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“as many as a quarter of them were not taking at least one day off a week”
“Foxconn says it has hired 100 counsellors and invited monks to help workers at a new Employee Care Centre”
“The worker, identified by Xinhua as 19-year old Rong Bo, died in the city of Langtang early this year”
“A similar investigation into the death of 16-year old Wang Lingyan - who was found dead in a dormitory at the same site - concluded she died from cardiac arrest, government spokeswoman Wang Qiunu told Xinhua”
“£1,000 reward”
“More than 1,500 people are employed in hotels in the capital alone.”
“The number of hotel beds grew by 30% last year in the city”
“and is set to grow by another 30% this year.”
“create around 400 jobs”
“and the football club would be among the top 25 firms in the city.”
“Two-way trade exceeds $100bn (£69bn) a year.”
“Around 40% of Taiwan's exports go to China.”
“Taiwanese investments in China have reached $200bn (£139bn).”
“That adds to the £401m it lost in the 2008-9 financial year, but as it was less than expected, BA shares rose.”
“It is estimated that strikes by cabin crew in March cost BA £43m.”
“That adds to the £401m it lost in the 2008-9 financial year...”
“Revenues at the airline were down £1bn on last year, BA said...”
“...though it managed to cut costs by nearly £990m - a £600m saving coming from lower fuel costs over the year.”
“the main UK, French and German indexes had lost more than 2% at lunchtime”
“London's FTSE 100 below 5,000 for the first time since November”
“In London, the FTSE ended down 0.2% to 5,063”
“Germany's Dax finishing 0.7% lower.”
“Dow Jones later ended up 1.3%.”
“If only half of these polices are implemented, it will give enterprise and wealth creation in Wales and the UK as a whole a major, major boost.”
“Arnab Basu, chief executive of Durham-based hi-tech small firm Kromek - which makes 3D X-ray machines - said he most welcomed the pledge to not "gold plate" or add to Europe-wide regulations.”
“the move to the 150-acre Rose Bowl site”
“A nine-hole golf course has also been installed as another revenue earner, and there are plans to enlarge it to an 18-hole championship-length course at a cost of about £5m”
“And there are plans to built a four star residential hotel in the environs of the Rose Bowl stadium”
“When I joined I realised rather quickly that my cricket club was at risk of going out of business... The move to the Rose Bowl caused serious financial problems... With the club insolvent by about of £1.2m and the move to the 150-acre Rose…”
“it continues to play at the impressive 9,000 seater Rose Bowl stadium on the outskirts of Southampton, currently in the process of being extended to 15,000 through the addition of two new stands.”
“Of the 15,000 permanent seats, which the expanded stadium will ultimately hold, some 6,000 will be under cover.”
“The use of a further 10,000 temporary seating places can then increase the maximum capacity to 25,000 seats when needed.”
“A nine-hole golf course has also been installed as another revenue earner, and there are plans to enlarge it to an 18-hole championship-length course at a cost of about £5m.”
“The plan, unveiled last week by PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, will involve a 5% cut to public sector salaries.”
“It is reckoned that as much as 25 billion barrels of oil could still be extracted from British waters.”
“There could be 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent left to exploit, but the UK competes against every other basin in the world for investment and I am committed to make sure that we have a licensing regime and investment environment that …”
“keep its successful supply chain anchored here. We need to keep working together to improve the UK industry's global competitive position so that it can attract the substantial investment that will be required to explore for and develop th…”
“Earlier, the new cabinet minister attended the All Energy conference and exhibition in Aberdeen - a showcase for the renewable energy industry.”
“Mr Huhne visited Apache North Sea, which has taken over the Forties field from BP.”
“He and his colleagues are already collaborating with pharmaceutical and fuel companies to design and develop chromosomes for bacteria that would produce useful fuels or even new vaccines.”
“The Lanarkshire site was closed prematurely in January 1992.”
“About 1,200 jobs were cut at the site soon after earlier closures had affected about 6,000 jobs in the area.”
“Under an agreement on industry privatisation, British Steel were meant to keep the plant running until 1994.”
“Scottish Secretary Ian Lang had tried to persuade British Steel chairman Sir Robert Scholey to leave the plant 'ticking over' until the market conditions improved.”
“I was dismayed to learn of the recommendation which the board is to consider on 8 January concerning early closure of the remaining operations at Ravenscraig”
“Prevailing commercial conditions were in his words 'bloody awful'.”
“The remaining jobs at Ravenscraig - some 1,200 - would go.”
“To try and offset the inevitable surge in unemployment and economic trauma the government established a special Economic Zone (EZ) in the area.”
“Concern was also raised over what turned out to be substantial decontamination costs and hundreds of jobs put in risk on the railways.”
“The past year saw an unsuccessful attempt by the previous Labour government to privatise the company led by Lord Mandelson, which was scuppered by the unwillingness of rival postal services to lodge a bid. Royal Mail also had to deal with …”
“The Conservative-Lib Dem government said it would seek 'an injection of private capital', without saying how much of the mail group would be up for sale.”
“Earlier this week NBC announced it was ditching Heroes after four series.”
“Vaccine producer Novartis, for example, posted an 8% jump in profit in 2009.”
“the pharmaceutical companies, which had invested around $4bn in developing the swine flu vaccine”
“Cable firms are currently charged a business tax on the value of any newly installed fibre, regardless of the size of the network.”
“At Heathrow, it said it would operate more than 60% of long-haul flights and more than 50% of short-haul flights.”
“disciplinary action taken against more than 50 of its members.”
“We are confident that thousands of cabin crew will ignore Unite's strike call and help us fly more than 70% of the customers who were booked to fly with us in the period targeted.”
“Six years after her short movie The Most Beautiful Man in the World was nominated for Cannes' best short film prize, British film-maker Alicia Duffy has returned to the French Riviera.”
“38-year-old”
“Like the Academy waited for 82 years to give a woman an Oscar just because they didn't like her ex-husband.”
“spent two years shadowing David Yates, as he directed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”
“Crow Stone won a coveted Cannes award in 2001.”
“The Most Beautiful Man in the World, in 2003.”
“I just asked him for £25,000 and the guy actually gave me a book of signed cheques.”
“12-year-old Bella”
“Estate agents claimed the packs, which typically cost between £299 and £350, were stunting the housing market recovery.”
“£3.2bn from shareholders to spend on adapting the UK's power networks for renewable sources of energy.”
“shares to fall 7%”
“£22bn in the UK over the next five years.”
“annual profits of £2.2bn for last year, up from £1.4bn the previous year.”
“down 43.5p at 576.5p at the close of trading in London.”
“between now and 2020”
“over the last four years”
“Without sponsorship, he relies on income from tickets (which at £65 for a day or £110 for two days, not including camping, are at the higher end of the market given the length of the event and the relatively few acts) as well as sales of f…”
“Last year's Hop Farm made a loss - largely because the headliners, such as Paul Weller, were not a big enough draw to sell sufficient tickets.”
“Besides the cash for the sponsorship - which industry sources say is likely to have run into tens of thousands of pounds (the equivalent of perhaps selling an extra 500 tickets) - the festival also benefits from Waitrose's marketing clout,…”
“With the golf club - owned by Welsh telecoms billionaire Sir Terry Matthews - investing no less than £16m in improvements, Ms Lloyd says most of the contractors, workers and suppliers have come from the local economy.”
“With the golf club - owned by Welsh telecoms billionaire Sir Terry Matthews - investing no less than £16m in improvements”
“She also said the CBI did not want any more business taxes, warning they would hit jobs, enterprise and growth.”
“In order to catch up, EU governments must double their annual spending on research and development to 11bn euros (£9.4bn) by 2020, she said.”
“Nine telecoms firms, including market leaders Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications, took part in more than 180 rounds of bidding over 34 days.”
“"She requested an internship but nothing has been set in stone yet," a spokesperson for Treacy said.”
“before opening his first shop next door in 1994.”
“He spent 10 years designing hats for Karl Lagerfield at Chanel”
“was appointed an OBE in 2007.”
“Oil has been spewing into the Gulf since the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, leased by oil giant BP, exploded off the coast of Louisiana on 20 April and sank two days later.”
“Car production jumped 53% in April in comparison with the same period last year, as it was the first full month of the government's car scrappage scheme.”
“Gas and oil production rose 27.5% and 1.8% respectively.”
“Nine chip makers have been fined 331m euros (£283.1m, $404.2m) by European Union regulators for illegally fixing prices.”
“A 10th chip maker, Micron, was also part of the price-fixing cartel but escaped a fine in return for alerting the competition authorities.”
“Samsung received the biggest single fine of 146m euros.”
“The second biggest was 57m euros, which was levied on Germany's Infineon.”
“All the fines were reduced by 10% because the companies co-operated with the probe.”
“The cartel, in operation between 1998 and 2002, involved a 'network of contacts' who shared secret information.”
“The investigation began in 2002, when Micron blew the whistle on the cartel.”
“As the procedure is applied to new cases it is expected to speed up investigations significantly.”
“All but one of the companies, Germany's Infineon, are non-EU businesses.”
“Some 10 million users have joined Facebook since the recent privacy changes,”
“received $125,000 in donations to help get it off the ground”
