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...sending out signals across the borderlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he may be hiding. In recent weeks U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies have stepped up their search for top al-Qaeda leaders, with the skies above the mountains buzzing with spy planes and unmanned Predator drones, and a network of local spies and informants has been scouring the landscape for information. A Pakistani security officer told TIME the CIA has installed sophisticated surveillance equipment in several offices of the ISI, Pakistan's spy agency, to monitor any radio and Internet communications between al-Qaeda and its sympathizers...
...HSBC is sitting pretty. It boasts the most extensive branch network of any foreign bank on the mainland, with 20 outlets spread from Chengdu in the far west to Tianjin on the northeast coast. The bank has invested more than $4 billion since 2001 to buy stakes in Chinese financial institutions, including nearly 20% in both Bank of Communications, China's fifth largest bank, and Ping An Insurance, its second biggest life insurer. Compared with the same period in 2004, pretax profits in China increased sixfold, to $161 million, in the first half of 2005. As a sign...
...growth. After focusing much of its energy over the past seven years on mature economies, it is locked in a global contest with its chief rival, Citigroup, to tap the pocketbooks of the world's newly rich. From South Korea to India to Brazil, HSBC is expanding its branch network, launching new financial products and marketing its brand. In December HSBC acquired 10% of Vietnam's Techcombank; in November HSBC said it planned to launch the first independent investment bank in Saudi Arabia; and in late October it purchased 70% of an investment bank called Dar Es Salaam...
...Though the film crew interviewed both O’Hagan and Harvard captain Erik Grimm during the week of The Game, the final nine-minute segment ultimately did not include that footage. A 44-minute version is in the works to air on the NFL Network this fall, however, and Schmidt said the player interviews as well as more clips of Murphy would appear in the longer version...
...your cable provider leaves you panting for even more reruns, take a look at AOL's new online-TV network, In2TV. Starting in February, it will offer some 4,800 episodes of 100 old TV series--3,400 hours of programming in all, delivered over six virtual channels. Each 30-minute episode will include one to two minutes of advertising...