Singapore Airlines to introduce electronic magazines PhysOrg | Singapore Airlines said Friday it is to introduce an electronic version of its inflight magazines as part of its plans for paperless planes. | The carrier said it had engaged SmarttPapers Aviation Ltd to convert three magazines -- SilverKris, KrisShop and KrisWorld -- into digital format and integ...
Philippines swimming in rice amid high imports Herald Tribune | MANILA, Philippines - The world's biggest rice importer, the Philippines, is now "swimming" in the staple grain because of massive imports by the previous government that drove world prices to record highs and possibly enriched corrupt officials. | With government-run warehouses full and some floo...
Expensive tastes help boost airfreight volumes to China NZ Herald 5:30 AM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | Xin Jing spends about 200 yuan ($41) on Japanese sashimi each time she visits the city'super grocery store in Shanghai. Her appetite is helping fill cargo planes bound for China, boosting profit at Cathay P...
Transtasman Punts by IRG: SkyCity looks good gamble NZ Herald 5:30 AM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | Casino and hotels company SkyCity Entertainment Group reported a record net profit of $71 million for the first half of 2010, up 29.6 per cent, earnings growth of 7 per cent from its Australian casinos and ...
There's not much new in this material Gulf News | When, at the height of the Viet-nam War in the 1970s, a disaffected Pentagon analyst published explosive details about how the White House was running the campaign, US military commanders soon found themselves being forced into ordering a humiliati...
Scholar wins Malysian TV's Young Imam contest BBC News A 26-year-old religious scholar has been chosen as the winner of a Malaysian TV talent show searching for a top young iman, or Muslim leader. | In Friday's live TV final, Muhammad Asyraf saw off the last of nine other contestants vying to win Young I...
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Stocks up on AstraZeneca, Bayer, telecom earns Breitbart | Specialist Michael Sollitto, right, directs trades at his post on the floor... | LONDON (AP) - World stock markets mostly rose Thursday after another batch of positive earnings a...
New MMDA boss accuses bus companies of payola Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—Three days into job, the head of the Metro Manila Development Authority, Francis Tolentino, accused three bus companies of paying off its enforcers on a month...
Asian shares down on new signs US economy slowing Herald Tribune | SINGAPORE - Most Asian markets retreated Thursday after fresh evidence of slower U.S. growth blunted appetite for riskier assets like stocks. | The latest sign of sluggishness in...
CNN Hero Aki Ra Disarms Land Mines In Cambodia He Placed Decades Earlier Huffington Post | Aki Ra, leader of the nonprofit Cambodian Self Help Demining team, works to make his country more safe by clearing land mines on a daily basis. He estimates that he and his team have cleared more than 50,000 land mines -- some of which he planted h...
SKorea cracks down on marriage brokers after death Herald Tribune | SEOUL, South Korea - Young and poor, the Vietnamese woman jumped at the chance to marry a South Korean introduced to her through a matchmaking agency. | Eight days after moving to South Korea, 20-year-old Thach Thi Hoang Ngoc was beaten and stabbed...
SKorea Cracks Down on Marriage Brokers After Death The New York Times | Filed at 12:31 p.m. ET | SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Young and poor, the Vietnamese woman jumped at the chance to marry a South Korean introduced to her through a matchmaking agency. | Eight days after moving to South Korea, 20-year-old Thach Thi Ho...
DOST launches calibration center to help industries Malaya BY PAUL ICAMINA | LOS BANOS – A regional laboratory to calibrate industrial and small-scale equipment with precision instruments opened here Tuesday to service the country’s manufacturing heartland. | Science Secretary Mario G. Montejo, inaugurating the Regional Metrology Laboratory (RML), called it a regional solution to a national need, "...
Bips’s shopping holiday to Bangkok! The Times Of India What does a girl like to do most of all? Be romanced? Be wined, dined and treated like a Princess? | Yes, all of the above. | But it all takes a back seat when one thing is an option. Shopping! And Bipasha Basu is no exception. The lady was off on a shopping trip in Thailand recently. She went all over, but it was the shopping in Bangkok that excit...
