Asia tested as music industry seeks to boost sales
HONG KONG (AFP) - Rampant piracy and a crumbling market for CDs has put the music industry in Asia under immense pressure, but experts are hoping that technology and social media will help fill the...
AFP Finance News -
Friday July 3, 2009, 5:07 pm
Markets 1: Down, Up, All Around
A slow end to a big quarter for global markets, with the big question now, where to next? On Wall Street, the Dow slipped 82.38 points, or 0.97% Tuesday to end the quarter at...
Australasian Investment Review -
Wednesday July 1, 2009, 8:30 am
Hong Kong yet to emerge from financial crisis
HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong has still to emerge from the effects of the global economic slowdown despite early signs of returning stability, the city's chief executive Donald Tsang has said.Tsang...
AFP Finance News -
Sunday June 28, 2009, 3:49 pm
OZ Minerals Gets Its Money
OZ Minerals has got its cash stash and big mine and it's now up to the board and management to make a second go of it. In fact so in favour with investors is OZ Minerals now, that the shares rose...
Australasian Investment Review -
Thursday June 18, 2009, 8:22 am
UAE foreign trade outlook positive: HSBC survey
DUBAI (AFP) - Businesses in the United Arab Emirates are more confident of brighter trade prospects than their peers in financial hubs Hong Kong and Singapore, world banking giant HSBC said in a...
AFP Finance News -
Monday June 15, 2009, 1:05 am
Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull in Hong Kong
HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong officials have found traces of cocaine in cans of Red Bull, a few days after Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases of the popular energy drink.Officials...
AFP Finance News -
Tuesday June 2, 2009, 1:57 pm
