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Finance Minister Paula Cox does not believe that Bermuda is likely to suffer anything similar to the ever-widening international tax evasion probe being focused on Liechtenstein.
Both German and British tax authorities have paid for data linked to ac...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Golar LNG, the liquefied natural gas- tanker business whose chairman is Norwegian billionaire John Fredriksen, said fourth-quarter profit slumped and the market in 2008 will "present some challenges."
Net income dro...
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MBIA, the world's biggest bond insurer, is stepping up its campaign against what it sees as an unfair tax advantage for its Bermuda-based rivals.
In a letter to shareholders this week, MBIA's new chief executive officer Joseph (Jay) Brown suggested t...
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STX Shipbuilding gets $215m bulk-ship order
(Bloomberg) — STX Shipbuilding Co., the first South Korean company to build a yard in China, said it received a contract to build two bulk carriers for 204 billion won ($215 million) from Greece.
The 181,0...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Visiting websites that provide general patient information on prostate cancer is not the best way for men to get help deciding whether to be screened for the disease, a new study shows.
Instead, men will benefit most from ...
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NEW YORK (AP) – It happens after big football games, and it happens after the Oscars, too: the ritual post-game analysis. And the first question to be pondered this year was why the 80th Academy Awards were a ratings dud.
Was it fallout from the rece...
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The 2008 Bermuda tennis schedule has begun with a bang with both junior and senior players in action.
The junior Cromwell Manders Memorial Tournament was held last week and the Elbow Beach Doubles Open starts today with doubles' events for men and la...
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KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania (AP) — The white wooden fence once tacked with homemade signs expressing prayers and appeals to "Grow, Hoof, Grow" are bare.
Only students pass through the lobby that overflowed with floral arrangements, get-well cards an...
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A married man on trial for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl denied he had a three-hour sex marathon with her.
The 37-year-old defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was being cross-examined by Crown Counsel Robert Welling.
Mr. ...
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The Spirit of Bermuda helped to strengthen historic ties between two seafaring communities at the weekend.
The schooner was host to Mayor Joseph Riley of Charleston, South Carolina, who sailed across the Great Sound on his maiden visit to the Island....
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