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AVOID LAX BUSINESS CREDIT PRACTICE DURING ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Press Release 2 December 2009: A joint study by Veda Advantage and Coface Australia has found that credit and trade payments can be a bellwether for economic downturn and recovery. European financial market analysis over the past 40 years illustrates that a world economic crisis invariably leads to a liquidity crisis – with significant reductions in trade payments. Not surprisingly, payment incidents flatten out once more when the world economic growth has recovered (see graph below). Read more...

Political integration in Asia
Hans Vriens, Managing Director of Vriens & Partners writes for The Insight Bureau on the integration in Asia-Pacific.Please click on the link to read the article: "Integration in Asia Pacific at a cross roads" http://www.insightbureau.com/insight_articles/FTDO.No46.HansVriens.Dec09.pdf

How to go green: Be energy-efficient
1, December 2009. Big carbon emission cuts can come from simple fixes: ExpertsEFFORTS to use new energy technologies are hampered by businesses' reluctance to toss out their expensive and energy-inefficient equipment, said head of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) energy efficiency and environment division Richard Bradley.That is why boosting energy efficiency is still the best and easiest way to cut carbon emissions before 2030, he said. Read more...

What stance should S'pore take at Copenhagen?
30, November 2009. IN CASE you missed it, there's been more bad news from the climate scientists: The world is on the brink of an environmental calamity. That's the conclusion of the United Nations-sponsored Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Read more...

S'pore pushes for Doha's early conclusion
7, December 2009. SINGAPORE yesterday raised the stakes for an early conclusion of the stalled-Doha trade negotiations, insisting that all countries 'must make hard, painful political decisions for the sake of a stronger multilateral trading system'. Read more...