Dutch airline warns of passenger flight over new tax Turkish Press | KLM planes parked at Schiphol airport, Netherlands, in 2003. A Dutch court upheld a new environmental tax on air travellers Thursday as airline KLM warned the levy could cause it to lose up to a million passengers this financial year. | (AFP/ANP/File) | A Dutch court upheld a new environmental tax...
China Airlines ends Sea-Tac run to Taipei Seattle Post Service began four years ago | China Airlines is pulling its thrice-weekly flight from Sea-Tac Airport to Taipei on Sept. 1, more than four years after the Taiwan-based airline added the service whose inception marked Sea-Tac's first new international flight in six years. | Passengers hoping to use ...
Holland & Hart launches subprime-mortgage practice Business Journal > | Law firm Holland & Hart LLP announced Monday it's formed a practice group focusing on subprime mortgages in response to the ongoing crisis in that market. | The group will advise individual and business clients on disputes, litigation and governm...
Royal Dutch Shell sells wind stake to Eon and Dong Energy The Times | THE oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell its stake in the £2.5 billion London Array, the world's largest offshore wind farm, to Eon and Dong Energy, its former partners. | Under a settlement reached last week, the utilities agreed to divi...
No end to floods Manila Bulletin (Editor’s note: The flood problem will not end if thorough studies are ignored as noted by the author.) | IN the last 50 years or more most solutions to extensive flooding in Metro Manila can be called workable or feasible — a kind of fixing time...
McCain backs tax credits for GM Volt, others The Boston Globe | WARREN, Michigan (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful John McCain told embattled GM employees on Friday he backs their development of an electric car and said Americans should be able to receive $5,000 tax credits to buy them. | Battered by a...
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Fortis scrubs cash dividends; raising $2.35B Buffalo News | Dutch bank Fortis will issue $2.35 billion in new shares and scrap cash dividends for the year to shore up its balance sheet. | Fortis was one of three European banks that joined...
State's operators to celebrate Dairy Month with open house Omaha World-Herald | BY CHET MULLIN | WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER | Nebraska is known more for beef cattle and corn, but the state's dairy industry has grown steadily over the last decade, said a profe...
Ranbaxy and Pfizer agree Lipitor deal The Times | Pfizer will be able to sell Lipitor, the world's bestselling drug, at full price for five months longer than expected after signing a deal with Ranbaxy, the Indian generics manuf...
Dutch court voids language test for some migrants The News Tribune AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A Dutch court punched a hole in toughened immigration restrictions, ruling an illiterate Moroccan woman cannot be required to pass a Dutch language test to join her husband in the Netherlands. | The order dismayed politician...
Dutch airline warns of passenger flight over new tax Turkish Press | KLM planes parked at Schiphol airport, Netherlands, in 2003. A Dutch court upheld a new environmental tax on air travellers Thursday as airline KLM warned the levy could cause it to lose up to a million passengers this financial year. | (AFP/ANP/Fi...
China Airlines ends Sea-Tac run to Taipei Seattle Post Service began four years ago | China Airlines is pulling its thrice-weekly flight from Sea-Tac Airport to Taipei on Sept. 1, more than four years after the Taiwan-based airline added the service whose inception marked Sea-Tac's first new internationa...
Philips profits down despite strong sales of lighting and TVs The Star | AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Royal Philips Electronics NV said Monday its second quarter profits fell by more than half, despite resilient sales in a battered global economy. | The world's largest maker of lighting said its net income was euro720 million (US$1.14 billion), down from euro1.57 billion ($2.49 billion) in the same quarter last year....
