back most of demonstrators, but small group broke through again, including protest leader Khairy Jamaluddin. He sat on the ground outside the building and refused to leave. Dr. Rice, I will not leave until you come out! said Khairy, the son-in-law of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. More : seattlepi.nwsource.com

’The best minds are in India’

'The best minds are in India' "Reservation in the private sector is a retrograde step. Any system that is not based on meritocracy is not a good system. Nowhere else in the world has it ever been attempted," says Lakshmi Narayanan, president and CEO, Cognizant, which is all set be a billion-dollar company this year. By recruiting more than 8,000 engineers in 2005, Cognizant became one of the largest recruiters in India. Founded in 1994 as a division of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, Cognizant in headquartered in New Jersey, USA, with sales offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San

Asia Needs More Bond Funds to Finance Development, Nor Says

Asia Needs More Bond Funds to Finance Development, Nor Says Asia needs to create more regional bond funds to tap its high savings and fund economic development, Malaysias Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop said. A bigger and deeper regional bond market and integration of the regions financial systems must be achieved before countries can consider forming a single Asian currency, he said. To have a bond fund mechanism which can be utilized to fruitfully and constructively develop this region, particularly for infrastructure, would be a very good idea, Nor said in an interview. I certainly think there is a need