Shopping at the foot of the mountains (Gulf News)
Dubai: Formed over a decade ago, the Friday Market on the road to Fujairah, 25km from a small town called Dhaid, is so popular that motorists can now stop there every day of the week.
Coke bottles a stellar profit (News.com.au)
COCA-COLA Amatil shares recorded one of their biggest one-day gains yesterday after the bottler handed down a better than expected interim profit and revealed it would merge its Asian businesses.
Tata Tea looks at acquisitions in North and South America (Deccan Herald)
Tata Tea has been looking at North and South American markets with primary focus on beverages, ready-to-drink tea and herbal tea.
East Kong Yick Building (Seattle Times)
Empty, eerie, the upper floors of the East Kong Yick Building house pigeons, peeling...
A city sinking but not drowning (Financial Times)
One day last November, I was woken at dawn by the hoot of the 'acqua alta' (high water) siren. At 9am, I donned wellies and waded out into streets submerged under several feet of trout-brown water. Bulging rubbish bags bobbed alongside bottles, cans, cardboard boxes.
Car bombs? Here? In the Kurdish zone, that’s almost a joke (Gulf Times)
SULAIMANIYA: Asked when he last had to treat victims of a car bomb, Iraqi doctor Arif Anwar, an emergency room surgeon at Sulaimaniya’s main hospital, dismisses the question with a smile and then starts to laugh.
