Sale of Serb chain marks end of socialist shopping
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Since World War Two, Serbs seeking  no-frills lingerie, sturdy boots and homeware ranging from  fridges to porcelain kittens queued patiently in "Robna Kuca  Beograd," Yugoslavia's biggest department store chain.
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MOSCOW Russia completed the dismantling of Yukos, its largest oil producer, on Sunday, selling its main subsidiary to a company that was essentially unheard of until three days ago.
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The Croatian Privatization Fund on behalf of the Government of Croatia has announced the sale of shares of Hoteli Zivogosce.
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HAVANA -- Cuba announced yesterday that US dollars will no longer be accepted at stores or other businesses on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the way business has been done there over the past decade. The measure called for all such transactions to be done in a local currency known as convertible ...
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The new supermarket was slated as  the shape of retail to come in globalizing India. Now shutters  covered its windows, staff meandered outside and customers  picked final bargains before its closure.
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US Dollar ended transactions in Cuba on Monday under an order by the authorities. From Monday dollar transactions in stores, hotels, restaurants and other business, which have
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The resignation signals the end of a political drama that ended in Viktor Yanukovich's defeat after an uprising against electoral fraud.
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NEW YORK -- Long after most of its customers left the neighborhood to pursue the American dream, the last matzo factory on the Lower East Side is moving out, saying goodbye to a part of town that was once home to hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants.
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The chain's plans to open stores there in 2007 have met with resistance from the far left.
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Business & money: The owner of retail chains including Currys and PC World is to stop selling analogue television sets
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LESKOVAC, Serbia -- The crumbling factory walls and idle smokestacks that dominate this town are replicated across Eastern Europe, symbols of once-proud industrial centers that fell into decline almost as soon as the Berlin Wall came down.
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Zimbabwe authorities ordered businesses on Thursday to stop selling basic goods in bulk to avert shortages after an official price freeze triggered a frenzied buying spree that has emptied most shop shelves.
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The tenants' market that has caused many a developer headaches for the past few years in Warsaw is to come to an end in 2005.
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One of Nepal's top hotels and a number of other companies close for business after threats from Maoist rebels.
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The DP World sale is the final chapter in a contentious deal that some say drove Middle East petrodollars away from the U.S.
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Lech Walesa said Tuesday he has quit the Solidarity trade union that he founded and which helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe. "I have given up my membership last year because Solidarity and I have gone separate ways," he told The Associated Press.
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Cuba announced Monday that U.S. dollars will no longer be accepted at businesses and stores on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the way cash transactions have been done there over the past decade.