QUNAR to report second quarter 2015 financial results on August 24, 2015
BEIJING, Aug. 19, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Qunar Cayman Islands Limited (Nasdaq:QUNR) (“Qunar” or the “Company”), China’s leading mobile and online travel platform, today announced that it will report its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015,…
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Smithsonian scientists find new goby species in Caribbean deep reefs
By Daniel Kelly From Fishsens Magazine Using a manned submersible vehicle privately owned by the Substation Curacao, researchers with the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new goby species. The fish was found off the coast of Curacao, a small island…
Ex-Mittal adviser starts U.K. Bank with Wadhwani, Turner’s help
By Richard Partington From Bloomberg Rishi Khosla, once an adviser to Lakshmi Mittal, started a bank from scratch in the U.K. Its prospects have lured a former Bank of England rate-setter and a past top market watchdog to help out….
Barbados to host OK Class Worlds 2017
BRIDGETOWN – Barbados has won the bid over Germany for the right to host one of the world’s leading yachting events in 2017. The OK Class Worlds travels to various destinations around the world each year, as most of the…
SPISE 2015 comes to a close
From Caribbean Development Bank On Friday August 14, 2015, the 2015 edition of the Student Programme for Innovation in Science and Engineering (SPISE) came to a close, and by all indications, it has once again been a resounding success. On…
Unaware, ISIS beheads its own sorcery and sorcerers
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Just as religious fundamentalists view the power of science and modernity as the chief source of disenchantment, they see sorcery and superstition as a cause of evil.(1) But whether they realize it or not,…
Sally Edwards on health and climate change in the Caribbean
By Carley Chavara “It’s a Very Complex Web” “The relationship between human health…and environmental changes is extremely complex,” says Sally Edwards, advisor for sustainable development and environmental health of the Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization office for the eastern Caribbean…
Twin Otter 10° approach to St Maarten
Sint Maarten’s Winair readies to extend its Caribbean lifeline By Chris Kjelgaard From AINonline Three years after new top management turned around loss-making Caribbean regional carrier Windward Island Airways into annual profitability, the airline expects to close on a new…
Cayman Islands confident of being granted AIFMD passport – AIMA
From Automated Trader The Cayman Islands is confident that the pan-European marketing ‘passport’ will be extended to alternative investment funds set up in the jurisdiction, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association, the global hedge fund industry association. Jack Inglis,…
Draw determines groups and schedule for the 2015 CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Championship
Miami (Tuesday, August 18, 2015) – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) conducted today the draw for the 2015 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship, at the Torrance Marriott in Los Angeles, California. FIFA Executive Committee Member…
