 | Aug 27 2013 | Japan's ANA to buy stake in Myanmar airline ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) said on Tuesday it would acquire a 49 percent stake in a Myanmar airline, the latest foray into the rapidly-opening and potentially lucrative ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | India says can afford food-for-poor scheme as rupee falls ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) India's finance minister insisted on Tuesday that the government can afford a vast new food programme for the poor despite concern about its impact on the strained public ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | DAE plans to sell StandardAero ,MENAFN |
| (MENAFN) Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) is discussing merging some its business with British BBA Aviation, The Peninsula reported. DAE is seeking to sell it US-based StandardAero, provides ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | China details charges against foreign fraud investigators ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Chinese state television put two foreign fraud investigators on display Tuesday as police announced they had been charged with illegally obtaining personal information. Police in ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | London, a playground for 10,000 urban foxes ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) To some they are a nuisance, even a danger. To others, London's 10,000 foxes are a delightful reminder that this concrete wilderness is teeming with wildlife. The ruddy brown ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | Edible algae -- coming to a rooftop near you? ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) On a hotel rooftop in Bangkok, dozens of barrels of green liquid bubble under the sun -- the latest innovation in urban farming. Proponents of the edible algae known as spirulina ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | Australia's Billabong posts mammoth $771mn loss ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Embattled Australian surfwear brand Billabong reported a huge Aus$859.5 million (US$771.7 million) net annual loss Tuesday -- triple the firm's market value and far worse than ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | Eurozone crisis hits German election campaign ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Less than a month before German elections, the eurozone crisis has entered the campaign battle, giving the opposition badly needed ammunition for an attack against popular Chancellor ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | Dogs ease Namibia's cheetah-farmer conflicts ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Winding through the parched Namibian farmland, Bonzo, an Anatolian shepherd dog, has a singular focus: protecting his herd of goats from lurking predators. He pads along, sniffing ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | Traditional Vienna goes brand crazy in luxury facelift ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Half a dozen new five-star hotels, flagship stores for Louis Vuitton, Prada and Emporio Armani: Vienna is undergoing a luxury facelift that is delighting Arab, Asian and Russian ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | Forgotten by telecoms, Mexico town runs cell service ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Left out by telecom firms like the one owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, a remote Mexican mountain village now runs its own mobile phone network to communicate with the outside ... |
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| Aug 26 2013 | Christian valley sends SOS to Syrian army ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) In Wadi al-Nassara, a valley in western Syria dotted with Christian hamlets, residents have hung white silk ribbons to mourn war victims and pray the army will defeat its jihadist ... |
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| Aug 26 2013 | US tech sector feels pain from PRISM ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Revelations about vast US data collection programs are starting to hit American tech companies, which are ramping up pressure for increased transparency to try to mitigate the ... |
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| Aug 26 2013 | US judge approves $20 mln settlement in Facebook suit ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) A US judge approved a deal in which Facebook will pay $20 million for using members "likes" as endorsements for ads. The pot of money is to be divvied up among attorneys, Internet ... |
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| Aug 26 2013 | Nadal finds trendy Djokovic diet hard to swallow ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Rafael Nadal blasted the current obsession with fad diets on Monday, especially the moves towards gluten-free eating popularised by Grand Slam rival Novak Djokovic. Nadal, the world ... |
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| Aug 26 2013 | Women in Argentina sue for $54 mn over faulty implants ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) About 300 women with faulty PIP breast implants have filed suit seeking $54.7 million in damages from three European companies, their attorney said. "We have filed a class-action ... |
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| Aug 26 2013 | British MPs push Osborne for RBS break-up ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) British lawmakers on Tuesday urged Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to speed up plans to spin off the state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland into "good" and "bad" banks. In ... |
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| Aug 26 2013 | Argentina to reopen default debt swap after US ruling ,AFP |
| (MENAFN - AFP) Argentina will offer holdouts another chance at joining a restructuring deal over its 2001 debt default that has been rejected twice before, the country's president said. On Tuesday ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | Qatar- Deloitte offers technology to recover EU VAT ,The Peninsula |
| (MENAFN - The Peninsula) Deloitte has announced the launch of a regional initiative to assist Middle East businesses to recover tax (value added tax) paid in the European Union countries through the ... |
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| Aug 27 2013 | UAE- DAE in talks to merge some assets with BBA ,The Peninsula |
| (MENAFN - The Peninsula) Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), owner of US-based engine repair and maintenance business StandardAero, is in talks to merge parts of its business with British aircraft ... |
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