Thai hero to make Davis Cup return The Australian | THAI tennis hero Paradorn Srichaphan is considering a desperate comeback against Australia in next month's Davis Cup encounter. Srichaphan hasn't played competitive tennis since the 2007 Miami Masters exactly one year ago, consequently vanishing from the top 1000 rankings. | Reports out of Bangkok...
Travel group: Tourism, travel will bring US$4.6 trillion a year to Asia Pacific by 2010 International Herald Tribune | : Travel and tourism are expected to bring US$4.6 trillion (€2.9 trillion) a year to the Asia Pacific region by 2010 despite the threat of a U.S. recession, according to a study released Wednesday. | Continued strong tourism growth within the region will help it weather the current stock mar...
AP Business NewsBrief at 5:21 a.m. EDT Insurance Newsnet US foreclosure filings surge 65 percent in April LOS ANGELES (AP) _ More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a d...
AP Business NewsBrief at 6:20 a.m. EDT Insurance Newsnet US foreclosure filings surge 65 percent in April LOS ANGELES (AP) _ More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a d...
Financial Summary Insurance Newsnet The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Wednesday, May 14, 2008: | US foreclosure filings surge 65 percent in April | LOS ANGELES (AP) _ More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number o...
Thais tailor Beijing bonuses to prevent squandering The Star | BANGKOK: Thailand is offering its athletes big cash incentives for Olympic gold medals – but will pay out in instalments to stop them squandering it. | Gold medallists will earn 10mil Baht (US$314,000), silver medal winners will take 6mil Baht, whi...
Olympic bonuses tailored to prevent squandering Dawn | BANGKOK, May 12: Thailand is offering its athletes big cash incentives for Olympic gold medals — but will pay out in instalments to stop them squandering it. | Gold medallists will earn 10 million baht ($314,000), silver medal winners will take six...
Thais tailor Olympic bonuses to prevent squandering International Herald Tribune | : Thailand is offering its athletes big cash incentives for Olympic gold medals -- but will pay out in instalments to stop them squandering it. | Gold medallists will earn 10 million baht (159,900 pounds), silver medal winners will take six million...
Country for sale The Guardian | Almost half of Cambodia has been sold to foreign speculators in the past 18 months - and hundreds of thousands who fled the Khmer Rouge are homeless once more. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark report , | Sang Run, his hair stiff with sea salt, chu...
Thai hero to make Davis Cup return The Australian | THAI tennis hero Paradorn Srichaphan is considering a desperate comeback against Australia in next month's Davis Cup encounter. Srichaphan hasn't played competitive tennis since the 2007 Miami Masters exactly one year ago, consequently vanishing fr...
Asia Pacific Travel Worth $4.6T in 2010 Houston Chronicle TOOLS | SINGAPORE - Travel and tourism are expected to bring $4.6 trillion a year to the Asia Pacific region by 2010 despite the threat of a U.S. recession, according to a study released Wednesday. | Continued strong tourism growth within the region ...
Travel group: Tourism, travel will bring US$4.6 trillion a year to Asia Pacific by 2010 International Herald Tribune | : Travel and tourism are expected to bring US$4.6 trillion (€2.9 trillion) a year to the Asia Pacific region by 2010 despite the threat of a U.S. recession, according to a study released Wednesday. | Continued strong tourism growth within the...
I love Starbucks, what of it? The Guardian While the heart of Britain still belongs to tea, I'm afraid my soul is sold to Starbucks, says Anna Pickard. | Love me, love my evil coffee. Photograph: Alicia Canter/Observer. | So , and everyone from McDonalds to Mick's Lay-by Caravan Caff is offer...
The world's wildest delicacies The Times | Joe Staton, formerly of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, spent an unhealthily long time studying whether everything really does taste of chicken. He concluded that taste is, in large part, to do with the evolutionary origin of an anima...
Rendell's veto threat sets back compromise on smoking ban Penn Live 5/12/2008, 6:01 p.m. EDT> The Associated Press | HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A last-minute veto threat from Gov. Ed Rendell derailed a proposed compromise on legislation to ban smoking in most public places in Pennsylvania, a state senator said Monday. | Rendell issued the threat just hours before a joint House-Senate committee was to meet to...
Jankovic, Serena reach Italian Open quarters Reuters Thu May 15, 2008 9:27am ET | | By Paul Virgo | ROME (Reuters) - American Serena Williams and holder Jelena Jankovic moved into the quarter-finals of the Italian Open on Thursday with wins over unseeded opponents. | Fifth seed Williams tamed lively Italian wildcard Sara Errani 6-4 6-3, while Serbian fourth seed Jankovic strolled past Russia's Maria ...
