The Asia-Pacific region has already reached the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the incidence of poverty, reducing the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day from 50 to 22 per cent between 1990 and 2009, according to the latest assessment of regional progress towards the MDGs published by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and อ่านต่อ
Asia-Pacific Resource Use Trends, Changing Risks and Green Growth Opportunities Call for Decisive Action
The world faces resource constraints but the Asia-Pacific region can turn this into an opportunity and emerge as a green economy leader, according to a report released here today by the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank อ่านต่อ…
Asia-Pacific leading demand for new aircraft Requirement for 9,370 aircraft valued at $1.3 trillion
Airlines in the Asia-Pacific region will take delivery of around 9,370 new aircraft over the next 20 years, according to the latest market forecast by Airbus. Valued at US$1.3 trillion, the deliveries will account for 34 per cent of all new aircraft with more than 100 seats entering service อ่านต่อ…
Asia-Pacific Advanced Network : APAN
สำนักงานบริหารเทคโนโลยีสาร สนเทศเพื่อพัฒนาการศึกษา (UniNet) ของสำนักงานคณะกรรมการการอุดมศึกษา (สกอ.) ร่วมกับสมาคมเครือข่ายไทยเพื่อการศึกษาวิจัย (ThaiREN) อ่านต่อ…
Asia-Pacific Governments seek ways to accelerate action towards an HIV/AIDS-free region
Government leaders, senior officials, civil society representatives and people living with HIV from 34 Asia-Pacific countries began three days of talks at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Headquarters in Bangkok today to find ways to speed up อ่านต่อ…
Adfonic Continues Global Expansion With Launch of Asia-Pacific Operations
Kartik Ram appointed General Manager of Adfonic for Asia-Pacific อ่านต่อ…
Fitch Teleconference: APAC Bank Ratings 2012 Outlook
Fitch Ratings will host a teleconference on Thursday, 2 February at 4pm Hong Kong and Singapore time, to discuss the outlook for Asia-Pacific banks in 2012. The accompanying report – ‘Fitch: APAC Bank Rating Outlook; Broadly Stable, Downside Risks Exist’ – is available at อ่านต่อ…
Boston Scientific Announces New Asia-Pacific Organization
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announces the creation of its Asia-Pacific regional organization that includes Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, South East Asia, Taiwan and Turkey. The Company believes this pan-Asia business model will help drive growth อ่านต่อ…
Myanmar & ESCAP Forge Framework for Public Private Partnerships
Following recent positive developments in Myanmar, the top United Nations Asia-Pacific official met with the President of Myanmar, H.E. U Thein Sein, at the outset of a two-day Government of Myanmar-ESCAP forum that will discuss the development of public private partnerships in responding to อ่านต่อ…
ก.ไอซีที ผลักดันโครงการ e-Women พัฒนาศักยภาพด้าน ICT แก่สตรีผ่านศูนย์ฯ ICT ชุมชน
นางจีราวรรณ บุญเพิ่ม ปลัดกระทรวงเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและการสื่อสาร เปิดเผยถึงรางวัล The most Outstanding Telecentre Women Manager in Asia-Pacific 2011 ว่า กระทรวงฯ ได้ร่วมกับมูลนิธิ telecentre.org ดำเนินโครงการ "พัฒนาศักยภาพด้าน ICT ผ่านศูนย์การเรียนรู้ ICT อ่านต่อ…
Photo Release: THAI Receives Donation from gategroup, Japan
Mr. Michael Pooley, gategroup Vice President & President Asia-Pacific, recently visited Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) อ่านต่อ…
Thai 2011 IPO stocks offer highest returns in Asia-Pacific
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) reveals this years initial public offerings listing on the SET and the Market for Alternative Investment (mai) have an average yield of 41.54 percent อ่านต่อ…
Fitch Publishes Asia-Pacific Sovereign Outlook
Fitch Ratings has published the "Asia-Pacific Sovereign Outlook", summarising its views on sovereign credit trends in the region. อ่านต่อ…
Russian Federation Makes Generous Contribution to UNESCAP Strengthening Regional Cooperation in Asia-Pacific
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Russian Federation held a signing ceremony earlier today, exchanging letters reaffirming their intentions to extend their successful อ่านต่อ…
Fitch publishes Asia-Pacific sovereign outlook
Fitch Ratings has published the "Asia-Pacific Sovereign Outlook", summarising its views on sovereign credit trends in the region. อ่านต่อ…
Aftermath of Japanese tsunami offers learning opportunities for disaster preparedness
As Japan continues to recover from the worst earthquake and tsunami in its history, experts and policy makers from Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region gathered in Tokyo to discuss lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake and อ่านต่อ…
ภาพข่าว: ฉลอง 50 ปี สำนักข่าวโออาน่า
นายสุรพงษ์ โตวิจักษณ์ชัยกุล รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงการต่างประเทศ เป็นประธานเปิดการประชุมในวาระพิเศษ ฉลองครบรอบ 50 ปี การก่อตั้งองค์การสำนักข่าวแห่งภูมิภาคเอเชียแปซิฟิก หรือ โออาน่า (50th Anniversary Celebration of the Orgenization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies OANA) ซึ่งสำนักข่าวไทย บมจ.อสมท อ่านต่อ…
Asia-Pacific leaders chart development course for Least Developed Countries in the Region
Despite the many gains that have been made in the last ten years, Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States remain vulnerable to economic shocks and other internal and external crises, according to officials and experts from around the Asia-Pacific อ่านต่อ…
S&P: Government support underpins ratings on Asia-Pacific’s larger banks under revised rating criteria
Potential government support underpins the ratings on the larger Asia-Pacific Banks to a greater degree under revised rating criteria for banks, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said in a report published อ่านต่อ…
Developed world economic woes to dent Asia-Pacific growth which needs immediate stimulus and rebalancing over the coming years, says ESCAP
Asia-Pacific growth will slow down significantly in 2012 due to continuing uncertainty in the advanced economies, but the region has the means to offset the adverse impact, according to latest United Nations macroeconomic projections and policy advice released here อ่านต่อ…
Fitch: Thai Floods May Push Reinsurers to Lift Premiums Globally
The floods in Thailand could cause major global reinsurance firms to raise catastrophe premiums across the board to try to absorb the heavy losses from natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region, Fitch Ratings อ่านต่อ…
ภาพข่าว: CDGM ส่งทีมหัวกะทิบุกแดนลอดช่อง ดูงาน APRCE Singapore 2011
CDGM ส่งมืออาชีพด้านงาน Sales & Business Development ร่วมงาน Asia-Pacific Retailers Convention & Exhibition โดยมีบูทจากกลุ่มธุรกิจด้าน Retail ยักษ์ใหญ่ทั่วทวีปเอเซียนำเทคโนโลยีและโซลูชั่น โชว์ Trend ใหม่บนโลกธุรกิจ Retail อ่านต่อ…
ESCAP to Launch Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2011: Year-end Update
The Asia-Pacific region is facing the challenge of coping with a sharp deterioration in the global environment. As forewarned by ESCAP, the developed economies of the world remain mired in the economic crisis which erupted in อ่านต่อ…
Standard & Poor’s applies its revised bank criteria to Asia-Pacific’s major banks and their subsidiaries
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said today that it has revised or affirmed its ratings on some of Asia Pacific’s major financial institutions after applying new ratings criteria for banks, which was published on Nov. 9, อ่านต่อ…
Australian Face Recognition Technology Wins Major International ICT Award
NICTA face recognition technology that improves the speed and accuracy of identifying faces in CCTV footage has won the ICT R&D prize at the Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance Awards (APICTA) in Thailand. อ่านต่อ…