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- Tokyo Motor Show no longer Asia's premier auto showcase
- Only 109 exhibitors will participate, compared with 241 companies during the previous show in 2007, as power in the automotive industry shifts from Japan to China.
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- Maky | Categories:
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02:00:00 24-Oct-2009
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- Ford moves up in Consumer Reports reliability rankings
- The four-cylinder Ford Fusion and its cousin, the Mercury Milan, rank higher in predicted reliability than any other family sedan but the Toyota Prius. Asian nameplates still are the overall winners.
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- Maky | Categories:
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02:00:00 28-Oct-2009
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- Electric vehicles are charging up the automotive industry
- A dozen all-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles are expected to hit the market in the next three years. They promise to combine blinding fuel efficiency, radical new technology and futuristic styling.
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- Maky | Categories:
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02:00:00 25-Oct-2009
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- New details in crash that prompted Toyota recall
- A federal report finds a possible flaw in the gas pedal design of a runaway Lexus that crashed in August, killing CHP Officer Mark Saylor and three family members and leading to a massive recall.
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- Maky | Categories:
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02:00:00 25-Oct-2009
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- Motorcycle makers cutting staff and product lines as sales plunge
- The biggest drops come in cruisers and sport bikes. Sales of scooters also fall sharply.
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- Maky | Categories:
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02:00:00 24-Oct-2009
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- GPS system puts Droid phone on the map
- With Google in its corner, Verizon capitalizes on the search giant's navigation tools.
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- Maky | Categories:
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02:00:00 29-Oct-2009
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- Safety probe of certain Lexus ES models is closed
- Reports of sudden acceleration are unlikely to stem from a vehicle defect, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says. Toyota has blamed out-of-place floor mats for most such incidents.
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- Maky | Categories:
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02:00:00 28-Oct-2009
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- Billionaire is charged in $25m insider trading case$
- One of America's richest men was amongst six people charged yesterday in the largest-ever insider trading case involving hedge funds.
- Maky | Categories:
Law
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05:09:37 16-Oct-2009
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- Weird Cases: hijacking a legal career
- Being a back-stabber is not necessarily a bar to becoming a lawyer. It is occasionally said to be an advantage in some law firms. Shooting people in the back, however, is a different matter – even cynics agree that is [...]
- Maky | Categories:
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11:17:58 16-Oct-2009
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- Trader 'used Chinese food code' for share deals
- A work experience student at a City bank is alleged to have sent coded messages to his father telling him to buy Chinese food hours before the father bought shares in three companies that were about to make major announcements, [...]
- Maky | Categories:
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11:01:20 16-Oct-2009
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- Dentist Neel Uberoi ‘made £150,000 through insider trading with intern son’
- A dentist made a “fabulous” profit on shares after his son, who was on a work experience attachment, tipped him off about imminent takeover deals, a court heard yesterday.
- Maky | Categories:
Law
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07:01:00 15-Oct-2009
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- Europe prenup law 'attractive model for reform', says Baroness Deech
- European-style contracts between couples who are marrying should replace the discretion of judges in dividing a couple’s assets on divorce, a leading family lawyer has said.
- Maky | Categories:
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10:56:15 15-Oct-2009
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- OFT to probe 'misleading' high street pricing
- The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate pricing practices employed by companies, both online and in the high street, and how they “could potentially mislead consumers”.
- Maky | Categories:
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02:53:11 15-Oct-2009
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- Judges oppose appointment of Sumption, QC, to the Supreme Court
- A frontrunner for a vacancy in the new Supreme Court is being strongly opposed by senior judges on the ground that he has not earned his spurs as a judge.
- Maky | Categories:
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07:01:46 14-Oct-2009
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- Vanished City trader's losses may hit £200m
- FOUR clients of a missing City financier claim they have lost £30m each, according to officials investigating the case. Total claims against Nick Levene, a 45-year-old trader and adviser, amount to £200m — three times the sum originally feared.
- Maky | Categories:
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04:54:46 18-Oct-2009
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