61.  Often Asian companies put more effort into trade with the U.S. than with Europe, and the same is true for European companies.

62.  Now, Asian companies are using Alpine bonds as a way to tap Swiss demand for dollar bonds, cutting their costs in the process.

63.  Now, interest rates in Asia are as low as or lower than those in the United States, current accounts are in surplus and Asian companies are restructuring.

64.  Officials now are hoping to lure U.S. and Asian companies to use the islands as a transport and manufacturing site for goods destined for Western Europe and Africa.

65.  One reason is a lack of support to provide information and referrals on Asian companies willing to trade with local counterparts.

66.  One is globalization, which has brought a wave of Asian logging companies to the Amazon.

67.  Peregrine failed amid millions of dollars of loans to largely insolvent Asian companies.

68.  Peregrine sank this month under the weight of hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to largely insolvent Asian companies.

69.  Price growth will be restrained by falling unit wage costs and tough price competition on world markets as Asian companies benefit from plunging currencies, the bank said.

70.  Rather than buy Asian companies outright, GM may forge partnerships.