Month: June 2018
Twenty three military aircrafts passed over Bucking Palace to celebrate the Queen’s 92nd Birthday. The Red Arrows flew over central London as part of Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday Flypast during Trooping the Colour. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have joined the Queen for the trooping the Colour parade. Prince Philip, who retired from…
Asian Billionaire Robert Kuok offers insights into doing business in Indonesia. In 1950s Robert Kuok, then a young rice trader, was among a small group of Malaysian-Chinese businessmen gathered at Singapore’s airport to welcome Chin Sophonpanich, patriarch of Bangkok Bank. When Kuok needed capital he approached HSBC in 1949 for a $100, 000 letter of…
Without libraries we have neither a past nor a future. This book highlights for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing and of the son of Christopher Columbus who created it. Edward Wilson- Lee starts the book with “on the morning of his death,…
Designer Kate Valentine (55) known for Kate Spade fashion line, was found dead in her Manhattan apartment on 6th Jun 2018. Ms Spade, known for her sleek, Whimsical designs with a strong eye for shape and bright colours, created a global popular brand, which now has more than 500 stores around the world. The…
Oxford BioMedica in a £738.88m deal with Axovant which specialises in treatment for neurological diseases is a subsidiary of Roivant Sciences. Oxford BioMedica, one of Britain’s oldest biotech companies, has sealed an $842.5m ( £738.88m) deal with Axovant Sciences of the US to commercialise its gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease. New of the worldwide deal…
British department store group House of Fraser with 57 stores and 2 outlets across the United Kingdom and Ireland is to shut 31 stores as part of a rescue deal, impacting 6, 000 jobs of which 2000 it employs directly and the rest brand and concession partner staff. The stores earmarked for closure are Altrincham,…
Emirates Airline’s newest Boeing 777-300ER, has unveiled a new first class suite on board with virtual windows., using fibre-optic cameras and paves way for window less future planes making them lighter, faster and more efficient. Emirates President Sir Tim Clark said the images were “so good, it’s better than with the natural eye”.
Plumes of smoke billowed from the 12-storey five-star luxury Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge, London, after firefighters were called just before 16:00. 120 firefighters and 20 engines were deployed to the scene in William Street according to London Fire Brigade. The cause of fire is not known. Both Ambulance service and the Met Police are also…
Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users, within the next version of its iOS and Mac operating systems. Apple’ software chief Craig Federighi, said at the WWDC developers conference, “We’re shutting down automatic tracking of web users without the owner’s permission, unlike the web browser Safari which would…