Critical reform measures need to be taken soon before the impact of ageing populations takes its toll in developing countries in Asia, the Asian Development Bank Institute’s Dean, Masahiro Kawai, said during a recent seminar on ageing in Asia.
In February 2007, China agricultural products exports reached USD 2.71 billion, USD 0.37 billion less than that of the previous month but USD 1.06 billion or 63.7% more than that in the same period of 2006. During Jan-Feb 2007, China totally exported agricultural products valued at USD 5.82 billion, increasing by 39.8% from the same period of 2006.
India's total contract research revenues amount to just USD 75 million, but is expected to grow at 23.6% CAGR, hitting USD 175 million by end 2010. India has emerged as an attractive destination for outsourcing research services owing to its low cost manufacturing, lower cost of R&D personnel, lower capital and operational costs for quality infrastructure of international standards.
Data in CCID Consulting's Analysis Report on China's Linux Software Market in 2007Q1 show that operating sales revenues in China in 2007Q1 reached 1.234 billion Yuan, up by 9.4% over 2006Q1.
There were 13 IPOs in April: seven on JASDAQ, three on TSE Mothers, and one each on OSE Hercules and the TSE 1st and 2nd sections. Activity was much lower than in April 2006 when there were 20 IPOs. The April 2007 IPOs procured JPY 39.2 billion, but the Yachiyo Bank IPO alone raised JPY 15.7 billion, about 40% of the monthly total. That means the average for each of the remaining 12 issues was only about JPY 2 billion.
According to the latest findings from the Experian(R) Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) 2007, fewer Chinese businesses in the three places across two shores experience any energy cost pressure among the 32 countries/regions surveyed. And yet businesses in the mainland and Hong Kong are ahead of many of their counterparts in western countries in managing energy cost.
Shipping Industry is probably the most cyclic of all industries. Being a global industry, it is affected by a whole gamut of factors which range from world economic condition, political events, natural disasters to age of existing vessels, new vessel delivery schedules, availability of ship building slots with ship yards, government regulations etc.