Last Update: Sat Jul 31, 2010 15:47:40 Thursday July 15, 2010
6:07pm From:  Global Clean Energy Report: China Surpassed U.S. as Top Sector Investor in 2009
The United Nations Environment Program and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century today reveal in a pair of new reports that despite an overall financial downturn in 2009, global investments in sustainable energy increased worldwide. Core clean energy investments from private and public sources totaled $162 billion:
Policies that favor the development of a green economy and businesses in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency also increased: more than 100 countries enacted some type of policy target and/or promotion policy related to renewable energy by early 2010.
Thirty eight developing nations had policy targets, and 41 developing nations had a policy of promoting renewable energy. Some segments declined, while others shined of course. Highlights from the clean energy 2009 reports follow below.
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8:10am From:  Oceania Logistics and Express Market OverviewNEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Oceania Logistics and Express Market Overview
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Introduction
This report provi Tuesday June 29, 2010
4:30am From:  Century Casinos Extends Agreement with Oceania CruisesCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Century Casinos, Inc. ( Nasdaq and Vienna Stock Exchange: CNTY) announced today that the company extended its exclusive and long-term agreement with Oceania Cruises.
Oceania Cruises is the world's largest upper premium cruise line with curre Monday June 28, 2010
5:36am Issues In EducationObservation By Foreign Students At UB ( PART ONE) The past decade has marked a significant growth in a major component of "international education"- students from the Minority World (the developed, rich mainly northern countries in Europe and North America) studying for a term or a year at universities in the Majority World ( Africa, parts of Asia, Oceania and South America). Wednesday June 9, 2010
4:30pm From:  Oceania Cruises Announces 'Pillars of Distinction'MIAMI, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Oceania Cruises has launched a multi-million dollar initiative to update and enhance its award-winning fleet. The comprehensive "Pillars of Distinction" program -- the most significant product investment in the company's history -- centers on the three hallmarks of the Tuesday May 11, 2010
5:52pm From:  SHIFT IN BALANCE OF POWER A NO BRAINER - EMs ARE HERE TO STAY AND GROWINTRODUCTION Last Monday Holland's largest financial newspaper published a special on Energy. Using the published data, we could easily derive that the rapid rise of the Emerging Markets and their continued structural advances are easy to explain. Even - or maybe especially - when using the concept of a production function.
Micro Economists came up with this concept. The production function describes the technical relationship between the inputs that are necessary to create products and services on the one hand, and the generated output on the other. For the purpose of this presentation we define four different inputs: 1) Technology 2) Labor 3) Capital 4) Energy
THE WEST LOSES ITS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE Historically..... Tuesday April 27, 2010 Friday April 23, 2010
2:58pm From:  Oceania Cruises to Offer First-Ever Alaska Cruises for Summer 2011MIAMI, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The great land of Alaska will join the list of destinations visited on the award-winning itineraries of Oceania Cruises for summer 2011. Highlights include two full days of glacier cruising and a mix of marquee as well as off-the-beaten-path ports, the latter a hallma Thursday April 1, 2010
11:54am Maybank-JBIC US$200m credit pactMALAYAN Banking Bhd (Maybank) (1155), the country's biggest banking group, has entered into a new US$200 million (RM652 million) credit facility with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), a Japanese government-owned financial institution.
This is in addition to the US$200 million signed in May last year.
Maybank said under the latest deal, the US$200 million additional facility will be used to support customers which have business relations with Japanese enterprises in Malaysia and other Asean member countries, where Maybank or its subsidiaries operate.
Maybank president and chief executive officer Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar and JBIC resident executive officer for Asia and Oceania, Ryuichi Kaga, signed the agreement in Kuala Lumpur.
On Monday, JBIC had signed an agreement to extend credit of up to..... Monday March 29, 2010
12:03pm JBIC offers region's firms US$300m fundsThe Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) will, through regional banking group CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, provide US$300 million (RM984 million) in long-term financing to small- to mid-sized businesses in Southeast Asia.
The two parties formalised the arrangement, said to be the largest the Japanese government-run JBIC has ever provided to a commercial institution, in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
The funds are meant to support firms in the region that have Japanese links. Loans will be channelled through CIMB Bank in Malaysia, CIMB Niaga in Indonesia and CIMB Thai.
"This is particularly for small- to medium-sized enterprises which continue to face difficulty obtaining long-term financing," JBIC's resident executive officer for Asia and Oceania Thursday March 4, 2010 Tuesday February 23, 2010 Monday February 22, 2010 | |