probing Chinese multinationals, hightech, travel, outsourcing, trade, politics, consumer (cmi santiago)
Profiting from rising Chinese trade, yuan and stock market? How do over a half million international companies make profits in China? Learn about Chinese multinationals Haier, TCL, China Mobile, China Oil, Shanghai Auto, China Construction Bank, China Internet Companies and stock market.
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Peter Lyons: Oh, the horrors of Auckland train travel (The New Zealand Herald)
A delegation of Government rail officials arrived in Auckland recently from Zimbabwe. They are here to advise Veolia rail on improving customer services in Auckland. President Mugabe's Government receives few complaints about rail services in Harare.
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Mountains call to Larkins; treehouses in San Antonio; two Austin travel agents win big (Austin American-Statesman)
WISH YOU WERE HERE When vacation time magically appeared, the mountains came calling From Janet Larkin of Buda The mountains have been murmuring in me for two years: dreams of crisp, cold summer dawns, the hint of forest wafting through the air. Then
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Adventurer Takes Solar-Powered Joy Ride (ABC News)
Man travels around the world in a car powered by nothing but the sun.
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'Packrafting!' (Anchorage Daily News)
For 25 years, Alaska adventurer and Alaska Pacific University professor Roman Dial has used a packraft to explore corners of wilderness next to impossible to reach on foot. He's used the packraft in most of his 11 Alaska Wilderness Classics, perhaps the toughest backcountry race in the world.
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squeezeholidays.com launched (eyefortravel.com)
A new travel website squeezeholidays.com has been launched. The business is backed by Neutron Ventures Ltd, an Internet incubator Maz Darvish is the chairman of the new venture. Laurence Woodhams assumes the board position of commercial director.
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India: the inside story (Guardian Unlimited)
Travel: Gethin Chamberlain reports on an innovative home stay network which offers visitors an unbeatable insight into local life
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VARIETY (The Hindu)
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: Biz in their backpacks They love travel, but off the packaged track… and together as a couple it led them to a business venture.. Both of them shared a passion for travel, but of the kind that doesn’t adhere to organised or package tours. In the early ...
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Not a nano question (Hindustan Times)
It is not about Ratan Tata or India’s largest auto company, Tata Motors —which is challenging assumptions of costs the world over. The Rs 1,500 crore that the company is ready to forego for employee safety is as generous a promoter as any worker can aspire for.
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This could only happen in Massachusetts, believe it or not (Boston Globe)
Massachusetts was a perfectly normal place, right up until about 10,000 years ago when the first people arrived. Then things started getting weird. Certainly nature left unique marks on the land, such as the water-carved marble of Natural Bridge in North Adams, which was once under a shallow ocean, or Balance Rock in Pittsfield State Forest, a boulder left precariously ...
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