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- Las Vegas Sands looks to build Indian casino strip
Adelson didn't give details of the potential investment. India now has only one legal casino, in the western state of Goa, a Portuguese colony until 1961. Las Vegas Sands is investing more than $15 billion building casinos in Singapore and Macau, the
- India, ASEAN clinch a free trade agreement
ayana Talks on proposed services-and-investment deal to start soon India-ASEAN trade to surpass $50 billion in 2010Disparate range of product numbered only 489 SINGAPORE: India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have clinched a trade
- Asean concludes Australia, New Zealand Free-Trade Pact
SINGAPORE: Southeast Asian nations have concluded talks with Australia and New Zealand to form the bloc's most comprehensive free trade deal ever, officials said Thursday. The announcement came during annual talks by economic ministers of the 10-member
- Singapore: An Island of Commodities
Singapore is one of the three remaining true city-states in the world. And it is the smallest nation in Southeast Asia. But there is nothing small about the country's achievements. For the record, Singapore is the sixth wealthiest country in the world in
- Oil prices rise slightly in Asian trade
SINGAPORE - World oil prices gained in Asia today amid a threat to oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico from a tropical storm and on bullish inventory data, analysts said. In afternoon trade, New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in
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Founded as a British trading colony in 1819, Singapore joined Malaysia in 1963, but withdrew two years later and became independent. It subsequently became one of the world's most prosperous countries, with strong international trading links (its port is one of the world's busiest) and with per capita GDP above that of the leading nations of Western Europe.
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Reuters - Dell Inc posted a
surprisingly steep drop in quarterly earnings and said
companies around the world are cutting back on technology
spending, sending its shares tumbling and sparking fears of
weakness in the whole tech sector.
Reuters - A security flaw in Apple Inc's
iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access
to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked,
but the company said a fix is on the way.
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