Asia’s Mad Arms Race

Source: AntiWar.com

Asia is currently in the middle of an unprecedented arms race that is not only sharpening tensions in the region but also competing with efforts by Asian countries to address poverty and growing economic disparity. The gap be ...
Full article at: AntiWar.com  More like this  18 minutes ago

Advertisement

Friday Papers: Insults fly over troubled HP buyout

Source: Citywire.co.uk

Financial Times: As many as a quarter of the staff at Autonomy quit the British software group soon after its acquisition by HP, former employees said, with one likening the US computer maker’s internal procedures to ...
Full article at: Citywire.co.uk  More like this  19 minutes ago

Form and functionaries,

Source: ArtsJournal

Petipa's typical structure--interrupting the story for dance "entertainments" -- used to drive me crazy. It felt so archaic and mindlessly conventional --like the de rigeur happy/fast, slow/sad, happy/fast sonat ...
Full article at: ArtsJournal  More like this  31 minutes ago

Latest stories

Office For iPad Coming This Year
Microsoft will support iOS

 

Apple's Jonathan Ive Gets Knighted
Talked to Princess about her iPad

 

Ford and Microsoft Talk Focus Electric Tech
Charges faster and for less than the Nissan Leaf

 

Citywire Top Stocks Daily News Digest

Source: Citywire.co.uk

All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks The Guardian: AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline have joined forces in a £180 million research collaboration in the battle against the growing threat from bugs' re ...
Full article at: Citywire.co.uk  More like this  35 minutes ago

Govt Shirking Commitment to Reducing World Poverty – UNICEF

Source: Scoop - New Zealand News

UNICEF NZ (UN Children’s Fund) Media Statement 25/05/12 Government Shirking Commitment to Reducing World Poverty – UNICEF NZ statement The New Zealand Government has reneged on aid commitments to the world’s poorest people, by cutting $133 million from i ...
Full article at: Scoop - New Zealand News  More like this  2 hours ago

Asia Markets: Asia markets rise in early trading

Source: MarketWatch

0 Comments Tweet Share Digg Yahoo! Buzz MySpace del.icio.us Reddit LinkedIn Fark StumbleUpon Newsvine new Portfolio Relevance LEARN MORE Want to see how this story relates to your portfolio? Just add items to create a portfolio now: X Add NIKKEI 2 ...
Full article at: MarketWatch  More like this  3 hours ago

Israel funds terrorist MKO: Probe

Source: Press TV

Some US officials suspect that the terrorist group is funded by Israel in return for conducting intelligence-gathering operations inside Iran and assassinating high-profile Iranian targets, including nuclear scientists, British news ...
Full article at: Press TV  More like this  4 hours ago, 6:52pm CDT

Simon English: Safety-first Allianz is hardly earning its money

Source: The Independent

Outlook That lengthy articles appear in the Financial Times discussing the "end of the equity cult", is that a raging buy signal, a copper-plated guaranteed that markets are about to soar? It's tempting to t ...
Full article at: The Independent  More like this  4 hours ago, 6:36pm CDT

Tiffany's fails to meet profit forecast

Source: Irish Times

SALES AT Tiffany’s flagship New York store declined 4 per cent in the past quarter as its Americas business performed worse than expected, leaving its earnings short of forecasts. The luxury jewellery retailer ...
Full article at: Irish Times  More like this  5 hours ago, 6:22pm CDT