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...soccer clubs. Cashing in on the game's popularity in the region, Real Madrid and Manchester United between them last week kicked their way through Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing, racking up multimillion-dollar appearance fees along the way. Lesser teams, too, are parading before Asian fans. Rotterdam's Feyenoord went to work in Nanjing late last month, and even Sheffield United, from England's second division of clubs, rounded off its own three-game tour of China last week. The team's big attraction? Veteran Chinese star Hao Haidong. "We're looking at [China] as a long-term...
...Malaysian intelligence officer. "But now we are arresting militants, and they are angry." - By Simon Elegant and Mageswary Ramakrishnan In the Dock THE NETHERLANDS Pre-trial hearings in the case of Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat, accused of complicity in genocide for selling banned chemicals to Iraq, opened in Rotterdam. Van Anraat is alleged to have sold mustard gas and nerve gas to Saddam Hussein. The agents were used in the 1988 attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, in which 5,000 people died. New Allegations UKRAINE The Prosecutor General's Office said that 18 Soviet-made nuclear-capable...
...first reprivatization. Potentially, some of the largest and most profitable companies in Ukraine could be up for grabs, including two big aluminum plants, and a major mining firm worth as much as $1.5 billion that was sold for just $100 million, also to a consortium linked to Pinchuk. Rotterdam-based Mittal Steel, for one, is excited about the prospect. Its joint bid last year with U.S. Steel for Kryvorizhstal included $1.5 billion for a 93% stake in the plant, plus promised investment of $1.2 billion to raise production and improve quality. The offer was blocked on technical grounds that Mittal...
When he arrived in New York City in 1926, he was 22, a stowaway on a freighter from Rotterdam, the Dutch port where he had been raised by an imposing, belligerent mother. In the U.S. he worked for years in commercial art before deciding, in the midst of the Depression, to emulate his friend Arshile Gorky and devote himself full time to painting, a choice that guaranteed him a hand-to-mouth existence. Fame arrived around 1950, the year he painted his magnificent, pulsing abstraction Excavation, a field of elbowing contours and a bravura rethinking of Cubist space...
...said he would merge his existing steel assets - the privately-held LNM Holdings and the publicly-traded Ispat International - with the U.S.-based International Steel Group (ISG). The deal, which must still gain regulatory approval, would create the world's biggest steel company, Mittal Steel, to be based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and help Mittal pursue his modest goal of making Mittal as synonymous with steel as Ford is with the motor car. The new company could produce up to 10% of the world's steel and, as Mittal predicts, will "dramatically change the landscape of the global steel...