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Philippines’ Next Wave of BPO Cities Beckon

March 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm » Comments (0)

The IT and business processing outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines is expected to grow 20-25% this year and can employ 80,000-90,000 people, chairman of the Commission on Information and ...more »

Costs of Doing Business in Asia 2009

January 14th, 2009 at 5:23 am » Comments (0)

Doing Business 2009 - the World Bank report - covers 181 economies on the ease of conducting business and highlights improvements in regulatory environment especially in Asia, Africa and Latin ...more »

Vietnam Economic Growth and Business Climate Province Ranking

December 26th, 2008 at 3:28 am » Comments (0)

Vietnam's growth in 2009 has been projected at 5% and 6.5% by the IMF and World Bank respectively. The Vietnamese economy grew 6.23% this year, which is the lowest level ...more »

Weekend Asia: Vietnam’s ‘Envelope Culture’

November 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm » Comments (0)

VietNamNet Bridge – Wanting teachers to pay more attention to their children, a lot of parents pay extra money to their kindergarten teachers monthly. And thus ‘envelope culture’ (extra money ...more »

Pre-school Profits, Beijing Review

November 20th, 2008 at 3:19 am » Comments (0)

Beijing Review - Yunyun is Wei's three-year-old son and was just accepted by a public kindergarten in Beijing, China. One of the conditions to be accepted is that the family ...more »

Pune Poised to be India’s 7th Metropolitan City

November 19th, 2008 at 7:24 am » Comments (0)

Pune, second largest city in the state of Maharashtra and in close proximity to financial capital Mumbai, is set to join the ranks of 6 metropolitan cities in India, namely ...more »
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