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...dictate the airline's strategy, the government aids SIA in many ways. Tax breaks on the carrier's aircraft help SIA maintain one of the youngest fleets of any major airline. The government helpfully paid the multibillion-dollar construction cost of Singapore's impressive Changi Airport, the airline's hub since 1981 and one of the best airports in the world...
...deals--Dubai's brief holdings in DaimlerChrysler and Madame Tussauds, for example--have been opportunistic. But Dubai's bid for NASDAQ is part of a vision for positioning the city-state as a world-class business center. "Dubai has managed in the last 30 years to become the commercial hub of the region," says Soud Balawi, head of Dubai Investment Group. "We want Dubai to become the financial hub as well...
...website includes a section entitled “Adventures of Kickass Cupcake,” which details the interactions of cupcakes in a cartoon video that is simultaneously sweet and sinister. And like twee culture, Kickass Cupcakes is not accessible to all. Rather, its location several blocks from the hub of the Square, at 378 Highland Street, means that its baked goods are reserved for those in the know.In keeping with the store’s name, the cupcakes transcend their neat rows with deliciously rebellious flavor combinations. Those leaning toward adult tastes might want to sample the mojito cupcake...
National self-interest quickly drove the two countries apart. In 1800 Napolon Bonaparte compelled Spain to give him the Louisiana Territory, which he planned to make the hub of a New World empire. President Thomas Jefferson was so alarmed, he considered making an alliance with Britain to drive the French out. But when the French troops en route to occupying Louisiana died of yellow fever in Haiti, Napolon decided to cut his losses and sold the territory to the U.S. for the bargain price of $15 million. By 1861, however, Napolon's nephew Napol?...
...Dubai, to launch an Arabic version of Nickelodeon kids' channel next year. A Comedy Central channel, film co-production deals with Paramount (a unit of MTV's parent, Viacom) and a Nickelodeon hotel are also under discussion. "Our vision in the long run is to create a global media hub out of Dubai," says Abdullatif al-Mulla, a former Microsoft executive who is TECOM...