MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Commercial production of a new Russian short-haul passenger airliner, the Tu-334, will start within the next six months, the manufacturer said Thursday. Sergei Ilyushenkov, managing director of the Tupolev joint-stock company, said the Tu-334,

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The world's longest-reigning monarch, Thailand's King Bhumibol, is now its richest royal.

The pound continued to fall today as the dollar surged further over fears of weakening economic growth in the eurozone.

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Gerry Schwartz, the founder of the Canadian company Onex, has bought the Neffrastag House in Tel Aviv, built in 1933, for 28 million shekels (€5.2 million).

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is about to increase requirements for Russian companies purchasing assets in the US.

Russians, Ukrainians and Bulgars became the most active buyers on the Greek peninsula of Halkidiki, in spite of the crash of the local real estate market.

Singapore's wealthiest are worth a collective $32 billion.

Consumer prices ran hotter than expected in July, but it's the global growth picture investors should be worried about; Wal-Mart narrowly beat expectations; financial stocks revive.

Standard & Poor's (S&P), an international rating agency, increased its rating of stability of the Russian banking system. They explain their decision by increased activity of the Bank of Russia and the government, which both intend to maintain high liquidity

All local elements of transport segment will be merged.

U.S. companies are shelling out big bucks for planes, bodyguards and trained drivers to keep their chief executives safe.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today voiced strong opposition to proposed accounting rule changes that it says would open the door to lawsuit abuse by trial lawyers and would not provide clear or useful new information to investors.

The US private equity group Lone Star has announced plans to buy the German bank IKB, which was one of the country's major casualties of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis. Germany's state development bank KfW, the government and private investors