Family News Home Archive for February, 2008

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NEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Apartment owner AvalonBay
Communities Inc (AVB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) reported lower-than-expected quarterly
funds from operations (FFO) on Wednesday because of a charge
related to an expense for abandoned projects.
Fourth-quarter FFO — a performance measure for real [...]

(Adds comment by Amnesty, Eliasson, edits) By Opheera McDoom KHARTOUM, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Sudanese government aircraft, army and militia attacked three towns in West Darfur state on Friday, causing heavy civilian casualties, Darfur rebels and witnesses said. %26quot;The government attacked the town of Abu Surouj this morning … a [...]

By James Mackenzie
PARIS (Reuters Life!) - Tucked away beside a dry cleaners in a dark Paris courtyard, the firm that supplied Impressionist master Edgar Degas with the brilliant pastel colors used in some of his most famous pictures is still in business.
“La Maison du Pastel”, a bare, unadorned boutique in the [...]

By Kim Yeon-hee
SEOUL (Reuters) - Foreign investors wanting to buy South Korean companies are struggling to compete with powerful local conglomerates that use family ties and old business relationships to, in some cases, trump higher offer prices.
A decade after the Asia financial crisis, South Korea’s giant chaebol are now looking to [...]

By Kirk Honeycutt
BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - Dysfunctional families in dramatic literature date back to “Oedipus Rex,” so if you’re going to take that route, you’d better have something new to say.
In his film “Fireflies in the Garden,” Dennis Lee comes up empty. Kids, parents, siblings, an aunt and an estranged wife [...]

NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Family Dollar Stores Inc’s
(FDO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) chief executive officer expects the first half of its
fiscal year to be “challenging,” but he is forecasting stronger
performance for the second half of the year as the retailer
controls expenses.
Howard Levine, chairman and chief executive, made the
comments [...]

By Kim Yeon-hee
SEOUL (Reuters) - Foreign investors wanting to buy South
Korean companies are struggling to compete with powerful local
conglomerates that use family ties and old business
relationships to, in some cases, trump higher offer prices.
A decade after the Asia financial crisis, South Korea’s
giant chaebol are now looking to buy [...]

SAMARRA, Iraq, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead nine members of an Iraqi family after storming their house in the village of Awja, north of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said. %26quot;They attacked the house at 4 a.m. and opened fire,%26quot; said a policeman who was at the scene but [...]

By Mike Collett-White
BERLIN (Reuters) - A moving Japanese film based on a true
story shows how a selfless mother’s love for her children
helped the family survive tragedy and danger brought on by the
conflict with China and soon after it, World War Two.
Veteran director Yoji Yamada, best known in the [...]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC Family has picked up
“Samurai Girl,” which the cable network plans to air as a
“major programming event” consisting of three two-hour
episodes.
“Samurai,” from ABC Studios, is set to start production in
the spring in Vancouver and is slated to air over one weekend
in August 2008.
“Samurai,” [...]