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...The route swoops down from this summit, past tiny village ski areas to the town of Einsiedeln, which is famous for its large monastery....
...It tells the story of Rachel Chu, an economics professor at New York University and ABC (or “American-born Chinese”), played by Constance Wu....
...(FT) It’s a big day for G7 finance ministers The group begins a three-day summit in Dresden, where the conversation is likely to be dominated by terror financing and Greece....
...Blind Summit Theatre provide fanciful dragon-horse puppets for the Three Ladies and the Two Priests, Sarastro’s slaves are Spider-man-style acrobats, Tamino’s snake slips into the lake and inflates around...
...They have also been forced to agree an automatic exchange of data with the US and are under pressure to make further concessions on transparency in the run-up to next month’s G8 summit in Northern Ireland...
...The IIF, which represents banks and other private sector Greek sovereign bondholders, said a failure to do so would be a betrayal of principles agreed at an October 26 summit of policymakers which thrashed...
...In all, the course covers 109 miles, with 5,000 metres of vertical ascent (significantly more than climbing from Everest base camp to the summit)....
...The company’s latest venture, an apartment block in Flaine, adheres to the principles of Haute Qualité Environmental (HQE) – the international construction industry standard defined at the 1992 Earth Summit...
...The French leader has ordered his government to accelerate initiatives to reinforce French financial regulation ahead of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh at the end of September....
...Diplomats said the summit communiqué would say that any EU-level decision would “not impinge in any way on the fiscal responsibilities of the member states”....
...Other jurisdictions scrambled to become more transparent to stave off the threat of blacklisting at the G20 summit next week....
...The agenda of the forthcoming Group of 20 summit, with its heavy emphasis on re-regulation, makes such views wholly obsolete....
...The two governments also want the G20 summit to approve new blacklists of jurisdictions that refuse to co-operate with the tax or regulatory authorities of other countries....
...Next month’s Group of 20 summit in London, promising a crackdown on tax havens, has acted as a catalyst to co-operation. In theory, the position should be clear....
...Early indications from the pre-summit negotiations suggest there is some momentum behind the regulatory proposals....
...Lawyers and officials in the Cayman Islands, the Caribbean home to most of the world’s hedge funds, have been taken aback by growing hostility to tax havens in the run-up to this week’s G20 summit in London...
...The G20 group of industrialised and developing nations is preparing to highlight allegedly unfair tax practices at its April summit....
...Offshore centres reluctant to co-operate with foreign tax authorities face the threat of being “blacklisted” at next month’s London summit....
...Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein are all scrambling to organise a concerted defence of their financial systems ahead of the G20 summit in London next month that is proposing to crack down on tax...
...Monaco is in talks with the OECD on the details of changes it plans in an attempt to ensure that it is not put on a blacklist of secretive states that could be drawn up at the Group of 20 London summit next...
...Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein are scrambling to organise a concerted defence of their financial systems ahead of the G20 summit in London next month that is proposing to crack down on tax havens...
...Examining the record of UBS and the broader industry at the recent FT Private Banking Summit in Geneva, Juerg Zeltner, a bank board member and head of wealth management for north, east and central Europe...
...The 17 governments represented at the meeting agreed that the OECD should publish a revised blacklist of tax havens by summer 2009 ahead of a summit of leaders of G8 industrialised nations....
...There they would graze until the grass was exhausted before moving on, circling lazily round the summit. We left the outskirts of the village and trotted up through meadows into a dense wood....
...Gordon Brown is in Japan at the summit of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations discussing the oil crisis....
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