Monthly Archives: June 2012

Beijing opposes listing of temples

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Reuters Shanghai Buddhist and Taoist temples had no right to go public and list shares on stock exchanges, a Chinese official has said of an issue that seems to have touched a nerve with the officially atheist government. The listing of firms linked to heritage sites is not new in China’s three-decade-old capital markets, but attempts to list at least one religious site seem to have crossed Read more [...]

Endangered historic sites in New Orleans listed

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Lovers of New Orleans history and architecture were cheered when state and local officials agreed to move rather than demolish scores of homes on the sites of the planned Veteran Affairs Medical Center and University Medical Center complexes in Mid-City. Two years later, however, dozens of the century-old houses still sit roofless and open to the weather, their future uncertain, the Louisiana Landmarks Society said this week in placing the homes on its annual list of the nine most endangered Read more [...]

Yitai Coal Said to Weigh Cutting Hong Kong Stock Sale by a Third

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Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal Co. (900948), the biggest coal producer in the Chinese region bordering Mongolia, may cut the size of a planned Hong Kong share sale by a third, said two people with knowledge of the matter. Yitai Coal, which already has dollar-denominated B shares listed in Shanghai, may sell stock in Hong Kong equivalent to 10 percent of its equity capital after the offer, said the people, who declined to be identified because the details Read more [...]

Park House club in Cardiff told to take down promotional ribbon

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It is the one piece of “red tape” a city business is keen to keep. Park House restaurant owner Adam Pledger temporarily erected a 65-ft red bow across the front of his business, on Park Place, in a bid to attract new customers. But the businessman was outraged when Cardiff council ordered him to remove the ribbon from the 19th century building, and allegedly threatened him with legal action. The furious 34-year-old says the action shows how Cardiff council is stifling business in the capital Read more [...]

Holiday/Pendergraft Edgartown tale echoes Houston past

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Martha's Vineyard Times File Photo A screen shot of the Holiday website shows a fundraising event in Houston unrelated to Holiday, according to nonprofit founder Tony Massua. This week, lawyers in Boston and Texas attempted to separate Holiday Public Relations Events, a Houston based company, and Danielle Pendergraft of Edgartown. The Texas firm and the Edgartown resident are involved in a lawsuit filed by Holiday against SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt of Edgartown, founders of the nonprofit Read more [...]

Home Prices Stall, Breaking Three-Month Streak of Rising Prices

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Each month we publish the Trulia Price Monitor and Trulia Rent Monitor, which are the earliest leading indicators of how asking prices and rents are trending nationally and locally, adjusted for the mix of listed homes and seasonal factors. Here's the scoop on how prices and rents did in May. After Three Months of Increases, Asking Prices Flat in MayAsking prices on for-sale homes were unchanged in May month over month, seasonally adjusted. Because prices rose in February, March and April, Read more [...]

Zoar, Ohio, listed among America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, which …

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Thomas Ondrey, The Plain DealerNortheast Ohio's Zoar Village, founded by German separatists in 1817, was named one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.ZOAR VILLAGE, Ohio -- It becomes official today: This tiny town in northern Tuscarawas County, about 90 miles south of Cleveland, is endangered.Zoar was named today to the 2012 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, the 25th annual ranking by the National Trust for Historic Read more [...]