Sep
17
2008
Billionaire investor Carl Ichan on Tuesday said he is establishing a blog to discuss ideas on corporate governance, an area in which he has strong opinions.
“This country is losing its economic hegemony,” Icahn said at a corporate governance conference in New York. “I want to see who is interested in this. I really think there’s [...]
- Tags: area, billionaire, blog, Carl Icahn, Carl Ichan, conference, country, governance, hegemony, investor, lot, NEW YORK, Tuesday
Jul
15
2008
About
This atoll exists as volcanic rock circled by reefs and exists awash at high tide. A French ownership since 1897, it was placed below the establishment of an Administrateur Superieur of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Bassas da India (also called Basse de Judie) exists an uninhabited, roughly circular atoll about 10 km within diameter, [...]
- Tags: 16th century, Administrateur, amp, area, atoll, bassas da india, basse, coastline, commissioner, diameter, Economic, economic zone, EEZ, establishment, Europa Island, exclusive economic zone eez, french possession, french southern and antarctic lands, hazard, high tide, judie, Madagascar, maritime, maximal, maximal depth, Mozambique, north, organization, ownership, Portuguese, portuguese explorers, reef, reefs, region, Reunion, rim, rocky islets, sea, shallow lagoon, shipwrecks, site, size, southern mozambique channel, Superieur, uninhabited, vegetation, volcanic rock, west, Zone
Jul
15
2008
About
Capital Bridgetown
Largest city Bridgetown
Official language(s) English
Population
279,254
Currency Barbados dollar
Calling code +1-246
Barbados is an self-governing island nation set around the western Atlantic Ocean, just to the east of the Caribbean Sea, detected at roughly 13° north of the Equator and 59° west of the Prime Meridian. settled comparatively closely to South America the nation of Barbados is [...]
- Tags: agricultural sector, amp, Antilles, area, Atlantic Ocean, Bajan, Barbadian, Barbados, barbados dollar, Bridgetown, capital, capital bridgetown, Caribbean, caribbean region, caribbean sea, city, code, country, cricket, cricket players, Crop, Currency, degree, development, English, Equator, event, example, Festival, Frank Worrell, garfield sobers, Grenadines, influence, interior, island, island nation, language, Largest, Lesser, lesser antilles, literacy, literacy rates, mangrove, mangrove swamps, Meridian, name, north of the equator, Official, Population, portion, Prime, prime meridian, Programme, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, South America, South American, south american nation, sport, square kilometres, standard atmosphere, sugarcane, tourist, Trade, UNDP, United, united nations development, united nations development programme, Venezuela, volcanic origin, west, West Indies, western atlantic ocean, world
Jul
13
2008
Bill Gates, who built his fortune equipping the personal computer, predicts that the keyboard and mouse will soon become relics.
The founder of Microsoft Corp used his swansong to the technology industry on Sunday to spell out a vision of a “digital decade” of telephones, televisions and cars that respond to voice and touch.
“This is the [...]
- Tags: area, ballroom, bill gates, charitable foundation, consumer, consumer electronics show, Corp, desks, digital decade, fortune, founder, founder of microsoft, high definition, instance, interact, July, keyboard, keynote, keynote address, Las Vegas, Microsoft, microsoft corp, mobile phone, mouse, mr gates, news tech, online, personal computer, photo, relics, rest, screens, seat, shop, Sunday, swansong, technology, technology industry, telephones, televisions, Times, touch, underestimate, video, virtual worlds, vision, world
Jul
10
2008
Mukesh Ambani, is building a new home in the financial hub of Mumbai: a 60-storey palace with helipad, health club and six floors of car parking.The building, named Antilla after a mythical island, will have a total floor area greater than Versailles and be home for Mr Ambani, his mother, wife, three children and 600 [...]
- Tags: ambanis, Antilla, apartment, area, building, building a new home, car, family, floor, hanging gardens, health, health club, helipad, home theatre, Indian, metre, mother, mukesh ambani, Mumbai, mythical island, news world, palace, parking, property, residence, rest, Richest, sea, sea wind, storey, three times, time staff, Tower, versailles, wife, Wind, year
Jul
10
2008
The Marco Polo, Beijing, Marco Polo Hotel Group’s second property in Mainland China, is an international standard deluxe hotel located in Xidan commercial and shopping area. Convenient location and easy transportation make the hotel an ideal place for both business and leisure travelers.
The Marco Polo Hotel Location:
Situated in the heart of Beijing, the hotel is [...]
- Tags: Air, amp, anmen, area, Bank, bank of china, Bar, bar news, Business, cake shop, Commercial, Complimentary, complimentary coffee, Concierge, Conditioning, Dan Cultural, day spa, Dining, Dryer, Financial Street, forbidden city, gateway, Hair, headquarters, health spa, heart, Hotel, hotel amenities, leisure, leisure travelers, letter, location, Marco, marco polo, marco polo hotel, marco polo hotel beijing, marco polo hotel group, metro, metro subway system, Mini, Movies, News, Newspaper, Non, Pay, Per View, place, property, Service, shopping, Situated, Smoking, Spa, spa health, subway, Tian, tiananmen square, Times Square, transportation, walk, Xidan
Jul
10
2008
The Peninsula Beijing Hotel General Information
Renamed from The Peninsula Palace Beijing to The Peninsula Beijing following the completion of the final phase of a US$35 million renovation programme, The Peninsula Beijing is now unquestionably the premier hotel in Beijing for business and leisure travelers, as well as the venue of choice for important events and [...]
- Tags: architectural style, area, asian restaurant, bathroom, bedroom, beijing hotel, Bernhard Muller, chinese capital, chinese influences, concept, Condé, designer boutiques, downstairs, Duplex, Executive Chef, exquisite cantonese cuisine, feature, fitness facilities, floor, forbidden city, France, guest, gymnasium, heated swimming pool, Hong Kong, hotel amenities and facilities, hotel in beijing, Jing, lattice, leisure travelers, lobby, Lounge, massage, meeting, Ming, Nast, New, Peninsula, powder, radio, Restaurants, screen, Silk, spacious guest rooms, steam rooms, stone, study, Suite, Suites, technology, tiananmen square, top, touch, Traveler, U.S., wall, wood, world
Jul
10
2008
About
Capital Vienna
Official language(s) German (official)
Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian, Austrian Sign Language (in constitution)
Population
8,189,000
Currency Euro
Calling code +43
One time the core of power for the big Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was brought down to a small democracy fallowing its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 & subsequent occupation by the winning Allies in [...]
- Tags: Adalbert Stifter, Alban Berg, Alfred Adler, amp, annexation, Anton Bruckner, Anton Webern, area, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, Austrian, austrian alps, Austrians, austro hungarian empire, carpathians, Christian Doppler, condition, core, country austria, Croatian, Currency, decade, defeat, democracy, democratic country, eastern alps, empire austria, Ernst Mach, Erwin Schrodinger, European, Ferdinand Porsche, first appearance, Franz Grillparzer, Franz Schubert, Franz Werfel, Friedrich Hayek, Germany, Gregor Mendel, home, Hungarian, I. Following, independence, Johann Strauss, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Kraus, Konrad Lorenz, Kurt Godel, language, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ludwig von Mises, monetary union, nation, Nazi, nazi germany, neutrality, Northern Limestone, occupation, Official, Otto Wagner, Paul Watzlawick, periphery, Peter Handke, Population, Power, Richard von Mises, Robert Musil, School, Siegfried Marcus, Sign, Southern Limestone, Soviet, Time, unification, Viennese, war, withdrawal, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Pauli, world, year
Jul
10
2008
About
Capital Canberra
Largest city Sydney
Population
20,555,300
Currency Australian dollar
Calling code +61
Aboriginal settlers came on the celibate from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years prior to the first Europeans started geographic expedition in the 17th century. No formal territorial lays claim were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took ownership in the name of Great Britain. Six colonies were [...]
- Tags: Aboriginal, Adelaide, Albert Namatjira, amp, area, art, Arthur Streeton, Australia, australia in 1901, Australian, Brisbane, Canberra, capital, capt james cook, celibate, city, claim, code 61, colony, Commonwealth, commonwealth of australia, continent, continent of australia, course, crown, crown colonies, Currency, Dame Joan Sutherland, democratic political system, East Timor, English, european explorers, federation, geographic expedition, Great Britain, Henry Lawson, House, Indigenous, Indonesia, January, landscape, Largest, literature, Melbourne, music, name, national population, Neighbouring, New Caledonia, new south wales, New Zealand, Oceans, opera, ownership, pacific oceans, papua new guinea, Patrick White, penal, penal transportation, Perth, Population, racing, rugby, seventeenth, Solomon Islands, South Wales, southeast, Southeast Asia, southern hemisphere, sporadic visits, Sydney, sydney melbourne, territorial, Vanuatu
Jul
09
2008
About
Capital Yerevan
Largest city Yerevan
Official language(s) Armenian
Population
3,215,800
Currency Dram
Calling code +374
Armenia prides itself on being the 1st nation to officially follow Christianity (early 4th century). In spite of period of time* of autonomy, over the centuries Armenia come under the sway of various empires including the Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, and Ottoman. During World War I inside [...]
- Tags: 1920s, 4th century, amp, area, Armenia, Armenian-populated, armenians, Army, autonomy, Azerbaijan, capital, capital yerevan, cease fire, Christianity, city, code, cognac, course, Currency, currency dram, Dram, economic blockade, family, food, household, independence, independency, Karabakh, language policy, Largest, mesrob mashdots, Moscow, Muslim, nagorno karabakh, nation, Official, Ottoman, ottoman turkey, ottomans, part, party, period, Persian, Population, pushes, Red, red army, region, resettlement, Roman, roman byzantine, Russia, soviet union, spite, spoken language, struggle, sway, Time, war, woman, world
