The Business Times, 15 November 2009

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES A Edition online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg COREGNNOI9B4O2B6BE MICA (P) 123/08/2009 S|£l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION Sunday, November 15,2009
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    Lock icon Enter Obama, with badge of free trade
    843 1  -  Lee U-Wen US president promises to engage TPP and makes it in time for Singapore Evening at the Esplanade By leeuwen@sph.com.sg Singapore T Bpm sharp yesterday evening amid watertight security at Pay a Lebar Air Base, United States President Barack Obama stepped out
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      22 1 Russia wants coordinated exit from stimulus. Page 3 SWFs benign, long-term and counter-cyclical. Page 6 Vikram Khanna interviews Gary Locke, Page 8
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  • APEC 2009 – A BT SPECIAL
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      Lock icon Obama welcomes China's bigger global role
      907 2  -  Anthony Rowley Power does not need to be a zero-sum game, and nations need not fear success of another By btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo THE United States does not seek to "contain" China, said President Barack Obama in Tokyo yesterday as part of a major policy
      AFP  -  907 words
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      Lock icon Russia wants coordinated exit from stimulus
      533 3  -  Teh Shi Ning He also asks Apec leaders to reaffirm commitment to eschew protectionism By tshining@sph.com.sg Singapore RUSSIAN President Dimitry Medvedev yesterday called for world economies to co-ordinate their withdrawal of stimulus measures, and spoke out against protectionism. He cautioned that it is "premature
      AFP  -  533 words
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      Lock icon Vietnam offers three lessons to attract FDI
      256 3 Singapore VIETNAM President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday drew from his country's experience to offer three ways for a developing economy to effectively engage foreign direct investment (FDI). The first is to improve the business climate for both domestic and international enterprises. This involves
      REUTERS  -  256 words
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      Lock icon Hu wants talks on economic pact with Taipei by year-end
      439 4 AFP Singapore CHINESE President Hu Jintao yesterday called for formal talks on a landmark economic pact with Chinese Taipei to start by the end of the year, in a rare meeting here with a top politician from the island. Mr
      AFP; AP  -  439 words
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      Lock icon Japan looks to crack the low-fertility conundrum
      472 4  -  Lee U-Wen Country may become more welcoming of foreigners: Hatoyama By leeuwen@sph.com.sg Singapore FACED with one of the lowest fertility rates in the developed world and a rapidly ageing population, Japan will try and re-invent itself to become a country that will be
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      Lock icon Apec leaders nudge America in push for Doha
      405 4  -  Chew Xiang By xchew@sph.com.sg Singapore APEC leaders yesterday pledged to push for the conclusion of the Doha round of trade talks by the end of 2010 and reiterated their opposition to protectionism. A statement issued after the end of the first day
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      Lock icon Businessmen give Apec, Asean the thumbs-up
      519 5  -  Chuang Peck Ming Their vote vindicates Thai, Australian premiers' praise of the groupings, push to expand their roles Reports by peckming@sph.com.sg Singapore CLOSE to 90 per cent of the 1,500 businessmen attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit yesterday agreed that Apec and Asean
      ARTHUR LEE  -  519 words
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      Lock icon So, Mr Prime Minister, what did you read?
      310 5 New York Times. SO which economics management books did Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd read to guide him through the worst economic slump since the Great Depression of 1929? When this question was posed to him at a dialogue session of the
      New York Times.  -  310 words
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      Lock icon No agreement on how best to tackle climate change
      367 5  -  Teh Shi Ning By tshining@sph.com.sg Singapore CLIMATE change sparked a heated debate at an Apec CEO summit dialogue yesterday. The need to tackle climate change was not in dispute, nor was the view that cheap, clean-energy technology is the only long-term
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      Lock icon SWFs – benign, long-term and counter-cyclical
      573 6  - SWFs benign, long-term and counter-cyclical Chew Xiang They are a source of fiscal stability, say representatives of four country funds By xchew@sph.com.sg Singapore SOVEREIGN wealth funds are a benign force and should be welcomed as such, said representatives of four country funds managing over a trillion dollars in total. At
      REUTERS  -  573 words
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      Lock icon Yuan critics should just let China do things its way: Roach
      448 6 Bloomberg Singapore CONCERNS over China's currency policy are "seriously overblown" and critics should let the country decide how it wants to manage the yuan to ensure growth, Morgan Stanley Asia chairman Stephen Roach said. The world's third-largest economy is
      Bloomberg; BLOOMBERG  -  448 words
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      Lock icon Asian equities may not yield highest returns
      1193 7  -  Conrad Tan Norway wealth fund draws line between economic expansion and earnings growth Reports by conradt@sph.com.sg Singapore ASIA may be the fastest growing major economic region in the world, but that doesn't mean investors in Asian equities will earn the highest returns, says
      BLOOMBERG  -  1,193 words
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      Lock icon Promoting global standards of corporate governance
      466 7 THE man charged with managing Norway's vast petroleum wealth fund holds a completely sober view of why it needs to promote sound corporate governance practices through its investments. The ultimate aim: to ensure the long-term health of the global economy, so that the fund's
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      Lock icon US-China ties on a roll, despite tyre trouble
      864 8  -  Vikram Khanna US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke defends trade actions and denies charges of protectionism By vikram@sph.com.sg Singapore US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has defended America's recent imposition of tariffs on Chi-nese-made tyres and metal pipes and played down their significance in
      REUTERS  -  864 words
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      Lock icon TPP will create jobs for the US: trade rep
      416 8  -  Chuang Peck Ming By peckming@sph.com.sg Singapore WITH the US unemployment rate hitting double digits, jobs have become the key concern of the Obama administration. For America's trade partners, that in turn raises the spectre of protectionism. Yesterday, with Mexican President Felipe
      REUTERS  -  416 words
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