04/06/2014 Asia Business Report

police. Now on BBC News all the latest

business news live from Singapore. Crisis plan, Thailand's military

rulers lay out their strategy to restore investor confidence and keep

the economy moving. No catching, could this be the future of computer

technology? We go to the biggest tech show in Asia to find out.

Welcome to Asia Business Report. Thailand's military rulers announce

a series of emergency measures aimed at averting an economic crisis. Two

weeks after taking power in a military coup. 30 proposals are

being discussed, including a price cut on fuel and an offer of loan

guarantees for small businesses. They want to push ahead with

infrastructure projects that were stalled under the ousted

government. The army says it will act on a backlog of investment

applications worth more than $21 billion. Jonathan Head reports.

The last time the generals run this country eight years ago, their

ham`fisted efforts to manage the economy were derided. This time,

they have inherited a shaky economy, compounded by falling

confidence, high levels of consumer debt and an unpredictable

international environment. Their first measures have been

crowdpleaser is. Making overdue payments to rice farmers and cutting

the price of cooking gas and diesel fuel. And, the stock market and

consumer confidence indices have awarded the two makers with small

jumps. TRANSLATION: The new Government should attract more

foreigners because right now everyone is afraid to come to

Thailand. They should reduce prices of the daily needs we have, money

doesn't go as far as it used to. Want immediate reassurance the

military has given is to revive the huge infrastructure projects of the

government it ousted. This will be one of the main terminals for a

massively expanded Metro rail network for Bangkok. The military

wants to push ahead with the ousted government's high`speed rail routes

and introduce some version of its price support schemes for crops,

which is ironic when you think the military coup supporters condemned

the government policies as being irresponsible populism. The military

will face the same dilemmas as the politicians in the end. How to

balance being popular with being financially responsible and how to

stimulate investment without also stimulating more corruption.

IATA has identified 30 companies that could provide tracking systems

to prevent aircraft from going missing. The aviation industry has

been scrabbling for a solution since MH370 vanished in March. The body

says measures to prevent it happening again could be available

in four months. They need to be affordable and comprehensive. We

need to fill the gaps in the non` Raid environment. `` we need to

track the aircraft where it isn't under surveillance for instance, the

polar regions. Their coverage over different parts of the oceanic

regions, the Atlantic, the Pacific, over into all of the Indian Ocean

region and then there are some regions over landmasses ``

non`radar. You have areas of Russia and areas within China. The senior

Vice resident for safety and flight operations at IATA. The US is

slapping import duties of up to 35% on Chinese made solar panels. The

new levies are set to escalate the trade war in the industry that began

in 2012. The US commerce Department says solar panel components imported

from China are being subsidised in a way that damages American

manufacturing. It is claimed that Chinese exporters have been avoiding

earlier tariffs by outsourcing the production of sales to countries

like Taiwan before assembling them in China. Russia and China plan to

set up a joint ratings agency to assess investment project between

the countries and to make trade between them easier. The stand`off

by Moscow with the west of the Ukraine has made it eager to

establish institutions that would reduce its dependence on the US and

Europe. Google services are disrupted in China ahead of today's

anniversary of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. In a blog by

centre set watchdog rate via .org it is claimed the government has been

targeting Google search engines, Gmail and other services as last

week. The ruling party has been controlling public discussion of the

anniversary, but some activists have been detained. Within 40 years, the

world's population will grow by 2 billion people to more than 9

billion. Most of us will live in cities. That means it is crucial to

create systems that keep big urban centres running like clockwork with

everything from transport and infrastructure to security systems.

The vice president for security and transportation at the global firm,

Callas, and he says talent is a romance with 3 billion cars in the

world and travel expected to increase twofold. We have to do

something and the challenge will be how to manage innovative services ``

Thales. Cutting costs, being more green and environmentally friendly.

How easy is that? None of this is unknown. Every government knows they

will have to deal with the growing population. The question is, where

the growth will be and making sure the services that the growth

patches. Is that a complex task? No it isn't. You need to look for quick

wins. What we have done in London to increase the capacity of the queue

by 23%. We are doing the same in Singapore. What we have done in

Brisbane to look at free float holding, with a 70 cents reduction

in incidence and eight cutting journey times. `` 70%. Talking about

the flow on the tube. How do you increase it? Modern technology.

Signalling. We can push the trains closer together, thus putting more

trains on the track and improving capacity. Less waiting time at

stations. What is the city at the future going to look like? Will it

be different from what we know a city to be like today? Absolutely.

With that rate of growth. We need to concentrate on connecting the modes

of transport we already have. Looking at the data that comes from

the systems also. Using that data in intelligent ways. Ensuring we can

connect to services. For a citizen, assuming he or she is getting a

seamless journey, a personalised journey. More to the point, getting

a journey. That is the biggest challenge. Making sure everyone can

get to where they need to go Stoneville it with the choice that

they won't. Rating news, first`quarter GDP numbers from

Australia come into 1.1% of the quarter, 3.5% of the year and that

is a little better most economists expected. Is there something you

would like your computer you to do that it cannot now do? There is a

myriad of innovations on display in Taiwan at Asia's biggest computer

and technology show, Computex. Our correspondent takes a look at their

gadgets. We are getting a glimpse of the latest trends in technology.

They will shape this industry in the coming months. These technologies

don't apply only to the office, but the home environment also. With me

is Sanjoy. We have a three D camera. We have embedded into the notebook

and it has a great advantage. We are sitting in the bedroom and I want to

have a meeting, but I don't want everyone to see my bedroom. So,

using this technology, I can extract the background and replace it with

my work. And, no one can see your messy bed or your kids or anything.

In exactly. Tell us what we have here. Lets you are in the kitchen

and your cooking and you don't want to do to your computer. What I am

going to do is walk up to the computer, put my head in front of it

and then, I can move the screen around using my hand. I can pick and

menu, open my hand and all of a sudden it will open the page and

take me there. White without touching the screen. Yes. I don't

have to deal with getting the computer dirty. I can't stand so

many cables and wires, do you have a solution? We do we have Intel

wireless charging. You can put down a notebook or a tablet or phone on a

table like this and it will start charging automatically. This is no

ordinary table, is it? We have taken a regular table and put coils on the

bottom of it. We have designed a kit that will allow anyone to do that.

If you have a wireless charging notebook or a tablet or phone, you

can put it on and it will charge those devices as soon as you put it

on. I can show you the example of what it does. If you look at the

table, it has created a... It is lighting the lights where the charge

is quite so you can see where the charge is happening. Just three of a

vast array of products that reflect a growing trend of making technology

user`friendly and practical for consumers.

Now, a quick look at the market. They have opened without much

change. Not much of a lead from Wall Street which was marginally weaker

overnight. The Nikkei is down. That is it for this addition of Asia

Business Report. I'm Mike Embley. The top stories

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