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Dannii Minogue ‘signs up with big Hollywood agency to crack US’

Aussie singer Dannii Minogue has decided to expand her career options in America by reportedly signing up to the biggest celebrity agency in Hollywood.
Minogue, 37, who is not content with her presenting jobs on X Factor and Australia’s Got Talent, wants to revive her acting career too, and has been signed up to the William [...]

Signs of life

Singapore’s economic prospects remain precarious

Singapore’s export-oriented economy, one of the most exposed to the global downturn, rebounded in spectacular fashion in the second quarter, according to a preliminary government estimate. However, much of the improvement was the result of potentially temporary factors. The city-state will not fully recover until the global economy returns to health—although Singapore’s unusual reliance on external trade also means that its economy is likely to be one of the first to rebound when export demand picks up.

According to an advance estimate released by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on July 14th, Singapore’s seasonally adjusted real GDP grew at an annualised rate of 20.4% compared with the previous quarter. Data for the first three months of the year were also revised upwards, to the effect that GDP in January-March is now estimated to have contracted by an annualised 12.7% compared with the fourth quarter of 2008 (an improvement from the 14.6% contraction reported in the MTI’s previous GDP release, in May). …

Quinn Signs $31 Billion Capital Bill

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday approved the state’s first construction spending plan in over a decade – a $31 billion infusion expected to create thousands of jobs and help rebuild the state’s crumbling infrastructure that wi…

Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Malia, Peace Signs and Bottom Feeders (Political as well as Journalistic)

I hope you’ll permit me a little finger wagging in tracking how things like this get started. First, shame on the Daily Mail for…

ASBIS Signs Direct OEM Agreement with Microsoft

ASBIS has signed a Direct OEM Agreement with Microsoft.The new agreement will license ASBIS to preinstall and distribute Microsoft software products on ASBIS’ personal computers. According to the newly signed Agreement, ASBIS has been granted a license to preinstall Microsoft software on its own systems, provide its customers with a backup copy of the preinstalled software, and distribute the preinstalled software to its customers. This Agreement complements the existing relationship between Microsoft and ASBIS.