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British Virgin Islands Wire

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Results 1 - 20 of 1,162 in British Virgin Islands

  1. The Scot who has given more than 1.6m to the Tories: the first interviewRead the original story w/Photo

    2 hrs ago | Sunday Herald

    ... ever interview after the Sunday Herald started to ask questions about his corporate links to the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven. Not wanting to be thought of as the Tartan Lord Ashcroft - the Tory peer who refuses to be drawn on his tax status ...

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    Related Topix: World News, Central America

  2. Georgianne Nienaber: Could a Hillary Clinton AVATAR Save Congo?Read the original story w/Photo

    8 hrs ago | The Huffington Post

    ... CEO is an American) , from Spain, North Korea, Ukraine, Iran, Libya, China, Belgium, Tanzania, the British Virgin Islands and others. Roman Catholic networks supplying money to a murderous Rwandan rebel group (FDLR), exploitation of natural ...

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    Related Topix: Avatar, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, Prison

  3. City bigwigs Derek Tullett and Sir Edward du Cann dragged into Flyglobespan rowRead the original story w/Photo

    12 hrs ago | Times Online

    ... caught out by the collapse of Allbury Travel, which Elia controlled through a holding company in the British Virgin Islands. Bridge members invested 2.5m in Libra Holidays - before its name changed to Allbury Travel - in March 2008. Sources at ...

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  4. Christmas without all the trimmingsRead the original story

    13 hrs ago | The Independent

    ... The sailor, 43, left Lanzarote in the Canary Islands on 10 December to sail 2,700 miles to the British Virgin Islands. He is returning to Garden Bay, Tortola, where he was paralysed while diving in an accident when he was 18. "This is the journey I ...

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    Related Topix: Boat Disaster, Home Gardening, Home

  5. Disabled sailor's ocean yuletideRead the original story

    Friday | BBC

    ... Southampton, left Lanzarote in the Canary Islands on 10 December to sail 2,700 miles (4345km) to the British Virgin Islands. He is returning to Garden Bay, Tortola, where he was paralysed while diving but fuel problems delayed him by a week. He said ...

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    Related Topix: Sailing News

  6. BVI and Channel Islands accept Britain's businessmenRead the original story

    Friday Dec 18 | British Virgin Islands Offshore World

    ... in the Channel Islands offshore jurisdictions like Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The British Virgin Islands are among the tax havens where number of registered UK companies has increased in the last year. There are now 6, 729 UK company ...

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    Related Topix: Isle of Man, Europe, World News, Central America

  7. K1 `Predatory Businessmen' Sued by JPMorgan, BNP Paribas for $152 MillionRead the original story

    Thursday | Bloomberg

    ... ($500.2 million) as of July 31, according to its administrator, Treukapital AG. K1, based in the British Virgin Islands, is at the center of an international criminal probe after saddling banks with about $400 million of losses, people with ...

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    Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , Investment Banking, Financial Services, Bear Stearns, Investment Services, Accounting, US News

  8. Mozambique voids biofuel contract

    Thursday Dec 24 | UPI

    ... shares. Bioenergy subsequently renamed itself Sable Mining and is registered in the Caribbean's British Virgin Islands tax haven. According to the contract, Procana was to have invested more than $500 million in the project, which was to have been ...

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    Related Topix: Biofuel, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, World News, Central America

  9. JPMorgan, BNP Paribas Sue K1 Invest, Say They Lost $152 MillionRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 24 | BusinessWeek

    ... ($500.2 million) as of July 31, according to its administrator, Treukapital AG. K1, based in the British Virgin Islands, is at the center of an international criminal probe after saddling banks with about $400 million of losses, people with ...

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    Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , Investment Banking, Financial Services, Bear Stearns, Investment Services

  10. Fun facts about the Christmas treeRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 24 | Regina Leader Post

    ... Islands, Panama, Venezuela, the Bahamas, Aruba, Barbados, Guatemala, the Netherlands, Honduras, British Virgin Islands, Colombia, Jamaica, El Salvador, Antigua and Barbuda, Turks and Caicos Islands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Singapore, Ecuador, ...

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    Related Topix: North America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon

  11. CNC Development Ltd. Announces Restoration of Original Trading SymbolsRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 24 | Market Wire

    ... for the Company's securities have been restored to their original symbols. CNC, registered in the British Virgin Islands, has one operating subsidiary headquartered in Shanghai, P.R.C. that forms and leads consortiums to deliver comprehensive city ...

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    Related Topix: Corporate Governance, Central America, World News, Chicago, IL

  12. British Virgin Islands: Access To Equity Capital Markets - a Bvi Perspective - HarneysRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 24 | Mondaq.Com

    Market confidence in the BVI is demonstrated by its ready acceptance by the regulators of some of the world's leading international equity capital markets in the US, Germany, UK and now, at the end of 2009, Hong Kong.... To read the full text of this article you need to login.

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    Related Topix: Central America, World News, Opinion

  13. There is much that is ironic about the proposed acquisition of Volvo...Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Times Online

    ... that eight of its subsidiaries were registered in the Cayman Islands and a further seven in the British Virgin Islands. The possible appropriation of engineering expertise by an emerging market company, the issue that scuppered the takeover of GM's ...

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  14. 10 Stocks Shaking the MarketRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | The Motley Fool

    ... it a shaky investment candidate at best. First BanCorp had some nice years, but Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands have suffered in this economic recession as well and the loan portfolio through its 194 branches looks to be even more ...

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  15. 16:51 St. Kitts Nevis gets ...Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Prensa Latina

    ... of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Montserrat, Anguila, British Virgin Islands, St. Lucia and St. Kitts and Nevis, current president of the group. It was created in June 1981 with the aim of promoting regional ...

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  16. Harlequin Hotels and Resorts Names Joerg Roterberg, Vice President of ...Read the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Hotel Online

    ... in the Caribbean, including the prestigious Galley Bay Hotel in Antigua, Peter Island Resort in the British Virgin Islands and St. James Club Morgan Bay in St. Lucia. Most recently, he has been manager of the One & Only Le Touessrok in Mauritius, ...

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  17. ChinaCast Education Corporation's Executive Management Team Invests...Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Digital Producer

    ... purchase price of approximately $5 million. The purchase was made through Thriving Blue Limited, a British Virgin Islands company. "Our executive management team is pleased to be able to invest in the Company's future in the PRC for-profit education ...

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    Related Topix: Central America, World News

  18. Christmas tree roots run deepRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Richmond News

    ... Islands, Panama, Venezuela, the Bahamas, Aruba, Barbados, Guatemala, the Netherlands, Honduras, British Virgin Islands, Colombia, Jamaica, El Salvador, Antigua and Barbuda, The species that sell the most are the balsam fir and the Fraser fir. - It ...

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  19. Offshore Sailing School and South Seas Island Resort Support Fight...Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | PRWeb

    ... Sail to Advanced Cruising, Racing and Passage Making. The company has seven locations in Florida, the British Virgin Islands, Chesapeake, New Jersey and New York City. For more information call 800-221-4326 or visit www.offshoresailing.com.

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    Related Topix: Sailing News, PRWeb

  20. 'Sailing museums' dock hereRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Pensacola News Journal

    ... tour sponsored by the nonprofit Columbus Foundation. In 1986, the foundation was formed in the British Virgin Islands to raise money to re-create the three ships Columbus used in his discovery of the New World. 'I can't believe ships like that ...

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    Related Topix: Pensacola, FL, Non-Profit, Central America, World News