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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer announced plans on Monday to build a successor to the Titantic cruise liner -- only this time the ship will be constructed in a Chinese shipyard and will be escorted across the Atlantic by the Chinese navy. Share...
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Chinadaily
| 1 year ago
A Chinese shipyard will help the Titanic finally reach New York, after an order to build a replica of the luxury liner was made by an Australian billionaire. The deal between State-owned CSC Jinling Shipyard Co Ltd in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, and...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
More than 350 inbound tourism operators and industry leaders from around the country are on Queensland's Sunshine Coast today for the 35th Australian Tourism Export Council Symposium. Mr Palmer won't be attending, even though the event is being held...
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China News
| 1 year ago
A shipyard operated by Sinotrans & CSC Holdings Co, Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with Australian billionaire Clive Palmer to build a replica of the Titanic, the shipyard confirmed Wednesday. "The agreement to build the Titanic II was...
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Denver Post
| 1 year ago
Font Resize An Australian billionaire's plan to build a cruise ship called the Titanic II has already been attempted at least in a low-budget film by the same name. "On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened '...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Mr Forrest was asked at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday whether he had any political ambitions. Fellow mining magnate Clive Palmer this week announced he would run for Liberal National Party preselection in Mr Swan's Brisbane seat of...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
If billionaire Clive Palmer has his way, a near carbon copy of the Titanic liner may finally make its way into New York Harbor. The Australian, who made his estimated $5.2 billion fortune in real estate and mining, announced today that he intends to...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Clime Palmer would lose if he challenged federal treasurer Wayne Swan in the Brisbane seat of Lilley, punters believe. Mr Palmer on Monday said he'd expressed interest with the Liberal National Party to be preselected to run in the seat. Sportsbet.
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Towleroad
| 1 year ago
Exxon Australian billionaire commissions replica of the Titanic : "The new vessel is due to make its maiden voyage from London to New York in late 2016. The cost of the construction of the new vessel has not been revealed, a spokesman for Palmer told...
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Perez Hilton
| 1 year ago
An uber-rich Australian is rebuilding the infamous ocean liner that crashed, sunk, and killed Jack Dawson 1,500 people back in 1912. Maybe you've heard of it? ;) Over a hundred years ago, the RMS Titanic was the biggest and best ship ever built...The...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer plans to build a 21st-century replica of the Titanic and sail it from England to New York City accompanied by the Chinese navy by the end of 2016. He has signed a first-stage agreement with Nanjing-based CSC...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Clive Palmer's quest for change and tussles with Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan appear headed to the political arena as the mining billionaire indicated on Monday that he intends to contest the senior Labor MP's Parliament seat in Lilley, Queensland.
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Clive Palmer announces he will run for preselection for the Brisbane seat of Lilley, which is held by Wayne Swan...Humorists, wry commentators and the schooner-nursing jokester at your local pub would also be made redundant. The reality of the...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
He said he would make an expression of interest for preselection for Mr Swan's Brisbane seat of Lilley, which the Treasurer holds by a slim margin of 3.2 per cent. The press conference came on the heels of a separate media call at which Mr Palmer...
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Big News Network
| 1 year ago
In this April 25, 2012 photo provided by Crook Publicity, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer poses in front of an artist impression of the Titanic ll at MGM Studios in Los Angeles, Ca. Palmer said Monday, April 30, 2012, that he'll build a high-tech...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
The comments below have not been moderated. why in the world would he build these ships in china? to be sure, the people in ireland whose ancestors who worked for harland and wolf, the builders of the original titanic, would have been proud to build...
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EW - PopWatch
| 1 year ago
ET Book your tickets! 'Titanic II' will sail in 2016 by Lanford Beard Let's hope the second trip ends better than the first! According to the Boston Herald , Australian billionaire Clive Palmer announced Monday that he plans to build a high-tech...
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Gawker
| 1 year ago
Australian Businessman Building New Titanic, Aims to Reenact Voyage Minus Sinking Australian mining magnate and National Living Treasure Clive Palmer has made formal his intentions to construct a near-exact replica of the Titanic , and sail it from...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Story continues below Clive Palmer at his press conference in Brisbane yesterday. Photo: Glenn Hunt It's a big week for Australia's restive billionaire oligarchs, whose combined wealth could fix Mr Swan's surplus blues in a flash. In Perth, Gina...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The tragic story of the Titanic has fascinated people of every generation ever since the shipwreck happened a century ago. Hundred years after the disaster, an idea of replicating the world's biggest ship that made history sounds just exciting. Share...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
James Cameron has released the footage of his solo dive to the deepest point in the world's oceans. The world-famous director said he had visited another planet desolate, foreboding and moon-like and it felt a bit lonely...Published: 30 April, 2012,...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer said on Monday he hopes to run against Treasurer Wayne Swan in national elections, escalating a fiery war-of-words between the government and the outspoken mogul. Palmer, a leading critic of the centre-left...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
I Mining magnate promises full-scale "unsinkable" sequel to world-famous ocean liner. Last Modified: 30 Apr 2012 11:30 Titanic II will go along same route as original ship from England to North America [AFP] A billionaire in Australia has announced...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 1 year ago
Europe got more downbeat economic news Monday as inflation remained higher than expected and European Central Bank data showed only anemic growth in credit to businesses despite its massive infusion of cheap money into the financial system. Reeling...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Clive Palmer said the new Titanic would be as close as possible in size to the old one. Asked if it would sink, he said: 'If you put a hole in it.' Photograph: Dan Peled/EPA As a way of drawing attention to one's election campaign, it is if nothing...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
One of Australia's richest men, Clive Palmer, on Monday unveiled plans to build a 21st century version of the doomed Titanic in China, with its first voyage from England to New York set for 2016. Palmer, a self-made mining billionaire, said he had...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
Australia An Australian billionaire on Monday said he'll create a high-tech replica of the Titanic using a Chinese shipbuilder, and that its maiden voyage in late 2016 will be from England to New York, just like the original.Weeks after the 100th...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
I was as surprised as everyone else at the announcement today. Clive Palmer, like millions and millions of other Australians, is desperate to see a bad government gone,'' he said. But like everyone else who wants to run for the LNP, I'm afraid he has...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
One of Australia's richest men Monday unveiled plans for a 21st century version of the Titanic -- with its first voyage, from England to New York, four years away. Self-made mining billionaire Clive Palmer announced he had signed a memorandum of...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
AP Mr Palmer said the companies had signed a memorandum of understanding to build the cruise liner in China, with the ship's maiden voyage from England to North America scheduled for late 2016. "It will be every bit as luxurious as the original...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-04-30 11:35 AM Australia n billionaire Clive Palmer said Monday he plans to build a 21st-century version of the Titanic in China , with the cruise ship's maiden...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
If Wayne Swan was feeling stressed about how next week's budget will go down, he has suddenly been put under pressure on a whole new front. Mining magnate Clive Palmer's announcement that he will seek Liberal National party preselection to run...
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The Australian
| 1 year ago
S s bikies wear designer clothes, trendy sunglasses and bling but may not ride bikes...Australia Bank (NAB) shares have dipped after the bank announced a $305 million restructure of its UK business that will result in 1,400 job losses. Palmer plans...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Palmer didn't tell Opposition Leader Tony Abbott he was about to launch a political career. The colourful mining magnate announced today that he wants to stand against Treasurer Wayne Swan at the next federal election. He hopes to win pre-selection...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Australia if mining magnate Clive Palmer's tilt at federal politics is successful, former Queensland premier Peter Beattie says. Mr Palmer announced today he would seek Liberal National Party (LNP) preselection for the Queensland seat of Lilley. The...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Mr Palmer said he had put in an expression of interest to stand for Queensland's Liberal National Party (LNP) in the Brisbane seat of Lilley at the next election. "I have done this because the Treasurer and myself both have clear different visions of...
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Adelaide Now
| 1 year ago
Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer will seek to stand against Treasurer Wayne Swan at the next federal election. Mr Palmer said that he would seek Liberal National Party preselection for the Brisbane seat of Lillely, currently held by Mr Swan.
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Mr Palmer announced on Monday he has signed a memorandum of understanding with state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build Titanic II. With the latest navigation and safety systems, Titanic II will sail in the northern hemisphere, with...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Mr Palmer announced on Wednesday that he would seek Liberal National Party preselection for the Brisbane seat of Lillely, currently held by Mr Swan. © 2012 AAP Brought to you by Join the conversation 7 people are reading this now.
