Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said that the country might be forced to take matters into its own hands, which could include working with the Taliban, if it continues to feel alienated by the rest of the world. Musharraf said that Pakistan was in a terrible state – with its economy in crisis, high unemployment, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pact’
Musharraf hints at pact with Taliban, military takeover to protect Pak from crisis
December 16th, 2010 |
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Global Logistic Properties: Non-competition pact with ProLogis ‘not material’
December 8th, 2010 |
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Global Logistic Properties (MC0.SG) Wednesday said the existence of a non-competition arrangement with property group ProLogis (PLD) is “not material and continues to be non-material” to its ongoing business.
The announcement is a clarification in response to a report in The Business Times that the prospectus for GLP’s initial public offer this year did not specifically disclose the non-compete agreement with ProLogis due to expire in February 2011.
The week ahead
June 27th, 2010 |
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A trade pact will draw China and Taiwan closer togther
• IMPROVING relations between China and Taiwan will get another boost with the signing of a groundbreaking free-trade pact by the end of June. Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan’s president, was elected in 2008 on a platform that called for better ties with China. A free-trade pact with the mainland is the cornerstone of his cross-strait policies. Taiwan, already isolated diplomatically, feared commercial marginalisation when the effects of a free-trade agreement between China and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) begins to be felt later this year. Mr Ma has already overseen the establishment of direct flights and shipping routes across the 110-mile-wide Taiwan Strait.
•AMERICA’S Supreme Court is likely to hand down a decision involving the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002 on Monday June 28th. The legislation, intended to tighten the auditing of public companies in the wake of the accounting scandals at Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, has been widely criticised for imposing costly and burdensome regulations on American businesses. The court will rule on the constitutionality of the board created to oversee independent audits of big companies. But firms may fear that if Sarbanes-Oxley is overturned a Congress on the brink of introducing tough regulation of Wall Street’s financial firms might well replace the act with something even tougher. …
N. Korea rips up safeguard pact with South
May 28th, 2010 |
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North Korea has said it will rip up a military pact aimed at preventing naval clashes with the South amid mounting tensions in the region. The latest tit for tat measure came as South Korean warships carried out anti-submarine drills, to better detect intrusions.
France denies Iran “spy-deal”
May 16th, 2010 |
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France has denied it made a secret pact with Iran to secure the release of a French lecturer charged with spying after last June’s disputed election. Clotilde Reiss has now arrived in Paris following a flight from Tehran.
Medvedev, Obama sign nuclear arms control treaty
April 8th, 2010 |
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U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev signed a nuclear arms reduction pact in the Czech Republic on Thursday. The pact marks a thaw in relations between the former Cold War enemies and sets the tone for other countries with nuclear weapons or ambitions.
U.S., Russia to sign new arms pact April 8
March 27th, 2010 |
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The United States and Russia will sign a new treaty April 8 in Prague slashing their stockpiles of long-range nuclear weapons.
The new treaty will replace the START I agreement (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) signed in 1991 by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. That treaty came into force in 1994 but expired December 5.
Microsoft, Facebook Boost Web Search Pact to Challenge Google
February 5th, 2010 |
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Google this: Microsoft and Facebook are broadening their search pact to let Bing power Facebook’s Web search return universal features such as images, maps and other information. Facebook will also regain total control over selling its display ads, signaling that the world’s leading social network is ready to strike on its own in the competitive display ad market versus Google, Yahoo and, yes, even Microsoft. Jon Tinter, general manager for Microsoft, said in a blog post Feb. 5 that Microsoft will in 2010 provide full access to great Bing features beyond a set of links, including richer answers combined with tools that help customers make faster, smarter decisions.
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Microsoft and Facebook are broadening their
search pact to let Bing power Facebook’s Web search return more than just links,
including allowing Bing to power Web search on Facebook outside the United States.
Facebook will also regain total control over selling its
display ads, sign…
IBM Hooks Up with Wozniak, Fusion-io in OEM Pact for SSDs
December 9th, 2009 |
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IBM announced a new OEM agreement that licenses use of Fusion-io’s core NAND flash ioMemory technology to become the basis for an SSD storage appliance to be offered exclusively in IBM’s System x server line. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is now chief scientist for Fusion-io.
– IBM on Dec. 9 made a strategic move into the enterprise solid-state
storage market, casting its lot with a newcomer — solid-state server
and storage array maker Fusion-io — and its well-known chief scientist
and IT thought leader, Steve Wozniak.
Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, joined Fusion-io…
Obama: Climate talks should yield pact with ‘immediate’ effect
November 17th, 2009 |
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US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the United States and China want climate change talks in Copenhagen next month to result in a global accord that has “immediate operational effect”. We “agreed to work toward a successful outcome in Copenhagen,” Obama told journalists following
China and Russia sign missile notification pact
October 14th, 2009 |
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China and Russia signed a pact to notify each other of ballistic missile launch plans during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit this week to Beijing.
The accord, although overshadowed by promises of 3.5 billion dollar in deals and oil and gas supply accords, is a small step towards establishing further trust between the two [...]
Russia-US to hold talks on missile defence, arms control pact
October 9th, 2009 |
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Russia and the US are set to hold crucial talks on missile defence system and a new arms control pact to replace Soviet-era START-1 Treaty ahead of a key visit by the American Secretary of State next week.
Hillary Clinton is arriving Moscow on 12th October on her first visit to Moscow as US Secretary [...]
No declaration of US-Israel pact on settlement issue expected
September 15th, 2009 |
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Israeli diplomatic officials have said that Tuesday’’s meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US envoy George Mitchell may not lead to any declaration of a US-Israel agreement on the settlement issue.
The officials, however, said that Israel is willing to start talks with the United States immediately.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the Prime Minister’’s Office [...]
Lifetime “Pregnancy Pact†Movie
September 9th, 2009 |
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Law & Order did it — now its Lifetime’s turn. The Network for Women is planning a dramatization of the infamous teen “pregnancy pact” that made national headlines last year.
In June 2008, Americans watched in shock as 17 pregnant high schoolers in Gloucester, Mass. — none older than 16 — who supposedly had a [...]
Google Shouldn’t Fear Microsoft-Yahoo Search Pact
August 26th, 2009 |
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News Analysis: Google might have feared the search deal Microsoft struck with Yahoo. But after taking a closer look at the conflicting statements from the two companies on the deal, it seems there’s little to worry about. Google is facing a two-headed search engine being implemented by two companies with divided interests.
– The excitement over Microsoft and Yahoo’s search partnership might
be a little premature. If the companies are able to secure regulatory
approval for their search pact, Microsoft will supply the algorithms,
images and video in Yahoo Search. But as Prabhakar Raghavan, senior
vice president of Yah…
Apple Signs Long-Term Pact with Toshiba for Flash Chips
July 22nd, 2009 |
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UPDATED: Apple’s new contract with Toshiba, the world’s second-largest supplier of NAND flash processors, should serve as a major boost for the Japanese chip and device manufacturer. Toshiba has been hit hard in its flash business by financial losses in the last two years due to cutthroat price competition with Samsung, the No. 1 flash supplier.
– Apple, maker of
the iPods and iPhones that are sucking up large quantities of NAND flash chips
practically by the minute, announced July 22 that it has entered a long-term
agreement with Toshiba for Toshiba to keep supplying even more of those chips.
Computer and mobile device maker Apple obta…