World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Cosmetics Merger Dropped
Date: 17 February 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
World Business Briefing: Japan: Cosmetics Merger
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El Paso to Sell Most Of Its Canada Unit
Date: 17 February 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BG Group PLC agrees to buy most of El Paso Corp's busie
World Business Briefing | Australia: Bank Executive Resigns
Date: 17 February 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
National Australia Bank chairman Charles Allen resigns, joining chief executive Frank Cicutto in taking responsibility for foreign-currency trading losses of 252 million Australian dollars ($199 million); Graham Kraehe will become chairman; John Stewart succeeded Cicutto, who resigned two weeks ago; photo (S)
NCR to Buy a Competitor
Date: 17 February 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
NCR plans to buy Optimal Robotics Corp's self-checkout business for $30 million, adding competitor's machines in growing retail-sales area (S)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 17 February 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Haiti's Leader Defiant In Face of Protests President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, defiant in the face of an increasingly violent movement aimed at removing him from office, denounced that movement as an attempt to overthrow the country's elected government by force and declared that only he can save Haiti from a civil war. A3 Kremlin's Media Power More than a dozen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, what Russians see on the news remains subject to the only rating system that counts: the Kremlin's. The result has been flattering portrayals of President Vladimir V. Putin that are drawing comparisons to Soviet broadcasts and prompting warnings that the state's control over the airwaves has become one of the most significant obstacles to a democratic society. A1
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 16 February 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Elections in Afghanistan May Be Postponed The Bush administration has begun suggesting that Afghanistan's elections may have to be postponed because of security problems and the failure to register enough voters. A1
Good News: Cold Will End. By June. July at the Latest.
Date: 16 February 2004
By Patrick Healy
Patrick Healy
Cold persists in New York, but scientist promises relief as tilt of Earth's axis tilts causes Northern Hemisphere to lean toward Sun; photo (M)
MSNBC Is Said to Have a New Chief
Date: 17 February 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
NBC decides to replace Erik Sorenson, who has been president and general manager of its MSNBC cable channel since 2001, with Richard N Kaplan, senior vice president of ABC News and former CNN's United States operations (M)
On Russian TV, Whatever Putin Wants, He Gets
Date: 17 February 2004
By Steven Lee Myers
Steven Myers
Russian state television remains subject, more than dozen years after end of Soviet era, to only rating system that counts, that of Kremlin and Pres Vladimir Putin, who is featured with abundant, invariably flattering, portrayals; there is no overt censorship but on two largest channels, both government owned, there is uncritical deference to Putin that would be unthinkable in Europe or US; photos; media official Vladimir V Grigorev says state role reflects chaotic political transition and that government plans to privatize one channel, probably Rossiya, which, along with First Channel, effectively serves as information agency for Kremlin, at whose pleasure directors serve; Putin's campaign rivals struggle for air time and raise alarms about biased election reporting (M)
Journalists Who Braved Iraq and African Wars Are Among 14 Polk Award Winners
Date: 17 February 2004
By Robert D. McFadden
Robert
George Polk Awards for 2003 are awarded in 14 categories, honoring jounalists who faced personal danger to cover wars in Iraq and Africa and others who exposed perilous working conditions, predatory lending practices and sexual exploitation of homeless children; Somini Sengupta of New York Times wins for foreign correspondence for articles on war-torn West Africa; David Barstow, Lowell Bergman and David Rummel of The Times and Neil Docherty and Linden MacIntyre of Canadian Broadcasting Corp win for labor reporting for joint print-television co-production exposing safety violations at foundaries of McWane Inc (M)