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Red Bull Co-Founder Dies in Thailand

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Red Bull – Energy Drink<o:p></o:p></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Photo © <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/themastershakesignal/110258650/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">flickr.com/themastershakesignal</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)--- Billionaire Chaleo Yoovidhya, one of the founders of energy drink Red Bull, died at the age of 89 in Thailand, the Bangkok Post newspaper reported on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Chaleo died in a hospital in the Thai city of Bangkok. He was the country's second richest man with a fortune of $5 billion last year according to Forbes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">His TC Pharmaceuticals company has been producing a tonic drink called Krating Daeng ("Red Bull") since 1970s using caffeine, taurine and B vitamins as ingredients.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The drink became very popular among factory shift workers and truck drivers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the 1980s Chaleo founded Red Bull with Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz and they started selling the drink in Austria in 1987.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nowadays Red Bull is being sold in 160 countries worldwide and is one of the most famous energy drinks.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Red Bull Co-Founder Dies in Thailand

Red Bull – Energy Drink Photo © flickr.com/themastershakesignal MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)--- Billionaire Chaleo Yoovidhya, one of the founder...

A Bit of Green Among Moscow's Red

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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Alexei Korolyov for RIA Novosti</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">It used to accommodate a giant Soviet hotel. Then they pulled it down. For years, this vast vacant lot just off Red Square has been an embarrassing eyesore in the heart of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city></st1:place>, but it may now finally be put to good use after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed making it into a park.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Visiting the lot with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city></st1:place> mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Friday, Putin suggested a park might be the perfect solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Maybe we should establish a park zone smack in the middle of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city></st1:place>, near the Kremlin?” Putin asked Sobyanin.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“That would be great,” Sobyanin responded.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">When the communists placed the colossal Rossiya (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place>) Hotel in the historic Zaryadye district in the late 1960s, nobody seemed to be much affronted. People then liked things big and mighty, and this one certainly was - covering an area the size of 20 football pitches, it was the world’s largest hotel at the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">But even before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, there were some who questioned the hotel’s congruity in the heart of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city></st1:place>. Tiny 18-th century churches looked surreal beside it. The 3,200-room behemoth especially seemed to jar with Yury Luzhkov, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city>’s disgraced former mayor, who ordered its demolition in 2004. But not before <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s first reality show, “Behind the Glass,” was shot in it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Horrific mastodon,” pronounced Alexei Komech, the then head of the State Institute of Art Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Government headquarters and shopping malls have at various times been planned to appear on the prime site but long-running legal disputes put a stop to these plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Putin’s plan seemed to strike a chord with heritage activists, who said it would be the best for the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“There is a lack of greenery downtown,” Denis Romodin, an expert on Soviet architecture, told RIA Novosti.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">But while he had some kind words for the former Rossiya, saying it was “probably the best project offered” in the 60s, Romodin said a park was the “optimal decision” for the site.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Before Rossiya was on anyone’s mind, the district was meant to house one of “Stalin’s sisters” - a series of early 1950s skyscrapers exhibiting the advances of Soviet architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Dmitry Lisitsyn, an activist from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city></st1:place> heritage watchdog Archnadzor, said the “fate” of the Zaryadye district should be decided by Muscovites.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“We need to know what people think and we need public discussions,” Lisitsyn told RIA Novosti.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

A Bit of Green Among Moscow's Red

Alexei Korolyov for RIA Novosti It used to accommodate a giant Soviet hotel. Then they pulled it down. For years, this vast vacant lot ju...