More bad news as St Laurence loses $30m in three months (The New Zealand Herald) - Investors owed more than $400 million by two ailing finance companies received bad news yesterday as it emerged St Laurence, 25 per cent owned by Dorchester Pacific, had lost almost $30 million in just three months.

China Finance Online Reports Unaudited Second Quarter 2008 Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - China Finance Online Co. Limited , a leading Chinese online financial information and listed company data provider, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008:

Pollina Supporters Challenge Finance Law (WCAX-TV Vermont) - Several donors to Anthony Pollina's political campaign file a legal challenge to Vermont's campaign finance law.

C.A. Bancorp Canadian Realty Finance Corporation Files Final Prospectus for Tax-Efficient 7.6% Yielding Class A Shares ... (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance) - TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - C.A. Bancorp Inc. and C.A. Bancorp Canadian Realty Finance Corporation are pleased to announce that a final prospectus had been filed with, and a receipt therefor issued by, the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces and territories of Canada.

Lawsuit challenges campaign finance rules (The Burlington Free Press) - Three contributors to independent gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina's campaign filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the state's campaign finance rules.

Bill Ellis, the city's deputy director of finance (Columbia Star) - The City of Columbia is in the hunt for a new chief financial officer. The position is officially known as the director of finance.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-08-28 10:33 Workplace Systems names Paul Wright finance director as Mike Wailing retires (Interactive Investor) - LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Workplace Systems International Plc. said it has appointed Paul Keith Wright as finance director with immediate effect, replacing Mike Wailing, who is retiring as after more than 15 years.

LITRAK Expects Lower Profit In Fiscal 2009 Due To Higher Finance Cost (Bernama) - SHAH ALAM, Aug 28 (Bernama) -- The concessionaire of the Damansara-Puchong highway, Lingkaran Trans Kota Holdings Bhd (LITRAK), expects a lower profit for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009 in view of higher finance costs, said its chief operating officer, Richard Lim Kim Ong.

Arab economic summit to focus on poverty (Middle East Times) - This picture released by the official Kuwait news agency KUNA shows Kuwaiti Minister of Finance Mustafa al-Shamali in May 2008. The first ever Arab economic summit, to be hosted by Kuwait in January, will focus on worsening poverty and unemployment in the Arab world, and boosting inter-Arab trade, Shamali said on Thursday.

SEENEWS – news report of 28.08.2008 (Girodivite) - Updated news from Balkan Europe powered by www.seenews.com Thursday 28 August 2008, by Emanuele G. - 0 letture Albania’s Q2 Construction Cost Index Adds 1.3% Y/Y - Table Aug 28, 2008, 14:45 CET | Story | SeeNews TIRANA (Albania), August 28 (SeeNews) - Albania’s construction cost index rose by 1.3% on the year and was 0.8% higher on Q1 in the second quarter of 2008, National Statistics ...