Asia-Pacific Cities of the Future -2011/12

FDI Intelligence , a branch of Financial Times listed the Cities for the Future in Asia-Pacific based on factors like :

• Business friendliness
• Economic Potential
• Cost effectiveness
• Human resources
• Infrastructure
• Quality of living
• FDI Strategy

These cities were short listed from 141 cities across Asia-Pacific region and Singapore leads overall ranking.Below is the top 10 cities of the future:

In "Quality of living index"  Canberra, Australia tops the list followed by wellington, New Zealand. Singapore ranks 9 just above Gold Coast,Australia.Below is the top-10 cities based on quality of living: 

The judging panel consists of :

• James Ku, MD, Indev Partners
• Roy Melick, Partner and Chair,Asia-Pacific Structured real estate  group, Baker & McKenzie
• Anup Amprakash,Partner,Mercer
• Sanjay Verma,CEO,Asia-Pacific,Cushman&Wakefield
• Lawrenceyeo ,CEO&Pricipal Consultant,Asia BIZstrategy

Click here to go FDI Intelligence page

Mesmerizing Monday -11

Jean Sibelius ,one of the great composer of  the Romantic period. He was born in Finland and composed some great music.Finlandia was his most famous work. He wrote this piece to support freedom of press.This piece has since became 'sort of' national anthem for Finns. When i listen this peice , i always feel something dark then jubilation.Im not able to say in words the feelings created by listening this piece.

Jean Sibelius

 This composition brings all emotions something all Finns identifies with and we too will get different experience when we listen.Jean  Sibelius wrote this piece in 1899 when Finland was under Russian masters.This is one good example of how music can arise people to fight. Listen and Arise...