Singapore : The Private Banker International (PBI) 19th Wealth Summit on 5 – 6 October 2009 will survey the private banking landscape and debate the new rules for the wealth industry. No doubt the financial crisis has hit private banking revenues, but William Cain, Editor of PBI, believes that the declines in revenue and profit [...]
Bangkok : Power-Gen Asia, the region’s premier conference and exhibition for the power generation and transmission and distribution industries, will play host to the power industry when it gathers for its annual event, this year being hosted at the IMPACT Exhibition & Convention Centre, Bangkok from 7th to 9th October. With the full support from [...]
London : Teen superstar Miley Cyrus is so fed up of being followed by paparazzi that she gets nightmares about them. “I have nightmares about paparazzi. I always have these flashing things in my dreams. They’re so scary,” Cyrus has been quoted as saying by contactmusic.com. The “See You Again” singer describes paparazzi’s profession as [...]
London : Pop diva Madonna has banned Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan’s entry to a VIP party in a hotel. The 51-year-old singer ordered her security team not to allow Lohan in the VIP booth at an opening party for the Boom Boom Room nightclub at The Standard Hotel in New York, reported contactmusic.com. Madonna partied [...]
London : American actress-singer Jennifer Love Hewitt, who shows a terrific figure in a frilly bikini on the cover of Shape magazine’s October issue, admits that she still has body hang-ups. Two years ago Hewitt had received widespread criticism when she was pictured in a bikini with a fuller figure. “I am a girl, after [...]
London : Jennifer Aniston broke down after a love scene in her new movie “The Bounty” reminded her of her ex-husband Brad Pitt. Contactmusic.com reports that the actress, whose marriage to Pitt ended in 2005, was apparently so distraught about the romantic scenes with Gerard Butler in her new film that she fled to her [...]
Manila : China’s economy rebounded stronger than expected and was now forecast to expand by 8.2 percent in 2009, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report released Tuesday. The Asian Development Outlook 2009 Update forecast that a surge in bank lending and fixed asset investments would push growth 1.2 percentage points higher than [...]
Manila : The overall economic expansion of developing Asia this year was expected to rise to 3.9 percent, sustained by the region’s larger economies like China and India, the Asian Development Bank said in a report Tuesday. The update to ADB’s flagship annual economic publication Asian Development Outlook, upgraded its forecast of the region’s growth [...]
Los Angeles : Singer Chris brown was singing the blues Wednesday as he began his 1,400-hour community labour sentence imposed for his assault of girlfriend Rihanna last year. Pictures on the celebrity website TMZ.com showed Brown in his home state of Virginia wearing a reflective red vest and a red cap stooping to clean up [...]
Washington: A US court Wednesday set a Nov 20 execution date for sniper John Allen Muhammad who terrorised suburban Washington in 2002. Muhammad however can still appeal to the US Supreme Court and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine for a stay, the Virginia judge said. For three weeks in 2002, he along with 16-year-old accomplice Lee [...]