Sonia Gandhi opens India's first sea bridge The Times Of India | Text: MUMBAI: Billed as an engineering marvel, India's first sea bridge was thrown open in this financial and entertainment capital Tuesday, promising to cut travel time by 80 percent, bypassing 23 traffic signals that commuters have to endure ...
The flavors of New Shanghai: Two chefs prepare Beijing, szechwan fare Boston Herald | You won’t find Shanghainese fare at New Shanghai restaurant. Despite its moniker, the Chinatown eatery - now under new management - specializes in Beijing and szechwan cuisines. | New Shanghai has gone through multiple incarnations over the years. So when owners Andy Chen, Frank Xing and And...
HK lawmakers discuss Disney expansion plan Philadelphia Daily News | The Associated Press | HONG KONG - Hong Kong lawmakers said Saturday they would be unwilling to approve a plan to expand the city's Disneyland unless the government and Walt Disney Co. tell them how the theme park has performed since it opened in 2...
Doomed never to peak in tongues The Australian | ONE of the things that most concerns me, and that regularly rates in my Post-it notes to self, is my complete failure to master a foreign language. | In this I am really no different from most Australians. We are a nation of linguistic morons. Of c...
Author line-up announced for Silent Film Festival The Examiner Comment RSS Email Print | "Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture" is among | the books featured at the upcoming San Francisco Silent Film Festival. | By Thomas Gladysz | SF Silent Film Examiner | Along with a lin...
Hosting.com Adding 30,000 Sq Ft High-Density Datacenter to Metro Denver The Examiner Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE | DENVER (Map) - DENVER, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Hosting.com, the first name in managed hosting and colocation solutions, today announced that it is expanding by opening a 30,000 square foot dat...
A World First - New Book: Marketing Professional Services in Asia The Examiner Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE | HONG KONG (Map) - HONG KONG, July 2 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Law and accountancy firms from the US and Europe have long considered Asia a prime market, particularly given the maturing markets of ...
A city for children The Star | IMAGINE a replica of real city equipped with buildings, shops, theatres, streets as well as businesses and services, made and run by children. | This child-size replica of a real...
Bestsellers Star Tribune FICTION | 1. RELENTLESS, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $27.) A writer is pursued by a sociopathic critic. | 2. THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE, by Katherine Howe. (Voice, $25.99.) A graduate student is caught up in her research on a healer accused of...
Sonia Gandhi opens India's first sea bridge The Times Of India | Text: MUMBAI: Billed as an engineering marvel, India's first sea bridge was thrown open in this financial and entertainment capital Tuesday, promising to cut travel time by 80 percent, bypassing...
Business slump greets blanket ban on smoking Hong Kong Standard Some entertainment venue operators saw business shrink as the clock ticked past midnight yesterday ushering in a blanket smoking ban. | //--> Nickkita Lau | Thursday, July 02, 2009 | Some entertainment venue operators saw business shrink as the clock ticked past midnight yesterday ushering in a blanket smoking ban. | The two-year grace period for s...
Coach: Liu Xiang's return from foot injury on hold Syracuse | (AP) - BEIJING - Liu Xiang's return to competition is on hold because of lingering problems with the Chinese high hurdler's injured foot, his coach said Tuesday. | The 2004 Olympic gold medalist has already been ruled out of defending his world championship title in August, although he has resumed light training after surgery on his right foot in...
