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...waters before the three-day Ivy League Championship begins Friday at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J. Bucknell and George Washington rounded out the eight-team field, and the golfers got to attend a special dinner Saturday night with guest speaker Mark Whittaker, who is the Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News.After gaining momentum back at Caves Valley, the Crimson is poised to make a run at an Ivy title. “It’s an overall effort—everyone has to play well for us each week,” Shuman said...
...Most Taiwanese are willing to forgive, given the cash even the clumsier tourists are bringing. Some estimate that mainland guests could inject over $200 million a year into Taiwan's tourism industry. Tourism bureau official Philip Chao says the Chinese are pretty big spenders, averaging nearly $300 a day, just shy of the Japanese who spend over $300. And, he says, tourism is the ideal starting point to renew mutual understanding. At the Sun Yat Sen Memorial gift shop, the clerk who encounters many Chinese tourists during her day there described the mood to be like a family reunion...
Despite the successful operation to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama last weekend, Somali pirates continue to hold 16 ships with a total of 282 crew members, according to the International Maritime Bureau's piracy-reporting center, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Filipinos comprise nearly half the captives; a majority of the rest are from India, with smaller numbers from other South and Southeast Asian countries. In all these countries, sailing is seen as a tough but lucrative profession that fetches handsome dollar incomes relative to the amount of education required. Even amid the present economic gloom, officers' salaries have...
Mickey Wants You. With all the layoffs at Disney World, the Orlando Convention & Visitors Bureau is eager to attract visitors with a new Deal of the Week every week through June 30. Right now, you can get four nights for the price of three at the Orlando World Center Marriott, plus a room upgrade to a pool view and free hot breakfast buffet daily. Book by April 17 with the promo code...
...April 7, India's federal crime bureau filed charges against nine people including Raju, Satyam's former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas, former managing director Ramadan Raju and two former external auditors of Price Waterhouse. All of them are currently in jail...