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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 »