Archive for June, 2006

Mittal Steel Profile

< ![CDATA[BUSINESS SUMMARY
Mittal Steel Company N.V., through its subsidiaries, produces steel worldwide. Its products primarily includes hot-rolled and cold-rolled sheets, plates, electro-galvanized and coated steel, bars, wire rods, wire products, pipes, billets, blooms, slabs, tinplate, structural sections, and rails. Hot-rolled sheet is used for manufacturing automobile suspension arms, frames, wheels, and other unexposed parts in [...]

Sunil Mittal Profile

< ![CDATA[Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Group can be labelled as the most ambitious telecom entrepreneur in India. Sunil a former student of Harvard Business School graduated from Punjab University. The son of a parliamentarian, Sunil did not want to follow his father’s footsteps. He had shown an interest in [...]

Indonesia History: 2001-2003

< ![CDATA[Gotong Royong: 2001 to Today
July 2001
July 26 Abdurrahman Wahid leaves for Baltimore, Maryland, USA for medical treatment.
July 26 Hamzah Haz is selected Vice-President by the Assembly.
July 26 Supreme Court judge Syafiuddin Kartasasmita is assassinated by two gunmen on motorcycles in Central Jakarta.
July 30 Floods and landslides hit Nias; governor of Sumatera Utara [...]]]>

Indonesia Reform: 1998-2001

< ![CDATA[Reformasi dan Persatuan Nasional: 1998 to 2001
May 1998
Student protests increase in cities across the country.
May 4 Tommy Suharto sells his shares in the Central Village Cooperative back to the organization for US$112 million in cash. The farmers belonging to the cooperative are left with the debts of the organization.
May 12 Six students are [...]]]>

Indonesia 1965-1998: Orde Baru

< ![CDATA[Orde Baru (New Order) –The Suharto Years: 1965 to 1998
1966
January Roundups continue of PKI supporters, degenerate into random, unplanned violence in many areas.
Sukarno holds a meeting of economic advisors in Cipanas to discuss the nationalization of U.S. oil company properties by presidential decree. Suharto arrives by helicopter, walks into the meeting and states that [...]

History of Indonesia: 1950-1965

< ![CDATA[The Sukarno years: 1950 to 1965
1950
September Natsir and the Masyumi party lead first government of fully independent Indonesia.
September 26 Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
Sumatra is reorganized into North Sumatra, Central Sumatra, and South Sumatra provinces. Aceh, which had been made into a separate province by the PRDI government of Prawiranegara in [...]]]>

Eiffel Tower History

< ![CDATA[The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England, opened the tower. Of the 700 proposals submitted in a design competition, Gustave Eiffel’s was unanimously chosen. However it was not accepted by all [...]

Statue of Liberty

< ![CDATA[Category: History
“The Two Sisters”
America probably could not have won its freedom from the British during the American Revolution without the help of the French. France provided arms, ships, money, and men to the American colonies. Some Frenchmen - most notably the Marquis de Lafayette, a close friend of George Washington - even became high-ranking [...]