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Japan’s biggest tire maker Bridgestone Corp. said Friday it will close its two manufacturing plants in Australia and New Zealand by mid-2010 with the loss of 875 jobs.
Bridgestone’s Australia unit said the business — the only tire manufacturer in Australia and New Zealand — was no longer internationally competitive.
“We have worked hard over many years [...]
The UK has overtaken the United States to be ranked as the World’s leading financial centre, despite doubts about its economic stability.
The rankings, compiled by the World Economic Forum (WEF), put the UK top of the list of the 55 most financially- developed countries.
The US slipped from first to third place, behind the UK and [...]
Rio Tinto Group, the third-largest mining company, spied on China’s steel mills for six years, creating 700 billion yuan ($102 billion) in excess charges for iron ore, a report on a Chinese government-run Web site said.
Government agencies should enhance surveillance of the secret-protection work at key companies they supervise, said the article posted yesterday on [...]
EVERY Australian will be able to see their medical records online and keep a personalised “health diary” in a key reform promising better care and big taxpayer savings.
Family GPs and other medicos will be forced to link patient records to a proposed national database or miss out on Medicare payments, The Advertiser can reveal.
But Prime [...]
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