Adiyiah to decide club future soon – Agent
The 2009 Fifa youth star is set for a move to Russian, China or Turkey in the next few days
Read More →Ethiopian Aviation Academy graduates 124 aviation professionals
The aviation academy of Ethiopian Airlines Group has graduated 52 Aviation Maintenance Technicians, 47 Marketing and 25 Finance trainees on December 26, 2103 at the airline’s headquarters. “Ethiopian is continuing to invest heavily in the training of skilled aviation professionals that are critically essential for the successful implementation of its fast, profitable and sustainable growth […]
Read More →South Sudan Peace Talks Start as Both Sides Say Deal Possible By William Davison and Mading Ngor
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — South Sudan’s government and rebels said they were optimistic they could negotiate an end to a three-week-old conflict that the United Nations says has killed thousands of people and forced 200,000 to flee their homes. Talks resume today in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to end the violence that has shaken […]
Read More →Chinese crystal meth makers ‘used GSK cold medicine’
Some crystal methamphetamine seized in a huge drug bust in China used the popular cold medicine Contac, manufactured by beleaguered British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), state media reported Tuesday. The raid in the southern province of Guangdong, announced by state media last week, netted three tonnes of “crystal meth” in Lufeng city, said to account for one-third of China’s production of the drug.
NoSQL, Part 1: Coming of Age
Amadeus, which handles bookings for 95 percent of flights worldwide, uses a variety of NoSQL databases to deal with the massive amounts of data that it handles. Amadeus enables 3.7 million bookings on more than 700 airlines, 110,000 hotel properties, and 30 rental car agencies each day. "NoSQL databases are part of our technology stack to deal with Big Data," said VP Dietmar Fauser.
Read More →Hong Kong arrests nine over possible match-fixing
Nine people have been arrested over alleged match-fixing in multiple football fixtures in Hong Kong, the city’s anti-corruption watchdog said Tuesday. “Nine persons, including professional football players, were arrested for alleged bribery in rigging the results of football matches involving a local football club,” the Independent Commission Against Corruption said in a statement released late Tuesday, without specifying names of the players or the club. “Enquiries revealed that the sponsor’s representative and the executive officer might have offered advantages to the players of the football club as rewards for their participation in rigging football match results,” it said. “It’s not a Hong Kong issue, it’s a worldwide issue.
China suspends ban on video game consoles after more than a decade
By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – China has temporarily lifted a 14-year-old ban on selling video game consoles, paving the way for Sony Corp, Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd to enter the world’s third largest video game market in terms of revenue. China saw video game revenues grow by more than a third in 2012 to nearly $14 billion last year, but console makers are likely to face an uphill battle for market share in a country where a whole generation has grown up without a PlayStation, Xbox or Wii and where free PC and mobile games dominate. “If Sony and Microsoft want to expand in China they need to think of changing their business model, and study the success of Internet gaming market providers where games are free but they charge money from operating games,” said Roger Sheng, research director at tech research firm Gartner.
Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies
HONG KONG (AP) — Run Run Shaw built a Hong Kong movie and TV empire that nurtured rising talents like actor Chow Yun-fat and director John Woo, inspired Hollywood filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and produced the 1982 sci-fi classic “Blade Runner.”
Taiwan’s Acer looks to Internet trading
Taiwanese computer maker Acer said Tuesday it has made its first major investment since overhauling its top management late last year, acquiring a 15.6 percent stake in a PChome subsidiary. “Under the ICT industry’s paradigm shift Acer is going beyond hardware-based thinking; Acer termed the deal as part of the “corporate transformation” under way, led by the new management headed by Shih. Then Acer appointed Jason Chen, a former senior executive of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, as both CEO and president, effective from January 1.
Hong Kong media mogul Run Run Shaw dies at 106
By Grace Li and Alice Woodhouse HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong media mogul Sir Run Run Shaw, who created an empire in Asia spanning movies to television, died on Tuesday at the age of 106, his company said. Shaw died peacefully at his home in Hong Kong, surrounded by his family, his company, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), said in a statement. One of Hong Kong cinema’s defining figures, Shaw popularized Chinese kung fu films in the West and helped turn the former British colony into a “Hollywood East” over an 80-year career. He set up Hong Kong’s biggest free-to-air television operator, TVB, in 1967 and served as its executive chairman until 2011, helping to shape the city’s media culture.
