Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Australia-based Leisure & Allied Industries (LAI), owner of the family entertainment centre brand Timezones, is planning to invest around $80 million
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- LAI International, Inc., a strategic supplier of precision components and sub-assemblies for original equipment manufacturers, has completed a Kaizen event that has reduced the cycle time of a key process in the produ...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- LAI International, Inc., a strategic supplier of precision components and sub-assemblies for original equipment manufacturers, has completed a Kaizen event that has reduced the cycle time of a key process in the production of a gas turbine component by 58 percent. The Kaizen event -- a focused project used to improve a process -- evaluated a number of air...
Business Spectator (Free subscription) | yesterday
... The Mall at Studio City and ultimately invest $US200 million.The venture also involves Hong Kong's Lai Sun Development and Singapore's CapitaLand."All parties are participating in a 24/7 effort to complete the financing and move forward on the project," Mr Taubman said.Given the tough conditions, the partners may have to put more equity into the deal, he said."Meanwhile, leasing is progressing...
Easy View Internet (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In Asia, New Internet Marketing Experts In recent years, Asia has developed to become one of the foremost internet marketing boom areas, particularly in Singapore and Malaysia. As more and more events take off in this part of the world, outstanding internet marketers are starting to blaze the trail and offer marketers in the USA, UK and Europe opportunities for joint ventures and other work....
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Sen. Obama, you’re unelectable (and an illegitimate candidate) Michelle to Stay at Home [No overseas trip for her], Drudge Report, July 16, 2008. J. Cifre, Amateur Hour, Savage Politics, July 17, 2008. Jeff Gold, The Obama Attack on Civilization, Stop-Obama, July 17, 2008. Just one of the things Obama doesn’t understand. Obama Doesn’t Understand Role of Joint Chiefs: Will [...]
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... a combined investment of 1.46 trillion VND. It also sought basic depreciation loans from local joint sock companies such as Pha Lai and Vinh Son-Song Hinh, and short-term funding from foreign banks.For the long term, EVN is planning to sell part of its stakes in joint stock companies through direct negotiations with strategic investors.The group also worked out a master plan to set...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Last updated July 8, 2008 5:15 a.m. PTIranian president says no war with US, IsraelBy VIJAY JOSHIASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures during a joint press conference of the D-8 Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Ahmadinejad has urged the next U.S. government to restore America's international image by respecting justice and human rights....
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Kien Giang-based Mekong Aviation Joint stock Co has submitted an application to the Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam (CAAV) to launch carrier Mekong Air. Mekong Aviation is the third private aviation firm to request a Vietnamese operating licence. Vietjet Air and Speed Up Air have already been given permission by the Government to operate domestic services. Mekong Air has a charter
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
BIG LAKE, MN (MARKET WIRE) Viper Motorcycle Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Viper Powersports, Inc. (OTCBB: VPWS) in Big Lake, Minnesota, has announced a joint promotional deal involving the Long Haul Bombers of the World Softball League in joining them on "THE Power Stadium Tour."
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Vietnam ’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company will provide Laos with 14 million USD to finance construction of dormitories for athletes competing at the 25th Southeast Asia Games scheduled in late 2009. Under an agreement signed in the Lao capital city of Vientiane on June 21, 4 million USD of the sum will be doled out as a grant, and the remainder, a three-year soft loan. The project will...
vietnam stock market (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Friday, June 20, 2008 Hanoi Securities Trading Center (HaSTC) recently announced that the Song Da 4 Joint Stock Co (coded SD4) would officially list 7.5 million shares on the northern bourse on June 25. Gia Lai highland central province-headquartered SD4 with a chartered capital of 75 billion dong, of which the state holds 64% of chartered capital, operates in such fields as irrigation and hydropower...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
The Than Uyen Tea Joint Stock Company from the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau has received European quality status for its Shan Tuyet green tea. TQ CSI International granted a ISO 22000:2005 Certificate for Food Safety Management Systems to the company, making it first in the nation’s tea industry to receive the European-standard approval. Established in 1960 with the Than Uyen farm,...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
The Viet Nam Civil Aviation Administration (VCAA) asked Vietnam’s first low-cost air carrier Jetstar Pacific Airlines to stop advertising and marketing its products under the brand and symbol of a foreign airline, Australia’s Jetstar Airways. According to VCAA’s Vice Head Lai Xuan Thanh, Jetstar Pacific “intentionally” advertised the symbol of Jetstar, an airline of Australia, without permission
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
... or anything like that.""I'm not sure about the long-term impact. For now, there's this sense of joint participation -- and that could continue. Before, I think, people felt more isolated and selfish and they thought the same about strangers. But the relief work has broken through that. So I hope we don't go back to how it was."- - - - - - - -Lai Yangjun, a 21-year-old forestry student in...
