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...factory floor at Asia Tile, in Surabaya, Indonesia, about 650km from Jakarta, is not a very happy or productive place these days. Earlier this summer, the company sent a quarter of its 2,700 employees packing, and employees fear another round of layoffs may be imminent. The reason, says Bambang Wicayo, the company's technical manager, is no mystery: skyrocketing oil prices have increased the cost of bringing in raw materials and delivering goods, while higher natural gas prices make it more expensive to fire the kilns that produce tiles. "If the price of gas continues...
...traffic jam, which is what kills people." The study's results still need to be replicated in African children, by far the worst victims of the disease; it's possible they will react differently than the subjects in the Wellcome Trust trials, which took place in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Burma. In addition, the Chinese companies that manufacture the injectable version of the drug haven't yet received full approval from the WHO. When they do, the world will have a formidable weapon against an ages-old scourge...
...smart proposition. Never mind beer granules. Yet Gerhard Kamil, 45, is taking aim at the 53 million-gallon Middle Eastern malt-beverage market with a new product: malt granules that become a foaming, nonalcoholic beer by adding water. The Bavarian brewer is wooing soft-drink bottlers from Iraq to Indonesia with his "PlatoTec" process, which makes tiny, layered granules of malt at about $2 per lb. Tapping the nonalcoholic halal-beer and flavored-malt-drink market positions GranMalt against Heineken's Fayrouz in Egypt and Carlsberg's Moussy in Saudi Arabia. But as consumption grows an estimated 6% annually over...
...BEAR Weight: 60 to 145 lbs. Length: Up to 5 ft. Range: India, Burma, Laos, southern China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia How dangerous: Quite. Will attack humans without provocation Status: Unknown, because of insufficient field data. Poaching and habitat destruction have conservation experts worried...
...people down there. If we clean up our slate and start anew, I'm very confident we'll be seen in a new light. My idea is that in 2013, 2014, 2015, we can get our house in order and catch up with the competition: Malaysia, Thailand, even Indonesia. It may be pie-in-the-sky right now, but we did it [during People Power] in February...