Schools and Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) are marking St. Sava’s Day today, honoring St. Sava who was the founder of education and church in these parts.
Schools mark the holiday as a feast day and students attend the traditional school celebration.
Romania is threatening to create problems for Croatia’s EU accession bid, euobserver.com reports. This comes in a diplomatic counter-attack against delays to its own entry into the EU’s border-free Schengen zone, writes the online publication.
Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov says that he is convinced there will be an agreement in the his country’s name dispute with neighboring Greece. Ivanov told reporters in Skopje on Saturday that his country believed there can be a solution, and that this was the reason they were taking part in negotiations.
The Singapore Court of Appeal overturned an earlier ruling that said the bank wasn’t entitled to payments from Motorola, according to a decision released publicly today.
It is uncertain how FM Vuk Jeremić’s decision not to send the Serbian ambassador to the Nobel ceremony would affect his credibility in the country and abroad.
The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was attended by Serbian Ombudsman Saša Janković.
Ex-member of Swedish pop group ABBA, Anni-Frid Reuss, has been unsuccessful in reclaiming back 4.5 million pounds she claims to have lent to a Buddhist temple. Reuss, 65, was pitted against her former Buddhist teacher, when she brought a bankruptcy order against the company that owned the Yangtorp Qiqong Resort, near Hornby. But a court [...]
Representatives of Muamer Zukorlić’s Islamic Community in Serbia have warned that they will “protect with their lives” a building in Novi Pazar.
This Islamic organization’s official Sead Å aćirović said today they would not allow a court decision to be executed concerning the disputed building in this southwestern Serbian town.
Beckkett, controlled by Sukanto Tanoto and Hashim Djojohadikusumo, can’t pursue duplicate proceedings after six years in the Singapore courts, Singapore High Court Judge Judith Prakash said in a ruling made public today.
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov has called on China and Japan to “seek compromises” as the two countries remain locked in their worst diplomatic row in years. Japan today said it will ask China to pay for damage caused when a Chinese fishing boat collided with Japanese coast-guard vessels near disputed islands earlier this month.
China and Japan are apparently having a little spat with each other over maritime territorial rights. I think we’ve heard that kind of thing in the news before. Usually it proves a storm in a teacup, the countries concerned sometimes playing out a ritual that is as much for domestic consumption as it is about, say, legitimate fishing or territorial rights.
But the Chinese have just raised the stakes in the latest dispute by stopping exports of ‘rare earth elements’ to Japan. That could have implications for certain products made in Japan where they are needed in industrial manufacturing, including hybrid cars.
Yes, it will probably all blow over soon, but the dispute may well have got Toyota’s attention. The diplomatic problem is bigger now that the stakes in the dispute have been raised: how can it be resolved so that no-one has obviously lost face?
Vuk Jeremić says that the UN General Assembly session was delayedbecause Kosovo Albanians showed up in the hall despite the fact that they were not invited. The Serbian Foreign Minister said that the Serbian representatives had requested the Kosovo Albanians to leave the hall, but that they had refused to do so, reminding that the Kosovo delegation was not invited to enter by the UN member-states.
Both Matsumura and Bellezza will withdraw from legal proceedings in the case, subject to certain conditions, Transcu said in a statement to the Singapore stock exchange today.
The suits will be discontinued as part of an amicable, confidential settlement, Sands unit Marina Bay Sands Pte and IPBA 2010 Pte, the organizer of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association conference, said in a joint statement today.
A notice to discontinue the lawsuits probably will be filed by tomorrow, the people said, declining to be identified because the agreement isn’t public.
“We much rather make love than war,” Adelson said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore. “We tried to settle with them; they didn’t want to and were quite unreasonable.”
On Monday Tito Ortiz staying at the Huntington Beach, in California was arrested, and just after few hours of his bail the lawyer of the Ortiz and he himself impeached Jenna Jameson, his wife for the addictive use of drugs and also emphasized that he never struck her.
The mixed martial arts fighter, Ortiz had [...]
Hewlett-Packard settles another dispute concerning patents related to the company’s printer ink cartridge technology, following three similar disputes in March. This time, HP settles with a company in Hong Kong for an undisclosed sum.
– Hewlett-Packard
has settled another dispute concerning its printer ink cartridge technology
and patents.
On April 1, HP
announced that it had reached an agreement with Hong Kong-based Print-Rite
Holdings. The dispute centered on HP’s patents related to its HP 02 inkjet
cartridges.
Print-R…
However, both sides voiced confidence in the strength of their bilateral relationship in separate speeches to a pro-Israel U.S. lobbying group. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are offering up differing views about Israel’s recently announced housing plans for East Jerusalem. Meanwhile, at a Monday conference in Washington, the two sides suggested that the spat was behind them and voiced confidence in the strength of the bilateral relationship.
Hewlett-Packard has settled an ongoing patent dispute with three different vendors of printer ink cartridges. The agreement calls for these other vendors to stop selling certain types of printer ink and some vendors must pay HP. HP is still expecting to settle one case, but seven other patent disputes remain.
– Hewlett-Packard
and three companies have settled several ongoing patent disputes concerning
printer ink cartridges, although HP is still in legal action against seven
other vendors for similar patent violations.
HP announced on March 17 that it has ended its dispute with three companies
and it…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to calm tensions concerning plans for an expansion of a Jewish settlement in disputed East Jerusalem. Netanyahu told Cabinet members Sunday to “not get carried away,” as he discussed the strain in relations with Washington.
