Best Cities in Asia for Living
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Chiang Mai is the surprise leader in the newest category of the APMF Asian Business Travel Survey, nudging out Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Hong Kong as the most livable city in Asia. Add your vote and reasons to make your opinion count. Our Best Airlines survey has also surpassed the 1,000 respondent mark, with Cathay Pacific extending their lead over Singapore Airlines.
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India's Kerala state to build a technology-friendly city for global investors.  Also: Intel continues its expansion in the Indian city Bangalore & hellip;. Sirius Satellite scores a hard-charging CEO & hellip;. and more.
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By Dave Anderton Deseret Morning News  Carl Warren has lived in Paris, Singapore and New York City, but the former senior executive at IBM decided Salt Lake City was the best place to spend his retirement years.  Warren is not alone in choosing Salt Lake as a residential destination.
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Asia is set to overtake Europe's early lead in adopting mobile television broadcasting.
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(InfoWorld) - Chinese cities are expected to unseat Bangalore, Mumbai, and Delhi in India, and Manila of the Philippines, as favored offshore delivery centers by 2011, according to IDC. The market researcher has introduced a new Global Delivery Index (GDI), which compares 35 cities in the Asia-Pacific as potential offshore delivery centers, based on criteria such as cost of labor, cost of rent, language skills, government policies, infrastructure, and staff turnover rates. Bangalore currently tops the list, followed by Manila, Delhi, and Mumbai. The Chinese cities that figure in the 2007 list include Dalian, Shanghai, and Beijing, at numbers five, six, and seven. Indian cities have inherent challenges such asÂ cost of staff and pressure on infrastructure, said Conrad Chang, a research manager at IDCâs Asia Pacific operations, in a telephone interview on Thursday. While India has focused on the U.S. and European markets, China has large opportunities in the Japanese and Korean markets, Chang added. Chinese cities will overtake Indian cities by 2011 because of massive investments made in infrastructure, English language, Internet connections, and technical skills, which are favorable towards offshoring, IDC said Tuesday. Forrester Research,Â however, takes a less optimistic view about China as an offshore destination. Nearly two years ago, the country was widely viewed as a key challenger to India as an offshore services delivery location, however Forresterâs research shows that the market has not taken off as expected, the research firm said in a recent report. China primarily attracts business from Korean and Japanese companies, but most of them have preferred to set up their own operations in China rather than outsource, because there are not many large service providers in China, said Siddharth Pai, a partner at outsourcing consultancy firm Technology Partners InternationalÂ (TPI) in Houston, on Thursday. Many U.S. and European companies, that set up offshore services operations in India, may also have an operation in China, Pai said. â But the Indian operation will typically be the larger,â he added. China has still not overcome customersâ concerns about English language skills, intellectual property (IP) protection, and attrition in the country, Forrester said. In contrast, India has a sophisticated and time-tested legal environment built around Western common law, Pai said. Even if China invests heavily in education, the population cannot get in four to five years as fluent in English as Indians, he said. â Indians have been speaking English for over a hundred years,â he added. Indiaâs demographics also favor its continuation as a key offshore services location. On account of Chinaâs one-child-per-family policy, the countryâs population is aging. The country has about half as many people under 30 than India, Pai said. The IT industry primarily employs younger staff, he added. The IDC GDI rates the potential of cities as offshore destinations, said Chang. The actual business decision by companies to offshore to these cities will depend on a host of other factors, he added. The GDI is a moving index, reviewed every six months. âThis is not about India versus China,â Chang said. IDC expects both countriesâ offshore business to grow, he added.
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Travel: Sean Dodson: Look beyond the 'Wild East' reputation and you'll discover a thriving cultural underbelly.
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In a study of prostate cancer  patients living in California, most Asian men with the disease  survived longer than their white counterparts. The exception  was men from South Asia; their survival was worse than that of  white men.
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YIWU, China -- For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where?
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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INCHEON, South Korea  - Korean Park Jung-ja spent the first six decades of her life on wind-swept Sakhalin, the bad breaks of the Cold War making her a citizen of nowhere. Now, she has finally found a home in suburban Seoul.
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If you're looking for a change of scene this winter, try Switzerland, Turkey, or China.
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The new APMF survey of the best Asian tourism destinations has just kicked off, but it's crowded at the top, with Chiang Mai in Thailand just leading from perennial favourites Hong Kong, Bangkok and Phuket in Thailand, and Bali in  Indonesia. Be one of the first to vote and let us know your reasons.
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Travel: Gallery: Be dazzled by the grandest places on the planet to stay.
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Seven of the 10 bestselling dailies are in Asia, a result of rising incomes and literacy levels.
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Shanghai, a financial and economic center of China, pledged to build itself into an air transport hub for Asia and Pacific region and a key link in the world&#39;s aviation network
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Free trade agreements are flying around East Asia these days, with even South Asian neighbor India, getting a piece of the action.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51109)  has announced the addition of Chemicals in Asia-Pacific to their offering  The Chemicals in Asia-Pacific industry profile is an essential resource  for top-level data and analysis covering the Chemicals industry.