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NetDragon, Disney pact for game
International News: 'Fantasy Online' set for Spring 2009 release -- China-based games developer NetDragon has inked a deal with Disney to launch a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) based on characters from the Mouse House.
Variety.com – Dec 3, 2008 12:57 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Entertainment
International News: 'Fantasy Online' set for Spring 2009 release -- China-based games developer NetDragon has inked a deal with Disney to launch a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) based on characters from the Mouse House.
Variety.com – Dec 3, 2008 12:57 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Entertainment
TUC in 'sweatshop labour' row over letting congress hall to owners of Primark
The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, is refusing to back down over a decision to let out its congress hall this Friday to a British company whose suppliers are alleged to use sweatshop labour in Bangladesh to manufacture cheap T shirts.This is despite pressure from two general secretaries and ... more »
The Guardian – Dec 3, 2008 12:56 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Politics
The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, is refusing to back down over a decision to let out its congress hall this Friday to a British company whose suppliers are alleged to use sweatshop labour in Bangladesh to manufacture cheap T shirts.This is despite pressure from two general secretaries and ... more »
The Guardian – Dec 3, 2008 12:56 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Politics
Lew, 68, ran Han Lee Grocery on East Side for more than four decades
Obituary: Grocer kept business going that his parents started shortly after they came to San Antonio from China.
MySA.com – Dec 3, 2008 12:55 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Texas: San Antonio
Obituary: Grocer kept business going that his parents started shortly after they came to San Antonio from China.
MySA.com – Dec 3, 2008 12:55 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Texas: San Antonio
Forty years on, Laos reaps bitter harvest of the secret war
The entrance to Craters restaurant is guarded by a phalanx of bombshells, each as big as a man. Opposite, the Dokkhoune hotel boasts an even finer warhead collection. For tourists who have not cottoned on, the Lao town of Phonsavanh lies at the heart of the most cluster-bombed province of the most b ... more »
The Guardian – Dec 3, 2008 12:36 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in World
The entrance to Craters restaurant is guarded by a phalanx of bombshells, each as big as a man. Opposite, the Dokkhoune hotel boasts an even finer warhead collection. For tourists who have not cottoned on, the Lao town of Phonsavanh lies at the heart of the most cluster-bombed province of the most b ... more »
The Guardian – Dec 3, 2008 12:36 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in World
100 countries join clamour for global bomb ban
More than 100 governments, with some notable exceptions, will sign an international convention today banning the production of cluster bombs whose unexploded canisters have killed and maimed thousands of innocent civilians and are dangerously scattered over more than 20 countries.The convention is e ... more »
The Guardian – Dec 3, 2008 12:36 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in World
More than 100 governments, with some notable exceptions, will sign an international convention today banning the production of cluster bombs whose unexploded canisters have killed and maimed thousands of innocent civilians and are dangerously scattered over more than 20 countries.The convention is e ... more »
The Guardian – Dec 3, 2008 12:36 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in World
Chinese man's English skills debated in Mobile bribery trial
MOBILE, Ala. -- A budding restaurateur from Panama City, Fla., offered a customs officer in Chickasaw $300 to look the other way on a 246-percent duty on a shipment of beds, prosecutors alleged today at the start of the defendant's bribery trial. MOBILE, Ala. -- A budding restaurateur from Pana ... more »
al.com - Everything Alabama – Dec 3, 2008 12:26 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Alabama: Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. -- A budding restaurateur from Panama City, Fla., offered a customs officer in Chickasaw $300 to look the other way on a 246-percent duty on a shipment of beds, prosecutors alleged today at the start of the defendant's bribery trial. MOBILE, Ala. -- A budding restaurateur from Pana ... more »
al.com - Everything Alabama – Dec 3, 2008 12:26 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Alabama: Mobile
China Uptrend Intact Despite Global Slump
The news couldn't be worse for China.
Investor's Business Daily – Dec 3, 2008 12:26 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Business: Investing
The news couldn't be worse for China.
Investor's Business Daily – Dec 3, 2008 12:26 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Business: Investing
GM will ???explore alternatives??? for Saturn
In a plan submitted to Congress on Tuesday, General Motors Corp. said it will focus product development and marketing efforts on its Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC brands, and explore alternatives for the Saturn brand. (GM) Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:36 GMTMourning's charity gets go ahead to bu ... more »
bizjournals.com – Dec 3, 2008 12:21 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Business: Manufacturing
In a plan submitted to Congress on Tuesday, General Motors Corp. said it will focus product development and marketing efforts on its Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC brands, and explore alternatives for the Saturn brand. (GM) Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:36 GMTMourning's charity gets go ahead to bu ... more »
bizjournals.com – Dec 3, 2008 12:21 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Business: Manufacturing
China's NetDragon Teams With EA on Online Game
PC World - Chinese game developer NetDragon Websoft plans to work with U.S. digital game maker Electronic Arts (EA) to create a multiplayer online game based on EA's Dungeon Keeper series of digital games.
Yahoo! – Dec 3, 2008 12:20 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Technology
PC World - Chinese game developer NetDragon Websoft plans to work with U.S. digital game maker Electronic Arts (EA) to create a multiplayer online game based on EA's Dungeon Keeper series of digital games.
Yahoo! – Dec 3, 2008 12:20 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Technology
Shell buys Canadian carbon capture firm
Shell has bought a Candian company that specialises in technology for cleaning up gas emissions. Cansolv, which also has offices in China, has a scrubbing system to remove sulphur dioxide from combustion gases as well as carbon dioxide capture technologies.
The Independent – Dec 3, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Top Stories
Shell has bought a Candian company that specialises in technology for cleaning up gas emissions. Cansolv, which also has offices in China, has a scrubbing system to remove sulphur dioxide from combustion gases as well as carbon dioxide capture technologies.
The Independent – Dec 3, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Top Stories