$3 billion |
The estimated value of investments made by Chinese business in Indonesia this year. Total Chinese investment in Indonesia has reached over $6 billion – mostly in the infrastructure, energy, agriculture and food sectors.
The figure represented an over 21-fold increase compared to six years ago. During his visit to China, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Chinese President Hu Jin Tao had pledged to triple bilateral trade to $30 billion over the next five years. |
2.23 |
The average number of children each Vietnamese woman had last year, up last year, up from 2.12 children in 2003, according to surveys by the General Statistics Office in mid-2004. This figure is expected to rise, says the Vietnam News Agency. The country has embarked on a plan to lower the population growth from 1.38% last year to between 1.1% and 1.14% in the near future. |
45 million |
Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi International Airport will be able to handle this amount of passengers in its initial phase. The $3.7-billion airport, which is located 25km east of downtown Bangkok, will be expanded and upgraded to handle up to 100 million passengers and 6.4 million tones of cargo annually in three to five years’ time. |
4th |
Singapore is the world’s fourth-largest-foreign-exchange centre, and Asia’s second-largest after Tokyo; its forex turnover rose 24% from the last survey three years ago to US$125 billion in April 2004. |
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[ Source: Asia Inc Magazine ] |
