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AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota (ASCA) – Roma, 23 nov – Enel e’ l’unica azienda italiana,insieme a Fiat, ad ottenere il valore piu’ alto (A) delCarbon Performance Leadership Index (CPLI) l’indice chemisura l’impegno delle aziende per ridurre l’impattosull’ambiente elaborato dal Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP),l’organizzazione globale che rappresenta 551 investitoriistituzionali di [...]
The report by the region’s biggest no-frills airline follows a third straight quarterly loss for Malaysian Airlines, which also suffered as a result of higher petrol costs. AirAsia said in a statement late Tuesday that net profit fell 53 percent to 152.3 million ringgit ($47.8 million) from 327.3 million for the same period last year. [...]
The news comes just days after Vice Premier Wang Qishan, China’s top finance official, gave a dire warning that the global recession was here to stay and would impact the export-dependent economy due to weakening external demand. The preliminary HSBC purchasing managers’ index (PMI) dropped to 48 in November — the lowest since March 2009 [...]
As the airline works to win back the hearts of Australians after grounding its entire fleet last month over an industrial dispute, stranding tens of thousands of passengers around the world, it launched a Twitter competition. “Tell us what is your dream luxury inflight experience? (Be creative!) Answer must include the hashtag QantasLuxury,” it said, [...]
Carrying a US flag and an orange “people before profit” poster, they strolled in the Occupy DC camp in McPherson Square to the beat of drums, before going on to the Capitol building for an evening “super general assembly.” “This symbolizes that we are a strong movement, very dedicated to our beliefs,” Cologino Rivera, 21, [...]
In a report dubbed “Trouble in Toyland,” commissioners told how they had found unacceptable levels of lead and phthalates, or chemicals, in 25 kinds of toys, as well as products which presented a significant choking hazard. “While most toys are safe, our researchers still found toys on the shelves that pose choking hazards and other [...]
Wong Kan Seng SINGAPORE: Former deputy prime minister Wong Kan Seng said the Cambodian conflict which started in the late 1970s was an early test for Singapore and its foreign service. Mr Wong was the Foreign Minister from 1988 to early 1994 when the Vietnam—Cambodia war came to an end. Speaking at the S Rajaratnam [...]
A ministry official said six Koreans and nine Myanmar crew had been rescued as of Wednesday while three Koreans and three Myanmar men remain missing. “The search is still going on,” the official told AFP without giving further details. The 15,000-tonne bulk carrier Bright Ruby, which survived an encounter with Somali pirates in 2008, lost [...]
The news comes just days after Vice Premier Wang Qishan, China’s top finance official, gave a dire warning that the global recession was here to stay and would impact the export-dependent economy due to weakening external demand. The preliminary HSBC purchasing managers’ index (PMI) dropped to 48 in November — the lowest since March 2009 [...]