Space station to get balloon room LAS VEGAS (AP) — NASA is partnering with a commercial space company in a bid to replace the cumbersome “metal cans” that now serve as astronauts’ homes in space with inflatable bounce-house-like habitats that can be deployed on the cheap. A $17.8 million test project will send to the…
So goes the advertising platform for the largest bank in Southeast Asia. These people know -exactly- what’s happening right now: wealth and power are shifting East. “If you were smart in the 18th century, you moved to France. If you were smart in the 19th century, you moved to England. If you…
U.S. to allow Libyan rebels access Gaddafi’s frozen $33bn Libya’s rebels will be given access to part of the $33bn of Libyan state assets that have been frozen at US banks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. Clinton’s announcement that the US is creating a legal framework for rebels to…
Editor SWITZERLAND OF THE ORIENT The ironies of Singapore’s massive investment in troubled Swiss banking giant UBS are piling up. Even Lee Kuan Yew himself has now said that the Government Investment Corporation invested “too early” in UBS, with the result that is now showing a loss of billions of dollars of citizens’ money on…