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Travel Europe News Archive29-May-2006
Permira risks controversy with Hogg Robinson flotation (Times Online)EUROPE?s largest private-equity group, Permira, is preparing a £500m flotation of business-Travel firm Hogg Robinson, employing a controversial technique that has been scrutinised by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Ctrip May Buy Companies in Asia as More Chinese Travel Abroad (Bloomberg.com)May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Ctrip.com International Ltd., China's biggest online Travel agent, may buy companies in Hong Kong, South Korea and across Asia to tap rising spending on international Travel by Chinese consumers.
EU retirement ages rise as demographic deadline approaches (AFP via Yahoo! News) Britain's new plan to raise the retirement age to 68 is one of the most effective and widely used approaches in Europe to overhaul pension schemes in an effort to defuse a demographic time bomb.
Europe?s homegrown radicals seen as risk to U.S (Tiscali)WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pockets of Muslims who reject Western values within Europe?s Islamic community pose a security threat to the United States because they may spawn extremists who are just a plane ride away and do not need a U.S. visa, officials and experts say.
Aussie bid for Gullivers (TVNZ)Australian travel and property management company S8 has made a takeover offer for Gullivers Travel Group. Queensland-based S8 is offering $2.35 a share, a 40% premium on Friday's closing price.
Europe 'should side with Iran': Ahmadinejad (IranMania.com)LONDON, May 28 (IranMania) - Europe should "side with Iran" on nuclear policy or "suffer the consequences", Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the German news weekly Der Spiegel in an interview to be published on Monday.
Have prejudice, won't travel (Times Online)THIS SUMMER, as an antidote to all those books rhapsodising about the Tuscan sun, you could dip into The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs Mortimer?s Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World , which may qualify as the most intolerant Travel guide ever published. Driving over lemons?
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