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Hong Kong to remove duties on wine/beer

Posted by admin | News | Posted on February 26th, 2008

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- Hong Kong to remove duties on wine/beer
- Proper Beheading Sacrifice of Beer Proves Winning Formula for Las…
- Man arrested after walking out of store with beer in pants
- Deschutes beer to soon flow in the Pearl
- New Hope For Chemo Holidays For Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer
- Sapporo rejects takeover bid from Steel Partners
- Photo archive for February 26 2008

Hong Kong to remove duties on wine/beer
Forbes – Feb 26, 2008
The move will cost the government about 560 mln hkd a year. Tsang said the industry has indicated that current duty on alcoholic beverages and related administrative controls are major obstacles for further development of trading and distribution businesses. Apart from removal of duties the government also proposes to remove the related administrative controls after amending relevant laws so as to facilitate increased import export and storage of alcoholic beverages.

Proper Beheading Sacrifice of Beer Proves Winning Formula for Las…
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 26, 2008
Proper Beheading Sacrifice of Beer Proves Winning Formula for Las Vegas Bartender Anthony Alba. (26-FEB-08) PR Newswire.

Man arrested after walking out of store with beer in pants
tcpalm.com – Feb 26, 2008
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Deschutes beer to soon flow in the Pearl
kgw.com (subscription) – Feb 26, 2008
com Portland’s love affair with beer is growing. ne of regon’s most popular and largest breweries is expanding heading from Bend to the Rose City. Deschutes Brewery plans to mix hops with history to make a huge dent in the Pearl District in a building where dents were once removed. Portland is the company’s strongest market. After looking at other locations in Portland the Pearl District became the obvious choice.

New Hope For Chemo Holidays For Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Feb 26, 2008
recently was published in the journal Cancer. * Beer is the Grover C. Beer and his team wanted to know if men with metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer cancer that has spread from the prostate and is not affected by the male hormone androgen could take a break from docetaxel an intravenous chemotherapy delivery drug that is the gold standard treatment for androgen-independent prostate cancer. Docetaxel works by killing cancer cells and slowing cell growth. However the drug also can cause side effects such as hair loss nausea loss of appetite and increased chance for infections… * Beer is the Grover C. Beer and his team wanted to know if men with metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer cancer that has spread from the prostate and is not affected by the male hormone androgen could take a break from docetaxel an intravenous chemotherapy delivery drug that is the gold standard treatment for androgen-independent prostate cancer. Docetaxel works by killing cancer cells and slowing cell growth. However the drug also can cause side effects such as hair loss nausea loss of appetite and increased chance for infections. Chemo holidays can be a much-needed vacation from these side effects. Prior to this study it wasn’t known whether stopping chemotherapy would lead to treatment resistance.

Sapporo rejects takeover bid from Steel Partners
International Herald Tribune – Feb 26, 2008
An acquisition for $1. 43 billion by Steel Partners Japan Strategic Fund (ffshore) might “seriously harm” shareholder interests Sapporo said Tuesday in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The rejection leaves Steel Partners with the option of making a hostile bid for the Tokyo-based brewer whose real estate is worth more than twice as much as its beer business. Steel Partners which has made a series of failed takeover bids in Japan since 2003 has urged Sapporo to increase returns by redeveloping property reviewing its soft-drink unit and improving the marketing of its beers… 19 billion it generated from its Japanese alcohol business. Like larger rival brewers Kirin Holdings and Asahi Breweries Sapporo is raising prices this year for the first time in 18 years on higher costs for brewing malt aluminum cans and other raw materials. Sapporo the brewer of Yebisu premium beer is also battling to maintain sales as beer consumption falls in Japan. Domestic beer shipments fell 0. 3 percent to 496 million cases last year a record low as the nation's population aged and younger consumers switched to wine and other beverages. Sapporo's Japanese alcohol sales fell 1. 6 percent to ¥316 billion last year.

Photo archive for February 26 2008
Naples Daily News (subscription) – Feb 26, 2008
FGCU student government hosted the event “Eagles Rise for Sober Rides” to teach students soberly the effects of drunken driving. The event included a Sheriff’s ffice DIU crash car which has been in a drunken driving accident a beer goggles pedal cart where students drive while feeling the effects of alcohol without actually being drunk.