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LATEST World News, Jul 19, 2011

Chengdu on global top 15 emerging business cities list
China Daily
The Fortune magazine says Chengdu has become increasingly more attractive to the world's top 500 companies. Latest statistics from the Chengdu Municipal Investment Promotion Committee show that by the end of May this year, 193 of the world top 500 ...
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UPDATE 2-FSB backs bank surcharge, imposing bondholder loss
Reuters
By Daniel Flynn and Leigh Thomas PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - The world's top banks will face a surcharge to keep them safe and only top-quality capital can be used, a global regulatory task force said on Monday. A separate measure to wind up banks ...
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MNCs focus on senior Indian professionals for top global roles
Economic Times
Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, is also betting on Indian talent (as it is on business in the country itself) for its global recovery in market share. With this is mind, it has rolled out a series of restructuring measures. ...
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After World Cup, still a long way to go
ESPN
And a little more than a year from now, the best female athletes from around the world will appear on the biggest global stage of all when the 2012 Summer Olympics get under way in London. Clearly, there are many positives to report. ...
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Ortsbo's Live & Global Platform Launches Commercial Release for Windows Azure ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Ortsbo's Top 10 user countries have a combined population of over 3.4 Billion people. International rock legend, accomplished global entrepreneur and one of the world's most recognized personalities, Gene Simmons has endorsed Ortsbo.com, having signed ...
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Ithmaar report wins awards
Gulf Daily News
MANAMA: Ithmaar Bank's 2010 annual report earned international praise, trouncing thousands of entries from around the world, to clinch multiple top prizes at one of the major global award schemes for annual reports. The report, which was developed ...
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Gulf Daily News
The Pacific is Canada's future
Vancouver Sun
By Jack Austin, Special to The Vancouver Sun July 18, 2011 6:13 PM Asia has become the world's top investor in new infrastructure and Asian businesses are becoming more aggressive about investment in world resources. It's time that our provinces got ...
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UPDATE 1-SMIC's management woes add fuel to fire amid sector slowdown
Reuters
HK) (SMI.N), the world's No. 4 global contract chip maker, lost a tenth of their value on Monday amid worries over its management shakeup, a foundry sector slowdown and delays in technology upgrades. China's chipmakers, including SMIC and Grace ...
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Top-Tier Law Firm Minter Ellison Selects Cisco to Deliver "One Firm ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As one-on-one interactions between staff and clients are key in professional services firms, implementing the latest in social networking (supported by business-grade security and policies) is important in retaining and recruiting the best and the ...
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Murdochs, Brooks face questioning by lawmakers
Albany Times Union
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. struggled but failed to contain a UK crisis undermining his global media empire. (STR / AP) Tom Mockridge, the newly appointed CEO of News International is being driven from the headquarters of the company in London, Friday, ...
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Will the debt crisis spell the 'end of euro as we know it?'
Globe and Mail
Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. Given global developments - actually, lack thereof - you'd be tempted to think the World Series of Poker is being played in Washington and ...
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RBA's new normal on interest rates
Sydney Morning Herald
The view is different from the top of the Reserve Bank headquarters in Sydney's Martin Place. While most of us can't see past the thicket of headlines trumpeting the latest possible disaster or hear ourselves above the political screaming match and the ...
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Report: Top swimmers blocked in China
FOXSports.com
It is understood many of the Australian swimmers will opt to not use the sites as the only way for them to tap into their accounts is via their home mobile networks, which could cost hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of dollars in global roaming fees. ...
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Get Yourself A Global Strategy
Fast Company
This can be a qualitative statement such as "Be the number 1 player in mobile gaming in the top 5 world markets by 2014", or a quantitative target such as "Generate 50% of our revenue from outside the US by 2016"--or a combination of both. ...
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Whitecaps in pursuit of Owen Hargreaves
Globe and Mail
Hargreaves, 30, grew up in Calgary, left for Bayern Munich at 16 and has starred at top levels of global soccer. The highlight reel includes his leadership for England at the 2006 World Cup and two UEFA Champions League crowns, with Bayern and ...
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Globe and Mail
Can Harry Potter Charm His Way to a Best Picture Nomination?
Reuters
By Steve Pond at TheWrap "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" has gone where no movie has ever gone before, setting box-office records both in the United States and around the world. But can it go where no Potter film has gone before at the ...
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New Global Model of Alzheimer's Risk Suggests a 25 Percent Reduction in ...
PR Newswire (press release)
In fact, Alzheimer's is the only cause of death among the top 10 in the United States that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed. The World Alzheimer Report 2010 by Alzheimer's Disease International says that dementia is significantly affecting ...
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Seven realizations from the World Cup
ESPN
Here are seven realizations that have been indelibly etched into my sporting consciousness: Joern Pollex/Getty Images Homare Sawa, who finished as the tournament's top goal scorer, celebrates winning the World Cup with Japan coach Norio Sasaki. ...
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World Bank chief slams US leadership on Doha round
Economic Times
The former top US trade negotiator under President George W. Bush says Washington is still the best candidate to lead an effort to close the 10-year-old round of talks meant to add billions to the global economy. Zoellick told a meeting in Geneva on ...
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IBM Earnings Rise, Top Estimate; Boosts Outlook
RTT News
The company's global technology services group reported second quarter revenue of $10.2 billion, up 10.9% from a year earlier. Global business services group's revenue rose 8.5% to $4.9 billion in the second quarter. IBM is the world's biggest computer ...
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Hacking whistleblower found dead in home
TVNZ
The affair has prompted Murdoch to shut down the 168-year-old News of the World, Britain's top-selling Sunday paper, and to drop a bid for highly profitable BSkyB that was a key part of News Corp's global expansion in television. ...
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Foreign Kick for Toy Sales
Wall Street Journal
Both have increasingly enjoyed the tonic of the weak dollar, which has contributed several percentage points to recent top line growth. But just as those benefits have been outsized, the negative effects could present challenges if the dollar were ...
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The Creators Project Returns to NY to Throw Colossal Cultural Extravaganza
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Jul 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Original Studio works include the world premiere of Karen O's psycho-opera at St. Ann's Warehouse The Creators Project, a global cultural and technology initiative by Vice and Intel Corporation, ...
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European shares fall on banks, euro zone debt worries
Reuters
By Joanne Frearson LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - European shares fell on Monday to a four-month closing low, led by banks on worries this week's euro zone meeting would fail to agree a second bailout package for Greece and concerns that the latest bank ...
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Yanks Steinriede and Smith tops at Roxy Pro Biarritz
Global Surf News
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 18 July, 2011 : - - Huntington Beach -- The first stop of the 2011 ASP Women's World Longboard Tour saw a dominant performance by the Californian contingent with Lindsay Steinriede (Dana Point), CA), 28, ...
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Aguila American Gold Limited (V.AGL) Reports: Growing Global Confidence in the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A recent Thompson Reuters report released on June 8th, 2011 cited comments from top economic advisors of the president-elect Humala reiterating assurances to soundly manage one of the world's fastest-growing emerging market economies. ...
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What next?
BBC News
The damage to Rupert Murdoch's multi-billion-dollar global media empire, News Corp, has already become much more extensive than most would have imagined only two weeks ago. The News of the World (NoW) - the UK's most read newspaper - has been shut down ...
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BBC News
The price of gold: as influential as a global power
MinnPost.com (blog)
Experts believe that, if all the opportunities to salvage and recycle gold were exploited, natural resource-poor Japan would be among the world's top five gold-producing nations. In 1511, King Ferdinand of Spain famously declared, "Get gold, ...
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Mulberry Is World's Top-Performing Fashion Retailer
FashionEtc
With stocks gaining 24-fold over the past two years, the label emerges as the top gainer in the FTSE AIM All-Share Index of 805 British stocks, while overseas revenue doubled to £40.5 million (around $65.1 million US) for the year ending March 31. ...
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SE Asia Stocks-Jakarta, Manila at record high; debt woes cut volumes
Reuters
John Teja, director at Ciptadana Securities in Jakarta, said he expects consumer-related stocks to continue to boost the index despite global worries about possible debt defaults in the United States and Europe. In the Philippines, top property ...
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PRESS DIGEST - Thai newspapers - July 19
Reuters
Mitr Phol Sugar Corp, the world's fifth-largest sugar producer, will spend 9 billion baht next year on a new mill in Loei and expansion of its Kalasin mill as the group increases its output on the back of strong global prices. ...
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London's top 2 police resign in 'News of the World' hacking ...
By Associated Press
The high-profile resignations have made it even harder for Cameron to contain the intensifying scandal that is threatening his leadership and knocking billions off of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire. ... Brooks' arrest was the latest blow for Murdoch, the once all-powerful figure courted by British politicians of all stripes. Now Murdoch is struggling to tame the scandal, which has already destroyed the News of the World, cost the jobs of Brooks and Wall Street ...
Staten Island Real-Time News
News Corp Faces Global Investigation Into Bribery [Headlines] - PSFK
News Corporation faces a global investigation of all its businesses to ascertain whether they engaged in the same acts of bribery revealed to have taken place in the UK between News of the World reporters and police. ... “The US justice department traditionally responds to fast-breaking news developments and the fact that there have been resignations and arrests in the UK make it more likely than not that the US authorities will pursue this matter,” he said. ...
PSFK
A Complete List of the Arrests and Resignations in the News Corp ...
The number of people arrested or out of work in connection to phone hacking and bribing police at News Corp. papers is rising practically by the hour. After her resignation of Friday, former chief executive of News International ... And these are just the top level News Corp. folks. At London's Metropolitan Police, both the commissioner Paul Stephensen (pictured above) and the assistant commissioner John Yates have now stepped down and more resignations seem imminent. ...
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poker news: Global Poker Index tracks player's stats
By Mark McKenna
According to USA Today Sports, The Global Poker Index ( GPI) is, “a patent pending system that ranks and tracks the weekly performance of the world's top 300 live tournament poker players.” These tracked rankings will be available at ...
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Dole becomes official supplier to the Rugby World Cup - Sports ...
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Polluted China plans carbon emissions trading scheme | MAARS News
By Valkyries
MAARS News Global - The Hot Breaking News, Sport, Financial, Entertainment, Politics and everything on the headlines. Top Global Headlines! ... But it remains unclear what a future new protocol would call for, with China under pressure to rein in emissions growth since it surpassed the United States as the world's largest greenhouse gas source in recent years. As part of the carbon-trading push, China will promote development of green technologies and products through ...
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World Wedding Guide—Your Window To The Latest Global Trends And ...
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Ethics Newsline® » News » Murdoch Ethics Scandal Continues to Widen
By Carl Hausman
From top world-press stories about what is emerging as one of the major media-ethics cases in recent years: Murdoch published full-page apologies in every national newspaper in Britain last week, reports the New York Times, ... Murdoch's former top editor, Rebekah Brooks, who led the News of the World from 2000 to 2003, during the time when phone-hacking scandal unfolded, was arrested Sunday afternoon on charges related to suspicion of hacking and bribery, NPR reports. ...
Ethics Newsline®
Manufacturing sector performance in FY12 | Pakistan Today | Latest ...
By fraaz
Manufacturing sector performance in FY12. News Comments ... Whereas on the international front export base is likely to suffer as growth prospects weaken in the Euro-area (a major export partner contributing to approx. 25 per cent of the total exports). This along with weakened cotton prices on the global level ($139/lb as of Jun 2011) will fuel pessimistic growth of agri-industrial production. Food Sector: High crop production. Food which contributes almost 19 per cent ...
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Cameron defends actions as scandal fells police ... - Network News
By Arystydes
The affair has prompted Murdoch to shut down the 168-year-old News of the World, Britain's top-selling Sunday paper, and to drop a bid for pay-TV network BSkyB that was a key part of its global expansion in television. ...
Network News
Breaking news! Trees store carbon! | Watts Up With That?
By News Staff
The report includes comprehensive estimates of carbon for the world's forests based on recent inventory data. The scientists included information on changes in carbon pools from dead wood, harvested wood products, living plants and .... If we accept that man made CO2 is responsible for global warming (and I don't). Then all we have to do is preserve the forests that we have already and plant new ones. The trees will provide valuable wood which can be harvested and the ...
Watts Up With That?
Cops And Robber Barons Mowed Down In Britain | Culture of Life News
By emsnews
His empire is crashing as investors flee so the News Corp. is now selling at a 50% Discount. His happy wealth is melting away like glaciers in global warming. Desperately appealing to his investors to give him a break, he has used his ...
Culture of Life News
New News Corp Strategy: Become an Even More American Company ...
By Ken Doctor
News Corp can try to make itself over, as completely and quickly as it can, as an American entertainment company, with global investments (Britain, Italy, Germany, India, the Middle East). That initiative -- we may presume a new CEO some ... For the Journal's sake, as well as for the journalists who work there, it's best to strongly advise the public that it has never practiced what News International did in the UK, and won't. Beyond the Journal, might the focus on News ...
Newsonomics
Strauss-Kahn's ex questioned in attempted rape case | World News ...
By admin
... a case in which he is charged with trying to rape a hotel maid. He denies wrongdoing. The French judicial official spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because the investigation is under way. Source: The Globe and Mail. Top news ... Cash allowances of $500 a day, and an additional $250 for their wives or girlfriends. The 24 members of the executive committee of FIFA — the association that governs the global game and organizes the World Cup — form [...] More news » ...
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AMERICAblog News: Murdochs have lost $1bn from stock free-fall due ...
By John Aravosis (DC)
The value of the Murdoch family's shareholding in News Corp has fallen by $1bn since the political firestorm erupted over the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World. I hadn't realized that the British Prime Minister's former ... He was replaced on 2 February 2011 by former BBC Global News Controller of English Craig Oliver. Coulson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service on 8 July 2011 "in connection with allegations of corruption and phone hacking". ...
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journalists and News of the World | Mamamia
By Mia Freedman
This is not an entirely surprising position for us to be in (yes, I do consider myself a journalist, it's what I write in the 'occupation' bit of forms so it must be true) because traditionally, journalists have not topped the list of most- trusted ... Since the News Of The World (NOTW) hacking scandal has intensified and recieved global coverage these past few weeks, journalists in Australia are being accused – explicitly and implicitly- of some heinous things. ...
Mamamia
Global News Roundup: UN Shipping Agency Sets Efficiency & Carbon ...
A round-up of recent international climate and energy news. ... The IMO says shipping was responsible for 2.7 percent of global carbon emissions in 2007, ... The answer as can best be judged at this stage is probably 'No'. ...
thinkprogress.org/.../global-news-roundup-un-shipping-agenc...
World Bank chief urges broad global trade accord - NewsWires ...
In a speech to the World Trade Organisation that he is to deliver Monday in ... euronews provides breaking news articles from Reuters as a service to its ...
www.euronews.net/.../1014971-world-bank-chief-urges-broad...
MSI Global – News
Type : Product News, Lastest Updated : Thu, 14 Jul 2011 ... single-core world record with a high score of 2501.6. Then, he topped that score this week with ...
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