Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | October 30th 2010 | no comments
The Polish Government will reduce the number of jobs in state agencies and funds and limit the growth of discretionary spending as part of efforts to reduce the public deficit and public debt, writes Bloomberg.
Government wants to reduce the number of jobs in [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 30th 2010 | no comments
The garbage crisis continues in the Naples region, Italy, in spite of the reassurances the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave the people in the region that the situation is being taken care of.
“We cannot give up until we see some concrete results,” a spokesman for the Movement for the Protection of Vesuvius area.
Berlusconi arrived to the area after a meeting in [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | October 30th 2010 | no comments
Steve Mills (IBM): systems of analysis have existed before the crisis, but were taken into account only the market risk. The effectiveness of a risk analysis system is dependent on human factors.
IBM Corporation [...]
Posted in: Lifestyle by Oana Szakacs | October 30th 2010 | no comments
Capri Anderson, the woman who was in Charlie Sheen’s hotel room when the police were called on the scene and found the actor naked on the bed and the room devastated, plans on suing the “Two And [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 30th 2010 | no comments
Hundreds of South Koreans arrived today at a mountain resort on Mount Kumgang in North Korea to meet their relatives from the Communist republic in a reunion scheduled to take place Saturday through Monday.
The reunion is intended to bring together 97 families out of hundred other families that were split when the country was divided into North and South, at the end of the conflict [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | October 30th 2010 | no comments
Polish authorities' decision to sell state companies through a stock and not directly to foreign investors, as did many countries in the region, led the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the first place in the region and gives the government the right to dream of the financial center status in [...]
Posted in: Science by Sergiu Vidican | October 30th 2010 | no comments
Dracula is one of the most famous fictional characters in the world. It was first introduced by Bram Stoker in his novel, Dracula, and ever since then the popularity of the vampires was on a constant rise. However the story about the “real” Dracula is not perfectly known.
Most of the [...]
Posted in: Lifestyle by Oana Szakacs | October 30th 2010 | no comments
Rapper T.I.’s wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, who was arrested along her husband in September, was charged with possession of controlled substances on Friday, MTV news reported.
Both Tameka "Tiny" Cottle and her husband, the famous rapper T.I., were arrested in Los Angeles for [...]
Posted in: Sports by Tudor Daniel | October 30th 2010 | no comments
Following last month’s scandal regarding champion’s Alberto Contador positive testing, WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) suggested these days that it is not excluded that night tests might be introduced soon. More exactly, WADA proposed the International [...]
Posted in: Sports by Tudor Daniel | October 29th 2010 | no comments
Following World Cup’s disappointment, Diego Maradona repeated once again he is still eyeing a job in the Premiership. But he didn’t name any club he would like to train. The Argentine, who turns 50 on Saturday, claimed that he does not exclude [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | October 29th 2010 | one comment
The Scoreboard for 2010 of investments in research and industrial development in the European Union (EU Industrial R & D Investment Scoreboard), developed by the European Commission, shows that in 2009 investments in research and development of the most important [...]
Posted in: Sports by Tudor Daniel | October 29th 2010 | no comments
Joe Girardi and New York Yankees agreed to sign a brand new three-year deal. The ballclub made the announcement in the day off in the World Series and followed in the same time Yanks’ loss in front of Texas Rangers. Thus, Girardi becomes one of the best [...]
Posted in: Sports by Tudor Daniel | October 29th 2010 | no comments
The good news of signing a five-year extension with United has been followed by a bad one. Manchester striker Wayne Rooney will be sidelined for longer than expected. The 25-year-old injured his ankle during last week’s training and, at that time, he was [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | October 29th 2010 | no comments
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (photo), said on 16 October, the German model of a multicultural Germany, where different cultures cohabiting in harmony, "totally failed". It was an intervention which has brought to the attention of the public debate on [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | October 29th 2010 | no comments
The strong Italian bank UniCredit plans to expand its retail operations and investment in Central and Eastern Europe, said the business daily The Wall Street Journal, which quoted the new head of the Italian group.
Federico Ghizzoni, who recently assumed the position of executive [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | October 29th 2010 | no comments
Spanish banks sell their securities subsidiaries and seek government support to find housing tenants execution in efforts to strengthen its position amid the problems they face, writes The Wall Street Journal. Among the main strategies used by banks include the sale of [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | October 29th 2010 | no comments
A summit that was intended to bring China and Japan to the negotiation table was in danger of being cancelled after Chinese officials working for the Foreign Ministry accused Japanese diplomats of statements that violate the rights and the sovereignty of China.
The clash was provoked by what the Chinese consider an untrue statement of the Japanese diplomats regarding a previous [...]
Posted in: Technology by Iohana Georgescu | October 29th 2010 | no comments
There are good points and bad points about being a Microsoft employee. The company’s Windows Phone exec Guy Gilbert has recently revealed that every Microsoft employee will be receiving a Windows Phone 7 device. He didn’t really mention which of the huge number of newly [...]
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