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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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Graeme McDowell sure McIlroy will part company with management
Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell has defended his slip about World No.2 Rory McIlroy leaving his management company, saying that although the move is not yet confirmed, it is already being much talked about in the golfing world. For weeks there have been whispers at big events in America that McIlroy is about to leave Horizon, the Dublin-based management agency that negotiated his 20 ...
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MF Global trustee liquidates brokers CME Group memberships
Reuters © The sign marking the MF Global Holdings Ltd. offices at 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan is seen in New York November 2, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon ...
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Japan finance minister wants BOJ to have thorough dialogue with government bond market
Reuters © Japan's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso smiles as he adjusts his headphones during a seminar at the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) 46th annual board meeting in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi May 3, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan ...
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Business Owner Describes Major Destruction After Tornado
Melissa Block talks to Casey Mongold, owner of Casey's Tire and Auto in Moore, Okla., where a tornado caused widespread destruction on ...
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Gas price rises exports a growing concern say members at industry discussion
A roundtable discussion held by a business newspaper has illustrated the disagreement between gas explorers and consumers on how the price of the resource can be brought ...
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Financial Markets Confused Over Tolls Ruling VDOT
A judge's ruling striking down the Midtown and Downtown tunnel tolls has cast a cloud over other transportation projects, exposed the state to unknown damages and left financial markets "at best, confused," according to a court memo by lawyers for the Virginia Department of Transportation. For those and other reasons, the lawyers have asked Circuit Judge James A. Cales Jr. ...
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First Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes to the skies three months after mass grounding by FAA over safety concerns
The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner flown by a US airline taken to the skies since a mass grounding by safety authorities earlier this year. United Airlines "Flight 1" landed safely at Chicago at 11 a.m. local time on Monday with Boeing Chief Executive W. James McNerney Jr. and Jeff Smisek, chief executive of United Continental Holdings, on board. United is the only American carrier to ...
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Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slims TracFone Accuses Activist Group Of Orchestrating A Corporate-Backed Smear Campaign
Two Countries One Voice and its campaign against Slim in the United States of being a corporate smear campaign as opposed to a grassroots movement against the Mexican billionaire's "monopolistic practices", as the group claimed. In a complaint filed Monday with ...
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Official urges good faith in tourist industry
When visiting Hainan, a popular tourist destination, Liu urged for the establishment of a credit system in the industry and to seriously punish acts such as misrepresentation in advertisements and ...
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Cathay Pacifics Airbus A350 to get new first business class seats
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Wal-Mart ordered to provide more documents
A U.S. judge ordered attorneys for Wal-Mart Stores to turn over more information to shareholders seeking records on how the company responded to allegations of bribery involving its operations in ...
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Two daughters of Nelson Mandela seek rights to his artwork and companies
Former South African president, Nelson Mandela's daughter Makaziwe Mandela, (left) with her daughter Tukwini pose with a bottle of House of Mandela wine at their home in Johannesburg. Photograph: Getty ...
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LiveWIRE Brunei Holds Workshops On Bright Ideas Business Plans
Bandar Seri Begawan - LiveWIRE Brunei recently conducted a Bright Ideas Workshop, which was also followed up by the Business Plan Series Workshop this week. A total of 10 participants attended the Bright Ideas Workshop, while nine participated in the Business Plan Series Workshop. According to a press release, the Bright Ideas workshop was conducted for two-days, which provides information ...
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India-China vital in addressing global challenges
The number two in Chinese leadership offered New Delhi a "handshake across the Himalayas" and said the world's most populous nations could become a new engine for the global ...
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Shells succession plans in focus at annual meeting
THE HAGUE: Royal Dutch/Shell CEO Peter Voser may be making his last appearance on the podium at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, turning the spotlight on management's plans for a successor. Voser announced his surprise decision three weeks ago to step down in the first half of 2014, before his 56th birthday, and less than five years into the role. Employees of the ...
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Citigroup names Jane as new head of mortgage biz
The number two in Chinese leadership offered New Delhi a "handshake across the Himalayas" and said the world's most populous nations could become a new engine for the global ...
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The worlds top universities in 2012
a popular global ranking of universities put out this week by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British-based higher education consulting firm, whose annual World University Rankings list is topped by three institutions that call a city of Cambridge home.Overall, the United States and United Kingdom dominate the leader board, but they're increasingly being challenged in crucial science and ...
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Caterpillar Milwaukee workers union to resume contract talks
CHICAGO | Mon May 20, 2013 7:48pm EDT CHICAGO May 20 (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc said late on Monday that it would resume contract talks with the union representing about 800 Milwaukee workers who make specialized mining machinery. The company said the two sides would reconvene on Thursday, May 23, ending a two-week hiatus in discussions. The existing contract covering the workers, who ...
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2013 Miss Tourism China Contest World Final to kick off in Chengmai
The annual Miss Tourism China Contest World Final is to kick off at Kowloon Hot-spring Hotel in Chengmai county of Hainan province on June 8th. A total of 40 beauties from 20 countries including China, the United States, Russia, Ukraine, England and France will gather in Chengmai to compete against each other for the top three places and individual awards in the evening gown competition, the ...
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Alcoa warns of scammer claiming to collect utility payments
Alcoa is warning residents about a scammer who is calling residents and asking to collect money on an account. The city says it does not call customers to collect utility payments, and if there are issues with any payments, it will either come via an automated message or through an online payment system. The city asks that anyone who receives a call demanding immediate payment should ...
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Knoxville UT looking to expand use of Worlds Fair Park
Knoxville, in conjunction with UT, is looking into expanding use of World's Fair Park as a center for cultural resources. Deputy Mayor Bill Lyons will work alongside UT Professor of Anthropology Jan Simek in co-chairing a group to decide what's best for the park. The park opened up for the world to see in 1982 and has been used by the city and other organizations since to hold ...
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Madagascar Secretary-General concerned by latest electoral developments
Print 20 May 2013 – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shares the concerns expressed earlier by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union over the latest developments in the electoral process in Madagascar, according to the spokesperson for the world body’s chief. ';The presentation of candidate nomination papers by Transition ...
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Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centres
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centres in the country.The world's biggest software company said on Tuesday it was expanding its Windows Azure business to include a major new region in Australia.Data centres, renting out technology resources such ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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