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Germany goes out of print as Manroland descends into insolvency

BooksNov 28, 2011

Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Germany, which invented the printing industry more than 500 years ago and dominates the market to this day, has lost its talent for making money from the presses.Manroland AG, the biggest maker of newspaper printing machines, filed for insolvency on Nov. 25, threatening the jo
WikiLeaks wins Australian journalism award

World NewsNov 28, 2011

SYDNEY, Nov 28, 2011 (AFP) - WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its "outstanding contribution to journalism", with founder Julian Assange lashing out at "cowardly" Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech.The anti-secrecy website was lauded at the annual Walkley Awards, where
S&P 'may be’ close to a Japan downgrade

World NewsNov 24, 2011

Standard and Poor’s said Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s administration hasn’t made progress in tackling the public debt burden, an indication it may be preparing to lower the nation’s sovereign grade. “Japan’s finances are getting worse and worse every day, every second,” Takahira Ogawa, d
Recipient doing well after first artificial windpipe graft

HealthNov 24, 2011

PARIS, Nov 24, 2011 (AFP) - The word's first artificial windpipe transplant has been such a success that a second operation has been carried out and a third is being planned, The Lancet reported on Thursday.Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene, a 36-year-old Eritrean, is doing well after undergoing the gro
Learn from Shakespeare, study tells doctors

BooksNov 24, 2011

PARIS, Nov 24, 2011 (AFP) - Doctors should read up on Shakespeare, according to an unusual medical study that says the Bard was exceptionally skilled at spotting psychosomatic symptoms.Kenneth Heaton, a doctor at the University of Bristol in western England, trawled through all 42 of Shakespea
Clooney on witness list for Berlusconi trial

FilmNov 24, 2011

MILAN (AP) — George Clooney and his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis are among more than 200 witnesses accepted Wednesday by a Milan court in the trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.Clooney has said he was approached by Berlusconi'
Apple moves production to Sharp for TV debut, Jefferies says

IndustryNov 24, 2011

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. is shifting production of iPhone and iPad displays to Sharp Corp. in Japan and may introduce a television with screens from the same partner as early as the middle of 2012, Jefferies & Co. said.Apple is moving its business to Sharp largely at the expense of Samsung
N. Korea condemns Seoul's railroading of KORUS FTA

North KoreaNov 24, 2011

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Wednesday condemned South Korea's parliament for ramming through a free trade agreement with the United States, saying that the move invited strong backlash from the public and opposition parties.South Korea's ruling-party controlled parliament on Tuesday ra
Parliament may take legal action against tear gas-spraying lawmaker

PoliticsNov 24, 2011

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's parliamentary secretariat said Wednesday it may take legal action against an opposition lawmaker who set off a tear gas canister in the chamber to block the ratification of a free trade deal with the United States.South Korea's ruling party lawmakers on Tuesd
KT gets green light to end 2G service

TechnologyNov 23, 2011

The Korea Communications Commission granted KT Corp. permission to end its feature phone service beginning on Dec. 8 on Wednesday.The state telecom regulator said KT will have two weeks to inform its existing 159,000 feature phone users by at least two different methods -- including mail -- that the
Danish hotel flouts the law, reserves floor for women

TravelNov 23, 2011

COPENHAGEN, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - A Copenhagen hotel will continue reserving a whole floor for women, despite a recent ruling that doing so is discriminatory and illegal, the hotel director said Tuesday.Last May, the Bella Sky Hotel in central Copenhagen opened a floor dubbed the Bella Donna with 20
Erdogan says Turks can avoid army service for 30,000 liras

World NewsNov 23, 2011

Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government plans to allow men over 30 to pay 30,000 liras ($16,325) to win exemption from compulsory service in the military, the second-largest force in NATO.The change has been on the ruling party's agenda for nine years a
BPA spikes 1,200 percent after eating canned soup: study

HealthNov 23, 2011

WASHINGTON, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - People who ate canned soup for five days straight saw their urinary levels of the chemical bisphenol A spike 1,200 percent compared to those who ate fresh soup, US researchers said on Tuesday.The randomized study, described as "one of the first to quantify BPA levels
KORUS FTA a boon for auto, tech, textile shares

IndustryNov 23, 2011

Shares of South Korean automakers, technology firms and textile companies are expected to benefit from the bilateral trade pact between South Korea and the United States, analysts said Wednesday.The projection comes a day after the National Assembly approved the long-pending free trade agreement (FT
Lee orders thorough follow-up measures after FTA approval

PoliticsNov 23, 2011

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak instructed the government on Wednesday to take thorough follow-up measures to make the best use of the just-ratified free trade agreement with the United States to boost the economy and minimize any damage to local small businesses.It was Lee's firs

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