2-Power project win for Malaysia’s 1MDB bolsters IPO prospects
By Yantoultra Ngui and Saeed Azhar KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE, Feb 28 (Reuters) – A planned $2 billion IPO of Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) power assets got a major boost on Friday after the sovereign wealth fund won a closely contested government…
Fair trade and slave free: the only chocolate for your Valentine
By Kristina Chew From Care2 Buying one of love’s emblematic tokens — chocolate — has gotten rather complicated and for good reason. Scratch the surface of how chocolate is produced and you’ll soon discover that a shocking amount of global…
A brand new hybrid bird flu in China has scientists worried
By Jennifer Welsh From Business Insider A new-to-humans flu virus killed a 73-year-old woman from the Jiangxi province in China, on Dec. 6. At the time, the doctors knew it was a H10N8 bird flu virus that killed her. But,…
How to capture the right kind of talent
By Alina Dizik BBC PHOTO: Participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Sony had a hiring problem. It wasn’t that the Japanese retailer, with more than 130 stores worldwide, including 38 in the US, couldn’t find…
News from Appleby
Appleby report highlights increase in insolvency petition filings in Cayman An Appleby report on petition filings in the Cayman Islands, going back to 2008, has revealed that insolvency filings on the islands spiked more than 30 per cent in 2013…
Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover taps global markets for record sales
By Tommy Wilkes Reuters From Daily Press LONDON (Reuters) – British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover sold a record volume of vehicles last year, when rising demand in markets such as Brazil, China, India and the United States helped…
Bulldozer crushes marine sleeping in foxhole
By Amanda Macias From Business Insider The details of how a 20-year-old Marine died during a training accident back in March were recently released by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, reports the Marine Corps Times. Private First Class Casey James…
BlackBerry makes new investment in security innovation center in the Washington, D.C. Area
Las Vegas – BlackBerry, in attendance at CES Government (CESG), communicated its intention to invest in a new security innovation center in the Washington, D.C. area. Building on BlackBerry’s technical experience and leadership in mobile security, the new Center will…
Australia police free naked man stuck in washing machine
From BBC Police in Australia have rescued a naked man who got stuck inside a washing machine while playing a game of hide-and-seek. The man reportedly hid inside the top-loading machine so he could surprise his partner. But he became…
Australia saw hottest year on record in 2013
From BBC In 2013 Sydney was hit by ‘the most destructive fires since at least 1968’ Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, officials have said. Temperatures were 1.2C above the long term average, the warmest since records…
