<table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top">For five days the organizer of COMPUTEX TAIPEI had only one fear; that the dreaded swine flu would strike at and possibly shut down their event, the world's largest ICT procurement hub. But the only flu at this venue was a fervent fever for everything to do with ICT that established fresh records for the size, scale and turn-out.</td></tr></table>
NEW YORK, Feb 12 - U.S. stocks sharply cut losses on Thursday, with the Nasdaq swinging back into positive territory, following a Reuters report that the Obama administration was hammering out a program to subsidize...
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 - Congressional negotiators have come up with the "right compromise" on 'Buy American' provisions of the economic stimulus bill that have raised concern among U.S. trade partners, a White House spokesman said...
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 - Congressional negotiators have agreed on a final Buy American provision as part of a $789 billion economic stimulus bill that requires public works projects...
MELBOURNE, Feb 12 - Leighton Holdings Ltd <LEI.AX>, Australia's top engineering contractor, reported a 56 percent fall in first-half profit on Thursday due to writedowns on investments. Leighton's net profit fell to A$111.15 million ($72.5...
SEOUL, Feb 10 - Global DRAM revenue is seen falling by a wider-than-expected 15 percent this year as memory chip makers were hit by heavy losses in the last quarter and cut supplies radically, research...
TAIPEI, Feb 9 - Taiwan is considering extending a government programme guaranteeing 100 percent of all bank deposits, an official said on Monday, giving it flexibility with the confidence-boosting scheme during the global downturn. Under...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 6 - Malaysia's Sime Darby, the world's largest palm producer in terms of estates owned, plans to invest upto $360 million on a groundwater project and venture into rice farming, the Star...
TAIPEI, Feb 6 - Bank of China <601988.SS> and ICBC <601398.SS> are interested in acquiring a stake in Taiwan's Mega Financial <2886.TW>, the Economic Daily reported on Friday, sending Mega stocks to a three-week intraday...
HONG KONG, Feb 5 - Asian bond spreads widened on Thursday amid mounting concerns over the region's economic outlook and on caution ahead of the release of key U.S. economic figures, including the latest job...