Singapore shares higher on Wall Street rise, NOL extends gains CNBC – Singapore (Thomson Financial) – Singapore shares rose early Tuesday as Wall Street’s gains overnight encouraged investors to hunt for bargains but persistent concerns about the health of the US economy capped the market’s advance. At 10.05 am (0205 Source: [...]

CityDev year net doubles, sees positive 2008Reuters – Singapore (Reuters) – City Developments Ltd (CTDM.SI: Quote , Profile , Research ), Southeast Asia’s second-largest property developer, more than doubled its 2007 profit on home sales and hotel revenues, beating market forecasts, and said it was Source: www.reuters.com

Crawford Swings To Profit In Q4; Revenues Up 8% – Quick Facts [CRDA]RTT News – Stein Mart Appoints Irwin Cohen To Board – Quick Facts [SMRT] 2/4/2008 11:05:36 AM Stein Mart (SMRT) announced that it has appointed Irwin Cohen to its board of directors. The company noted that Cohen is a retired partner of Deloitte [...]

Australia Stocks: Boart Longyear, Commonwealth, Gunns, PaladinBloomberg – Sino Gold Mining Ltd. (SGX AU), owner of China’s second-largest gold mine, advanced 30 cents, or 4.1 percent, to A$7.70, its biggest rise in two weeks. Gold prices rose to a record in Asian trading as the weak dollar and record oil prices spurred Source: [...]

Leading Global Academics Create New Corporate Sustainability Approach ABN Newswire – Leading UK retailer Marks & Spencer has implemented a knowledge interchange with more than 12,000 suppliers to help it share best practices on sustainability — Hyflux, Singapore’s largest water company, has built a Singapore Stock Source: www.abnnewswire.net
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Rain, ice to hit region today, WednesdayTimes Union – Pick up some candles, Capitaland, you may be in for a power outage. Oh, and there’s a flood warning in effect too, for all of the Capital Region. Up to a half-inch of ice could accumulate overnight, and tomorrow, the winds will pick up. The wind [...]

Thai image harmed by coup, says ThaksinFinancial Times – But his leadership style antagonised Thai elites and his family s tax-free $1.9bn profit on the sale of the Shin Corp telecoms group to Singapore s Temasek Holdings triggered mass protests that culminated in the coup in September 2006.Source: www.ft.com
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Nagin recovery team unveils new blight programNew Orleans Times-Picayune – Our goal is to get private owners to take care of their own properties,” said Ezra Rapport, chief operating officer in the mayor’s Office of Recovery and Development Administration. While their impact would depend on enforcement, the language of the Source: www.nola.com
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Help for Parkinson’s patientsNews 10 Now – It’s been around for years. There is now a new device for DBS. The University of Rochester Medical Center is one of just 12 nationwide testing out the new Libra DBS system. Dr. Frederick Marshall said, “This is the electrode that actually ends up Source: news10now.com
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Dead or alive, M’sia voters among world’s oldestStraits Times – KUALA LUMPUR – MALAYSIA has found nearly 9,000 people aged more than 100 on its electoral rolls as it heads for general elections next month, raising suspicions that the books are ‘contaminated’ with dead voters. The Election Commission has found the Source: www.straitstimes.com
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