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Olympus Shares Plummet
Wall Street Journal
By KANA INAGAKI Asia Today: There's controversy at Olympus following the ouster of its first non-Japanese CEO, Michael Woodford. Also, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. plans to cut up to 20% of its workforce. WSJ's Isabella Steger and ...
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US lawmaker urges F-16 C/D sale to Taiwan
eTaiwan News
Yang said he hopes Japan and the US will help Taiwan join a regional security mechanism in East Asia. "The lack of Taiwan's participation in such a mechanism will create a loophole in maintaining security in the region," he said. ...
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Citigroup 3Q Profit Jumps 68% On Accounting Adjustment, Intl Strength
Wall Street Journal
Consumer spending abroad, particularly in Asia, improved revenue but couldn't offset the hit from declining investment banking and trading business that suffered in the third quarter at all major Wall Street banks. Revenue from capital markets ...
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FMG fears ore price slip
Sydney Morning Herald
''Most of that appears to be a carry-over from the financial uncertainty in Europe and I think once that is sorted out we will see most of the volatility and cautiousness in the Asian markets disappear.'' EL & C Baillieu analyst Adrian Prendergast said ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
A Short History Of Animal Domestication
Science 2.0
Fortunately, recent developments in genetic and statistical technologies have finally allowed researchers to explore domestication in greater detail and for a variety of species; the themes of their latest findings have just been reviewed in a new ...
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Top industry experts set to gather at Thin Film Summit in Berlin
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
... consolidation of the market, and ever increasing competition from c-Si and Asia. However, it is not all doom and gloom, as the global thin film market is set to grow at a CAGR of 32.4% over the period 2010–2014. Recent figures suggest that it will ...
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Halliburton Announces Third Quarter Earnings of $0.94 Per Diluted Share From ...
MarketWatch (press release)
We set company records for revenue in the third quarter in both our Latin America and Middle East/Asia regions. The strong sequential operating income growth was driven by improved activity in Latin America and Asia. Project delays in Iraq and the ...
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Afghanistan: Irreconcilable Differences
Washington Bangla Radio
By South Asia Intelligence Review/IBNS Evidently, these are colossal challenges, and the temptation to lapse into the make-believe of aid-driven development, democratization, 'peace processes', 'negotiated settlements', and deals with the 'good ...
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Climate change downsizing fauna, flora
ABC Science Online
Overfishing has been blamed for decreased body size in both wild and commercially-harvested aquatic species, threatening the key source of protein of a billion people around the world, mainly in Africa and Asia. But experiments and observational ...
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ABC Science Online
Delhi on alert for Sikh strike
Associated Press of Pakistan
LAHORE,Oct 15 (APP)- International Cycling Union and Asian Cycling Confederation have greeted President,Cycling Federation, Munawar Baseer Ahmad on his recentelection. Both the bodies have congratulated PCF on its recent elections in a democratic and ...
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Octagon Global Regulatory Affairs Expert Nancy Smerkanich to Present at 2011 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Octagon also has European offices based in London, UK, and Asia-Pacific offices in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.octagonresearch.com . Octagon Clinical Research Solutions India Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Octagon ...
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Liquidnet Launches Global Institutional Platform for Fast Growing Private ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Trading in the shares of private and pre-IPO companies has expanded rapidly in recentyears, highlighted by interest in such Internet-leaders including Facebook, Groupon and Twitter. Kerner and his team will work with the largest institutional ...
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Cain's 2012 Campaign Built on the Fly Fights to Keep Momentum
BusinessWeek
Above all, it means preventing himself from becoming the latest in a succession of fiscally and socially conservative candidates -- including Texas Governor Rick Perry and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann -- who have only briefly challenged ...
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Stocks Bear Market Primary B Wave Rally Continues
The Market Oracle
After Major wave A concludes, the market should experience a fairly big pullback for Major B, then rally again to complete Major wave C. Since this recent rally has been quite strong, we have added another Fibonacci retracement level to the current ...
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Nigeria: Mobile Health Technology Is Key to Repositioning Nation's Healthcare ...
AllAfrica.com
Stakeholders at a recent mobile health (mHealth) workshop put together by MTN Nigeria, voted in favour of adoption of the mobile healthcare system. Already, a United Nations report notes that this system has capacity to help meet four of the eight ...
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Emkay sees 46% upside in GMR Infra
Myiris.com
GMR has emerged as one of the largest road developers in India with 1285 km of highway in its portfolio after the recent win. KUA in totality appears to be value accretive for GMR infrastructure. (Q,N,C,F)* This project in addition to the developer ...
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The Average Decrease Of Global Warming
The Market Oracle
If we tried the question: What were average temperatures in Europe, Africa, America orAsia through the period of for example 1450-1550 ?, we can and do have theories on that subject, for example using tree ring, ice carrot, glacier advance and retreat ...
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Campus diversity on the rise
Central Florida Future
From the fall 2009 to fall 2010, Hispanic attendance increased by 1961 students, African-American attendance by 973 students and Asian-American attendance by 409 students. Becoming "more inclusive and diverse" was one of the five main goals set forth ...
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Body Talk with Gareth 'Gaz' Holgate, The Silent Volcano
Philippine Star
A recent visitor (for some magazine photo shoot, meet-and-greet with the children of Child Hope Asia Philippines and teach them rugby, and to present donations to some schools, etc.), Gaz might join showbiz, according to his manager Leo Dominguez whose...
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Consumer Power Shifts to Developing Markets
AdAge.com
"I don't think there's any question, if someone looks back at our company 10 years from now, they'll wonder if the leadership of the company at this time took the right steps to move the center of gravity of the company more toward Asia, ...
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AdAge.com
Futures lower as Eurozone reverses
optionMONSTER Research (registration) (blog)
Asia-Pacific markets closed broadly higher overnight, with only India's Sensex falling. European indexes gapped higher but are now trading lower on the day, pulled down US futures with them. A meeting of the G-20 finance ministers this weekend sent a ...
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Shares jump on Euro optimism
The Age
Australian shares have resumed their recent strong gains after more signs that euro zone leaders are working to resolve their debt woes helped buoy overseas markets at the end of last week. 2.56pm: In case you missed it, this article about how ...
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