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Aviva Investors, the asset management arm of British insurer Aviva (AV.L), plans to expand in Asia-Pacific by hiring bond and equity fund managers in Singapore and setting up a sales offices in Japan.  Aviva Investors intends to set up a regional asset management firm in Singapore and will hire ...

Aviva Investors, the fund management arm of British insurer Aviva (AV.L), plans to hire asset managers in Singapore and set up sales offices in Japan and Saudi Arabia to grow its regional business, its Asia Pacific CEO said on Friday.  Read more...

Our Big Mac index shows the Chinese yuan is still undervaluedCorrection to this articleRECENT renewed American calls for China to revalue its currency have so far fallen on deaf ears. China has rejected accusations that America's huge trade deficit with it is caused largely by an artificially weak yuan, which ...

Dell named Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko Epson and HannStar Display in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco March 12, alleging that the manufacturers were fixing display prices at Dells expense. - Computer maker Dell is suing five Asian manufacturers for allegedly plotting to set prices and overcharge Dell ...

Sci-fi movies have an unfair stereotype of being universally horrible, and because of this there’s many an unknown gem in the genre. This list, however, is devoted to movies which are actually that bad. Utterly horrible. Void in redeeming characteristics. But beyond even that, they’re ones you’ve heard of. We ...

-- Hey, musicians. Take the Future of Music Coalition's "Taking the Pulse" survey about health care and help "assess the level of health insurance among working musicians," according to the FMC. You have until April 1, so get on it. -- ...

Some ivory sales are a good idea. This one isn’tIN 1989 the signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) agreed to ban the ivory trade, and banned it has remained. Except, that is, for when CITES chooses to allow it—as it ...

Mumbai, March 15 : Pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Friday said it will launch anti-diabetic drug Actos in the US by 2012. Ranbaxy, majority owned by Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo, said it has settled litigation with the country’s Takeda Pharmaceutical over a generic equivalent version of the medicine and received a non-exclusive royalty ...

Where employers are most optimistic, and pessimisticIN 27 out of 36 countries surveyed by Manpower, an employment-services firm, more companies said they expected to add jobs in the three months to the end of June than said they reckoned on reducing their workforce. The difference between the proportion of hirers ...

UBS’s (UBSN.VX) joint head of equity capital markets and a 10-year veteran at the bank, Sutha Kandiah, has resigned, a source with knowledge of the move told Reuters on Wednesday. Kandiah, who was based in Singapore, oversaw multi-billion dollar equity deals in the region such as Malaysia’s Maxis’s (MXSC.KL) ...

Singapore’s Straits Times Index gained 0.8% to 2,862.29 at the close. Four stocks advanced for each that fell on the 30-member gauge.   Shares on the measure trade at 14.9 times estimated earnings, compared with about 17.5 times at the start of 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The following shares were ...

AIG reluctantly hands its crown as America’s global life insurer to MetLife ANOTHER week, another opportunity for AIG’s rivals to expand at the American insurer’s expense. Days after sealing a $35.5 billion deal for its Asian life-insurance operations with Britain’s Prudential, the firm, which is being dismembered to recoup bail-out ...

There were hardly any nominations of “Made in Asia” movies at the 82nd Academy Awards which were presented in Hollywood (USA) on Sunday. From 4 films that were nominated with Asia-focused topics, only a single film, The Cove could win the Oscar. The other three movies were- “Kavi”, “Burma VJ” ...

CNN rating list of “Asia’s 25 greatest actors of all time” includes Guru Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan, Pran, Nargis, and Meena Kumari. The listing was posted on 4 March that marks the struggling poet of “Pyaasa” (1957) as the “best role” of Guru Dutt. Amitabh Bachchan’s deep voice and broodiness for Inspector ...

Osim International, Asia’s biggest maker of massage chairs outside of Japan, will add as many as 80 stores annually in China over the next three to five years to tap growing demand in the world’s most populous country.   The company will have between 500 to 600 stores in China within five ...

William White - former head BIS economist, currently chair of the OECD's Economic and Development Review Committee - is again schooling Ben Bernanke on economic fundamentals. In an article published in the December-January OECD Observer, White wrote...

Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and ...

Belle and Sebastian are back! After taking a few years off while Stuart Murdoch released his God Help the Girl project, the Scottish indie leading lights have returned to the studio and the stage. (Via Exclaim!/TwentyFourBit.) In an email sent out to ...

QUETTA - Five persons including four Pakistani construction workers were killed in an ambush near Afghan city of Kandahar on Thursday. Later, their bodies were handed over to Pakistani authorities at the border town of Chaman.According to reports reaching here, the victims were ...

The Ascott, CapitaLand’s wholly-owned serviced residence business unit, will open its second Citadines property in the country on March 8. The new Citadines Kyoto Karasuma-Gojo follows the opening of Ascott’s first Citadines serviced residence in Japan, Citadines Tokyo Shinjuku, last March. Read more...