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Japan-Nth Korea game given green light
SI.com
Both Japan and North Korea qualified for the 2010 World Cup and will be favorites to progress from Group C, which also includes Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Japan, the reigning Asian champion, is unbeaten since Italian coach Alberto Zaccheroni took over ...
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People living with HIV suffer from stigma and discrimination – report
Manila Bulletin
The report, entitled “People Living with HIV Stigma Index: Asia Pacific Regional Analysis,” was launched on the fourth day of the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), held last week in Busan, Republic of Korea. ...
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Tesco admits defeat and abandons Japan venture
Herald Scotland
Tesco said Japan was the weakest country for sales growth in its 2010-11 financial year, with like-for-like sales down by 8.1%, way below the performance of other Asiancountries like South Korea and Thailand. “We have concluded that we cannot build a ...
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Herald Scotland
Adachi Makes Case for Mayoralty
Fog City Journal
Co-hosts Francis Mill and yours truly attested to his leadership and organizational skills in forming the Asian Arts Foundation in 1995 including a gala awards night which raised over $150 thousand for artists, writers and filmmakers. ...
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Fog City Journal
Asia to add 1.66 mln millionaires by 2015
Reuters India
Slideshow A view of the new house (C) of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Indian energy company Reliance Industries, in Mumbai October 23, 2010. Ambani, his wife and three children have moved into the 27-story building, named Antilia, after a mythical island ...
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Coty Prestige bottles the essence of Bottega Veneta
MoodieReport
Our expectation is that Asia, Europe and the Americas, in that order, will be the key regions for the brand.” At the Milan launch event, Bottega Veneta Worldwide Director of Media & Special Events/US Communications Director William C Daley confirmed ...
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PPO's Maestro Ochanine to conduct 'colossal' works
GMANews.TV
Ochanine sat down with GMA News Online for an exclusive interview to discuss the soundscape of the 29th season of the PPO, the country's national orchestra and widely acclaimed as one of the top musical ensembles in the Asia-Pacific region. ...
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GMANews.TV
Brazil seeks more aviation sales in Africa
UPI.com
Embraer's push in Africa follows recent sales in Asia. On Aug. 11 the company delivered the first of its E-190 jets to China's CDB Leasing Co., Ltd. at the company's headquarters in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil. The aircraft will be operated by China ...
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Murray Transforms Glencore From Marc Rich Legacy With Foreign Legion Vigor
Bloomberg
He has headed Deutsche Bank AG in Asia and been taipan -- Cantonese for “big boss” -- of billionaire Li Ka- shing's business empire. At age 63, he became the oldest man to reach the South Pole unaided, on a 58-day slog during which he lost 50 pounds ...
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P&F Descending Triple Bottom Breakout - ING, IPHI, ISS, ITB, ITG
Health Talk & You
It operates in six business segments: Retail Banking, ING Direct, Commercial banking, Insurance Europe, Insurance Americas and Insurance Asia/Pacific. In November 2009, the Company completed the sale of annuity and mortgage businesses in Chile to Corp ...
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Boston Herald (blog)
Naturally Venice boasts an impressive roster of European, Middle Eastern and Asian works. Russia brings a new Faust, Italy's Emanuele Crialese, a past Gold Lion winner, returns with Terraferma, France's Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, ...
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Cameron Art Museum names Brennan director
StarNewsOnline.com
Anne Brennan has been serving as acting director since Deborah Velders' departure in February to take the position of deputy director of Asia Society Texas in Houston. Contributed photo By Ben Steelman After conducting a six-month, nationwide search ...
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U.S. Auto Sales May Have Stalled in August
Bloomberg
(7203), Asia's largest automaker, may report an 11 percent decline in deliveries, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. That would be the fourth consecutive monthly decline of 10 percent or more following March's tsunami and ...
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Shooting Star – EWV, FXP, HDGE, NBG, OMN
Retirement Planning
The Bank's branch and ATM network in Greece is comprised of 570 banking units and 1472 ATMs, throughout the c ountry. After acquisitions in SE Europe and Eastern Mediterranean, the Bank's network overseas includes 1189 units. ...
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Music & Me: Emmy the Great
The Independent
Now based in London, the singer-songwriter sang with Noah and the Whale before making two solo albums, First Love (2009) and Virtue (released this June). "Metallica" by Metallica, which is how I discovered the 'c' word. I took it to my parents and ...
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New CCI Buy Signals - EDU, EEB, EEM, EES, EFG
Health Talk & You
The Index is a subset of the MSCI EAFE Index, and constituents of the Index include securities from Europe, Australasia (Australia and Asia) and the Far East. The Index generally represents approximately 50% of the free float-adjusted market ...
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Global Logistic Properties and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Form Joint ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Global Logistic Properties (GLP) is Asia's largest provider of modern logistics facilities. It owns, manages and leases out 337 completed properties in 127 logistics parks spread across 27 major cities in China and Japan, forming an efficient logistics ...
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Why Melanesians are blonde resolved?
Discover Magazine (blog)
Australian Aboriginals are not present in the HGDP panel, so there is no clarity on blondism in those populations, or amongst other indigenous groups in Southeast Asiaand Oceania. If these are deep ancient variants then this may span all these ...
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A charter for torture
New Statesman
It's a view echoed by Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch, who says that the detainees' well-being is put second to western armies' convenience. "The US, UK and others with troops in Afghanistan want to be able to capture real or alleged ...
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New Statesman
Cybersecurity Focus Increasing as Organizations Adopt New Computing Models
MarketWatch (press release)
While the majority of respondents suffered damages as a result of cyberattacks, more respondents reported a decline in the number and frequency of attacks compared to 2010. There were some positive findings. Seventy-one percent of organizations saw ...
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Conceptuality becomes the CPS Group
WalesOnline
CPS now has offices on both sides of the Severn Bridge and has divisions specialising in providing permanent and contract/interim resource solutions to hundreds of organisations through the UK, EMEA and Asia. The consultants within the group operate in ...
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Editorial: “Thumbs” for August
Pomerado Newspaper Group
This is the latest example of how the community comes together when tragedy strikes. While we hope occasions necessitating such assistance are rare, it is comforting to know strangers will step forward to help in these types of circumstances. ...
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Barclays Capital (BCS) Analysts Initiate Coverage on Praxair, Inc. (PX)
NewsyStocks.com
Also, analysts at Citigroup (NYSE: C) reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of Praxair, Inc. in a research note to investors on Thursday, July 28th. They now have a $120.00 price target on the stock. Shares of Praxair, Inc. traded up 0.19% during mid-day ...
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PHL needs to post 10 percent growth by second half to attain ambitious target
Manila Bulletin
Using constant 1985 prices, the Philippine economy's highest growth was recorded in the second quarter of 2010 when the economy posted a growth of 8.9 percent. "Based in historical numbers, we had the 8.9 percent growth. This came about in the first ...
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IBM : Expands Power Licensing As Leading Developers Eye New Applications
4-traders (press release)
IBM also announced a Value added Reseller (VAR) agreement with C*Core, China's leading designer of embedded-processor solutions, to expand market channels for Power architecture in China.C*Core joins a growing list of Power partners around the globe, ...
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Zardari in Urumqi
Sri Lanka Guardian
Syed Mehdi Shah had accompanied Zardari to Guangdong in China to attend the inaugural function of the 16th Asian Games at Guangzhou in November last year. He was extended VIP treatment by the Chinese authorities on par with the other members of the ...
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