BUSINESS IN BRIEF 11/7 - VietNamNet Bridge
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:35A total 31 member banks of Smartlink Card Services Joint Stock Co. have agreed on joining Asia-Payment Network (APN) in 2011, becoming the second card alliance in Vietnam to join the Asian network behind BanknetVN. With APN membership, in future, ...
Greetings from the brink of nuclear annihilation - Salon
Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:13He did, however, know the French masters of poster art, AM Cassandre, Jean Carlu, Charles Loupot, and Paul Colin, and was briefly connected to their advertising "agency," Alliance Graphique owing to his friendship with a Montmartre printer named Dupont ...
Afghanistan: Danger, builders at work - The Guardian
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:18The attack on Pearl Harbor was a consequence of the USA seeking to restrict Japanes attempts at economic growth. China is the new Japan - in a growth, not a quality, sense. It impinges on the Pacific basin in the way Japan once did. ...
Television movies for the week of June 26 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:54A stock-car driver competes in the chicken suit symbolic of his fast-food sponsor. (PG) (1:40) ENC: Tue. 8:50 AM (CC) • Stuck on You '03. Matt Damon. Conjoined twins go to Hollywood and land a role on a television show starring Cher. ...
The violent new war on the rat - Salon
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:04As the grass disappeared, fires were limited and smaller trees were able to mature until the land became overcrowded. Invasive species like highly flammable cheat grass also moved in, carried there and distributed in cow dung. ...