Singapore is top location for outsourcing

Singapore is now the world's top location for outsourcing, a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit said.

The Republic's 22.6 offshoring projects per million people beat 59 other countries, the study showed. EIU looked at data gathered by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Pakistan: Mobile phone subscribers's digit crosses 18m

KARACHI: The number of cellphone subscribers crossed 18 million mark last month leaving behind an earlier forecast, which predicted 16 million mobile phone users by December 2005.

The figures compiled by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority suggest that by October 2005 cellular density in the country stood at 11.95 compared with 10.98 registered in September 2005.