November 25, 2011
A man loads a flat screen television into his car on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Bargain hunters flocked to stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals on big screen televisions, video games and toys while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being. Some stores, [...]
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November 13, 2011
A journalist looks at the ‘Newslist’ on the Guardian website on November 10. A British newspaper has thrown open its office doors, let the readers stride in, and invited them to peer over reporters’ shoulders — digitally, at least. The website of the left-leaning Guardian daily is publishing its ‘newslist’ — a schedule of stories [...]
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June 4, 2011
Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. The [...]
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April 20, 2011
Libyan rebels are pictured with the former flag of the north African nation alongside the French national flag close to the strategic rebel-held town of Ajdabiya. A rebel official in Libya’s besieged city of Misrata pleaded for Britain and France to send troops to help fight Moamer Kadhafi’s forces, while a son of the strongman [...]
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March 9, 2011
A man rides a bicycle past a construction site in Ho Chi Minh City. Real estate trading in the city is very slow, and prices have fallen sharply. Given that the real estate market is facing capital shortages, Vietnam should allow investors to access loans from foreign commercial banks at far lower interest rates. Dang [...]
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February 22, 2011
A boat full of illegal immigrants enters the port of the Italian island of Lampedusa escorted by a Coast Guard vessel on February 20. Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing food shortages sparked by climate change, experts warned at a major science conference that ended here Monday. "In [...]
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February 9, 2011
Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop speaks during a press conference in Espoo, Finland, on September 10, 2010. World-leading mobile phone company Nokia is “standing on a burning platform,” surrounded by a “blazing fire” of competition, new company head Stephen Elop said in an internal memo obtained by AFP Wednesday. Elop’s memo paints a picture of [...]
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February 6, 2011
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch sits on stage for the launch of his new online newspaper for the Apple iPad called The Daily at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday launched “The Daily,” a digital newspaper created for Apple’s iPad, in the latest move in his drive to [...]
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November 8, 2010
Leading a balanced and healthy life is not easy in Ho Chi Minh City. The noise, pollution and heat put many people off going outside and getting some exercise. Many urbanites lead a sedentary lifestyle and sometimes stress at work can get the better of us. We all dream of the perfect lifestyle, but, [...]
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January 16, 2010
In this Nov. 14,2009, file photo, President Barack Obama delivers a speech in Tokyo President Barack Obama on Saturday slammed Wall Street’s “audacity” for fighting a bailout fee he wants to slap on financial firms and said his Republican opponents had sided with big banks. With Obama’s popularity hovering around 50 percent and congressional elections [...]
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