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FINE CHINA: Mike Byrnes, who co-owns Olde China Trader in Bristol, was immersed in Eastern culture through military and embassy stints beginning in the 1980s. Most of the store’s inventory focuses on furniture and pottery, some dating back to the Ming dynasty. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

A 19th-century trade route restored

The Olde China Trader antique shop in Bristol takes its name and inspiration from the Rhode Island merchants who sailed to the Far East...

Election defeat clouds future for Newport Grand

While prospective card dealers, drink servers and security guards were lining up at Twin River Casino’s job fair in Lincoln last week to claim...

Regency stays current with upgrades

Many Providence apartment buildings have been built, bought, sold, condominium-converted, unconverted, or refashioned into dormitories since the first Regency Plaza tower was erected in...
KEITH STOKES, former executive director of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation. / PBN FILE PHOTO/BRIAN MACDONALD

Suit over 38 Studios deal risks collateral damage

Rhode Island’s $75 million loan guarantee to 38 Studios LLC was already synonymous with bad judgment. The state’s lawsuit against the deal’s participants now...

Market warming for storing energy to be used as heat

Providence-based VCharge Inc. coined the term “transactive load” to describe a concept company founders believe will change the world. It’s the idea that end...
Dr. Ehrlich

Angels eye life sciences investments

Rhode Island life science entrepreneurs with breakthrough research they hope will conquer the marketplace have a new ally. Ocean State Angels, a new seed-stage investment...
DRAINING WORK: Terri Cortvriend, president of Ocean Link, founded the company with her husband, Andy, in the late 1980s. Ocean Link found its niche in marine plumbing and toilets. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Flush with potential for a rebound

It’s often the case that good business opportunities follow the least-glamorous products – and so it was with Ocean Link and marine toilets. The company’s...
ON NOV. 6, Rhode Island taxpayers will vote on two gambling referendums to determine the fate of table gaming at Twin River and Newport Grand.  / COURTESY TWIN RIVER

Are voters ready to bet on gaming?

With Connecticut’s casinos struggling and competition from Massachusetts on the way, Rhode Island gambling opponents say the state should cash in its chips on...

New vision for historic square rooted in old

There are streets in Newport today that a colonist who witnessed the first public reading of Rhode Island’s Royal Charter of 1663 might recognize. These...
BONE STRUCTURE: IlluminOss President and CEO Scott Rader shows off the company’s photodynamic bone-stabilization system. He says the new round of financing will help the clinical trials that will hopefully lead to the firm’s FDA approval. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

IlluminOss’ bone-repair system excites investors

For the past year venture capitalists have kept a watchful eye on surgeries like the broken-ankle repair Dr. Thomas Gausepohl performed on a woman...
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