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Insight: Foreign banks squeeze costs as Asia's glow fades

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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:00:10 +0100
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Big Wall Street and European banks are looking to slash budgets across Asia, as the emerging market promise is trumped by an urgent need to control costs. From taxi and air fares and year-end parties to entire operational divisions and new country offices, little is sacred. The age of headquarters in New York or London subsidizing investment banking expansion in Asia is giving way to a period of austerity - a shift the industry accepts is long-term, especially given a steep drop in Asia fee income late last year compared to the rest of the world. ... (Source: Reuters)

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Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:40:02 +0100
(Reuters) - THIS PICTURE IS 39 of 43 TO ACCOMPANY THE INSIGHT DETROIT/CHURCH. THE SERIES HIGHLIGHTS THE PROBLEMS FACING CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN DETROIT. SEARCH KEYWORD "CATHOLIC CHURCH DETROIT" TO SEE ALL THE IMAGES. Jerry McCullough leaves after getting his check up by Dr. Ed Jelonek (R), working in his own free time, at the Order of Malta Medical and Dental Clinic for low income Michigan residents in the basement of St. Leo Catholic Church in Detroit, December 21, 2011. St. Leo Catholic Church, located in one of the most abandoned pockets of the nation's most depressed city, is operating on life support. Built more than 120 years ago as Detroit was developing into a manufacturing powerhouse, St. Leo is one of the many area churches to have succumbed to a same priest and parishioner shortage that has plagued the Catholic Church in America. Picture taken December 17, 2011. To match Insight DETROIT/CHURCH REUTERS/Mark Blinch (UNITED STATES - Tags: RELIGION HEALTH)

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Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:30:02 +0100
(Reuters) - THIS PICTURE IS 13 of 43 TO ACCOMPANY THE INSIGHT DETROIT/CHURCH. THE SERIES HIGHLIGHTS THE PROBLEMS FACING CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN DETROIT. SEARCH KEYWORD "CATHOLIC CHURCH DETROIT" TO SEE ALL THE IMAGES. A man looks through second hand clothing at the St. Leo Catholic Church in Detroit December 17, 2011. St. Leo Catholic Church, located in one of the most abandoned pockets of the nation's most depressed city, is operating on life support. Built more than 120 years ago as Detroit was developing into a manufacturing powerhouse, St. Leo is one of the many area churches to have succumbed to a same priest and parishioner shortage that has plagued the Catholic Church in America. Picture taken December 17, 2011. To match Insight DETROIT/CHURCH REUTERS/Mark Blinch (UNITED STATES - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY POVERTY)

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Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:10:02 +0100
(Reuters) - THIS PICTURE IS 1 of 7 TO ACCOMPANY INSIGHT: POWER/ACDC. SEARCH IN YOUR PICTURE SYSTEM FOR KEYWORD "EDISON" TO SEE ALL IMAGES. (PXP100-106) U.S. inventor Thomas Alva Edison poses in this photograph taken in the early to mid-1890s by an employee of the Thomas Edison company named W.K.L Dickson. The American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who made the incandescent light bulb viable for the mass market, also built the world's first electrical distribution system, in New York, using 'direct current' electricity. DC's disadvantage was that it couldn't carry power beyond a few blocks. His Serbia-born rival Nicola Tesla, who at one stage worked with Edison, figured out how to send 'alternating current' through transformers to enable it to step up the voltage for transmission over longer distances. To match Insight POWER/ACDC REUTERS/NPS/Thomas Edison/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENERGY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Insight: Social media makes anti-Putin protests "snowball"

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Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:30:10 +0100
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Artyom Kolpakov used to shrug when he came across occasional appeals on social media sites to protest against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his government. "I didn't see the point really," he said. But something changed when, clicking through amateur videos and online testimonies documenting cases of ballot-stuffing and repeat voting, he saw others shared his outrage at Putin's party's victory in Sunday's parliamentary election. ... (Source: Reuters)

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