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NOL to cut 1,000 jobs as it faces showdown
vifv Post in 2008-11-19 20:01 ( http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/09dadab8-b5f3-11dd-ab71-0000779fd18c.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcompanies%2Ftransport)
Neptune Orient Lines warned of a 'severe and prolonged downturn in global container shipping', as south-east Asia's biggest cargo transport group announced it would cut 9 per cent of its labour force See Details
Foul play not suspected after teen's body found in Ontario
vifv Post in 2008-11-06 03:20 ( http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/05/crisp-body.html?ref=rss)
A body found northeast of Barrie, Ont., on Wednesday is believed to be that of 15-year-old Brandon Crisp, who disappeared from his home last month after a dispute with his parents over a video game, police said. See Details
BBC slashes spending amid fears of funding crisis
vifv Post in 2008-11-13 19:35 ( http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/5c926678-b174-11dd-b97a-0000779fd18c.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcompanies%2Fmedia)
The broadcaster told staff that it must make even greater cuts to spending, including its corporate hospitality budget, as the crash in property prices threatens a crisis in its funding. See Details
Fractured Republicans ponder future
vifv Post in 2008-11-05 22:54 ( http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ef40a080-ab47-11dd-b9e1-000077b07658.html)
Some argue the party could even break up if conservative intellectuals cannot reconcile their differences with populists such as Sarah Palin, John McCain's running-mate, who is seen as being at the centre of the likely infighting See Details
Scrutiny body to rein in BBC Worldwide
vifv Post in 2008-11-19 10:00 ( http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/7aee37e6-b5d9-11dd-ab71-0000779fd18c.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcompanies%2Fmedia)
The BBC Trust, which replaced the board of governors for the state-owned broadcaster, is to consider tightening the guidelines for the operation of its commercial arm See Details
Baidu's search model under fire
vifv Post in 2008-11-18 23:21 ( http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/24a94180-b56d-11dd-ab71-0000779fd18c.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcompanies%2Fmedia)
Baidu, China's largest internet search engine, admitted that some companies had used its website to market fraudulent information, as it faced mounting criticism for auctioning top search result rankings to the highest bidders See Details
GE chief signals appetite for media assets
vifv Post in 2008-11-17 07:35 ( http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/cbcc89e2-b42b-11dd-8e35-0000779fd18c.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcompanies%2Fmedia)
Jeffrey Immelt has declared his interest in buying media assets in a sign that a slumping economy has not shaken General Electric's confidence in its television and film business, NBC Universal See Details
Few areas escape commercial property slump
vifv Post in 2008-11-10 09:14 ( http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/51ac66c2-ae82-11dd-b621-000077b07658.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcompanies%2Ffinancial-services)
Worsening economic conditions have taken a toll on almost every commercial property market in the world, and is affecting previously resilient areas, says a global survey See Details
Wells Fargo to sell $10bn in stock
vifv Post in 2008-11-06 08:24 ( http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49e5ee8c-ab8e-11dd-b9e1-000077b07658.html)
Wells Fargo said it planned to sell at least $10bn of stock to fund its acquisition of Wachovia, the troubled east coast lender, to create the fourth-largest US bank by assets See Details
Sacha Baron Cohen's gay fashionista crashes rally against same-sex marriage
vifv Post in 2008-11-04 01:17 ( http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2008/11/03/sbcohen-rally-gaymarriage.html?ref=rss)
British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has returned to gate-crashing in the U.S., this time bringing his flamboyant gay fashion reporter character Bruno to a California rally calling for a ban on same-sex marriage. See Details
Geologists say drilling caused Indonesian mud volcano
vifv Post in 2008-11-04 01:33 ( http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/03/mud-drilling.html?ref=rss)
Drilling at a nearby gas well caused the eruption of a mud volcano in Indonesia that swamped villages and displaced around 30,000 people, according to a group of leading geologists. See Details
Clips that clicked
vifv Post in 2008-11-06 00:34 ( http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/04/f-us-election-web-videos.html?ref=rss)
memorable web videos from the u.s. election See Details
Stelios refuses to approve EasyJet accounts
vifv Post in 2008-11-18 22:28 ( http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3a0b91e-b54f-11dd-ab71-0000779fd18c.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcompanies%2Ftransport)
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder and non-executive director of EasyJet, has deepened his row with the rest of the board by refusing to approve the airline's annual accounts See Details
Misys chief bets on US health shake-up
vifv Post in 2008-11-17 03:02 ( http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/37c71188-b410-11dd-8e35-0000779fd18c.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcompanies%2Ftechnology)
Hiroshi Nakazawa is the kind of person that Mike Lawrie, chief executive of Misys, must win over See Details
Ban to attend high-level summit aimed at ending DR Congo crisis
vifv Post in 2008-11-05 13:00 ( http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28820&Cr=Democratic&Cr1=Congo)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is leaving today for Nairobi to attend a United Nations-backed summit aimed at ending the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where fighting continues for a second straight day despite a recent ceasefire and aid agencies are trying to assist hundreds of thousands of displaced people. See Details
Top UN envoy voices hope for additional troops in volatile eastern DR Congo
vifv Post in 2008-11-18 13:00 ( http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28978&Cr=Democratic&Cr1=Congo)
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is increasing its food distributions in the war-ravaged east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a bid to reach almost 100,000 people uprooted by the conflict. See Details
Ban urges swift action to prevent financial crisis from spinning into human one
vifv Post in 2008-11-14 13:00 ( http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28957&Cr=financial&Cr1=crisis)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the leaders of the so-called Group of 20 (G-20) nations to take speedy steps to ensure that the current financial turmoil does not deepen human suffering worldwide. See Details
Obama and McCain to discuss ways to work together (AP)
vifv Post in 2008-11-15 05:30 ( http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_mccain)
AP - President-elect Barack Obama will meet Monday with John McCain in talks that Obama's transition office said would focus on ways they can cooperate on an array of troublesome issues facing the country. The meeting will be the first since Obama, the Democratic Illinois senator, beat McCain, the Arizona Republican senator, by an Electoral College landslide in the Nov. 4 election.
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Bell giving parents option to block cellphone porn
vifv Post in 2008-11-01 05:11 ( http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/31/tech-bell.html?ref=rss)
Bell Canada Inc. is looking to give parents the ability to block inappropriate websites on their children's cellphones, for a price. See Details
Antiques: Let Them Have Splendor: France’s Lavish Century
vifv Post in 2008-10-31 13:34 ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31anti.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
The cliché that the very best always sells will be tested on Thursday in New York at Sotheby’s sale “Important French Furniture, Decorations, Ceramics, Silver and Carpets.”
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