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There have been complaints of rising prices in the past weeks. The most obvious examples are in the fresh markets and food stalls. Many vegetables have gone up in price.

My daughter has just started her G1 in a new school last week, and you can guess I'm now just living out of complimentary frozen food in Life's fridge and packed lunch, nothing more glorious than a decent left-over dinner from the day before.

The government must clearly explain how it will stimulate the economy through its 2.4 trillion baht budget bill for 2013, which includes a deficit of 300 billion baht.

Re: ''Ministry orders school to enrol pupils, launches bribe inquiry'' (BP, May 22)

Greece is following the road taken by several other crisis-ridden emerging economies over the past 30 years. Indeed, as I argued earlier this year, there are stunning similarities between this once-proud eurozone member and Argentina prior to its default in 2001. With an equally traumatic implosion _ economic, financial, political, and social _ now taking place, we should expect heated debate...

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was _ literally _ the picture of confidence in parliament on Monday. She was photographed on the parliament's TV system calmly sipping a drink while watching opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva speak.

Facebook shares fell further Tuesday even as US markets pushed higher, with investors voting with their feet on what was just a week earlier the most-awaited IPO in years.

Thailand would be able to maintain its position as the world’s largest rice exporter this year, permanent secretary for commerce Yanyong Puangraj said on Tuesday.

The Stock Exchange of Thailand main index went down 3.64 points or 0.32% to close at 1,131.52 points at the end of trading session on Tuesday afternoon. The trade value was 26.54 billion baht, with 3.27 billion shares traded.

There was no political interference in the removal of Piyasvasti Amranand from the posts president and chief executive officer of Thai Airways International, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Tuesday.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is still flowing into Thailand even though foreign investors had turned from Thai shares to long-term bonds to limit investment risks, Pongpen Ruengvirayudh, assistant governor at the central bank, said on Tuesday.

DENVER–22 May–PRNewswire/InfoQuest

global.remax.com Tops 18 Million Page Views in Six Months

The first truly global online real estate resource, with hundreds of thousands of home listings in more than 70 countries and territories, has seen unprecedented success and growth since the website’s launch. global.remax.com has drawn in nearly 750,000 unique visitors, who have generated more than 18 million page views. The majority of visitors are from China, the most searched city is London and the most searched country, the United States.

“Consumers have an appetite for a website that gives them not only the home listings from around the world, but in their own language and in their own currency,” said William E. Soteroff, RE/MAX Executive Vice President, U.S. and International Regional Development. “The real estate market is truly global and buyers are no longer just looking in their own cities, they’re looking for homes half a world away and global.remax.com is delivering.”

Since its launch, the site has steadily grown and now has listings in more than 70 countries and territories in 32 languages. Visitors can also check prices in 31 currencies and get the latest world real estate news and events through an in-depth and detailed news feed. The closest competing website offers properties in only 18 countries, 11 languages and 20 currencies.

“You can see the strength of the RE/MAX network behind the success of the site,” said Soteroff. “All our offices know how important the global buyer is to the real estate market today.”

RE/MAX is continuing to add offices and sales agents around the world. In 2011, 725 new franchises were sold and eight new countries were added, including Egypt, which opened its first RE/MAX office. So far this year, three countries have joined the network; Morocco, Thailand and the Philippines.

RE/MAX has a presence in more than 80 countries, a global reach far greater than any competitor. With more than 6,250 independently owned and operated offices around the world and a sales force of nearly 90,000 sales associates, buyers and sellers can take advantage of the experience and knowledge of the most productive professionals in the real estate industry.

For more information about RE/MAX global listings, please visit: www.global.remax.com.

To find out more about RE/MAX, visit www.remax.com. To join the best performing real estate sales force, visit www.joinremax.com.

Watch a video about global.remax.com: (http://youtu.be/CezOE8J__xA)

About the RE/MAX Network:

RE/MAX was founded in 1973 by Dave and Gail Liniger, real estate industry visionaries who still lead the Denver-based global franchisor today.

RE/MAX is recognized as a leading real estate franchise company with the most productive sales force in the industry and a global reach of more than 80 countries.

Each office is independently owned and operated.

With a passion for the communities in which its agents live and work, RE/MAX is proud to have raised more than $120 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) and other charities.

Nobody in the world sells more real estate than RE/MAX.

Please visit www.remax.com or www.joinremax.com.

NEW DELHI and LONDON–21 May–PRNewswire/InfoQuest

Enjoy enriching Second Generation messaging solutions of ‘Karbonn Instant Messenger’coupled with Push Mail services of ‘Karbonn Smart Mail’, all @ Rs.4490

Karbonn Mobiles, an established name in the Indian mobile phone market which is known for its pioneering range of attractively priced multimedia phones, announces its association with EMOZE Ltd to integrate world class push mail facilities into its avant-garde Karbonn KT-21 Express. By assimilating the world leader in push mail technology EMOZE into its fold, Karbonn Mobiles revolutionizes the Indian mobile market with a first-of-its-kind integration of faster push mail services with its KT21 series phone, thus providing the feature of E-mail on the go to the discerning mobile users of the country.

Providing a vista for Karbonn users to send and receive mails real-time from their devices, the ‘Karbonn Smart Mail’ feature will allow users to work, send/receive emails offline on the move as well. By reducing battery consumption and cutting down on data charges, the push mail facility revolutionizes the way users access E-mails on the go while providing them a vista to integrate a range of email accounts like Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, GMail, Outlook Exchange, and POP3/IMAP, on their devices.

With EMOZE pre-embedded on these devices, users can easily and securely access both enterprise and personal email accounts, synchronize email contacts and calendar, view office attachments, send voice messages via email, and chat in real-time with their friends. EMOZE is embedded in the operating system of the device and does not require any middleware or runtime environment to load but rather starts working when the device is powered on. In addition, EMOZE can work on any IP-based network and does not require any SMS integration.

Speaking on the association, Shashin Devsare, Executive Director of Karbonn Mobiles says, “Constantly committed to bring to the mobile users of the country pioneering technologies to enrich their on-the-go experience, we at Karbonn Mobiles, intend to provide them technologies which help them derive the maximum utilization from their mobile devices. With this inherent thought process, we are happy to announce our association with EMOZE Ltd, wherein our association with the market leaders in push mail technologies allows for a diverse on-the-go email experience which cutting down on huge data bills also affords better battery optimization. Hoping that the collaboration helps in enriching the user experience, we wish to reiterate our commitment to provide consumers constantly evolving mobile phone experiences,” he added.

On the association with Karbonn Mobiles, Moshe Levy, CEO of EMOZE Ltd. says, “We are proud to have partners such as Karbonn Mobiles, the leading brand in India, who share similar values of excellence and commitment to user satisfaction. The Indian mobile market is one of the largest consumers of data based E-mail services and through our association with Karbonn Mobiles we wish to bring in a new dimension to the way Indians use their Email services. Through our revolutionary push mail services more and more users can access E-mails on the go and can stay connected with their social and work spheres without worrying about high data costs or draining battery backups.”

About Karbonn Mobiles:

Karbonn Mobiles, launched in March 2009, is the one of the fastest growing mobile brand in the country complemented by a comprehensive portfolio of mobile phones with an array of features. Karbonn Mobiles is a joint venture between Delhi-based Jaina Group and Bangalore based UTL Group. Karbonn already has over 650 service centers established across the country, ensuring great after sales support.

http://www.karbonnmobiles.com

About EMOZE:

EMOZE is an acknowledged world leader, providing transparent, synchronized mobile push messaging and push content solutions for handset manufactures, mobile operators and enterprises. EMOZE supports all major email providers, instant messaging services and social networks. EMOZE push messaging solution is based on EMOZE patented technology and provides real push experience combined with an efficient mechanism, minimizing both data traffic and battery consumption to all mobile devices (feature and smart-phones). EMOZE architecture is based on reliable, redundant, scalable server-technology that offers a low total-cost-of-ownership and quick-time-to-market deployment.

EMOZE was established in 2006 and is part of the Emblaze Group (LSE:BLZ). http://www.emoze.com

Enquiries: Jonathan Shillington/ Amlika Lal Grayling +44-(0)20-7932-1871 Amlika.Lal@grayling.com

Source: Emoze Ltd.

NEW YORK–21 May–PRNewswire/InfoQuest

Electro-pop recording artist Sir Ivan has officially released his new single and video La La Land on May 21st on his Peaceman Music label. The song was produced by the LA based team of Russell Ali and Jason Evigan, who also created the melody, while Josh Skinner and Sir Ivan are credited with writing the lyrics. The new single features mixes by Grammy nominated Midi Mafia (50 Cent, Justin Bieber, John Legend, Nelly, etc.), Grammy nominated Rosabel (Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Estefan, etc.) and the hot new re-mixer duo Papercha$er (Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, etc.).

To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/56309-sir-ivan-la-la-land-new-release-peaceman-music

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La La Land is Sir Ivan’s first single release following his highly acclaimed 2009 debut album I Am Peaceman, which primarily consisted of remakes of iconic anti-war songs from the 1960′s. True to his “Peaceman” persona, the words to La La Land depict a perfect world where there is actually peace on earth.

The release of La La Land comes on the heels of Sir Ivan’s last two single releases, which were back-to-back Top Ten global hits. His Hare Krishna single went to # 10 on Billboard Magazine’s Dance Club Songs Chart in the U.S. in April 2011. His Live For Today single went to # 7 on Music Week Magazine’s Upfront Club Chart in October 2011 and made it to #10 on Music Week Magazine’s Commercial Pop Club Chart in February 2012. This latter chart marked a milestone in Sir Ivan’s career, being the first time he went Top Ten on radio.

The La La Land video, directed by Dylan Trussel and David Dinetz, was filmed in Los Angeles. The video creates a colorful, artistic world where all problems are solved, all types are tolerated and all differences celebrated……a world where everyone sings, dances and loves together in paradise. The La La Land video will be viewable on YouTube and other prominent music video sites.

La La Land, Sir Ivan’s I Am Peaceman album and his entire music portfolio are distributed digitally through TuneCore, which includes iTunes, physically/digitally through Amazon.com, with exclusive mixes available through Beatport and Traxsource. For more information visit www.SirIvan.com

CONTACT : James Sliman, jamessliman@optonline.net

SOURCE Sir Ivan

CONTACT: James Sliman, +1-347-413-5522

NEW YORK–21 May–PRNewswire/InfoQuest

Barneys New York, the luxury specialty retailer, announced today that its website, Barneys.com (www.Barneys.com) has been redesigned to establish the most personalized and socially-engaging e-commerce site in the luxury market. Fusing Barneys’ unparalleled product offering with a best-in-class digital experience, the redesign allows customers to engage with the visually sophisticated site in a unique and effective way.

Barneys has revamped its site with new architecture and product categorization, making navigation and shopping faster and more streamlined. Registered users are now able to purchase products with as few as two clicks, and the site will highlight, in a dynamic way, products that are exclusive to Barneys throughout the shopping experience. Customers are also able to use unique filters such as New Arrivals and Most Loved.

Working with digital agency Huge, this set of new and unique features has been created to make the new Barneys.com a more personal and social shopping experience and sets it apart from other e-commerce websites.

Favorites and My List:

The new Favorites tool is a way for customers to keep track of fashion they like on Barneys.com. Customers can “Favorite” individual items, entire product categories, designers, or size and color choices and add these selections to their “List.” Barneys.com is then able to update these “Lists” by suggesting new products that may be of interest to the customer— providing users with a personalized shopping experience every time they return. Additionally, customers have the ability to share their “List” across multiple social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, The Fancy, and Pinterest.

The Favorites tool allows users to browse, follow, and be inspired by “Lists” that have been created by Fashion Influencers and featured on the Barneys.com homepage. As part of the site’s launch, several fashion influencers have created and shared their own “Lists”. Among them:

– Fashion Designers Mary-Kate Olsen & Ashley Olsen – Actor and Author Julianne Moore and her stylist Leslie Fremar – Blogger Jane Aldridge from Sea of Shoes – Stylist Keegan Singh – Photographer Rachael Chandler Guinness & her husband, Creative Director Tom Guinness – Fashion Designers Katie Holmes & Jeanne Yang – Chefs Melia Marden from The Smile & Michael Chernow from Meatball Shop

Most Loved:

When multiple users select an item as one of their Favorites, it becomes designated as a Most Loved or “trending” item on Barneys.com.

Exclusively Ours:

The new Barneys.com offers a unique perspective on style, culture, and lifestyle throughout the online shopping experience by providing its customers with specially-curated products and designer goods that are Exclusively Ours. All exclusive merchandise is tagged with the Exclusively Ours icon, making it easy to filter and locate exclusive designs when sorting by collection or by the curated look books featured within Barneys.com.

The Window:

Barneys’ luxury content site, The Window, provides users with relevant and exclusive information about art, lifestyle, culture, and of course fashion. The new Barneys.com now features designer pages as a home for each brand available to its customers. By highlighting editorial content from The Window and linking to each designer’s newest products, users receive insider fashion access to all designers/brands available on Barneys.com.

Barneys.com features enhanced product photography and detailed editorial stories highlighting the unique characteristics of each item available. The majority of products on Barneys.com are now featured as part of a styled outfit in a curated look book, allowing users to “Complete the Look.” Content from The Window is also integrated into the new product pages to tell each product’s story.

To learn more about the new Barneys.com and experience this one of a kind online shopping destination, please visit www.Barneys.com

About Barneys New York

BARNEYS NEW YORK (Barneys) is a luxury specialty retailer with flagship stores in New York City, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, Dallas, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Scottsdale. The Company also operates a highly successful online business at Barneys.com. Founded as a men’s retailer in 1923 in downtown Manhattan it turned into an international arbiter of high style for both women and men in the 1970s and became renowned for discovering and developing new and innovative design talent. Barneys is famous for selling the most intriguing edit from the world’s top designers including women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, accessories, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and gifts for the home. Barneys’ signature sense of wit and style is manifested in its creative advertising campaigns, original holiday themes, and celebrated window displays. Barneys’ innovative CO-OP, a mecca for young and emerging designers, was launched in 1985 and has since expanded into a freestanding store concept. Barneys operates more than a dozen CO-OP stores in eight states across the U.S. For more information about Barneys New York please visit www.Barneys.com.

About Huge

Recognized by Advertising Age as one of the ten leading agencies across all marketing disciplines in 2012, Huge is responsible for core digital strategy, marketing and implementation for some of the largest companies and brands in the world. Founded in 1999, Huge has evolved a methodology and a culture that combines the most powerful aspects of research, user-centered design, technology and marketing to transform brands and grow businesses. Huge’s 500 employees operate out of offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Rio de Janeiro. Learn more about us at hugeinc.com/about.

CONTACT: Marisa Pucci, +1-212-450-8696, mpucci@barneys.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio–18 May–PRNewswire/InfoQuest

Simbionix USA Corporation, the world’s leading provider of medical simulation, training and education products, is proud to announce the release two new platform designs this week: the new GI Mentor(TM) Express simulator and the enhanced hardware for the URO Mentor(TM).

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The GI Mentor Express is an elegant portable platform offering the most advanced hands-on training in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. This high end virtual reality trainer offers over 60 tasks and virtual patient cases for endoscopy skill enhancement, colonoscopy, gastroscopy, sigmoidoscopy and gastric bleeding. Just as in the full sized GI Mentor, training on this portable solution is done utilizing an actual scope, realistic tactile sensation and true to life anatomy, physiology and pathologies. All of the mentioned features, together with performance metrics validated in more than 40 studies, contribute to preparing the trainee for performing actual cases on live patients. The GI Mentor Express is offered in several configurations for enhanced flexible pricing. Simbionix will unveil the new GI Express at the DDW in San Diego, CA, May 20-22, booth #3025.

The newly enhanced URO Mentor being launched this week by the company was designed to enable future simulation content on the same platform. Currently the system combines training for both endourology and percutaneous access procedures. The unique cost effective design utilizes the latest technology, and is ready to be upgraded with female urologic anatomy, for future modules and training procedures. The new system will be unveiled at the upcoming AUA in Atlanta, GA, May 19-22, at booth #2761.

Ran Bronstein, Simbionix President and COO, commented that “Simbionix continues to enhance existing products and develop new products in order to provide the best value for our clients. Work on a specific trainer is on-going even after the simulator is released, as we keep on developing new modules and working on the existing configurations and platforms to improve the products and keep them updated with the latest technologies.”

About Simbionix USA Corporation

Simbionix is the world’s leading provider of medical simulation training and education products for medical professionals and the healthcare industry. The company is committed to delivering high quality products, advancing clinical performance and optimizing procedural outcomes.

Visit: http://www.simbionix.com

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Contact: Rebecca Levy, Manager of Marketing Communications, rebecca@simbionix.com; +1-216-229-2070 #128

Source: Simbionix USA Corporation

SHANGHAI–21 May–PRNewswire-Asia/ InfoQuest

Sunrain Solar Energy Co., Ltd (stock code: 603366SH) issues A-share official listing shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange main board May 21, 2012. As the worldwide leader in the solar thermal industry, Sunrain aims to build a world famous brand.

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Being the first company to be listed in China in the solar thermal industry, Sunrain will gain attention when it comes to energy conservation and the capital market. Through this, Sunrain will lead the revolution and push forward the development of China’s solar thermal industry.

Specializing in technical research manufacturing and market promotion of solar thermal energy, and application products of other new energies, Sunrain Solar Energy has provided solar hot water system solutions for thousands of families worldwide.

Talents advantage: Setting up products, talent and value systems, and establishment of a solar technique research center that benefits top universities and colleges. Sunrain focuses on employee improvement which contributes to Sunrain and eventually the whole industry.

Scale advantage: With the growth of the economy and the development of the solar thermal industry, Sunrain has achieved fast avenue growth and increased market share. From 2008 to 2011, Sunrain’s market share was 3.6%, 5.7%, 7.3%, and 8.2% respectively, ranking first in the industry. In 2011, Sunrain’s turnover exceeded 3 billion.

Industry integration witnessed a remarkable leap. During this process, the Lianyungang, Yanzhou and Luoyang bases were built successively. Sunrain is the first company in the industry to manufacture rough tubes, vacuum tubes, and solar water heater systems in one factory. Sunrain has the advantages of high quality, low cost, and great efficiency and is the only enterprise that can develop and manufacture all-glass vacuum tubes, all-glass heat pipes, glass-metal sealing heat pipes, and flat plate solar collectors at the same time.

Sunrain has intensified productivity, marketing, research and other working capital programs. When put into motion, sales are estimated to have increased to 3.36 billion Yuan with a net profit of 0.355 billion Yuan.

Upholding the Management Philosophy “Creating a world famous brand, building a century-long enterprise”,” and Development Idea “Forging value and interest in the community and between the company and dealers”,” Sunrain builds products, talents, and values which in turn form competitive advantages in technology and high-efficient management for sustainable development.

http://www.sunrain.com/Global/Global.html

SOURCE Sunrain Solar Energy Co., Ltd

Toshiba Carrier (Thailand) will build a new plant, at a cost of two billion baht, in Bangkadi Industrial Park, Pathum Thani province, on the back of confidence that there will be no recurrence of last year’s great flood.

Toshiba Carrier (Thailand) will build a new plant, at a cost of two billion baht, in Bangkadi Industrial Park, Pathum Thani province, on the back of confidence that there will be no recurrence of last year’s great flood.

The Kingdom’s first life insurance company, Cambodian Life, launched yesterday, courting a market almost entirely unfamiliar with the service.Industry insiders said demand for the products would need time to grow.The Ministry of Economy and Finance signed agreements in August with PT Asuransi Central Asia, Asian Insurance Co ltd, Bangkok Life Assurance Plc and Bangkok Insurance Co ltd to provide the services.The company is 51 per cent government owned, the remaining ownership divided between the four insurance companies. Chairman of General Insurance Association of Cambodia (GIAC), Chhay Rattanak, welcomed the launch, but said it would take time for the company to become profitable. “It is a starting point