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India’s new telecom policy to make licensing norms tougher
January 29th, 2011 |
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India Saturday said its new telecom policy to be unveiled soon will tighten the norms for grant of licences and airwaves to service providers in a bid to induce transparency and provide a level-playing field to new and existing players. Announcing this at a hurriedly convened press conference here, Communications Minister Kapil Sibal also said [...]
Singapore’s ASX bid makes HKEx’s mining plan tougher: Update
October 27th, 2010 |
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A merger between Singapore Exchange and ASX will make it harder for Hong Kong to win offerings by commodity companies and achieve an expansion plan announced this year, the chairman of the Hong Kong bourse said.
Should the Australian and Singaporean bourses merge, they would list a combined US$484.8 billion ($631.5 billion)of mining, chemical and energy companies, more than the US$390 billion offered by Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, according to data from the three companies. Getting overseas resource producers to list is a key part of Hong Kong Exchanges Chief Executive Charles Li’s three- year plan announced in March.
Singapore’s ASX bid makes HKEx’s mining plan tougher
October 27th, 2010 |
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A merger between Singapore Exchange and ASX will make it harder for Hong Kong to win offerings by commodity companies and achieve an expansion plan announced this year, the chairman of the Hong Kong bourse said.
Should the Australian and Singaporean bourses merge, they would list a combined US$484.8 billion ($629.8 billion) of mining, chemical and energy companies, more than the US$390 billion offered by Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, according to data from the three companies. Getting overseas resource producers to list is a key part of Hong Kong Exchanges Chief Executive Charles Li’s three- year plan announced in March.
Singapore’s property cooling measure may get tougher, says UBS
March 17th, 2010 |
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Singapore’s government might take more drastic measures to cool property market if rate of residential property price increases fails to slow, says UBS, according to Dow Jones Newswires.
Tiger’s record hunt will be tougher if he misses 2010: Nicklaus
January 9th, 2010 |
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Jack Nicklaus believes Tiger Woods will find it tougher to break his record of 18 major wins if the world number one does not play this year. Woods, who is taking an indefinite break from golf, has been in hiding since admitting last month he had cheated on his wife. “I
Passengers from ‘terror-linked’ nations face tougher flight checks
January 4th, 2010 |
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US officials on Sunday toughened security measures for all US-bound airline passengers, and warned those travelling from or via 14 “terror linked” nations will undergo mandatory enhanced screening. The new measures came in the wake of the botched Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines
Google Wave Faces Tougher Test in Rollout to 100K Users
September 27th, 2009 |
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Google’s Wave collaboration platform will soon face its first true test when the company rolls it out to 100,000 consumer and business users. Perhaps the biggest mystery is what companies will do to build on top of the Wave platform. British Telecom’s Ribbit VOIP arm plans to launch telephony-based gadgets built specifically for the Google Wave platform. Moreover, Google isn’t the only company embracing real time for collaboration. Companies such as Etherpad and Watchitoo already offer real-time collaboration.
– The time for fun, buggy demonstrations with select media and analysts is
over. Google’s Wave collaboration platform will soon face its first true test
when the company rolls it out to 100,000 consumer and business users.
Google Sept. 30 will make the service, which lets users send instant message…