Yangzijiang Shipbuilding: More Shipbuild- ing Contracts and TDR Listing, Maintain Buy New shipbuilding contracts. Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (YZJ) recently announced that it has entered into 28 shipbuilding contracts worth a total of US$914.98 million since 1 July 2010. Eight of these are containerships and the rest are dry bulk carriers....
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“Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.” - Ronnie Milsap There are inevitably going to be days when you ask yourself what you are doing in the business you are in. You may be going through a dry spell, or perhaps you lost...
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Absinthe – French Flair In Chinatown Click Here to View Gallery Absinthe is known to be a strong and potent alcoholic drink that historians generally refer to as “la fée verte”, or the Green Fairy, because of its green appearance. Its notion of being a psychoactive drug in the...
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Examining the Risks of Intervention in the Japanese Yen Will the Japanese authorities intervene? With the strength in the Japanese currency now weighing on its exports, newswires will be kept busy for now with market participants anticipating of an intervention by the BoJ (Bank of Japan), which acts on...
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“Eighty per cent of success is showing up.” - Woody Allen Woody Allen may sound humorously cynical in the above quote. But, as with all great comic lines, there is wisdom embedded in the punch line. Indeed, this line could well be Allen’s own time-tested formula for success. It...
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1) At the 2010 Singapore Retail Industry Conference, Senior Minister Iswaran cited the Ministry of Manpower’s Employer-Supported Training 2008 report, which said that only 41 per cent of retail establishments provided some form of structured training to workers compared with the national average of 65 per cent across all...
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Click Here to View Gallery If you have a few hours to spare in downtown Seattle and are feeling a little peckish, you should head down to check out Pike Place Market. Located by the Elliott Bay waterfront in the north-west of Seattle’s business district, this public farmers’ market...
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“Waiting and acting, the latter always being a riposte and therefore a reaction, are both essential parts of defence.” - Carl Von Clausewitz Like vultures, companies will attack a weakened prey. Carl von Clausewitz’s writings in his famous strategy book, On War, show how defence is always the better...
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New Links Between Cholesterol and Depression in The Elderly Most people know that high cholesterol levels increase their risk of heart disease and stroke. Prior research has shown that particular types of strokes contribute to one’s risk of depres- sion, and that abnormal blood lipid levels can increase the...
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