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“Meanwhile, the Free Gaza Movement is sending two more boats to Gaza and they are expected to arrive in region by Thursday.”
“From Kazakhstan, 200,000 barrels of oil are now being pumped every day across the border into the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, and there are plans to double this pipeline's capacity.”
“From Turkmenistan, a pipeline carrying gas to China via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was opened last December by the Chinese President Hu Jintao. It could satisfy around half of China's current demand by the time it reaches full capacity in 2…”
“Even now it is only taking a third of what it was expected to buy, angering the Turkmen government and pushing it further into the arms of the Chinese.”
“The game changed because of Nabucco. Up to 2006, Russia could buy cheap gas from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan - $50 for 1,000 cubic metres and then sell it to Europe for $250.”
“But from the start of 2008, Russia had to agree to pay European prices - $300 per 1,000 cubic metres.”
“Moscow has had agreements with Beijing to build a gas pipeline into China since 2002, but the two sides have been haggling ever since over the price of the gas supplies.”
“But some analysts question whether Russia will have sufficient reserves to supply the gas pipeline, given the expected decline in its production over the next 20 years and the lack of investment in new fields since the collapse of the Sovi…”
“Football fans uploading 10 photos at a game could be charged up to £80.”
“The watchdog said that the cost of using mobile internet - increasingly popular as people visit social networking sites on smartphones - can be up to £8 for every megabyte downloaded.”
“Charges to make calls ranged from 80p to £1.50 a minute, and texts cost from 25p to 50p, Consumer Focus said.”
“Holidaymakers travelling in the EU have a maximum tariff of 43 cents (37p) a minute when making a call, 19 cents (16p) a minute when receiving a call, 11 cents (9p) a minute to send a text, and, from July, 50 euros (£42.50) for data roamin…”
“Users receive a warning when they are approaching 80% of their limit, and are cut off once the limit is reached.”
“However, when the iron bridge was constructed in 1920 it was leased to the owner of the nearby Bleachgreen works for 85 years.”
“£2.5bn regeneration of Ashford.”
“Ashford's Future, the agency which organised the event, wants to double the town's size by 2031.”
“More than 12,000 households were sent information during the consultation”
“2,100 people attended 20 public exhibitions”
“Presentations were given to two county councils, five district councils, 61 parish councils and more than 50 ward councillors”
“Depending upon the final route, the overhead line would be up to 18 miles (30km) long”
“If consent is granted construction would begin in 2012 and end in 2016”
“nine out of ten pubs in Nottingham passed an under age purchase test.”
“Four volunteers aged under 16, with a plain clothes officer, visited the pubs in Hucknall to try to buy an alcohol drink.”
“The service is being offered free of charge by Plymouth City Centre Company as part of a five-year business plan.”
“Firstly it will help reduce business costs by diverting paper and card away from the commercial waste collection they pay for, making collection of residual waste cheaper.”
“the economy is now expected to grow by 1% by the end of the year.”
“downward revision of 0.3% from its report in March.”
“not reaching pre-recession levels until the second half of 2012.”
“forecasts for 2011 show the economy is expected to grow by 1.9%.”
“within the next four or five years.”
“about 100 acres of brown field site available for business development.”
“Northern Rock's banking operation in Guernsey is to close on 2 September, the bank has announced.”
“Some 6,000 customers have received letters giving them three months' notice to close their accounts.”
“The bank said that the Guernsey operation no longer met its 'long-term commercial objectives' following a review of offshore operations.”
“"The board considers the closure of our Guernsey operation to be a necessary step as we continue to prepare the company for a return to private ownership and to deliver value to the taxpayer," said Gary Hoffman, the Rock's chief executive.”
“"The closure will be conducted in an orderly manner, over a three-month period, and we aim to make the process as easy as possible for customers."”
“Foxconn has now raised the minimum wage at its Shenzhen factory by 20%, also in response to a growing shortage of factory workers.”
“sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa account for half of Acer's revenue.”
“A decision over the wind farm will be made by the government The company behind plans for a 48-turbine wind farm in the Lammermuir Hills has spoken out to defend the scheme.”
“He added that the Fallago Rig scheme could meet the renewable energy needs of up to 80,000 homes and would contribute £240,000-a-year for 25 years to an environmental fund for the area.”
“And as a member of the group in charge of overseeing the controversial Holyrood building project, he defended a decision to spend £88,000 on its reception desk as well as claims that MSPs' offices were badly designed.”
“The principal investment managers behind the Sofaer fund, Michael Brown and Steve Frost, are to join Martin Currie in July, while the investment analyst working on the fund, Charlotte Dagg, is due to join later this year.”
“We view the market dislocation as an opportunity to attract the world's best talent. This acquisition enables us to further strengthen our expertise in European equities, fill an obvious gap in our long/short equity business and add subst…”
“This acquisition enables us to further strengthen our expertise in European equities, fill an obvious gap in our long/short equity business and add substantial assets under management to our hedge fund business.”
“Voltage Pictures made $150 million (£102m) through film sales and acquisitions within the last three years according to its website.”
“10 workers had killed themselves at a factory in Shenzhen, China.”
“An eleventh worker recently died at another factory in northern China.”
“In total, there have been 13 suicides and suicide attempts at Foxconn factories this year.”
“Foxconn has said that it will give its assembly line workers a 30% pay rise.”
“The firm had previously said that it would offer a 20% pay increase to its Chinese workers, who earn 900 yuan (£90) per month at entry-level.”
“Hon Hai Precision is the world's largest maker of consumer electronics, and employs 800,000 workers worldwide, mostly in China.”
“workers - often from rural China - work up to 12 hours a day, six days a week.”
“Foxconn has said that it will give its assembly line workers a 30% pay rise. The firm had previously said that it would offer a 20% pay increase to its Chinese workers, who earn 900 yuan (£90) per month at entry-level.”
“Last week, Apple overtook Microsoft to become the world's largest technology company by market value.”
“the items realised £577,063 in total.”
“The first sale, of about 150 lots, will be followed by a second in New York in December and a third in London next summer.”
“The letters sold for more than four times their estimate - going to a private UK buyer for £34,850.”
“An unsmoked Havana cigar offered in a box beat its estimate of £1,000-£1,500 to fetch £2,125.”
“Estimated to fetch £20,000 to £30,000, they were bought by a private US collector for £39,650.”
“The former prime minister's engagement diary on 30 cards, giving details of his daily activities from September 1939 to June 1945, were expected to fetch up to £120,000, but it was withdrawn from auction before the sale took place.”
“The items were sold by US publishing magnate, Steve Forbes, who amassed them over three decades.”
“The items realised £577,063 in total.”
“The Glazer family bought Manchester United for £800m in 2005.”
“In the last annual accounts, to July 2009, debts at the club's parent company Red Football Joint Venture increased to £716.5m.”
“The group had been expected to make a bid of about £1bn for United, however reports have suggested that the Glazer family put a much higher value on the club.”
“However, it added it was "encouraging supporters to delay renewal of season tickets and executive facilities until at least the first deadline and ideally until a Red Knight bid comes forward"”
“However, it added it was "encouraging supporters to delay renewal of season tickets and executive facilities until at least the first deadline and ideally until a Red Knight bid comes forward".”
“They believe he may have been killed by someone who found out he was getting £300,000 from his father for a business.”
“the company now has 'the smell of death about it'.”
“the track of the £116m Cambridge to St Ives guided busway”
“It had raised concern that BAM Nuttall may not hit its mid-June deadline for submitting the results.”
“The tests are among six issues holding back the completion of the busway.”
“Work on the site began in 2007”
“it was planned to open in spring 2009.”
“BAM Nuttall set a self-imposed timetable at the end of April so residents can track the progress they are making.”
“Today, the company, which is based in McLean, Virginia, has about 360,000 subscribers worldwide, earning revenues amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“We were selected for this contract following a long international competition that started back in 2007.”
“Only one in three of Scotland's small and medium sized companies are exporting, and few of the others have plans to change that, a poll has found.”
“A fifth of firms surveyed by the Bank of Scotland said language barriers were among the biggest obstacles to exporting.”
“More than two in five companies reported that a fear of demand was the main reason for not looking to markets overseas.”
“The same proportion feared their bad debts would not be paid, and almost as many feared foreign currency fluctuations.”
“Of the third of companies that were exporting, more than one in three have experienced growth in that part of their business.”
“Almost a quarter hoped to build business in China and the Far East, and almost a fifth saw opportunities in Africa and the Middle East, while Europe and North America remained the dominant markets.”
“London remained hugely dominant, with more than two-thirds of all inward investment decisions.”
“It had 263 inward investment projects included in the survey, whereas Edinburgh and Glasgow each had seven, and all of Scotland had 51.”
“Ten years ago, more than 60,000 jobs were created in Britain through foreign direct investment.”
“Last year was the second consecutive year with only 20,000 jobs being created that way through new projects or expansions.”
“The UK continued to dominate inward investment within Europe, having 30% of business service projects, 36% of software projects and 27% of financial sector projects within western Europe.”
“America also represents more than two-thirds of projects coming to the UK, followed by France and Germany.”
“India had the fourth largest number of investments in Britain, with 38 projects.”
“But with the downturn, the number of such investments last year fell 40% in those countries.”
“Almost 25% of exporting firms are targeting business in the Far East.”
“AIG said on Tuesday that it would not "not consider" any revision to the terms of the deal.”
“They formed a rebel shareholder group, the Prudential Action Group, which planned to oppose the deal at a shareholder vote due to be held on 7 June.”
“We listened carefully to shareholders over the price and initiated a renegotiation of the terms with AIG,”
“The collapse of the deal is expected to raise questions about the future of both him and his chief executive, Tidjane Thiam, with the company.”
“There certainly needs to be a proper review as to how the board came to the decision that this was the right deal at the right price - and who most strongly proposed that particular transaction,”
“It shows that conventional investment institutions are prepared to act more like the independent owners of a business and not as absentee landlords too readily compliant with the wishes of managers,”
“If everything goes well, within the next 24 hours we could have this contained.”
“remember this is being done in 5,000 ft of water, and very small issues take a long time to fix”
