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- HVB: Abschirmungsquote für notl Immo-Kredite bei 46% MÜNCHEN (Dow Jones-VWD)--Die HypoVereinsbank AG (HVB) lagert in ihr neues Segment für notleidende Immobilienkredite "Real Estate Restructuring" ... |
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- HVB: Abschirmungsquote für notl Immo-Kredite bei 46% MÜNCHEN (Dow Jones-VWD)--Die HypoVereinsbank AG (HVB) lagert in ihr neues Segment für notleidende Immobilienkredite "Real Estate Restructuring" ... |
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- HVB: Abschirmungsquote für notl Immo-Kredite bei 46% MÜNCHEN (Dow Jones-VWD)--Die HypoVereinsbank AG (HVB) lagert in ihr neues Segment für notleidende Immobilienkredite "Real Estate Restructuring" ... |
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- archives dropdown menu « WordPress Support Some cleanup of the trainwreck this website has become. Archives and categories are now in drop down menus, and some unnecessary cruft has been excised. Now I just have to hope that the upgrade to 1.5 doesn't break as a result of these tweaks . ... |
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- Coaches and some former students took the stand in defense of a former Aurora gymnastics coach accused of sexual abuse. Michael Cardamone is charged with abusing 14 young female students at his family's gymnastics facility in Aurora between 2000 and 2001. |
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- Reporters Without Borders voiced "outrage" today at the treatment reserved for the press in Gambia, where President Yahya Jammeh promulgated at least one press law on 28 December without the Gambia Press Union (GPU) - the journalists' union - ever being able to get a copy. |
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- * Confab will give new nation, says Mantu |
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- Foreign ministers from 15 African countries have agreed to press demands for Africa to be granted two veto-wielding permanent seats at the UN Security Council, the decision-making body of the United Nations, ambassadors said Tuesday. |
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- Ahlimba has drawn the short straw at this crumbling Togolese school. While her teaching colleagues are on the somewhat unreliable state payroll, she depends entirely on what her pupils' parents can scrape together for her monthly salary. |
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- "Fistula Fortnight", a campaign to end the painful and embarrassing childbirth injury that leaves women incontinent, has kicked off in northern Nigeria this week. |
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- Says NTGL Overstepping Bounds |
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- MOROCCO has turned down a request by Côte d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo to mediate in his country's political crisis, saying doing so would undermine similar efforts by President Thabo Mbeki. |
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- Liberian Refugees at Gondama Refugee camp last Wednesday reportedly accosted and detained several staff members of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other partners after they allegedly failed to deliver in full monthly food supplies to them. |
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- The Media Foundation for West Africa, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) are voicing concern over press freedom conditions in Togo, where at least ten privately-owned radio and television stations were closed by authorities for a week following the death of former President Gnassingbé Eyadéma. |
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- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit* of US$15 million to support the implementation of Cape Verde's Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy. |
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- The African Development Bank Group (ADB) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) are working on a Protocol Agreement aiming at formally boosting cooperation between the two Institutions. This agreement could be finalized by June 2005. |
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- MOVEMENT for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday dismissed the forthcoming head count and the National Political Reform Conference, inaugurated on Monday by President Olusegun Obasanjo, as a fraud. |
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- HENCEFORTH, any cop caught extorting money from motorists is to be charged for armed robbery, according to Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Sunday Ehindero. |
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- MOVES to empower the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to supervise statutory allocation of funds to ministries and government departments as well as monitor budget implementation, yesterday suffered a major setback in the House of Representatives. |
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- FEDERAL Education authorities have inaugurated a technical committee to sever junior and senior secondary schools in Unity Colleges, saying the move will ensure proper implementation of the 6-3-3-4 system. |
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- Two persons were weekend feared dead, while property worth millions of naira were destroyed after unidentified land speculators and some police detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department(S.C.I.D), Panti invaded Itun- Oko-Oba in Makoko area of Lagos. |
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- OUTBREAK of cholera has claimed the lives of 46 persons in Kusa, a mining village in Itesiwaju Local Government area of Oyo State. Besides, over 500 people inflicted with the disease have been placed on medication by the State Ministry of Health and the local government council officials. |
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- The Ijaw Aborigines of Bayelsa State have stoutly opposed moves by Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) to seek a transfer of their lawsuit against the multinational oil company from the Federal High Court in Yenagoa to either Lagos or Abuja Federal High Court divisions. |
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- Members of the House of Representatives yesterday said they would keenly follow proceedings at the on-going conference on political reforms in order to be abreast of events as they unfold and to address them in an informed manner when it gets to the National Assembly. In an interview with Vanguard in Abuja, a cross section of members said the inaugural speech by the president was both inspiring and has given hope for a better country. |
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- Two presidential aspirants have stressed the need for the 2005 elections timetable to be revisited to conform with the present day realities in Liberia. |
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- The Management of the Liberian Agricultural Company (LAC) has in recent times heaped myriad of allegations claiming that Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine, who is also aspiring for the position of the presidency, harbored pathological hatred against the agriculture company, and that he was on the path of vendetta, and lately they accused him of signing on for Oriental Timber Company (OTC) as its legal counsel. |
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- Larry Fast's my work with Peter Gabriel site is an interesting glimpse into Peter Gabriel's studio life from 1976 to 1986. This photo is Gabriel selecting the cover art to be used for his 1980 album (i.e. "melting face"). |
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- Quote: "I assumed it was about sport" Heheh... Those sport pictures still puzzle me. Oh! at last I found one thing that is logical - red sport picture links to page with red background! |
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- The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings Could be an amusing read: my Zummerzet is a bit rusty, and a refresher might be in order. |
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- If you can read this without, at very least, cracking a big grin at the last line, you are a better man than I. |
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- Pope labels democracy ?godless? The Pope published a new book yesterday strongly attacking the ?negative? society of the West, calling it a godless ? |
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- Thai army?s velvet glove in troubled provinces (requires registration) After several false starts, the military now has an integrated intelligence set-up and is building intelligence assets. The Southern Border Provinces Peace Building Command uses a two-pronged approach - the iron fist and the velvet glove. Local commanders downplay Mr Thaksin?s decision to withhold ... |
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- US military denies conducting spy flights over Iran If the military isn?t, I sincerely hope someone is! |
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- It's difficult to believe now, but the London stock market jumped 100% in eight weeks during 1975. |
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- Choosing the right managed fund in which to invest is fraught with difficulties. That's why they're best avoided. |
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- Learn from other people's mistakes and avoid these products like the plague! |
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- Today's buy-to-let arithmetic no longer adds up and prospective landlords would be daft to enter the property market. |
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- One Fool explains why he has switched from growth investing to value investing. |
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- Press release: Leahy Calls For Hearings On Information Brokers That Are Emerging As Private Intelligence Agencies Tuesday, February 22, 2005:... |
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- On Thursday, Mac Night Owl hosts Gene and Grayson Steinberg meet with author Laurence Chen to talk about digital cameras and welcome Intuit's Scott Gulbransen and Altec Lansing's Steve Cotter to the show. You can listen in from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Pacific time (9:00 PM to 11: |
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- Arriving a day early, Galaxy Force Vector Prime and Starscream have made their debut in the Attic of Love this evening. Were they worth the wait and the zlotys?... |
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