Malaysian Muslims Go for Gold, But It's Hard to Make Change Wall Street Journal By JAMES HOOKWAY | KOTA BHARU, Malaysia—Umar Vadillo bounds into a hotel room here in northern Malaysia with several stacks of gold and silver coins in his hands and slaps them down on a coffee table. "This," Mr. Vadillo says, "is what it means to be free." | A quarter century ago, this Spanis...
Briefing.com: Hourly In Play (R) - 23:00 ET Insurance Newsnet | Aug 06, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Hourly In Play (R) | Updated: 06-Aug-10 23:00 ET | 17:19 | BRK.A Berkshire Hathaway beats by $506.00 (120,600 -785.00) | Reports Q2 (Jun) operating earnings of $1,866 per share, $506.00 better than the Thomson Reuters consensus of $1,360. | 17:03 | HPQ Hew...
Bobbies' voice needs to be cautioned over his language on cuts The Daily Telegraph The hyperbole from the chairman of the SPF could wreck whatever case the police have for special treatment, says Alan Cochrane. | By Alan Cochrane | Published: 3:19PM BST 31 Aug 2010 | Comments | One of the most bizarre aspects of the current public ...
Mark Thompson's MacTaggart lecture – the full text The Guardian | • 'The purists have spent a generation making the free-market case for abolishing the licence fee and the British public agrees with them less now than they did when they started' | • 'It's time that Sky pulled its weight by investing much, muc...
Corporate UK gives economy shot in arm The Daily Telegraph Corporate Britain delivered the economy a welcome boost on Thursday with a slew of strong results that contradict the gloomy outlook and offer some hope for a sustained recovery. | UK plc reporting ... more than 70 companies released interim or full-...
Scots teachers 'should give fair trade lessons' BBC News With Scottish pupils now back at school, a charity has called for teachers to include discussion of fair trade in their lesson plans. | Just Trading Scotland (JTS) has produced primary and secondary teachers' resources as part of the new national Cur...
Scottish police eye sex slavery play at Fringe DNA India | Scotland's police have their eye on a play on human trafficking staged at the Edinburgh Fringe festival to help spotlight the plight of young foreign women exploited as sex slaves. | Fair Trade follows the fate of two girls, one a pretty Albani...
FPI Overnight Brief Scoop Thursday, 12 August 2010, 4:12 pm | Press Release: Foreign Policy Initiative | FPI Overnight Brief | August 11, 2010 | Iraq | As the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave Iraq this month, the State Department is struggling to implement an expanded...
Item 2: Managements Discussions and Analysis Insurance Newsnet | Special Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements | Certain statements in this report constitute "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actua...
Taxpayers 'should not pay for Pope' The Guardian | More than three quarters of Britons think the taxpayer should not contribute to the cost of Pope Benedict XVI's forthcoming visit to Scotland and England, according to a survey. | An online poll of 2,005 adults has shown 77% do not agree that the taxpayer should help shoulder the bill for the four-day trip even though it is a state visit. A simil...
Dollar, yen recover losses; ECB eyed The Times Of India LONDON: The dollar and yen recovered losses on Thursday as risk-taking sentiment was tempered ahead of a European Central Bank policy meeting later in the day and key US jobs data on Friday. Upbeat US and Chinese manufacturing data on Wednesday had lured investors away from perceived safe-haven currencies and assets, lifting stocks, commodities and...
