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Qantas resumes flights after bitter labour row
Australia's Qantas re-launched passenger flights Monday, after a tribunal ordered an end to a destructive industrial dispute that grounded its fleet and sparked passenger and political fury.
Mon, Oct 31, 2011
Dubai tightens rules on expat housing tax
Rules are being tightened in Dubai to make sure that expats pay housing fees by the end of June next year in a crackdown aimed at reducing the numbers not being billed for the tax.
Mon, Oct 31, 2011
Standard & poor’s downgrades cyprus’ credit rating
Standard & Poor’s cut Cyprus’ long-term sovereign credit rating by a notch to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB+’ yesterday, referring to the banking system’s exposure to the Greek sovereign debt.
Mon, Oct 31, 2011
Video: protests as shanghai property values plunge
Protestors stormed the offices of a Shanghai developer last week in response to price cuts that lowered the value of their homes.
Mon, Oct 31, 2011
Budget airlines carry over half spain’s air traffic
Low cost airlines carried 28.9 million passengers during the first nine months of the year, which is a 14.1% increase over the same period in 2010, compared to regular airlines, who carried 21.4 million passengers, an 8.3% rise, according to data released this week by the Institute of Tourism Studies for the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, reported Cinco Dias.
Fri, Oct 28, 2011
Prices of sofia homes lose 6.8 per cent over a year
Average market prices of homes in Bulgaria's capital city of Sofia have fallen by 6.8 per cent in the span of 12 months, while the decrease in the third quarter of 2011 was 3.9 per cent compared to the quarter before, according to an index compiled by Raiffeisen Real Estate.
Fri, Oct 28, 2011
Tokyo toasts dreamliner's maiden flight
Three years late, billions of dollars over budget and carrying passengers who willingly paid over the odds for their tickets, the plane dubbed by some the most efficient in the sky took off from Tokyo yesterday on its first commercial flight.
Fri, Oct 28, 2011
Residential property prices in ireland fall by 14.3 pc in the year to september
Residential property prices in Ireland continued to collapse last month with the average home now worth almost half of its peak value.
Fri, Oct 28, 2011
Shanghai developer faces homeowner wrath over price cuts
A group of around 400 homeowners in Shanghai stormed the offices of local developer China Overseas Holdings this week to demonstrate their anger about falling property prices.
Fri, Oct 28, 2011
Bangkok condos will bounce back from flood disaster
Bangkok's condominium market will bounce back despite the Thai capital’s suburbs currently being ravaged by heavy flooding, according to an associate director of Colliers International Thailand
Fri, Oct 28, 2011