International Business News - Village http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif An environmental review of an embattled proposal for a ski village in southwest Colorado is on hold, leaving the nearly $1 billion project in limbo. The U.S. Forest Service in September started a second review of a proposal by Texas billionaire Billy Joe "Red" McCombs to build a resort on his land at the base of the Wolf Creek ski area. The land is surrounded by national forest land. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/feds-review-of-embattled-ski-village-plan-on-hold.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:21:46 EST Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 6,500-year-old farming settlement in an antiquities-rich area of central Greece. The finds include remains of houses built of wood and unbaked clay, together with pottery vases, ovens and stone tools, the Culture Ministry announced Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/greek-archaeologists-find-6-500-year-old-village.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:46:36 EST Ballpark Village took a step forward after a St. Louis board approved a revised plan for the district of offices, restaurants and shops planned for the area near Busch Stadium. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081107/st-louis-ballpark-village-plan-progresses-again.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:34:21 EST The British government will allow negotiations on building London's 2012 Olympic Village to go into next year because of delays caused by the global financial crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/govt-lets-olympic-village-talks-go-past-deadline.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:36:35 EDT Marine Capt. Mike Hoffman sat on the floor of a shack with an Afghan mullah and village elders and accepted a meager meal as he sought their help in the fight against the Taliban. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142026-marine-afghan-village.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/marines-train-at-calif-posts-afghan-village.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/marines-train-at-calif-posts-afghan-village.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:40:40 EDT Federal authorities have accused the mayor of a Long Island village of fleecing clients at his Manhattan brokerage firm. George Motz, the mayor of Quogue for seven years, pleaded not guilty Thursday to securities fraud and other charges. He was released on $500,000 bond secured by his home in the Hamptons. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/mayor-of-ny-village-charged-with-securities-fraud.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:11:36 EDT The old shore road to Totope is now under the sea, and when developers began carving out another one, it was washed away so often they abandoned it. Now the road to this village is just a track across the sand. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/sea-buries-a-ghanan-village-and-more-may-follow.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:44:05 EDT Years ago, no one thought twice about felling the rainforest around this village in West Africa. Land was cleared, cocoa and palm oil were planted, and the hamlet survived. But the wind blows stronger across the fields and scrub these days, and the rainfall is heavier than the elders remember. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/deforestation-a-key-part-of-un-global-treaty-talks.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:35 EDT Loyce Mbewa-Ong'udi was late. Family and friends milled around her parents' house in the green hills overlooking Lake Victoria, waiting for the daughter from America to return home. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/110889-kenya-two-women-and-a-village.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080817/mother-and-daughter-lead-village-in-aids-recovery.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080817/mother-and-daughter-lead-village-in-aids-recovery.htm Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:47:30 EDT Loyce Mbewa-Ong'udi was late. Family and friends milled around her parents' house in the green hills overlooking Lake Victoria, waiting for the daughter from America to return home. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080816/mother-and-daughter-lead-village-in-aids-recovery.htm Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:04:39 EDT Living near a conflict zone has taught 70-year-old Vakhtang Chkhekvadze to sense danger. But it came stealthily this time, in a bombing that caught the Georgian villager by surprise. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/107762-georgia-russia.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080812/georgian-village-bombed-as-fighting-neared-an-end.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080812/georgian-village-bombed-as-fighting-neared-an-end.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:10:41 EDT Work is beginning at the Ballpark Village site near the new Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Early stages of the project will involve excavation and draining the large pool of water in the vacant land left behind by the demolition of old Busch Stadium. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080805/development-at-old-st-louis-busch-stadium-begins.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:36:33 EDT Surrounded by dozens of amusement possibilities in the Olympic village--pool tables, tennis and basketball courts, swimming pool, leisure center--Polish race walker Rafal Augustyn chose a different way to kill time waiting for his big day: Chinese lessons. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080805/olympic-village-life-loads-of-leisure.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:24:06 EDT The Athletes' Village for the Beijing Olympics held its official opening ceremony Sunday, an all-Chinese curtain raiser with basketball stars Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi heading a 265-member delegation of athletes and officials. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/98486-china-olympics.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/athletes-village-opens-in-beijing.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/athletes-village-opens-in-beijing.htm Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:57:20 EDT With the 2009 All-Star Game in St. Louis less than a year away, the Cardinals on Wednesday announced a revised plan for Ballpark Village, a complex of office space, retailers and restaurants that will eventually replace the muddy eyesore of vacant ground left when the old Busch Stadium was torn down. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/cardinals-announce-revised-ballpark-village-plan.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:05:26 EDT While movie fans the world over rave about the new Batman film, the only stir bats are causing in this poor farming village is in a cooking pot. They've been scarfing bats down in Baan Toom for as long as anyone can remember, roasting the little, flying beasts on spits over charcoal fires or mincing them up into a traditional Thai dish. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/93620-thailand-bat-village.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/thai-farmers-look-to-bats-as-free-flying-food.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/thai-farmers-look-to-bats-as-free-flying-food.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:17:40 EDT Former Village People lead singer Victor Willis is recovering from vocal cord surgery and has postponed his tour. Willis, the band's original policeman, is resting in a San Diego hospital after surgery Monday to remove nodules from his vocal cords, spokeswoman Linda Smith said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/87976-people-village-people.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/original-village-people-policeman-in-hospital.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/original-village-people-policeman-in-hospital.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:34:42 EDT When Stanislava Subach wants to lay flowers on her husband's grave, she puts them in a plastic shopping bag and adds some stones for weight. The package is then tossed over a metal fence and into what is now another country, to be picked up by former neighbors and placed on the grave. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/77025-belarus-divided-village.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/a-divided-village-highlights-a-divided-europe.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/a-divided-village-highlights-a-divided-europe.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:18:06 EDT An executive vice president and director of Village Super Market Inc., which operates ShopRite supermarkets, sold 1,109 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/village-super-market-evp-and-director-sells-shares.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:53:04 EDT Supermarket operator Village Super Market Inc. said its board raised its quarterly dividends 7 percent to 30 cents per Class A shares and 19.5 cents per Class B share. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080618/village-super-market-boosts-dividends-7-percent.htm Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:23:14 EDT