Thai PM pledges to tackle rising consumer prices Xinhua | BANGKOK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday pledged that her government will expedite solving the problem of rising consumer prices, Thai News Agency reported. | The premier made her remarks as she visited a fresh produce market in central Nakhon Pathom province on h...
Oliver promotes healthy eating at Stadium MLB | NEW YORK -- Above the left-field bleachers, in the kitchen of the Audi Yankees Club, 15 students from the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice greeted a special visitor to their weekly culinary workshop. | British chef and television personality Jamie Oliver paid a visit to Yankee Stadium ...
News Analysis: Greek crisis fuels concern over collapse of euro Xinhua | By Josephine McKenna | ROME, May 19 (Xinhua) -- As the eurozone crisis dominated the Group of Eight talks in the United States on Friday, there was growing speculation that Greece would exit the euro and threaten the collapse of the common currency...
Strictly no pay rise! Wage freeze for Tess and Bruce - and is it because ... The Daily Mail | Strictly Come Dancing presenters Sir Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly have been forced to accept a pay freeze as they prepare for a new series in September. | The 83-year-old host and his co-presenter – who have been the faces of the show since i...
Support for Powers; Who gets to pay more; Ad understanding Austin American Statesman | Support for Powers | Re: May 11 article, "Support for chief follows rumors." | The alleged desire of the governor's Board of Regents to remove University of Texas President Bill Powers from his position should be very concerning to all Texans. | At...
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Mumbai's Peddar Road flyover work may begin in October DNA India | If everything goes as per plans, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) might begin work on the Peddar Road flyover in October. | In a boost to the long-pendi...
Pepsi drops sponsorship of horse show Khaleej Times Soft drink maker Pepsi said that it was dropping sponsorship of a prestigious national horse show, one day after ABC News broadcast footage of a horse in training for a show being ...
St sees SBI scoring on bottomline DNA India | State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest lender, is expected to announce buoyant numbers for the quarter ended March today, marking a return to strong profit growth after sever...
Fred Pearce: Land grabbing has more of an impact on the world's poor than climate change The Observer An Ethiopian family in the small town of Abobo in Gambella province. Fred Pearce visited the area as part of his investigation into land grabbing. Photograph: Jenny Vaughan/AFP/Getty Images | What inspired you to write The Land Grabbers? | Over the l...
The Olympic Park – review The Observer The Olympic Velodrome by Hopkins Architects: 'beautifully attuned to its purpose'. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images | Here's the thing about the Olympics. It's a magnificent event, engaging, as it does, most of the planet in the innocent idea ...
Taking the Waters by Caitlin Davies – review The Observer The Christmas Day swim: women get ready for the traditional race in 2007, Hampstead Heath. Photograph: Ruth Corney | If Hampstead Heath were in, say, Doncaster, rather than north London, would anyone publish a 176-page glossy, all-colour coffee-table...
Europe's banks on the brink Reuters | LONDON, May 17 (IFR) - The euro zone crisis was in full swing when Jean-Claude Trichet took the podium in Berlin last October 6 for his final press conference as president of the European Central Bank. Having helped create one of the longest periods of price stability in the history of central banking, Trichet was closing out his eight-year reign...
Thai PM pledges to tackle rising consumer prices Xinhua | BANGKOK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday pledged that her government will expedite solving the problem of rising consumer prices, Thai News Agency reported. | The premier made her remarks as she visited a fresh produce market in central Nakhon Pathom province on her way to western province of Kanchanaburi for Sun...
