The Philippines is highlighting the bright nature of Filipinos in a campaign to draw more tourists with a new slogan: “It’s more fun in the Philippines.” Philippine tourism promotion efforts suffered another blow over claims its new slogan copied from an old Swiss one. The 1951 Swiss National Tourist Office ad proclaimed “It’s more fun in Switzerland!” Tourism Secretary […]
Monday January 09 2012, 2:08 AM EDT | Posted in
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CoreBrand conducts 8,000 phone surveys of business leaders every year, and asked to rate brands based on favorability, overall reputation, perception of management, and investment potential. KODAK Bankruptcy wouldn’t mean the end for Kodak as a business. The company and its brands could be bought or restructured. But it isn’t looking good. SEARS An operating […]
Monday January 09 2012, 2:07 AM EDT | Posted in
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Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council (MRC) Toxicology Unit at the University of Leicester have shown one way in which poor nutrition in the womb can put a person at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other age-related diseases in later life. Professor Anne Willis of the MRC […]
Saturday January 07 2012, 4:54 AM EDT | Posted in
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Evagelina Paredes filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, accusing police officer Chris Collins of violating her privacy. A Chicago police officer allegedly turned a $132 speeding ticket into a dating opportunity when he later tracked down the female driver’s address in their motor-vehicle database and left a handwritten note on the windshield of her car asking her out on a […]
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15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez was repeatedly shot in a hallway at Cummings Middle School in Brownsville. The eighth grader was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas School, the parents are now demanding to know why officers took lethal action. But police said the boy was showing off and refused to drop what appeared to be a handgun and that the […]
Saturday January 07 2012, 4:49 AM EDT | Posted in
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Four bombs in mainly Shi’ite Muslim areas in Baghdad killed at least 29 people and wounded dozens of others on Thursday, police and hospital sources said. Nearly nine years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, Iraq is still plagued by a deadly Sunni Muslim insurgency and Shi’ite militias From the Kadhimiya blasts killed16 and 36 wounded and […]
Friday January 06 2012, 11:20 AM EDT | Posted in
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South Korea reached out to rival North Korea on Thursday, around three weeks after the death of the North’s dictator Kim Jong-il, saying it wanted to reopen dialogue despite the North’s rancorous outbursts. “We are open to dialogue with North Korea,” Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan told reporters. The outside world knows little about the secluded North, and both […]
Friday January 06 2012, 11:19 AM EDT | Posted in
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Proponents are proposing to increase tax on millionaires in California mainly on the Kardashians. An online video from the Courage Campaign targets the star of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and “Kourtney and Kim Take New York” as part of its campaign for a proposed November ballot initiative to raise taxes on the wealthiest Californians. It says Kardashian […]
Friday January 06 2012, 11:17 AM EDT | Posted in
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Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australia waters, a potential sign the carnivores were adapting to the climate change. The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was a unique discovery, said lead researcher Jess Morgan from the University of Queensland. He further added […]
Thursday January 05 2012, 5:49 AM EDT | Posted in
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Mexican government officials are predicting a surge of visitors to the five southern states that comprise the country’s Maya region. The end of the world, it turns out, is marked by an economic boom. “Given the amount of interest we’re seeing from around the world, it’s generating global excitement as well,” said Yanick Dalhouse, the […]
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