CJ chairman back to jail after treatment

June 1, 2014 Leave a comment

Updated : 2014-05-30 20:49

CJ chairman back to jail after treatment

By Kim Tae-gyu

CJ Group Chairman Lee Jay-hyun was taken back to prison Tuesday after two weeks of treatment at Seoul National University Hospital, but his health is still not good, a group official said Thursday.
“He is not in critical condition, having been stabilized early this month. But he is too weak to remain jailed,” he said. “He is so frail that he cannot even lift a cup on his own.” Read more of this post

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Taco Bell’s Secret Recipe for New Products

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Taco Bell’s Secret Recipe for New Products

By Venessa Wong May 29, 2014

One Saturday morning in January 2013, Heather Mottershaw was at home scrolling through status updates on Facebook (FB)when a photo caught her eye. A friend had uploaded a picture of his soon-to-be-devoured meal at a restaurant, which Mottershaw describes as a folded-over waffle sandwich filled with eggs and avocados and other fixings you’d expect in a Southern California meal. “I went, huh, that’s an interesting idea,” she says. Read more of this post

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Wallpaper boss lambasts Britain’s ‘naive’ export strategy, saying that Britain must adopt German model to help mid-sized companies to trade abroad

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Entrepreneur attacks Britain’s export strategy

Wallpaper boss lambasts Britain’s ‘naive’ export strategy, saying that Britain must adopt German model to help mid-sized companies to trade abroad

By Rebecca Burn-Callander, Enterprise Editor

7:00AM BST 28 May 2014

The boss of luxury wallpaper retailer Graham & Brown has claimed the Government’s export strategy is “naïve”, “slow” and “bureaucratic”, and does not give sufficient support to mid-sized exporters. Read more of this post

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Booking of contract revenue set to change; From 2017, firms must follow a 5-step model requiring more judgment, estimates

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Booking of contract revenue set to change

Business Times

30 May 2014

Michelle Quah

From 2017, firms must follow a 5-step model requiring more judgment, estimates

[SINGAPORE] In what may be the biggest change in recent years in the manner companies prepare their accounts, the world’s global financial standards setting body has announced a substantial alteration in the way revenue is to be recognised. Read more of this post

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