Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
ROBERT F. WORTH and HEATHER TIMMONS Some analysts are wondering whether the leader of this city can rescue it from the excesses of his own ambition.
islamic finance spot (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The New York Times: The debt crisis in Dubai is about to test one of the fastest-growing areas in banking — Islamic finance — and put the emirate’s own opaque judicial system on trial, according to bankers and experts in finance, The New York Times’s Heather Timmons reports. Issuance of loans and bonds that comply with Shariah, or Islamic law, has skyrocketed...
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
HEATHER TIMMONS http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091129/jsp/foreign/story_11799128.jsp New Delhi, Nov. 28: When seven-year-old Shiva Ayyadurai left Mumbai with his family nearly 40 years ago, he promised himself he would return to India someday to help his country. In June, Ayyadurai, now 45, moved from Boston to New Delhi hoping to make good on that promise. An entrepreneur and lecturer...
DealBook (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
As the financial markets reopened in Dubai on Monday after several days of uncertainty over the emirate’s debt crisis, many were expecting a reassuring statement from the federal government in Abu Dhabi, trusting that the United Arab Emirates would be eager to stem further fears in markets around the world, The New York Times’s Robert F. Worth, Heather Timmons and Landon Thomas Jr. report....
dispatches from TJICistan (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/busine… Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again By HEATHER TIMMONS NEW DELHI — When 7-year-old Shiva Ayyadurai left Mumbai with his family nearly 40 years ago, he promised himself he would return to India someday to help his country… As Mr. Ayyadurai sees it now, his Western business education met India’s [...]
