Business
* A jury was chosen to hear the nation’s fourth Vioxx trial, a lawsuit filed in south Texas by the family of an older man who died after battling heart disease. * Beijing Vantone Real Estate Co., one of China’s largest private real estate developers, agreed to rent the top five floors of the Seven World Trade Center skyscraper, making it the biggest leaseholder so far at the site of the former World Trade Center.
Jan. 25, 2006
Movies
Actress Mala Powers, who played Roxane to Jose Ferrer’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” and starred in other films of the 1950s, has died.
June 13, 2007
Technology and the Internet
Security: High-tech region is a magnet for mainland’s high achievers, along with domestic fears of espionage.
Oct. 18, 1999
Entertainment & Arts
As Shakespeare put it, the world is a stage, and we are the cast of thousands.
Feb. 23, 1989
Scottish Annuity & Life Holdings Ltd. on Monday said it would buy a reinsurance unit of Pacific Life Insurance Co. for $78 million in stock to boost capital and build a core business overseas.
Aug. 7, 2001
O & Y to Sell Some Holdings in Restructuring: Olympia & York Developments Ltd. will sell its stakes in several companies to pay off creditors under a bankruptcy restructuring plan due to be filed by Aug. 21, the troubled property giant said.
Aug. 7, 1992
World & Nation
The Supreme Court of the state of Victoria today appointed receivers and managers for brewing interests held by Bond Corp.
Dec. 29, 1989
A group of Hong Kong businessmen led by Li Ka-shing, chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd., is bidding for the 21-acre Expo ’86 site at Vancouver, British Columbia.
April 4, 1988
Ian Jessel has been named president of newly formed Nelson International Inc., a subsidiary of Nelson Holdings International Ltd., which recently completed the acquisition of Embassy Home Entertainment from Coca-Cola Co.
Dec. 24, 1986
Gillette to Buy Parker Pen: Gillette Co. has agreed to buy British-based Parker Pen Holdings Ltd. for about $561 million, a single stroke that would make the No. 1 razor firm the world leader in the writing market.
Sept. 11, 1992