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...remarkable courage shown by Burma's marching monks last September captured the world's imagination. The protests encouraged Western governments, many of which first imposed economic sanctions against Rangoon a decade ago, to broaden those measures; the E.U., for example, has now banned a far wider range of exports from Burma...
...petty rivalries for media face time, the picture for Sarkozy wouldn't be so bad. But as he met with his cabinet, thousands of taxi drivers protesting proposed deregulation of their profession created mammoth traffic jams in cities across France - another in a series of strikes Sarkozy's wider reform drive has faced since October. This time it was cabbies denouncing sweeping liberalization across a range of small, protected business sectors, as proposed in a study by an expert panel commissioned by Sarkozy to find ways of stimulating economic growth. The commission is headed by Jacques Attali - a former adviser...
Where will they - and their cash - go? They have plenty of options. Guernsey, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg, Monaco and Switzerland all boast no or low taxes for expats, and are all less than a three-hour flight from London. Cast the net wider and there are dozens of countries offering perfectly legal perks and breaks to attract tax exiles. There are more than 45 recognized tax havens, holding up to $7 trillion in assets, and these numbers are growing. According to the Boston Consulting Group, the number of households with assets of $1 million or more swelled...
Created by London's Verbus Systems, the building boxes, 50% wider than standard cargo containers, are pre-fitted with bathrooms, wiring and plasterboard walls, so they require only a minimum of finishing work; the technique is proving to be 25% faster and 10% cheaper than traditional construction methods. But Verbus says the savings could be much bigger. The Uxbridge hotel wasn't originally designed for modular construction. Had it been, construction time could have been halved and costs chopped by as much as 40%. "The economics are compelling," says Verbus company director Paul Rollett. "This is a step change...
...when the first opportunity presents itself, often with a hard-spinning groundstroke to a corner. In his win on Saturday against Purdue’s Branko Kuzmanovic, who had given him fits last year, Clayton had Kuzmanovic bouncing back and forth across the baseline and skidding exasperatedly after successively wider and harder shots. “It’s tough when you look across the net, and Chris is always, always, always running,” Rueb said. But now, he doesn’t always have to. Clayton’s serve has also improved noticeably this year...