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By David at 10/18/2009 - 05:05
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LaFrance.com is the home of the LinkedIn group "French Connections". Members will have to create an account. An email will be requested to activate your account. Upon responding to this email, you will be accepted into the new French Connections Group. Business and individuals will have a better way to promote their internet presence by creating their own web page and finding business or job opportunities at LaFrance.com.
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By David at 02/06/2010 - 04:57
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Chinese Market boosts French Luxury goods companies.
According to AP, Chinese sales boosts luxury goods market in 2009. Despite the economic crisis, 2009 ended better than it began for the French luxury goods sector, thanks largely to China's growing taste for high-end products, encouraging thoughts of a better 2010.
Following the trend set by other global luxury brands, Hermes and LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) announced fourth quarter sales growth on Thursday and Friday, suggesting the worst of the crisis could be over for the sector.
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By David at 02/04/2010 - 21:16
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A man is denied French Citizensip
According to Associate Press, French authorities have denied citizenship to a man who forced his French wife to wear a face-covering veil, saying he had rejected national values of secularism and gender equality. Little is known about the man denied citizenship or his wife, as neither have been identified. News reports said the man is a Moroccan citizen and a member of the hard-line Tabligh missionary movement.
Immigration Minister Eric Besson said Wednesday the decision was rooted in French law, which permits authorities to reject applicants who fail to respect national values.Prime Minister Francois Fillon, who has the final say, has pledged to approve Besson's order.
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By David at 02/02/2010 - 06:34
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French court seeks answers on deadly Concorde crash
US airline Continental and French aviation officials go on trial Tuesday for the manslaughter of 113 people who died in Paris when a supersonic Concorde plummeted to the ground in a ball of fire. Two Continental employees, a former French civil aviation official and two Concorde engineers will from Tuesday be tried on the same charge in a court near Paris, with proceedings expected to last four months. A French civil aviation official is accused of overlooking a fault on Concorde's distinctive delta-shaped wings, which held its fuel tanks.
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By David at 01/26/2010 - 04:17
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partial ban on full veil in France
We have discussed France’s plans for new legislation to in our previous articles ban the full veil here and the topic of Burqa (hijab) http://lafrance.com/content/nicolas-sarkozy-wants-ban-burqa-france .
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By David at 01/26/2010 - 04:15
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France will loan to Fashion Design
On Monday, Industry Minister Christian Estrosi said he wanted to get one or two banks to develop services specializing in lending money to fashion companies and other creative businesses with the state acting as a guarantor for certain loans. "I want Paris to remain the world's capital of fashion," Estrosi told journalists. "Today, we need people to share the risks." Estrosi's aide, Sylvain Roques, said the government hoped to flesh out details of the new bank by the end of March. Estrosi said the French government was also considering handing out exemptions to the 35-hour week to staff who had to put in long hours before fashion shows.
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By David at 01/25/2010 - 06:38
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Ethiopian airliner crashed, wife of the French ambassador on board
According to CNN, An Ethiopian airliner with 90 people aboard crashed into the Mediterranean Sea minutes after takeoff from Lebanon early Monday, authorities said.
Among them was the wife of the French ambassador to Lebanon, said Anne Charlotte of the French embassy.
The Boeing 737-800 had 83 passengers: 54 Lebanese nationals, 22 Ethiopians, two British-Lebanese, an Iraqi, a Syrian, a Lebanese-Canadian, a Russian-Lebanese and a person from France, said Ghazi El Aridi, Lebanon's minister of public works and transportation.
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The plane crashed about 3.5 km (2.1 miles) west of the town of Na'ameh. Naa'meh is 15 km (9 miles) south of Beirut.
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By David at 01/20/2010 - 20:15
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France among top donors for Haiti
With 9.8 million people, Haiti will receive over $1 billion in aid, that is $100 per person. It had a nominal GDP of 7.018 billion USD in 2009, with a GDP per capita of 790 USD, about $2 per person per day. Foreign aid makes up approximately 30–40% of the national government's budget. The largest donor is the United States – followed by Canada, and the European Union also contributes aid. From 1990 to 2003, Haiti received more than $4 billion in aid. The United States alone had provided Haiti with 1.5 billion in aid. Venezuela and Cuba also make various contributions to Haiti's economy, especially after alliances were renewed in 2006 and 2007.
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By David at 01/18/2010 - 05:50
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France wants to speed up the debt cancellation to Haiti
According to Associate Press, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said she asked members of the informal club to speed up the process. The next meeting is Wednesday.
Though the Paris Club of creditor nations agreed in July to clear Haiti's remaining $215 million debt to club members, the process can still take years to finalize. Club members agreed to cancel $62.7 million under the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's initiative for heavily indebted poor countries and another $152 million through bilateral deals.
Lagarde said Friday she is also asking nonmembers Venezuela and Taiwan, who are owed significant amounts by Haiti, to help in debt reduction.
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By David at 01/14/2010 - 18:14
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Eric Besson suspends expulsions of illegal Haitian
According to Besson's website, Eric Besson, Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Development on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 has instructed its staff to immediately suspend expulsions of illegal Haitians. All procedures for escort to their country of origin of Haitian nationals present illegally in the countery.
Press Contacts: Press Contacts:
Consultant in charge of communication: Valentine MARY - 01 77 72 61 13 / 06 32 87 93 55 Consultant in charge of communications: Valentine MARY - 01 77 72 61 13 / 06 32 87 93 55
Press Officer: Thomas PERNETTE - 01 77 72 62 22 / 06 71 44 04 68 Press Officer: Thomas PERNETTE - 01 77 72 62 22 / 06 71 44 04 68
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By David at 01/13/2010 - 18:25
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Nicolas Sarkozy has become a grandfather.
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By David at 01/13/2010 - 18:24
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According to BBC, Archbishop of Port-au-Prince dies in Haiti quake.
Joseph Serge Miot (November 23, 1946 – January 12, 2010) was a Haitian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the ninth Archbishop of Port-au-Prince. The order of missionary priests was officially founded in 1951 by the bishop of Gonaives, Haiti. While headquartered in France, it retains a strong presence in Haiti and traces its unofficial missionary activity to 1860.
Biography
Miot was born in Jérémie, and ordained to the priesthood on July 4, 1975.
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By David at 01/11/2010 - 06:44
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French Guiana and Martinique rejected more autonomy
When I was a little I loved to read the patriotic novels. People would fight for freedom, people would die for independence. I am surprised to learn that the recent votes in the French Guiana and Martinique rejected the referendum for more autonomy from France. The ballot measure in each of the two French Caribbean departments called for giving local governments more administrative leeway. French President Nicolas Sarkozy would have determined the extent of the autonomy.
According to the Associate Press, voters in Martinique and French Guiana overwhelmingly rejected a proposal Sunday to give local government more autonomy while remaining a part of France.
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By David at 01/08/2010 - 17:53
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France, Canada and Swiss bank account.
Canada is trying to obtain the names of suspected tax avoiders with accounts in Switzerland. Why is France involved in this process? This is because a Swiss court ruled on Friday that it was illegal for a financial regulator to have ordered UBS last year to hand over the files of nearly 300 clients to U.S. officials. So Canada turned to France because France has a list of 3,000 names of people with Swiss accounts that France obtained last year includes Canadians.
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By David at 01/07/2010 - 17:44
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Should France tax Google (and others) to subsidize music industry?
Let us hear your opinion by commenting on this article.
We talked about the president of France opposed the google book scan here, now a reported handed to to Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand suggested the idea of “Google Tax”. The report says Google and other Internet portals should be slapped with a new tax on their online ad revenues in France to fund the development of legal outlets for buying books, movies and especially music on the Internet.
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By David at 01/05/2010 - 18:33
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 Laura Smet is hospitalized
According to PARIS (AFP) – French actress Laura Smet, daughter of rock legend Johnny Hallyday, was hospitalized in Paris Monday after consuming a mixture of medications and alcohol, an emergency services source said.
According to the source, Smet, 26, allegedly attempted suicide in the church at Saint-German des Pres in central Paris and was rushed by firefighters to Val-de-Grace hospital.
A police source told AFP that Smet was in a "serious" condition in hospital, but added that at this point police could not say whether it amounted to an attempted suicide.
Smet's agent, however, said the young actress had simply taken ill.
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By David at 01/01/2010 - 19:06
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A Canadian judge has approved a C$12 million ($11.4 million) class-action settlement with 184 passengers on an Air France 358 that overran a Toronto airport runway in 2005, the Toronto Star reported.  ($1=$1.05 Canadian)
The newspaper said Air France will pay C$10 million plus interest into a settlement fund in exchange for the release of all claims arising from the accident.
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By David at 12/30/2009 - 08:42
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A new protocol amending the income tax treaty with France has entered into force. The protocol was approved by the U.S. Senate on Dec. 3, and it officially became active Dec. 23 after the appropriate documents were submitted to the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. The amendments to the treaty will affect the tax treatment of U.S. businesses and individuals operating in France.
Provisions include elimination of source-country withholding tax on certain direct dividends, elimination of source-country withholding tax on all royalty payments, mandatory binding arbitration of certain cases that cannot be resolved by the competent authorities within a specific period, and a comprehensive limitation on benefits provision.
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By David at 12/28/2009 - 08:09
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Liliane Bettencourt refuse the medical tests
 Bettencourt's attorney, Georges Kiejman, said on Dec 24, Liliane Bettencourt will not undergo the medical tests.
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By David at 12/23/2009 - 18:14
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Moussa Dadis Camara
A recent report by U.N. investigators on Guinea says there is sufficient reason to believe that Camara was directly responsible for the mass killings and rapes of protesters in September. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, answering questions in parliament, said he was waiting for the case on Guinea to go before the U.N. Security Council, adding, "there will be sanctions." "In the meantime, I hope that Mr. Dadis Camara stays in his bed in Morocco and doesn't return (home), because he is capable — his return alone is capable — of setting off a civil war, and we don't need that," Kouchner said.
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By David at 12/23/2009 - 17:53
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Clotilde Reiss
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By David at 12/18/2009 - 23:07
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By David at 12/17/2009 - 18:23
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 We have the topic of Burqa (hijab) in our previous article http://lafrance.com/content/nicolas-sarkozy-wants-ban-burqa-france . Now Jean-Francois Cope, the president of the Union for a Popular Movement, laid out his plans for new legislation in a newspaper article, which appeared just as three ministers were to testify before a parliamentary panel set up to consider whether to ban the full veil.
''The issue is not how many women wear the burqa,'' Mr Cope wrote in Le Figaro. ''There are principles at stake: extremists are putting the republic to the test by promoting a practice that they know is contrary to the basic principles of our country.''
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By David at 12/17/2009 - 17:55
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Update on the Investigation into the Accident
to flight AF 447 on 1st June 2009
BEA officials still do not know what brought the plane down, who was at the controls when it crashed, or what the pilots did in the moments leading up to the disaster, according to a new report released Thursday.
"At this stage ... it is still not possible to understand the causes and circumstances of the accident," investigators said in the report.
Below is their report:
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