Xansa FY Prompts International Strategy Shift.
IT outsourcing and services firm Xansa Plc is currently in the process of closing down its Paris, France-based office as the company considers its international strategy following a decline in business across all geographies. A spokesperson for London, UK-based Xansa told ComputerWire that the company is winding...

Soprano Wacziarg at French Spring.
French Spring in Manila 2003 welcomed French soprano Aude Wacziarg and French pianist Florian Bollot in recitals at the Francisco Santiago Hall of Equitable PCIB Tower in Makati last June 16. Prior to this event, the two already performed at the Podium last June 12 and the...

800 Japanese artists to converge on Paris.
PARIS (AFP) Japan comes to Paris next month with some 800 artists, sculptors and potters offering France one of its most wide-ranging if lightning insights into contemporary Japanese art. The show in the Carrousel du Louvre exhibition centre adjacent to the museum is a non-profitmaking exhibit which...

PASCALE SOURISSE.
Skybridge CEO to head new Alcatel Space unit Alcatel Space, which earlier in the ear announced a FFr1 billion investment programme in response to swelling orderbooks at its facilities in Toulouse and Cannes, has announced a reorganisation to keep pace with emerging demand for Internet and high-speed...

Tidying up in the space sector.
A large part of Europe's prime contractorship work in the space field is handled by EADS member companies, but not all under the EADS banner. The reason for the EADS/Astrium split in space manufacturing lies in the composition of Astrium, which was finally constituted in May 2000...

Chemists make hard-to-catch molecules.
In an advance that could lead to new catalysts for chemical reactions, scientists in Europe have found a novel way to stabilize highly reactive molecules called carbenes. A carbene contains a central carbon atom with two bonds, rather than carbon's typical four. This arrangement leaves the carbon...

Acoustically, people resemble large eggs.
Using a sound-based scanning technique to determine the shapes of moving creatures and other objects, an international team of scientists has found that the human form bounces sound waves as if each person were a huge, elongated chicken egg. This new acoustic portrait of people as a...

French soprano at The Podium.
French Spring in Manila comes to The Podium as French soprano Aude Priya Wacziarg and pianist Florian Bollot perform on June 12, at the malls activity center. Bombay born Aude Priya Waciarg has performed as a solo singer in recitals in Paris, Toluouse, Geneva, Bologna, Florence, Verona...

Jean-Pierre Torrell's research on Thomas Aquinas.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a century that rediscovered Thomas Aquinas. The era was a time not only of various neo-Thomisms but of persons and schools whose labor and courage offered a deeper understanding of the medieval theologian's ideas and perspectives. The work of scholars as diverse as Marie-Dominique Chenu...

Astrium banks on Eurostar 3000.
Astrium was born of the restructuring moves that gave birth to EADS (European Aeronautic, Defence and Space company), bringing together France's Aerospatiale Matra, Germany's DASA and CASA of Spain. The space units became Astrium last year, a tri-national entity 75% owned by EADS and 25% by British Aerospace Systems....