| Business: Bank secures major account
A SWEDISH bank which has just opened its doors for business in Coventry city centre has secured the business of one of the area's most successful local house builders. Handelsbanken, which moved into its new Coventry office at 6 The Quadrant, beat off competition from the major banks to win the account of rapidly expanding Ian Neale Homes Ltd. The management team at Handelsbanken's Coventry office have excellent career track records with the UK's major banks but believe Handelsbanken with its emphasis on building personal relationships with its customers, will offer a different perspective in commercial banking to the local business community. The Swedish bank already has more than 600 branches worldwide and more than 40 in Britain. Ian Neale will be a customer of the new Handelsbanken Coventry branch.
How to Pay for Kids
A child is priceless -- but raising one can break the bank. Children born in the U.S. today will cost their parents more than $338,000, on average, by the time they graduate from a public college. That's according to BabyCenter.com, based on College Board and Agriculture Dept. data. Send your precious offspring to a private university, and you can expect to shell out an additional $70,300 for tuition. .
Father, son indicted for $1M online drug scheme
Federal authorities arrested and indicted a Sunset father and son, both pharmacists in Grand Coteau, for an alleged scheme that netted more than $1 million in illegal sales. They were charged on 50 different federal counts including filling prescriptions online and money laundering. .
Three on trial for bid to collect $108bn in cheques
HONG KONG: Two Singaporean men and a Chinese man accused of trying to cash bogus cheques for $108bn have gone on trial in a Hong Kong court, a news report said yesterday.
The men produced the cheques dated 1948 at the DBS Bank in Hong Kong in April, claiming they had been entrusted to draw the money from an aunt�s account, the South China Morning Post reported.
The scam fell apart when staff at the DBS, previously named the Overseas Trust Bank, told the men that their bank had not even been founded at the time the cheques were allegedly written.
Singaporeans Eddie Woon Kwok Jin, 53, and Lin Ban Hoong, 62, and mainland Chinese man Ma Ping, 32, denied charges of forgery at a hearing Friday in District Court. The case resumes today.�DPA
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Tax Lady Roni Deutch Negotiates Manageable Monthly Payments For Client's Collectively Owing the IRS Over $4 Million
In September nationally recognized tax attorney Roni Deutch and her law firm, Roni Lynn Deutch, A Professional Tax Corporation, successfully negotiated Installment Agreements with the IRS for client's collectively owing the IRS over $4 million. One of the firm's many successful resolutions was for a California resident who had owed the IRS $1.5 million; the firm was able to get him on a monthly repayment plan of only $147 per month. North Highlands, CA (PRWEB) October 31, 2007 -- In October 2007, tax lady Roni Deutch helped clients owing the IRS in aggregate over $4 million resolve their tax debts through monthly payments called Installment Agreements. "Finding out you owe back taxes to the IRS can be a scary thing," notes tax lady Roni Deutch. "People getting letters from the IRS claiming they owe thousands of dollars in back taxes probably don't think they have much hope.
'Bad' Gophers
I can tell you pretty easily why Iowa's going to crush the Golden Gophers. Come to think of it, I can boil all the many reasons down into two very simple, accurate words: Minnesota's bad.
Real bad.
You know, saying it like that wouldn't be too nice, but it's too late for kind words because the truth hurts, and I have more numbers than a Swiss Bank account to back my bold words.
The Gophers are not only last in the Big Ten in scoring and total defense, they are also last in all of college football in total defense, giving up 548.5 yards per game and are 112th in scoring defense at 37.8 points allowed per game. Minnesota's pass defense and rush defense - which are both bottom in the Big Ten - rank 118th and 115th respectively.
To put it nicely, it's easier to get a first down on the Gophers by running offensive plays than it is to get a fresh set by virtue of receiving the opening kickoff of any given half - Minnesota gives up 25.3 first downs per game.
Bad taste is lucky for shark victim
WAILUKU » California resident Aaron Finley flew to Maui to deliver a CD he produced from a children's book called "How Do You Take a Shark to the Dentist?" On the CD, he voices the role of Mr. Shark. "It's ironic," remarked Maui resident Jane Foley, who wrote the book and song lyrics that go, "Oh, Mr. Shark. He's ever so mean. He'll eat you for breakfast like a jelly bean. Sometimes he'll hide in the nearest cave, swallow you up when you're passing on a wave." That's a fair approximation of what happened Monday as Finley took a leisurely swim off Wailea. "I felt something hit my leg really hard and then turned and saw this big gray thing swimming away and realized I'd just been bit," Finley, 32, said from his hospital bed in Wailuku, where a 6-inch, half-moon-shaped gash on his left calf served as a reminder of the encounter.
Country seeks greater say in IMF
China should be actively involved in working toward the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) quota and voice reform, which could shape its members' positions in the global economy, experts said.
However, experts also said the country should act cautiously and avoid appearing "too aggressive" in demanding its own quota increase.
The IMF declared during last month's annual meeting that all the elements for an internal reform package, including increased quotas, should be in place by its next annual meeting in April 2008.
The Washington-based multilateral financial institution said it plans to increase its total quota by about 10 percent next year and at least a double basic votes to protect low-income countries.
Under the current regime, the distribution of quotas is determined according to complex mathematical formulas.
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