Power & Oil

Kuwait starts maintenance work at Mina Abdulla oil refinery

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 18:51, Bloomberg

Kuwait National Petroleum Co began shutting down units at its 270,000 barrel-a-day Mina Abdulla refinery for planned maintenance work, a company official said.

Security clouds speedy Libya oil recovery

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 17:53

Property

Some Chinese steel mills defer iron ore shipments

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 15:29, Reuters, Singapore/ Shanghai

Some Chinese steel mills have postponed delivery of iron ore from miners including top supplier Vale as a slow steel market cuts demand for the raw material and producers expect a further drop in prices, sources at mills and traders said on Thursday.

Opinions

How to Run A Big Company Like A Small Business

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 04:00

Running a big company as if it were a small one, as we do at Virgin, comes with tremendous advantages. Small businesses can often adapt...

Retrofitting

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 04:00

Should buildings like old clothes be tossed away once they are deemed too old, unfashionable and out of style?...

China’s Big Banks look more like Paper Tigers

Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 04:00

After spending time combing through the financial reports of China’s biggest publicly traded, state-owned banks, I now understand what Jim Chanos, the famous short-seller, means...

Telecoms & Technology

Tencent net rises to record on Chinese, Korean game sales

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 15:58, Bloomberg

Tencent Holdings Ltd, China’s biggest Internet company, posted a record quarterly profit of 2.95 billion yuan ($467 million) after online game sales jumped.

Activision and Electronic Arts settle lawsuit

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 12:18

Nokia's woes cast doubt over Finnish model

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 12:15

Travel & Tourism

World’s tallest tower to help Tokyo railway lure shoppers

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 13:10, Bloomberg

The Tokyo Skytree, twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, opens next week as Japanese train operators counter an aging population by building malls, offices and tourist attractions.

Berlin airport opening delayed to March 2013

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 10:29

Auto

GM chooses UK plant over Germany for new Astra

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 14:29, Reuters, London

General Motors Co will build the next generation of its Astra compact in Britain after workers at its factory in Ellesmere Port, northwest England, overwhelmingly agreed to a new labour deal, leaving its plant in Bochum, Germany in danger of closure.

Automakers speed up new model rollout in US

Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 10:19

Europe car sales fall on debt woes

Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 11:59

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