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US-based Pak filmmaker calls for ban on Hollywood Bollywood movies to save failing Pak film industry
An US-based Pakistani filmmaker has urged on a ban on Bollywood and Hollywood movies in Pakistan, and has offered his guidance and support to save the deteoriating Pakistani film industry. Urging the government to make efforts in the revival of the large screen by encouraging independent filmmakers and movies on social issues, Mumtaz Hassan said that it can be possible only by imposing a ban ...
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Call box business is booming in Cameroon
There's no official figure to determine its role in the Cameroonian economy but there is evidence that the "call box" business is a booming informal business in the country's mobile telephone sector. The informal business, practised by thousands of Cameroonians in both in the urban and rural areas, entails one getting a mobile phone and a table in an open area on a street, reports Xinhua. This ...
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Cook hails Broad-Anderson combined strikeforce boosts Englands assault on world domination
England captain Alastair Cook has praised his bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson, saying that the duo's combined strikeforce is a major help to his assault on world domination. Former England skipper Nasser Hussain introduced Anderson to Test cricket while English icon Michael Vaughan put him and Broad together to open the bowling attack five years ago in New Zealand, the Mirror ...
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Increased expat ownership of UAE companies remains open to debate says Minister of Economy
Sultan Al Mansouri said yesterday as the ministry aims to push through one of "the most critical laws" for the economy. But decisions about raising foreign ownership limits, a much-anticipated clause that was stripped out of the original companies law, remained "open", he said. "The companies law is one of the most important, critical for us," he told reporters in ...
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Congressional Travel U.S. House Sees World
If the American public needed more reasons to distrust Congress, travel has provided 864 of them. That's the number of foreign trips that members of the U.S. House took last year at taxpayers' expense, reported the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on May ...
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Japan economy picking up slowly
With Japan's exports showing signs of recovery due to the weakening yen and industrial production making steady improvement, the government Monday revised upward its assessment of the current state of the economy for the first time in two months. According to the monthly economic report for May, the economy is "picking up slowly". This is compared with the April report, which ...
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10 most valuable global brands
Apple remains the top global brand with an estimated value of $185 billion, according to an annual ranking by WPP and Millward Brown. Which other companies have brands worth ...
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NewsWatch New Xbox may keep Microsoft in the game
Microsoft is expected to unveil a new Xbox on Tuesday. Investors have been bidding up shares of videogame firms, but the market has shifted dramatically in recent ...
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Yen weakens after economy ministers remarks
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japan's Economy Minister Akira Amari said Tuesday he hopes yen's foreign-exchange levels will settle at a level that corresponds with the relative strength of the domestic economy, according to a report. "I hope [foreign exchange] levels will settle so they match the basic strength of the Japanese economy," Amari said at a press conference after a ...
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UPDATE 1-Gloom hits services firms as Australias mining boom peaks
Mon May 20, 2013 11:27pm EDT * Mining services large and small suffer * Cuts in mine projects, exploration spending hit mining services * Share prices smashed, Transfield sinks to record low By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE, May 21 (Reuters) - A spate of profit warnings from Australian mining services firms suggests the country's "once-a-century" resources spending boom may have peaked ...
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Stanfords Ipsen Arizona States Jones Qualify for U.S. World Championship Team
Kristian Ipsen was one of four divers to punch their ticket to Barcelona for the 2013 FINA World Championships, as spots on the 1-meter were up for grabs Wednesday on day one of the World Championships ...
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Hainan urged to promote good faith in tourism industry
China's tourist industry has been urged by a senior official to promote practices of good faith. Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the comment during a four-day inspection tour, that ended on Monday, in south China's Guangdong and Hainan provinces. When visiting Hainan, a popular tourist destination, Liu urged for ...
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Microsoft To Reveal New Xbox Features
Microsoft currently sitting in the top spot of video game console sales for the 28th consecutive month according to retail tracking firm NPD Group. Total retail spending for the Xbox 360 platform in April — which included hardware, software and accessories — topped $208 million dollar. However, the company is already looking ahead to the next generation. "Looking forward to ...
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US manufacturing drawn to Fremont California
A combination of tax breaks, agreeable infrastructure and a proximity to the technology hotspot of Silicon Valley are combining to create interest in manufacturing in Fremont, ...
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Manufacturing gender gap widens in the US
The recovery of the US manufacturing sector has not been felt by the entire American population. There is a gender in-balance as most new jobs in the sector are going to ...
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Finally Independent Testing Of Rossis E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Maybe The World Will Change After All
I first wrote about Italian engineer, Andrea Rossi, and his E-Cat project, a device that produces heat through a process called a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR). Very briefly, LENR, otherwise called cold fusion, is a technique that generates energy through low temperature (far lower than hot fusion temperatures which are in the range of tens off thousands of degrees) reactions that are not ...
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World Dog Show in Hungary
Dogs wait for the judges during a competition at the World Dog Show in Budapest May 19, 2013. More than 17,000 dogs from 70 countries were part of the show which took place from May ...
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B.C. relatives of missing man fear Mexican police kidnapped him and a business partner
The frantic family of a missing B.C. man feared kidnapped in Mexico is praying for his safe return.Diego Hernandez, 22, disappeared in Puerto Vallarta on May 8 along with his American business partner, Craig Silva, 31.Three days before the pair disappeared, Hernandez, a mixed martial arts instructor, had mounted a successful, high-profile MMA event."It was a very exciting time for ...
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Sports Briefing | Table Tennis Another Table Tennis World Title for Zhang Jike
Zhang Jike sealed a hat trick of major titles when he beat a fellow Chinese, Wang Hao, 4-2, in the final of the world championships in Paris. Zhang, who had also beaten Wang in the 2011 world championships final and the 2012 Olympic final, prevailed, 11-7, 11-8, 6-11, 14-12, 5-11, ...
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David Bank QA With Fish 2.0 Beyond Seafood Business as Usual
Converting fish waste into food. Powering fish farms in the desert. Generating value from oceans of data. I caught up with Monica Jain recently to learn what business opportunities are emerging from ...
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Russia’s business powers footing half the bill for expensive Sochi Games
SOCHI, Russia -- The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business ...
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Assistant Marketing Manager - Global Company
Due to ongoing success we're looking for a highly driven Assistant Marketing Manager to assist the senior Marketing Team on all aspects of marketing communications for the ...
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Yahoo gives Flickr a new face a new app and a new business model
Buying Tumblr isn't the only big thing that Yahoo has done today. Flickr, the photo storage and sharing site bought by Yahoo way back in 2005, has been brought into the 21st century with a new look, new pricing, and a new Android app. Gone is the old Flickr interface of small thumbnails, gobs of whitespace, and lots of metadata. In its place, the site has big thumbnails, ...
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New Dallas firm buys up 3 energy companies with $425M investment
A new Dallas-based private equity firm launched today with the purchase of three San Antonio-based drilling companies for $425 million. Dallas-based Tailwater Capital announced a $425 million private equity acquisition of three energy companies on Monday. The firm officially launched Monday after spinning off from Dallas-based HM Capital. Tailwater now owns a share of BlackBrush Oil & Gas, ...
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Carney Obama kept in dark about impending IRS audit report
Obama 's staff deliberately kept him in the dark about an impending report on the Internal Revenue Service scandal, his press secretary said Monday. White House press ...
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Shipping Wars: Uruguay and Argentina face off over rival port expansion plans
Argentina and Uruguay both want to be the shipping hubs of South America, or southern South America at least, and both are planning to considerably expand their port infrastructure in Buenos Aires and Montevideo respectively, which is leading to considerable diplomatic strain.
Argentina is a regional power in South America, the country is considered one of the more developed nations on the continent on-par with Uruguay (on paper at least, with a similar per capita income and Human Development Index rating) although the country occupies a majority of the continent with Brazil and presides over a massive coastline. Read more
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