Archive for October, 2011
China’s Ai Weiwei gets "absent" exhibition in Taiwan
TAIPEI | Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:12am EDT TAIPEI (Reuters) – A museum in Taiwan will host dissident artist Ai Weiwei’s first major exhibition in the overseas Chinese world from Saturday in a move that could upset Beijing. Ai, famed for his work on the “Bird’s Nest” Olympic Stadium in Beijing and whose 81-day detention [...]
Russian elite celebrate Bolshoi’s lavish revival
By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya MOSCOW | Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:49pm EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Bolshoi Theater re-opened Friday with an exclusive party to celebrate a luxurious renovation that has taken six years, cost $700 million and revived a revered cultural symbol scarred by centuries of use and abuse. Politicians, billionaires, film directors and fashion [...]
CSC and Educational Testing Service Announce Five-and-a-Half Year, $200+ Million Contract Renewal and Expansion For IT Services
ETS to Leverage CSC’s Industry-Leading Cloud Services Including CloudCompute Infrastructure as a Service FALLS CHURCH, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it has signed a five-and-a-half year information technology (IT) operations outsourcing contract renewal and expansion with Educational Testing Service (ETS), the leader in advancing quality and equity in education for people worldwide. The [...]
Million-dollar windfall for Indian office worker
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI | Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:49pm EDT MUMBAI (Reuters) – An office worker too poor to own a television set has won an unprecedented $1 million in the Indian version of TV game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Sushil Kumar’s win this week drew comparisons with the plot of [...]
Opera star Domingo lauded in London as one of a kind
By Mike Collett-White LONDON | Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:53am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Spanish singer Placido Domingo marked his 40th anniversary at London’s Royal Opera House with a gala concert late Thursday that was greeted with one of the longest and loudest curtain calls the venue has seen in years. Yet amid the celebrations [...]
