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Bill Gates questions bailout for Big Three automakers
AFP, Washington
Microsoft billionaire founder Bill dates wondered Wednesday why the US government was considering a bailout for the Big Three US automakers when no private investor was willing to foot the bill.
"After all, they have to say 'it no one else is willing to invest, why is that?' Gates told CNN on the eve of congres sional hearings on restructuring plans and requests by Chrysler, Ford and General Motors for a combined 34 billion dollars in government bridge loans to avert a collapse of the sector.
"What is it that investors are seeing about this business model or cost structure that makes them unwilling, and why, in that case, is the government alone stepping forward in this way?" Gates said.
"When you don't have any private investors you really have to say, is taxpayer money going to have the desired effect?"
Gates suggested tire government look closely at the Detroit automakers' restructuring plans.
"There are very few industries that aren't going to suffer tins (economic) downturn.... How does government take its finite resources and decide how much restructuring or change is expected there?"
And ideally you look at the sign of private investment as part of how you say, 'OK, that really is a good invest merit class."’
Survey renames Tokyo Asia's costliest city for expats
AFP, Hong Kong
Strengthening currencies made Tokyo reclaim the title of Asia's most expensive city for expatriates while Beijing has become more costly than Hong Kong for tire first time, a survey showed Thursday.
"Recent exchange rate fluctuations resulting from this year's economic crisis are having a major impact on the cost of living for expatriates," said ECA International, a human resources firm.
Tokyo is ranked number one in Asia and second most expensive in the world after Luanda, the Angolan capital. ECA said.
The capital of the oil-rich southern African nation ranked highest because some of the key consumer items favoured by expatriates that are monitored in the survey's calculations can be very expensive there.
Last year, Tokyo was Asia's second most expensive city, behind Seoul, but dropped out of the top 10 most expensive cities globally for the first time that year because of the weaker yen.
"While inflation has tripled since last year, increases in cost of living over the last two months for foreigners coming to Japan have been primarily a result of exchange rate movements," ECA said.
US, China vow teamwork amid currency tensions
AFP, Beijing
China and the United States vowed Thursday at a toplevel meeting in Beijing to cooperate in tackling the global economic crisis, even as they sparred over Chinese exchange rate reform.
Following a recent weakening of China's currency, the yuan, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's team pressured his hosts on the contentious issue on the first day of their twice-yearly Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED).
"We certainly emphasised the importance in our view of continued currency reform, and that currency reform is important for continuing to re balance China's economy," a senior US official said on the first of two days of talks.
There was a fair amount of discussion on the Chinese side about the challenges they face but also a restatement of their commitment to continued currency reform," he said, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity.
Dubai developer reviewing mega housing project
AH’, Dubai
A Dubai developer said is reviewing plans for a massive 95-billion-dollar housing project it unveiled just two months ago, in a sign the global economic crisis is beginning to hit the booming city-state.
Government-owned Meraas boasted in October that its mega-project "Jumeirah Gardens" would have some of the city’s biggest towers, in a development to be built over 12 years.
Now the company is revising its plans.
"We are simply reviewing our business strategy, as well as the phasing and rollout of the Jumeira Gardens project to make sure the development proceeds in the most opportune way to meet changing investor needs," it said in statement received on Thursday.
Bv the beginning of2009 there will be more clarity and details on the Jumeirah Gardens master-plan and the product roll-out," it said.