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Duff and Phelps: No Rangers conflict
2013-05-23 13:01:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The firm which acted as administrators for the former Rangers Football Club is cleared of any conflict of interest over its appointment.
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Asia-Pacific leaders warn of water conflict threat
2013-05-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from Asia-Pacific nations warned on Monday. From Central to Southeast Asia, regional efforts to secure water have sparked tensions between neighbours reliant on rivers to sustain booming populations. Breakneck urbanisation, climate change and surging demand from agriculture have heaped pressure on scarce water supplies, while the majority of people in Asia-Pacific still lack...
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NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon
2013-05-16 16:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: As Peru's legislature debates the merits of building the Purús highway through the Amazon rainforest, a new report by Global Witness alleges that the project has been aggressively pushed by those with a financial stake in opening up the remote area to logging and mining. Roads built in the Amazon lead to spikes in deforestation, mining, poaching and other extractive activities as remote areas become suddenly accessible. The road in question would cut through parts of the Peruvian Amazon rich in biodiversity...
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Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict
2013-05-13 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes. But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to an increasingly intractable conflict, its underlying causes in a fatal convergence of energy, climate and economic factors remain little understood. The UN high commissioner for human rights has offered a conservative under-estimate of the...
Waitrose fears conflict of interest in Ocado/Morrisons deal
2013-05-11 09:37:06| Grocery - Topix.net
Lawyers at the John Lewis Partnership are understood to be combing through the exclusive grocery supply contract between Waitrose and Ocado Waitrose bosses have asked for legal advice about online grocer Ocado 's discussions with their supermarket rival Morrisons and believe a conflict of interest is inevitable if a deal is reached.
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