Red signals - Hong Kong Standard
On a quiet Sunday in the Lazy Town warehouse, the man many of the
world's children know as Sportacus was working up some optimism for
Iceland. Business outsourcing may not be the most glamorous industry in the
world but it is one of the few bright ...
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Airports, govt working on groundhandling formula - Business
Standard
Currently, airlines, including Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines,
undertake their own groundhandling. But under the new policy, they will not
be permitted to do so. Carriers have said that at least 8,000 employees
working in these companies will ...
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US-listed Indian firms lose $6 bn in a week - Economic Times
NEW YORK: Indian companies listed on the American bourses lost nearly
six billion dollars in just one week, with the market value of HDFC Bank
eroding as much as 1.38 billion dollars, amid worsening financial turmoil
and scour corporate news ...
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Outsourcing by airlines could tighten - Atlanta Journal
Constitution
For years, U.S. airlines have been moving aircraft maintenance work
to Asia, Mexico, Central America and other locations with low labor costs.
Now, with the incoming Obama administration and a more Democratic Congress
preparing a new aviation agenda ...
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Broadband Internet makes tiny town an English-teaching hub -
Pantagraph
TEN SLEEP, Wyo. -- The nearest Wal-Mart is two hours away, and only
foul weather, a deer in the road or a Washakie County sheriff’s deputy
would slow down anyone with a mind to drive there faster. Yet Ten Sleep,
population 350, is just as connected ...
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