| Cruise news: January 2008 round-up
Kicking off a new monthly column, Jane Archer delivers the latest news on all things cruising. This week: practice your putting at sea, Van Gogh goes on sale and Island Cruises are feeling flush.
Have your say Read comments Travel directoryCruising homepageCelebrity goes green Celebrity Cruises is to be the first cruise line in the world to employ a full-time groundsman – well several, actually - to look after a half-acre of real grass on the top deck of new ship Celebrity Solstice. .
Piecing together 2008
Climate change tops Ideas' round of future matter demanding our ideas and attention at the juncture of 2007 and 2008. It is a huge, intricate issue, but no idea is too small to be disconnected from the web of a million ideas that will shape what happens in a world where nothing can occur without affecting something else. ENVIRONMENT The nearly 190 countries at December's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali agreed to start two years of talks on new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But within hours of the United States' dramatic, last-minute acceptance of the deal, the White House was saying it had "problems" with it. So, expect many words and scant action, at least until the departure of President George W.
China Voice Holding Corp. Awarded Contract with Qingdao Municipal ...
BOCA RATON, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- China Voice Holding Corporation (CHVC) (OTC: CHVC), announced today that its Chinese Subsidiary, Beijing Techview System Engineering Co. LTD (BTSE) has been awarded a contract to provide a monitoring and video conferencing system for the Qingdao Municipal Government. The system was designed to enable the smooth execution of the Sailing events and to provide monitoring for public safety during the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games. The estimated value of the Contract is $500,000.
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