Monthly Archives: February 2012

Alibaba Plans To Take Hong Kong-listed Unit Private; Yahoo! Eyeing Asset-swap …

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Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group plans to take its Hong Kong-listed unit private, two sources familiar with the matter said, and is working with Yahoo! on an asset-swap deal that may result in Yahoo! owning a direct stake in one of Alibaba Group’s operating businesses. The sources told Reuters that taking Alibaba.com private was only one of the proposals being discussed and a final solution to the saga is still being hammered out. Alibaba Group’s plans are part of an overall deal Read more [...]

House Hunt: Open houses for Feb. 12

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To see more information on the properties listed below, visit the Rhode Island Living website and enter the MLS number in the search box. 6 Harbourd Rd. MLS# 1009189. Move-in condition, 3-bedroom, 1-bath ranch located in the Windsor Hills section of Johnston. Home features hardwood floors, a newer roof, fire-placed living room, and a spacious kitchen with sliders to a deck and fenced-in yard. Open house: Feb. 12 from noon - 1:30 p.m. Listed at $134,900. Gus Marsella, RE/MAX Professionals, (401) Read more [...]

Top Ten Events 9-16 Feb: Glasgow Short Film Festival, Discopolis + Paul …

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The Skinny | CyberZAP<![CDATA[]]>     THE WEEK AHEAD... Ahead of Glasgow Film Festival kicking off proper (more on that next week), this week we're enjoying a selection of short films at GSFF – taking us from Butcher Boy's home movies to Frames Per Second's exploration of moving image in all its guises. Elsewhere, we vaguely celebrate Valentine's Day. We say vaguely, because on the one hand we're attending a vintage screening of classic black and white romance Brief Encounter, Read more [...]

Glencore faces questions over controversial DRC mine sales

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UK-listed Swiss commodities giant Glencore PLC recently announced a huge merger deal with miner Xstrata. As the preparations for the merger get underway though, there remain worrying and unresolved issues from Glencore’s little known Congo operations.In July 2011 Bloomberg reported about an opaque series of deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo involving two mines that Glencore operated and co-owned via subsidiaries. In September 2011 the story briefly made the news Read more [...]

Marine Listed as ‘Female’ on Birth Certificate Sues Lenox HIll Hospital

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David Hassan, 29, is suing the hospital over an error on his birth certificate. (Getty Images/Mark Von Holden) MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A U.S. Marine is suing Lenox Hill Hospital and the city for allegedly refusing to correct a nearly 30-year-old error on his birth certificate — which lists him as female, according to a lawsuit filed this week.David Read more [...]

Hobart’s Art Deco Mercury building listed for sale

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Hobart’s Mercury Building, with its distinctive white Art Deco façade and the home of Tasmania’s state newspaper, has been listed for sale with offers expected in excess of $6 million. Built in the 1930s the building, along with heritage-listed Ingle Hall, sits on 3,800 square metres, a third of CBD block at 89-93 Macquarie Street. It has been listed for sale, with the campaign handled by Scott Newton and Ian Reed from Knight Frank Tasmania. They expect interest to come from local, interstate Read more [...]

After Gay Group Is Excluded, Conservative Conference Welcomes Back Old Members

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Nicole Bengiveno/The New York TimesThe Conservative Political Action Conference opened with the Pledge of Allegiance on Thursday morning in Washington.This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, being held in Washington Thursday through Saturday, will welcome back several key organizations that had boycotted the annual festival because it had allowed a conservative gay group to be listed as one of many co-sponsors.David Keene, the former chairman of the American Conservative Union, which Read more [...]

Historic Hellertown Movie Theater Listed for Sale

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An historic Hellertown building that has been eyeballed for redevelopment in recent years has been listed for sale. The Movies, a late-1930s Streamline Moderne movie house at 1152-1154 Main Street, is currently for sale for $300,000, according to the Lehigh Valley Association of Realtors' Multiple Listing Service. The listing for the theater was added to the MLS on Feb. 9, and calls the building "a unique opportunity" for someone interested in converting it to office or storage space, a restaurant/pub, Read more [...]

Changes to the Market Abuse Regime for Irish-listed Funds

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Pursuant to the Market Abuse (Directive 2003/6/EC) Regulations 2005 (the “Market Abuse Regulations”), since 1 July 2005 the Central Bank of Ireland has delegated market monitoring and investigation tasks to the ISE. These delegation arrangements ended on 31 January 2012 and the Central Bank is now carrying out all monitoring and investigation functions formerly carried out by the ISE, in addition to its own monitoring and investigation functions under the Market Abuse Regulations. From 1 February Read more [...]