SYDNEY--14 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
STANDARD PART...
TOKYO: The first fleet of the revolutionary 787 aircraft has been delivered to All Nippon Airways, and scheduled revenue flights started between Tokyo and Hiroshima and Okayama on November 1.
http://www.komy.com/
http://bit.ly/v2eJ0H
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FLOOD AID...
PHUKET, Thailand: Today, 1,000,000 Baht was donated by Maikhao Dream Hotels & Resorts to Phuket Provincial Employment Office.
http://www.maikhaodream.com/
http://bit.ly/rIs4Xh
CLOUD EVENT...
MAKATI CITY, Philippines: NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced the details of a cloud event in the Philippines on November 22, 2011, featuring cloud computing leaders NetSuite, Google and Accenture.
http://www.netsuite.com.ph/
http://bit.ly/tYjFYB
PROTECTION GRANTED...
TORONTO, ON/Canada: On November 10, 2011, Edgeworth Properties Inc. and certain of its affiliated companies (collectively, the "Companies") obtained protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act ("CCAA").
http://www.grantthornton.ca/edgeworth
http://bit.ly/rEbi9S
JOINT STATEMENT...
WASHINGTON, DC: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Emergency Committee for American Trade, the United States Council for International Business, the National Foreign Trade Council, the U.S-ASEAN Business Council and the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue issued the following statement concerning legislation that has been passed by the Australian Senate that mandates the plain packaging of all tobacco products.
http://bit.ly/vHZoxW
STATEMENT ISSUED...
SYDNEY, Australia: November 13, 2011 Sydney Australia: Fairfax Media Chief Executive, Greg Hywood, said today: "It is with great shock that we have learnt today that Peter Roebuck has died in Newlands, South Africa.
http://bit.ly/t4HMGV
WORLD RECORD...
HAMBURG, Germany: DERMALOG Identification Systems GmbH is Germany's largest biometrics manufacturer, and has set a new world record in the identification of fingerprints.
http://www.dermalog.com/
http://bit.ly/vtHLN8
TAX RISKS, OPPORTUNITIES...
SYDNEY, Australia: Economic uncertainty, tax and regulatory reform: faced with these complex challenges, tax directors need to take forward-thinking approaches to re-designing their operations and re-shaping their long-term strategies in response.
http://www.kpmg.com/taxviews
http://bit.ly/ufDQz9
GINSENG'S HOST COUNTRY...
CHANGCHUN, China: Ginseng is the leader in the ROK's crude drugs and South Korean people are proud to be the host country of ginseng.
http://bit.ly/udazV0
ACQUISITION COMPLETE...
DENVER and LONDON: CH2M HILL (www.ch2mhill.com), a global full-service consulting, design, construction, and operations firm, is pleased to announce that it has today completed the acquisition of Halcrow, the UK-based engineering, planning, design and management services firm.
http://bit.ly/uyOnwq
ECOLOGICAL TOURISM VILLAGE...
JINGGANGSHAN, China: Located in the middle section of Luoxiao Mountain Range bordering Hunan Province in southwestern Shanxi Province, Jinggang Mountain has a tropical humid climate.
http://bit.ly/va00Qv
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