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CANADA News, Sep 01, 2011


Consumers May Keep Canada Contraction From Becoming a Recession
Bloomberg
Domestic strength has helped insulate Canada from weakness in demand coming from other Group of Seven countries since the 2008 financial crisis. Canada has also avoided bank collapses and posted the G-7's smallest budget deficits, helping to support ...
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Singapore Subsidiary Forms Japan Fund With Canada Pension Plan
Wall Street Journal
By SAM HOLMES SINGAPORE—Global Logistic Properties Ltd., a listed subsidiary of Government of Singapore Investment Corp., said Thursday it formed a US$500 million joint venture fund with theCanada Pension Plan Investment Board to develop logistics ...
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REFILE-CANADA STOCKS-TSX hits near one-month high as banks rally
Reuters
By Trish Nixon TORONTO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index rose for a fourth straight day on Wednesday, trimming August's sharp losses, as strong results from one of Canada's big banks helped lift the heavyweight financial sector. ...
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Foot Washes Ashore in Canada, the 11th Since 2007
ABC News
By COLLEEN CURRY This file photo obtained from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows shoes recovered after they washed ashore in Canada's Pacific coast in 2008 with the remains of feet in them. (Newscom) Another human foot has washed ashore in ...
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ABC News
Feds hot on the paper trail bust international car theft scheme
Detroit Free Press
Drive them to Canada. Report the vehicles stolen or carjacked in Detroit, and then ship them to Iraq. Trouble is, federal authorities say, the schemers apparently didn't think about the inevitable paper trail. On Wednesday, the federal government ...
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Blockbuster to pull plug in Canada
Globe and Mail
After more than two decades, Blockbuster Canada is about to roll its final credits and fade to black by the end of the year. Its receiver was unable to find a suitor for the rental retailer, which was facing burgeoning competition from online rivals ...
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Globe and Mail
Canada amends Dire Straits ruling
BreakingNews.ie
Canada's broadcast standards council has amended an earlier ruling that deemed Dire Straits' 1985 hit 'Money For Nothing' unfit for radio, saying that while the homophobic slur used in the song was inappropriate, it must be taken in context. ...
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Brazil drops Canada
CANOE
By RYAN WOLSTAT, QMI Agency Canada battled hard through three, but fell apart in the final frame on the way to a 69-57 loss to Brazil on Wednesday. It was a tough way to open the FIBA Americas Championship. Canada shot the ball poorly and lacked ...
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Nebraska Governor Tries to Block Oil Pipeline From Canada
Wall Street Journal
But the project has come in for criticism from environmentalists, who argue that producing crude oil from Western Canada's tar sands severely damages the region's environment and that the oil produced is especially corrosive. ...
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Environmental groups hope to block pipeline to Maine
Morning Sentinel
By Tom Bell tbell@mainetoday.com Five environmental groups that hope to halt a controversial oil exploration project are seeking to block a plan to send "highly corrosive" crude oil from westernCanada to Maine. The groups are asking the National ...
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Harper finds new communication director in ranks of ethnic media
Globe and Mail
Stephen Harper has plucked a journalist from the ranks of Canada's ethnic media to be his new communications director, a nod to the success of the Tory strategy to win over immigrant communities by appealing to their social conservatism. ...
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Globe and Mail
Toronto police arrest man on Canada's most-wanted list
Toronto Star
Wasford Uriah Steer was named by Canada Border Services in August when the agency released its list of 32 people wanted or convicted of charges of "serious criminality." He was arrested in Toronto in connection with a prostitution investigation Monday, ...
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How CP put women on the executive track
Globe and Mail
There was a time when women were not the typical face of Canada's national railways. Tracy Robinson remembers. Back in the 1980s, the new sales rep for Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. CP-T attended a Regina meeting, dressed in slacks, ...
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Globe and Mail
Canada's Armstrong easily qualifies for shot put final
CBC.ca
Dylan Armstrong will try to become Canada's first world champion in shot put in Friday's final.Dylan Armstrong will try to become Canada's first world champion in shot put in Friday's final. (Ian Walton/Getty Images) Dylan Armstrong easily qualified ...
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CBC.ca
Diet crisis develops among Inuit people
Montreal Gazette
Six out of 10 Inuit in Canada's Far North don't get enough to eat or are eating the wrong things, says a comprehensive study by a team of McGill University researchers. They warn preventive measures are desperately needed to help ward off diabetes, ...
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Invasive beetle poses threat to Canada's maple trees
Vancouver Sun
The findings have raised a red flag in New England and southeastern Canada about the potential long-term impact of the pest on the colourful fall foliage that drives tourism throughout the region and on the maple syrup industry that's an economic ...
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Jack Layton was a proud Canadian
EMC Almonte/Carleton Place
Known as a "man passionate about Canada and its people," Jack Layton passed away Aug. 22 after a battle with cancer. Layton passed away at his Toronto home, Aug. 22 at age 61, his wife, Olivia Chow (also an NDP Member of Parliament), and children Sarah ...
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Fake Jets jerseys nabbed
Vancouver Sun
The Mounties and Canada border services agents announced Wednesday the seizure of a shipment of 40 counterfeit Winnipeg Jets jerseys, complete with the new logo and shoulder flashes, estimated to be worth $12000. Here, Winnipeg Jets owner Mark Chipman ...
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Leisure Canada Enters Into a Definitive Agreement With 360 VOX Inc.
MarketWatch (press release)
Leisure Canada Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated June 28, 2011, it has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement (the "Share Purchase Agreement") with respect to the acquisition of the ...
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Girls lured into human trafficking in Canada
Toronto Sun
That's the warning coming from people fighting human trafficking in Canada. "There is an instruction manual that is used by sex traffickers. It often starts as a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship," said Benjamin Perrin, law professor at the University ...
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Canada June home price index rises for 7th month
Reuters
TORONTO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Canadian home resale prices rose in June, their seventh consecutive monthly rise and the biggest jump since August 2009, according to a report on Wednesday. The Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index, ...
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Canada into Olympics in men's eight at world championships
TSN
BLED, Slovenia -- Canada's men's eight team qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games on Wednesday by advancing to the event final at the world rowing championships. Canada finished second in its semifinal with a time of five minutes 32.37 seconds, ...
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Analog broadcast deadline looms; Canada goes digital Sept. 1
Regina Leader-Post
The conversion to digital from analog signals takes place across Canada on Thursday, meaning that analog signals will no longer be broadcast. (Among those stations not changing over immediately are CBC and some CTV affiliates in Saskatchewan, ...
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What to know about Canada's Cup
HollandSentinel.com
Macatawa Bay Yacht Club earned the right to host the event because member Bob Hughes won the last Canada's Cup race in 2007. This year's race came together after the opponent, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, issued the required challenge for a rematch. ...
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'Call Me Fitz' racks up leading six wins in advance of Gemini Awards
Brandon Sun
The HBO Canada series about a lascivious used car salesman stands to collect two more trophies at the Sept. 7 show when it competes for best comedy and its former "90210" star vies for best comedic actor. CTV's cop series "Flashpoint" had led the ...
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Canada's imprisoned bomb-plotters say their isolation does not fit the crime
Globe and Mail
Five men convicted of distinct al-Qaeda-inspired bomb plots have ended up isolated in a single wing within Canada's most punishing prison – a fate they say they don't deserve. The complaints from the inmates arise as federal authorities struggle with ...
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Globe and Mail
What Awaits You If You Enter Canada Border Illegally? [Part 2]
GhanaWeb
The federal government of Canada over a couple of months now has declared war on foreign fugitives finding ways and means to remove them from the country. The same goes to failed refugee claimants who have gone underground. It is a fact, people do not ...
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GDT Tek is Granted Exclusive Rights for the USA and Canada for "The Cascade ...
MarketWatch (press release)
31, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- GDT Tek /quotes/zigman/578611 GDTK 0.00% from Orlando, Florida, today announced that it has been granted exclusive sales and distribution rights for all of the USA and Canada of "The Cascade Reactor," the first Piezo ...
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Canada's Arctic a 'telecommunications backwater': Report
Vancouver Sun
IQALUIT — Arctic Canada is a telecommunications backwater and without a federal strategy to increase bandwidth and reduce costs, the North risks falling even further behind, according to a study compiled on behalf of a working group of public safety ...
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Target Canada shopping for hundreds of employees
CTV.ca
Target Canada is looking for 'people with a variety of skills, abilities and backgrounds who are ready to jump into a fun, dynamic career.' TORONTO — Target Canada is shopping around for hundreds of new employees and says it will eventually be hiring ...
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CTV.ca
The heroic wolf: are wolves the key to saving the Canada lynx?
Mongabay.com
In 2000 the Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) was listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA). While remaining stable in Canada and Alaska, theCanada lynx population had essentially collapsed in much of the continental US, ...
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Mongabay.com
Canada News Centre - Government of Canada Invests in ...
Atlantic Canadian post-secondary institutions will receive invaluable support in moving their cutting-edge research and development (R&D) from the lab to the marketplace, thanks to an $8.5 million federal investment in Springboard, ...
Canada News Centre - National News
Canada's Arctic a 'telecommunications backwater': report
Coronation Street cast members sensitive to spoilers for Canadian Corrie lovers · Iconic Canadian news anchor Lloyd Robertson ready to sign off one last time · Review: The Debt a pumped-up epic about evils unspoken · Local musicians ...
Calgary Herald - News
Receiver seeks to wind down Blockbuster Canada's ops | Corporate ...
The receiver of Blockbuster Canada Co is seeking an order from the Ontario Superior Court to wind down the video rental company's operations and shut its 253 remaining retail stores.
Financial Post - Top Stories
Canada squares up to airlines - Competition News, Features and ...
By Global Competition Review
Global Competition Review is the world's leading antitrust and competition law journal and newsservice. GCR provides breaking news, daily updates and in-depth monthly features covering antitrust and competition enforcement in countries ...
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Apple Executives Getting Chatty: iTunes Match Coming 'Shortly' to ...
By Eric Slivka
The news is certainly welcome for Apple's Canadian customers, and should offer hope to users in other countries still waiting for word on the service making its way to their markets. As with any content offering from Apple, iTunes Match ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
Canadian economy contracts in second quarter - Economy ...
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told a parliamentary committee earlier this month that he doesn't believe another recession is on its way, but added he's prepared to do what is necessary if Canada is hit hard. Read other news from our Economy ...
Investment Executive - News
XE.com - UPDATE 1-Singapore GLP, Canada Pension Plan form ...
Singapore's Global Logistic Properties said on Thursday that it has formed a joint venture withCanada Pension Plan Investment Board to develop logistics facilities in Japan, as it looks to tap increasing demand in the country for large-scale...
XE Forex News
Coldplay: News - Coldplay to play MuchMusic show in Canada
The official Coldplay website, featuring all the latest news, gigs, blogs, interviews, pictures and videos.
Coldplay
Canadian Rockers, Marianas Trench, Premiere The Music Video For ...
Marianas Trench Premiere The Music Video Of A Pre-Released Track From Their Upcoming Album 'Ever After' - Canadian pop-punk rock band Marianas Trench is just about to premiere their new music video for the song Haven't Had Enough.
Music News
Foot Washes Ashore in Canada, the 11th Since 2007 - World News ...
By Joshua Cohan
World News and Headlines From ABC News Radio.
World News - ABC News Radio
Canada economy shrinks in Q2, 1st since ... - The Kincardine News
The Canadian economy shrank in the second quarter, the first quarterly fall since the 2008-09 recession, largely due to temporary factors such as...
The Kincardine News
Topless protest over Sun Media photo policy | Canada | News ...
A topless woman's protest at the Ottawa Sun Wednesday afternoon had a few drivers gaping and gawking.
London Free Press
Canada takes first step toward Holocaust memorial
Canada has taken a first step toward building a Holocaust Memorial near the federal capital, Ottawa,
Ottawa Citizen - News
9 1 Canada Newswire and Endeca Team Up to Provide Intuitive ...
By Stephen E. Arnold
PRNewswire reported on “Canada's Most Popular News Release Website Undergoes Dramatic Transformation.” News and search were made to go together: it only makes sense that these two popular organizations leading in their respective ...
Beyond Search
'Money for Nothing' fit for airwaves: Council | Canada | News ...
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) ruled Thursday that the 1984 Dire Straits hit is nuanced and thoughtful enough to be played uncensored. ... 'Housewives' suicide 911 call released. russell taylor armstrong. 0 · News ...
Top News stories
CANADA: Clément Nadeau convicted of violating the Health of ...
By bites News
CANADA: Clément Nadeau convicted of violating the Health of Animals Act. Posted: August 31st, 2011 - 6:45pm. Source: CFIA. Montreal, Quebec -- On July 12, 2011, at the St-Joseph-de-Beauce Courthouse, Clément Nadeau, a driver ...
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Canada News: Provincial Election To Be A Tight 3-way Race, Poll ...
Ontario is on the cusp of a lively provincial election that any major party leader could win, a new Toronto Star-Angus Reid Public Opinion poll suggests.
www.huffingtonpost.ca/.../canada-news-provincial-el_n_9432...
Canada News Centre - Come to Canada Wizard already a success
Prospective immigrants, visitors to Canada and newcomers here are making good use of a new interactive Web tool launched recently by Citizenship and ...
www.vicinityjobs.com/cgi-bin/externalpage_news.pl?id...
NEPTUNE Canada: News Details
Folger Pinnacle was not visited during our recent 3-week July cruise (read cruise summary article) because it is the only site on the NEPTUNE Canada network ...
neptunecanada.ca/news/news-details.dot?id=28354

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ASIA News, Sep 01, 2011


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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MoodieReport
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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