Fastfact 22 August 2012

Co-op to venture beyond property sector (Business Times)




Call to restore flights to Mumbai, New Delhi: AirAsia (Business Times)
Virgin Atlantic to launch London-Manchester route (Business Times)




New breed of premium farmers (Business Times)



Samsung to spend US$4b to lift US chip production (Business Times)
Sharp to sell 2 plants, cut 3,000 more jobs (Business Times)
Facebook at half-price: Which way now? (Business Times)



Maybank draws bullish calls (Business Times)
Alliance sees rich pickings in wealth management (Business Times)



Bahrain invites Malaysian businessmen(Business Times)



Vietnam bank mogul's arrest spooks investors(Business Times)
China entering danger zone, says Japanese central banker (Business Times)
Surprise deficit puts Britain's austerity off track (Business Times)
Spain borrowing costs dip but crunch coming (Business Times)




Stronger US economy to Malaysia bourse (Business Times)
Ekuinas said to have bought Omni (Business Times)
'China should boost rare earths imports' (Business Times)
China's CAO ends Johor oil storage terminal project (Business Times)
Chatime Malaysia expands in the north (Business Times)
100 new Caltex stations in the pipeline (Business Times)
ACE Jerneh open to mergers and acquisitions (Business Times)
Taiwanese investors eye S-E Asia(Business Times)




Indonesia idles 70pc of tin-smelting capacity (Business Times)
China, Singapore sovereign funds invest in US LNG plant (Business Times)
Australian coal miners expect short-term gloom, long-term boom (Business Times)
Shell to spend US$1b a year on China shale gas (Business Times)
US$30b bid for Xstrata is not a 'must-do deal', says Glencore (Business Times)
Indonesia idles 70pc of tin-smelting capacity (Business Times)
Damage to US job market reversible? (Business Times)
Bogle's blueprint for enlightened investing (Business Times)

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