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The 2012 International CES was the largest in the event's 44 year history, with a record number of more than 3,100 exhibitors across the largest show floor in CES history � 1.861 million net square feet of exhibit space � and drawing a record of more than 153,000 attendees, including more than 34,000 international attendees.

Las Vegas, Nevada, January 10, 2012 – The 2012 International CES® opened its doors today featuring a record number of exhibitors, more than 3,100 companies on a show floor that will exceed 1.85 million net square feet of exhibit space. Pre-show media events with innovative product launches kicked off the 2012 CES, with cutting-edge products including ultrabooks, voice and gesture-based technologies, smartphones and OLED TVs.

Many of us wonder, what is the most important key while doing business in China? Well, Theodore Justin Novak, Senior Associate Director of the Investment Department at DTZ in China has the answer for you. The key to success in China is simple. “Follow the government” and “localize.”
Novak, leader of the institutional sales team of DTZ, visited South Korea as a guest speaker for the 2011 Asia Pacific Financial Forum. DTZ, the real estate adviser listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1987, has been operating in China as the first real estate advisor to enter country in 1993. In Greater China DTZ operates 18 offices, and Novak is responsible servicing fund managers, institutional investors and bankers at the company’s Shanghai office.

I am pleased to join The Asia-Pacific Business & Technology Report as Managing Editor.

Beginning with this issue, I will also be contributing this monthly column (“New & Notable”) on innovation in Asia, covering technology, fashion, legal and business issues relating to the dynamic economies of the Asia-Pacific.

It hardly takes any convincing to any one who matters, that we need a Productive, Practical and Proper (3P) solution for the North Korean Nuclear Stand Off, in order to gain Peace, Progress and Prosperity (3P) on the Korean peninsula.

Mutual trust and cooperation is the core mantra of the 3P formula to solve the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula.

Donald Kirk, based in Seoul and Washington DC., arrived in South Korea for the first time in 1972 and interviewed Kim Dae Jung in his home, which was watched by Korean Central Intelligence Agency people lurking in the ally. He interviewed Mr. Kim again before the 1980 Kwangju revolt, saw him during his exile to the United States and covered his campaigns for presidency in 1987, 1992 and finally in 1997 when Mr.

The last quarter of the 20th century has seen radical changes in Southeast Asia.

The entire set up of the Southeast Asian countries have undergone transformation and have been the center of attention of many significant countries throughout the world. Just the way technological advancements have affected the entire world, the Southeast Asian countries have not been spared either.

We are in the threshold of change. Never has any generation in the past witnessed so many changes as we are seeing today.

Experimentation, innovation and technology are leaping forward at break neck speed and it all needs to be supported by information technology so that enterprise business processes and enterprise interaction with partners and customers is enhanced.

The Global Positioning System (GPS), the global navigation solution developed by the United States and which depends on a network of satellites to provide its users with time and location information wherever in the world they may be, has been making inroads into and gaining acceptance elsewhere in the world in recent years, from Asia onwards.