With only 24 hours left for Nepal’s political parties to name their candidates, the prime ministerial poll Thursday in the turbulent republic is headed for another fiasco. Last year, 16 rounds of vote failed to name a new premier. The dim hope that the three major parties would hammer out an agreement to form a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘race’
Nepal PM race heads for another fiasco
February 1st, 2011 |
No Comments
Reliance Infrastructure in $900 mn Nepal highway project race
January 28th, 2011 |
No Comments
Reliance Infrastructure, a part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, remains in the race for the prestigious $900-million highway project in Nepal, expected to boost development in the southern Terai plains, top officials said. Expression of interest for the four-lane, 76-km highway was invited in 2009 to connect the capital city with the Terai plains, [...]
Nat & Kat First All-Girl Team To Win “The Amazing Race!â€
December 13th, 2010 |
No Comments
Hip hip hooray for Girl Power. Dr. Nat Strand, 31, and Dr. Kat Chang, 35, crossed the finish line on the Season 17 finale of The Amazing Race Sunday night, becoming the first all-female team to win the globe-trotting reality competition. Collecting their final clue from Newlywed Game show host Bob Eubanks, Nat and Kat [...]
Sex, race and where you live impact risk of developing high blood pressure
December 7th, 2010 |
No Comments
A new study claims that sex, race and the place of residence influences incidence of high blood pressure. “Where you live, your race, and your gender strongly influence your risk of developing high blood pressure as you move from young adulthood into middle age — and hypertension is a major risk factor for heart disease [...]
SembMarine +0.6% still in Petrobras race: Nomura
December 2nd, 2010 |
No Comments
Sembcorp Marine (S51.SG) +0.6% at $4.91, likely to end firmer for third straight day, but still yet to recoup last Friday’s 3.8% loss triggered by prospect of company being priced out of Petrobras’ 28-rig tender exercise.
Tender results, revealed Friday, show rig-builder’s bids among highest. Stock’s rebound this week accompanied by declining volume, indicating lack of buying conviction.
Race Row Hits “The Hobbit†Casting
December 1st, 2010 |
No Comments
Peter Jackson’s troubled The Hobbit project has hit another snag amid allegations of colorism in casting. A casting agent was fired this week after the man told a would-be extra that she was “too dark” to play one of the pint-sized creatures. What year is it again? “No such instructions were given, the crew member [...]
DS race for vice president “heats up”
November 15th, 2010 |
No Comments
Vuk Jeremić and Dragan Äilas will run for their spot in the five-member vice-presidency of the ruling DS, while Gordana ÄŒomić had already entered the race. This is according to Chairman of the Democratic Party Executive Committee Marko ÄuriÅ¡ić, who spoke in Belgrade on Monday.
Äelić: We are running new race
November 11th, 2010 |
No Comments
Deputy PM Božidar Äelić has said that the recommendations of the European Commission (EC) to Serbia have to be met by mid-2011. In an interview published by VeÄernje Novosti today, Äelić said that he would hand the Government 2011 Action Plan for the EU to European Union Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele on November 24, when Fuele is scheduled to bring the EC questionnaire.
Race for the Cure
September 24th, 2010 |
No Comments
On Saturday I will be running the Race for the Cure here in Boston. It’s a huge event with thousands of runners and a flat course around the Seaport district. I’ve offered to pay registration fees for any regular readers … Continue reading
Singapore retailers to be hit hard by F1 race: DMG
September 20th, 2010 |
No Comments
Impact of this year’s F1 motor race in Singapore on retailers in Marina Bay area expected to be worse than last year’s, says DMG research head Terence Wong, according to Dow Jones.
“This is one period which is much loathed as shopper traffic reportedly falls by over 30% due to the road closures. This year’s situation is exacerbated with both the National Day Parade and the Youth Olympic Games all happening over the past two months within the same vicinity,” says Dow Jones.
China top online video sites in IPO race: sources
September 14th, 2010 |
No Comments
Youku and Tudou, China’s two leading Internet video sharing sites, are racing each other to be the first to make an offshore IPO, seeking to tap strong interest from overseas investors in the hot sector, two sources familiar with the situation said.
Both companies have hired investment banks, and Tudou could launch its initial public offerings as early as by the year-end, one source familiar with the deal, said on Tuesday.
Google Android Smartphones Race to Catch Apple iPhone
September 5th, 2010 |
No Comments
Google’s Android platform came on strong in August, notching a 25 percent smartphone operating system plot, said data firm Quantcast. Apple retains the lead in the U.S. with 56 percent. – Apple’s iPhone iOS continued to lead the U.S.
smartphone operating system ecosystem at 56 percent market share in August, but
Google’s Android platform came on strong, notching a 25 percent plot, said data
firm Quantcast.
Apple said it is shipping 230,000 iOS-based devices per day. Apple’s iOS
…
Tiong Seng JV clinches $270m contract to build hospital, hotel and medical clinics at Race …
September 1st, 2010 |
No Comments
Tiong Seng Holdings says Samsung-Tiong Seng JV, a 55:45 joint venture between its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tiong Seng Contractors, and Samsung C&T Corporation, has been awarded a $270 million contract by Singapore HealthPartners for the development of hospital, hotel and medical clinics at Race Course Road.
Google Apps Leads Microsoft in Federal Cloud Race: 10 Reasons Why It Matters
August 8th, 2010 |
No Comments
Google has scored something of a coup versus Microsoft in its quest for credibility for its Google Apps collaboration software suite, which the company delivers over the cloud to end users. The company July 26 launched Google Apps for Government, a flavor of Google Apps that recently gained FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) certification. Awarded to Google from the U.S. government’s General Services Administration, FISMA calls for all information systems used by U.S. federal government agencies to have solid security. Microsoft does not have FISMA certification yet for its rival cloud computing suite, but its working to get it. Here are 10 reasons why Google’s suite and FISMA certification matter. – …
LTE Provider LightSquared Joins Race to 4G
July 21st, 2010 |
No Comments
LightSquared has thrown its hat into the 4G LTE ring. Partly financed by Philip Falcones Harbinger Capital Partners, it will combine SkyTerras satellite assets with Nokia Siemens Networks newly acquired Motorola technologies. – An investment company is pushing an ambitious plan to create a hybrid 4G-satillite mobile network in the United States, and wants to pay Nokia Siemens Network $7 billion to build and operate it.
Called LightSquared, the network is a project of Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners, and is b…
The race to organise television: Struggling for control
July 15th, 2010 |
No Comments
The humble channel-zapper is evolving in ways that will shape television’s future
THEY probably do not realise it, but 115m households are customers of Rovi Corporation. The firm designs the grid of upcoming programmes that people see when they flop in front of the television and press a button on the remote control marked “TV guide”. These guides get a lot of use: the typical American viewer spends ten minutes a day flicking through them, spread over an average of eight sessions. So stealthily have they penetrated the living room that viewers tend to take them for granted. But even the laziest couch potato may soon notice some changes to his television set. …
Komorowski leads Polish presidential race
June 21st, 2010 |
No Comments
Polish presidential candidate Bronislaw Komorowski held a slight lead over his rival candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski in early election results. Komorowski, from the center-right Civic Platform Party, had gained a 41.22 percent share of the vote with 94.3 percent of papers counted on Monday morning.
Nicole Scherzinger Cheers Her Dearest at a Race Circuit
June 2nd, 2010 |
No Comments
There is nothing pleasing than a slight support from your best half. It looks like this is the case of Lewis Hamilton British racing driver who managed to win Turkish Grand Prix held on Sunday. His girlfriend, Nicole Scherzinger, was also there.
Actually, it was the first time when one could see Nicole who went their [...]
Race to come up with iPad alternatives
June 2nd, 2010 |
No Comments
COME JUNE 1, techgeeks will be invading Taipei for Computex, the world’s secondlargest IT trade show. And, this year, the big question at Computex must be: Who’s got something that can (seriously) take on the iPad? Apple’s tablet entertainment device has been flying off the shelves so quickly that competing PC companies have been scrambling to come up with credible alternatives since the iPad’s April roll-out.
Do You Know Anyone Serving in Iraq or Afghanistan?
May 17th, 2010 |
No Comments
On Sunday I will be running the Run to Home Base, a 9 km road race that will finish at Home Plate in Fenway Park. As part of this race I raised $1,000 for a fund run by the Red … Continue reading