After tech firms, Chinese cash chases world's insurers now

Edit China Daily 25 Apr 2016
Low funding cost encourages cash-flush companies to go on an M&A spree ... Since last year, Chinese companies have announced at least nine M&A deals for overseas insurers. The total deal value (both pending and completed) exceeded $8.4 billion, up 280 percent from China's total outbound insurance M&A value in 2014, according to financial data provider Dealogic....

Hot day ends with breezy evening

Edit The Times of India 25 Apr 2016
The maximum temperature dipped slightly and came to rest at 38.5 degree celsius....

Letters to the editor

Edit Yahoo Daily News 25 Apr 2016
Odd policy, uneven results ... The Kejriwal government has acquired a habit of forcing the people of Delhi to look through its own prism in declaring everything it does a historic success ... Vinayak G. Bengaluru. Yes to R&D, no to subsidy. Apropos of your recent edit on boosting R&D instead of paying out subsidies (FE, April 20), it rightly points out that the focus needs to be on R&D and providing a direction to the farmers....

Unsold homes pile up

Edit Yahoo Daily News 25 Apr 2016
The unsold stock of residential units in top three real estate markets — Mumbai, Delhi & NCR and Bengaluru — is expected to have come off by just 7% in FY16, reports Shubhra Tandon in Mumbai ... Delhi & NCR, according to Cushman and Wakefield....

Two men stabbed in New Brighton incident (New Zealand Police)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source ... A 38-year-old man is facing two charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after an incident in New Brighton overnight ... The 38-year-old man was arrested late last night ... ENDS....

City sizzles on hottest day in eight decades

Edit The Hindu 25 Apr 2016
The last time the city was this hot was on April 30, 1931 and even then, the maximum recorded temperature was 38.3 degrees C ... as the situation does not seem to improve, with the India Meteorological Department forecast pegging the maximum temperatures in the 37 to 38 degrees C range....

weyfest 2016 tickets

Edit Skiddle 25 Apr 2016
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The real Bondi doesn't want the Bondi Pavilion makeover

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 25 Apr 2016
Betts wants to spend $38 million of council rates on a major redevelopment of the Pavilion, home to our artists and performers and the hub of our community life and celebrations ... In her hands, a $38 million upgrade of the ... Imagine spending 10 per cent of that $38 million investment to actually foster the living arts and artists in Bondi....

Scorching Sun does not deter these cyclists

Edit The Hindu 25 Apr 2016
The scorching Sun, that has sent the mercury levels up to 38 degrees Celsius on the coast, did not deter the spirit of cyclists in Mangaluru and surrounding regions who made the best use of a Sunday by participating in the 200-km Mangaluru-Kukke Subrahmanya-Mangaluru Brevet organised by Mangalore Cycling Club (MACC) and a 100-km league Mangaluru-Katapadi-Mangaluru organised by Mangalore Bicycle Club (MBC)....

Crime Stoppers names 14 suspects still at large

Edit Canada Dot Com 25 Apr 2016
A 60-year-old man convicted more than a decade ago of dousing his common-law wife with hairspray and setting her on fire, and a 38-year-old alleged hit man in B.C.’s 2009 drug-trade wars top the list of Metro Vancouver CrimeStoppers’ most-wanted fugitives ... ....

Cubs 9, Reds 0

Edit Tampa Bay Times 25 Apr 2016
Cubs 9, Reds 0. CINCINNATI — Anthony Rizzo drove in four runs with his 10th career two-homer game and Jason Hammel pitched six scoreless innings as the Cubs improved to 14-5 for the first time in 47 years. Chicago outscored the Reds 38-14 in the four-game series ... ....

Two men stabbed in New Brighton incident

Edit Scoop 25 Apr 2016
A 38-year-old man is facing two charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after an incident in New Brighton overnight ... ....
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