News from The Scotsman: Business - 03/06/2010
Chinese puzzler: Has RBS's sale of its Bank of China stake closed door on the market?
A CHARMING little public square, Edinburgh Place on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, is no longer the centre of attention it used to be. Opened in 1956 to welcome newly arriv
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News from rediff.com - 03/05/2010
Husain: The misery and the mystery
To those accustomed to MF Husain's unpredictable appearances and disappearances over the years, his sudden comings and goings, there is a finality in the hand-written scrawl he issued, with his trademark horse appended, on being offered nationality in Qatar. It's unlikely that he'll be coming home now. And why should he? He's 95, not only very famous but fabulously rich and surrounded by many of ...
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News from Business Standard India - 03/05/2010
Sunil Sethi: Husain - The misery and the mystery
To those accustomed to MF Husain’s unpredictable appearances and disappearances over the years, his sudden comings and goings, there is a finality in the hand-written scrawl he issued, with his trademark horse appended, on being offered nationality in Qatar. It’s unlikely that he’ll be coming home now. And why should he? He’s 95, not only very famous but fabulously rich and surrounded by many of ...
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News from Computer Weekly - 03/01/2010
How to untangle problems
The digital economy has opened new doors for business through its fusion of digital and material business worlds. It has opened cracks, too, unfilled by traditional product and service offerings, that offer a business home for a myriad of new entrepreneurs eager to hop the tiny hurdles to marketplace entry.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/01/2010
Ancient and modern: the timeless architecture of IM Pei (7 pictures)
From the luminous Louvre in Paris to the Bank of China's soaring skyscraper in Hong Kong, the structures of architect IM Pei are as daring as they are enduring.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 02/28/2010
The Pei master
He is one of the world's greatest architects, whose stunning buildings have sparked both wonder and controversy. IM Pei, now in his 90s, talks to Jonathan Glancey
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 02/23/2010
US Ambassador is spoiling our view of the Thames with this boring glass embassy
With a billion dollar budget and a prime site on the banks of the Thames, the plans for the new US embassy in Britain were intended to cement Washington's "special relationship" with London for decades to come.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 02/23/2010
Ambassador, you are spoiling our view of the Thames with this boring glass cube
With a billion dollar budget and a prime site on the banks of the Thames, the plans for the new US embassy in Britain were intended to cement Washington's "special relationship" with London for decades to come.
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News from Channel 4 - 02/23/2010
Design picked for new US 'fortress embassy'
Philadelphia-based architect Kieran Timberlake has won the battle to design the new US embassy in London - the largest American building in western Europe.
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News from Channel 4 - 02/23/2010
Design picked for US 'fortress embassy'
Philadelphia-based architect Kieran Timberlake has won the battle to design the new US embassy in London - the largest American building in western Europe.
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News from Channel 4 - 02/23/2010
US to unveil plans for 'fortress embassy'
It will be the most important and largest American building in western Europe - the new American embassy in London. And everything about it shrieks high security.
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News from Santa Barbara Independent - 02/05/2010
Documenting the Documentaries
An early look at some of the factual films hitting the big screen at SBIFF 2010.
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News from rediff.com - 01/08/2010
The diaspora impact on a changing India
The global success of people of Indian origin gave hope and showed the way to a new India.
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News from Business Standard India - 01/08/2010
Jagdish Bhagwati: Diaspora impact on a changing India
A personal anecdote involving Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underlines dramatically why the diaspora has a critical role to play in India’s present and future.
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News from PRWeb via Yahoo! News - 12/19/2009
Washington DC Condominium For Sale in Hong Kong
The Waterview condominium designed by IM Pei offers final release to the Hong Kong real estate market through the ONEILL Group
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 12/15/2009
China loses thousands of historic sites
More than 30,000 items on 1982 list have vanished, in part due to China's aggressive development, survey finds China's aggressive development has swallowed up tens of thousands of historic sites in the last three decades, experts conducting a national survey have warned. Officials from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) realised that the locations had disappeared while trying ...
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News from MalaysiaNews.net - 12/14/2009
China loses thousands of historic sites
China 's aggressive development has swallowed up tens of thousands of historic sites in the last three decades, experts conducting a national survey have warned.Officials from the State Administration...
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News from u.tv - 12/14/2009
Local News
China's aggressive development has swallowed up tens of thousands of historic sites in the last three decades, experts conducting a national survey have warned.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 12/03/2009
Towering follies: the Dubai architecture you couldn't make up
The kilometre-high skyscraper, the underwater hotel, the cloud on stilts ... Steve Rose mourns the eye-popping erections that should never have been commissioned
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News from Zawya - 11/23/2009
Qatar builds a future beyond gas
23 November 2009 When Qatar built the Museum of Islamic Art a few years ago, the Emir gave the star architect IM Pei carte blanche to design what has become Doha's most famous building.
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