(TDN): Singapore has long been known as a destination of culture, diversity and style, but now its luxury credentials have also been recognised as the announcement comes that world-renowned French fashion house CHANEL will open a unique concept boutique at Marina Bay Sands™, Singapore, to boost its presence in Southeast Asia.
The CHANEL fashion boutique will be a prominent fixture in the resort’s upscale Marina Bay Sands Shoppes®. It will encompass 7,600 square feet of space spread (more…)
(TDN): Vacation.com, North America’s leading travel services marketing organization, has further enhanced Engagement, its award-winning consumer direct mail and email program, by launching a new member-requested enhancement based on client labels.
This new feature allows members to assign one or more labels to each record on their client list based on how the agent professionally ‘categorizes’ different segments (more…)
(PTI): The mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, New Jersey, and five rabbis are among 44 people charged by a US court with corruption and money laundering.
Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, and Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez , all Democrats; Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega Jr.; State Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, a Republican from Ocean Township; and Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith, a Jersey City (more…)
(PTI): Israel has rejected calls from the United States, the European Union and Russia to halt a controversial building project in the occupied east Jerusalem (al-Quds).
“Israel acts and will act in line with its national interests and in particular for anything affecting Jerusalem. Our rights in Jerusalem, including its development, cannot be (more…)
(PTI): Israel plans declaring ownership of the West Bank’s Dead Sea shore as “state property,” to confiscate more Palestinian land, an anti-settlement group says.
“Israeli authorities have announced that they intend to declare as state land some 138,600 dunums (34,650 acres) that has emerged along the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank due to the drop in the water level,” said Hagit Ofran of the Peace (more…)
(PTI): Saudi Arabia will allow Israeli bombers to use its airspace for an aerial attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, diplomatic sources say.
Director of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, has assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Saudi airspace would be available for Israel in case it plans to move forward with a long-threatened military foray (more…)
(PTI): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expresses concern over a series of missile launches by North Korea, saying such moves are ‘unhelpful’ for peace in the troubled peninsula.
Ban told reporters in Geneva (more…)
(PTI): An eye witness says Pakistani gunmen Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismael used him as a ‘human shield’ to escape police at Mumbai’s Cama Hospital.
Chandrakant Tikhe, who works as generator operator and liftman at the hospital told Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam at a special court hearing the Mumbai case on Friday that on November 26 2008, after hearing gunshots, he rushed to the hospital’s terrace (more…)
(PTI): A senior Iranian dignitary has expressed hope that the new IAEA chief would ‘have the courage’ to visit Israel’s nuclear facilities.
“At the time Mohamed ElBaradei was the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Israel did not allow him to visit its nuclear installations, however we hope the new secretary general would have the courage to visit Israel’s atomic (more…)
(PTI): In a surprise move, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin seen as a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate declares that she will step down as the head of state.
Palin, who was John McCain’s running mate in his failed 2008 White House bid, said she would step aside as governor in ‘another few weeks’ and be replaced by Lieutenant (more…)
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