GlobalLogic Appoints New Chief of Asia Pacific / Managing Director for India
MCLEAN, VA–(Marketwire – 09/16/10) – GlobalLogic, the leader in software R&D services, has appointed Sunil Singh as Chief of Asia Pacific and Managing Director of India. A current resident of Silicon Valley, Singh will relocate to New Delhi to manage GlobalLogic’s Indian operations and market development, as well as guide the company’s overall business strategy in the Asia Pacific region. “As …

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The XVI Asiad will be held in Guangzhou, China from November 12, 2010 to November 27, 2010. Guangzhou will be the second city in China to host the games after Beijing in 1990. 41 events are scheduled to be contested, making the most events to be ever competed in history of the Asian Games.

Symbol of Asian games

Five sporty goats, dubbed “Le Yangyang,” will serve as the mascots of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou. The five goats, A Xiang, A He, A Ru, A Yi and Le Yangyang, are a play on Guangzhou’s nickname, “City of Goats,”. This is a stylized form of a ram/goat which in Chinese traditions is a blessed animal which can bring good luck to the people. It’s also a representation of the host city – Guangzhou is called the “City of the Rams” or “City of the Five-rams”. The mascot design came from a legend about five immortals who took five goats to Guangzhou, each holding an ear of corn in its mouth. There, the immortals prayed for an end to famine, then flew into the sky as the five goats turned into fossils.

Sports in 2010 games

Officially there are 42 sports, among them 28 are featured in Olympic Games while the rest added as unique to the Asian Games. Cricket, DanceSport, Dragon Boat, and Weiqi will debut in this games,while Bodybuilding dropped because of the judging controversy during 2006 Asian Games.

Cricket a new entry in asian games

The 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China will feature cricket for the first time. The proposal to include cricket was approved at the Olympic Council of Asia’s General Assembly in Kuwait recently. The four Asian Test nations have committed to sending their best available teams, though as all but Bangladesh have home series scheduled at the time the event takes place, the strength of those teams may not be full strength. Cricket has featured in multi-sports events before. The South Pacific games has had cricket as a discipline for a number of years, and will do so again this year, but this is the highest profile such event since the 1998 Commonwealth Games. For more information see here

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Charles Tannock Hosts Hearing: How do Democracies in Europe, the Middle-East and South Asia React to Terror.
“It will be fundamental to world security if the Pakistani army truly starts fighting terrorism with an intent to comprehensively defeat it instead of ambivalently”, Conservative British MEP Charles Tannock said in agreement with the former director of the Indian intelligence service (RAW) Vikram Sood at a hearing in the European Parliament. read more

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ASIA: India Growing Strongly, Japanese, Korean IP Up India has joined China in the front ranks of the world’s fastest growing economies.It confirmed yesterday that its economy grew strongly in the three months to March and for the financial year ending the same month.The Indian government said growth jumped to an annual rate of 8.6% in the March quarter, which boosted the financial year growth to 7.4%, ahead of the government forecast of 7.2%.The … Read more on Yahoo!7 Finance

OECD raises global growth forecast due to Asia The global economy is recovering faster than expected from recession with Asia leading the way, but it is at risk from huge debts in developed countries Read more on National Post

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Oman Air Appoints Regional Manager – Asia Pacific
22 March 2010 Oman Air has appointed Chris Phipps as Regional Manager – Asia Pacific region. Chris comes with a wealth of experience in the airline industry. Prior to joining Oman Air, he was working as the Regional Manager for Qatar Airways in Libya.

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