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  • Cost of the queen: less than $1 per person a year

    2010-07-06 11:48

    Like millions of her subjects, Queen Elizabeth II is going to have to make do and mend — cutting spending and putting off palace repairs as royal finances are squeezed by Britain's budget crisis.

  • Int'l monetary system needs yuan as 'third leg'

    2010-07-05 09:39

    Former Hong Kong Monetary Authority chief Joseph Yam had said a healthier and more stable international monetary system needed a third leg since evidences showed the US dollar and the euro were not healthy enough with erosive long-term market confidence.

  • Ex-TCI Asia head raises $100m for his hedge fund

    2010-07-05 15:20

    John Ho, former Asia head of the Children's Investment Fund Management UK LLP, raised more than $100 million from investors for his own hedge fund which bets on rising and falling stocks in the region.

  • Curriculum vitae of Ted Haney

    2010-07-05 11:42

    Ted Haney was raised on a mixed farm including a beef cattle feedlot, a cow/calf ranch, and grain and forage crops. His family operated this integrated farm in the Picture Butte area of Southern Alberta for more than 85 years.

  • 'Hotels to benefit from tourism boom'

    2010-07-05 10:09

    Brett Butcher believes Chinese tourists escaping to the sun will revolutionize the leisure industry in Asia.

  • Manufacturing ideas

    2010-07-05 12:59

    How much time do you need to transform innovative ideas into patented products ready for manufacture and market? Three years? 12 months? 150 days? For Professor Kaj Mickos at Malardalen University, Sweden, the answer is 72 hours.

  • UBS Asia investment banking chairman resigns

    2010-07-02 16:11

    UBS AGAsia investment banking chairman Henry Cai has resigned, the company said on Thursday.

  • Heads may roll in AIG power struggle

    2010-07-02 13:34

    American International Group Inc (AIG) Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche last week threatened to resign unless the bailed-out insurer's chairman, Harvey Golub, leaves the firm, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

  • Microsoft exec wants to make more Chinese friends

    2010-07-01 13:20

    Pan Zhenglei is the highest-ranking female Microsoft executive born in China. In the year 1987, 17-year-old Pan took her parents' advice to see the world outside China and got on a plane.

  • Camera boss steals the scene

    2010-06-28 09:59

    Hideki Ozawa is not the traditional Japanese businessman often regarded as aloof, shy and reticent in front of the public. Rather, the 60-year-old executive is a charismatic entrepreneur who enjoys playing acoustic guitar at most of the company's annual dinners.

  • Gome names Wang Junzhou as new president

    2010-06-28 13:53

    Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd, China's second-biggest electronics retailer by market value, appointed Executive Vice President Wang Junzhou as president after Chen Xiao resigned from the post.

  • Miao sees the sun shine on energy dream

    2010-06-28 10:37

    Management consultants often say shorter production processes generate higher profits because less needs to be invested in machines and hiring. Making profits from owning no assets is even better.

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