The IoS pink list 2009 in full The Independent | 1 (last year's rating 64) Peter Mandelson | First Secretary of State; Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills; Lord President of the Council | Where do we start? At the time of last year's Pink List he was a mere EU Trade Commissioner planning his summer holiday in Corfu. Unknown to...
Coke Committed to China Expansion Business Week | Muhtar Kent, chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola (KO), isn't letting the company's failed bid to acquire a Chinese rival stand in the way of his enthusiasm for the China market. On June 23, Kent made his first trip to China since anti-trust regulators in Beijing vetoed in March the company's...
Deutsche Post CEO plays down Arcandor fallout The Guardian By Fang Yan SHANGHAI, July 2 (Reuters) - Deutsche Post DHL will be affected by the insolvency of German retailer Arcandor AG and its mail-order unit Quelle but will not suffer badly from the fallout, its chief executive said on Thursday. "If you have...
Telairity Names Ben Silva as Sales VP for Communications, Media and Entertainment The Examiner Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE | SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Map) - Veteran Media Technology Exec Will Handle IPTV Markets in USA and Overseas Sales in Asia-Pacific Region | SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Telairity to...
The IoS pink list in full The Independent | 1 (last year's rating 64) Peter Mandelson | First Secretary of State; Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills; Lord President of the Council | Where do we start? At the time of last year's Pink List he was a mere EU Trade Commissione...
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Stung by agents Hong Kong Standard In the article "Travel agents take to the streets as airlines plan to slash commission" (The Standard, June 24), the agents warned they may be forced to charge travelers fees to ma...
Anniversary China's excuse for a crackdown on dissent The Australian | CHINA has stepped up a massive security operation in preparation for the Communist Party's gala celebrations of its 60 years in power on October 1, but a growing number of locali...
A Subdued Trading Day in Asia and Europe The New York Times | Asian shares closed mixed and European shares were essentially flat Friday after unemployment reports released the day before reinforced the idea that a recovery was still a ways...
Boehner Reaches Into Bag of Tricks to Disrupt Democrats The New York Times | WASHINGTON - Representative John A. Boehner came to Washington in 1991 as a rabble-rousing Republican willing to disrupt the House to score points against powerful Democrats. Now, as the House Republican leader in a town again dominated by Democrat...
Repository of History Has Items Disappearing The New York Times | WASHINGTON (AP) - Visitors to the National Archives here know they will find the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda. | But they can no longer find the patent file for the ...
Were They Just Paper Airplanes? The New York Times | LOOKING back, students of the Tab Express flight school could see the danger signs. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Matt Stroshane for The New York Times | The DeLand Municipal Airport in Florida. | They remember the long waits to use air...
HK lawmakers discuss Disney expansion plan Philadelphia Daily News | The Associated Press | HONG KONG - Hong Kong lawmakers said Saturday they would be unwilling to approve a plan to expand the city's Disneyland unless the government and Walt Disney Co. tell them how the theme park has performed since it opened in 2005. | Walt Disney and Hong Kong last week agreed to expand their joint venture, Hong Kong Disneylan...
World markets try to gauge slump in U.S. Houston Chronicle | LONDON - European stock markets traded in a narrow range Friday as investors caught their breath after big losses the day before on U.S. jobs data. Wall Street's closure for the Independence Day holiday kept trading volumes exceptionally light. | The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed up 0.1 percent while Germany's DAX fell 0.2 perce...
