Archive for August, 2010
Aug 31st, 2010
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, September 1, 2010 (CRWENEWSWIRE) -- Thomson Reuters and Rondaxe Enterprises today announced an agreement that will enable professionals working in the generic drug sector to better estimate the cost of manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).
Information on the costs associated with manufacturing APIs is vital for generic drug companies and API manufacturers around the world, which operate in an intensely price competitive market. Choosing the right drugs to develop and launch is imperative and can determine the difference between profitable or unprofitable products.
Under the terms of the arrangement,
Aug 31st, 2010
NAGOYA, Japan, September 1, 2010 (CRWENEWSWIRE) -- Menicon Co., Ltd. (Menicon) announced the appointment of Chew Hwee Yong as Chief of Special Projects at the company's head office in Nagoya, Japan. Chew, to be based in Nagoya, will be responsible for updating and expanding Menicon's internal processes as well as external relations to support the company's globalization.
Chew started his career with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). During his nine-year tenure with the EDB, Chew was responsible for overseeing significant projects in different high-tech industries (precision engineering, electronics and information/communication
Aug 31st, 2010
Commentary By Mike Zaman.
Banks bailed out by the US Taxpayers invested more than $16 million dollars to have the bank reform bill watered down to where it has no real teeth.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., led the pack of wolves spending $1.52 million on lobbying in the second quarter, that was on top of the $1.51 million Chase spent in the first quarter of 2010, Chase's lobbying total owes $3.03 million, that's according to disclosure reports filed with the House of Representatives clerk's office.
Citigroup Inc., the largest bank recipient of government funds during the crisis in late 2008 and early 2009, was second. The New Yo
Aug 31st, 2010
Commentary By Mike Zaman
That hissing sound could be the air leaking from Glenn Beck's head, and he could go flying around the room bouncing from wall to wall; and perhaps that leak, which is evident whenever he opens his mouth to speak, is the reason he does!
Glenn beck's neck often supports two heads - in his conversations he frequently speaks out of each, arguing with himself and changing positions with the slightest airstream. He provides fodder for Comedy Central where real news is presented with humor, and Beck presents that humor often.
His change of opinion is so frequent it's hard to follow him seriously! Yet some of the p
Aug 31st, 2010
By Bobbie Katz, CRWENEWSWIRE Correspondent
As an acclaimed illusionist with one of the most successful shows that the Sahara hotel and casino in Las Vegas has ever seen, Rick Thomas appears – and re-appears seven nights a week --.at the legendary hotel in “The Magic and Tigers of Rick Thomas.”
But, in reality, it is a disappearing act that is foremost in Thomas' mind on a daily basis – that is, the vanishing of tigers in the wild. As one who has devoted the past more than 20 years of his life to raising and working with these magnificent creatures, he knows that it will take more than magic to transform their plight into one
Aug 31st, 2010
By Mike Zaman, CRWENewswire Correspondent
The Obama administration has adopted a tough line against leaks, filing charges against those suspected of disclosing classified information.
But news reporting suggests government officials continue to reveal secret details to journalists in an attempt to shape policy.
And it’s all a charade, when the Bush administration leaked secret information about the CIA agent Valarie Plame; nothing was done to prosecute anyone in regard to the leak. Scoter Libby was prosecuted for lying to the government, and then the leak went quietly away. The only one harmed was Plame.
On March 6, 2007,
Aug 31st, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 2010-155
Washington, D.C., Aug. 25, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted changes to the federal proxy and other rules to facilitate the rights of shareholders to nominate directors to a company's board.
Watch The Video of Chairman Schapiro: http://www.sec.gov/news/speech/2010/video082510mls.wmv
The new rules require companies to include the nominees of significant, long-term shareholders in their proxy materials, alongside the nominees of management. This "proxy access" is designed to facilitate the ability of shareholders to exercise their traditional rights under state law to
Aug 31st, 2010
Reported by: Emon, CRWE Newswire Middle East Correspondent.
The news of the match-fixing scandal by Pakistani cricket players has spread in the world of cricket like a forest fire.
Pakistan’s crime investigation agency, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), will send a team to Great Britain this week to probe corruption allegations against some of the country's cricket players, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Thus far, an investigation by Scotland Yard has uncovered many valuables from the rooms of certain Pakistani players, including handsome amounts of money, watches, and other valuables. And the investigation is continui
Aug 31st, 2010
By Mike Zaman, CRWENewswire Correspondent
Cuba has been an island that has been on America’s radar since the early 19th century. As far back as 1820 Thomas Jefferson had remarked that Cuba was on the colonies “to take list” The thought of annexation had been in open discusses as far back at the Jefferson administration, but became more vocal after his term of office had ended.
It was in 1820 that Thomas Jefferson had ventured to say, Cuba is "the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States" and told Secretary of War John C. Calhoun that the United States "ought, at the first possible
Aug 31st, 2010
Reported by: Eric, CRWE Newswire Middle East Correspondent
3M Co. had entered in an agreement to acquire Cogent Inc for $943 million. According to terms and conditions of the agreement 3M will pay $10.50 per share which is 18 percent premium on Friday’s closing market price of Cogent Inc.
Further Cogent’s outstanding shares have to be offered through a tender for buyout as per the agreement between two companies. Ming Hsieh Cogent founder and chief executive officer has already agreed to offer his 38 percent of stake in tender favoring buyout.
3M’s management is excited about the acquisition of Cogent as they are looking for hu
