Telkomsel and Nokia today announced their collaboration to offer the Nokia Messaging service, which will be commercially available to Telkomsel subscribers from 26 December 2009 onwards.
Telkomsel is the first operator in Indonesia to commercially launch this service which will allow users to enjoy easy access to mobile email on their [...]
Aboriginals receive a greater say in Pilbara mining operations, as Rio Tinto awards iron ore contract that should see increased employment for indigenous Gurama natives.
Rio Tinto (RTP) has awarded a major new mining contract in its Pilbara iron ore operations to a joint venture between native title holders the Eastern Guruma and mining [...]
Vietnam Mobile Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent solution to enhance and expand Mobifone networks
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has been selected by Vietnam’s CMC Telecom Infrastructure Corporation to deliver its gigabit passive optical network (GPON) solution. CMC TI’s GPON project, the country’s first, will enable the delivery of advanced triple play services – including high-speed Internet, [...]
In the wake of the recent global recession, many investors have looked to Asia to lead the way to recovery.
Emerging economies such as China and India have continued to expand at impressive pace, while Australia was recently one of the first developed markets to raise interest rates. But among these hot zones, [...]
Brunei Darussalam is to ramp up medical research in an effort to combat the rise in lifestyle-related health problems in the Sultanate, while also looking to profit from the burgeoning health tourism industry.
In recent years, there has been a shift in the health-needs of Brunei Darussalam, with an increasing incidence [...]
Indonesia’s IT industry could be in line for an increase in state support, with the government looking to boost funding for infrastructure while backing calls for greater assistance to the domestic software sector.
In late October, the newly appointed information and communications minister, Tifatul Sembiring, said more needed to be done to promote [...]
Last week was a busy time in Papua New Guinea. On Tuesday the Treasurer presented the 2010 budget to Parliament, and as these things tend to do it had something for everyone, most notably a 7.5 billion Kina ($3.2 billion) increase in spending and no increase in taxes. Major beneficiaries were education and government employees, [...]
This past Thursday in the village of Tari in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea a delegation of senior government ministers and members of Parliament were pelted with stones by an angry mob.
The police fired several shots in the air, which were met by a single shot from the crowd. No [...]
The Philippines boasts one of the few banking sectors around the world to have evaded many of the consequences of the US-led financial turmoil.
Certainly much is owed to lessons learned in the form of strong monetary and fiscal policy reforms after the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98. Relatively conservative banking practices also played a [...]
The Asia-Pacific region will become a leader in the world’s aviation market in the next 20 years, forecast an executive officer of the Boeing company.
Asia-Pacific will lead the global aviation market with growing demand and become a new center of the world aviation market in the next two decades, according to Kenneth Yata, VP Business [...]