Korea Hot Stocks Hite Brewery Megastudy up
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As of 0407 GMT, the main KOSPI was up 0.82 percent at
1,756.40 points, led by technology shares after Intel Corp’s
(INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) results and margin forecast reassured investors worried
about the chip market and the slowing U.S. economy.
The index opened 0.9 percent higher at 1,757.83 points.
**HITE BREWERY JUMPS AFTER HOLDING-CO ANNOUNCEMENT**
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W.House backs much of House student loan bill
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it supports major provisions of a bill expected to come to a vote on Thursday in the House of Representatives that aims to stabilize the troubled student loan market.
“The administration is committed to ensuring that students and their parents have access to the federal student aid [...]
UPDATE 2W.House backs much of US House student loan bill
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By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - The White House said on
Wednesday it supports major provisions of a bill expected to
come to a vote on Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives
that aims to stabilize the troubled student loan market.
“The administration is committed to ensuring that students
and their parents have access to [...]
W.House backs much of House student loan bill
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it supports major provisions of a bill expected to come to a vote on Thursday in the House of Representatives that aims to stabilize the troubled student loan market.
“The administration is committed to ensuring that students and their parents have access to the federal student aid [...]
Pope aims to heal sex abuse wounds on U.S. trip
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“The pope will talk about it — talk about it in a specific way,” Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, told Fox News in an interview to be broadcast on Wednesday.
“The pope, along with the Church’s priests, will naturally seek the path toward healing and toward reconciliation.”
The sexual abuse scandal started in Boston in [...]
Regional organisations collaborate to improve wastewater management in Jamaica
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KINGSTON, Jamaica: As a result of a recently concluded training workshop held in Kingston, Jamaica, local managers from the public and private sectors are now better equipped to select, plan and finance improved wastewater management systems. Workshop participants were drawn from the Ministries of Health and Environment, Housing, and agencies responsible for water and sanitation [...]
Pearson Isn#39;t Making Web Trade Better Than Newspapers (Update1)
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Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Pearson Plc Chief Executive Officer
Marjorie Scardino is selling newspaper assets and moving from
textbooks into online courses. The efforts arent bringing the
164-year-old publisher the valuation of Washington Post Co.,
whose shares cost 50 percent more.
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The Bard #45; as they like it
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If we are to believe a recent survey commissioned for the National Year of
Reading, Shakespeare is as appetising to children as cod liver oil or
madrigals. For 11 to 14-year-olds, the celebrity gossip magazine Heat and
the teenage girls’ mag Bliss top the polls. Their least favourite reading is
%26ldquo;homework, closely followed by the dramatist whom I recall [...]
Bad Bart Simpson is banished for Baywatch in Venezuela
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He is a garish shade of yellow, a menace to his teachers, a constant source of
anguish for his family . . . and now deemed likely to corrupt the children
of Venezuela, which has banished Bart Simpson and co from the airwaves.
%26ldquo;It had to be taken off, a spokeswoman for Televen, a private television
station, said of [...]
Thousands of migrants win right to stay
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Thousands of highly skilled migrants who were faced with deportation can now
stay in Britain, a court ruled yesterday. The ruling is a blow to the
Government and its attempt to demonstrate to the public that it is taking a
tough stance to meet concern over the extent of immigration.
Sir George Newman, a High Court judge, branded the [...]
