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May 15, 2012
The happiness of others is felt as an insult when you yourself are in trouble. The relatively strong expansion of the German economy (2% annual rate in the first quarter) in contrast to the recessions of most other major countries (by population), plus Portugal and Greece. As for the ...
May 14, 2012
New trial for Yahoo!. The U.S. internet group announced Sunday it had appointed a new temporary chief executive, Ross Levinsohn, replacing Scott Thompson less than five months after the arrival thereof at the head of the company. "Scott Thompson left the company" Yahoo! justifies no further details. The group ...
April 22, 2012
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April 19, 2012
This is an unprecedented project in France by its size: 70 local authorities have plans to issue a loan grouped by 1.2 billion euros in the bond market. One way to overcome the credit crisis. Banks are now more reluctant to lend to municipalities, counties and regions. And the ...
April 6, 2012
The reactor of the nuclear Penly, Seine-Maritime, did not escape unscathed from two outbreaks of fire that led to his arrest early Thursday afternoon. EDF said the evening had detected "a default on a joint of one of the four cooling pumps the coolant in the reactor building of ...
March 21, 2012
New Zealand takes action ... to a spread! Marmite, British brand of chocolate spread made from yeast prized by the Anglo-Saxons, becomes almost impossible to find in the "land of the long white cloud". This shortage is due to the partial destruction of the only plant in the country ...
March 17, 2012
Sell, not sell? The sale of Flammarion stirred microcosm of the French edition, while officially opens the 32nd Book Fair. That same Friday, the board of the Italian Rizzoli Corriere della Sera (RCS), owner of the prestigious, will meet in Milan to validate and formalize its 2011 accounts - ...
March 13, 2012
The tension mounts trade with Beijing. The European Union, the United States and Japan have initiated a complaint against China on the issue of "rare earth", the raw materials it has a virtual monopoly and export it rationed in favor of its own high-tech industry. The proceedings ...
March 10, 2012
The Little Shop Becquerel Center is nestled in the popular district of Tokyo Ueno, in the shadow of one of the countless train lines overhead. Since December, people in Tokyo may be measuring the radioactivity of their products, self-service. Two tables out of sight of prying neighbors ...
March 9, 2012
With just over six months behind on the Social Agenda 2011-2012 defined at the beginning of last year, the social partners began yesterday a social debate on the quality of work life. The eve of International Women's Day, "a symbol that owes nothing to chance", says Benoit Roger-Vasselin, the ...