Новости за 29.03.2016

The sale of local bank owner Southcoast Financial Corp. is taking longer than expected.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s new law limiting LGBT protections is a "national embarrassment," and the state’s lawyers won’t defend it against a federal challenge from gay rights advocates, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Tuesday.

Over the years, the average Indian car enthusiast’s memory has been etched with a sizeable amount of concept cars from Tata Motors. Some of them were pretty as hell, while others were odd-ball, even hideous. However, here’s a list of five production-ready concept cars from the Tata Motors stable that never saw the assembly lines. Tata Pr1ma […]

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Already a pioneer in high-tech and cutting-edge agriculture, Israel is starting to attract American companies looking to bring medical marijuana know-how to a booming market back home.

New York— The orchid trail at the New York Botanical Garden burns with color like a slow fuse. Along a greenhouse walkway in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, refitted for “Orchidelirium,” this year’s edition of the annual orchid show, clustered plantings clamor, each more brilliant and extravagantly shaped than its neighbor. Tiny blazing-yellow Colombian buttercup orchids jostle with frilly, purply-red Pacific Sun Spots, which compete with hybrid Phalaenopsis, their petals decorated with pink stripes as fine as a hair. Читать дальше...

DAVAO CITY – The American Chamber of Commerce in Mindanao (AMCHAM-Mindanao) yesterday sought the help of the US government in containing the fire that has already razed almost 300 hectares of forest cover inside the Mt. Apo Natural Park. AMCHAM-Mindanao Chairman Philip Dizon told Manila Bulletin here that he already sent a message to the executive director of AMCHAM Philippines to air their concern to US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg, saying the Philippine government might not have... Читать дальше...

The much-criticized “boundary system” of profit-sharing in the transportation sector will be abolished if presidential bet Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and his, running mate Senator Alan Peter Cayetano win the national elections. The two candidates made this vow yesterday as they returned to the campaign trail after observing Holy Week.  The two candidates led a motorcade in Pasay City and Parañaque City and were scheduled last night to join a concert in Manila. Duterte and Cayetano also chided political... Читать дальше...

San Juan, Batangas – The freedom of detained Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada was not part of any deal and was not included in the endorsement of former President and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada, presidential aspirant Senator Grace Poe said yesterday. The presidential frontrunner said there was no agreement nor a negotiation on the younger Estrada’s release. “There was no deal. We don’t even pay him a visit. We haven’t seen each other,” Poe said in Filipino, shortly after the campaign rally in this town, hosted by Batangas Rep. Читать дальше...

The warm breeze that caresses your skin signals that it’s already summer time. The time to frolic under the sun, play outdoors and be one with nature. But this is also the season when mosquitoes are noticeably visible compared to other months. As the American Mosquito Control Association would have it, a mosquito life cycle could happen in 14 days when it’s 21 degree Celsius and 10 days when it’s 26 degree Celsius. Following this kind of logic, it means that a typical mosquito life cycle in our country... Читать дальше...

There are only a few weeks left before the national elections, and signages, tarpaulins and banners of all the candidates already flood the streets and our senses. Undoubtedly, the printing and signage industry are booming!

* Euronext also studying storage warrants for inland market (Adds comments, details)

The Liberal Party (LP) yesterday poked fun at claims made by the camp of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte that the PDP-Laban standard-bearer will be subjected to a smear drive by the administration party, saying he has been on a self-destruction mode on the campaign trail. LP spokesman Miro Quimbo denied the Duterte camp’s accusation that LP is hatching a black propaganda campaign against the tough-talking Davao City mayor. “We don’t have to blacken the image of, or do a demolition job on Mayor Duterte since he has been doing it on himself,” said Quimbo... Читать дальше...

Former Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Gabriel C. Singson passed away, yesterday. He was 87, a statement from the BSP said yesterday. Singson was the central bank governor from July 6, 1993 to July 5, 1999, and the first governor of the renamed BSP which was created under the New Central Bank Act (or Republic Act No. 7653). He was a close adviser of former President Fidel V. Ramos, who signed RA 7653 into law in 1993. Singson also served as deputy governor of the old Central Bank of the... Читать дальше...

UNITED NATIONS, New York City, United States -- Some countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are facing simultaneous crises of over and undernutrition, with some children overweight while others suffer from stunting and wasting, said a joint report released Monday by UN agencies and their partners.

Publish Asia, the annual meeting place of the Asian news publishing industry, opened this morning at the Manila Hotel, with President Aquino delivering the opening address. It is the first time in nine years that this major convention takes place in Manila. The conference is organized by WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, with the support of the Manila Bulletin, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star, Manila Times, and Business Mirror. The 16th Publish Asia takes... Читать дальше...

(Reuters Health) - A few key policy changes can reduce sudden deaths during middle school and high school sports activities, according to a best practices statement in the Journal of Athletic training.

(Reuters Health) - A few key policy changes can reduce sudden deaths during middle school and high school sports activities, according to a best practices statement in the Journal of Athletic training.

FRANKFURT, March 29 (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom on Tuesday offered E.ON a price cut on its long-term gas supplies, ending years of unsuccessful talks and allowing the German utility to raise its outlook for the current year.

WASHINGTON — A tie vote from the Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a win to labor unions in a high-profile dispute over their ability to collect fees.

LONDON (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi has poached one of AstraZeneca's top scientists to be its new research head in another high-profile departure for the British drugmaker.

LONDON (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi has poached one of AstraZeneca's top scientists to be its new research head in another high-profile departure for the British drugmaker.

LONDON (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi has poached one of AstraZeneca's top scientists to be its new research head in another high-profile departure for the British drugmaker.

Районда сөт җитештерү белән шөгыльләнүче 22 хуҗалык һәм фермерларга бу елның ике ае өчен Рәсәй һәм Татарстан хөкүмәте тарафыннан 10 миллион сум субсидия акчасы биреләчәк.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's accounting watchdog aims to publish a full report in coming weeks into how banking group HBOS was audited by KPMG [KPMG.UL] before the lender collapsed in 2008 during the financial crisis.

DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scientists in East Africa plan to exploit trained rats’ highly developed sense of smell to carry out mass screening for tuberculosis among inmates of crowded prisons in Tanzania and Mozambique.