Sailing-No Iran risk to UAE America's Cup venue, say organisers
Reuters
The emirate is less developed than UAE capital Abu Dhabi and tourism hub Dubai. Massaad said preparations for yachting's most prestigious race were on track with dredging work on an artificial island to help create a lagoon underway. (Editi...
India pepper ends up on low stocks, demand
Reuters India
Spot pepper rose by over 171 rupees and ended at 14,492.3 rupees per 100 kg in Kochi, a major trading hub in Kerala. Following are the closing prices of pepper futures in rupees per 100 kg on the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange ...
Bomb on passenger truck kills 7 in Pakistan
MSNBC
... in the truck bombing, which police said wounded at least 15. Television footage showed bloodstained clothes and sandals scattered around the station in Charsada district, about 12 miles outside the main northwestern city of Peshawar, a...
Tioga bookstore a neighborhood hub
Philadelphia Inquirer
Hakim Hopkins says his life changed with a book. Now he's trying to change an entire community with a bookstore. Hopkins, who grew up in West Philadelphia and Atlantic City, was 15 and in juvenile detention when his mother gave him a copy o...
Hub got their wheels turning
Boston Globe
Chris Harrelson remembers taking the Franklin Line commuter rail from Norfolk into Boston at age 10, seeing the intense green of passing lawns and watching fall leaves turn copper and red outside the window. “I loved riding that train,’’ he...
Will India Ever Be a Global Aviation Hub?
Wall Street Journal
India's aviation industry is in a mess. Pick up any of India's main papers and stories abound about India's airlines losing $2 billion in the last financial year. NACIL, the publicly-owned company that runs Air India is in particularly bad ...
Job threat as Ryanair closes Manchester airport routes
The Guardian
Warning of a tough winter for airlines , Ryanair has already announced cutbacks in flights at Stansted , its busiest hub, and Dublin. It said it will have to reduce fares by up to 20% this year in order to fill its planes. Its average fare ...
India jeera down on weak demand, turmeric on rains
Reuters India
Spot jeera in the Unjha market in Gujarat, a major trading hub, traded at 11,755.55 rupees, down 71.1 rupees from the previous close. PEPPER: India pepper futures fell in opening trade on profit-taking but soon reversed losses to trade up i...
Retro-Style Cassette Tape USB Hub
Wired
Unlike pretty much every other cassette tape hack we have covered (and there have been a lot) the Cassette Tape USB Hub is an actual, real, factory made product, and not an old tape with a few electronic gubbins stuffed inside. And why not?...
Is the U.S. Toyota's new export hub?
BusinessWeek
After years of building U.S. factories to build Toyotas for American customers, reports in Japan today say the giant automaker will soon export vehicles from the U.S. to the Middle East. The reports claim Toyota will begin shipping Sequoia ...
Full Description
Reuters
The Company’s subsidiaries include Dah Chong Hong Holdings Limited (DCH Holdings) and CITIC 1616. DCH Holdings is a distributor of motor vehicles, food and consumer products. CITIC 1616 owns and operates a telecoms hub that provides ...
First manufacturing hub for Cubic in China
Business Times Malaysia
CUBIC Integrated Group will soon establish its first overseas global integrated manufacturing hub at the Wanzhou Industrial Park in Chongqing, China. Its executive chairman, Datuk Goh Seng Chong, said the manufacturing hub, to be built over...
Pakistani immigrants in Seattle confront a huge challenge at home
Seattle Times
The Citizens Foundation, based in Karachi, Pakistan's economic hub, receives as much as half of its budget from Pakistanis abroad and relies on overseas chapters such as TCF-Seattle for overseas fundraising. The organization tackles some of...
Southern N.E. faces a spate of sizzlers
Boston Globe
But Boston disqualified itself for the distinction because a heat wave is defined as three consecutive days of 90 degree temperatures or higher, and the Hub yesterdayreached a high of only 88 degrees, observed at Logan Airport, said Bill Si...
