ASIA News, Aug 29, 2011

Bidvest increases diluted earnings BusinessLIVE Bidvest said Asia Pacific continued to deliver strong results. Deflation on food products was evident for a large part of the year, impacting trading margins. Bidvest Europe's overall result was lower. Adverse factors included a challenging economic ... See all stories on this topic » BusinessLIVE

First time pavilions from India and Japan reflect new industry trends Search-Autoparts.com As Asia's largest trade fair for automotive parts, accessories, equipment and services, the show is expected to house a record-breaking 3600 exhibitors under one roof, compared with more than 3100 exhibitors in 2010. The fair is organized by Messe ... See all stories on this topic »

Sesa Goa may slide as Supreme Court bans mining in Chitradurga India Infoline.com Net profit of Gillette India declined 86.51% to Rs 2.51 crore on 16.20% rise in net sales to Rs 292.28 crore in Q4 June 2011 over Q4 June 2010. On a consolidated basis, net profit of C & C Constructions declined 19.7% to Rs 24.27 crore on 24.5% rise in ... See all stories on this topic »

Five Finalists Chosen for the 2011 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award Iran Book News Agency Previous year's winners of the Book Award include James C. Scott for The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2010) and Duncan McCargo for Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (2009). See all stories on this topic » Iran Book News Agency

Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo Hatches Six Greater Flamingos Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News These beautiful birds are found in habitats such as marshes and estuaries on several continents including Africa, Asia and Europe. The greater flamingo has a distinctive black-tipped bill that curves downward, which helps the animal feed on small ... See all stories on this topic » Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News

Zircon's take-off may be only the beginning of boom The Australian In a recent announcement, Alkane Resources (ALK) noted that strong zircon demand, combined with a tightening supply, had fuelled a dramatic increase in prices. Contracted zircon prices from mineral sands companies were $US1700 to $US2000/tonne in the ... See all stories on this topic »

SCTA plans to set up museums: Prince Sultan Arab News Al-Ghabban added that DNA and C-14 tests proved that the artifacts found during the excavation were 9000 years old. He said the team found 80 valuable artifacts from the area, while previous excavations referred to Asia as the first place where man had ... See all stories on this topic »

GCLL, QSPW and NNAN: Nanomaterial and Clean Tech Stocks With News For Investors Small Cap Network Guo is an ex-Regional Director for BP Solar where she worked for 15 years and she has been named by Asia Law Business magazine as one of "China's Top 10 In-house Counsels." On Friday, Quantum Solar Power closed at $0.970 (QSPW has a 52 week trading ... See all stories on this topic »

Training camps athletes love Cincinnati.com Phillips 2b, Lewis lf, Votto 1b, Bruce rf, Frazier 3b, Stubbs cf, Hanigan c, Janish ss, Cueto p Today's game: 1:10 pm vs. Washington at GABP Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson gets playful at his 2010 ProCamps Worldwide camp. ... See all stories on this topic »

Spectrum A to Z Computerworld New Zealand Band plan selection will be critical, with the Asia Pacific plan (likely to be formalised at a meeting of the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva in January 2012) appearing to be the most favoured. This allows for 45MHz paired bands (one for ... See all stories on this topic »

THAILAND: Persecution of torture victims and the legalization of impunity in ... Asian Human Rights Commission News The Asian Legal Resource Centre wishes to draw the attention of the Human Rights Council to the systemic persecution of torture victims in Thailand. Thailand acceded to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of ... See all stories on this topic »

Camels are the new cash cow for the UAE gulfnews.com Emiratis and Arabs contribute to 75 per cent of the local sales while Asia makes up 15 per cent and Europe and America make up 10 per cent. Al Ain Dairy reports similar demand. "Demand is very high and is increasing based on the increase in awareness... See all stories on this topic » gulfnews.com

Elder Bar Turned Green - LEA, LEO, LF, LGF, LGI Health Talk & You As of December 31, 2010, it had 19 joint ventures located throughout Asia, as well as five in North America, three in Europe and Africa and one with operations in all three regions. Dreyfus Strategic Muni. (NYSE:LEO) went up 0.50%, to close at $8.08 ... See all stories on this topic »

P&F Descending Triple Bottom Breakout - RBS, RBS/PM, RSH, RT, RTI Retirement Planning As of May 31, 2011, a traditional internat ional franchisee operated one Wok Hay full-service Asianrestaurant. The Company-owned and operated restaurants are concentrated in the Northeast, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest regions of the United ... See all stories on this topic »

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LATIN AMERICA News, Aug 29, 2011

India attempting to deepen trade ties with Latin America Livemint Exports to Latin American countries rose 72.5% in 2010-11 to $10.7 billion (`49327 crore), according to latest commerce ministry data. However, India shares a trade deficit of $3.2 billion with the continent, with imports growing at 34% to $14 billion ... See all stories on this topic »

Arianespace... South American-Based Soyuz Stable (Launch) SatNews Publishers The latest ATV, Edoardo Amaldi, is currently being brought by ship to Kourou. "Its scheduled launch is February 28 2012," said Le Gall, who said there was "a small margin" for bringing it forward if need be, but this would only be by a few days given ... See all stories on this topic » SatNews Publishers

Bluefield Prepares for Coal Show State Journal Registrations have been received from China, South America and South Africa. “It's a big deal,” Meachum said. “This is the largest exhibition of underground mining equipment in the eastern United States. We're expecting between 6000 and 7000 to attend ... See all stories on this topic » State Journal

Hugo Chavez continues battle with cancer The State Column The third round of cancer treatment takes place three months after it was revealed that the Latin American leader is suffering from cancer. Mr. Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba that removed a cancerous tumor from his pelvic region in June. ... See all stories on this topic »

Sydney Anglicans and the threat to world Anglicanism ABC Online Similarly, there are links with conservative movements in the Church of Ireland, in the New Zealand church, in South Africa, and in the US and Canada. Sydney Diocese has also been closely involved in the formation of the breakaway Anglican Church of ... See all stories on this topic » ABC Online

Ten things to know about Farm Progress Show Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette The concert will be at Richland Community College, just south of the Farm Progress Show exhibit field. Gates open at 5 pm Tickets for the concert (which are not included in the admission price to the regular Farm Progress Show) cost $15 in advance and ... See all stories on this topic »

Madness on the high seas TheChronicleHerald.ca In The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Laffoley takes a look at the gruesome axe-killings of a ship's captain, second mate and the captain's wife as the Herbert Fuller sailed for South America from Boston with a load of lumber. ... See all stories on this topic »

State Dept. Aggressively Pushed Genetically-Modified Crops to Help ... AllGov US officials have used “outreach programs” in Africa, Asia and South America, where Western biotech agriculture has not been established. In one cable, American diplomats sought funding from Washington to send US biotech experts and trade industry ... See all stories on this topic » AllGov

Montreal fest wild for Belgian comedy Variety The Glauber Rocha Award for Latin American Film went to Sergio Teubal's Argentinian-Mexican co-production "The Finger." Documentary award was shared by Matej Minac's Slovakian-Czech pic "Nicky's Family" and Marina Goldovskaya's Swedish-Russian pic ... See all stories on this topic » Variety

Artist who turned Kalashnikov's into guitars inspired title of our new album ... Scottish Daily Record And a trip to South America by frontman Rich Archer helped him broaden his musical horizons for the follow-up to the altogether darker Once Upon A Time In The West. Rich, who made the trip with his girlfriend, soaked up the different cultures he ... See all stories on this topic »

How the Serve Went Over the Top New York Times “Most of the countries that play soccer — all of Europe, South America and even Africa — built clay courts,” Faribault said. “And the serve, not being a weapon on clay, didn't receive as much emphasis. A lot of the clay-court players just spun in a ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Organized Crime and its Dominion in Mexico & Central America Mexidata.info Law enforcement officials are faced with private and commercial aircraft transporting multi-tons of drugs from South America into Central America for distribution north. Venezuela and Honduras are main conduits among these trafficking routes. ... See all stories on this topic »

Chuck Raasch: Give the freshmen some slack The News Journal “Amazon has never been just a river in South America.” - “The only significant labor disputes in their lifetimes have been in major league sports.” - “There have always been at least two women on the Supreme Court, and women have always commanded US ... See all stories on this topic »

Nuclear threat from the Korean Peninsula The Voice of Russia Americans are always clever, they did not want to pay and they wanted to make SouthKorea and Japan to pay for that, for supply of energy resources, but when those countries decided that it is a bug burden for them, Americans washed their hands and the ... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

USA star Hyleas Fountain leads heptathlon after two events USA Today DAEGU, South Korea (AP) – Hyleas Fountain of the United States took the early lead after two events in the heptathlon at the world championships on Monday. By Matt Dunham, AP American Hyleas Fountain won the 100-meter hurdles and high jump portions of ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

The Shrewd Transfer Policy of Villarreal Spanishfootball.info South America is a hotbed for talent, with abundance to choose from and players being relatively cheap and Villarreal have found the perfect model to make money. The likes of Diego Godín, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Birmingham flop Luciano Figueroa, ... See all stories on this topic » Spanishfootball.info

Tropical Storm Irene wreaks havoc in southern Vermont BurlingtonFreePress.com The most-recent public statement from Vermont Emergency Management can now be found at the end of this story. The statement includes the latest road closures, which are extensive and include major state and US routes and various local roads in large ... See all stories on this topic »

Nashville or Nuremburg? American Thinker (blog) Gibson Chairman Henry Juszkiewicz was livid at this latest bullying of Gibson by the US Justice Department. In 2009, they had staged a similar raid and, while no charges have been filed, the DOJ refuses to return the confiscated property. ... See all stories on this topic »

Casino attacks prompt police force overhaul in Mexico National Post (blog) Rooting out corruption in the police has taken time, and the past two years have seen a sharp rise in drug-related killings in Nuevo Leon, notably in Monterrey, which was once seen as a role model forLatin American development. ... See all stories on this topic »

Profit From High Iron Ore Prices With Cliffs Natural Resources Seeking Alpha In the latest quarter, this segment was split into American iron ore and Canadian iron ore as a result of Canadian acquisitions, but as these did not affect the past year's results, this split will be ignored for the time being. Production in 2010 was ... See all stories on this topic »

Whither political accountability? Republica ... country in three decades, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a hero for stabilizing Brazil´s hyper-inflation and making it an economic power in South America, and Paul Kagame as having made the difference in Rwanda after the genocidal killing of 1994. ... See all stories on this topic »

The Man Who Declared Himself Emperor of the US Voice of America (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: The small city of Colma, California is just a few kilometers south of San Francisco. Many people visit the city each year to see the burial place of one very unusual man in Colma's Woodlawn Cemetery. These visitors come to see a ... See all stories on this topic »

This Week in Flagler and Tallahassee: Scott at the Chamber, Early Voting and ... FlaglerLive.com Pinellas County also has a concentrated African-American population, in south St. Petersburg, that is drawn into districts that have made it likely that black lawmakers – or at least Democrats – will represent the area, for example, Rep. ... See all stories on this topic » FlaglerLive.com

Outdoor Briefs (8/29/11) Log Cabin Democrat Originating in South America, it surfaced on Lake Hamilton approximately four years ago, but only recently started being a problem for some lakefront property owners. GREENBRIER — The first Greenbrier Great Outdoors Expo is scheduled for Saturday, ... See all stories on this topic »

Opinion: Veterans of the CIA's secret air force denied again Vancouver Sun A report to the United States Congress by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) late last month argued retirement benefits should not be given to the 500 or so surviving employees of Air America, the CIA-owned air force that was an essential part ... See all stories on this topic »

New York escapes worst IRENE MAY COST BILLIONS IN DAMAGE Arab Times Kuwait English Daily Localized flooding occurred in the south and east of Manhattan, with more serious incidents in Brooklyn, where the famed Coney Island amusement park took a battering and outlying beaches were swamped. There was particularly heavy flooding along the ... See all stories on this topic »

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