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BEIJING (Reuters) - As China's neighbours succumb to soaring oil markets and cut back expensive fuel subsidies, Beijing is stubbornly refusing to let pump prices rise, driving some service stations to hike prices illegally or simply shut down.
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DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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Recording artist Lindsay Ferguson will be fulfilling a dream engagement when she appears at the Bermuda Folk Club tomorrow and joins the Island's own international singer/songwriter Heather Nova at the top of the bill along with Alana Dean and Joy Ba...
DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks rose the most in more than a month yesterday after Wal-Mart and other retailers posted stronger-than-expected May sales and data showed a surprising fall in weekly jobless claims, spurring optimism about the economy's h...
DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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DESPITE being a member of the Bermuda Industrial Union throughout his working life, political activist Raymond Russell (pictured above) has become increasingly disillusioned with the organisation - and gone public with his concerns.
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DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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Eight cyclists have been selected to represent Bermuda at the Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships to be held in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, next month.
The squad includes Aaron Place, Philip Woolridge and Thomas Godfrey in the junior male (17/1...
DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — British Airways Plc said the transfer of long-haul flights to a fifth terminal at London's Heathrow airport went smoothly, avoiding the chaos that blighted the building's opening in March.
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DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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The jury in a drugs trial sat through two hours of Federal Express CCTV footage yesterday as the prosecution brought its case to a conclusion.
Its grainy picture appeared to show defendant Andre Hill — who, with Raynol Todd, is jointly accused of con...
DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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MILAN, Italy (AP) — Telecom Italia will cut 5,000 jobs by 2010, mostly through the combination of its fixed and mobile units, chief executive Franco Bernabe said in an interview published yesterday.
The cuts at Europe's fifth-largest telecommunicatio...
DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - An interest rate war in the savings market heated up yesterday as Halifax unveiled a no-strings savings account paying 10 percent.
Its new "regular saver" account will pay a fixed 10 percent for one year, and - unlike other high-in...
DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said yesterday it would buy rural mobile service provider Alltel Corp for $28.1 billion including debt, which would vault it to first place in the US market ahead of AT&T Inc.
Under terms of the deal, Verizon Wir...
DATE: Jun 06, 2008
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