Founded in 1946, the U.S. company now counts half its business in emerging countries (rageZ) PARIS – When you hear Tupperware, you think door-to-door sales, plastic boxes and part-time jobs for 1960’s housewives. Here in Paris, the brand is looked at with sarcastic nostalgia. But on Wall Street, Tupperware is a serious brand. Its share […]
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Specialists are divided over a French government plan to introduce the language of Shakespeare to three-year-old children
Internet hackers sabotage French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Facebook page, falsely announcing he will not run for a second term in office in 2012
On the fourth anniversary of the death of the journalist and peace activist, thousands gather in Istanbul to demand justice. Hrant Dink (open democracy) By Mustafa Kucuk, Selcuk Yasar, Orhan Saat HURRIYET/Worldcrunch Dink was shot outside the Istanbul offices of the Armenian newspaper Agos, where he was chief editor, after weeks of anonymous death threats […]
On the fourth anniversary of the death of the journalist and peace activist, thousands gather in Istanbul to demand justice. Hrant Dink (open democracy) By Mustafa Kucuk, Selcuk Yasar, Orhan Saat HURRIYET/Worldcrunch Dink was shot outside the Istanbul offices of the Armenian newspaper Agos, where he was chief editor, after weeks of anonymous death threats […]
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The Paradox Of France’s New Baby Boom
The French birth rate is higher than its been in 30 years, defying European trends and France’s own collective pessimism. Portrait of a distrustful society made of individuals betting on the future. Parisian kids (Kathleen Conklin) Demographics are a funny thing! We have before us a France that is booming. The 2010 data released this […]
After adopting Firefox and Linux, French law enforcement moves their own criminal research laboratory data to open-source software platforms. Will they share their secrets? (Alan Cleaver) PARIS – The Gendarmerie nationale, the French paramilitary police force, is making the surprising move into the world of open-source software. In recent months, as the Gendarmerie’s renowned Institute […]
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USA-China: Détente Or Cold War?
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington this week could signal a thaw in relations between the United States and China, or proof that a new “Cold War” is around the corner
The Ben Ali family had its tentacles in every corner of Tunisian business life. A look at the economic fallout from the North African nation’s ongoing political and social upheaval After the downfall of the Ben Ali clan, and the end of its vice-like grip on the Tunisian economy, the country faces a number of […]
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More three million diaries printed by the European Commission, which refer to Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Hindu holidays, have no reference to Christmas, Easter and other Christian holidays.
Les Echos editor says China lulls the West into thinking it’s always playing catch-up on technology. Reaction to the recent case of alleged Chinese espionage of Renault’s electric car design is a case in point. 2010 Beijing Auto Show PARIS – It is too early for fear, but not too late to begin to be […]
France looks for new approaches – and a new look — to its antiquated places of saving and loaning PARIS – Credit Agricole, a major French bank, opened the Alpha branch this week in Paris, a place where the bank’s clients get to try out their new services and technological innovations billed as “the agency […]
After booming 2010 Internet shopping results, the French hypermarché chain tries to reinvent the superstore PARIS – There isn’t always a link between cause and effect, but there sure are signs of it in 2010 shopping sales. On the one hand, the largest superstores, magnets of mass consumerism since the 1970s, have lost ground. By […]
On monetary, commercial and financial policy, Brussels starts to stand up to Beijing Port of Shanghai It is a rare enough event to merit due attention: Brussels may actually have found consensus on a major issue. It’s not the financial security of European Union states or harmonizing corporate taxes or even the future of European […]
In France, a new study shows that kids with December birthdays fall behind in school, and never catch up – even when it comes time for their paychecks.
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A Boom In Foreign Films Made In France
Passed last year, France’s “international tax credit” has already benefited 29 movies, mostly Hollywood productions. Woody Allen is one of many US directors who filmed in France this year PARIS – In January, Sherlock Holmes 2 will begin filming in Paris and Strasbourg. Directed by Britain’s Guy Ritchie, the film is just the latest to […]
Indom, leader of domain names in France, is bought by its British counterpart in the latest ceding of French control online One French web success sold abroad flickr Nicolas Rauline PARIS – The list grows longer. After a Japanese purchase of France’s e-commerce site PriceMinister and Axel Springer’s takeover bid for Paris-based real estate portal […]
Standard procedural bulletin on use of speed sensors may help explain unsolved crash of Rio-to-Paris flight AF447 Airbus 330 (flickr) A seemingly innocuous memo could revive speculation about the cause of the June 2009 crash of an Air France flight from Rio-to-Paris. Les Echos has learned that on Monday, Airbus sent an operational engineering bulletin […]
A new labor report shows the narrowing gap between developed and developing worlds is also driven by Western decline Textile workers in India (Jessica Steiner) PARIS – The International Labor Organization (ILO) has released a new and very detailed survey on wages in 115 countries. As always the study’s results are highly anticipated, as a […]
A new labor report shows the gap between developed and developing worlds narrows not just because of their growth, but our decline PARIS – The International Labor Organization (ILO) has released a new and very detailed survey on wages in 115 countries. As always the study’s results are highly anticipated, as a global snapshot of […]
Low costs, abundant rain make moment ripe for Bonduelle expansion to Latin America, even as the French firm eyes Green Giant takeover via flickr BRASILIA –- From a bird’s eye view, the landscape resembles the geometric paintings of Vassily Kandinsky. Circles upon circles are etched into the deep red laterite-coated earth. In Brasilia’s savannah, where […]
Daughter and likely successor of National Front party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen compares Muslim street prayers to Nazi “occupation” of France.
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Le Web 2010’s Platform is…Platforms
Paris hosts Europe’s largest digital convention, with this year’s edition focused on the “social” and “mobile” Internet Focused on LeWeb (via Flickr) By Nicolas Rauline PARIS – Silicon Valley is making its annual trek to Paris. For the seventh consecutive year, Géraldine Le Meur and her husband Loic Le Meur, a French-born San Francisco-based blogger […]
The French first lady’s fame has reached new levels in India
The French first lady’s fame has reached new levels in India LE FIGARO/Worldcrunch By Charles Jaigu NEW DELHI – On December 4, French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in India, a state visit aimed at strengthening economic ties and forging a new nuclear deal between Paris and the surging South Asian democracy. And, while Sarkozy’s maiden […]
Compared with Irish binge drinkers, French wine drinkers are healthier
France’s business and management schools top the Financial Times’ annual European rankings, but French higher education system still lags in other surveys. By Dominique Seux PARIS – Four of the top10; five of the top 15; eighteen of the top 70. France can indeed be proud of the 2010 results of the annual European business […]