The lunch time crowd walk on the promenade in front of skyscrapers of the Marina Bay Financial Center in Singapore July 12, 2012. Across the Asia-Pacific, estimates have slipped 1.4 percent, and globally they have been cut by 1.2 percent. Southeast Asia, however, is showing resilience and is expected to benefit further from a commodity boom, greater foreign investment and government-driven investment in infrastructure projects. [Photo/Agencies] |