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"FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times.support@ft.comMon, 12 May 2008 02:41 BSTMon, 12 May 2008 03:54:11 BSTNewspapers15http://news.ft.com/cms/d1f3ce1a-6bbe-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.gifhttp://www.ft.com/companies/consumer(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1))http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/962ab160-1f70-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/962ab160-1f70-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlFrench state railway looks at potential purchase of up to 49 per cent of Ferrovie Nord Cargo as part of a drive to expand abroadSun, 11 May 2008 22:35 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/04fcf6ac-1f76-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/04fcf6ac-1f76-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlThe country must improve its standards of corporate governance to halt sliding investor confidence, a group of the world's most influential institutional investors will warn this weekSun, 11 May 2008 22:34 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/96ddb404-1f70-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/96ddb404-1f70-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlFrance's second-biggest bank is set to be severely criticised in an independent report into the €50bn ($77bn) rogue trading scandal Sun, 11 May 2008 22:06 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d2a8940c-1f6d-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d2a8940c-1f6d-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlFormerly overlooked revenues are being chased as declining sales force the music industry to be more rigorousSun, 11 May 2008 21:11 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6372dc96-1f81-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6372dc96-1f81-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlIn the wake of a $7.8bn first-quarter loss, the pressure is rising for Martin Sullivan to step aside and for a successor to consider breaking the company upSun, 11 May 2008 19:50 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/642bd318-1f81-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/642bd318-1f81-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlDecline of 188,700 users is likely to be a one-off due to the company ending its slower 'Tu-ka' service on April 1. Main high-speed service still adding subscribersSun, 11 May 2008 19:31 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4cf2373c-1f7c-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4cf2373c-1f7c-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlUK group insists it has no plans to make a bid for the African operator, following Bharti Airtel's informal offer for the Johannesburg-listed companySun, 11 May 2008 18:36 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4c39276a-1f7c-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4c39276a-1f7c-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlIn his first high-profile personnel decision, the chief executive of the New York publisher's parent company is expected to opt for a Germany-based executiveSun, 11 May 2008 18:25 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/47c33ef4-1f78-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/47c33ef4-1f78-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlWith credit hard to obtain elsewhere, customers are returning to Close Brothers' specialty lending division and its corporate finance division expects its loan book to swellSun, 11 May 2008 18:02 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/978fba64-1f70-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/978fba64-1f70-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlChina Merchants Bank takes on bigger rivals for 53% stake in the mid-sized lender Hong Kong lender in a bid to raise its profile in the citySun, 11 May 2008 17:18 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3600484-1f6d-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3600484-1f6d-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlFilm studio behind the 'Narnia Chronicles' franchise, is teaming with HarperCollins to create a children's book imprintSun, 11 May 2008 16:28 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e10a164-1fb2-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e10a164-1fb2-11dd-9216-000077b07658.htmlDocuments show that European poultry producers use a chlorine solution on exported chicken, a method that has led to a de facto bar on US sales in the EU for 11 yearsMon, 12 May 2008 02:41 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/839ffdc2-1e10-11dd-983a-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/839ffdc2-1e10-11dd-983a-000077b07658.htmlProperty entrepreneur builds his holdings in the leisure industry with more than 3% in the owner of Costa coffee chainsFri, 9 May 2008 23:15 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/374250c8-1df8-11dd-983a-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/374250c8-1df8-11dd-983a-000077b07658.htmlThe largest shareholder of the maker of the cult cookers stamped its authority on the group by blocking the move to raise cashFri, 9 May 2008 20:43 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ab158d10-1dd2-11dd-983a-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ab158d10-1dd2-11dd-983a-000077b07658.htmlCircuit City underlined the decline in its fortunes by putting itself up for a possible sale to Blockbuster that would be backed by Carl Icahn, the billionaire investorFri, 9 May 2008 18:42 BST