Qantas chief says China, India key to Asian expansion
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SYDNEY : Australian airline Qantas said that China and India are key to its plans to expand in Asia, with flights to Beijing likely to start within a year.
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Economies in developing Asia are expected to expand 7.7 percent this year, higher than the 7.2 percent initially projected, thanks to booming growth in China and India, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday.
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Growing demand for resources in Asia is being served by a group of big Western companies.
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By Liu Baijia  If the number of times a CEO visits any given market is an indication of its importance, then China must be very significant for Australian telecom giant Telstra.
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CANBERRA - Australia wants to base counter-terrorism teams in Southeast Asia, the government said on Monday as it traded blows with opposition Labor over the best way to wage the war on terror ahead of an Oct. 9 election.
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India and around 10 other countries will remain excluded from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum for at least three years, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced Sunday.
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The Dalai Lama warned nations on Tuesday not to try to contain China's economic and military emergence, but urged countries like Australia to use their trading clout to pressure Beijing on human rights.
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Record high oil prices are likely to trigger a rash of airline mergers and tie-ups, accelerating a wave of consolidation in the aviation sector, the head of Australian carrier Qantas said on Wednesday.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called on Sunday for intensifying cooperation between Asia and Europe to enhance political dialogue and better respond to security threats.
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VIENTIANE, Laos  - Japan and India courted  southeast Asian leaders Tuesday, a day after China signed a  landmark deal with ASEAN to create an Asian free trade market  of 1.8 billion people by 2015.
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QANTAS should open up its share register rather than seek another airline owner if British Airways ever decided to sell its stake, Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon said yesterday.
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Airbus plans to source more parts for its planes from China and to establish an engineering base there, the head of the plane maker&#39;s Chinese operations said yesterday.
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Barring negative impacts on the aviation industry, such as global terrorism, Australia&#39;s flagship carrier had an upbeat future, Qantas&#39; chief executive Geoff Dixon said.
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Cathay Pacific Airways , Hong Kong's flagship airline, will support any possible bid made by Air China group for China Eastern , chief executive Tony Tyler said on Wednesday.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao took centre stage Thursday ahead of an Asia Pacific summit with trade and climate change high on the agenda of his talks with the leaders of Australia and the United States.
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India is not seeking to contain China  and peace and stability in Asia are in the common interest of  both the world's fastest-growing major economies, Prime  Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.
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THE Commonwealth Bank is set to become the first Australian financial institution to enter mainland China&#39;s commercial and retail banking sector.