Earlier this month, I attended OpenWebAsia – South East Asia (South EAsia/a>) in Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia, a two-day tech and web industry event that attracted over 350 international attendees. The event shined a spotlight on a market that’s still largely overlooked: a whopping 600 million people live in South EastAsia, which boasts a rapidly growing web and mobile population.
What follows is a short summary of just a few presentations, panel discussions, and startup demos I witnessed at OpenWebAsia (those with a focus on Asia only). I will update this article with more material once it becomes available (find the agendas for day one and two here and here.....
COCONUT OIL exports for the first seven months have surpassed exports for the whole of 2009, preliminary data from the United Coconut Association of the Philippines show.
Abu Sayyaf co-founder pleads guilty in US courtWASHINGTON HAS pledged to provide the Philippines with $18.4 million worth of precision-guided missiles this year to use in its fight against militants in Mindanao, according to a military document seen by Reuters.
WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department announced that Madhatta Haipe, a citizen of the Philippines and founding member of Al-Harakat Al-Islamiyyah, also known as the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), pleaded guilty today in federal court in the District of Columbia to four count
SJAM failed to safeguard clients' assets and engaged in deceitful and improper business practices, the SC said. The company was also found to have given the SC false and misleading information.
"We are working closely with the police and regulatory counterparts in other countries as part of our investigations into the affairs of SJAM," an SC spokesperson said in a statement that was released yesterday in Kuala Lumpur.
SJAM, a licensed fund company incorporated in 1992, manages regional investments in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea.
On July 27, the SC asked the High Court to wind up the fund management company pursuant to Section 361 of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007.
"The winding-up of SJAM.....
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