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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...
...need to have Indian content for our games and we are looking for local partners," Christensen said on the sidelines of a gaming conference in Mumbai, India's finance and entertainment hub...
Let’s get something clear: the dialogue during the Harvard University Band (HUB) halftime show is supposed to be a joke...at least in that dorky, “I-go-to-Harvard” kind of way. But apparently our friends at Columbia don’t find the band very funny. In fact, Columbia’s athletic department found them so unacceptable, it prohibited HUB from reading its halftime script at the game on November 3. The band planned to call Columbia out on their new, 100-million-dollar athletics campaign. The crew...
...frills carriers have also been helped by the changing attitudes of Asian governments. Instead of defending national-flag carriers, officials are clued in to the possibility that budget airlines can invigorate underused airports and attract much needed tourist dollars. Singapore is building a new terminal as a hub for budget carriers, and other countries have been wooing no-frills airlines by reducing airport fees. In Kota Kinabalu, AirAsia took over a mothballed terminal, which now buzzes with eight flights a day. Fernandes wants to turn the building into a regional hub. "The loyalty to national carriers is getting more...
...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...