Changi Airport welcomes home-grown Jett8 Airlines Cargo
The News Review:
- Changi Airport welcomes home-grown Jett8 Airlines Cargo
- U of M baseball lands three home-grown stars
- Home-grown Internet network a powerful new tool for school
- Nigerians defrauded by home-grown scams
- Student ‘was part of Canadian terror plot’
- Areva’s Lauvergeon to visit China ’soon’
Changi Airport welcomes home-grown Jett8 Airlines Cargo
Channel News Asia - Sep 18, 2007
The airline made its official debut on Tuesday. Jett8 is flying into the history books as Singapore’s first privately-owned all-cargo airliner. With the logistics outsourcing market set to become an US$80 billion industry in five years, Jett8 is clearly hoping to tap into the growth. Louis Tan, Chairman and CEO, Jett8 Airlines Cargo, said: “Very quickly we have to get.
U of M baseball lands three home-grown stars
commercialappeal.com (subscription) - Sep 18, 2007
Wilson was a finalist last year for The Commercial Appeal’s Pepsi Best of the Preps player of the year award after batting. 495 during the regular season. He finished the year with 13 home runs and had a state-best 71 RBI for Bartlett, which won its first baseball state title last May. Turner, arguably the top defensive catcher in town, hit. 330 as a junior last season for a Bartlett team that finished 40-5 after knocking off Knoxville South Doyle in the Class AAA title game. “I’m so ready to be there,” Turner said Monday. “I think it’s a very, very good thing that a lot of us from around the area are staying together, because we’ve all become friends from playing with each other.
Home-grown Internet network a powerful new tool for school
Brock Press - Brock Press (subscription) - Sep 18, 2007
substring(0, thispageresult. Thanks to Brock students Adam Stirtan and Tim Buchinger, the creators of linkgrade. com, students can go online and publish or receive notes from class, get to know others in their specific classes, or even rate their professors. Finally launched on Sept. 10 of this year, linkgrade.
Nigerians defrauded by home-grown scams
Business Report - Sep 18, 2007
open(new_location, win_name, win_opts);} NEWS Nigerians defrauded by home-grown scams September 18, 2007By Joel Olatunde Agoi Ibadan, Nigeria - Aduke Komolafe, a 58 year-old Nigerian civil servant, put an end to her life by swallowing rat poison, mortified at the loss of her savings to a phoney investment fund. Lured by the promise of 100% returns in two weeks, the mother of five put 1. 3 million naira (about R74,000) into Pennywise, one of dozens of self-styled “wonder” investment firms dotting the populous southwestern cities of Lagos and Ibadan. “My mother could not stand the shame and agony of losing everything,” her 25-year-old daughter Kunle told AFP at the family’s dingy two bedroom Ibadan apartment. “She was influenced by a friend who told her that she had reaped a lot of money by investing in Pennywise.
Student ‘was part of Canadian terror plot’
Times Online - Sep 18, 2007
The claims emerged after Atif Siddique, 21, a loner who bragged about wantingto be a suicide bomber, was convicted of collecting and distributingterrorist propaganda and setting up websites showing how to make weapons andexplosives. He faces up to 15 years in jail. Siddique, from Alva in Clackmannanshire, is the first home-grown Islamistterrorist to be convicted in Scotland, less than three months after twoalleged suicide bombers attempted to blow up Glasgow airport. The verdict follows a three-and-a-half-week trial at the High Court inGlasgow, during which Siddique was called a “wannabe suicide bomber”.
Areva’s Lauvergeon to visit China ’soon’
Forbes - Sep 18, 2007
French government sources said earlier this year that the deal would be signed in July, but the ceremony was delayed ‘for technical and timetabling reasons’. An industry source in China said last month that the authorities have decided to use home-grown CPR-1000 reactors at its Yangjiang nuclear plant in southern Guangdong province because negotiations between China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp and Areva were taking too long and the French company was demanding too high a price. Reports say two EPRs could still be built in China, but at another site, Taishan, 140 km west of Hong Kong. The Areva spokesman said today: ‘From the constructor’s point of view, it is the choice of technology which counts, rather than the exact location. ‘ Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, is scheduled to visit China on Thursday and Friday of this week and among the people she is expected to meet is Chen Deming, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, who is involved in energy policy.