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...India. Exports were up an estimated 24% in the first 10 months of 2006. The nascent stock market in Ho Chi Minh City is one of Asia's best-performing this year, up 70%. To top it all off, Hanoi is hosting this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, on Nov. 18-19, which is expected to be attended by U.S. President George W. Bush and China President Hu Jintao. Salzman, who toughed out the lean years and built an industrial-materials distributorship with annual turnover of $100 million, says he thinks Vietnam has finally arrived as a modern...
...city's experience during the recent China-Africa Summit is anything to go by, drastic measures may be required to clean up Beijing's air in time for the Olympics in August 2008. During that summit, which featured 42 heads of state, the authorities ordered half a million official cars off the roads and said another 400,000 drivers had "volunteered" to refrain from using their vehicles. The Air Pollution Index responded grudgingly, slowly falling until finally, on the last day of the meeting, it had dipped into a range considered normal anywhere else in the world. By the next...
...APEC Summit...
President Bush is set to visit Vietnam for this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Leaders will discuss stalled global trade talks and, in keeping with APEC tradition, don local garb...
...with the help of several marketing partners, is searching for that Indian star. In December the league will dispatch a group of top executives to the subcontinent for its first Indian basketball summit. They will finalize initiatives like coaching clinics, refurbished neighborhood courts and youth- development camps. The NBA is talking to Time Warner (the parent of Time) about producing hoops-related programming on Pogo TV, the company's Indian children's channel, and to espn Star Sports, a joint venture of Disney and News Corp., about increasing the league's presence on the network's Indian sports channels...