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- HotStats European Chain Hotels Market Review – June 2010 Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 3:50AMHotels in London have recorded a rarely achieved room occupancy of 90% during June driving a year-on-year profitability increase of 16% for that month, according to the latest HotStats survey from TRI Hospitality Consulting. The extremely high room occupancy levels in addition to a 12.8% increase in achieved average room rate to €188.16 resulted in a year-on-year growth in Revenue per Available ...
- David A. Smith: Europe should envy our arts system Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:15PMEuropeans are up in arms. Well, only figuratively of course. From England to Italy, they’re irate because of impending cuts to government arts budgets.
- House prices now 4.2% over peak: How cities are faring Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 3:11PMPlus, is RIM poised to unveil new BlackBerry? And, did IMF soft-pedal China report
- Canadian house prices 4.2% above pre-recession peak Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:57PMPrice index climbs 1.3 per cent. Plus, a breakdown of how cities are faring
- Executive Branch Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:28PM"To be clear, we are not putting forth this bill in place of a comprehensive [climate and energy] bill," Maj. Leader Reid said. "This is not the only energy legislation we will do; this is what we can do now."
- The new political regime in Ukraine: Towards sultanism Yanukovych-style Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:06PMEditor’s Note: The following is a July 2010 lecture given by Alexander J. Motyl, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, at the Cicero Foundation, an independent pro-EU and pro-Atlantic think tank.
- MU invades K.C. Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:17AMKANSAS CITY — It wasn’t the World Cup – but it could be.
- Leaps & Bounds Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:06AMRichmond City Dance is the little program that could, pushed and pulled through 30 years and thousands of youth by dance teacher Annette Holt.
- Politics of Basic Needs Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:19PMNigeria is one of the 31 countries that sponsored the United Nations’ Resolution on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. The issue of water should, therefore, interest policy makers at home. Water should be correctly perceived as a basic issue of development.
- Report Reveals Student Travel Hotspots Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 6:00PMPost Office Travel Money reminds UK travellers of the value of arranging foreign currency before travel.
- In Cairo, keeping a musical tradition alive Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 3:43PMTwo craftsmen continue to carve the wooden lute-like ouds on a Cairo street that the musicians long ago fled to night clubs and cabarets. Orders are fewer, but their skills still sing. "Magdi, Magdi," the kid yells, running in off the street.
- Not the best of times Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 12:39PMDespite the long history, UK-India trade ties at present are not at their best. From being the fifth largest source of import for India just five years ago, UK has slipped to the 18th position now. Experts also claim that UK’s foreign direct investment (FDI) into India has fallen steadily over the last five years.
- Uk Office Demand Slows in Q2, but Underlying Picture Remains Healthy Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 10:20AMThe latest UK Occupier trends research from King Sturge shows that office demand slowed in Q2 2010 but the underlying picture remains healthy.
- Czech cinemas enjoying record earnings Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:43AMLooking at the sales for Czech cinemas for the last half year, it seems there’s no business like show business for riding out an economic crisis. This week, the Union of Film Distributors released the results of domestic cinemas for the first six months of 2010, and they showed record earnings – a whopping 747 million crowns – as well as nearly a million more movie-goers. Christian Falvey has ...
- European Stocks Rise to 12-Week High; UBS, Deutsche Bank Gain Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 8:24AMEuropean stocks climbed to a 12-week high as UBS AG and Deutsche Bank AG reported earnings that beat estimates the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision softened its proposed capital rules.
- 18,077.61 Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 6:33AMThe ranking will cover cities from eleven Asian countries - China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. India is represented by Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore.
- Dishonesty is the best policy in this dire race Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:00PMHaving a shot at the vacuity of this election campaign is a little like nuking fish in a barrel, but it is remarkable that fundamental dishonesty lies at the heart of almost all the major policy themes to emerge thus far.
- Book Review: Nature and Power: a Global History of the Environment by Joachim Radkau Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:14AMNature and Power is a book of big ideas, an attempt to make broad conclusions about the long-term relationship between humans and our world. Radkau makes some simple, but hugely telling points -- about the fact that only 150 years ago (and for all of previous human history and pre-history) we had an ...
- Why traffic circles will rule the road Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 1:23AMVehicles drive on the new traffic circle on 37 street and Glenmore Trail S.W. in Calgary, Alberta on October 4.
- A Mandarin Conversation Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 11:24PMChinese-Language classes grow across the South Bay.
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