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Egypt tycoon charged with ordering Lebanese singer killing
CAIRO AFP — Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa was charged on Tuesday with paying two million dollars for the brutal killing of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim, reportedly his one-time lover. Mustafa was arrested and charged with ordering the murder of Tamim at her upmarket flat in Dubai in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Dubai, Egypt, prosecutor, tycoon
Research articles 2008-09-02
Egypt tycoon charged over Lebanese diva killing
CAIRO AFP — Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa was charged on Tuesday with paying two million dollars for the brutal killing of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim, reportedly his ex-lover. Mustafa was arrested and charged with ordering the murder of Tamim at her upmarket flat in Dubai in July,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Dubai, Egypt, MARKETING, prosecutor, tycoon
Research articles 2008-09-02
Egypt tycoon charged over Lebanese singer killing
CAIRO AFP — Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa was arrested and charged on Tuesday with ordering the brutal killing of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai in July, state media reported. Mustafa is charged with ordering and paying for the murder of Tamim at her upmarket flat in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Dubai, Egypt, MARKETING, prosecutor, tycoon
Research articles 2008-09-02
Russian tycoon did not buy world's most expensive villa: company
MOSCOW AFP — Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has not bought the world's most expensive villa, a spokesman for his Onexim group told AFP Tuesday. The denial comes after French daily Nice-Matin reported Saturday that Prokhorov, whom Forbes magazine has ranked the world's 24th richest man with a 19.5-billion-dollar fortune,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, spokesman, tycoon
Research articles 2008-08-19
Row between Russian tycoons hits London courts
LONDON AFP — Boris Berezovsky says he was intimidated into selling shares in some of Russia's biggest companies, a court ruling on his claim against fellow Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich heard Monday. Berezovsky, who was at London's High Court for the preliminary hearing in the two billion pound (2.5...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, London, TVs, tycoon
Research articles 2008-04-28
Berlusconi vows to rescue Alitalia within weeks
MILAN AFP — Prime minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi promised on Wednesday to put together an Italian consortium to rescue the national airline Alitalia within five weeks, but warned of big job cuts. "After four or five weeks of 'due diligence' a consortium of investors will be able to make a...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, consortium, Government, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, tycoon
Research articles 2008-04-22
US tycoon's Scottish golf plans run into sand
ABERDEEN, Scotland AFP — US tycoon Donald Trump is used to getting his own way. But his grand plans for a mega golf complex in some prime Scottish dunes have hit a bunker, and he is struggling to get back on course. Environmental campaigners and a local farmer are...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Agence France-Presse, Benefits, FINANCE, Forbes, Government, Investment, Scotland, SOFTWARE, tycoon
Research articles 2008-01-30
Georgian media tycoon withdraws from presidential race: TV
TBILISI AFP — Georgian media tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili has withdrawn as a candidate in the ex-Soviet country's January 5 presidential election, Georgian television reported Thursday, quoting his statement. "I share the views of the opposition leaders and have decided to withdraw from the presidential race," Patarkatsishvili said in the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, media, TVs, tycoon
Research articles 2007-12-27
Tribune Co. completes deal to go private
CHICAGO AFP — Private equity investors Thursday completed their 13-billion-dollar acquisition of Tribune Co., a media group that owns The Los Angeles Times among other assets, the company said. Real estate tycoon Sam Zell, who financed the transaction, assumed the roles of chairman of the board and chief executive...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, board, Chicago, FINANCE, Investment, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, media, Tribune Co., tycoon
Research articles 2007-12-20
Media tycoon Black sentenced to 6.5 years' jail
CHICAGO AFP — Disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black was sentenced to six and a half years in jail Monday for raiding his company's coffers and trying to cover up his crime. "You've committed a very serious crime, Mr. Black," Judge Amy St. Eve told the former media mogul as...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, fraud, Government, Litigation, MARKETING, media, obstruction, SEC, shareholder, tycoon
Research articles 2007-12-10
I'M GREENER THAN YOU, SAYS TRUMP
AN eco-friendly councillor hit back yesterday after Donald Trump claimed he took better care of the environment than green activists. Councillor Martin Ford has become a hate figure for the tycoon since his vote rejected Trump's plans for a pounds 1billion golf resort in Aberdeenshire. ...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., tycoon
Research articles 2007-12-09
Trump takes on Philippine real estate giant over name: report
MANILA AFP — The US tycoon and television personality Donald Trump is taking on a Philippine property firm over their alleged attempt to use his name in one of their real estate projects, a report said Saturday. The Philippine Star, one of the country's biggest broadsheets, said that Trump...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, TVs, tycoon
Research articles 2007-12-08
Scottish leaders should rescue Trump golf plans: MPs
LONDON AFP — The Scottish government should rescue plans by US tycoon Donald Trump for a luxury golf resort by over-ruling a council vote blocking the project, lawmakers said Wednesday. First Minister Alex Salmond, reportedly angry at the rejection of the one-billion-pound (two-billion-dollar, 1.4-billion-euro) project, invoked rarely-used rules to...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Agence France-Presse, Government, leader, Leadership, Scotland, SOFTWARE, tycoon
Research articles 2007-12-05
Tycoon pays record for 'Truffle of Century'
HONG KONG AFP — Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho pipped a host of other celebrity bidders with a world-record 330,000 US dollars for one of the largest truffles ever discovered. With his wife Angela taking his bids over the phone, Ho kept his nerve to take home the 1.5-kilo...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, casino, Italy, Macau, tycoon
Research articles 2007-12-02
Scottish council could rescue Trump golf plans
LONDON AFP — Scottish council leaders could rescue plans by US tycoon Donald Trump for a luxury golf resort, despite a vote blocking it this week, an official said Friday. Anne Robertson, the leader of Aberdeenshire Council, said councillors would hold an emergency meeting and vowed to try to...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, council, Leadership, tycoon
Research articles 2007-11-30
Truffle-loving tycoons to bid for giant fungus in Macau
HONG KONG AFP — Hong Kong and Macau's richest tycoons are expected to gather at an exclusive auction this Saturday for a chance to snaffle one of the largest truffles ever discovered, organisers said Tuesday. The giant white truffle, which weighs in at 1.5 kilogrammes (3.3 pounds), will be...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, casino, Macau, tycoon
Research articles 2007-11-27
Donald Trump
NO surprise that tycoon Donald Trump's got the green light for his pounds 1billion golf course in Aberdeen. But has he got planning permission for that highly dodgy barnet?
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., MARKETING, tycoon
Research articles 2007-11-25
Trump clear to tee off with Scottish golf course plan
LONDON AFP — US tycoon Donald Trump got the green light Tuesday to build a controversial luxury golf resort in Scotland. Aberdeenshire councillors gave Trump the go-ahead by seven votes to four at a meeting in Balmedie, just north of Aberdeen on the Scottish east coast, where the 1,400-acre...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Agence France-Presse, British Broadcasting Corp., Forbes, TVs, tycoon
Research articles 2007-11-20
Tycoon Ramaphosa not interested in leading South Africa's ANC
JOHANNESBURG AFP — Billionaire tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa is not interested in becoming the next president of South Africa's ruling party which chooses its new leader later this year, a statement said Monday. "As I have said in the past, I have no interest in standing for this position," Ramaphosa...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, leader, Leadership, president, tycoon
Research articles 2007-09-03
Yeung hopes for quick Blues deal
BIRMINGHAM, England AFP — Hong Kong tycoon Carson Yeung expects to take full control of English Premiership side Birmingham City within a couple of months. Yeung, who took a 29.9 percent shareholding in the Midlands club in July for 15 million pounds (29,740,000 US dollars), said his associates were...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, diligence, tycoon
Research articles 2007-08-17
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