South Korean smokers finally start to feel the heat

Source: The Malaysian Insider

SEOUL, May 27 — After decades of indifference, big businesses and the government are turning up the heat on smokers in South Korea, a nation with one of the developed world’s highest male smoking rates. A public inf ...
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

Source: Sify

** Silver Lake and Partners Group have agreed to buy Swiss-based tax-free shopping business Global Blue for 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) from rival Equistone. ** General Mills Inc agreed to buy Brazilian food company Yoki Alimentos SA for ...
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Source: OpPapers.com

------------------------------------------------- Samsung launches Apple lawsuit Oliver, Christian. Financial Times [London (UK)] 23 Apr 2011: 18. In suits filed on Friday in South Korea, Japan and Germany, Samsung sued Apple for i ...
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Renesas aims to sell chip plant, shed 12,000 jobs: Source

Source: The Malaysian Insider

TOKYO, May 26 – Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp plans to sell off loss-making operations and cut its payroll by at least 12,000, a source close to the matter said today, as the company battles high ...
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Hidden Neighborhoods: ShadowGlen in Manor affordable masterplanned community

Source: Austin American-Statesman

A water park with two slides, two swimming pools and a beach area forms the center of community life in the summer at Shadowglen, a master-planned neighborhood in Manor. Opened in 2003, ShadowGlen has approximately 700 houses, accord ...
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Samsung Electronics Levant launches its new Jungfrau AC in Jordan

Source: AME Info

The New Jungfrau AC presents the latest INVERTER technology that offers state of the art in the air conditioner industry, reducing energy consumption up to 80%. This advanced unique feature led to rank Jungf ...
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UPDATE 1-Renesas aims to sell chip plant, shed 12,000 jobs -source

Source: Reuters

* Renesas plans to sell system chip plant, mobile unit -source * Renesas hopes to raise more than $1.3 billion for restructuring * To cut payroll by 12,000 via plant sales, redundancies TOKYO, May 26 (Reuters) - Japanese chipmaker Renesas Ele ...
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France: SIM-Based Security Passes to Get Test Run at French Airport

Source: NFC Times

Fifty passengers at French regional airport Toulouse-Blagnac will test an application that puts a security pass to access airport facilities on SIM cards in BlackBerry NFC phones. China-based phone maker ZTE indicated it will be tar ...
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IRS: Fewer High-Income Households

Source: My Fox Memphis

Local listings from all over 80,000 websites. The number of high-income households in the US fell in 2009 but… Brick-and-mortar retailers, facing tough competition from … A better hiring outlook and lower gas prices pushed a measure … Research In Motio ...
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