I think more MNC would locate here from india is sg as they fear for their life. This means expect 75 percent of shenton to be indians FT up from the current 50 percent.
For us singaporeans , this is another reason why we been con into doing NS for nothing.
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London, England - An AFP report said a British-Cypriot businessman was on Thursday named as one of 125 people killed in the Mumbai attacks, hours after he gave an interview describing how he was trapped in a hotel with gunmen outside.
The British Foreign Office announced that one Briton was among the dead, and Cypriot foreign ministry officials later confirmed reports that the man was 73-year-old Andreas Liveras, a yacht tycoon who emigrated to London in 1963.
The Guardian Online said he had travelled to Mumbai for a boat show.
"He was executed in cold blood and he was carrying a British passport."
Phaedonas Anastasiou, a Cypriot Foreign Ministry official
The Times of India reported that Mr Liveras' decision to stay at the Taj was influenced by his fondness for the food served at the hotel.
The Cyprus News Agency reported his brother, Theophanis Liveras, as saying that Mr Liveras had been abducted with a large group of other diners.
The Times Online said that Phaedonas Anastasiou, a Cypriot Foreign Ministry official, said: “He was executed in cold blood and he was carrying a British passport.”
As news filtered out from Mumbai after the attacks, Mr Liveras gave a telephone interview to the BBC from the Taj Mahal hotel, one of two luxury hotels targeted by gunmen in a series of co-ordinated attacks across the city.
He told the British broadcaster: “As soon as we sat at the table we heard the machine gun fire outside in the corridors, everywhere.
“We hid ourselves under the table and then they switched all the lights off. But the machine gun kept going, and they took us into the kitchen, and from there into a basement, to come up into a salon.”
He estimated there were “more than 1,000 people” in the room, a mixture of residents, tourists and locals.
“We’re not hiding, we are locked in here – nobody tells us anything, the doors are locked and we are inside,” Mr Liveras said.
“We have got hotel staff here at this moment who are helping us a lot, providing water and sandwiches. But nobody is eating really, people are frightened.”
"Everybody is just living on their nerves."
Andreas Liveras told the BBC
He added that, “it’s very quiet. The last bomb exploded about 45 minutes ago and it shook the hotel up. Nobody comes in this room and nobody goes out, and we don’t really know”.
“All we know is the bombs are next door and the hotel is shaking every time a bomb goes off,” he said.
The interviewer put to him that he must be terrified, to which Mr Liveras replied: “Everybody is...we are just looking at each other, and every time you hear something everybody jumps. Everybody is just living on their nerves.”
After the interview
According to The Times Online report, hours later after the BBC interview, at 9.30pm Mumbai time, Mr Liveras was pronounced dead by doctors at St George’s hospital. The circumstances of his death remain unclear, but a hospital spokesman said that he had been shot “multiple times”.
He might have escaped death if he had been carrying his Cypriot passport, family members said last night. “But he never took it with him,” Theophanis Liveras, his brother, told The Times. The terrorists had separated British and American passport holders, he said. Just hours earlier, Mr Liveras had called his son, Dion, in England to say that he was safe and being well treated.
"He's been shot."
Theophanis told by Indian woman who answered his brother's phone
“He was in a good frame of mind,” his brother said.
Mr Liveras’s British assistant was one of the hostages picked out for execution but he managed to escape, despite suffering gunshot wounds. He was being treated for serious wounds in hospital in Bombay last night. The assistant called Mr Liveras’s family in England to alert them to his plight without knowing his fate.
Theophanis, who lives in Nicosia, Cyprus, called Mr Liveras’s mobile phone, which was answered by an Indian woman who shocked him by shouting: “He’s been shot.”
Self-made millionaire
According to The Times Online, Mr Liveras was a self-made millionaire, who ran a chartered yacht company, Liveras Yachts, based in Monaco where he advertised “the world’s most impressive private yachts to the charter community.”
For us singaporeans , this is another reason why we been con into doing NS for nothing.
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London, England - An AFP report said a British-Cypriot businessman was on Thursday named as one of 125 people killed in the Mumbai attacks, hours after he gave an interview describing how he was trapped in a hotel with gunmen outside.
The British Foreign Office announced that one Briton was among the dead, and Cypriot foreign ministry officials later confirmed reports that the man was 73-year-old Andreas Liveras, a yacht tycoon who emigrated to London in 1963.
The Guardian Online said he had travelled to Mumbai for a boat show.
"He was executed in cold blood and he was carrying a British passport."
Phaedonas Anastasiou, a Cypriot Foreign Ministry official
The Times of India reported that Mr Liveras' decision to stay at the Taj was influenced by his fondness for the food served at the hotel.
The Cyprus News Agency reported his brother, Theophanis Liveras, as saying that Mr Liveras had been abducted with a large group of other diners.
The Times Online said that Phaedonas Anastasiou, a Cypriot Foreign Ministry official, said: “He was executed in cold blood and he was carrying a British passport.”
As news filtered out from Mumbai after the attacks, Mr Liveras gave a telephone interview to the BBC from the Taj Mahal hotel, one of two luxury hotels targeted by gunmen in a series of co-ordinated attacks across the city.
He told the British broadcaster: “As soon as we sat at the table we heard the machine gun fire outside in the corridors, everywhere.
“We hid ourselves under the table and then they switched all the lights off. But the machine gun kept going, and they took us into the kitchen, and from there into a basement, to come up into a salon.”
He estimated there were “more than 1,000 people” in the room, a mixture of residents, tourists and locals.
“We’re not hiding, we are locked in here – nobody tells us anything, the doors are locked and we are inside,” Mr Liveras said.
“We have got hotel staff here at this moment who are helping us a lot, providing water and sandwiches. But nobody is eating really, people are frightened.”
"Everybody is just living on their nerves."
Andreas Liveras told the BBC
He added that, “it’s very quiet. The last bomb exploded about 45 minutes ago and it shook the hotel up. Nobody comes in this room and nobody goes out, and we don’t really know”.
“All we know is the bombs are next door and the hotel is shaking every time a bomb goes off,” he said.
The interviewer put to him that he must be terrified, to which Mr Liveras replied: “Everybody is...we are just looking at each other, and every time you hear something everybody jumps. Everybody is just living on their nerves.”
After the interview
According to The Times Online report, hours later after the BBC interview, at 9.30pm Mumbai time, Mr Liveras was pronounced dead by doctors at St George’s hospital. The circumstances of his death remain unclear, but a hospital spokesman said that he had been shot “multiple times”.
He might have escaped death if he had been carrying his Cypriot passport, family members said last night. “But he never took it with him,” Theophanis Liveras, his brother, told The Times. The terrorists had separated British and American passport holders, he said. Just hours earlier, Mr Liveras had called his son, Dion, in England to say that he was safe and being well treated.
"He's been shot."
Theophanis told by Indian woman who answered his brother's phone
“He was in a good frame of mind,” his brother said.
Mr Liveras’s British assistant was one of the hostages picked out for execution but he managed to escape, despite suffering gunshot wounds. He was being treated for serious wounds in hospital in Bombay last night. The assistant called Mr Liveras’s family in England to alert them to his plight without knowing his fate.
Theophanis, who lives in Nicosia, Cyprus, called Mr Liveras’s mobile phone, which was answered by an Indian woman who shocked him by shouting: “He’s been shot.”
Self-made millionaire
According to The Times Online, Mr Liveras was a self-made millionaire, who ran a chartered yacht company, Liveras Yachts, based in Monaco where he advertised “the world’s most impressive private yachts to the charter community.”
