tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51141410001394652982024-02-06T22:26:42.060-08:00World News Updatesweb developer's resourcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907306689075088303noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114141000139465298.post-40494508446292234002011-09-12T02:48:00.000-07:002011-09-12T02:49:32.381-07:00Frank delape scams - Not True<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Frank Delape the dedicated philanthropist not only donates to charities, but also personally engages in events throughout the year. Frank has not only succeeded in business endeavors, but also succeeded in his philanthropic endeavors too. As said in the previous lines, he actively gets engage himself in those philanthropic events which were held by legacy community health services, citizen for animal protection, bridge over troubled waters, tux & tennies, Houston ballet and more. <a href="http://www.frankdelape.com/">Frank Delape</a> is also very passionate about reducing the carbon foot prints of residential resorts and also he has inspired other developers to do the same.<br />
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With so caring about the fellow human beings and earth, how can <a href="http://frankdelapeequity.blogspot.com/">frank delape scams</a> could be true and it has been intently developed to spoil his reputation in the business. Frank delape scams are absolutely funny stories and it not that much serious since many know that he is person who is generous donor and so helpful to the fellow human beings. Frank delape and his wife Kimberly delape always say that “We are blessed to be a blessing!" Frank and Kimberly have jointly made a great team in the world of philanthropy.</div>web developer's resourcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907306689075088303noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114141000139465298.post-63760943409393233962011-08-29T03:46:00.000-07:002011-08-29T03:46:23.753-07:00Frank Delape Philanthropic Photographs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">These are the images of <a href="http://frankdelapephilanthropy.wordpress.com/" title="blocked::http://frankdelapephilanthropy.wordpress.com/">Frank Delape</a> the great philanthropist and entrepreneur doing lots of charity works along with his partner in life Kimberly delape. Actually these portraits were taken when they host a part and event to collect funds for the charity organizations. In sight of me, along with his philanthropic activities I also found some sort of fashion in his costumes which took my eyes towards these photographs. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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"I cannot give up the responsibility to do what needs to be done now. I would like to resolve the nuclear crisis first," Kan told a panel in parliament."I am determined to perform my duty."Pressure from inside his own party mounted after media said ruling party power broker Ichiro Ozawa had hinted he would back the no-confidence motion if Kan refused to quit.<br />
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Rivals in the ruling Democratic Party (DPJ) want Kan to quit before a no-confidence vote, clearing the way for a new leader who can form a coalition with the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to break the policy logjam in a parliament, where the opposition can block bills in the upper house.<br />
Kan, who took office last June as the fifth premier in as many years, is battling to control the nuclear crisis, figure out how to pay for rebuilding the northeast region hit by the quake and tsunami, and draft tax reforms to pay for rising social security costs.<br />
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The government needs to enact a bill enabling the issuance of fresh bonds to fund 44 percent of the $1 trillion budget for the year from April and find ways to pay for rebuilding from the natural disasters, Japan's biggest reconstruction project since after World War Two.<br />
The LDP and its allies need 70 or more of the 305 ruling Democratic Party lower house members to defect to secure passage of the motion, which would force Kan to resign or call a snap lower house election.<br />
Kan's departure could ease the path for a coalition with the LDP, but who would replace him is unclear and whether a new premier would be able to manage such an unwieldy group is in doubt. Many think Kan is too stubborn to quit.<br />
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Ozawa, a veteran politician known as the "Destroyer" for his record of shaking up politics, told his followers he would push for Kan to step down on his own but hinted he would back the no-confidence motion if that failed, media quoted sources close to him as saying.<br />
"If such efforts are unsuccessful, I will make a decision when I need to," Ozawa was quoted as saying.Some analysts said financial markets would welcome Kan's resignation since a broad coalition with the LDP would make it easier to agree on tough policy decisions such as raising the 5 percent sales tax to pay for ballooning social security costs.<br />
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"A formation of a grand coalition will be a big win for Japanese politics after the poor performance following the earthquake," said Takuji Okubo, chief Japan economist at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking.<br />
Others questioned the wisdom of political infighting at a time when Japan faces so many challenges.Data on Tuesday showed the economy was rebounding from the natural disasters, but doubts remain about the outlook for long-term reforms.<br />
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"Do they just want to bully Kan? Do they have anyone who can replace him? Do they have an extra budget plan? I don't know why they are trying to create a tense political situation now," said Kyohei Morita, chief economist at Barclays Capital Japan. "From foreign investors' point of view, it is hard to predict what will happen to policies and they will probably avoid getting involved with a risk of the unknown."<br />
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Japan drew up an extra budget worth over $50 billion on Friday to help finance post-tsunami reconstruction efforts.<br />
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The Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan approved the budget totaling 4.02 trillion yen ($50 billion), the finance ministry said. Japan's parliament is expected to pass the budget next week.<br />
"This is the first step toward rebuilding Japan after the major disasters," Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters.<br />
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The government will allocate around 1.2 trillion yen to fix roads and ports damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The twin disasters decimated much of northeastern Japan and killed more than 25,000 people.<br />
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Under the budget, the government will spend over 362 billion yen to build temporary homes for disaster victims, with another 352 billion yen for clearing rubble. The government has said the cost of the tsunami disasters could reach $309 billion, making it the world's most expensive natural disaster on record.</div>web developer's resourcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907306689075088303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114141000139465298.post-79035483294673563922011-04-21T22:42:00.000-07:002011-04-21T22:42:40.875-07:00Hot and cool in RI Politics- Rhode.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDsVFybdpjQwGQuUBQ6AODtZqp-68eS6W-K4FrNEt3rCmL-BpJ1fl-6Dd5r_i_RLYAAoX-3CGpetDmdI474MTQkxQu20psmSFq8briNHGHck5ZMx5TzCDsqQwuH9a8TsbIOLBE2DX9WLe/s1600/images-golocalprov-com--news_Loughlinheadshot-180x206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDsVFybdpjQwGQuUBQ6AODtZqp-68eS6W-K4FrNEt3rCmL-BpJ1fl-6Dd5r_i_RLYAAoX-3CGpetDmdI474MTQkxQu20psmSFq8briNHGHck5ZMx5TzCDsqQwuH9a8TsbIOLBE2DX9WLe/s1600/images-golocalprov-com--news_Loughlinheadshot-180x206.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WbmGSjLJnEXXGQt9TG52ZIT04PlDnMls8PFdsvZdEgjlCCYjiHWpfzg-LB7gcCJJjR5bOLAXF6EYdPPiU7BbbM_mDSC1s_ABXrKJOnXeBesPZVhv5ezY945_uRwadc8aBiuHtGTeAMew/s1600/images-golocalprov-com--news_CicillineOutsidePodium-360x241.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WbmGSjLJnEXXGQt9TG52ZIT04PlDnMls8PFdsvZdEgjlCCYjiHWpfzg-LB7gcCJJjR5bOLAXF6EYdPPiU7BbbM_mDSC1s_ABXrKJOnXeBesPZVhv5ezY945_uRwadc8aBiuHtGTeAMew/s320/images-golocalprov-com--news_CicillineOutsidePodium-360x241.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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John Loughlin - Best of luck to the former (and future?) Republican candidate in the 1st District as he heads back to Iraq. As GoLocalProv first reported, Loughlin (at right) says he’s returning to active duty, but he’ll be back in plenty of time when and if he decides to make a run at the ever-vulnerable David Cicilline. If nothing else, it’s a great political move by Loughlin, who will now be able to match his experience serving overseas with Brendan Doherty’s time as head of the state police should the two run against each other in a Republican primary.<br />
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<b>Lincoln Chafee</b> - The Governor is on YouTube. This is better than the time the Providence Democrats started a website. All he needs now is a blog and a quirky screen name and he’ll have officially joined the 21st century. All kidding aside, it’s a smart move for the governor to spread his message himself as opposed to letting talk radio or other media outlets set the tone for him.<br />
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<b>Travis Rowley</b> - Gave an impassioned speech at last week’s Tax Day rally, and followed that up by taking a major risk by throwing his support behind upstart Barry Hinckley in the 2012 U.S. Senate race. It’s a great hire by Hinckley, who is trying to establish himself as the socially moderate candidate in what looks to be a crowded field next year. The big question: Can Rowley help rally enough Young Republicans to help push Hinckley past a Don Carcieri type?<br />
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<b>Kate Brock</b> - Say what you will about the Governor’s tax proposal, but at least Kate Brock was willing to publicly support the plan. If more progressives were willing to go to bat for the guy they helped get elected, the plan might have some legs.<br />
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Providence City Council - You remember all those times the Council voted to approve Mayor Cicilline’s budgets? Apparently neither do they. At least they’re now willing to admit their mistakes and they appear ready to help move the city forward. That said, a criminal investigation into Cicilline’s actions might be a little much.<br />
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<b>Scott Avedisian</b> - Here’s why the “Governor Carcieri cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to cities and towns” argument has little merit: Despite the cuts and the horrible economic climate, the mayor of Warwick was able to generate a surplus this year.<br />
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<b>Keith Oliveira</b> - Welcome to the Providence School Committee, Keith. You’re coming on board at a time when teachers, parents and students aren’t the biggest fans of the school board. Good luck!<br />
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<h3>Who’s Not<b><o:p></o:p></b></h3><b>David Cicilline -</b> Things continue to get worse for the freshman Congressman (at left), whose popularity might be hovering somewhere in the single digits at this point. During his inauguration speech, Mayor Taveras said history will show Cicilline was a good leader of the city. You have to wonder if he’s kicking himself for that statement now.<br />
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><b>Providence</b></st1:city></st1:place><b> Retirement Board -</b> It’s one thing to disapprove of Cicilline, it’s another to suggest he should lose a pension he can’t even apply for. Taking away pensions for doing a poor job isn’t the path this group should want to go down. Because if they do, Cicilline and Cianci won’t be the only two they will have to go after.<br />
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<b>Individuals Demanding Economic Accountability -</b> Nice to know the conservative group formed last year only now wants to step up and offer advice to the governor. It would have saved a lot of time to have reached out before the guy proposed a crazy sales tax plan.<o:p></o:p><br />
<b>Deborah Cylke -</b> The other Deborah in education in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rhode Island</st1:place></st1:state> made a mistake this week when she defended spending almost $3,000 to send one of her school board members across the country to a national conference. There are people on that board that don’t know what’s happening in their own city. Maybe she should have taken the time to train them on that first.<br />
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<b>Lisa Tomasso -</b> There are plenty of people who would have no problem presenting their ID when they use their EBT card. But the idea that anyone would be turned away from buying food because they don’t have proper ID is outrageous. Maybe it’s time to stop attempting to balance to budget on the backs of poor people.<br />
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<b>Johnson & <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wales</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> -</b> Really, JWU? Are you really presenting a governor who spent eight years cutting millions of dollars in aid to higher education with an honorary degree? What’s it going to say, “Thanks for allowing us to offer even crappier financial aid packages to our already in-debt students?”<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Kumar Sangakkara is set to step down as Sri Lanka captain following his team's defeat to India in the final of the just-concluded World Cup. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">According to sources here, Sangakkara has expressed his desire to relinquish the post to Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), though he is willing to play for another 2 to 3 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">The player is expected to make an official statement later in the day. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 15px;">There is also speculation that the 33-year-old left-handed batsman would retire from One-day Internationals and the Twenty20 format. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">Sources claimed that Sangakkara will leave his post at the end of Sri Lanka's tour of England, which ends with the third and final One-day International in Lord's on July 3. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">Sri Lanka are due to start their first of the three-match Test series against England in Cardiff on May 26. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 15px;">Sangakkara, 33, made his debut in 2000 and took over the captaincy from Mahela Jayawardene in 2007. </span></div>web developer's resourcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907306689075088303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114141000139465298.post-68956425425853280402011-04-04T02:58:00.000-07:002011-04-04T02:58:34.907-07:00WRAPUP 5-Japan uses bath salts to find leak, and release radioactive water into sea.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="focusParagraph"> * Operators forced to release radioactive water into sea<br />
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<span id="midArticle_3"></span> By Risa Maeda and Yoko Kubota<br />
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<span id="midArticle_4"></span> TOKYO, April 4 (Reuters) - Japanese engineers on Monday were forced to release radioactive water into the sea while resorting to desperate measures such as using bath salts to try to find the source of the leaks at a crippled nuclear power complex.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_5"></span> Engineers also planned to build a giant silt curtain in the ocean to stop the spread of more contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. <br />
<span id="midArticle_6"></span> The plant operator had to release low-level radioactive seawater that had been used to cool overheated fuel rods after it ran out of storage capacity for more highly contaminated water, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_7"></span> Operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said it would release over 10,000 tonnes of contaminated water that was about 100 times more radioactive than legal limits.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_8"></span> Engineers are still struggling to regain control of damaged reactors at the plant in the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986, with the government urging TEPCO to act faster to stop radiation spreading. <br />
<span id="midArticle_9"></span> But it could take months to stem the leaks, warned one official, and even longer to regain control of the power station, damaged by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_10"></span> "We need to stop the spread of (contaminated water) into the ocean as soon as possible. With that strong determination, we are asking Tokyo Electric Power Co to act quickly," said Edano. <br />
<span id="midArticle_11"></span> "If the current situation continues for a long time, accumulating more radioactive substances, it will have a huge impact on the ocean."<br />
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<span id="midArticle_13"></span> In the face of Japan's biggest crisis since World War Two, one newspaper poll said nearly two-thirds of voters wanted the government to form a coalition with the major opposition party and work together to recover from the natural disaster.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_14"></span> Underlining the concern over the impact on the world's third largest economy, a central bank survey showed big manufacturers expected business conditions to worsen significantly in the next three months, although they were not quite as pessimistic as some analysts had expected. </div>web developer's resourcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907306689075088303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114141000139465298.post-72945832264562242362011-04-04T02:52:00.000-07:002011-04-04T02:52:39.538-07:00International Monitors Slam Kazakh Vote<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> International monitors sharply criticized Kazakhstan's presidential election Monday, citing numerous cases of ballot box-stuffing and bemoaning a lack of transparency.<br />
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<div class="story-embed-left" id="main-media" style="width: 322px;"><img border="0" height="226" id="f1ad4235f07342f78e335d4fe251bc79_mn.jpg" onerror="this.src='http://a.abcnews.com/images/Business/f1ad4235f07342f78e335d4fe251bc79_mn.jpg'" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Business/f1ad4235f07342f78e335d4fe251bc79_mn.jpg" title="" width="320" /><div class="main-desc"><div id="cap-short"> </div><div id="cap-full" style="display: none;">A Kazakh woman leaves a voting booth during the Kazakh presidential election at a polling station in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 3, 2011. Voters in Kazakhstan cast their ballots Sunday in a election that is expected to overwhelmingly renew long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev's grip on power. (AP Photo/Nikita Bassov) <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=13289704#" onclick="setCaption('close');return false;"><img alt="Collapse" border="0" src="http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/icons/icon-arrow-up.gif" /></a></div></div></div>Condemnation of Sunday's election, which saw incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev winning an overwhelming 95 percent of the vote, will leave Kazakh authorities' claims of growing democratization in tatters.<br />
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Nazarbayev's crushing win was expected, but an astonishingly high 90 percent turnout figure surprised observers.<br />
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's election monitoring arm said the Central Asian nation had failed to improve significantly on previous elections, which were deemed not "free and fair."<br />
"This election has showed that the country still needs to make improvements to meet democratic commitments, particularly in the fields of freedom of assembly and media," said head OSCE mission observer Tonino Picula.<br />
The 70-year-old Nazarbayev has led Kazakhstan virtually unchallenged since the 1980s, when it still formed part of the Soviet Union.<br />
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The OSCE said in a statement that violations included seemingly identical signatures on voter lists and numerous cases of ballot box-stuffing. The vote count also lacked transparency and correct procedures were often disregarded, the statement said.<br />
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Numerous reports have surfaced about authorities' efforts to ensure as high a turnout as possible, in an apparent effort to boost the legitimacy of Nazarbayev's mandate.<br />
"Many local authorities intervened in the election process in order to increase turnout," the OSCE said in its report. <br />
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Relentless state propaganda and rising income levels have assured Nazarbayev a genuinely high degree of popularity over the years. Western nations have had to balance their palpable distaste for the country's slow pace of democratization with their desire to benefit from its burgeoning energy boom.</div>web developer's resourcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907306689075088303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114141000139465298.post-76804973277728742122011-04-01T02:18:00.000-07:002011-04-01T02:18:27.287-07:00LVMH says , earthquake and tsunami in Japan will have only a “limited” impact on its business.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZeKbCGc_-L4aidF4WDaie3EmIrU8YZGf7dFvhZ26O3UCA5nYKqXDZwrE4TvGPvQfyGUi9-TzwYygLPdcNqcdfK8wDUrneYu6Y5aibz6wA28zSjNG2OHJN3-tnU9tXEbyCcqALVUWWJXh/s1600/1241719_AW11C_CDior_144.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZeKbCGc_-L4aidF4WDaie3EmIrU8YZGf7dFvhZ26O3UCA5nYKqXDZwrE4TvGPvQfyGUi9-TzwYygLPdcNqcdfK8wDUrneYu6Y5aibz6wA28zSjNG2OHJN3-tnU9tXEbyCcqALVUWWJXh/s400/1241719_AW11C_CDior_144.jpg" width="266" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="standfirst">LVMH, the French luxury goods group behind brands including Louis Vuitton, Celine, Dior and Marc Jacobs, has said the earthquake and tsunami in Japan will have only a “limited” impact on its business there, and has vowed to continue investing in the territory.<br />
</div>Speaking at the LVMH annual shareholders meeting yesterday, chief executive Bernard Arnault said: “Regarding the entire Japanese business, the impact should be quite limited, in spite of everything.<br />
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“I am confident in the strength of the Japanese people: Their tenacity and their ability to face very difficult situations will help them to emerge very quickly from this terrible crisis.”<br />
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Japan is a major market for luxury labels, and accounts for 9% of LVMH’s turnover. Arnault said sales in the east and north of Japan had been hardest hit.He added that all of LVMH’s 5,000 employees on the country had survived the disasteri, and that LVMH had donated 500 million yen (£3.7m) to the relief effort.<br />
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Also speaking at the conference, Sidney Toledano, the chairman and chief executive of French couture house Dior, which is owned by LVMH, said that it was in no hurry to appoint a new creative director to replace <a class="intextlink" href="http://www.drapersonline.com/designers/john-galliano/">John Galliano</a>, who was sacked earlier this month after an anti-Semitic outburst.<br />
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Toledano said the brand’s creative development had not been affected whilst it looked for a replacement, and that its existing design team were developing the next collection.<br />
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LVMH grew revenues 19% to £20.3 bn (£17.9bn) in the financial year to December 31 2010, whilst net profits soared 73% to 3.0bn (£2.7bn).<br />
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The 31-year-old, who runs a turbine maintenance company subcontracted to work at the plant, was doing a regular check-up of the turbine in the No 5 reactor when the quake hit. <br />
"Heavy machinery, cranes were shaking above our heads. After about three minutes all the electricity went out," he told the BBC World Service.<br />
"The shaking went on for about five minutes, and it was very strong.<br />
"I shouted out my colleagues' names and used a torch to try and check that everyone was okay."<br />
<div class="story-feature narrow"><a class="hidden" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12923834#story_continues_2"></a> <h2 class="quote">“<span></span>It's nobody's fault, it's not Tepco's fault. They are doing their best to minimize the damage”</h2><span class="endquote"></span> </div><div id="story_continues_2">The earth started shaking again and they all ran outside. </div>When it was confirmed that everyone was safe, workers were given permission to go back home to their families. <br />
He got in his car and drove away as quickly as he could. <br />
"I knew there was a tsunami coming," he said. "I saw the warning on the TV in my car, about 20 minutes after the first quake." <br />
However, he said, the scale of it was totally unexpected. <br />
"Although the shaking was very strong, I did not predict the scale of the tsunami, I didn't imagine the power station would be damaged in the way it was."<br />
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The man says workers were well aware that the plant, commissioned in the 1970s, was relatively old. <br />
"But even knowing that I did not think the plant would fall into a situation like this.<br />
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<div class="caption body-narrow-width"> <img alt="Small trucks drive down a road with the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the background" height="225" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51944000/jpg/_51944448_small_trucks_ap_japanout.jpg" width="400" /> <span style="width: 304px;"> </span></div><div class="caption body-narrow-width"><span style="width: 304px;">There is currently a 20km mandatory evacuation zone around the plant.</span></div><div class="caption body-narrow-width"><span style="width: 304px;"> </span> </div>"If it was only the quake, I think the situation would not so bad. But because of the tsunami, things like the emergency switches were destroyed."Once he realised that the nuclear plant had been damaged, the worker says his first priority was to warn his family and friends.<br />
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"I knew that radiation affected people's health badly, and as soon as I knew that the radiation was leaking, I told my family and friends to escape immediately, as far away as possible," he said.<br />
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But, he said, he would go back to work at the plant if he could."If it was possible, I would go back and work there. But we cannot do anything. The people working at the site now are expert workers from Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco)," he said.<br />
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"We want to go back and help the people working to manage the situation, to stop it getting worse. We cannot go back no matter how much we want to. It's frustrating, but we just cannot help them."<br />
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He says he is aware there are health risks for those working inside the plant. <br />
<div class="caption body-narrow-width"> <img alt="Tepco workers at the Fukushima plant" height="171" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51949000/jpg/_51949181_tepco_workers_afp.jpg" width="304" /> <span style="width: 304px;"> </span></div><div class="caption body-narrow-width"><span style="width: 304px;">Only Tepco workers have been allowed to work at the plant since the earthquake</span>"The situation is changing day by day. If they asked me to go back now, I realise there is a degree of risk."The worker says although he is prepared to go back inside the plant, he would not let his employees work there. </div><div class="caption body-narrow-width"> </div>"I am a boss of a company, and I cannot send in my workers knowing that the site is highly polluted." <br />
Despite the disaster unfolding at the plant, he says he doesn't blame Tepco, the company that runs it.<br />
"Although the situation is not good, they are working really hard to minimise the damage. It's nobody's fault, it's not Tepco's fault. They are doing their best to minimise the damage."<br />
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Although he is currently staying with friends in Chiba prefecture, well beyond the current 20km exclusion zone, his house is only 3km from the reactor.<br />
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He says he wants to go back home.<br />
"If possible I want to go back. There are a lot of memories there. I guess it's a common feeling for all people, to feel sad when you cannot go back to the home where you grew up. <br />
"I think if this disaster happened in another country, people would feel the same as we do."<br />
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<strong>SOME 500 foreigners sought refuge in a French military camp in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan amid fighting between incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and his rival for the presidency, the French military said today.</strong><br />
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Yesterday "some 150 French nationals and 350 other (non-Ivorian) foreigners were admitted to the camp in Port-Bouet" in the south of Abidjan, French military spokesman Thierry Burkhard told AFP in Paris.<br />
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"Some of them arrived by their own means and others were accompanied" by French forces who have been patrolling parts of the capital to protect French citizens since the forces of internationally-recognised president Alassane Ouattara advanced on Gbagbo's stronghold yesterday.<br />
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A French diplomatic source in Paris told AFP separately that many of those who flocked to the camp were Lebanese nationals.<br />
In Abidjan, gunfire erupted around the home of Gbagbo and the presidential palace today. <br />
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"The shooting doesn't stop. Gbagbo's men are resisting in all their positions," a resident of the northern suburb of Cocody, where Gbagbo lives, said.<br />
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"We are hearing deafening artillery shots, RPG7 (rockets) and machine guns."<br />
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Intense fighting between soldiers loyal to the outgoing president and the army of Ouattara started last night within the perimeter of Gbagbo's residence.It was impossible to confirm if Gbagbo was still in his home.<br />
Pro-Ouattara fighters entered Abidjan, the country's economic capital, yesterday after sweeping through towns across the country in an all-out offensive against Gbagbo's regime.<br />
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They seized the airport and the state television last night.Fighting continued today in the administrative district of Plateau, home to the presidential palace, where the roar of heavy artillery shelling pierced the air.<br />
Incumbent Gbagbo, clinging onto the presidency despite losing elections in November to Ouattara, failed to respond to a deadline set by his rival to step down yesterday and now faces being ousted by force.<br />
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The bloody post-election dispute has plunged the world's top cocoa producer into political and economic crisis, with nearly 500 killed and up to a million having fled their homes as rival forces clash.<br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Armed with the wishes of millions of passionate fans and a never-say-die spirit, India are just one win away from crowning themselves the ODI world champions after almost 28 years as they clash with an equally determined Sri Lanka in the first all-Asian cricket World Cup summit showdown at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium on Saturday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">More than two decades after their incredible World Cup triumph at the historic Lord's, India find themselves on the threshold of probably their biggest cricketing moment as they brace up for a nerve-wrecking battle for supremacy at the renovated Wankhede stadium. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">Both India and Sri Lanka, two Asian giants who have played against each other frequently in recent times, have won the coveted trophy once each and will leave no stone unturned to regain the Cup. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 15px;">Though there is little to choose between the two teams, India will fancy their chances of putting it across the islanders as they are playing at home and are peaking at the right time after a rather patchy beginning to their campaign. </span><br />
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