 Straits Times During the Championship, three-time Masters and Open Champion Sir Nick Faldo (above) will speak at a private dinner for players and officials, assuming the inspirational role filled in recent years by Gary Player (China, 2009) and Ryo Ishikawa (Japan, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Straits Times |
Philippine Star
By Nelson Beltran (The Philippine Star) Updated September 23, 2011 12:00 AM 0 Marcus Douthit dominating inside game has powered the Smart Gilas to the quarterfinals of the Fiba-AsiaChampionship. FIBAASIA.NET WUHAN – Going up against a team it has ...
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Manila Standard Today
by Mila C. Espina Cebu had been lucky to host two international events in September, the EASTAsia Inter-Regional Tourism Forum and the visit of US Ambassador Harry Thomas and the US 3D Event at SM City. Governor Gwendolyn Garcia masterfully handled ...
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China Daily
Meanwhile, defending champion Hong Kong was drawn with Malaysia, Chinese Taipei and Brunei in Pool B of the second and final ranking tournament of this year's HSBC Asian Sevens Series. The region lost in heart-breaking sudden-death overtime to South ...
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China Daily
The arms sale is the latest irritant in the relationship. Recent spats include Washington's decision to challenge Chinese duties on US poultry products and accelerating momentum in the Congress to pass legislation pressing China to loosen controls on ...
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| FedEx shares tumble as global growth stalls Telegraph.co.uk "Slower international trade growth will limit the company's ability to capitalise onrecent international expansion," said David Vernon, an analyst at Sanford C Bernstein. However, FedEx said it would stick with its $4.2bn (£2.7bn) investment plan, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Telegraph.co.uk |
FXMarketAlerts.com
The surge in USD/Asians in recent days has already attracted plenty of attention from Asian central banks, and potential gains today will continue to force more central bank tempering. Meanwhile, in China, voices for the govt not to buy Euro debts have ...
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| VFTB's Failsafe five-step strategy to guarantee your kid a spot in Princeton Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) In our family's case, we're just hoping we don't have to fall back on our daughter's safety school, the Louisiana Truck Driving Academy for Asian Drivers. Here at VFTB, our expert staff of college planning advisors and part-time Wal-Mart greeters has ... See all stories on this topic » |  Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) |
Detroit Free Press
As the world's economic growth axis tilts increasingly toward Asia, Gov. Detroit School of the Arts 2011 graduate Sherelle Garrison , 17, says she was shocked last week to... Serves: 6 / Preparation time: 10 minutes / Total time: 40 minutes Quinoa is ...
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Open Democracy
In what is seen as a response to Chinese moves in South Asia, India embarks on joint oil and gas exploration with Vietnam in South China Sea. After last week's Kabul attacks, US sharpens tone with Pakistan. Romania joins European missile-defence shield ...
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| Debutant in England hoping to make his mark Yonhap News Park Ji-sung may play for Manchester United, a club with a history that is even more glittering than Arsenal, a team that has been English champion 13 times, but the elder statesman of East Asian soccer has never played in the K-League. ... See all stories on this topic » |  Yonhap News |
Investor's Business Daily
ETFs tracking Hong Kong small caps, Russia, Indonesia, Argentina and Asia excluding Japan fell 6% to as much as 15%. They were all more than 28% off their recent highs. Yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to a record low of 1.76%. ...
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Manila Bulletin
Sun interjected saying Binay's “support in the polls is very high” in reference to the Vice President obtaining the highest approval and trust ratings anew among key government officials in the latestPulse Asia survey results. ...
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eTaiwan News
"The amount of cricket India are playing, they just cannot survive," West Indian great Michael Holding wrote in a column in The Asian Age newspaper this week, adding his opinion that players had their priorities wrong. "Look at Harbhajan Singh, ...
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New Era
The recent revelation by WikiLeaks that former US Ambassador to Namibia, Dennise Mathieu, sent diplomatic cables saying HE Hifikepunye Poh... Regular patrons of the Woermann Brock Supermarket in Klein Windhoek, /Ae//gams Centre may have noticed the ...
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Middle East North Africa Financial Network
This is an instance in which extrapolating from recent experience can be highly misleading. The second long-term tendency, related to the first, is that those who have made loans will ultimately wish to be repaid. The United States has run a current ...
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Wall Street Journal
FedEx ($66.80, -$5.70, -7.86%) on Thursday cut its fiscal 2012 earnings guidance as it reported a 22% rise in first-quarter profit, weighed by the global slowdown in trade that has been particularly acute on shipments from and within Asia. ...
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Seeking Alpha
Looking at the geographic mix, total revenue broke down as follows: Americas at 54%; Europe, Middle East, Africa at 36%; and Asia-Pacific and Japan at 10%. Our growth was well balanced geographically, with Europe and APJ each up about 31% ...
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| Why America and France clash on Palestine Salon Lending credence to the official stance in Ankara that all neighbors are equal, it issued three recent ultimatums -- one to an Arab state, one to a Jewish state and one to the European Union. The first was for President Bashar al-Assad's regime in ... See all stories on this topic » |  Salon |
| Sbarro's is Out and Pei Wei is in at MSP Jaunted On a recent layover at the airport, we almost stopped in our tracks—on the moving sidewalk—when we discovered that Sbarro was on its way out in favor of Pei WeiAsian Diner. Sure it's one chain restaurant for another, but we've always thought of PF... See all stories on this topic » |  Jaunted |
| Markets News Friday: Markets recover from global swoon on Thursday following ... FinFacts Ireland In Asia Friday, markets pared losses and European shares have risen following a pledge of support for the global economy by the G-20, representing the biggest developed and emerging economies. DCC said today that it is to acquire from Rontec... See all stories on this topic » |  FinFacts Ireland |
Chinadaily USA
Her recent book Profit Power Economics, which was described by none other than Nobel Prize winner Thomas C. Schelling as "intellectually courageous", looked at how companies could seek out new areas to increase their profit. She argues businesses have ...
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The Statesman
“It is our strong view that these sales will make a significant contribution to Taiwan's air defense capabilities because it is upgrading the backbone capability of Taiwan's air force,” US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs ...
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| Old rivalries dominate Asian basketball Bangkok Post Wang Zhizhi (R) and Sun Yue (L) of China watch teammate Yi Jianlian (C) scoring against Japan during their second round match between China and Japan at the 26thAsian Basketball Championships in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on September 21, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Bangkok Post |
BusinessWorld Online
The US central bank said it would sell $400 billion of short-term Treasury bonds to buy the same amount of longer-term US government debt, its latest attempt to kickstart growth that slowed to a crawl over the first half of the year. ...
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| Asia stocks slide as G20 gets cool response Portfolio.com South Korea, where the main stock index fell more than 4 percent, became the latestemerging economy to pledge action to stem its falling currency on Friday after Brazil moved to protect its currency from a sharp slide, in what appeared to be a sudden ... See all stories on this topic » |  Portfolio.com |
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