ACCION and Elevar Equity Invest $2M in Bethesda-Based GloboKasNet

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

ACCION's Frontier Investment Group and Elevar Equity Back Payment Solution Designed to Build Financi...

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ACCION and Elevar Equity Invest $2M in Bethesda-Based GloboKasNet

Model city Singapore shows symptoms of urban stress

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

A home owner rests after bailing out his house and laying newspapers to soak up excess water from the floor after flooding caused by heavy rain in Singapore. Photo courtesy: AFP.

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LOGISTICS

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

ECONOMICS: India's most misunderstood sector TRANSPORT ECONOMICS. Almost unnoticed, over the last 20 years, the transport business has been globalised and liberalised almost to the extent of finance. It is now broadly called logistics and comprises not just the means of moving goods and ...

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Evening Times

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

A long-running dispute over plans to run driver-only trains on a new £300million train service has been settled after union leaders agreed to end strike action.

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Handmade Models Of London Tube Stations

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

                            John Howe is a model enthusiast who builds realistic card models of Tube stations, bus depots, art deco shops and other London locations. He's accrued a mighty collection of miniature transport sites, which can be viewed on Flickr . The kits are available for purchase through Kingsway Models - primarily for display of toy vehicles, but we're sure you lot can think of ...

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Trains revert to pre-World Cup timetables

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

The first train to roll out for duty on Sunday will mark the return to Metrorail's pre-World Cup timetable.

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Pictured: New Air Conditioned Tube Train In Action

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Photo by Julian Gajewski The budget for cooling the Tube network may have been slashed , but that won't affect the new air-conditioned S-stock trains, due to be deployed on the Metropolitan, Circle, H&C and District lines over the next few years. Julian Gajewski took this excellent pic yesterday of one of the new trains being tested out near Northwick Park station. The models are scheduled to be ...

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E-borders all at sea

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Some elementary oversights by the UK Border Authority in implementing the EUs e-Borders programme give Keith Vaz little confidence that the scheme is viable in its present form.

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Why Britain’s railways are a secret weapon in shunting the deficit into history

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Oscar Wilde knew how to prepare for a railway journey. "I never travel without my diary," the Irish wit once remarked. "One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

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Fraser defends sale plan for Qld Rail

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Qld Treasurer says sale is necessary for economic development. 14 May 2010 11:44 PM

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