Month: April 2010

DAKAR, 1 April 2010 – Rice may still be a symbol of food security across Africa, but the cereal does little to boost nutrition, unlike vegetables, according to the India-based International Crops Research Institute for […]

JOHANNESBURG, 2 April 2010— Handing out cash or vouchers for food, or buying food aid in or near the country in need of emergency food assistance, has become official policy, the European Union (EU) announced […]

Those who have either read or even perused his biography, authored by Ivor Agyeman-Duah, cannot but come to a sad and definitive conclusion that former President John Agyekum (Kofi Diawuo) Kufuor is squarely to blame […]

Berlin, 14 April, 2010—Shareholders of Daimler AG will not receive divident payments for 2009 business year.

This was announced at the Annual General Meeting of the company which opens here today.

The decision, says Dr Dieter Zetsche, who is Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, was due to what he called, “unusual earnings situation.”

He told the stunned shareholders that “the decission was not an easy one.

“Before coming to our conclusion, we thoroughly and carefully weighed the pros and cons. Ultimately, the decision was clear,” stressed Dr Zetsche.

He told the meeting that, according to German corporate and commercial law regulations, a dividend payment for 2009 would only have been possible “if we had covered both the incured losses and the funds for the dividend with Daimler AG’s retained income. […]