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been brought in by police. Now on BBC News, all the latest business | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
news live from Singapore. Crisis plan, Thailand's military rulers lay | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
out their strategy to restore investor confidence, and keep the | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
economy moving. And no touching, could this be the future of computer | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
technology? We go to the biggest tech show in Asia to find out. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
Welcome to Asia Business Report. Thailand's military rulers announce | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
a series of emergency measures aimed at averting an economic crisis, two | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
weeks after taking power in a military coup. 30 proposals are | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
being discussed, including a price cut on fuel, and an offer of loan | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
guarantees for small businesses. They want to push ahead with | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
infrastructure projects that were stalled under the ousted government. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
In addition, the army says it will act on a backlog of investment | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
applications worth more than $21 billion. Jonathan Head reports from | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
Bangkok. The last time the generals ran this country, eight years ago, | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
their ham`fisted efforts to manage the economy were derided. This time, | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
they have inherited a shaky economy, compounded by falling confidence, | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
high levels of consumer debt, and an unpredictable international | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
environment. So their first measures have been crowd`pleasers, making | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
overdue payments to rice farmers, and cutting the price of cooking gas | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
and diesel fuel. And the stock market and consumer confidence | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
indices have rewarded the two measures with small jumps. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
TRANSLATION: The new Government should attract more foreigners, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
because right now everyone is afraid to come to Thailand. For me, they | :01:51. | :02:03. | |
should reduce prices of the daily needs we have, money doesn't go as | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
far as it used to. One immediate reassurance the military has given | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
is to revive the huge infrastructure projects of the government it | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
ousted. This will be one of the main terminals for a massively expanded | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
metro rail network for Bangkok. The military wants to push ahead with | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
the ousted government's high`speed rail routes, and introduce some | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
version of its price support schemes for crops, which is ironic when you | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
think the military coup's supporters condemned the government policies as | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
being irresponsible populism. In the end, the military will face the same | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
dilemmas as the politicians ` how to balance being popular with being | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
financially responsible, and how to stimulate investment without also | :02:52. | :02:52. | |
stimulating more corruption. IATA stimulating more corruption. IATA | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
has identified 30 companies that could provide tracking systems to | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
prevent aircraft from going missing. The aviation industry has been | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
scrabbling for a solution since MH370 vanished in March. The global | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
airline body says measures to prevent it happening again could be | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
available in four months. They need to be affordable and comprehensive. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
We need to fill the gaps in the non`radar environment. We have to | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
look at those areas where we need to track the aircraft where it isn't | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
under surveillance, for instance, the polar regions. They're covered | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
over different parts of the oceanic regions, the Atlantic, the Pacific, | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
over into all of the Indian Ocean region, and then there are some | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
regions over landmasses. You have upper areas of Russia and areas | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
within China. The senior Vice resident for safety and flight | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
operations at IATA. `` vice president. New figures out in the | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
last hour show Australia's economy grew 1.1% over the past quarter. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
3.5% for the year. That is the fastest pace in nearly two years. It | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
follows moderate consumer spending and booming resource exports. The | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Australian dollar has risen on the strong GDP number. The US is | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
slapping import duties of up to 35% on Chinese made solar panels. The | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
new levies are set to escalate the trade war in the industry that began | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
in 2012. The changes are in response to claims that the Chinese exporters | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
have avoided earlier tariffs are outsourcing production to regions | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
like Taiwan before assembling them in China. Russia and China plan to | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
set up a joint ratings agency to assess investment project between | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
the countries and to make trade between them easier. The stand`off | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
by Moscow with the west of the Ukraine has made it eager to | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
establish institutions that would reduce its dependence on the US and | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
Europe. Google services are disrupted in China ahead of today's | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
anniversary of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. In a blog by | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
censorship watchdog rate via .org it is claimed the government has been | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
targeting Google search engines, Gmail and other services as last | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
week. The ruling party has been controlling public discussion of the | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
anniversary, but some activists have been detained. Within 40 years, the | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
world's population will grow by two billion people to more than nine | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
billion. Most of us will live in cities. That means it is crucial to | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
create systems that keep big urban centres running like clockwork with | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
everything from transport and infrastructure to security systems. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
The vice president for security and transportation at the global firm, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Callas, and he says talent is a romance with three billion cars in | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
the world and travel expected to increase twofold. ``Thales. We have | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
to do something and the challenge will be how to manage innovative | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
services `` Thales. How easy is that? None of this is unknown. | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Everyone has to deal with the growing population. The question is | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
exactly where the growth is going to be and making sure the services | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
match the growth patches. Is that a complex task? No it isn't. You need | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
to look for quick wins. What we have done in London to increase the | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
capacity of the queue by 23%. We are doing the same in Singapore. What we | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
have done in Brisbane to look at free float holding, with a 70 cents | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
reduction in incidence and eight cutting journey times. `` 70%. | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
Talking about the flow on the tube. How do you increase it? Modern | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
technology like signalling. We can push the trains closer together, | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
thus putting more trains on the track and improving capacity. Less | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
waiting time at stations. So what is the city of the future going to look | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
like? Will it be different from what we know a city to be like today? | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Absolutely. It's got to be, with that rate of growth. We need to | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
concentrate on connecting the modes of transport we already have. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Looking at the data that comes from the systems also. Using that data in | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
intelligent ways. Ensuring we can connect to services. And a citizen | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
in a city, making sure he or she is getting a seamless journey, a | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
personalised journey. Is there something your computer can't do | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
now? There is a myriad of innovations on display in Taiwan at | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
Asia's biggest computer and technology show, Computex. Our | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
correspondent takes a look at their gadgets. We are getting a glimpse of | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
the latest trends in technology. They will shape this industry in the | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
coming months. These technologies don't apply only to the office, but | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
the home environment also. With me is Intel's Sanjoy. What we have here | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
is a 3`D camera. We have embedded into the notebook and it has a great | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
advantage. We are sitting in the bedroom and I want to have a | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
meeting, but I don't want everyone to see my bedroom. So what we do is, | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
using this technology, I can extract the background and replace it with | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
my work. And, no`one can see your messy bed or your kids or anything. | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
Exactly. Tell us what we have here. Let's you are in the kitchen and | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
your cooking and you don't want to do to your computer. What I am going | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
to do is walk up to the computer, put my head in front of it and then, | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
I can move the screen around using my hand. I can pick a certain menu, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
open my hand and all of a sudden it will open the page and take me | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
there. White without touching the screen. Yes. I don't have to deal | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
with getting the computer dirty. I can't stand so many cables and | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
wires, do you have a solution? We do, we have Intel wireless charging. | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
You can put down a notebook or a tablet or phone on a table like this | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
and it will start charging automatically. This is no ordinary | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
table, is it? We have taken a regular table and put coils on the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
bottom of it. We have designed a kit that will allow anyone to do that. | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
If you have a wireless charging notebook or a tablet or phone, you | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
can put it on and it will charge those devices as soon as you put it | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
on. So I can show you the example of what it does. If you look at this | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
table, what it has done is it has created a... It is lighting the | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
lights where the charge is quite so you can see where the charge is | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
happening. Just three of a vast array of products that reflect a | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
growing trend of making technology user`friendly and practical for | :10:06. | :10:06. | |
consumers. For more on all that is consumers. For more on all that is | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
on show there, log onto our website and check out our technology page. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Now, a quick look at the market. They have opened mainly down, but | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
barely moved. Not much of a lead from Wall Street, which was | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
marginally weaker overnight. The Nikkei is down. Traders found few | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
reasons to buy. The SNP is down 20. Hang Sang is down 111. And that is | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
it for this edition of Asia Business Report. The top stories this hour: | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
Syrian authorities are talking of a high | :11:01. | :11:02. |