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German firms seek confidence boost from amendments
to law
The German business community in Thailand has called
on the government to amend the Foreign Business Act
in the way that restores confidence among foreign businessmen,
who have been on edge since the military took power
in September.
For a start, the committee studying amendments to the
1999 Foreign Business Act should send the right signals
stressing that the interim government is very open to
foreign investment, said Paul Strunk, executive director
of the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce. MORE>>
A good spot to eat, sing and be merry- Every Thursday,
Edelweiss Bakery offers German food, music, memories
It was Alfred Zeller, a native of Stuttgart, Germany,
an accordion player and certified ladies' man at 82,
who had the vision.
A few years ago, Zeller stopped at the Edelweiss Bakery
and Cafe on Harford Road, about two blocks from his
North Baltimore home, and spotted a fellow countryman
behind the counter.
Owner Dietrich Paul was serving up treats like schnitzel
and springerle in the small Parkville shop that make
the mouth of anyone who professes German ancestry water.
The place, the food and Paul's faint but undeniable
German accent ignited all sorts of fantasies of reviving
the glory days when Zeller and his band, the Happy Wanderers,
performed at Oktoberfests and civic halls from Frederick
to Baltimore. The band's no more, but Zeller puts on
a rousing one-man show. MORE>>
 Germany
to consider probe of Rumsfeld - Civil rights lawyers turned
to German courts again in a bid to allege a campaign of
torture by the U.S. architects of war-on-terrorism interrogation
policies Civil liberties lawyers turned to
a German prosecutor Tuesday in their latest quest to
open a war-crimes investigation of Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld and other architects of detention policy
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Iraq.
The lawyers went overseas with their 380-page complaint
application, hoping that Rumsfeld's resignation will
help their case, which alleges that as secretary of
defense he oversaw policies that condoned torture.MORE>>
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