December 31st, 2009 21:00
India has a last-minute change of heart over boosting competition in its telecoms sector from the start of the New Year by delaying the introduction of mobile number portability for at least three months
Market Economy
December 31st, 2009 21:00
There was tight security in central Tehran with armed police taking to the streets, creating an intimidating atmosphere a day after state-organised rallies
Market Economy
December 31st, 2009 21:00
President Barack Obama will receive a preliminary report from intelligence agencies on how a would-be terrorist was able to slip through terrorism databases and board a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day, as his administration tries to avoid repeat attacks
Market Economy
December 31st, 2009 17:00
The few European markets that opened on the final day of the year edged up slightly on very thin volumes
Market Economy
December 31st, 2009 17:00
When Spain takes over the European Union’s six-month presidency from Sweden on January 1, it will inherit much more than the usual catalogue of economic and foreign policy challenges
Market Economy
December 31st, 2009 17:00
The International Monetary Fund sanctions Ukraine to lower its minimum international reserve requirement, freeing up $2bn from central bank coffers to pay Russian natural gas bills and keep the cash-crunched country financially-afloat ahead of a hotly contested presidential election
Market Economy
The Russian aluminium maker, which is to list in Hong Kong in late January, recorded a $868m loss for the first half of 2009 when revenues fell 55 per cent in its IPO prospectus
Market Economy
Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers’ Association, is particularly damning of the 50 per cent supertax on bonuses revealed in Chancellor Alistair Darling’s pre-Budget report this month
Market Economy
A few years ago we showed
Tobias Wong's Sun Jar, that collected and stored sunshine so that you can use it at night. As we noted then, "there are a thousand dumb and ugly things that do this; what a difference the designer's touch makes."
One could say the same thing about this lamp designed by
od-do architekti of, I think, Serbia; It is an elegant LED floor lamp by night;
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Photos: Emilio Ambasz (architect).
This is what the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art could look like in one year and a half time, when the restoration and extension works that are taking place in the building finish. Green walls and balconies will give the building and its pieces of art a new life. Take a closer look inside....
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